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Caulophyllum thalictroides is a homeopathic remedy sometimes known simply as 'Caulophyllum'.
Caulophyllum thalictroides is sometimes used during labour (child birth), and also to alleviate pain in the extremities of the limbs (hands & feet).
For example, it is thought to be helpful in cases of long, painful or exhausting labour (to help make contractions more effective, although it is be used with caution), to ease a rigid cervix, and in other situations such as pain in small joints such as the fingers.
More about the substance used to prepare caulophyllum thalictroides homeopathic remedy:
The homeopathic remedy caulophyllum thalictroides is derived from a flowering plant also called blue cohosh that grows about 1-3 feet tall. It is common in hardwood forests in the eastern parts of the USA where it thrives in moist shady areas.
A sketch of part of a blue cohosh plant showing some leaves and berries is shown belowon the left.
The remedy is prepared using the roots of the plant.
Homeopathic preparations are usually supplied in either liquid or pill form. Regardless of the physical form in which the remedy is taken, its preparation will have involved a series of dilutions during which the original substance was repeatedly diluted and succussed (shaken) in a solvent such as water and/or alcohol.
There are very many (over 2,000) homeopathic remedies, some of which are available from chemists and health food shops. These pages feature some of the most popular homeopathic remedies and are for general interest only: This is not medical advice. Consult a qualified homeopathic practitioner for advice about use of this and any other homeopathic remedy. Bear in mind that homeopathic remedies are very dilute; even if a homeopathic remedy is beneficial, the substance from which it is derived may be harmful.
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Category: Lanier Mansion
Indiana State Museum and Historic Sites hires site director
MADISON (July 19, 2018) - The Indiana State Museum and Historic Sites has hired a site manager for Lanier Mansion State Historic Site. Catherine Williams was hired for the position, effective July 9. Previously, Williams worked as a marketing and sales manager for SERVPRO of Northwest San Antonio, where she developed marketing, sales, social media and advertising strategy. Prior to that, she served as a psychological operations specialist in the U.S. Army Reserves, an... Read More
Posted by Kelsey Kotnik at 7/19/18
State Historic Site to host annual ‘Night Spirits’
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact : Paige Southerland, 317.234.5078, psoutherland@indianamuseum.org MADISON, Ind. – The public is invited to the 11th annual Night Spirits at the Lanier Mansion State Historic Site on Friday, Oct. 20 from 7 to 9 p.m. Costumed actors portraying ‘spirits’ will recount several historic fires and explosions from the 19th century, including the Great Chicago Fire of 1871. Located in rooms throughout the beautiful... Read More
Posted by Paige Southerland at 10/4/17
Lanier Mansion Press Releases
Lanier Mansion to host ghost walks
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact : Paige Southerland, 317.234.5078, psoutherland@indianamuseum.org MADISON, Ind. – Madison, Ind. has one of the largest National Historic Landmark Districts in the country and there are a number of ghost stories attached to many of its historic structures. On Sept. 16, 23 and 30, and Oct. 21, 27, 28 and 29, the Lanier Mansion State Historic Site will conduct ghost walks beginning at 7 p.m. that will leave from the Lanier/Madison Visitor... Read More
Posted by Paige Southerland at 9/7/17
Lanier Mansion Historic Site to host a free concert on the Lanier lawn
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact : Gerry Reilly, 812.265.3526, greilly@indianamuseum.org MADISON, Ind. – The Lick Creek Band of Paoli, Ind., will perform as part of Lanier Mansion’s Music at the Mansion concert series on Saturday, Aug. 12 at 7 p.m. Blending guitar and bass, the Lick Creek Band affectionately renders rock, pop, jazz and original music into their back porch tuneful stylings. “Our performances are like a big party,” said band member Alice... Read More
Posted by Paige Southerland at 7/27/17
Press Releases Lanier Mansion
Media Tip Sheet – Q3 2017
Media Tip Sheet – Q3 2017 Upcoming major events and exhibitions at the Indiana State Museum and Historic Sites through 2017 SECTION A: Indiana State Museum Welcome to 2017 – “The Year of Science” Exhibitions presented by Lilly EXHIBITION – Ice Age Graveyards February 25 to September 4, 2017 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. [Mon., Tues., Wed., Thurs., Fri., Sat.] 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. [Sun.] Admission: Included with museum admission ... Read More
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Indiana State Museum and Historic Sites continue Blue Star Museum discount program
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact : Megan Simpson, 317.234.8146, msimpson@indianamuseum.org INDIANAPOLIS — The Indiana State Museum and Historic Sites continue to honor America’s service men and women by participating in the Blue Star Museum program. The program provides free admission to any active service military, including National Guard and Reserve, and up to five family members. The discount is valid between Memorial Day and Labor Day 2017 and is accepted at the... Read More
Posted by Megan Simpson at 7/3/17
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Lanier State Historic Site to host a free concert on the Lanier law
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact : Gerry Reilly, 812.265.3526, greilly@indianamuseum.org MADISON, Ind. – The Music at the Mansion concert series will kick off with a performance by the Sycamore Community Band of Cincinnati on Saturday, June 10, at 7 p.m. The band, led by Pete Metzger, is comprised of 55 members from all walks of life including teachers, doctors, dentists, lawyers and engineers. The theme of this year’s free concert is “Big Band... Read More
Indiana State Museum and Historic Sites: 12 great day trip ideas
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact : Paige Southerland, 317.234.5078, psoutherland@indianamuseum.org INDIANAPOLIS — As Hoosiers plan their summer break away from the hustle, bustle and day-to-day responsibilities of their normal lives, the Indiana State Museum and Historic Sites is offering 12 fun day trip ideas for multigenerational adventures. The 12-site, statewide museum system features inspiring historic places in locations throughout the state. “Our... Read More
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Lanier Mansion to host annual ‘Eggstravaganza!’
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact : Anne Fairchild, 812.273.4531, afairchild@indianamuseum.org MADISON, Ind. – The annual Eggstravaganza! at the Lanier Mansion State Historic Site will take place at the Lanier-Madison Visitor Center and the surrounding grounds of the site on Saturday, April 8, from noon to 1:30 p.m. “We always look forward to this time of year,” said Gerry Reilly, Lanier Mansion State Historic Site manager. “It’s great to see families... Read More
Media Tip Sheet – Q1 2017 Upcoming major events and exhibitions at the Indiana State Museum and Historic Sites through 2017 SECTION A: Indiana State Museum Welcome to 2017 – “The Year of Science” Exhibitions presented by Eli Lilly and Company PROGRAM – Museum INvasion Ongoing dates 1:30 p.m., or by appointment [Sat.] Admission: $10 for members; $20 for non-members [price includes museum admission] Don’t just... Read More
Posted by Paige Southerland at 12/27/16
State Museum to receive donation from Subaru of Indiana Automotive, Inc.
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact : Paige Southerland, 317.234.5078, psoutherland@indianamuseum.org INDIANAPOLIS – Subaru of Indiana Automotive, Inc. has donated the use of one of their Subaru Outback vehicles to the Indiana State Museum and Historic Sites. “I’m excited to have the opportunity to show the Subaru off to the various parts of the state,” said Laura Minzes, associate vice president of State Historic Sites. “From Vincennes to Corydon, from Levi... Read More
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Lanier Mansion State Historic Site to host ‘An Evening with Arthur Conan Doyle and Sherlock Holmes’
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact : Anne Fairchild, 812.273.4531, afairchild@indianamuseum.org MADISON, Ind. – Join actor David McDaniel as he portrays the greatest fictional detective to ever come from the British Isles: Sherlock Holmes. A 1940s’ style radio hour will take place in the double parlors of the historic Lanier Mansion in downtown Madison, Ind. Doors open to the public at 6:30 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 5. The program begins at 7 p.m. “This year we have had a... Read More
Lanier Mansion State Historic Site to host ‘Spooky Mansion’
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact : Anne Fairchild, 812.273.4531, afairchild@indianamuseum.org MADISON, Ind. — Lanier Mansion State Historic Site is treating young ghosts and goblins to the 8th annual Spooky Mansion on Saturday, Oct. 22 from 6 to 8 p.m. The event, targeting children ages 3 through 12, will feature an array of not-so-scary Halloween activities inside the historic mansion and Lanier-Madison Visitor Center. “This year we are having... Read More
Lanier Mansion State Historic Site to host ‘Spirits of Desperados’
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact : Gerry Reilly, 812.273.0556, greilly@indianamuseum.org MADISON, Ind. — The public is invited to the 10th annual Night Spirits at the Lanier Mansion State Historic Site on Saturday, Oct. 15 from 7 to 10 p.m. Costumed actors portraying “spirits” will recount how several desperados, including members of the infamous Reno Gang of Seymour, Ind., met justice at the end of a rope. “We are very grateful to... Read More
‘Indiana Bicentennial Torch Relay’ to kickoff in Corydon
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact : Paige Southerland, 317.234.5078, psoutherland@indianamuseum.org INDIANAPOLIS — The public is invited to the kickoff of the Indiana Bicentennial Torch Relay on Friday, Sept. 9 at 10 a.m. in Corydon, Ind. The relay, scheduled to feature runners from all 92 Indiana counties, will pass through 11 of the Indiana State Museum and Historic Sites’ 12 historically significant locations. The 11 historic locations on the relay route include... Read More
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12 great day trips Labor Day Weekend
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contacts : Bruce Williams, 317.234.8146, bwilliams@indianamuseum.org or Paige Southerland, 317.234.5078, psoutherland@indianamuseum.org INDIANAPOLIS — As Hoosiers begin planning their Labor Day weekend getaways, the Indiana State Museum and Historic Sites wants to offer 12 fun Indiana day trip ideas. The 12-site museum system features inspiring historic places in locations throughout the state of Indiana. The 12 locations, connecting visitors... Read More
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Arts Commission accepting applications for Arts in the Parks and Historic Sites grants
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact : Rex A. Van Zant 317-232-1273 (voice) 317-232-5595 (fax) www.in.gov/arts rvanzant@iac.in.gov (Indianapolis, Indiana) – The Indiana Arts Commission (IAC) announced today that it is now accepting applications for the Arts in the Parks and Historic Sites grant program. “This program provides funding for Indiana arts organizations, non-arts organizations, and Hoosier individual artists to bring arts programs, services and... Read More
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Lanier Mansion offers summer camp for ages 8 to 13
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact : Anne Fairchild, 812.273.4531, afairchild@indianamuseum.org MADISON, Ind. — The Lanier Mansion State Historic Site will host Moving and Making at the Mansion Art Camp July 13 through 15. The 3-day immersive camp, targeted children ages 8 through 13, is scheduled daily from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Registration is now open and can be done by contacting Anne Fairchild, program manager at 812.273.4531 or afairchild@indianamuseum.org . ... Read More
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Sycamore Community Band to lead ‘Music at the Mansion’
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact : Gerry Reilly, 812.273.0556, greilly@indianamuseum.org MADISON, Ind. — The Lanier Mansion State Historic Site will kick off its 2016 concerts series Music at the Mansion on Saturday, June 11 at 7 p.m. on the north lawn of the mansion. Launching the series will be Cincinnati-based Sycamore Community Band led by Pete Metzger. The band, comprised of 65 members including teachers, doctors, dentists, lawyers and engineers, will perform a mix... Read More
Indiana’s Bicentennial Bucket List
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact : Paige Southerland, 317.234.5078, psoutherland@indianamuseum.org INDIANAPOLIS — As Hoosiers are celebrating the bicentennial year in various ways, the Indiana State Museum and Historic Sites has created Indiana’s Bicentennial Bucket List to help promote traditions and oddities around the state. “We’ve put the bicentennial bucket list together for Hoosiers and non-Hoosiers alike to experience something new about Indiana... Read More
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Lanier Mansion State Historic Site to host ‘A Garden Affair’
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE March 22, 2016 Contact: Gerry Reilly, 812.273.0556, greilly@indianamuseum.org MADISON, Ind. — The Lanier Mansion State Historic Site will welcome spring in style with A Garden Affair on Saturday, April 9 from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. The annual event, sponsored by Lanier Mansion Foundation, will include a silent auction, luncheon and a talk. The event will take place at the Old Market, located at 801 W. Main St. in historic Madison, Ind. “After a long winter, it will be... Read More
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Shreyas Iyer - the solution to India's long-standing No.4 problem
Shreyas Iyer has come out with flying colours in his new role as India's No. 4 in limited-overs cricket after a successful T20I series vs Bangladesh concluded in Nagpur on Sunday.
Ajay Tiwari
UPDATED: November 11, 2019 18:30 IST
Shreyas Iyer scored a match-winning 62 in Nagpur on Sunday (AP)
Shreyas Iyer scored 108 runs in the 3 T20I matches vs Bangladesh
India have been searching for a stable No.4 since Yuvraj Singh vacated that spot
Iyer scored a whirlwind 62 in India's victory in Nagpur
8 sixes, a strike-rate of 183.05 at an average of 54. Those are Shreyas Iyer's stats from the just-concluded T20I series vs Bangladesh. While Iyer finished with the highest strike-rate amongst batsmen from both sides in the series, what was more important from India's point of view was the fact that he did all this while batting at No. 4 in the batting order. Yes, the same position which has proved to be India's Achilles heel of late.
Ambati Rayudu, Vijay Shankar, KL Rahul, Rishabh Pant are just a few of the numerous players India had tried in their never-ending search for a suitable No. 4 spot. But none of the above names could lay an outright claim to the crucial batting position in the limited number of chances that they got as India were eliminated in the World Cup 2019 semi-final. Meanwhile, Iyer had to bear the disappointment of being left out of the World Cup squad
After the World Cup ouster, India persisted with Pant at No. 4 in white-ball cricket. In 7 outings since the semi-final, Pant managed to cross 20 just once - during his 65* vs West Indies at Providence. Fair to say, his performances with the bat failed to inspire confidence among the team management.
During the same time, Iyer scored 2 match-winning half-centuries in the 4 chances he got while playing at No. 5. That's probably when the team management decided to bump Iyer a spot above. And the refreshing effects were for all to see during the 1st T20I vs Bangladesh.
Coming in at 36/2, Iyer showed positive intent early on in his innings as he launched the spinner Aminul Islam for 2 monstrous sixes in his first 8 balls. For viewers, it was a welcome shift in the Indian strategy of looking to consolidate early on before going for the big hits later in the innings. Even though Iyer was dismissed after scoring 22, his innings was a good glimpse of what lied in store for Indian fans in the future. In the 2nd match in Rajkot, Iyer (24* off 13) was at his prolific best again as he completed the winning formalities after Rohit Sharma's whirlwind 85 had brought India close to victory.
It was, however, not till the series decider vs Bangladesh in Nagpur on Sunday that Iyer truly looked like he belonged to the No. 4 spot. The stage was set for the right-hander to guide the Indian innings after the side had lost both the openers inside the powerplay. On a slow VCA pitch, Iyer judged the conditions pretty early and eschewed the big shots while Rahul kept finding the boundaries. It wasn't until the 11th over of the innings and off the 13th ball he faced that Iyer hit the ball in the air. But when he tried it against - yes you guessed it, Aminul - the ball sailed into the night sky for a 6. That moment onwards, Iyer didn't take a step backward and was particularly severe on the spinners, hitting Afif Hossain for 3 successive 6s in the 15th over. By the time he was dismissed for 62 off just 33 balls, India had progressed to 144 in the 17th over and were looking at a 170+ total.
Really happy with how tonight turned out.. It’s a special night for me, one I won’t forget.. thanks for all the wishes #TeamIndia pic.twitter.com/9Z3m1Xr1OR
Shreyas Iyer (@ShreyasIyer15) November 10, 2019
"For me personally, they (team management) have given me a heads up that 'You'll be there at No.4. So just back yourself and believe in yourself'. It has been a really important last few series for me to set the benchmark at the No. 4 position, which all of us are competing for, at the moment," Iyer said at the post-match press conference.
Iyer went on to highlight the importance of the No. 4 spot and how he had adapted to the game situation at different times.
"Even if Kohli and Rohit get out, we need someone to finish the game and bat till the end.' That is a No. 4's role. That's what I was trying to replicate today and it worked out really well for me. I am really open-minded and can bat at any number. So I just like to back myself in tough situations and today’s innings showed that I can bat under pressure as well, explained Iyer.
Though it's early days but Iyer's approach does seem to inspire the confidence that he can shoulder the responsibility of the No. 4 position in the near future for India, especially with next year's T20 World Cup already on the radar. What the team needs to continue doing is backing the batsman to do his job the way he feels right. On Iyer's part, this might finally be the moment when he cements his permanent place in the Indian team.
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Ming Thein’s Lego GTO
Of Time and the Porsche
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"So, we're well into show season - and there's no car show in Britain quite like this weekend's Silverstone Grand Prix. Before we head off to the petrolheaded version of Glastonbury we were thinking about the changing nature and aesthetic "
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Written by Ben Oliver
I’m not the greatest lover of motor shows. They’re all titillation and no consummation. I’ve never really understood their appeal in the same way I don’t get strip clubs. Just looking at cars is the same as looking at an attractive member of the opposite sex; very pleasant, as far as it goes, but you only get about ten per cent of the pleasure that should be had.
And it may be also that motor shows will wither away. The British show was once one of the most important but has effectively died off. Even the mighty Detroit, Tokyo and Frankfurt shows have been clobbered by the recession: non-attendance by a big carmaker at one of those was once unthinkable, but as the recession struck they bailed out in such numbers that last year’s Tokyo show was almost cancelled.
But it’s superfast broadband that might finally kill the motor show. Why would you travel for hours to a grim part of town to traipse around a draughty exhibition hall when you’ll be able to download hi-def, 3D renderings of the latest models which you can configure with your choice of colour and trim, look at without the backs of other people’s heads getting in the way, and then get into (virtually), start up and drive?
But if one show survives, I hope it’s Geneva. For a start it’s five minutes’ walk from the airport, so you can Sleazyjet in from anywhere. Second, it’s small enough that your feet won’t hurt by the end of the day. Third, despite the size, all the major carmakers and lots of insignificant but insane ones are here: nobody bails on Geneva, yet.
I’ll get to the important cars of this year’s show in a moment, but those tiny, loopy tuning firms alone make Geneva worth the trip. You’ll see stuff you just won’t see elsewhere; really outrageous cars that it would be completely unacceptable to launch anywhere else. Thought the flagrant, aggressive SUV was a thing of the past? Oh no. Maybe it’s because Switzerland is neutral territory and non-EU that Hamann feels safe revealing its Range Rover Sport-based Conqueror II, or its BMW X6-based Tycoon Evo M. Carlsson brought its €429,000, 735bhp, Mercedes SL-based C25, whose environmental impact will be limited only by the fact that just one will be supplied to each of 25 countries. Swiss tuner Mansory has somehow managed to get hold of a Rolls-Royce Ghost already and pimped it with a shocking electric blue and gold paintjob, which looked even more garish alongside its more subtle but otherwise entirely pointless carbon-fibre bodied Mercedes G-wagen.
Ugliest was probably the Malaysian-made, V8-powered Bufori Geneva limo: slogan, ‘A Statement of Pride,’ though ‘a statement of staggering bad taste’ might be more truthful. Who in their right mind buys these things? Is Switzerland so awash with idle cash that these excrescences are needed to soak it up? Even Bentley wasn’t immune, displaying a foul purple-and-cream Continental.
The design houses like Giugiaro have always used Geneva to show their own work, unfettered by the restrictions of a commission from a big carmaker, and these cars are another good reason for coming. Pininfarina’s take on an Alfa spider is bewitching; Bertone’s Pandion, a variation on the same theme, more challenging. But you’ve never seen anything like the Pandion’s rear grille: a mad, asymmetric jumble of spikes, somewhere between a porcupine’s quills and broken glass. This is proper, free-thinking car design; you wonder if a big carmaker would have the balls to put it into production.
There were some great-looking cars from the major makers, though. The show-stopper was unquestionably Porsche’s 918 Spyder. It was a genuine surprise; when the covers are whipped off new cars at motor shows they have almost always been leaked in advance or shown to car magazines so they can put them on their covers in time. But this was a genuine shock: a plug-in hybrid supercar with over 500bhp and a 3.2sec 0-60mph time, yet returning 90mpg and 70g/km of CO2. Those figures are greener than a Prius, and Porsche is not in the habit – unlike some other car firms – of making claims it can’t prove. For once, looking was almost enough; the 918 manages to appear compact, delicate and light but raw and aggressive all at once. It also looked bored on that stand; bored being looked at when it’s built to be driven. And you just know it will be incandescent to drive.
The most significant car of the show is probably Audi’s A1, because it sits at the nexus of a series of interconnected trends. Audi is on a roll, despite the downturn. People want cool small cars again for a bunch of reasons and they want a premium badge. The Mini better watch out. Ford showed its new Focus, more significant than the A1 in terms of numbers, but the looks are a little Korean and you just know it will be more of the same from Ford; great dynamics, great quality, and a car that doesn’t treat the ‘ordinary’ driver like a schmo.
Alfa’s new, Focus-sized Giulietta was much better-looking, but like I said, the looks are only ten per cent of the appeal.
Elsewhere, like every other motor show for the past two years, pretty much every big carmaker had some sort of electric/hybrid/whatever concept on display, but there’s a big difference between just saying your new concept runs on manure and emits only butterflies, and actually putting an appreciably greener car into profitable mass production.
And like every other motor show, Geneva’s halls are crammed with car-anoraks festooned with cameras and laden with brochures, with the garishly-dressed and bouffanted ‘valued clients’ being buttered up by the more exclusive carmakers (so that’s who buys a Bufori…), with teams of Chinese engineers taking digital pictures of obscure parts of the latest models, and with the angular, architectural, intimidatingly beautiful stand-girls.
I’ve never quite understood this either; if a carmaker wants us to look at its new model, why does it distract us with beautiful women wearing very little? And why does the car industry continue to get away with a ‘marketing’ tactic that should have died off at the same time the Miss World contest was taken off TV? Maybe there’s a parallel with motor shows in general; maybe predictions of their demise are premature. A few more will die off, certainly. But if you don’t mind just looking, go to Geneva.
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GOC, Brigade Commander To Lead Troops To Recapture Monguno Town
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Almost a month after Boko Haram terrorists took control of Monguno and sacked residents of the town, indications have emerged that troops to be led by top military officers that include the GOC 7 division, MG Adeosun and Brigade Commander of 5 Brigade, Monguno, BG Udoh, have been mobilized to recapture the town any moment from now.
It could be recalled that Monguno town was seized by insurgents on January 25, 2015. The town, which is about 143km northwest of Maiduguri, the capital of Borno State, is home to the second largest barrack (Recce Battalion) in the state after the 7 Div., Headquarters.
Speaking under the condition of anonymity to LEADERSHIP SUNDAY, a ranked soldier serving at the 7 Division of the Nigerian Army, Maiduguri, yesterday confirmed that Monguno town is about to be liberated following the deployment and mobilization of troops to ensure that the border town is recaptured and under the control of the Nigerian security forces.
“I can assure that any moment from now, though I cannot be definite about time, the GOC and the Brigade Commander would be leading troops that are already on ground to recapture Monguno”, the officer said.
He added: “This operation which will be replicated in other captured communities afterwards, has zero tolerance for failure because it being ordered by the C in C himself”.
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RJ Jainendra, VP and General Manager, DevOps, ServiceNow
How to Make the Leap to DevOps
While it's easy to make the business case for DevOps, executing it may be the trickiest leadership task you'll ever face. Here are three steps that can help.
It takes planning and persistence for companies to shift from Agile to DevOps, but the rewards can be huge.
DevOps has come a long way since it was first conceived a decade ago. It started as Agile Operations, which was a response by sysadmins to keep up with more efficient Agile product development teams who were creating production quality software more frequently.
DevOps stems from the belief that companies work best when supported by product development teams that are coordinated and collaborative. A well-run DevOps team iterates fast and provides benefits in some very basic ways: software releases delivered on time or ahead of schedule and with fewer problems in production. Even if problems do make it into production they are fixed more quickly, and the team learns and improves by leveraging the data available through the collaboration. High-performing DevOps teams deploy code 46 times faster than lower-performing peers and experience one-fifth as many failures. Along the way, the shift to DevOps reinforces a mindset of continuous improvement across the organization. And emerging AI capabilities in DevOps promise even greater efficiencies.
But getting your dev and ops teams to work together to quickly build and release code into production isn’t easy. It is heavily reliant on cultural and process changes alongside the availability of a dizzying array of tools. Many leaders get nervous when planning the transition. So, while it’s easy to make the business case for DevOps, executing it may be the trickiest leadership task you’ll ever face.
I’ve led many DevOps initiatives over the years. I’ve seen great success and borne scars of failure. Along the way, I’ve learned there are common pitfalls to avoid (or at least leap over). The core essentials include a well-designed plan, a clear set of goals to shoot for, and the right people and process to do great work at an incredibly fast pace.
Set manageable goals
The first rule of DevOps is to start with a pilot program. Your goal is not to become the next Netflix or Amazon overnight. Instead, you’re doing a dry run for how a successful DevOps program will look at scale. This is your sandbox, a good laboratory where you can experiment, occasionally fail, and learn.
Initially, you’ll want to set a handful of goals that are aligned with bigger objectives, but manageable in and of themselves. If a primary objective is, for instance, to increase product quality, break it down into more specific achievements like decreasing the issue backlog by 40% or reducing deployment time by two hours.
Ensure everyone on the team understands the goals; this makes it easier for team members to pull together, and it’s a hedge against finger-pointing when things get rough.
Focus on people, not just projects
A DevOps pilot is about more than technology. Continuous delivery of your product requires greater collaboration from developers, testers, UX, security specialists, product and operations people from start to finish.
Successful DevOps groups are focused, quick and have a startup mentality. They fail quickly and learn from their mistakes.
Each team member should have a clearly delineated role, but the DevOps group itself should feel like one. I’ve made the mistake of being fuzzy about roles, and it’s come back to bite me many times. In one project, I initially asked a developer to do operations work as well. He quickly became a bottleneck because he was being pulled in too many directions.
We fixed that problem by splitting the two roles and assigning an ops specialist to do the ops work. As your team becomes more mature, it may become natural to combine these roles. But initially it’s best to keep them separate.
Be forewarned: Dev and ops teams have a long history of blaming each other for shortfalls, and personality clashes may arise, particularly in the beginning. Meet this challenge head-on by scheduling blame-free post mortems to fix issues quickly and learn from them. These are about failing fast to drive innovation.
Market the benefits, and celebrate success
When scaling DevOps, it’s important to show how your work delivers value. It’s also critical to make sure the team members are motivated and know how critical their contributions are. It’s a powerful combination.
When speaking with others within the company, show (rather than tell) how DevOps provides benefits. Don’t just say that quality is improving. Track and show specific metrics about how far the needle has moved for things like speed of deployment and how many defects are being raised for each release; or how quickly you are resolving incidents because the teams are working together.
In addition, showcase the human value. Get testimony from the business team describing the improvements they see, including how your DevOps speed and agility is helping customers. Get testimonials from customers, too, and share them broadly.
Finally, have a senior leader talk about the benefits of DevOps during general meetings like town halls in which they can describe how DevOps is providing value for the organization.
Good luck setting out on your DevOps journey. With commitment, perseverance, and patience, DevOps can be the same type of catalyst for your company as it’s been for Netflix, Amazon, and many others.
RJ Jainendra is VP and GM for ITBM and DevOps at ServiceNow. He has worked in tech for over 20 years with a majority of his career building tools for developers and IT. Most recently, Jainendra was group VP at Oracle leading product development and service management for Oracle Sales Cloud. Prior to Oracle, he was chief product officer at Electric Cloud where he led product management, design and engineering to deliver ElectricFlow Deploy and Release (in the DevOps market). He holds a Master of Science degree in Computer Science from the University of Wisconsin and a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science from Angelo State University.
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Home > The Department > About the Department > Enterprise Agreement and Employment Procedures > 2016
Enterprise Agreement 2016
Application and Coverage
Consultation and Dispute Resolution
Salary and Classification
Allowances and Reimbursements
Working Arrangements
Redeployment, Retrenchment and Redundancy
[Schedule A] Salary Scales and Broadbands
[Schedule B] Transitional Arrangements
[Schedule C] Supported Wage System
In this Agreement, the singular includes the plural. For the purposes of this Agreement the following definitions apply:
Agreement means the Department of Infrastructure and Regional Development Enterprise Agreement 2016;
APS means the Australian Public Service;
De facto partner includes a former de facto partner;
Department and the Department mean the Commonwealth Department of Infrastructure and Regional Development, or its successor however described;
Dependant in relation to an employee, means the partner of the employee or a child or parent of the employee, being a child or parent who ordinarily resides with the employee and who is wholly or substantially dependent on the employee;
Employee means an employee engaged under subsection 22(2) of the PS Act, but does not include an SES employee;
Immediate family means a spouse, de facto partner, child, parent, grandparent, grandchild or sibling of the employee; or a child, parent, grandparent, grandchild or sibling of a spouse or de facto partner of the employee, fostering or traditional kinship;
HDA means Higher Duties Allowance;
LSL Act means the Long Service Leave (Commonwealth Employees) Act 1976;
LSL means Long Service Leave as defined in the LSL Act;
ML Act means the Maternity Leave (Commonwealth Employees) Act 1973;
NES means the National Employment Standards;
Non-ongoing employee means an employee engaged under subsection 22(2)(b) or (c) of the PS Act but does not include a non-ongoing SES employee;
Ongoing employee means an employee engaged under subsection 22(2)(a) of the PS Act but does not include an ongoing SES employee;
Partner means, in relation to a person who is a member of a couple, the other member of the couple;
PCL means, Personal Circumstances Leave;
Primary care giver is the employee who will assume the principal role for the care and attention of a child/children. The employer may require confirmation of primary care giver status;
PS Act means the Public Service Act 1999 as amended from time to time;
Salary means the employee's rate of pay specified in [Schedule A] unless otherwise defined;
Secretary means the person for the time being holding or performing the duties of the office of Secretary of the Department;
SES means the Senior Executive Service as defined in the PS Act;
Settlement period means a four week period commencing on a Thursday and ending on a Wednesday;
Spouse includes former spouse;
Superannuation Act means the Superannuation Act 2005 (Cth).
1.1 This agreement made under section 172 of the Fair Work Act 2009 shall be known as the Department of Infrastructure and Regional Development Enterprise Agreement 2016.
2. Coverage
2.1 This Agreement covers:
the Secretary of the Department, for and on behalf of the Commonwealth of Australia as the employer; and
employees of the Department engaged under the PS Act (other than Senior Executive Service employees).
3. Commencement and Duration of This Agreement
3.1 This Agreement commences seven days after approval by the Fair Work Commission. This Agreement nominally expires three years after the date of commencement.
4. Delegation
4.1 The Secretary may, in writing, delegate to a person any of the Secretary's powers or functions under this Agreement.
4.2 A person exercising powers or functions delegated under this clause must comply with any conditions imposed by the Secretary on the exercise of that power or function.
5. Agreement Operates in Conjunction with Other Documentation
5.1 Any policies or employment procedures referred to in this Agreement do not form part of this Agreement. Department employment procedures, however described, are subordinate to this Agreement to the extent that they deal with terms and conditions of employment expressly set out in this Agreement.
6. Individual Flexibility Arrangements
6.1 The Secretary may agree to make an individual flexibility arrangement with an employee to vary the effect of terms of this Agreement relating to:
arrangements about when work is performed;
overtime rates;
penalty rates for shiftworkers;
allowances;
overseas postings, allowances and conditions;
remuneration; and/or
where the arrangement meets an employee's genuine needs and those of the Department.
6.2 The Secretary must ensure that a flexibility arrangement agreed to under this subsection 6:
is about permitted matters under section 172 of the FW Act;
does not include unlawful terms under section 194 of FW Act;
results in the employee being better off overall than if no arrangement was agreed to;
is in writing;
is signed by both the employee and the Secretary, and, if the employee is under 18, is signed by a parent or guardian;
is able to be terminated by either the employee or the Secretary giving not more than 28 days' written notice, or at any time by agreement between the employee and the Secretary in writing; and
is given to the employee within 14 days after it is agreed to.
A flexibility arrangement must be genuinely agreed between an employee and the Secretary.
7. Consultation
7.1 Subsection 7 applies if the Department:
has made a definite decision to introduce a major change to production, program, organisation, structure or technology in relation to the Department that is likely to have a significant effect on the employees; or
proposes to introduce a change to the regular roster or ordinary hours of work of employees.
7.2 For a major change referred to in subclause 7.1a):
the Department will notify the relevant employees of the decision to introduce the major change; and
clauses 7.3 to 7.9 apply.
7.3 The relevant employees may appoint a representative for the purposes of the procedures in clauses 7.3 to 7.7 if:
a relevant employee appoints, or relevant employees appoint, a representative for the purposes of consultation; and
the employee or employees advise the Department of the identity of the representative.
7.4 The Department will recognise a representative under clause 7.3.
7.5 As soon as practicable after making its decision, the Department will:
discuss with the relevant employees:
the introduction of the change; and
the effect the change is likely to have on the employees; and
measures the Department is taking to avert or mitigate the adverse effect of the change on the employees; and
for the purposes of the discussion—provide, in writing, to the relevant employees:
all relevant information about the change including the nature of the change proposed; and
information about the expected effects of the change on the employees; and
any other matters likely to affect the employees.
7.6 The Department is not required to disclose confidential or commercially sensitive information to the relevant employees.
7.7 The Department will give prompt and genuine consideration to matters raised about the major change by the relevant employees.
7.8 If a clause in this agreement provides for a major change to production, program, organisation, structure or technology in relation to the enterprise of the Department, the requirements set out in subclause 7.2a) and clauses 7.3 and 7.5 are taken not to apply.
7.9 In this clause, a major change is likely to have a significant effect on employees if it results in:
the termination of the employment of employees; or
major change to the composition, operation or size of the employer's workforce or to the skills required of employees; or
the elimination or diminution of job opportunities (including opportunities for promotion or tenure); or
the alteration of hours of work; or
the need to retrain employees; or
the need to relocate employees to another workplace; or
the restructuring of jobs.
7.10 For a change referred to in subclause 7.1b), the Department will notify the relevant employees of the proposed change and clauses 7.11 to 7.15 apply.
7.11 The relevant employees may appoint a representative for the purposes of the procedures in clauses 7.13 to 7.15 if:
the employee or employees advise the employer of the identity of the representative.
7.12 The Department will recognise a representative under clause 7.11.
7.13 As soon as practicable after proposing to introduce the change, the Department will:
discuss with the relevant employees the introduction of the change; and
for the purposes of the discussion—provide to the relevant employees:
all relevant information about the change, including the nature of the change; and
information about what the employer reasonably believes will be the effects of the change on the employees; and
information about any other matters that the Department reasonably believes are likely to affect the employees; and
invite the relevant employees to give their views about the impact of the change (including any impact in relation to their family or caring responsibilities).
7.14 However, the Department is not required to disclose confidential or commercially sensitive information to the relevant employees.
7.15 The Department will give prompt and genuine consideration to matters raised about the change by the relevant employees.
7.16 In this subsection 7, relevant employees means the employees who may be affected by a change referred to in clause 7.1.
7.17 The Secretary will establish a Departmental Consultative Committee.
7.18 The Department's employment procedure sets out arrangements for consultation, including departmental consultative committees.
7.19 Prior to any employment procedures being amended or introduced, the Department will make the employment procedure available on the intranet for comment and feedback for a period of two weeks. The Department will consider any comments or feedback received in relation to the employment procedure prior to finalising the employment procedure.
8. Dispute Avoidance and Settlement Procedure
8.1 If a dispute relates to a matter under this agreement, or the NES, the parties to the dispute must first attempt to resolve the matter at the workplace level by discussions between the employee or employees concerned and the relevant supervisor.
8.2 If a resolution to the dispute has not been achieved after discussions have been held in accordance with clause 8.1, the parties to the dispute will endeavour to resolve the dispute in a timely manner either through discussions with more senior levels of management where appropriate or through alternative dispute resolution methods.
8.3 If discussions at the workplace level do not resolve the dispute, and all appropriate steps have been taken in accordance with clauses 8.1 and 8.2, a party to the dispute may refer the matter to the Fair Work Commission.
8.4 The Fair Work Commission may deal with the dispute in two stages:
The Fair Work Commission will first attempt to resolve the dispute as it considers appropriate, including by mediation, conciliation, expressing an opinion or making a recommendation; and
If the Fair Work Commission is unable to resolve the dispute at the first stage, the Fair Work Commission may then:
arbitrate the dispute; and
make a determination that is binding on the parties
Note: If the Fair Work Commission arbitrates the dispute, it may also use the powers that are available to it under the Act. A decision that the Fair Work Commission makes when arbitrating a dispute is a decision for the purposes of Div 3 of Part 5.1 of the Fair Work Act 2009. Therefore, an appeal may be made against the decision.
8.5 The Department or an employee who is party to the dispute may appoint another person, organisation or association to accompany and/or represent them for the purpose of this subsection 8.
8.6 While the parties are trying to resolve the dispute using the procedures in this subsection an employee must;
continue to perform his or her work as he or she would normally unless he or she has a reasonable concern about an imminent risk to his or her health or safety; and
comply with a direction given by the Secretary to perform other available work at the same workplace, or another workplace unless:
the work is not safe; or
applicable work health and safety legislation would not permit the work to be performed; or
the work is not appropriate for the employee to perform; or
there are other reasonable grounds for the employee to refuse to comply with the direction.
8.7 The parties to the dispute agree to be bound by a decision made by the Fair Work Commission in accordance with this subsection.
9. Termination of Employment
9.1 The sole and exhaustive rights and remedies of an employee in relation to termination of employment are those that the employee enjoys under:
Part 3–1, Part 3–2 and Division 2 of Part 6–4 of the Fair Work Act 2009;
other Commonwealth laws (including the Constitution); and
at common law.
9.2 Termination of, or a decision to terminate employment, cannot be reviewed under the Dispute Avoidance and Settlement Procedure set out in subsection 8 of this Agreement.
10. Classification Structure
10.1 The Department's non-SES classification structure is set out in [Schedule A].
11. Salary Increases
11.1 Unless otherwise specified in [Schedule B] or clause 12, employees will receive the following salary increases during the life of this Agreement:
3.00% of salary on commencement;
2.00% of salary on the first anniversary of the Agreement; and
1.00% of salary on the second anniversary of the Agreement.
12. Employees on Non-Standard Salary Rates
12.1 Unless otherwise specified in [Schedule B], employees in receipt of a salary rate not listed in [Schedule A] will remain on that rate until it reaches the relevant equivalent salary point for the employee's classification. During this time they will not receive the salary increases set out in clause 11.1.
12.2 Once an employee's non-standard salary rate reaches the relevant equivalent salary point for the employee's classification, they will transition to the corresponding pay point or next highest pay point applying to the employee's classification set out in table 1 of [Schedule A].
13. Transitional Provisions—Legal And Public Affairs
13.1 [Schedule B] contains transitional salary provisions applying to employees who, immediately prior to the commencement of this Agreement, were engaged in a Legal or Public Affairs classification.
14. Transitional Provisions—Former DRALGAS Employees
14.1 [Schedule B] contains transitional salary provisions applying to employees who, prior to 1 June 2015, had their terms and conditions set by operation of the Determination under subsection 24(3)—Non-SES employees moved between APS agencies to give effect to the Administrative Arrangement Orders made by the Governor-General in Council on 18 September 2013 (as amended) (Determination).
15. Payment of Salary
15.1 Employees will be paid fortnightly in arrears based on the following formula:
Fortnightly pay = Annual Salary X 12/313
15.2 Each employee will be paid his or her fortnightly pay by electronic funds transfer into the financial institution account nominated by the employee.
15.3 The Secretary may approve the prepayment of an employee's salary.
16. Salary on Engagement and Promotion
16.1 Subject to the following clauses, if an employee is engaged or promoted to a classification within the Department, salary will be payable at the minimum point in the salary range that they have been employed at.
16.2 The Secretary may authorise payment of salary above the minimum point in the salary range after considering the employee's experience (including any previous periods of HDA at or above that level), qualifications, skills, and any other relevant factor.
17. Salary on Movement from Another APS Agency
17.1 If an employee transfers to the Department from another APS agency, the Secretary will determine the rate of salary applying to the employee.
18. Salary On Reduction
18.1 If an employee requests, in writing, and the Secretary agrees, a temporary reassignment of duties at a lower classification level, the Secretary may determine in writing the rate of salary applicable to the lower level that the employee will be paid.
19. Employees Performing Irregular or Intermittent Duties
19.1 A non-ongoing employee engaged to perform irregular or intermittent duties under subsection 22(2)(c) of the PS Act will receive a salary loading of 20% in lieu of Public Holidays on which the employee is not rostered to work, paid Annual Leave and paid PCL.
20. Junior Rates
20.1 Junior rates of pay as a percentage of the APS Level 1.1 equivalent adult rate of pay will apply as follows:
Under 18 years 60%
At 18 years 70%
21. Trainee APS (Administrative) Employees
21.1 Employees engaged as Trainee APS (Administrative) employees will have a commencement salary at the minimum salary point applying to the APS 1 classification under this Agreement, unless otherwise determined by the Secretary.
21.2 Trainee APS (Administrative) employees will undertake a course of training as determined by the Secretary.
21.3 On successfully completing their training, Trainee APS (Administrative) employees will progress to the maximum salary point applying to the APS Level 1 classification and will be assigned to this APS classification or such other classification which is in accordance with the Public Service Classification Rules 2000.
22. Trainee APS (Technical) Employees
22.1 Trainee APS (Technical) employees have a commencement salary at the minimum salary point applying to the APS 2 classification under this Agreement, unless otherwise determined by the Secretary.
22.2 Trainee APS (Technical) employees will undertake a course of training as determined by the Secretary.
22.3 On successfully completing their training, Trainee APS (Technical) employees will progress to the minimum salary point applying to APS Level 3 and will be assigned to this APS classification or such other classification which is in accordance with the Public Service Classification Rules 2000.
23. Graduate APS Employees
23.1 Graduate APS employees will have a commencement salary of an APS 3.1 as specified in [Schedule A] for the duration of their training.
23.2 Graduate APS employees will undertake a course of training as determined by the Secretary.
23.3 On successfully completing their training, and subject to effective performance, Graduate APS employees will:
be assigned to the APS 3.1 GRAD within the APS 3/APS 5 (Graduate) Broadband;
advance to APS 5.1 GRAD salary point within the APS Level 3/APS Level 5 (Graduate) Broadband; and
immediately following that advancement, transfer to the APS 5.1 level in the general APS classification structure in accordance with the Public Service Classification Rules 2000 (as amended from time to time).
24. Cadet APS Employees
24.1 Subject to the following clause, Cadet APS employees' rates of pay as a percentage of the APS Level 2.1 salary point will apply as follows:
100% when undertaking practical training; and
57% when undertaking full-time study.
24.2 Cadet APS employees will undertake a course of training as determined by the Secretary.
24.3 The Department will assist Cadet APS employees to purchase compulsory books and any other equipment required for their studies.
24.4 On successfully completing their training, ongoing Cadet APS employees will progress to a salary point at or above the minimum salary point applying to APS Level 3 as determined by the Secretary and will be assigned to this APS classification or such other classification which is in accordance with the Public Service Classification Rules 2000.
24.5 The Department's employment procedure sets out arrangements for Cadet APS Employees.
25. Broadbanding Arrangements
25.1 The Secretary may determine the commencement salary and broadband progression requirements for entry level employees who are engaged through whole of government target programs, for example, targeted traineeships and apprenticeships.
26. Supported Wage System
26.1 Supported salary rates for employees with disability are payable in accordance with [Schedule C].
27. Remuneration Packages
27.1 Employees have access to flexible remuneration packages, provided that the employee meets any costs incurred by the Department.
27.2 If an employee opts for flexible remuneration packaging on the basis of ‘salary sacrifice’, the employee's salary for purposes of superannuation or severance and termination will be determined as if the salary sacrifice arrangements had not taken place.
28. Superannuation
28.1 For an employee who exercises superannuation choice, the Department will maintain the maximum basic contribution for designated employers as specified in Part 2, Division 2 of the Deed to establish the Public Sector Superannuation accumulation plan (PSSap) (pursuant to section 10 of the Superannuation Act). For the purpose of this section 28, an employee is an employee who, if not for the exercise of superannuation choice, would be an ordinary employer sponsored member of the PSSap.
28.2 Where employer contributions are to an accumulation superannuation fund the employer contribution will be 15.4% calculated on the employee's fortnightly contribution salary. This will not be reduced by any other contributions made through salary sacrifice arrangements.
28.3 The Secretary may choose to limit superannuation choice to funds which:
are complying and registered superannuation funds;
allow employee and/or employer contributions to be paid fortnightly through electronic funds transfer; and
make satisfactory arrangements for the acceptance of payments from the Department and for information transfer between the Department's payroll and the fund.
28.4 Employer superannuation contributions will not be paid on behalf of employees during periods of unpaid leave that does not count as service (with the exception of Maternity Leave, Adoption Leave and Foster Carer Leave), unless otherwise prescribed by legislation.
28.5 This clause does not apply where a superannuation fund cannot accept employer superannuation contributions.
29. Payment on Death of Employee
29.1 Where an employee dies, or the Secretary has directed that an employee will be presumed to have died on a particular date, the Secretary may authorise the payment of the amount to which the former employee would have been entitled had the employee ceased employment through resignation or retirement.
29.2 Payments authorised under this clause include, but are not limited to, unpaid salary entitlements, accrued Annual Leave and LSL entitlements in accordance with the Long Service Leave (Commonwealth Employees) Act 1976.
29.3 Payment may be made only to the former employee's legal personal representative.
30. Salary Progression
30.1 Employees will be entitled to progress one salary point up the salary scale applying to the employee's substantive classification on 1 July each year, subject to meeting the requirements of clause 30.2.
30.2 Salary progression is subject to confirmation by the employee's supervisor that the employee:
has participated in the Department's performance management processes for a period of at least six months in the previous performance management cycle; and
has achieved a rating of at least equivalent to effective in the employee's performance management review; and
satisfies any qualifications criteria for progression.
31. Accelerated Salary Progression
31.1 A supervisor may submit a proposal to the Secretary, in writing, that an employee receive accelerated salary progression if the supervisor considers that the employee has demonstrated outstanding skills and competencies.
31.2 Upon receipt of a proposal under clause 31.1 the Secretary may progress an employee to the next salary point up the salary scale applying to the employee's substantive classification if the Secretary is satisfied that the employee:
has participated in the Department's performance management processes for the previous six months;
achieved a rating of ‘exceeds expectations’ at the previous performance management exchange; and
at the time of the request for accelerated salary progression, the employee has continued to consistently exceed performance expectation for their level and has met several of the required performance standards of the next level up.
32. Introduction
32.1 Arrangements for payment of allowances and reimbursements are set out in the relevant Department employment procedure.
32.2 Allowances will count for superannuation purposes in accordance with applicable superannuation fund rules.
32.3 Allowances (other than Meal Allowance and expense related allowances) will be paid on a pro rata basis for part-time employees.
33. Higher Duties Allowance (HDA)
33.1 Higher Duties Allowance (HDA) will be paid where an employee performs higher work value duties for a period of 10 continuous working days or longer.
33.2 Payment of HDA must not extend beyond 12 months, except where authorised by the Secretary.
33.3 The Secretary will determine the level of HDA payable and the period for which it is to be paid.
33.4 An employee who is temporarily reassigned to perform duties at the SES level will be eligible for HDA.
33.5 HDA will not be paid during unpaid leave periods.
34. Additional Duties Allowances
34.1 An employee will be paid a fortnightly allowance for the period the employee:
holds a current first aid certificate and has been appointed by the Secretary to perform first aid duties; or
holds a fire safety training certificate and has been appointed by the Secretary to fire warden duties; or
holds a certificate from an accredited health and safety training organisation and is elected by members of his or her designated work group to perform health and safety representative duties; or
has been appointed as a Workplace Harassment Contact Officer (WHCO) and received appropriate training as a WHCO.
34.2 The rate of the fortnightly Additional Duties Allowance will be paid in accordance with the following table:
From commencement of the Agreement $27.30
From the first anniversary of the Agreement $27.85
From the second anniversary of the Agreement $28.13
34.3 Employees will not be paid more than one allowance for the responsibilities listed in clause 34.1.
34.4 Additional Duties Allowances will not be paid during paid leave periods of 90 days or greater, unless required by legislation. For the avoidance of doubt, an employee is entitled to payment of Additional Duties Allowances for the first 89 days of paid leave.
35. Departmental Liaison Officer Allowance
35.1 The Secretary may approve payment of an annual allowance to an employee who performs the duties of Departmental Liaison Officer in the office of a Minister or Parliamentary Secretary.
35.2 An employee receiving the Departmental Liaison Officer Allowance will not be entitled to overtime in accordance with subsection 59.
35.3 The annual rate of the Departmental Liaison Officer allowance is set out in the table below. The allowance will be paid fortnightly in accordance with an equivalent formula as the fortnightly pay formula detailed in clause 15.1.
From commencement of the Agreement $21,617
From the first anniversary of the Agreement $22,049
From the second anniversary of the Agreement $22,269
36. Meal Allowance
36.1 Employees who work two hours of overtime on a normal rostered work day, or four hours on a non-work day, will be entitled to a meal allowance. The amount of the meal allowance will be the amount published from time to time by the Australian Taxation Commissioner as the reasonable amount for overtime meal expenses in the Commissioner's ruling on reasonable travel and meal allowance expense amounts.
36.2 Employees who work nine hours continuous overtime will be entitled to a further meal allowance.
36.3 Employees who are provided with a meal, or are performing overtime at home will not be entitled to a meal allowance.
36.4 Executive Level 1 and 2 employees who work extended hours may be entitled to payment for meal allowance.
36.5 Meal allowance will be paid to employees fortnightly through the payroll system.
37. Motor Vehicle Use
37.1 An employee may be authorised, in advance, to use a private motor vehicle owned or hired by the employee for official purposes if the Secretary decides that it is appropriate to do so, having regard to the individual circumstances. Use of the car for official purposes is at the employee's own expense and risk.
37.2 If an employee's private motor vehicle is approved for official purposes, the employee will be entitled to be paid the amount per kilometre as specified in Part 2 of Schedule 1 of the Income Tax Assessment Regulations 1997. On request by the Department, an employee will provide evidence of the engine capacity of the employee's private motor vehicle for the purposes of determining the applicable rate of allowance.
38. Remote Localities Assistance
38.1 The Secretary may provide remote localities assistance such as allowances or additional leave.
38.2 Employees already in receipt of localities assistance will continue to receive the assistance.
38.3 The Department's employment procedure sets out arrangements for remote localities assistance.
39. Transport Security Inspector (TSI) and Vehicle Safety Standards Inspector (VSSI) Allowance
39.1 An employee who is appointed as an inspector by the Secretary pursuant to:
section 77 of the Aviation Transport Security Act 2004 (Cth); or
section 136 of the Maritime Transport and Offshore Facilities Security Act 2003 (Cth);or
section 25 of the Motor Vehicle Standards Act 1989 (Cth);
and is required to undertake audit and compliance work in the field as an important ongoing component of their role, shall be paid a TSI/VSSI allowance as set out in the following table:
From commencement of the Agreement $3,442
From the first anniversary of the Agreement $3,511
From the second anniversary of the Agreement $3,546
39.2 The TSI/VSSI allowance will be paid fortnightly in accordance with an equivalent formula as the fortnightly pay formula detailed in clause 15.1 during the period the employee continues to be appointed as an inspector.
39.3 Eligibility for the allowance shall cease:
one month from the date on which the Secretary has determined that there is no longer a requirement for the employee to undertake audit and compliance work in the field, or for the employee to be available to undertake audit and compliance work in the field; or
from the date on which the employee has moved to a different role or employment area within the Department; and
the employee is not required to undertake audit and compliance work in the field that is an important, ongoing component of their role.
40. Relocation Assistance
40.1 Where an employee is relocated, the Department may meet all fair and reasonable costs associated with the relocation.
40.2 The cost of relocating must be approved by the Secretary in advance of the employee's removal, having regard to the employee's personal circumstances and the Department's employment procedure on relocation expenses.
40.3 If an employee voluntarily leaves the Department (and not due to extenuating circumstances such as, but not restricted to and on a case-by-case basis, illness, redeployment, retrenchment or redundancy), or has their employment terminated due to misconduct within 12 months of the date of the relocation, the Department may seek reimbursement of the relocation assistance.
41. Reimbursement for Work Related Expenses
41.1 Employees may be reimbursed for fair and reasonable work-related expenses incurred during the course of, or arising out of their employment, if the Secretary so decides.
42. Professional Memberships/Accreditations
42.1 The Secretary will reimburse membership fees and or accreditation fees where a membership or accreditation from a professional association is required for an employee to undertake their responsibilities for the Department.
43. Reimbursement for Cancelled Leave or Recall to Duty
43.1 Subject to the presentation of receipts for consideration by the Secretary, an employee may be reimbursed reasonable costs that are not recoverable which arise because the employee's approved leave is cancelled or the employee is recalled to duty while on Annual Leave or LSL.
44. Standard Working Hours
44.1 Standard hours of work in the Department are 7.5 hours per day (Monday to Friday), within the bandwidth of 7.00 am to 7.00 pm. This is a total of 37.5 hours per week or 150 hours per four-week settlement period.
44.2 A standard day for the purposes of leave, attendance (including flextime) and payment of salary shall constitute the hours 8.30am–12.30pm and 1.30pm–5.00pm.
44.3 Standard hours for part-time employees shall be those agreed between the employee and their supervisor in accordance with this Section.
44.4 The Department's employment procedure sets out arrangements for working hours.
45. Bandwidth
45.1 The Secretary may agree to an employee working a different pattern of hours either on a short-term or continuing basis, which may encompass any hours of the week.
45.2 Regardless of the bandwidth applying to an employee, he or she must break for at least 30 minutes after five hours continuous work.
46. Regular Part-Time Work
46.1 The Secretary may agree in writing to an employee working less than an average of 75 hours a fortnight over a specified period for a maximum of 12 months.
46.2 Salary, leave, benefits and allowances (other than Meal Allowance and expense related allowances) for employees who work part-time will be calculated on a pro rata basis, being the appropriate percentage of the salary, leave, benefits and allowances applying to full time employees.
46.3 Part-time employees must work at least three hours on any agreed working day.
46.4 Applications to revert to full time employment or increase part-time hours for the purpose of maximising payments while on leave, for public holidays or salary for superannuation purposes will not be agreed.
46.5 Requests from employees returning from Maternity, Foster Carer, Adoption and Parental Leave to work on a part-time basis will be, subject to operational requirements, favourably considered.
46.6 The Department's employment procedure sets out arrangements for part-time employment.
47. Flexible Work Arrangements
47.1 Division 4 of the National Employment Standards allows certain employees to request flexible working arrangements. For full details, please see section 65 of the Fair Work Act 2009.
48. Flextime
48.1 Flextime is available to all APS Levels 1–6, Graduates and training/cadet employees, subject to operational requirements, the availability of work, and the approval of the employee's supervisor, which may be either general or specific.
48.2 Part-time employees may access the same flextime arrangements as full-time employees but their maximum flextime credit and debit levels will be on a pro rata basis.
48.3 Flextime may not be used to vary a part-time employee's hours without the consent of the employee concerned.
49. Flextime Credits
49.1 Employees may accrue flextime credit to a total of 30 hours. Where due to exceptional operational pressures, the supervisor and employee cannot take action to prevent the employee from exceeding the maximum flextime credit of 30 hours at the end of the settlement period, a higher flex credit may be carried over on a temporary basis to the end of the next settlement period.
49.2 Excess balances beyond 30 hours require the employee and supervisor to agree to a strategy to reduce the excess hours to under 30 hours within four weeks.
49.3 With the agreement of their supervisor and subject to operational requirements, an employee may take as much consecutive flextime leave as they have accrued.
49.4 Notwithstanding clause 48.1 and 49.5, employees should have an opportunity to exhaust their flextime credits before ceasing their employment with the Department.
49.5 If an employee leaves the Department any unexhausted flextime credit will not be paid out.
50. Flextime Debits
50.1 Employees may carry forward a maximum flextime debit of 15 hours from one settlement period to the next.
50.2 Employees with a maximum flextime debit of 15 hours may be required to take any additional debits as Other Leave without pay.
51. Recording Attendance—Flextime
51.1 Employees and supervisors are responsible for ensuring that flextime attendance records are:
completed accurately at time of commencement and finishing work;
promptly checked and certified by supervisors; and
stored in accordance with the Department's employment procedure.
52. Reversion to Standard Hours
52.1 The Secretary may require an employee to work standard hours where it is reasonably considered that:
standard hours are required to meet operational requirements;
the employee is misusing flexible working arrangements or flextime; or
the employee has been absent without authorisation under subsection 93.
52.2 Access to flextime will not be available where an employee is required to work standard hours under subclause 52.1b) or 52.1c).
52.3 Where reversion to standard hours is being considered, the proposed action should be discussed with the affected employee and a written explanation of the reasons for requiring the employee to revert to standard hours be provided.
52.4 Where an employee has been reverted to standard hours, they will work the prescribed standard hours of duty of 7.5 hours per day, from 8.30 am to 5.00 pm (or other standard hours determined to genuinely address the employee's needs) for a period of time at the discretion of the Secretary.
52.5 The period of time that an employee is reverted to standard hours will be reviewed at regular intervals.
53. Flexible Hours—Executive Level (EL) Employees
53.1 EL employees (including EL employees working under a part-time arrangement) will be required, as senior professionals responsible for delivering key work outputs, to work reasonable additional hours from time to time but, may, by agreement in advance with their supervisor, work flexible hours.
53.2 EL employees are entitled to be absent from the workplace, including whole days off, under a flexible hours arrangement agreed with their supervisor.
53.3 Flexible hours for EL employees are not based on an hour-for-hour recognition of additional hours worked.
54. Home Based Work
54.1 The Department's employment procedure sets out arrangements for Home Based Work.
55. Public Holidays
55.1 Employees will be entitled to the following public holidays:
New Year's Day (1 January);
Australia Day (26 January);
Good Friday;
Easter Monday;
Anzac Day (25 April);
The Queen's birthday holiday (on the day on which it is celebrated in a State or Territory or a region of a State or Territory)
Christmas Day (25 December);
Boxing Day(26 December);
Any other day, or part-day, declared or prescribed by or under a law in a State or Territory to be observed generally within the State or Territory, or a region of the State or territory, as a public holiday, other than a day or part-day, or a kind of part-day, that is excluded by the Fair Work regulations from counting as a public holiday.
55.2 If under a state or territory law, a day or part day is substituted for one of the public holidays listed in clause 55.1, then the substituted day or part day is the public holiday.
55.3 The Secretary and an employee may agree on the substitution of a day or part day that would otherwise be a public holiday, having regard to operational requirements.
55.4 An employee, who is absent on a day or part-day that is a public holiday in the place where the employee is based for work purposes, is entitled to be paid for the part or full day absence as if that day or part day was not a public holiday, except where that person would not normally have worked on that day.
55.5 Where a public holiday falls during a period when an employee is absent on leave (other than Annual or paid PCL) there is no entitlement to receive payment as a public holiday. Payment for that day would be in accordance with the entitlement for that form of leave (e.g. if on LSL on half pay, payment is on half pay).
55.6 If under a law of a State or Territory every Sunday is declared or prescribed by or under that law to be a public holiday, there is no entitlement to receive payment as a public holiday if the employee would have worked, or does perform work, on that day. In these circumstances, payment will only be made at the public holiday rate of pay if employee performs work on that day, and the Sunday would otherwise be a public holiday under clause 55.1.
56. Annual Closedown
56.1 The Department's offices will be closed for normal business purposes from 25 December and resume normal business on the first working day following the first day of January ('the Annual Closedown').
56.2 Over the Annual Closedown, employees (other than shiftworkers) who work full-time are entitled to absent themselves for the ordinary working days (Monday to Friday) during that period and record on their attendance record approved Annual Closedown Leave. There will be no requirement to take Annual Leave or flextime leave over this period. Employees (other than shiftworkers) who work part-time are entitled to record the number of hours that they would have worked during the working days of approved Annual Closedown Leave.
56.3 A shiftworker will attend for any rostered shifts falling during the Annual Closedown, and will be paid for all ordinary hours worked in accordance with clause 62.2.
56.4 If an employee is recalled to duty to attend an emergency during a period of Closedown Leave, the employee may be entitled to overtime.
57. Overseas Posts
57.1 The following policies provide additional terms and conditions that may apply to employees posted to a Departmental overseas post:
DFAT Whole of Government overseas conditions; or
The Department's Overseas Conditions of Service Manual.
58. Overtime
58.1 APS Level 1–6 employees are entitled to overtime payment, if their supervisor has directed that they perform additional duties, as follows:
if the day is a normal work day for the employee—payment of overtime commences on the employee completing more than 7.5 hours duty in a single day (subject to a recall to duty in an emergency); or
if the day is not a normal work day—payment of overtime will be for all hours worked.
58.2 Overtime will be payable only to employees who do not have a flextime debit at the time of performing the additional duties. If an employee has a flextime debit and performs overtime, the flextime debit will be set-off at the same rate as the applicable overtime rate.
58.3 APS Level 1–6 employees who are recalled to duty in an emergency at a time when they would normally not have been on duty will have the reasonable time taken to travel to and from emergency duty included in their overtime payment. In such cases, Motor Vehicle Allowance will also be payable if use of the employee's private vehicle for official duty has been approved. However, employees who commence normal work immediately after their emergency duty will be paid only for the inward journey.
58.4 APS Level 1–6 part-time employees who are directed to work outside their agreed daily hours for any particular day are entitled to overtime payments.
58.5 Executive Level 1 and 2 employees are not eligible for overtime payments except in exceptional circumstances as determined by the Secretary. Any overtime so paid must not include any payment of HDA as salary.
59. Overtime Rates
59.1 The rates payable for overtime are as follows:
Monday to Sunday: time and a half; and
Public holidays: single time for the first 7.5 hours (as an additional payment— employees already receive single time payment for public holidays) and double time after that.
59.2 The rate of overtime includes any allowances being paid as salary.
59.3 Calculation of overtime will be rounded to the nearest quarter of an hour. The hourly rate of overtime payment is calculated according to the following formula:
60. Time Off in Lieu (TOIL)
60.1 Employees may elect, with the agreement of their supervisor, to forego overtime payments and take the time worked as TOIL credit.
60.2 Time credited as TOIL will be at the same rate as the applicable overtime rate. TOIL in lieu of overtime payment for APS 1–6 level employees is separate to a flextime credit.
61. Time Off in Lieu or Overtime (for domestic travel)
61.1 The Secretary may agree to an APS 1–6 level employee required to undertake domestic travel on a day the employee is normally on duty to record the time spent travelling in excess of 7.5 hours (excluding the usual time taken for the employee to travel to and from their regular place of work) as Time Off in Lieu at the relevant overtime rate or claim overtime.
61.2 The Secretary may agree to APS 1–6 level employee required to undertake domestic travel on a day the employee would not normally be on duty to record all time spent travelling as Time Off in Lieu at the relevant overtime rate or claim overtime.
61.3 Time Off in Lieu (for domestic travel) is separate to a flextime credit.
62. Shift Work
62.1 An employee is a shiftworker if the employee is rostered on duty for a standard shift outside the period 6.30 am to 6.00 pm on any day of the week for a fixed period or on an ongoing basis.
62.2 Shiftworkers will receive the following penalty rates calculated on the employee's base salary:
Rostered time of work
Penalty rate
Work performed on a shift, any part of which falls between 6.00pm and 6.30am. 15%
Work performed continuously for a period exceeding 4 weeks on a shift falling wholly between 6:00pm and 8:00am 30%
Work performed on a Saturday 50%
Work performed on a Sunday 100%
Work performed on a public holiday 150%
62.3 An irregular or intermittent (casual) employee as defined in clause 19.1 who is also a shiftworker, will receive, for each shift, the higher of the penalty rates prescribed in clause 62.2 or the casual loading set out in clause 19.1.
62.4 Penalty rates for shift work performed on a Saturday, Sunday or public holiday will be payable for any time worked after midnight on those days, including where the shift commenced the day before.
62.5 An employee who is a shiftworker is not entitled to flextime.
63. Shift Rosters
63.1 The Department may roster shiftworkers to work ordinary hours in shifts of the following duration:
12 hour, 15 minute shifts incorporating a 30 minute unpaid meal break;
8 hour, 30 minute shifts incorporating a 30 minute unpaid meal break;
a combination of shifts of 12 hour, 15 minute shifts and 8 hour, 30 minute shifts; or
such other pattern as agreed by the Department and the majority of affected employees.
63.2 A standard shift cannot exceed 12 hours and 15 minutes.
63.3 An employee who is a shiftworker may exchange the employee's rostered shift or rostered days off with another shiftworker by mutual agreement and with the consent of the Secretary, provided the exchange does not give any employee an entitlement to an overtime payment.
63.4 An employee who is required by the Secretary to change the employee's rostered hours of duty will be given a minimum of seven days' notice of the change.
63.5 If seven days' notice is not given, the employee will be paid overtime for that part of the shift that is outside the previous rostered hours of duty until the notice period has expired.
63.6 If the failure to give seven days' notice is the result of another employee's illness or otherwise unanticipated absence, the Secretary and the employee may come to an agreement where the employee will be rostered off on an alternative day within the roster cycle. Should an alternative day not be available within the current cycle then overtime will be paid at the rate of time and a half, except for Saturdays, Sundays and Public Holidays when the shiftworker will be paid at the rate of double time.
64. Rest Breaks—Shiftworkers
64.1 An employee who is a shiftworker is entitled to paid and unpaid rest breaks as follows:
Length of shift
Paid/Unpaid
8 hours, 30 minutes Not less than 30 minutes taken not later than 5 hours after commencement of shift
Where the shift exceeds 10 hours, the employee will be provided with an additional break of 30 minutes provided that work will continue after the break is taken. Unpaid
12 hours, 15 minutes Not less than 20 minutes taken not later than 4 hours after commencement of shift Paid (and counted as time worked)
Not less than 30 minutes taken not later than 5 hours after commencement of shift Unpaid
Not less than 20 minutes taken not later than 11 hours after commencement of shift Paid (and counted as time worked)
64.2 An employee who is a shiftworker is entitled to a break of at least eight consecutive hours off duty plus reasonable travelling time preceding the start of the employee's next shift.
64.3 A shiftworker may be directed by the Secretary to resume or continue duty without having had eight consecutive hours off duty plus reasonable travelling time. In this case, the employee will be paid at the rate of double time for the time so worked until the required rest break occurs.
64.4 Rest breaks do not apply to overtime worked unless the actual time worked (excluding reasonable travel time) is a minimum of three hours on each such occasion.
65. Extra Duty—Overtime—Shiftworkers
65.1 An employee who is a rostered shiftworker is entitled to overtime for extra duty performed on any day outside the employee's rostered hours of duty on that day but the amount of extra duty will not exceed 120 minutes in each 24 hour cycle.
65.2 An employee who is a shiftworker may be rostered for an overtime standard shift on not more than one of the employee's rostered days off.
65.3 A shiftworker who is required to attend a meeting either before commencing or after concluding his or her shift will be paid overtime for the period of time during which the shiftworker attends the meeting.
65.4 A shiftworker who is required to attend work on a rostered day off will be paid overtime for a period of time of not less than three hours at the rate of time and a half, except for Saturdays and Sundays when the shiftworker will be paid at the rate of double time.
65.5 The shift penalty rates set out in clause 62.2 are not payable for overtime hours worked by a shiftworker.
66. Public Holidays—Shiftworkers
66.1 Where a public holiday falls on a day that is a shiftworker's rostered day off, the shiftworker is entitled to be paid for the day absence as if that day was not a public holiday.
66.2 Where a public holiday falls on a day that a shiftworker is rostered to work, the employee is entitled to public holiday shift penalty set out in clause 62.2.
66.3 A rostered shiftworker will be paid double time for:
all work performed on a public holiday that is also the shiftworker's rostered day off; and
all overtime worked on a public holiday.
66.4 For the purposes of this subsection 66, each of the ordinary working days (Monday to Friday) during the Annual Closedown will be treated as public holidays.
67. Leave—Shiftworkers
67.1 An employee who is a shiftworker is entitled to apply for PCL on the basis that one day of PCL is equivalent to the duration of the rostered shift. If the period of PCL is less than the rostered shift, the amount of PCL that may be granted will be on an hour for hour basis.
67.2 The primary Annual Leave entitlement of 150 hours per annum will accrue daily and be credited monthly in arrears, in hours and minutes.
67.3 During a period of Annual Leave, a shiftworker will be paid the employee's base rate of pay for the ordinary hours that would otherwise be worked by the employee during that period. The employee's base rate of pay includes any allowances in the nature of salary, and excludes shift penalties and other loadings. The employee's leave balance will be reduced by the number of ordinary hours that would otherwise be worked by the employee during that period.
67.4 An employee who is a shiftworker is entitled to an additional 3.75 hours of paid leave for each Sunday and Public Holiday on which the employee is rostered, but the period of additional leave to which the employee is entitled cannot exceed a total of 37.5 hours in each calendar year. For the purposes of this clause, a rostered shift of not less than three hours which starts or ends on a Sunday is a rostered Sunday shift.
67.5 If an employee has accumulated:
more than eight weeks of Annual Leave, in the case of an employee not entitled to additional leave under clause 67.4; or
more than ten weeks of Annual Leave, in the case of an employee entitled to additional Annual Leave under clause 67.4,
the Secretary may direct an employee to take paid Annual Leave to reduce the employee's Annual Leave balance to eight weeks or 10 weeks (as applicable).
67.6 The Department will provide the employee with at least one month's notice prior to the date the employee is required to commence the leave.
68. Application
68.1 In the event of any inconsistency between shift work provisions and any other provision in the agreement, the former prevails and the latter is of no effect to the extent of the inconsistency.
69. Managing Individual Performance
69.1 Employees are required to participate in the Department's performance management processes as provided by the Performance Management employment procedure.
69.2 As part of six monthly performance management exchanges, each employee will be assessed against the following performance standards:
Exceeds expectations—based on the myPerformance plan and the APS Work Level Standards, the employee has clearly and consistently demonstrated superior overall performance and made significant contributions, exceeding the performance standards for their level and meets several of the required performance standards of the next level up. Objectives not met were due to circumstances beyond the individual's control;
Effective—based on the myPerformance plan and the APS Work Level Standards, the employee has consistently demonstrated effective performance and met the performance standards for their level. Objectives not met were due to circumstances beyond the individual's control;
Developmental—based on the myPerformance plan and the APS Work Level Standards, the employee has generally demonstrated only some of the relevant capabilities and performance standards expected for their level;
Unsatisfactory—based on the myPerformance plan and the APS Work Level Standards, the employee has not demonstrated the relevant capabilities and performance standards expected for their level.
69.3 Where an employee is rated as "Unsatisfactory", the employee's performance will be managed under a performance management process. The Department's Managing Underperformance employment procedure sets out how underperformance is managed.
70. Study Assistance
70.1 Financial assistance, travel, accommodation and study leave may be approved by the Secretary in accordance with the Department's Study Assistance employment procedure.
70.2 If an employee voluntarily leaves the Department (and not due to extenuating circumstances such as, but not restricted to and on a case-by-case basis, illness, redeployment, retrenchment or redundancy), or has their employment terminated due to misconduct within 12 months of the date of the financial assistance, the Department may seek reimbursement of the financial assistance paid during this period.
71. Health and Support
71.1 The Department will:
conduct and maintain a health and wellbeing program;
make available annual influenza vaccinations to all employees;
provide access by employees and their families to the Employee Assistance Program; and
provide access to specialist critical incident stress debriefing to employees as required.
72.1 Leave may only be taken with the approval of the Secretary.
72.2 This clause 72.2 applies to employees other than shiftworkers. When an employee is on leave (other than LSL), the employee's leave balance will be reduced by the number of hours the employee would have worked on that day.
Note: Subsection 67 sets out the arrangements for shiftworkers.
72.3 Where an employee joins the Department on or after the commencement date from an employer staffed under the PS Act, the Parliamentary Service Act 1999, from the ACT Government Service, accrued Annual Leave and personal/carer's leave (however described) will be transferred, provided there is no break in continuity of service.
73. Annual Leave
73.1 A full-time employee is entitled to 150 hours of paid Annual Leave per annum.
73.2 Annual Leave will accrue daily and be credited monthly in arrears, in hours and minutes. Annual Leave will not accrue during any period of leave that does not count as service (including unauthorised absence). The crediting of Annual Leave monthly in arrears will not limit the employee's access to use this leave as it accrues.
73.3 Annual Leave counts as service for all purposes.
73.4 Annual Leave will not generally be paid in advance and in any case not be advanced across two financial years.
73.5 Annual Leave will be taken at a time agreed between the employee and the employee's supervisor.
73.6 Annual Leave may be taken at either full-pay or half-pay.
73.7 Approved Annual Leave may be cancelled and recredited where an employee makes application and the Secretary agrees that special circumstances warrant this.
73.8 An employee on Annual Leave can, on production of medical or other supporting documentation, apply to take PCL for illness, injury and caring purposes or Compassionate Leave or Community Service Leave and have the Annual Leave recredited.
73.9 Annual Leave cannot be used to break periods of LSL except as provided for by the ML Act.
73.10 The Department's employment procedure sets out arrangements for Annual Leave.
74. Cashing Out—Annual Leave
74.1 The Secretary may approve in writing an employee's written application to cash out up to four weeks of accrued Annual Leave per calendar year.
74.2 An employee may only apply to cash out Annual Leave if the employee:
has at least 12 months continuous service in the APS; and
has taken at least an equivalent amount of Annual Leave in the previous 12 month period to the amount they are seeking to cash out;
will have a remaining accrued entitlement to paid Annual Leave of at least four weeks after any cash out;
each cashing out of a particular amount of paid Annual Leave must be in a separate written application to the Secretary; and
the employee must be paid the full amount of what would have been payable to the employee had the employee taken the leave that the employee has forgone.
74.3 The Department's employment procedure sets out arrangements for cashing out Annual Leave.
75. Directed Annual Leave
75.1 Where an employee's amount of accrued Annual Leave is approaching an equivalent of 12 weeks, the employee and the employee's supervisor should discuss and agree on a leave management strategy to reduce the amount of accrued Annual Leave.
75.2 Where an employee has accrued an equivalent of 12 weeks or more of Annual Leave, the Secretary may require an employee to absent themselves from the workplace and take Annual Leave on one month's written notice to the employee, unless there is an agreed strategy to reduce the accrued leave within three months. The Secretary may require an employee to take up to two weeks of Annual Leave in each instance. The employee may apply to take additional Annual Leave at this time.
75.3 The Department's employment procedure sets out arrangements for Annual Leave.
76. Payment on Separation
76.1 On separation from the APS, an employee will be entitled to payment in lieu of Annual Leave accruals.
76.2 Payment in lieu will be calculated using the employee's final salary, including allowances that would have been included during Annual Leave. Remote localities assistance will be included in the calculation only for leave accrued in a remote locality.
77. Purchased Leave
77.1 Subject to an employee having at least 12 months continuous service in the APS, the employee may apply to purchase up to 40 days additional leave per year. Purchased Leave will be purchased by a corresponding reduction in the employee's fortnightly pay over a 12 month period commencing on the first pay after the application to Purchase Leave is approved. Periods of Purchased Leave count for service.
77.2 Purchased Leave must be used:
within 12 months of the application to purchase leave being approved;
in the case of shift workers, for an entire shift cycle; and
in the case of all other employees, in amounts of no less than 5 consecutive days.
77.3 An employee will be refunded any unused Purchased Leave amount after 12 months, unless the employee receives written approval to carry the Purchased Leave over.
77.4 Applications for Purchased Leave will be considered having regard to the operational requirements of the Department. To assist in this consideration, an application for Purchased Leave should include an indication of the period(s) during which the employee intends to use the Purchased Leave.
78. Long Service Leave (LSL)
78.1 Employees are entitled to accrue and access LSL in accordance with the Long Service Leave (Commonwealth Employees) Act 1976.
78.2 The minimum amount of accrued LSL that an employee may take at any one time is seven calendar days at full pay or 14 calendar days at half pay.
79. Personal Circumstances Leave (PCL)
79.1 An employee is entitled to 20 days PCL per year.
79.2 PCL will accrue progressively and be credited monthly in advance (based on an employee's commencement date). Employees will be credited with one months' PCL accrual on engagement or commencement with the Department.
79.3 PCL will be debited at the relevant full pay rate, unless the employee requests conversion to half pay, in which case only half the period will be deducted.
79.4 PCL will not accrue during any period of leave that does not count as service (including unauthorised absence).
79.5 An employee who receives compensation under the Safety, Rehabilitation and Compensation Act 1988 (Cth) for more than 45 weeks accrues PCL credit on a pro rata basis based on the hours worked.
79.6 Subject to notice and evidence requirements the Secretary will approve PCL because the employee:
is not fit for work due to a personal injury or illness; or
is providing care or support to a member of the employee's immediate family, or a member of the employee's household, who requires care or support because of:
a personal illness or personal injury affecting the member; or
an unexpected emergency affecting the member.
79.7 Except where it will result in an employee having fewer accumulated days of personal/carers leave that the employee is entitled to under the NES, the Secretary may also approve PCL because the employee:
is affected by a genuine emergency situations such as bushfires, floods and earthquakes; or
has an important personal medical appointment that can only be attended during standard work time.
79.8 An employee is required to give their supervisor notice of the taking of PCL, including notification of the reason for the PCL absence in accordance with the permissible reasons for taking PCL set out under subclause 79.6 and 79.7 and the expected period of absence.
79.9 If the employee is unable to provide prior notification of their intended PCL absence, employees must, as far as practicable, advise their supervisor of their intention to be absent no later than two hours after their normal start time on the day of their absence.
79.10 Where the period of expected absence extends beyond that originally notified, the employee must advise their supervisor as soon as practicable.
79.11 An employee is required to provide evidence to be entitled to paid PCL, where the employee is absent from work:
for a period of three or more consecutive work days; and/or
for any absence taken in excess of ten days (pro-rata for part-time employees) paid PCL without supporting evidence in the preceding 12 month period.
79.12 Evidence for the purposes of PCL means:
a medical certificate from registered health practitioners and registered health providers;
a statutory declaration, if it was not reasonably practicable for the employee to obtain a medical certificate. The statutory declaration must include;
why the employee is or was unable to attend work in accordance with the permissible reasons for taking PCL under subclauses 79.6 and 79.7; and
why it was not practicable for them to obtain a medical certificate.
Another form of evidence with the prior agreement or direction of the Secretary.
79.13 A supervisor may also request that medical evidence is provided by an employee for any period of PCL where:
a pattern of absence has been identified; or
arrangements are in place for managing attendance as part of managing performance; or
the supervisor reasonably believes that PCL has previously been taken for an improper purpose.
79.14 The Secretary may allow an employee to take PCL without pay where paid PCL credits are exhausted, subject to the notice and evidence requirements.
79.15 The Secretary may waive the requirement to provide notification and/or evidence in specific circumstances.
79.16 The Department's employment procedure sets out arrangements for PCL.
80. Irregular/Intermittent Employees
80.1 Unpaid PCL may be granted to an irregular/intermittent (casual) employee.
81. Return to Work Assistance
81.1 The Department's employment procedure sets out arrangements for return to work assistance.
82. Unpaid Carers Leave
82.1 An employee is entitled to 2 days of Unpaid Carers Leave for each occasion (permissible occasion) when a member of the employee's immediate family, or a member of the employee's household, requires care or support because of:
a personal illness, or personal injury, affecting the member; or
82.2 Unpaid Carers Leave is only available after an employee has exhausted all paid PCL and is subject to the PCL notice and evidence requirements.
83. Compassionate/Bereavement Leave
83.1 Employees will be granted three days paid Compassionate Leave on each occasion that a member of his or her immediate family or household:
contracts or develops a personal illness that poses a serious threat to his or her life; or
sustains a personal injury that poses a serious threat to his or her life; or
83.2 The employee may take the period of leave as a single period of three days or any separate period which the Secretary and employee agree. The Secretary may require the employee to provide evidence to support the request for leave.
83.3 Compassionate Leave for irregular and intermittent employees is unpaid.
84. Community Service Leave
84.1 Community Service Leave with or without pay is available to enable employees to undertake eligible community service activity. Consistent with section 109 of the Fair Work Act 2009, such activity includes:
jury service (including attendance for jury selection) required by a law of the Commonwealth, State or Territory; and
a voluntary emergency management activity.
84.2 In relation to jury service, the Secretary will approve paid Community Service Leave to enable an employee to attend court appearances as a juror, in which event the employee will continue to receive their normal salary subject to any payments of a salary nature made to the employee by the court for jury service being signed over to the Department.
84.3 In relation to a voluntary emergency management activity, the Secretary will approve up to four days paid leave for each civil emergency response, to enable an employee who is a member of a State Emergency Service, fire-fighting service, search and rescue unit or other volunteer community service performing similar functions, to fulfil an obligation to that service in the event of a civil emergency.
84.4 The Secretary may approve additional paid or unpaid leave for an ongoing civil emergency response, or other related and appropriate activities such as regular training, reasonable travel, recovery time and ceremonial duties.
84.5 Consistent with section 110 of the Fair Work Act 2009, an employee applying for Community Service Leave must provide the Department with notice of the absence as soon as practicable (which may be a time after the absence has started), and the period or expected period of the absence. Where requested, an employee must also provide written evidence that the absence from work is because they have been or will be engaged in an eligible community service activity.
85. Aboriginal And Torres Strait Islander Ceremonial Leave
85.1 The Secretary may approve up to one day of paid leave each year for an employee of Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander descent to participate in National Aboriginal and Islander Day Observation Committee (NAIDOC) ceremonies.
85.2 In additional to any Compassionate/Bereavement Leave available under clause 83, the Secretary may approve up to three days of paid leave for an employee of Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander descent for:
ceremonial purposes connected with the death of a member of the immediate family or extended family; or
other ceremonial obligations under Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Lore.
85.3 The Secretary may approve a period of leave without pay for the reasons set out in subclause 85.1 and 85.2 in addition to paid leave.
85.4 The Department's employment procedure sets out arrangements for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Ceremonial Leave.
86. Maternity Leave
86.1 After completing a minimum of 12 months of continuous APS employment, an eligible employee is entitled to up to 52 weeks of maternity leave of which:
up to 12 weeks will be paid in accordance with the ML Act; and
up to six weeks will be paid under this Agreement; and
the remaining period will be unpaid.
86.2 An eligible employee may elect in advance to spread the payment of up to 18 weeks paid Maternity Leave at half pay up to a maximum of 36 weeks. A maximum of 18 weeks paid Maternity Leave will count as service for any purpose.
86.3 An employee who is not entitled to paid Maternity Leave is entitled to up to 52 weeks of unpaid Maternity Leave, for which there is no minimum qualifying period, in accordance with the ML Act. Unpaid Maternity Leave will not count as service for any purpose.
86.4 Upon request from an eligible employee, the Secretary will agree to an extension of up to 24 months, to be taken as Other Leave without pay, immediately following the end of the initial 52 week period of Maternity Leave.
86.5 The Department's employment procedure sets out arrangements for Maternity Leave.
87. Adoption Leave
87.1 An eligible employee is entitled to up to 18 weeks' paid Adoption Leave immediately after the placement of an eligible child with the employee for adoption provided the employee:
has at least 12 months continuous service in the APS;
adopts an eligible child; and
is that eligible child's primary care giver.
87.2 An eligible employee may elect in advance to spread the payment for the period of paid Adoption Leave at half pay over a maximum period of 36 weeks. Only the first 18 weeks of paid Adoption Leave counts as service for any purpose.
87.3 An employee may not take PCL during the period of paid Adoption Leave.
87.4 The Department's employment procedure sets out arrangements for paid Adoption Leave including eligibility and evidence requirements.
88. Foster Carer Leave
88.1 An eligible employee is entitled to up to 18 weeks' paid Foster Carer Leave immediately after the placement of an eligible child with the employee under permanent ‘fostering’ arrangements provided the employee:
assumed long-term responsibility for an eligible child arising from the placement of the child through a permanent ‘fostering’ arrangement; and
88.2 Where more than one child is placed with the employee at, or around the same time (e.g. siblings), the employee will only be entitled to 18 weeks paid Foster Carer Leave in respect of all of the children (not 18 weeks paid leave for each child).
88.3 An eligible employee may elect in advance to spread the payment for the period of paid Foster Carer Leave at half pay over a maximum of 36 weeks. Only the first 18 weeks of paid Foster Carer Leave counts as service for any purpose.
88.4 The Department's employment procedure sets out arrangements for Foster Carer Leave including eligibility and evidence requirements.
89. Supporting Partner Leave
89.1 An employee who has at least 12 months continuous service in the APS and has or will become a parent, through birth, adoption or foster caring and has or will have a responsibility of care for the child, is entitled to up to six weeks' paid Supporting Partner Leave. Supporting Partner Leave counts as service for any purposes.
89.2 An employee will not have access to Supporting Partner Leave under this subsection 89 where an employee is entitled to paid leave under Maternity Leave, Adoption Leave or Foster Carer Leave.
89.3 An employee may not take PCL during the period of paid Supporting Partner Leave.
90. Unpaid Parental Leave
90.1 An employee who has at least 12 months continuous service in the APS and has or will become a parent, through birth, adoption or foster caring and has or will have responsibility for the care of a child is entitled to up to 12 months of unpaid Parental Leave.
90.2 An employee is not entitled to unpaid parental leave under this subsection 90 if the employee has been granted unpaid leave under subsection 86.
90.3 Upon request from the employee, the Department will agree to an extension of unpaid leave for a further period of up to 24 months, taken as unpaid Other Leave, immediately following the end of the initial 12 month period of unpaid Parental Leave.
90.4 A period of unpaid Parental Leave does not break the employee's period of continuous service, but will not count as service for any other purpose.
90.5 The Department's employment procedure sets out arrangements for unpaid Parental Leave including eligibility and evidence requirements.
91. Defence Reserve Leave
91.1 The Secretary may grant an employee Defence Reserve Leave, with or without pay, to enable the employee to undertake peacetime training and/or deployment with the Australian Defence Force. Defence Reserve Leave also includes a reservist being deployed on Continuous Full Time Service (CFTS) or an employee undertaking Cadet Force obligations.
91.2 An employee who is a member of the Australian Defence Force Reserve or who has Cadet Force obligations may be granted paid Defence Reserve Leave of up to 20 days each financial year. During the employee's first year of Defence Reserve service, a further 10 days' paid leave may be granted to allow the employee to participate in common induction training.
91.3 Employees are not required to pay their tax free ADF Reserve salary to the Agency in any circumstances.
91.4 Periods of Defence Reserve Leave without pay in excess of 6 months do not count as service for Annual Leave purposes. Leave granted for Defence Reserve purposes counts as service for all other purposes.
91.5 Defence Reserve Leave entitlements can be accumulated and taken over a period of two years.
91.6 In addition to approved Defence Reserve Leave, employees who are members of the Defence Reserve may apply for Annual Leave, LSL or flextime leave for Defence Reserve purposes.
92. Other Leave
92.1 The Secretary may approve Other Leave with or without pay for a purpose that the Secretary considers to be in the interest of the Department or where the employee is entitled to leave under the NES.
92.2 Other Leave will generally be granted as leave without pay that does not count for service.
92.3 The Department's employment procedure sets out arrangements for Other Leave.
93. Unauthorised Absence
93.1 Where an employee is absent from work without approval, all salary and entitlements (including leave accrual) provided under this Agreement will cease to be available until the employee resumes work or is granted leave.
93.2 Where an employee is absent from duty without authorisation, the period of absence will not count as service for any purpose.
94.1 The following provisions only apply to ongoing APS employees not on probation.
94.2 For the purposes of this Agreement, an employee may be declared excess if the Secretary considers that:
the employee is included in a class of employees employed in the Department, which class comprises a greater number of employees than is necessary for the efficient and economical working of the Department; or
the services of the employee cannot be effectively used because of technological or other changes in the work methods of the Department or structural or similar changes in the nature, extent or organisation of the functions of the Department; or
the duties are to be performed at a different locality, which is not within a capital city and the employee is not willing to move to the different locality.
94.3 If requested, the employee may have a representative present at any discussions concerning the application of this section to the employee.
95. Notification and Consultation Process
95.1 When the Secretary is aware that an employee is likely to become excess, the Secretary will at the earliest practicable time commence the consultation process by advising the employee of the situation.
95.2 Discussions with the potentially excess employee will be held to consider:
reasons for the excess employee situation and the method used to determine excess employees;
redeployment opportunities for the employee at or below level within the Department or another APS department or agency;
job swap opportunities at level with other employees in the Department;
referral to an appropriate employment agency at departmental expense; and
whether voluntary retrenchment might be appropriate and whether the employee wants to be offered voluntary retrenchment.
95.3 Where an employee is potentially excess or is excess, the Secretary may (at the Secretary's discretion):
invite employees who are not potentially excess to express interest in voluntary retrenchment, where those retrenchments would permit the redeployment of employees who are potentially excess.
allow a job swap within the Department where it is judged that:
the employee is suitable for the job after a reasonable period of adjustment; and
it would be of no detriment to the efficient operation of the gaining area;
allow a job swap with another APS agency if it would be of no detriment to the efficient operation of the Department; and
if the employee wishes, refer the excess employee to an agreed employment agency at departmental expense.
95.4 The Secretary will not advise an employee that he or she is excess within one month of the employee receiving advice under clause 95.1 and until, in the opinion of the Secretary, the discussions in clause 95.2 have been completed. The discussion period may be shortened by agreement with the employee.
95.5 If, one month after the commencement of the consultation process in clause 95.1, the discussions in clause 95.2 have been completed and the employee has not secured a permanent job within the Department or another APS agency, the Secretary will, taking into account the redeployment prospects of the excess employee and the excess employee's wishes:
place the employee on a retention period; or
make an offer of voluntary retrenchment if an offer has not already been made under subsection 96.
95.6 Prior to or at the time the Secretary notifies an employee that he or she is excess, the employee will receive the following information:
the amount of redundancy benefit, pay in lieu of notice and paid up leave credits;
the amount of accumulated superannuation contributions;
options open to the employee concerning superannuation; and
taxation rules applicable to the various payments.
95.7 An excess employee will be reimbursed reasonable costs for financial counselling up to an amount determined by the Secretary.
96. Voluntary Retrenchment
96.1 Where the Secretary invites an excess employee to elect to be retrenched, the employee will have a consideration period of one month to elect for voluntary retrenchment. The Secretary will not give notice of termination under section 29 of the PS Act on the grounds that the employee is excess to requirements before the end of that period, unless the employee has requested this to occur.
96.2 On receipt of an agreement from the excess employee to be voluntarily retrenched, the Secretary will terminate the excess employee's employment under section 29 of the PS Act within five working days of the employee's agreement to voluntary retrenchment, or within such other period as is agreed.
96.3 Employees who do not advise the Department of their decision by the end of the consideration period will be taken to have rejected the offer of voluntary retrenchment. Only one offer of a voluntary retrenchment will be made to an excess employee.
97. Period of Notice—Termination with a Voluntary Retrenchment
97.1 Where the employee agrees to be voluntarily retrenched under subsection 96, the Secretary can approve the employee's retrenchment and upon approval will give the required notice of termination under section 29 of the PS Act. The period of notice will be four weeks (or five weeks for an employee over 45 years of age with at least five years continuous service).
97.2 Where an employee is voluntarily retrenched prior to the end of the notice period, the employee will receive payment in lieu of any unexpired portion of the consultation process, consideration and notice periods.
98. Redundancy Benefit
98.1 An excess employee who elects to accept an offer of a voluntary retrenchment and whose employment is then terminated by the Secretary under section 29 of the PS Act is entitled to be paid a redundancy payment equal to two weeks salary for each completed year of service, plus a pro rata payment for completed months of service since the last completed year of service, or any greater redundancy payment payable under the NES.
98.2 The minimum sum payable will be four weeks' salary and the maximum will be 48 weeks' salary.
98.3 The redundancy benefit will be calculated on a pro rata basis for any period where an employee has worked part-time hours during his or her period of service and the employee has less than 24 years full-time service, subject to any minimum payment payable under the NES.
98.4 Subject to clauses 98.5 and 98.6, service for redundancy pay purposes means:
service in the Department;
Government service as defined in section 10 of the LSL Act;
service with the Commonwealth (other than service with a Joint Commonwealth-State body corporate in which the Commonwealth does not have a controlling interest) which is recognised for LSL purposes;
service with the Australian Defence Forces;
APS service immediately preceding deemed resignation under section 49 of the repealed Public Service Act 1922 (Cth), if the service has not previously been recognised for severance pay purposes; or
service in another organisation where an employee was moved from the APS to that organisation with a transfer of function, or an employee engaged by that organisation on work within a function is engaged as a result of the transfer of that function to the APS, and such service is recognised for LSL purposes.
98.5 For earlier periods of service to count there must be no breaks between the periods of service, except where:
the break in service is less than one month and occurs where an offer of employment with the new employer was made and accepted by the employee before ceasing employment with the preceding employer; or
the earlier period of service was with the APS and ceased because the employee was deemed to have resigned from the APS on marriage under section 49 of the repealed Public Service Act 1922 (Cth).
98.6 Any period of service which ceased:
through termination on the following grounds or on a ground equivalent to any of the following grounds:
the employee lacks, or has lost, an essential qualification for performing his or her duties;
non-performance, or unsatisfactory performance, of duties;
inability to perform duties because of physical or mental incapacity;
failure to satisfactorily complete an entry level training course;
failure to meet a condition imposed under subsection 22(6) of the PS Act;
breach of the APS Code of Conduct; or
any other ground prescribed by the Public Service Regulations; or
on a ground equivalent to those in paragraph (a) above under the repealed Public Service Act 1922 (Cth); or
through voluntary retrenchment at or above the minimum retiring age applicable to the employee; or
with the payment of a redundancy benefit or similar payment or an employer financed retirement benefit, such as a military pension;
will not count as service for redundancy pay purposes.
98.7 Absences from work which do not count as service for LSL purposes will not count as service for severance pay purposes.
99. Rate of Payment—Redundancy Benefit
99.1 For the purpose of calculating any payment under clause 98.1, salary will include:
the employee's full-time salary, adjusted on a pro rata basis for periods of part-time service; or
the higher salary, where the employee has been in receipt of HDA for a continuous period of at least 12 months immediately preceding the date on which the employee is given notice of retrenchment; and
other allowances in the nature of salary which are paid during periods of Annual Leave and on a regular basis, excluding allowances which are a reimbursement for expenses incurred (e.g. car parking allowances), or a payment for disabilities associated with the performance of duty;
shift penalties, where the employee has undertaken shift work and is entitled to shift penalties for 50% or more of the pay periods in the 12 months preceding being given notice of retrenchment. A weekly average of penalties due over the 12 months will be included in the salary; and
to the extent that redundancy payment is required by the NES, any additional amount required by the NES.
100. Retention Period
100.1 An excess employee who does not accept an offer of voluntary retrenchment will be entitled to the following period of retention:
13 months where an employee has 20 or more years of service or is over 45 years of age; or
seven months for other employees.
100.2 If an employee is entitled to a redundancy payment in accordance with the NES the relevant period in sub-clauses 100.1a) and 100.1b) above is reduced by the number of weeks redundancy pay that the employee will be entitled to under the NES on termination, calculated as at the expiration of the retention period (as adjusted by this clause).
100.3 The retention period will commence on the earlier of the following:
the day the employee is advised in writing by the Secretary that he or she is an excess employee; or
one month after the day on which the Secretary invites the employee to elect to be retrenched.
100.4 The Secretary will consider an excess departmental employee in isolation from and not in competition with other applicants for vacancies to which an excess employee of the Department seeks a move at level. An excess employee on retention is not eligible to access the provisions of this Agreement for job swapping, being clauses 95.3b) and c).
100.5 During the retention period the Secretary:
will continue to take all reasonable steps to find alternative employment for the excess employee; and/or
may, with four weeks' notice, reduce the excess employee's classification as a means of securing alternative employment for the excess employee. Where an excess employee is reduced in classification before the end of the appropriate retention period, the employee will continue to be paid at the employee's previous level for the balance of the retention period. The salary maintenance will include:
the higher salary where an employee has been in receipt of HDA for more than 12 months continuously and the HDA would have continued except for the excess situation; and
other allowances in the nature of salary which are paid during periods of Annual Leave and on a regular basis, excluding allowances which are a reimbursement for expenses incurred, or a payment for disabilities associated with the performance of duty.
100.6 During the retention period the excess employee will:
take reasonable steps to find alternative employment; and
actively participate in learning and development activities, trial placements or other arrangements agreed to, to assist in obtaining a permanent placement.
100.7 The retention period will not be extended by periods of leave taken by the excess employee. In exceptional circumstances, the Secretary may extend an employee's retention period by the amount equivalent to a period of PCL taken by an employee because of personal injury or illness.
100.8 The excess employee is entitled to assistance in meeting reasonable travel and incidental expenses incurred in seeking alternative employment where these expenses are not met by the prospective employer.
100.9 Where the Secretary is satisfied that there is insufficient productive work available for the employee within the Department during the remainder of the retention period and that there is no reasonable redeployment prospects in the APS:
the Secretary may terminate their employment under section 29 of the PS Act; and
on termination the employee will be paid a lump sum comprising:
the balance of the retention period (as shortened for the NES) and this payment will be taken to include the payment in lieu of notice of termination of employment; plus
the employee's NES entitlement to redundancy pay.
100.10 An excess employee will be given four weeks notice (or five weeks notice for an employee over 45 years of age with at least five years of continuous service) where it is proposed that the employee will be involuntarily retrenched.
Table 1: Salary Rates
Classification & Pay Level Salary Rates
Pre-lodgement Salary Increase—
On commencement of EA Salary Increase—
1st Anniversary of EA Salary Increase—
2nd Anniversary of EA
APS 1.1 $42,317 $43,587 $44,459 $44,904
EL 1.1 $96,145 $99,029 $101,010 $102,020
EL 1.2 $98,521 $101,477 $103,507 $104,542
EL 1.3 $101,441 $104,484 $106,574 $107,640
Table 2: APS Level 3/APS Level 5 (Graduate) Broadband
Classification &
Pay Level Salary Rates
Pre-lodgement Salary Increase—On commencement of EA Salary Increase—1st Anniversary of EA Salary Increase—2nd Anniversary of EA
APS 3.1 GRAD $54,679 $56,319 $57,445 $58,019
Part 1: Leave
1. Personal Circumstances Leave
1.1 Clauses 79.1 and 79.2 of this Agreement will commence to apply to affected employees from the anniversary date that the employee was last credited with leave under clause K4.11 of the DIT EA.
Part 2: Salary
2.1 For the purposes of Part 3 of this [Schedule B], current salary means the employee's salary immediately prior to commencement of this Agreement.
3. Former DRALGAS Employees
3.1 This clause 3 applies to employees (affected employees) who, prior to 1 June 2015, had their terms and conditions set by operation of the Determination under subsection 24(3)—Non-SES employees moved between APS agencies to give effect to the Administrative Arrangement Orders made by the Governor-General in Council on 18 September 2013 (as amended) (Determination).
3.2 If, at the date of commencement of this Agreement, an affected employee's current salary is above the maximum pay point for the employee's classification set out in column 3 of table 1 in [Schedule A], the employee's current salary will receive a salary increase of 1.50% on the commencement of the Agreement.
3.3 Subject to clause 3.4, affected employees qualifying for the salary increase under clause 3.2 of this [Schedule B] are not entitled to salary increases provided under clause 11.1 of this Agreement.
3.4 Following the salary increase provided for by clause 3.2, affected employees who received that salary increase will be deemed to be on a non-standard salary and subsection 12 of this Agreement will apply.
3.5 If, at the date of commencement of this Agreement, an affected employee's current salary is equivalent to a pay point for the employee's classification set out in column 2 of table 1 in [Schedule A], the employee's current salary will increase in accordance with the salary increases in clause 11.1 of this Agreement.
4. Employees Performing Legal Duties and Public Affairs Duties
4.1 This clause 4 applies to employees (affected employees) who, immediately prior to the commencement of this Agreement were covered by the DIT EA and employed in a Legal or Public Affairs classification.
4.2 If, at the date of commencement of this Agreement, an affected employee's current salary is above the maximum pay point for the employee's classification set out in column 3 of table 1 in [Schedule A], the employee's current salary will increase in accordance with the salary increases in clause 11.1.
4.3 If, at the date of commencement of this Agreement, an affected employee's current salary is at or below the maximum pay point for the employee's classification set out in column 3 of table 1 in [Schedule A]:
the employee's salary will be set at the corresponding pay point or the next highest pay point (as applicable) applying to the employee's classification in column 3 of table 1 in [Schedule A]; and
the employee's salary will not be increased by the salary increase in clause 11.1a) of this Agreement.
1. Exclusions
1.1 This Schedule C does not apply to a current employee with a workers' compensation claim against the Department (regardless of whether liability has been accepted by Comcare), or to any employee undertaking rehabilitation for a work-related injury or illness.
1.2 This Schedule C does not apply to the Department in respect of any programme, undertaking, or service funded under the Disability Service Act 1986 (Cth) to enable the Department to fulfil the dual role of service provider and sheltered employer to people with disabilities or who receive or are eligible for a Disability Support Pension, except to the extent that the Department, or a part of the Department, is recognised under ss.10 or 12A of that Act.
2. Eligible Employees
2.1 This Schedule C applies to an employee who is unable to perform the range of duties of his or her job at the required level of competence because the employee's productive capacity is affected by a disability and the employee meets the impairment criteria for a Disability Support Pension.
2.2 Employees to whom this Schedule C applies will be paid the percentage of the rate of pay applying to the duties of the employee's job relevant to the employee's assessed performance capacity as set out in Table E.
Table E
Assessed Capacity
% of salary
2.3 An employee to whom this Schedule C applies will be paid in accordance with the minimum weekly payment set by the Fair Work Commission (or its predecessor) or such appropriately higher amount as may be determined during the life of this Agreement to reflect one or more increases in the minimum wage.
2.4 If an employee's assessed capacity is 10% or less, the Department will provide a higher degree of assistance and support to him or her.
2.5 The productive capacity of an employee will be assessed in accordance with the SWS and documented in an assessment instrument by the Department and an Accredited Assessor.
2.6 An assessment instrument applying to an employee will be agreed and signed by the parties to the assessment, and lodged by the Department with Fair Work Commission together with the employee's applicable rate of pay.
2.7 The Department will review the employee's applicable rate of pay annually. The Department may undertake an earlier review on request if it is reasonable and practicable to do so. The review process will be in accordance with the procedures for assessing capacity under the SWS.
2.8 An employee to whom this Schedule C applies will receive the same terms and conditions of employment as apply to all other employees paid on a pro rata basis.
3. Trial Period Of Employment
3.1 The Department may employ a person under the provisions of this Schedule C for a trial period under an interim contract of employment for a period not exceeding 12 weeks to enable the assessment of the person's performance capacity.
3.2 If any additional work adjustment time is required during the trial period, the additional time must not exceed a further 4 weeks.
3.3 During the trial period, the assessment of the person's capacity will be undertaken and the rate of pay determined for the person's ongoing employment.
3.4 During the trial period the person will be paid in accordance with the minimum weekly payment set by the Fair Work Commission (or its predecessor) or such appropriately higher amount as may be determined during the life of this Agreement to reflect one or more increases in the minimum wage.
3.5 On the completion of the trial period, if the Department and the person decide to establish a continuing employment relationship, a further contract of employment will be entered into based on the rate of pay determined under Table E.
3.6 The Department will, in considering the engagement of a person to whom this Schedule C may apply, take reasonable steps to consider changes in the workplace that will enhance the person's capacity to perform the duties of the job. Changes may involve the re-design of duties, or new time or work arrangements. The Department will consult other employees in the area in these circumstances.
4.1 In this Schedule C:
Accredited assessor means a person accredited by the managing unit established by the Australian Government under the Supported Wage System (SWS) to perform assessments of an individual's productive capacity within the SWS.
Assessment instrument means the form provided for under the SWS that records the assessment of the productive capacity of the person to be employed under the SWS.
Disability support pension means the Australian Government pension scheme to provide income security for persons with a disability as provided for under the Social Security Act 1991 as amended from time to time, or any successor to that scheme.
Supported Wage System means the Australian Government system to promote employment for people who cannot work at full award wages because of a disability, as documented in Supported Wage System: Guidelines and Assessment Process.
Administrative Arrangements Order
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Home Eye on "Palestine" Palestinian Authority PM Shtayyah Threatening to Resign If PA Drops Boycott of Israeli Calf...
The "Peace" Process
PM Shtayyah Threatening to Resign If PA Drops Boycott of Israeli Calf Shipments
27 Tishri 5780 – October 25, 2019
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In mid-October, the Palestinian Authority decided to stop importing calves from Israel, dealing a severe economic blow to Israeli growers, who must continue feeding the calves beyond the usual schedule – with heavy economic consequences.
The cost of feeding a calf is about 300 shekel a month, so that a farm growing 100 calves would endure an extra monthly expense of 30,000 shekel, in addition to the loss of income of about 6,000 shekel per calf (or about 600,000 shekel per 100 calves).
The live calves are imported from abroad, and are grown and fattened in Israel before being sent to slaughter.
In addition, according to The Marker, some growers in Israel claim that meat merchants from the Palestinian Authority have stopped paying for past imports, too, because the meat business is credit-based, and without the next round of shipments the Arab merchants have no cash flow.
This means a severe blow to the income of hundreds of Israeli growers and Arab merchants.
Heavy pressure is being exerted on PM Mohammad Shtayyeh to change his decision from PA politicians.
Two PA officials, Intelligence chief Majid Faraj and Minister of Civil Affairs Hussein a-Sheikh, have appealed to Chairman Mahmoud Abbas to reverse the boycott decision, but PM Shtayyeh warned in closed talks that he would resign if he were forced to fold under Israeli pressure.
In Ramallah, opponents of the decision say it was made without creating a proper alternative and without giving the opportunity for the Palestinian market to prepare for the move. Traders in the industry also say they should have been given a reasonable period of several years to prepare the market before deciding on such a move. As things stand now, they say, the move was a death sentence for the PA meat merchants.
About 90% of the beef calves consumed in the PA come from Israeli farmers.
Israel is considering stopping the entry of goods, products and equipment to the Palestinian Authority which are being shipped via Israeli harbors; this in addition to banning the export of olive oil and dates to Arab countries via Israeli-controlled border crossings. The first retaliatory steps aimed at the PA economy could be taken as early as next week.
Butchers in the territories have already raised the price of calves by as much as 25%, and report a severe shortage of calves in the PA markets. According to reports from Ramallah, one kg. of veal has risen from 45 shekel to 55 and even more. The price of a live calf increased by 4 shekel for every kilogram – an additional 1,000 to 1,600 shekel per calf.
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Fear & Anxiety in a Relationship
Some individuals who do not feel secure in their close relationships have attachment distress.
When partners feel some 'relationship threat' it is difficult to feel secure.
Relationship threats that plague many are the fear that:
"I will let you down or disappoint you."
"I will evoke your anger."
"I am unworthy of your love."
"I do not deserve you."
"You won't be there for me when I need you."
"You will eventually get fed up with me and leave."
These are attachment threats. Attachment threats may be experienced because of unreliable or hurtful behavior in the relationship. However, it could also exist because of anxiety experienced in earlier relationships for one or both individuals that is reinforced by behavior in the current relationship.
When fear revolves around attachment threats there are two basic behavioral tendencies we typically see. Some people make their distress more visible by "turning it up." People who turn down their distress typically do so by avoiding emotions or hated interactions and withdrawing from an interacting when feeling threatened. People who turn up their visibility tend to move toward their relationship partners when threatened by irritating contact and attempting to get through to them any way they can.
For couples, anxiety is a troubled form of distress that can have problematic implications for the relationship. Fortunately, if the specific threat or fear that is fueling the anxiety can be identified, anxiety can settle down
When people are able to express fears directly and experience their partner's sincere reassurance, the threat and attachment distress can diminish.
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North Texas cashier accused of theft using falsified returns
On behalf of John M. Petruzzi of John M. Petruzzi, Attorney at Law posted in theft & property crimes on Monday, May 7, 2018.
One of the most common types of theft comes from employees stealing or embezzling money from their workplace. Cashiers often have the opportunity to commit such crimes as they work closely with often large amounts of money. In Texas, a former cashier has been charged with theft of over $4,000 in cash. The charges come following an accusation from the supermarket where he was employed.
In Texas, theft charges and associated punishments vary, depending on the amount. In this case, the 19-year-old former cashier was charged with theft in the category of "more than $2,500 but less than $30,000." The man was arrested after his supervisor called police, telling them of suspicions that the cashier had been making up returns in order to embezzle money from the store.
The supervisor who made the accusation was in a loss prevention position. He and police suspect the 19-year-old of undergoing this embezzlement process totaling over $4,000 over the course of 10 weeks. The accusations were made following a routine audit of cash drawers.
The cashier told police that he had stolen the money after being told by other workers how to commit theft while working at the supermarket. He said he began making fake returns for small amounts around $10, then increased to $200 thefts on occasion. The suspect was informed of his right to a lawyer and right to remain silent under Texas protocol, but apparently shared this information with detectives regardless. Often, asking to speak with a lawyer before answering police questions is the best strategy for someone facing theft charges in Texas.
Source: timesrecordnews.com, "Wichita Falls cashier reportedly takes over $3,800 from grocery store", Patrick Johnston, May 2, 2018
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BrightRidges' broadband infrastructure is on target
Robert Houk • Feb 19, 2019 at 7:39 PM
Officials with BrightRidge said Tuesday the public utility is on schedule to build the infrastructure for its new broadband service. It has established a $7.3 million budget to cover the capital needs of its broadband division.
“It’s a huge start,” Brian Bolling, the utility’s chief financial officer, told BrightRidge’s board of directors at its monthly meeting.
He said 23.6 percent of the year’s budget has been spent for the broadband service, which means the utility hasn’t seen “the bulk of the capital spent yet.”
Most of those capital costs will be in expanding fiber optics, which includes recent work in Jonesborough and projects upcoming in downtown Johnson City and several business parks.
Bolling said BrightRidge’s financial report for broadband next month will include a new category — revenues.
“When we looked at this business plan we knew how this build out would go,” he said. “You build the infrastructure and you gain customers. Things are going as expected.”
Bolling told board members it was now time for the utility to clear the next hurdles in its eight-year plan. He said that included signing up customers for the broadband service via fiber and wireless technology.
With speeds of up to 10 gigabits, BrightRidge will reach 32,000 potential customers during the first three years of the plan. At least 8,500 customers will have access during the first phase.
Stacy Evans, BrightRidge’s chief operating officer, said the utility will begin Beta testing for customers in Jonesborough next week. He said many of those customers began signing on for service on Feb. 8.
He said the utility has already identified 105 residential and 50 businesses in the downtown Jonesborough area.
Evans said work will will begin in the downtown Johnson City area in early March to install fiber optics that could reach as many as 8,079 residential customers and 373 businesses.
“There’s a lot of excitement out there,” he said. “We have a growing list of customers who want to be among the first to get broadband service.”
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Beyond Meat drops after Nestle says it's launching a veggie burger
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Nestlé announced Monday that it will launch a veggie burger in the US this fall.
Shares of Beyond Meat slid as much as 5% on the news.
Plant-based protein is gaining popularity in the US and abroad, with grocery stores and fast-food chains adding vegan options.
Watch Beyond Meat trade live.
Beyond Meat, the plant-based burger maker, has some new competition.
On Monday, Nestlé said it is planning to launch its own plant-based burger in the US, sending Beyond Meat shares down as much as 5%. Beyond Meat has been the best-performing US IPO this year, up almost 300% from its initial-public-offering price of $25.
The veggie burger will be launched this fall by Nestlé's Sweet Earth brand, CNBC reported Monday. The news comes as plant-based protein is gaining popularity in the US. Both grocery stores and fast-food chains now offer alternative meat to consumers. The $14 billion market could balloon to roughly $140 billion over the next decade, according to a report by Barclays.
Sweet Earth's Awesome Burger will be made with pea protein, similar to Beyond Meat's patty. The burger is not Nestle's first foray into the plant-based burger world — the company in April launched a soy-and wheat-based burger in Europe under its Garden Gourmet brand. In addition, it's Incredible Burger is available at McDonald's in Germany.
Impossible Foods, another competitor, makes a veggie burger with soy protein. The company worked with Burger King to create the Impossible Whopper, a vegan burger that the chain plans to roll out to the entire country by the end of the year. Fast-food chains such as KFC, Del Taco, and Tim Hortons have also added vegan meat to menus in recent months, and Chick-fil-A and McDonald's are also exploring adding vegan options to their menus.
Beyond Meat's stock could see a 30% lift if it secures a partnership with McDonald's, analysts at Jefferies wrote in a note. The company, which has gained more than 300% since its May IPO, is being watched closely by investors as the stock price surge has made it an expensive short.
Beyond Meat will report its first quarterly earnings as a public company after Thursday's closing bell.
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A travel hacker with 45 credit cards reveals his tricks for maximizing airline miles, points, and rewards
Daniel Gillaspia at Yosemite View Lodge.
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The INSIDER Summary:
• Daniel Gillaspia is a pro at managing airline miles, points, and rewards.
• He recommends using many credit cards carefully.
• Flying out of airline hubs and using companion passes also saves time and money.
When Daniel Gillaspia isn't working as a full-time attorney in Houston, he and his partner Bradley Darnell travel around the world by expertly managing airline miles, points, and rewards from their 45 credit cards.
"Travel is naturally a pretty expensive thing to to enjoy, but I knew that there were ways to do so-called 'travel hacking,'" Gillaspia said. "I started to learn the ins and outs of everything, and then I was like, 'Alright, well, I'm going to put this knowledge into practice and see how far it can get me.'"
He now shares this knowledge on UponArriving, a website he runs that covers the latest developments in credit cards, airline and hotel award programs, and other travel topics.
INSIDER asked Gillaspia for his best travel hacks. Here's his advice for making luxury travel happen at a fraction of the cost.
Make sure your finances are in order.
"The average American household has something like $15,000 worth of credit card debt, and if someone is prone to running up credit card balances, they should think twice about getting into this, because rewards credit cards almost always come with some of the highest APRs (annual percentage rates)," he said.
Choose cards with valuable sign-up bonuses.
"There's the Chase Sapphire Reserve that offers a 100,000 point sign-up bonus, which could convert into $10,000 worth of first-class airfare, but you have people running into Wal-Mart signing up for cards that send them home with a free rotisserie chicken," he said. "Not all cards are created equally."
Keep an eye out for multiple sign-up offers on the same credit card.
"If you just search around a little bit more, you may find a sign-up bonus for the same card offering 20,000 more miles or something like that," he said.
The more cards you have, the better — as long as you keep track of them.
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Gillaspia estimates that between him and his partner, they have 45 different credit cards.
"A lot of people shudder when they hear that, they think our credit score is in the crapper," he said, "But actually, our credit scores are as strong as they've ever been."
The key is keeping track of them and paying them off fully each month. Gillaspia uses two to four cards regularly, and organizes the rest in intricate spreadsheets.
"The more credit cards you have, the bigger payment history you can build up over time. If you're responsible and don't run up a huge balance on your credit cards, pay them off each month and keep their utilization down to a minimum, you're going to inevitably increase your score over time," he said.
Think of points as a form of currency, and spring for deals that give you the best exchange rate.
"You don't want your points to be redeemed for poor values, really low values," he said. "You always want to maximize."
Fly out of airline hubs.
Flying out of an airline's headquarters means you will have more flight options, and thus save time and minimize extraneous connecting flights.
"It's just a better, more efficient use of miles a lot of times, if you're going through hubs," said Gillaspia. "And it also saves time, especially for people like me who like to do weekend getaways."
Earn a companion pass.
A companion pass allows another person to fly for free on any flight you book. It's earned after reaching a certain number of points, depending on the airline.
Gillaspia's companion pass allowed him and his partner to get away about every two weeks to explore places around the US and the Caribbean.
"I would say that while the first class experiences we enjoy are certainly our favorite way to fly, earning the Southwest Companion Pass was one of the best things we ever did," he said.
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School Resource Officers Learn Insight Policing Basics at the 2019 National Association of School Resource Officers (NASRO) Conference in Pigeon Forge, TN
Pigeon Forge, TN is an amazing place. Nestled in the beautiful, Smokey Mountains, the town has managed to create a mecca of bizarre attractions. Not only does King Kong climb a hotel right off the main drag, but during the last week in June 2019, you could find thousands of the nation's school resource officers (SROs) there.
SROs were participating in the National Association of School Resource Officers' (NASRO) annual conference, which invites SROs from around the country to learn and connect around best practices.
CAICR was honored to be chosen to deliver a 3-hour Insight Policing Basics workshop as part of NASRO's mission to prepare SROs with critical skills.
NASRO defines "the goals of well-founded SRO programs [to] include providing safe learning environments in our nation’s schools, providing valuable resources to school staff members, fostering positive relationships with youth, developing strategies to resolve problems affecting youth and protecting all students, so that they can reach their fullest potentials" (source).
Our Insight Policing Basics workshop, delivered by CAICR's Director, Dr. Megan Price, and Lt. Easton McDonald of the Loudoun County (VA) Sheriff's Office, was intended to enhance SROs ability to positively and productively engage with school communities through Insight-based communication and conflict resolution skills.
We introduced the idea that challenging behavior on the part of students, parents, and staff can be linked to conflict behavior and how we use our minds under threat.
When officers can recognize conflict behavior, they can get curious about the threat and defense that motivates it. This tempers the very natural impulse to be reactive, and opens the way for safe, effective and supportive problem solving, something that is essential for the well-being of our kids and our schools.
Insight and Use of force
With the ruling that the officers who shot and killed Stephon Clark will not be charged, the question around the adequacy of use-of-force policies and the standard of objective reasonableness emerges again.
Objective reasonableness was designed to protect officers who face split second decisions around safety and danger. While officers should be protected in the line of duty, given their social mandate to protect communities, their decisions need to be firmly based in critical thinking and vetted training. With out the assurance that use of force was measured, it appears to communities as death without trial. It wounds and alienates the public and chips away at the legitimacy of law enforcement.
We need to revisit our standard for determining the reasonableness of use of force to ensure that officers use critical thinking, not reactive thinking, when they make life or death decisions. Stephon Clark was unarmed. He committed no crime. In this article, Neil Munro, a former Sargent from the Vancouver, Canada Police Department, with a Master's in Conflict Management, argues that the Insight approach could be well put to use as a tool for analyzing officer decision making in use of force incidents-- ensuring proper and fair accountability for everyone.
Watch the Difference Insight Policing Can Make
Insight Policing: The Traffic Stop
According to Stanford University researchers, traffic stops are among the most common interactions police have with the public. Officers pull over more than 50,000 drivers each day. It can be stressful—on both sides. Often it doesn’t take much for an interaction to escalate. When it does, it’s conflict.
Conflict between law enforcement and the public can be problematic. It leads to less compliance, more force, and a breakdown in perceptions of police legitimacy.
Insight Policing: The Traffic Stop shows what an officer experiences when he encounters a driver who is unwilling to comply. Not only is the anger, frustration and defiance of the driver a challenge to deal with, but the officer has to contend with his own anger and frustration at not being able to do his job efficiently and effectively.
While noncompliance is a violation of the law in most states, it can also come across as a threat to officers. Insight Policing suggests that when people feel threatened, the knee-jerk response is to defend. The goal is to try to stop whatever is threatening.
In Take 1 of The Traffic Stop, Officer Ray uses force — first the force of his voice and ultimately the force of his power to arrest — to stop the threat the driver is posing by arguing with him. His goal is to impose compliance. As the scene fades out we hear the click of the handcuffs. What could have been a simple citation turns into much more.
In Take 2 of The Traffic Stop, Officer Ray uses his Insight Policing skills to recognize that the driver's anger, frustration, and defiance is most likely the result of a percieved threat. Rather than get defensive, Officer Ray gets curious. He takes a few valuable moments to figure out why the driver is not complying. Getting curious gets the driver engaged and cooperative. So much that by the end of the scene, not only does Officer Ray have no problem issuing a ticket, but he has a new ally in his department’s efforts to stop a rash of petty crime.
Insight Policing: The Traffic Stop shows that situations turn out differently depending on the skills an officer chooses to use. When the objective is compliance and cooperation, a little curiosity can go a long way.
Insight Policing Training Video production shots
CAICR in collaboration with Mason Arts Productions and with the support of the Sargent Shriver Peace Institute and the School for Conflict Analysis and Resolution filmed its first Insight Policing training video-- a simulated traffic stop depicting the story of a Memphis officer who keeps his cool and stops escalation in its tracks by using targeted Insight Policing skills.
Coming to a training near you--November 2018.
Officer Ray: Mo Frederick
Mr. Jones: Morris Small
Director: Sander Evans
Cinematography and Sound: Tom Vaughan
Producer: Gabrielle Mitchell
Executive Producer: Megan Price
I'm Megan Price, PhD, Director of CAICR. I'm passionate about applying the discoveries and skills of Insight Conflict Resolution to challenging problems and challenging fields.
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Multiple event options are available to suit groups of all sizes. Including Practice, Qualifying and Races
Testing is available for owner drivers during the week at the circuit.
Two-Stroke, Honda Cadet & Four Stroke Owner Driver Test Days.
Every Tuesday, Friday and Saturday 9am – 5pm.
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PFI is the UK's largest outdoor karting circuit based in Grantham, Lincolnshire and caters for various corporate events and race meetings throughout Lincolnshire, Newark, Nottingham and the UK.
Karts are available to hire for team/corporate events and Arrive' N' Drive, with full use of the national and international circuit.
A bar, cafe/restaurant, shopping and indoor/outdoor viewing areas are also situated on-site.
British, European and World Championships are held at PFI, as well as a club race held once a month by Trent Valley Kart Club who are based at the track. The circuit was built by Paul Fletcher, who still owns it today.
Recently in 2011 an extension was added on to the track including a bridge, making it one of a kind.
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Karts are available to hire for team/corporate events and arrive'n'drive, with full use of the national and international circuit.
British, European and World Championships are held at PFI, as well as a club race held once a month by Trent Valley Kart Club who are based at the track.
The circuit was built by Paul Fletcher, who still owns it today. Recently in 2011 an extension was added on to the track including a bridge, making it one of a kind.
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François Lemariey is the man at the helm at Kawasaki’s highest level motocross team; the French based Monster Energy Kawasaki Racing Team (KRT). In a sport with more than its fair share of ‘breaks’ François has a tough job keeping his riders fit and ready to race…
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Known across the World Superbike paddock, Lucio Pedercini and his Pedercini Kawasaki squad have established themselves as one of the most popular teams in the production bike based series. We caught up with Lucio to talk racing, Team Management and his plans for the future…
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After starting his career with Kawasaki, Dutch racer Arie Vos went on to win multiple Dutch Supersport and Superbike titles. Retiring from racing in 2014 (having won the Dutch Superbike Championship on a Kawasaki) he now runs his own team…
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Governor Kate Brown Discusses Education Goals
More than 200 people filled in at the commons in Medford Wednesday afternoon to hear Governor Kate Brown speak. She gave her State of the State address from when she was sworn in as governor earlier this month.
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MEDFORD, Ore. -- More than 200 people filled in at the commons in Medford Wednesday afternoon to hear Governor Kate Brown speak. She gave her State of the State address from when she was sworn in as governor earlier this month. In it, she lists her goals and promises for Oregon.
One of those goals is to make sure higher education is more affordable for high school students. RCC President Cathy Kemper-Pelle said she's already noticed a difference with increased enrollment.
"We have roughly 50 percent of high school graduates who go on to higher [education] immediately after high school and so providing an affordable opportunity to do that immediately I think is a huge help in our state to get students to consider high [education] right away,” she said.
Kemper-Pelle attributed much of this to the Oregon Promise. It's a state grant that helps cover tuition costs at any Oregon community college for recent high school graduates and those who pass the GED.
"We need to make sure that every single one of our students is future ready,” said Governor Kate Brown. “That means that each one of our students graduates from high school with a plan for their future and the tools to compete at a global economy."
RCC will be launching a career and technical education academy next week. Its purpose is to give high school juniors the opportunity to also be enrolled at RCC working on a career and technical certificate.
"We're piloting it with a manufacturing certification right now but our plan is to grow that to other manufacturing programs, eventually to healthcare and IT," Kemper-Pelle said. "Our hope is that these students will graduate from high school and RCC simultaneously and be able to go into the workplace."
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Lawton Parks and Recreation working on Master Plan
By Kyle Payne | September 6, 2019 at 10:17 PM CDT - Updated September 6 at 10:17 PM
LAWTON, Okla. (TNN) - As Lawton City Council works to complete the capital improvements projects extension plan, city departments are working to get their projects included and receive the extra funding.
Parks and Recreation Director Jack Hanna said a limited budget has really put the department at a disadvantage, but If they can be on the CIP, he said they will install a Master Plan.
In it, the department will map out the future of Lawton Parks.
The Master Plan idea is something Parks and Rec Director Jack Hanna said has been in the works for some time, but they couldn’t act on it without a funding channel.
Hanna said, “This opportunity with the CIP, we just thought ‘hey let’s take this chance’ and have this opportunity to get the plan done, so we have a direction and road map.”
Ross Hankins works alongside Hanna as the Parks and Rec commission Chairman, and he said money given to their department can help change the way people view Lawton.
Hankis said, “If people come to a baseball field, or come to a football field, what do they see? They see old run down stuff. The playing field is really good, but what they see around it are fences that haven’t been replaced in 40 years. Concession stands and bathrooms that are dilapidated.”
With the Master Plan still in it’s early stages of planning, Hanna said they had a crucial meeting today, where they learned what needs to be done before it can be finalized.
“Look at all of our parks individually, kind of get our senses of population in the areas, and get our thoughts on how the parks are being used. Then we formulate from there,” said Hanna.
Without a set list of priorities yet, Hankins and Hanna mentioned a number of parks that needed work including Lee West, Grandview, and the one they both said needs to be at the top of list.
“Ahlschlager Park is probably our oldest sports complex that we have,” said Hanna.
'I grew up playing baseball and football in that park, and it has not had a major renovation in decades," said Hankins.
“Definitely that’s one area we have big interest in, it needs a lot more upgrading," said Hanna.
Hanna said with 80 parks in Lawton, it will take some time to get the entire plan worked out, but he said his office did some basic projections on totals for the ideas they will propose, and that will likely reach close to 50 million dollars.
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Pleasanton, California — September 15 2015 ThinkHR, the leading HR solutions company that provides expert HR-related advice and training to employers, today announced that it has secured additional funding to fuel its growth and leadership. Kennet Partners, a leading international growth equity firm that invests in companies across North America and Europe, made the $12 million investment in ThinkHR.
The additional funding will be used to further accelerate ThinkHR’s aggressive product, technology and market development initiatives. ThinkHR will continue to expand its rapidly growing footprint in the multi-billion-dollar market for expert answers, information and training solutions that enable employers to comply effectively and efficiently with today’s increasingly complex HR regulatory requirements. ThinkHR has more than 650 partners and some 89,000 employers relying on its proven expertise and cloud-based technology solutions.
“We are thrilled to be partnering with a top-tier growth equity firm like Kennet as we create the breakthrough products and support infrastructure that help our insurance brokerage and payroll partners to succeed in the new benefits economy,” said Peter Yozzo, founder and CEO of ThinkHR. “This additional funding allows us to create powerful new tools and services that help our partners to enhance and expand the value they deliver to clients every day. That added value plays a key role in helping our partners to attract new business and strengthen existing client relationships.”
The new funding also advances ThinkHR’s mission to empower millions of employers and HR professionals to ensure compliance and be more efficient, productive and successful, Yozzo added.
“Kennet is all about helping successful entrepreneurial technology companies take the next big jump in growth, and that is exactly why we are investing in ThinkHR,” said Eric Filipek, managing director of Kennet Partners. “We believe ThinkHR has strong growth potential based on the opportunity to capture a significant and growing share of the market for providing HR solutions through 32,000-plus service provider channel partners. Equally important, ThinkHR is well positioned to engage the broader market of 2.15 million employers with its best-in-class HR answers and cloud-based technology platform.”
Before this new $12 million investment, ThinkHR had been financed through angel funding, venture debt and revenue from ongoing operations.
ThinkHR sells its HR-related products and services through channel partners that include insurance brokerage firms and payroll services providers. These partners then provide ThinkHR’s solutions to their clients, enabling them to comply efficiently and quickly with today’s increasingly complex regulatory and legal requirements, such as the Affordable Care Act (ACA) health care reform regulations.
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Kentico Incorporates 51Degrees.mobi Device Data into Kentico CMS 7
Nashua, New Hampshire, USA, November 27, 2012 – Kentico Software (www.kentico.com), the Web Content and Customer Experience Management vendor, announces Kentico CMS 7 integration with 51Degrees.mobi Device Data, enabling websites to identify mobile Web traffic and display content in response to the specific device accessing it.
The integration of 51Degrees.mobi Device Data with Kentico CMS allows Web developers to not just create high performance mobile Web applications, but to also display content optimized for various specific mobile devices. With mobile Web browsing set to overtake that of the desktop as early as 2013, the 51Degrees.mobi Device Data files connect websites to the future of the Web.
“The 51Degrees.mobi device database has been built from real handsets, manufacturers’ specifications, usage information and website responses. It includes a wide range of relevant properties, making it an invaluable resource in the delivery of great mobile Web experiences,” said James Rosewell, CEO and Founder of 51Degrees.Mobi. “Kentico customers can easily upgrade the device data to differentiate between tablets, smartphones, feature phones and traditional web browsers plus receive automated weekly updates by purchasing Premium device data from the 51Degrees.mobi web site and pasting a license key into Kentico CMS 7.”
Kentico CMS 7 offers advanced mobile site development capabilities, enabling developers to craft the design and content of pages to be easily viewable on various types of mobile devices. The ability to group devices with similar properties is now combined with 51Degrees.Mobi device detection to separate mobile, tablet, smartphone and non-mobile traffic. This allows the creation of specifically designed page layouts for each device profile within the CMS, offering mobile site previews directly in the browser. Visitors are therefore sent to the website that offers an optimal browsing experience according to their device, reducing scrolling and zooming for mobile browsers, and allowing companies to be pocket-accessible, crucial to any business on the Web.
“We are proud to be offering this revolutionary mobile technology as part of Kentico CMS 7, helping our clients build stronger brands and deliver customer satisfaction like no other medium can,” commented Petr Palas, Founder and CEO of Kentico Software. “Adding robust tools like this to the long list of enterprise features now available in our software not only helps our clients to step up a gear in their customer reach and engagement efforts, but also puts Kentico ahead in the delivery of an enterprise class CMS.”
For more information on Kentico CMS 7: Kentico CMS 7
For more information on 51Degrees.mobi device data: Device Data
About Kentico CMS
Kentico CMS is an enterprise Web Content Management System and Customer Experience Management System that provides a complete set of features for building websites, intranets, community sites and e-commerce solutions on the Microsoft ASP.NET platform on premise or in the cloud. It supports mobile websites, SEO, document management, online marketing tools, multilingual websites, multisite management and it ships with 70 modules, 400 configurable Web parts and source code available.
Kentico CMS customers can expect a highly flexible platform with a uniquely easy-to-use user interface. It’s currently used by more than 15,000 websites in 87 countries. The clients include Microsoft, Guinness, Chiquita, Vodafone, O2, Orange, Brussels Airlines, Mazda, Ford, Subaru, Isuzu, Samsung, Gibson, ESPN, DKNY, Abbott Labs, Medibank, Ireland.ie and others.
About Kentico Software
Kentico Software (www.kentico.com) helps clients create successful dynamic websites, intranets, community sites and
e-commerce solutions using Kentico CMS for ASP.NET. It's committed to deliver a full-featured, enterprise-class, stable and scalable Web Content Management solution on the Microsoft .NET platform. Founded in 2004, Kentico is headquartered in the Czech Republic and has offices in the United States (Nashua, NH and Seattle, WA), United Kingdom (Reading) and Sydney (Australia). Since its inception, Kentico has continued to rapidly expand the Kentico CMS user base worldwide. Its partner network consists of 1,200 partners in 80+ countries. Kentico Software is a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner. In 2010, Kentico was named the fastest growing technology company in the Czech Republic in the Deloitte Technology FAST 50 awards. In 2012, Kentico Software was named global Microsoft Partner of the Year Finalist in the ISV/Software Solutions Industry category.
About 51Degrees.Mobi
51Degrees.mobi (www.51degrees.mobi) provides a portfolio of technologies that extend an organisation’s existing online skills and investment to work on mobile devices as well. It delivers cost-effective, risk-free device detection, web optimisation and mobile analytics solutions enabling developers to maximise the customer’s experience of using a smaller screen. With over 25 years’ management expertise in developing and managing mobile web services, 51Degrees.mobi is used by 10,000s of websites and supports over 620 million device visits every month. The company is headquartered in the UK.
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Below are some examples of my international magazine writing and photography experience published in magazines, newspapers and online (mostly not counting my blog).
The list includes feature stories from China, Costa Rica and New Zealand for Paste Magazine, The Awl, Roads & Kingdoms, and Fresh Cup.
Plus some newspaper reporting from Montana and California.
China’s Growing Coffee Culture
Fresh Cup Magazine
August 2016 (photos and story)
My first thoughts of coffee when I moved to China were ones of longing. It was my first time in Asia, and I arrived with a job at a city university and a stubborn commitment to experiencing the culture in as pure a form as I could—forsaking a few of my favorite comforts from home that threatened to dilute the Chinese-ness of my life there. First off: no coffee. At least not in my apartment every morning. No, I would save it for a treat in the newly opened café on campus, or even the Starbucks downtown. I would learn to wake up to green tea.
After four months of private deprivation, a university administrator sent an emissary to my door with a small, friendly Christmas present: a neatly wrapped bottle of instant Nescafé. My will was broken, and I drank.
READ MORE at Fresh Cup, OR:
More about this coffee shop: A quick scene of the place I wrote for Roads & Kingdoms (March 2016).
More about coffee:
The evolution of Costa Rica’s local coffee scene for Fresh Cup (December 2016).
My blog post about Starbucks’ first shop in Italy – right in my backyard (September 2018).
All you need to know about how to eat food, drink coffee, and generally be merry in Italy.
The Case For China’s Trains
The bizarre combination of investments from quasi-communist China and a private Las Vegas firm might instigate a new era in American travel. Or at least introduce a quicker way for Angelenos to get to Vegas for a wild weekend.
In less than a year, China plans to start building a high-speed train line from Los Angeles to Las Vegas. The new line will be a joint venture between private American firm XpressWest and several Chinese state firms. China has built the world’s most extensive high-speed rail network in the last decade, while the U.S. has debated and ultimately nixed funding most expansions. Until now.
Residing in China for the past year, I’ve spent at least 100 hours on Chinese bullet trains, zipping up and down the country’s East Coast, watching the digital speedometer above the door to each car rise above 300 kilometers an hour-186 mph. The system is called “China Railway High-speed.; Once onboard, things get even more Eastern, as a serenely-voiced recording welcomes you to “Harmony.”
READ MORE at Paste Magazine, OR:
More about trains: My blog post about a train trip from Detroit to Chicago and the current state of Amtrak (September 2019).
International Ink: Searching for Rebellion in China
June 2015 (photos and story)
China is a country of deep-rooted tradition and superstition that has survived a near century of Civil War, occupation and communism—a combination that doesn’t leave much room for a well-established Western symbol of rebellion: body art. So, when I took a road trip through industrial, inland China with a carful of strangers and the promise of a free tattoo, I wasn’t exactly surprised when things didn’t work out as planned.
READ MORE at Paste Magazine
China Survival Guide
May 2015 (photos and story)
The People’s Republic of China is a perplexing place for outsiders—a communist country where you’ll often feel like you’re trapped inside a shopping mall, where English is constantly a form of decoration and only occasionally a means of communication.
The international mega-cities of Beijing and Shanghai have taken Westernization to heart, but outside the cosmopolitan centers, China is still a hot mess of a destination—in the best way possible.
Now that U.S. passport-holders can get 10-year visas for business and tourism, the options for experiencing both Chinas are multiplying.
This guide—collected wisdom from a year in a massive, smelly, industrial, capital city called Jinan—will serve you particularly well in China’s lesser-known cities and mountaintop villages—and everywhere in between.
More about China from my blog posts covering the year I lived there.
The Awl*
On a recent Sunday afternoon, on the waterfront in Wellington, New Zealand, an unusually large crowd gathered before a repurposed shipping container with a neat, black-and-white sign that read, “The Water Bar.” The bar was part of an exhibit of art installations inside cargo-shipping containers at the downtown harbor, called The Performance Arcade. Several attractive and busy-looking young people were handing little samples across a bar in shot glasses, tiny cups, and miniature porcelain spoons. The smiling crowd grew steadily in size and apparent interest. They were slurping saltwater slushies out of the spoons, sipping spring waters from the shot glasses, swirling and sniffing small tumblers, including one containing distilled water over a smoke-flavored ice cube.
“The only thing missing to make it a legitimate water bar,” Kane Laing, the bar’s creator said, “is people paying for it.”
*The Awl – an online, NYC-based culture and news journal – closed in 2018, two years after I wrote this fun piece for them from New Zealand.
Prohibition Pains
The (University of) Montana Kaimin
The carpet of a smoky, one-bedroom apartment overlooking the Clark Fork River is dotted with cigarette burns — reminders of days when powerful narcotic painkillers became too much for the 110-pound woman whose life fills those small rooms.
She’s impressively spry for how sick her body is from leukemia, severe degenerative scoliosis and a damaged heart after multiple major cardiac arrests. But her life has gotten much easier since she moved to Montana from the Southeast several years ago.
“I found peace here,” she said. “And a lot of the peace is that I can get the medication I need legally.”
READ MORE at the Montana Kaimin
(The University of Montana’s) Native News Project
Sandy Spang and her family nervously watched a newly sparked wildfire approaching over the horizon and thought, or hoped, firefighters would promptly snuff out the flames. As the fire continued to burn through the hills of southeastern Montana, engulfing stands of Ponderosa pine and crisp, dry grasslands, they started to get nervous.
With the fire sweeping closer to the Spangs’ secluded home, ringed with tall trees and tucked between rolling hills and flat-topped buttes, Sandy called the Bureau of Indian Affairs police. An unfamiliar voice answered. Normally, she recognizes the voice of the officer on the line.
READ MORE at Native News
Scotts Valley Survivors of SFO Crash Describe Wreck, Confusion
Santa Cruz (California) Sentinel
SCOTTS VALLEY — Elliot Stone has had a lifetime of training in martial arts, but none in emergency medicine. Still he was one of the first responders to reach four victims who were torn from the Asiana jumbo jet Flight 214 as it crashed at San Francisco International Airport on Saturday.
The plane came in for a landing flying too low and too slow. The landing gear crashed against the seawall, ripping open the back of the airplane and scattering people onto the runway, while the rest of the plane careened down the tarmac.
Just seconds came between Stone’s realization that something was wrong and the impact. He was seated next to Elena Jin, 23, his fiancee from Santa Cruz whom he had proposed to a day earlier at their hotel in Suwon, South Korea.
“All that went through my mind was grabbing her arm, looking in her eyes and saying, ‘This might be it,’ ” he said.
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Missoula (Montana) Independent**
By Ketti Wilhelm and Dennis Swibold
Politics is a cheap game to play in Montana, thanks largely to “dark money,” a furtive type of campaign funding for which the state has a substantial claim to being the nation’s poster child. Liberal and conservative groups flooded Montana with funds from undisclosed donors in 2012, attracted by a high-stakes U.S. Senate race, relatively cheap TV ads and the low cost of reaching the state’s nearly 680,000 registered voters by mail.
According to ProPublica, almost a quarter of the $51 million or more spent in the 2012 Senate race came from issue-advocacy groups that do not disclose their contributors. The dark money—and the influence it represented—drew protests from Democrats and Republicans alike.
Mercantile Still Looks for Options
For nearly four years, Missoula’s most prominent downtown retail space has remained vacant. While the Missoula Mercantile building has turned into little more than a billboard for art shows, what with its windows filled with posters and displays, officials say it’s an exception to an otherwise healthy downtown.
**The Missoula Independent (a free, weekly, small-town broadsheet covering local news and culture) also closed in 2018. The stories I wrote for them were lost to newspaper conglomeration after the decision by the paper’s new parent company.
PDFs of the work are available upon request.
Feel free to get in touch at ketti.wilhelm [at] gmail [dot] com or via my contact page.
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Sirius (bottom) and Orion (right). The Winter Triangle is formed from the three brightest stars in the northern winter sky: Sirius, Betelgeuse (top right), and Procyon (top left).
Sirius as the brightest star in the constellation Canis Major as observed from the Earth (lines added for clarity).
The Sothic cycle or Canicular period is a period of 1,461 Egyptian civil years of 365 days each or 1,460 Julian years averaging 365¼ days each. During a Sothic cycle, the 365-day year loses enough time that the start of its year once again coincides with the heliacal rising of the star Sirius (Ancient Egyptian: Spdt or Sopdet, 'Triangle'; Greek: Σῶθις, Sō̂this) on 19 July in the Julian calendar.[1][a] It is an important aspect of Egyptology, particularly with regard to reconstructions of the Egyptian calendar and its history. Astronomical records of this displacement may have been responsible for the later establishment of the more accurate Julian and Alexandrian calendars.
chronological interpretation
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problems and criticisms
The ancient Egyptian civil year, its holidays, and religious records reflect its apparent establishment at a point when the return of the bright star Sirius to the night sky was considered to herald the annual flooding of the Nile.[2] However, because the civil calendar was exactly 365 days long and did not incorporate leap years until 22 BC, its months "wandered" backwards through the solar year at the rate of about one day in every four years. This almost exactly corresponded to its displacement against the Sothic year as well. (The Sothic year is about a minute longer than a solar year.)[2] The sidereal year of 365.25636 days is only valid for stars on the ecliptic (the apparent path of the Sun across the sky), whereas Sirius's displacement ~40° below the ecliptic, its proper motion, and the wobbling of the celestial equator cause the period between its heliacal risings to be almost exactly 365.25 days long instead. This steady loss of one relative day every four years over the course of the 365-day calendar meant that the "wandering" day would return to its original place relative to the solar and Sothic year after precisely 1461 civil or 1460 Julian years.
asturianu: Ciclu sotíaco
čeština: Sóthická perioda
Deutsch: Sothis-Zyklus
español: Ciclo sotíaco
français: Lever héliaque de Sirius
Latina: Cyclus Sothicus
Nederlands: Sothisperiode
日本語: ソティス周期
polski: Datowanie sotisowe
srpskohrvatski / српскохрватски: Sotički ciklus
suomi: Sothis-jakso
தமிழ்: சோதிக் சுழற்சி
Türkçe: Sothik dönem
Tiếng Việt: Chu kỳ Sothic
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Paul Manafort, After Receiving 47 Month Sentence, To Learn Punishment In D.C. Case
By Ryan Lucas • Mar 12, 2019
This courtroom sketch depicts former Donald Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort (center) before U.S. District Judge Amy Berman Jackson in September 2018. She is scheduled to sentence Manafort on Wednesday.
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President Trump's onetime campaign chairman Paul Manafort is due back in federal court on Wednesday for sentencing in his criminal case in Washington, D.C.
The hearing in U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia comes less than a week after Manafort was sentenced to just under four years in prison in a federal case in Virginia.
Manafort's appearance for sentencing in D.C. on Wednesday could then close out his two-year fight with Justice Department special counsel Robert Mueller.
One question that continues to hang over this saga, though, is whether the president might neutralize whatever sentence Manafort receives by deciding to pardon him — a move that Trump himself has refused to rule out.
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Tax and fraud case over. Onto conspiracy
One front of Manafort's legal battle concluded last week in Virginia, where a federal judge sentenced him to 47 months in federal prison and ordered him to pay $25 million in restitution.
A jury there convicted him last year of bank and tax fraud related to consulting and lobbying work he did in Ukraine.
Now he faces sentencing in a second case brought by Mueller's team. Manafort pleaded guilty to two conspiracy charges revolving around undeclared foreign lobbying work he did on behalf of pro-Russian Ukrainian political figures.
The matter was set to go to trial in September of 2018 before Manafort struck a last-minute plea deal under which he agreed to cooperate with the government. But that agreement collapsed after Mueller's team accused Manafort of lying to investigators late last year.
After weighing the evidence, Judge Amy Berman Jackson agreed with the special counsel's office that Manafort lied about three subjects — a $125,000 payment; his contacts with a Russian associate, Konstantin Kilimnik, who the FBI says has ties to Russia's intelligence services; and about matters related to another ongoing investigation.
The judge disagreed with the special counsel's office assessment that Manafort lied on two other subject areas.
Manafort faces a maximum possible sentence of 10 years in Washington. The decision on how long to put Manafort away lies in Jackson's hands.
Manafort's total punishment
Jackson also can decide whether any sentence she imposes is added to the 47 months that Manafort has already received, or whether he may serve the sentences simultaneously.
The Virginia sentence, which was 20 years below the upper limit of the federal guidelines range, touched off a national discussion about disparity in sentencing. It is common, however, for defendants in tax fraud cases to be sentenced below the guideline range, according to U.S. Sentencing Commission statistics.
In the D.C. case, Mueller's office has not taken a position on sentencing — as is its standard practice. But it emphasizes that Manafort "repeatedly and brazenly violated the law" and argued that his sentence "must take into account the gravity of this conduct."
"His crimes continued up through the time he was first indicted in October 2017 and remarkably went unabated even after indictment," the special counsel's office said in its sentencing memo.
"Manafort engaged in witness tampering while on bail and, even after he was caught for engaging in that scheme, Manafort committed the additional crimes of perjury and making false statements after he entered his guilty pleas," the office added.
Manafort's attorneys, on the other hand, have pushed back against the special counsel's portrayal of their client as a "hardened criminal" who deserves no mercy.
Manafort, who will turn 70 next month and suffers from gout, has accepted responsibility for his crimes by pleading guilty, his attorneys say. And they observe that he has not been charged with any crimes related to Mueller's primary mandate — Russia interference in the 2016 election and possible coordination with the Trump campaign.
"In light of his age and health concerns, a significant additional period of incarceration will likely amount to a life sentence for a first time offender," they write in their sentencing memo.
They also requested that any sentence in D.C. run simultaneous to Manafort's Virginia sentence.
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Family bonding through 'Star Wars: The Last Jedi'
My family's love of 'Star Wars' is a great bonding opportunity.
Family bonding through 'Star Wars: The Last Jedi' My family's love of 'Star Wars' is a great bonding opportunity. Check out this story on jsonline.com: https://jsonl.in/2AIBv1i
Amy Schwabe, MetroParent Magazine Published 10:01 a.m. CT Dec. 16, 2017 | Updated 11:05 a.m. CT Dec. 17, 2017
Star Wars Last Jedi opens at the Majestic Cinema of Brookfield
Laurie Ganske of Franklin photographs her grandchildren with a Storm Trooper from the 501 Legion group on hand to mingle with fans at the opening night of the Star Wars series latest movie, "The Last Jedi," at the Majestic Cinema of Brookfield on Dec. 14. C.T. Kruger/Now News Group
Will Morzy, 5, of Greendale gets a fistbump from a Storm Trooper from the 501 Legion group on hand to mingle with fans at the opening night of the Star Wars series latest movie, "The Last Jedi," at the Majestic Cinema of Brookfield on Dec. 14. C.T. Kruger/Now News Group
Owen Feucht, 7, of East Troy is photographed with members of the 501 Legion group on hand to mingle with fans at the opening night of the Star Wars series latest movie, "The Last Jedi," at the Majestic Cinema of Brookfield on Dec. 14. C.T. Kruger/Now News Group
Ben Piotrowski of Milwaukee waits with friends at the opening night of the Star Wars series latest movie, "The Last Jedi," at the Majestic Cinema of Brookfield on Dec. 14. C.T. Kruger/Now News Group
Members of the 501 Legion group mingle with fans at the opening night of the Star Wars series latest movie, "The Last Jedi," at the Majestic Cinema of Brookfield on Dec. 14. C.T. Kruger/Now News Group
Star Wars: The Last Jedi logo(Photo: LucasFilm)
Ewoks live on the Moon of Endor, not the planet.
George Lucas originally planned on his hero being named Luke Starkiller, not Luke Skywalker.
And, most importantly, Han shot first.
I know these, and many more obscure "Star Wars" facts not because I'm a huge fan of the wildly popular nerdy franchise, but because these are the types of tidbits you learn by osmosis when you live with and love a self-described "Star Wars" nerd.
Learning to love "Star Wars"
Early in my husband Jonathan's and my relationship, I watched all the movies with him (Back then there were only three). As the years went on, we would see the prequels. And the re-releases of the originals. I even went to "Star Wars" conventions with him. Twice. And I sewed an Ewok Halloween costume for our daughter Alex when she was a year old. The things you do for love.
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As Alex, who is 13 now, and our other daughter Wendy (now 9) have grown up, they've seen all the movies too. And the cartoons. And built the LEGO sets. And collected plastic light sabers.
Building a father-daughter bond
Jonathan, Alex and Wendy Schwabe stand in line to see "Star Wars: The Last Jedi." (Photo: Submitted Photo)
For years, I assumed the girls were humoring their father, much as I have. But, as my daughters' "Star Wars" knowledge has surpassed mine, and as I've seen them get into heated "Star Wars"- related debates at school, and as I've written "Star Wars" video games on their Christmas lists, I've realized that they love "Star Wars" too.
Who knows how much they'd love the movies if it wasn't for their dad and his enthusiastic Jedi evangelism. But that actually makes it even sweeter. It's nice to see a dad and his daughters bonding over a shared interest. It's touching to see them seek him out to spend time together watching You Tube videos about the latest "Star Wars" news. And it's fun to see their excitement as they cheer on the newest movie with hundreds of fellow fans.
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Our favorite parts of "Star Wars: The Last Jedi"
Which brings me to a few of our favorite things from the newest movie (which of course we saw on opening weekend, although I was able to convince Jonathan to buy tickets for Friday instead of Thursday. Getting home at 2 a.m. on a school night is just a little too "Star Wars" obsessed for me.)
Warning: spoilers ahead!
Porg love
Porgs are making a big noise in 'Star Wars: The Last Jedi.' (Photo: Lucasfilm)
I'll admit it, from just watching the trailers, I didn't see why my daughters were obsessed with Porgs (the newest cutesy "Star Wars" character). After seeing the movie, I am firmly on Team Porg. They were used just enough in the movie to be adorable without being annoying.
The emotional moments between Luke and Leia brought tears to my eyes. Their relationship is reminiscent of the sweetness from the first trilogy, and it doesn't hurt that we're watching them act together for the last time.
Rey is an extremely powerful Jedi with a moral code that stays intact throughout the movie. She's never tempted by the Dark Side (which was a relief to me), and I love, love, love that my daughters get the opportunity to watch a strong female lead character in a popular action movie franchise, in fact the most popular action movie francise.
Edge-of-your seat action
It's a fun movie. Even though it's serious and tragic in a lot of places, there are a lot of funny moments and great action scenes that had my kids on the edge of their seats (literally), which is a pretty impressive accomplishment three hours after their bedtime.
Surprise cameos
And, finally, something we completely didn't see coming since we've been avoiding spoilers for the past several months.
Yoda. Yes, Yoda.
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Porthcurno is a truly magical place, with its beautiful sandy beach made up almost entirely of tiny, 30,000 year old seashells which extend well below the water line, giving the sea a bright turquoise colour – you could be forgiven for thinking that you were in the Caribbean.
The cliffs and coastline are designated as Areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty and widely considered as some of the most visually stunning in the UK. Porthcurno is a perfect base for exploring the area along the South West Coastal Path.
Up on the cliffs is the internationally renowned Minack Theatre, built in the 1920s by theatrical visionary Rowena Cade and her faithful gardener. Today the Rowena Cade exhibition centre, coffee shop and theatre are open to visitors throughout the year. Plays are staged during the summer months with ad hoc events such as concerts and story telling for children taking place throughout the year.
Porthcurno became internationally famous as the British termination of early submarine telegraph cables, the first of which was landed in 1870, part of an international link stretching all the way from the UK to India.
In the inter-war years the Porthcurno cable office operated as many as 14 cables simultaneously, for a time becoming the largest submarine cable station in the world, with the capacity to receive and transmit up to two million words a day.
The concrete cable hut, where the cable shore ends were connected to their respective landlines, is a listed building and still stands at the top of the beach. Porthcurno is still known colloquially by the acronym ‘PK’.
In WWII secret, bomb and gas proof tunnels were dug by Cornish miners to house an underground building and the entire telegraph operation.
In the 1950’s Cable & Wireless opened an engineering college which closed in 1993 – some of the college buildings were subsequently converted into self catering holiday accommodation. The award winning Porthcurno Telegraph Museum was then opened which tells the story of Cornwall’s role in the pioneering days of global communications.
There is a beach cafe offering excellent quality coffee, cream teas, Kellys ice cream, bacon sandwiches and quality gifts.
The Cable Station Inn is located in the valley with a pool room and an outdoor patio area. It serves food all day. There are limited opening hours in the winter.
Other facilities include two large car parks, toilets, tennis courts, a public telephone and a bus stop going to Penzance and Land’s End.
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Dodgers don’t plan to start Carl Crawford in the outfield
Carl Crawford is expected to rejoin the Dodgers this week, but with Matt Kemp performing well in left field, the outfielder will likely find himself on the bench.
(Alex Gallardo / Associated Press)
By Bill ShaikinStaff Writer
REPORTING FROM DETROIT —
After 13 months of debate and discussion about how to fit four starting outfielders into three spots, the Dodgers finally have an answer.
Yasiel Puig plays right field, Andre Ethier center, Matt Kemp left.
Carl Crawford? Left out.
The Dodgers flew home Wednesday after a dispiriting two-game sweep in Detroit, capped by a 4-1 loss to defending American League Cy Young Award winner Max Scherzer and the Tigers.
The Tigers won Wednesday despite a lineup that did not include Miguel Cabrera or Victor Martinez, their top two bats. They spotted the Dodgers five runs in the first inning Tuesday, then outscored them 18-1 over the final 17 innings of the series.
“We got humbled these two days,” catcher A.J. Ellis said.
Crawford could be activated as soon as Thursday, which could leave Manager Don Mattingly with an unhappy bench player. Mattingly said he would speak with Crawford about his role, but said he is “not really planning any big changes” and noted the Dodgers had ascended to first place in the National League West with a set outfield. San Francisco moved percentage points ahead Wednesday night.
“Everybody is happier,” Mattingly said. “They don’t have to come to the ballpark looking for the lineup card.”
The Dodgers were 29-24 (.547) when Crawford went on the disabled list. They are 22-18 (.550) since then, including 19-11 (.633) in the last 30 games.
Mattingly said Crawford bears no blame for the situation.
“Carl happened to be the one who got hurt,” Mattingly said.
However, Kemp is batting .289 since becoming the everyday left fielder May 28, when the Dodgers put Crawford on the disabled list.
Is there any thought of moving Kemp back to center field?
“Not right now,” Mattingly said.
Could Crawford play another position?
“Carl pretty much plays left,” Mattingly said.
Crawford, 32, a four-time All-Star, considers himself an everyday player, and the Dodgers would not be opposed to accommodating him with a trade. Scott Van Slyke has proven himself as a capable fourth outfielder, and top prospect Joc Pederson returned Wednesday from a separated shoulder at triple-A Albuquerque.
However, if Crawford were traded at the July 31 deadline, he would have $69 million left on his contract — $6.75 million for the last two months of this season, and $62.25 million through 2017.
So, to trade Crawford and his big contract, the Dodgers might have to take on another big contract. The Dodgers are looking for a starting pitcher. If the Philadelphia Phillies decide to move Cole Hamels, the Dodgers could see whether Crawford could be part of a trade package.
If Hamels was traded at the July 31 deadline, he would have $103.5 million left on his contract, through 2018, when he would be 34. The difference between the money left on the contracts — $34.5 million — could allow the Dodgers room to pay some of Crawford’s contract and acquire a top pitcher without spending the money to sign the likes of Scherzer or David Price in free agency. That money could be diverted toward retaining Zack Greinke, who can opt out of his contract after next season.
The Dodgers would have to include top prospects, of course. And Crawford’s unsettling experience in the rugged Boston market might well make Philadelphia apprehensive. But the last-place Phillies insist they are not embarking on a long rebuilding process, and their left fielders rank last in the National League in batting average (.207), on-base percentage (.273) and slugging percentage (.299).
No contract is untradeable. Vernon Wells was traded twice on a supposedly untradeable contract.
But the vast majority of trade scenarios never come to pass. In the near future, that could leave Crawford as a pinch-hitter.
In 35 career at-bats as a pinch-hitter, he is batting .114.
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Question: What if the team’s roster spots are filled and no new players are be added?
Answer: HYLC does not want to turn players away. However, we are limited to how many players can be on a roster. 18 to 20 players per team allows for quality playing time for each player. Anymore than 20 players diminishes the quality of playing time. We will wait list players after the roster spots are filled and HYLC will try to add another team if there are enough wait listed players and coaches.
Question: How many players are there on a team?
Answer: HYLC will require a minimum of 15 players and maximum of 18 to 21 player per team depending on the number of assistant coaches. This will ensure that all players get an opportunity for ample playing time. If there are more than 21 players registered and paid for a particular grade then HYLC will strongly consider creating a second team for that grade.
Question: When are registrations and when does the season begin/end?
Answer: Lacrosse is a spring sport. However, we hold registrations and will accept payments starting in October, 2011. ALL payments must be paid online, and you will need a major credit card to complete the registration process. A player will not be placed on a team until full payment is received. The regular season and outdoor practices begin the first week in March (weather permitting) and extends through the second week in June. The conclusion of the season is a usually a regional competition, an event which generally takes place over 2 days.
Question: Can my child play other sports while playing lacrosse?
Answer: Our goal 1st though 3rd is to teach the game of lacrosse. HYLC does not endorse sports specialization at these ages. We do however, expect players to attend the majority of practices. If a player misses too many practices for other events or games, this may be reflected in playing time. HYLC reserves the right at all grade levels not to hold a players spot as a returning player for the next season if that player has missed too many practices or games due to another sport or event. Grades 4th through 5th are expected to make lacrosse their priority sport if playing other sports.
6th grade through 8th grade are critical years and a time for players to fine-tune their skills and obtain maximum knowledge of the game in order to prepare for competitive high school lacrosse. By this level, we expect players to be committed to the lacrosse season. Playing in a different sport during lacrosse season will not be acceptable as a valid excuse. Attendance at games and practices are mandatory. The coaches will evaluate excuses only if they are presented to them in advance. Playing time is directly tied to the number of practices the player attends per week.
Question: What is the financial commitment?
Answer: The registration fee does vary based on age group, and ranges between $200 and $300 per child. This fee covers paying the referees, equipment expenses such as balls, goals, goalie’s equipment, uniforms and various regional league/tournament expenses.
Question: How much does equipment cost?
Answer: Players can purchase their equipment from a HYLC equipment vendor who will assist in selecting the correct equipment. The equipment cost for boys is approximately $200. This package includes a stick, helmet (color: Black if not already purchased. Otherwise a white helmet will suffice), shoulder pads, arm pads, and gloves. All players will need to purchase several color (not clear) mouth guards and a protective cup. Lacrosse, soccer or football cleats are required. Players are required to wear all equipment to every practice and game. The coaches will not permit a player to participate in practice or a game if not properly equipped.
Question: Are the teams parent-coached?
Answer: HYLC will make their best effort to hire the best head coaches to teach proper skills to our players. All of our head coaches will have extensive lacrosse experience and will be properly screened. We even have a few that were collegiate All-Americans! Most importantly, they want to give back to the game of lacrosse after having played it themselves. Also for each team there will also be two assistant coaches per team and two additional parents that will act as team parents and perform various non-coaching duties.
Question: Who will referee the games?
Answer: All lacrosse games will be refereed by certified lacrosse officials supplied by the New Jersey Interscholastic Lacrosse Officials Association. 1st/2nd through 4th grade is officiated by one referee and 5th through 7th grade is officiated by two referees.
Question: Are there practices during the week? If so, how many/week? Any idea when they are held?
Answer: HYLC will use at least three fields. Each team will practice twice a week between 6:00 pm and 7:30 pm. The practice nights vary by age group. Practice locations include Green Acres field (Haddonfield, NJ) and Scout Field (Haddonfield, NJ).
Question: Which teams would we play? What time do games start? How long before the game do the players have to be there for any pre-game warm-up?
Answer: While we are in the NJ South Chapter of US Lacrosse, our teams will most likely play teams from the Delaware Valley region. This includes teams from southeastern Pennsylvania and southern and central New Jersey. We play a 12-16 game season (8 or 9 weekends). So only 6 or 8 weekends would be travel weekends. Start times vary based on game location. We ask that the players arrive NO LATER than 30 minutes before game time.
Question: Do the teams play in lacrosse tournaments?
Answer: Yes. The registration fee includes entry to two (2) regional tournaments that may include up to four (4) games per tournament. The tournaments may include teams from as far as New York and Maryland. The tournaments are very exciting for the players and their families. There is typically one (1) tournament in April and one (1) in May.
Question: I have more questions. How do I get them answered?
Answer: You can send an email to us at info@haddonfieldyouthlax.com with any/all questions you might have. We do virtually all of our communication via email. Please feel free to submit any questions you might have at any time.
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Why 'Atheist' Shouldn't Be Capitalized
Atheism and Agnosticism Logic
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Atheism and atheist are not proper nouns to capitalize
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by Austin Cline
Austin Cline, a former regional director for the Council for Secular Humanism, writes and lectures extensively about atheism and agnosticism.
One of the earliest signs that a person doesn't understand what atheism is comes when they spell "atheism" or "atheist" with a capital A in the middle of a sentence. In English, this is only grammatical with proper nouns, and thus this signals that the person imagines atheism to a be a proper noun—in other words, some sort of ideology or religion like Christianity or Objectivism. When you see someone inappropriately capitalizing atheism, beware.
Little Things Are Important
At first blush, it might appear petty to worry about grammar, but it's not at all petty in this case. It's one thing to make minor mistakes—everyone does, and a certain amount of tolerance of mistakes should be maintained. Consistently spelling atheism and atheist with a capital A in the middle of the sentence is not, however, a minor spelling issue.
This matters because it matters if a person falsely believes atheism is an ideology rather than simply the absence of belief in gods. This not only means that they don't even comprehend the basic definition of atheism, but are in fact working from a definition which will cause them to draw all sorts of incorrect conclusions about atheists. Most of the myths about atheism do, in fact, stem from thinking that atheism is a belief system.
So if you see a person capitalizing atheism and atheist in the middle of a sentence, you need to cut short the conversation and educate them about what atheism is. You need to do this before the conversation starts winding down blind alleys that lead nowhere—a common occurrence with Christians trying to critique an idea about "atheism" which has no connection to reality.
A Sign of Respect?
The most creative excuse I've seen for misspelling atheism and atheist is that it's supposed to be a sign of "respect." I've been assured that the person did understand that atheism is merely an absence of belief in gods, but was convinced that atheism deserved to be treated with the same respect as Christianity and thus should be capitalized just as Christianity is capitalized.
This excuse is so weak that I hardly know where to begin. Perhaps it's sufficient to point out that capitalization in English has nothing whatsoever to do with "respect" and everything to do with separating out proper nouns. If a person does believe that capitalization is done out of "respect," then they don't even comprehend basic English grammar, and you should beware of them even more than if they merely didn’t understand atheism.
If someone wants to "respect" atheism, they should simply make an effort to comprehend what it is and is not before presuming to make declarations about atheism or atheists. It's not that hard.
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The Great Leveler: Violence and the History of Inequality from the Stone Age to the Twenty-First Century
Walter Scheidel, Princeton University Press, 2017
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Financial Times and McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award 2017年入围奖
Inc. Overcoming the Unseen Forces that Stand in the Way of True Inspiration
Ed CatmullCreativity, , Random House, 2014
Hyper-Organization: Global Organizational Expansion
Patricia Bromley and John W. Meyer, Oxford University Press, 2015
George Terry Award 2016年入围奖
The Man Who Knew: The Life and Times of Alan Greenspan
Sebastian Mallaby, , 2016
Financial Times and McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award 2016年获奖图书
Hack Attack: How the Truth Caught Up with Rupert Murdoch
Nick Davies, Faber, 2014
Making a Market for Acts of God: The Practice of Risk Trading in the Global Reinsurance Industry
Paula Jarzabkowski, Rebecca Bednarek, and Paul Spee, Oxford University Press, 2017
What Works: Gender Equality by Design
Iris Bohnet, Belknap Press, 2016
House of Debt: How They (and You) Caused the Great Recession, and How We Can Prevent It from Happening Again
Atif Mian and Amir Sufi, University Of Chicago Press, 2015
A Process Theory of Organization
Tor Hernes, Oxford University Press, 2014
George Terry Award 2015年获奖图书
Duncan Clark, Ecco, 2016
The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon
Brad Stone, Little Brown and Company, 2013
The Cultivation of Taste: Chefs and the Organization of Fine Dining
Christel Lane , Oxford University Press, 2016
Makers and Takers: The Rise of Finance and the Fall of American Business
Rana Foroohar, Crown Publishing Group, Division Of Random House Inc, 2016
The Alchemists: Inside the Secret World of Central Bankers
Neil Irwin, Business Plus, 2013
Give and Take: A Revolutionary Approach to Success
Adam Grant , Penguin Books, 2014
The Rise and Fall of American Growth: The U.S. Standard of Living Since the Civil War
Robert J. Gordon, Princeton University Press, 2017
Making it Happen: Fred Goodwin, RBS and the Men Who Blew Up the British Economy
Iain Martin, Simon, 2014
Manufacturing Morals: The Values of Silence in Business School Education Hardcover
Michel Anteby , University Of Chicago Press, 2013
The 100-Year Life: Living and Working in an Age of Longevity
Lynda Gratton, Bloomsbury Business, 2017
Big Data: A Revolution That Will Transform How We Live, Work, and Think
Viktor Mayer-Schönberger and Kenneth Cukier, Eamon Dolan/houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2014
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Sydney Dance Company reveals 2015 New Breed artists
by Dakshayani Shankar on August 14, 2015
Now in its second year, SDC’s artist residency at Carriageworks champions “fresh, authentic dance pieces.”
Sydney Dance Company have announced the four emerging choreographic talents for this year’s New Breed initiative. Now in its second year, the major three-year residency in partnership with Carriageworks in the Central Sydney suburb of Redfern, fosters cutting edge choreography from the next generation of Australian dance-makers.
This year Daniel Riley, Kristina Chan, Bernhard Knauer and Fiona Jopp have been selected to benefit from the programme, and will produce newly commissioned dance works to present at a special New Breed season at Carriageworks this December. First established with the generous support of the Balnavas Foundation in 2014, the New Breed initiative aims to support young dance artists as they develop “fresh, authentic dance pieces.”
“Over its 46-year history, Sydney Dance Company has earned a reputation as a breeding ground for future generations of Australian choreographic artists,” said SDC Artistic Director, Rafael Bonachela. “We are proud to further contribute to this legacy through what we believe is a truly unique program, and to further invest in what we believe is the very foundation of the future of Australian contemporary dance – it’s creators.”
The first year of the initiative in 2014 saw a sold-out season, providing an excellent professional springboard for the inaugural five young choreographers. Gabrielle Nankiveli, one of these five, was recently announced as the recipient of the 2015 Tanja Liedtke Fellowship, established in honour of the late dancer and choreographer. As part of this year’s residency, the four most recent New Breed artists will have the opportunity to experiment, practise, compile their ideas and transform them into live performances, while having the technical and practical support of the SDC.
SDC Artistic Director Rafael Bonachela
“Australia is lucky to be blessed with an extremely rich talent base of young dance creators. Yet in order for me them to grow in their careers and reach their full potential, they need the opportunity to practise,” says Bonachela. “New Breed is about giving some of these talented young artists the best possible opportunity to experiment. I have personally been inspired hearing of their ideas and have every confidence their works will resonate with dance audiences for the coming generations.”
The four choreographers selected for this season offer an eclectic fusion of cultures, upbringing and dance experiences. Daniel Riley, from New South Wales, is a member of the Wiradjuri clan and has gained extensive choreographing experience creating works for Stephen Page’s Bangarra Dance Theatre and Third Row Dance Company in the UK.
Hong Kong born dancer, choreographer and 2011 Helpmann Award-winner, Kristina Chan, will be working specifically with the male dancers of SDC for her new work to explore the pressures society places on men.
Raised in Dresden Germany, Bernhard Knauer, a student of the Palucca School, has a classical training with a background in ballet.
Queenslander and SDC dancer, Fiona Jopp is developing her choreography for the first time in New Breed after years of dancing.
The 2015 New Breed initiative will also see Riley, Chan, Knauer and Jopp collaborating with a host of independent designers and musicians to complete the creation of their works. Independent designers, Matt Marshall and Aleisa Jelbert, and musicians/composers Nick Thayer, James Brown, Jürgen Knauer, Toby Merz and Alizia Merz have been announced as the principal collaborators for the new works, presented this December.
New Breed 2015 premieres at Carriageworks from 8 to 13 December.
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Petros Treklis on being one of the New Breed
One of the participants in SDC's choreographer development initiative tells us about his work, which uses music by Rachmaninov and Prokofiev.
Canberra Theatre Centre announces its 2018 line up
The venue will be home to a dazzling array of Australian premieres, innovative dance works, and enthralling theatre.
Sydney Dance Company unveils its 2018 season
A new work by Rafael Bonachela, plus a double bill featuring a world premiere by Antony Hamilton.
Sydney Dance Company’s New Breed 2017 announced
Five rising-star choreographers have been commissioned to create new works for the company.
Nominees for 2017 Australian Dance Awards announced
Big hitters include The Queensland Ballet and The Australian Ballet, who have received three nominations each.
Rafael Bonachela embraces the power of eight in Orb
Two new works see Sydney Dance Company explore the moon, stars and Milky Way.
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Bonachela’s claustrophobic thriller scores a clear eight out of eight.
Cheng Tsung-lung turns his gaze to the Full Moon
The Taiwanese choreographer discusses his new work for SDC, and how he used Instagram to get to know the dancers.
Izzac Carroll: The long legged dancer who got naked for his art
The SDC rising star discusses small towns, his inspiring Pre-Professional Year and how to handle boobs in your face.
Sydney Dance Company’s latest work conquers the U.S.
Despite freezing temperatures, Bonachela's East Coast tour has audiences on their feet (as well as on their toes).
Sydney Dance Company unveils its PPY class of 2017
The new intake of 26 up-and-coming dancers for SDC’s prestigious Pre-Professional Year has been announced.
Dance, Visual Art
Review: Nude Live (Sydney Dance Company, AGNSW, Sydney Festival)
All of human life is here, brilliantly juxtaposed both with and without clothes.
Sydney Dance Company gets naked in the cause of art
Artist Director Rafael Bonachela discusses body image and the endless challenge of choreographing the nude.
Review: Review: New Breed (Sydney Dance Company, Carriageworks)
★★★★☆ Rules are joyfully bent and broken in four explorations of the new.
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Mountrath calendar girls bare all for Christmas lights
Revealed: The 11 plucky Mountrath women who are the town's Calendar Girls
Lynda Kiernan
The Mountrath Calendar Girls who revealed their identities on the launch night of the calendar, in aid of Mountrath's Christmas lights. Picture: Lori Strang
Just like the movie, a group of brave and confident Calendar Girls in Mountrath have bared all in a calendar for a great local cause.
The identities of the eleven ladies were kept a tight secret until launch night on Saturday September 23.
The calendar was launched to a packed attendence in Eddie Kirwan's pub. Mountrath native, RTE journalist Claire Byrne called out their names one by one to come on stage and reveal their identities to a glass of bubbly and cheers from their families and friends.
The calendar features stunning photographs of the women, with artfully positioned props protecting their modesty.
The photos were taken by Mountrath Camera Club members Lori Strang and Lisa Doyle.
The full line-up is January Grainne Kelly, February Colette Phelan, March Sandra Moore, April Catherine Williams, May Louise Smullen, June Noreen Byrne, July Maura Byrne, August Barbara Moore, September Trica O'Rourke, October Lynda Deegan, November Ann Martyn.
December (above) features all the lovely ladies in a group photo.
It is all for a good cause.
Colette Phelan is Miss February and the chairperson of Mountrath Christmas Lights committee.
“It is all to raise money to replace and upgrade our Christmas lights in Mountrath. The lights are at real risk of not being turned on this year unless we manage to sell all 500 calendars we got printed,” she said.
“Our running cost without buying a bulb is €3,000 a year. This year we have to replace the centrepiece on the roundabout, it's ten years old and when we bought it we were told we might get three or four years so we've done well,” she said.
She also hopes to raise enough money to add lights to the real trees now on Patrick Street.
Making the calendar was fun and empowering she said.
“All the girls taking part brought a real sense of fun. The baby of the group is 48 . We are all grown up many with grown children and it really felt like we were empowering ourselves while doing something fun. They are very classy photos,” she said.
The theme of the calendar is Ireland and each month's pin-up has different props depending on their interests.
“I never laughed so much. I used to be a baker so I've got a big Odlums bowl which I held extremely tightly, and cookery books in front of me” said Colette .
She hand wrapped each calendar herself so that buyers must shell out their €10 before having a look.
Her poor son Fionn in Canada got one in the post.
“I sent it out but I hadn't told him I was in it. He said 'I should have known'. I thought he'd be mortified but he found it so funny. My husband Eddie like all the husbands and partners are taking all the hype in their stride. We all know they are secretly proud,” she said.
She thanked Claire Byrne.
“We see the serious side of her on television but she was so charming and funny and warm, we are delighted she came,” Colette said.
“It was the biggest crowd I've seen in Mountrath in 20 years, I've never seen so many in Eddie Kirwans, we got a marquee and a stage it was so girly, most of the audience were women, it was like a wedding,” she said.
She admits to nerves the moment before her own name was called.
“I thought oh God what have I done, I felt blind panic. But we were all in it together and we all got a great response,” said Colette.
The calendars are on sale in Centra, Telfords and Celine's Hair Salon, with 400 already snapped up.
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Dog-Friendly Cats Screenings Give Fans a New Reason to Howl
admin January 9, 2020 Views 5
Movie theaters are starting to host dog-friendly screenings of Cats. The majority of humans really aren’t into Tom Hooper’s big screen adaptation of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Broadway classic. However, maybe bringing some dogs into the equation might help matters? Ricky Gervais recently roasted the musical during his Golden Globe Awards monologue, quoting a review that stated the movie was, “the worst thing to happened to cats since dogs.” Now, those dogs can go and see Cats for themselves and make up their own minds.
Apparently, there were already a few dog-friendly screenings of Cats in the U.K. at the end of the year. Fulham Road Picturehouse is having another screening on January 12th, but nobody has RSVP’d on the theaters Facebook page, as of this writing and only 23 people are “interested.” If people attend this particular screening with a dog, they’ll be issued with a fleece blanket to cover the seat used by the dog or to use as a rug if the dog sits on the floor. During the screenings, the theater also will provide bowls of water around the screen and use a little more light.
As it stands, Cats is a major box office disaster and is on its way to losing $71 million. Getting dogs into theaters probably isn’t going to help matters, especially now that the movie has been in theaters for almost a month. People were horrified by the first trailer, which sent the studio back to the drawing board in an effort to fix the CGI. But by then, it was too late. The movie was even recalled once again during its opening weekend.
RELATED: The Rock Shames Friend for Seeing Cats Twice Before Jumanji
While this does spell disaster for Cats, there is a way that could end up making some money for the studio. Some moviegoers have been attending Cats screenings while high on drugs and have been having a great time while doing so. As it turns out, for some, not everybody, certain drugs have actually made Cats a stoner classic. Now all they have to do is combine these dog screenings with people on drugs. Movie theaters across America can partner with Uber and Lyft to make sure everyone gets to and from the theater safely.
Not everybody on seeing Cats while high out of their minds has had a good time. There have been reports of bad trips too, which just really comes with the territory. But maybe a therapy dog can help some of these people through, that is unless the dogs end up hating the movie. Dogs may end up hating just as much as the humans have. Though, there are plenty of people who have enjoyed the movie without the use of illicit substances. If you’re interested in checking out this particular dog-friendly screening of Cats, head over to https://www.facebook.com/events/fulham-road-picturehouse/dog-friendly-screening-cats/594863971279051/|The Fulham Road Picturehouse Facebook page for more details and hope more theaters in North America try this out.
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A file photo of Ram Nath Kovind with BJP president Amit Shah. Photo: PTI
Ram Nath Kovind quits as Bihar governor
1 min read . Updated: 20 Jun 2017, 03:28 PM IST PTI
Ram Nath Kovind's resignation follows his nomination as the National Democratic Alliance's presidential candidate
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New Delhi: Bihar governor Ram Nath Kovind has resigned from the gubernatorial post. The resignation follows his nomination as the ruling National Democratic Alliance’s (NDA) presidential candidate.
President Pranab Mukherjee has accepted the resignation of Kovind as the governor of Bihar, a communique issued by the Rashtrapati Bhavan said on Tuesday.
West Bengal governor Keshari Nath Tripathi will discharge the functions of the governor of Bihar, in addition to his own duties, it said.
The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on announced the name of 71-year-old Kovind, a low-profile Dalit leader and a two-term BJP Rajya Sabha member, as its nominee for the president’s post.
Also Read: Ram Nath Kovind: A lawyer and BJP’s Dalit face from Uttar Pradesh
The presidential election, is required, will be held on 17 July. Mukherjee completes his five-year term on 24 July.
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Living Cities
Sep 11, 2018 / Kelli Cooper
Owning Our Future of “Tequity” in Albuquerque
When entrepreneurs have a good idea, the skills to execute, and a strong work ethic, all arrows should point to success. Yet many entrepreneurs in Albuquerque—especially entrepreneurs of color from Native and Latino communities—run into barriers as they pursue their entrepreneurial dreams. From getting a bank loan, to accessing venture or private equity capital, to training and support, many hard-working entrepreneurs don’t get a fair shake.
Kelli Cooper Vice President, Albuquerque Community Foundation
Momentum has been growing over the last five years in Albuquerque around supporting and strengthening the entrepreneurial ecosystem – for all types of entrepreneurs, micro to high tech and commercialization. We’ve opened the doors on two buildings at InnovateABQ – a seven-acre innovation district in downtown Albuquerque that fosters inclusive economic development and job creation. We’ve built out Navigator programs to guide entrepreneurs and developed a Co-op Capital program that has now made over $600,000 in loans to 280+ low-income entrepreneurs. We have made some significant strides.
However, challenges persist that call us to action. The Start Up, Stay Up, Scale Up [SU(3)] evaluation of Albuquerque’s business landscape was incredibly helpful in clarifying our understanding of Albuquerque’s entrepreneurial ecosystem and how we can establish and strengthen equitable and deliberate pathways for entrepreneurs of color.
Some of the greatest challenges identified include slow growth in our private sector post-recession, an over reliance on government jobs, a high prevalence of poverty, and a large “shadow economy” of unregistered or unlicensed businesses.
For too long, Albuquerque residents have been coexisting in silos. To create transformational economic opportunities for Albuquerque’s under-resourced residents, it’s imperative to marry the needs and efforts of multiple populations through private-industry growth that can provide economic opportunities for Latino and Native American entrepreneurs.
The high-tech sector has proven to be a source of economic growth that can fuel and diversify Albuquerque’s economy. However, we must intentionally address diversity in the sector – not only in the quality of jobs and who has access to them, but also in the supports offered. A lack of diversity has led to under-utilization of available talent and under-recruitment.
Focusing on diversity is not just the “right thing to do.” It is integral for economic growth and a healthy, functioning economy. Providing traditional services and pathways without prioritizing diversity will continue to yield the same results and not speak to the assets of our state, ignoring a wide pool of talent and impacting the ability of that talent and long-term economic change. Albuquerque also faces an undersupply of capital that fits the needs of local businesses.
Key Scalable Opportunities:
1) Capital availability and access is a major opportunity for Albuquerque’s ecosystem to scale in support of entrepreneurs of color. In Silicon Valley, there are 400-500 venture funds. In Albuquerque there are fewer than ten.
Thirty-eight percent of the adult US population cannot readily receive business credit. Many cannot secure loans even from predatory lenders and if they do, they are likely to pay up to a 30% interest rate, making success even more challenging.
The economics of poverty keep many would-be entrepreneurs from getting started. Over 70% of Albuquerque’s population lives in poverty or on the cusp of poverty. Entrepreneurs who have less economic security may be risking their livelihood to focus on starting a business. By making capital cheaper and easier to access, one of the key barriers can be removed.
We are actively growing Co-op Capital, a micro-lending program for nontraditional entrepreneurs, which was just honored by Harvard Ash Center with a Top 25 Innovations in American Government Award. We are also investigating other affordable capital partners, and soon, we will convene venture capital experts to discuss opportunities for a venture capital fund supporting founders of color.
2) Strengthening pathways for diversity in leadership and workforce of high-tech startups, “tequity,” is a critical scale-up area for Albuquerque’s ecosystem. Given the segment’s growth potential, this area is a particularly high-impact sector in terms of addressing job creation, economic mobility and the opportunity to build wealth.
Our efforts moving forward will take two focuses:
a) Building a skilled software development workforce that will result in creating high-wage jobs for people of color and a workforce that can provide technical support for high-growth entrepreneurs of color.
Some of our efforts include:
Expanding middle and high school coding programs with a special focus on schools located in districts that serve communities of color
Recruiting participants from entrepreneurial support organizations
Recruiting graduates into coding boot camps at a college and university level
Expanding scholarship opportunities
Developing relationships with companies that will hire graduates
Promoting Albuquerque as an affordable home for software development
b) Developing Albuquerque’s growing commercial space industry. In 2016, the commercial space market was $336B with an estimated market of $2.7T by 2045. National space agencies and military programs will continue to dominate, but private and commercial companies will play a growing role. With Albuquerque’s research institutions; national laboratories; open-urban land; and a $250M state investment in Spaceport America (FAA-licensed spaceport); as well as Innovate ABQ; two Air Force Research Laboratories; and business executives, community leaders, congressional and economic development representatives, and university heads working together, Albuquerque already has the infrastructure and investments to corner the commercial space market. We are partnering with New Space New Mexico to ensure that, at the dawn of the space industry, there are equitable and deliberate employment pathways, educational opportunities and leadership roles for nontraditional entrepreneurs. If developed inclusively, the commercial space industry will serve as a wealth-building platform creating businesses founded by people of color.
What Are Our Next Steps?
We have built a new Action Team to focus on the SU(3) initiative. Our charter members are:
Robin Brulé with Nusenda Credit Union and City Alive
Kelli Cooper with the Albuquerque Community Foundation
Diane Harrison Ogawa with Central New Mexico Community College
Robert DelCampo of the University of New Mexico’s innovationAcademy
Monique Fragua from Indian Pueblo Cultural Center
Synthia Jaramillo at the City of Albuquerque
Lisa Adkins with FatPipe ABQ and the Bio Sciences Center
This dream team, and the organizations they represent, will embrace inclusion as an integral design principle for every growth activity. We’re starting by naming the barriers in our own systems and asking the question, “Why aren’t there more people of color here?” Together, we will provide (or find additional necessary resources) to align, integrate, and mutually reinforce each other’s activities as our cross-sector partnership begins to implement the work. The team will work together to identify key areas of intervention to build inclusive economic prosperity.
Our theory, “skate to where the puck is going” requires that we move forward with programming for the next economy, leaving behind those programs that relegated underserved communities into old-economy jobs and industries.
Our focus will be on wealth creation opportunities and how underutilized assets can participate in, drive, and own the future. We will intentionally concentrate our efforts on equity; that is, recruiting people of color into tech and tech-enabled business growth – specifically in the industries describe here.
Inclusion is not a separate economic practice. We are building a plan for that inclusion, together in collaboration. Albuquerque institutions have to change their own environments, and the SU(3) work will be a crucial component of this work.
Contributor Vice President, Albuquerque Community Foundation Kelli Cooper
As a 20-year executive of the Albuquerque Community Foundation, Kelli has been the creative mind behind many of the programs, projects and initiatives contributing to its success.
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Happy Christmas from Singapore
Posted on December 24, 2017 by Liz Coward • 2 Comments
We have finally moved to Singapore after months of frantic activity and precious little activity on this blog. I feel bad about that, so to make amends here is a super sized blog with oodles of photos and a brief account of how we’ve ended up moving half way across the world.
Last Spring, when my attention was fully focused on preparations for the launch of Blood and Bandages, my husband Richard, an Airbus 320 training captain, was working for Airbus Asia Training Centre in Singapore.
Richard in Jakarta in January 2017. In March – April he would be in Singapore working with Airbus Asia.
He was engaged on a six week contract to train Airbus pilots from various airlines. He had been doing the same type of work for seven years and worked overseas every other month. He rarely returned to the same country so each month had to adapt to another time-zone, culture, climate and airline’s practices. It was not an easy gig and it was taking a huge toll on him and our family life. Hence, when he was offered his dream job with Airbus Asia in Singapore, he seized it with both hands. The clincher was that he would be ‘home’ almost every day. The prospect of being re-united as a family and couple was thrilling but discussions about the future job offer had to be postponed due to the imminent launch of Blood and Bandages. Thus, when Richard returned from Singapore our attention was fixed on the Shoreham Centre, not the Far East.
The launch was a great success.
<140 people attended the event including family and friends and representatives from the Museum of Military Medicine, Friends of Surrey Infantry Museum and the Italy Star Association.
It was a relaxed and friendly evening. On my left is Colin, one of my oldest friends from my College of Law days.
William was on sparkling form despite his recent hip replacement which had left him virtually housebound.
A flurry of press interest and book talks requests followed.
In our old back garden with Charlie Rose for BBC South East Today.
At the BBC’s Brighton studios with Mark Carter for BBC Radio Surrey and Sussex.
With Christian Hewgill for Forces TV.
William and I were thrilled with the response but between engagements Richard and I discussed the job offer and the implications of leaving the UK. Our greatest concern was the impact it would have on our parents. We were close to both sets as both lived in Shoreham. They had seen Tom grow up and we knew that losing us, particularly when they were in or approaching their 80s, would be a hard blow. We decided to wait until the offer was definite before telling them. It came in June and the news was initially greeted with shock and tears before turning to support and understanding. They had witness the toll nine years of comings and goings had taken on us and were pleased that there was a chance for change. It was also important to tell William, not only because it effected the book, but because we had become very close friends over the years. He accepted the news with grace and sadness mixed with a fierce determination to enjoy what time we had left. So after a much awaited family holiday, Richard returned to work his last contract, a month long assignment to Indonesia. Meantime, I started making plans for our pending re-location. I contacted ex-pats for advice on international schools in Singapore, sought out estate agents to let the house and organised home schooling for Tom’s last few months in the UK. William and I also embarked on a summer offensive to promote the book.
At the Armed Forces Day in Worthing with Sophie Cook and the ladies from Bellydance Rocks. William thought he had died and gone to heaven.
At the Queen Alexandra Hospital Home. We were positioned next to WSCC Library Service and a chance conversation led to an engagement to speak at Shoreham Library.
At the War and Peace Revival with fellow author, Penny Legg.
With Richard’s start date looming up, we needed to make a recce visit to Singapore to find Tom a new school and us, a new home. Richard flew in to join us direct from Indonesia and it did not take long for Tom and I to fall under Singapore’s spell.
Peranakan terrace in Joo Chiat/ Katong area of the East Coast of Singapore.
Gateway to the colourful and crowded Little India in Singapore.
The super trees in Gardens by the Bay waiting for the free light show.
They even had a Marks and Spencer!
Luckily, we returned with both home and school fixed and three weeks later, on 11thOctober, Richard left to start his new job with Airbus Asia.
At home, the tasks ahead were daunting. Tom and I were due to join Richard on 6th December so there was eight weeks in which to de-clutter the house and select that which should be shipped to Singapore and that which should be stored; supervise Tom’s home-schooling and ready the house for the new tenants. It made every past challenge look like child’s play and would have been impossible without our fantastic friends. They pitched in instantly and whole-heartedly. They sorted out the loft; did regular dump runs; packed up the kitchen, bedrooms and study; took countless loads to charity shops and weeded and pruned the garden in freezing conditions. Meantime, Tom impressed his tutors with his thoughtfulness and talents. On 14th November, what was left of the contents of our home, were packed into a container and shipped off to Felixstowe.
I’ve never seen such hard and helpful workers as the men from Sante Fe.
With the house now empty, Tom moved in with his grandparents while I moved back with my parents and the decorator started work on our house.
Despite the domestic upheavals, I still had to prepare and practice five book talks and I wish I had been better prepared for the first ones.
14th October talk with Patrick Soulijaert. I was still learning to give powerpoint presentations.
William contributed to all bar one of the talks regardless of the lateness of the hour and distances involved. It was wonderful and reassuring to have him there and his personal recollection of events added tremendous weight and humour to proceedings.
With Ian Bayley of Sabrestorm Publishing after a talk at the Museum of Military Medicine. I’d done so much packing by that stage that I’d got tennis elbow.
With Sharon Penfold and Gary Baines from Shoreham Fort. They went on to attend two other talks.
The final talk was on a chilly November night before a packed and attentive audience of the 1940s Society in Sevenoaks. William and I were delighted but the evening was tinged with sadness as this was our last talk, and at 102, neither of us was under any illusions about the significance of the event.
At the end of our final talk in Sevenoaks.
Unfortunately, there was little time for reflection as the next day I embarked on a two-week period of farewells that saw me travel to Guildford, London, Westerham, Hereford, Rhymni and Caerphilly in Wales. Tom stayed at home to continue with his studies, scouts and jujitsu.
A farewell brunch with Sandie Clark, a dear friend who was so instrumental to the success of Blood and Bandages.
In Caerphilly with my parents, Auntie Mary and glamorous cousin, Anne-Marie. Anne-Marie hopes to come to visit us next year.
Smashing it at the Karaoke with my girlfriends at one of my leaving dos in Brighton.
My last day in the UK with two of my great friends, Mandy and Sarah. Shopping, lunch and tears.
It was lovely spending time with such treasured family and friends but the departure date sped up to meet us and on 6th December, Tom and I were re-united at Gatwick where we said a tearful good-bye to our families and began our 17 hour journey to Singapore.
By this time Richard had spent his first month in a hotel and the second in a bedsit. He has found a flat for all of us into which he moved while Tom and I were flying out to meet him. He was cock-a-hoop when we arrived.
View from our flat on the 26th floor in Farrer Park Singapore.
We have now been here for a few weeks ago. We haven’t established a routine and I feel a bit rootless. That said, we have already been out and about and made some new friends amongst the British ex-pat community.
At the Riverside Safari with Kai Kai the giant Panda having lunch in the background. Astonishing.
At the carol concert at the British High Commissioner’s residence organised by the British Association, one of the most friendly and interesting associations we’ve ever joined.
Tom has visited his new school and Richard already feels like an old hand. The contents of our house has arrived in Singapore and will be delivered to our permanent accommodation when we take possession on 29th December.
This has been an incredible year and we are looking forward to building a new life together and exploring our new home.
On the writing front, I’ll keep blogging, promoting Blood and Bandages and embarking on new writing opportunities. In fact, I’ve already volunteered to join the feature writing team with BEAM, the British Association’s monthly magazine.
Of course, we’ll miss home terribly and have been warned that at some point we’ll experience a crushing sense of homesickness. I hope that we will have good friends around us to help us through and will be cheered by the knowledge that we are returning to Shoreham Beach in July.
All that’s left to say now is thank you for dropping by. I want to wish you a peaceful and happy Christmas and a wonderful 2018. Hope you don’t mind, but I’ve got a little present for you.
See you in the New Year with an update on how we are getting on.
Filed Under: Blood and Bandages, British Association Singapore, Ian Bailey, liz coward, RAMC in WW2, RAMC war memoir, Sabrestorm Publishing, shoreham blog, Singapore, William Earl
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Beautiful place
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It really is and we are very lucky to be living where we are. The more I learn about Singapore from organisations like the Nature Society Singapore, the more I want to explore. We are spoilt for choice here.
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Read-it-later app Pocket testing recommendations in public beta
Pocket wants to be the "Save Button for the Internet," and it needs your help.
By Caitlin McGarry
Staff Writer, Macworld |
Pocket has made it super simple to save content to read later for the last eight years, but the popular service hasn’t been able to recommend you articles you haven’t read. That changes now. Pocket is opening up a public beta for people who want to try out new features before they’re polished, and first up is a new Recommendations tab.
In Pocket’s beta for iOS, Android, and the web, the new Recommendations tab will sit next to My List, where the articles and videos you save to read/watch later are stored. The app will use the stories you save to determine which articles you might be interested in.
Why this matters: Pocket is catching up to read-it-later rival Instapaper, which already lets you explore recommendations within the app’s Browse tab. Because Pocket’s Recommendations feature is still in beta, the company is looking for feedback to refine and improve it before rolling it out to all of Pocket’s 17 million users. The end result could be, with the help of beta testers, the best content recommendation tool around.
This is what Recommendations will look like in the beta versions of Pocket's app and website.
A shift for Pocket
Pocket’s goal: to build a “Save Button for the Internet.” It started that process last month by integrating its save button into Mozilla Firefox’s toolbar by default. With its new public beta channel, Pocket is moving closer to that goal with the help of its long-time users.
“It’s a noisy world out there,” Pocket founder and CEO Nate Weiner wrote in a Thursday blog post. “The channels we use to discover the stories we’re interested in — Twitter, Facebook, and a slew of news readers, etc. — are dictated by page views and favor real-time, meaning great content has a relatively short lifespan. As a result, what’s good is constantly being pushed down by what’s simply new.”
Because Pocket users are already curating the best content by saving the in-depth, long-form stories to read when they have more time, Weiner envisions the app helping people “cut through the noise” and find the most interesting content on the web without having to hunt for it.
You can sign up for the iOS public beta here and on the web here.
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St Christopher'S Inn Bath
9 Green St, Bath City Centre, Bath, Somerset Very Good 8.1
"Had a great time at St Christopher's Inn recently, the staff were helpful and the pub downstairs served some great beer and food." Geoff
Free WiFi Billiards No Smoking Rooms
The Rising Sun Inn
3 - 4 Grove St, Bath, Somerset Fabulous 8.7
"We had a good stay at the Rising Sun. The weather was good and we made use of the nice garden. Within walking distance of the centre for the physically able. Our room was nice, clean and comfortable, the breakfast better than average, good sausages and bacon. A good place, we can recommend." Hugh
Free WiFi Pets Allowed No Smoking Rooms
10 Grove St - Bath Holiday Suites
10 Grove St, Bath, Somerset Superb 9.4
"The location of the suites is good, within walking distance of everything lovely Bath has to offer. On arrival we were provided with a parking permit. The suite was clean, well furnished and equipped. The stay was good value and we would stay again." FS
The Kennard
11 Henrietta St, Bathampton, Bath, Somerset Superb 9.5
"A wonderful Georgian property, lovely and peaceful despite the central location in the heart of Bath city centre. Rooms are on the small side but attractive, well furnished and decorated, spotlessly clean. Breakfast was delicious, cooked to perfection. There is a lovely garden area at the rear as well. The owners were so friendly and helpful, their customer service is admirable. A perfect stay, excellent value for money, we will be recommending to family and friends." Casey
The Windsor Town House
69 Great Pulteney St, Bath, Somerset Very Good 8.4
"In a nice location close to the centre, staff were very welcoming and our room was fine and spotlessly clean, absolutely top-notch breakfasts. It is somewhere we would choose again if visiting Bath." Sue Wright
The Griffin Inn
Beauford Square, Bath City Centre, Bath, Somerset Fabulous 8.6
"In a central location with lots of character, friendly and helpful staff. There were plenty of stairs to climb which could be a problem for the less able. Breakfast was excellent as was the food at lunchtime (no evening meals). Would definitely stay again, there was no noise at night from the pub." Ken
The Henry Guest House
6 Henry St, Bath City Centre, Bath, Somerset Superb 9.1
"A well located Guest House close to everything. The owner and staff are welcoming and hospitable, have a lot of local knowledge and are happy to advise. Rooms are smallish but very clean and comfortable and a great breakfast in the morning. We were happy with everything." Robert
Edgar Townhouse
64 Gt Pulteney St, Bath, Somerset Fabulous 9.0
"Booked to stay here for a weekend break, it’s a nice place to stay and it’s just 10 minutes to get into the centre of Bath. Our room was nicely decorated and we had tea/coffee and water, there was also a fridge. There was a small lounge area, which had plenty of leaflets and books. The staff were all very friendly and efficient and breakfast in the morning was really good." Chris Beech
Cornerways B&B
47 Crescent Garden, Bath City Centre, Bath, Somerset Superb 9.1
"Had a really enjoyable stay here, Sue was great, the room was very cosy and the bed was lovely with good quality bed sheets. The bathroom was very nice with a heated towel rail and nice big towels are provided, the shower was excellent and would highly recommend this place." Rowena
The Ayrlington
Pulteney Rd, Bath, Somerset Superb 9.2
"We had a lovely room, nicely decorated and a large bath/shower room. Staff were good and professional. Within walking distance of the centre and a lovely garden, we would recommend." Cath
Brocks Guest House
32 Brock St, Bath City Centre, Bath, Somerset Fabulous 9.0
"In a lovely location between the Roman Circus and Royal Crescent, Brocks is a charming Georgian building with good quality furnishings, rooms nicely decorated, clean and comfortable containing refreshments and toiletries. No complaints about breakfast which was good, as was the service. In fact all the staff were friendly and helpful. In a nice and peaceful area within easy walking distance of restaurants and attractions." jerseyboy
Number 17 Bath
17 Pulteney Rd, Bath, Somerset Fabulous 8.7
"#17 is not a bed and breakfast, it’s a few self catering units in a small complex. However its very affordable and a great alternative. Bath station is less than a 10 minute stroll away so it was easy to stay here without the car. Our room had a great view of Pulteney Bridge. Good facilities on hand and very comfy bed – recommended." G-G-H
The Bath House Boutique Bed & Breakfast
40 Crescent Gardens, Bath City Centre, Bath, Somerset Exceptional 9.6
"Located perfectly, a short walk to everything, with limited off street parking. The owners are charming and provide stylish accommodation. Rooms are spotlessly clean, very comfortable with thoughtful extra touches. Delicious cooked breakfasts are brought to your room, pre ordered the night before and served at a time to suit you. A luxurious B&B, totally relaxing and comfortable. We will definitely be returning and can recommend to anyone." Mike
Chestnuts House
Henrietta Rd, Bathampton, Bath, Somerset Exceptional 9.8
"We absolutely loved this place and we couldn’t fault a thing, the room was beautifully decorated and a nice spacious bathroom. It was just a 5 minute walk to Bath city centre and close to the museums. There are parking facilities onsite and the breakfast in the morning was gorgeous." Madeline
25 Belvedere, Bath City Centre, Bath, Somerset Exceptional 9.8
"As the name suggests, on a hill and close to the centre. The owners are very welcoming and hospitable and the house is amazing. Our room was immaculate, very comfortable and well equipped including good quality toiletries and other thoughtful touches. Breakfast had excellent choices of hot and cold food, we can recommend the pancakes, everything is cooked and presented to high standards. Plenty of exercise walking up and down the hill too. A great stay, highly recommended." Briony Wells
Wreathed in golden honey coloured stone that captures the light just perfectly (especially at sunset!), Bath is one of the most beautiful cities in the UK, a truth acknowledged by UNESCO when they bestowed the entire city with World Heritage Status, making it the only city in Britain with that particular honour.
The city has been welcoming visitors since long before UNESCO swept in to confirm its historical importance. Founded by the Romans, the city played host to weary travellers and tourists looking to 'take the healing waters' that gave the city its name. These days you can still visit the evocative and atmospheric Roman Baths, while if you feel the need to take the waters yourself, there are a number of thermal spas in Bath.
It was during the Regency period that the place became the city you would recognise today. It became even more popular with visitors than during the Roman era (although perhaps not as popular as it is now), and was at the very heart of the social calendar for any keen socialite. This is when the buildings, built out of local golden coloured Bath stone were erected, with the Palladian mansions and the stunning Royal Crescent dating from that period.
Another keen visitor and observer of local society was, of course, Jane Austen and many a Janeite has made the pilgrimage to Bath that Austen immortalised in her novels Northanger Abbey and Persuasion. If you fancy learning more, you can visit the Jane Austen Museum, which offers insights into her life and career, as well as many of the settings found in her books. One such backdrop is the famous Assembly Rooms, which were once the centre of Regency life in Bath and are now run by the National Trust. Once described as 'the most noble and elegant' of any such rooms in the kingdom, visitors are offered the chance to dress up like real Regency ladies or gentlemen. If that doesn't satisfy your desire for authentic surroundings, then head over to the Pump Rooms for a spot of afternoon tea.
There is history around every corner in Bath, from the abbey which was the site of the coronation of the first King of all England, Edgar in 773, to the beautiful Pulteney Bridge which crosses the River Avon. Built in 1774, it is most notable for the shops that line either side of it - allowing you to indulge in a little retail therapy even as you cross the bridge. And at Number 1 Royal Crescent you can take a tour of an iconic Regency townhouse, decorated and maintained just as it would have been in the 18th century.
The real pleasure of Bath can be found in simply wandering its streets, sampling its many cafes, restaurants and pubs, taking a bite out of the local cuisine and swigging some local cider. Needless to say, there is plenty to see and do here, and more than enough to keep you busy for a few days.
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The best price for Bath B&B tonight is £14 (* subject to availability). Use our searchbox to find the best prices in Bath for your dates.
Which Bath B&B's are best for couples?
Some of the best bed and breakfast's in Bath for couples are The Rising Sun Inn, or 10 Grove St - Bath Holiday Suites. You might also try The Kennard which frequently has offers on double rooms.
Which Bath guest houses are best for singles?
Some of the best rates for single rooms at Bath B&Bs can be found at The Windsor Town House and The Griffin Inn as well as The Henry Guest House on selected nights.
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Most B&Bs in Bath offer free WiFi. Get great rates & free wifi at The Bath House Boutique Bed & Breakfast or Chestnuts House.
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Some of the best breakfast's are served at Brocks Guest House and you might also try Number 17 Bath which is also renown by guests for a great breakfast.
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The Evidence: Healthy Architecture Discussion event at Paimio Sanatorium
UPDATE: This program is now available at BBC World Service online service:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/w3csz422
On Sunday 7th April at 15.00-16.30
BBC World Service and Wellcome Collection present The Evidence: Healthy Architecture in collaboration with Paimio Sanitorium and Magni Mundi
Come and listen in to the recording of a BBC World Service radio programme exploring the Paimio TB Sanitorium from an architectural, historical and contemporary health perspective. This discussion event is inspired by Wellcome Collection’s recent ‘Living with Buildings’ exhibition, which explored the relationship between architecture and health. There will be the opportunity for the audience to join the conversation and ask their questions.
Confirmed speakers:
Heini Hakosalo, Tommi Lindh and Laura Arpiainen
This programme is part of ‘The Evidence‘, a series produced by the BBC World Service and Wellcome Collection to explore the challenges our world face today. The recordings of The Evidence 2019 will be broadcast on the BBC World Service on 20 April, 27 April and 4 May.
Wellcome Collection is a free museum and library in London that aims to challenge how we all think and feel about health. Their recent Living with Buildings exhibition featured the Paimio Sanitorium, including a new artist commission by Giles Round. Their Global Clinic exhibition is open until 24 April.
Free event, only limited number of seats available. Pre-booking mandatory: Book your seat for the discussion event here
The Discussion Event will be preceded by guided tours starting at 13.00. Magni Mundi is organising tours both in English and in Finnish. More information on tours here.
Book your guided tour here
Paimio Sanatorium -Theme Tours
In addition to our Standard tour, it is possible to book a themed tour at the Sanatorium. Choose your favourite from the themes below.
Young architects Alvar and Aino Aalto
Your guide tells you more about the ideals behind the architecture. Alvar and Aino were about 30 years old while designing Paimio Sanatorium. Why have they chosen these railings, windows or door handles for this building? What is the idea behind these various forms?
Furniture at Paimio Sanatorium
Paimio Sanatorium was finished two years before Artek – furniture company was founded. Aaltos designed all the furniture, lamps and so on for this large building. During this theme tour we concentrate on details of the furniture and talk about manufacturing. Why are there so many different chairs?
Cultural history of Sanatorium
What was is like to be a patient at Paimio Sanatorium in different decades? What was Finland like in 1930s when the Sanatorium was built and how is it reflected on the architecture? Your guide will tell you stories about how alcohol was smuggled to the Sanatorium and how people living around the Sanatorium felt about it.
Tuberculosis and its treatments
This theme concentrates on medical side of the Sanatorium history. What kind of disease is tuberculosis and how was it treated in different decades? What was it like to be a patient at Paimio Sanatorium? How architecture would help to fight this deadly disease?
Duration of a theme tour is 2 hours.
More info on all the tours
Paimio Sanatorium
Experience Alvar Aalto’s modern masterpiece with all your senses.
Paimio Sanatorium was finished at 1933 and it functioned as tuberculosis sanatorium for decades. It is a masterpiece by Alvar Aalto. Building itself is a healing element.
On our tour you’ll get to see this wonderful architecture from inside and also furniture and lamps that were designed for this building. Sanatorium was designed to be completely functional – for patients and staff both. Even colors follow the function of the room.
All tours with the guide! Without a guide admiring the building outside is possible, but remember NOT to take any photos of the people there. You can take photos of the building, but there can’t be any people in your photos that can be even remotely identified. This rule is strict to protect families staying in Sanatorium. Inside only entrance hall is public space.
See more information about the guided tours here.
SANATORIUM TODAY
The Foundation for the Rehabilitation of Children and Young People Mannerheim League for Child Welfare started at the Paimio Sanatorium on 1st of April 2014.
The Foundation for the Rehabilitation of Children and Young People was established in 2000 by the Mannerheim League for Child Welfare. Both the League and the Foundation are non-profit-making, non-governmental organizations concerned with child welfare and child protection as expressed in the UN Convention on the Rights of Children and in the objectives of the Finnish Ministry of Social Affairs and Health.
The Foundation’s work concentrates on children and young people with chronic illnesses, injuries or psychosocial and developmental disorders and on their families.
Contact us to arrange your visit at Paimio Sanatorium!
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Main Line Health's commitment to radiation therapy treatment for cancer patients is evident in its investments in advanced technology. Lankenau Medical Center currently uses a TrueBeam™STx for cancer treatment, and TrueBeam technology will be coming to Riddle Hospital in September.
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7 Best Linux Text Editors and Gedit Alternatives
Joel Lee September 26, 2017 26-09-2017 5 minutes
In July 2017, the default text editor for Ubuntu (and most other Linux distros) was marked as “no longer being maintained.” As of this post, two new developers have offered to help, but it’s unclear what the future of Gedit holds.
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Fortunately, there are many excellent alternatives available.
If you’ve been using Gedit for all these years, you should really consider switching to one of the text editors in this list. They’re far more powerful and will make you twice, even thrice, as productive as before.
Download: Visual Studio Code (Free)
Not to be confused with Visual Studio proper, Visual Studio Code is a powerful open-source text editor that runs natively on Linux. Its built-in Intellisense (contextual code completion) blows all other text editors out of the water.
It also has built-in Git integration and a debugging feature that lets you run your source code with break points, call stacks, and an interactive console. But it’s not an IDE! It has the speed and interface of a regular text editor, and that’s why so many users are switching to it.
And the cherry on top? All kinds of productivity-enhancing features and shortcuts 10 Essential Productivity Tips for Visual Studio Code 10 Essential Productivity Tips for Visual Studio Code Visual Studio Code blows other programming text editors out of the water. It's free, open source, lightning fast, and packed with productivity features. Read More that’ll have you coding, scripting, or just taking notes in record time. New functionality can be added through third-party extensions.
2. Sublime Text
Download: Sublime Text ($80, indefinite free trial)
Sublime Text revolutionized the text editor landscape. It took everything that was excellent in the Mac-only TextMate, added a bunch of extra goodies, and made those features available across multiple platforms. It was so good that it inspired the creation of half the text editors in this post.
Unlike other modern text editors, Sublime Text is written in C++ instead of JavaScript (like Visual Studio Code, Atom, and Brackets are), which gives it a huge performance advantage. It’s the fastest, most responsive text editor I’ve ever used, making it great for less-powerful machines.
To get a sense of what it can do, see our Sublime Text productivity tips 11 Sublime Text Tips for Productivity and a Faster Workflow 11 Sublime Text Tips for Productivity and a Faster Workflow Sublime Text is a versatile text editor and a gold standard for many programmers. Our tips focus on efficient coding, but general users will appreciate the keyboard shortcuts. Read More . The only downside? It costs $80, though you can use it for free indefinitely if you can mind the occasional nag popup.
Download: Atom (Free)
Atom is an open-source text editor developed by GitHub, the most popular source code host in the world. It’s the best choice for open source enthusiasts What Is Open Source Software? [MakeUseOf Explains] What Is Open Source Software? [MakeUseOf Explains] "Open source" is a term that’s thrown around a lot these days. You may know that certain things are open source, like Linux and Android, but do you know what it entails? What is open... Read More because GitHub is arguably the largest force for open source development.
Nearly every aspect of Atom is customizable, hence why it calls itself the “hackable” text editor. It shares a lot of the same built-in productivity features as its inspiration, Sublime Text, and can be improved with extensions.
Yet while Atom is certainly good enough for most, you may run into performance issues with large source files and projects: slow search, choppy scrolling, long load times, etc. Visual Studio Code is better in this regard, but plenty of users still prefer Atom for its open source ideology and commitment.
Download: Brackets (Free)
Funny enough, Brackets released in the same year as Atom — about one year after Sublime Text’s version 2 debut (which came five years after version 1). You can see the inspiration in the editor design, but Brackets isn’t a clone.
Whereas Visual Studio Code, Sublime Text, and Atom all try to be “the one true text editor” for all kinds of programmers and scripters, Brackets specifically focuses on web development. That makes sense when you realize Brackets is maintained by Adobe, who also maintains Dreamweaver and Photoshop.
Brackets has some cool features, like Live Preview and Quick Edit, and it can be improved through extensions. It’s also an open source project, another point in favor. But Brackets is abysmally slow, and that can be hard to get over.
5. Geany
Download: Geany (Free)
Geany is a fast and lightweight text editor based on the GTK+ toolkit, so it will feel right at home if you’re on the GNOME desktop GNOME Explained: A Look at One of Linux's Most Popular Desktops GNOME Explained: A Look at One of Linux's Most Popular Desktops You're interested in Linux, and you've come across "GNOME", an acronym for GNU Network Object Model Environment. GNOME is one of the most popular open source interfaces, but what does that mean? Read More . And truth be told, Geany is an excellent app. It was my text editor of choice through the early 2010s.
It’s still good today, but just happens to be overshadowed by monsters like Visual Studio Code and Sublime Text.
Expect all the basic features: syntax highlighting, auto-completion, wide support for languages, and the ability to build, compile, and execute code. Geany also has a plugin system, though nowhere near as easy or comprehensive as extensions for newer text editors.
6. Light Table
Download: Light Table (Free)
Light Table sounds more like a photography app than a text editor, but don’t let that fool you. It’s a powerful text editor (some might even say it’s an IDE Text Editors vs. IDEs: Which One Is Better For Programmers? Text Editors vs. IDEs: Which One Is Better For Programmers? Choosing between an advanced IDE and a simpler text editor can be hard. We offer some insight to help you make that decision. Read More ) that’s been around for a while — even longer than Atom and Brackets!
It allows a great deal of customization, both through keybinds and extensions. Light Table also has a number of crucial debugging functions, like real-time variable tracking and inline evaluation, plus features for rapid development.
Development has slowed down since 2016, but it’s certainly usable as is. Light Table is a strong option if you dislike the other editors in this list.
7. Vim, Emacs, or Nano
Depending on who you ask, standalone GUI text editors are for wimps! If you want to be a “real” programmer or tech geek, you should write code straight in the terminal using Vim, Emacs, or Nano.
Be warned: these editors are NOT for the faint of heart!
Vim is the most powerful but also the hardest to wrap your head around. Emacs has a shallower learning curve and is still full-featured but not as powerful as Vim. Nano is the worst of the three yet also the easiest to learn. If you’ve never used any of them, you might as well go with Vim.
Why put yourself through this? See our reasons to give Vim a chance The Top 7 Reasons To Give The Vim Text Editor A Chance The Top 7 Reasons To Give The Vim Text Editor A Chance For years, I've tried one text editor after another. You name it, I tried it. I used each and every one of these editors for over two months as my primary day-to-day editor. Somehow, I... Read More . Wondering whether Nano will suffice? See our comparison of Vim vs. Nano nano vs. vim: Terminal Text Editors Compared nano vs. vim: Terminal Text Editors Compared Although Linux has become easy enough for practically anyone to use without ever having to use the Terminal, there are some of us who regularly use it or are curious about how one can control... Read More . Vim may take a few months to learn, but it will be worth it.
Which Text Editor Do You Use?
Though Gedit has an uncertain future ahead of it, here’s the good news: you have no lack of choices if it does go under. We’ve living in the golden age of text editors, and you really can’t go wrong with any of them.
Are you going to stick with Gedit and hope for the best? Or will you jump ship for one of the above alternatives? Let us know in the comments!
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fionnbharr O'cathain
ed is the standard text editor.
Ted Feuerbach
I use JEdit. Two essential functions in a text editor is the ability to cut and past blocks of data/text side by side. The other is a good way to edit macro files. With JEdit, you can record a macro and then edit it later as a program file to add functionality.
While some text editors can also do this, I have found that JEdit is really good at it.
OHE
Guys, there are so much wrong statements in the last section about CLI editors.
Nano IS great when it suits the job.
And you cannot simple compare Vim vs Emacs like this, go read Wikipedia first then come and write an article, or if you are a reader also go read Wikipedia about the two editors and about the comparison, then make a choice.
My advice, if you have time, try both
You forget to mention Micro written in Go :)
https://github.com/zyedidia/micro
jymm
I use Mate, (Ubuntu and Debian) so Pluma is my default text editor.
Pluma is my default too, on Gnome.
Just Vi. It'll never die. It's Immortal.
' Emacs has a shallower learning curve and is still full-featured but not as powerful as Vim'
WAT????
I am a vi(m) user for 20+ years, and not a huge fan of Emac, but this statement is wrong on so many levels. Emacs IS different from vim, but stating it is 'not as powerful' is extremely hand-wavy. In fact one of the reasons I chose vim over emacs is - there's SO much to customize in Emacs it becomes a chore :) You can do pretty much anything - it's all emacs Lisp.
After using different types of IDE, the best for me (that write both C, javascript and HTML) is qtCreator. You can create Plain C project, modify web code etc... and It is really light instead of the huges eclipse alternatives
VS code is the best one with a lot of features in my opinion, Atom is some what slow.
PabloZ
Geany user here!! I find it very lightweight and powerful for my scripting tasks.
Tom H
I use SCITE and Bluefish. Geany is also a good choice. I will look into VS Code for Linux as I do use it in Windows for some tasks.
dragonmouth
Using Vim is like banging your head against the wall. It feels soooo good when you stop. :-)
I have used many text editors over the years and Vim is the most unintuitive and primitive feeling of them all. It feels like something out of the 1960s. Vim may be powerful but so is Assembler but you don't see too many people recommending Assembler.
vi is out of 1970s :) 1976. It was designed to be the (only) full-screen editor to be usable on extremely slow dialup lines. It is also part of POSIX standard, which means you will find it on pretty much any unix-like system you might come across. It does have a learning curve, but there's no way back once you get used to it.
Unintuitive in your case probably means unfamiliar. I.e. I am suffering every time I have to use a modeless editor. There's a good reason why most editors listed above have 'vi-compatibility plugin'.
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Mark Williams re-selected by Liberal Democrats in Ceredigion
March 9, 2019 - 8:08 am
Former Liberal Democrat MP Mark Williams has been re-selected as the Welsh Liberal Democrat Westminster candidate for Ceredigion.
He joins Tessa Munt and Andrew George to become the third former Liberal Democrat MP to be selected by the party in this Parliament.
Mark Williams was MP for Ceredigion 2005-2017 and has remained an active local campaigner since, leading the protests against the closure of the Bodlondeb Care Home in Aberystwyth. He lost the seat by just 104 votes in 2017 to Plaid Cymru.
Commenting on his selection Mark Williams said:
It’s truly humbling that party members have chosen me to contest the Ceredigion constituency once more and I am proud to be part of the Welsh Liberal Democrat team for Mid-Wales.
It’s been very disappointing to see that our council, led by Plaid Cymru, have overseen vital services like the Bodlondeb care home being closed. Services like this are vital to our communities and we need to stop letting parties sit back and just blame Westminster for decisions they take.
The Welsh Liberal Democrats are committed to demanding better. We want to see a Wales where green energy is championed, where we support our farmers and rural communities, and where no one should have to grow old feeling isolated and alone.
“These are the values I have long championed and hope the voters of Ceredigion will give me the opportunity to return to Westminster to continue to fight for a better and fairer Wales.
Commenting on the result, Welsh Liberal Democrat Leader Jane Dodds said:
I am really pleased that Mark has been re-selected to contest Ceredigion. Mark has long been a passionate local campaigner and has always stood up for people right across Ceredigion.
Mark was a brilliant MP and his voice has been noticeably missed in the House of Commons. I look forward to joining him on the campaign trail and can’t wait to see him return and represent his constituency once more.
There’s a full list of Liberal Democrat Parliamentary candidate selections so far here, and some starter advice for the newly selected here.
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Image Filtering and Enhancement
Image Filtering
integralImage
Create Integral Image
Calculate Subregion Sum Using Integral Image
Compute Subregion Integral with Rotated Orientation
Integral Image Summation
Rotated Integral Image Summation
Image Subregion Summation
Calculate 2-D integral image
J = integralImage(I)
J = integralImage(I,orientation)
In an integral image, each pixel represents the cumulative sum of a corresponding input pixel with all pixels above and to the left of the input pixel.
An integral image enables you to rapidly calculate summations over image subregions. Subregion summations can be computed in constant time as a linear combination of only four pixels in the integral image, regardless of the size of the subregion. Use of integral images was popularized by the Viola-Jones algorithm [1].
J = integralImage(I) calculates the integral image from image I. The function zero-pads the top and left side of the output integral image, J.
J = integralImage(I,orientation) calculates the integral image with the orientation specified by orientation.
Create a simple sample matrix.
I = magic(5)
I = 5×5
17 24 1 8 15
23 5 7 14 16
4 6 13 20 22
10 12 19 21 3
11 18 25 2 9
Calculate the integral image of the sample matrix. These steps show how the first few values in the original matrix map to values in the integral image. Note that the pixel with (row, column) coordinate (r, c) in the original image corresponds to the pixel with coordinate (r+1, c+1) in the integral image.
The first row and column in the integral image are all 0s.
The pixel in the original matrix at coordinate (1, 1) with value 17 is unchanged in the integral image because there are no other pixels in the smmation. Therefore, the pixel in the integral image at coordinate (2, 2) has the value 17.
The pixel in the original matrix at coordinate (1, 2) maps to the pixel (2, 3) in the integral image. The value is the summation of the original pixel value (24), the pixels above it (0), and the pixels to its left (17): 24 + 17 + 0 = 41.
The pixel in the original matrix at coordinate (1, 3) maps to the pixel (2, 4) in the integral image. The value is the summation of the original pixel value (1), the pixel above it (0), and the pixels to its left (which have already been summed to 41). Thus the value at pixel (2,4) in the integral image is 1 + 41 + 0 = 42.
J = 6×6
0 0 0 0 0 0
0 17 41 42 50 65
0 40 69 77 99 130
0 44 79 100 142 195
0 54 101 141 204 260
Read a grayscale image into the workspace. Display the image.
I = imread('pout.tif');
imshow(I)
Compute the integral image.
J = integralImage(I);
Use the drawrectangle tool to select a rectangular subregion. The tool returns a Rectangle object.
d = drawrectangle;
The Vertices property of the Rectangle object stores the coordinates of vertices as a 4-by-2 matrix. Vertices are ordered starting with the top-left and continuing in a clockwise direction. Split the matrix into two vectors containing the row and column coordinates. Because the integral image is zero-padded on the top and left side, increment the row and column coordinates by 1 to retrieve the corresponding elements of the integral array.
r = floor(d.Vertices(:,2)) + 1;
c = floor(d.Vertices(:,1)) + 1;
Calculate the sum of all pixels in the rectangular subregion by combining four pixels of the integral image.
regionSum = J(r(1),c(1)) - J(r(2),c(2)) + J(r(3),c(3)) - J(r(4),c(4))
regionSum = 613092
Create an integral image with a rotated orientation.
J = integralImage(I,'rotated')
0 0 0 0 0 0 0
0 17 24 1 8 15 0
17 64 47 40 38 39 15
64 74 91 104 105 76 39
74 105 149 188 183 130 76
105 170 232 272 236 195 130
Define a rotated rectangular subregion. This example specifies a subregion with top corner at coordinate (1,3) in the original image. The subregion has a rotated height of 1 and width of 2.
c = 3;
w = 2;
Get the value of the four corner pixels of the subregion in the integral image.
regionBottom = J(r+w+h,c-h+w+1);
regionTop = J(r,c+1);
regionLeft = J(r+h,c-h+1);
regionRight = J(r+w,c+w+1);
regionCorners = [regionBottom regionTop regionLeft regionRight]
regionCorners = 1×4
105 0 24 39
Calculate the sum of pixels in the subregion by summing the four corner pixel values.
regionSum = regionBottom + regionTop - regionLeft - regionRight
regionSum = 42
I — Image
numeric array
Image, specified as a numeric array of any dimension. If the input image has more than two dimensions (ndims(I)>2), such as for an RGB image, then integralImage computes the integral image for all 2-D planes along the higher dimensions.
Data Types: single | double | int8 | int16 | int32 | uint8 | uint16 | uint32
orientation — Image orientation
'upright' (default) | 'rotated'
Image orientation, specified as 'upright' or 'rotated'. If you set the orientation to 'rotated', then integralImage returns the integral image for computing sums over rectangles rotated by 45 degrees.
J — Integral image
numeric matrix
Integral image, returned as a numeric matrix. The function zero-pads the integral image according to the orientation of the image. Such sizing facilitates the computation of pixel sums along image boundaries. The integral image, J, is essentially a padded version of the value cumsum(cumsum(I,2)).
Size of Integral Image
Upright integral image Zero-padded on top and left. size(J) = size(I)+1
Rotated integral image Zero-padded at the top, left, and right. size(J) = size(I)+[1 2]
Data Types: double
Every pixel in an integral image represents the summation of the corresponding input pixel value with all input pixels above and to the left of the input pixel. Because integralImage zero-pads the resulting integral image, a pixel with (row, column) coordinate (m, n) in the original image maps to the pixel with coordinate (m+1, n+1) in the integral image.
In the figure, the current pixel in the input image is the dark green pixel at coordinate (4, 5). All pixels in the input image above and to the left of the input pixel are colored in light green. The summation of the green pixel values is returned in the integral image pixel with coordinate (5, 6), colored in gray.
integralImage performs a faster computation of the integral image by summing pixel values in both the input image and the integral image. Pixel (m, n) in integral image J is a linear combination of only four pixels: one from the input image and three previously-calculated pixels from the integral image.
J(m,n) = J(m,n-1) + J(m-1,n) + I(m-1,n-1) - J(m-1,n-1)
This figure shows which pixels are included in the sum when calculating the integral image at the gray pixel. Green pixels add to the sum and red pixels subtract from the sum.
If you specify the image orientation as 'rotated', then pixels in an integral image represent the summation of a corresponding input pixel value with all input pixels that are diagonally above the input pixel. integralImage performs the summation along diagonal lines. This approach is less computationally intensive than rotating the image and calculating the integral image in rectilinear directions.
In the figure, the current pixel in the input image is the dark green pixel at coordinate (4, 5). All pixels in the input image diagonally above the input pixel are colored in light green. The summation of the green pixel values is returned in the integral image pixel with coordinate (5, 6), colored in gray.
integralImage performs a faster computation of the rotated integral image by summing pixel values in both the input image and the integral image. Pixel (m, n) in integral image J is a linear combination of only five pixels: two from the input image and three previously-calculated pixels from the integral image:
J(m,n) = J(m-1,n-1) + J(m-1,n+1) - J(m-2,n) + I(m-1,n-1) + I(m-2,n-1)
A subregion in an upright orientation with top-left coordinate (m,n), height h, and width w in the original image has the summation:
regionSum = J(m–1,n–1) + J(m+h–1,n+w–1) – J(m+h–1,n–1) – J(m-1,n+w-1)
For example, in the input image below, the summation of the blue shaded region is: 46 – 22 – 20 + 10 = 14. The calculation subtracts the regions above and to the left of the shaded region. The area of overlap is added back to compensate for the double subtraction.
A subregion in an rotated orientation uses a different definition of height and width [2]. The summation of the region is:
regionSum = J(m+h+w,n-h+w+1) + J(m,n+1) - J(m+h,n-h+1) - J(m+w,n+w+1)
[1] Viola, P., and M. J. Jones. "Rapid Object Detection using a Boosted Cascade of Simple Features". Proceedings of the 2001 IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition. 2001. Vol. 1, pp. 511–518.
[2] Lienhart, R., and J. Maydt. "An Extended Set of Haar-like Features for Rapid Object Detection". Proceedings of the 2002 IEEE International Conference on Image Processing. Sept. 2002. Vol. 1, pp. 900–903.
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Integral Image
Image Processing Toolbox Documentation
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U.S. Ends Probe Of Tesla Fatal Crash Without Seeking Recall
Tesla Motors Inc. won't face a recall or fine as a result of a fatal crash involving its Autopilot system, but U.S. safety regulators are warning auto manufacturers and drivers not to treat semiautonomous cars as if they were fully self-driving.
Tom Krisher, Joan Lowy & Dee-Ann Durbin, Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) — Tesla Motors Inc. won't face a recall or fine as a result of a fatal crash involving its Autopilot system, but U.S. safety regulators are warning auto manufacturers and drivers not to treat semiautonomous cars as if they were fully self-driving.
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration said Thursday it found that the system had no safety defects at the time of the May 7 crash in Florida, and that it was primarily designed to prevent rear-end collisions rather than other crash scenarios.
Bryan Thomas, the agency's chief spokesman, said automated driving systems still require a driver's full attention. He warned that automakers need to keep tabs on how drivers use the technology and should design vehicles "with the inattentive driver in mind."
The probe began June 28, nearly two months after a driver using Autopilot in a 2015 Tesla Model S died when it failed to spot a tractor-trailer crossing the car's path on a highway in Williston, Florida, near Gainesville.
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The agency's criticism is likely to influence how automakers market semi-autonomous systems. Just about every company has or is working on similar systems as they move rapidly toward self-driving cars.
The investigation "helps clarify that cars are still supposed to be driven by attentive people, and if people behind the wheel aren't attentive, it's not the technology's fault," said Karl Brauer, executive publisher of Kelley Blue Book. That will help avoid the stigma that the technology causes accidents, he said.
NHTSA released guidelines last year that attempt to ensure safety without slowing development of semiautonomous and self-driving cars. The agency says self-driving features could dramatically reduce traffic deaths by eliminating human error, which plays a role in 94 percent of fatal crashes.
Thomas said NHTSA wants to encourage innovation "to get the best answer to how we use these automated systems to the best effect and saving the most lives."
In its probe, NHTSA evaluated how the system functions and looked into dozens of other crashes involving Teslas, including a July one on the Pennsylvania Turnpike that injured two people.
The Florida crash killed former Navy Seal Joshua Brown, 40, of Canton, Ohio. Tesla said at the time that the cameras on Brown's Model S sedan failed to distinguish the white side of a turning tractor-trailer from a brightly lit sky and that neither the car nor Brown applied the brakes.
Thomas said Brown set the car's cruise control at 74 mph — 9 mph over the limit — less than two minutes before the crash. NHTSA's crash reconstruction showed the tractor-trailer should have been visible to Brown at least 7 seconds before impact, enough time to react.
Detecting vehicles that cross in its path were beyond the capabilities of the Autopilot system, Thomas said on a conference call.
In a statement Thursday, Tesla said it appreciated NHTSA's thoroughness in reaching its conclusion.
When Tesla released Autopilot in 2015, some safety advocates questioned whether the Palo Alto, California, company and NHTSA allowed the public access to the system before testing was finished.
Consumer Reports magazine called on Tesla to drop the "Autopilot" name because it can give drivers too much trust in their car's ability to drive itself.
In September, Tesla updated Autopilot software to rely more on radar sensors and less on cameras. The update also disabled the automatic steering if drivers don't keep both hands on the wheel.
Another federal agency, the National Transportation Safety Board, has opened a broader investigation into the Tesla crash. It could be months before a final report that provides a probable cause for the collision is issued.
The company that made the camera and computer system for Tesla said in September that the company ignored its warnings about possible safety problems.
Israel-based Mobileye that before the release of Autopilot, it warned Tesla not to allow drivers to use the system without their hands on the steering wheel. Mobileye NV, a huge player in the self-driving business, has stopped supplying components to Tesla.
Thomas said investigators got information from Mobileye and evaluated the company's statements, but still reached the no-defect conclusion. He wouldn't comment on the company's statements.
Tesla said at the time that Mobileye's statements were inaccurate and stem from Tesla's plans to develop its own vision system.
Durbin and Krisher reported from Detroit.
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Live in a highly-accessible area close to key public transport nodes and served by the East-West, Downtown and North East MRT Lines.
Unique local flavours
Immerse yourself in the colourful heritage and history of Balestier and Jalan Besar and indulge in the area’s delicious food offerings.
Riverfront living
Kallang River winds through the area, offering both river views and a unique waterfront lifestyle unlike anywhere else in Singapore.
Exciting Activities
Spend your weekends cycling around Punggol’s coastline or visit Coney Island Park. My Waterway@Punggol, Heartwave Wall and Punggol Waterway Park also provide outdoor fun for all. This is waterfront living at its finest!
Connected via the North East Line (NEL), the Punggol Digital District opens from 2023 with autonomous buses and shuttles, and a new NEL station, the Punggol Coast station. There will also be expansions to the TPE and KPE.
Sengkang is well-connected via the North East Line (NEL). LRT and bus services also connect residents to commercial and recreational areas like the Town Centre, Sengkang Riverside Park, and Sengkang Sports Centre.
Sports centres, parks and floating wetlands offer many recreation options! Jog or cycle easily to neighbouring towns via the North Eastern Riverine Loop, touted to be one of the most scenic park connector routes.
Exciting shopping and recreational facilities
Shop at Tampines 1, Tampines Mall and Century Square, or visit Our Tampines Hub – Singapore’s first integrated community and lifestyle hub, with sport facilities, a library, hawker centre and theatre all in one place.
Tampines Eco Green and two upcoming parks in development to the east and west of Tampines Ave 12 will provide residents with more recreational outdoor spaces as well as opportunities to get closer to nature.
Great connectivity
As Singapore’s first cycling town, an extensive cycling network makes getting around simple. Tampines is also well-connected to the rest of Singapore via major roads and highways, and the East-West and Downtown MRT lines.
‘Forest Town’
As the first ‘Forest Town’, Tengah will integrate the surrounding greenery and biodiversity through spaces like the Forest Corridor and ‘Community Farmways’, where residents can gather in their own neighbourhood.
Move around with ease
Tengah will be designed amidst a lush park, with vehicles plying underneath. With the upcoming Jurong Region Line, and network of walking and cycling paths, it offers a car-lite, people and pedestrian-friendly environment.
With energy and water conservation features inside and outside the homes, smart lighting in common areas, a bicycle rack system and an automated waste system, Tengah will be Singapore’s largest smart and sustainable town.
Linked to the North-South Line, North-East Line and Circle Line, Toa Payoh and Bidadari are centrally located and well-connected to the rest of Singapore.
Upgraded town centre
The pedestrian mall in Toa Payoh is set to be upgraded, with beautiful landscaping, seating spaces and sheltered rest areas to be added.
Residents can look forward to the new Bidadari Greenway, which connects to Bidadari Park. Pedestrian and cycling paths throughout the greenway also enable residents to commute seamlessly within the estate.
New attractions
The Remaking Our Heartland programme brings new and upgraded developments to Woodlands, like the WoodsVista Gallery, Woodlands Town Garden, Woodlands Waterfront, and a Social Corridor with community spaces.
Woodlands will have three new MRT stations by 2019 as part of the Thomson-East Coast Line, which will be connected to Johor via the Rapid Transit System. The planned North-South Corridor will also link directly to the city.
The future North-South Corridor will make travelling downtown easy! Northpoint City includes an air-conditioned bus interchange (from 2019), with an underpass link to Yishun MRT Station.
The expansive Yishun Pond Park and Yishun Park provide unique recreational spaces for all. With many great food options available in the town that range from famous hawker stalls to Instagrammable cafes, Yishun is a true foodie haven!
Schemes and Grants
Wherever you are in your housing journey, there are schemes and grants to help you. Find out more about them here.
Find out more about the different estates through our videos and articles.
Supplement your retirement income. Find out more about the various monetisation options available, like the Lease Buyback Scheme (LBS), right-sizing with the Silver Housing Bonus (SHB) or renting out your spare bedroom(s) or flat.
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A sleek unibody design means fewer borders, more screen in a phone that feels great in your hand. With a tough screen made of Corning® Gorilla® Glass 5, the Xperia L3 is sturdy enough for everyday use and a battery that can easily last through a busy day. For great entertainment, a 5.7” 18:91 screen brings TV shows and movies to life. See everything in HD+ resolution to bring out clear details and realistic colours. For more creative photos, with beautiful background defocus, the Xperia L3 camera is designed to take great shots of people and nature. Enjoy fast downloads and smooth multi-tasking with a processor that’s powerful enough to handle all your apps and entertainment.
PHYSICAL 154 x 72 x 8.9 mm
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Participants must visit https://www.samsung.com/uk/blue-cashback within 30 days of purchase of their phone (the date of purchase counts as day 1) meaning the final claim date for purchases made on the 24th of December 2018 is no later than 23:59 (GMT) on the 22nd of January 2019
Complete the claim form (providing the IMEI of your handset, bank details and any other requested information) and upload a copy of your proof of purchase to make your claim.
You’ll be sent an initial email and SMS by Samsung to confirm that your claim has been received and a second email to confirm that the claim has been successful and validated.
Once validated you’ll receive the cashback within 30 days by way of bank transfer to the bank account you provide on the claim form.
Participants agree to be bound by these terms and conditions (the “Terms and Conditions”). Any information or instructions published by the Promoter about the Promotion at https://www.samsung.com/uk/blue-cashback form part of the Terms and Conditions.
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The Promoter is Samsung Electronics (UK) Limited, Samsung House, 1000 Hillswood Drive, Chertsey, Surrey, KT16 0PS (the “Promoter”).
Purchase Period
The Promotion will commence at 00:01 (GMT) on the 4th of December 2018 and shall close at 23:59 (GMT) on the 24th of December 2018 (the “Purchase Period”).
To be eligible to participate in the Promotion you must be a U.K., Channel Islands, Isle of Man or Republic of Ireland resident aged 18+ with a valid U.K, Channel Island, Isle of Man or Republic of Ireland bank account (“Participant”)
This Promotion is only available to end users (e.g. not to any reseller or business).
Claims may only be submitted by the individual end user, Claims made by Participating Retailers, other Resellers and/or their staff on behalf of the end user are specifically excluded and any such Claims will be automatically rejected.
This Promotion is not open to employees of the Promoter, the Participating Retailer or any other person professionally connected with the Promotion.
Rewards shall be paid by way of bank transfer and Participants must have a valid U.K., Channel Islands, Isle of Man or Republic of Ireland bank account in order to receive the Reward.
Rewards shall be awarded to Participants based on their country of residence, for example a ROI Participant purchasing a Promotion Product in the United Kingdom shall receive their Reward in Euros rather than GBP in accordance with Table 1 below.
Participants who purchase a new (i.e. not second hand or refurbished) Samsung device as detailed in Table 1 below (the “Promotion Product”) in-store or online from a Participating Retailer in the U.K., Channel Islands, Isle of Man or Republic of Ireland within the Purchase Period will be eligible to claim a cash back reward (exclusively paid by way of bank transfer) via redemption (the “Reward”). The relevant Reward value per Promotion Product shall be as set out in Table 1 below.
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Note 9 (512GB) SM-N960F £150.00 €165.00 3 Mobile, Amazon UK (excludes 3rd Party Marketplace Dealers), AO.com, Argos, BT, Carphone Warehouse, Currys, PC World, e2save.com, EE, GiffGaff, ID Mobile, John Lewis, Littlewoods, Mobile Phones Direct, Mobiles.co.uk, O2, Samsung Experience Store, Samsung Shop online, Selfridges, Tesco Mobile, Very, Virgin Mobile Argos, Currys, PC World, Vodafone, 3Mobile, Eir, Carphone Warehouse, Tesco Mobile, Virgin Mobile, Harvey Normans, DID, Power City, Euronics, Expert Sound Store
Note 9 (128GB) SM-N960F £150.00 €165.00
S9+ 256GB SM-G965F £100.00 €110.00
S9+ 64GB SM-G965F £100.00 €110.00
S9 SM-G960F £100.00 €110.00
A9 SM-A920F £80.00 €90.00
J6+ SM-J610F £40.00 €45.00
Tab S4 SM-T830N/SM-T835N £100.00 €110.00
Tab S3 SM-T825N/SM-T820N £70.00 €80.00
Tab A 10.5 SM-T590N/SM-T595N £50.00 €55.00
Galaxy Watch 46mm (4G) SM-R805F £50.00 €55.00
Galaxy Watch 42mm (4G) SM-R800N £50.00 €55.00
Galaxy Watch 46mm (BT) SM-R815F £50.00 €55.00
Galaxy Watch 42mm (BT) SM-R810N £50.00 €55.00
Purchases from auction websites (e.g. eBay) or marketplace sales through retail websites (e.g. Amazon Marketplace or Play Trade) are specifically excluded from this Promotion.
Participants may claim a maximum of one (1) Reward per Promotion Product purchased and a maximum of three (3) Rewards per household.
To claim, after purchasing a Promotion Product from a Participating Retailer during the Promotion Period, Participants must visit https://www.samsung.com/uk/blue-cashback within thirty (30) days of purchase of their Promotion Product (the date of purchase counts as day 1) and complete the claim form with either the IMEI number where the purchased Promotion Product is a smartphone or the serial number where the purchased Promotion Product is a tablet or smartwatch. Participants will also need to provide their name, contact information, bank account details and any other requested information, and submit it together with a scanned copy of their proof of purchase. Participants may also be required to upload a photograph or screenshot of either their IMEI number or serial number as appropriate (a “Claim”).
Proof of purchase must include: Participating Retailer name, Promotion Product name and the date of purchase. Further information regarding proof of purchase requirements can be found on the FAQ page: www.samsungcashback.com/contact
Claims may only be submitted within thirty (30) days from the date of purchase, meaning the final claim date for purchases made on the 24th of December 2018 is no later than 23:59 (GMT) on the 22nd of January 2019 (the “End Date”). Claims received after the End Date will not be eligible. For the avoidance of doubt, the date of purchase counts as day 1.
Participants will be sent an initial email and SMS to confirm that their Claim has been received by the Promoter and a second email to confirm that whether the Claim has been successful and validated.
If an email or text acknowledgement has not been received, it is the Participant’s responsibility to contact the Promoter’s customer service team at [email protected] within seven (7) days of a Claim being submitted.
If the Claim is deemed to have missing information, the Participant will be notified via email and SMS and offered the opportunity to provide the required information to validate their Claim within seven (7) days of the email and SMS being sent. If no response is received, then the Claim shall be marked as invalid and the Participant will no longer be eligible to receive the Reward.
Participants will receive the Reward by way of bank transfer to the bank account detailed in the Claim within thirty (30) days of Claim Validation.
To check the status of the Claim Participants may visit www.samsungcashback.com/claimstatus.
Claims that are incomplete or damaged will be deemed invalid. No responsibility is accepted by the Promoter for lost, delayed or damaged data which occurs during any communication or transmission of Claims.
The Promoter reserves the right at its absolute discretion to disqualify Claims which it considers do not comply with these Terms and Conditions.
The Promoter shall have the right, where necessary, to undertake all such action as is reasonable to protect itself against fraudulent or invalid Claims including, without limitation, to generate or require further verification as to proof of purchase, as well as the identity, age, and other relevant details of a Participant. This process may involve the Promoter sharing information with third parties.
If a Participant returns a Promotion Product after making a Claim, then the Participating Retailer shall notify the Promoter and the Claim shall be rejected. Where the Reward has already been paid then the Promoter shall seek to recover the Reward from the Participant.
Other than as set out in these Terms and Conditions or for the purposes of operating the Promotion, the details and information provided by the Participant when entering the Promotion or claiming the Reward will not be used for any promotional purpose, nor shall they be passed to any third party.
The information collected as described in Condition 18 above shall be processed in accordance with the procedures outlined in the Promoter’s privacy policy, available at www.samsung.com/uk/info/privacy.
The Promoter shall not be liable for any interruption to the Promotion whether due to force majeure or other factors beyond the Promoter’s control.
The Promoter reserves the right, acting reasonably and in accordance with all relevant legislation and codes of practice, to vary the Terms and Conditions of the Promotion.
Rewards are non-transferable by Participants.
The Promoter will not be responsible or liable for: (a) any failure to receive submissions due to transmission failures and other conditions beyond its reasonable control; (b) any late, lost, misrouted, or damaged transmissions or claims; (c) any computer or communications related malfunctions or failures; (d) any disruptions, losses or damages caused by events beyond the control of the Promoter; or (e) any printing or typographical errors in any materials associated with the Promotion.
Participants will be solely responsible for any and all applicable taxes and any other relevant costs or expenses which are not stated in the Terms and Conditions as included in the Reward.
By participating in this Promotion, you agree, to the maximum extent permitted by applicable laws, to release and hold the Promoter harmless from any and all liability whatsoever for any injuries, losses or damages of any kind arising from participation in or in connection with the Promotion, including without limitation, awarding, acceptance or receipt of the Reward. The above limitation of liability shall not apply to death or personal injury caused as a result of Promoter’s negligence.
The Promotion is governed by the law of England and Wales.
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The Upper Peninsula Animal Welfare Shelter is now operating in its new building at 815 S. State Highway M553, Gwinn. Call 906-475-6661 or visit upaws.org to find out about animals waiting for adoption.
Found and lodged at the Alger County Animal Shelter in Munising were a short-haired gray and white male cat; a 12-year-old black and white long-haired male cat; a 10-year-old female calico cat; a brown tiger female cat, 12 years old; a black female cat, age 2; a 4-year-old gray and white long haired male cat; a gray and white short-haired female cat, age 7; a brown tiger stripe female cat, age 2; a 7-year-old black and white long-haired female cat; a white and black short-haired male cat, age 5; a white and black long-haired male cat, age 5; an orange male cat, age 2; a male gray cat, age 5; a white long-haired male cat, age 12; a female brown tiger-striped cat, age 2; two orange and white male kittens, age 4 months; an orange male kitten, age 4 months; a female silver tabby kitten, age 4 months; a female lab-cattle dog mix, age 2; a male hound mix, age 1; and a 5-year-old male Pyrenees mix. All cats and dogs are spayed or neutered, unless noted. Call 906-387-4131 or visit www.acasonline.org online.
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Priscilla & Harvey Harvala
It is with sadness that we announce the passing of Priscilla Harvala. Her husband, Harvey, wrote this:
Priscilla passed away in peace at 5:15 p.m. last evening, October 6, 2014. Joining me at her side were three of our five children and her sister, Connie. Priscilla finally has no more pain from the pancreatic cancer and will rest comfortably in her heavenly home with the gift of everlasting life. She is at home in the refuge of the Lord. Priscilla was an incredible woman and will be missed by her family, her many friends and me.
Priscilla worked with Harvey last May to write their profile below:
As part of their retirement plan, Priscilla and Harvey Harvala moved in July 2009 from 50 wooded acres in Esko, where they had lived for 34 years raising their five children, to 300 acres near Snellman, Minnesota and the Smokey Hills State Forest. This is the homestead property where Harvey was born and raised along with his seven siblings. (Snellman is in Becker County, east of Detroit Lakes and west of Park Rapids.)
After buying the property from family members, they constructed their retirement home with features like handicap accessibility and a ground source (vertical wells) geo-thermal heating and cooling system. The tongue and groove wood for the floors, vaulted ceilings boards, and trim were all cut from the oaks on the property that had been damaged by porcupines.
Priscilla retired from a career as a buyer at Potlatch Corporation in Cloquet and Harvey continues his consulting engineering career from his home office. All of their property is managed under the 2c Forest Management Plan, which has proven to be very helpful in reducing property taxes. They are interested in considering property management under a LLC.
The property is located in a transitional zone between the coniferous and deciduous forests and, as a result, has a wide variety of tree species. Priscilla said, “Living in a rural area requires hard work at times and lots of equipment to maintain the property, but is also keeps us physically active. We have always enjoyed the freedom of country living and sharing space with all the wild animals of the forest.”
Making maple syrup is a family tradition that was stated by Harvey’s parents which he and Priscilla continue. They recruit family and friends of all ages to share in the work of tapping approximately 400 trees. Even grandchildren get involved in collecting sap and stacking wood. Three outside wood stoves are used to boil the sap in stainless steel pans. After the finishing is done outside, Priscilla does the bottling in the kitchen in bottles bearing their own label, “Old Saps’ Maple Syrup!” The final product is distributed among the helpers.
When people ask Priscilla and Harvey how they know when the maple syrup season starts and ends, they always answer with this old saying: “The sap starts running when the crows begin cawing in the spring, and the sap run ends when the frogs start singing!” It is amazing how accurate this tale has proven to be!
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Blondie, In Wilderness, 2009
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Blondie, In Wilderness, 2009 by Eddie Sung
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Bachmann Crushes Pawlenty, Wins Ames Straw Poll
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Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) won the Ames straw poll on Saturday, sending a message to other GOP presidential contenders that she is a serious threat.<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/gageskidmore/5555447470/sizes/l/in/photostream/">Gage Skidmore</a>/Flickr
So it begins. Two months after kicking off her presidential campaign in her reclaimed Iowa hometown, Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) scored a resounding victory in the Ames Straw Poll, a non-binding event that doubles as a fundraiser for the Iowa Republican Party. Texas Congressman Ron Paul finished just 150 votes back in second place (out of nearly 17,000 cast), but it was Bachmann’s drubbing of her fellow Minnesotan Tim Pawlenty that immediately stands out—and raises questions about whether there’s still room in the race for the formerly mulleted, former governor of Minnesota.
While today’s event is technically meaningless—the votes won’t count until the caucuses are held in December—it was the first serious test of the candidates’ appeal and manpower. You could think of Ames as a sort of highly concentrated get-out-the-vote contest: The Bachmann and Pawlenty campaigns both bused in supporters from as far away as Davenport on the Illinois border and covered the $30/per ticket fee for supporters to cast their votes. Pawlenty spent the past week drumming up support across the state, but Bachmann’s organizational dominance was obvious from the minute I parked my car. She employed a fleet of golf carts to shuttle elderly attendees to-and-from the parking lot and the voting booths, and an army of volunteers focused intently on sheparding supporters toward the polls.
Registering for the event was a prerequisite for entering Bachmann’s cavernous (if somewhat pungent-smelling) tent, where she entertained voters with live Christian rock and a special performance from country music star Randy Travis (at that point, the crowd spilled well out of the tent and brought in dozens of supporters of other candidates). Bachmann’s win also owes something to the underlying qualities that go unmentioned in her speech but which have made her a hit among Iowa conservatives. As I noted earlier, Wallbuilders co-founder Rick Green, a Christian Reconstructionist who believes Christians have an obligation to take over government, spoke on Bachmann’s stage in the morning and revved up the crowd with a message that offered the audience a glimpse of the candidate’s roots as a proponent of Biblical Constitutionalism. Christian values: good; Moral relativism: Bad.
The dreadlocked Bachmann supporter in the “Jesus is my Rock” t-shirt might beg to difer, but in Iowa, Bachmann demonstrated that, at least in this truncated version of the GOP field, she is a rock star. Bachmann commanded a crowd twice as large as anyone else’s when she showed up at the Iowa State Fair to speak from the Des Moines Register “soapbox,” and she was the only one who had a state police escort. At her speech in Ames, she whipped the crowd into a frenzy (Only Paul, who was an anti-government crusader before it was cool, could come anywhere close). This, from Sandra Beak of Illinois, was a typical reaction from the congresswoman’s supporters: “I saw Michele Bachmann last night—Oh my gosh! That woman is energetic! She never stops! It’s amazing!”
Those are four things no one has ever said about Tim Pawlenty. Leading up to the poll, Pawlenty continued to do all the little things that candidates are supposed to do—serving up the best barbecue and handing out Dairy Queen blizzards; fine-tuning his stump speech over the course of the week into one that, at least on paper, finally seemed to work; showing up on time and staying on message—but the enthusiasm just wasn’t there.
On the day that Texas Gov. Rick Perry finally stepped into the ring, the Ames results carry with them a serious disclaimer: We’re about to hit restart on the whole race. Mitt Romney, the presumed front-runner from day one, chose to spend the day in New Hampshire and skip the straw poll entirely. The results don’t mean everything, but they weren’t meaningless either. If nothing else, consider this: two-thirds of Ames voters chose candidates—Paul and Bachmann—who were decidedly in the fringe of the party in 2008. This is your new GOP.
Update: Here’s the final tally. Out of 16,892 votes:
4,823 for Bachmann
4671 for Paul
2293 for Pawlenty
1657 for Santorum
1456 for Cain
718 for Perry (write-in)
567 for Romney (skipped)
385 for Newt (skipped)
69 for Huntsman (skipped)
35 for McCotter
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Artistic and special vehicles
Vespa racing
98 Corsa
https://www.museopiaggio.it/en/collezioni/98-corsa/
This first fabulous race Vespa was conceived for participation in various circuit races. With it, Piaggio dealers could enter their participation in speed contests. The Vespa in fact took part in several gradient and track races, with many victories in the scooter category, among which the Naples Grand Prix in 1947 and the chronograph climb at Rocca di Papa (Rome). The Vespa 98 Corsa’s form derived from the standard production model, but it had a much smaller, bubble-shaped shield and small handlebars. The horn was taken off the steering column cover and the seat is placed far back, so that the rider had to stretch to reach the handlebars. The rear brakes were also retracted to suit the rider’s elongated, aerodynamic position. The engine casing, a fundamental aspect of the vehicle, had small openings for better ventilation. The front mudguard was very small. The steering column was strengthened. The suspension had two coil springs. The rear suspension was directly above the engine support arm. The engine had no starter switch and the crankcase was cut at the point at which the engine start lever would have been placed to give the scooter more incline on curves. It had a three-speed change, the 17-mm carburettor was the sport type with an intake cornet, and there was a direct “megaphone” exhaust.
2-stroke single cylinder engine with cast iron horizontal cylinder and aluminium head
spiral springs on the front wheel, leaf spring on the rear wheel
3.50-8"
98 CORSA (CIRCUITO)
https://www.museopiaggio.it/en/collezioni/98-corsa-circuito-2/
The creative genius of Piaggio’s engineers, which had led to the appearance of the first Vespa on Italian roads in 1946, was confirmed a few months later by the emergence of a real jewel from the experimental division of the Pontedera workshops. The Vespa 98 Corsa was built with the specific objective of showing the world that a small scooter could be extremely competitive on the circuit. The “silver swarm” of Vespas that had taken over Italian roads and piazzas inspired Enrico Piaggio to produce a vehicle with an “aggressive” design that would race to win. The Vespa 98 Corsa (Circuit) was hence built for speed in the races of its category and represented a concentration of innovative ideas to be tried out on standard production. It mounted the steering column and suspension on the right, a solution that would be applied to the Vespa 125 from 1948 on. The body was handbuilt on a steel frame. The brakes were drums; the rear had an air intake for cooling. It had the three-speed gear with the lever on the handlebar. Cooling was through forced air, ignition through a flywheel magneto with an internal coil. The clutch had multiple steel disks in a wet sump. The carburettor was a 17 mm Dell’Orto. The vehicle’s original colour was red. It was a little “meteor” to dream with and inspire dreams on in those first few Vespa years.
about 100 km/h
coil springs and calipers shock absorber on the front wheel, leaf spring on the rear wheel
Pirelli of the "corsa" type, 3.50-8"
125 CIRCUITO
https://www.museopiaggio.it/en/collezioni/125-circuito-2/
Towards the end of the 1940s most motorcycle constructors considered that the best way to publicise their products was to participate in the various motorcycle races that were generally held on town roads. The scope was to bring people closer to motorcycling and create potential customers. Piaggio did not want to be left behind and equipped a series of “circuit” scooters, like this 1949 sample, to race in the categories reserved for them, making its mark right from the start and leaving behind all the other scooters. Besides the publicity angle, the Vespa Circuit was also used as “test bench” for new ideas that were then used on standard products. The Vespas 125 circuit and the previous circuit models were totally hand-built by the specialists of the company’s experimental division and were used in races until the end of the 1950s by the official riders Dino Mazzoncini and Giuseppe Cau, who in 1950 wins the chronometer race Catania-Etna, gaining the first place in his category (125 cc) and obtaining the absolute third place in the general results after Guzzi and Benelli.
2-stroke engine
front with coil spring, rear with rubber stopper
3.50x8"
125 CORSA (ALLOY FRAME)
https://www.museopiaggio.it/en/collezioni/125-corsa-alloy-frame/
In 1949 the Vespa 125 Corsa was manufactured, the frame was of the aluminium alloy used in aircraft construction and assembled using alloy rivets, an avant-garde technological feature for the time. the larger fuel tank stretched towards the steering column, and was intended to offer increased range and optimize riding at high speed. the Vespa 125 Corsa took part in several city races, notching up many prestigious victories.
In 1950 Giuseppe Cau and Dino Mazzoncini gain the first and second place at the Bologna Grand Prix. in the same year, Giuseppe Cau wins on the Perugia circuit with the vespa 98 Corsa no. 38.
single cylinder two-stroke
helicoidal spring and calipers shock absorber on the front wheel, rubber pad and leaf spring shock absorber on the rear wheel
" corsa" type, 3,00x10"
https://www.museopiaggio.it/en/collezioni/monthlery-2/
In order to promote the sporting image of the Vespa, Piaggio turned its attention to record breaking in the hope of reviving a glorious pre-war tradition. On April 7 1950 on France’s Montlhery circuit, three riders took turns as the Vespa spent 10 consecutive hours acquiring 17 world records: over 1 hour (average speed 134 km/h); over 100 miles (average 129.7 km/h), 500 miles (average 123.9 km/h), 1,000 km (average 124.3 km/h), and over 10 hours during which the Vespa covered 1,049 km. On a streamlined vehicle very similar to this (the Vespa 125 Circuit “alloy frame” of 1949) rider Dino Mazzoncini also performed brilliantly in track races, most memorably in the head-to-head between Vespa and Lambretta that took place on the Genoa Circuit (Corso Italia) and ended in a victory for Vespa in the motor scooter class.
136.92 km/h
front with coil springs and calipers shock absorber, rear with rubber pad and leaf spring shock absorber
3.00-10" (for races)
125 6 GIORNI
https://www.museopiaggio.it/en/collezioni/125-6-giorni/
A vehicle developed for trial racing, in which it enjoyed considerable success. Its styling was very similar to that of the standard models, except for a larger fuel tank, wrapround leg shield and a larger right side sack to house the carburettor on the cylinder. It earned its name by competing in the 26th International 6-Day event of 1951, at which it won nine gold medals. The Piaggio racing team was composed by: Biasci, Cau, Granchi, Mazzoncini, Merlo, Nesti, Opessi, Riva, Romano and Vivaldi. In 1951 the Vespa 125 Sei Giorni also won the Motorcycle Italian Federation Trophy, which saw the victories of three Italian riders on the Vespa (Giuseppe Cau, Miro Riva, Bruno Romano).
2-stroke single cylinder engine
elastic, with coil spring on the front wheel, elastic with coil spring and hydraulic damper on the rear wheel
cast iron drums with large cooling fins
Pirelli racing 3.50-8"
https://www.museopiaggio.it/en/collezioni/siluro-2/
In 1951, Vespa set off to challenge the most prestigious of speed trial: that of the standing kilometre.
On the 9th of February, between the 10th and the 11th kilometre on the Rome-Ostia motorway, a Vespa with two horizontally opposed pistons (17.2 H.P. – 9500 rpm) designed by Corradino d’Ascanio and driven by the test-driver Dino Mazzoncini, beat all standing kilometre records with a time of 21.4 seconds and an average speed of 171.1 km/h.
The engine’s two drive-shaft were connected by cogs and each cylinder was served by a separate carburettor, outflow controlled by the piston on the magneto side. Liquid cooled with radiator on the left side.
two-stroke single cylinder engine with opposed pistons
17.2 bhp at 9,500 revs
four-speed gear box
3.00-10" (built specifically by Pirelli for the trials) Suspension: helicoidal spring at the front and shock absorber with callipers; rear with rubber pad and shock absorber with calipers
T5 prototipo rally
https://www.museopiaggio.it/en/collezioni/vespa-t5-prototipo-rally/
This is the only remaining specimen of four experimental Vespa scooters built in 1985 (the engine test is dated 11 December 1985). The other three were demolished and the fourth survived “by chance” (it was the so-called “back up” which was not used to race). Piaggio built these scooters for the Paris-Dakar race, but then decided to abandon the project and demolish the vehicles.
12 Hp, 6000 rpm
Specificic
additional rear regulation light
welded back to front
a handle at the rear to pull the scooter out if it got bogged down in sand
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NAMM 2019: Jimmy Page reveals Sundragon, a 'forensic' clone of his Led Zep 1 amp
By Will Groves (Total Guitar, Guitarist) 2019-01-23T10:02:15Z
Limited, signed run of 50 to be followed by full production run
NAMM 2019: Jimmy Page has announced the imminent release of his Sundragon amp, a meticulously crafted clone of the modified Supro Coroado he used on the seminal Led Zeppelin 1 recordings, as well as other notable cuts like Joe Cocker's With a Little Help From My Friends.
The Sundragon amp, released this year to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Led Zep 1, is a collaboration between Page, Mitch Colby and Perry Margouleff. The trio have painstakingly modelled and recreated the original amp, which was repaired and heavily modified after falling out of the band's van on an early pre-Led Zeppelin tour.
“I had been impressed with the forensic analysis both Mitch and Perry had put into the research of the sonic reproduction of the original Supro amp to arrive at the Sundragon”, says Page.
We don't have a price point for the amp yet, but we'll be doing our darndest to dig that out and bring you hand- and ears-on impressions as soon as possible.
NAMM 2019: Fender set to recreate Jimmy Page’s iconic Telecaster in ‘mirror’ and ‘dragon’ designs
At the same time, Fender has re-issued its teaser trailer for the 'Jimmy Page x Fender' project to be fully revealed at the show - although it looks like Jimmy may have already unveiled his replica in the image above.
The Limited Edition Jimmy Page Telecaster Set - comprising no fewer than four artist signature guitars recreating various iterations of the guitarist's legendary '59 Tele - will also be released in 2019, again tying into the 50th anniversary celebrations.
Naturally, we'll be bringing you all the details and pictures galore from Fender's full NAMM reveal. For now, check out the company's extensive biography of the guitar in question and the teaser video below.
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Celebrating the local pig
In Business Rich Saltzberg - October 29, 2014
Swine and Dine events will fill the weekend, and Islanders’ bellies, with local pork.
The long and wining road
Eat & Drink Rich Saltzberg - October 22, 2014
A sampling of the M.V. Food and Wine Festival’s wine events.
Food challenge spawned wild dishes
Tyler Gibson took the grand prize for his “Around the Island” dish, and Clara Athearn secured the kids’ grand prize.
Martha’s Vineyard real estate pros offer advice on selling and buying
Real Estate Rich Saltzberg - October 10, 2014
Be financially prepared when you begin the process, and that begins with the numbers.
An Islander in Israel, or how Billy Luce became Ehud Neor
Community Rich Saltzberg - October 8, 2014
Or, how Billy Luce became Ehud Neor.
British version tells of the leadup to the American revolution
Arts & Entertainment Rich Saltzberg - October 7, 2014
At a discussion of his newest book An Empire on the Edge, author Nick Bunker describes a Martha’s Vineyard chapter in the runup to the American Revolution.
The Workshop will showcase plein air paintings
Greening Martha Rich Saltzberg - September 9, 2014
Summer Breeze show at The Workshop gallery captures the Island outdoors.
Martha’s Vineyard has been dry, but there is no drought
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The lack of steady rain has affected lawns and farms across the Island.
Propelled by volunteers, ‘Peter Pan’ soared
Arts & Entertainment Rich Saltzberg - August 27, 2014
Between August 16 and 24, Island Theatre Workshop (ITW) presented Peter Pan at the Martha’s Vineyard Regional High School’s Performing Arts Center. Featuring its ever-youthful...
Obamas grace Edgartown light
Community Rich Saltzberg - August 20, 2014
On the evening of August 17, two Island artists celebrated the Commander and Chief and the first lady using acrylics and a $7,000 telescopic...
National Humanities Medal winner to screen new film at Tabernacle
On August 18 at 7:30 pm, documentarian Stanley Nelson, who Islanders may be familiar with for his personal retrospective of Oak Bluffs, “A Place...
Chappaquiddick residents air wireless concerns to Edgartown selectmen
News Rich Saltzberg - August 13, 2014
A large group of Chappaquiddick residents aired their concerns about spotty wireless telephone reception on the small island and the need to improve coverage...
Monster Machines: Martha’s Vineyard Shipyard’s 25 BFMII
For 46 springs, The Martha’s Vineyard Shipyard has deposited boats into Vineyard Haven harbor, and hauled them back out the following autumn. For 46...
Blues Brothers Revue coming to Old Whaling Church
Arts & Entertainment Rich Saltzberg - August 6, 2014
A contemporary incarnation of the Saturday Night Live musical duo that closed out the 70s with the hit motion picture “The Blues Brothers” is...
Rueling the canvas: Artist Colin Ruel of West Tisbury
Art & Galleries Rich Saltzberg - July 31, 2014
Colin Ruel’s abstract and landscape work takes the viewer on a shamanic journey.
Bids aplenty at 36th Annual Possible Dreams Auction
Community Rich Saltzberg - July 29, 2014
The first is that this Island has provided me with a home and home-away-from-home amid a diverse and neighborly community since I was born. The second is that Dolly Campbell and her colleagues at the Thrift Store were kind to my wife and me, when we were struggling to build and furnish our house here. The third is that the auction has repeatedly given us the opportunity to meet generous people who have jumped at the chance to see things that stretch the mind with questions and awe
Wining and dining at Atria
Eat & Drink Rich Saltzberg - July 23, 2014
Wine dinners allow you to sit back and engage in a more deeply imaged culinary experience — they are like the long form of dining, the novel — and like all novels they begin with a simple idea: what’s in the bottle,
Bumper crops: No soil required
Community Rich Saltzberg - July 2, 2014
Vineyarders with any sort of green thumb are likely eyeing the progress of their tomatoes with no small amount of anticipation. Some gardeners, if...
The invasion of the crabgrass
Community Rich Saltzberg - June 25, 2014
How to eliminate crabgrass, or else embrace its presence.
Monster Machines: West Tisbury’s Breaker 732
They allow firefighters to make a safe and effective fire attack on a fast-moving fire that can be a distance from access roads. West Tisbury FD’s decision to include two of them in their fleet illustrates their commitment to defending the community against this risk.
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Maruti Suzuki Vitara Brezza Becomes Fastest Compact SUV To Cross 500,000 Sales Landmark
Home Fiat FIAT India inaugurates its first exclusive dealerships in South Mumbai
FIAT India inaugurates its first exclusive dealerships in South Mumbai
March 22, 2014 | Yatharth Singh Chauhan
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FIAT Group Automobiles India Pvt. Ltd inaugurated its independent and an exclusive dealership at South Mumbai today. Esskay Motors showroom is located at Motilal Oswal Tower, Junction of Gokhale and Sayani Road, Prabhadevi, Mumbai – 25. The showroom facility comprises of 8,500 sq ft of space to display 3 cars and a 18,000 sq ft state of the art workshop to ensure commitment to serve the customers beyond expectations.
During the launch, FIAT is showcasing the 2014 line up of cars from 20th – 23rd March for customers and car enthusiasts in the city. The New Fiat Linea, Fiat Avventura, which will make its global debut in India and Abarth 500 – a new brand ready to enter India were unveiled at the Auto Expo 2014. All the cars are slated to be launched this year. FIAT India has already launched the New Linea in Mumbai. The launch of the Avventura and Abarth 500 is schedule in the second half of the year.
The dealership was inaugurated by Mr. Nagesh Basavanhalli, President and Managing Director of FIAT Chrysler Automobiles India Operations
Speaking on this occasion, Mr. Nagesh Basavanhalli, President and Managing Director of FIAT Chrysler Automobiles India Operations said: “The introduction of new products for the Indian market is in line with our long term strategy, which puts us in a good position to penetrate the market. FIAT India views Mumbai as a very strategic market and the inauguration of an exclusive dealership is in accordance with our strategy to capitalise on this potential. We are confident that our association with Esskay Motors will play a crucial role in identifying the customer base and enhancing customer experience in Mumbai. FIAT has brought these cars to the city for an exclusive viewing, on demand of its fans and customers here.”
FIAT India is aggressively focusing on increasing its footprint in India.
Mr. C. K. Parkash, Chairman and Managing Director, Esskay Motors said, “FIAT cars are prominent all over India for their aesthetic design and their engineering superiority. We are extremely proud to become exclusive dealers of FIAT Chrysler Automobiles in Mumbai and with an experienced management team and well trained technicians we are confident of replicating world class dealership and after-sales experience to the car buyers here”
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Awards Funding Kennedy Main Translational medicine
We would like to congratulate Tariq Khoyratty, who has been appointed as a Celgene Fellow to study the link between neutrophil chromatin organisation in rheumatic patients and their ability to form pathogenic extracellular traps.
Recent evidence suggests an essential contribution of neutrophils in immunity, inflammation and cancer that extend far beyond their well-known anti-microbial responses. This evidence includes their ability to release extracellular DNA structures. The release of extracellular DNA leads to externalizing enhanced levels of putative autoantigens, and is considered to be particularly relevant to neutrophil deleterious roles in rheumatic diseases. This phenomenon is currently collectively referred to as neutrophil extracellular trap (NET) formation.
PAD4 is an enzyme capable of citrullinating proteins that is being considered as an interesting therapeutic target in rheumatic disorders. The primary interest is to determine whether PAD4 inhibition impacts NET formation in human neutrophils in response to disease-relevant stimuli and to determine whether sub-populations of patients are more prone to citrullination-associated NETosis and thus more likely to respond to a PAD4 inhibitor. Mechanistically, NET formation has been linked to a programmed genome disassembly that is precisely organised and sequence programmed at the level of chromatin organisation.
Speaking of the award, Tariq commented “Ultimately, our aim is to define an early signature in peripheral neutrophils that would correlate with disease severity and propensity to form NETs and can easily be detected in human serum or blood.”
Tariq will be based primarily in the Kennedy Institute and work under the supervision of Prof Irina Udalova and Raashid Luqmani.
The fellowship starts in November 2017 and runs for 36 months.
FUNDING BODY
Professor of Molecular Immunology
Professor of Rheumatology
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Rockford, IL (E Riverside Blvd / N Bell School Rd)
E Riverside Blvd / N Bell School Rd
About Rockford, IL (E Riverside Blvd / N Bell School Rd)
E Riverside Blvd / N Bell School Rd median real estate price is $168,008, which is more expensive than 43.7% of the neighborhoods in Illinois and 36.2% of the neighborhoods in the U.S.
The average rental price in E Riverside Blvd / N Bell School Rd is currently $1,315, based on NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis. Rents here are currently lower in price than 41.9% of Illinois neighborhoods.
E Riverside Blvd / N Bell School Rd is a suburban neighborhood (based on population density) located in Rockford, Illinois.
E Riverside Blvd / N Bell School Rd real estate is primarily made up of small (studio to two bedroom) to medium sized (three or four bedroom) single-family homes and small apartment buildings. Most of the residential real estate is occupied by a mixture of owners and renters. Many of the residences in the E Riverside Blvd / N Bell School Rd neighborhood are established but not old, having been built between 1970 and 1999. A number of residences were also built between 2000 and the present.
In E Riverside Blvd / N Bell School Rd, the current vacancy rate is 4.1%, which is a lower rate of vacancies than 80.4% of all neighborhoods in the U.S. This means that the housing supply in E Riverside Blvd / N Bell School Rd is very tight compared to the demand for property here.
In a nation where 1 out of every 4 children lives in poverty, the E Riverside Blvd / N Bell School Rd neighborhood stands out as being ranked among the lowest 0.0% of neighborhoods affected by this global issue.
In addition, if you are planning to retire in Illinois, this neighborhood should be on your must-see list. For many reasons, E Riverside Blvd / N Bell School Rd may be considered a retiree's dream neighborhood. According to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis and metrics, it's peaceful and quiet, has above average safety from crime compared to other neighborhoods in Illinois, while also offering a diverse range of housing options. This, along with the vibrant mix of very educated seniors and other age groups who choose to live here, makes the neighborhood more retiree-friendly than 99.2% of neighborhoods in IL. If a Illinois retirement is in your future, this neighborhood should be one of the places you visit.
Also, the types of households in a neighborhood can tell a lot about the character and lifestyle of those living here. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood, above nearly every neighborhood in America, has a greater percentage of its residents living alone: 48.0%. This is a higher percent living alone than we found in 96.0% of all U.S. neighborhoods. Often residents who live alone are new arrivals to an area who are single, and often senior citizens who have lost a spouse.
Did you know that the E Riverside Blvd / N Bell School Rd neighborhood has more Greek and Croatian ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 3.6% of this neighborhood's residents have Greek ancestry and 1.8% have Croatian ancestry.
E Riverside Blvd / N Bell School Rd is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 3.0% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Arabic at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 97.4% of the neighborhoods in America.
The neighbors in the E Riverside Blvd / N Bell School Rd neighborhood in Rockford are upper-middle income, making it an above average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 62.9% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 0.0% of the children seventeen and under living in this neighborhood are living below the federal poverty line, which is a lower rate of childhood poverty than is found in 100.0% of America's neighborhoods.
The old saying "you are what you eat" is true. But it is also true that you are what you do for a living. The types of occupations your neighbors have shape their character, and together as a group, their collective occupations shape the culture of a place.
In the E Riverside Blvd / N Bell School Rd neighborhood, 51.1% of the working population is employed in executive, management, and professional occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants, with 22.3% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations (16.7%), and 10.0% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The languages spoken by people in this neighborhood are diverse. These are tabulated as the languages people preferentially speak when they are at home with their families. The most common language spoken in the E Riverside Blvd / N Bell School Rd neighborhood is English, spoken by 80.1% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish, Arabic and Polish.
In the E Riverside Blvd / N Bell School Rd neighborhood in Rockford, IL, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (17.2%). There are also a number of people of Italian ancestry (12.0%), and residents who report Irish roots (10.7%), and some of the residents are also of English ancestry (9.7%), along with some Swedish ancestry residents (8.6%), among others. In addition, 18.1% of the residents of this neighborhood were born in another country.
How you get to work – car, bus, train or other means – and how much of your day it takes to do so is a large quality of life and financial issue. Especially with gasoline prices rising and expected to continue doing so, the length and means of one's commute can be a financial burden. Some neighborhoods are physically located so that many residents have to drive in their own car, others are set up so many walk to work, or can take a train, bus, or bike. The greatest number of commuters in E Riverside Blvd / N Bell School Rd neighborhood spend between 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (48.5% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
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Red Sox admit to stealing signs from Yankees using Apple Watch, MLB commissioner Rob Manfred confirms
Yankees shortstop Didi Gregorius tags out the Red Sox's Brock Holt at second base at Fenway Park on Aug. 19, 2017. Credit: AP / Winslow Townson
By Erik Boland erik.boland@newsday.com @eboland11 Updated September 5, 2017 11:31 PM
BALTIMORE — Baseball commissioner Rob Manfred confirmed Wednesday a report that the Red Sox used an electronic device to steal signs from the Yankees at Fenway Park this season.
According to a New York Times report published late Tuesday afternoon, Major League Baseball investigators “determined that the Boston Red Sox . . . executed a scheme to illicitly steal hand signals from opponents’ catchers in games against the second-place Yankees and other teams,” using an Apple Watch to do so.
The news didn’t come as a big surprise to players.
“I think it was something we suspected was going on,” Brett Gardner said Tuesday.
Yankees general manager Brian Cashman jump-started the investigation, the Times said, filing “a detailed complaint with the commissioner’s office that included video the Yankees shot of the Red Sox dugout during” a three-game series at Fenway Park Aug. 18-20.
It was the use of an electronic device, Manfred indicated early Tuesday evening, that was the potential violation as such devices for that purpose are prohibited.
“We actually do not have a rule against sign stealing,” Manfred told reporters Tuesday in Boston where, coincidentally, he was visiting Fenway Park as part of his desire to visit as many ballparks as possible during a given season.
When confronted by the commissioner’s office, the Red Sox admitted that they used an electronic device to steal signs and relayed the information to players.
Manfred confirmed that the Yankees also were being investigated — the Red Sox alleged the Yankees were using a YES Network camera to steal signs, an allegation Joe Girardi laughed off — but overall didn’t seem overly concerned.
“I do believe that this is a charged situation from a competitive perspective, when you have the kind of rivalry that the Yankees and the Red Sox have,” said Manfred, adding later he didn’t foresee any victories being vacated. “I guess it’s not shocking you could have charges and countercharges like this. We will conduct a thorough investigation of the charges on both sides”
He also said: “We are 100 percent comfortable that it is not an ongoing issue.”
The Yankees won the season-series against the Red Sox this season, 11-8, taking three of four games at the Stadium last weekend.
Sign stealing has been a part of baseball pretty much as long as the sport has been around. It is practiced by every team in some form or another.
“It’s all part of the game,” Gardner said. “I think pitchers and catchers and hitters and everybody recognizes that, but it seems like, the little bit that I know about it, maybe it was something that may have been taken to the next level.”
It was too soon to say what, if any, penalty the Red Sox could face.
The number of cameras in every ballpark has ballooned in recent years with the increase use of replay, making signs that much more difficult to hide.
“I think electronics makes things easier, more accessible and more dangerous,” Girardi said.
The increase in mound visits by catchers has increased dramatically in recent years and oftentimes it’s to change signs.
“This has been a concern of mine in baseball for a long time and what we do to try and combat the catchers having to go out all the time” said Girardi, a former catcher. “Pace of play has slowed down because of this.”
Though Girardi sounded as if he was speaking out against electronics, he thinks it can help solve the problem, suggesting, as he’s done previously, some kind of headset-receiver combination, similar to how plays are relayed to quarterbacks in the NFL.
“They’ve talked about they don’t know how feasible that is in the game of baseball, but I think we have to try something,” Girardi said. “We can use electronics for other things, I think we ought to be able to use it somehow in the game to communicate where just a few people know it.”
An interesting postscript: The Red Sox, whose .271 average with runners in scoring position had them tied for third in the AL entering Tuesday, batted 20-for-140 (.143) in such situations in 19 games vs. the Yankees this season, including 1-for-27 during this past weekend’s series.
“Maybe,” one Yankee wryly said, “we should just let them keep doing what they’re doing.”
With David Lennon
By Erik Boland erik.boland@newsday.com @eboland11
Erik Boland started in Newsday's sports department in 2002. He covered high school and college sports, then shifted to the Jets beat. He has covered the Yankees since 2009.
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A screen grab of "NRA: Practice Range." (AP Photo/MEDL Media)
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"This is a classic example of everything that is wrong with the NRA," says a spokesman for the Courage Campaign advocacy group, which started a petition urging Apple to drop the free game from its App Store. "Instead of coming to the table with constructive ideas to reduce gun violence, the NRA is instead developing a video game that glorifies guns and gun violence." (Read more NRA stories.)
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Jan 18, 2013 10:48 AM CST
The NRA: Hear them roar like an old sow going to the slaughter house, hear them squeal with a fear of the imminent, listen to the gnashing of teeth, oh the stench of testosterone. A pig will demand special attention but will give none, will always take but give nothing in return, quite simply a pig is a pig is a pig! HA HA HA HA.
KoalaJohnson
Jan 16, 2013 1:00 PM CST
Regardless of the fact that this game is, in and of itself, fairly innocuous and in a completely different league from the hyper-violent GTA, Call of Duty, and the likes, the timing of its release is in extremely poor taste. As for releasing the game itself, and then setting the age-appropriate level to 4, or even 12 years old; that is an extremely hypocritical move for a group that is deflecting the blame of gun violence onto video games and and films that glorify weapons and violence to our youth.
gomer99
Jan 16, 2013 12:33 PM CST
Gun Violence ???? It's a foooookin' TARGET RANGE It isn't _Grand Theft Auto_ or _Kindergarten Killers_.......that are STILL ON SALE.
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Contact NextGenNoise
Senator Schumer: Your earmarks are my earplugs
Locate Your Representative
USC: LAX Aircraft Pollution Study
Airport Noise & Real Estate Value
NYC Lease with Port Authority Airports
FAA Cries Uncle in Phoenix
Say What? Who's tackling climate change?
Health Consequences of Aircraft Noise
Guidance for Home Buyers
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You might also be interested in these other organizations:
Trenton, N.J. -- Stop The Planned Expansion Of Trenton Airport
Huntington Beach, CA. -- Help reduce aircraft noise in Huntington Beach, Califorina, and neighboring communities
Sky Posse Palo Alto -- Help reduce aircraft noise over Palo Alto and neighboring communities
NoPlanes.US -- LaGuna Niguel, Southern California
Airplanenoisenyc.org -- Blog about aircraft noise and pollution affecting New Yorkers and the surrounding communities.
Aviation Impact Reform -- Former FAA air traffic controller with deep knowledge of NextGen explains alternatives (he is also an ATC whistleblower with an interesting story showing deep FAA corruption).
ProspectParkQuietSkies.Org -- Brooklyn and surrounding areas impacted by heavy JFK and LGA airport noise.
Our Skies National Coalition -- National coalition comprised of U.S. advocacy groups.
FAIR Chicago -- Chicagoan's fight to restore quieter skies over their homes and their battle with O'Hare's deafening air traffic.
NJCAAN -- information on New Jersey Aircraft Noise and Pollution
Quieter Skies Task Force Seattle -- information on the Quieter Skies network in Seattle
BRRAM -- Bucks Residents For Responsible Airport Management (BRRAM)
Montgomery County Quiet Skies Coalition - located in Montgomery County, Maryland and affected by Reagan National Airport (DCA)
CAAN -- Citizens for the Abatement of Aircraft Noise (based in the Washington, D.C. area)
Los Angeles: http://jetairpollution.com/
Charlotte, NC: http://www.charlotteobserver.com/2011/06/15/2367681/residents-upset-over-noise-from.html
Ealing Aircraft Noise Action Group: www.eanag.org.uk
No Aircraft Noise: www.noaircraftnoise.org.au/
Toronto Aviation Noise Group (T.A.N.G.): northtoronto.wordpress.com/
Organizing Community-Based Groups to Reduce Airport: airportnoiselaw.org/organize.html
Americans against aviation impacts: http://aviationjustice.org/partners/local-airport-struggles/
West Calgary Air Traffic Concerns: wcatc.ca
Quotes from the victims of the FAA's polluting, nerve-racking, sleep-depriving NextGen navigation system:
"NextGen is the FAA's war on noise abatement"
-- Queens, NY FAA NextGen victim.
"Like frogs boiling in water, we're supposed to be used to it. It's also obvious that any human consequences were left out of this completely logistical and engineering-driven initiative. People are collateral damage. It's the economy and the airline industry that matter. We didn't get a seat at the table. Not during the process and not now."
--Brooklyn, NY FAA NextGen victim.
"It's like living in a combat zone that isn't supposed to exist . . . If we logged complaints, we would literally have to sit down on the computer or telephone all day, for hour after hour, documenting plane after plane."
-- Baltimore FAA NextGen victim.
"My life and my neighborhood are worthless not only to the FAA and Port Authority, but also to the people who represent me."
The free-for-all must stop. Our politicians and legislators must step up to the plate. They cannot stand idly by as a federal agency black-tops over our homes and smothers us beneath a slab of roaring noise and ghastly pollution!"
-- Brooklyn, NY NextGen victim.
"The bottom line is that there are many, many more aircraft in the skies these days. This is not a problem for just one city, it is a national quagmire. If the number of vehicles on the surface of the earth increased exponentially over just a few years, there would be an outcry from citizens to manage and control the mess. And steps would be taken to do so. The FAA is swaggering around like this is the wild, wild west, and has become the darling agency of the airline industry, who reap in enormous profits at the expense of our health and quality of life.
--Boston NextGen victim.
"I want to be able to listen to the sound of the rain, to go out on my deck in the evening and enjoy the air. If your neighbor is using a leaf-blower, you can endure it because you know it will end in an hour. If there is major construction, you can tell yourself in a few months it will be done. The reality that this will never end, that there is no break, no cessation, that the planes will come in all day every day for as long as you live, it is breaking my spirit. I will never be able to have the life I want here."
--Brooklyn, NY NextGen victim.
"Noise, noise, fumes, fumes. . . All day, every minute. The noise is annoying and disrupts sleep, blood pressure; it creates anxiety in children, adults and the elderly, it disturbs school children's ability to concentrate and absorb homework; the invisible fumes are insidious; these kind of kerosene contaminants are implicated in autism spectrum disorders and complications in pregnancy."
Read the archive of noise complaints from Queens and Brooklyn residents here. . .
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https://www.nhregister.com/news/article/El-Salvador-has-world-s-happiest-people-quotes-11511035.php
El Salvador has world's happiest people: quotes from the most positive and negative countries
Published 12:00 am EST, Wednesday, December 19, 2012
Comments by people in some of the countries that a Gallup poll ranks as the world's most and least positive:
MOST POSITIVE
1. PANAMA
"We're naturally very happy. We have our problems in life but we forget them quickly and we start over; it's a question of culture." -- Hildaura Ortega, 30, English professor, Panama City.
"The farmers, the peasants, they are happy and joyful despite the problems of everyday life, but the city dwellers, those used to the city routine, are very individualistic and colder because life is too fast and competitive." -- Franca La Carrubba, dean of psychology, Paraguay Autonomous University.
3. EL SALVADOR
"Salvadorans are positive, very contented, friendly people, but that doesn't mean we're happy. We live in a country with low salaries, where many are out of work and we're threatened by gangs and drug dealers." -- Juan Carlos Hernandez, bank worker, San Salvador.
5. TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO
"As a people, we are laid back, even on serious matters. To take life that way even if you're facing difficult situations is good for your health." -- Hugo James, 35, copywriter for advertising agency.
"I don't aspire to be the king. I just want to have enough -- a house, a car, a bit of money saved up. That's enough to make me happy, whereas some wealthy people just keep wanting more." -- Natthinee Sriboonmee, 32, clothing vendor in Bangkok.
7. GUATEMALA
"We're so used to these problems that we ignore what's going on and live our lives despite them." -- Estefani Brolo, singer, 28, Guatemala City.
"Just being with my family makes me happy ... We have fun together as a family. ... We have bonding time and we say prayers together. ... They are my inspiration. As long as we are all healthy, I am happy. There is nothing better than that." -- Felicio Sayat, 35, security guard who works 12 hours a day at parking lot, Manila.
LEAST POSITIVE
1. SINGAPORE
"There's a lot of pressure to perform to expectations and conform to norms here so I think that overrides our personal happiness ... Most of my kids are very focused and spend long hours dedicated to school. As a teacher you want what is best for your students but you can't help but feel they miss out on a childhood." -- Fung Yeewai, 25, part-time teacher.
2. ARMENIA
"As for me, I feel fine and see no reason to be unhappy. But many people I know feel unhappy about various problems." -- Lilit Babadzhanian, 28, medical worker, Yerevan.
4. GEORGIA
"There have been so many conflicts after the Soviet collapse, and so many refugees." -- Marina Kupreishvili, 52, doctor.
4. SERBIA
"What is there to be happy about? Poverty, no jobs and even the possibility of more wars? No way. The only strategy for many young people here is to get out as soon as possible. The sooner, the better." -- Petar Jovanovic, medical student, Belgrade.
7. BELARUS
"I want to go abroad. It's stupid to live in a dictatorship in the middle of Europe. It's fear that makes Belarusians unhappy. Everyone is afraid of being crushed by the state. Living in Belarus means no freedom, no money and no future." -- Maxim Luksha, 20, university student.
8. LITHUANIA
"Lithuanians feel unhappy, because they believe that there is no sociological justice in the country. The conditions for family business are not conducive, and the basis of Lithuanian economy is big business. The wages of employees are low, and the whole social situation is unfair. This makes the main difference between Lithuania and other countries in Europe." -- Vladas Gaidys, director of public opinion firm Vilmorus, Vilnius.
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Pappy Taylor’s 93rd Birthday
One evening on the first of October, better than twenty years ago, Gary Harrison and I drove down to Effingham to call on Pappy Taylor for his ninety-third birthday.
“Yea!” he hollered at our knock. “Come on in! “Grab ‘ee a ch’ir!” He was sitting on his davenport, his ankles swollen with dropsy, coffee can cuspidor at his feet, when we stepped through the door. “Hand me that there fiddle, would ye, Gary?” He fingered its strings and tightened a peg as we hauled out our instruments and the evening began. “What do you ones want to play?” He leant forward and took a spit.
“What ever you feel like, Pappy,” said Gary.
Pappy sawed haltingly for a bit, rummaging about through fragments of tunes. “I know all kinds,” he said, “if I can just think of them. Here’s one. Lonesome Indian.” He commenced playing with a flourish as Gary and I followed along on guitar and banjo. With a scarcely a pause, he started another tune with the verve and abandon of a long lifetime of playing.
“Man!” I thought. “He must have been something in his prime.”
“You know that one, don’t ye Gary?” he said as he finished.
“King’s Head, ain’t it?”
“Yeap. Now this here’s one,” he said, striking up another piece.
“Now what was that?” said Gary.
“Six Pound ‘o Feathers in a Cuckoo’s Nest.”
“I don’t recall ever hearing that one.”
“Yea.
“Theah was an old woman, wanted a new feather bed,
And an old man, white hairs upon his head,
Old man he come from the west,
Old woman, wouldn’t have any but the best…
“Oh hell, I’ve clean forgot, but anyway he found six pound o’ feathers in a cuckoo’s nest,” he said, raising his fiddle again. “This here ‘n’s pret’ near my favorite.” For a long spell he played an elaborate version of Turkey in the Straw.
“That there was the piece that Turkey in the Straw was wrote off of. It’s called Natchez Under the Hill. Theah’s fellows ask what that is, and I say: ‘Ain’t ye ever heard of Nachez Indians?’ It was written ‘way back in George Washington’s time. See, the White man got to cheating them, and one thing and another, so they danced all night, a-getting ready for a big Indian war the next day. That’s what that there tune is.”
“Say Gary,” he said, nodding at me, “what’s his name?”
“Why, that’s Tom Phipps.”
“Well I know that, you fellows know what I mean, but I couldn’t think of his name to save my neck,” he said, leaning to one side of his fiddle for a spit. “Now here’s one…” He put his fiddle to his collarbone and played Paddyin’ on the Turnpike, a tune about the Irish who laid the first railroad tracks across Illinois. Then he played Flop Eared Mule, Picking Cotton Down South, Bear Pen Hollow and Devil in the Haystack. He played Sugar Foot Rag and West Coast Rag and somehow ended up talking about Buffalo Bill. “He was an Indian fighter,” he said as he picked at some small something on the side of his bow. “Now that’s the part that wasn’t right. The White man wanted their land, and the damned government come in and killed women and children, by God, and old men. And they hadn’t done nothing, nothing at all except to try to live peaceful. They killed women and children! That son of a bitch Custer got what was a-coming to him, by God!
“You know, the United States Government stole this universe from the Indian. No use a-saying they didn’t ’cause they did, and now they’re a-starting to acknowledge it. They stole it! A fellow asked if I wanted to see the monument out there, ye know, at Wounded Knee, and I said no, I ain’t going to. That ornery cu’se Custer had it a-coming.
“You fellows got any Indian in ye?”
“Both sides, I think,” said Gary.
“The Walkers,” I said.
“Well I have,” he said. “My dad was part Iroquois. He used to tell that they’d trade an old gun for as much land as a man could walk in a day. But then the White man went to cheating, and directly it was all gone.” he raised his fiddle. “Here ye go. You ones know this one.”
We played Cumberland Gap for quite a good long time. When we finished, Pappy stared off into days long gone. “Got married when I was twenty-four,” he said to no one in particular as Gary and I refined the tuning of our instruments. “I married her in Arkansas, when I crossed the Mississippi to work on the railroad. She was awful pretty, and she was sure my wife. She was full blooded Osage. She died of tularemia when I was twenty-eight.
“She took a notion for to eat some rabbit, so I went out and shot her a couple. Now I don’t eat no raw meat, but she did. In three days she took sick and died.”
He raised his fiddle and played Payroll, then Hell Amongst the Yearlings, then Mockingbird, then Arkansas Traveler and Old Molly Hare. On and on, picking up momentum, keeping us on the edge of our seats away into the night. At somewhere between one and two in the morning, we rose to leave.
“No need to be rushed off,” he said. “I can play all night if you fellows want to.”
A train whistle blew, off in the night, as we stepped outside.
“You’ve still got trains a-running through here,” I said. “We’re losing everything these days, trains, middles of towns. And all the small farms…”
“Why them’s the Hundred Cries,” he said as he steadied himself against the doorway.
“Hundred Cries?”
“Yea. My Indian father-in-law used to tell about that. The Hundred Cries is the voices of the multitude, never to be heard, as they’re driven from the wilderness for good.”
The next February, Gary and I were pall bearers at Pappy’s funeral. We rode in silence most of the way back to Effingham from the grave yard. “He was the last one wasn’t he, Gary?” I said at last.
“Yeap. Sure was.”
If Pappy (Harvey) Taylor was not the absolute last who had learnt his tunes from older fiddlers instead of from the media, he was without a doubt amongst the last. Pappy had tunes in his repertoire several hundred years old. King’s Head, which he had learnt from his dad, was about the execution of King Charles I in 1649.
I cannot help but feel that the passage of people like him leaves us all impoverished. Tunes imitated from the media are not the same. However, the passage of the old fiddlers isn’t the half of it. I grew up with regular square dances. The neighbors got together and had big sings. Dad sang with a barbershop quartet. We sang in church, a mile away. All this is gone. So what? We all know that the rural neighborhoods are gone, wiped out by centralization. But that’s not all. We used to sing every day in music class at school. We looked forward to the traditional carols we practiced at Christmas. Several years ago, the music teachers replaced the old songs with shallow parodies of them from the media. Soon the schools stopped having music classes. Soon the grade schools gave up recess. This is ‘way better for us, all sped up and modern, right?
Tom Phipps
Author CarolPosted on July 11, 2014 July 10, 2014 Categories Birthday, Fiddler, Gary Harrison, Human Interest, Nostalgia, Old Fiddle Player, old fiddle tune collector, Pappy Taylor, rural culture, rural life, Southern Illinois
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Outstanding story! I feel like I’ve known Pappy Taylor for years. You brought him to life and showed his honest humanity and love for music. Such people are an artistic asset to our society. The should be respected and endeared for when they pass we suffer the loss. What a magnificent treasure house of music, history, and wisdom he gathered in his long life.
Thank you, Tom for sharing this and keeping Pappy Taylor alive, so readers can enjoy his good company.
Your kind regard for this stuff makes my day.
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NQ's Rocky Springs sold before auction2 months ago
Mount Surprise's Rocky Springs sold before auction
18 Nov 2019, 2:03 p.m.
Slaney and Co: Mount Surprise property Rocky Springs has sold before auction with about 3000 cattle.
Mount Surprise property Rocky Springs has sold before auction with about 3000 cattle.
NORTH Queensland freehold pastoral enterprise Rocky Springs has sold with about 3000 cattle before its scheduled auction through Slaney and Co.
Offered by Doug and Mary Buchanan, the property covers 17,650 hectares (43,614 acres) and is located adjacent to Mt Surprise township.
The sale price is understood to be between $8 million and $9 million.
Abundant water is a major feature of Rocky Springs.
The property is located about 400km north west of Charters Towers and 330km south west of Cairns.
Rocky Springs has an estimated sustainable carrying capacity of about 3500 mixed cattle or 2800 livestock units.
Improvements include a five bedroom homestead, a two bedroom workers quarters and three sheds.
Rocky Springs covers 17,650 hectares.
Rocky Springs is described as flat to undulating basalt country interspersed by basalt ridges, fertile creek frontages, spring fed and seasonal creeks. There is also a small area of granite ridges toward the south east property boundary.
The property also has seven bores and 65km of polypipe. There are also two still to be activated irrigation licenses.
Elizabeth Creek runs east-west through the property, providing year-long spring fed stock water and fertile grazing frontages.
Rocky Springs is divided into 18 main paddocks plus seven additional holding paddocks. Electric fencing has been used to create more than 50 paddocks.
The sale of Rocky Springs was handled by Henry Slaney from Slaney and Co, Charters Towers.
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Canada: Come in from the wild
Off-radar and crammed with opportunities for adventure, Quebec's Outaouais and Abitibi-Témiscamingue regions are a world away from Montreal. Even taking a short road trip feels like crossing a new frontierMonday, 8 April 2019
By Pól Ó Conghaile
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Waterfall on the Coulonge River, Chutes Coulonge
Photograph by Pól Ó Conghaile
"Start braking when you get to that overhanging tree," Élizabeth Khoury says. I've done zip-lining before, but not like this. Not over a wild, whipped-up river canyon that can't wait to chew me up and spit me out in pieces. I'm clipped into a 400-metre line looping over whitewater that loggers once used to drive giant lumps of timber down to Ottawa.
My focus turns laser. I gulp and go for it, letting out a whoop as the pulley sucks a rasping 'ssssss' sound out of the wire. I pick up speed. I rush over rapids. I get to the overhanging tree. I brake. I come to a clumsy stop on the platform. And I nearly puke with the adrenalin.
It's early evening at Chutes Coulonge heritage and adventure park, and a thunderstorm has stirred up an earthy smell and set pine needles floating through the air. It's several months since the spring snowmelt, but a nearby waterfall still roars like a football stadium.
Wilderness like this is why I'm in Quebec — a 644,000sq mile province that's almost seven times the size of the UK. I can't hope to see it all in a single trip, but I have a mission: to bypass the provincial powerhouse of Montreal and get stuck into the great outdoors, grabbing a flavour of French-speaking Canada in the process. I settle on a 750-mile road trip through Outaouais and Abitibi-Témiscamingue, southwestern regions easily accessible from Ottawa Airport. Chutes Coulonge, a former logging camp near Mansfield-et-Pontefract, is one of the first stops in my satnav.
Not long ago, this pocket of Outaouais was plugged right into Canada's commercial forestry industry. Timber driven on the Coulonge River helped to build cities like Boston and New York. Walking through the park, Élizabeth and her team show me husks of its industrial heritage — an old tugboat here, a log slide there, displays of gap-toothed saws in a cabin where a grainy video explains how lumberjacks came to be 'the factory workers of the forest'. The river's last log drive ended in 1982.
The banter flits between French and English as we pass a pointer boat (the 'workhorse' of the Canada river system) and a list of provisions ranging from food, tools and stoves to '10 Eaton catalogues'. "You know what they were for?" asks one guide, his beard and T-shirt still bearing bits of the forest from an earlier canyoning adventure. "Nope," I say, waiting for the punch line. "Loo roll," he laughs.
Driving through Mansfield-et-Pontefract and nearby Fort Coulonge today, I find 19th-century structures like the handsome Spruceholme Inn and the Marchand Covered Bridge — Quebec's longest, with its 499ft wooden sides painted raspberry red — tucked away like Easter eggs in a sleepy landscape. I sense the community has struggled, but this is Élizabeth's first season at the helm of Chutes Coulonge, and her enthusiasm is infectious. "Even locals don't know that we have this gem here," she tells me over pizza in a roadside diner later that evening. "I have big ideas to bring people in."
Bald eagle at Refuge Pageau, a rehabilitation centre for wild animals near Amos
Back to the source
She's not the only one. Continuing my drive, the roads are largely empty as I follow the Ottawa River — a boundary between Quebec and English-speaking Ontario — north towards Abitibi-Témiscamingue. My first stop in this region is Opémican National Park, where a host of new hiking trails, campsites and outdoor activities are opening in stages over the coming year. It's another fresh venture in an off-radar world (the nearest town, Laniel, has a population of just 89), and my car is one of just a handful parked on the inviting shoreline of Lake Kipawa.
"As you can see, there's not a lot of traffic here," says Anne-Marie Belzile, of Tourisme Abitibi-Témiscamingue. She's arranged for us to take a boat tour of the lake, and we soon find ourselves gliding over gentle waters broken only by the wash of our engine and surreal, lemony drifts of pine pollen. Before long, we spot a pair of bald eagles perched in the branches above a rocky islet, with bright yellow beaks and heads white as golf balls.
"Can you hear its young?" Ambroise Lycke, one of the park staff accompanying us, asks, pointing to a large nest. From its thatch, we see a chick's wing poking out. Just then, a hungry gull swoops by for a look. Alert to the danger, one of the eagles takes to the air and dive-bombs the intruder. It repeats the warning several times, warding off the gull, before returning to its watch over the waters.
Anne-Marie tells me Kipawa is one of around 22,000 lakes in Abitibi-Témiscamingue — a region with a population of just 145,000. "We like to say there's a lake for every family," she smiles. Continuing our explorations, we pass a pair of loons and watch dragonflies darting about like mini drones. Black bears, moose and even lynx may be hiding among the pines — they're elusive, but you can get a closer look at some of them at Refuge Pageau, a wild animal rehabilitation centre near the town of Amos. Briefly, we pull in at a jetty where the only sound is water slurping against wood. Hidden in the trees is a cottage owned by writer Margaret Atwood.
“At another tent, artist Karl Chevrier explains how canoes were made from birch bark, ribbed with shaved cedar, sewn with spruce roots and sealed with gum, ash and bear fat”
Ambroise grew up in Montreal, but his family have made Abitibi-Témiscamingue their home. I ask him why he likes working in the wilderness. "Going back to the source, is that how you say it?" Ambroise replies, before going on to describe his childhood memories of time spent camping and fishing out in the open with his grandfather. "It's about the peacefulness," he adds.
As I drive on, the miles melt away and the landscape seems to grow bigger before my eyes. Passing endless forests beneath widescreen skies, I'm no longer noticing signs I stopped to photograph earlier in the journey, warning to watch for moose or logging trucks.
Quebec starts to feel like a country within a country. Like many visitors, I came with a vague sense of its Frenchness but I hadn't expected it to be so immersive, or idiosyncratic. The false-front architecture of towns like Ville Marie or Val d'Or feels like the Wild West, until I spot a boulangerie. Québécois French sounds like the European version, until I tune into certain vowel sounds and archaic expressions that hark back to a colonial fork in the road ('dépanneur' signals a corner store, for instance, while in France it means 'mechanic'). And, of course, there's the eternal tug between French and English heritage (the 1995 Quebec independence referendum was defeated by just 50.6% to 49.4%). "We live this duality, but we live it together," Elizabeth Theriault of Les Brasseurs du Temps microbrewery in Gatineau, tells me. "And it's our history."
I'm looking for a sense of this when I pull into Fort Témiscamingue, a National Historic Site at a strategic pinch in the Ottawa River where the French and English once fought to control the fur trade. I learn about the voyageurs who paddled and portaged their way through the wilderness, wearing ceintures fléchées (traditional, French Canadian arrowed sashes). "Mosquitoes, black flies… They just kept going," says the site guide. "Everything I tell you about the fur trade — the adventures, the danger, the deaths — was all about…" She pauses for effect. "The top hat. It was all about fashion and status."
Fur traders weren't the first here, of course — a fact I was reminded of back at the Canadian Museum of History in Gatineau; First Nations people had occupied this territory for at least 6,000 years — a fact that's hammered home by the first word I see at Fort Témiscamingue: minopijowak, an Algonquin term for 'welcome'.
Angela Hunter, a guide at Fort Témiscamingue
Hitting the trail
Outside the mining town of Val d'Or — almost 300 miles north of Gatineau and the turning point on my road trip — I join a small, enthusiastic crowd gathered around two toothpaste-white tepees near the shores of Lake Lamoine. It's National Aboriginal Day, and the Anicinabek people have invited all-comers to Kinawit — a cultural centre whose name means 'us' — to celebrate their heritage. As well as taking part in traditional dances, we snack on cuts of beaver and moose cooked in a kitchen tent that soon grows sweltering hot in the glow of a fire pit.
"We're trying to reconnect with the old traditions," says Tom Bulowski, an employee of the organisation that runs Kinawit, as we take a short walk along a forest trail with his sister, Barbara. Along the way, we stop to examine gum from a pine tree ("a natural Band-Aid," says Tom) and pop our heads into a tipi. With its floor covered in pine leaves, it smells of Christmas.
Back at the festival, Carlos Kistabish talks me through the elements of his traditional regalia. "Every piece comes from us," he says, showing me a necklace made by his son, and the feathers of an eagle, celebrated for its exalted position between creators and humans. At another tent, artist Karl Chevrier explains how canoes were made from birch bark, ribbed with shaved cedar, sewn with spruce roots and sealed with gum, ash and bear fat. "It's all natural," he explains. "It costs nothing; only your time, and once you're done you have something that nobody else has."
A young man with big blue headphones bounds onto the stage nearby. Until now, performers have showcased either country music or traditional dance, but this is something entirely different. Grabbing the mic with one hand and punching the air with the other, he introduces himself: "My name is Jonas Decoursay and I'm here to talk about the truth," he says, launching into a rap: "I'm Algonquin, reserved in hell, Roll one up as I tell my tale, The story of a warrior, That society sees as a low-life, Aboriginal individual…"
Shortly afterwards, a dance takes shape, one that encourages us to take each other's hands, and lead one another in formation around the tipis. Awkwardly, I jump in. And momentarily, at least, I feel connected.
I'm reminded of the moment I took that zip-line with Élizabeth Khoury, or the boat trip with Anne-Marie Belzile. These were clearly different experiences, with different people. But all were new, doggedly optimistic, and powered in large part by locals who know this corner of Quebec is a far-out frontier in tourism, but who are driving on regardless.
The thought occurs to me that their land is ancient, but it's also young. Towns like Val d'Or and Rouyn-Noranda didn't exist when skyscrapers were sprouting in Montreal, and you're never far, in Abitibi-Témiscamingue or Outaouais, from stories of people starting from scratch — prospecting for gold or running adventure parks, creating hiking trails or, starting music festivals.
"People here started from nothing," historian Paul Trepanier tells me over lunch at La Bannik, a camping and cottage park near Fort Témiscamingue. He means the 20th-century gold and copper booms, but he sees parallels between their pioneer spirit and the can-do attitude of today. "There's a little bit of anarchy in that kind of development. But, at the same time, everything is possible."
As my road trip comes to a close, I feel like I've gone down a cultural rabbit hole. On my way to the airport, I stop off at the postcard-pretty village of Wakefield, where I find a spa hotel set in a former flour mill, a path along a disused railway line, and a cute confiserie, selling honeycomb and fudge. I have a fleeting sense of what it means to come in from the wild; to exit this great outdoors that cuts you loose from everything.
"You could be out on the river for 20 days and not come across anybody," local guide Guillaume Rivest had told me in Rouyn-Noranda. We were drinking beer in a grungy pub, the sun creeping behind the buildings, copper-smelting chimneys puffing over the lake nearby. With his buff build, blond hair, lumberjack shirt and wispy beard, it was hard to resist comparing him to a modern-day voyageur — minus the ceinture fléchée.
"We're always distracted in life," Guillaume had said. "We're scared to be bored. But here, you can just strap a canoe to the top of your car, drive five kilometres and paddle to the Hudson Bay, if you like. It's like you're part of something bigger. You know your ancestors did this. You know they looked at the same sky."
By the water in Wakefield
Getting there & around
Air Canada flies daily from Heathrow to Montreal. Average flight time: 7h 25 min.
British citizens must buy an Electronic Travel Authorization (C$7/£4.10) for visits to Canada. More information: canada.ca/eta
Although served by trains and buses, travel by hire car is advisable, given Quebec's size. Winter tyres are mandatory from 15 December-15 March.
Late spring and early summer are arguably the most pleasant times to visit (around 20C). Autumn sees vibrant foliage, before snow and ice descend for a long winter (lows of -15C).
The British, Gatineau.
Spruceholme Inn, Fort Coulonge.
La Bannik, Duhamel-Ouest.
Wakefield Mill Hotel & Spa.
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India’s captain Virat Kohli playing through the leg-side during his century. (Internet image)
PORT OF SPAIN – Veteran opener Chris Gayle broke Brian Lara’s record for the most runs by a West Indies batsman in One-Day Internationals but his failure typified the Caribbean side’s brittle batting and overshadowed the achievement, as the hosts crashed to a 59-run defeat under Duckworth-Lewis-Stern in the second One-Day International yesterday.
Chasing a revised target of 270 off 46 overs following a rain break 13 overs into their run chase at Queen’s Park Oval, West Indies were toppled for 210 with four overs remaining, to fall behind 1-0 in the three-match series.
Opener Evin Lewis, playing in front of his home crowd, topscored with 65, while countryman Nicholas Pooran chipped in with 42, but West Indieslost wickets at key stages to watch their chase come apart.
They appeared well en route to victory at 148 for three in the 28th over, but collapsed and lost their last seven wickets for 62 runs. (CMC)
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Dow drops 400 points following its worst week in a decade
Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin held calls on Sunday with the heads of the six largest U.S. banks to reassure nervous investors.
Stock market down more than 20 percent amid partial government shutdown
Dec. 24, 2018, 3:28 PM UTC / Source: CNBC.com
By Michael Sheetz, Special to CNBC and John Melloy, CNBC
U.S. stocks dropped in trading Monday, after a brutal week pushed the S&P 500 to the brink of a bear market.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped 434 points on Monday, falling more than 2 percent. The S&P 500 and Nasdaq Composite Index each slid more than 1.6 percent.
Last week the Dow lost 1,655 points, or 6.8 percent. That was the Dow's worst week of trading since October 2008 during the financial crisis. The S&P 500 also lost 7 percent for the week and is now down 17.8 percent from its record reached earlier in the year. Wall Street traditionally considers a drop of 20 percent or more from recent highs to be a bear market. The Nasdaq Composite is now 22 percent below its record reached in August and is in a bear market.
Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin held calls on Sunday with the heads of the six largest U.S. banks in order to reassure nervous investors that the financial markets and economy were functioning properly.
"The banks all confirmed ample liquidity is available for lending to consumer and business markets," the statement from the Treasury said.
"We continue to see strong economic growth in the U.S. economy with robust activity from consumers and business," Mnuchin added in the statement on Sunday. A senior Treasury official told CNBC on Monday that the purpose of Mnuchin's call and statement was to take a "prudent, preemptive measure" after last week's market volatility.
Wall Street is processing Mnuchin's call, which seems "to raise more questions than answers," Raymond James analyst Ed Mills said in a note. Mills thinks it is unclear why the Treasury secretary hosted the call, "as no one had seemed to raise any concerns related to these issues of which Mnuchin is seeking to reassure the market," Mills said.
Late Friday, there was a report that President Donald Trump was discussing the possibility of firing Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell, a move that could undermine confidence in the U.S. financial system. Other media outlets later confirmed those reports, but Mnuchin sought to calm the fears that arose from those reports this weekend. A senior Treasury official acknowledged that the reports about Trump's discussion of firing Powell was part of the catalyst for Mnuchin's call but not the sole reason.
Mnuchin tweeted that he spoke with the president. Mnuchin declared that Trump said he never suggested firing Powell and doesn't believe he has the right to do so.
(1/2) I have spoken with the President @realDonaldTrump and he said “I totally disagree with Fed policy. I think the increasing of interest rates and the shrinking of the Fed portfolio is an absolute terrible thing to do at this time,...
— Steven Mnuchin (@stevenmnuchin1) December 22, 2018
(2/2) especially in light of my major trade negotiations which are ongoing, but I never suggested firing Chairman Jay Powell, nor do I believe I have the right to do so.”
December is typically a buoyant month for stocks. Yet both the Dow and S&P 500 are down more than 12 percent this month — on track for their worst December performances since the Great Depression in 1931.
Oppenheimer equity analyst John Stoltzfus said in a note Monday that "putting the recent equity market declines into historical context lessens their sting." The three catalysts which pushed the market lower in 2015 and 2016 — China, the Federal Reserve and oil — are roiling "the market yet again in 2018," Stoltzfus said.
Last Wednesday, the Federal Reserve raised its benchmark interest rate for a fourth time this year and Powell signaled the central bank would continue to unwind its balance sheet at the current pace. The two monetary tightening actions are driving the stock market declines, traders say.
Also weighing on investor confidence is a government shutdown, that will apparently drag on through at least Thursday.
Both the Dow and the S&P 500 are now in the red for 2018 by at least 9 percent. Some traders have suggested that the market has gotten to the point where a short-term bounce could occur, if only for technical reasons. Seasonally, this is usually a positive, or at least benign, time for the markets.
The NYSE closes early on Monday at 1 p.m. ET. The exchange is closed on Tuesday for Christmas. Wednesday through Friday are normal trading days.
Michael Sheetz, Special to CNBC
John Melloy, CNBC
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By Jim Salisbury July 29, 2019 1:40 PM
Updated: 3:07 p.m.
Phillies scouts have been on the ground for weeks gathering “eyeball” information — as opposed to data gathered through analytical means — on players that might help the club at the trade deadline.
That deadline arrives Wednesday at 4 p.m.
According to sources, the Phillies are working on a number of potential deals that would represent marginal upgrades as opposed to big, headline-grabbing deals. This lines up with views shared publicly by club president Andy MacPhail and general manager Matt Klentak in recent weeks. Both have indicated that the Phillies are more than one piece away from being considered World Series contenders and for that reason the club will be protective of its top prospects in potential trades.
The Phillies have multiple needs. A bat would be nice. The Phils have kept an eye on the center field market with an eye toward moving Scott Kingery to third base and peddling Maikel Franco. Will that happen? Hard to say.
The Phillies’ biggest need remains pitching, both starting and bullpen.
By all indications, the Phils have their eye on second-tier starters. Controllable, upper-tier starters such as Mike Minor of Texas and Matthew Boyd of Detroit come with huge prospect price tags and the Phillies aren’t in a hurry to pay those prices even if they like both pitchers. Cincinnati’s Tanner Roark has been mentioned. Interestingly, Roark will pitch Tuesday night in Cincinnati and the Phillies have had a scout stationed in that city for a few days.
According to a survey of ballpark spies around the country, the Phillies have had a member of their pro scouting department watching the White Sox, Blue Jays, Reds, Padres and Giants in recent days. All of these teams have available relief pitchers.
The White Sox are likely to deal closer Alex Colome. The Blue Jays are likely to move Ken Giles and/or Daniel Hudson. The Reds could move closer Raisel Iglesias and the Padres are listening on Craig Stammen and closer Kirby Yates. The Giants could move Sam Dyson or Will Smith, but they could also hang on to them after their recent surge in the NL wild-card race.
Of the relievers on this list, the one generating the most recent and credible Phillies buzz is Colome. The 30-year-old right-hander had 47 saves with Tampa Bay to lead the American League in 2017. He has 21 saves this season to go with a 0.78 WHIP for the White Sox — and he is under control for next season, a fact that will make him attractive to the Phillies. Colome pitched a perfect ninth inning — on six pitches — in the White Sox’s win over Minnesota on Saturday and a Phillies scout was in attendance. Something to keep an eye on? Why not.
Though the Phillies are 6½ games back in the NL East, they are just one game back in an NL wild-card race loaded with teams that have as many flaws as they do. A tweak or two to the pitching staff could help the Phils stick around in the wild-card race.
Of course, they need their existing players to get hot, as well. This season has featured underperformance by a number of key Phillies. A two-month rally in performance would help the team more than anything.
“We’re a talented club that has yet to come together all at once,” manager Gabe Kapler said Sunday. “We’ve seen stretches of good play. I believe we have a strong run in us in the second half of the season. I think we’re positioned well.
“I maintain that our job is to develop the players that we have in the room. It’s not to speculate on what’s happening outside (at the trade deadline). I trust 100 percent that our front office is going to do everything they can to improve our club. And the pieces that we have in the room — we all have to get a little bit better, it’s coaching staff, it’s our hitters, it’s our pitchers, our bullpen, everything across the board. We play our baseball, we play to our potential, and we are a strong club.”
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NL East departures of Josh Donaldson, Anthony Rendon are like a free-agent signing for Phillies
By Corey Seidman January 20, 2020 8:00 AM
A lot happened across baseball last week, so much in fact that a $92 million contract was kind of overlooked.
Josh Donaldson signed early in the week with the Minnesota Twins. Four years, $92 million for the 34-year-old third baseman who returned to an All-Star-level in 2019 with the Braves. Donaldson went to Atlanta last offseason on a one-year, $23 million deal and proved his health, hitting .259 with a .900 OPS, 37 homers, 94 RBI and 100 walks. He's always been a plus defender and last season was no exception.
This is a big loss for the Braves, and you have to say their offseason looks worse in light of losing Donaldson. They were active early, signing Cole Hamels, lefty reliever Will Smith, righty reliever Chris Martin and catcher Travis d'Arnaud.
But the loss of Donaldson negates most, if not all of that.
The Braves are still probably a playoff team — 88 or so wins feels right for this team.
Freddie Freeman and Ronald Acuna Jr. are still MVP-caliber players. Ozzie Albies, Mike Soroka and Max Fried are good, young players. At third base, the Braves can use 23-year old Austin Riley or 26-year-old Johan Camargo.
Riley's first 30 games as a rookie last season were so impressive — he hit .298, slugged .628, went deep 11 times and drove in 32 runs. It was a nightmarish, swing-and-miss-filled season for him after that.
Camargo, you'll recall, was productive in 2018. It was his first full season and he hit .272/.349/.457 with 19 homers and 76 RBI. Most teams would take that at third base. The Donaldson signing by Atlanta last offseason was a surprise because of what the Braves had at the hot corner. There are worse third base situations than Riley/Camargo.
Still, Donaldson is such a difference-maker. Another difference-maker who has left the division. The exits of Donaldson and Anthony Rendon are huge plusses for the Phillies and Mets. It's tough to conceptualize it, but not having to face Donaldson and Rendon is almost as beneficial as a one more solid free-agent signing for the Phillies. The drop-off from those two third basemen to Riley/Camargo in Atlanta and Starlin Castro/Asdrubal Cabrera in Washington is massive. Like, maybe 50 fewer extra-base hits.
Donaldson and Rendon had 145 combined plate appearances last season against the Phillies. Rendon hit .353 with a 1.102 OPS in his. Donaldson hit six homers, four doubles and drove in 16 runs in his 18 games.
All told, the NL East (aside from the Phillies) lost more than it gained this offseason. Out are Donaldson, Rendon and Dallas Keuchel. In are Hamels and Smith in Atlanta; Dellin Betances, Rick Porcello and Michael Wacha in New York; Will Harris, Castro and Eric Thames in Washington; Corey Dickerson in Miami.
Aaron Nola will not miss facing Donaldson and Rendon. Those two hit a combined .345/.456/.545 with four homers and three doubles in 68 plate appearances against the Phillies' top starter.
Donaldson is also 9 for 16 lifetime against Zack Wheeler, 6 for 14 with five extra-base hits off Zach Eflin and 4 for 12 with three homers vs. Nick Pivetta.
Rendon is 11 for 21 with four homers and 10 RBI off Pivetta.
Phillies fans may be frustrated by the post-Wheeler/Didi Gregorius period of the offseason, but Phillies pitchers are cool with how it's played out.
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Phillies pitching prospect Zach Warren has a dirty car but a bright future
By Jim Salisbury January 19, 2020 12:30 PM
Every one of the 15 minor-league prospects that the Phillies have invited to big-league spring training camp has a story.
Zach Warren’s is unique because (in his heart) he was a Phillie before he was technically a Phillie.
Warren grew up in Vineland, New Jersey, in the “glory era,” as he correctly called it, when the Phillies were racking up National League East titles, going to two World Series and winning one of them. Young Zach rooted for Jimmy Rollins, Chase Utley and Ryan Howard, but his eye always drifted toward the work being done by Cole Hamels and Cliff Lee, not surprising because Warren was a left-handed pitcher on the rise in those days.
After successful runs at St. Augustine Prep in South Jersey and the University of Tennessee, Warren is still a pitcher on the rise. Three strong seasons in the Phillies’ minor-league system earned him an invite to major-league spring training camp next month in Clearwater.
At the Phillies’ prospect-education seminar last week at Citizens Bank Park, Warren recalled the pinch-me moment when he got the phone call from Josh Bonifay, the Phillies director of player development, telling him he’d been invited to big-league camp, and following up that thrilling news with a phone call to his dad, Geoff.
“I had dropped off my car to be worked on in Vineland the day before,” Zach recalled with a laugh, “and my dad was a little unhappy because it was dirty and had no gas. I told him the news and that cheered him up.”
Warren, 23, is one of a handful of left-handed relievers coming to big-league camp on non-roster invites. Most, if not all, will open the season in the minor leagues, but team officials, including new manager Joe Girardi and new pitching coach Bryan Price, clearly want to get a look at what they have for future reference. The Phillies, under general manager Matt Klentak, have been aggressive running relievers in and out from the minors so it’s likely several of these relievers will get a shot in the majors this season. And if they throw strikes and get outs – well, they’ll stick around.
Warren, 6-5 and 200 pounds, was selected in the 14th round of the 2017 draft. He features a mid-90s fastball, a slider and a changeup. He has racked up double-digit strikeouts-per-nine innings in each of his three pro seasons. He spent the last two seasons working late in the game, including closer, at Lakewood and Clearwater. In 116 2/3 innings the last two seasons, he allowed just 76 hits and 34 earned runs (2.62 ERA) while striking out 180 and walking 66.
The 2020 season will be a prove-it one for Warren. He projects to make the jump to Double A Reading and be an important part of that club’s bullpen. Double A is the level where they separate the men from the boys. Have success at the level and you can rise quickly to the majors.
“I’m not thinking too far in advance, where I’m going to be and things like that,” said Warren, showing a healthy perspective. “All I can control is working on what I need to work on to get better and becoming the best player I can be. My ideal blueprint for this season is to make strides and get better and help my team win games and get to the playoffs.”
First-timers in big-league camp are like sponges. They soak up the experience and try to learn from the players who’ve walked the miles they hope to one day walk. Warren has a healthy respect for Adam Morgan, another lefty reliever and SEC product from the University of Alabama, and is eager to speak with him.
“I want to learn from Adam Morgan,” Warren said. “He was up as a starter and had to go to the minors to learn, adapt and change, and he developed and got back. I think there’s a ton I could learn from someone like that.
“I’m just looking forward to learning from everybody. I think it’s going to be a great experience and I can’t wait to get down there and get going.”
With a clean car and a full tank of gas, of course.
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Young stars in Finnish...
Young stars in Finnish summer night
In Finland a team of Nordic and Baltic astronomi students prepare to work with the future gigantic radio- and optic telescopes in the exploration of the Universe.
The Nordic Optical Telescope getting ready for work at night
at the top of the island og La Palma, Canary Islands, Spain.
What does a bright Finnish summer night among the birch trees, a beach in Sweden, and a Spanish volcano have to do with newborn stars and planets? ”A lot”, say students at a NordForsk sponsored Research Training Course at Tuorla Observatory, Turku University, Finland.
With the excellent facilities at the observatory, they are using the Nordic Optical Telescope (NOT) on La Palma, Canary Islands, Spain, and a radio telescope at Onsala Space Observatory, Sweden. Combining visible and infrared light with radio waves allows them to peer deep into dark dust clouds in the Universe where stars and planets are born right now.
Last night, excitement ran especially high: A radio signal had indicated that a young high-mass star in the nearby galaxy Messier 82 might have exploded as a supernova – the type of explosion that made Tycho Brahe famous in 1572. The students observed Messier 82 in infrared light, which would reveal an explosion even behind the thick dust clouds in the galaxy. Alas – no new star was seen, so the radio signal was due to some other phenomenon. But exciting it was!
Friendships and future collaborations
The course still gives these young scientists experience in a truly active field of research and prepares them for a future when a vast array of front-line European telescopes at all wavelengths will be available for their research.
It also helps to forge the friendships and future collaborations that will be needed to secure the Nordic scientific returns from the future billion-Euro investments in European astronomy – a strategy supported by NordForsk.
Interest in the two-week course was huge: The 21 Nordic and Baltic PhD students observing from Tuorla these nights were selected from over 60 applicants from all over the world. “A very difficult choice”, says NOT Director Johannes Andersen. Still, no less than 12 nationalities are represented in the group.
Students and teachers rivited to the
NOT telescope control screens at
Tuorla Observatory.
In addition to the night-time observations, the school features daytime lectures by leading Nordic and international experts on star formation in the Milky Way and other galaxies. Observing techniques for optical, near-infrared and radio astronomy are included as well, so students in the five project groups are well prepared to do real science – during the school and afterwards. And interest is keen, with activity around the clock, leaving students excited, tired, and happy at the end of the ‘day’. And they still have another week to go…
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Dr. Dzung Ahn Pham Charged in Opioid Deaths and Linked to Mass Shooter
Matt Coker | Posted on December 19, 2018 December 18, 2018
The bad doctor is “in.” (Matt Coker illustration)
If the federal charges against Dr. Dzung Ahn Pham are true, the owner of Irvine Village Urgent Care may be the baddest doctor to appear under my Bad Doctor illustration.
The 57-year-old Tustin man has been charged in at least five overdose deaths and tied to the accused killer of a Costa Mesa fire captain and the presumed Thousand Oaks mass shooter.
Specifically, Pham is alleged to have illegally prescribed powerful narcotics, resulting in multiple deaths across Southern California and millions of dollars for his and his wife’s personal bank accounts, the Department of Justice and Drug Enforcement Administration announced Tuesday.
Pham could be sent to federal prison for 40 years based on a conviction on the charges lodged against him.
Click here to read the complaint filed with the federal courthouse in downtown Santa Ana.
Dr. Dzung Ahn Pham (Yelp)
Pham wrote prescriptions to people he did not examine, and he sold opioids to drug addicts and dealers who in turn sold them on the black market, according to the U.S. Attorney’s office, where at least one prosecutor referred to the defendant as a drug dealer armed with a prescription pad.
The U.S. Attorney says that Pham prescribed opioids to Mission Viejo 25-year-old Stephen Taylor Scarpa, who authorities say was under the influence of a controlled substance on Nov. 3, when the van he was driving crashed into the bicycle of Mike Kreza, the fire captain who died from his injuries. Sheriff’s deputies say they found multiple prescription medications inside the van that was driven by Scarpa, who the Orange County District Attorney’s office went on to charge with second-degree murder.
The feds say they Pham sent a text message indicating drugs he prescribed to someone else were in the possession of Ian David Long, the alleged gunman in the Nov. 7 massacre at the Borderline Bar and Grill nightclub in Thousand Oaks, where 12 people were slain before Orange-born Long turned his gun on himself.
Pham wrote so many prescriptions that a CVS pharmacy in Irvine stopped filling them from him five years ago because the doctor could not justify the number of opioid pills he wrote scripts for, according to prosecutors, who add that among the narcotics undercover DEA agents easily obtained through Pham’s prescriptions were the powerful “holy trinity” (opioids like hydrocodone, a benzodiazepine such as Valium and a muscle relaxer like Soma.
Other drugs Pham routinely prescribed included Adderall, oxycodone, Tramadol, Suboxone, Norco, alprazolam, and hydrocodone bitartrate-acetaminophen, according to the feds, who pin five overdose deaths from 2014 through 2017 on the doctor along with sixth from a fatal side effect.
Matt Coker
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13 Replies to “Dr. Dzung Ahn Pham Charged in Opioid Deaths and Linked to Mass Shooter”
Shad Thomas says:
The Irvine Costco Pharmacy dispensed prescriptions written by Dr. Pham for many years. That pharmacy is still on probation for doing so. The probationary period ends 9/22/2019.
I used to be addicted to prescription pills and I used to get them from Dr. Pham. Along with ten other of my friends. I would just walk in, no examination, a get 120 norcos , 120 xanax.. no questions asked. I started going to pham in 2003. Sometimes I would go once a week, pay, and he would write it right there. And he had go to Pharmacys as well that everyone knew about . Dont get me wrong, I seeked the drugs, and I am responsible for my own addiction. Just letting you know how it really was.
Then i could just send him a text and he would fill it. HE IS THE BIGGEST DRUG DEALER IN SOUTH OC. This has been going on for at least 20 years.
Matt Coker says:
Just as an addendum, Dr. Pham is innocent until proven guilty.
So should the men who are in jail, but not surprisingly they are guilty while under the influence of drugs that Pham prescribed.
What lie did you tell to get him to prescribe them? Huh? Did you say “hey Dr Pham, I’m a drug addict and I just want some pills”? I’m guessing that’s not how you got them.
kbpt says:
charge him, jail him, then deport when he’s out of the prison.
Art vandelay says:
This is absolutely the biggest bullshit cop out I’ve ever heard of , how is doc Pham being held responsible for what these other idiots do ? Question how the fuck is Pham being blamed for a grown adult breaking the law and driving under the influence? And if it wasn’t a BELOVED fireman would this even be a issue ? This has ruined his name and buisness and possibly his life where is the accountability from the pharmaceutical sales devils who pushed this shit in everyone’s mouth for not so much as a root canal for YEARS and doctor Pham is to blame where’s the accountability of the pharmacy’s? How do we know the alleged shooter didn’t steal those pills how do we know if the KID who killed the fire hero didn’t really have a medical condition and did not use good judgment whilst takeing over the recommended amount THAT IS CLEARLY ON THE BOTTLE ! What’s wrong with you people you wanna blame someone blame the legislators who got rich allowing BIG PHARMA to be the biggest LEAGLE DRUG DEALERS IN THE HISTORY OF THIS COUNTRY! I’ve sat and watched this happen in 3 different STATES 2 of which Dr Pham did not operate In for YEARS !!! I know opioid addiction personally and it steals your soul and life no one wants to be addicted to it it derailed my life more than I ever thought it could it was the hardest thing I’ve ever had to do to get off it but I made it and guess who coached and guided me through it
DR DZUNG PHAM that’s who , seems to me someone wanted NEEDED a scapegoat
Love you dr Pham your gonna beat this bullshit
Michael J. H says:
Totally agree, I was tapering off of them too, Dr Dzung Pham cannot be blamed! When I went there the first time, he pulled me up on the DEA website! That’s were any Doctor or Pharmacist can see what doctor and what pills you are getting! So don’t blame him! Total scapegoat! Read the fricking pill bottles, do not drive, do not drink, etc, etc… I will witness to the fact he did his job right! Just call me, he has my number!
How the hell he makes so much money total 6.7 million in those years? oh man, this man is asking for trouble. So dame easy money so he wouldn’t stop. Put him in jail, then deport him back to his country after his jail term.
Dr Pham is a great Dr & a kind man.
I had the pleasure of working w/him as my primary. Though, it was urgent care, he was still willing too work w/me on several medical issues I had.
I hope the truth comes too light & like another post, “what lies did you tell too see Dr Pham?
He doesn’t deserve this.
Everyone should take responsibility & not blame & kind, caring, well educated Dr.
Wow, I didn’t know this. The last time I saw Dr. Pham was in August last year then I got a letter from my health insurance company notified to me that they was dropping him and asked me to pick another doctor. I didn’t think much of this and moved on until I came across this site today. What a shock to say the least. Base on my own personal experience, he is a very decent, caring and knowledgeable doctor. My take on this is try to pin him because the guy hit and killed the fireman or the gunman killed 12 people at the bar is too excessive. It’s not going to stick, it just a public stunt to make him looks bad that’s all. Try to pin him with the deaths of the overdosed patients and the amount of the prescriptions being wrote out, that might stick. If this accusation is true, it’s such a waste to be a doctor, really.
I had blood pressure of 200/140 basically a walking stroke. Dr Pham found the right combination of medicines to help me and my blood pressure is now round 125/82 on average. He also helped me control my cholesterol. He stayed in touch with my progress by text and helped me with ways to eat right for my conditions. Dr Pham was nothing but professional and helped save my life, and I’m not being dramatic.
Innocent until proven guilty. Good luck Dr Pham
horrible doctor. This doctor needs to be trial, put in jail, then deport him when he’s done with his jail term. Those that write nice stuff about him are his relatives, so useless.
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Masculins / Le Mans-OL 1-3
Le Mans-OL : Reactions
Published on 04 April 2009 at 10:05 PM by AG avec le Bus d'OLTV
Read all the reactions from the OL camp after the victory away to Le Mans.
Jean II Makoun
It was very difficult at the end of the first half and at the end of the match when we were 3-0 up we dropped off a little and lost a lot of balls. We then conceded a goal which woke us up again. I still think that we put in a good performance as far as our control and calm are concerned. We have come to terms with all the pressure that has been on our shoulders for a while now. I hope we will be able to continue this good form at home.
Claude Puel
I would have preferred if the score had stayed at 3-0. It would have been a perfect score as goal-average is going to be very important. At 3-0 we were in control but dropped off a little and were less present in our duels. We were often put under pressure by the long balls played in by Le Mans, they kept us pinned back at certain points of the match and even at 3-0 they didn’t give up. This victory bodes well for the rest of the season.
Anthony Mounier
It’s never easy to come back after an international break. Our last result in the L1 was a victory over Sochaux and our confidence was high. We scored at important moments and were under obligation to win tonight. We won and are still first, we’ve gotten past this first stage and there are 8 more to go. We’re all going to stay focused for the rest of the competition.
We tried to play attacking football and keep possession of the ball. I think that the side is getting stronger as the competition continues and are close to the form which was ours before the last 16 match in the Champions League. We did show some signs of fragility today but that was because of the good performance put in by Le Mans who did not give up at any moment. I think that we deserved our victory and am really happy that we took all three points and that Karim scored his two goals.
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OL Stat Attack
The statistics after Week 32 and the totals since the start of the season… OL lost away to Bordeaux...drop down a place in the standings and now find themselves 4 points behind OM and 2 behind Bordeaux...
Masculins / OL 2 - Monaco 2
The statistics after Week 31 and the totals since the start of the season… OL drew with Monaco...their 7th draw at home this season in the L1...they lose their 1st place in the L1 to the profit of OM...
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Hugo Lloris...decisive
The former Nice man played a huge part in OL's win over Le Mans on Saturday. The international keeper is racking up an impressive number of top level performances...
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League 1 Stats Week 29
650 goals scored after 29 competitive matches... and 7 196 shots; 998 yellow cards and 52 red... Bordeaux have the best attack, Rennes the best defence...
The statistics after Week 30 and the totals since the start of the season… OL beat Le Mans, their 9th away win of the season in the L1...they remain top of the L1...just one point ahead of OM...
OL System spécial Le Mans-OL
Barth et les scientifiques, Richard Benedetti, Serge Colonge et Florian Maurice décortiquent le match Le Mans-OL ainsi que la 30ème journée de Ligue 1.
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Chicken farmers to enhance traceability
Governments invest over $140,000 to enhance tracking for egg and chick production
The governments of Canada and Ontario are helping farmers and other businesses in the province’s broiler chicken egg and hatcheries sector enhance traceability of its products.
With cost-share funding of up to $141,450 through the Canadian Agricultural Partnership (the Partnership), the Ontario Broiler Hatching Egg and Chick Commission (OBHECC) will upgrade its systems that track egg and chick production.
This upgrade will reduce costs by further automating data inputting processes and allow other systems, such as on-farm sensors, to seamlessly connect and upload new data.
“This investment ensures chicken farmers are equipped with up-to-date and efficient traceability tools, which are essential to maintaining strong businesses and to strengthening public trust in food safety and quality,” said the Honourable Marie-Claude Bibeau, federal Minister of Agriculture and Agri-Food.
“We’re committed to working with our farmers and our entire agri-food sector to help them find ways to save time and money through innovation, while continuing to produce safe, high-quality foods consumers enjoy,” said the Honourable Ernie Hardeman, Ontario Minister of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs. “Investing in projects like this one, through the Partnership, is helping to make our agri-food stronger and even more competitive.”
“OBHECC is committed to partnership that drives innovated processes to meet new challenges and opportunities for our membership and industry,” said Bill Van Heeswyk, Executive Director of the Ontario Broiler Hatching Egg and Chick Commission. “This progressive solution will reduce overhead and increase the overall efficiency of the hatchery supply chain while building value and serving the chicken industry’s needs of sustainable, safe and high-quality products. We thank Minister Hardeman and Minister Bibeau for this support and partnership as we work to continuously improve our systems and build a platform to support the needs of a growing hatching egg and hatchery industry.”
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Conservation Foundation seeking board members
Published on: January 8, 2020 | Last Updated: January 8, 2020 5:00 PM EST
Raising the funds to creation the regional Greenway trail system was one of the Essex Region Conservation Foundation’s most exciting accomplishments.
ESSEX – The Essex Region Conservation Foundation has been enriching the Essex region as the Place for Life since 1977.
“The Foundation raises funds to support conservation efforts in the Windsor-Essex-Pelee Island region,” explains Richard Wyma, the Foundation’s Executive Director. “Thanks to support from thousands of organizations and individuals, the Foundation has raised the funds to acquire and develop the regional greenway system, protected Cedar Creek, and LaSalle Woods, created new forests such as the Jamieson Forest, Rotary Legacy Forest and the Solcz Family Foundation Forest, and protected our heritage at the John R. Park Homestead and Kingsville Train Station.”
The Essex Region Conservation Foundation is currently seeking applications for volunteer membership on its Board of Directors. Board members should be passionate about protecting and restoring our local environment, and able to assist in achieving the Foundation’s fundraising goals to implement conservation projects.
“We are finalizing the goals of our $1 million Place for Life Campaign and raising $600,000 to create a new Heritage Centre at the John R. Park Homestead,” adds Foundation President Susan Stockwell Andrews. “We are hoping to engage people who are passionate about the environment to help raise the funds needed to implement important conservation projects in our region.”
Those interested are asked to review the membership expectations and submit the Expression of Interest form found at https://essexregionconservation.ca/conservation-foundation, along with their resume, by January 28.
Ontario Farm Market Summary for Tuesday, January 7 Kinze and Ag Leader introduce new high-speed planting
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E3-Modelling research finds first-mover advantage for the European Union as frontrunner in climate action
In Paris, delegates from the 196 UN parties met in December 2015 to negotiate a global climate agreement. Countries accounting for roughly a quarter of global emissions met the March deadline to provide targets for Curbing Greenhouse Gas Emissions (GHG) while at the same time some of the leading economies have missed the deadline, including Canada, Australia and notably China, lowering expectations for a universal climate agreement by December.
However, China signed an agreement with the USA on coordinating climate mitigation strategy. In contrast, the EU submitted ambitious emission reduction goals for 2030 well within a decarbonisation pathway.
The stakes are high, as the world is at present on a path to possible above 4°C global warming by 2100. Hitherto preventive action – including efforts to build a carbon market or to subsidise renewables – has been confined to the developed world and is largely insufficient. The European Union is clearly a frontrunner but many question the macroeconomic and industrial adverse effects of unilateral action.
E3-Modelling, based on modelling services to clients such as European Commission, Governments and business stakeholders, published research showing that in contrast with scepticism the EU’s economic and industrial benefits can be effectively reaped from pioneering climate action.
Abatement of GHG emissions & carbon leakage
As stated on numerous occasions by the President of E3-Modelling Prof. P. Capros, “the basis for the deep decarbonisation of the global economy rests in efficient and equitable effort sharing. Lack of consensus on an international agreement for reducing Greenhouse Gas Emissions eventually leads to asymmetric climate policies which not only increase the cost of reducing emissions but also dent the effectiveness of climate policy, through carbon leakage1.” In particular, studies performed by E3-Modelling staff conclude that an international concerted action to reduce GHG emissions at safe levels by 2050, would require 1.5% of global GDP. In the case where only OECD countries embark in GHG mitigation, the carbon leakage rate is estimated to be close to 25%. If China participates to the abatement effort of OECD countries then carbon leakage rate can be reduced to 3%, underlying the importance of allying developed and emerging economies in pursuing GHG emission reduction policies.
EU as a first mover
Europe has long been a leader in pursuing a global climate deal and has early outlined – with support from our economic and energy modelling research (PRIMES and GEM-E3 models) – a robust set of targets for drastically curbing the region’s emissions by 2030. Indeed, the Conference of Parties (COP21) submission of EU countries’ targets has formally put forward a binding, economy-wide target of cutting the region’s GHG emissions by at least 40% below 1990 levels by 2030. The EU COP21 submission has been largely based on modelling work undertaken by E3-Modelling staff, with the use of two highly sophisticated and well established in the European context models: the PRIMES energy market model and the GEM-E3 computable General Equilibrium Model.
The EU can be considered as a first mover in global GHG mitigation. The net impact on EU economy is uncertain as early movers incur costs, but may also benefit from gaining a cost comparative advantage on producing low carbon technologies; the costs depend on the loss in competitiveness that leads to a decrease of their shares in global markets. A recent study performed by E3-Modelling shows that the net potential gain to EU from undertaking a first mover action can be up to 0.54% of its GDP.
Modelling tools operated by E3-Modelling
The main energy-environmental economic modelling work of E3-Modelling rests upon a series of highly sophisticated in-house models: PRIMES, a workhorse energy market model developed and maintained for all individual European countries and the internal electricity and gas markets is a sophisticated market-oriented engineering-economic model with modular structure by sector, with high sectorial resolution including for transport sector. The model has been extensively used in assessing the 20- 20-20 energy and climate policy package, the EU’s decarbonisation Roadmaps and the recent climate and energy policies for 2030.
In contrast with optimisation models, PRIMES is an agent and market-oriented model aiming at representing the reality of actors’ behaviours and their interplay in markets, for energy commodities and for the emission allowances (EU ETS). PRIMES is rich in engineering information and includes a detailed representation of energy and transport infrastructure. Its sub-models cover power market operation in high resolution, investment and design, gas market strategic analysis, energy efficiency in houses and buildings, industrial energy use and cogeneration, district heating, biomass/waste sector and new technologies including bio-energy, renewables, smart grids, power-to-gas, power-to-liquid and synthetic fuels, as well as storage. The Energy Roadmap publications and the Eurelectric Power Choices scenarios, carried out using PRIMES illustrate the capabilities of the model in simulating deep restructuring of energy systems in demand and supply sectors, the dynamics of investment and equipment turnover in all sectors, while projecting impacts on markets (incl. EU ETS), commodity prices and costs by agent.
The GEM-E3 general equilibrium macroeconomic model is a sophisticated multi-sector and multi-country model used for economic impact assessment and macroeconomic studies. GEM-E3 fully linked with the energy model PRIMES analyse closed-loop energy economy- environment assessments.
The world energy projections, with focus on hydrocarbon world markets, is handled by E3-Modelling using the PROMETHEUS stochastic world energy model. GEM-E3 has been the model of choice for numerous country-specific macro-economic studies for a variety of cases, including Romania, Switzerland, North Africa countries, and others.
Modelling of Energy Economy and Environment
The researchers of E3-Modelling have provided scientific support and policy advice for the European Commission on many occasions including most recently the 2030 Energy and Climate Communication (January 2014), but have also provided support to the German Ministry of Economic Affairs and Energy in the run-up to the agreement. They also regularly provide support to the Belgian Government, as well as to numerous non-governmental groups such as Eurelectric, AEGPL, EUROGAS. E3- Modelling participates in international cooperative projects such as the EMF and partners with renowned world institutes such as MIT, IIASA, PIK, FEEM, etc. in order to validate and enhance its modelling tools and regularly publishes its findings in international peer-reviewed journals.
At E3-Modelling, our aim is to communicate to policymakers and stakeholders around the world the quality output of leading scientific research in the areas of energy and the environment, helping them make informed decisions when formulating their optimal pathways towards a low carbon economy. E3-Modelling is a spin-off company based on research activities performed at the National Technical University of Athens.
More information about E3-Modelling can be found at www.e3modelling.gr
1 The part of emissions reductions in abating countries that may be offset by an increase of the emissions in non-abating countries
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Zimmer Completes Combination with Biomet
by Zimmer
Zimmer Holdings, Inc. (NYSE and SIX: ZMH) today announced that, following the receipt of U.S. Federal Trade Commission clearance, Zimmer has completed the acquisition of Biomet in a cash and equity transaction currently valued at approximately $14.0 billion. In connection with the combination, Zimmer has changed its corporate name to Zimmer Biomet Holdings, Inc. The Company will trade on the New York Stock Exchange and the SIX Swiss Exchange under the ticker symbol ZBH beginning June 29, 2015.
“The coming together of Zimmer andBiometis a momentous achievement. We are excited to move forward as one company and to pursue new opportunities that benefit patients, healthcare professionals and employees around the globe,” saidDavid Dvorak, President and CEO of Zimmer Biomet. “Over the past several months, our integration planning teams have been working to ensure that we capture the best of both companies and create a seamless and efficient transition. I look forward to continuing to work closely with our employees for the benefit of all of our stakeholders.”
Strategic Fit
ZimmerBiometwill be a leading innovator in the$45 billionmusculoskeletal healthcare market, committed to creating innovative solutions for the evolving global healthcare industry. The Company will offer a comprehensive and diversified portfolio of musculoskeletal solutions. The scale of Zimmer Biomet will provide for increased competitiveness in core franchises and a stronger presence in emerging markets. Zimmer Biomet also expects to create operational synergies that will enhance value for stockholders.
Zimmer Biomet: New Branding
The Company today unveiled its new logo, which was designed to utilize the visual components of both the legacy Zimmer and Biomet brands.
Mr. Dvorakcontinued, “Each of our companies has a proud heritage. Just as the Zimmer Biomet name leverages the strong brand equity of both companies, the company logo combines Zimmer’s iconic symbol with elements ofBiomet’scorporate identity.”
Additionally, the Company unveiled its new tagline — “Your progress. Our promise.”
To continue reading, please visit: http://investor.zimmerbiomet.com/releaseDetail.cfm?releaseid=919331.
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Orion College offers the following means of support:
INDIVIDUAL THERAPY: The aim with older children and adolescents is to offer guidance through difficulties that they may experience through an individual therapeutic process. This may involve talk therapy and other techniques, such as psycho-education.
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PARENT GUIDANCE AND SUPPORT: Having a child with challenges can also take its toll on our parents and parent support and guidance is an important part of intervention. The focus of this is to support parents through the challenges that come with parenting and offer guidance in terms of effective strategies.
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Tag: Ruth Wilson
10 of my top moments of the decade
Ever behind the curve, I present 10 of my top moments in a theatre over the last ten years (plus a few bonus extra ones because whittling down this list was hard, and it will probably be different tomorrow anyway!)
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Extraordinary Public Acts for a National Theatre
The establishment of the Public Acts programme at the National Theatre offered up something sensational in Pericles, an initiative designed to connect grassroot community organisations with major theatres, resulting in a production that swept over 200 non-professional performers onto the stage of the Olivier to create something that moved me more than 99% of professional productions. A truly joyous and momentous occasion.
Honourable mention: this year’s musical take on As You Like It proved just as heart-swellingly beautiful over at the Queen’s Theatre Hornchurch. Continue reading “10 of my top moments of the decade”
TV Review: His Dark Materials Series 1
Or to give it its true title, Ruth Wilson in His Dark Materials, the BBC scores big with Jack Thorne’s crafty and considered adaptation
“They speak of a child who is destined to bring the end of destiny”
There was never really any chance that I wouldn’t like His Dark Materials but as Series 1 draws to a close, I’m still amazed by how much I loved it. Given the complexity of Philip Pullman’s world-building as written, Jack Thorne’s adaptation of the first novel Northern Lights cleverly opted to tread its own path, moving revels and plot points here and there, plus weaving in elements of The Subtle Knife (the second) to wrongfoot and thrill anyone who thought they knew what they were expecting. With some stonking production design and top-notch VFX bringing the daemons (and more) to life, it has been simply fantastic (read my thoughts on episode 1 here).
Dafne Keen has been a revelation as Lyra Belacqua, the girl on whom so much rests in a world not so different from our own. So adult in so many ways as she battles everything to save her friend Roger (Lewin Lloyd – heartbreakingkly good), she’s also touchingly young in others (especially where Pan – voiced so well by Kit Connor- is concerned), as her understanding of the world can’t help but be coloured by her comparative inexperience, buffeted by devastating waves of parental ineptitude and cruelty. Revelations about those parents, about the mysterious substance Dust too, underline the sophistication of the writing here,never once looking down at its audience,no matter their age. Continue reading “TV Review: His Dark Materials Series 1”
Posted on November 3, 2019 January 20, 2020
TV Review: His Dark Materials Episode 1
After what has felt like an interminable wait, the BBC’s adaptation of Philip Pullman’s His Dark Materials arrives onscreen in scintillating form
“In every child’s nightmare, there is an element of truth”
After what has felt like an interminable wait, the BBC’s adaptation of Philip Pullman’s His Dark Materials arrives onscreen in scintillating form. Written by Jack Thorne and directed by Tom Hooper, this first episode set the tone marvellously, balancing all the detail needed for world-building for newcomers and yet still maintaining enough magic to hook in those more seasoned fans of the work.
I definitely count myself in that latter category. The books were the first I ever hungered for in waiting for the publication of the second and third in the trilogy. The National Theatre production ranks as one of the best things I’ve ever seen in a theatre and I trekked to Bath and Salford to see subsequent revivals. I even don’t think the film adaptation of The Golden Compass is the worst thing in the world, honest… Continue reading “TV Review: His Dark Materials Episode 1”
The complete 73rd Tony nominations
Gary: A Sequel to Titus Andronicus
Ain’t Too Proud
Tootsie Continue reading “The complete 73rd Tony nominations”
TV Review: Mrs Wilson
Ruth Wilson excels in the intriguing Mrs Wilson, a drama that couldn’t possibly be true…
“You know all you need to know”
Mrs Wilson begins with ‘the following is inspired by real events’ but the truth is even more than that, as main protagonist Alison Wilson is played by Ruth Wilson, who just happens to be her granddaughter. For the story is taken from the extraordinary revelations of her own family history and adapted into a three-part serial here, which is marvellously tense and beautifully filmed.
We begin on an ordinary day in the early 60s as Alison nips home from her job to make a lunch of cold cuts for her novelist husband Alec. He doesn’t make it down to the table though as he’s kicked the bucket and instantly, hints of mystery abound as she hides his wallet and makes a surreptitious phone call. What she doesn’t expect is the knock on the door a few days later from a woman who claim to be his wife. Continue reading “TV Review: Mrs Wilson”
Posted on July 31, 2018 January 20, 2020
Casting news aplenty!
I round up some of the recent casting news, including Queen Margaret at the Royal Exchange, Wasted at the Southwark Playhouse, Measure for Measure at the Donmar and The Woods at the Royal Court.
Shakespeare wrote more lines for Queen Margaret than he did for King Lear yet we know very little of her. Jeanie O’Hare re-acquaints us with one of Shakespeare’s major but rarely performed characters in her new play Queen Margaret. In a production that draws on original language from Shakespeare, director Elizabeth Freestone and Jade Anouka as Margaret, retell an iconic moment in British History through the eyes of the extraordinary Margaret of Anjou. This captivating exploration of The Wars of the Roses seen through the eyes of this astonishing, dangerous and thrilling woman opens the Royal Exchange’s Autumn Winter 2018/19 Season.
Anouka is joined by Islam Bouakkaz (Prince Edward/Rutland), Lorraine Bruce (York), Samuel Edward-Cook (Suffolk/Clifford), Dexter Flanders (Edward IV), Helena Lymbery (Hume), Lucy Mangan (Joan of Arc), Roger Morlidge (Gloucester), Kwami Odoom (Somerset/Richard), Bridgitta Roy (Warwick) and Max Runham (Henry VI). Continue reading “Casting news aplenty!”
Posted on March 17, 2017 February 1, 2018
2017 Laurence Olivier Awards nominations
Best New Play
Harry Potter and the Cursed Child – Palace
Elegy – Donmar Warehouse
The Flick – National Theatre Dorfman
One Night in Miami – Donmar Warehouse
Best New Musical
Groundhog Day – The Old Vic
Dreamgirls – Savoy
The Girls – Phoenix
School of Rock – New London
Best Revival
Yerma – Young Vic
The Glass Menagerie – Duke of York’s
This House – Garrick
Travesties – Apollo Continue reading “2017 Laurence Olivier Awards nominations”
Posted on December 12, 2016 November 2, 2018
Review: Hedda Gabler, National
“I’ve never felt at home”
With Hedda Gabler, the ever prolific Ivo van Hove is making his National Theatre debut, so you can forgive him returning to a production which he has launched twice before – with the exceptional Dutch actress Halina Reijn in Amsterdam and with Elizabeth Marvel in New York. This time however, he’s working with a new version of Ibsen’s play by Patrick Marber and has the equally extraordinary talents of Ruth Wilson leading his company. And as with his revelatory A View From The Bridge, this is a contemporary reworking of a classic that will frustrate some with its froideur but left me gasping at its gut-wrenching rawness.
As ever, van Hove’s spatial intelligence lends itself to a re-appreciation of the theatrical space in which he’s working. He’s invited audiences onstage at the Barbican, and backstage too and here in the Lyttelton, the wings are closed off by Jan Versweyveld’s gallery-like white box and so characters make their entrances and exits through the same doors that we use – Judge Brack even arrives via the rear stalls at one point. And van Hove keeps things off-kilter onstage too, often pushing the action out to the far edges, focusing the eye on unexpected details like the eloquent sweep of Hedda’s back, the tapping foot of a nervy ever-watching Berthe. Continue reading “Review: Hedda Gabler, National”
DVD Review: Suite Française (2015)
“Be careful… with your life”
Irène Némirovsky’s novel Suite Française has one of those origin stories you’d scarcely believe if you read it in a novel itself. In 1942, Ukrainian-Jewish Némirovsky was deported from the France where she had lived more than half her life, having written two parts of an intended sequence of five novels in the previous couple of years. She spent time at Pithiviers and then Auschwitz where she was murdered, leaving notebooks with family members who could not bring themselves to look at them until they were to be donated to a museum whereupon they were amazed to find complete novels as opposed to mere scribblings – thus Suite Française was published in 2004 to considerable acclaim.
And where such stories go, film must follow and so a movie adaptation made its way to cinemas in 2015, directed by Saul Dibb and co-written with Matt Charman. Suite Française follows life in a village outside of Paris in the first few months of occupation in 1940 and as with several of the films I’ve watched recently, concerns itself with the lack of moral clarity at that time, refusing to depict the world in black and white with choices made easy with hindsight, but rather investigating the realities of living through such a time of crisis and the lengths to which people will go to to survive. Continue reading “DVD Review: Suite Française (2015)”
Hallowe’en Film Review: I Am The Pretty Thing That Lives in the House (2016)
“The first night in a place always weirds me out”
Released by Netflix just in time for Hallowe’en, I Am The Pretty Thing That Lives in the House naturally popped up on my register as it features the ever-luminous Ruth Wilson in the starring role of Lily. Indeed, Oz Perkins’ film rests mainly on her shoulders, as a live-in hospice nurse who becomes increasingly convinced that her elderly employee’s Massachusetts house is haunted. her fears rooted in her boss Iris Blum’s former career as a horror author.
It’s a remarkably restrained affair from writer and director Perkins, astutely aware of the power of showing as little as possible whilst ratcheting up the tension through a rumbling sound design and a gorgeously gloomy colour palette from cinematographer Julie Kirkwood. It’s unrelentingly creepy rather than outright shocking (for the most part at least…) and this mood that it cultivates is properly scary (and that’s coming from someone who’s really not that much of a fan of the genre). Continue reading “Hallowe’en Film Review: I Am The Pretty Thing That Lives in the House (2016)”
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A beginner’s guide to RuneScape
Looking to start exploring in RuneScape? Our helpful guide will get you up and running in Jagex's sprawling MMORPG
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Over 260 million RuneScape accounts have been created since it was released in 2001. That’s a lot of players adventuring inside this fantasy MMORPG, which can make it intimidating if you’re just getting started. Unless, that is, you have a guide to help you through.
Before you can dive into Gielinor you’ll have to sign up. Here you can make a RuneScape account – all you need is a valid email address, date of birth, and a display name. From there, you can download and log into the game client, create a character, and play through the tutorial – which sets you up with the basics you’ll need to play Jagex’s MMO.
But what about after you’ve completed the tutorial? RuneScape is set within a vast virtual world and it’s teeming with things to do – are you the sort of person who wants the thrill of combat? Or would you like to solve puzzles and save defenceless NPCs in quests full of danger? Maybe you would prefer to simply sit by a river and spend a few hours fishing while chatting to your clan mates.
Given that there are so many things that you could do, we’ve put together this handy guide to lead you through those first few hours of RuneScape. You’ll have found your particular corner of Gielinor in no time at all.
Completing the tutorial will transport you to Gielinor where you’ll find yourself put on the Path System. It’s highly recommended that both new and returning players follow the Path System as it’ll walk you through a number of game features. This includes the Daily Challenges and setting a bank PIN. You’ll also be given three quests to complete, which serve as a proper introduction to the different modes of combat – melee, magic, and range.
The Path System also supplies you with a starter set of equipment and experience lamps that give your combat skills an early boost. Completing the route will allow you to explore freely or, if you choose, pick a new Path. There are Paths that teach you more about the skills or ones that encourage you to further explore the game world.
If you want to explore Gielinor freely, however, you can turn off the Path System. You do this by opening the Adventure Tab, choosing the Path option, and then clicking ‘Switch Off Path’. Do note that while you’ll lose progress on the current task you have been set, you won’t lose any quest progress overall.
Set off on an adventure
Off the beaten paths and out of the tutorials, your search for adventure can truly begin. Quests are the best way to find it, and you can see all the available adventures in the Quest List tab – you can delve into the details by clicking on the journal entries in equipment and skill experience. In here, you’ll find info on where to start the quest, its difficulty level, what its requirements are, any recommended items, and, most importantly, its rewards. Rather handy, really.
Don’t worry, there are many quests available for free-to-play RuneScape players. A good place to start if you want a furry companion is to head to west Varrock and talk to Gertrude. Completing her quest will reward you with a kitten and some cooking experience (don’t worry, the two aren’t combined). Meanwhile the One Piercing Note quest, found outside the Abbey of St. Elspeth Citharede, east of Al Kharid, offers up a murder mystery to solve as you investigate a death in the abbey.
RuneScape offers a huge range of quests – over 220 of the the blighters at last count – some of which will keep you occupied for an hour or two. They’re often rather funny, too, playing up to the game’s smart, self-referential style. Oh, and while you’re questing, make sure to activate the lodestones you discover on your travels – they offer a free mode of transportation.
Build up your character
As you would expect, levelling up your skills is an important part of RuneScape as it unlocks new abilities, equipment, and quests. There are 27 skills in total – 17 of which are available to free-to-play players. Even then, you can still dip your toes into member-only skills like Divination, but they are capped with a level 5 limit – normally, skills can be trained all the way up to level 99. There are even some that go up to 120.
While you might be tempted to focus on training in one skill, we’d recommend that newcomers try to spread their training across all of your skills so that you have a well-rounded character. The whole experience is pretty relaxed, though, and you can choose how much you want to lean into the skilling process. It’s also worth noting that there are no classes to worry about, so you can try your hand at anything you like.
Fishing is a great skill to begin with, because you can also train cooking alongside it by cooking the fish you catch. You can then either sell your haul or keep them for lengthy battles (no, not as weapons – you can eat them to regain health).
If you want to focus on combat first, however, then Lumbridge Catacombs is the perfect dungeon for beginners – though bear in mind that you’ll need to complete the Blood Pact quest (speak to Xenia in Lumbridge Cemetery to kick this one off) before you can access it. While you’re tackling the catacombs, you can collect the statues hidden among the tombs and then sell them for profit, too.
While you’re doing all of this, set yourself a level or XP target by right clicking on your chosen skill in the Skill tab.
Get a handle on combat
Back in 2012, Jagex released an update called Evolution of Combat (EoC for short), which radically changed how you fought in the MMO. It added dual-wielding, ranged weapons, and magical abilities. Players who preferred the old style of combat can still opt to fight with Legacy Mode, which simplifies combat to auto attacks and special attacks.
When creating your character you’ll be asked if you have played RuneScape before. If you choose ‘Never played’ then you’ll be defaulted to Legacy Mode, but it’s worth switching to EoC combat as soon as you’re comfortable. Head to Lumbridge Catacombs for a safe place to practice and get brave.
Joining a Clan
Don’t forget to embrace the social aspect of RuneScape by joining a clan. The best way to do this is to head over to the RuneScape forums where there are a number of boards dedicated to clans. There is a board where you can post a thread about yourself and what kind of clan you’re looking to join. If you wish to do the searching yourself there are five separate boards for the different kinds of clans available – those for players with combat levels under 100, clans for players over level 100 combat, skilling clans, social clans, and clans that specialise in questing and minigames. Take your time to find the right clan for you and you’ll soon be building new friendships.
If you become stuck on a quest or skill head over to the RuneScape Wiki, which contains all the RuneScape knowledge you should ever need. Consider upgrading to a membership (you can take this for a test drive with the RuneScape Twitch Prime bundle) so that you have access to the full range of skills and quests. Good luck on your adventure!
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The Chalk Girl
By Carol O’Connell
Part of A Mallory Novel
Category: Crime Mysteries | Suspense & Thriller
About The Chalk Girl
The eight-year-old girl appeared in New York’s Central Park one day: red-haired, blue-eyed, dirty-faced, smiling widely. She looked perfect, like a porcelain fairy—except for the blood on her shoulders. It fell from the sky, she told the police. It happened while she was looking for her Uncle Red, who had turned into a tree. Right, they thought, poor child. And then they found the body in the tree.
For Mallory, newly returned to the Special Crimes Unit after three months’ lost time, spent she will not say where, there is something about the girl that she understands. Mallory is damaged, they say, dangerously unstable, but she can tell a kindred spirit when she sees one. And this one will ultimately lead her to a story of extraordinary crimes, to murders stretching back fifteen years, to blackmail and complicity and a particular cruelty that perhaps only someone with Mallory’s history could fully recognize. In the next few weeks, she will deal with them all…in her own way.
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About Carol O’Connell
Carol O’Connell is the New York Times bestselling author of the Mallory series, including Mallory’s Oracle, The Man Who Cast Two Shadows, Killing Critics, Stone Angel, Shell Game, Crime School, Dead Famous, Winter House, Find Me, The Chalk Girl, It Happens in the Dark, and Blind Sight. She is also the author… More about Carol O’Connell
Published by G.P. Putnam’s Sons
Jan 17, 2012 | 528 Pages | ISBN 9781101565803
People Who Read The Chalk Girl Also Read
“O’Connell has raised the standard for psychological thrillers.”—Chicago Tribune
“Before Salander took the world by storm, there was Mallory, the most gloriously original heroine to grace crime fiction’s meanest and darkest streets.” —Sarah Weinman, Confessions of an Idiosyncratic Mind
“O’Connell’s wonderful Mallory novels are among the best crime fiction ever written.”—San Jose Mercury News
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Guilty Minds
By Joseph Finder
Read by Holter Graham
Part of A Nick Heller Novel
Category: Suspense & Thriller | Crime Mysteries
Category: Suspense & Thriller | Crime Mysteries | Audiobooks
Jul 19, 2016 | 580 Minutes
About Guilty Minds
New York Times bestselling author Joseph Finder delivers an exhilarating and timely thriller exploring how even the most powerful among us can be brought down by a carefully crafted lie and how the secrets we keep can never truly stay buried.
The chief justice of the Supreme Court is about to be defamed, his career destroyed, by a powerful gossip website that specializes in dirt on celebs and politicians. Their top reporter has written an exposé claiming that he had liaisons with an escort, a young woman prepared to tell the world her salacious tale. But the chief justice is not without allies, and his greatest supporter is determined to stop the story in its tracks.
Nick Heller is a private spy—an intelligence operative based in Boston, hired by lawyers, politicians, and even foreign governments. A high-powered investigator with a penchant for doing things his own way, he’s called to Washington, DC, to help out in this delicate, potentially explosive situation.
Nick has just forty-eight hours to disprove the story about the chief justice. But when the call girl is found murdered, the case takes a dangerous turn, and Nick resolves to find the mastermind behind the conspiracy before anyone else falls victim to the maelstrom of political scandal and ruined reputations predicated upon one long-buried secret.
The chief justice of the Supreme Court is about to be defamed, his career destroyed, by a powerful gossip website that specializes in dirt on celebs and politicians. Their top reporter has written an exposé claiming that he had liaisons with an escort, a young woman prepared to tell the world her salacious tale. But the chief justice is not without allies and his greatest supporter is determined to stop the story in its tracks.
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About Joseph Finder
Joseph Finder is the New York Times bestselling author of fifteen novels, including Judgment, The Switch, Guilty Minds, The Fixer, Suspicion, Vanished, and Buried Secrets. Finder’s bestseller Suspicion won the Barry Award for Best Thriller of the Year; Buried Secrets won the Strand Critics Award for… More about Joseph Finder
Published by Dutton
May 30, 2017 | 480 Pages | 4-3/16 x 7-1/2 | ISBN 9780451472588
Jul 19, 2016 | 580 Minutes | ISBN 9780147524676
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Praise for Guilty Minds
“Finder shows off his top-notch storytelling skills, moving with ease from high places to low in the nation’s capital.”—Kirkus Reviews
“Finder really knows his way around a thriller, and his sensibilities about Washington, scandal, and the immediacy—and threat—of digital publishing and electronic surveillance seem chillingly plausible. This is an exciting, insightful thriller with finely sketched characters—in other words, a sure bet in public libraries.”—Booklist (starred review)
“[A] tight plot, sharp dialogue, and a cast of intriguing characters keep the story a cut above the genre pack.”—Publishers Weekly
“Finder (The Fixer) shows off his clever storytelling skills by packing action, politics, and modern detective techniques into a complicated plotline that leads to murder.”—Library Journal
“This is a dark tale of intrigue and underhanded politics…If you’re a Finder fan, this book will not disappoint you. If you’re not, you might become one after this read.”—Suspense Magazine
“Finder’s prose is lean, the pacing swift and agile, and the plot well worth gossiping about.”—Minneapolis Star Tribune
“Guilty Minds balances its thriller tenets with solid characters…razor-sharp dialogue, and a breathless plot that careens from one realistic twist to another.”—Mystery Scene Magazine
“The plot of Guilty Minds…is taut, rapid, and tensely recurving.”—Harvard Magazine
“Finder is one of the best contemporary thriller writers.”—Connecticut Post
Praise for Joseph Finder and The Fixer
“A master of the modern thriller.”—The Boston Globe
“There are many authors who take a reader ‘slowly into that good night.’ However, the real genius knows how to create the ultimate lead-in. They are the wordsmiths who can, in one page or one paragraph, grab the reader’s attention and never let go….A true genius wordsmith, this is one author who has created solid suspense gold.”—Suspense Magazine
“Finder can make reading about someone walking across a room excruciatingly suspenseful….This is a thriller that is as much about redemption as it is about escape. A remarkable exciting read.”—Booklist (starred review)
“If you’re in the mood for tense, witty angst about closed-down career opportunities and dirty money cleansed by family redemption, The Fixer is the way to go.”—The New York Times Book Review
“Joseph Finder takes a familiar story and gives it a unique spin in his latest page-turner, The Fixer.”—Associated Press
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Chief Ndiweni
Nhlanhlayemangwe Felix Ndiweni
Chief Ndiweni is a the traditional leader of the Ntabazinduna area in Matabeleland North, Zimbabwe. He is the youngest son of the late Chief Khayisa Ndiweni. He is outspoken about his opposition to the Zanu-PF government policies and actions. Ndiweni stayed in the UK for 28 years and came back to Zimbabwe to take up the chieftainship following his father's death. His father had died in his sleep at the age of 97 at his Ntabazinduna homestead in 2010.
On 16 August 2019, he was sentenced to an effective 18 months in prison for malicious damage of property. Ndiweni and others had been accused of destroying a villager’s garden & kraal fence as part of a traditional court dispute. Some quarters indicated that his imprisonment was politically motivated as earlier, in May 2019, the permanent secretary in the Information Ministry Nick Mangwana had warned the chief:
may we remind Chief Felix Ndiweni that Government and the people of Zimbabwe are watching and watching closely as he goes on with his politics that are clearly not guided by the national and community interests but inspired by some dubious narrow, parochial interests.[1]
1 Installment as Chief
2 Controversy and other actions as Chief
2.1 Campaign for closure Of Police and Prison training depots in Ntabazinduna
2.2 Save Ntabazinduna Mountain campaign
2.3 Comment on Gukurahundi Exhumations and Non-recognition of Mnangagwa Government
2.4 Attendace of Political Party Events
3 Lineage
4 Traditional Court Dispute & Imprisonment
Installment as Chief
Ndiweni was installed as chief in August 2014. At the time his late father's eldest child Joram Khayisa challenged Ndiweni, filing an urgent application to the High Court seeking the nullification of the appointment of his youngest brother as the chief. Joram claimed that the move was in violation of the Nguni customs, practices and norms, which recognise the eldest son as the rightful heir. However, their mother, Agnes backed Nhlanhlayemangwe Felix Ndiweni arguing that the eldest sone was irresponsible and that she had the final say. Jorum argued that even if this was true, his elder son, Mhlambezi, would assume the position of chief, instead of any of his brothers.
Nhlanhlayemangwe Felix Ndiweni appointment however eventually prevailed and he was installed on 22 August 2014.
Controversy and other actions as Chief
Campaign for closure Of Police and Prison training depots in Ntabazinduna
In October 2015 Chief Ndiweni circulated petitions to his subjects urging them to support the shutdown of the Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) and the Zimbabwe Prisons and Correctional Services (ZPCS) training depots in Ntabazinduna. He wanted the closure of the ZRP depot to make way for a vocational training centre, and that of the ZPCS to provide land for people in the area. He also asked that if the two depots were not to be closed, then half the recruits had to be from his area.[2]
Save Ntabazinduna Mountain campaign
In May 2019 Chief Ndiweni launched a campaign to save Ntabazinduna Mountain in Matabeleland North province from what he claimed was the illegal parceling out of the land under the guise of the land reform programme. His campaign was motivated by the government’s plan to evict a white commercial farmer, Brian Davies, from Tabas Induna Farm. [3]
Ndiweni argued that the mountain held historical value as the birthplace for the Ndebele nation. He threatened to lobby for the West to tighten sanctions against President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s government if the eviction went ahead. Ndiweni also said the Parsons and Davies families, who owned the farm, were of Ntabazinduna as they had coexisted well with locals.
Comment on Gukurahundi Exhumations and Non-recognition of Mnangagwa Government
In May 2019, Chief Ndiweni said he did not recognise the Emmerson Mnangagwa Zanu-PF government as the government of Zimbabwe. He said he preferred to call it a “temporary” administration.[4]
“Do you notice that I call it an administration, because according to me this country does not have a government. The proper government to run this country is yet to come. A government that will make people’s lives normal, a government that will put an end to fuel queues, a government that will see parents being able to pay fees for their children.
Gukurahundi was genocide, and as long as this administration does not acknowledge that, then we are going nowhere. Exhumations are not a solution because these graves are a crime scene, and there has to be a proper report on how these graves came to be and perpetrators must be brought to book”
Attendace of Political Party Events
In 2018 and 2019 Chief Ndiweni controversially attended and spoke at political party events, most notably the MDC Congress on 25 May 2019. Commentators noted that as a chief, the constitution made it clear that he was not to be involved in any political activities.
As a precedent, it was noted that the High Court had in February 2019 ruled against Chief Charumbira in a case about the involvement of traditional chiefs in politics. The High Court of Zimbabwe dismissed President of the Chiefs Council, Chief Fortune Charumbira’s appeal that the Court reverses its ruling that the chief should not be involved in partisan politics. Chief Charumbira was seeking to rescind a 2018 High Court Order against him for involvement in politics.[5]
Chief Ndiweni is a direct descendant of Gundwane Ndiweni, the first Ndebele paramount chief who led a Nguni splinter group, separate to that of King Mzilikazi, into present-day Zimbabwe in 1838.[2]
Traditional Court Dispute & Imprisonment
In 2017, a man approached the traditional court inn Ntabazinduna which was presided over by Ndiweni. The man had caught his wife red-handed in adulterous intercourse with a neighbour. The chief's ruling was the banishment of the woman from the village. According to Chief Ndiweni it turned out that the woman in question was a Zanu PF member in the area.
The man and the woman apparently eventually resolved their matter amicably but the Ndiweni's court insisted that she had to respect the ruling by leaving the village. She did not. As a penalty for contempt of the traditional ruling, Ndiweni instructed his court assistants to remove the family's garden and kraal fence which, according to Ndiweni, was made of bushes. The fence was removed on 26 July 2017.[6]
The matter was reported to the police and Ndiweni together with the 23 people he sent to the homestead were charged with malicious damage to property. The matter dragged in the courts for two years. Ndiweni argued in court that prominent Zanu PF member Obert Mpofu was using the case 'fix' him.
On 15 August 2019, Ndiweni and his 23 subjects were found guilty of the charge.
On 16 August 2019, Ndiweni was sentenced to an effective 18 months imprisonment. His 23 subjects were ordered to perform 525 hours of community service.
A pre-recorded video message from Ndiweni was published soon after:
↑ Outspoken Chief Ndiweni Sentenced To Effective 18 Months Imprisonment, Pindula News, Published: 16 Aug 2019, Retrieved: 16 Aug 2019
↑ 2.0 2.1 Elliot Siamonga, A chief out of touch with reality, The Patriot, Published:22 October 2015, Retrieved: 27 May 2019
↑ Chief Ndiweni fights to save historic Ntabazinduna mountain, calls for sanctions, ZimLive, Published: 12 May 2019, Retrieved: 27 May 2019
↑ I do not recognise ED’s govt: Chief, NewsDay, Published: 11 May 2019 , Retrieved: 27 May 2019
↑ High Court Upholds Ruling Banning Chief Charumbira From Politics, Pindula News, Published: 15 February 2019, Retrieved: 27 Mar 2019
↑ Mashudu Netsianda, UPDATED: Chief Ndiweni, 23 others convicted of destroying property, The Chronicle, Published:16 Aug 2019, Retrieved: 16 Aug 2019
Retrieved from "https://www.pindula.co.zw/index.php?title=Chief_Ndiweni&oldid=82044"
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SPIN DOCTOR: Everyone loves renewable energy, again
"Much as it won’t boast about it, the Coalition has actually has the best record when it comes to introducing mandatory renewable energy targets, one of the best in the world."
Do you want your electricity manufactured in wind farms?
You are voting for the right party.
On Monday Labor promised that that 20 per cent of Australia’s electricity would come from renewable sources by 2020.
The Greens had already promised 15 per cent by 2015, and the Coalition 15 per cent by 2020...
The Coalition’s target differs from the other two in that it also allows for the inclusion of so-called “clean coal” power where the carbon dioxide released when the coal is burnt is captured and stored underground, a process that has not yet been shown to work on a commercial scale.
It’s also an easiest target to meet. Around 8 per cent of our electricity already comes from renewable sources (mainly hydro) and legislated targets being adopted in NSW and Victoria will push us towards the Coalition’s 15 per cent anyway.
But, much as it won’t boast about it, the Coalition has actually has the best record when it comes to introducing mandatory renewable energy targets in Australia, one of the best in the world.
Very early in his government in 1997 the Prime Minister trumped his Labor predecessor with an impressive package entitled “Safeguarding the Future: Australia’s Response To Climate Change”. Among the measures was one of the world’s first mandatory renewable energy targets that required generators to take an extra 2 per cent of their power from renewable sources by the year 2010.
So successful was the target that within 2 years of its adoption in 2001 more than 190 renewable power stations had been accredited and it became clear the target would be achieved early.
According to the leaked notes of a senior executive of Rio Tinto obtained by the ABC, John Howard’s Industry Minister Ian Macfarlane told an industry gathering in 2004 that the scheme had "worked too well”.
In 2003 an indpendent inquiry chaired by a former Coalition Senator had warned that “by 2007 sufficient capacity is expected to have been installed to meet the target. As a consequence, investment is expected to fall away rapidly."
It recommended doubling the target and extending the scheme to 2020.
The Coalition rejected the recommendation and much of Australia’s renewable energy industry went offshore.
It has to gear up from something of a standing start to meet the new targets and new wind farms are the easiest way to do it – lots of them.
Economic modeling conducted by McLennan Magasanik Associates for the Renewable Energy Generators of Australia suggests that the targets put little upward pressure on electricity prices, even potentially cutting wholesale prices in the early years as a result of a build up in generation capacity.
Yesterday’s headline talked of an increase in power bills for a family of four of $40 a year, but that is what the modeling projected for 2020, “the year in which the price impact peaks”, after that it should be lower or even negative if it helps electricity companies get into zero emission technologies early ahead of carbon taxes and carbon trading.
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Opening reception: Saturday, February 16, 6-8 pm
Friedrich Petzel Gallery is pleased to announce MOON BITCHES, a solo exhibition of new work by Dana Hoey.
Ten new photographs reflect a fascination with corrupted idealism. Inspired in part by Bernini's Ecstasy of St. Teresa as well as Philip Roth's American Pastoral, these are the untold narratives of New Age healers, demonstrators at a die-in, a triumphant pregnant woman who smokes, folk singers, and a radical who harms herself to prove she is hard-core. Formally, the work combines the sunny daylight and saturated color of commercial (digitally enhanced) film stock, with the iconography and framing of religious painting.
This is Dana Hoey's third solo exhibition at Friedrich Petzel Gallery. Ms. Hoey's work has been exhibited in galleries and museums worldwide, and most recently, had solo shows at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington, D.C. and Tache-Levy Gallery in Brussels.
The exhibition is on view from February 16 – March 23, 2002, with an opening reception on February 16, from 6-8 pm. For further information, please contact the gallery at info@petzel.com, or call (212) 680-9467.
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Oceanography >
Marine Mammal Protection Act Research Papers
Marine Mammal Protection Act research papers show how the act preceded the Dolphin-Safe Tuna Labeling Act.
Research papers drawn up on the Marine Mammal Protection Act overview the Act itself or the ramifications of the Act on the marine population, fishermen or the environment in general. Paper Masters custom writes all oceanography projects at the Undergraduate and Graduate levels.
The Marine Mammal Protection Act of 1972 limited the killing of dolphins for U.S. fishing boats. While this measure helped to combat the problem, it was not a complete solution to the problem due to the following:
Because a significant portion of the tuna sold in the United States comes from foreign exporters
The Marine Mammal Protection Act only limited the number of dolphins killed by U.S. fishing boats
The total number of dolphins being killed as a result of tuna fishing was still significantly high.
Dolphin-Safe Tuna Labeling Act was one of the many responses to concerns about tuna-fishing practices in which fisherman encircled dolphins with their nets frequently entangling and killing dolphins. Long before tuna labeling, Congress had enacted legislation to help prevent the senseless death of dolphins that occurred during tuna fishing.
In the late 1980's consumers, frustrated by the government’s inability to control the rapidly decreasing dolphin population, began boycotting companies that sold tuna caught by fishermen who did not practice dolphin safe fishing practices—typically companies that bought their tuna from foreign fisheries. In response to this boycott, in the 1990's, President Clinton signed legislation that officially defined “dolphin-safe.” Companies that canned tuna could label their product as dolphin-safe if it met the government’s standards.
Has the American government becomes so morally bankrupt that it would sacrifice environmental police to ensure stable trade relationships? Unfortunately, yes. If nothing else, the debate over dolphin safe tuna labeling clearly demonstrates the federal government’s bottom line. Trade relations with Mexico and other foreign countries has become so important that the government is willing to let thousand of dolphins die needlessly each year. Although consumers continue to aggressively oppose the sale of “dolphin-unsafe” tuna in the United States, the reality is that as Congress’ resolve to stand firm on this issue continues to weaken, consumers may eventually not have a choice in the matter.
Marine Ecosystems - Marine Ecosystem Research Papers look at chemical defenses that help defeat the efforts of herbivore attackers.
The Smith-Lever Act - The Smith-Lever Act research papers examine the federal law designed to provide cooperative agricultural extension services that connected land-grant universities to the general public.
War Powers Act - War Powers Act was adopted in 1973 after the Vietnam war, limiting presidential military authority.
Biological Oceanography - Biological Oceanography research papers discuss the scientific study of how organisms, especially microorganism, are effected by the physics, chemistry, and geology of the oceans.
Human Environment Interaction - Human Environment Interaction research papers examine the complex, adaptive, and interconnected systems between humans and the environment and how they interact on an almost constant basis.
Environmental Microbiology - Environmental Microbiology research papers examine the scientific study of the relationship between microorganisms and their environment.
Acidification on Freshwater - Acidification on Freshwater research papers look at the importance of the chemical contributions of aquatic animal and plant life.
How to Write a Research Paper on Marine Mammal Protection Act
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The NSW Government has introduced a range of measures designed to deliver greater protection to agricultural land from the impacts of mining and coal seam gas (CSG) activity. It has done this by:
implementing coal seam gas exclusion zones across 2.7 million hectares of NSW, covering current and future residential land and Critical Industry Clusters in the Upper Hunter
safeguarding 2.8 million hectares of biophysical strategic agricultural land across the state by applying the Gateway process for State significant mining and coal seam gas proposals
implementing Critical Industry Clusters for the equine and viticulture industries in the Upper Hunter to ban new coal seam gas activity within those areas, and ensure proposals for State significant mining projects are scrutinised via the Gateway process
establishing a Mining and Petroleum Gateway Panel to scientifically assess mining and coal seam gas impacts on strategic agricultural land and its associated water resources
introducing regulations governing exploration activity, overseen by the Land and Water Commissioner
introducing an Aquifer Interference Policy
developing Guidelines and technical notes for preparing an Agricultural Impact Statement for State significant development applications
introducing Codes of Practice; one for fracture stimulation and another for well integrity
making all CSG activity subject to an environment protection licence issued by the EPA
implementing the findings of the Independent review into CSG activity in NSW by the Chief Scientist and Engineer
implementing the NSW Gas Plan
Biophysical Strategic Agricultural Land (BSAL)
Biophysical Strategic Agricultural Land (BSAL) is land with high quality soil and water resources capable of sustaining high levels of productivity.
BSAL plays a critical role sustaining the State’s $12 billion agricultural industry.
A total of 2.8 million hectares of BSAL has been identified and mapped at a regional scale across the State.
In October 2013, 1.74 million hectares of BSAL were mapped in the Upper Hunter and New England North West regions. In January 2014, the NSW Government finalised mapping for an additional one million hectares of BSAL across the rest of the State.
A site verification process has been developed under the State Environmental Planning Policy (Mining, Petroleum Production and Extractive Industries) 2007 (view the Mining SEPP), to determine the existence of BSAL at the site of a potential development.
Frequently asked questions – Introduction of Gateway Assessment & Gateway Panel
Interim protocol for site verification and mapping of biophysical strategic agricultural land
Table by local government area & map numbers
Frequently Asked Questions: Biophysical Strategic Regional Land Use mapping across NSW
BSAL across the State (Map)
BSAL maps
The BSAL maps have been provided as a downloadable ZIP file which may take some time to download. If you are having difficulty in downloading this file please contact the Department on telephone 1300 305 695 and we will post you a copy.
Important notes for users
Mapping was done at a regional scale, not at a property boundary level.
BSAL in the Upper Hunter and New England North West regions is not shown on the map. More information about BSAL in these regions is contained within the Upper Hunter Strategic Regional Land Use Plan and New England North West Strategic Regional Land Use Plan.
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Notable Negotiation Books for 2020
Looking to deepen your understanding of negotiation and reach better outcomes in the new year? The eight recent negotiation books on our “must read” list for 2020 offer strategies and insights from leading experts.
By Katie Shonk — on December 9th, 2019 / Negotiation Skills
If one of your new year’s resolutions is to strengthen your skills needed for negotiation, the following recent negotiation books—and one journal special issue—will help you do just that with their host of perspectives and strategies. These negotiation books will also entertain and educate you along the way with insights on topics such as political dealmaking, cross-cultural communication, entrepreneurship, psychology, and even party planning.
8 Notable Negotiation Books to Read in 2020
Kissinger the Negotiator: Lessons from Dealmaking at the Highest Level, by James K. Sebenius, R. Nicholas Burns, and Robert H. Mnookin. Offering the first comprehensive look at the former secretary of state’s overall approach to negotiation, Kissinger the Negotiator, authored by three Harvard professors, describes political negotiation strategies that businesspeople can adapt to their own negotiations, such as how to manage multiparty deals through careful sequencing, coalition building, and handling of potential deal blockers.
Negotiation and Conflict Resolution in the Age of Trump, edited by Joel Cutcher-Gershenfeld. In this special issue of the Program on Negotiation’s Negotiation Journal, leading negotiation and conflict resolution scholars dissect U.S. president Donald Trump’s transactional approach to negotiation and describe the shortcomings of his approach in international trade negotiations and other realms. The experts also predict the likely long-term ramifications of the Trump administration’s negotiating strategy on the United States and the world.
Entrepreneurial Negotiation: Understanding and Managing the Relationships that Determine Your Entrepreneurial Success, by Samuel Dinnar and Lawrence Susskind. Getting an idea or innovation off the ground as an entrepreneur takes strong negotiation Yet in their negotiation book Entrepreneurial Negotiation, Program on Negotiation instructor Samuel Dinnar and MIT professor Lawrence Susskind write that many entrepreneurs lack such skills and are falling short of their goals as a result. The book presents strategies that can help entrepreneurs negotiate much better deals.
Leading with Dignity: How to Create a Culture that Brings out the Best in People, by Donna Hicks. Dignity violations are often found at the heart of interpersonal conflicts, according to Hicks, an associate at Harvard’s Weatherhead Center for International Affairs. In Leading with Dignity, Hicks describes how we can begin to repair our most deep-seated conflicts through a better understanding of the concept of dignity.
Rebel Talent: Why it Pays to Break the Rules at Work and in Life, by Francesca Gino. In Rebel Talent, Harvard Business School professor Gino argues that a healthy dose of rebellion can deepen our engagement at work and beyond, and help us meet our most important goals in life. Some of the core principles of rebel talent can improve our outcomes in negotiations with others, while also helping us negotiate more effectively with ourselves as we seek to meet deep-seated needs through more fulfilling work.
Rule Makers, Rule Breakers: How Tight and Loose Cultures Wire Our World, by Michele Gelfand. When people from different cultures negotiate, the potential for misunderstandings is often high, and destructive conflict is too often the result. In Rule Makers, Rule Breakers, University of Maryland psychologist Michele Gelfand explains how a simple yet powerful new cultural framework—tightness-looseness theory—can help us make sense of our cross-cultural differences, break down cultural barriers, and achieve more at the bargaining table.
The Art of Gathering: How We Meet and Why It Matters, by Priya Parker. In The Art of Gathering, Thrive Labs founder Priya Parker, a professional facilitator with a background in conflict resolution, argues that most of us tend to just go through the motions when planning events, whether a dinner party, a conference, or a negotiation. The result, too often, is a dull, forgettable experience. Parker offers novel advice on how we can make our negotiations and other group events more meaningful, memorable, and rewarding.
The Person You Mean to Be: How Good People Fight Bias, by Dolly Chugh. For The Person You Mean to Be, New York University social psychologist Dolly Chugh drew on her research on unconscious bias to write the quintessential guide to standing up for our beliefs. In particular, the book offers useful tips on how to respond effectively when a counterpart says or does something biased during a negotiation.
Are there any other negotiation books you would add to our list of must-reads for 2020? Be sure to read this year’s Must-Read Negotiation Books for 2019, too.
Tags: Conflict Resolution, dealmaking, Lawrence Susskind, negotiation, negotiation books, program on negotiation, Samuel Dinnar
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Legal Role-Play:
Baker & Irwin v. Department of Human Services
Bruce Deming
Two-party negotiation between attorneys for a state agency and a gay advocacy group regarding a state policy that led to the removal of two foster children from the home of a gay couple
Caitlin’s Challenge
Deborah M. Kolb, with the Simmons College Graduate School of Management, and the Program on Negotiation at Harvard Law School
"Caitlin's Challenge" is a short case recounting Caitlin Elliot's history at a company called Microenterprises Incorporated and her negotiation with its CEO, George Baker, about a promotion and a bonus. The case is good for discussion about what makes negotiating for oneself in an organization more difficult than negotiating on behalf of others. The video can be analyzed using a moves and turns framework and it ideal for management and leadership courses in addition to negotiation and conflict resolution courses.
Commonwealth v. McGorty
Robert C. Bordone and Jeremy McClane
Four-person integrative plea bargain negotiation between two prosecutors, a public defender, and an alleged assailant
DONS Negotiation
Robert Bordone and Jonathan Cohen, adapted from PONS Negotiation by Nevan Elam and Whitney Fox
Four-person, two-party, two-round between a former couple and their lawyers regarding the knowing transmission of DONS, a fatal disease communicated through sexual intercourse
Ellis v. MacroB
Kate Harvey and David Kovick, under the supervision of Lawrence Susskind and Jennifer Brown
5-person nonscorable mediation between an employee and his/her corporate employer regarding potentially conflicting values and interests around issues of homosexuality and religious faith
Leaves Before the Fall
James K.L. Lawrence
Lawyers negotiate terms of an employer/employee dispute. The primary characteristic of the Leaves Before the Fall simulation is that the facts set out in each representative’s “confidential instructions” are the same – identical in every respect.
State v. Huntley
Timothy Reiser
Two-party criminal plea bargain negotiation between a prosecutor and a public defender for a man charged with aggravated rape
Gender Role-Play:
Weathers and Evans
Douglas Stone
Two-party negotiation between a law firm partner and former associate regarding sexual harassment allegations
Women Negotiate
An exploration of the issue of gender in negotiations, featuring interviews with three professional women negotiators
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Intel At CES 2013
The world's biggest chipmaker moves beyond its comfort zone with new mobile chips, TV streaming, and unconventional interfaces.
By Rachel Z. Arndt
The shift away from desktops towards mobile devices has left Intel behind in recent years, but at the company's 2013 press conference Monday, the company announced its plan to leave no screen untouched by its chips. Intel's Mike Bell started with a discussion of the next generation of Atom chips, Lexington and Clovertrail+, aimed at mobile devices. But the Atom platform has a long way to go before it can chip into the dominance of the ARM-based chips that are the industry standard.
Intel is looking to play on the big screen as well. The company also announced a streaming-TV partnership with Comcast. Called Premium Pay TV, the service will allow Comcast customers to stream live TV and watch on-demand shows on their computers and phones, sans set-top boxes. The service will be based on Intel's Puma 6 Silicon, to be released later this year.
But Intel's chip announcements didn't match the theatrical appeal that came from its "perceptual computing" demo. Achin Bhowmik, Intel's director of perceptual computing, showed off a variety of new ways to interact with information onscreen—including voice recognition, gaze-tracking, detailed gesture control, and facial recognition. The idea is to push user interface beyond the limitations of the keyboard, mouse, and even touchscreen.
Bhowmik described how three-dimensional gestural inputs make gameplay more immersive, and make PCs more social and secure. He demonstrated Intel's new facial recognition password system, which the company promises isn't vulnerable to hackers' attempts at faking a face with photos or video.
We've seen elements of this before—Lenovo has a VeriFace facial recognition login system, and Leap Motion (a 2012 Popular Mechanics Breakthrough Award Winner), has impressive gesture recognition. But Intel is looking to integrate and mainstream these technologies with a software development kit and two-lens accessory camera that can track the motions of individual fingers in three planes, and even eye movement. Bhowmik showed how, just by shifting his gaze, he could show a "Where's Waldo?" program that he had found Waldo.
Most of this technology will be rolled out in 2013, but Dell is already shipping a beta version of Intel and Nuance's voice assistant. The software comes in nine languages and can, like the facial recognition, be paired with a regular typed-in password for added security.
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Murphy ties career high with 6 RBIs, Rockies rout Reds 12-2
Sports | July 26, 2019
Colorado Rockies' Daniel Murphy, left, follows through on a three-run double off Cincinnati Reds relief pitcher Jared Hughes during the ninth inning of a baseball game, Friday, July 26, 2019, in Cincinnati. (AP Photo/Gary Landers)
CINCINNATI — Daniel Murphy hit a three-run homer and a three-run double to tie his career high with six RBIs, leading Colorado over the Cincinnati Reds 12-2 on Friday night and giving the Rockies consecutive wins for the first time since June 28 and 29.
Murphy homered in the first off All-Star Luis Castillo (9-4) and doubled in the ninth against Jared Hughes, raising his career average against the Reds to .350.
David Dahl hit a two-run homer, and Charlie Blackmon had three hits and two RBIs for the Rockies, who had lost 16 of 19 before winning 8-7 at Washington on Thursday.
German Marquez (6-9) allowed two runs and five hits in seven innings, struck out seven and walked none, his second straight sharp outing after allowing a career-worst 11 runs against San Francisco.
Castillo (9-4) lost for the first time in four starts since June 29 and tied his career high by giving up six runs in five innings — more runs than he allowed in his previous four combined starts. He allowed eight hits and two walks.
Cincinnati closed to 3-2 on Joey Votto’s RBI groundout in the first and Josh VanMeter’s home run in the second.
Colorado built a 6-2 lead in the fourth on Blackmon’s RBI double down the left-field line that kicked up chalk and Dahl’s homer.
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Is Your Garden Poisoning You?
There's a toxin lurking beneath your lawn
By Markham Heid
You may think the biggest threat to your garden is a determined bunny with a hankering for your spinach, but there’s a much more dangerous threat lurking beneath the surface: lead. And a whole lot of it—especially if you live in or near a major city, finds a new government study.
Although Americans’ exposure to lead has plummeted in recent years—thanks largely to the removal of lead from most types of fuel—the threat persists, says Howard Mielke, PhD, a professor of environmental health at Tulane. Why should you worry? Even very small doses of lead exposure have been shown to cause kidney and arterial disease in adults, according to a recent government study prepared with help from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. There’s also evidence linking lead to hypertension, high blood pressure, and other risk factors for heart disease, the study finds.
“Lead contamination has been a big problem for a long time, and the science is way ahead of our actions or our government policies,” warns Mielke. He says lead contaminants leach into dirt and soil can stay there for decades. That means your garden could be harboring some dangerous pollutants that can make their way into the vegetables or herbs you grow. (Where else does lead lurk? See our 7 Hidden Places Where Lead Lurks.)
Follow these steps to clean up your soil when it’s time to plant your fall garden:
Get it tested. Organic Gardening recommends having your soil tested every three to five years to not only find out about contaminants, but to also check on the nutrient components of your soil. You can send a sample of your soil to your local cooperative extension or to a private laboratory.
Import your soil. While lead contamination is a problem in most cities, Mielke says almost every urban area sits just a few miles from unpolluted stretches of countryside. “If you’ve got a car, a few buckets, and a little time, you have access to all the clean soil you need,” he says.
Move your garden. Building walls—especially painted surfaces—catch and latch onto airborne lead pollutants, Mielke says. When it rains, water carries those pollutants down into the soil at the bottom of the wall. To avoid the “lead reservoirs” at the base of buildings, choose a gardening spot that’s at least five feet away from buildings, Mielke advises.
Lay down a protective barrier. Mielke says you can purchase rolls of geotextile cloth at hardware stores like Home Depot. The next time you’re ready to plant a garden, spread the cloth on top of the soil, and the material will protect your upper layers of fresh soil from the contaminants below. “We get the unwoven type, because the threads are closer together and prevent any upward movement of contaminants,” Mielke says. (New to gardening? See why readers decided to dig the dirt with The Health Benefits of Gardening.)
Nail it. Add a handful of rusty nails to your soil, advises Jeffrey Howard, PhD, a sedimentologist at Wayne State University. Howard found that when iron breaks down, the resulting iron oxide actually attracts and latches onto lead particles, keeping them out of your groundwater and plants. The nails need not be pre-rusted when you add them to your soil; just make sure they’re made of uncoated iron. Old skillets or fireplace tools are also good iron sources.
Markham Heid Markham Heid is an experienced health reporter and writer, has contributed to outlets like TIME, Men’s Health, and Everyday Health, and has received reporting awards from the Society of Professional Journalists and the Maryland, Delaware, and D.C.
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