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Kylie has perfume and wine bottles to fill and boxes to unpack down under. Infinite Disco was the tour - now available on DVD and Blu-Ray.
tbh here in Mexico since clubs opened like 2 weeks ago Magic is a banger at gay clubs
Not the DISCO era being over.
I hope there will still be a tour and other performances.
However so far 10/10
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On the heels of reaching an 11-year high just a month ago, US housing starts fell to a nine-month low in June and permits declined for a third straight month. The percent drop was the largest since November 2016, suggesting that new housing activity may have hit a temporary peak.
Housing Starts, Permits & Completions
After jumping 11 percent in May, housing starts dropped 12 percent in June to a seasonally adjusted annual rate (SAAR) of 1,173,000 units. Single-family starts accounted for 858,000 units, which is 9.1 percent below the revised May figure of 944,000. Starts for the volatile multi-family housing segment plunged 19.8 percent to a rate of 315,000 units in June; starts for buildings with five or more units fell to a 10-month low.
Privately-owned housing authorizations dropped 2.2 percent to a rate of 1,301,000 units in June. Single-family authorizations fell to 850,000, which is 0.8 percent above the revised May figure.
Privately-owned housing completions were flat at a SAAR of 1,261,000 in June. Regional performance was down across the board as confirmed by the US Census Bureau report, although unlike like month when the Midwest drove nearly all of the growth, the same region accounted for a lion’s share of the decline. Seasonally-adjusted total housing starts by region included:
- Northeast: -6.8 percent (-15.0 percent last month)
- South: -9.1 percent (-0.9 percent last month)
- Midwest: -35.8 percent (+62.2 percent last month)
- West: -3.0 percent (-4.1 percent last month)
Seasonally-adjusted single-family housing starts by region included:
- Northeast: +3.1 percent (+10.2 percent last month)
- South: -6.8 percent (-3.5 percent last month)
- Midwest: -29.1 percent (+44.4 percent last month)
- West: -3.6 percent (-0.5 percent last month)
The 30-year fixed mortgage rate decreased from 4.59 to 4.57 percent in June, and the National Association of Home Builders (NAHB)/Wells Fargo builder sentiment index remained unchanged at 68 in early July.
“Builders are encouraged by growing housing demand, but they continue to be burdened by rising construction material costs,” said NAHB Chief Economist Robert Dietz. “Builders need to manage these cost increases as they strive to provide competitively priced homes, especially as more first-time home buyers enter the housing market.”
Last year, the Trump administration imposed anti-dumping and countervailing duties on imports of Canadian softwood lumber, which builders say have boosted the price of new single-family homes. Together with a lack of land and labor, rising material costs have exacerbated an already acute shortage of homes for sale, weakening the larger housing market.
“We’re seeing pressure on both sides of the market, from increasingly expensive inputs on the supply side to prices that are charging ahead of wage growth on the demand side, and the result is that neither builders nor buyers can keep up,” said John Pataky, executive vice president at TIAA Bank in Jacksonville, Florida.
Is Supply Really Constrained?
News articles about housing frequently propose that there is a shortfall in the supply of new housing relative to demand, but is that really what’s happening in the market? Delphi Advisors provide analytical insights about this topic in Forest2Market’s most recent issue of The Economic Outlook:
If new supply is keeping up with population growth, then where is the problem? To begin answering these questions, Delphi Advisors derived a metric—called “starts per person added” (SPPA)—in which monthly not-seasonally adjusted single- and multi-family starts are divided by the monthly change in the US population.
As one might imagine, given the cyclicality of births and construction activity within a calendar year, there is considerable MoM and YoY variability in both the single-family (SPPA1F) and multi-family (SPPAMF) metrics. Comparing recent results—and in particular, 12-month moving averages (Figure 1) to eliminate seasonality—against long-term averages reveals interesting patterns, however.
Figure 1: Housing Starts per Person Added
SOURCE: Delphi Advisors
For the entire period January 1959 to May 2018 the average SPPA1F = 0.405; the pre-2000 SPPA1F average = 0.420. Put another way, prior to 2000, one single-family home was started for every 2.38 people added to the population.
Between January 2000 and July 2007 (i.e., the housing bubble and early part of the subsequent crash) SPPA1F exceeded its pre-2000 average during 84 of those 91 months, peaked at 0.628 in November 2005, and averaged 0.520. Although SPPA1F has been consistently rising from its October 2009 minimum of 0.162 (2009:10 minus present average = 0.277) it has yet to regain the pre-2000 average. When adjusted for population growth, the single-family housing bust of the Great Recession and its aftermath was deeper and, to date, has been over 50% longer than the preceding bubble.
Not surprisingly, the multi-family segment exhibits a different pattern. The 1959:01-2018:05 average SPPAMF = 0.174; the pre-2000 SPPAMF = 0.198. I.e., pre-2000, one multi-family unit was started for every 5.05 people added to the population. SPPAMF during 2000:01-2007:07 averaged 0.123, reflecting the overwhelming market preference for single-family units.
SPPAMF rebounded off its October 2009 low of 0.021 (2009:10-present average = 0.127), but has been gradually subsiding on trend since February 2017’s peak of 0.174. Like its single-family counterpart, SPPAMF has yet to regain its pre-2000 average.
Putting together both halves of the above analysis, housing supply has indeed failed to keep pace with population growth. Moreover, unless multi-family starts again trend higher, the gap could continue widening. Combining our analysis with the “5 Ls”—lending, lots, labor, local regulatory concerns, and increasingly, lumber (both availability and price)—described by NAHB Chief Economist Robert Dietz, implies supply-side headwinds that could prove difficult to overcome despite compelling demographic support.
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MindshaRE is our periodic look at some simple reverse engineering tips and tricks. The goal is to keep things small and discuss every day aspects of reversing. You can view previous entries by going through our blog history or querying a search engine for dvlabs mindshare.
If there's one thing I've noticed about working with as many reverse engineers as I have, it is that we all use our tools differently. Many of the best reversers I've met barely touch a debugger and prefer to do all their analysis statically. Others, like myself, prefer to have static and dynamic tools providing each other with complementary data. Well, for those of you who prefer the static method, here's a quick way to make IDA a bit more useful when dealing with dynamic code flow.
Quite often (especially with C++) you'll run across dynamic calls such as:
...and so forth. Recently, I came across a piece of software that had a 40+ case switch statement. In each case, they would load a unique code pointer into a register. All the cases then lead to a basic block that called that pointer. IDA did not provide me the cross references to all of the code locations. In fact, here is a graph of all paths from the switch statement to a sprintf call:
With a bit of IDAPython, we can quickly add all the proper cross references (edges) and get a more useful idea of the possible paths to sprintf.
To do this, we can utilize the idaapi.add_cref function. The function definition from idaapi.py is:
def add_cref(*args): """add_cref(ea_t frm, ea_t to, cref_t type) -> bool""" return _idaapi.add_cref(*args)
Pretty simple, it takes an address source, an address destination, and a code flow type. For our example, we are going to want to give it a flow type of 'call near' which is defined by the idaapi.fl_CN constant. For reference, the cross reference types defined in idc.py are:
# Flow types (combine with XREF_USER!): fl_CF = 16 # Call Far fl_CN = 17 # Call Near fl_JF = 18 # Jump Far fl_JN = 19 # Jump Near fl_F = 21 # Ordinary flow
So, basically what I did with the application I was looking at, was call idaapi.add_cref(address_of_call_reg32, address_of_func, idaapi.fl_CN) for each function address loaded in each switch case. After doing so, the path from the switch function to sprintf looked a bit more accurate:
These graphs were created using the GraphViewer class (which you can read more about on the Hex-Rays blog here) If you create a dictionary that maps node IDs to function addresses when AddNode is called, you can make the nodes clickable with code inside the OnDblClick handler:
def OnDblClick(self, node_id): f_addy = self.id_to_f[node_id] idc.Jump(f_addy)
This all becomes a lot more useful when you combine the ability to add edges with code for parsing RTTI and scraping vftables.
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November 16, 2012
« 90-Second Newbery: One-Man Shows! The Giver, Frankweiler, and Dead End in Norvelt 90-Second Newbery: 2 versions of The Giver »
Remember, the New York screening of the 90-Second Newbery Film Festival is coming up December 2! Co-hosted by me and Jon Scieszka, with special guests Newbery winners Kate DiCamillo, Rita Williams-Garcia, and Margi Preus. And picture-book world stars Dan Yaccarino and Brian Floca. Complete details here. Get your tickets now!
Rochester Community Television and Writers and Books in Rochester, NY have a summer camp that teaches media literacy through video production. A perfect match for the 90-Second Newbery! Today we’ll look at two videos produced by that camp.
The first one is from the older kids’ camp, ages 12-14. It’s called “A Journey Through Newbery,” and instead about being about just one Newbery award winning book, it is (allegedly) about four. Can you guess which four Newbery books are being referenced?
But wait! There is an egregious error in it. Scroll back up, watch the video, and see if you can’t spot it.
That’s right, the first book referenced is 1988 Honor book Gary Paulsen’s Hatchet, the second is Louis Sachar’s 1999 Medal winner Holes, the third is C.S. Lewis’ The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe, and the fourth is Lois Lowry’s 1994 Medal winner The Giver—yes, that comical sound of a record needle scratching in your brain is the cognitive dissonance of seeing C.S. Lewis on that list. The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe never won a Newbery, nor could it, as only United States citizens or residents are eligible for the award (that “and residents” clause is how the perfidious Neil Gaiman squeaked through).
Never mind though, this video is great! I love it when a movie has a gripping start that throw you right into the action. The kids accomplish that and then some with this special-effects-heavy crash scene from Hatchet! The kid who plays the hero has natural comic timing and demeanor. The segue from that to Holes is quite amusing, especially the offhanded way they react to the digger’s death, and the sudden appearance of the lizard was great. And even though the Narnia book isn’t a Newbery winner, I can’t deny the power of the line “Mmm, suspicious Turkish Delight! My favorite!” Another favorite detail: that in the “perfect society” of The Giver, babies are just laying in the street for anyone to pick up. Splendid work!
The camp for ages 10-12 chose a rather obscure title for their video, 1949 Honor book My Father’s Dragon by Ruth S. Gannett. I always like it when folks make movies for Newbery winners that are off the beaten path:
Wonderful! The story is well told, the production values high. Another plus: many 90-Second Newbery movies don’t make any sense if you haven’t read the book . . . but this one totally makes sense! (In fact, it inspired me to go read the book, which apparently you can download for free, and I’m glad I did. It’s a quick read, maybe a half an hour). The boy playing Elmer is hilarious, and so is the “yeah! get out of here!” mom popping up. “Bag of seemingly useless items” was a funny line. The puppets were charming and I love the way they interacted with Elmer. The transitions and the music give everything a snappy feel. A TRIUMPH!
Remember, just a few more short weeks until the New York screening of the 90-Second Newbery Film Festival, December 2! Details on the screening here.
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Praying for a Sustainable World
Why the founder of Jewcology believes that prayers are a key tool for healing the earth
By Evonne Marzouk1
The article below is part of the Year of Jewish Learning on the Environment, a 2012 project of Canfei Nesharim and Jewcology, with the support of the ROI Community. The goal was to create and share the most comprehensive set of Torah learning materials on the environment ever developed. The materials were shared across the Jewish community, with over 100 website postings to more than 50,000 people during the course of the year, and are now available in archive form at www.canfeinesharim.org/learning.
“Change your lightbulb! Call your senator! Buy a hybrid car!” Today’s environmental movement seems to focus strongly on doing. There are things to buy, actions to take, policies to advocate.
It is rare for environmentalists to think of prayer as a tool for change. Yet Jewish teachings express a very different view of prayer.2
Prayer is one of the key tools that God has given us to change the world, and it is our responsibility and opportunity to pray for the health of the earth and human civilization living on it and with it.
At the moment before the human was first created, the Torah expresses an important lesson about our role in creation:
Now all the plants (siah) of the field were not yet on the earth and all the herb of the field had not yet sprouted, for Hashem G-d had not yet sent rain upon the earth and there was no man to work the soil.” (Gen. 2:5)
Rashi comments based on the Talmud:
For what is the reason that G-d had not yet sent rain, because there was no man to work the land and there was no one to acknowledge the goodness of the rain, and when man came and knew that they (the rain) are a need for the world, he prayed for them and they came down, and the trees and grasses sprouted.” 3
In this understanding of our creation story, the very first task of the person is recognizing G-d, and then praying to G-d on behalf of creation. As Rabbi Daniel Kohn explains (based on Rabbi Abraham Isaac Kook), one of the first acts of humans on this planet was to care for creation – by praying for it.4
Traditionally, Jews pray three times a day. The Talmud identifies Isaac as instituting the afternoon prayer service, based on the verse: “And Isaac went out to su’ah in the field before evening” (Gen. 24:63).5 The word “su’ach” is unclear, but the Sages conclude that he was praying based on the linguistic similarity between this word and another reference for prayer in the Psalms.
Based on this, Rabbi Natan Sternhartz teaches: “Meditation and prayer are called ‘sichah.’ A plant or shrub is called ‘si’ach.’ When the plants of the field begin to return to life and grow, they all yearn to be included in one’s sichah, in meditation and prayer.” 6 This implies that not only does G-d want our prayers for the creation – the natural world is seeking them, as well.
Perhaps reflecting the importance of the prayer-human-creation relationship, the liturgy of Jewish prayers is filled with nature imagery and recognition of our dependence on natural resources. Nature takes on symbolic roles in relationship to humanity, to G-d, and to righteous activities for which we are encouraged to strive:
“A righteous person will flourish like a date palm, like a cedar in the Lebanon he will grow tall. Planted in the house of Hashem, in the courtyards of our G-d they will flourish. They will still be fruitful in old age, vigorous and fresh they will be.” 7
Jewish prayers also help us recall and appreciate the beauty and consistency of nature, and how much we rely upon it and its Creator. This constancy is alluded to in the Psalm (repeated each morning in the Jewish liturgy):
“He Who illuminates the earth and those who dwell upon it, with compassion; and in His goodness renews daily, perpetually, the work of creation.” 8
These nature-centric verses in the Jewish liturgy remind us to be grateful to G-d for providing the natural world we live in, and themselves serve as a prayer for continued blessing of natural resources. Many of us long to make a difference in healing the world today. According to Jewish mystical teachings, our desire to make a difference comes from our souls.9
Prayers are the language of the soul, and by praying we can affect ourselves and the world around us. It is also a basic Jewish understanding that when we pray, G-d listens and acts on the physical reality based on our prayer. Jewish tradition is filled with descriptions of these types of effective prayers.10,11
Jewish teachings help us realize that a moment spent in prayer is an active moment, with the power to make a difference. When we pray with a community, we become connected to the needs of the community and the rest of the world. To pray on behalf of the entire planet is to summon the entire earth within us.
Prayer is a vision for what can become, with a heart full of hope, inspiring a brighter future. Today, perhaps the most important thing for us all to pray for is the health of the earth and of a return to balance within human civilization. Let us pray.
This material was produced as part of the Jewcology project. Jewcology.com is a new web portal for the global Jewish environmental community. Thanks to the ROI community for their generous support, which made the Jewcology project possible.
- 1 The author acknowledges Rabbi Yonatan Neril for his helpful editorial suggestions on this piece. – Back to Text
- 2 This article reflects a meaningful approach to Jewish prayer focusing on its relationship to nature and protecting the environment. This represents one Jewish understanding of prayer. Within our rich tradition, of course, there are others as well. – Back to Text
- 3 Rashi to Genesis 2:5, s.v. ki lo himtir, based on Babylonian Talmud, Tractate Chullin p. 60b. – Back to Text
- 4 Essays on Prayer, distributed in 2011 – Back to Text
- 5 Babylonian Talmud, Tractate Brachot 26b – Back to Text
- 6 Sichot HaRaN – Back to Text
- 7 Psalms 92:13-15, translation of Artscroll Siddur. – Back to Text
- 8 Morning blessings before Shema, as found in Artscroll Siddur, p 85–87. – Back to Text
- 9 Based on the teachings of Rabbi Daniel Kohn on prayer, taught at Yeshiv at Hamivtar in 2010 – Back to Text
- 10 For example, Moses’ prayer for forgiveness, Exodus 32:32 – Back to Text
- 11 For example, Chanah’s prayer for a child, I Samuel 1:11 – Back to Text
About the Author
Evonne Marzouk is the founder and executive director of Canfei Nesharim: Sustainable Living Inspired by Torah.
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If you’ve ever tried to lose weight (and who hasn’t), you’ve got to be mindful of whose advice you take. Your colleague says you need to cut out carbs. Your gym buddy knows the secret is to stop eating after 7 p.m. Your Facebook friend swears she’ll be in swimsuit shape by March if she only eats once a day. Your husband, well, he sneezes and the weight seems to fall off.
But do any of these tips really work? To help you shed those extra pounds—and keep them off—without starving yourself, ditching your social life, or eating only at odd times of the day, we talked to experienced nutritionists for real-world advice you can actually live with, day in and day out. We’ll tell you how to focus on the delicious foods you can add to your diet, why you should be eating more often (yes!), the fat loss benefits of more sleep, and how even taking a few deep breaths can put you on a successful path to weight loss.
1. Never Get Too Hungry
You make poor decisions when your judgment is compromised. Hunger is a primal urge that’s difficult to deny. When you’re famished, it’s hard to hold off until you can find healthy food. As a result, you end up eating anything that’s not nailed down, and typically, regretting it. Planning meals and snacks works wonders to head off the intense hunger that can do a number on your best intentions to eat right. Always tote healthy snacks, such as an ounce of pistachios, a hard-cooked egg and some whole grain crackers, Greek yogurt, or 1/4 cup raisins. Don’t skip meals or skimp on them, either.
2. Know Your Daily Caloric Intake
Everyone has a calorie budget, whether you’re trying to maintain your weight or lose a few pounds. I’ve found that people ignore this simple fact. Your calorie budget allows you to build a healthy diet, and it helps prevent frustration about weight control. The 2010 Dietary Guidelines for Americans provide suggested daily calorie intakes based on gender, age, and physical activity level. When you know your calorie budget, then you can plan on how many servings of fruits, vegetables, whole grains, low-fat dairy, and other protein sources to include every day.
3. Make sure your meals have red, orange and blue in them
At each meal include one food that is any of these colors. By focusing on these foods, you’ll be sure to get some produce on your plate and won’t have space on your plate for higher-calorie fare.
4. Eat One Less Bite A Meal
Doing this at every meal could save about 75 calories a day which equates to nearly an 8-pound weight loss in one year!
5. Drink More Water
Water is essential for keeping the body hydrated and we’re actually more likely to retain “water weight” by not drinking enough of it rather than by having too much. The needs of each person will be different, but the general recommended daily amount is 64 ounces. It also takes up space in your stomach so you’ll feel fuller while taking in less calories.
6. Cut Back On Salt
Salt is a big contributor to weight gain and often a reason why the numbers on the scale aren’t going down. The average American consumes twice the amount of salt they should have each day, leading to weight gain, bloating, and the inability to lose stubborn pounds. Salt can also make you feel hungrier and thirstier, so check the nutrition labels for high sodium levels and choose fresh over packaged or restaurant foods. You’ll see a puffy face and belly go down quickly just by cutting back on your sodium intake and choosing more natural foods.
7. Add Spice To Your Food
Adding hot spices to your meals can help curb hunger, according to a study in the British Journal of Nutrition. Need another reason to add some heat? Scientists at the State University of New York at Buffalo found that capsaicin (a compound found in chilies) triggers your brain to release feel-good endorphins. A full belly and a good mood? Pass the hot sauce!
8. Stop With The Diet Soda
A University of Texas Health Science Center study found that the more diet sodas a person drank, the greater their risk of becoming overweight. Downing just two or more cans a day increased waistlines by 500%. Why? Artificial sweeteners can disrupt the body’s natural ability to regulate calorie intake based on the sweetness of foods, suggested an animal study from Purdue University. That means people who consume diet foods might be more likely to overeat, because your body is being tricked into thinking it’s eating sugar, and you crave more.
9. Eat A Nutrient-Balanced Meals
Making sure an eating occasion has carbs, protein, and fat instead of just counting calories (like a 100-calorie pack) delivers better energy and fat loss results by giving the body what it needs, like quick- and longer-digesting nutrients so you stay full longer.
10. Keep A Food Journal
We know you’ve heard this time and time again. Well, that’s because keeping a food record is vital to losing weight and keeping it off long term. A study published in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine found that those who kept regular food records lost twice as much weight as those who didn’t. When keeping a food record, make sure to track what you ate, how much you ate, anything you added to the food (condiments, oils, etc.), and what you drank. Also tracking your mood and appetite can be helpful and insightful into learning about your eating patterns as well!
11. Start Your Meals With Soup
People who ate a low-calorie vegetable soup before a meal consumed 20% fewer calories at the meal, according to research from Penn State Unniversity. Have a low-calorie broth-based veggie soup before your largest meal of the day to reduce calories and lose weight without feeling hungry.
12. Take Your Time When You Eat
Rapid eaters are often heavier than slow eaters, according to research from The University of Rhode Island. It takes 20 minutes for your stomach to send a message to your brain that you have eaten enough and are satisfied. If you rush your meal and eat rapidly, your body’s satiety cues won’t be tuned in to those feelings of fullness yet and it’s easier to overeat. Try slowing down by chewing each bite at least 10 times, putting your fork down in between bites, and fostering a relaxing eating environment rather than eating on the run.
13. Eat Anytime Your Want
It’s a myth that you’ll gain weight as a direct result of eating after 7 p.m. I see many busy professionals at my private practice, and they often get home late. This doesn’t mean that they should skip dinner if they’re trying to lose weight.
Many times, people stop eating by 5 p.m., which results in overeating the following day. This cycle is not ideal as it shuts down your metabolism. You should eat 70% of your calories before dinnertime and 30% at dinner, whatever time that may be. Just give yourself at least 90 minutes to end your meal before you plan to go to sleep. You need at least 90 minutes to digest so you can sleep comfortably.
14. Have A Snack Before A Party
Don’t arrive at a big meal, event, or party starving. One study found that you’ll be 2.5 times more likely to start off overeating starchy carbs, fried or cheesy foods than those who didn’t fast before the meal. And, you’ll be more likely to eat 47% more calories of that first food before switching to healthier fare. Have a light snack before you go to an event so you don’t arrive ravenous.
15. Always Eat Breakfast
A study published in the British Journal of Nutrition tracked the diets of nearly 900 adults and found that when people ate more fat, protein, and carbohydrates in the morning, they stayed satisfied and ate less over the course of the day than those who ate their bigger meals later on. Unfortunately, many Americans start off on an empty stomach. In one survey, consumers reported that even when they eat in the morning, the meal is a full breakfast only about one-third of the time. If you’re feeling full-blown hunger before noon, there’s a chance you’re not eating enough in the morning. Shoot for a minimum of 250 calories and aim to get a serving of protein in so you’ll feel fuller longer.
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*** Currently all Logitech components included in this kit are backordered. Kits can still be ordered but will experience delays ***
Finally, a dual yoke training solution!
Take your flight training the next level of realism with the Flight Velocity Dual Yoke Mid Profile Flight Simulator kit. This kit provides everything you need to get a great looking, functional dual yoke flight simulator panel set up right away.
This kit contains the following components:
1 FV3D Dual Yoke Mid Profile Cockpit Panel
1 iPad mount OR 6 Flight Instrument Panels - iPad mount supports the new 9.7" iPad, the iPad Air, iPad Air 2, or iPad Pro
2 Logitech Radio Panels
1 Logitech Switch Panel
1 Logitech Multi Panel
2 Logitech Flight Yoke and Throttle Quadrant
1 Set of Logitech Rudder Pedals
FV3D Panel Details
This patented panel is specially designed to support two Logitech Pro Flight yokes. The FV3D Mid Profile Cockpit Panel allows you ample space for a standard complement of six-pack gauges, navigation instruments, as well as radios, throttle quadrants, switch and multi panels. Fully compatible with Saitek/Logitech Pro Flight® series hardware, this cockpit panel is designed from the desk up for strength, durability, and high performance. Proudly constructed in the USA from high-strength ABS plastics, the FV3D Mid Profile Cockpit Panel will give you hours of realistic flight training at an equally realistic price.
Room for two Logitech Pro Flight yokes, throttle quadrants, six-pack, nav instruments, radios, switch panels, and more.
Compatible with our iPad mounting system.
Fully compatible with Saitek Pro Flight® series hardware.
Patented design proudly constructed in the USA from high-strength ABS plastics.
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Custom elearning courses are more than just regurgitated PowerPoints or repurposed instructor-led courses—they’re purposefully structured, engaging, impactful learning experiences that move the needle.
If your learners are struggling, or flat-out failing, to apply what is taught in off-the-shelf web-based training courses, or you have highly specialized skills or processes that need to be taught, it may be time to consider custom elearning.
Custom elearning courses deliver higher learner retention rates and improved learner outcomes when compared to off-the-shelf web-based training modules, because they clearly align content with the appropriate actions, behaviors and activities. In doing so, the learner is able to focus solely on the content, rather than trying to determine how the content applies to their role.
It’s safe to say we’ve all suffered through a boring, click-next-to-continue, PowerPoint-style web-based training course that’s left our eyes heavy and glossy, with our minds anywhere other than the content on the screen in front of us.
Don’t do that to your learners! Whether you are producing web-based employee training for new hires, introducing a new skill or topic, delivering new product or sales training, offering a refresher course to brush up on past material, or developing a catalog of courses for training certification, offer your team custom elearning that is engaging—and doesn’t make them want to nap on their keyboard.
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We understand that time is limited, which is why we make sure that our custom elearning courses aren’t wasting precious time. (And let’s be honest: what your learners really mean is that they don’t have time to waste on courses that aren’t going to make them better at their jobs.) Generalized courses are forced to cover more variables in order to ensure that the majority of learners will be able to garner something from the course, which means that much of the content in an off-the-shelf course won’t apply to your learners. Everyone has time to take training when they are able to directly correlate completion of the training to improved job performance.
Kinetic offers a variety of course options, features and lengths to meet the diverse budgets of our clients. In addition, our clients often find that in comparison to off-the-shelf courses, fewer custom courses are required to cover the same topics.
This could be for a variety of reasons, but the most common reasons are a lack of incentive, poor communication or the belief that the courses are a waste of time. Are you delivering engaging courses that align with the learners’ job roles, repeatedly communicating the WIIFM (what’s in it for me) and properly motivating your learners to engage in learning opportunities? If you aren’t convinced that any of these reasons apply, let’s discuss how we can help you get to the bottom of it—and then how we can work together to solve it.
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Utilizing the foundational components of instructional design, we ensure your custom elearning experiences result in the retention and application of knowledge and skills.
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Perlis, who are already serving a Fifa registration ban, may now face the world body’s wrath again.
The Northern Lions, who were kicked out of the Premier League in February last year, are currently not allowed to sign players after Fifa imposed a registration ban on them for failing to settle the wages of their former player, Valci Junior, within the stipulated deadline.
It is learnt that Perlis owe Junior US$17,400 (RM70,708) and another US$78,300 (RM318,186) for breach of contract.
The conditional ban will only be lifted once they have paid Junior in full.
However, Perlis, who are hoping to return to competitive football this year in the M3 League, are facing another Fifa sanction for their failure to settle the salary arrears of their former football director, Matt Holland.
A source revealed that the Perlis FA (PFA) were instructed by Fifa to pay RM200,000 plus default interest of five per cent within 30 days to Holland on Nov 25 last year.
PFA were also ordered to pay compensation amounting to RM798,658 (plus default interest of five per cent) for breach of contract.
FAM secretary-general Stuart Ramalingam said Perlis will only be allowed to return to competition after they have resolved their issues.
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As a mark of respect for the 16 personnel who were martyred in Maharashtra’s Gadchiroli in an attack carried out by Maoists, state governor Ch. Vidyasagar Rao today cancelled the reception and cultural programme scheduled to be organized at Raj Bhavan, Mumbai this evening.
The programme was organized for eminent personalities and diplomats to celebrate the 59th anniversary of Maharashtra Day. Earlier in the day, at least 16 Maharashtra police personnel lost their lives in an IED blast by Naxals in Maharashtra’s Gadchiroli in Jambhurkheda village. Maoists also allegedly set ablaze over 50 machines and vehicles at a road construction site. All the security personnel belonged to the C60 group, that is, the anti-Naxal operation team.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi strongly condemned the dastardly attack and said, “Strongly condemn despicable attack on our security personnel in Gadchiroli, Maharashtra. Salute all brave personnel. Their sacrifices will never be forgotten. My thoughts and solidarity are with bereaved families. Perpetrators of such violence will not be spared.”
Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis also condemned the attack and expressed grief. Fadnavis said, “Anguished to know that our 16 police personnel from Gadchiroli C-60 force got martyred in a cowardly attack by Naxals today. My thoughts and prayers are with the martyrs’ families. I’m in touch with DGP and Gadchiroli SP.”
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But the black schools had nothing even close to those opportunities in their school. The black schools, after investigating further, were proven to be less beneficial. So in conclusion, the Supreme Court over ruled the Plessy v. Ferguson case. Making the schools more equal to each other and combining white and blacks school. This action changed the world and played a big part in the Civil Rights
Although many attempts were made to prioritize freedom and equality for all, these values were undermined by racist Southerners who wouldn’t accept equality. In the end, Reconstruction had failed and former slaves endured another hardship akin to slavery. However, Reconstruction still could have prospered. There are multiple events that, if they had occurred, Reconstruction would not have failed. For example, had the government continued to fund the Freedmen’s Bureau, then the South would have legislated their discriminatory laws much later, if not at all.
Tourgee argued that the reputation of being a black man was "property", which, by the law, implied the inferiority of African Americans as compared to whites. But sadly, Plessy lost. The case ended in 1890. Since then they made a new law and it is there saying that blacks and whites are “Separate but Equal” on the plaque. Since that Landmark was there, it wasn’t equal.
The jury did not take long in their decision. The came back and found them not guilty because “the state had failed to prove the identity of the body ”. They were also found not guilty on the kidnapping charges. Because of the decision of Emmett Till case, it showed the truth on “Jim Crow segregation in the South” and promoted the early stages of the Civil Rights Movement . After all of these drama in the south, a lot of African Americans decided it was time to move on to the North.
Even in states where slavery was abolished, the white population oppressed the black population in order to maintain white superiority. The black populations in such states were been given voting rights, but if a black man were to actually vote, he would have been seriously oppressed. The black population in the north is “free”, but he has virtually no
It failed in many ways but also was kinda a success one way that it failed is that blacks or African American people they were not equal to whites after the reconstruction African Americans were still much poorer than whites and were not able to vote also had to deal with segregation. However, at the end of the reconstruction black or African Americans were not slaves anymore and they we still freed and the southern states were able to join the union again. Another way that reconstruction failed is that carpetbaggers came down from the north and took advantage of the devastated south in 2 ways financially and politically and since that anyone who took part was not able to hold public office be a lawyer a businessmen etc.because if they had then they could buy farms and mansions with tax returns and leave the poor poor. It was successful in that it had restored the United States as a unified nation they all had drafted new constitutions and the thirteenth,fourteenth and fifteenth amendments and pledged their loyalty to the U.S. government. It failed to protect former slaves from white people and their ways or racism and
In 1877, when the Reconstruction era ended, inequality and injustice towards black people was present more than ever. The 14th Amendment granted blacks the American citizenship and an equal protection in front of the law, whereas the Civil Rights Act of 1875 granted also protection in public places such as theaters, hotels, or restaurants. Unfortunately, after the Civil Rights Cases in 1883, the Supreme Court outlawed that equal protection does only apply from governmental infringement. Private Citizens like railroad conductors can argue that they are acting according to the State’s law. The case Plessy v. Ferguson (1896) is a good example in which the Supreme Court “upheld a Louisiana law requiring segregated railroad cars” (Boyer 609).
For instance, the Civil Rights Movement solely would have been significantly less brutal if the government had accepted racial justice and made reforms regarding african american rights. However, because our society was stuck in the systems of decades prior, our government objected to any sort of improvement, even if it did seem more ethical. Many of our leaders at the time were headstrong to what they had been taught: non-whites are inferior. Even if the ethics they had been raised on were false and inhumane, many leaders remained firm in their belief and intolerant to any idea of civil rights. Tuchman’s claim is relevant in instances like the civil rights movement as the governmental leaders were persistent in their own, intolerant beliefs.
One of the problems with the New Deal was that it didn’t support minorities nearly enough, which is shown in both Document B: African Americans and the New Deal, and Document G: Whither the American Indian?. In Document G, it is stated that the New Deal did very little to support civil rights, most new deal programs discriminating against blacks. Document G shows that there was unfair treatment toward American Indians with New Deal programs, as most programs gave no benefits to Indians, but still negatively affected them in some ways, such as with their housing difficulty. Both of these documents show that if anything should be changed about the New Deal, it’s the way it affects minorities. There are also some citizens who believe the New Deal isn’t dealing with the Depression, as shown in Document F: Song.
They are being discriminated against by in getting jobs or getting jobs that pay poorly. In a study a “white men with a prison record were more likely to be offered a job than African American men who had a clean record” . Today, many people say they are not racist, but from years of stereotyping many have an implicit bias when it comes to Blacks. Though slavery in America is over, the effects of dehumanizing a race of people are still felt today. Stereotypes and prejudice against African Americans still effect our culture and
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Since Baltimore was the last of my ten appearances for 2009, I thought I'd mention the 2010 conventions I have lined up so far:
- SAN FRANCISCO: Wondercon (April 2-4)
- CALGARY: Calgary Expo (April 24-25)
- SAN DIEGO: SDCC (July 22-25)
But! Here's the deal: We can easily expand that list! I'll happily come to any convention that has me out as a guest. All you need to do is e-mail your local convention and suggest they have me out. It really is that simple: They *want* feedback like that. That's how the Calgary appearance came about, for example. So drop a line to your local convention: Let's get Sheldon out to your neck of the woods!
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If you are traveling to the beautiful city of Seville and have yet to book accommodations look no further than Hostel One Catedral. Nestled in the middle of the city, the location, service and overall vibe of this hostel is unmatched. It is a great hostel that offers you a fun, safe and incredible experience while you get to explore the city of Seville.
Upon arrival at Hostel one Catedral I knew it was going to be a fantastic vacation. The only complaint I have about this hostel is they have a very small sign so make sure to have the location mapped and keep your eyes out when you are close to the location. Upon arrival you’ll notice that it is two different buildings which both have beds and they are directly next door to each other. Both buildings are extremely picturesque and on the inside are exactly how one would imagine an old, well-kept Spanish building would look.
They are extremely interactive with their guests from the second you enter the building. They offer daily free walking tours, free dinners at night, and almost every night a pub-crawl lead by one of the staff members. You will meet some incredible people from all over the world. The staff really makes everyone become friends so it is great whether you are a solo traveler or traveling with a group.
This hostel has all the typical rooms to book that other hostels have, they have 4, 6 and 8 bedrooms with private room options as well. You can choose co-ed, all male or all female dormitories. The majority of the rooms have a floor communal bathroom with several showers. The bathrooms are cleaned twice a day and are always extremely well kept. There is an option for a private bathroom in one of the rooms. The overall quality of the rooms are unmatched, always clean, with what I would consider typical comfortable hostel bunk beds.
The location of this hostel is what really sets it apart. It is exactly where you want to be in the city. You are less than a 10-minute walk to the famous Seville Cathedral, The Alcazar, City Center and Alfalfa. (Main bar district) The hostel also has several delicious restaurants and tapa’s bars in walking distance.
I have stayed in loads of hostels around Europe and I can honestly say this is one of my favorites. The overall vibe, location, people and free opportunities truly make it one of the best hostels ever. Also a fun fact – for a period of time it was actually rated on hostel world as the best hostel in Europe. I can’t recommend this hostel enough, if you do decide to stay there, you will absolutely love it.
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Over the course of this year, the headlines have been ripe with news articles giving technology, and especially smartphones and handheld devices, a bad rap. For just a few examples, see “Your Smartphone May Be Powering Down Your Relationship,” “Are Gadget-Free Bedrooms the Secret to a Happy Relationship?,” “Parents, Wired to Distraction,” or “Want to Perk Up Your Love Life? Put Away That Smartphone.”
There is no doubt that technological devices have become more prevalent in our homes and family lives. Every new report that comes out from the Pew Research Center shows increases in the number of adults online, the number of adults who own a smartphone, and so forth. For instance, in 2014, around eight in ten 18- to 49-year-olds owned a smartphone.
I love my smartphone and tablet, so I know very well how much good can come from technology, such as increased connection and ease of communication.1, 2
There is a flip-side to every coin, though, and this increased connectivity also brings the potential for problems. As our technology is always or almost always with us, often in our pocket, it becomes easy for us to fill the gaps in our lives with technology use.3, 4 Since I am currently on a college campus, all I have to do is look around me every time a meeting or class gets out: Many individuals leave the room with their heads already buried in their phones and stay that way until they reach their next class or their dorm.
Some individuals develop problematic or addictive-like use of devices, to the extent that their overuse begins to take a toll on their lives and their relationships.5
Many would rightly suggest that this isn’t just the fault of our devices; sometimes, there are certain things about the individuals who adopt a certain type of technology and also use it frequently. Research has shown us that younger adults and men are more likely to adopt new technologies,6, 7, 8 although the gender divide is quickly narrowing,8 and women are just as likely if not more likely to overuse these technologies. 9 Those who are outgoing as well as those who are depressed or lonely can also be more at risk for developing problematic types of use.5, 9, 10, 11, 12
Yet even those who aren’t always glued to their devices may be interrupted at times by their sounds and notifications while interacting with other people. The interruptions caused by technology can sometimes be annoying, but they’re perhaps especially so when you’re with the person you care about most.
Thus, my colleague Sarah Coyne and I set out to try to capture at least a little bit of what I termed “technoference”: “everyday intrusions or interruptions in couple interactions or time spent together that occur due to technology.”13 We wanted to expand on the work of researchers who have looked at how technology use may become problematic and how this may have negative effects on relationships.
We were able to sample 143 married/cohabiting women. Each woman reported how often certain devices, like cell or smartphones, tablets, computers, and TVs, interrupted interactions she had with her husband or partner. The women also rated how often specific technology interruption situations occurred, such as a partner sending text messages to others during the couple’s face-to-face conversations or getting on his phone during mealtimes.
Overall, about 70% of the women in our sample said that cell/smartphones, computers, or TV interfered in their relationship with their partner at least sometimes or more often. Many women also said that the following specific interruptions happened at least daily:
- 62% said technology interferes with their leisure time together.
- 40% said their partner gets distracted by the TV during a conversation.
- 35% said their partner will pull out his phone if he receives a notification even if they are in the middle of a conversation.
- 33% said their partner checks his phone during mealtimes that they spend together.
- 25% said their partner actively texts other people during the couple’s face-to-face conversations.
Many of these interruptions are likely unintentional or unconsciously done, but can still send a message that the technology device is more important in that moment than one’s romantic partner. If this happens frequently, the relationship could suffer. And our findings suggest that this is often the case: We found that women who reported more technoference in their couple relationship also reported more conflict over technology use, lower relationship satisfaction, more depressive symptoms, and lower life satisfaction.
If you’ve experienced technoference and technology-related conflict in your own relationship, or if you want to avoid it before it starts, here are a few recommendations to consider.14
1. Talk about technology use with your partner and set mutually agreed upon rules, especially to manage technology use during times you are together or could be together. (Careful, this can be a touchy subject for some though and needs a light touch.)
2. Carefully and critically examine your own technology use. Ask yourself…
- How often are you on your device during family time?
- Is all of that use necessary?
- Why are you getting on the device?
- How do you think your partner or family feels when they see you get on your device or hear its notifications during family time?
3. Choose some technology-free times each day to just be with your romantic partner or family. For instance, parents might decide to turn off their devices once they return from work and put them someplace out of sight. Then they can turn them back on after the kids are in bed and they have had a few minutes to talk and connect as a couple. Other people may simply put their phones and tablets out of sight during mealtimes. These are just some examples. Feel free to get creative with it, but make sure you and your romantic partner agree!
Brandon T. McDaniel, M.S. is a doctoral candidate in the Human Development and Family Studies program at the Pennsylvania State University and currently manages the Daily Family Life Project. His research tends to focus on couple and coparenting relationships and influences on the well-being of these family relationships. Click here to see an infographic about how technology may interfere in couple relationships and what you can do about it.
- Campbell, S. W., & Ling, R. (2009). Effects of mobile communication. In J. Bryant & M. B. Oliver (Eds.), Media effects: Advances in theory and research (3rd ed., pp. 592 – 606). New York: Taylor and Francis.
- Kennedy, T. L. M., Smith, A., Wells, A. T., & Wellman, B. (2008). Networked families. Pew Internet and American Life Project. Retrieved from http://www.pewinternet.org/Reports/2008/Networked-Families.aspx
- Dimmick, J., Feaster, J. C., & Hoplamazian, G. J. (2011). News in the interstices: The niches of mobile media in space and time. New Media & Society, 13(1), 23–39.
- Oulasvirta, A., Rattenbury, T., Ma, L., & Raita, E. (2012). Habits make smartphone use more pervasive. Personal and Ubiquitous Computing, 16(1), 105–114.
- Bianchi, A., & Phillips J. (2005). Psychological predictors of problem mobile phone use. CyberPsychology & Behavior, 8, 39–51.
- Campbell, S. W., & Park, Y. J. (2008). Social implications of mobile telephony: The rise of personal communication society. Sociology Compass, 2, 371–387.
- Carbonell, X., Oberst, U., Beranuy, M. (2013). The cell phone in the twenty-first century: A risk for addiction or a necessary tool? In P. M. Miller (Ed.). Principles of addiction: Comprehensive addictive behaviors and disorders, Vol. 1 (pp. 901–909). New York: Academic Press.
- Gerpott, T. J., Thomas, S., & Weichert, M. (2013). Characteristics and mobile Internet use intensity of consumers with different types of advanced handsets: An exploratory empirical study of iPhone, Android, and other web-enabled mobile users in Germany. Telecommunications Policy, 37, 357–371.
- Jenaro, C., Flores, N., Gómez-Vela, M., González-Gil, F., & Caballo, C. (2007). Problematic Internet and cell-phone use: Psychological, behavioral, and health correlates. Addiction Research & Theory, 15(3), 309–320.
- Augner, C., & Hacker, G. W. (2012). Associations between problematic mobile phone use and psychological parameters in young adults. International Journal of Public Health, 57(2), 437–441.
- Takao, M., Takahashi, S., & Kitamura, M. (2009). Addictive personality and problematic mobile phone use. CyberPsychology & Behavior, 12(5), 501–507.
- Thomée, S., Härenstam, A., & Hagberg, M. (2011). Mobile phone use and stress, sleep disturbances, and symptoms of depression among young adults: A prospective cohort study. BMC Public Health, 11(1), 66.
- McDaniel, B. T., & Coyne, S. M. (2014). “Technoference”: The interference of technology in couple relationships and implications for women’s personal and relational well-being. Psychology of Popular Media Culture. DOI: 10.1037/ppm0000065
- McDaniel, B. T. (in press). “Technoference”: Everyday intrusions and interruptions of technology in couple and family relationships. In C. J. Bruess (Ed.), Family communication in the age of digital and social media. New York: Peter Lang Publishing.
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Oak Ridge Kennel Club AKC Agility Trial
When: April 5-7, 2019
Where: East Tennessee Agriculture Exposition Center, Harriman, TN 37748
Classes: Standard, JWW, Fast, T2B, and Premier
Entries: Open and Close dates TBD
Secretary: Jane Mohr (615) 941-3047 or email@example.com
Premium: Available at http://www.pawsabilitiestn.com/
Open to All AKC-Recognized Breeds and All American Dogs / Mixed Breeds
Agility is an exciting sport that involves a handler and a dog completing a course they have never run before. Depending on the class, the dog may be jumping or completing obstacles like weave poles, A-frame, dogwalk, tunnels, teeter, and chute. You may have seen agility on television and want to check it out in person. Spectators are welcome! If you have an interest in learning agility with your dog, ORKC offers classes at our facility. It's the most fun you can have with your canine partner, so please join us in April and watch this site for more information on our other trials.
Agility Trial Volunteers
Agility trials can't be held without volunteers. So ORKC hopes you will help us with this trial. You can sign up at the trial to volunteer to do everything from leash running to bar setting for each class.
Setup for the trial will take place on Thursday, January 8, 2015 from 4:00 - 6:00 PM. Cleanup after the trial will be around 1:00 PM on Sunday, January 11, 2015. Please e-mail Frances Hart to let her know if you can help.
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Education Corner: The Science of HIV
Published quarterly in our Newsletter, each Education Corner feature offers an account of how members of the community use the PDB in education. Issues are archived online.
In the latest issue, Janet Iwasa describes her multimedia-rich website scienceofHIV.org. This project aims to use animated molecular visualizations to captivate, inform and educate diverse audiences.
If you would like to submit an Education Corner column, please send an email to email@example.com.
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This is my response to my 7th assignment in my Creative Writing class. It is a story written in a “genre”. I chose science fiction, a genre I have always enjoyed. In fact, the story has an Outer Limits/Twilight Zone kind of feel to it
* * *
A wonderful day at the beach with a wonderful girl. Life doesn’t get any better than this,” thought Eric as he and his girlfriend Allison drove out of the city to spend the day together. Eric was grinning from ear to ear. He knew that Allison had brought her white bikini. The one he liked so much.
“Look at that billboard”, Allison said as they passed a collection of roadside advertisements.
Eric looked over at the billboard. He read the message out loud. “XPX Blue. Makes you Better!”
“That’s kind of vague,” he remarked. “It seems I’ve been seeing those ads on billboards and on TV a lot lately. What the heck is XPX Blue?”
Allison wasn’t exactly sure herself. “I think it’s some new health supplement that some corporation is hawking,” She replied. “You know I don’t believe in any of that stuff.”
The day at the beach was magnificent. Eric was extra pleased that the white bikini did make its appearance. He couldn’t have been happier. As the sun began to set they remained on the now nearly deserted beach to take in the spectacle.
Eric reached into a cooler and produced two bottles of beer. “Corona, made with the freshest Mexican spring water,” he exclaimed. Allison laughed as Eric twisted off the bottle caps. Eric didn’t really like Corona beer, but since she loved it so much he seemed to tolerate it.
As they lay together on the beach Allison looked up and noticed a bright blue star. “Look, Venus is rising,” she said.
Eric replied, “Yes, Venus makes an appearance, and look at me, here on the beach with my own Venus.”
Allison giggled a little bit, though she was still looking up at the sky. “Look,” she said. “Isn’t that odd? It seems to be getting brighter and brighter.”
Eric looked up and saw what was once a bright speck of light was now a glowing blue disk. This all happened in a matter of seconds. He only managed to say “What the heck…?” before everything went black.
The next thing he noticed was that everything was dark and he felt real groggy, like he had just woken up. Soon, he became more aware, and realized that he was lying on a metal table.
He thought, “Where am I? Am I hurt? Am I in the hospital?”
To add to his confusion his vision was blurry and he couldn’t see much. He slowly arose from the table and found that his knees were weak and his legs were wobbly. He placed his hands on the table for support. He noticed that the table was not metal at all. It looked like metal but it was soft and malleable. He thought, “How weird?”
A few moments later his legs became a little stronger and his vision also became clearer. He gasped as he noticed that Allison was on another table nearby. “Oh my god, Allison! Allison!” he called over to her. She did not respond.
He moved to her side. She appeared to be unconscious. He also noticed that her shirt was open at the bottom, exposing her belly. There was a pencil thin blue beam of light coming from above and shining brightly on her belly button.
“I wonder what that is,” he thought. “Am I dreaming this? Is this some sort of medical procedure?” He rubbed his eyes.
Now, his vision was getting to be a lot better. He looked around and saw that the room was much bigger than he originally thought. There were many more metal tables in the room, in fact hundreds of tables. Every one of them had a different person and every one of them had a blue light shining down upon their bellies.
“Oh my god”, he said. “I must be imagining this.”
He panicked! “Allison wake up, wake up”, he said as he shook her shoulders. “Where are we? What is happening?” he asked repeatedly.
Just then a brilliant blue light shone on him from above. He was blinded by the brightness of the light. With his hands over his eyes he shrunk down to the floor. But there was nowhere to hide. The light seemed to be forcing him down. Soon he couldn’t take the brightness anymore and he seemed to pass out.
The next thing Eric remembered was he was awake and on the beach. His head hurt a lot. “Ooooohh,” he said. “What happened? I feel like I got hit by a truck.”
Then he recalled the dark room with all the tables. “Allison,” he thought, “What happened to Allison?” He looked down and was immediately relieved to notice that Allison was safely in his arms.
Allison looked up at him. “You have a headache after one Corona?” she said. “What a light weight. Wow, that sunset was so fantastic I guess we both passed out. Shall we head home now?” She jumped up and brushed the sand off her shorts and her back. “Let’s go cuddle bunny. The sooner we get home the sooner we can go to bed and have some fun.”
It was music to his ears, and her suggestion made Eric quickly forget about his headache. “Have some fun?” he thought. “She has never talked like that before? Who cares! I am going to get some tonight.”
As they drove back to the city, Eric was thinking about the crazy things he recalled while passed out on the beach. “That was too crazy to be real,” he thought. “It must have been a dream. I am never drinking Corona again, damn Mexican crap!” He took his mind off the whole thing by thinking about all the fun they were going to have when they got home.
As they were passing a strip mall Allison shouted, “Wait, that’s new! Check it out. It’s a twenty-four hour XPX Blue Store. I want to try that stuff. Let’s stop and get some.”
Eric looked over at the store. “When did they put that there?” he said. “Oh, I don’t know, I thought we were heading home? Let’s just go home and we’ll come back and check it out tomorrow.”
Allison said, “No we HAVE to get some now. Pull over! If you do me this one favor I will be especially grateful when we get home.” She smiled at him, with a devilish smile.
So he pulled over immediately.
As they approached the store Eric noticed that there were a lot of people lined up to get into the store. “A line-up at 11PM on a Saturday Night,” Eric lamented,” What’s up with that?”
Allison encouraged him. “Don’t worry, the lineup will go fast,” she said.
And it did! Allison bought a huge canister of the XPX Blue powder. Allison declared excitedly, “When I get home I am going to make some XPX Blue smoothies. The recipe is on the canister!”
Eric thought, “Holy crap! She sure has changed her opinion on health supplements. Whatever! She’s the boss. I’m just happy that I’m going to get some sweet love tonight!”
Just as they walked out of the store, Eric felt a crunch under his shoe. He lifted his shoe and noticed that he had just stepped on some sort of blue coloured beetle. It was squashed flat. “Oops!” Eric said. “I accidentally squished a bug, and boy was he crunchy!”
Later that night, after they had returned home, they lit some candles and shared a couple of tall glasses of blue smoothies that Allison had prepared.
Allison gulped hers down quickly. “Oh heavens, that tastes great,” she exclaimed.
Eric only sipped his. He couldn’t drink it. In fact, he thought that it smelled like spoiled meat. Eric got up and left the room and he discretely poured the drink down the sink.
When he returned, he was surprised to see that Allison had stripped naked. In fact all she was wearing was a blue moustache and blue lips from the blue smoothie she had just gulped down. Eric was quick to ignore the blue lips. All he could think about was how very lucky he was.
* * *
When he awoke the next morning Eric was as giddy as a schoolboy. He had just experienced the best night of love making that he had ever had. He giggled as he recalled the entire event in his mind. They had done things that they had never done before.
When he got out of bed he found Allison in the kitchen. She was watching Fox News and drinking a blue smoothie. “Good morning sunshine,” she said sweetly. “Guess what? We have to go back to the XPX Blue store today.”
Eric moaned, “But we were just there?”
Allison explained, “I know. But that stuff is so good, we are almost out.”
Eric lifted the Blue Powder canister that was on the kitchen counter. It was nearly empty. He also noticed that Allison’s lips and mouth were now completely blue.
He said, “I can’t believe you have been drinking so much of this stuff? I thought you said that don’t believe in these health supplements? We are not going to the store to get any more. No way!”
She said, I’ve got an idea. “Let’s go to the store, then let’s come right back here and make love again.”
Eric thought for a second, and said, “Okay. Let’s do that then.”
So they did. In fact this went on for the rest of the day. Whenever she drank a XPX Blue smoothie she immediately wanted to make love. Eric was kind of concerned about all the smoothie intake but he was ecstatic about all of the love making.
By Sunday evening, Eric was completely on cloud nine. Mind you Allison was acting a little weird, her lips and mouth seemed to be permanently stained blue, and her breathe now strangely smelled like rotten meat, but he could get over those things. The good news is that everything else about her seemed to have improved. In fact her breasts seemed bigger, her butt was smaller and her skin seemed smoother. Maybe there is some truth to the promise that XPX Blue makes you better?
Later that night he was in the bathroom, humming a happy tune while he brushed his teeth. Out of the corner of his eye, he noticed a strange bug crawling near the clothes hamper. It was like a beetle, but it had eight long legs like a spider, and it was the weirdest blue color. Eric caught it in a tissue and took a close look at the insect. It hissed at him! He quickly squashed it between his fingers and then flushed the tissue down the toilet.
“Goodbye you little blue bugger,” he said with delight.
Then he noticed another bug in the clothes hamper. It was crawling on some of Allison’s clothes. He removed a few of the clothes from the hamper, and he found six more of the creepy crawlers.
“Holy shit, we have an outbreak,” he thought. “We know how to deal with your types,” he whispered as he merrily dispatched each one with a tissue and a trip down the toilet.
As Eric continued to brush his teeth, he thought, “That’s odd? Maybe I should call an exterminator in the morning?”
Just then Allison called out, “Honey it’s time for bed. Hurry up! I’m waiting for you!”
“I’m coming sweetheart,” Eric replied. He was giggling gleefully as he galloped into the bedroom.
* * *
Monday at work seemed to drag along. Eric hadn’t gotten much sleep the night before, and he was really tired. Still, you couldn’t possibly wipe the smile off his face.
Eric also noticed that XPX Blue seemed to be gaining popularity. He saw a few people at work with blue stained lips. It seemed that many others were into this XPX Blue stuff. “Whatever floats their boat,” Eric thought. Nothing could take his mind off the recent improvements in his personal life.
After work Eric excitedly rushed home. As he entered the house he called out, “Allison, I’m home!”
He heard Allison reply from upstairs, “Eric, I’m in the bedroom!”
As he quickly climbed the stairs he could see that the bedroom door was ajar. The bedroom seemed dark, but from the open doorway he noticed an eerie blue light. As he entered the bedroom he saw Allison laying on the bed, awash in a seemingly supernatural blue light. Surrounding her on the bed, in a tight swarm, was what looked like thousands of glowing blue insects. They were clustered in a bright blue mass that was making a gentle purring sound, like they getting some sort of pleasure or satisfaction from being so close to her.
Eric looked at her in shock.
Allison looked up at Eric. “How do you like our babies?” she said proudly.
“Our what?” he asked in disbelief. “What did you call them? What the hell are you talking about?”
“Our babies,” Allison repeated, smiling calmly.
“Our babies?” Eric replied. He was so confused. “Where did they come from?” he asked.
Allison replied, “Don’t be silly! Where do you think babies come from?”
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System Silencer is a tiny app that runs quietly in the background and only performs action on your computer when it's been idle for a period of time that you specify. The utility can be especially useful for saving battery life on notebook computers, or just making sure that the music playing in your headphones doesn't bother everyone around you when you put your headphones down to go to the bathroom. The app is tiny and free, and Windows only.
Once you have it installed, System Silencer gives you several options you can toggle on or off when your system is idle, and you can even set individual idle times for each action. For example, if you'd like your computer to mute itself after it's been idle for 10 minutes, but you want to lock the workstation after the computer's been idle for 15 minutes, you can set those times independently.
System Silencer also allows you to run certain files after your computer has been idle for a period of time, like a screensaver or a search utility that needs an idle processor to index your system. You can even hide certain windows or kill certain processes when your system goes idle, and if you have a laptop, you can set the processes to take place when your computer is docked and has line power and/or when your computer is running on its battery.
Regardless of whether you want your system to lock or you just want the speakers to mute when you walk away, System Silencer gives you some options to control the way your computer behaves when you're not standing in front of it. The app does need to run in the background in order to know when your machine is idle, but it doesn't use much in the way of system resources while it's running, and the ability to turn off the monitor and mute the speakers after you get up and walk away is a benefit on its own, especially if you don't want to lock your workstation.
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Pacifiers should be sterilized before you first use them. To sterilize a pacifier, either boil it in a pot with sufficient water for 5 minutes or soak it in a mixture of water and sterilizing fluid.
Do you need to sterilize pacifiers before first use?
If you use bottles or pacifiers, you’ll want to sterilize them before their first use and regularly afterward, but it’s not necessary to sterilize them after every use.
Why do you have to boil new pacifiers?
Many parents opt to boil their baby’s pacifiers for a few minutes to kill bacteria. This is an excellent method as long as you feel comfortable that no harmful chemicals will leach out of the pacifier during the heating process.
What happens if you don’t sterilize pacifiers?
Those germs might be viruses or bacteria that can cause illness. Dirty pacifiers can also spread thrush, a common fungal infection that causes white patches and uncomfortable sores in the baby’s mouth.
Can you use a pacifier right away?
When can my newborn start using a pacifier? There’s no right or wrong answer about how soon you should give your newborn a pacifier. But if you’re breastfeeding, the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) generally recommends waiting until you and your baby have a nursing routine down pat.
How often should you sterilize pacifiers?
Premature infants and babies up to 3 months need more thorough and frequent cleaning than babies over 3 months of age. Therefore, the pacifier must be cleaned more often when the child is under 3 months. We always recommend that pacifiers are scalded at least once a day.
How do you sterilize bottles and pacifiers?
When it is time to sterilize, the process is simple: leave the bottles (including nipples) and pacifiers in a pot of boiling water for five minutes. You can also buy specially designed bottle sterilizers that use steam to kill germs and bacteria.
How do you keep dummies sterile?
Sterilise dummies or wash them in hot soapy water; then rinse and air dry. Regularly buy new dummies as constant use and washing can make them weak. Never attach dummies with a ribbon or cord as these could strangle your baby.
When should we start using a pacifier?
If you’re breast-feeding, you might wait to offer a pacifier until your baby is 3 to 4 weeks old and you’ve settled into a nursing routine. However, a review of unrestricted pacifier use in healthy, full-term infants found that it had no impact on the continuation of breast-feeding.
How do you use a pacifier for the first time?
Place the pacifier gently on their lower lip or on the front part of their tongue, and wait for the suckling reflex to start. If the first introduction is successful, your baby will eventually begin to explore and suckle on the pacifier.
How long do germs live on pacifiers?
Even after washing and boiling a pacifier, these bacterias build a resistance under a complex structure called ‘biofilm’ and continue to harbor and grow. Surprisingly, the life expectancy of a pacifier, even after continual cleaning and “disinfecting”, is only two weeks.
Are pacifier wipes necessary?
Pacifier wipes can save the day in a situation like this. Pacifier wipes are the perfect portable solution to sanitizing your baby’s pacifier, bottle nipple, teether, and other mouthed on items on the go – keeping them clean and hygienic. Or keep reading from top to bottom.
Do bottles need to be sterilized?
Germs can grow quickly if breast milk or formula is added to a partially used bottle that hasn’t been cleaned well. When you first buy bottles, it is important to sterilize them at least one time. … Washing items thoroughly with hot water and soap is all that is required to remove most harmful germs from bottles.
How many hours should baby use pacifier?
TIPS ON GETTING YOUR CHILD TO STOP USING A PACIFIER
Limit the time you allow your child to use a pacifier. Use it only for sleep time and comfort until about 12 months old and then plan to give it up. Never use punishment or humiliation to force your child to give up using a pacifier.
How can I soothe my baby without a pacifier?
If not try to use minimal soothing to settle baby back down without the pacifier. Often jiggling the crib (so baby’s head jiggles lightly) or gently patting baby’s back like a tom tom are good non-invasive techniques.
Are Tommee Tippee pacifiers orthodontic?
The Tommee Tippee Closer to Nature Pacifier has a nipple shape that is more like a bottle nipple—they aren’t flattened like many other orthodontic pacifiers. … Orthodontic pacifiers are designed to reduce the likelihood of the dental issues that could arise if your child is still using a pacifier after age two or three.
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- ► Artifacts Unearthed in Egypt
- ► Communal tombs uncovered in Upper Egypt
- ► Roman catacomb discovered at Saqqara necropolis
- ► Neolithic era temple unearthed in southeastern Turkey
- ► The oldest pearl discovered near Abu Dhabi
- ► Ancient gilded coffin is returned to Egypt
- ► 1000 years old royal tomb found in north China
- ► Largest ancient ruins of distillery discovered in China
- ► Stunning ancient skull discovered in Ethiopia
- ► Mural from 3800 years ago unearthed in Peru
World Heritage Site
A World Heritage Site is a place that is listed by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) as being of special cultural or physical significance. The list is maintained by the international World Heritage Programme administered by the UNESCO World Heritage Committee, composed of 21 UNESCO member states which are elected by the General Assembly.
The following is a list of UNESCO World Heritage Sites in 23 countries.
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Follow the Brew Trail
For more on beer and brewing in Northern Colorado visit www.coloradoan.com/brewtrail.
Like many home brewers, Brian Mollohan got the point where his friends and family urged him to open his own small brewery. However, unlike many home brewers, Mollohan realized he preferred building brewing systems to actually brewing the beer.
Knowing that opening a brewery could become just another job, Mollohan instead launched Ruby Street Brewing, LLC., a Fort Collins-based home beer-brewing equipment company.
That was a little more than a year ago and today, Mollohan, 37, and his father Jim Mollohan, 66, sell their home-brew gear across the country and globe.
In a small shop off of South College Avenue, the father-son team manufactures two systems: a 15-gallon kettle, 10-gallon batch system; and “The Mega Ruby” a 30-gallon kettle that makes a 20-gallon batch. The systems run between $2,550 and $3,260.
While it is made in Fort Collins, Ruby Street’s gear is not available here because the Mollohans only sell through home-brew supply shops. Fort Collins’ home-brew shop does not carry Ruby Street’s systems, Mollohan said.
Surrounding areas such as Windsor, Longmont and Denver have shops that carry the equipment, but most of the company’s sales come from the East Coast, Mollohan said. Nationally, 85 home-brew shops carry Ruby Street Brewing systems. The company has shipped its systems to Australia, New Zealand and Canada.
Mollohan said the response from the East Coast to their systems is because there is less of a “do-it-yourself” culture there compared to Colorado and the West.
While the company on occasion will work directly with local customers on custom jobs, Mollohan’s dedication to home-brew shops is based on his own experience with learning to brew via home-brew stores.
The company is capitalizing on the surge in interest nationwide in home brewing. In 2011, Mollohan reports making $60,000 and projects $80,000 in sales for this year.
An estimated 1 million Americans home brew, according to the American Homebrewers Association. The industry saw a gross revenue increase of 16 percent in 2009, 17 percent in 2010 and 24 percent year-over-year in 2012.
Ruby Street’s systems are even helping launch new breweries.
Shawn Fitzgerald, a home brewer and Web architect with Agilent, has been using his Mega Ruby to brew for a year and said it makes brewing more fluid and easier.
Fitzgerald, 41, of Berthoud is in the midst of opening his own brewery called Berthoud Brewing Co. next summer.
Fitzgerald said he likes his Ruby Street Brewing system so much that he plans to use it as his pilot brew system in the new brewery that will also have a 10-barrel brew system in place.
“I have been using his (Mollohan’s) system as a pilot system and perfecting recipes with it,” Fitzgerald said. “My Ruby Street Brewing I’ve had for about a year and it’s a great system. Having worked on home-brew systems since 2000, when I started brewing, it’s definitely nice.”
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Cookies Inc. - Clicker Idle Game APK
Rating: 0.00 (Votes: 0)
Played 100,000+ times each day! Only 1% of players get $10 million within 3 minutes - can you?!★ NO annoying forced video ads bothering you
★ Completely optional competitive or casual co-op multiplayer
★ Unfolding gameplay where you unlock and discover new features
★ 300+ unique hand drawn cookies including pizza cookies (yes, you read that right)
★ 1,000+ super cool upgrades to give you amazingly cool boosts
★ Very active community and always listening to your feedback about cool new things to add
Come and check out the best incremental (clicker) game you’ve ever played! Go on an adventure to build your massive cookie empire and earn millions and billions of cookies creating your tycoon business!
Enjoy the best idle cookie simulator offline or online with co-op and competitive multiplayer with teams. If that’s not your thing, this is one of the best offline games around!
There are no ads (video) that you’re forced to watch. All video ads are opt-in only. It’s rare to find an ad free idle game but we promise we won’t annoy you with ads!
Endless gameplay that will make sure you’re never bored. There are always new upgrades, boosts, prestige and items to collect. You’ll experience a roller coaster of upgrades with hundreds of unique buffs. No internet connection required and lots of auto clickers that will help you on your adventure.
Instead of merge or clicking gameplay, Cookie Inc. - Idle Tycoon Games lets you swipe to collect cookies. No strain on your finger and it’s much more relaxing. Play it casual and chill or play hardcore and be competitive with your team and leagues. The idle gameplay works like an automatic auto clicker so you’re always making progress.
Enjoy idle inc style games? This is the one for you! The best idle simulator and the best idle tycoon game. No forced video ads, optional multiplayer with teams, tons of upgrades, super easy to use and simple to learn interface, secrets to discover, optional weekly seasons and leagues with loot, constant updates with new content - what’s not to love!
Bake cookies and farm resources to get super rich! Auto tappers and autoclickers will help you on your epic cookie quest. Level up many times with unique prestige gameplay that unlocks new upgrades each time you prestige. Create your dream bakery with the most realistic simulator that involves cookies (yes, that’s a real category). You will have to manage your cookie business and spend cookies where it matters to get the best upgrades.
Become a cookie capitalist and make it rain billions of cookies. Let the game idle and continue earning cookies when you’re offline. Manage and create your dream bakery with this addicting idle game. Baking has never been so fun! Start your idle journey and play through the cookie saga and uncover the secrets of the Cookieverse.
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With a starting point of asymmetric breasts, it is very difficult to achieve symmetry. Each office will have different policies regarding revisions. However, the anesthesiologist is generally not an employee of the physican so it would be fair to pay for their time.
Paying for revisionary surgery
Thank you for your question.
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If you look at your starting point, you did have asymmetry to begin with and so it is very difficult for any surgeon to guarantee exact symmetry.
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Ruth Darrow Jensen, 1934
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On the menu at Shell.Fish.Sue in Lansdale: stuffed & blackened catfish.
“We ran it as a special a couple months back,” recalled chef Dane Spurio. “It sold so well. People loved it. That dish earned its way on (the menu).”
“I’d never stuffed a catfish before. I was like, ‘Why not?’” he added. “It’s rolled up. It’s stuffed and cut into roulades. It’s very simple. I think that’s the beauty of it too.”
Back at Pagano’s by Chef Anthony, shells with salmon will join the Lenten rotation. To make the recipe at home, Stella offered this advice:
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“If you go to a restaurant, they’re going to charge $25 for this dish.”
SHELLS WITH SALMON
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2 small garlic cloves, sliced thin
2 jarred sweet cherry peppers, sliced thin
1 ripe tomato, seeded and diced
1 teaspoon dry dill
1 teaspoon dry parsley
1 cup cooked broccoli florets
1/2 cup sliced black olives
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Cook the pasta shells. Reserve 1 cup of the water before straining. With a fork, flake salmon and then gently toss the pasta with the sauce. Drizzle some more olive oil and use some of the reserved water if you think it is too dry. Serves 2. This recipe can easily be doubled or tripled to serve more.
(Recipe courtesy of Anthony Stella)
IMPERIAL’S TILAPIA FOR TWO
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1 lemon (squeeze and zest, save the zest for later)
2 teaspoons extra virgin olive oil
½ cup white wine
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1 small can cannellini beans (drained and rinsed under cold water)
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2 cups fresh diced tomatoes
1 teaspoon extra virgin olive oil
½ teaspoon chopped garlic
¼ cup chopped fresh basil
zest of 1 lemon
salt and pepper to taste
1 teaspoon balsamic glaze
Mix together all ingredients except balsamic glaze and spoon over cooked tilapia. Drizzle balsamic glaze over top of the tomato mixture. Serve with your favorite grilled sourdough bread. Dish goes great with a glass of Riesling wine.
(Recipe courtesy of Imperial’s Catering)
STUFFED & BLACKENED CATFISH
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6 ounces kosher salt
1 ounce cayenne pepper
2 ounces paprika
½ ounce oregano, dried
½ ounce lavender, dried
2 ounces crushed black peppercorns
2 ounces granulated garlic
½ ounce thyme, dried
½ ounce rosemary, dried
Southern Tomato Ragu:
8 ounces Cajun-style Andouille sausage
1 red bell pepper
1 green bell pepper
1 Spanish onion, medium dice
4 ribs celery, medium dice
4 ounces whole garlic, sliced
4 ounces okra, medium dice
16 ounces tomato concassé, medium dice
2 cups saffron-infused seafood stock
1 bunch cilantro, finely chopped
Potato & Andouille Stuffing:
1 Idaho potato, ½-inch cubes
4 ounces Southern Tomato Ragu, strained
Lightly tap out catfish fillets. Coat the top side only with blackening seasoning and set aside. To make the Ragu, first render out Andouille sausage, for about 3 minutes on medium-high heat. Next, add all vegetables and let sweat for another 3 minutes, stirring occasionally. After that, add in tomato concassé and reduce by half. Finish by adding stock and reduce that into the sauce by half. Season to taste and mix in fresh cilantro.
Roast potato in oven at 425 degrees until golden brown. Remove potato from oven and place in mixing bowl. Take 4 ounces of the Ragu and strain excess liquid. Add to potatoes. Mix by hand until mixture is pliable. Place catfish fillets seasoned side down, tail end down. Start stuffing an inch in from the tail. Tightly roll catfish around stuffing.
Sear catfish in pan first (fold-side down) to get a nice blackened crust and then finish in the oven at 425 degrees for about 7 to 10 minutes. You want to make sure the center is hot. Serve in a sauce pool of the Ragu with wilted spinach. Cut catfish in half on the bias and place on top of spinach crossed over one another with a scallion garnish coming up through the center.
(Recipe courtesy of Shell.Fish.Sue)
• Keep wrapped fresh fish no more than 1 to 2 days in the coldest part of the refrigerator.
. Store fresh fish in the freezer, tightly wrapped, for up to 30 days.
• When cooking fish, neutralize odors by combining 2 tablespoons of any variety vinegar and 2 cups of water in a small saucepan. Optional: add a few cloves. Simmer while the fish is cooking.
• Rubbing hands with lemon easily removes any lingering fish odor.
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Shatner’s World: We Just Live In It
One man in a world of his own. A journey through a stellar career. See William Shatner revisit his highest highs and lowest lows, live on stage for nineteen performances only this winter.
At the Music Box Theatre – NY New York, NY 2/23/12 – 3/4/12
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There is much fear about Artificial Intelligence and automation in the workplace; popular books such as ‘Rise of the Robots’, ‘Inventing the Future’ and ‘The Economic Singularity’ are proliferating and all cover the forecast that robots might produce waves of unemployment in the already post-industrialized West.
Amidst this forecast, the idea of Universal Basic Income (UBI) has become popular amongst left and right thinkers as a potential solution to mass automated unemployment and help our society transition to a form of ‘post-work’ economy. Much of the rhetoric on this topic could be described as alarmist; the robots are coming very soon and we will all be left stranded in a radically different working landscape without suitable restructuring and policies (such as UBI) to deal with the consequences.
Technological unemployment does occur, but the prominence of the ‘coming of the robots’ thesis has once again ignited imaginations across the political spectrum, this fear may be overstated and there are a number of things to consider as to why it may be an economic panic rather than a certain or probable future.
This is not a new fear
The same fears, debates and rhetoric existed 40 years ago, if you watch BBC Horizon’s 1977 episode ‘When the Chips are down’ and updated the terms of reference contained within the episode, you could transpose the programme to 2017 and not notice. Fortunately we have 40 years of history to provide evidence that mass unemployment did not occur due to the rise of the microchip and machines. The economic landscape has radically changed since 1977 in the UK due to a variety of factors, but automated mass unemployment was not a significant factor at play. People were made unemployed, but mostly due to a change in political leadership and industries in the UK disappeared due to outsourcing, however new industries emerged and grew the workforce.
The economic reforms of the 1980s, outsourcing manufacturing and the microchip produced an increase in material wealth and opportunity in the UK. However, this was not evenly distributed across the geography of the country; many single industry towns experienced structural unemployment for many years, with some even suffering from this today. Though this occurred due to a political decision (or lack of) not to rectify or compensate for this change in the British economic landscape. The experience of localised (longer term) and national unemployment (shorter term) was not inevitable and nor was it the fault of technology, it was fundamentally a human decision.
The industrialisation of Britain in the 19th Century should also give us pause for thought. In 1750 the percentage of the population engaged in agriculture production has been estimated at 75%. Between 1750 and 1850 a combination of mechanisation, emerging agricultural capitalism, enclosures and new techniques in farming (such as the use of phosphate) increased yields on less land, reducing the need for as many humans to till the fields to feed the population[i].
By 1850, approximately 22% of the population was still employed in agriculture- a remarkable decline in employment in that sector- meaning many agricultural workers became unemployed from their traditional agricultural jobs and removed from their traditional lands. They did not starve on mass, they migrated to cities where new industries began to emerge; this is known as the industrial revolution[ii].
There was political turmoil associated with the process of industrialisation; the breakup of agricultural communities; the enclosure of the commons and the experience of new exploitative and dangerous industrial environments gave birth to the labour movement and resurrected proto-socialist and socialist ideas. However, despite being at the mercy of the newly emergent bourgeoisie, people did not experience mass unemployment for long due to the industrial revolution’s technological innovation. The post Napoleonic-war depression was arguably to do with post-war readjustment on the continent and an overproduction in Britain leading to a collapse in prices and economic crisis in the Western world. Economic historians may wish to challenge on this interpretation, but I do not think technological progress was the key cause of this dislocation.
The past does not indicate future performance, but the experience of the industrial revolution and subsequent effect of labour displacement does provide evidence and a useful historical case study to refer, to assuage fears of a similar revolutionary change in the economy today. Technological unemployment did occur but history has shown that is should not necessarily be considered a long term problem for capitalist economies. The resulting implementation of the ‘Corn Laws’ might provide an interesting historical parallel to the risk of falling prices as the result of automation and increases in productivity, but that arguably is a more classic economic conundrum rather than a unique experience that we might face in the 21st century.
Busts and mass unemployment have occurred at various times, but so far, technological unemployment has been a small and partial factor in those moments of crisis at best, never yet the key causation.
Businesses will take time to automate
Capital is expensive, do not be fooled that it isn’t because there is a cash glut in the global economy; it remains expensive because of opportunity cost, risk and probable returns on investment (ROI).
Capital has an opportunity cost for the lender/investor, as it can be used in a variety of ways with differing returns and risk. Stumping up money for a business comes with the risk that the business may go bankrupt and be unable to repay the capital, or produce a return that pales in comparison to other, safer options, that could have been alternatively be chosen. Even businesses that have raised capital, only to grow and become successful, can sometimes find that the equity they traded for initial investment is expensive on exit.
All this together (and a lot more that has been left out), means capital is expensive and this reduces the appetite to raise capital, lend capital, give away equity and replace labour (who can just be fired, as and when the need arises) with machinery (which is a sunk cost that depreciates with time). Businesses do raise capital and invest in new opportunities and technologies, but it is tempered by conventional business acumen and this will not disappear but be ever present in our economic landscape.
Furthermore, if we are about to experience an exponential increase in the use of artificial intelligence and robotics in business, then we should expect that new technologies employed in production processes will quickly become obsolete. Thereby increasing the risk of misallocated capital expenditure; managers and businesses pay a heavy price for getting this wrong. Any business that substitutes its workforce one day for an army of robots the next, might find the capital investment in that technology has quickly become substandard compared to the competition who held out a little long and has bought the ‘next generation’ of robots.
This will make it harder to calculate and be confident in forecasting a return on investment for CapEx; for the question of when to and what generation of robotics to invest in, will slow this process down. New technologies are first paid for by the richest people or companies, and usually are regarded as substandard after a short period of time. An example of this is the first iPhone’s; they were prohibitively expensive, difficult to use, lacking wider infrastructure to complement it and fundamentally they were a poor product.
The richest in society bought them because they could, which provided apple with immediate return on the high research and development costs of creating the first iPhone. Then the cost started to fall and the product improved in subsequent generations until it became affordable and user-friendly enough for it to be a genuinely mass consumed product.
The same will be true for industry, the large multinationals will and have been the first to use cutting edge robotics in production, but it will take time for the robots to improve their performance and become affordable for the majority of businesses.
Therefore it will likely be the economics of capital investment, coupled with the risk-averse nature of many businesses that limits the innovation and growth within commercial deployment of AI and robotics. There will be a ‘grace’ period, long enough for business, people and policy to change, plan and adapt to a more automated economy.
Furthermore, businesses are typically inefficient; their primary focus is on the next quarter and current financial year. Contrary to popular perception, most businesses do not turn a profit and find is difficult to do so. The likely experience of automation in the majority of businesses and sectors will probably reflect that of the IT revolution in the 1990s, which even now, has yet to be fully completed. All businesses now use computers, but tour most businesses and you might observe that their IT infrastructure and operational procedures haven’t progressed as much as expected.
Industries with more straightforward production processes have already automated production; the big monopoly businesses in various sectors that have the capital and incentive to automate in order to protect their leading position in the market. Small and Medium Enterprises simply do not have the strategic slack, capital or certainty to engage in a process of rapid automation; competing in the current business climate will take priority, leading to a much slower uptake of robotics in the workplace.
Economics is the study of how scarce resources are produced and distributed amongst a population, despite effectively producing an abundance of basic human needs, the UK continues to produce more goods and services that stretch beyond satisfying those basic needs.
One might point out that in a capitalist economy of private ownership, a person or group of people cannot really live a self-sufficient lifestyle outside of capitalism due to private ownership of land and the mean of production, therefore the majority of the population have to continue to engage in wage labour. This point cannot be overlooked, but it does not explain away our seeming desire for more goods and services beyond our basic human needs.
As traditional manufacturing shrank in the last 40 years, the service economy has grow in its place and it has found there is sufficient demand amongst the population to eat in restaurants, be entertained, drink in pubs and be served coffee in exchange from money. The material gains coming from cheaper production and goods due to outsourced manufacturing has produced a surplus of wealth which has been diverted into providing more services in the UK. A similar effect might occur from the productivity gains of a more automated working environment, thereby creating new industries and work opportunities for all.
It appears as if there is no limit to our demand, and as technology reduces costs we will likely see more opportunities to work will become viable and serve some previous unmet demand. The rise of services such as Uber -merely an aggregating app- has seen the emergence of a new supply of private car hire drivers, meeting a demand that always existed but was kept in check due to licensure and regulation of traditional taxi services. Companies such as Taskrabbit are capitalising on the market’s demand for ‘someone else’ to do everyday chores that previously people did themselves.
New industries and opportunities to work are emerging all the time, these may carry with them their own economic and political significance, such as the precariousness of employment within the so-called ‘gig economy’, but there appears ample evidence that there is much work to be done today and this will not decline in time for tomorrow.
Even if we take the belief that we will very shortly see a paradigm shift in AI and robotics that creates affordable and sophisticated robots that can do previously unmanageable tasks, there will remain gaps where it is either safer, easier, more acceptable or cheaper for human labour to do.
Previously unimaginable opportunities for work will quickly emerge to respond to people’s increasing material wealth surplus as a result of accelerating automation, perhaps in forms that make it impractical or expensive to automate in the near future. This may be a different type of work than we have previously seen, but there is no reason to assume there will be no ‘work’ to do that can be monetized in typical capitalist economic relationships.
It is our own desires and the structure of capitalism that can continually create the supply of work to fulfil unmet demand. Capitalism has and continues to be a dynamic and transformative force 200 years after it became the leading economic system in the world, it would take a brave forecaster to suggest that increasing automation in the 21st Century was the factor that tripped it up and finally dug its grave.
Workers are people and people adapt
The experience of this lag in automation in the majority of the business ecosystem will buy time for the current workforce to prepare for change. It is unlikely that many current workers will be doing the same job, for the same company, in ten years time. Therefore if a job is under threat of automation, with an expected lag on automation being implemented, then we should expect that the majority of current workers will have experienced one of the following: promoted into management; undergone a career change; re-skilled in anticipation of changes or have left the labour market completely, thereby reducing the risk of technological unemployment.
Young workers entering the labour market in the future will likely have different skills, knowledge and expectations compared to the current workforce. We can observe this change now, with near universal computer literacy among millennials. The next generation of the workforce will not be shocked by a changing labour market and will likely be expectant of what skills may be required within it.
The argument here is not to downplay the ethical or political objections to what the next (or current) generation of workers are facing, but to point out that they will have different interests compared to now, act in their own interests and may respond to the challenges in an unexpected form. The economy is never static and nor are workers, we will not know how the workforce will respond to increasing automation until it happens and we are limited in our knowledge and confidence to forecast how they might react.
Millennial’s so far have adapted to the current labour market, reducing their expectations of a ‘job for life’ and responding in their own interests to a labour market that requires constant updating of skills and job movement. This doesn’t rule out the possibility of a political reaction (no matter how small or great the chances of success), but often people normalise their experiences and acceptance and stability finds a new equilibrium.
Meet the real problem, same as the problem
The real cause for concern are issues that have already revealed itself to us; problems surrounding house prices, asset ownership, income inequality, the decline of the middle class and growing pension liabilities. Older generations of workers managed to secure homes, pensions and other assets, whatever their profession in the past, while younger workers (even those in traditional middle class professions) today are increasingly finding it difficult to save up for a home while rents are increasing due to a housing shortage.
The difference though, is that while older workers have homes and are asset rich and cash poor, younger workers are materially richer than their parents were at a similar age. The minimization of manufacturing and ‘jobs for life’ through outsourcing has led to a surplus that we now all enjoy. Hand-me-downs and little discretionary spending on consumer goods or toys was common place in the homes of the 1960s, 70s and 80s, even in wealthier middle class households. Today, even a minimum wage worker has at their disposal a powerful computer in the shape of a phone in their pocket and their own personal cinema through innovations such as online film streaming. This is a stark contrast in material wealth to the past and should not be easily forgotten.
This increased material wealth is perhaps the saving grace for our current economy; workers can still enjoy technology and increasing access to cheap entertainment despite their precarious position in the labour market and lack of access to assets. As these current young workers move into middle age we will see the next 20 years looking very different compared to the last 20 years, but the battlefronts are likely to be fought around house building, pension liabilities and government spending rather than a new age of mass unemployment.
The political reaction to this could just as easily take a right wing manifestation as a left wing one; people tend to become more fiscally conservative as they age due to changes in incentives and interests, large parts of which will remain despite the likelihood of reduced asset ownership in the future. We simply cannot forecast with any certainty how workers will react to a middle aged experience that very different from their parents’ generation.
This does not inevitably translate into a revolutionary moment; there will be consequences if these problems are not addressed but revolutionaries of left and right may be disappointed in how familiar the political alignment of the population will be in the future, there is a fair chance that the political landscape will look much like it does today and workers end up contented in adapting to this new economic landscape.
The challenge therefore is tackling existing issues such as the restriction on the housing supply and incentivising more geographically even economic development rather than the overstated coming of automation in the workplace creating sudden mass unemployment.
This is not to say that there will not be localised disruption and experiences of large unemployment in specific geographies, but this will likely be the exception, not the rule. Nor will there be a lack of a political reaction to navigate as class divisions and differing political preferences are an ever present feature of a democratic capitalist society. However, the 21st Century is a different country to the world of the late 1970s and early 1980s, workers and work, are more mobile which may mean these experiences are easier to resolve compared to the past.
In ten years time, the middle aged workforce will be made up of workers who entered the labour market with ICT skills and very different expectations of working life compared to workers 50 years of age and more. They will expect to be flexible and attuned to change as the norm in their career; they will be used to changing jobs frequently and respond to the conditions around them. People and the economy will adapt. Therefore this fear of automated mass unemployment is probably much overstated and so too, are the policy ‘solutions’ that are suggested by many thinkers as ‘necessary’.
Long term technological unemployment for the population is a possibility, nothing is certain in human affairs, but we must ask ourselves if it is more likely to occur in this wave of automation and associated productivity gains, compared to previous eras of technological revolution.
We may want to trial or implement ideas such as UBI for a variety of reasons or because we have certain political preferences; but this should not be offered up with such certainty as a solution to automated mass unemployment, as it is likely it is a ‘solution’ in search of a ‘problem’.
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Weight: 60 Kg
Filling Speed: 3Kg /min
Filling Diameter:20~80 mm
Filling Residual Rate: 1Kg ≤0.05
3.Filling Method for Small Package of Preset Volume of Feed
Mount the self-made funnel on the soft pipe of the suction tube (fig.1), and empty the small package containing the preset volume of dry powder in the funnel.(Other steps are the same as above)
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2. For recycling of powder in dry powder fire extinguisher which has internal pressure, insert the discharge tube in the suction tube of the filling machine directly, then switch on the filling machine, draw the security flap out and press the handle down gently. The dry powder will then enter the powder holder quickly.
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1. Fill appropriate amount of 20# engine oil to elevating pieces;
2. When sucking, do not insert the suction tube too deep in the dry powder, otherwise, the tube is easy to be blocked;
3. Disqualified dry powder or powder with over amount of moisture is strictly prohibited to use;
4. After finish filling each time, tread on the footboard of the reversing valve times to remove the remaining dust and powder on the filter.
7. Common Problems and troubleshooting
Note: (1) Foot Board of Reversing Valve (2) Suction Tube Bracket
(3) Suction Tube (4) Feed Opening Valve Switch
(5) Powder Holder Window (6) Powder Holder
(7) Electrical Cabinet (8) Font and Back Adjustable Fixing Bolts
(9) Upper Bracket (10) Hand wheel
(11) Reversing Valve (12) Electrical Air Pump
(13) Rise-and-fall Spring Fixed Pin (14) Base of the whole machine
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1591 Views 12 Replies Latest reply: May 30, 2008 9:02 PM by LukeD
Since Entourage is not an Apple product you should post your question on Microsoft's own forums for Entourage as they would be geared more toward your question than an Apple forum:
You may also want to check out the Entourage Help Page: http://www.entourage.mvps.org/
Interesting - I thought Entourage WAS an Apple product. In that case, do you recommend I use Mail instead? Would it work as well with Outlook? In all honesty, I don't remember why we chose to use Entourage instead of Mail in the first place.
I will check the other links/forums - thank you very much!
I thought Entourage WAS an Apple product.
Nope. M$ product. Always has been.
why we chose to use Entourage instead of Mail in the first place
Possibly because it's closer to Outlook in "feel" and is somewhat easier to configure from an IT perspective (i.e. they don't have to do anything to get Entourage to communicate with an MS Exchange server).
Mail can be configured to work with an Exchange server, either by having IMAP support enabled on the server side, or by configuring mail to access the OWA (Outlook Web Access) server. Your IT group should be able to help there (note that "should" does not necessarily mean "will!).
Hope this helps...
I use entourage on MS exchange in a mostly Dell environment. I have no trouble seeing the same public folders I see on outlook with the Dells. In the left hand window of entourage you should see your exchange server and your personal folders. If you scroll down you should see public folders and click on it to access the public folders. For me Entourage handles almost the same as outlook with a few differences in the location of certain functions. If you cannot see public folders in entourage it sounds like your IT department has not set up entourage correctly.
Hope this helps
Just wondering if you would be able to help me out. I think i am trying to do what this topic pertains to.
In my office, its an all windows deal and im the only one wanting to use a mac.
How do i go about setting up entourage to work with the windows exchange server and all that. I am able to see the network folders via a finder window, however in my position it is imperative that I can view other associates daily schedules on their computer over the network/exchange server. is this possible using entourage on a mac while everyone else is using windows/pcs?
any help would be greatly appreciated.
so i started trying to set up an exchange, however, if you have entourage (student edition) you cannot set up or add an exchange. So it says to upgrade to office 2008 standard edition. So does this mean with my current version i cant set up an exchange? and in terms of upgrading can i pay like a one time fee to upgrade to the right version or do i have to buy the whole other edition and upgrade all the programs associated with the office suite?
any information would be great.
*"is this possible using entourage on a mac while everyone else is using windows/pcs?"*
Yes, provided the Exchange server is configured correctly. You'll need to contact your IT dept. regarding that. Otherwise, as already alluded to, since Entourage is not an Apple product, you'll want to consider posting all related questions on Microsoft's own Entourage forums, as they would be geared more toward your question than an Apple forum.
You may also want to check out the Entourage Help Page for setup specifics: http://www.entourage.mvps.org/
As templeton said you will need your IT department to configure entourage for your exchange server. I have microsoft office 2004 so I cannot speak to 2008 working or not. I can view public calendars and folders and schedule meetings etc just like in outlook. Again I can't really help you with specifics as your IT department has those.
I work for a small company, but we do big things, we have no IT department, I could set it up myself however with the student/home edition you cant set up an exchange, you need the standard edition. i think im just going to use parallels and run the ms software that we use on the pcs, unfortunately.
This will help.
No it won't. At least not entirely. The public folders the OP would like to access are server based, and obviously cannot be transferred by O2M.
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() and Petros C. Mavroidis
Henrik Horn: Research Institute of Industrial Economics, Postal: P.O. Box 55665, SE-102 15 Stockholm, Sweden
Petros C. Mavroidis: Columbia University
Abstract: This paper surveys the law and economics literature on WTO dispute settlement. As a background, we first briefly lay out main features of the legal framework, and discuss possible roles of a dispute settlement mechanism. We then discuss the two main themes in the empirical literature on dispute settlement: (i) the determinants of participation by members as complainants, respondents and third parties; and (ii) the role of the DS system for the settling of disputes. The paper finally points to a number of areas that are in need of further research.
42 pages, December 20, 2006
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Love Photography? Join Us….
…And let us help you get the best from your camera and photography.
To help you get the best from your Photographic Academy Membership we have two packages.
The Enthusiast – for the beginner to the serious amateur photographer
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Each package comes with its own benefits – continually added to and will help you to enjoy your passion of photography.
When you join as a Member you will receive a Welcome Letter, a Membership Manual which explains how to get the best from your membership and a Member Benefits Voucher Booklet all presented in a lovely A4 Conference Folder so you can keep track of what you are yet to use.
If you are considering working as a semi-professional or indeed moving into the professional arena full time – we can provide you with the resources, help, support and guidance on a one to one basis and bespoke to you.
New to Welshot is our very own loyalty reward system – these are called WelshotRewards and you earn them in a multitude of ways – to spend on our WelshotReward Days.
The great thing about these rewards – You don’t have to spend money to earn the rewards and money can’t buy a WelshotReward Day – only rewards can
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Last revised : 4th August 2014
Errors and omissions excepted
What if my Camera is not the best?
Who cares – we don’t. We are here to help you get the best from the camera and kit that you have – not the kit you want to have. We make sure you learn all there is to know about your camera so you can use it inside out and back to front – then when and if you want to move on, we can help you with that camera too.
Are you a Camera Club?
We are not a Camera Club. We don’t have competitions and all our Academy Evenings are practical and hands on where you are guaranteed to leave the evening having learned a thing or three. You get a full buffet supper (with chips) and at least 2 modules to put your camera through its paces.
What is the best way to get the most from my Membership?
- By using all your benefits that you are entitled to
- By using all the features such as the Forum, Online Training (Webinars), Facebook Groups available to you.
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When does my Membership start and finish?
Your Membership starts from the day you join and runs for 12 months from that date.
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You email Eifion at firstname.lastname@example.org with a selection of dates to suit you and he will email/phone you to arrange a time. Eifion will also need to have a small consultation with you before-hand so he can arrange the tuition around you and your needs.
I am a complete beginner – does this matter?
We love people like you who want to learn. Everyone had to start somewhere and our more experienced Welshotters have been there, done that and are now on hand to help you get the best from your camera in a fun, friendly and affordable and non-competitive environment.
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Worcestershire Wildlife Trust
Showcasing young bloggers and writers who are inspired by Worcestershire's fantastic wildlife and countryside.
If you'd like to write a Wild Writers blog, drop us a line firstname.lastname@example.org
Protect local wildlife
Posted: Friday, July 22, 2016 - 08:50
Join Gary Lawson as he looks for the smaller things in life...
Posted: Tuesday, June 28, 2016 - 14:03
Alex Mills finds an unexpected treat at Feckenham Wylde Moor...
Posted: Tuesday, June 21, 2016 - 13:32
Craig Reed shares a wild moment in the Wyre Forest...
Posted: Thursday, April 7, 2016 - 09:25
Gary Lawson enjoys a beautiful spring morning in Tiddesley Wood...and bumps into family.
Posted: Tuesday, April 5, 2016 - 16:28
Alex Mills enjoys the arrival of spring...and laughs at a bee-fly
Posted: Wednesday, March 23, 2016 - 10:26
Bill Dykes encourages us to search for an under-recorded moth...
Posted: Monday, March 7, 2016 - 16:53
Joshua Humphries enjoys his own safari...
Posted: Monday, February 8, 2016 - 14:06
Bill Dykes on kickstarting the University of Worcester's Nature Society...
Posted: Friday, February 5, 2016 - 10:13
Alex Mills explores a small-leaved lime in Tiddesley Wood...
Posted: Monday, February 1, 2016 - 11:21
Gary Lawson braves the weather and heads out...
Creating a Living Landscape
Worcestershire Wildlife Trust Registered Charity Number 256618 Company Number 929644
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Every once in a while it’s good to reflect on the work you’ve been doing recently, and whom you’ve been doing it for.
What have been your favorite projects recently?
What made them your favorites?
Take a moment to think back on your recent project history to answer these questions.
We all look back on past work from time to time, but today I want you to do it differently. I want you to look beyond the work itself and look at the clients that came with it.
Have you ever had a favorite project from a client you couldn’t stand?
If you have, it’s rare.
The truth is, clients make all the difference. Especially in the construction business. Even the worst type of work we do isn’t quite so bad when we are working for our favorite clients.
Why is that?
It boils down to the fact that we don’t just sell, we serve.
And our favorite clients respect, and appreciate, our service.
It is no coincidence that as contractors, we struggle and stress the most when we are not working with our best clients. In the long run, the quality of your relationships will be the difference between success and failure in your construction business.
Here is a short list of the benefits of choosing the right clients:
- The right clients give us respect.
- They follow our process.
- They pay us what we are worth.
- They pay us on time.
- And they give us repeat work and refer us to their network.
On the other hand, poorly chosen clients suck the life right out of us. They do this by challenging our prices, micro-managing, and not respecting our time.
Honestly, who needs that?
Now you might be asking yourself, should I accept work from clients I feel are not ideal? It really depends on how well you have been managing your project pipeline. We all need to keep the work coming in, however, we also need to look past the work to determine what type of relationship we would be entering into.
To excel we must steer clear of clients that are more trouble than they are worth.
The more we do that, the more time and energy we can devote to finding the right clients.
Ultimately our success depends on the quality of our client relationships. And the quality of our relationships depends on choosing the right clients in the first place.
So let me ask you, what choices have you been making lately?
About the Author: Wayne Lamarre is a construction marketing expert, speaker, and business development consultant, who specializes in helping contractors go from good to great. Contact Wayne to add fuel to your construction business.
Not sure who you should be targeting with your business? Contact me and let’s talk about it, because you deserve to succeed.
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19th century Dutch colonial Teak Raffles Desk
19th century Dutch colonial Teak Raffles Desk w/ Thick Top & Front Drawer
(Item #: 11558)
Size: Length x Width x Height - 54'' x 40'' x 29.75''
*Please Note: Purchase & Shipping arrangements for this item require phoning in the order to Michael Trapp Inc., please call (860)672-6098 or email email@example.com
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We understand mental illness – and the difficulties it creates for those who suffer from it. We value you and we are sensitive to your challenges. We will find every possible solution to enable you to live the life you are meant to live.
MENTAL HEALTH AND WELLNESS
At Solara, we treat a broad array of mental health disorders that include the following:
Distorted thinking occurs when one suffers from repetitive, inaccurate, damaging thoughts. This type of thinking is symptomatic of numerous mental health disorders, including anxiety, personality disorders, and eating disorders, among other. These distorted, inaccurate thoughts seem completely logical and truthful to the person thinking them, when in reality they are actually inaccurate and illogical.
At Solara Health, we understand that identifying, addressing, and correcting distorted thinking patterns is a vital to the healing process and our expertly trained clinicians are highly capable of treating those, who experience distorted thinking. [More]
Sexual Identity Conflict
Sexual identity issues occur when one is confused or conflicted by his or her sexual desires, sexual identity, sexual practices, or others. These conflicts are often intense and exacerbated by societal stigmas or family/peer pressure. We unresolved, these sexual identity conflicts can lead to feelings of self-loathing, hopelessness, and isolation, as well as anxiety and depression. These feelings are especially acute when combined with a co-occurring mental health disorder.
We know how vital it is for individuals to find congruence in and peace with her or his sexual identity. Our program treats those suffering from sexual identity issues and conflicts. [More]
Failure to Launch
We often treat clients, who come to us from other treatment facilities, where their outcome was not as successful as anticipated or desired. Finding themselves returning to old, destructive patterns and practices, which in many instances have intensified and become more acute, they desperately seek help and treatment that will work and last. Failure to launch in the context of psychiatric treatment is defined as the lack of achieving success or demonstrable improvement in mental health and wellness. This often creates many of the following conditions:
Feelings of frustration, disappointment, and hopelessness
Lack of trust in self and the therapeutic process
Poor health habits
Inability to form and maintain healthy relationships
Lack of motivation in other areas of life, including education, work, and spirituality
Decreased sense of purpose
We treat those suffering from failure to launch in many contexts, which most often starts with context of successful mental health treatment. We have customized our program to help clients free themselves from feelings of frustration and hopelessness, and realize lasting recovery. [More]
Phase of Life Issues
Most major life changes come in myriad forms, such as illness, death of a loved one, divorce, retirement, and the transition to being an “empty-nester.” Individuals display all manner of reactions to these changes like increased emotionality, persistent grief, uncharacteristic anger, hopelessness, and aimlessness. Unresolved, these feelings can have a highly negative affect on the sufferer’s ability to function in normal activities; moreover, relationships with friends and family become strained and damaged; and finally, the development of mental health disorders such as anxiety and depression occur.
Our program treats those, who exhibit these debilitating and destructive phase of life responses and behaviors. Our ‘life change’ experts provide intensive and integrative therapy, education, and support that is crucial to overcoming these issues. [More]
What Our Clients Say
Solara was truly a life-changing experience for me and for our children, because of what you did for my wife! The treatment team was phenomenally supportive and perfect for helping her with her anxiety and depression. We are all now moving forward to put our lives back together and it started with you all in Pacific Beach. Thank you for what you do.
R.M. – Father
If not for Solara Mental Health, I am almost positive that our daughter would not be as advanced in her treatment, and would not have the almost miraculous confident and positive outlook that she has.
I want to thank you and the entire staff and support system at Solara for taking such good care of my sister. On behalf of my entire family, we want you all to understand that your patience and kindness stretches further than you can see… Thank you, again and again, from the bottom of my heart.
The Solara program is truly amazing. I’ve never had more clarity or more good energy in my entire life. The attention the physicians and the therapists gave me was outstanding. I feel like they truly understood and addressed my issues, which had consumed my life for years. Thank you all.
We are so grateful to you for the treatment and care you provided our daughter. She is doing unbelievably well now thanks to your program. We will gladly tell anyone we encounter that needs treatment about the wonderful work you do at Solara.
The program has given me the tools I needed to really gain stability. For the first time in years - maybe for as long as I can remember, actually, I’m learning how to cope and manage my stressors and triggers. I now believe that I can find some relief and happiness.
The Solara Treatment Program was a life-changing experience for me. To be able to heal in such a beautiful, peaceful environment, with such a terrific treatment team, was so amazingly positive. I have found my true self, again. I thank you and my family thanks you for helping me become the person I was meant to be.
Even though I’m not religious, I realized when I got sober that for the first time in my life I wanted to explore my spiritual side. I benefited hugely from the individual spiritual sessions that I had with Chris. I’m really grateful for that aspect of the whole treatment experience.
I have never felt better than I do now, since completing your program. The truly caring and supportive staff and the intensive program changed my life. What a neat place to stay for treatment - I love Pacific Beach! I have learned skills and behavior to move forward with my life thanks to you.
The therapists and counselors and really whole team were extremely beneficial to me and my understanding of my issues. The treatment plan they developed was exactly what I needed
M.P. – Father
Your program provided our daughter with the most masterful therapist we have ever encountered (and we have used many). She has had an unbelievable ability to see the long-term trajectory of our daughter’s treatment and to approach her treatment in stages that fit where my daughter’s development was. We can’t say enough positive about her.
Solara’s program was such a positive experience for our mom (and for us)! She had become almost impossible to deal with. Your entire staff was phenomenally supportive and kind and patient with her. We feel like we’ve got our mom back, now.
Solara Mental Health844.600.9747 The leader in psychological care and treatment
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The risk-averse investor chooses debt instruments over equity not only to ensure safety for capital invested but also to receive regular income flows from these securities. Mutual funds investing in bonds bring a great deal of stability to an equity-heavy portfolio while providing dividends more frequently than individual bonds. U.S government bond mutual funds usually invest in Treasury bills, notes and securities issued by government agencies. They are considered to be the safest of all bond funds and are ideal options for conservative investors.
Below we will share with you 5 top rated government bond mutual funds. Each has earned a Zacks #1 Rank (Strong Buy) as we expect these mutual funds to outperform their peers in the future.
Transamerica Partners IPS (DVIGX) seeks real return. The fund invests the majority of its assets in inflation-protected securities and related investments. The fund utilizes an underlying mutual fund to purchase these securities which are instruments issued by the U.S. government and its agencies. The government bond mutual fund has a ten year annualized return of 4.22%.
The government bond mutual fund has an expense ratio of 0.99% compared to a category average of 0.85%.
T. Rowe Price Inflation Protected Bond (PRIPX) invests a large proportion of its assets in inflation-protected bonds. The fund focuses on purchasing bonds issued by the US Treasury, but similar instruments issued by US government agencies and corporations may also be acquired. The government bond mutual fund returned 7.37% over the last one year period.
As of March 2011, this government bond mutual fund held 41 issues, with 10.34% of its total assets invested in US Treasury Note 2%.
Legg Mason Western Asset Government Securities A (SGVAX) seeks current return. The fund invests the majority of its assets in securities issued by the U.S. government and its agencies. U.S. Treasury securities and debt securities issued by federal agencies are some of the categories the fund invests in. The government bond mutual fund has a three year annualized return of 6.97%.
The Fund Manager is Stephen A. Walsh and he has managed this government bond mutual fund since 2006.
GMO Inflation Indexed Plus Bond III (GMITX) invests heavily in inflation-protected securities and related investments. The fund aims to provide total return greater than the Barclays Capital U.S. Treasury Inflation Notes index. The government bond mutual fund returned 13.04% over the last one year period.
The government bond mutual fund has an expense ratio of 0.38% compared to a category average of 0.85%.
Delaware Inflation Protected Bond A (DIPAX) seeks to provide current income and protection against inflation. The fund primarily invests in inflation-indexed bonds issued by the US government, its agencies as well as corporations. The government bond mutual fund has a five year annualized return of 6.65%.
The Fund Manager is Roger A. Early and he has managed this government bond mutual fund since 2007.
To view the Zacks Rank and past performance of all government bond mutual funds, then click here.
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Moisture Plus Botanical Oil is a blend of pure, high quality natural oils fortified with Vitamin E to hydrate dry skin & hair. This exquisite blend is fast absorbing, non greasy and has super moisturising powers.
- Avocado Oil – Suitable for thin, sensitive or irritated skin. Rich in Oleic Acid, Vit A, B1, B2, B5, Lecithin & Squalane. Antioxidant.
- Coconut Oil – Medium chain fatty acids rapidly absorbed by skin and hair, extremely resistant to rancidity. HIgh in Lauric Acid and Antimicrobial.
- Jojoba Oil – Is actually a liquid wax and closely mimics natural sebum. Penetrates deep into the skin, high in Vit A, E & D, antioxidant & anti-viral.
- Almond Oil – Soothing carrier oil, rich in Vit E, Potassium, Zinc, Fatty Acids & Proteins.
Along with moisturising, these natural oils provide barrier protection, essential fatty acids, Vitamins, and some are even known for their skin healing and anti-bacterial, anti-viral & anti-fungal properties.
Moisture Plus is an amazing skin balancer, skin, coat & hair highlighter and does a fantastic job of removing a days show ring makeup – including Mineral Oil/Silicone based products – whilst leaving the skin and hair soft, hydrated and no need to wash with harsh shampoos.
We have been using this oil for several years for our own skin and it is simply magic, velvety smooth and non greasy.
Directions for use:
Apply Moisture Plus to any area of the skin or hair. Do not feed.
For show ring makeup removal, apply with a cloth and massage into skin, wipe clean.
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Marketing expert witnesses may opine on marketing effectiveness, marketing research, marketing strategy, and more. At Expert Communications.com, Rosalie Hamilton provides methods for experts to find prospect attorneys, companies and insurers that need their expert consultant services. Here, an expert witness contributes to ExpertCommunications.blogspot.com:
My retainer agreement not only lists the fees and scope of my work, but I also have a clause (in bold) that expressly forbids the attorney from disclosing me as an expert witness if the attorney has not retained me. This happened many times in my early career, and that is why I put it into my retainer agreement. The clause also states I will take action against the attorney if I am listed without being retained. This clause has stopped attorneys from listing me as expert without retaining me. In addition, I have proof that I sent them the retainer agreement, thus I know my clause has been read. [editor’s note: see other experts’ experiences on being designated without permission in this past discussion.]
Read more: http://expertcommunications.blogspot.com/.
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For a lot of us, obtaining a new couch is something every 2-3 decades, which we will do. Especially if require a couch to coincide and we would like to modify the décor at an area. The issue is, you’ll need your couch to be eliminated to make room in case your new couch arrives. What’s the very ideal thing to do with your couch?
Things to do with a Old Couch?
- Boost Your Sofa to somebody
If your couch is in good shape, you might desire to place up your couch in order to receive back some of the cash that you paid for this. You’ve got a couple choices on how to sell your couch, with lots of people opting to utilize websites such as Facebook or even Gumtree Marketplace.
Make sure you take a lot of photos which way buyers can find the idea of what they’re purchasing when set your couch. Additionally, it is very important to outline some imperfections like sunlight damage or rips and if your house has some other pets or smokers. You may have people.
In terms of pricing, possess a study to find out what men and women are pricing couches of size, manufacturer, and a comparable era. Always keep in mind that people prefer to tack on costs, so put in a bit on your asking price if you’re seeking some cost.
- Provide Your Sofa into Charity
You are not enthusiastic about selling it, or if your couch is in good shape, yet or you would like somebody needing to receive it, you may present your couch. Many charities have their very own van and will come and gather your couch to market Nowadays. Only give them a ring and see whether this is something which they’re doing (as sometimes they may have too many couches or parts of furniture to market ).
It is also possible to think of giving it to a charity that will deliver over your couch . This might be a lady’s charity, by which these women beginning from fresh and may be escaping homes. Or, it might be a charity. Do study and find out what they’re readily available.
If anybody in your loved ones or buddy network may benefit from getting your couch, Perhaps you will wish to test. Nephew or Perchance a niece who’s currently starting out in their own, or even.
- Eliminate Your Sofa Responsibly
From time to time a couch has reached the end of the times. It might be quite old, using its springs or you may have kids or pets who’ve destroyed it with rips or stains. Your couch is too employed for somebody else to use it, so it has to be properly disposed.
Eliminating your couch needs to be achieved in a manner, which explains the reason you ought to select an organization that’s constructed upon maintaining as crap. This way you’ll understand that just as much will be. Wishing you!
- Make something fresh
Your couch can be separated and made into something different, sofas are created from cloth , foam, and metal or wood. Should you strip the couch back into its condition. There are a great deal of stitching and upcycling platforms which will reveal to you exactly what you could do with the pieces. Pinterest and youTube are perfect for thoughts. Perhaps seem most of us have that friend that may make something. The Fabric may be used to create straps, straps, clothing and a lot more. The foam may be used to produce cushions. Ultimately heaps of excellent and metal and wood usages.
- Select the Right disposal collection firm
There are various businesses up and down the nation that will accumulate your couch. Make sure you select the one that is perfect. First consider recycling policies and their environmental, Are you currently dedicated to recycling where possible or reusing? Do they would like to prevent placing the couch? These are a few. Next, should they come and gather no matter, the couch? This is essential like you can’t carry items that are theses yourself it is ideal to abandon it. Are you currently licensed to choose your couch? There are and your couch thrown in the street’s end could be found by you. To check whether there is an organization licensed request their service number.
Don’t waste it
It may look like the choices to throw your couch it might be more economical. As it’ll have ecological effect for a long time to come, please avoid doing so. Some couches have a great deal of compounds, which repeatedly the substances end up in rivers and will flow into the floor and rivers into our water supplies. A good deal of the cloth isn’t degradable so it is going to be ahead of time. Most nations are currently running out of space, meaning your previous couch might wind up miles away ones that are frequently weaker, in nation.
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How a Kansas University Uses InstaVR to Publish Cross-Platform Apps Quickly & Easily for their History, Forensic Science, and Business Classes
InstaVR Client Example of a University Benefiting from Creating VR
University students, faculty, and technology staff are eager to utilize VR to enhance learning experiences.
College educators use InstaVR specifically to create immersive, engaging applications to enhance the classroom environment. Emporia State University leverages VR across a number of departments — including History, Forensic Science, and Business Marketing. Students are able to learn in an unparalleled experiential way from the InstaVR-generated 360 apps.
According to Dr. Anna Catterson, Instructional Designer, “We were looking for a solution that would give us ease and flexibility. We’re very happy with InstaVR.”
Emporia State University – School Client Overview
Emporia State University, founded in 1863, is the third-oldest public university in Kansas. Each year they enroll over 5,700 students and offer degrees in over 80 courses of study. Emporia State University comprises four distinct colleges: the School of Business, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, School of Library and Information Management, and the Teachers College.
Dr. Anna Catterson is an Instructional Designer and Researcher at the university. Her research and teaching looks at how instructional design theories can be applied to new technologies, such as Virtual Reality. She has introduced and evangelized VR to both faculty members and students. She also serves as the 2017 Colleague2Colleague Chair.
Origins of Virtual Reality (VR) Interest at Emporia State University
Dr. Anna Catterson’s research focuses on the intersection of instructional design and new technologies. So it’s not surprising she was intrigued when she first tried the Oculus Rift VR headset, a year and a half ago at KU Medical Center. She immediately recognized the opportunity for faculty and students alike to create engaging and educational VR content at her school, Emporia State University. But she had to identify the right technology to make this plan feasible.
A primary mandate was to select a VR solution that would be accessible for everybody at the University, but that would also be cost-effective. “When I researched a little bit about InstaVR, that opened some new doors us for us,” according to Dr. Catterson. “It gave us that turnkey solution we were looking for.” She tried out InstaVR herself, publishing to Google Cardboard, and realized the web-based solution might just meet her needs. “We were looking for a solution that would give us ease and flexibility. We’re very happy with InstaVR.”
Before rolling InstaVR out across the university’s four colleges, she needed a successful Pilot test case. So she turned to an unexpected source — a revered octogenarian History professor.
Success with First Pilot VR App — History Department’s “Ride Into History”
Dr. Joyce Thierer does history reenactments across the nation, performing as famous women throughout history, such as Annie Oakley and Amelia Earhart. With an upcoming performance scheduled at the ESU history professor’s farm, Dr. Catterson saw a great opportunity to record and distribute the show in immersive 360 video. So she set up her 360 camera, recorded the performance of “Ride Into History”, and had the raw media she needed to create a mobile VR application.
Dr. Catterson and her team learned a few lessons with this first pilot attempt. First, you have to place the 360 camera where people won’t walk in front of it, which is tough since the camera captures all directions. Second, length of video matters. Dr. Catterson had recorded over an hour of material, but certainly couldn’t use all of it in the final app.
Using InstaVR, Dr. Catterson created a Google Cardboard app of the performance. Students liked seeing their professor in this immersive environment, with an engaging experience that’s as close as possible to being there. Dr. Thierer liked it too. “She saw it, loved it, and is implementing it for her class,” according to Dr. Catterson.
Expanding to the Forensic Science Department, Enabling Students to Virtually Experience Crime Scenes
With one successful pilot under her belt, Dr. Catterson wanted to branch out into some more practical use cases. Forensic Science students reached out to the Kansas Bureau of Investigation, which has a modern building in Topeka, Kansas with office spaces that allow for simulating crime scenes. So the students did just that — laying out a body, adding bloody footprints and empty beer bottles.
They captured the scene using a Samsung Gear 360 camera. Dr. Catterson also brought along her DSL camera, to capture 2D images and videos that could be added as close-up Hotspots in the final app. After returning to Emporia, it took her less than an hour in InstaVR to augment the 360 images with Hotspots and Audio Narration, producing VR apps that could be shown both on Google Cardboards and Samsung Gear VRs.
The final app served two purposes:
- Students Can Learn the Act of Discovery — examining in the VR headset the clues, the DNA, the evidence left in the room. Adding to the investigation was audio dubbed into the app of the “victim” talking, providing additional clues.
- Students Can Learn Terminology — particularly using Hotspots, students can view objects in the scene (ie a weapon) and learn about them through text boxes, images or videos. This incorporates course content in the VR multimedia application.
They’re already planning their next 360 virtual crime scene — one in a motor vehicle bay where students can virtually search a car for evidence.
How InstaVR is Essential in the Process, Enabling Hotspots and Audio Narration, Plus Easy Cross-Platform Publishing
InstaVR has become an essential part of the VR creation process at Emporia State University. It has saved students and faculty alike immense amounts of time, as it doesn’t require coding and has an easy-to-learn drag-and-drop interface. “It’s really easy with InstaVR,” according to Dr. Catterson. “We could not have done it without it.”
Just a few of the key features currently being used by Dr. Catterson and her students & teachers include:
Hotspots – Hotspots allow you to view or hover over an object in the 360 media, triggering an overlaid image, video or text box. The forensic students, in particular, benefit from the learning opportunities afforded by this feature of InstaVR. They can learn both how to better investigate a crime scene, as well as some of the specific terminology used.
Supplemental Audio – Because the virtual crime scenes are audio free, Dr. Catterson adds voiceover of the “victim” of the crime. The students can combine the visual of the crime scene, with what they learn from the audio, to make more informed forensic decisions.
Cross Platform Publishing – Emporia State University owns an Oculus Rift, in addition to several Gear VRs. But their Bookstore also sells Google Cardboards, and they have a 3D printer so they can create their own headsets. With InstaVR, they need to only author an application once in the platform, and then with one click publish to each of the different headsets. The business students even use WebVR to pitch local businesses on the benefits of VR. (read more below)
Drag and Drop Interface, with No Coding Required – With some teachers skeptical on the value of VR, and students having a busy schedule, it was imperative to select a technology partner that anyone can use, and that wouldn’t take a long time to create VR apps. “From start to finish, I’ll bet I haven’t spent more than an hour uploading the content, doing the hotspots, and adding the audio,” according to Catterson. “It’s really quite simple.”
Real World Applications: How Business Students Use VR in their Capstone Process to Help Local Businesses Better Market Themselves
Business students are also leveraging the benefits of InstaVR to help local businesses. As part of their Capstone experience, a select group of students have partnered up with a mall, a non-profit arts group, a chocolate store, a bookstore, and a nursing home. They used WebVR to show each of the companies what the technology is, and are in the process of creating engaging 360 tours that promote the businesses in a new and unique manner.
They’ll be presenting the VR business projects to the President, Provost and Administration of the school on November 28th. And that’s likely just the start for business students and InstaVR. Dr. Catterson explains, “Because of the ease of InstaVR, there’s really no end to the possibilities of what you can use it for.”
Taking VR on the Road, Teaching High School Students How to Make VR Using InstaVR
As if the History, Forensic Science, and Business student uses of InstaVR weren’t enough, Dr. Catterson has also utilized the technology in teaching at schools across Kansas. Her team is teaching students at Makerspace locations on K-12 campuses, and to teachers as part of their in-service training. “We take our headsets with us, and we educate them on InstaVR, and what you can do with it. We’re kinda like travelling salesmen for InstaVR sometimes.”
Ultimately, the success of Dr. Catterson and her team can be traced back to using Virtual Reality in a way that augments classroom learning. In each use case, they’re specifically using VR because the power of the multimedia platform, coupled with the immersive nature of VR headsets. According to Dr. Catterson, “The key is to link VR content back to course outcomes. If you don’t do that, there’s no value. If you link it right back to the course content, that’s where you see the value.”
And now everyone at Emporia State University — from students to professors to K-12 students they also teach — are starting to see and experience the value of VR, and the InstaVR platform in particular. “It speaks volumes about InstaVR, and how it is used for anybody at any age, any demographic. It has a diversity and inclusion plan built into it. Anybody can use it.”
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Disguised weapons – new prosecution guidance
We have previously posted articles about our clients who have been unfortunate enough to be charged with allegations of possession of disguised weapons that, on conviction, will attract a minimum 5 year sentence. This is often a surprise to the client, and we have had to work particularly hard to avoid an immediate prison sentence.
New guidance has been issued by the prosecution as to when it is appropriate to charge the offence that attracts the minimum 5 year sentence.
It had been hoped that this change would have assisted those found in possession of a combination torch and stun gun. Unfortunately, this is not the case. The charging standards have only been relaxed where, for example, as stun gun has been disguised as another weapon.
The charging guidance now contains the following:
Note on Disguised Weapons
“Firearms which are disguised as another object (such as stun guns disguised as torches or mobile phones or other innocent objects) are prohibited weapons contrary to section 5(1)(b) and 5(1A)(a). The latter attracts a mandatory minimum sentence; the former does not.
Where a stun gun is disguised as another weapon, prosecutors should always charge section 5(1)(b) unless any significant aggravating feature, as identified by R v Avis 1 Cr App R 420 CA is present. The factors in Avis are:
• What (if any) use has been made of the firearm?
• With what intention (if any) did the defendant possess or use the firearm?
• What is the defendant’s record?
Unless a significant aggravating feature is present, the mandatory minimum sentence may be arbitrary and disproportionate. Where section 5(1)(b) is charged, the Court may still pass a significant sentence. However, it can exercise its discretion at sentence where there is an absence of aggravating features which do not merit charging an offence attracting a mandatory minimum sentence.
[Additionally] Prosecutors should note that where a stun gun is disguised as another weapon, section 5(1)(b) should be charged, absent any use or intended use of the stun gun, or the commission or alleged commission at the same time or recently of other relevant offences’”.
“…The fact that the disguised stun gun in question is of limited power is not a reason for charging the lesser offence – R v McCarthy EWCA Crim. 2500.”
Note on dual purpose objects
Where a case involves a dual purpose object (for example, a combined torch and stun gun), unless it is immediately apparent that an object contains a firearm, then it is a disguised weapon and should be charged as such, (section 5(1A) Firearms Act 1968). Failure to do so would deprive the judge of all available sentencing options, including the minimum sentence.
Prosecutors should liaise with the officer in connection with a defendant’s basis of plea in all cases involving objects described as ‘dual purpose’.
Instruct a criminal law specialist
The charging standards make clear that there can be flexibility in whether a charge attracting a minimum sentence is brought by the prosecution. Experience of negotiating on offence and plea is an important skill that we are able to bring to your case.
As a result it is best to take advantage of our free and independent legal advice in police interview as it is easier for us to make a difference in your case if instructed at an early stage.
Even in cases where you haven’t instructed us in the police station, we will still be happy to receive your instructions after interview or if the case proceeds to court.
Again, legal aid is likely to be available for your court case and we will advise you fully about all of your funding options.
We provide nationwide legal advice and representation from our offices across the East Midlands.
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The Worst Video Ever? Black’s Friday [VIDEO]
Her name is Rebecca Black and some music industry weasel told her this was a great idea. In a way it was, because this horrendously bad song and video now has over 5 MILLION views. We’re pretty sure this wasn’t how the idea of stardom was sold to her. Peter K saw this on Tosh.O and knew it had to be shared. Oh, and BTW- we forgive you if you can’t watch the entire thing. We’ve already tried about five times.
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For over a century, FENN has been a leader in the metal forming machinery industry because of the unmatched quality in customized solutions they provide for each customer. Though already a renowned producer of a broad range of Rolling Mills, Drawbenches, Swagers, and other metal forming machinery, FENN is delving into another market: automation. FENN is now offering fully automated turn-key solutions to a wide range of engineering applications. In industries across the globe, automated solutions are replacing traditional manpowered machinery – at this point, making the step to automation is necessary to hold a competitive edge.
Benefits of FENN’s Turn-Key Automated Solutions
Safety – With difficult and dangerous tasks now being fully automated, workers and machinists are removed from hazardous work operations and redeployed to safer locations. Factory laborers are regularly placed in conditions where they are prone to chronic injuries that result from physical stress, strain, overexertion, repetitive motion, awkward postures, and heavy lifting. These chronic injuries are not only detrimental to the workforce but can become costly for companies.
Productivity – Removing workers from manual repetitive tasks by replacing them with FENN’s automated machinery will allow them to focus on other projects. This will grant your company the ability to take the next step in terms of innovation and development and will provide a sharp competitive advantage.
Affordability – Humans are distinctly unable to keep up with the pace of work that a robotic system can maintain for hours on end. Round the clock manufacturing is also significantly more feasible and affordable when robotics and machines are doing the heavy lifting and manufacturing leg work.
Consistency – Automated processes will produce the same product over and over again, with greater speed, consistency, and precision than even the most experienced machinists and operators. Unlike manual operations, the customized programming that’s driving FENN’s products is not taking shifts – meaning the same code that produced the first product will produce the tenth and the ten thousandth.
Reliability – The experts at FENN will work with each client to ensure the solution provided is the best and most efficient option for the task at hand. The turn-key solutions available at FENN are designed so that the implementation of the systems into the current manufacturing process is seamless and ready to use upon arrival.
Taking Your Company to the Next Level
A wide range of FENN’s equipment can now be transformed into a fully automated production system. The engineers at FENN work with each customer to provide an automated turn-key solution for their manufacturing needs, including Wire Flattening and Shaping Equipment, Swagers, Drawbenches, Turks Heads, Torin® Spring Coilers, and Rolling Mills. To become the leader in your industry, steps to modernize and automate the manufacturing process are becoming increasingly necessary - and with FENN, it’s easy.
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Everyone desires to be ranked in addition to the very first page of Google search. Nonetheless a business or a brand needs to earn that right, and takes a committed strategy and attempt towards making sure this occurs. Getting the best SEO Allendale, Michigan services can be the first step in making sure you get the rankings you deserve. The gauntlet has been thrown and also the sites have answered. At HudsonRiver SEO Services, we target at enhancing the visibility of the brand keeping in mind the algorithmic search and deliver high quality, targeted traffic to the website.
What is search engine optimization in Allendale, Michigan?
This really is the process of bettering the visibility of a web site on organic, i.e. unpaid and natural search engine result pages. This involves using search engine friendly elements in the site. A successful search engine optimization effort and SEO service would have attentively incorporate unique and relevant keywords which the on-page optimization would help highlight for the algorithms that search engines apply.
There are essentially two specific regions of search engine optimization.
This includes elements like the web page, the HTML code, the written content and images. All these elements should be geared towards making the website as user-friendly as possible.
This mainly refers to backlinks, i.e. the links pointing back towards the website which needs visibility from other relevant websites.
What is search engine optimization, is a question that may best be replied consequently - It's your greatest tool to get the most grip online and also to keep your search engine rankings high.
HudsonRiverSEO Services provides the most comprehensive array of Search Engine Optimization optimization services in the business. Here are some of the services we provide under Search Engine Optimization optimization services:
We provide comprehensive and effective link building while ensuring that there are not any bad links or contextually incorrect links.
We offer complete all-natural Search Engine Optimization services planned to assemble a sustainable and natural growth pattern in the brand's online visibility.
We keep a sharp watch on the analytics and generate detailed reports regarding the same identifying tendencies and helping formulate future strategies.
We provide all important bookmarking services along with post, directory and classifieds entry to make sure your brand is being marketed across the digital board.
We supplied high quality content marketing and post writing services to ensure your brand has the one of the very most relevant and focus-catching content online.
Using Google Adwords, advertisements forums like Bing advertisements, Yahoo advertisements and facebook advertising we also ensure your brand is being promoted among the right demographic.
Hudson River SEO Services provide you the most in-depth Search Engine Optimization optimization services, and organic Search Engine Optimization services inAllendale, Michigan. To know more about our SEO services contact us now.
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Since the dawn of humanity, humans have looked towards the stars to uncover the unknown. The thirst for knowledge helped humans discover the planets’ ability to shape and influence our personalities and characteristics.
While most of us are only aware of our Sun sign, astrology runs much deeper than that. The planets’ various aspects reveal deep secrets about our nature, interests, and the choices we make in life. One of the most influential aspects in astrology is known as Synastry.
Reflecting opposite energies, the union of Sun and Pluto is like the combination of light and darkness. While Sun comes from light and holds its heart on its sleeves, Pluto likes to keep its emotions hidden.
Continue reading to explore how Synastry influences the relationship between Sun and Pluto.
What Is Synastry?
Astrologers have used the alignment of planets to determine relationship compatibility for hundreds of years. The technique used to evaluate relationships and compatibility is known as Synastry.
The reality of any relationship in astrology can be determined by comparing the planets in two individuals’ natal charts. When the planets form a harmonious union, it gives birth to a stable and loving relationship.
On the other hand, with mismatched planets’ alignment, the relationship tends to have a rocky road ahead. While relationships always require work, when the stars are against you, it becomes even harder to reach your destination.
However, despite challenges, true lovers always find a way towards each other in the end. You need to trust your instincts and keep trying if you think your significant other is the one for you.
Trine – Aspect Of Luck, Harmony & Love
When planets are 120 degrees apart, it gives birth to the Trine. Known as the most promising aspect, Trine brings with it the potential for a positive change.
Trines have the power to generate sexual magnetism between two individuals. While it boosts your sex appeal, it helps you feel safe in the arms of your lover, giving you the freedom you need to be true to yourself.
This raw sexuality generated by Trines gives natives the ability to form a strong emotional bond that helps them connect on a deeper level. It brings authenticity and flexibility to a relationship that allows partners to grow and learn from each other.
In Sun Trine Pluto Synastry, both individuals work to stabilize each other, which helps them find a newfound respect for their relationship and each other.
Sun And Its Hidden Traits
In astrology, the Sun represents life, energy, and willpower. The Sun’s symbol in the natal chart determines your personality, ego, and rationality. Individuals with a powerful sun placement possess the gifts of confidence, will, and determination.
Those who carry the attributes of Sun are creative, proactive, and fun-loving. However, the Sun’s strong impact can sometimes turn these natives into self-absorbed individuals who fail to think about others.
The Sun defines us and our capabilities. It gives us the direction to accomplish our goals while governing traits such as motivation, courage, and devotion. If the Sun is too strong in a native, the person can exhibit selfishness that can lead him down the wrong path.
Pluto And Its Hidden Traits
Known as the generational planet, Pluto has characteristic darkness in astrology. Pluto was recognized as the God of the underworld due to its dark mystical energy in ancient times.
Associated with death, rebirth, and regeneration, Pluto has the potential to transform one’s personality. Individuals with Pluto in their natal chart carry a destructive force within that can damage relationships beyond repair.
However, individuals who hone the power of Pluto possess the ability to sense others’ thoughts and feelings. With a strong sense of intuition, such individuals have the talent to pick queues and understand the storm within someone’s mind.
While Pluto’s influence can be dramatic, its positive energy allows people to separate truth from fiction.
Sun Trine Pluto Synastry – A Mesmerizing Union
The Sun is often intrigued by Pluto’s mystery, while Pluto knows how to keep its distance to avoid falling madly in love. Their relationship is known for its passion, energy, and intensity.
When both these signs connect through a trine, they learn to share their feelings with each other. Such a union has the potential to form the most remarkable love story.
However, their relationship is not always rainbows and roses. When Pluto becomes obsessive and dominant in the relationship, its dark side can ruin happiness for both of them.
While Sun is known for its positive energy, it can sometimes dive too deep into the world of fantasy. Pluto’s pull to the world of reality can come as a shock for Sun, which can cause complications in the relationship.
Regardless if they end up being together for eternity or part ways midway, these natives always carry a sense of respect and love for each other. The connection formed by the Trine helps these individuals discover new parts of themselves and go on unexpected journeys together.
Sun Trine Pluto Synastry: Bottom Line
When Sun and Pluto combine under the Trine, their relationship has the potential to rejuvenate their spirits and transform them into their better selves.
Both individuals in this relationship become fascinated with each other’s quirks and habits, making this union blessed.
However, as in every relationship, both these natives need to overcome challenges within themselves to experience a happy relationship. Pluto’s dark side may urge it to take charge, while Sun’s unrealistic expectations have the potential of breaking Pluto’s heart.
This thirst for control and perfection can ruin their relationship forever. While it may take some time to understand each other, once these natives fall in love, there is no turning back.
However, it is vital to control the urges that can harm or hurt your partner. When these two individuals finally understand the art of keeping each other satisfied, the relationship can blossom into something truly magical.
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Detective Rick Baptiste moved to Bayou Black, Louisiana to get away from the senseless violence that seemed to plague the city of N’Awlins. After years of working homicide in N’Awlins, Detective Baptiste saw how truly twisted the human mind can be. Now that same evil seems to have infiltrated this peaceful town he has been calling home these last few months.
At first it was just reports of young women going missing. Now with the discovery of the latest victim’s body he is convinced they are dealing with a killer who has no intentions of stopping.
Who among the citizens of Bayou Black could be doing this? The deaths of these young women are much later than when they were reported missing. Where are they being held? What makes him kill them after a certain period of time?
And to make matters worse for Detective Baptiste the Assistant District Attorney Kathryn Bryant starts making demands on the case. The woman is just as headstrong as she is beautiful. In his mind that’s a dangerous combination. If she is here it can only mean trouble.
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Ten states now have animal welfare laws requiring bigger cages for hens and livestock. We look at what these new rules could mean for food prices, farmers and how we raise animals in the United States.
Diane and her guests discuss what congressional votes on extending Bush tax cuts may signal about battles ahead over government spending, deficits and efforts to reduce the nation’s unemployment rate. How politics is affecting the sluggish economy.
- Alice Rivlin senior fellow, Brookings Institution, vice chair, Board of Governors, Federal Reserve System (1996-99); director, White House Office of Management and Budget (1994-96); and founding director, Congressional Budget Office (1975-83).
- Major Garrett congressional correspondent, National Journal
- David Walker founder and CEO of the Comeback America Initiative and former U.S. Comptroller General
- Dan Mitchell senior fellow at the Cato Institute
- Dan Mitchell senior fellow at the Cato Institute
MS. DIANE REHMThanks for joining us. I'm Diane Rehm. White House officials and congressional Republicans are said to be close to a deal over extending tax cuts and unemployment benefits. With November's unemployment numbers at 9.8 percent, Fed chair, Ben Bernanke, warned against actions on this year's spending and taxes that could hurt the economic recovery. On "60 Minutes," last night, he added, that doesn't stop us from thinking now about the long-term structural budget deficit.
MS. DIANE REHMJoining me to talk about the challenges of addressing the nation's long and short-term fiscal health, Major Garrett of the National Journal, Alice Rivlin of the Brookings Institution. David Walker of Comeback America Initiative joins us from the NPR studio in New York, and Dan Mitchell of the Cato Institute is on the phone with us from Tampa, Fla. Throughout the hour, we'll look forward to hearing your questions, comments. Join us on 800-433-8850. Good morning to all of you.
MR. MAJOR GARRETTGood morning, Diane.
MS. ALICE RIVLINGood morning.
MR. DAVID WALKERGood morning.
MR. DAN MITCHELLGood morning.
REHMMajor Garrett, if I could start with you, how much do we know now about the deal that's apparently in the works on the Hill?
GARRETTWell, you see a singular -- here's what I know, and we can incorporate it into the row. We -- if we choose to think it's credible or not -- but here's what I know. What I know is that the rough outlines and the contours of the deal are as such, resolved possibly as early as the end of this week, maybe slightly sooner -- if not, early next week -- a two- to three-year extension of all Bush tax policy, including the tax cuts for those wealthiest Americans that the president and the White House had heretofore resolutely opposed. So that's score one for Republicans. The other part of the deal is a one-year extension of unemployment insurance benefits for the 99 weekers (sic) -- those people who have been chronically unemployed.
GARRETTAnd there are a great number of them in the United States -- 1.6 million will lose their benefits by Christmas Day. And then extension packages not put forward, a one-year extension provides clarity for the administration, clarity for those who are on the unemployment lines and relieves the White House and Congress over renewal of this debate, let's say, six months from now. So a complete one-year agreement, that seems to be understood. In compensation for giving so much ground to the Republicans on the upper-end Bush tax cuts, Democrats have advocated the White House.
GARRETTAnd they've now asked Republicans to consider, also, at least a one-year extension of the Make Work tax credit that was part of the stimulus. That's worth about $400 per year to a single taxpayer, $800 to a family. It's essentially a refund on a portion of your payroll tax deductions. That's not exactly how it works, but that's essentially how it works out. Republicans are considering that. There are also other tax extenders the Republicans would like to see also put in this package.
GARRETTAll of this will have to deal with some fine-grained choices about whether or not the Make Work Pay tax credit is refundable or nonrefundable. I can defer to Alice Rivlin on that on why that matters to Republicans and why it matters to the White House and what it economically means to those who receive it. But those are the outlines of the rough deal. One thing I haven't detected is any effort to pay for any of this, which will have deficit implications.
REHMMajor Garrett, he's congressional correspondent for the National Journal. Alice Rivlin, what do you see coming?
RIVLINOn this, I think Major is right. That's about where it is. I'm not privy to any internal discussions. I just hope they get it done and get the other things they need to do done and get out of town because...
REHMWhat about these tax credits that the Obama administration is using as a bargaining chip?
RIVLINWell, the Make Work Pay tax credit was in the stimulus. It is a credit against your earned income, and the issue of refundability -- as it's called -- means if you don't earn enough to pay tax, do you get the credit anyway? And that's the way it was originally structured. That's what makes sense. It gets money to people who have low wages, and I hope they do it that way.
REHMDavid Walker -- turning to you -- how likely do you see this plan moving through as Major Garrett has outlined it? And do you think it's a fair deal?
WALKERWell, first, I think they're going to have to reach agreement because there could be market instability if they don't reach agreement. They could have market-generated sell-offs because of tax considerations, and that doesn't really make any sense. You know, my personal disappointment is that basically the Republicans want all the tax cuts, irrespective of the economic merits and the potential consequences. And the Democrats want to be able to extend, you know, unemployment benefits and other types of assistance, you know, for an – you know, for additional time. Nobody wants to pay for anything.
WALKERYou know, in my view, they ought -- they shouldn't be extending the tax cuts for high-income individuals -- I mean, maybe $400,000 in individual and $500,000 for families. They should come to some resolution on the estate tax. The idea of not having an estate tax is ridiculous. I mean, we've got a huge birth burden on newborns. And there's got to be a limit as to how long we can keep people on unemployment. I mean, if you are on unemployment two years, I mean, how long are we going to subsidize people being on unemployment? And so, unfortunately, rather than coming up to some recent compromise, everybody gets everything they want. And nobody pays for it today.
REHMAnd, Dan Mitchell, how do you see it?
MITCHELLWell, I don't really disagree with any of the political prognostications we're seeing here. I guess the one wrinkle I would add to what's been said is that I'm a supply sider. I think the important thing is to keep marginal tax rates low, and I'm actually pleased that the Domenici/Rivlin Debt Reduction Task Force included lower marginal tax rates, the same thing with Obama's fiscal commission. But when I want lower marginal tax rates, I don't want them to turn into gimmicks.
MITCHELLAnd what worries me -- if you have a two-year extension, or something like that, is that really going to encourage people to work more, save more, invest more? So, yes, I guess having this kind of deal is better, certainly, than not having that deal and having a big tax increase on Jan. 1. But I don't think we're going to get much bang for the buck because I don't think investors, entrepreneurs, small business owners are going to make permanent long-term plans to create jobs and expand output in response to short-term fiscal policy that will still have a tremendous amount of uncertainty about what happens a couple years down the road.
REHMAlice Rivlin, David Walker mentioned estate taxes. They're not part of this deal, are they?
RIVLINThey could be.
GARRETTThey could be.
REHMThey could be.
GARRETT'Cause the estate tax currently is zero right now, and if nothing is done, it'll rise to 55 percent, I believe -- David, you may need to correct me on that -- but I think that's what it will rise up to Jan. 1. So there are definite estate tax implications, and that -- when I was mentioning extenders and other things that are sort of pending that are going to get thrown into this very large ever-growing kitchen sink as this week continues, that will be one of them.
WALKERIf I could drop in, Diane...
REHMGo right ahead.
WALKERWell, first, I think, you know, it makes no sense to have no estate tax. I mean, we're not paying our way now. It just further causes a difference between the haves and the have-nots in this country. I mean, think about what this country is going to look like in 100 years with no estate tax. They need to resolve it for, you know, something along the lines of a $3.5 million individual exemption, $7 for -- $7 million for a couple and a tax rate of around 40 percent or so. I mean, you know, they just keep on kicking the can down the road rather than making decisions. We pay them to make decisions.
REHMDan Mitchell, what's the country going to look like without an estate tax?
MITCHELLWell, I think, we'd have a much more prosperous country without a death tax. I think it's not only economically destructive to have this tax on capital, but it's morally outrageous that we tax people just for dying, on income that's already been taxed one or two or three times already. I think what we're going to see is a 45 percent death tax with some increase in the credit, as was just discussed. But the fundamental problem about the future of the country is it's not what we're going to look like with or without a death tax -- because we're going to have it, unfortunately -- but we’re heading on a path to becoming Greece.
MITCHELLWe're increasing spending, which is going to lead to higher taxes, which is going to lead to a weaker economy, which will lead to more spending. We're going to be in the same downward spiral you see in Europe. Now, we're behind them by, you know, 20 years or so, and that's good. I might rather, you know, postpone bad news for the future. But that is where we're heading with this entitlement state, bloated government, high tax rates, and I'm very depressed about the future of the country.
REHMOn the road to Greece, Alice Rivlin.
RIVLINWell, let me disagree with Dan on the estate tax, not the death tax -- we don't tax people for dying. We tax them for passing on very large estates to their children. But I couldn't agree more about his worry that we are on the way to a catastrophe if we don't get on top of our rising debt. We're not Greece. But we're in a very dangerous situation, which could have much wider ramifications for the whole world than a default in Greece, which wouldn't actually matter very much 'cause Greece isn't very big unless you're Greek. It's -- but we have, as we look ahead, rising debt driven by the demographics and health care, the aging population and the rising cost of medical care, which will make our government, as it's currently structured, more and more expensive every year.
REHMHow did you interpret -- Alice Rivlin, how did you interpret Ben Bernanke's comments last night on "60 Minutes," when he said he was warning against actions on spending in taxes that could hurt the economic recovery?
RIVLINI think Ben and I completely agree. We should not have a tax increase right now because we're having a hard time getting out of this recession. We shouldn't have addressed expanding cut right now either, like this year. But we should also put in place a long-term plan, which would start quite soon and be legislated -- not just thought about but legislated -- that would bring our deficits down over time. And Chairman Bernanke is for that, too.
REHMAlice Rivlin, she is senior fellow at the Brookings Institution. She is founding director of the Congressional Budget Office and director of the White House Office of Management and Budget from 1994 to '96. Short break. We'll be right back.
REHMAnd here's our first e-mail as we talk about the economy. It's from Bort, (sp?) who says, "I think this sudden focus on the deficit is just a Republican ploy to prevent Democrats from getting anything done. Can any guest explain why we're trying to fix the deficit right now in a downturn when we happily let it balloon when Bush was in charge?" Give us a little history on that, Major.
GARRETTWell, I would say the short history is -- let's just go back to January of 2009. When President Obama was inaugurated, there was a massive crowd here in the nation's capital, and there was a tremendous amount of conventional wisdom about the realignment of American politics to a center-left country. And then the Tea Party movement began to express itself, and Republicans still remained disorganized and not very well energized. And yet beneath them, the Tea Party began to organize itself and became, what I would call, the first genuine third party movement we've had -- that neither two parties have tried to control or were able to control -- for about a year. And then Republicans wrapped their arms around it from the leadership level.
GARRETTAnd if the Tea Party has one unifying message -- and it was visible in many House races that Republicans narrowly won, giving them 63 House seats and a new House majority -- it is to focus on deficit and debt. And so the leadership now is going to focus on the deficit and the debt because that's what the people who elected them want them to do. Now, that is not to say it is the most brilliant economic insight or the dumbest economic insight. What I'm saying is it's the reality of those who took to the streets, took to the polls, took to talk radio and brought this House majority to Republicans.
RIVLINI totally disagree that the focus on the deficit and the debt is some kind of Tea Party thing. It is a very genuine problem that members of both parties have been avoiding dealing with for some time, but it can't be put off any longer. The problem is that we have, as I said a minute ago, a prospect of rising debt if we don't change course because we have made promises over the years, both Republicans and Democrats, that mean that our government spending -- primarily from Medicare and Medicaid and, much to a lesser extent, Social Security -- will rise a lot faster than our revenues.
RIVLINThat's not new news. That's been true for a long time. But because of the recession and because of the things we did to get out of it -- that we haven't yet -- we have a much higher debt level, and that makes us more vulnerable. But we've got to get on top of this rising debt, or we will be Greece. We will be beholden to our creditors around the world.
REHMDan Mitchell, where are you on this?
MITCHELLWell, let me start by agreeing with a lot of what Alice said. And I especially want to give her credit because her task force with Sen. Domenici actually did address the health care entitlements that are really driving our long-term problem. But I would look at it a little bit differently. I don't think we have a long-run debt and deficit problem. We have a long-run government spending problem. All of our increases in red ink are because the burden of government spending is going to climb. And what worries me is that to the extent that this gets framed as a deficit and debt issue, we're going to give politicians an excuse to do what they love to do anyhow, which is to raise taxes so they can increase spending more.
MITCHELLAnd that's sort of the dog chasing its tail approach that got Europe into trouble. They'd raised spending, then raised taxes, and raised spending some more, and then raised taxes. And, I think, we have to put the focus exactly where it belongs. We need to control government spending. And I think the Tea Party is not so much -- yes, it's debt and deficit, but it's also bailouts and big government. So I think the Tea Party movement does have a nice libertarian theme to it about, let's control the size and burden of government.
WALKERTwo things. First, let's talk about what the numbers are. The most recent International Monetary Fund report that came out in May of this year said that based on comparable numbers -- looking at federal, state and local public debt, which is what you need to do to compare our country to Europe -- we were already worse than Portugal. We were already worse than Spain. We were already worse than Ireland. And we were already worse than the United Kingdom. We were 10 years away from where Greece was when they had their crises.
WALKERBut when you consider what we owe Social Security and Medicare -- $2 to $3 trillion in debt, backed by the full faith and credit of the United States government -- we're three years away. So this is a very real issue, and we're adding debt at record rates. Now, I would agree with Dan that this is primarily a spending problem. I think it's two to three to one, a spending problem. But the government has grown too big, promised too much and waited too long to solve it solely on the spending side without decimating social insurance programs and some of the constitutional roles of the government. And so everything has to be on the table. And for all the commissions that have reported recently, they put everything on the table.
REHMHere's a question on the politics for you, Major. "Why can't the president veto this bill? I want him to, even though I know taxes will then go up, the economy would dip again, and the Democrats would bear the brunt of the blame. I'm just sick of Democrats being utterly spineless. What else is holding the president back from pressuring Republicans to be responsible?"
GARRETTThe president has decided he's not going to take that path. The president's top advisor, David Axelrod, said, right after the election, we have to deal with the world the way we find it. And the way we find it is with Republicans in control of the House. And that was a signal to all within the Democratic Party that the president was going to move -- they didn't know how far -- but he was going to move on this issue. The President does not want to have taxes increased for the middle class.
GARRETTThe ransom note for that for Republicans is to make sure the tax policy that currently exists, that's been enforced for 10 years, stays, and there's no move -- Republicans will not move and will not budge on that. And the President can't move them. So if he doesn't do anything, if he doesn't agree to their terms, then everyone's taxes goes up, including the middle class. And he loses unemployment insurance, and he loses a lot of other things. He has no leverage to negotiate, a Make Work Pay tax credit exemption or extension. So he's making the best of a situation in which he finds himself with less leverage than this e-mailer believes he has.
GARRETTThis e-mailer believes you have the veto. You can have a fight and that fight is worth fighting. The president fundamentally disagrees, which means it won't be waged.
RIVLINI'm with the president, although I think he should have gotten out there a little sooner and gotten the message out. It's inconceivable to me that most of the country wants to see millionaires' taxes cut.
GARRETTThey don't. The polling indicated -- the polling data is very across the board on this.
RIVLINRight. And the Democrats have not made the most of that, but I think Major is absolutely right about where they are now.
REHMAnd, David Walker, how do you see that?
WALKERI think the biggest deficit this country has right now is a leadership deficit. And that's not a personal thing, and it's not a partisan thing. I think the country and our elected leaders have done a very poor job of communicating with the public about where we are, where we're headed, the need to differentiate between the short-term and the structural.
WALKERYou know, frankly, we might need to take more actions to try to be able to get unemployment down and get the economy moving. That could exacerbate the deficit in the short-term. That's okay, as long as it's properly designed and effectively implemented and coupled with a structural deficit plan that gets implemented in phases over time. The president is not talking about that. It's time he did. The congressional leadership is not talking about that. It's time they did. It's just more of the same.
REHMAll right. And here's an e-mail from David, who says, "Central to the Republicans' insistence that all tax cuts be extended is their claim that not extending tax cuts for the top income earners will raise taxes on 700,000 small businesses. Virtually no small business is structured in a way that the business pays income tax. Rather, small business are structured so income and losses, for tax purposes, pass through to the owners. Yet the Democrats and the media allow the Republicans' claim to go unchallenged." Dan Mitchell.
MITCHELLWell, there's all sorts of small business structures, whether you're a Subchapter S corporation, a sole proprietorship, so on and so forth. But the real debate is, how much small business income is hit by this -- and there's a lot -- versus how many small businesses are hit by this? And, of course, it's only the more successful small businesses that are hit by this. So both parties take different approaches. I'm fundamentally against class warfare policy. I want the lowest possible marginal tax rates.
MITCHELLYou have the greatest sensitivity or, as economists say, elasticity of response to tax rates at the upper end of the income spectrum. So why on earth would we want to hurt the economy, get the government very little revenue in exchange and appeal to sort of the darker instincts of the American people to try to go after a tiny minority of people? I just think it's the wrong approach, economically and philosophically.
RIVLINWell, I guess put me in the group that is in favor of class warfare, if this is class warfare. It just seems to me that if we are extending tax cuts that we can't afford to extend, we certainly don't need to extend them to people who have made out very well. And it's not class warfare to point out that the people who have benefited most from the economy, not only in the good times but even recently, are those in very high income groups, and people who have low wages and are struggling to find a job are doing badly.
GARRETTOne other quick point, Diane, and I bet you, David, have some thoughts on this. There are structural issues that, economically speaking, this debate simply misses. There is no stimulative effect of this tax policy that we're talking about. We have the tax policy now. Our economy is in a recession -- now, not a technical recession -- but we are not growing anywhere near rapidly enough to generate jobs. Ben Bernanke said on "60 Minutes" last night, we're on the razor's edge of an economy that simply cannot continue to grow, even to keep pace with where we are now.
GARRETTSo there's nothing stimulative about this current policy. We're trying to, from the Republican point of view, trying to avert something that would be worse. But what is there that is going to generate the kind of economic growth that's going to reduce unemployment, that's going to bring higher revenues to the federal government, which Alice knows, from the '90s, were a crucial part of building a bridge toward deficit reduction -- and not to mention Bill Clinton's reelection in 1996?
GARRETTRevenue is crucial to all this, and we're not in an economic situation where we're -- we have a prospect of generating new revenue, economic growth or reducing unemployment rate.
REHMOn that very point, David Walker, Dan Bartlett said to Howard Kurtz -- and this was reported in a number of different places -- we knew that, politically, once you get it into law -- he's speaking of the tax cuts -- it's almost impossible to remove it. That's not a bad legacy. The fact that we were able to lay the trap does feel pretty good, to tell you the truth.
WALKERWell, the sad thing is, is that a lot of people are doing things for political advantage and for short-term reasons. And who's looking out for the future? I mean, who's looking out for what the -- where this country will be in the world 20 years from now and beyond? Who's looking out for our kids and our grandkids? And the simple fact of the matter is, very few, and clearly not enough. And that's got to change. Look, there's a difference between the short-term and the structural. We could all agree on that.
WALKERWe need to make progress on both. But we cannot continue to kick the can down the road on our large and only growing structural problems because it threatens our position in the world and our standard of living at home. And it's not just economically irresponsible. It is immoral, what we're doing to our kids and our grandkids.
REHMDavid Walker, former U.S. comptroller general. He's founder and CEO of the Comeback America Initiative. Tell me about that, David.
WALKERIt's a new 501 (c)(3) entity that will focus on federal and selected state and local fiscal challenges that will be on solutions, trying to help engage the public with not just the facts and the truth and the tough choices, but, what are some of the solutions, and trying to provide support to Democrats, Republicans and independents who need help with their constituents to try to be able to make tough choices and need help in trying to figure out how best to solve the problems and build coalitions to accelerate enactment.
REHMAll right. We're going to open the phones now, first to Jackson, Mich. Good morning, Scott. You're on the air.
SCOTTI would like to agree with the earlier e-mail, that the Republicans have been perpetuating this truism that there's some kind of relationship between income tax and job creation. Income tax is based on net income, not gross income. So if I take part of the gross income of my business, and I use it to hire someone, that's a tax write-off. I don't pay income tax on that because it's a business expense. It's a debit, not a credit. And so they're perpetuating this idea that if you lower Daddy Warbucks' income taxes, he'll give you a job.
SCOTTWell, he might hire a gardener or a maid for his big estate or something like that, but within a structure of almost any business -- and I'm pretty sure even this applies to sole proprietorship -- that okay, if you hire someone, that payroll is written off your net income, and you don't -- you aren't taxed on it.
REHMAlice, do you want to comment?
RIVLINWell, with respect to small businesses, it's a little complicated. Some of them do -- some small business profits are taxed as personal income, but I think the caller is basically right. At the very high incomes, the chances that the money will be spent in a productive way are smaller than they are at lower incomes. And it probably doesn't affect business decisions very much.
MITCHELLYeah, well, let me go ahead and give a real-world alert to the caller here. People don't create jobs unless they expect that the total cost in employing someone will be exceeded by the amount of new revenue generated by that additional employee, and that, of course, means some profit for them that will be taxed at a higher rate. And when higher -- when we have higher tax rates, there is less incentive to earn that additional income, and so, yes, there will be a direct and negative effect.
MITCHELLThe caller should look at Hong Kong and compare Hong Kong's fast growth to America's modest growth. And then the caller should look at France and look at France's long-term stagnation compared to America. And, you know, what's the relationship? The countries with the higher taxes and bigger burdens of government grow slower than the countries with the smaller burden of government...
MITCHELL…and low tax rates.
REHMThanks for calling, Scott. Alice, there were actually two big reports that came out. Tell us the main differences between last week's deficit reduction recommendations and those of the other group you co-chaired with Pete Domenici.
RIVLINWell, let's talk about the similarities first.
RIVLINThey are both attempts to lay out a set of compromise plans between Republicans and Democrats that will get on top of the long-run deficit problem. And they all do it by -- or they both do it by a similar set of recommendations. They don't just focus on the drivers of increasing spending, which are Medicare and Medicaid -- although both do. But they say, this is such a big problem that the pain has got to be shared very widely, so let's do a number of things. Let's hold down discretionary spending. The president's group has a more severe set of cuts in discretionary spending, both domestic and defense, than the Domenici/Rivlin group. Both say, let's reform the tax system so that we can raise money in a more growth-friendly way.
REHMAs just Ben Bernanke.
REHMHe agreed with that last night.
REHMAnd the other thing...
REHM...is to extend the age of Social Security.
RIVLINWell, no. Actually, one group does, and one group does it slightly differently.
REHMAll right. We'll take a short break here. And more of your questions, and clarification on that last point, when we come back.
REHMAnd, just before the break, we were talking about the differences and similarities between the reports of the Rivlin/Domenici (sic) commission and the presidential deficit commission. Alice, you wanted to finish on that because what you were saying during the break is that Medicaid and Medicare are far more important here.
RIVLINRight. Let me make clear that I was on both commissions, and I support both reports although they are slightly different. One difference that the Rivlin/Domenici commission had was that we had a payroll tax holiday -- one year in which you don't pay payroll tax -- right now, right up front, to stimulate the recovery before the deficit reduction kicks in. But we think it's a package. You have to do both. You have to be able to think of two things at once -- getting out of this recession and controlling the long-run debt. But for both groups, the big dilemma is how do we control health care costs in the long run? And both have proposals that help to make health care more efficient. The Domenici/Rivlin group has a quite drastic reform of Medicare.
RIVLINBeginning in 2018, we would gradually transition Medicare into a premium support program, meaning that people would get -- take their Medicare subsidy to an exchange where they could buy private health care plans, a managed care plan, and those plans would compete on the exchange. And the idea is we might get more efficient health care delivery out of this competition, but in no case would the rate of growth of the government subsidy be faster than the economy was growing plus 1 percent. That's a way to get a control. And we would allow people to stay in traditional Medicare if they wanted to. But if it would cost more -- if the cost increase was more than the economy was growing plus 1 percent, then they'd had to pay for the privilege of staying in traditional Medicare.
WALKERAnd this is an idea that Paul Ryan, the incoming Republican chairman of the Budget Committee, has talked about, advocated. They're not exactly similar, as I understand them.
WALKERBut there is enough similarity there that -- and I don't know, Alice, if you object to the terminology voucherization (sic) of Medicare -- perhaps you do. I don't know. Paul Ryan doesn't. There are certainly some on the left who object to that terminology. But this idea that you can rework Medicare and put more money in the hands of the actual consumers, bring them closer to the marketplace, you're never going to get a pure price point on medical care. But one of the things that continues to create government inflation for Medicare -- medical care is, no one really knows what the price is.
REHMBut, Major, what's gotten the overwhelming amount of press and coverage has really been Social Security...
REHM...not Medicare, Medicaid, whereas at Social Security, increase in age is way down the line.
GARRETTIt's way down the line in both the proposals, and there are different mechanisms to deal with that. I've been in Washington since 1990. And it seems to me that we have more and more third rails of American politics all the time. When I got here, there was only one -- Social Security. But now immigration is a third rail sometimes. There are certain kind of tax policies, kind of a third rail.
GARRETTWe need far fewer rails in American politics -- that's my one opinionated statement of the morning.
REHMDan Mitchell, I want to know what you think of Alice Rivlin's holiday for payroll taxes.
MITCHELLI'm not a big fan of that for the same reason I'm a little bit sour on this idea of a two-year extension of the 2001 and 2003 tax cuts. I don't think -- unless you're a Keynesian, which I'm not -- but I don't think that you get permanent long-run improvements and job creation productivity and economic output on the basis of short-term tax provisions. We tried this under Bush in 2001 and 2008. It didn't work. We tried short-term, you know, sort of Keynesian stimulus under Obama in 2009. It didn't work. So I just -- I mean, I like the impulse to actually to reduce the tax burden rather than increase government spending, but I just don't think short-term tax policy leads to long-run improvements in output and job creation.
REHMAll right. Let's go to Chapel Hill, N.C. Good morning, Ruth.
RUTHGood morning, Diane. I think that we can do what Robert Gates said about trimming a little off the sides of the Pentagon budget. We are involved in two very costly wars. And if we were to reduce private contracting, we can save $100 billion over five years.
WALKERWell, I served as an ex-official member of the Defense Business Board for eight-and-a-half years, and I can tell you that there are plenty of opportunities to cut defense spending beyond what Secretary Gates asserted without compromising the national security of the United States. The simple fact of the matter is, is that we've had longstanding systemic problems with regard to our acquisition and contracting practices that cost us tens of billions a year. A lot of our systems are based upon past threats, rather than current and future threats. You know, we've got too much of a footprint, still, domestically and definitely overseas. And, frankly, our all-volunteer force is not affordable and sustainable over time.
WALKERWe're going to have to make some dramatic transformational reforms, or it's going to take us a number of years to do it.
REHMAlice, what did the two commissions say?
RIVLINWell, both commissions basically agree with what David Walker is saying. There is a lot of opportunity for saving in defense just by making it more efficient, making our contracting process less wasteful. And, beyond that, we need to think what we are doing in the world. Is the posture that we have had over the years that we can conduct major wars in other people's countries, is that a sensible thing to be doing?
REHMAll right. To Dallas, Texas. Good morning, Joseph.
JOSEPHGood morning. My comment will be brief. I think that to extend the tax cuts for one year for everyone might be worthwhile. But I think the president should insist that we adopt the taxes that are in the commission's plan which are lower than what our taxes were in the past. But this is not a tax increase as the Republicans want you to believe, and it's not going to help us get our debt under control, which is what they've been crying about. I agree. We need to streamline government, but we need tax revenue. And to let this go for another two years, we'll never be able to get out of the ditch, and he'll never convince the Republicans to adopt anything that he wants to do.
RIVLINOh, I agree with that. I think we need to reform the income tax so it's much broader-based, get rid of most of -- all of the exemptions and deductions, most of which benefit...
REHMWould you go for a flat tax?
RIVLINNo. I would not go for a flat, meaning...
REHMWould you go for a VAT tax?
RIVLINWell, a flat tax means everybody pays the same rate on their income tax.
RIVLINNo, I don't agree with that. I think it can be much simpler, much fairer, more progressive, but I would keep a progressive rate structure. In the Domenici/Rivlin plan, we have only two rates, 15 and 27. That's lower than now, but it's still -- it would be more progressive than the current system. And -- but we also proposed -- we don't call it a VAT. We call it a debt reduction sales tax, but it's the same idea. Because I believe that, in addition to a reformed income tax, we need another source of tax revenue that is a broad-based consumption tax.
REHMWhat about that debt reduction sales tax, Dan Mitchell?
MITCHELLWell, I'm not a big fan of a VAT. I don't see why we will want to copy the tax systems of Europe when Europe is in so much trouble. The VAT was a major revenue generator that allowed Europe to create these costly welfare states that have killed growth and created the stage -- set the stage for a fiscal crisis. I admire what was done in the Domenici/Rivlin Task Force, and also Obama's commission, about lower marginal tax rates and getting rid of loopholes.
MITCHELLI've also been a flat tax fan, so anybody who's doing that is going to warm my heart. But, boy, I mean, why on earth would we want to copy Greece and Portugal and Ireland with a value-added tax? We don't want to reward politicians for overspending by giving them a new source of revenue. It's like giving the alcoholic keys to a liquor store.
WALKERIf I could just interrupt you?
REHMMajor Garrett, the -- David Walker, you wanted to say something?
WALKERYes, I do. You know, first, I think we have to recognize we have to do several things in combination. You know, we do need to move more towards a consumption tax approach in our economy. That doesn't mean that we have to replicate what Europe is doing. But we need to combine that with statutory budget controls, you know, discretionary spending caps, reconsideration triggers for mandatory spending programs and tax preferences, you know, pay-as-you-go rules that don't have trillions of dollars of loopholes in it. There's no question, you know, when you think about that.
WALKERThe other thing we have to keep in mind is, while we need comprehensive tax reform and comprehensive health reform -- round two, those issues aren't going to be ripe until the earliest 2013 because none of these commissions had any meaningful engagement beyond Washington's beltway. And there's a major amount of citizen education and engagement that has to take place in order to prepare the way for those types of resources.
REHMAnd, Major Garrett, one wonders, considering the gap between rich and poor that exist today, considering the gap between Republican ideals, Democratic ideals, what's likely to happen?
GARRETTNot much, to be perfectly blunt. And I want to pick up on David's point 'cause I think it's very important. After the president's deficit and debt commission broke up, Kent Conrad, one of the members, said, you know, what we need is a summit. And I covered the last big summit we had in Washington when George Herbert Walker Bush brought the Republicans and the Democrats together, they went out to Andrews Air Force Base and they produced, in the main, a substantial product of deficit reduction that I believe helped lay the foundation for future economic growth in the '90s.
GARRETTBut I would say the politics in America right now could not possibly be more hostile to the notion of a summit -- people in Washington going out in some place, 10 or 12 of them, and cooking up a deal. David Walker is absolutely right. The American people need to be engaged at their level, in their communities where they live and breathe and how they interact with their own federal government. And if you don't do that, if that's not the precursor, you're not going to get -- I don't care how many summiteers you get together in this town. They could produce a fabulous product. The country will rise up against it just because of the level of suspicion and the level of doubt about Washington's ability to do something in their best term -- long-term interest.
RIVLINI think that's right unless we have a crisis. And the thing that worries me is that we could have a debt crisis in the next two or three years, a situation in which our creditors around the world and here lose confidence in the U.S. government and the treasury bond, our interest rates go through the roof and the dollar plummets. And then we're in deep trouble, and it's much harder to do anything. But at that moment, the public would say, do something, and something would be done.
REHMAlice Rivlin, and you're listening to "The Diane Rehm Show." Let's go now to Indianapolis. Good morning, James. You're on the air.
JAMESHi. I just had a comment about one of your guests, was speaking about Greece and how we were seeing a lot of overspending there. And then he made a comment that we are 20 years ahead of Greece, and he seems that we're -- that he was okay with that. I am 21 years old.
REHMNo, it was the other way around. I think was that Greece was 20 years ahead of us.
JAMESI -- yes, I'm sorry. I misspoke.
JAMESWell, you know, I am 21 years old. I am a junior accounting major in college, and I am completely debt free. I don't have any assistance. I'm out from my parents. I own -- I'm not taking out any loans. And it really upsets me that I'm really careful with budgeting my own money, and it really upsets me that our government and people in government are okay with overspending. We don't have that money. I don't -- my personal opinion is if you don't have the money, you don't spend it. I don't have -- I don't max out my credit card. I pay off all my bills on time. And so, I guess, I feel that our government should be doing the same exact thing and demonstrating financial responsibility with our taxed income.
MITCHELLDiane, can I just...
RIVLINI basically agree with you. Congratulations. I predict a long and successful career for you. And as soon as we possibly can -- you can't do it overnight -- I think we ought to get back, as a government, as a nation, to living within our means.
WALKERWell, congratulations on selecting accounting as a major. I'm an accounting major and, among other things, a certified public accountant. It's a great major, but, you know, the sad but simple truth is, is American -- America's lost its way. Thirty to 40 years ago, America became addicted to (word?) consumption and debt. We started living for today, rather than preparing for tomorrow. We had a temporary reprieve from the early '90s to 2002 when, among other things, we had two presidents who were concerned about these issues, at least George Herbert Walker Bush and William Jefferson Clinton. We had statutory budget controls in place, and then we lost our way again.
WALKERAnd so government needs to start leading by example. But it does need to understand the difference between the short-term and the structural. More Americans need to be living within their means, but, frankly, they're starting to do that. Americans are cutting back on their consumption. They're increasing their savings. They're reducing their debt. And while government is ultimately going to have to do that, it's got to be careful about how and when it does it.
GARRETTAnd I would say one other thing, Diane. As Americans change their behaviors -- and you see this across the board, you see people buying down their credit, saving more, planning more -- they're going to start sending and evaluating -- they're sending different messages to Washington as they evaluate Washington's behavior. And this is also going to come to the fore because many states around the country have their own budget crises to deal with. And those have to be resolved on a year-to-year basis, right in front of the voters, so this deficit issue is not simply a federal issue, it is a dire state issue as well.
REHMDan Mitchell, you disagree.
MITCHELLI don't disagree. I just -- as I said before, my focus should be, where is the problem? It's government spending. I agree completely with David about going back to what Bill Clinton had. When Bill Clinton left office, the federal government was only consuming 18 percent of GDP in terms of its budget. If we went back to that size budget now, we would solve our fiscal problem, you know, just like that. And so the problem is, we're in debt and deficit because government is too big now. We're going to get in even worse red ink in the future because government spending is going to climb. Let's focus on that. That's the real problem. I don't want a bunch of politicians in Washington deciding that the cure for their overspending is to take more money from the American people 'cause that's what they want to do.
REHMAlice, last word.
RIVLINLast word, I don't think it's necessarily a -- all a spending problem. We are a country that is aging and that has a taste for good medical care. That's going to mean that our government is going to have to pay more and be somewhat larger. We got to pay for it. We've got to get back to living within our means.
REHMAlice Rivlin, David Walker, Dan Mitchell, Major Garrett, thank you all so much.
GARRETTThank you, Diane.
RIVLINThank you, Diane.
REHMAnd thanks for listening, all. I'm Diane Rehm.
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February 21 - VK NATIONAL NEWS BROADCAST ON VK1WIA
THE BEST NEWS YOU'LL GET ALL WEEK
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NATIONAL NEWS FOR WEEK COMMENCING Feb 21 2016.
IN OUR 21st YEAR OF NON STOP NEWS
WIA at NEXT weekends Wyong Field Day. -
WIA Committees think about 2015. -
WIA New appointment in the office. -
WIA says Keep your ACMA licence current. -
WIA DATE CLAIMER = John Moyle Field Day 19-20 March 2016. -
WIA - REWINDS TO THE BIG REVIEW 2003
THESE STORIES AND MORE IN THIS EDITION OF NEWS FROM THE WIRELESS INSTITUTE
OF AUSTRALIA 2016 AND FOR WEEK OF FEB 21
Longest serving agency head: ACMA's Chris Chapman says farewell
At Canberra's Senate Estimates Committee last week, ACMA Chairman Chris
Chapman made his last appearance before parliament and outlined the
achievements during his term heading up Australia's communications
Deputy Chair Richard Bean is expected to take over the regulator in the
interim until a formal appointment is made.
Chapman told the Senate committee:
"To round out some cold, hard but perhaps wearying statistics, I have over
10 years seen six prime ministerships, served under five communications
ministers, served with six department secretaries, come before six Senate
estimates committee chairpersons, regulated with 15 outstanding authority
members, chaired, unbelievably, 246 authority meetings, and participated
in 56 authority strategy sessions. Today, as I understand it, I am the
longest serving agency head in the Commonwealth's 194 agencies.
In regulatory responsibilities ACMA has regulatedbroadcasting,
communications, radiocommunications and the online spacei.t. It is the
spectrum supplier; it is the technical adjudicator, it is the protector
of consumer safeguards in the telecommunications space; it is the protector
of community safeguards in the broadcasting space. It is the program
deliverer in the unwanted communication space. It is this country's
representative in a wide array of international meetings and collaborations,
most recently leading the Australian delegation to the month-long World
Radiocommunications Conference last November. For good measure, it is the
third-largest collector of revenues in the Commonwealth.
I have had the opportunity to make, said Chris Chapman, a small, but
hopefully useful, contribution in our national interest. It has been an
unqualified privilege, Chairman, and I exhort anyone who has not been on the
inside of the public service to find an opportunity to do so.
Read more on
( Radioinfo.com.au )
Something a little different from the land where it snowed this week despite
the rest of VK being in the grip of heatwaves or severe storms.
Members of REAST, TasLUG, Hobart Hackerspace and other local technology
groups have been invited to a cryptoparty at the Grand Poohbah in Liverpool
Street, Hobart. The Cryptoparty is being hosted by federal government
Senators Ludlam and McKim, along with REAST member Ian Mackintosh.
What is a cryptoparty you may ask?
Now that the Government & ALP have passed a mass surveillance data retention
regime through Parliament, it's time to take back our power and protect our
privacy and anonymity online. The cryptoparty will run a number of sessions
and break-outs, so there's something for everyone. Join them for Crypto 101,
break out groups, skills sessions, Q&A, music and good times.
People are encouraged to bring their laptop and smartphone as a team of
super-star geeks talk you through some simple steps to protect your data.
For those hyper geeks, there will be a 'going deep, going dark' session
Everyone is welcome - no matter your technical knowledge, a cryptoparty
supports privacy as a fundamental right.
The cryptoparty is a free event, but tickets are essential. Further details
on the event and how to obtain tickets can be found in the text version of
Facebook Event Page:
(sourced to vk7wi news)
Buy Swap and Sell and Wanted
Townsville region have noticed, according to TARC news, an increase in
operators discussing buying and selling of equipment on Amateur Radio
This is being done by operators holding any class of licence.
You need to know this is a breach of Australian Law.
Haggle, Discuss or Bargain face to face, or on the telephone.
Be Responsible !
WIA BOARD TALK
President Phil Wait VK2ASD email@example.com
WIA at the Wyong Field Day
Preparations are complete for the WIA stand at the Central Coast Amateur
Radio Club Field Day at Wyong, in New South Wales.
WIA Directors will be there with sales of books and taking memberships.
Among them the President, Phil Wait VK2ASD, Director Roger Harrison VK2ZRH
popping in among his personal event obligations, and Peter Young VK3MV the
WIA Regulatory Counsel.
The WIA is located in the tea and coffee area, on the first floor of the
The Central Coast Amateur Radio Club Field Day is at the Wyong Racecourse,
Sunday February 28.
WIA Committees thinking about the year 2015
A number of Wireless Institute of Australia routine functions are carried out
by its Committees, and their annual reports are due.
WIA President Phil Wait VK2ASD reported that the current Committee structure
has served during the past years, and the WIA Board may later this year
In the meantime, each Committee is to write a report for 12 months to
December 2015. These eventually go to all WIA members, and before the
Members Forum at the WIA annual general meeting in May.
A few Committees have already reported. They will make interesting reading.
New appointment in the WIA office
The WIA Board of Directors has appointed a new Executive Administrator for
its office in the Melbourne suburb of Bayswater.
The successful candidate is Bruce Deefholts, who comes to the WIA from the
corporate sector, but with some not-for-profit experience.
His new full-time contract position answers to the WIA Board through the
Bruce will also become the WIA company secretary organising and attending
WIA Board meetings.
The WIA has also appointed Petra as the new Examination Officer. Petra has
served in that role for some time as an agency temporary and has now
accepted a full time position with the WIA. We are very pleased to have
Petra on board.
A professional analysis of the WIAs existing processes and future
requirements was carried out in 2015, and the Board decided to replace
the position of Office Manager with the new position of Executive
Administrator. Meantime, the WIA office underwent a top-to-bottom review
to reflect the wishes of members, and to better face an environment of
regulatory change for spectrum users and the prospect of some further
The end result includes emphasis on customer service, delivery of member
services, office function streamlining, banking and finances.
Obviously Bruce will take some time to settle into his new role, so if you
have a query of the WIA could you please refer to the Frequently Asked
Questions section on the WIA website first, before contacting the WIA Office.
Keep your ACMA licence current - to avoid a lot of work
The ACMA will cancel your callsign if it doesn't receive a response to your
renewal invoice within a limited time after the expiry date. The ACMA will
lapse the licence, and your callsign will then be available for re-issue.
A few people try to get their licence back after it has expired, but are told
by ACMA to apply for a callsign through the WIA Office to re-start the process.
This means that the WIA needs to make a callsign recommendation and submit this
to ACMA with a licence application, to enable a new licence to be issued.
However this is not always under the previous callsign, because as we have
explained, it may have already been issued to someone else.
The answer is to always know your ACMA Amateur Licence renewal date, whether
or not you receive formal renewal, and make sure you renew it to keep the
ACMA's Amateur licencing process relies on you keeping your contact details
current with their office.
HAMS ACROSS AUSTRALIA.
Foundation Licence holders seek more about the hobby
Coming up is Radio Presentation Day that covers several aspects of Amateur
Radio from the expert viewpoint, but in easy to understand language.
Amateur Radio New South Wales, in response to requests from Foundation
licensees is to dedicate March 6 for a day of presentations on topics
including portability and DX chasing, at its office in Dural.
Mainly for the newly licensed, this is a chance to further learn how to
effectively use the knobs and dials on a transceiver.
Those who bring their own radio with the programming lead and computer may be
able to get the help they need - if they register.
A top DXer, Tommy VK2IR will talk about antennas and how to build them.
SOTA, or Summits On The Air is an activity that is growing, and there will be
a presentation on how it works.
There will also be a talk about the digital mode JT65.
To register and RSVP send an email with your name, callsign and contact number
Radio Presentation Day is at Amateur Radio New South Wales, Dural, on Sunday March 6.
Feb 28 VK3 EMDRC HamFest Great Ryrie Primary School Heathmont.
VK4 - QNEWS
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Back to Ceratodus - 50 Years- Easter 2016
Brando VK4VIP pops in..
"There will be a Ham Radio Reunion weekend at Ceratodus near Eidsvold in
Central Queensland at Easter this year. Fifty years ago, in 1966, a
group of hams met at Ceratodus, which resulted in lifelong friendships.
This back to Ceratodus reunion will mainly be on Easter Saturday 26th
March 2016, and everyone is welcome to come along., particularly those
who were there 50 years ago."
Further Details can be obtained from Brandon VK4VIP: M# 0409 259 663
also with more Brandon will join the QNEWS broadcast a little later following
this the National WIA News
INTERNATIONAL NEWS With thanks to IARU, RSGB, SARL, Southgate AR Club, ARRL,
Amateur Radio Newsline, NZART and the WW sources of the WIA.
Retiring ARRL CEO honoured by the IARU
The International Amateur Radio Union President Tim Ellam VE6SH/G4HUA has
presented David Sumner K1ZZ with the IARU's prestigious Michael J. Owen,
VK3KI, Memorial Award.
Tim Ellam cited David Sumner's "skill, diplomacy, and encyclopaedic knowledge"
of Amateur Radio, and his role on the international scene, as most deserving
of the award. Michael J. Owen VK3KI (sk), a towering figure in the IARU and
the WIA, died in 2012.
David Sumner started with his service at the watershed World Administrative
Radio Conference in 1979, which yielded the so-called "WARC bands," 30, 17,
and 12 metres.
Dave Sumner has travelled to more than 60 countries in connection with his
ARRL and IARU responsibilities, which include 17 years as IARU Secretary.
The IARU Administrative Council had kept quite its award decision until it
could be presented to the ARRL CEO in person. That opportunity arose when
Dave Summer K1ZZ was the keynote speaker at the Orlando 'HamCation banquet
on February 13.
In accepting the award, Dave Sumner called Michael Owen "a dear, dear
friend" and "a very special person."
A sometimes-emotional David, who steps down on April 18 as the head of the
American Radio Relay League ARRL, told the audience about the role that
Amateur Radio has played in his life. In his speech he described himself as
being passionate about Amateur Radio.
David said: "Our challenge is to explain our passion, how to convey it to
younger generations, that have grown up at a time when instant global
communication is taken for granted.
"Can we do it? Can we explain the allure of acquiring the knowledge and
skill to communicate anywhere on - or in orbit around - the planet without
relying on any infrastructure whatsoever? I believe we can."
David Sumner cherished the privilege of being able to turn a passion into a
career, spending 34 years guiding the ARRL headquarters staff.
Among his remarks were that he never wanted any other job, and enjoyed
playing a part in defending Amateur Radio spectrum.
In a lengthy speech, he praised various radio amateurs who were significant
influences on his life and his career. These included Nobel laureate
Joe Taylor K1JT, who developed the WSJT software suite that spawned the
popularity of JT65, JT9, and other "weak-signal" modes. At World
Radiocommunication Conference 2012, Joe Taylor received the International
Telecommunication Union gold medal - introduced as a radio astronomer who
got there through Amateur Radio.
Dave Summer held him in respect and awe, adding "It was probably the
proudest moment I've had in Amateur Radio."
Ontario distracted driving legislation and Amateur Radio
Amateur Radio operators in Ontario are enjoying a time-limited exemption under
the Highway Traffic Act's distracted driving regulations, allowing the use of
mobile 2-way communications apparatus until January 1, 2018.
Amateur Radio operators have been utilizing mobile communications equipment
safely and responsibly since before mobile telephony was popular and
affordable. In addition, the equipment that can be found in the vehicles of
thousands of hams across Canada translates to an instantly available means of
communications in time of disaster - a network of no cost to the served
agencies who may depend on it.
Phil VA3QR is spear-heading the effort to lobby the MTO to make the exemption
under the Highway Traffic Act Regulation permanent to all certified Amateur
An end to Moore's Law?
MOORE's Law is about to come to an end, claims a recent article from the
VK7WI News has said that the law, which was first articulated by Gordon Moore,
a co-founder of Intel, in 1965, states that the number of transistors on a
microprocessor will double roughly every two years.
Moore's Law proved to be true for most of the 70s, 80s, 90s and the first
decade of the 21st century, due largely to the technology industry engineering
its chips to keep up with the predictions.
By developing and producing microprocessors to match up with Moore's Law,
chipmakers pushed their engineering and fabrication methods to advance despite
limits. Nature says the worldwide semiconductor industry is on the verge of
acknowledging that it cannot keep up with the pace of doubling transistors
every two years.
The greater the number of transistors that must be packed into a chip, the
more costly they become to manufacture. The fabrication facilities needed to
produce these transistors and chips also become more expensive - today, only a
few manufacturers can afford to build and support the cutting edge factories.
The post-Moore's Law strategy will no longer be based on the number of
transistors on the chip. Rather, the focus will start with applications,
and the chips will be built upon what the application requires.
It may, however, be more accurate to pronounce this as a temporary hold for
Moore's Law. New material advances could one day replace silicon's, bypass its
limits, and allow the industry to once again progress according to Moore's
ARRL RENEWS PARTNERSHIP WITH RED CROSS
SKEETER: Because emergency preparedness is vital every place disaster
strikes, the ARRL and the American Red Cross have a working relationship
here in the U.S. It's a relationship they recently reaffirmed, as
Amateur Radio Newsline's Jim Damron, N8TMW, reports:
JIM: The ARRL and the American Red Cross have signed a new memorandum of
understanding that spells out their relationship when disaster strikes
and when radio operators are called up for emergency response. The
document succeeds the agreement the two organizations signed in 2010 and
renews their cooperative relationship.
According to the memorandum, ARES personal are to be deployed in
keeping with a pre-arranged plan in order to keep communications open
during emergencies. The document also encourages both organizations to
communicate with state and local agencies and to share information
regarding disasters and disaster operations.
The ARRL commits to a role encouraging ARES units to work with Red Cross
chapters to create plans for disaster relief and emergency response.
And, likewise, the Red Cross field units are being encouraged to
communicate in planning with ARRL's field units.
The new document also makes it clear that for ARES volunteers to assist
the Red Cross, they do not need to undergo a prior background check even
if they are not registered Red Cross volunteers. However, hams who are
registered Red Cross volunteers must abide by the background check
The document was signed on Jan. 22 and is place for another five years.
For Amateur Radio Newsline, I'm Jim Damron, N8TMW, in Charleston, West
OPERATIONAL NEWS 2016
Contests are a popular aspect of Amateur Radio, giving an opportunity to
practice and develop operating techniques, and measure how well a station
All contests have one main purpose - to get plenty on air and to increase the
opportunities for making contacts.
ARRL DX CW Contest is This weekend February 20-21st.
"All aboard" the Sydney Ferries. VHF/UHF 'contest' Sunday March 13.
This contest now will include "Wharves" as well as the Sydney Harbour Ferries.
To be held for six hours in daylight on Sunday March 13, the VHF and UHF only
simplex AND repeater contest will be an exciting event for Sydney Siders,
PARTICULARLY that "long jumping jeweller of Lavender Bay."
Check out the Waverley Amateur Radio Society website vk2bv.org
WIA John Moyle Field Day 19-20 March 2016
The next major WIA contest, the John Moyle Field Day aims to encourage portable
operation and tests emergency communication preparedness. There are a number of
categories and even those for home stations.
The WIA affiliated club with highest score wins the President's Cup.
To check out more including the rules visit the WIA website.
Harry Angel 80 mtr sprint (WIA) Saturday 7th May.
10-10 INTERNATIONAL SUMMER CONTEST Aug 6 - 7
Remembrance or RD Contest August 13-14
36th ALARA Contest is on the last full weekend in August, Aug 27-28.
SPECIAL EVENT STATIONS, DX, BEACON REPEATER AND NET ADVICE
QRV is 9 H 3 DJ until June 1 while on a business trip.
Activity is in his spare time using mostly SSB on 17 meters.
QSL to home call K 0 MDJ.
ST. MAARTEN, PJ7.
QRV is PJ 7 AA till March 12.
Activity will be on 40 to 10 meters using CW and SSB.
QSL to home call AA 9 A .
Did you work 6 D 0 F ?
It was a special event marking the visit of Pope Francis to Mexico, members
of the Federacion Mexicana de Radio Experimentadores or FMRE used the special
callsign 6 D 0 F
Send QSL cards via XE 1 LM
TOGO 5 V 7
Wim away visiting Togo in West Africa. He has reactivate his 5 V 7 TH
callsign until 22nd February. He will be active on 40m to 6m CW, SSB and RTTY.
QSL to his home call ON 6 DX.
Members of the Radio Club Argentino will be on the air from Carlini Base in
the South Shetland Islands during the last few weeks of February. They will
sign LU 1 ZI and the IOTA reference number is AN-010.
Members of the Italian DXpedition Team will be active as 3 XY 1 T from the
Los Islands, AF-051, between 18th February and the 4th March.
WW SPECIAL INTEREST GROUPS --- ARDF
WIA ARDF COORDINATOR VK3WWW Jack firstname.lastname@example.org
Ever thought about giving ARDF a go?
Well Jack has
"If you live in the Melbourne area or planning a trip to Melbourne around
April 10th how about coming out to Darebin Parklands and try your hand at
ARDF, Amateur Radio Direction Finding.
Loan receiving equipment will be available so all you need is a decent pair
of walking shoes and a good pair of ears to listen to the signals. If you
have been thinking about having a go at ARDF but always thought it was too
much like serious exercise think again for you can go at your own pace. For
more information go to www.ardf.org.au or email the ARDF Coordinator
WW SPECIAL INTEREST GROUPS --- ATV (Every pixel tells a story) - Video
The UK Space Agency noted that the HamTV Digital Amateur Television (DATV)
transmission by Tim Peake GB1SS from the ISS was a 'World First'
On Thursday, February 11, 2016, at approximately 18:11 UT, an ARISS contact
took place between UK astronaut Tim Peake GB1SS and students at the Royal
Masonic School for Girls GB1RSM in Rickmansworth, Herts.
The ARISS team of licensed UK Radio Amateurs achieved a world first by
receiving live video from the ISS during the contact. Using the HamTV
transmitter, which has recently been commissioned on board the ISS, Tim Peake
was the first astronaut to use this equipment during a two way schools contact.
As well as building a vehicle based HamTV receive system, which was installed
at the school on the day of the contact, the ARISS UK team also installed
equipment at the Goonhilly Earth Station in Cornwall to receive the 2395 MHz
HamTV transmissions from the ISS, this was then streamed via the web to the
On the Expert Panel at the historic contact were Libby Jackson of the UK Space
Agency, Sian Cleaver of Airbus, Frances Wray of QinetiQ, Stephanie Fernandes
Engineering Skills Policy Specialist at the IET, Matt Cosby of QinetiQ and
Chris Bridges 2E0OBC of the Surrey Space Centre.
Radio amateurs across the British Isles and Europe were able to receive Tim
Peake's signal on 145.800 MHz FM. Among them was James Patterson M1DST who has
uploaded a video to YouTube.
WW SPECIAL INTEREST GROUPS --- RADIO AMATEUR OLD-TIMERS
THE RADIO VOICE OF A CENTURY
Fred Crockford, who lives in the Borough of Brentwood, recently told his
local newspaper in the UK, "I have been retired longer than some people
have been at work."
With more, courtesy Amateur Radio Newsline here is RSGB News Man
Jeremy Boot G4NJH
"In fact, Fred, G6YUY, has also likely been on the air longer than many
people have been on the planet.
The retired trolley bus driver first went on the amateur bands in the
1920s, when radio operations were governed, he said, by the post office.
Now he's not just a licensed ham but a centenarian ham, having just
celebrated his 100th birthday.
He said radio has made every one of his many days an adventure. And he
told the newspaper the fun is in the surprise discovery of who is
available to talk from anywhere in the world. He said: "We talk to
whoever happens to be out there on that particular spot and at that
particular moment." A 70-foot-long-horizontal aerial carries his voice
everywhere - even to Australia.
Fred told the newspaper he still sets aside about two hours every
evening to reach out, via radio, to the world. And whether he lands in
the United States, New Zealand or Australia, the thrill of DXing is no
less a thrill to him at 100 than it was when he was a young man.
It seems that, at 100 years of age, his most treasured birthday gift of
all has been the gift of time.
Relay of Monthly RAOTC Broadcast
The monthly Broadcast from the Radio Amateurs Old Timers Club is now relayed
as part of the Monday Night broadcasts from VK7AX.
This is part of the "NEWS NIGHT" program from VK7AX on Monday Nights.
It is anticipated that this relay will become a regular event with the next
broadcast from RAOTC scheduled for Monday 7th. March.
It is relayed on voice Repeaters 2m VK7RTV Stowport, 70cm VK7RDR Dazzler Range
and 70cm VK7RAK Hobart.
Also via Digital ATV in Ulverstone on 446.50 MHz. DVB-T and via BATC Video
Stream which can be found on the email edition of this broadcast
(Tony VK7AX, President & News Officer NWTR&TVG via VK7WI News)
WW SPECIAL INTEREST GROUPS --- RADIO SCOUTING
Thinking Day this weekend
World Thinking Day will take place on 20th and 21st February. This is
when members of Girl guiding use amateur radio to try to contact other
members throughout the world as part of the celebrations of their
For further details go guides-on-the-air.co.uk
When you hear Thinking Day stations on the air, please give them a call from
WW SPECIAL INTEREST GROUPS --- RESCUE RADIO
IARU REGION 3
Emergency Centre of Activity (CoA) frequencies
3.600, 7.110, 14.300, 18.160 and 21.360 MHz
There is a full programme of Communications Support events that you can get
involved with and have some radio fun in the north of VK !
Sat 5 to Sun 6 March - FNERA Warabong Challenge Horse Endurance Ride Tepon
Fri 25 to Mon 28 March - FNERA Mt Baldy & Kuranda Horse Endurance Ride Tepon
Fri 25 to Mon 28 March - WRERA Euri Gold Farms Easter Carnival of Horse
Endurance Rides - Bowen Region
Sun 3 April - TCAC King of the Hill Hillclimb Round 1 - Mount Stuart
Sat 9 to Sun 10 April - Our Retreat Endurance Ride - Denison Creek Station
Sat 30 April to Sun 1 May - Breakaway Koumala Endurance Ride
Sun 29 May - TCAC King of the Hill Hillclimb Round 2 - Mount Stuart
VK isn't the only Country where cycling bodies call on we hams to help out.
Hamnet Western cape was involved last Saturday the 6th in marshalling the
99er Cycle Tour around the Northern Suburbs of Cape Town in South Africa.
The 102km race, and accompanying 64km short race, was patrolled by 12 rover
operators, distributed evenly along the track.
5000 riders left Durbanville.
APRS monitored all rovers, plus the 5 ambulance / rescue vehicles, and a
temporary digipeater assisted reception in hilly terrain.
There were no major injuries, though lots of riders bailed out because of
punctures or the severe South African heat.
REWIND a look back at history
Two Rewinds for the price of one today...
We'll be looking at ourselves, the WIA, and also the 85th Anniversary of
the VK6 News, known as NewsWest.
Here is Bob VK6POP, the President of the Western Australia Amateur Radio News.
Amateur Radio News broadcasts in Western Australia first went to air on 80
metres in 1931. Counting on my fingers. that was 85 years ago. Such an
anniversary in marriage would warrant gifts of diamonds and sapphires, but alas
in modern radio we don't even have a crystal to celebrate with.
The Wireless Institute began in Western Australia in 1913. Our story begins 16
years later when the Institute move into new headquarters in William Street,
Perth, and began setting up the VK6WI station, completed in February 1930.
The antenna was a Zeppelin style.
The early days of Amateur Radio involved a working relationship with early
broadcasters, in fact many Amateurs were also broadcasters. There are reports
of Amateur Radio transmitters being used to broadcast entertainment.
The first mention I can find of an Amateur Radio news broadcast is from Perth's
Daily News Monday 23 March 1931, saying:
The institute's transmitter VK6WI will go on the air on 'phone on Saturday
evening, March 28. using the 80-metre band. This will be a test transmission
in preparation of the dissemination of institute news to country members,
technical lectures to members and the testing of the set for 'phone, and
demonstration of the principles involved, for members preparing for their
There's not much information about the continuing history of Amateur Radio News
broadcasts, however it picked up after the end of the war in 1945, through to
the present day. W.A. Amateur Radio News was formed as a club in 2014, with
its principal activity being the production and broadcast of the WIA National
News and the NewsWest programmes.
Amateur Radio news in Western Australia has evolved from a single live
broadcast on Saturday nights to broadcasts on Sundays at five different times,
on several bands from 160 metres to 23 centimetres, including a linked repeater
network covering much of the South-West of the State.
There are links to informative websites in the text edition of the news.
Although we at WA Amateur Radio News can't take credit for 85 years of Amateur
Radio News broadcasts in this State, we can be confident that we're well on the
way to ensuring its long term future.
Now, about those Diamonds and Sapphires.
WIA - REWINDS TO THE BIG REVIEW 2003
A new era for Amateur Radio began after the so-called 'Big Review' had more
than 1,300 submissions and feedback from public meetings held around
That inquiry in 2003 sought to achieve a streamlined regulatory regime and
A major outcome was the introduction of Australia's three-tier amateur
The Advanced replaced the Unrestricted AOCP, the no-code Limited Licence, plus
the Combined licence which was a mix of Limited Licence and Novice Morse code.
The Standard replaced the Novice Grades - the result was an amalgamation of
five licence types into two, with the end of Morse code proficiency tests on
New Year's Day 2004.
Then later that year came the third - a new entry level, the Foundation
The WIA Board, only new itself following a national body being formed,
committed itself to weekend training sessions for exam assessors in Melbourne,
Brisbane, Sydney and Adelaide.
For a time the new assessor system ran in parallel with the old provision of
written exam papers that were later marked by the WIA Exam Service.
There was a lot of work to do - syllabus reshaping, question banks, working
with children checks and qualifying the assessors so the new structure was
Now, more than a decade on, much has been already achieved by the WIA in
licence reform, and a lot of possible change is now ahead of it.
(Jim Linton VK3PC)
SOCIAL SCENE 2016
Mar 5 VK6 PARG swap meet 8am till noon Mandurah. (parg sec.)
Feb 28 VK3 EMDRC HamFest Great Ryrie Primary School Heathmont. (wia)
Feb 28 VK2 Central Coast Field Day (vk2ztm)
It's now only ONE WEEK to go to the Field Day!
So where will you be in just one weeks' time? Why not come along and join the
biggest gathering of radio amateurs in Australia at the CCARC Field Day at
the Wyong racecourse?
We are expecting a really big event this year and remember .... The Wyong
Field Day starts at 6:30am for the Flea Market and 9am for the Traders and
Seminars - and it all goes ahead RAIN, HAIL or SHINE !!
For those of you coming to the Central Coast Field Day on the train, there will
be a free shuttle bus service to the event.
We wish all of those taking their Foundation licence or upgrade assessments
the best of success.
As always a little for everyone in the program!
Entry is $15 - Under 17's free.
So whether it's seeking that bargain from the flea market, grabbing that
discounted new item from the traders stands, educating yourself at the seminars
and exhibitors stalls or even taking that licence upgrade assessment. The place
to be on February twenty eight is definitely
The CCARC Field Day at Wyong!
For full details about the field day, please go to the website on
(Dave VK2DLS, Publicity Officer of the Central Coast Amateur Radio Club.)
April 10 VK3 Darebin Park for the ARDF Day (vk3www)
April 17 VK6 HARGfest 96 Gladys Road Lesmurdie open to public 10am (vk6zms)
Ap-May 29-2 VK4 Clairview Gathering check Mackay ARS website. (theTARCinc)
May 27-29 VK9 WIA AGM this year on Norfolk Island (wia.org)
June 3- 5 VK4 Central Highlands Social Gathering Theresa Creek dam (wia)
June 4 VK4 BARCfest Mt Gravatt Showgrounds. (vk4atc)
June 11-13 VK5 VK Foxhunting Championship & SERG convention Mt Gambier(VK5HCF)
July 9-10 VK3 GippsTech 2016 Churchill (email@example.com)
Sep 23-25 VK4 Central Highlands Amateur Radio Club AGM weekend
Lake Maraboon Holiday Village, near Emerald. (theTARCinc)
Sep-Oct 30-3 VK4 Cardwell Gathering Long Weekend, Beachcomber Motel(theTARCinc)
Nov 6 VK5 Adelaide Hills Amateur Radio Society HamFest 8am! (VK5KC)
Submitting news items
A reminder when supplying HamFest info we obviously can't plug commercial
traders "on air", but we at the WIA will put your supporters in this text
edition "no worries."
If you would like to submit news items for inclusion in the
VK1WIA broadcasts, please email your item in text to firstname.lastname@example.org
and don't JUST send url's links but take the time to pen YOUR contribution.
To submit audio read "how to submit items" in the weekly news page on
Remember the sooner you submit material the more the likelihood of it being
broadcast in the very next edition of WIA National News. Each item will only
be broadcast once, if you want a couple of mentions, please submit different
slants to keep your event 'fresh 'and always if the news room is to read your
item write in the 3rd person.
WIANews - we've reported...YOU decide.
Societies and Club News Letter Editors can EXCHANGE a feed prior to
the actual broadcast date, e-mail email@example.com
Call-backs follow the RF editions, but also for text readers you may
lodge a quick reply to let us know you read it, who knows, you might
even get a "cheerio call".
Thanks to our dedicated band of broadcast volunteers who utilize their time
and equipment in bringing you this weekly broadcast.
Who and where are they? http://www.wia.org.au/members/broadcast/where/
The purpose of "WIANews" is to rapidly provide news of interest to
active amateurs residing in Australia and the globe.
We strongly encourage membership in the Wireless Institute of Australia
and participation in the activities of local clubs. Opinions expressed in
"WIANews" are those of the writers who submit material and do not necessarily
reflect those of the rebroadcasters, nor the National WIA, but are broadcast
in the spirit in which they were submitted."
Material may be reproduced in whole or in part, in any form, a credit to
WIANews wouldn't go astray...
Who listens to radio? A weekly 'tally sheet' is sent to all rebroadcasters
and interested listeners, to get your free copy send a blank email to:-
Put the word subscribe in the title or subject field
How do I join this National News List? (subscribe for an automatic weekly feed.)
Email to firstname.lastname@example.org
from the email account that you wish the emails to go to.
How do I leave this National News List? (unsubscribe your weekly feed)
Open mail program which sends mail from the address you want to unsubscribe.
Send mail to the list unsubscribe address email@example.com
You will be sent a confirmation mail and must follow the instructions given
in that mail to complete the unsubscription.
Once your unsubscription has been processed, you will probably
receive another message confirming your unsubscription from the list,
and at that point you should stop receiving messages.
National News compiled by VK4BB on behalf of the National WIA.
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Fear of mainland China cultural influences political claptrap
It's not just a one-way street, as Taiwanese singers and soap operas have been popular for decades across the strait
A talent show for singers produced by mainland-based Hunan Satellite Television recently caused a sensation on both sides of the Taiwan Strait.
I Am a Singer was so popular that several Taiwanese cable news channels devoted most, if not all, of their air time - originally meant for newscasts - to broadcasting the show's finale on April 12.
That same night, it also became the big topic of talk shows on several other news channels, with hosts and guests discussing at length its upmarket stage design and concert-like presentation, which made other talent shows look amateurish.
The next day, several daily newspapers ran banner headlines about the result of the contest, which featured four well-known professional singers from Taiwan and three mainland acts, with the crown finally going to mainland pop duet Yu Quan.
The prominent coverage of the mainland competition sparked harsh criticism from the island's pro-independence camp, which accused the cable news channels of violating Taiwan's broadcasting law by airing an entertainment programme instead of news.
Democratic Progressive Party chairman Su Tseng-chang said such prominent coverage would indirectly help the mainland boost its cultural influence in Taiwan. "Previously China used business to besiege the government … now it uses cultural influence to penetrate the island, the families and the brains of Taiwanese," Su said.
He also warned the government of mainland-friendly Taiwanese President Ma Ying-jeou of the mainland's growing cultural penetration of Taiwan, saying that, sooner or later, Taiwanese would be wooed away by the mainland if the Ma government took no action to prevent it.
Su said some Taiwanese news media were serving as mainland mouthpieces, promoting, out of proportion, certain mainland programmes to help brainwash Taiwanese families, bad-mouth Taiwan and glorify the mainland.
"What Hong Kong has become today will be repeated in Taiwan tomorrow," he said referring to perceptions that the mainland is exerting more propaganda and cultural influence on Hong Kong.
But Su should realise that cultural influences are never a one-way street.
Taiwan's cultural influence on the mainland dates back to the 1980s, when mainlanders privately listened to the sweet songs of Teresa Teng. Back then, Teng was so popular she was even dubbed "Little Teng" - a reference comparing her influence to that of then mainland leader Deng Xiaoping. Teng is the Taiwanese spelling of Deng.
Many Taiwanese soap operas, including Huan Zhu Ge Ge (Princess Pearl) by popular novelist and TV producer Chiung Yao, were repeatedly broadcast on the mainland in the 1990s, leading to the mainland's own production of TV dramas with similar themes.
Su fears that cultural influences could lead to reunification, but if this was true, the mainland would have fallen into Taiwanese hands long ago.
Four of the seven finalists on I Am a Singer were from Taiwan, but the Taiwanese influence did not stop there. Many of the songs performed during the contests were either composed or originally sung by Taiwanese singers and even the song performed by the winners originated in Taiwan.
Taiwanese people were interested in the show not only because it was elaborately produced, but also because it was full of Taiwanese elements.
As the leader of the island's main opposition party, Su should be able to look at things in a fair and optimistic way, instead of resorting to fiery rhetoric when commenting about anything to do with the mainland. Such talk won't help Su or his party win back power they last held in 2008.
Taiwan used to be known as the "kingdom of entertainment" among the Chinese diaspora in Asia, but that glory has faded in the past five years or so due to inadequate production budgets and an outflow of talent.
I Am a Singer thus serves as a warning to Taiwan - not politically, but culturally.
As Taiwan's Culture Minister Lung Ying-tai says: "We need to cherish our creativity and do our utmost to preserve the source of our ingenuity."
The government should pay more attention to developing creative and cultural industries, including pop music.
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Three members of Ratt’s classic lineup reunited Saturday, February 11, to play their first official show.
Singer Stephen Pearcy, guitarist Warren DeMartini and bassist Juan Croucier performed at Treasure Island in Welch, Minnesota.
They were joined by former Quiet Riot guitarist Carlos Cavazo, who played on Ratt’s last studio album, 2010’s Infestation, and drummer Jimmy DeGrasso, who previously played with Megadeth, among other groups.
Use of the name Ratt has been controversial and messy. Former Ratt drummer Bobby Blotzer has been leading his own version of the group since fall 2015. In October of that year, Blotzer sued Croucier for trademark infringement after the bassist launched his own lineup, dubbed Ratt’s Juan Croucier. Blotzer charged that ownership interest in the Ratt name was held by WBS, Inc., which he formed with Pearcy.
Last November, a California judge ruled against Blotzer, saying the name and brand was still owned by the band members who were part of the original Ratt partnership
Since then, DeMartini, Croucier and Pearcy have expelled Blotzer from the partnership and the drummer must now refer to himself as a “former member of RATT.”
Anyway, enjoy these videos for “Back for More” and “Round and Round.”
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BENEFITS OF LANDSCAPE LIGHTING
Expanding Nighttime Living Space
When it comes to lighting outdoor spaces, most tend to think of simply illuminating the exterior of a structure or property. One of the most underestimated aspects of landscape lighting is that it can actually extend living space physically as well as visually.
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I live in a tiny village in Norfolk so I have a 2 3/4 hour commute. I'm up at 5am, and get into the office on Wellbeck Street just before 9am.
My days are varied - I could be signing off our latest footwear collection or meeting with our private equity investors, so my signature dress style is always on the edge of smart. For lunch, I'll go to Cecconi's in Mayfair. It has a fairly efficient service so you're not there for hours. I usually have the aubergine parmigiana as I'm a vegetarian.
I tend to wear Hobbs most of the time and I'm fortunate to have lots of access to clothes. I've probably got 250 pairs of shoes and 50 handbags. When I buy a brand other than Hobbs, I'll either choose Mulberry or Alexander McQueen.
My weekends are anything but glamorous. When my partner and I moved to Norfolk almost three years ago, we took on a house that needed lots of work. The house is almost done, but I spend most of my time working my way through seven acres of gardens. I'm up as soon as it's light and I'll come in when it's dark.
My favourite room is my boudoir, which is pink, black and silver. I like bright colours and I drive an Audi A4 convertible, which I customised in purple, my favourite colour.
Hair's not a big deal for me. If I'm in town, I'll go to Gielly Green in Marylebone. I don't really have a skincare routine, but Everlynn is a must to brighten things up.
I have three cats, and each year they appear in a product range. Roly features this season, Maddy had her own sock and glove collection last year, and Lexi has got one coming up in spring/summer.
Nicky Dulieu has a seven-acre garden in Norfolk
I go away for work a lot, especially in the past few years as we try to expand abroad. The best hotel I stayed in this year was the Langham in Shanghai. I've stayed in a few of them, but this was absolutely stunning. Every luxury was catered for - even down to a beautiful pink chocolate shoe in my room on arrival.
I prefer flying with Virgin if I'm going long-haul and I like to read something fun - perhaps something by James Patterson. I don't have a Kindle - I like turning the pages - but I do use an iPad for email.
I love visiting our shoe factory, which is in Porto San Giorgio, Italy. I usually go on holiday to Antigua in February. It's just after the end of our financial year so a good time to recharge. It's their winter but there's virtually no rain, and it's a lovely heat.
I go to a lot of industry events, whether they're retail-focused or ones hosted by private equity firms. When I do, I'll stay in London rather than commute back to Norfolk. The one I attend most is the Drapers Club, where people from the retail industry get together every month or so.
Retail's an amazing industry for women, but it's something people don't generally consider as a career. So I am on the advisory board to the Specsavers/Everywoman retail ambassador programme, where we appoint women mentors to new people coming into the industry.
Hobbs supports the Fashion & Textiles Children's Trust. Last year we raised £20,000 in a month from events that included putting our chairman in the stocks.
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Mayer Hawthorne grew up in Ann Arbor, Michigan, just outside of Detroit, and vividly remembers, as a child, driving with his father and tuning the car radio in to the rich soul and jazz history the region provided. “Most of the best music ever made came out of Detroit,” claims the singer, producer, and multi-instrumentalist, who counts Isaac Hayes, Leroy Hutson, Mike Terry, and Barry White among his influences, but draws the most inspiration from the music of Smokey Robinson, Curtis Mayfield, and the legendary songwriting and production trio of Lamont Dozier, Brian Holland, and Eddie Holland Jr.
The “retro” tag is added to almost any contemporary work that sounds like it was originally recorded between 1966 and 1974, and Hawthorne, among the newest contributors to the genre, is aware of how trends come and go. After being introduced to Stones Throw label head Peanut Butter Wolf by mutual friend Noelle Scaggs of the Rebirth, even his current boss was skeptical. “He showed me two songs and I didn’t understand what I was listening to,” Wolf recalls. “I asked him if they were old songs that he did re-edits of – I couldn’t believe they were new songs and that he played all the instruments.”
And after meeting in person, it was even harder for Wolf to believe that Hawthorne was also the lead vocalist. Few expect such heartfelt sentiment to come from a 29-year-old white kid from Ann Arbor, but he has caught the ear of his family at Stones Throw, as well as BBC Radio 1 host Gilles Peterson and producer/DJ Mark Ronson. Expectations are high for the admitted vinyl junkie who never planned on taking his crooning public. Hawthorne’s hanging-by-a-string falsetto and breakbeat production on his first recorded effort, the tender “Just Ain’t Gonna Work Out,” are simultaneously Smokey and J Dilla – equal parts “The Tracks of My Tears” and “Fall in Love.” “It’s soul,” he explains, “But it’s new.”
Hawthorne has produced and played instruments for much of his life, but never intended to become a singer. He isn’t formally trained, and never sang in the church choir or in any of the bands he was in before founding the County (formerly the County Commissioners). But here he is, new school soul sensation, who has taken the Motown assembly-line production model and eliminated nearly every element but himself and a few hired hands. “I think Mayer is the only artist in the history of the label that I’ve signed after hearing only two songs,” says Peanut Butter Wolf. “Sometimes, you just know it’s the right thing to do.”
And for those willing to believe anything is possible, be grateful to have Mayer Hawthorne on the scene. It’s not just throwback music anymore – this revival is all about progression.
— Bio by Ronnie Reese.
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I decided to wait for the inevitable chaotic celebrations and denunciations to die down a bit, so I left the TV on "Dirty Jobs" or "Star Trek" or whatever else wouldn't have non-stop news coverage from any side of the ideological divide.
I think that I have been very consistently small-"L" libertarian in my views concerning most social issues. I believe that the federal government needs to protect the country's borders and mobilize our military to ensure our country is well-protected. I believe that maintaining some awesome national parks is within their purview. And I believe they should maintain the interstate highway system effectively and efficiently. I think that a centralized FBI that coordinates law-enforcement issues and helps states share information about crimes and evidence is necessary. I believe they should make sure that no state infringes on an individual's right to own and/or carry arms. Other than that, I think they need to get off my lawn (meaning, they need to get out of our lives and our business).
The federal government should have ZERO involvement in education. At the MOST, a state should be able to decide for itself if it wishes to provide public education and how that should be administered... but even then, it should be a buffet rather than a force-feed. Offer the education. Anyone who wants it can come get it. Anyone who doesn't? They can live with the consequences. Colleges and universities should receive ZERO federal funds, and they should be able to determine for themselves how they accept students... state-funded colleges adhere to their state's requirements. If you don't meet the requirements, you study harder until you pass their test. You don't get to pitch a fit and make them change their standards. The onus is on YOU, the individual, to achieve to the level of your choosing.
The federal government should have ZERO involvement in personal relationships of any kind. This means marriage, civil unions, or otherwise. It is none of the federal government's business who you love, choose to live with, etc. It is also none of the federal government's business who you choose to sell or buy from, where you choose to live (or who you choose to rent your property to), or what happens to you if you have a hurricane or a wildfire or tornado. People who need outside help should either rely on themselves or rely on their neighbors or their family. Period. If Chuck and Steve want to go to Metropolitan Church and get married, that's between them and Metropolitan Church. It's none of my business. If Fellowship Church believes that same-sex relationships are not permitted in their belief system, that's their right. And if Joe the Baker doesn't want to make a cake for someone, it shouldn't matter WHY. He has a right to choose who he does business with. If it makes enough people dislike him, he will lose business and suffer the consequences.
I am, therefore, perpetually disgusted that nine black-robed individuals in Washington, DC continue to have so much sway over my personal life. ObamaCare is an affront to me. Federal involvement in personal relationships is an affront to me. But I am, apparently, in the minority these days. [shrug]
EDIT: I believe that Justice Antonin Scalia, in his written dissent, agrees with me:
I write separately to call attention to this Court’s threat to American democracy.
The substance of today’s decree is not of immense personal importance to me. The law can recognize as marriage whatever sexual attachments and living arrangements it wishes, and can accord them favorable civil consequences, from tax treatment to rights of inheritance.
Those civil consequences—and the public approval that conferring the name of marriage evidences—can perhaps have adverse social effects, but no more adverse than the effects of many other controversial laws. So it is not of special importance to me what the law says about marriage. It is of overwhelming importance, however, who it is that rules me.
Today’s decree says that my Ruler, and the Ruler of 320 million Americans coast-to-coast, is a majority of the nine lawyers on the Supreme Court. The opinion in these cases is the furthest extension in fact—and the furthest extension one can even imagine—of the Court’s claimed power to create “liberties” that the Constitution and its Amendments neglect to mention.
This practice of constitutional revision by an unelected committee of nine, always accompanied (as it is today) by extravagant praise of liberty, robs the People of the most important liberty they asserted in the Declaration of Independence and won in the Revolution of 1776: the freedom to govern themselves.
(I added the bold because THIS.)
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Date of Birth:
26 April 1916
Helen Burgess played in 1 movies in the Biography, History, Romance, War, Western genres.
Helen Burgess got succeed with average imdb rating 6.9.
Helen's role as Louisa Cody in Paramount Pictures The Plainsman (1936) was played eight years later by Maureen O'Hara in yet another biography of 'Buffalo Bill Cody', this time at Twentieth Century-Fox, entitled Buffalo Bill (1944) starring Joel McCrea.
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In today’s knowledge-based economy, much discussion centres around the importance of clustering. For example, in financial services, cities like New York, London and Toronto have all benefited at the expense of smaller rivals (eg. Philadelphia, Paris and Montreal or Vancouver). Likewise, as entrepreneurial technology startups have spread around the world, the Silicon Valley remains a magnet and model for that magic blend of people, ideas and capital aspiring to create the next Microsoft or Google. Furthermore, in spite of the world-flattening ascendency of information technology over the last decade, in some ways, the forces of such clustering seems to have increased.
Being domiciled in Canada, and having built transatlantic technology companies over the years, led me to ponder Chris Anderson‘s recent endorsement of distributed workface in which he “builds companies that are distributed because that’s where the best people are.”
So, what’s the stronger force: clustering or distributed teams? First, let’s dig a bit into history so we can follow this trend.
The 1980’s: Selling Software in a Pre-web World
In the late 1980’s, an otherwise bright, young MBA student advised MKS to conquer local markets (ie. Waterloo Region) before going national and only then to export markets. While this may have made sense in traditional industries, we had the good sense to ignore this faulty gem of wisdom. Instead, reckoning that a dollar spent marketing in the US would reach about 10 times the audience as one dollar spent in Canada, we rejected this advice and focused from day one on selling our first product (MKS Toolkit) into the US market. To provide some context to modern readers, in these pre-web times software companies put ads in the back of magazines with dealers with geeky names like Programmer’s Shop and Programmer’s Paradise, with a several month cycle from ad spend to results. It’s easy to forget that, in those days, software companies had a “manufacturing” group which duplicated diskettes and shrink-wrapped them in boxes with physical manuals. Our main tactic to overcome geography was to use a North America-wide toll free 800 number to mask our country of origin, at least for first customer contact.
In my case, it helped that I had my first software startup experience in the US while building Coherent. This gave me direct operating experience in the Silicon Valley from the beginning. While importing that model of company development back to Waterloo probably wasn’t a 100% fit, it did serve to shape our biases in company structure to a very large degree.
The 1990’s: The Israeli Model
As the 1990’s unfolded, better IT systems, lower cost telephony and the emergence of the internet, web (and its precursors such as AOL), created an environment that was ideal for what I call the “Israeli Model” of technology company formation. In this model, R&D and “back office” functions resided in Israel, while much of the sales, marketing and business development (ie. the storefront of the company) was in the US – typically in the Silicon Valley. Companies like Aladdin, Checkpoint Software and Mercury Interactive all are good examples from the 1990’s.
Why did this model make sense? Israel is a small country with a tiny home market, having a population of just over 7 million. At the same time, it is a rich country (22nd in GDP per capita) with extremely high educational standards and a military establishment that was pushing the boundaries of research into many IT-related disciplines. Thus, Israel was an ideal cluster of brainpower and ideas to create new technology startups. However, the market was elsewhere. Between Tel Aviv and San Francisco there is an inconvenient, and inescapable, 10 hour timezone difference and up to 20 hours of flying time. To help overcome this a bi-modal company structure evolved, often with half of the staff (the back end) in Israel and the other half (the front end) in the USA. It’s a time tested model that has proven remarkably resilient.
As a result, despite its apparent disadvantageous geographic location, today Israel is second only to America in the number of NASDAQ-listed companies, and the Economist says that “the country attracts twice the number of venture-capital (VC) investments as the whole of Europe”.
It may seem odd, given how close Canada is to the US, to suggest that the same model made sense for Canadian companies as well. However, especially in the 1990’s, these key business drivers were essential to MKS or any other Canadian technology company with global aspirations:
- corporate image: many Americans like to buy local, so having a strong (front end) presence in the US will definitely improve both the sales, and even investment and valuation, prospects of the company.
- senior talent: sales and marketing executives with expertise in the software industry were effectively nonexistent in Canada. MKS source both its VP Sales and VP Marketing from the US. It was a great choice that allowed us to access top talent from major competitors. Furthermore, these executives provided mentorship, by acting as role models for the Canadian-based employees.
This was a virtuous circle, in which better US image helped to increase company value, attract ever better talent and ultimately should provide long term exit options.
Why not split the R&D organization as well? Notwithstanding our adoption of the Israeli Model, MKS resisted moving to multiple development locations until the very late 1990’s. Ironically, being a company that sells software to manage multi-site development, the state of the art in telecommunications and software adoption was still too primitive in those days and face to face communications continued to be critical. However, as the internet and bandwidth continued to develop and once MKS embarked on a series of acquisitions across the US, we did invest heavily in the new, IP-based room conferencing systems to knit geographically dispersed teams. It remains clear that until very recently, a single location for development has been preferable, particularly in the formative, early stages of product innovation.
Best Practices Today
Today, we live in a business world that routinely accepts offshoring, virtualized management, distributed teams, etc. Tools like Basecamp, Enterprise Wikis, iotum‘s rich conferencing, and even instant messaging for real time back channel, all make distributed innovation sessions (aka meetings) much more practical. What is most interesting is the fact that video plays only a very small part in all of this.
After years of evolving startup playbooks, we may be finding the right balance between the more traditional “Israeli Model” and the fully decentralized team as espoused by Chris Anderson. At Coreworx (Software Innovation), we moved the company to Waterloo largely to gain synergies, at a critical early stage, in what was then a 20 person team. So, there are clearly some benefits that remain from people interacting face to face and always will be. The most creative and innovative processes may well work best only when conducted in person. Further more, with the rise of mobile nomadism, less and less work seems to be conducted in the traditional office setting.
That being said, each year we seem to be able to achieve more by ignoring geography and building around the best talent. Conversely, I have a feeling that the convivial, chalkboard-centric environment at Waterloo’s Perimeter Institute may well be crucial to the breakthroughs in fundamental physics that institution will undoubtedly generate. What is your take on the necessity of clustering talent?
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Gotham in Kitchener: Waterloo Area Arts Truly Striving for World Stature
Last weekend, I attended Asphalt Jungle Shorts IV, a truly innovative and engaging theatre experience — one that you definitely shouldn’t miss. And, even better, AJS is performed right here in Waterloo Region. Downtown Kitchener, having weathered a down cycle and now in a major resurgence, has evolved an urban, hip, almost Manhattanesque kind of feel.
Multitalented Artistic Director Paddy Gillard-Bentley‘s innovative use of site specific theatre builds on our unique urban environment in bold new ways. In her previous three installments, she allowed us to experience drama in such real world settings as a parking garage, a bar, City Hall, a store window, back alley, small parks and even a book store. Without giving too much away, I can say that Paddy has pulled out all the stops and presented a play in the most unlikely and crazy place I’ve ever seen. I’m sworn to secrecy, so you will have to attend to find out where.
Couple the intrigue of great locations with a globally selected talent pool and you’ll start to see what the AJS magic is all about. Although primarily directed and acted by best of the best from our local theatre scene, the plays are truly a reflection of the diversity of cyberspace, coming from Australia, Ireland, Israel, Mexico, Russia, United Kingdom (London), United States (Arkansas, California, Georgia, New York, Oregon, Washington,) and of course a few from closer to home in Canada. As the audience navigates through 13 plays in multiple locations, many boundaries are blurred. Is that a homeless person or and actor? Is the woman next to me an audience member or an actor? Is that a regular store patron, or …?
AJS rounds out other regional, multi-site arts events like the Open Ears Festival and CAFKA which, in turn, nicely complements a burgeoning conventional arts scene, which tend to reside inside buildings like galleries, theatres, concert halls and museums. Collectively, these three festivals have significantly enriched our Third Place. The Waterloo area is renowned globally as an innovative community with several world class universities, a top technology cluster and newer world class think tanks such as Perimeter Institute and CIGI. It’s also pretty clear to me that, as our innovation capacity grows, so must the artistic capital grow hand in hand. Asphalt Jungle Shorts is a true gem in this growing artistic footprint for our region.
A point of disclosure, I’m a founding Board Member of Flush Ink Performing Arts which will propel Artistic Director Paddy Gillard’s already considerable achievements into a great new “Fringe Festival” called “Unhinged” and, in which should be no surprise, builds on her innovative delivery of site specific theatre. Like technology startups, the arts thrives and survives only on investment. I have been a sponsor of these activities from the beginning, both personally, and through Verdexus. I’m convinced that when you are initiated into AJS, you will want to be as well.
But, you’d better hurry as only four days of the run remain – 28, 29, 30 & 31 May, 2008. Reserve quickly at firstname.lastname@example.org or 1(519) 957 2228. More details at the Flush Ink Performing Arts website.
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Thankfully, by the time Dundalk came along I'd managed to get rid of it and I'm now fully focused on picking some Saturday winners.
12.10 Skipthescales – Saw out three miles on soft ground in gritty fashion last time out and conditions are likely to be similarly tough here.
Philip Kirby's six-year-old drew well clear with the runner-up that day and a 6lb rise is certainly fair, particularly considering that was only his first start over fences.
There should be more to come now he's had a taste of the larger obstacles and he can strike for his in-form trainer/jockey combination.
12.25 Whatswrongwithyou – Nicky Henderson has wasted no time in sending his smart hurdler over fences and that's a tip in itself.
The seven-year-old is a strong traveller who has bags of class and he should be too good for these rivals, for all that three of them are rated within 1lb of each other.
He gets a hefty amount of weight from Raise A Spark, so in theory all he's got to beat is Brelan D'As, a horse that struggles to get his head in front.
Henderson's talented sort should win this before going on to bigger things.
GOLDEN OPPORTUNITY Three budding jockeys from Brixton experience a real racing life
2.50 Redicean – Alan King has clearly got an all-weather campaign in mind for his four-year-old rather than sticking to hurdles – and it could pay off.
He beat a progressive type at Wolverhampton last time out and gets in here off bottom weight against a host of out-of-form horses.
We know he's improved in general following his brilliant season over the sticks last year and there should be more to come in middle-distance Flat contests.
Bully's Saturday Bankers
12.10 Newcastle – Skipthescales
12.25 Haydock – Whatswrongwithyou
1.15 Ascot – Kildisart
2.50 Lingfield – Redicean
1.15 Kildisart – Only just failed to catch a classy sort at the track last time out and that's decent form in the context of this race.
He finished ahead of Azzerti who went on to win at the course on Friday, and off bottom-weight he could have too much toe for his rivals.
Activial finished clear at Haydock but form there can often be taken with a pinch of salt, while his other big rival Dolos looks fairly exposed now.
Daryl Jacob has been firing in the winners for these owners recently and the combination can do the business once again.
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Monthly Archives: March 2015
One of the prettiest cities I have been to is York. Sadly I didn’t take any photos or I would share them here. It’s somewhere I would love to go back to.
I read about York a lot when I was studying Vikings at university. One of the things that had really inspired me to study Vikings was my visit to Jorvik. It’s definitely somewhere that I would recommend visiting if you are in York. I don’t want to spoil it for anyone who hasn’t been there before but the beginning section is interesting (for those who have been, you’ll know it’s nothing to be sniffed at).
York is so pretty, but I didn’t even get to the Minster to look at it. I really need to go back and explore more.
Moving forward from Vikings, I have been reading a lot of historical fiction on The War of the Roses and Richard of York. I think I need to do some actual historical reading on the topic as it is a fascinating period in history.
So today the blog is short and rubbish but I had an interview and was travelling today and have two minutes to submit this…
As you may have guessed, trying to find another word beginning with X that was different to my last #blogging4charity was always going to be a challenge. And so I have decided to go with Xenarthran!
Xenarthran – an ancient lineage of mammals comprising the armadillos (order Cingulata) and the sloths and anteaters (order Pilosa). The namesake feature shared by all members of Xenarthra is seen in the lower backbone. The lumbar vertebrae are “xenarthrous”; that is, they have extra contacts (joints, or arthroses) that function to strengthen the lower back and hips. This aids use of the forelegs in activities not associated with locomotion, such as digging-the primary method used by anteaters and armadillos to obtain food.
One thing I would really like to do is to write a book. I have an idea of what I want to write about and I have now began some work on it. It’s a fantasy book that I started writing notes on while I was in my final year at university. I don’t want to give anything away though so I won’t give any plot ideas away.
I have begun working on the foundations and background so that I have a framework to work to. I am currently putting together the genealogies of the main families involved. From there I am making a timeline of their main family events such as birth, deaths and marriages. Once I have all the main families plotted out into a timeline then I plan on working on how to build the story around them. Read the rest of this entry
Being unemployed has got me to thinking about the different vocations I have aspired to at various points in my life. One of the first dreams I had was to be an astronaut. I remember being fascinated by space and knowing all the planet in the solar system. It’s why I got so excited by the solar eclipse last week. I love watching Stargazing Live and love trying to remember the different constellations I have learnt over the years. Read the rest of this entry
First of all a massive thank you to everyone who took part in yesterday’s #DDChat on Twitter discussing all things dyslexia. It was the best one yet, I couldn’t keep up fast enough with the fantastic discussions!
We decided last night that #DDChat will now be changing from a monthly chat to a weekly chat taking place every Thursday from 8-10pm GMT with the format of an hour of questions followed by an open floor for discussion.
If you have any topics you would like us to discuss, then please go to the #DDChat tab at the top of the page and fill in the form.
I hope to see you all next Thursday on Twitter!
Sorry folks I am skipping today as I have been feeling very unwell with a headache most of today that has now turned into sickness. I will make sure I make up for the missing blog today so there are the full 31, but I am genuinely feeling very unwell.
I think the greatest thing that I’ve ever done is to go back to university. I may have been older than a lot of my friends I made, but I think that it was the perfect timing for me to go back.
Being at university wasn’t just an education in the terms of academia, I learnt a lot about myself too. I learnt how to live with other people (even if it wasn’t always a positive experience), I learnt how to socialise (with and without an alcoholic drinks as I didn’t drink until my final year of university), I learnt how to budget money, I learnt how to cook for myself and I learnt more about who I was as a person. Read the rest of this entry
There have been some brilliant questions put forward for this month’s #DDChat. The Twitter chat will take place tomorrow at 8-10pm GMT (that’s UK time). For those in North America, please double-check the times as we have not had our daylight savings yet (I missed a chat today because I was an hour out).
As always, the chat is all to do with dyslexia and you can get involved using the hashtag #DDChat. The first hour consists of the questions below and the second hour is an open floor to either continue discussion from the questions or to discuss anything dyslexia related. Read the rest of this entry
The Twitter chat dedicated to 2 hours of dyslexia discussion returns this Thursday 8-10pm GMT (UK time) using the hashtag #DDChat. If you have any topics you would like to have discussed, then head to https://thedyslexicstudent.wordpress.com/ddchat/. You only have until tomorrow to submit your topic suggestions as the questions will be posted online tomorrow, so don’t delay!
The first hour is questions, the second is an open floor. Make sure you pop it into your diary now!
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By: Crystal Garnett
If you are like me, the time you get to set aside to write is precious and you want it to count. Very few of us have the luxury of being a writer full time. We have other jobs, family, friends, and responsibilities that vie for our attention. And truthfully, I wouldn’t trade those things for the world. But, it can be hard to carve out a small chunk of time to write on a regular basis. So, when I do, I want those moments to count.
Often, by the time I have a chance to sit down and write, I have so many different parts to my story that I want to get down in words. And the harsh reality is that I probably will not get it all out in the time allotted. The scenes in my head play out much quicker than my fingers can glide across the keys, and I am a pretty quick typer.
So, how do you make those times count? How do you capture the inspiration when it comes? I think there are a few simple things you can do to help maximize your writing time.
1. Find a place that is distraction free. For me, this means my most productive time is after my kids go to sleep or before they wake up. I know that when they are up, my mommy hat is going to be firmly in place and it will be hard for me to focus. I also don’t do well with a lot of noise and chaos around me. So super public places or around loud music is not a good writing place for me. However, some people work best in those environments. My husband is like this. He can throw on some heavy metal music and bust out a writing assignment no problem. In fact, I think he works better that way than in perfect silence. So, find out what your distractions are and aim to remove them as best as possible.
2. Pick a good time of day- I personally am not a morning person and my writing suffers when I try to get up too early to write. I know that my most functional and creative times are in the evening. I love the quiet of the evening and find that I write best when I can settle down with a cup of tea and a warm blanket. So, that is my ideal time to write. Others I have known say that the early morning hours are their best and they find great peace in the stillness that proceeds the day. While still others find that writing throughout the day is best for them. Whatever it is, find your best time of day and try to carve out some time then to write.
3. Make short notes- For me, this has come in really handy on those days when I have four or five different ideas bouncing around in my head, but only enough time to get one on paper. Before I start working on that one scene, I will take a few short notes about the other scenes that I know I won’t get to that day. Nothing fancy, just some short phrases that describe what I am thinking. Mostly I use these as a reminder tool. I write down just enough to jog my memory and will refer back to them later when I have more time to write.
4. Don’t worry about editing as you go- when time is tight and you have more ideas than time to write them down, leave the editing for later. Don’t stress about typos and grammatical errors at this time. Just get the ideas down. Get the story written. There will be a season for editing. In fact, this is a great thing to save for those days when the ideas just aren’t flowing and you have nothing new to add. I find that on those days, I go back and edit my previous work and often inspiration comes quickly.
5. Turn your phone onto “Do Not Disturb” mode- most phones have this option, though perhaps called a different name. You can turn it onto “Do Not Disturb” mode and silence all the random dings and chimes that can easily pull you away. I know on my phone there is the option to select certain contacts that I want to allow to contact me when this mode is set. So, I can list the most important people whose calls and texts I would not wish to miss, but still silence the random junk mail alert, the Facebook notifications, and other such less important notifications. This allows me a time of uninterrupted writing. Because, I don’t know about you, but when that ding comes on my phone telling me someone has commented on a post, I just have this immense urge to pick it up and see what that person said. Then that leads to rabbit trails and I don’t get as much work done. If your phone doesn’t have a “Do Not Disturb” mode, then consider putting it on silent and setting a time limit before you check it again. For example, check it every 15 min or so, but tell yourself you will only respond to the most necessary things. Everything else will have to wait.
These of course are just suggestions. Take them or leave them, it’s up to you. But the idea here is to make your writing a priority, if only for a short time that you have carved out of your schedule. If you are anything like me, the passion you feel for your writing will drive you crazy if it doesn’t have an outlet. So, don’t be afraid to make it an important part of your life. Carve out some time, even just 30 minutes, guilt free and dedicated to making that time the most productive it can be.
There will always be a million different things vying for your attention. Some of those things, like family and work, are worth it. Others are less important and can justifiably take a backseat to your writing. Finding the right priorities for your life will help you be the best writer you can be. So, don’t be afraid to tell those lesser things that tug at you to wait their turn, you’ve got a story to write!
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Kate Berlant is an LA based writer/performer who has performed across the US in festivals such as the New York Comedy Festival, Festival Supreme, Treasure Island, Boston Calling, and Moontower. Her performances have been commissioned by The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles and she has been described by The New York Times as a "magnetic improvisational comic" at the forefront of experimental comedy. She has been named by Time Out New York as one of New York City's "Top Three Comics to Watch" as well as one of Comedy Central's "Comics to Watch", and articles about her have been featured in The New Yorker, The Fader, Esquire, Playboy, Rookie Magazine, and the Huffington Post. Kate most recently co-wrote and starred in the Independent Spirit Award-nominated Vimeo series, “555,” directed by Andy DeYoung, Demetri Martin’s feature, “Dean,” “Little Bitches,” written and directed by Nick Kreiss, and “Happy Anniversary,” written and directed by Jared Stern. Up next, she can be seen in Boots Riley’s directorial debut, “Sorry to Bother You,” which recently premiered at Sundance to critical acclaim, as well as the Duplass Brothers’ DUCK BUTTER, alongside Alia Shawkat, Mae Whitman and Kumail Nanjiani. In the television space, Kate was featured on Netflix Presents: The Characters, Joe Swanberg’s “Easy” on Netflix, TBS’s “Search Party,” and “High Maintenance” on HBO.
John Early is a comedian and actor who wrote, created, and starred in the critically acclaimed miniseries 555 for Vimeo with frequent collaborator Kate Berlant, directed by Andrew DeYoung. He also wrote, executive produced, and starred in his own episode of Netflix's THE CHARACTERS.
John plays Elliot in the critically acclaimed TBS series SEARCH PARTY and recurred on the WET HOT AMERICAN SUMMER reboots for Netflix. Other TV credits include AT HOME WITH AMY SEDARIS, HIGH MAINTENANCE, LOVE, PORTLANDIA, 30 ROCK, BROAD CITY, DIFFICULT PEOPLE and 2 DOPE QUEENS. He has also lent his voice to BOB'S BURGERS on Fox and ANIMALS on HBO.
John recently wrapped production on LATE NIGHT with Mindy Kaling, Emma Thompson and John Lithgow, as well as GOOD POSTURE with Emily Mortimer. He can be seen in the features THE DISASTER ARTIST opposite Sharon Stone, BEATRIZ AT DINNER, OTHER PEOPLE, NEIGHBORS 2, FUN MOM DINNER and FORT TILDEN.
While in New York, he was an Artist in Residence and Comedy Curator at Ars Nova, where he hosted the variety show Showgasm. He performed his solo show Literally Me (4 time New York Times Critics' Pick) to sold out crowds at Joe's Pub and The Bell House, and co-hosted a weekly stand up show at Cake Shop.
John currently hosts a monthly variety show in Los Angeles at The Satellite. He has performed stand up at various comedy festivals including Montreal’s Just For Laughs, Bonnaroo, South by Southwest, Pemberton, Treasure Island, Outside Lands, Riot LA, and Festival Supreme.
John was also named one of Variety’s Top Ten Comics to Watch in 2017. He was born in Nashville, Tennessee and is a graduate of the Atlantic Acting School at Tisch School of the Arts NYU.
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Saint Michael, Saint Gabriel, and Saint Raphael
Readings - Introduction - Excerpts from Directory of Popular Piety - Prayers - Popes & Prayer to St Michael - San Miguel - Family Activities - Sermon of Pope Saint Gregory - To St. Michael in Time of Peace, Gilbert K. Chesterton -- The Church and the Holy Angels(Michaelmas 2007 Issue) -- Angels and the Liturgy of the Holy Eucharist -- by Father Ben Reese (Adoremus site) -- Order Prayer Cards
Now war arose in heaven, Michael and his angels fighting against the dragon; and the dragon and his angels fought, but they were defeated and there was no longer any place for them in heaven. And the great dragon was thrown down, that ancient serpent who is called the Devil and Satan, the deceiver of the whole world -- he was thrown down to the earth, and his angels were thrown down with him.
-- Revelation 12:7-9 [RSV]
O God, who dispose in marvelous order
ministries both angelic and human,
that our life on earth may be defended
by those who watch over us
as they minister perpetually to you in heaven.
Through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son,
who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit,
one God, for ever and ever. +Amen.
First Reading: Daniel 7:9-10, 13-14
As I looked, thrones were placed and one that was ancient of days took his seat; his raiment was white as snow, and the hair of his head like pure wool; his throne was fiery flames, its wheels were burning fire. A stream of fire issued and came forth from before him; a thousand thousands served him, and ten thousand times ten thousand stood before him; the court sat in judgment, and the books were opened.
I saw in the night visions, and behold, with the clouds of heaven there came one like a son of man, and he came to the Ancient of Days and was presented before him. And to him was given dominion and glory and kingdom, that all peoples, nations, and languages should serve him; his dominion is an everlasting dominion, which shall not pass away, and his kingdom one that shall not be destroyed.
Or: Revelation 12:7-12ab
Now war arose in heaven, Michael and his angels fighting against the dragon; and the dragon and his angels fought, but they were defeated and there was no longer any place for them in heaven. And the great dragon was thrown down, that ancient serpent, who is called the Devil and Satan, the deceiver of the whole world--he was thrown down to the earth, and his angels were thrown down with him. And I heard a loud voice in heaven, saying, "Now the salvation and the power and the kingdom of our God and the authority of his Christ have come, for the accuser of our brethren has been thrown down, who accuses them day and night before our God. And they have conquered him by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony, for they loved not their lives even unto death. Rejoice then, O heaven and you that dwell therein!
Gospel Reading: John 1:47-51
Jesus saw Nathana-el coming to him, and said of him, "Behold, an Israelite indeed, in whom is no guile!" Nathana-el said to him, "How do you know me?" Jesus answered him, "Before Philip called you, when you were under the fig tree, I saw you." Nathana-el answered him, "Rabbi, you are the Son of God! You are the King of Israel!" Jesus answered him, "Because I said to you, I saw you under the fig tree, do you believe? You shall see greater things than these." And he said to him, "Truly, truly, I say to you, you will see heaven opened, and the angels of God ascending and descending upon the Son of man."
Angels are not like the other saints on the Church's calendar who were all human beings. Angels are celestial beings created on a higher order than man. They are completely spiritual beings; they have intelligence and will; they are personal and immortal creatures. Angels are the servants and messengers of God -- in fact, this is what the word "angel" means. Several different kinds (or ranks) of angels are mentioned in the Bible: angels, archangels, cherubim, seraphim, thrones, choirs, dominions, principalities, and powers.
The Catechism of the Catholic Church (328-336) summarizes the Church's teaching on the nature and office of angels in the hierarchy of God's creation.
The feast of Saint Michael, one of the seven archangels of Scripture, originated in the sixth century. It was known, in English, as "Michaelmas", and this name lives on in a wildflower, a white aster with many small star-like flowers, that blooms in late September, known as the Michaelmas daisy.
Recently two other of the archangels named in scripture, Gabriel and Raphael, are also honored on this day.
Michael the archangel, whose name in Hebrew means "Who is like God?", is revered as the leader of the angelic army who will conquer Satan and his armies of demons, and is considered the defender of the Church. Michael is more often represented in art thank any other angelic being. He is often shown wearing armor, in the act of slaying the great Dragon of the Apocalypse [Satan] in Revelation 12:7-9.
The archangel Gabriel, whose name in Hebrew means "Strength of God", announced the birth of John the Baptist to Zachariah, and soon after, announced to Mary that she was to become the mother of Our Lord. His address to her, "Hail, full of grace, the Lord is with thee" (the "angelic salutation") is familiar to all who say the Rosary.
The archangel Raphael, whose name means medic or ointment of God, is mentioned by name in the Old Testament book of Tobit (Tobias), whom the angel aided by healing him of blindness and guiding him on his travels.
The angels that appear in Scripture are never described as having wings. In fact, in several passages, the people who are visited by angels do not realize these messengers from On High are not ordinary men until it is revealed later.
In the Book of Revelation, winged beings who otherwise look like men are described as surrounding the throne of God. Thus, in early paintings angels are shown with wings -- sometimes very colorfully feathered. In medieval paintings, angels are often shown wearing liturgical vestments of deacons. The idea that angels wear white robes comes from the white albs worn by deacons that appear in these paintings. In some paintings, especially of the Nativity of Christ, the angels who adore the infant are clad in elaborate liturgical vestments, including embroidered copes (large capes). But the worshipping angels are never dressed as priests -- Christ alone is the High Priest. The infant Jesus in these paintings is shown with no clothing at all: he is "clothed in his own flesh".
Prayers to the Archangels and a classic child's prayer to a Guardian Angel appear below (The prayer to Saint Michael is given in English, Latin and Spanish).
Holy Angels - excerpt from the Directory on Popular Piety and the Liturgy
213. With the clear and sober language of catechesis, the Church teaches that "the existence of the spiritual, non-corporeal beings that Sacred Scripture usually calls 'angels' is a truth of faith. The witness of Scripture is as clear as the unanimity of Tradition"(280).
Tradition regards the angels as messengers of God, "potent executives of his commands, and ready at the sound of his words" (Ps 103, 20. They serve his salvific plan, and are "sent to serve those who will inherit salvation" (Hb 1, 14).
214. The faithful are well aware of the numerous interventions of angels in the New and Old Covenants. They closed the gates of the earthly paradise (cf. Gen 3,24), they saved Hagar and her child Ishmael (cf. Gen 21, 17), they stayed the hand of Abraham as he was about to sacrifice Isaac (cf. gen 22, 7), they announce prodigious births (cf. Jud 13, 3-7), they protect the footsteps of the just (cf. Ps 91, 11), they praise God unceasingly (cf. Is 6, 1-4), and they present the prayer of the Saints to God (cf. Ap 8, 34). The faithful are also aware of the angel's coming to help Elijah, an exhausted fugitive (cf. 1 Kings 19, 4-8), of Azariah and his companions in the fiery furnace (cf. Dan 3, 49-50), and are familiar with the story of Tobias in which Raphael, "one of the seven Angels who stand ever ready to enter the presence of the glory of God" (cf. Tb 12, 15), who renders many services to Tobit, his son Tobias and his wife Sarah.
The faithful are also conscious of the roles played by the Angels in the life of Jesus: the Angel Gabriel declared to Mary that she would conceive and give birth to the Son of the Most High (cf. Lk 1, 26-38), and that an Angel revealed to Joseph the supernatural origin of Mary's conception (cf. Mt 1, 18-25); the Angels appear to the shepherds in Bethlehem with the news of great joy of the Saviour's birth (cf. Lk 2, 8-24); "the Angel of the Lord" protected the infant Jesus when he was threatened by Herod (cf. Mt 2, 13-20); the Angels ministered to Jesus in the desert (cf. Mt 4, 11) and comforted him in his agony (Lk 22, 43), and to the women gathered at the tomb, they announced that he had risen (cf. Mk 16, 1-8), they appear again at the Ascension, revealing its meaning to the disciples and announcing that "Jesus ...will come back in the same way as you have seen him go" (Acts 1, 11).
The faithful will have well grasped the significance of Jesus' admonition not to despise the least of those who believe in him for "their Angels in heaven are continually in the presence of my Father in heaven" (Mt 10, 10), and the consolation of his assurance that "there is rejoicing among the Angels of God over one repentant sinner" (Lk 15, 10). The faithful also realize that "the Son of man will come in his glory with all his Angels" (mt 25, 31) to judge the living and the dead, and bring history to a close.
215. The Church, which at its outset was saved and protected by the ministry of Angels, and which constantly experiences their "mysterious and powerful assistance"(281), venerates these heavenly spirts and has recourse to their prompt intercession.
During the liturgical year, the Church celebrates the role played by the Holy Angels, in the events of salvation(282) and commemorates them on specific days: 29 September (feast of the Archangels Michael, Gabriel and Raphael), 2 October (the Guardian Angels). The Church has a votive Mass dedicated to the Holy Angels whose preface proclaims that "the glory of God is reflected in his Angels"(283). In the celebration of the sacred mysteries, the Church associates herself with the angelic hymn and proclaims the thrice holy God (cf. Isaiah 6, 3)(284) invoking their assistance so that the Eucharistic sacrifice "may be taken [to your] altar in heaven, in the presence of [...] divine majesty"(285). The office of lauds is celebrated in their presence (cf. Ps 137, 1)(286). The Church entrusts to the ministry of the Holy Angels (cf. Aps 5, 8; 8, 3) the prayers of the faithful, the contrition of penitents(287), and the protection of the innocent from the assaults of the Malign One(288). The Church implores God to send his Angels at the end of the day to protect the faithful as they sleep(289), prays that the celestial spirits come to the assistance of the faithful in their last agony(290), and in the rite of obsequies, invokes God to send his Angels to accompany the souls of just into paradise(291) and to watch over their graves.
216. Down through the centuries, the faithful have translated into various devotional exercises the teaching of the faith in relation to the ministry of Angels: the Holy Angels have been adopted as patrons of cities and corporations; great shrines in their honour have developed such as Mont-Saint-Michel in Normandy, San Michele della Chiusa in Piemonte and San Michele Gargano in Apulia, each appointed with specific feast days; hymns and devotions to the Holy Angels have also been composed.
Popular piety encompasses many forms of devotion to the Guardian Angels. St. Basil Great (+378) taught that "each and every member of the faithful has a Guardian Angel to protect, guard and guide them through life"(292). This ancient teaching was consolidated by biblical and patristic sources and lies behind many forms of piety. St. Bernard of Clarivaux (+1153) was a great master and a notable promoter of devotion to the Guardian Angels. For him, they were a proof "that heaven denies us nothing that assists us", and hence, "these celestial spirits have been placed at our sides to protect us, instruct us and to guide us"(293).
Devotion to the Holy Angels gives rise to a certain form of the Christian life which is characterized by:
- devout gratitude to God for having placed these heavenly spirits of great sanctity and dignity at the service of man;
- an attitude of devotion deriving from the knowledge of living constantly in the presence of the Holy Angels of God;- serenity and confidence in facing difficult situations, since the Lord guides and protects the faithful in the way of justice through the ministry of His Holy Angels.Among the prayers to the Guardian Angels the Angele Dei(294) is especially popular, and is often recited by families at morning and evening prayers, or at the recitation of the Angelus.
217. Popular devotion to the Holy Angels, which is legitimate and good, can, however, also give rise to possible deviations:
- when, as sometimes can happen, the faithful are taken by the idea that the world is subject to demiurgical struggles, or an incessant battle between good and evil spirits, or Angels and daemons, in which man is left at the mercy of superior forces and over which he is helpless; such cosmologies bear little relation to the true Gospel vision of the struggle to overcome the Devil, which requires moral commitment, a fundamental option for the Gospel, humility and prayer;
- when the daily events of life, which have nothing or little to do with our progressive maturing on the journey towards Christ are read schematically or simplistically, indeed childishly, so as to ascribe all setbacks to the Devil and all success to the Guardian Angels. The practice of assigning names to the Holy Angels should be discouraged, except in the cases of Gabriel, Raphael and Michael whose names are contained in Holy Scripture.
(280) CCC 328.
(281) Ibid., 336.
(282) The same is true, for example in the solemnity of Easter and in the solemnities of the Annunciation (25 march), Christmas (25 December), Ascension, the Immaculate Conception (8 December), St. Joseph (19 March), Sts. Peter and Paul (29 June), Assumption (15 August) and All Saints (1 November).
(283) MISSALE ROMANUM, Praefatio de Angelis.
(284) Cf. ibid., Prex eucharistica, Sanctus.
(285) Ibid., Prex eucharistica I, Supplices te rogamus.
(286) Cf. St. BENEDICT, Regula, 19, 5: CSEL 75, Vindobonae 1960, p. 75.
(287) Cf. RITUALE ROMANUM, Ordo Paenitentiae, Editio Typica, Typis Polyglotis Vatacanis 1974, 54.
(288) Cf. LITURGIA HORARUM, Die 2 Octobris, Ss Angelorum Custodum memoria, Ad Vesperas, Hymnus, "Custodes hominum psallimus angelos".
(289) Cf. ibid., Ad Completorium post II Vesperas Dominicae et Sollemnitatum, Oratio "Visita quaesumus".
(290) Cf. RITUALE ROMANUM, Ordo unctionis informorum eorumque patoralis curae, cit., 147.
(291) Cf. RITUALE ROMANUM, Ordo exsequiarum , Editio Typica, Typis Polyglottis Vaticanis 1969, 50.
Pope John Paul II urges revival of the Prayer to Saint Michael
The Prayer to the Archangel Michael was composed by Pope Leo XIII (d. 1903) after he had a vision of the battle between the "Woman clothed with the sun" and the great dragon who tried to devour her child at birth, in the Book of Revelation, chapter 12. In 1886, the pope decreed that this prayer be said at the end of "low" Mass (not "high", or sung Masses) thoughout the universal Church, along with the Salve Regina (Hail, Holy Queen); and the practice of the congregation praying these prayers at the end of Mass continued until aout 1970.
In 1994, during the International Year of the Family, Pope John Paul II asked all Catholics to pray this prayer daily. He warned that the fate of humanity was in great peril (in particular because of the U.N. Population Conference to be held in Cairo that year). Though he did not order that the prayer be said after Mass, he urged Catholics to pray together to overcome the forces of darkness and evil in the world.
In his Angelus message given in St. Peter's Square, Sunday, April 24 1994, shortly before the United Nations Conference in Cairo, the pope spoke of "the Woman clothed with the sun", who appeared in Saint John's apocalyptic vision, with the dragon about to devour her newborn child (Rev 12:1-4). The Holy Father said that in our time "all the accumulated threats to life" are placed before woman, and we must "address the Woman clothed with the sun" to overcome these snares. In this message he encouraged the revival of the prayer to Saint Michael:
"May prayer strengthen us for the spiritual battle of which we are told in the Letter to the Ephesians: 'Draw strength from the Lord and from His mighty power' (Ephesians 6:10). It is this same battle to which The Book of Revelation [Apocalypse] refers, recalling before our eyes the image of Saint Michael the Archangel (cf. Revelation 12:7). Pope Leo XIII certainly had a very vivid vision of this scene when, at the end of the last century, he introduced a special prayer to Saint Michael throughout the Church. Even if this prayer is no longer recited at the end of every Mass, I ask everyone to remember it and to recite it to obtain help in the battle against forces of darkness and against the spirit of this world."
(This Angelus (Regina Coeli) message in Italian is on the Vatican Web stie: http://www.vatican.va/holy_father/john_paul_ii/angelus/1994/documents/hf_jp-ii_reg_19940424_it.html
Following is the prayer to the Archangel Michael (English and Spanish), as well as prayers for the intercession of Archangels, Raphael and Gabriel.
A Prayer to Saint Michael
Saint Michael, Archangel, defend us in battle.
Be our protection against the wickedness
and snares of the Devil.
May God rebuke him, we humbly pray;
And do thou, O Prince of the Heavenly Host,
by the power of God, thrust into hell Satan and all the other evil spirits who prowl about the world
seeking the ruin of souls. Amen.
-- Pope Leo XIII
Oracion a Sancte Mìchael
Sancte MÌchael Archangele,
defende nos in proelio contra nequÌtiam et insÌdias diaboli esto presÌdium.
Imperet illi Deus, supplices deprecemur:
tuque, princeps milÌtie celestis, Satanam aliusque spÌritus malÌgnos, qui ad perditiunem animorum pervagantur in mundo, divÌna virtute, In infernum detrude. Amen.
Oración a San Miguel
San Miguel Arcángel,
Defiéndenos en la batalla;
Sé nuestra protección contra la maldad y los engaños del diablo.
Que Dios lo reprenda, es nuestra humilde oración.
Y puedas, O príncipe de los Seres Celestiales, por el poder de Dios, echar a Satanás al infierno, así como a todos los demás espíritus
que vagan por el mundo
buscando la ruina de las almas. Amen.
Sacratísimo Corazón de Jesús,
Ten piedad de nosotros.
En el nombre del Padre y del Hijo y del Espíritu Santo. Amen.
Blessed Saint Gabriel, Archangel
We beseech thee to intercede for us at the throne of divine mercy:
As thou didst announce to Mary the mystery of the Incarnation,
so through thy prayers may we receive strength of faith and
courage of spirit, and thus find favor with God and redemption through Christ Our Lord.
May we sing the praise of God our Savior with the angels and saints in heaven
forever and ever. Amen.
Blessed Saint Raphael, Archangel,
We beseech thee to help us in all our needs and trials of this life,
as thou, through the power of God, didst restore sight and give guidance to young Tobit.
We humbly seek thine aid and intercession,
that our souls may be healed,
our bodies protected from all ills,
and that through divine grace we may be made fit
to dwell in the eternal Glory of God in heaven. Amen.
Child's Prayer to Guardian Angel
[link to: Guardian Angels - October 2]
Angel of God, my guardian dear,
To whom His love commits me here,
Ever this day be at my side,
To light and guard, to rule and guide. Amen
qui custos es mei,
me, tibi commíssum pietáte supérna,
rege et gubérna.
Suggested family activities
- This feast presents an excellent opportunity to teach children about angels -- and to review the Catechism's teaching about angels. Scripture passages in the Catechism will add further to our understanding concerning these heavenly beings.
- Young children can learn to say the traditional "Guardian Angel" prayer. Older children might well memorize the Prayer to Saint Michael, and can look up passages in the Old and New Testaments that refer to the mission and office of angels.
- An angelfood cake -- so named because of its pristine whiteness and ethereal lightness -- would be a most appropriate dessert on this feast. It could be frosted with white icing. If you cover the center of the cake with a piece of cardboard before frosting the cake, it will support a small figurine of an angel. Silver dragees could be added for an even more festive look.
- Three white candles -- one for each of the Archangels whom the Church honors today -- might be placed in candleholders around the cake. The prayer for each of the Archangels (below) could be said as each candle is lighted. Older children could say the prayers and light the candles just before the meal blessing.
A Sermon of Pope Saint Gregory
From the Third Nocturn of Matins of the feast of Saint Michael the Archangel
We speak of nine orders of Angels, because we know, by the testimony of Holy Scripture, that there are the following: Angels, Archangels, Virtues, Powers, Principalities, Dominations, Thrones, Cherubim and Seraphim. It must be realized that "Angel" is the name of their office, not of their nature. For the holy Spirits of the heavenly homeland are always Spirits, but they cannot always be called Angels; they are Angels only when they are announcing something. Those who announce less important things are called Angels, and those who announce the highest things are called Archangels. And so not any Angel but the Archangel Gabriel was sent to Mary; for this ministry, it was fitting to have the highest Angel, since he was to announce the greatest news of all. These Archangels are also given special names to describe their particular virtue. For Michael means "Who is like to God?" Gabriel means "Strength of God," and Raphael "Medicine of God."
Whenever something is to be done needing great power, Michael is sent forth so that from his action and his name we may understand that no one can do what God can do. Hence that old enemy who through pride desired to be like God is shown at the end of the world, left to his own strength and about to undergo the final punishment, as destined to fight with Michael the Archangel, as John says, "There was a battle with Michael the Archangel." Similarly, Gabriel was sent to Mary; he who is called "Strength of God" came to announce Him who deigned to appear in humility to conquer the powers of the air. And Raphael is interpreted, as we said, "Medicine of God," for when he touched the eyes of Tobias to do the work of healing, he dispelled the "night of his blindness."
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CLEVELAND -- Chardon Police Chief Tim McKenna confirmed at an afternoon news conference the death of Demetrius Hewlin. He is the third teen to die in the Chardon High School shooting.
His family made the following statement:
"We are very saddened by the loss of our son and others in our Chardon community. Demetrius was a happy young man who loved life and his family and friends. We will miss him very much but we are proud that he will be able to help others through organ donation. We ask that you respect our privacy during this difficult time."
Chief McKenna also announced that one of the hospitalized students, Joy Rickers, has been released from hospital.
That leaves one teenage boy still hospitalized in the shootings.
Earlier Tuesday, authorities confirmed the death of Russell King Jr.
King's family released this statement late Tuesday:
"We would like to thank the public for their continued support. We would also like to extend our sympathy to the families of the victims of this senseless tragedy. We ask that Russell be remembered for who he was, a strong boy with a big heart. He will be missed by many. He was so full of life and we are honoring his wishes to help others by donating his organs. Please respect our privacy during this difficult time."
Daniel Parmertor died Monday hours after being shot inside Chardon High School.
The teen taken into custody in connection with the shootings, TJ Lane, was ordered held in detention during a court hearing Tuesday afternoon. The judge also imposed a gag order on the attorneys in the case.
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Linking out increases the intrinsic value of your site. Users will see you as being helpful. and non-partisan by not always favoring your own stuff. Webmasters may see your inbound link in their logs and follow them back to you. Links form that almighty powerful connection between people.
Hubs are just as important as intersections. You wants as many roads as possible to end at your site, but trails leading away won’t kill you. The idea that all of your PageRank can bleed away down wandering arteries just isn’t based in fact. Outboud links to relevant, authority sites can’t hurt you, and might help.
When you link out to a site, you make the owner of the site aware of your presence. Webmasters often follow back links to see who is linking to them. If you give the person a good reason to link back to you, if you add value to their site in the form of a great review, or praise, or a quote then they may link their sites back to yours. Build link karma, and you will be more likely to get a favor when you need one.
No one site has all the answers. If you direct people to what they need, even if it isn’t on your site, they will see that you still provide value. Time spent on your site may actually increase, especially if you make the link open in a new window. You may also be perceived as an authority simply by helping people find the answers they seek.
Consider linking to deep, academic research, as you can then be looked on as an authority by association. If you stay on the lookout for obscure academic research, the kind that isn’t often marketed, you could end up being the pipeline to that research and get extra traffic from people looking for the information.
If you are a new start-up, you may even consider linking in the early stages of your site in order to provide more content. Just make sure again that you open in a new window, so people don’t ditch your site. As you add your own content, you can remove links that lead away from your site and substitute internal links.
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Mary was born in Daysland on March 7th, 1928 to John and Elizabeth Wallis. Mary and her older brother Jack were raised in the Town of Daysland where Mary graduated from high school. After high school Mary started working at the Bank of Montreal in Daysland. In 1953, Mary married Maurice and just celebrated their 60th wedding anniversary in February. After their wedding, Mary and Maurice moved to Edmonton, where Mary continued to work at the Bank of Montreal. During their time in Edmonton, Mary and Maurice had six children, John, David, Douglas, Ross, Dean and Anne. John and David died in infancy. In 1962, Mary and Maurice went into partnership in the Corner Service, a service station, bulk fuel station and restaurant in Warburg. Mary worked many hours in the restaurant and was known for the home-baked pies and great food that she made. In 1974, Mary and Maurice moved to Camrose where she worked at Motor Vehicles and the Treasury Branch. She worked there until her retirement.
Mary loved to volunteer. She was involved with the St. Mary’s Hospital Auxiliary where she was the treasurer and worked in the Gift Shop. Mary was also an active member of the Camrose Lioness Club for many years. Mary had many friends and loved to be with them. She loved to go to exercise classes and have coffee and lunches out. Mary enjoyed trying out new recipes, sewing, quilting and knitting and took great pleasure in making things for her grandchildren, Lindsay, Warren, Michelle and Stuart.
Left to cherish her memory are her husband Maurice; her children Anne (Vince) Flynn of Camrose, Dean of Red Deer, Ross (Ron Roberts) of Toronto, Doug (Joyce) of Edmonton; four grandchildren Lindsay Flynn, Warren Berry, Michelle Flynn and Stuart Berry; and one brother, Jack Wallis of Camrose. Mary also leaves behind many friends and family.
Mary was predeceased by her parents John and Elizabeth Wallis and sister-in-law Louise Wallis.
Mary passed away on April 25th 2013 at the St. Mary’s hospital at the age of 85. Mary lived a full life filled with family, friends and love.
A funeral service was held on Thursday, May 2, 2013 at 1:00 p.m. from the Camrose United Church (4829 50 Street) with Rev. Brian Hunter officiating. Inurnment has taken place in the Daysland Cemetery.
If friends so desire, memorial contributions are gratefully accepted to St. Mary’s Hospital Palliative Care Unit.
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Despite a rash of defections the past few years, Cuba surprised many when it advanced to the second round of the World Baseball Classic. Young and old stars are combining to keep alive the island’s proud baseball tradition and take the team back to the Final Four.
But what lies ahead for Cuba, its relationship with Major League Baseball, and the future of the island’s talent development system is uncertain, all the more so in a post-Obama, post-Fidel moment. That uncertainty was growing even before the 2016 United States presidential campaign threw a political curveball with the election of Donald Trump.
This is a story we’ll be following with great interest at La Vida Baseball. While there are a lot of unanswered questions right now, we thought it made sense to provide an overview of where the game has been — and where it is headed.
A COUNTRY AND A SPORT IN FLUX
Q. So what’s the state of baseball in Cuba right now?
A. There has not been professional baseball in Cuba since 1961, when Cuban leader Fidel Castro outlawed professional sports and transformed the island’s baseball circuit into a national amateur league.
Since then, the Serie Nacional, the Cuban National League, has undergone several changes in terms of its format and schedule. Fidel’s death in November silenced the more impassioned baseball enthusiast of the Castro brothers, and perhaps the strongest advocate of maintaining the amateur Cuban baseball system.
Q. How does the current system work?
A. We’ll get to that in a second. But before we do, you need to understand how the immigration of Cubans to the U.S. has affected things up to now.
Cubans have had a privileged status among immigrants seeking entry into the U.S. since passage of the Cuban Adjustment Act in 1966. The CAA recognized Cubans as political refugees and shortened the amount of time they could become permanent residents in relation to other migrants. The act has undergone multiple revisions, with Cubans gaining residency within a year. What has remained is the Cubans’ unique status as political refugees and thus eligible for preferred entry. That is, until the normalization of U.S.-Cuba relations commenced.
Former President Obama’s move to normalize diplomatic relations with Cuba in December 2014 spurred considerable discussion about the impact it might have on all Cubanos — from those living on the island to those of Cuban descent in U.S. communities. The two sides are separated by more than just a body of water. Depending on the terms established by the two governments, normalization could give Cubans in the U.S. the opportunity to provide more economic assistance to relatives on the island. But it could also impose a more structured immigration process, reducing the number of Cubans entering the States.
Q. But it’s not like Cuba didn’t have a talent drain before, right?
A. Right. Some were already concerned about the dilution caused by the increased number of defections in recent years, as detailed in La Vida contributor Peter Bjarkman’s Cuba’s Baseball Defectors, as well as in his column about the Gurriel brothers in early March. For them, open relations that might translate into greater economic exchange — especially if the U.S. embargo sustained through the Helms-Burton Act (1996) was altered — could result in Major League Baseball directly signing Cuban players without anyone needing to defect.
Q. This reminds me of that José Abreu story.
A. Abreu recently testified at the federal trial of sports agent Bartolo Hernández in Miami that he ate pages from a Haitian passport acquired for him by an alleged smuggling ring, revealing the clandestine peculiarities of Cuban defections before normalization. Abreu needed a passport that would permit him to board a plane bound for the U.S. from Haiti in October 2013. However, once in the air, Abreu did not need to, nor would he want to, try to enter the United States with a Haitian passport because the “wet foot, dry foot” policy then in effect permitted Abreu to simply declare himself a Cuban seeking asylum once he arrived. Having a Haitian passport with an assumed name in his possession would have meant him entering the U.S. illegally (with falsified papers) and thus subject to deportation.
CUBA VS. THE U.S. VS. MLB
Q. Let’s go back to my question about how the current system works.
A. The Cuban system of talent development is entirely socialized; that is, parents do not bear any financial cost in the training and development of their children into elite athletes. Cuban athletes are identified for their potential in different sports as preteens, as young as 10 to 12 years old. Kids attend INDER schools (Instituto Nacional de Deportes, Educación Física y Recreación or the National Institute of Sport, Physical Fitness and Recreation), where they typically spend half their day in classes and the other half training.
In this system, young Cuban athletes do not give up their traditional education in the pursuit of their athletic dreams, which is quite distinct from what has evolved in the Dominican Republic. INDER-trained baseball players feed the system upward, competing for spots on national teams at various ages (under-14 and under-20) and ultimately the Cuban national team, which represents the island in worldwide competitions such as the International Baseball Federation tournaments, the Olympics and the World Baseball Classic.
Q. If that’s how it is now, how would normalization between the two countries change this?
A. Many MLB officials hope for the creation of a talent development system where they control Cuban athletes from a young age. MLB teams would like to sign Cubans as amateur free agents when they are 16 years old, much like MLB rules allow for much of Latin America. Teams would likely establish a baseball academy structure in Cuba akin to what they do in the Dominican Republic, which is a hallmark of their approach. In the D.R., after a prospect is signed, he enters a baseball academy where he receives on-field training and, equally important, nutrition per MLB standards.
Q. If MLB gets its way, it sounds like the young prospect system gets decimated.
A. Yes, young Cubans would no longer participate in the Cuban national leagues. Such a dilution of talent could accelerate the end of Cuba’s baseball circuit and even the dismantling of its talent development system. This is of particular concern, for it rings familiar with what happened over a half-century ago when MLB began signing African-American players without compensating the Negro League teams, thus prompting the collapse of the black baseball infrastructure in the U.S.
Q. What do Cubans think about this?
A. Cuban baseball officials and fans are concerned about the sheer survival of the game on the island. If the talent development system that has been in place for a half-century is dismantled because of a more direct relationship with MLB, this likely dooms a league that produced current MLB stars like José Abreu, Yoenis Céspedes, Yasiel Puig and Aroldis Chapman.
Q. What’s going to happen next?
A. The election of Donald Trump has yet to add any clarity to this situation. Coincidentally, the attention given to U.S.-Russia relations since the 2016 election and the first months of the Trump administration has once again put Cuba on a back burner, which is similar to what happened during the early years of Fidel Castro’s rule. But within the context of MLB and the possibility of an influx of a fresh and consistent source of talent, there is no bigger issue than what comes next in Cuba. Much will depend on whether the Trump administration continues what Obama started.
Similarly, we do not know how much pressure MLB commissioner Rob Manfred or his office is exerting behind the scenes to open Cuba or to work with officials of the Baseball Federation of Cuba. For now, there probably will be fewer baseball defections to the U.S, but there are likely still other baseball players who will defect to other places such as the Dominican Republic to pursue their dreams.
Featured Image: Kazuhiro Nogi / AFP / Getty Images
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ASI Data Protection Plan
ASI maintains commercially reasonable technical and organizational measures to ensure a level of security in the iMIS software product and the ASI Hosting and Cloud Services environments. Our Data Protection Plan, first created in 2015, is an integrated, organization-wide approach to managing cybersecurity risk based on the US National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) cybersecurity framework. A summary of the Data Protection Plan can be found at the link below.
Data Security and Privacy Initiative
ASI’s Senior Director of Technology and Information Security leads an active Data Security and Privacy Initiative team, comprising senior management-level representatives from Legal, IT, Human Resources, Cloud Services, Customer Support, Marketing, Consulting Services, and Product Development. The Initiative team meets monthly to monitor regulatory developments, discuss progress, and report status on tasks and workstreams assigned to accountable departments. As part of this Initiative, ASI has achieved compliance with the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standards (PCI-DSS) in ASI’s regional data centres around the world, and achieved certified compliance with the European Union-United States Privacy Shield Framework.
Annual Security and Privacy Awareness Training
All ASI employees and contractors are required to participate in annual security and privacy awareness training. The content of this training is updated periodically to address the ever-evolving threat landscape and changing data protection and privacy regulatory requirements around the world.
Data Inventory and Mapping
In 2017, ASI launched its first data mapping exercise to inventory all personal data controlled or processed by ASI. As part of this data inventory and mapping exercise, ASI conducted an information audit of each department to answer the following questions:
- What type of data is collected? (Categories of data processed)
- Who is collecting or using that data? (Identity of data controller and processor)
- When (and for how long) is that data being collected and used? (Data retention period)
- Where is that data being collected and used and where does it go? (Storage locations and internal and third-party data transfers)
- How is that data being collected and used? (Applications and programs and security measures in place)
- Why is it being collected and used? (Purposes of processing)
This data mapping exercise resulted in a corporate data map of all personal data touched by ASI staff and systems and serves as a record of personal data processing activities. It is updated regularly to reflect the realities of current business processes and workflows.
Key Compliance Actions
In conjunction with the information audit and data mapping workstream described above, ASI has undertaken several key compliance actions, including the following:
- ensuring that only data strictly necessary for our business purposes is collected and processed;
- identifying the legal basis for the processing;
- revising privacy policies and notices to make them compliant with the GDPR and other privacy laws;
- ensuring that any data processors or sub-processors know their new obligations and responsibilities and that data processing agreements contain appropriate provisions with respect to security, confidentiality and protection of personal data;
- deciding how data subjects will be able to grant consent and exercise their individual rights;
- determining effective means and methods for honoring data subject access rights; and
- verifying that appropriate security measures are in place for incident response and proper data breach notification.
ASI has also reviewed its iMIS application to identify product features that help enable organisations to meet their GDPR obligations as data controller of their constituents’ personal data.
Privacy by Design and Privacy Impact Assessments
ASI has adopted a privacy by design approach, using policies and procedures that take privacy principles into account in the initial design stages of a new project or service and throughout the processing lifecycle. In a situation where data processing for a new product or service is likely to result in high risk to individuals, ASI commits to conducting a Privacy Impact Assessment (PIA) to demonstrate compliance with the GDPR’s fundamental principles and mitigate risks to data subjects.
To demonstrate GDPR compliance, ASI enters into a written data processing agreement with all clients for whom we act as a processor under the GDPR and retains documentation regarding the processing of personal data and our Data Protection Plan (including our data breach incident response plan).
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or refrain from acting on the basis of the Content without seeking legal
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Ecuadorian Spore Syringe Kit
When buying Ecuadorian spores, be aware that they’re considered “active spores” which are for microscopy purposes only. DO NOT CONTACT US ABOUT ANYTHING REGARDING CULTIVATING OR GERMINATING ACTIVE SPORES.
Shipping is unavailable to California, Idaho, & Georgia. These 3 states strictly prohibit the possession of spores from psilocybin and psilocin producing mushroom species. Orders to these states will be refused and voided. Any payments made for orders to CA, ID, or GA will incur a $5 cancellation fee.
The provided images are for informational and educational purposes only and should only be used as a reference point. Images and spores are acquired from outside, trusted sources in a legal manner. We do not condone or participate in the cultivation of psilocybin or psilocin producing mushroom species.
When you buy Ecuadorian syringe(s), visibility is dependent on the characteristics of the spores themselves. As a result, not all spore syringes will look the same visibly. Despite any visible differences, they are still viable for microscopy research. More information on how we make our spore syringes and possible visible differences, check out our FAQ or blog post “Making Syringes”.
Ecuadorian Spore Information
Ecuador is a high altitude country surrounded by large mountain range and volcanoes. Here people discovered a variety on a mountain top in over 3,300ft (1100m) high. It is another classic P. Cubensis variety and is very durable, as proved by its discovery at such a high altitude. Furthermore, scientist know this strain to withstand very low and thin oxygen levels. This is unlike many other types of mushrooms or even organisms for that matter. This contributes to their reputation of being a very hardy variety to add to your library.
Why Buy Our Ecuadorian Spore Syringes ?
We strive to provide you with the cleanest possible products. We make the all of the Ecuadorian spore syringe solution in front of Laminar Flow Hoods with HEPA filters. These HEPA filters have an efficiency rating of 99.97%. Meaning that the filter removes 99.97% of particles in the air. To make the actual spore solution, we take clean spores and mix them with sterile distilled water. Then, a magnetic stirrer properly mixes the solution to ensure an even distribution of spores throughout the solution.
- Ships next business day
- Discreet packaging
- Spore syringes remain viable for around 1 year
- Store spore syringes in the fridge for best results
- Do not freeze
Ecuador Mushroom Spores are dark purplish black. They are also subellipsoid (ellipse) shaped and are present on 4-spored basidia as well. Ecuadorian mushrooms prints are dark and large while being roughly 50-90mm in diameter.
Ecuadorian Syringe Kit Contents
Each spore syringe kit will come with:
- a sterile 18 gauge blunt tipped needle (While supplies last)
- at least 10CC of the P. Cubensis Ecuadorian syringe spore solution
- 1 alcohol prep pad
- 1 sticker (1 per order)
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The al-Ni'mah al-Khayrīyah association witnessed a tiff between a priest and his wife's family which led to his death by a bullet. Preliminary investigations revealed that the suspects waited for him to finish praying then waited for him outside the association. An argument broke out, because the priest refused to spend on his wife and deserted her.
His wife's brother then shot him. Suspects were arrested.
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Al Nabooda Automobiles opens new Volkswagen showroom in Deira, Dubai
Al Nabooda Automobiles, the sole distributor of Volkswagen in Dubai and the Northern Emirates has officially opened its new 1,746 square meters showroom in Deira, Dubai today.
The brand new facility is the third Volkswagen location in Dubai, joining the Sheikh Zayed Road showroom and the service centre in Rashidiya, and is the latest project delivered by Al Nabooda Automobiles as part of the ongoing AED900 million investment programme to enhance operations in Dubai and the Northern Emirates.
Located on Al Ittihad Road, the new showroom will be particularly convenient to customers in Deira as well as those living near Dubai creek, Karama, Qusais and the Dubai-Sharjah border.
Thierry Seys, General Manager, Al Nabooda Automobiles, Volkswagen said: “The launch of Dubai’s second Volkswagen showroom marks another proud moment for Al Nabooda Automobiles, as the company forges ahead with its major expansion plans.
“The new facilities we create to showcase the Volkswagen brand here provides powerful evidence of our commitment to our business partners, customers, and the local communities in which we operate. We have been breaking records and setting new standards for many years and we expect a strong start to trading in our new Deira location when we open the showroom doors.”
The new facility will display 12 new cars and six pre-owned cars, including popular models such as the Touareg, Golf, Golf GTI, Tiguan and Passat.
In February, Al Nabooda Automobiles opened a new Volkswagen showroom in Fujairah, while the new Sharjah facility was officially inaugurated in April.
For more information contact:
Al Nabooda Automobiles – Volkswagen
Tel: +971-4-705 3325
Fax: +971-4-338 1322
Tel: +971 4 428 1502
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Let us share our
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Published: Monday January 14, 2013 MYT 8:32:00 PM
MASwings’ six new Twin Otters to operate from mid-year
KUCHING: Regional airline MASwings is expected to operate its six new Twin Otter (DHC6) aircraft, particularly to serve in the interiors of Sarawak and Sabah, by mid-year, its chief executive officer Datuk Mohd Nawawi Awang said Monday.
Despite numerous appeals for its current fleet of ageing 17-seat DHC6 aircraft to be replaced with bigger capacity ones, he said, the Twin Otters were more practical for short takeoff and landing (STOL) operations in rural airstrips, including Marudi and Bario.
"The new aircraft will be deployed in stages from the middle of this year until 2014," he told reporters after a briefing on Maswings BIMP-EAGA second phase expansion of its international network here, which was attended by Sarawak Tourism Minister Datuk Abang Johari Tun Openg.
Previously, Maswings had four Twin Otters but the fleet was reduced to three following the Marudi airport incident in November last year when one of its aircraft veered off the runway upon landing.
It was reported that MASwings' flight operations were slightly affected by the incident but the frequencies were expected to be back to normal by this year. - Bernama
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In my first pregnancy I had postnatal depression; it came on after my first baby, so when it came to thinking about having another baby I was a bit nervous. I knew what might happen to me after the birth, but I wasn’t expecting it to come on in pregnancy.
When I got to about 24 weeks pregnant, I was working. I am a GP and I was just finding that I was getting more and more stressed. It just spiraled in a way that wouldn’t normally happen. I would get much more anxious. I would take things home from work in my head and worry about them. I wasn’t sleeping as well and I’d wake up with that horrible feeling of doom starting every day.
"I’d cry at the drop of a hat about things that wouldn’t normally make me cry."
It was a really intense feeling of …doom... It felt like a cloud over my head mixed with horrible anxiety.
And that’s when I realised it had hit early.
I realised then that I had to take time off work, which is something I don’t normally ever do. I was on treatment already, I was already on antidepressants from the beginning of pregnancy so it was a bit of a shock to suddenly get this so severely really.
At home I became more short tempered and just wanting to hide under the duvet. I’d also find it hard to look after my eldest daughter who was then six at the time. I didn’t have as much to give emotionally.
My husband is also a GP so when I started to become unwell he realised what was going on.
Not all GPs do, sadly as many women tell me, but he knew it was happening and we had discussed it before I got pregnant.
I think I had two weeks off in the end. My employers were fabulous. I went to see the GP and that was the point at which I got referred to the perinatal psychiatry team locally. They realised that things might go even more haywire as things went on so it was a good time to get me into the system early in pregnancy.
So we increased the dose of my anti-depressant and watched and waited. After a couple of weeks things improved luckily.
I have a lovely lady who does massages so when I was starting to feel really awful, I went to her quite a lot. I tried to make sure I looked after myself, so silly things like getting your nails done, having massages, sleeping properly, all those things. It’s self-care I suppose.
The thing that helped me the most was understanding what was happening to me. I knew that with the medication that I would start to feel better soon. Having time off, having time to myself so that I could try and put my thoughts in order and not feel so anxious all the time was really helpful.
Alice was born by emergency section. It turned out she was wrapped in her cord five times. When she was given to me, I remember being nervous because of my last experience.
When my eldest daughter had been born, I had felt wrong. I just thought, just put her back in and pretend this never happened that would be really good.
So I was very nervous about this moment but actually we had a nice cuddle and it was not so bad. I was not overwhelmed in the way that it’s shown on TV and in movies because that’s not really how I cope but I felt alright at that point.
I came home on day three or four and the moment I walked in the house, I just burst in to tears. I thought, ‘Oh here we go again’. I got the same anxiety feeling, the feeling that I’d made a horrible mistake, the feeling that I wasn’t going to cope with this. There was nothing nice about coming home with Alice at all.
It was just being hit like a ton of bricks.
This time round when I came home I had my mum and my step dad here and one of my very good friends had suggested I try quite an old fashioned situation of not really doing anything.
Lots of women, they’re up at the supermarket after giving birth but I pretty much stayed in bed. I didn’t really want to interact with the world particularly. So I didn’t put any pressure on myself to do that whereas in the past probably I had. I spent most of my time in the bedroom with Alice. She was brought to me and taken away if I didn’t want to be with her.
I just had this hideous rollercoaster of emotions. Breastfeeding made it worse but I wanted to give it a try again so I did. My husband was fabulous and did pretty much everything so I was lucky. That had been something that we had thought about before the birth.
Things did not begin to lift, for about four months to be honest. I saw the perinatal psychiatry team a lot. A special nurse used to come to the house.
I took medication and was under quite close review because I was suicidal.
I’d never been that low before so I was worried that I was getting more and more unwell. But by about four months things started to improve a little.
I’ve always described it like layers of cling film coming off.
You don’t realise how awful you feel until the day when it doesn’t feel quite so awful anymore. When I’m unwell it’s like waves of doom just come over me. I can be doing something completely innocuous like having a shower and just suddenly it hits me. And that just doesn’t happen as often. You think oh, this is quite nice. Today’s been a lot better than yesterday. So it just improves day by day, week by week.
Alice is three now. I enjoy being a mum more than I did at the beginning. For me, being a mum is something that is always going to be quite tricky. I thought it would be something that came naturally and it doesn’t. My mood still fluctuates so I have times when I have to be looked after a little bit more. But I’m perfectly capable of carrying on life very nicely and I work and I’m happy and I can enjoy things but I’m always aware, it’s there in the background and it’s a lot better than it used to be.
My advice to anyone feeling this way when they’re pregnant would be to share it.
Do not be ashamed of it. Do not think it means you’re failing – go and get help from somebody. Say it to a midwife, say it to a GP. If you don’t get the reaction you need from the first person you use, find somebody else, because every person who you ask is different and you will find the person who can help you.
"Don’t be put off by not having a positive response the first time you pluck up the courage to share it."
Organisations, blogs and communities that provide support with issues around wellbeing and mental health in pregnancy and afterwards
People were just completely bemused if I said, ‘I don’t really like being pregnant.’
I always say, ‘If your feelings are not normal for you, come and talk to us.’
I've never had depression before so it was a shock
I knew there was a possibility that she could develop depression
Although I'd had depression in the past, I’d never, ever felt like this before.
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CHICAGO - A 14-year-old boy was among three people wounded in a shooting Friday in Chatham on the South Side.
They were on the sidewalk about 5:30 p.m. in the 8200 block of South Drexel Avenue when a vehicle drove up and someone inside opened fire, Chicago police said.
The teen was struck in the face and taken to Comer Children’s Hospital, police said.
A 21-year-old man was struck in the arm, and a woman, 27, was shot in the buttocks, police said. They were taken to the University of Chicago Medical Center.
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The Style Report: The MTV Movie Awards
Why the Oscars for the MTV set might want to opt for dress code next year
1. Channing Tatum
While we wouldn't advise this risky red-carpet look, it works because of the proportions: a slim-cut jacket, and a shorter dress shirt hem. The tough-guy cuffed denim, tee, and boots are Tatum's security blanket—he's not leaving home without those.
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Francisco J. Ayala
Francisco J. Ayala
Francisco José Ayala Pereda
March 12, 1934
|Citizenship||Spanish, American (1971–present)|
|Alma mater||University of Salamanca, Columbia University|
|Known for||Population genetics|
|Spouse(s)||Mary Henderson (m. 1968, div)|
Hana Lostokova Ayala (m. 1985)
|Awards||National Medal of Science, Templeton Prize|
|Institutions||University of California, Davis (1971 - 1989)|
University of California, Irvine (1989-2018)
|Doctoral advisor||Theodosius Dobzhansky|
|Doctoral students||John Avise|
Francisco José Ayala Pereda (born March 12, 1934) is a Spanish-American evolutionary biologist and philosopher who was a longtime faculty member at the University of California, Irvine and University of California, Davis. He is a former Dominican priest, ordained in 1960, but left the priesthood that same year. After graduating from the University of Salamanca, he moved to the United States in 1961 to study for a PhD at Columbia University. There, he studied for his doctorate under Theodosius Dobzhansky, graduating in 1964. He became a US citizen in 1971.
He has been President and Chairman of the Board of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. At University of California, Irvine, his academic appointments included University Professor and Donald Bren Professor of Biological Sciences, Ecology & Evolutionary Biology (School of Biological Sciences), Professor of Philosophy (School of Humanities), and Professor of Logic and the Philosophy of Science (School of Social Sciences).
Ayala's employment at UC Irvine ended in 2018 after the university issued a report relating to allegations of sexual harassment claims against him. Ayala denied having "intentionally caused sexual harassment to anybody." His name was removed from the School of Biological Sciences, the Science Library, as well as various graduate fellowships, scholarship programs, and endowed chairs.
He is known for his research on population and evolutionary genetics, and has been called the "Renaissance Man of Evolutionary Biology". His "discoveries have opened up new approaches to the prevention and treatment of diseases that affect hundreds of millions of individuals worldwide", including demonstrating the reproduction of Trypanosoma cruzi, the agent of Chagas disease, is mostly the product of cloning, and that only a few clones account for most of this widespread, mostly untreatable South American disease that affects 16 million to 18 million people.
He served on the advisory board of the now defunct Campaign to Defend the Constitution, an organization that has lobbied in support the separation of church and state. He has been publicly critical of U.S. restrictions on federal funding of embryonic stem cell research. He is also a critic of intelligent design theories, claiming that they are not only pseudoscience, but also misunderstood from a theological point of view. He suggests that the theory of evolution resolves the problem of evil, thus being a kind of theodicy. Although Ayala generally does not discuss his religious views, he has stated that "science is compatible with religious faith in a personal, omnipotent and benevolent God." He also briefly served, in 1960, as a Dominican priest. Ayala does not say whether he remains a religious believer, not wanting to be "tagged by one side or the other."
On October 18, 2011, the University of California, Irvine (UCI) announced that Ayala would be donating $10 million to the university's School of Biological Sciences. The gift was to be "$1 million a year for the next decade."
Sexual harassment investigation
Four women (professor Kathleen Treseder, another professor, an assistant dean, and one graduate student), alleged that Ayala had sexually harassed them, prompting an investigation led by Erik Pelowitz at UC Irvine's Office of Equal Opportunity and Diversity. The university investigators concluded that Ayala violated the university's policies on sexual harassment and sex discrimination in the cases of three of the four women, and found that the conduct at issue extended to 2004 and had led to previous warnings to Ayala. The investigators' report also concluded that Ayala "engaged in a campaign with the highest University officials to influence the outcome of this investigation." Ayala denied most allegations against him, and wrote to the university's chancellor, Howard Gillman, "I have never intentionally caused sexual harassment to anybody. To the extent that my actions may have caused harm to others ... I apologize from the deepest of my heart and of my mind." He resigned effective July 1, 2018. Ayala was represented in the investigation by attorney Susan Estrich. The investigation against Ayala extended to more than 60 witnesses, and the outcome divided scholars. Camilo José Cela Conde and Elizabeth Loftus defended him, the latter saying that she was "shocked that this man's life was ruined over this collection of reactions to his behavior" and described the allegations as "thin." In contrast, T. Jane Zelikova, the founder of 500 Women Scientists, supporting Ayala's ouster. Ann Olivarius, a lawyer and sexual harassment expert who reviewed the report at the request of Science magazine, said that the Ayala did not "have sex with students or pressure them directly for sex" but "clearly made multiple women feel degraded" and continued to do so "after senior university officials warned him to stop acting in these ways."
Ayala returned to his private life, and the university removed his name from the School of Biological Sciences, the Science Library, and endowed chairs that had been named after Ayala. The American Association for the Advancement of Science removed his fellowship status. The U.S. National Academy of Sciences rescinded Ayala's membership for violation of Section 4 of the NAS Code of Conduct, effective June 23, 2021.
Awards and honors
In 2001, Ayala was awarded the National Medal of Science. On April 13, 2007, he was awarded the first of 100 bicentennial medals at Mount Saint Mary's University for lecturing there as the first presenter for the Bicentennial Distinguished Lecture Series. His lecture was entitled "The Biological Foundations of Morality". Other awards he has received include the Gold Honorary Gregor Mendel Medal of the Czech Academy of Sciences, the Gold Medal of the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei, the Gold Medal of the Stazione Zoologica in Naples, the President's Award of the American Institute of Biological Sciences, the Scientific Freedom and Responsibility Award and 150th Anniversary Leadership Medal of the AAAS, the Medal of the College of France, the UCI Medal of the University of California, the 1998 Distinguished Scientist Award from the SACNAS, and Sigma Xi's William Procter Prize for Scientific Achievement, 2000. In 2010, he was awarded the Templeton Prize. The science library at UCI was named after him from 2010 until 2018, when his name was removed after a university investigation concluded that his conduct with respect to three women violated university policies. Ayala delivered a lecture at the Trotter Prize ceremony in 2011 entitled "Darwin's Gift to Science and Religion." In 2014, UCI named its School of Biological Sciences the Francisco J. Ayala School of Biological Sciences after Ayala. UCI removed his name from the library and school in 2018, after finding that he sexually harassed at least four women.
Ayala was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1977. He is a member of the United States National Academy of Sciences and the American Philosophical Society. He is also a foreign member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei in Rome, the Spanish Royal Academy of Sciences, the Mexican Academy of Sciences, and the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts. He has honorary degrees from the University of Athens, the University of Bologna, the University of Barcelona, the University of the Balearic Islands, the University of León, the University of Madrid, the University of Salamanca, the University of Valencia, the University of Vigo, Far Eastern National University, Masaryk University and University of Warsaw.
Francisco Ayala was born to Francisco Ayala and Soledad Pereda. In the late 1960s he met Mary Henderson, they married on May 27, 1968. They had two sons: Francisco José (b. 1969) and Carlos Alberto (b. 1972). Their marriage ended in divorce, and in 1985 he married an ecologist named Hana Ayala (née Lostáková, born 1956). They live in Irvine, California.
Ayala has published 950 publications and 30 books. Recently published books include:
- Ayala, F.J. Evolution, Explanation, Ethics and Aesthetics: Towards a Philosophy of Biology. Academic Press: 2016. ISBN 9780128036938
- Ayala, F.J. Am I a Monkey: Six Big Questions About Evolution. Johns Hopkins University Press: Baltimore, MD, USA 2010.
- Ayala, F.J. and Robert Arp, eds. Contemporary Debates in Philosophy of Biology. Wiley-Blackwell: London, 2009. ISBN 978-1-4051-5998-2
- Avise, J.C. and F.J. Ayala, eds. In the Light of Evolution: Adaptation and Complex Design. National Academy Press: Washington, DC. 2007. ISBN 978-0-309-10405-0
- Cela Conde, C.J. and F.J. Ayala. Human Evolution. Trails from the Past. Oxford University Press: Oxford, 2007.
- Ayala, F.J. Darwin y el Diseño Inteligente. Creacionismo, Cristianismo y Evolución. Alianza Editorial: Madrid, Spain, 231 pp. 2007.
- Ayala, F.J. Darwin’s Gift to Science and Religion. Joseph Henry Press: Washington, DC, xi + 237 pp. 2007
- Ayala, F.J. La Evolución de un Evolucionista. Escritos Seleccionados. University of Valencia: Valencia, Spain, 441 pp. 2006. ISBN 84-370-6526-7
- Ayala, F.J. Darwin and Intelligent Design. Fortress Press: Minneapolis, MN, xi + 116 pp. 2006.
- Ayala, F.J. and C.J. Cela Conde. La piedra que se volvió palabra. Las claves evolutivas de la humanidad. Alianza Editorial: Madrid, Spain. 184 pp. 2006 ISBN 84-206-4783-7
- Hey, J., W.M. Fitch and F.J. Ayala, eds. Systematics and the Origin of Species. On Ernst Mayr’s 100th Anniversary. National Academies Press: Washington, DC. xiii + 367 pp. 2005 ISBN 0-309-09536-0
- Wuketits, F.M. and F.J. Ayala, eds. Handbook of Evolution: The Evolution of Living Systems (Including Hominids), Volume 2. Wiley-VCH: Weinheim, Germany. 292 pp. 2005. ISBN 978-3-527-61971-9
- Ayala, F.J. Le Ragioni dell’ Evoluzione. Di Renzo Editore: Rome. 109 pp. 2005.
- Ayala, F.J. Human Evolution: Biology, Culture, Ethics. In: J.B. Miller, ed., The Epic of Evolution. Science and Religion in Dialogue (Pearson Education, Inc.: Upper Saddle River, New Jersey), pp. 166–180. 2004.
- Hall, Brian Keith; Strickberger, Monroe W.; Hallgrímsson, Benedikt (2008). Strickberger's evolution: the integration of genes, organisms and populations. Sudbury, Mass.: Jones and Bartlett. p. 633. ISBN 978-0-7637-0066-9.
- "Q & A Francisco J. Ayala" (PDF). cell.com. Current Biology. Retrieved August 2, 2018.
- Watanabe, Teresa (June 28, 2018). "Acclaimed UC Irvine geneticist resigns after committing sexual harassment". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved June 29, 2018.
- Pinar García, Susana (2016). De Dios y ciencia. La evolución de Francisco J. Ayala. Madrid: Alianza Editorial. ISBN 9788491042358.
- "Evolution: Religion: Science and Faith". Pbs.org. Retrieved July 26, 2010.
- Dreifus, Claudia (April 27, 1999). "A CONVERSATION WITH: FRANCISCO J. AYALA; Ex-Priest Takes the Blasphemy Out of Evolution". New York Times. Retrieved April 24, 2009.
- Richardson, W.; Slack, Gordy (2001). Faith in science: scientists search for truth. London: Routledge. p. 6. ISBN 0-415-25765-4.
- Ayala, Francisco (1976). "Theodosius Dobzhansky: The Man and the Scientist". Annual Review of Genetics. 10: 1–6. doi:10.1146/annurev.ge.10.120176.000245. PMID 797305.
- Dean, Cornelia (April 29, 2008). "Roving Defender of Evolution, and of Room for God". New York Times. Retrieved April 24, 2009.
- "Biologist Francisco J. Ayala". The Scientist. February 5, 1996. Retrieved April 24, 2009.
- Meredith Wadman (July 20, 2018). "Here's the sexual harassment report that felled a famed geneticist—and his defense". Science. AAAS.
- "UCI proposes new name for School of Biological Sciences, science library after internal investigation substantiates sexual harassment claims against signature donor". UCI News. June 28, 2018.
- "A Conversation with Hana and Francisco J. Ayala". American Association for the Advancement of Science. March 23, 2006. Archived from the original on June 5, 2009. Retrieved April 24, 2009.
- "Biologist Francisco J. Ayala Wins National Medal of Science". University of California. May 9, 2002. Archived from the original on September 5, 2008. Retrieved April 24, 2009.
- Ayala, F. J. (2007). Darwin's Gift to Science and Religion. Washington, D.C.: Joseph Henry Press. p. xi.
I shudder in terror at the thought that some people of faith would implicitly attribute this calamity to the Creator's faulty design. I rather see it as a consequence of the clumsy ways of the evolutionary process..
- Ayala, F. J. (2007). Darwin's Gift to Science and Religion. Washington, D.C.: Joseph Henry Press. pp. 4–5.
Later, when I was studying the theology in Salamanca, Darwin was a much-welcomed friend. The theory of evolution provided the solution to the remaining component of the problem of evil. As floods and drought were a necessary consequence of the fabric of the physical world, predators and parasites, dysfunctions and diseases were a consequence of the evolution of life. They were not a result of a deficient or malevolent design: the features of organisms were not designed by the Creator.
- Ayala, F. J. (2007). Darwin's Gift to Science and Religion. Washington, D.C.: Joseph Henry Press. p. 159.
Religious scholars in the past had struggled with imperfection ... in the living world, which [is] difficult to explain if [it is] the outcome of God's design. ... Evolution came to the rescue. ... The theory of evolution, which at first had seemed to remove the need for God in the world, now has convincingly removed the need to explain the world's imperfections as failed outcomes of God's design.
- Lawton, Graham (April 2, 2010). "Templeton prizewinner: We need science plus morality". New Scientist.
- Ruse, Michael. Can a Darwinian Be a Christian? : The Relationship between Science and Religion. Cambridge University Press: New York, xi + 242 pp. 2001, p. 75
- Dean, Cornelia (April 29, 2008). "Roving Defender of Evolution". New York Times.
Dr. Ayala does not say whether he remains a religious believer. "I don't want to be tagged,” he said. "By one side or the other.”
- "Is Intelligent Design Viable? The Craig-Ayala Debate". reasonablefaith.org. Retrieved August 2, 2018.
- Rivera, Carla (October 18, 2011). "UC Irvine professor donating $10 million to school". Los Angeles Times. Archived from the original on October 18, 2011.
- Meredith Wadman, Prominent geneticist out at UC Irvine after harassment finding, Science (June 29, 2018).
- Wadman, Meredith (September 21, 2018). "AAAS adopts new policy for ejecting harassers". Science. 361 (6408): 1175. Bibcode:2018Sci...361.1175W. doi:10.1126/science.361.6408.1175. ISSN 0036-8075. PMID 30237333.
- Ortega, Rodrigo Pérez (June 24, 2021). "National Academy of Sciences ejects biologist Francisco Ayala in the wake of sexual harassment findings". Science. Retrieved June 24, 2021.
- Dean, Cornelia (March 25, 2010). "Biologist Wins Templeton Prize". New York Times. Retrieved March 25, 2010.
- "UCI Science Library to be named in honor of Francisco J. Ayala". University of California, Irvine. April 26, 2010. Archived from the original on May 25, 2012. Retrieved May 4, 2010.
- "UC Irvine's School of Biological Sciences renamed in honor of Francisco J. Ayala". Retrieved March 21, 2014.
- "Book of Members, 1780–2010: Chapter A" (PDF). American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Retrieved April 28, 2011.
- World of Genetics on Francisco J. Ayala. Bookrags.com.
- Vasich, Tom (May 9, 2002). "Biologist Francisco J. Ayala Wins National Medal of Science". University of California. Archived from the original on September 5, 2008.
- "Templeton Prize Fact Sheet" (PDF). Retrieved June 29, 2010.
- "Hana and Francisco J. Ayala: Separate Careers, a Common Passion for Knowledge". American Association for the Advancement of Science. March 31, 2006. Archived from the original on July 8, 2011.
- Elizabeth Sleeman, Taylor & Francis Group, Europa Publications, Europa Publications Limited (2003). The International Who's Who 2004. Routledge. p. 83. ISBN 1-85743-217-7.CS1 maint: uses authors parameter (link)
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The "spaghetti plot" has become a very common graphic that we show during the tropical season. It shows a bunch of lines on a map that illustrate a computer forecast.
It looks like spaghetti that has been thrown against a wall.
Each line represents the work of a specific computer model. It wasn't many years ago that meteorologists never showed this graphic on TV, even though we had access to it. The spaghetti plot became popular during and after the 2004 hurricane season.
These models process a tremendous amount of data from all over the atmosphere. With that in mind, it takes very large computers with huge processing power to decipher the data and crunch the calculations. Data for the models are processed either twice or four times a day, depending on the model. So there is no time for rest with these computers. They almost always are crunching numbers so they can crank out the next model output. It's an impressive process that is constantly taking place behind the scenes. This is why the jump in computer technology has helped improve forecasting in the past 20 years.
The more data we can get from the atmosphere and give to the computer, the better output we tend to get. Since this process takes very large, expensive computers, these forecast models are typically processed by the government. The National Centers for Environmental Prediction near Washington, D.C., is where the bulk of the forecast models are processed.
Examples of models that we use, but are not processed in this country, are the United Kingdom Met Office model (UKMET), the European Center for Medium-Range Weather Forecasting (ECMWF) and the Canadian (GEM) model. There are also examples of universities processing a model, but it's rare due to the cost and resources that it takes. The most successful tropical model produced by a university is the Florida State Superensemble (FSSE).
The most accurate models over the past few years have been what we call "consensus" models. This is when you take an average of your best models to get a consensus forecast. The FSSE is an example of a consensus model. The models that are typically used for the consensus are the Global Forecast System (GFS), the NWS/Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory model (GFDL) and the ECMWF. There are a few other models that are used for the consensus, but these are the main ones that have provided the most accurate results.
Over the past 15 years there has been a slow shift in the way forecasts are delivered on TV. We tend to show more data that support and explain our forecasts.
The spaghetti plot is one of those graphics that became popular very quickly, mainly because it is a simple concept. It allows for a lot of computer data on one simple map so you can see the complex forecast that we're looking at behind the scenes. As with anything, though, it has its drawbacks. We quickly noticed that viewers had a lot of questions about what the spaghetti plot meant. People wanted to know what each line represented and which line was more accurate. So what we've had to do over the years is explain the graphic and also explain what the graphic is showing in each particular situation.
The first and most basic thing to look at is whether the lines are bunched together or whether they are spread far apart. When they are more tightly bunched together it usually means a higher level of confidence in the forecast. When the lines are spread apart that usually means there is a lot of uncertainty about where the storm will go. Some computer models are better than others at predicting paths. We try to convey this message when we show this graphic on TV. Many of the models were developed by different organizations and are given different parameters. Therefore, it's okay for the models to differ. You just have to understand why they differ and then figure out which model has a better understanding of the current atmospheric setup. This is the hard part. It's up to experienced meteorologists to explain how we think the storm will respond to various things in the atmosphere.
You might think there is a dominant model that we lean on, but for tropical storm tracking we've noticed over the years that they all have their good and bad days. Some models will even do better for an entire season and then do poorly the next year. This is why spaghetti models need to be used with caution. There is no such thing as a 100 percent accurate forecast model. However, we have found that there are a few models that are better than the rest, so we tend to lean heavily on their results. The good news is that the models continue to be worked on and tweaked to make them better. Believe it or not, before the 1980s the forecast models didn't have much skill in predicting the path of tropical storms.
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The last thing to remember is that the spaghetti plot does not show intensity predictions. When watching hurricanes, remember that unexpected changes in intensity are always possible.
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I stand in front of you
I take the force of the blow
Last night was different. Happier, giddier. Both of us have made progress with our personal situations, which made for a lighter, cheerier atmosphere.
When we stood to leave, the bartender, a Greek woman equal parts sassy and sweet, hugged me goodbye like an old friend.
"Take good care of her," she said to him.
"I always take care of her," he replied.
"He's a good guy," she told me.
I nodded. "I know."
I don't know what to call it, but I'm finally starting to understand that maybe it doesn't need a name. I can't explain it to my friends, who worry I'll get hurt because it's not a traditional relationship, more of a once-in-a-while thing. He's not my boyfriend and yet I've been seeing him longer than some of my exes. Every time I see him, it's with the understanding that it might be the last time. There has been a lot of passion, but conflict, too. I'm drawn to him in a way I haven't been drawn to anyone in a long time.
I pinned down what was bothering me about the situation last week. It's not that I need for us to be exclusive; I like having the option of seeing other people (though I equally dislike the thought of him doing so, because I'm jealous like that; oh well). It's not that I need to be labeled his girlfriend. Last night, he introduced me to everyone as his friend, but then openly kissed me and wrapped his arms around me. The label didn't matter, because I felt genuine warmth and affection from him.
No, what troubled me was the time in-between, the days during the week when I don't see him, when there's barely any contact, when I have to fend for myself. I have plenty to keep me busy, but it was more a matter that I never felt like I could call him after a tough day to talk, that I could view him as a source of support the way I do my other friends. That's what it was: I didn't get a sense that he was my friend.
Last night, I told him that. I said I was aware of the risks of developing a closer personal relationship, that treating him more as a confidante could lead to sticky territory of more attachment and a need for commitment. Which isn't what I was asking for.
He saw the difference.
"You can always call me if you had tough day and need to talk. I would be there for you the way I'd be there for any other of my friends. And if anyone was every giving you a hard time, I'd sort them out. I'll be your bodyguard." He got a fierce look in his eyes, a spark of anger at the idea of somebody messing with me.
"I guess I never felt that from you before."
"I consider you my friend. I have from the very beginning."
He said he didn't think of me as a casual fling or fuck buddy (how I hate that term), that he thinks about being with me during the times we're apart.
He mentioned a personal story I shared a couple of weeks ago, of something awful that happened to me as a little girl.
"When you told me that, even though you said you couldn't remember it happening, I felt so sad for you I wanted to cry. And I couldn't stop that from happening to you, but I feel so protective of you now."
He sees a part of me not many others see. In many ways, I'm still naive, still blind to the evils of the world, and oblivious to life outside my small sphere of consciousness. For the most part, I have led a relatively sheltered life. He sees this innocence, and wants to shield me from harm.
I feel his protection.
This is one reason why I love being with him, why the times we are together are worth all the uncertainty that follows. I feel so safe with him that everything else falls away. I can let go of my fear and be my real self. And despite our strange and uneven communication in between, when we get together there's a sense of relief and inevitability, a sense of belonging, even if it's just for the night. There is always at least one moment during the night that feels perfect. It might be a minute in my room, listening to music in utter stillness. It might be in a taxi, crossing the bridge and putting my head on his shoulder. It might be in a crowded bar, smiling at each other through the hazy din of layered conversations and alcohol. It might be when he wipes away my tears, pulls me in close, and kisses me. It could happen at any time.
I pay a price for these perfect moments. I want more of them and yet I have to understand that their beauty comes from the wild and unstable circumstances surrounding them. It's the power, brightness, and instability of a lightning bolt. It's breathtaking and treacherous, impossible to predict.
When that lighting does strike, time freezes and everything is in its right place. In those seconds or minutes or even hours, in his arms, I am completely, irrefutably, safe. Protected.
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2017-03-27T12:41:53Z
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Enjoy a breathtaking view of the Torrazzo from the panoramic terrace of Ristorante al Quarto, enjoying an aperitif with the flavors of typical Cremonese products
What you will taste
A good glass of wine and a breathtaking view of the Torrazzo from the panoramic terrace of Ristorante al Quarto. This could be enough to make your cocktail unforgettable, but we want to make it sublime, by adding the typical salami of Cremona and a good mustard with cheese!
Included for people with disabilities
|The Tasting Includes||
1 Wine Goblet chosen from Lugana / Lambrusco
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2020-10-28T11:47:46Z
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