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Peanut Butter Bomb and the Mango Bang: Secret diary of 'White Widow' terrorist reveals how she planned to open her own juice bar
Samantha Lewthwaite also wrote of her recipe for a happy marriage: 'Wife beautiful, food prepared, kids clean, immediately he will forget the pain of his day'
Widow of July 7 bomber planned classes for pregnant mothers to keep fit with exercises which are '100% safe'
Lewthwaite, 29, is accused of murdering seven in Kenya including two radical Muslim clerics and two Protestant preachers
By Craig Mackenzie
A secret diary kept by fugitive terror suspect Samantha Lewthwaite has revealed her advice for being a good wife and having a happy marriage.
The 'white widow' of the one of the July 7 bombers wrote how she juggled family life with her jihad views while allegedly plotting terrorrist attacks
On marriage she says: 'When a man comes home - wife beautiful, food prepared, kids clean... immediately he will forget the pain of his day. He will always want to come home.'
Fugitive: Samantha Lewthwaite wrote in her diary about how to be a good wife while allegedly plotting terror attacks
Lewthwaite advises women that a good wife should 'protect your hubby's money' and under the heading 'The art of saying sorry' she says women should not be stubborn.
Extracts seen by the Sunday Times, also reveal her plans to open a juice bar and frozen yoghurt stall with 'slimming smoothies' called Peanut Butter Bomb and the Mango Bang.
The diary was found in a police raid at a villa in the Kenyan resort of Mombasa where she was living with her four children before going on the run in December 2011.
The 29-year-old British Muslim convert is the world's most wanted woman after being accused of allegedly ordering the killings of two radical Muslim clerics, two Protestant preachers, and three others with links to terror-group al-Shabaab.
Warrant: Two faces of Samantha Lewthwaite who has been on the run with her children since 2011
In her diary, Lewthwaite, from Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire, covered her 'to do list' for the juice bar with heart-shaped doodles and a drawing of a glass topped with a cocktail umbrella.
She priced the yoghurt at one scoop for 100 Kenyan shillings (70p) or four scoops for 300 shillings.
Lewthwaite described her 'Pregisize' classes for expectant mothers as 'specifically designed aerobic workouts with added strength and toning which are 100% safe.
Each member would get a 10 per cent discount, a 'stylish T-shirt', a monthly newsletter and healthy recipes.
The paper quotes her diary: 'Let us help you to maintain a healthy body and mind during this spiritual journey.'
Attack: The collapsed car park of the Westgate shopping mall in Nairobi where al-Shabab gunmen killed more than 60 people
Wounded: A victim is carried away from the mall. The siege, which lasted several days, ended after soldiers stormed the building and the roof collapsed
Lewthwaite is the widow of 7/7 bomber Germaine Lindsay, who blew himself up on a Piccadilly Line train between King's Cross St Pancras and Russell Square stations.
She was the daughter of a former soldier before converting to Islam.
The convert is linked to the Westgate Mall massacre in Nairobi in which 67 people were killed, and is thought to be hiding in Somalia.
Interpol issued a 'Red Notice' warrant for her arrest shortly after the attacks for terrorist offences in Mombasa dating back to 2011.
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Development Update: Thursday, June 6
By The Futon Critic Staff (TFC)
LOS ANGELES (thefutoncritic.com) -- The latest development news, culled from recent wire reports:
Looking to keep track of all the various projects in development? Click here to visit our signature "Devwatch" section. There visitors can view our listings by network, genre, studio and even development stage (ordered to pilot, cast-contingent, script, etc.). It's updated every day!
BRIARPATCH (USA) - Kim Dickens has joined the cast of the newcomer as Chief of Police Eve Raytek, "an authoritative firecracker who is committed to finding out who killed Allegra's sister. She's a boot-stomping good old girl who's used to operating in an all-male environment. She knows how to do a shot, read a room and get things done." (Deadline.com)
CHILLING ADVENTURES OF SABRINA (Netflix's) - Gavin Leatherwood's Nicholas Scratch and Lachlan Watson's Theo Putnam will both be promoted to regulars for the upcoming second season. (@seewhatsnext)
DUNCANVILLE (FOX) - Riki Lindhome has been tapped to join the upcoming animated series as Kimberly, "Duncan's (Amy Poehler) 12-year-old sister, awkward, emotional, she can hold grudges forever while waiting patiently for revenge." (Deadline.com)
GOOD DOCTOR, THE (ABC) - Executive producer Daniel Dae Kim has signed a first-look deal with Amazon Studios, giving the company first crack at the output from his 3AD banner. (Deadline.com)
GOOD PEOPLE (Amazon) - Tasha Smith is the latest bound for the comedy pilot as Shar Johnson, "head of the campus health center. She and Hazel Miller (Whitney Cummings) are friends from when they went to college there. Shar is exasperated by PC culture and the focus on performative activism, instead of "real" problems such as police brutality and Flint not having clean water." (Deadline.com)
NANCY DREW (The CW) - Larry Teng, who helmed the pilot episode, has inked an overall deal with CBS Television Studios. The pact calls for him to serve as a co-executive producer and in-house director on the series. (Deadline.com)
SWAMP THING (DC Universe) - The streaming service has pulled the plug on the series less than a week into its debut. The series, which will continue to offer new installments on Fridays, was quietly rolled back from 13 to 10 episodes back in April. (Deadline.com)
TOKYO VICE (WarnerMedia OTT, New!) - Ansel Elgort is set to star in a 10-episode drama on the upcoming streaming service based on Jake Adelstein's non-fiction book of the same name. Writer J.T. Rogers (Oslo) and director Destin Daniel Cretton (Short Term 12) are behind the project, which follows "Jake's (Elgort) daily descent into the neon soaked underbelly of Tokyo, where nothing, and no one is truly what or who they seem. Elgort's Jake Adelstein is an American journalist who embeds himself into the Tokyo Vice police squad to reveal corruption." John Lesher, Emily Gerson Saines and Ansel Elgort will also executive produce for Endeavor Content. (Deadline.com)
[june 2019]
· BRIARPATCH (USA)
· CHILLING ADVENTURES OF SABRINA (NETFLIX)
· DEVELOPMENT UPDATE (TFC)
· DUNCANVILLE (FOX)
· GOOD DOCTOR, THE (ABC)
· GOOD PEOPLE (AMAZON)
· NANCY DREW (CW)
· SWAMP THING (DC)
· TOKYO VICE (HBO MAX)
Season Finale of "Party of Five" to Air as Special 90-Minute Episode on March 4
From Sony Pictures Television, "Party of Five" follows the five Acosta children as they navigate daily life struggles to survive as a family unit after their parents are suddenly deported back to Mexico.
"Everything's Gonna Be Okay" to Air Pilot on FX
Look for said telecast on Wednesday, January 22 at 10:00/9:00c.
Freeform Orders Third Season of Critically Acclaimed Hit Series "Good Trouble"
Starring Maia Mitchell, Cierra Ramirez, Sherry Cola, Tommy Martinez, Zuri Adele, Emma Hunton and Josh Pence, the series follows residents of The Coterie as they deal with the consequences of their personal and professional decisions and realize that sometimes standing up for what you believe in comes at a price.
Senioritis Kicks In as "grown-ish" Is Picked Up for Season 4
Starring Yara Shahidi, Trevor Jackson, Francia Raisa, Emily Arlook, Jordan Buhat, Chloe Bailey, Halle Bailey, Luka Sabbat and Diggy Simmons, the series is a contemporary take on the issues that students face in the world of higher education.
Freeform Orders "Last Summer" to Series from Bert V. Royal, Jessica Biel, Michelle Purple, Max Winkler and eOne
The series stars Chiara Aurelia, Mika Abdalla, Michael Landes, Froy Gutierrez, Harley Quinn Smith, Allius Barnes, Blake Lee, Nathaniel Ashton and Brooklyn Sudano.
Showtime(R) Presents "Mo'Nique & Friends: Live from Atlanta" - New Stand-Up Comedy Special to Premiere Friday, February 7 at 10 PM ET/PT
Filmed at the Variety Playhouse in Atlanta, the hour-long special features a variety of talented newcomers including Prince T-Dub, Just Nesh, Tone-X and Correy Bell alongside veteran comedian Donnell Rawlings.
A&E's "Biography" to Premiere "The Nine Lives of Ozzy Osbourne" Detailing the Extraordinary Life and Career of the Rock Legend
Featuring exclusive interviews with Ozzy as he reflects on the many phases of his journey, "The Nine Lives of Ozzy Osbourne" will have its world premiere at SXSW in March and is set to air this summer on A&E.
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TWiki> PoliticalTimeline Web>WebHome (24 Oct 2017, SeanNewton)
Gunwiki's Political Timeline
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Why Mirror?
Locally linked citations mean that if the law changes, it's easy to review all the articles citing that law for continued validity.
Sites change regularly; URLs change and links break. It is not good for the gun community when broken links discourage readers from performing their own legal research.
Some content is prone to vanish. The Bardwel NFA archive is a prime example of this - it seems to have several partial mirrors on the internet, and no primary site, making citations difficult.
Some content primarily gets passed around on message boards. ATF letters, while considered authoritative, are not collated and distributed via any governmental source. The more of these letters which can be pulled into a cohesive archive, the better.
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Federal Bills
HR 34 Active 3/6/17 06/09/17 01/03/17 Rescind Federal gun-free school zone laws, but not prevent state laws on gun-free school zones.
HR 38 Active 3/6/17 06/09/17 01/03/17 Full national reciprocity of CCW's for all CCW permit holders. (States which do not issue permits and do not allow constitutional carry would be exempt)
HR 62 Active 3/6/17 06/09/17 01/03/17 Hire 200 more BATF agents (the opposite of HB 509)
HR 163 Active 3/6/17 06/09/17 01/13/17 Repeal gun manufacturers' protections against liability suits for criminal misuse of their firearms.
HR 256 Active 3/6/17 06/09/17 01/04/17 Provide that dependents of military members are allowed to purchase firearms in the state their sponsor is stationed in?
HR 358 Active 3/6/17 06/09/17 01/06/17 Seems to establish Federal "bright line" safe transport standards for interstate transport of firearms despite local regulations.
HR 367 Active 3/6/17 06/09/17 01/09/17 Hearing Protection Act of 2017, ending the NFA status of suppressors, House bill.
HR 445 Active 3/6/17 06/09/17 01/11/17 Provide Federal money for gun buybacks.
HR 509 Active 3/6/17 06/09/17 01/12/17 Abolish the ATF and move its responsibilities to the FBI and other agencies.
HR 788 Active 3/6/17 06/09/17 02/01/17 Facilitate the use certain of Federal land as public target shooting areas.
HR 810 Active 3/6/17 06/09/17 02/01/17 Affects trafficking of guns. Seems to add additional sentence enhancements for criminals caught selling guns?
HR 861 Active 4/25/17 06/09/17 02/03/17 Terminates EPA 12/31/18. EPA regulations on lead ammunition and ranges could be affected.
SB 59 Active 3/6/17 06/09/17 01/09/17 Hearing Protection Act of 2017, ending the NFA status of suppressors, Senate bill
SB 159 Active 3/6/17 06/09/17 01/17/17 Countermand "Operation Choke Point", which instructs banks to treat firearms dealers as high-risk industries.
SB 373 Active 3/6/17 06/09/17 02/14/17 Produce a report upon hearing loss and tinnitus due to small arms fire. Likely related to the HPA.
SB 1541 Active 7/12/17 7/27/17 7/12/17 Redefined "antique firearm" from 1899 and earlier to 100 years prior (a rolling window like C&R)
2A-relevant Presidential Executive Orders
Sourced from https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/presidential-actions/executive-orders
06/9/17 Last checked Last checked date; no noticeably 2A-impacting executive orders issued since the one below up until this point.
02/24/17 Presidential Executive Order on Enforcing the Regulatory Reform Agenda Requires that each agency devote personnel to reducing excess regulations.
01/30/17 Presidential Executive Order on Reducing Regulation and Controlling Regulatory Costs Affects ATF firearms regulations, among others.
If any given state gets a few entries, it can get split out. For the moment, rather than creating an entire header for one or two bills we're tracking, I'd rather keep one "state bills around the country" table.
California SB497 2/16/17
Signed 10/14/17
Apply '1 per 30 days' rule to all firearms, not just handguns. Exemption for hunters buying non-handguns.
California AB 103 5/15/17
Signed 6/27/17
Extends the assault weapon registration deadline from January 1 2018, to July 1st 2018. Generally renders anyone with an outstanding warrant, a prohibited person as if they had already been convicted of the crime.
California AB 757 2/15/17 Safety Committee-frozen 4/4/17 Establishment of self defense, etc as 'good cause' for CCW in CA.
California AB 424 2/9/17
Remove school administrators' authority to exempt individuals from 626.9.
California AB149 1/10/17
Require that individuals are specifically warned, prior to pleading to felony offenses, that this forfeits their gun rights.
California SB710 3/27/17 Hearing cancelled 2/24/17 Delete felony in 33410 for possession of suppressors, permit suppressed hunting. Unclear if other prohibitions remain.
New Hampshire SB12 1/5/17
Constitutional Carry w/o permit in New Hampshire
Utah HB 198 1/25/17
Reduce the age for concealed carry permit eligibility from 21 to 18.
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Brexit hasn't happened yet, but the fashion exodus has already begun. Craig Green, the rising star of British fashion who has won menswear designer of the year three
After years of bitter arguments, British MPs will on Thursday finally approve the terms of Brexit, paving the way for the UK to leave the EU on January 31.
The EU's top official told Britain on Wednesday that it could lose its open access to the European market if it refused to extend post-Brexit partnership talks beyond
British PM sets out plan for power
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson will set out his plans for government on Thursday following a sweeping election win, focused on delivering Brexit and supporting
London street bans petrol, diesel cars
Petrol and diesel vehicles will be banned from a street in central London in an innovative attempt to reduce pollution, local authorities said.
Gibraltar court extends detention of Iran tanker for 30 days
Gibraltar's Supreme Court ruled Friday that a seized Iranian tanker suspected of breaching sanctions by shipping oil to Syria can be detained for 30 more days,
the British territory's attorney general said.
The Grace 1 supertanker, carrying 2.1 million barrels of oil, was intercepted by British Royal Marines and Gibraltar's police on July 4 as it transited through waters claimed by Gibraltar, which is located on Spain's southern tip.
An initial order by the court authorising the detention of the vessel would lapse after Friday. The order can be renewed for up to 90 days.
"We look forward to continuing to work constructively and positively with officials of the Islamic Republic of Iran to facilitate the release of the Grace 1 pursuant to the satisfaction of all legal requirements," Gibraltar's Chief Minister Fabian Picardo told the territory's parliament.
Picardo said Thursday he had a "constructive and positive" meeting with Iranian officials in London aimed at defusing tensions around the detention of the tanker in the British territory's waters.
Gibraltar and US officials believed the tanker was destined for Syria to deliver oil, in violation of separate sets of EU and US sanctions.
Iran has reacted with fury to what it termed "piracy" and warned it would not let the interception go unanswered.
Last week, a British warship in the Gulf warned off armed Iranian boats that tried to stop a UK supertanker. London has since announced the deployment of two more warships to the Gulf region for the coming months.
The Gibraltar court ruling comes as tensions in the Gulf region mounted Friday after Washington said an Iranian drone was destroyed after threatening an American naval vessel at the entrance to the Strait of Hormuz.
It was believed to be the first US military engagement with Iran following a series of increasingly serious incidents.
Iran denied losing any drones. afp
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The stability and recovery of rib fabrics produced from bulked nylon yarns
Jhangiani, Sunder Bulchand (1966) The stability and recovery of rib fabrics produced from bulked nylon yarns. PhD thesis, University of Glasgow.
With the introduction of bulked synthetic yarns, investigations into the disensional properties of plain fabrics knitted from those yarns have been made and a certain amount of information obtained. In the present work an attempt has been made to extend that investigation to the 1 x 1 rib structure, which in addition to being of considerable commercial importance, is also the basic knitted ribbed structure. For fabrics knitted from bulked yarns, it is not sufficient that they should be only dimensionally stable but that they should process also the properties of case of extensibility and subsequent recovery from that extension. Therefore, the work was designed so as to cover the broad aspect of the properties and performance of rib fabrics. The first part of this thesis is concerned with the dimensional properties of 1 x 1 rib fabrics, whereas the second part deals with the load-strain and clastic recovery charactaristics of those fabrics. All the fabrics used in this work were knitted on a Universal Power Plat Machine without employing any positive feeding device. The influence of various yarn and machine variables such as yarn denier, crisp rigidity, filament denier, method of yarn bulking and alteration of stitch can setting on the dimensional and elastic recovery properties of 1 x 1 rib fabrics have been investigated. The work is concerned with the properties of fabrics knitted from bulked nylon yarns which were processed by false twist crimping and stuffer box bulking methods. The influence of three relaxation processes, steam relaxation, wet relaxation and city tumbling, upon the dimensional stability of fabrics has been investigated. A detailed assement has been made of the various methods of measuring yarn collapsing properties of the bulked yarne used in this work. Explanations have been given for different results obtained when the measurement were made in air after the yarns were given relaxation treatment and those obtained when the measurement were made in water by the standard H.A.T.R.A. crimp rigidity test. The yarn collapsing results have been compared with the performance of those yarns when knitted into fabrics. It has been found that a number of methods used in this work for measuring yarn collapsing properties predict reasonably well the behaviour of yarns comprised of lower denier filaments when in fabric form, but none of these methods appear suitable to predict the performance of yarns composed of higher denier filaments when knitted into fabrics. For such yarns, therefore, a method is required to measure their collapsing properties which would correlate with the actual collapse of these yarns in fabric form. From the geometry of plain knitted fabrics it is known that the length of yarn in a loop and the number of loops per unit area in the fabric are the predominant factors which affect the dimension of a fully relaxed fabric. The effect of yarn and knitting variables on the loop length and stitch density of 1x1 rib fabrics is discussed in the first part of this thesis, which also deals with other fabric properties such as fabric length to width ratio, area shrinkage, thickness, fabric bulk and fabric air permeability measurements. The limited use of the air permeability test as a measure of fabric bulk is shown. In order to calculate the relationship between relaxed and measured stitch length for 1x1 rib fabric, the same method has been used as that for plain knitted fabric and it is observed that the theory developed for the latter fabric is also generally applicable to 1x1 rib fabric. From the measurement of various fabric properties, it has been found that dry tumbling causes maximum collapse of the fabric and that steam relaxation is an ineffective process in this respect.
Adviser: A W Marvin
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Consideration of Italy - 1502nd Meeting 67th Session Committee on Elimination of Discrimination Against Women
4 Jul 2017 -
Delegation of Italy
1. H.E Amb. Maurizio Enrico Serra, Permanent Representative of Italy to United Nations and other International Organizations in Geneva
2. Min Plen. Fabirizio Petri - High-ranking diplomat, President of Inter-ministerial Committee for Human Rights (CIDU)
3. Mrs. Daniela d'Orlandi, First Counsellor, Permanent Representative of Italy to United Nations and other International Organizations in Geneva
4. Ms. Maja Bova - Lawyer, Human Rights Expert at Inter-ministerial Committee for Human Rights (CIDU)
5. Mr. Michele Palma, pro-tempore General Director for International Affairs at Department for Equal Opportunities (DEO) and Director General for Family Policies at Department for Family Policies
6. Ms. Elena Falcomatà, Senior Gender Expert, Department for Equal Opportunities (DEO)
7. Mr. Marino Di Nardo, Senior Gender Expert, Department for Equal Opportunities (DEO)
8. Ms. Carla Marini, Officer at National Office Against Racial Discrimination (UNAR), Department for Equal Opportunities (DEO)
9. Mr. Alfredo Ferrante, Executive of the Department for Family Policies
10. Ms. Antonella Graziadei, Officer, Gender and Family Policies Expert of the Department for Family Policies
11. Ms. Brunella Francero Cattarin, First Executive at General Directorate for General Affairs of the State Police, Department of Public Security
12. Ms. Linda D'Ancona, Magistrate at Minister of Justice's Cabinet
13. Ms. Adriana Ciampa, Executive at General Directorate for Inclusion and Social Policies
14. Ms. Alessandra Baldi, Expert at General Directorate for Students, Integration, and Participation
15. Ms. Assuntina Morresi, Consultant to H.E minister of Health, Ms. Beatrice Lorenzin
16. Ms. Serena Battilomo, Director of Office IX on Protection of Women's Health and Vulnerable Individuals, and Fight Against Inequalities at General Directorate on Health-Care Prevention
17. Ms. Giuseppina Muratore, First researcher, expert of studies on criminality, justice and violence against women
18. Ms. Rosa Cavallaro, Senior Expert on TV and radio monitoring of political and social pluralism at Directorate on Audio-visual content
19. Ms. Claudia Martin-Stern, Interpreter
20. Ms. Emanuela Sebastiani, Interpreter
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Nobel for Cryo-EM
The revolution will not be crystallized: a new method sweeps through structural biology. Move over X-ray crystallography. Cryo-electron microscopy is kicking up a storm by revealing the hidden machinery of the cell by bombarding uncrystallized samples flash-frozen to stability. nature
Jacques Dubochet, Joachim Frank and Richard Henderson were awarded the Nobel prize on 4 October, 2017, for their work in developing cryo-electron microscopy. nature
4.9 Å cryo-EM map of the mammalian 39S mitoribosomal subunit. page
Cryo-EM is suited to large, stable molecules that can withstand electron bombardment without jiggling around — so molecular machines, often built from dozens of proteins, are good targets.
None has proved more suitable than ribosomes, which are braced by rigid twists of RNA. In the past couple of years, ‘ribosomania’ has gripped cryo-EM researchers, and various teams have quickly determined and published dozens of cryo-EM structures of ribosomes from a multitude of organisms, including the first high-resolution models of human ribosomes.
Long after digital cameras had taken the world by storm, many electron microscopists still preferred old-fashioned film because it recorded electrons more efficiently than did digital sensors. But, working with microscope manufacturers, the researchers developed a new generation of ‘direct electron detectors’ that vastly outperforms both film and digital-camera detectors.
Available since about 2012, the detectors can capture quick-fire images of an individual molecule at dozens of frames per second. Researchers such as Scheres, meanwhile, have written sophisticated software programs to morph thousands of 2D images into sharp 3D models that, in many cases, match the quality of those deciphered with crystallography.
Richard Henderson talks to Jim Al-Khalili about half a century of problem solving and the bold strategic decisions that led him to be awarded the 2017 Nobel Prize for Chemistry, together with Joaquim Frank and Jacques Dubochet. bbc
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What Capricor Therapeutics, Inc. (NASDAQ:CAPR) Traders Should Know (2020-01-06)
January 6, 2020 January 6, 2020 Comments Off on What Capricor Therapeutics, Inc. (NASDAQ:CAPR) Traders Should Know (2020-01-06)
REPORTING FOR 2020-01-06 | WCX19.ORG: We have done an in-depth analysis of how CAPR has been trading over the last 2 weeks and the past day especially. On its latest session, Capricor Therapeutics, Inc. (NASDAQ:CAPR) opened at 1.25, reaching a high of 1.32 and a low of 1.22 before closing at a price of 1.26. There was a total volume of 161974.
VOLUME INDICATORS FOR CAPRICOR THERAPEUTICS, INC. (NASDAQ:CAPR): We saw an accumulation-distribution index of 6.44, an on-balance volume of 1.23, chaikin money flow of 1.85714 and a force index of 0.001. There was an ease of movement rating of -0.0022, a volume-price trend of -0.54442 and a negative volume index of 1000.0.
VOLATILITY INDICATORS FOR CAPRICOR THERAPEUTICS, INC. (NASDAQ:CAPR): We noted an average true range of 0.14388, bolinger bands of 1.23914, an upper bollinger band of 1.21086, lower bollinger band of 1.22, a bollinger high band indicator of 1.0, bollinger low band indicator of 1.0, a central keltner channel of 1.26333, high band keltner channel of 1.19333, low band keltner channel of 1.33333, a high band keltner channel indicator of 1.0 and a low band keltner channel indicator of 1.0. There was a donchian channel high band of 1.22, a donchian channel low band of 1.22, a donchian channel high band indicator of 1.0, and a donchian channel low band indicator of 1.0.
TREND INDICATORS FOR CAPRICOR THERAPEUTICS, INC. (NASDAQ:CAPR): We calculated a Moving Average Convergence Divergence (MACD) of 0.00022, a MACD signal of 0.00012, a MACD difference of 0.0001, a fast Exponential Moving Average (EMA) indicator of 1.22, a slow Exponential Moving Average (EMA) indicator of 1.22, an Average Directional Movement Index (ADX) of unknown, an ADX positive of 20.0, an ADX negative of 20.0, a positive Vortex Indicator (VI) of 1.0, a negative VI of 1.0, a trend vortex difference of 0.25353, a trix of -35.83515, a Mass Index (MI) of 1.0, a Commodity Channel Index (CCI) of 66.66667, a Detrended Price Oscillator (DPO) of 0.97401, a KST Oscillator (KST) of -443.94055 and a KST Oscillator (KST Signal) of -443.94055 (leaving a KST difference of 1.13947). We also found an Ichimoku rating of 1.285, an Ichimoku B rating of 1.285, a Ichimoku visual trend A of 2.26849, an Ichimoku visual trend B of 2.06967, an Aroon Indicator (AI) up of 4.0 and an AI indicator down of 4.0. That left a difference of 4.0.
MOMENTUM INDICATORS FOR CAPRICOR THERAPEUTICS, INC. (NASDAQ:CAPR): We found a Relative Strength Index (RSI) of 50.0, a Money Flow Index (MFI) of 50.04864, a True Strength Index (TSI) of -100.0, an ultimate oscillator of -11.44152, a stochastic oscillator of 142.85714, a stochastic oscillator signal of 142.85714, a Williams %R rating of 42.85714 and an awesome oscillator of -0.0004.
RETURNS FOR CAPRICOR THERAPEUTICS, INC. (NASDAQ:CAPR): There was a daily return of -44.39405, a daily log return of 0.81633 and a cumulative return of 0.81967.
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Hawkeyes Land AAU Hoops Standout Ellingson
Originally posted on www.wcfcourier.com by Steve Batterson
SUSSEX, Wis. - Brady Ellingson caught Fran McCaffery’s eye as the Iowa basketball coach surveyed talent on the summer AAU circuit.
Tuesday, the sharp-shooting 6-foot-3 guard from suburban Milwaukee committed to the Hawkeye program after eying the Iowa campus during a weekend visit to Iowa City.
“Blessed to say that I’m Officially committed to the University of Iowa,’’ Ellingson wrote on his twitter account, making him the first member of the Hawkeyes’ 2014 recruiting class.
Ellingson averaged 22.7 points per game last season for Hamilton High School in Sussex, Wis., where he was named the player of the year in the Greater Metro Conference.
But, it was on the AAU courts with the team Ray Allen Select where Ellingson first attracted interest from Iowa, which offered him a scholarship earlier this month.
“I feel like I helped myself this summer and that opened some doors for me,’’ said Ellingson, who had offers from Missouri and Utah but ended up selecting the Hawkeyes over early offers from San Diego and Oakland.
“To have a chance to go to Iowa and play in the Big Ten, it’s something that I worked hard for and to get an offer from them, it’s pretty exciting. I feel good about it.’’
Ellingson will sign his letter of intent with Iowa on Nov. 13, the first day of the NCAA’s early signing period for current high school seniors.
The Hawkeyes have four available scholarships for the 2014 recruiting class and Ellingson was one of four players to visit the Iowa campus last weekend. The other shooting guard who visited last weekend, 6-5 Scott Lindsey of Oak Park Fenwick in suburban Chicago, made a verbal commitment to Northwestern on Sunday.
Iowa will host the point guard from the Ray Allen Select team, 6-2 Riley LaChance of Brookfield, Wis., on a three-day official visit beginning Thursday. LaChance visited Minnesota last weekend and has also taken official visits to Michigan State and Vanderbilt.
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By: Jay Moye | Jun 20, 2019
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For more than 30 years, Sprite? has supported and embraced the music, culture and community of hip-hop in a refreshingly real way by authentically championing the genre’s top names and underground artists alike.
Now the brand is bringing the genre’s emerging talent to the forefront through the “Thirst For Yours” campaign. The multi-year platform will spotlight tastemakers and innovators – musicians, designers, artists, photographers and more – who are shaping the future of hip-hop culture through both their craft and creativity.
Launching today, “Thirst For Yours” will feature a series of TV spots, social media content, influencer engagement, outdoor advertising and experiential activations tapping into key cultural moments within the spaces of music, art, film and fashion.
“Our core fanbase of 13 to 24 year-olds cares deeply about artists who are not only talented, but also cultural curators and arbiters who are making a mark on the world,” said Aaliyah Shafiq, group director, Sprite. “Our connection to hip-hop music is at the heart of ‘Thirst for Yours’, but we’re leaning into our audience’s related passion points.”
“Two commercials shot in the reigning home of both hip-hop and Sprite – Atlanta – “The Artist” (:30) and “The Empire” (:30) chronicle the journeys of an ambitious young rapper and fashion designer from everyday life to superstardom as their dreams become a reality”, said Dipal Shah, director, integrated marketing communications (IMC), Sprite.
Sprite tapped a pair of up-and-coming artists who embody the “Thirst For Yours” mentality and authenticity – Atlanta-based rapper Kodie Shane and rising fashion designer and current Clark Atlanta University student Seth Giscombe – to star in the spots, which were directed by the award-winning filmmaker duo, We Are From L.A. Rachel Morrison served as Director of Photography for each spot. She is best known for her work on Black Panther, Fruitvale Station and Mudbound, the latter of which solidified her as the first female nominee within the Best Cinematography category at the Academy Awards.
“The Artist” and “The Empire” will debut during the June 23rd telecast of the 2019 BET Awards and run across Sprite’s social and digital channels.
“Thirst For Yours” builds on the March launch of Sprite Way, a community-powered Spotify playlist and podcast highlighting unsigned hip-hop and R&B talent, and the #GetVocal campaign launched last fall, which invites fans to download a custom beat created by Izze the Producer and record a 60-second topical freestyle to share on social media. Stefan Miller, senior brand manager, Sprite, called “Thirst for Yours” a modern-day evolution of the seminal “Obey Your Thirst” campaign, which promoted self-expression and individuality.
“The ‘Yours’ in ‘Thirst for Yours’ is intentionally open-ended,” he explained. “We want the community to interpret and define it in their own unique way. And while our fanbase hasn’t changed over the years, the world around them has. So not only does this work represent a pivot in how we’re talking to our fans – by shifting focus from Sprite to them – but it’s also a reflection of what’s happening in hip-hop culture.”
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The “Thirst For Yours” campaign will include several activations where hip-hop music, fashion, art and culture intersect, starting with the BET Experience Weekend and the 2019 BET Awards in Los Angeles, CA. On Friday, June 21, Sprite will host an exclusive media event celebrating “Thirst For Yours” at The Terrace at L.A. Live. Joined by hip-hop talent, influencers and Sprite brand executives, the event will culminate with a panel discussion featuring Shane, Giscombe and Sprite Way talent, who will discuss their personal journeys and share how Sprite has helped advance their careers.
Sprite will partner with the BET Experience at L.A. Live on June 21 and 22 for DJ Hed Presents Kicksperience sponsored by Sprite. The immersive pop-up celebrating the rise of sneaker culture will feature Sprite photo booths, sampling stations and performances from Sprite? partners Rapsody, Kamaiyah and Villain Park. Featured Sprite Way artist Bino also will perform on the main stage during Saturday night’s BET Experience.
Learn more about “Thirst For Yours” at Sprite.com, or follow @Sprite on Instagram, Twitter and Facebook and via the #ThirstForYours hashtag.
Sprite’s ties to hip-hop date back to 1986 when rapper Kurtis Blow appeared in a commercial for the brand, and continued into the 1990s with the “I Like the Sprite in You" campaign featuring several of the decade’s top artists. In 1994, Sprite cemented its status as the signature soft drink of hip-hop culture with the launch of a groundbreaking series of ads under the “Obey Your Thirst” tagline.
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Paul Hart Keilman
Joined Squadron 8-Mar-42;ETO/Flight Echelon 2-Oct-42. Shot down 27 January 1943 in B-24D 41-23690 while serving as Bombardier. Killed in Action (KIA). MACR and Losses report a collision with an enemy aircraft FW 190 (yellow 3 serial 5604) of JG/1 3 Staffel piloted by Fw Fritz Koch. Both planes crashed into the Waddenzee near Harlingen, Holland.
44th Bomb Group The Flying Eightballs
The 44th Bombardment Group (Heavy) was activated 15-January-1942 at McDill Field, Florida and equipped with B-24Cs. The Group moved to Barksdale Field, Louisiana and acted as a training unit for the 90th 93rd and 98th Bomb Groups and flew anti...
On 27-Jan-43 B-24D 41-23690, 44BG/68BS was on a mission to bomb the naval installation at Wilhelmshaven, Germany. The pilot was unable to find the target because of weather and navigation problems. The aircraft sustained a mid-air collision with and...
VIII Bomber Command 31
First successful attack by 8th Air Force into Germany. The 306th Bomb Group gets the distinction of being the first American Bomb Group to drop bombs on Germany. O Original target was Vegesack but clouded over. Col. Frank Armstrong lead the group. Two...
Shipdham
Shipdham was built in 1941-1942, the first US heavy bomber airfield in the English county of Norfolk. It was a standard design, with T2-type hangars and a domestic site dispersed to the south east. Improvements were carried out to increase the number...
Born Hobson, Montana 59452, Verenigde Staten 26 June 1919
Paul Hart Keilman Born June 26, 1919.
Born in Hobson Montana, son of Nicholas Keilman and Caroline Hart Keilman.
Paul was a student at the University of Montana in Missoula when he enlisted.
There were four Keilman brothers and two of his brothers were Airforce pilots during WWII.
Killed in Action (KIA) Waddenzee 27 January 1943
Killed when aircraft sustained a mid-air collision with and FW-190 and crashed into the Waddenzee, Holland. His remains have never been recovered.
Commemorated Netherlands American Cemetery, 6269 NA Migraten, Netherlands 1945
Commemorated on the Wall of the Missing, Netherlands American Cemetery.
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25 May 2016 08:50:13 Flying8ball Changes to middlename, events and media associations
Updated bio and Picture received from living relatives
15 February 2015 20:49:06 Lee8thbuff Changes to service number, highest rank, biography, awards, events, place associations and mission associations
ee Cunningham 15-Feb-2015. Added SN and KIA event per MACR 15637; Added Commemoration Event and decorations per American Battle Monuments Commission (ABMC) record; made connection to Place and Mission within existing website data; Added crew position to Biography and other details per "Losses of the 8th & 9th Air Forces" Stan Bishop & John A. Hey MBE.
Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / MACR 15637 / MACR 15637, Losses of the 8th and 9th AFs Vol. 1 p. 68 by Bishop and Hey , 44th BG Roll of Honor and Casualties by Lundy pp. 41-42 / Paul Andrews, Project Bits and Pieces, 8th Air Force Roll of Honor database / Webb Todd
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S: (n) Saprolegnia, genus Saprolegnia (aquatic fungi growing chiefly on plant debris and animal remains)
member holonym
member meronym
S: (n) fungus genus (includes lichen genera)
direct hyponym / full hyponym
S: (n) Erysiphe, genus Erysiphe (genus of powdery mildews)
S: (n) Neurospora, genus Neurospora (genus of fungi with black perithecia used extensively in genetic research; includes some forms with orange spore masses that cause severe damage in bakeries)
S: (n) Ceratostomella, genus Ceratostomella (genus of fungi forming continuous hyaline spores)
S: (n) Claviceps, genus Claviceps (fungi parasitic upon the ovaries of various grasses)
S: (n) Xylaria, genus Xylaria (type genus of Xylariaceae; fungi with perithecia in the upper part of erect black woody stromata)
S: (n) Rosellinia, genus Rosellinia (fungi having smooth perithecia with dark one-celled ascospores)
S: (n) Helotium, genus Helotium (type genus of the Helotiaceae)
S: (n) genus Sclerotinia (large genus of ascomycetous fungi including various destructive plant pathogens)
S: (n) Scleroderma, genus Scleroderma (genus of poisonous fungi having hard-skinned fruiting bodies: false truffles)
S: (n) Tulostoma, genus Tulostoma, Tulestoma, genus Tulestoma (type genus of the Tulostomaceae)
S: (n) Rhizopogon, genus Rhizopogon (a genus of fungi having subterranean sporophores resembling tubers)
S: (n) Truncocolumella, genus Truncocolumella (a genus of fungi belonging to the family Rhizopogonaceae)
S: (n) genus Mucor (type genus of the Mucoraceae; genus of molds having cylindrical or pear-shaped sporangia not limited in location to points where rhizoids develop)
S: (n) genus Rhizopus (a genus of rot-causing fungi having columnar hemispherical aerial sporangia anchored to the substrate by rhizoids)
S: (n) Entomophthora, genus Entomophthora (type genus of the Entomophthoraceae; fungi parasitic on insects)
S: (n) genus Dictostylium (genus of slime molds that grow on dung and decaying vegetation)
S: (n) Blastocladia, genus Blastocladia (a genus of fungi of the family Blastodiaceae)
S: (n) Synchytrium, genus Synchytrium (simple parasitic fungi including pond scum parasites)
S: (n) Peronospora, genus Peronospora (genus of destructive downy mildews)
S: (n) Albugo, genus Albugo (type genus of the Albuginaceae; fungi causing white rusts)
S: (n) genus Pythium (destructive root-parasitic fungi)
S: (n) Phytophthora, genus Phytophthora (destructive parasitic fungi causing brown rot in plants)
S: (n) Plasmodiophora, genus Plasmodiophora (type genus of Plasmodiophoraceae comprising minute plant parasitic fungi similar to and sometimes included among the slime molds)
S: (n) Tuber, genus Tuber (type genus of the Tuberaceae: fungi whose fruiting bodies are typically truffles)
S: (n) Hydnum, genus Hydnum (type genus of Hydnaceae)
S: (n) genus Lecanora (type genus of Lecanoraceae; crustaceous lichens)
S: (n) genus Roccella (chiefly fruticose maritime rock-inhabiting lichens)
S: (n) Pertusaria, genus Pertusaria (crustose lichens that are a source of the dye archil and of litmus)
S: (n) Usnea, genus Usnea (widely distributed lichens usually having a greyish or yellow pendulous freely branched thallus)
S: (n) Evernia, genus Evernia (lichens of the family Usneaceae having a pendulous or shrubby thallus)
S: (n) Ramalina, genus Ramalina (shrubby lichens of the family Usneaceae having a flattened thallus)
S: (n) Alectoria, genus Alectoria (lichens having dark brown erect or pendulous much-branched cylindrical thallus)
S: (n) Cladonia, genus Cladonia (type genus of Cladoniaceae; lichens characterized by a crustose thallus and capitate fruiting bodies borne on simple or branched podetia)
S: (n) Parmelia, genus Parmelia (type genus of the Parmeliaceae; a large genus of chiefly alpine foliaceous lichens)
S: (n) Cetraria, genus Cetraria (foliose lichens chiefly of northern latitudes)
S: (n) Agaricus, genus Agaricus (type genus of Agaricaceae; gill fungi having brown spores and including several edible species)
S: (n) Lentinus, genus Lentinus (a genus of fungus belonging to the family Tricholomataceae)
S: (n) Amanita, genus Amanita (genus of widely distributed agarics that have white spores and are poisonous with few exceptions)
S: (n) Cantharellus, genus Cantharellus (a well-known genus of fungus; has funnel-shaped fruiting body; includes the chanterelles)
S: (n) Omphalotus, genus Omphalotus (a genus of fungi with a depressed disc in the cap)
S: (n) Coprinus, genus Coprinus (genus of black-spotted agarics in which the cap breaks down at maturity into an inky fluid; sometimes placed in its own family Coprinaceae)
S: (n) Lactarius, genus Lactarius (large genus of agarics that have white spore and contain a white or milky juice when cut or broken; includes both edible and poisonous species)
S: (n) Marasmius, genus Marasmius (chiefly small mushrooms with white spores)
S: (n) Pleurotus, genus Pleurotus (agarics with white spores and caps having an eccentric stem; an important mushroom of Japan)
S: (n) Pholiota, genus Pholiota (genus of gilled agarics of Europe and North America having brown spores and an annulus; grows on open ground or decaying wood)
S: (n) Russula, genus Russula (large genus of fungi with stout stems and white spores and neither annulus nor volva; brittle caps of red or purple or yellow or green or blue; differs from genus Lactarius in lacking milky juice)
S: (n) Stropharia, genus Stropharia, ring-stalked fungus (genus of gill fungi with brown spores that is closely related to Agaricus; here placed in its own family Strophariaceae)
S: (n) Entoloma, genus Entoloma (agarics with pink spores but lacking both volva and annulus (includes some that are poisonous))
S: (n) genus Chlorophyllum (a genus of fungus belonging to the family Lepiotaceae)
S: (n) genus Lepiota (agarics with white spores that includes several edible and poisonous mushrooms: parasol mushrooms)
S: (n) Corticium, genus Corticium (genus of fungi having simple smooth sporophores; some are parasitic on wood or economic crops; some species formerly placed in form genus Rhizoctinia)
S: (n) Pellicularia, genus Pellicularia (genus of fungi having the hymenium in the form of a crust; some species formerly placed in form genus Rhizoctinia)
S: (n) Tricholoma, genus Tricholoma (agarics with white spores and a fleshy stalk and notched gills; of various colors both edible and inedible)
S: (n) Volvaria, genus Volvaria (agarics having pink spores and a distinct volva)
S: (n) Pluteus, genus Pluteus, roof mushroom (a large genus of fungi belonging to the family Pluteaceae; the shape of the cap resembles a roof; often abundant early in the summer)
S: (n) Volvariella, genus Volvariella (an important genus of mushrooms in the Orient)
S: (n) Clitocybe, genus Clitocybe (a genus of agarics with white to pale yellow spore deposits and fleshy stalks centrally attached to the cap and closely attached gills)
S: (n) Flammulina, genus Flammulina (a genus of agarics)
S: (n) Saccharomyces, genus Saccharomyces (single-celled yeasts that reproduce asexually by budding; used to ferment carbohydrates)
S: (n) Schizosaccharomyces, genus Schizosaccharomyces (type and only genus of Schizosaccharomycetaceae; comprises the fission yeasts)
S: (n) Eurotium, genus Eurotium (a genus of fungi belonging to the order Eurotiales)
S: (n) Aspergillus, genus Aspergillus (genus of common molds causing food spoilage and some pathogenic to plants and animals)
S: (n) Thielavia, genus Thielavia (genus of fungi having spherical brown perithecia and some conidia borne in chains; cause root rot)
S: (n) Peziza, genus Peziza (type genus of the Pezizaceae: a variety of cup fungus)
S: (n) Plectania, genus Plectania (genus of fungi in the family Pezizaceae closely related to and often included in genus Peziza)
S: (n) Morchella, genus Morchella (genus of edible fungi: morel)
S: (n) Wynnea, genus Wynnea (a genus of fungi belonging to the family Sarcoscyphaceae)
S: (n) genus Helvella (type genus of the Helvellaceae)
S: (n) genus Discina (a genus of fungi of the family Helvellaceae with a cup-shaped or saucer-shaped fruiting body and ornamented spores)
S: (n) genus Gyromitra (a genus of fungi of the family Helvellaceae with a fertile portion that is tan to brown)
S: (n) Phallales, order Phallales (order of fungi comprising the stinkhorns and related forms whose mature hymenium is slimy and fetid; sometimes placed in subclass Homobasidiomycetes)
S: (n) Phallus, genus Phallus (genus of fungi having the cap or pileus hanging free around the stem)
S: (n) Dictyophera, genus Dictyophera (closely related to genus Phallus distinguished by an indusium hanging like a skirt from below the pileus)
S: (n) Mutinus, genus Mutinus (a genus of fungi belonging to the family Phallaceae)
S: (n) Clathrus, genus Clathrus (type genus of the Clathraceae)
S: (n) Pseudocolus, genus Pseudocolus (a genus of fungi belonging to the family Clathraceae)
S: (n) Lycoperdon, genus Lycoperdon (genus of fungi whose fruiting body tapers toward a base consisting of spongy mycelium)
S: (n) Calvatia, genus Calvatia (genus of puffballs having outer casings whose upper parts break at maturity into angular pieces to expose the spores)
S: (n) Geastrum, genus Geastrum (type genus of Geastraceae; fungi whose outer peridium when dry splits into starlike segments)
S: (n) Radiigera, genus Radiigera (a genus of fungus belonging to the family Geastraceae)
S: (n) Astreus, genus Astreus (a genus of fungi belonging to the family Geastraceae)
S: (n) Nidularia, genus Nidularia (type genus of the Nidulariaceae)
S: (n) Gastrocybe, genus Gastrocybe (a genus of fungi of the family Secotiaceae)
S: (n) Macowanites, genus Macowanites (a stout-stemmed genus of fungus belonging to the family Secotiaceae having fruiting bodies that never expand completely)
S: (n) Gastroboletus, genus Gastroboletus (a genus of fungi belonging to the family Secotiaceae; they resemble boletes but the spores are not discharged from the basidium)
S: (n) Albatrellus, genus Albatrellus (a genus of fungi belonging to the family Polyporaceae)
S: (n) Neolentinus, genus Neolentinus (a genus of fungi belonging to the family Polyporaceae)
S: (n) Nigroporus, genus Nigroporus (a genus of fungi belonging to the family Polyporaceae)
S: (n) Oligoporus, genus Oligoporus (a genus of fungi belonging to the family Polyporaceae)
S: (n) Polyporus, genus Polyporus (type genus of the Polyporaceae; includes important pathogens of e.g. birches and conifers)
S: (n) Fistulina, genus Fistulina (fungi having each pore separate though crowded)
S: (n) Fomes, genus Fomes (genus of bracket fungi forming corky or woody perennial shelflike sporophores often of large size; includes some that cause destructive heartrot in trees)
S: (n) Boletus, genus Boletus (type genus of Boletaceae; genus of soft early-decaying pore fungi; some poisonous and some edible)
S: (n) Fuscoboletinus, genus Fuscoboletinus (a genus of fungi belonging to the family Boletaceae)
S: (n) Leccinum, genus Leccinum (a genus of fungi belonging to the family Boletaceae)
S: (n) Phylloporus, genus Phylloporus (a genus of fungi belonging to the family Boletaceae)
S: (n) Suillus, genus Suillus (a genus of fungi belonging to the family Boletaceae)
S: (n) Strobilomyces, genus Strobilomyces (fungi similar to Boletus but with a shaggy scaly cap)
S: (n) Boletellus, genus Boletellus (a genus of fungi belonging to the family Boletaceae)
S: (n) Tremella, genus Tremella (fungi with yellowish gelatinous sporophores having convolutions resembling those of the brain)
S: (n) Auricularia, genus Auricularia (type genus of the Auriculariaceae)
S: (n) Dacrymyces, genus Dacrymyces (type genus of the Dacrymycetaceae: fungi with a bifurcate basidium that lacks septa)
S: (n) Melampsora, genus Melampsora (rusts having sessile one-celled teliospores in a single layer)
S: (n) Cronartium, genus Cronartium (rust fungi having aecia produced in raised or swollen sori and teliospores borne in waxy columns)
S: (n) Puccinia, genus Puccinia (type genus of the Pucciniaceae; a large genus of parasitic fungi including many that are destructive to various economic plants)
S: (n) Gymnosporangium, genus Gymnosporangium (genus of fungi that produce galls on cedars and other conifers of genera Juniperus and Libocedrus and causes rust spots on apples and pears and other plants of family Rosaceae)
S: (n) Ustilago, genus Ustilago (type genus of the Ustilaginaceae; genus comprising the loose smuts)
S: (n) Tilletia, genus Tilletia (a genus of fungi belonging to the family Tilletiaceae)
S: (n) Urocystis, genus Urocystis (a genus of smut fungi belonging to the family Tilletiaceae)
S: (n) Septobasidium, genus Septobasidium (type genus of Septobasidiaceae: smooth shelf fungi usually having a well-developed sometimes thick-walled hypobasidium)
S: (n) Hygrocybe, genus Hygrocybe (a genus of fungi belonging to the family Hygrophoraceae)
S: (n) Hygrophorus, genus Hygrophorus (a genus of fungi belonging to the family Hygrophoraceae)
S: (n) Hygrotrama, genus Hygrotrama (a genus of fungi belonging to the family Hygrophoraceae)
S: (n) Neohygrophorus, genus Neohygrophorus (a genus of fungi belonging to the family Hygrophoraceae)
S: (n) Cortinarius, genus Cortinarius (the largest genus in the Agaricales; agarics having rusty spores and prominent cortinae (cobwebby partial veils))
S: (n) Gymnopilus, genus Gymnopilus (a genus of fungus characterized by the orange color of the spore deposit)
S: (n) genus Verticillium (genus of imperfect fungi having conidia borne singly at the apex of whorled branchlets; cause wilt diseases)
S: (n) Trichophyton, genus Trichophyton (a genus of fungus of the family Moniliaceae; causes ringworm and favus)
S: (n) Microsporum, genus Microsporum (a genus of fungus of the family Moniliaceae; causes ringworm)
S: (n) genus Monilia (genus of parasitic yeastlike imperfect fungi having spherical or oval conidia in branched chains; some species usually placed in other genera especially genus Candida)
S: (n) genus Candida (a genus of yeastlike imperfect fungi; sometimes included in genus Monilia of the family Moniliaceae)
S: (n) Cercosporella, genus Cercosporella (form genus of imperfect fungi lacking pigment in the spores and conidiophores)
S: (n) Penicillium, genus Penicillium (genus of fungi commonly growing as green or blue molds on decaying food; used in making cheese and as a source of penicillin)
S: (n) Blastomyces, genus Blastomyces (genus of pathogenic yeastlike fungi)
S: (n) Cercospora, genus Cercospora (form genus of imperfect fungi that are leaf parasites with long slender spores)
S: (n) Ustilaginoidea, genus Ustilaginoidea (genus of imperfect fungi causing plant diseases like smut)
S: (n) Tubercularia, genus Tubercularia (type genus of the Tuberculariaceae; fungi with nodules of red or pink conidia; some cause diebacks of woody plants)
S: (n) genus Fusarium (a form genus of mostly plant parasites some of which cause dry rot; in humans a species can cause inflammation of cornea leading to blindness)
S: (n) genus Rhizoctinia, form genus Rhizoctinia (form genus of imperfect fungi some species of which are now placed in genera Pellicularia and Corticium because their perfect stages have been found)
S: (n) Ozonium, genus Ozonium (form genus of imperfect fungi)
S: (n) Sclerotium, genus Sclerotium (form genus of sterile imperfect fungi; many form sclerotia; some cause sclerotium disease in plants)
S: (n) Geoglossum, genus Geoglossum (type genus of the Geoglossaceae comprising the earthtongues)
S: (n) Armillaria, genus Armillaria (genus of edible mushrooms having white spores an annulus and blue juice; some are edible; some cause root rot)
S: (n) Armillariella, genus Armillariella (a honey-colored diminutive form of genus Armillaria; grows in clusters; edible (when cooked) but most attention has been on how to get rid of it)
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Isabel Reche
Departamento de Ecología – UGR
Good moments
My work is focused mostly on two intersecting realms: dissolved and particulate organic matter and microorganisms. I like (almost) everything of them from biology to chemistry.
Spectroscopic properties of dissolved organic matter and bio- and photo reactivity in aquatic ecosystems
Dissolved organic matter (DOM) in aquatic ecosystems includes a broad suite of optically active (chromophoric) compounds that play a significant role in the cycling of carbon and other elements as it mediates photochemical reactions and light attenuation in water column. We have been studying photochemical processes as photobleaching and photohumification in diverse ecosystems ranged from boreal to alpine lakes and in marine ecosystems as well. We have focused on the bacterial generation of chromophoric organic carbon as an important direct source of optically labile compounds with further consequences for carbon processing by bacteria.
During the Malaspina Circumnavigation 2010 we performed a global inventory of fluorescent and chromophoric dissolved organic matter and determined their long-term drivers. This last research was mostly the dissertation of Teresa S. Catalá (please see in publication list).
Interface between dissolved and particulate organic matter: selfassembly, aggregation, and sedimentation. Exopolymer particles as major POM components.
The operative discrimination between dissolved (DOM) and particulate organic matter (POM) is a major issue with obvious consequences for carbon cycle. POM settles down by gravity exporting C from surface to deep waters whereas DOM is retained into the water column. Most studies analysing this interface have been focused on biological issues as microbial DOM-POM conversion. However, the abiotic transformation of DOM into POM by selfassembly, coalescence and/or changes in phase transitions associated as pH is poorly known and represents an alternative pathway to microbial loop. We are studying the chemical and environmental factors that regulate abiotic DOM-POM interface using the polymer gel theory as a theoretical framework. We have paid a particular emphasis on exopolymer particles derived from phytoplankton and bacteria in the dissertations of E. Ortega-Retuerta and Ignacio P. Mazuecos (please see in the publication list).
Influence of dust inputs in remote aquatic ecosystems: global change implications
Desertification and changes in the land use are promoting a considerable increase of dust content in the atmosphere with implications for global change. This increase in soil-derived aerosols is affecting the radiative balance of the atmosphere and particles, inorganic and organic nutrients, pollutants, and microorganisms are also mobilized. We are studying the mineral and organic compounds of aerosols with a special emphasis on Saharan dust outbreaks. We are mostly focused on water soluble organic matter derived from aerosols using diverse techniques ranging from stable isotopes to spectroscopy (fluorescence and absorption) and its effects on remote lakes. More recently, we are assessing the role of aerosols as a vehicle of long-range transport of microorganisms and their colonizer ability. We are determining their loading, viability, and potential success of airborne bacteria in remote lakes with high ecological value. (Figure from Mladenov et al. 2011, please see in the publication list).
Microbial biogeography: structuring factors and dispersal
Most studies on the factors shaping bacterial community structure have been focused on the role of substrate availability, productivity, environmental stability and competitive, predation or parasitic interactions. Only recently, historical factors of geographical location are starting to be considered. Empirical evidences suggest a considerable role of the spatial structure on microbial community composition. This approach has an understandable influence from macroecology principles and is opening new insights into bacterial community structure studies.
We have explored the role of geographical location and the long-range dispersal by atmospheric dust mostly in alpine lakes. More recently, in the context of the FLAMENCO project we are working on the role of flamingos as dispersal vectors of prokaryotes and on the structure of microbial communities in salinity gradients (salters, marshes and brackish waters)
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Primeval: Season Two (2007)
Season Two starts with Nick Cutter freaking out that the time-line has been changed and no one believes him that this has happened. Also, the organization he works for his now huge, with a large staff. A publicist is hired to help cover up any monster sightings and the person hired is Jenny Lewis, a dead-ringer for Claudia Brown. She looks the same but her personality is totally different and Nick has very mixed feelings for her.
The season features giant worms appearing in a building, an Imperial Mammoth that has appeared in the middle of a freeway, giant sand scorpions, and a seal-like creature from the future that may be descended from mankind. The vicious bat-apes from the future also return.
Chemistry starts between Connor and Abby, especially when Connor starts dating a new girl.
Helen returns, with shorter hair and a Mad Max-like outfit, and she infiltrates the government organization. She wants to intentionally change time again and if she can't convince her husband Nick she'll take Stephen Hart. In fact, Hart starts to believe her tall tales and ends up making the ultimate sacrifice to save his friends.
The episode ends with Helen surrounded by many versions of one of her lackey's, who was killed in an earlier episode, which suggests there are many different realities out there. So does this mean that for Nick Cutter time has been changed or that he's simply in a different reality than Season One?
Season two is more action oriented than the first season and poses even more questions for Season Three.
For more info on the show to to www.itv.com/primeval
» Search Database for Primeval: Season Two (2007)
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BAseball Reality Tour
Baseball views combining memories, math, and love for the game.
Rookie of the Year Ballot
The Seamheads Postseason Award Ballots that we shared last month didn't ask for Rookie of the Year votes. Here is our unsolicited Rookie of the Year ballot for the ol' blog.
American League Rookie of the Year
1.) Elvis Andrus
If he could learn to hit a bit, he could be the AL's version of what Jose Reyes was supposed to be.
2.) Rick Porcello
Loyal readers of this space know how much we appreciate Porcello. He had an incredible season, as a 20-year old who flourished a rotation spot for a team that was competitive through 163 games. He didn't strike out a lot of guys, but I think some on the job training in his early 20's could teach him a thing, or two, about strikeout pitches.
3.) Gordon Beckham
Bechham was a big part of the White Sox getting on track this season. With Kenny Williams trading for Mark Teahen, Beckham will be moving back to second base next season, upping his fantasy value along the way.
Mention: Jeff Niemann, Brett Anderson, Nolan Reimold, Andrew Bailey
National League Rookie of the Year
1.) Chris Coghlan
Coghlan was under the radar, with a .368 OBP in June, slowed down a bit in July... and then, he just got scorching hot. His Batting Averages in August, September, & October were: .385, .382, .462. (Also look for Coghlan to move to move to 2nd base next year, if/when the Marlins trade Dan Uggla.)
2.) Tommy Hanson
Some numbers: 11 Wins in 21 starts, 2.89 ERA, 522 batters faced, 105 Hits, 46 walks.
3.) Andrew McCutchen
Anyone who has seen this guy play immediately saw the talent, quick swing, tremendous speed, and exciting style. Yes, I just went from numbers for Hanson and hyperbole for McCutchen. Most of McCutchen's numbers don't jump out, but here are a couple of doozies... McCutchen made the league minimum salary ($400,000). He was a midseason call-up, so he only played 108 games. His performance for the Pirates was valued at 15.8 million dollars, in 108 games.
Mention: Dexter Fowler, JA Happ, Casey McGehee, Randy Wells
Labels: Andrew McCutcheon, Brett Anderson, Casey McGehee, Chris Coghlan, Dexter Fowler, Elvis Andrus, Gordon Beckham, JA Happ, Jeff Niemann, Randy Wells, Rick Porcello, Tommy Hanson
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Bassanina ИСКУССТВО ВЫПЕЧКИ
Forma s.r.l. guarantees the products to the original purchaser to be free from defects in material and workmanship for a period of one year from the bill of lading date. Forma s.r.l. will replace, at its option free of charge (freight excluded) any part(s) which upon our examination, have failed to provide satisfactory service due to defects in material or workmanship and are not the result of misuse or abuse. Forma s.r.l. guarantees, for a period of three months, electric parts belts and conveyor not of its direct manufacture. Any warranty repairing interventions must be performed only by technical personnel of the Company Forma srl; all technician's expenses, included travel, room and board are at charge of the customer. If the parties, Forma and customer, would agree that the warranty intervention may be performed by customer's personnel, it is understood that Forma will supply the new spare parts and the customer will send back to the manufacturer the faulty replaced components. Should not the replaced parts be returned to Forma within 30 days after supply of the new ones, the Company Forma will invoice the spare parts and ask for the payment. Warranty will not cover following cases:
improper use of the machine;
incorrect installation of the machine;
severe negligence in the maintenance;
severe negligence in the storage;
use of not original spare parts;
damages caused by water hardness (>25 °F) (great presence of limestone);
damages caused by the inobservance of the user manual instructions.
The prices are VAT excluded/Prices are to be intended VAT excluded.
BANCA MONTE DEI PASCHI DI SIENA SPA - NOVE BRANCH
IBAN: IT62G0103060600000061139850
BIC/SWIFT PASCITM104B
Any appliances shall be installed in conformity with the local regulation and used in well ventilated location. Consult the instruction before installing and using. Excluded. It will be at Customer charge:
- return air ticket;
- board and lodging in a comfortable hotel;
- assistance during the period of stay;
- technician daily travelling allowance of Euro 400;
- fumes, steam, water and power connection.
- preparation of the place in accordance with local regulations;
- the flooring on which the oven will be installed, must be smooth and level, structurally suitable for the mass and heat that is will be required to bear. Oven must be installed on level non-combustible floor, with no wiring or floor heating in floor slab.
Excluded, it is at cost. Please specify on the request the type of the packing or the transport specification.
Ex works, INCOTERMS 2010, Nove (VI) or Mason Vicentino – Colceresa, (VI) Italy.
Products will be delivered within 45 days from the reception and acceptance of the Letter of Credit or payment terms
400 V - 3PH - 50 HZ. If different please specify. All machines are in conformity with EC regulations and are manufactured in Italy.
ANY APPLIANCE SHALL BE INSTALLED IN CONFORMITY WITH THE LOCAL REGULATIONS AND USED ONLY IN A WELL-VENTILATED LOCATION.
CONSULT THE INSTRUCTION BEFORE INSTALLING AND USING THIS APPLIANCE.
Additional and Further Specifications
1. OBJECT
1.1. Forma s.r.l. undertakes to supply the bakery production equipment in accordance with specifications, terms and conditions as provided by a contract.
1.2. Forma s.r.l. or its Representative undertakes install and maintain the bakery production equipment in accordance with specifications, terms and conditions as provided by a contract.
2. PRICES AND TOTAL VALUE OF THE CONTRACT
2.1. The prices and the total value should be understood, installed and commissioned, according to INCOTERMS 2014.
2.2. The total value does not include V.A.T.
3. PAYMENT TERMS
3.1 The payment should be made in favor of Forma s.r.l., Via Righetto, 22/24 – 36055 Nove, (VI) ITALY, -UNICREDIT SPA - MAROSTICA BRANCH
ABI 02008 CAB 60500 IBAN IT57F0200860500000104841609 BIC/SWIFT: UNCRITM1M66
-BANCA MONTE DEI PASCHI DI SIENA SPA - NOVE BRANCH
ABI 01030 CAB 60600 IBAN: IT62G0103060600000061139850 BIC/SWIFT PASCITM104B
3.2 All the bank commissions will be charged by the Client on his territory and respectively by the Forma s.r.l. on the Italian territory.
3.3 Late payment penalties will be specified.
3.4 The Forma s.r.l. retains the property over the equipment until the full settlement of the total due amount.
3.6 In case the delay in payment of any due amount exceeds 60 (sixty) days, a Contract will be cancelled without prior notice and without any court judgment or ruling or any other similar action from any authority whatsoever. Consequently, the Client is bound to return the equipment in 5 (five) days at the premises of the Representative. Failure to act accordingly will entitle the Forma s.r.l. or its Representative to enter the premises of the Client and to take-over the Equipment or to make it unusable. All repossession costs will incur to the Client. Further, the amounts paid by the Client until cancellation date will not be reimbursed.
4. DELIVERY / INSTALLATION
4.1. The delivery of the equipment will be made based on the following documents:
a) Invoice;
b) Packing List;
c) CMR or Bill of Leading;
d) Declaration of CE Conformity issued by the Equipment manufacture.
4.2. Forma or its Representative will carry out assembly and technical service for the Equipment supplied by Forma srl. In case the assembly lasts more than 8 days because the Client failure to provide all the material and installations stipulated to point no. 7.4 and Annex no. 3, the Client here by undertake to pay the amount of 100 euro/working day beginning from the 9th day of starting the installation until the termination of the installation.
5. FORMA S.R.L. WARRANTIES
5.1. The Equipment sold by Forma s.r.l. shall be brand new, free from defects in material as per the present Contract.
5.2. Should the goods prove should be defective during the warranty or not corresponding to the provisions of the Contract, Forma s.r.l. or through its Representative, shall either remedy the defects or cause the replacement of the defective parts of the Equipment (as the case may be), at Forma s.r.l. or Representative’s expenses within 10 (ten) days from receiving the relevant notice. Terms and conditions of the warranty are detailed in Annex 1 attached here to.
5.3. The replaced parts should be at disposal of Forma srl. Those parts have to be returned to its premises, within 7 days from the replacement. The replaced parts, requested by Forma s.r.l. and not returned, will not be considered on guarantee.
5.4. All transport and other expenses, related with replacement or remedy of the defective parts will not be borne by Forma s.r.l. and Representative. Freight and installation excluded.
5.5. However, if failure is proven to be due to operator error, neglect, misuse or improper maintenance, Forma s.r.l. and Representative shall not be liable for any claims or costs but will repair the defects on the Client expenses.
6. OBLIGATIONS OF THE FORMA S.R.L. AND ITS REPRESENTATIVE
6.1. Forma s.r.l. delivers the Equipment according to a Contract with such technical details to facilitate installation and operation of the Equipment.
6.2. Forma s.r.l. or its Representative ensures the installation and technical assistance. Installation will commence in 5 (five) days from the delivery of the Equipment.
6.3. Forma s.r.l. or its Representative on specific request of the customer and after a cost quantification, tests and follows the functioning of the Equipment for sufficient period to ensure that the technical parameters of the Equipment are functioning as specified and where so delineated in the manufactures specifications the appropriate commissioning test are completing.
6.4. Forma s.r.l. or its Representative after a cost quantification is able to provides introductory training to sufficient staff of the Client so as to ensure that the Equipment can be operated and maintain correctly.
6.5. Forma s.r.l. delivers the Equipment together with the technical book in English language.
7. OBLIGATIONS OF THE CLIENT
7.1. To arrange receipt and prompt clearance of the Equipment from the custom department and to pay without delay, taxes, customs duties and V.A.T. Any costs involved in delay of whatever nature in this respect shall be for the Client’s charge.
7.2. To prepare appropriate storage and reception of the goods at the designed destination and to receive the goods.
7.3. To prepare access to and space within the installation area to accommodate the equipment and its packaging, and to allow sufficient area to enable assembly and installation to be conducted without inconvenience.
7.4. To prepare all surfaces to the technical specification required and to provide such ancillary services as are required for the operation of the Equipment, respectively, oven chimney, electric connection, water and sewerage according to Annex no. 3.
7.5. To provide necessary labor and transport of the Equipment to the prepared site assemble.
7.6. To provide and to pay all expenses for the accommodation and meal of the technical personnel of the Representative, for all period necessary for installation and set up working the equipment.
8. FORCE MAJEURE / RESCISSION OF THE CONTRACT
8.1. Force Majeure protects from responsibility the party who invokes it. It is understood as Force Majeure all the facts that might appear after concluding the contract, caused by such extraordinary and inevitable events for one of the parties.
8.2. Parties will inform each other immediately no later than 5 (five) days about any such event of Force Majeure and such notice shall be certified in latest 15 (fifteen) days by a local Chamber of Commerce.
8.3. Should the Force Majeure circumstance impedes the delivery of the Equipment to the final destination and if such circumstance of Force Majeure is expected to exceed one (1) month, then either party has the right to cancel the Contract and Forma s.r.l. shall take back and repossess the Equipment.
9. LOCAL LAWS AND TAXES
9.1 Forma s.r.l. shall be responsible for all taxes, duties and fees required or imposed by Italian authorities.
9.2 Client shall be responsible for all taxes, duties and fees required or imposed by Local Country authorities.
9.3 The Court of Justice of Vicenza, Italy shall have exclusive jurisdiction over all disputes concerning the interpretation and/or execution of the contract or any event connected to it.
10.1 All amendments or addenda to a Contract are valid provided if made in writing and signed by Forma srl, its Representative and Client.
10.2 Upon signing a Contract, all previous agreements, discussions and correspondence between Client, Forma s.r.l. and its Representative concerning the Contract are to be considered t invalid.
10.3 The Contract is valid and applicable exclusively for the delivery of the Equipment as per standard specifications in the Contract.
10.4 Any Contract is made in two (2) copies with the same content and the same juridical value, in English language, each party receiving one (1).
10.5 A Contract contains the following annexes:
a) Annex 1 – STANDARD WARRANTY
b) Annex 2 – APPOINTMENT
c) Annex 3 – CLIENT OBLIGATIONS
ANNEX NO. 1
Forma s.r.l. guarantees its products to the original purchaser to be free from defects in material and workmanship for a period of 12 (twelve) months from the installation and commissioning date of the Equipment, but not later than 18 (eighteen) months since the delivery date. Forma s.r.l. guarantees the heat exchanger of the rack ovens for a period of 3 (three) years and the annular tubes of the steam pipes ovens for a period of 5 (five) years from the delivery date. Forma s.r.l. will replace free of charge any parts which upon his technical examination have failed to provide satisfactory service because of defects in material or workmanship and are not result of misuse or abuse.
The following appointment agreement was concluded by and between:
1. Forma s.r.l., Via Righetto, 22/24 – 36055 Nove (VI), Italy and
2. The Customer under the following terms and conditions:
A. Forma s.r.l. or its Representative on specific request of the customer and after cost quantification, will carry out assembly and technical service during the warranty period (12 months) on the Equipment supplied by the Forma srl.
B. The necessary spare parts for this period will be supplied by the Forma s.r.l. according to the provisions of Annex 1 hereto.
C. The technical assistance after warranty period will be provided with original spare parts which will be delivered by the Forma srl, according to the provisions of Annex 1 hereto.
D. Forma s.r.l. should supply against payment the spare parts for a period of 10 (ten) years.
CLIENT OBLIGATIONS
The Client here by undertakes to prepare, provide and pay for the following:
forklift for unloading the goods;
the materials to be specified and required for installation (2 m3 baluster sort 5-7 or 7-9; 600 kg cement; cement mixer,…);
oven chimney;
electric connection;
water and sewerage;
combustible (gas, gas oil or wood as is necessary)
two unskilled helpers for the all period of assembly;
row material for testing and qualified personal for dough preparation;
working staff for training of the use of the equipment;
authorized technician for installation of the burner.
Forma s.r.l. or its Representative will instruct the Client with all the necessary details as were and how to make the water, electricity, chimney and combustible connection before the arrival of the goods.
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Lost Grove Lake is filling ahead of schedule, which is good news for the local anglers anxious to see the lake completed, but bad news for contractors who have work yet to do.
The contract to install the three boat ramps and parking lots, and add riprap north and south of the dam is on the June agenda for the Natural Resource Commission of the Iowa Department of Natural Resources. The project has an estimated cost of $1.4 million.
"We need to add a gradual slope to the end of the main boat ramp by back filling the area to prevent trailers from dropping off into deep water and to do that we need to release some of water from Lost Grove Lake," said Chad Dolan, fisheries biologist with the Iowa DNR. The lake level will need to come down about four feet to allow the work.
Dolan said they plan to open the gate just enough to slowly reduce the lake level and not impact downstream neighbors. Keeping the outflow at a minimum will also prevent fish loss.
The DNR has already stocked largemouth bass, channel catfish, bluegill, redear sunfish, crappie and muskie in the main pool and the causeway.
"We recognize that this is not likely welcome news but we cannot build the boat ramp unless we can get the water level down to where contractors can get in and do the work," he said.
Construction on the main ramp should begin in mid to late June and barring weather delays, is expected to last two months. Once work on the main ramp is completed, the gate will be closed. The completion timeline for the main, middle and west ramps is March 2014.
Chad Dolan, Fisheries Biologist, Iowa Department of Natural Resources, 319-694-2430.
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Park Rental Information
The City of Campbell provides and maintains a variety of park and public areas for the general enjoyment of the community. Two of these parks include picnic areas that are available for reservation by individuals or groups.
Reservations are accepted up to 180 days in advance for Campbell residents (170 days for non-residents), but no less than 10 days in advance of the requested date of use. Reservations can be made online or in-person at the Campbell Recreation Department Office, located at 1 West Campbell Avenue #C-31, or by telephone during business hours (payment by VISA, MasterCard, Discover, American Express required).
To check for picnic area availability check our online reservation system or call (408) 866-2104 during regular business hours. Picnic reservation fees must be paid at the time of reservation. Priority for reservations is provided to Campbell residents, who may make reservations a full 180 days in advance. Verification (driver’s license, pre-printed check, or utility bill) of residency is required (by fax at (408) 374-6965 or by email at recreation@cityofcampbell.com if making a reservation by telephone). Non-residents may make a reservation 10 days later than residents, thereby providing residents a full 10 days of priority. For more information, see the Picnic Rules & Regulations.
The following areas are available for reservation:
John D. Morgan Park Area A (max capacity 50): $75 for residents/$120 non-residents
John D. Morgan Park Area B (max capacity 150): $105 for residents/$185 non-residents
John D. Morgan Park Area C (max capacity 75): $75 for residents/$120 non-residents
Click here for a map of John D. Morgan Park
Edith Morley Picnic Area only (max capacity 35): $75 for residents/$105 non-residents
Edith Morley Picnic Area and Turf (required for Bounce-About Rentals; max capacity 100): $90 for residents/$185 non-residents
First Come, First Serve Picnic Areas
There are areas at almost every park in Campbell that allows for picnics on a first come, first serve basis. These areas are designed to accommodate 8-10 adults at each table. You may only use the stationary BBQ's that are built into the picnic areas at John D Morgan and Campbell Park (no outside BBQ's allowed). In addition, in order to have alcohol or a bounce-about, you must obtain a reservation/permit (see above information about reserving a picnic space). At no time are tables and chairs allowed to be dropped off to create a new or another picnic space in the park, only the provided tables and benches may be used.
Bounce-About Rentals
The rental of a Bounce-About is allowed with a picnic reservation permit only. Bounce-Abouts may be provided only by companies that have a current Business License and Certificate of Insurance on file with the City of Campbell. Only small Bounce Houses with a maximum footprint of 20x20 are allowed in Campbell Parks (no large obstacle courses). There are currently six companies who meet the City of Campbell requirements and are allowed to provide services in Campbell's parks:
Bali Baly Jump: 408-226-2706
Bay Area Jump: 800-514-5867
TJ's Jumpers: 408-595-7330
Comic Jumps: 650-444-1800
iJump Party Rentals: 408-896-5867
Astro Jump of San Jose: 408-292-7876
The city has no affiliation with these companies and does not recommend one over any of the others. It is suggested that users research the companies, their fees, services, and reputation before entering into a contract. If a permittee wishes to contract with a vendor other than those named above, please contact the Recreation Department for the liability insurance requirements that must be met 10 days prior to the date of your event.
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Computational Journalism, Spring 2016
Collect the lists of White House press briefings
Let's batch download a list of White House press briefings URL using Python and Requests.
This article is part of a sequence:
Scraping the White House Press Briefings
Using BeautifulSoup to parse HTML and extract press briefings URLs
The first step in downloading and parsing White House press briefings is to download and parse the list of press briefings.
This series of lessons is meant to give an overview of all the parts that go into the task that is commonly referred to as “web scraping”, including understanding how URLs work and how HTML parsing is different from the text parsing we’ve done so far.
As in previous lessons, we start out as if we knew nothing more than how to deal with plain text, which works just fine when it comes to URLs themselves. The batch download of 100+ webpages is pretty simple, so we’ll also practice some best practices in Python programming and data organization.
Practice (again) downloading webpages and saving them to disk.
Download and save all the pages that list the White House press briefings; we'll download individual press briefings in the next exercise.
Get acquainted with URL query strings and how they're used on the White House site to jump from page to page of entries.
Instead of hand-coding query strings ourselves, learn to pass a dictionary into `params` argument of the `requests.get()` method call.
(Optional) use HTML-parsing to programatically determine the last page number of entries.
This is the first part of a series of lessons for doing web-scraping and a little text-mining. Our dataset here is all the press releases currently hosted on the White House's website:
https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/press-briefings
In this lesson, we won't be downloading each press release page, yet. Instead, we will be downloading and saving each of the index pages that lists the press releases. That allows us in the next lessons to try out text/HTML parsing without hitting up the White House webserver every time.
Browsing the White House website for press briefings
The landing page for the White House press briefings can be found here:
The page features the annoyance of JavaScript-powered-infinite scroll, in which the only way to get to the next page of press briefings is to keep scrolling down, down, down the page.
Luckily, the website does have affordances for old-fashioned navigation, which I only remember from last year when we scraped the site.
To get to the 50th page of the press briefings, just take the landing page URL and append page=50 as its query string:
https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/press-briefings?page=50
A little about query strings
You can read more about query strings on Wikipedia, but basically, they're the key-value pairs (e.g. page=50) that are separated from the URL by a question mark. You've seen them in YouTube URLs:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LyONt_ZH_aw&t=4s
The key-value pairs in that YouTube URL are:
v=LyONt_ZH_aw - the v key specifies the YouTube video ID to play.
t=4s - the t key specifies the number of seconds to start playing from.
Query strings are a way for a website to add more options to how a URL is interpreted. In the case of the White House press briefings, the page attribute is used to specify which "page" in the back log of entries to show. As users of the websites, we can jump from page to page just by modifying that part of the URL.
Later in this guide, we'll cover how to use Python to handle URLs and query strings more generally – for now, it's enough to know that a URL query string refers to any text that is on the right side of a delimiting question mark:
https://www.example.com?hello=42&world=apples
Finding the last page
Before we consider the "correct" way to do this, let's just do it the most obvious way. Open up your browser and assign large numbers to the query string's page parameter. I like to start off with just a medium value, such as 100, just to make sure things are working as expected:
https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/press-briefings?page=100
As of April 2016, the dates of the briefings on page 100 of President Obama's press briefings page are in the September 2011 range. So page 100 is more than halfway there.
Testing the website's limits
I like to pick an extreme number – e.g. page=1000 just to see how the site behaves. Does it return a 404 error? Does it return any kind of warning or error to the user, such as, "Sorry, you've reached the end of our content"? Or is there no error, just a blank page of entries? The most annoying situation is when you get to the purported "end" of a website's content and it keeps repeatedly showing you the very last page because it doesn't know what to do when you've gone beyond its page limits – it's difficult to design an automated web crawler that won't just keep on going and going and going…
Let's see how the White House press briefings reacts to a request for page 1000:
https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/press-briefings?page=1000
The site returns a normal webpage, except with nothing in its content area:
It doesn't take long to eventually find the last page of entries – for me, in April 2016, it was page 161. In another month or so, that last page number will increase. So in the long run, it's best to code a solution that can detect when it's reached the final page of entries. But for now, let's just plan on hardcoding a loop that increments from page 0 to 161.
Fetching and saving each index page
This part should be old hat. Import the Requests library and do a get() request for one of the pages:
url = 'https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/press-briefings?page=0'
resp = requests.get(url)
Then pick a place (i.e think of a filename) to save the text contents of the webserver response to disk. Given that this is page number 0, it makes sense to save it as a file named 0.html:
with open("0.html", "w") as wf:
wf.write(resp.text)
Making a quick loop
If you were in a hurry and had to get all those lists of press briefings right now, you could be forgiven for doing this:
THE_URL = 'https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/press-briefings?page='
MAX_PAGE_NUM = 162
for pagenum in range(0, MAX_PAGE_NUM):
url = THE_URL + str(pagenum)
print("Downloading", url)
fname = str(pagenum) + '.html'
print("Saving to", fname)
with open(fname, "w") as wf:
The White House site is pretty fast, so you'd see your script's output fly pretty quickly:
Downloading https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/press-briefings?page=0
Saving to 0.html
Downloading https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/press-briefings?page=160
Saving to 160.html
Taking time to practice best practices
Actually, this particular task is straightforward enough that there's not much more to do here. However, since this web-crawl job is so easy, it's a good chance to slow down and practice more advanced techniques and good habits that are necessary for more difficult tasks.
Our bigger job is to not just to collect the pages that list press briefing headlines – we want to collect each press briefing page itself, and then analyze the text of each press briefing. That last task becomes fairly annoying if we make no effort to keep the press briefing list pages from the individual press briefing pages, nevermind the problem of keeping our Python script files separate from the thousands of webpages we'll be downloading.
The rest of this guide will touch on patterns and techniques that will, to be honest, seem like programming for programming's sake, if not clinically anal-retentive. But they'll make more sense as the programming work gets more complicated, so it's best to start practicing them for small tasks.
Automate the decluttering of clutter
So instead of just downloading the webpages right into the local directory, let's create a subdirectory named index-pages, and then adjust our script to save the files there.
The least-effort approach would simply be to change the line where the fname variable is assigned:
fname = "index-pages/" + str(pagenum) + '.html'
This little fix ends up creating several problems, the most prominent being that the script will fail unless a directory named index-pages already exists…which it probably doesn't at this point.
Using makedirs() to create a directory
If you're in a hurry, you might create the index-pages subdirectory using your operating system and a combination of pointing-and-clicking. But let's try it the programmatic way – it will be a little inconvenient at first, but it's a habit that will pay off very quickly. Typos in file path names are the cause of a huge number of bugs, and they become much more frequent (and harder to track down) if you create path names outside of your programming environment.
Python's os module provides a function named makedirs()
We provide it with a (string) name of the directory we hope to create and it will do it:
from os import makedirs
makedirs('index-pages')
One of the problems with the makedirs() function is that it will throw an error if a directory or file already exists at the specified path:
# for the second time
Here's what it looks like in my interactive recording:
However, by passing in a second named argument, exist_ok=True, we can prevent the makedirs() function from barking at us just because we didn't know whether a directory already existed:
makedirs('index-pages', exist_ok=True)
It may seem strange that we write extra code to prevent an error message instead of just deleting the makedirs() call so that it doesn't run again. But in production environments, it's not a good idea to add/remove setup code – including the code that sets up subdirectories – on a manual basis.
The web-crawling code we've written may seem simple enough to just paste into ipython and run as a one-off…but, that's because it's a small job. For most real, complex tasks, the web-crawling/scraping code will be saved in a Python script. And it may have to be run again, over and over again. It's not fun to have to go in and remove the makedirs() calls by hand – or to add it back in if we've decided to move our work to another directory or new computer entirely.
The exist_ok argument makes it so that we can use a makedirs() call and let it do its job – or to stay silent if the job is already done. When we're dealing with much bigger code complexity, that "silence is golden" mentality is nice when there's generally no problem with a subdirectory already existing.
You can try this other exercise that uses the makedirs() function idempotently. Otherwise, it's enough to remember its basic functionality and exist_ok argument.
It's best to add the makedirs() call early in the script, so that the index-pages directory is created before anything else happens:
Assigning the literal path of index-pages to a variable
How hard is it to remember that the string 'index-pages' represents the subdirectory that we save downloaded pages into? Not hard at all, but only because our code is just a few lines.
Generally, when you have some kind of constant value – i.e. the name of a directory that you plan on referring to on several different occasions – it's best to assign it to a variable. And for variables on relatively constant values – are we really going to rename the index-pages directory later on? (I hope not!) – the Python style guide recommends using all-caps letters and underscores for the variable name:
INDEX_PAGES_DIR = 'index-pages'
a = INDEX_PAGES_DIR + '/' + 'hello.html'
b = INDEX_PAGES_DIR + '/' + 'world.html'
Using variables gives you early protection from your dumb stupid clumsy fingers
The snippet above probably didn't seem particularly economical. After all, typing INDEX_PAGES_DIR requires typing several more characters than index-pages.
However, one main advantage of using variable names is that when you mistype a variable name, Python will immediately throw an error:
makedirs(INDEXPAGES_DIR, exist_ok=True)
NameError: name 'INDEXPAGES_DIR' is not defined
Getting an error message is usually unpleasant. But at least you were notified of a very fundamental error before the rest of your program did their thing.
Compare that to just trying to type 'index-pages' manually:
makedirs('index_pages', exist_ok=True)
Do you see the typo? That makedirs() call isn't going to throw an error because it assumes you know what you're doing, that you really want a subdirectory named index_pages instead of index-pages. But what if you don't? How far along will this subtle naming error go undetected? And how much are you going to regret not spending the two seconds it takes to assign a variable name, compared to the potential hours of debugging the kind of error that heavily depends on the acuity of your eyesight?
Let os.path.join() do the work of joining file paths
This use of code is going to seem really unnecessary.
Let's say we have a subdirectory named index-pages and we want to save a file named 42.html inside of it. What will that file's path name be? Well, if you're on a Unix-like system – including Mac OS X and Linux – that file path is simply:
index-pages/42.html
And to dynamically generate that path, just add the index-pages directory name, plus a forward-slash, plus the base filename together:
for i in range(30, 50):
bn = str(i) + '.html'
fname = INDEX_PAGES_DIR + '/' + bn
That seems straightforward. But what if you have a friend who is on a PC? And that PC uses Windows? And Windows uses its own version of a file path delimiter – which is the backwards-slash, \? Now your simple script could end up in a major headache for anyone running it on a different platform.
So let's import the os.path submodule and use its join() function to create file pathnames. Try it out in ipython – make sure you understand that all it does it takes in arguments and returns a string.
from os.path import join
join('index-pages', '42.html')
# 'index-pages/42.html'
join("this", "is", "a", "really", "nested", "file.txt")
# 'this/is/a/really/nested/file.txt'
It doesn't seem like much – in fact, it seems not much different than the Python string object's own join() method…but the key difference is that it knows how to formulate the appropriate path string based on the operating system from which your program is being executed.
But even if you plan to never, ever write code that will be executed by a Windows machine, in day-to-day programming, it is not uncommon to make this kind of typo:
a = 'somedirectory/'
b = '/myfile.txt'
fullpath = a + b
– so, let os.path.join() do that work for us:
fname = join("index-pages", str(pagenum) + '.html')
Proper string formatting with format()
In many of my early examples, when we need to join a literal string pattern – such as:
"http://www.example.com?person="
– to a set of values, such as:
names = ["larry", "curly", "moe"]
– I'll sometimes show the most "common sense" way of accomplishing the task:
for n in names:
url = "http://www.example.com?person=" + n
However, as you've started to surmise by now, "common sense" does not always scale.
Python has a confusing number of ways to format strings…I'm not even sure which PEP I'm supposed to link to (this one?).
For now, I advise using the string's format() method. You can read about the syntax and examples in the official documentation…though I find those docs to be confusing. However, the site pyformat.info – yes, Python string formatting is so ubiquitous and so confusing that someone's made a specialty site just for that topic – is a pretty readable reference.
For our purposes, instead of typecasting the loop integer (i.e. pagenum) to a string and then adding '.html':
for pagenum in range(0, MAX_PAGENUM):
– try this instead:
THE_URL = 'https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/press-briefings?page={}'
url = THE_URL.format(pagenum)
fname = join("index-pages", '{}.html'.format(pagenum))
Again, it doesn't save us much in terms of verbosity or readability of code. But in more complex scenarios, it will prove to be much more maintainable.
Let Requests generate URL query strings
Using string formatting to generate the URL https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/press-briefings?page=42 is actually not recommended. Yes, all URLs are just strings. But the structure of a URL follows a specification, which means that there are URL-parsing/generating libraries that we can use.
In particular, the part of a URL that is prone to be affected by human error is the query string. The White House press briefings URLs have a very simple query string:
page=42
But query strings can get very complicated. Consider Google's Street View API, which uses URL query strings as a way to provide Street View imagery via URL.
At a minimum, the Street View API's query string requires a size parameter to specify the width and height of imagery:
https://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/streetview?size=600x300
Because the default location is in the middle of an ocean, however, the API returns a blank image:
img src="https://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/streetview?size=600x300" alt='street view google api'>
So we can provide a location parameter; here's what Stanford,CA looks like:
https://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/streetview?size=600x300&location=Stanford,CA
img src="https://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/streetview?size=600x300&location=Stanford,CA" alt='street view google api'>
And if we want to turn around, we can supply a value – 30 (degrees) – for the heading parameter:
https://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/streetview?size=600x300&location=Stanford,CA&heading=30
img src="https://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/streetview?size=600x300&location=Stanford,CA&heading=30" alt='street view google api'>
So let's try to abstract the URL pattern using the string's format() method with named arguments:
URL_ENDPOINT = 'https://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/streetview'
QUERY_STRING = 'size={size}&location={location}&heading={heading}'
q_str = QUERY_STRING.format(size='400x400', location='New York', heading=0)
url = URL_ENDPOINT + '?' + q_str
print(url)
# https://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/streetview?size=400x400&location=New York&heading=0
This is not an illogical approach…though if you know a bit about the URL spec, you know that there are a lot of caveats involved – for example, URLs aren't supposed to have space characters in them, so officially, New York, won't fly – though most modern browsers know how to deal with that.
The bigger issue is, besides the overall tediousness of writing out the format() call, is properly delimiting (using &) the key/value pairs. Can you see the typos in the example below?
QUERY_STRING = '?size={size}location={location}&heading={heading}'
q_str = QUERY_STRING.format(size='400x400', location='Chicago', heading="")
Providing the params argument to requests.get()
The Requests library earns its subtitle: HTML for Humans. When we want to get() a URL that requires a query string, we can supply a dictionary of key-value pairs to the params argument.
In the case of Google Street View:
resp = requests.get(URL_ENDPOINT, params={'size': '600x300', 'location': 'Stanford, CA'})
print(resp.url)
# https://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/streetview?location=Stanford%2C+CA&size=600x300
Note several of its conveniences:
It properly encodes characters that either can't be part of a URL, or have a special meaning, hence, the translation of the space and comma characters to + and %2C, respectively.
It properly joins the key-pairs using &
It adds the ? delimiter between URL and query string
It only includes the parameters that we specify in the dictionary, something that is not possible if you define a string with placeholder variables.
This is such a useful feature of the Requests library that you should use it whenever possible, even for simple query strings as in the case of the White House press briefings pages:
URL_ENDPOINT = 'https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/press-briefings'
resp = requests.get(URL_ENDPOINT, params={'page': pagenum})
print("Downloaded", resp.url)
Note: If we use requests.get() in the most straightforward way, we don't actually get a reference to the URL it formulates until the get() action is completed and we have a Response object, i.e. resp and resp.url.
That's a minor inconvenience…it's nice to know the URL before the remote request is made in some debugging situations. But it's not a big deal here. If you want more details on ways to generate URL query strings with Python, check out this lesson.
Quick and dirty and, eventually, dangerous
This isn't a terrible approach, but all the little shortcuts, especially not creating a separate directory to save all the downloaded files, will bite us in the near term:
More syntax + more planning == more safety and scalability
The script below does virtually the same thing as before, but it creates a subfolder to save the files, and uses a lot of Python functions to keep the programmer (i.e. us) from having to be extra careful with typos.
In practice, you'll find yourself having a mix of emotions between "just-get-er-done" and "oh-wait-will-this-hurt-me?" – the snippet below isn't always best practice. But it's a good idea to at least be mindful of the difference between "It works!" and "It could be better":
makedirs(INDEX_PAGES_DIR, exist_ok=True)
fname = join(INDEX_PAGES_DIR, '{}.html'.format(pagenum))
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Police search and rescue skills checked
Monday December 11, 2017 Written by Chris Taylor Published in Local
A small contingent of police did search and rescue training around the ports area this week. 17120734
The Cook Islands police have been put through their search and rescue paces this week, with training from the Rescue and Coordination Centre of New Zealand (RCCNZ).
Wellington-based trainers Neville Blakemore and Mike Roberts completed a three-day programme with a contingent of police officers, improving their on-land and sea rescue capabilities.
Police have been hands-on around the ports area, as well as on the sea off Avarua, using high-tech directional finding equipment, and deploying hand-held and rocket-launched smoke-flares. The training was part of a land and sea workshop held with Pacific partners.
A police spokesperson says the Cook Islands, along with other Pacific states, benefit from the expertise and advice of RCCNZ through coordinated training exercises and real-time emergency assistance.
This was highlighted by the recent rescue of a New Zealand yachtsman aboard the vessel Zangano that got into trouble 400 nautical miles from Rarotonga recently.
The spokesperson says the search and rescue training covers basic principles that can be adapted to any environment or situation.
The RCCNZ work alongside a wide range of agencies and groups, including Transport, Harbour-masters, Marine Resources, fishing operators, ports, shipping, airline companies, as well as police services.
In the future training may include live scenario exercises hosted by the Cook Islands.
The training provided by RCCNZ comes under the Pacific Search and Rescue group, which arranges Regional workshop gatherings every two years.
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EXIDY Scorcerer. APPLE II
The First Commercially Available Satellite Tracking Software
Available for Microcomputers - 1979 Colorado Springs
History of STI - SATTRAK International of Colorado Springs
In 1978 micro computers were just starting to be commercially available. Systems like the TRS-80 by Radio Shack and Apple II and Apple IIe cost about $2000 and were programmed in BASIC ( a real-time compiler) that you could change at any time and it would automatically recompile itself and RUN. This introduced computer programming to the masses and did away with punch cards and finicky compilers used on Mainframe computers like the IBM, PDP11-40 and others Now anyone could write their own code and make amazing things happen on a CRT (Cathode Ray Tube).
David Cooke, a Canadian RCAF Pilot attached to USAF Space Command as a Satellite Analyst and William N Barker, a mathematician and astrodynamicist working for the Cheyenne Mountain Complex as a contractor to the USAF began combining their skill sets and formed SATTRAK International in Dave's basement at 4300 Meandowview Ct Colorado Springs CO. It was "international" because it Bill was American and Dave was Canadian. simple as that. Bil had recentlly worked for Ford Aerospace as a software "plumber" working out the biases and accuracies of the existing NORAD satellite tracking code so he was quite familiar with the mathematical formulas and computer algorithms used for computing satellite orbits Dave had recently purchase a relatively unknown microcomputer called the Exidy Scorcerer.
The Exidy Sorcerer was ahead of it's time. it had a Fast Z-80 processor that ran at 1.1 "KILO" Hz and had 32 THOUSAND bytes of RAM with a ADDITIONAL 8k of BASIC program memory in a plug in ROM. It had 24 lines of 64 Characters for a display which if you look above here (LEFT) you can see was significantly better than the Apple II (RIGHT). Bill knew FORTRAN IV and Dave was rapidly learning BASIC in his spare time when they got talking about whether or not a mere Exidy could handle the complex calculations and formulas needed to track satellites. How would it measure up to the NORAD output.?
Bill started by mapping it out in pencil and translating the basic math into FORTRAN IV. They rented time on a commercial Burroughs 1800 mainframe computer in Colorado Springs and Bill ran a series of test runs to get the numbers to make sense. Bill was a stickler for precision and he'd learned the hard way to make sure the cards were punched accurately and the formulas were solid BEFORE spending money on expensive computers like the Burroughs. He was so skilled with punch cards I think his test algorithms ran the first time WITH NO ERRORS!!
Within a few months we had working code that produced computational results comparable to NORAD to 6 significant digits and we could do it in REAL TIME! with predictions of a satellite's position altitude and orbit for any time past present or future . . with look angles of AZ/EL/Range (RA/DEC/Range) from any position on earth. . . for any satellite in the catalog.
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CT Brings Technology To London Fashion Week
Anya Hindmarch's 2016 London Fashion Week AW runway show fused technology with fashion.
You might not expect the fashion world and the technology world to collide too often but this year’s London Fashion Week turned tradition on its head with the ever-eclectic Anya Hindmarch using 8-bit technology as inspiration for her latest Autumn/Winter 2016 line.
Creative Technology (CT) helped to deliver Hindmarch’s extravagant runway which comprised of a floor-to-ceiling backdrop built from cubes as a nod to large old-school pixels. Throughout the show, nine columns would disengage themselves from the backdrop and move freely across the runway.
The backdrop and cubes were built using Perspex-diffused Spider 30mm LEDs displays which were supplied by CT. The columns, as well as the backdrop, came alight throughout the show in an array of colours that complimented the fashion onstage. The use of Perspex created a surface that could both emit and receive light, making the LED displays flexible so that they could easily shift between the high saturation of the colours and the brightness of white which opened the show.
Working for INCA Productions and Blink TV, CT also provided the playback system which made this show happen. Using a Watchout 6, CT were able to utilise many new content playback features, such as 3D-visualisation during pre-production, virtual displays and image sequencing.
The event was one of London Fashion Week’s many highlights with its unconventional runway causing a stir in the media.
Watch Anya Hindmarch's AW16 show here.
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Girl v. Boy
by Yvonne Collins and Sandy Rideout
Ages 12+ 320 pages Hyperion July 2008 Hardcover
Luisa "Lu" Perez is one of nine other girls in her high school with the same name. As far as she's concerned, there's nothing that makes her stand out from the crowd – and she likes it that way. In fact, none of the teenagers at Dunfield High are particularly active in school spirit. So when the principal enters the school in a city-wide literacy challenge and pits boys against girls, it becomes apparent that the only way to win the sweet prize (an extra two weeks Christmas vacation plus a few extra days spring vacation) is to start joining in activities.
Lu's English teacher drafts her to write anonymous articles chronicling the Literacy Challenge from a girl's point of view and enlists an unnamed boy to write for the other side. What starts off as weekly reports from the front lines of the Literacy Challenge quickly turns into a gender war as Lu finds herself being pursued and at times baited in the school paper by her male counterpart. If only she knew who he was!
Girl v. Boy is a lot of fun to read. Watching Lu try to navigate the world of dating and journalism while also attempting to figure out the identity of the anonymous male writer kept this reader guessing right along with Luisa. Even though Dunfield High School is populated mainly by Hispanic students, the book isn't filled with Spanish phrases that would stump a non-Spanish speaker.
Although Luisa comes from a hardworking family, it isn't without its problems: her sister and her baby have moved back home and displaced Lu from her room, and Lu's mother works multiple jobs just to keep food on the table. The glimpse into Lu's life is a refreshing change from the Prada-obsessed, Sevens-wearing characters that populate many teen stories nowadays.
Jilian Vallade/2008 for curled up with a good kid's book
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Posts published in “Intelligence”
Artificial intelligence: making computers do things we’d call intelligent if done by people.
Robots in Montreal
Published May 24, 2019 by centaur
"Robots in Montreal," eh? Sounds like the title of a Steven Moffat Doctor Who episode. But it's really ICRA 2019 - the IEEE Conference on Robotics and Automation, and, yes, there are quite a few robots!
My team presented our work on evolutionary learning of rewards for deep reinforcement learning, AutoRL, on Monday. In an hour or so, I'll be giving a keynote on "Systematizing Robot Navigation with AutoRL":
Keynote: Dr. Anthony Francis
Systematizing Robot Navigation with AutoRL: Evolving Better Policies with Better Evaluation
Abstract: Rigorous scientific evaluation of robot control methods helps the field progress towards better solutions, but deploying methods on robots requires its own kind of rigor. A systematic approach to deployment can do more than just make robots safer, more reliable, and more debuggable; with appropriate machine learning support, it can also improve robot control algorithms themselves. In this talk, we describe our evolutionary reward learning framework AutoRL and our evaluation framework for navigation tasks, and show how improving evaluation of navigation systems can measurably improve the performance of both our evolutionary learner and the navigation policies that it produces. We hope that this starts a conversation about how robotic deployment and scientific advancement can become better mutually reinforcing partners.
Bio: Dr. Anthony G. Francis, Jr. is a Senior Software Engineer at Google Brain Robotics specializing in reinforcement learning for robot navigation. Previously, he worked on emotional long-term memory for robot pets at Georgia Tech's PEPE robot pet project, on models of human memory for information retrieval at Enkia Corporation, and on large-scale metadata search and 3D object visualization at Google. He earned his B.S. (1991), M.S. (1996) and Ph.D. (2000) in Computer Science from Georgia Tech, along with a Certificate in Cognitive Science (1999). He and his colleagues won the ICRA 2018 Best Paper Award for Service Robotics for their paper "PRM-RL: Long-range Robotic Navigation Tasks by Combining Reinforcement Learning and Sampling-based Planning". He's the author of over a dozen peer-reviewed publications and is an inventor on over a half-dozen patents. He's published over a dozen short stories and four novels, including the EPIC eBook Award-winning Frost Moon; his popular writing on robotics includes articles in the books Star Trek Psychology and Westworld Psychology. as well as a Google AI blog article titled Maybe your computer just needs a hug. He lives in San Jose with his wife and cats, but his heart will always belong in Atlanta. You can find out more about his writing at his website.
Looks like I'm on in 15 minutes! Wish me luck.
I<tab-complete> welcome our new robot overlords.
Published July 3, 2018 by centaur
Hoisted from a recent email exchange with my friend Gordon Shippey:
Re: Whassap?
Gordon:
(That was an actual GMail suggested response. Grumble-grumble AI takeover.)
Anthony:
I am constantly amazed by the new autocomplete. While, anecdotally, autocorrect of spell checking is getting worse and worse (I blame the nearly-universal phenomenon of U-shaped development, where a system trying to learn new generalizations gets worse before it gets better), I have written near-complete emails to friends and colleagues with Gmail's suggested responses, and when writing texts to my wife, it knows our shorthand!
One way of doing this back in the day were Markov chain text models, where we learn predictions of what patterns are likely to follow each other; so if I write "love you too boo boo" to my wife enough times, it can predict "boo boo" will follow "love you too" and provide it as a completion. More modern systems use recurrent neural networks to learn richer sets of features with stateful information carried down the chain, enabling modern systems to capture subtler relationships and get better results, as described in the great article "The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Recurrent Neural Networks".
-the<tab-complete> Centaur
PRM-RL Won a Best Paper Award at ICRA!
So, this happened! Our team's paper on "PRM-RL" - a way to teach robots to navigate their worlds which combines human-designed algorithms that use roadmaps with deep-learned algorithms to control the robot itself - won a best paper award at the ICRA robotics conference!
I talked a little bit about how PRM-RL works in the post "Learning to Drive ... by Learning Where You Can Drive", so I won't go over the whole spiel here - but the basic idea is that we've gotten good at teaching robots to control themselves using a technique called deep reinforcement learning (the RL in PRM-RL) that trains them in simulation, but it's hard to extend this approach to long-range navigation problems in the real world; we overcome this barrier by using a more traditional robotic approach, probabilistic roadmaps (the PRM in PRM-RL), which build maps of where the robot can drive using point to point connections; we combine these maps with the robot simulator and, boom, we have a map of where the robot thinks it can successfully drive.
We were cited not just for this technique, but for testing it extensively in simulation and on two different kinds of robots. I want to thank everyone on the team - especially Sandra Faust for her background in PRMs and for taking point on the idea (and doing all the quadrotor work with Lydia Tapia), for Oscar Ramirez and Marek Fiser for their work on our reinforcement learning framework and simulator, for Kenneth Oslund for his heroic last-minute push to collect the indoor robot navigation data, and to our manager James for his guidance, contributions to the paper and support of our navigation work.
Woohoo! Thanks again everyone!
Why I’m Solving Puzzles Right Now
When I was a kid (well, a teenager) I'd read puzzle books for pure enjoyment. I'd gotten started with Martin Gardner's mathematical recreation books, but the ones I really liked were Raymond Smullyan's books of logic puzzles. I'd go to Wendy's on my lunch break at Francis Produce, with a little notepad and a book, and chew my way through a few puzzles. I'll admit I often skipped ahead if they got too hard, but I did my best most of the time.
I read more of these as an adult, moving back to the Martin Gardner books. But sometime, about twenty-five years ago (when I was in the thick of grad school) my reading needs completely overwhelmed my reading ability. I'd always carried huge stacks of books home from the library, never finishing all of them, frequently paying late fees, but there was one book in particular - The Emotions by Nico Frijda - which I finished but never followed up on.
Over the intervening years, I did finish books, but read most of them scattershot, picking up what I needed for my creative writing or scientific research. Eventually I started using the tiny little notetabs you see in some books to mark the stuff that I'd written, a "levels of processing" trick to ensure that I was mindfully reading what I wrote.
A few years ago, I admitted that wasn't enough, and consciously began trying to read ahead of what I needed to for work. I chewed through C++ manuals and planning books and was always rewarded a few months later when I'd already read what I needed to to solve my problems. I began focusing on fewer books in depth, finishing more books than I had in years.
Even that wasn't enough, and I began - at last - the re-reading project I'd hoped to do with The Emotions. Recently I did that with Dedekind's Essays on the Theory of Numbers, but now I'm doing it with the Deep Learning. But some of that math is frickin' beyond where I am now, man. Maybe one day I'll get it, but sometimes I've spent weeks tackling a problem I just couldn't get.
Enter puzzles. As it turns out, it's really useful for a scientist to also be a science fiction writer who writes stories about a teenaged mathematical genius! I've had to simulate Cinnamon Frost's staggering intellect for the purpose of writing the Dakota Frost stories, but the further I go, the more I want her to be doing real math. How did I get into math? Puzzles!
So I gave her puzzles. And I decided to return to my old puzzle books, some of the ones I got later but never fully finished, and to give them the deep reading treatment. It's going much slower than I like - I find myself falling victim to the "rule of threes" (you can do a third of what you want to do, often in three times as much time as you expect) - but then I noticed something interesting.
Some of Smullyan's books in particular are thinly disguised math books. In some parts, they're even the same math I have to tackle in my own work. But unlike the other books, these problems are designed to be solved, rather than a reflection of some chunk of reality which may be stubborn; and unlike the other books, these have solutions along with each problem.
So, I've been solving puzzles ... with careful note of how I have been failing to solve puzzles. I've hinted at this before, but understanding how you, personally, usually fail is a powerful technique for debugging your own stuck points. I get sloppy, I drop terms from equations, I misunderstand conditions, I overcomplicate solutions, I grind against problems where I should ask for help, I rabbithole on analytical exploration, and I always underestimate the time it will take for me to make the most basic progress.
Know your weaknesses. Then you can work those weak mental muscles, or work around them to build complementary strengths - the way Richard Feynman would always check over an equation when he was done, looking for those places where he had flipped a sign.
Pictured: my "stack" at a typical lunch. I'll usually get to one out of three of the things I bring for myself to do. Never can predict which one though.
Learning to Drive … by Learning Where You Can Drive
Published January 13, 2018 by centaur
I often say "I teach robots to learn," but what does that mean, exactly? Well, now that one of the projects that I've worked on has been announced - and I mean, not just on arXiv, the public access scientific repository where all the hottest reinforcement learning papers are shared, but actually, accepted into the ICRA 2018 conference - I can tell you all about it!
When I'm not roaming the corridors hammering infrastructure bugs, I'm trying to teach robots to roam those corridors - a problem we call robot navigation. Our team's latest idea combines "traditional planning," where the robot tries to navigate based on an explicit model of its surroundings, with "reinforcement learning," where the robot learns from feedback on its performance.
For those not in the know, "traditional" robotic planners use structures like graphs to plan routes, much in the same way that a GPS uses a roadmap. One of the more popular methods for long-range planning are probabilistic roadmaps, which build a long-range graph by picking random points and attempting to connect them by a simpler "local planner" that knows how to navigate shorter distances. It's a little like how you learn to drive in your neighborhood - starting from landmarks you know, you navigate to nearby points, gradually building up a map in your head of what connects to what.
But for that to work, you have to know how to drive, and that's where the local planner comes in. Building a local planner is simple in theory - you can write one for a toy world in a few dozen lines of code - but difficult in practice, and making one that works on a real robot is quite the challenge. These software systems are called "navigation stacks" and can contain dozens of components - and in my experience they're hard to get working and even when you do, they're often brittle, requiring many engineer-months to transfer to new domains or even just to new buildings.
People are much more flexible, learning from their mistakes, and the science of making robots learn from their mistakes is reinforcement learning, in which an agent learns a policy for choosing actions by simply trying them, favoring actions that lead to success and suppressing ones that lead to failure. Our team built a deep reinforcement learning approach to local planning, using a state-of-the art algorithm called DDPG (Deep Deterministic Policy Gradients) pioneered by DeepMind to learn a navigation system that could successfully travel several meters in office-like environments.
But there's a further wrinkle: the so-called "reality gap". By necessity, the local planner used by a probablistic roadmap is simulated - attempting to connect points on a map. That simulated local planner isn't identical to the real-world navigation stack running on the robot, so sometimes the robot thinks it can go somewhere on a map which it can't navigate safely in the real world. This can have disastrous consequences - causing robots to tumble down stairs, or, worse, when people follow their GPSes too closely without looking where they're going, causing cars to tumble off the end of a bridge.
Our approach, PRM-RL, directly combats the reality gap by combining probabilistic roadmaps with deep reinforcement learning. By necessity, reinforcement learning navigation systems are trained in simulation and tested in the real world. PRM-RL uses a deep reinforcement learning system as both the probabilistic roadmap's local planner and the robot's navigation system. Because links are added to the roadmap only if the reinforcement learning local controller can traverse them, the agent has a better chance of attempting to execute its plans in the real world.
In simulation, our agent could traverse hundreds of meters using the PRM-RL approach, doing much better than a "straight-line" local planner which was our default alternative. While I didn't happen to have in my back pocket a hundred-meter-wide building instrumented with a mocap rig for our experiments, we were able to test a real robot on a smaller rig and showed that it worked well (no pictures, but you can see the map and the actual trajectories below; while the robot's behavior wasn't as good as we hoped, we debugged that to a networking issue that was adding a delay to commands sent to the robot, and not in our code itself; we'll fix this in a subsequent round).
This work includes both our group working on office robot navigation - including Alexandra Faust, Oscar Ramirez, Marek Fiser, Kenneth Oslund, me, and James Davidson - and Alexandra's collaborator Lydia Tapia, with whom she worked on the aerial navigation also reported in the paper. Until the ICRA version comes out, you can find the preliminary version on arXiv:
PRM-RL: Long-range Robotic Navigation Tasks by Combining Reinforcement Learning and Sampling-based Planning
Aleksandra Faust, Oscar Ramirez, Marek Fiser, Kenneth Oslund, Anthony Francis, James Davidson, Lydia Tapia
We present PRM-RL, a hierarchical method for long-range navigation task completion that combines sampling-based path planning with reinforcement learning (RL) agents. The RL agents learn short-range, point-to-point navigation policies that capture robot dynamics and task constraints without knowledge of the large-scale topology, while the sampling-based planners provide an approximate map of the space of possible configurations of the robot from which collision-free trajectories feasible for the RL agents can be identified. The same RL agents are used to control the robot under the direction of the planning, enabling long-range navigation. We use the Probabilistic Roadmaps (PRMs) for the sampling-based planner. The RL agents are constructed using feature-based and deep neural net policies in continuous state and action spaces. We evaluate PRM-RL on two navigation tasks with non-trivial robot dynamics: end-to-end differential drive indoor navigation in office environments, and aerial cargo delivery in urban environments with load displacement constraints. These evaluations included both simulated environments and on-robot tests. Our results show improvement in navigation task completion over both RL agents on their own and traditional sampling-based planners. In the indoor navigation task, PRM-RL successfully completes up to 215 meters long trajectories under noisy sensor conditions, and the aerial cargo delivery completes flights over 1000 meters without violating the task constraints in an environment 63 million times larger than used in training.
So, when I say "I teach robots to learn" ... that's what I do.
My Daily Dragon Interview in Two Words: “Just Write!”
Published September 6, 2017 by centaur
So at Dragon Con I had a reading this year. Yeah, looks like this is the last year I get to bring all my books - too many, to heavy! I read the two flash fiction pieces in Jagged Fragments, "If Looks Could Kill" and "The Secret of the T-Rex's Arms", as well as reading the first chapter of Jeremiah Willstone and the Clockwork Time Machine, a bit of my and Jim Davies' essay on the psychology of Star Trek's artificial intelligences, and even a bit of my very first published story, "Sibling Rivalry". I also gave the presentation I was supposed to give at the SAM Talks before I realized I was double booked; that was "Risk Getting Worse".
But that wasn't recorded, so, oh dang, you'll have to either go to my Amazon page to get my books, or wait until we get "Risk Getting Worse" recorded. But my interview with Nancy Northcott for the Daily Dragon, "Robots, Computers, and Magic", however, IS online, so I can share it with you all. Even more so, I want to share what I think is the most important part of my interview:
DD: Do you have any one bit of advice for aspiring writers?
AF: Write. Just write. Don’t worry about perfection, or getting published, or even about pleasing anyone else: just write. Write to the end of what you start, and only then worry about what to do with it. In fact, don’t even worry about finishing everything—don’t be afraid to try anything. Artists know they need to fill a sketchbook before sitting down to create a masterwork, but writers sometimes get trapped trying to polish their first inspiration into a final product.
Don’t get trapped on the first hill! Whip out your notebook and write. Write morning pages. Write diary at the end of the day. Write a thousand starts to stories, and if one takes flight, run with it with all the abandon you have in you. Accept all writing, especially your own. Just write. Write.
That's it. To read more, check out the interview here, or see all my Daily Dragon mentions at Dragon Con here, or check out my interviewer Nancy Northcott's site here. Onward!
Published August 28, 2017 by centaur
Simply put, "artificial intelligence” is people trying to make things do things that we’d call smart if done by people.
So what’s the big deal about that?
Well, as it turns out, a lot of people get quite wound up with the definition of "artificial intelligence.” Sometimes this is because they’re invested in a prescientific notion that machines can’t be intelligent and want to define it in a way that writes the field off before it gets started, or it’s because they’re invested in an unscientific degree into their particular theory of intelligence and want to define it in a way that constrains the field to look at only the things they care about, or because they’re actually not scientific at all and want to proscribe the field to work on the practical problems of particular interest to them.
No, I’m not bitter about having to wade through a dozen bad definitions of artificial intelligence as part of a survey. Why do you ask?
Published January 1, 2017 by centaur
Welcome to the future, ladies and gentlemen. Here in the future, the obscure television shows of my childhood rate an entire section in the local bookstore, which combines books, games, music, movies, and even vinyl records with a coffeehouse and restaurant.
Here in the future, the heretofore unknown secrets of my discipline, artificial intelligence, are now conveniently compiled in compelling textbooks that you can peruse at your leisure over a cup of coffee.
Here in the future, genre television shows play on the monitors of my favorite bar / restaurant, and the servers and I have meaningful conversations about the impact of robotics on the future of labor.
And here in the future, Monty Python has taken over the world.
Perhaps that explains 2016.
Why yes, I’m running a deep learning system on a MacBook Air. Why?
Published February 9, 2016 by centaur
Yep, that’s Python consuming almost 300% of my CPU - guess what, I guess that means this machine has four processing cores, since I saw it hit over 300% - running the TensorFlow tutorial. For those that don’t know, "deep learning” is a relatively recent type of learning which uses improvements in both processing power and learning algorithms to train learning networks that can have dozens or hundreds of layers - sometimes as many layers as neural networks in the 1980’s and 1990’s had nodes.
For those that don’t know even that, neural networks are graphs of simple nodes that mimic brain structures, and you can train them with data that contains both the question and the answer. With enough internal layers, neural networks can learn almost anything, but they require a lot of training data and a lot of computing power. Well, now we’ve got lots and lots of data, and with more computing power, you’d expect we’d be able to train larger networks - but the first real trick was discovering mathematical tricks that keep the learning signal strong deep, deep within the networks.
The second real trick was wrapping all this amazing code in a clean software architecture that enables anyone to run the software anywhere. TensorFlow is one of the most recent of these frameworks - it’s Google’s attempt to package up the deep learning technology it uses internally so that everyone in the world can use it - and it’s open source, so you can download and install it on most computers and try out the tutorial at home. The CPU-baking example you see running here, however, is not the simpler tutorial, but a test program that runs a full deep neural network. Let’s see how it did:
Well. 99.2% correct, it seems. Not bad for a couple hundred lines of code, half of which is loading the test data - and yeah, that program depends on 200+ files worth of Python that the TensorFlow installation loaded onto my MacBook Air, not to mention all the libraries that the TensorFlow Python installation depends on in turn …
But I still loaded it onto a MacBook Air, and it ran perfectly.
Amazing what you can do with computers these days.
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Abyss Benthic Biology Cephalopods Ecology Evolution Paleobiology Pelagic Pictures and Movies
How the Squid Lost Its Shell
RR Helm October 3, 2017
This is a guest post by Dr. Danna Staaf, a science writer with a PhD in marine biology from Stanford University. Her first book, Squid Empire: The Rise and Fall of the Cephalopods, chronicles the 500-million-year evolutionary journey of these fascinating animals. She also blogs at The Cephalopodiatrist.
Giant squid are the sea’s best monsters, tentacles down. For evidence we need look no further than the logo of this very website. But did you know that our beloved Architeuthis descends from a venerable line of sea monsters—that Archy’s ancestors, in fact, may have been the first animals ever to merit the name “monster”?
The phrase “prehistoric sea monster” might summon to mind an ichthyosaur or megalodon, but these are johnny-come-latelies to the underwater scene. Megalodon showed up a mere 23 million years ago. Ichthyosaurs evolved closer to 250 million years ago, which may seem pretty old (okay, it is) until you consider the age of the first cephalopod: 450 million years.
I’ll admit that initially cephalopods were no monsters. Snail-like, they lived inside shells that measured a few centimeters at most. But these shells contained a remarkable evolutionary innovation: sealed-off chambers that could be drained of fluid and filled with buoyant gas.
This buoyancy freed cephalopods from the constraints of their heavy shells, allowing them to reach stupendous sizes. No matter how big the shell grew, its weight was automatically offset by more gas-filled chambers.
Paleozoic Giants. Image from: Christian, et al. “Normal giants? Temporal and latitudinal shifts of Palaeozoic marine invertebrate gigantism and global change.” Lethaia 48.2 (2015): 267-288 (PDF)
Endoceras giganteum, for example, grew up to 3.5 meters, longer than a basketball hoop is tall. It was the biggest animal the world had yet seen. I feel confident calling this 450-million-year-old beast one of the planet’s first monsters.
But how did we get from Endoceras to Architeuthis? Is one a direct ancestor of the other, or are they distant cousins n-times-removed? And what became of that fantastic shell?
We need a family tree for Endoceras, Architeuthis, and everything in between—in other words, a cephalopod phylogeny. For over a century, scientists have been working to reconstruct such a phylogeny with evidence from fossils, embryos, DNA and more. I made an attempt to synthesize the most recent work into a single drawing, with lots of advice from paleontologists and the helping hand of an artist who polished my messy sketchwork (and put in those friendly eyes).
Phylogenetic tree, created by Danna Staaf and C.A. Clark
Endoceras was one of the Orthocerida, which you can find down in the Ordovician, in the lower right. Today’s giant squid take pride of place—with their smaller siblings—top and center. As for the rest…
From Cambrian through Silurian times, cephalopods all wore their shells on the outside of their bodies, just like every other self-respecting mollusk. The nautiloids continued that decorous habit to the present day. Another externally-shelled group, the ammonoids, explored every bizarre baroque extreme of shell coiling and ornamentation before getting mass-extincted alongside the dinosaurs.
What remains are the coleoids—the only group of cephalopods in which evolution sheathed the shell, burying hard structure inside a soft body.
At first, this internal shell was still massive and still full of buoyant chambers, as in the early coleoid Hematites. But over time natural selection (carried out by hungry fish, for the most part) favored smaller, simpler shells.
Fossil Squid; credit: Diego Sala.
Now, cuttlefish and ram’s horn squid are the only modern coleoids to retain the hard calcium and buoyant chambers of their ancestors. The internal shells of octopuses have evolved into mere vestiges.
And squid? Well, the shell remnant of a squid has no chambers and no calcium. But it runs the full length of the body, from head to fin-tip, and it offers support to the powerful muscles that carry these modern monsters through the sea. Though unarmored, Architeuthis is most likely faster and far more agile than Endoceras could ever have dreamed of being.
So which one would you rather meet in a dark alley?
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For those of you who have been sitting on the sideline waiting for "Orcas" to ship before you take a look at the new features in ASP.NET 3.5, it's time for you to get in the game.
by Jim Duffy
ASP.NET 3.5-Related Visual Studio 2008 Enhancements (continued)
JavaScript IntelliSense
For years I have taken the IntelliSense capability inside Visual Studio for granted but that changed quickly the more I began writing client-side JavaScript code. If you are like me, you will really appreciate Visual Studio 2008's built-in support for JavaScript IntelliSense. Wow, this makes such a difference writing JavaScript code in Visual Studio 2005 versus Visual Studio 2008. Being able to select JavaScript keywords and language features from an IntelliSense list makes building AJAX applications so much easier (see Figure 19).
Figure 19. JavaScript Intellisense: IntelliSense displays JavaScript keywords and types.
IntelliSense also extends to external JavaScript libraries as well. I have created a CodeMagazine.js file that contains a single function. You can optionally include comments that will provide a richer IntelliSense experience when the function is referenced:
function AgeInDogYears(Age)
/// <summary>This returns a person's age in dog years</summary>
/// <param name="Age">Person's Age</param>
/// <returns>integer</returns>
var DogYears = Age * 7
return DogYears
Figure 20. Intellisense for External JavaScript Libraries: IntelliSense picks up the members of an external JavaScript library.
You just need to declare an external JavaScript reference either manually or by dragging the .js file into the <HEAD> tag and IntelliSense picks up on the functions contained in the external library (see Figure 20).
JavaScript Debugging
With the increased popularity of AJAX-enabled Web applications, the improved support in Visual Studio 2008 for debugging JavaScript code will come as welcome news. If you have had to debug JavaScript code in the past, I am sure you will agree that one of the frustrating things about debugging JavaScript code with Visual Studio 2005 was that you had to run your ASP.NET application before you could set any breakpoints in the debugger. Fortunately, Microsoft dramatically improved this situation because you can now set breakpoints in your JavaScript code located in regular ASP.NET pages (.aspx), external code files (.js), and in your master pages (.master) (see Figure 21).
Figure 21. JavaScript Breakpoints: You can set breakpoints in your JavaScript code.
Figure 22. JavaScript Debugging: The runtime debugger displaying a JavaScript breakpoint.
Figure 23. JavaScript Object Inspector: JavaScript object inspection has been improved.
In addition, you can now set breakpoints in your client-side JavaScript code and your server-side Visual Basic or C# code on the same page and utilize a single debugger session to step though all the code (see Figure 22).
Also, I think one of the most significant additions to the JavaScript debugging experience is the improved object inspection support, which provides more detailed object property and property type information (see Figure 23).
CSS Properties Window
The first of the new CSS features added to Visual Studio 2008 that I will cover is the CSS Properties window. You will find it about half-way down the View menu. The CSS Properties window shows you all the CSS settings currently being applied to any ASP.NET server control or HTML element (see Figure 24). A red line displayed through the property name indicates that it has been overridden. Overridden style properties are not applied to the selected element. Click the Summary button to display all the properties that are applied to the selected element (see Figure 25). As you can see, the new CSS Properties window makes keeping track and changing CSS values quick and easy.
Figure 24. CSS Properties Window: The CSS Properties window displays all the CSS properties for the selected item.
Figure 25. CSS Properties Summary: The CSS Properties Summary provides a list of properties that are applied to the selected element.
Manage Styles Window
Figure 26. Manage Styles Window: The Manage Styles window displays all the styles in a CSS file and indicates which elements are in use.
The Manage Styles window is a welcome addition to Visual Studio 2008. It helps you visually manage the CSS styles used on the page you are currently working with in both Design and Source view (see Figure 26). You will find it on the View menu, just after the CSS Properties menu option. When an item is circled it means that rule is currently used somewhere on the current page. Hover over a style to display the rule values for that rule. Select a rule and you'll see a preview of its appearance in the Selected Style Preview section at the bottom of the Manage Styles window. Double-click on a rule to open the style sheet in which it resides. Start making changes and you'll see another feature of Visual Studio 2008—full IntelliSense within your style sheets.
At the top of the Manage Styles window you'll see an option to create new styles and an option to load an additional style sheet into the Manage Styles window if your project utilizes more than a single style sheet. You can click the Options button to display a number of display options (see Figure 27).
Figure 27. CSS Options: The Options button provides categorizing and display options for the CSS elements.
All these new features in ASP.NET 3.5 and Visual Studio 2008 should peak your interest and the coverage here should help jumpstart your learning process. Even if you aren't ready to start using the new features in ASP.NET 3.5, because of the multi-framework targeting support in Visual Studio 2008, you can take advantage of all the new Web development features such as the JavaScript debugging, JavaScript IntelliSense, improved Web designer, nested master pages, and CSS features in your ASP.NET 2.0 applications.
You can find videos regarding ASP.NET 3.5 and Visual Studio 2008 on the Microsoft ASP.NET Web site.
Jim Duffy is founder and president of TakeNote Technologies, an award-winning training and software development company. He has a BS degree in Computer and Information Systems and over 19 years of programming and training experience. He is an energetic trainer, skilled developer, and has been published in leading developer-oriented publications. Jim, a Microsoft MVP award recipient, is a popular speaker at regional user groups and developer conferences. He is also a co-host of Computers 2K4, a call-in radio show on WRBZ (AM 850), 850 The Buzz, in Raleigh, NC. Jim is also the author of TakeNote's popular VFP database auditing product, FoxAudit. In addition to his duties with TakeNote, Jim is also the VP of Sales & Marketing for Red Matrix Technologies, a SQL Server tools vendor who's SQLAudit product adds complete audit trail support for SQL Server databases. Additional information about Jim, TakeNote Technologies, and Red Matrix Technologies can be found at www.takenote.com.
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Amount of Magnesium in Whole milk
Welcome to the nutritional magnesium content in 6 different types of whole milk, ranging from 85 mg to 10 mg per 100g. The basic type of whole milk is Milk, buttermilk, fluid, whole, where the amount of magnesium in 100g is 10 mg.
10 mg of magnesium per 100g, from Milk, buttermilk, fluid, whole corresponds to 3% of the magnesium RDA. For a typical serving size of 1 cup (or 245 g) the amount of Magnesium is 24.5 mg. This corresponds to an RDA percentage of 6%.
The percentage of the recommended daily allowance (RDA) for magnesium is based on a 400 mg RDA level for a mature adult.
Top five whole milk products high in magnesium
Below is a summary list for the top five whole milk items ranked by the amount or level of magnesium in 100g.
1. Milk, dry, whole, with added vitamin D : 85mg (21%RDA)
2. Milk, dry, whole, without added vitamin D : 85mg (21%RDA)
3. Milk, chocolate, fluid, commercial, whole, with added vitamin A and vitamin D : 13mg (3%RDA)
4. Milk, whole, 3.25% milkfat, with added vitamin D : 10mg (3%RDA)
5. Milk, whole, 3.25% milkfat, without added vitamin A and vitamin D : 10mg (3%RDA)
Following on from the five top whole milk items or products containing magnesium we have a more comprehensive break down of Milk, buttermilk, fluid, whole, and the highest item containing magnesium which is Milk, dry, whole, with added vitamin D. We also give a comparison of average values, median values and lowest values along with a comparison with other food groups and assess the effects of storage and preparation on the 6 types of whole milk.
At the bottom of the page is the full list for the 6 different types of whole milk based on the content in different servings in grams and oz (and other serving sizes), providing a comprehensive analysis of the magnesium content in whole milk.
Milk, buttermilk, fluid, whole - Nutritional Content and Chart
The full nutrition content, RDA percentages and levels for Milk, buttermilk, fluid, whole should be considered along with the magnesium content. This food profile is part of our list of food and drinks under the general group Dairy and Egg Products.Other important and magnesium related nutrients are Calories, Protein, Fat and Carbohydrate. For this 100g serving in your diet, the amount of Calories is 62 kcal (3% RDA), the amount of Protein is 3.21 g (6% RDA), the amount of Fat is 3.31 g (5% RDA) and the amount of Carbohydrate is 4.88 g (4% RDA). The nutritional content and facts for 100g, which includes Calories, Protein, Fat and Carbohydrate is shown in the RDA chart below as percentages of the recommended daily allowance along with the magnesium levels in whole milk.
Our proprietary nutritional density score gives a nutritional value out of 100 based on 9 different vitamins, minerals and macro nutrients. Milk, buttermilk, fluid, whole has a nutritional value score of 14 out of 100.Comparing the magnesium content and the nutritional density in 100g for Milk, buttermilk, fluid, whole; We class this as a medium to low magnesium content item.In terms of overall nutritional value we class this as an item with a medium nutritional density value.
Comparing magnesium in whole milk vs spinach
The amount of magnesium in spinach is 79 mg per 100g.As magnesium percentage of the RDA this is 20 %. Comparing with Milk, buttermilk, fluid, whole, in 100g contains 10 mg of magnesium. As a percentage of the RDA this is 3 %. Therefore, spinach has 69 mg more magnesium than Milk, buttermilk, fluid, whole. In terms of magnesium percentage this is 690 % more magnesium. Spinach has an overall nutritional value score of 68 out of 100, whereas Milk, buttermilk, fluid, whole has a nutritional value score of 14 out of 100.
The highest content of magnesium in the food items under the general description or type of whole milk, is Milk, dry, whole, with added vitamin D with 85 mg of magnesium per 100g. Comparing spinach with Milk, dry, whole, with added vitamin D; Milk, dry, whole, with added vitamin D has 6 mg more magnesium than spinach. In terms of magnesium percentage this is 8 % more magnesium.
Amount of magnesium per 100 Calories
100 calories of milk, buttermilk, fluid, whole is a serving size of 1.61 g, and the amount of Magnesium is 16.13 mg (4.84% RDA). Other important and related nutrients and macronutrients such as Fat, in 100 Calories are as follows; Protein 5.18 g (9.68% RDA), Fat 5.34 g (8.06% RDA), Carbohydrate 7.87 g (6.45% RDA). This is shown in the magnesium RDA percentage chart below, based on 100 Calories, along with the other important nutrients and macro nutrients.
For the food Milk, buttermilk, fluid, whole the typical serving size is 1 cup (or 245 g) which contains 24.5 mg of Magnesium. The magnesium percentage of the recommended daily value for this serving is 6 %.
To give 100% of the RDA, 16.7 servings of the typical serving size 1 cup (or 245 g) give the complete RDA. In terms of the gram weight and total content for this serving the Calories content is 151.9 kcal, the Protein content is 7.86 g, the Fat content is 8.11 g and the Carbohydrate content is 11.96 g. The percentages are shown below in the magnesium chart, for the typical serving of magnesium and the related and important nutritional values.
Macronutrients in Milk, buttermilk, fluid, whole
The amount of protein, fat and carbs from this food described above is measured in grams per 100g and grams in a typical serving size (in this case 1 cup or 245 g), although it is also useful to give the number of calories from protein, fat and carbohydrate which are the most important macronutrients. For this serving in your diet here are the macronutrient calories. From protein the number of calories is 31.4 (kcal).The number of calories from Fat is 73.0 (kcal).The total calories from carbohydrate is 47.8 (kcal).
Milligrams of magnesium in whole milk (per 100g)
This list of 6 types of whole milk, is brought to you by www.dietandfitnesstoday.com and ranges from Milk, dry, whole, with added vitamin D through to Milk, buttermilk, fluid, whole where all food items are ranked by the content or amount per 100g. The nutritional magnesium content can be scaled by the amount in grams, oz or typical serving sizes. Simply click on a food item or beverage from the list at the bottom of the page to give a full dietary nutritional breakdown to answer the question how much magnesium in whole milk.
The list below gives the total magnesium content in the 6 items from the general description 'whole milk' each of which show the magnesium amount as well as Calories, Protein, Fat and Carbohydrate. Below, is the top 6 food items shown in the magnesium chart. This gives a quick and easy dietary comparison for the different items, where each item is listed at the bottom of the page with a nutritional summary.
The corresponding nutritional value for whole milk based on our density score out of 100 (ranked by the amount of magnesium per 100g) is shown in the below nutritional density chart.
The corresponding Calories for whole milk ranked by the amount of magnesium per 100g is shown below in the whole milk calories chart.
Average Content for whole milk
The average (or more correctly the arithmetic mean) amount of magnesium contained in 100g of whole milk, based on the list below of 6 different items under the general description of whole milk, is 35.50 mg of magnesium. This average value corresponds to 8.88 % of the recommended dietary allowance (or RDA) in your diet. The averages for the different nutrients are as follows; the average amount of Calories is 209.83 kcal, the average amount of Protein is 10.89 g, the average amount of Fat is 11.11 g and the average amount of Carbohydrate is g.
The median value of Magnesium is found in Milk, chocolate, fluid, commercial, whole, with added vitamin A and vitamin D which in 100g contains 13 mg of Magnesium. This corresponds to 3 % of the recommended daily allowance. For this serving the amount of Calories is 83 kcal, the amount of Protein is 3.17 g, the amount of Fat is 3.39 g and the amount of Carbohydrate is 10.34 g.
Highest magnesium Content per 100g
Using the list below for the 6 different whole milk nutrition entries in our database, the highest amount of magnesium is found in Milk, dry, whole, with added vitamin D which contains 85 mg of magnesium per 100g. The associated percentage of RDA is 21 %. For this 100g serving the Calories content is 496 kcal, the Protein content is 26.32 g, the Fat content is 26.71 g, the Carbohydrate content is 38.42 g.
The lowest amount of magnesium in 100g is in Milk, buttermilk, fluid, whole which contains 10 mg. This gives as percentage of the recommended daily allowance 3 % of the RDA. For this 100g serving the amount of Calories is 62 kcal, the amount of Protein is 3.21 g, the amount of Fat is 3.31 g, the amount of Carbohydrate is 4.88 g.
The difference between the highest and lowest values gives a magnesium range of 75 mg per 100g. The range for the other nutrients are as follows; 434 kcal for Calories, 23.11 g for Protein, 23.4 g for Fat, 0 g for Carbohydrate.
Highest Amount of magnesium per Serving
Please remember that the above gives an accurate value in 100g for high magnesium foods in your diet. For example 100g of Milk, buttermilk, fluid, whole contains 10 mg of magnesium. However, there are other factors to consider when you are assessing your nutritional requirements. You should also take into account portion sizes when you are considering the magnesium nutritional content.
The food with the highest magnesium content per typical serving is Milk, dry, whole, without added vitamin D which contains 108.8 mg in 1 cup (or 128 g). The percentage of the recommended daily value for this serving is 27 %. For this serving the Calories content is 634.88 kcal, the Protein content is 33.69 g, the Fat content is 34.19 g and the Carbohydrate content is 49.18 g.
From the list below you can find a full nutrition facts breakdown for all foods containing magnesium which can be scaled for different servings and quantities. We have also sorted our complete nutritional information and vitamin database of over 7000 foods, to give a list of high content of magnesium in foods.
Whole milk List, magnesium Content per 100g
1. Milk, dry, whole, with added vitamin D - Magnesium
Nutritional Value : 15 / 100 food group - Dairy and Egg Products
85 mg (21%) 496 kcal (25%) 38.42 g (30%) 26.71 g (41%) 26.32 g (47%)
108.8 mg (27%) 634.88 kcal (32%) 49.18 g (38%) 34.19 g (53%) 33.69 g (60%)
Other serving sizes .25 cup (or 32g):
27.2 mg (7%) 158.72 kcal (8%) 12.29 g (9%) 8.55 g (13%) 8.42 g (15%)
2. Milk, dry, whole, without added vitamin D - Magnesium
Magnesium Calories Carbohydrate Fat Protein
3. Milk, chocolate, fluid, commercial, whole, with added vitamin A and vitamin D - Magnesium
13 mg (3%) 83 kcal (4%) 10.34 g (8%) 3.39 g (5%) 3.17 g (6%)
32.5 mg (8%) 207.5 kcal (10%) 25.85 g (20%) 8.48 g (13%) 7.93 g (14%)
4.06 mg (1%) 25.9 kcal (1%) 3.23 g (2%) 1.06 g (2%) 0.99 g (2%)
Other serving sizes 1 quart (or 1000g):
130 mg (33%) 830 kcal (42%) 103.4 g (80%) 33.9 g (52%) 31.7 g (57%)
4. Milk, whole, 3.25% milkfat, with added vitamin D - Magnesium
10 mg (3%) 61 kcal (3%) 4.8 g (4%) 3.25 g (5%) 3.15 g (6%)
Other serving sizes 1 tbsp (or 15g):
1.5 mg (0%) 9.15 kcal (0%) 0.72 g (1%) 0.49 g (1%) 0.47 g (1%)
3.05 mg (1%) 18.61 kcal (1%) 1.46 g (1%) 0.99 g (2%) 0.96 g (2%)
Other serving sizes 1 quart (or 976g):
97.6 mg (24%) 595.36 kcal (30%) 46.85 g (36%) 31.72 g (49%) 30.74 g (55%)
5. Milk, whole, 3.25% milkfat, without added vitamin A and vitamin D - Magnesium
10 mg (3%) 61 kcal (3%) 4.78 g (4%) 3.27 g (5%) 3.15 g (6%)
3.05 mg (1%) 18.61 kcal (1%) 1.46 g (1%) 1 g (2%) 0.96 g (2%)
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Amount of Sodium in Cheerios
Welcome to the nutritional sodium content in 11 different types of cheerios, ranging from 639 mg to 391 mg per 100g. The basic type of cheerios is Cereals ready-to-eat, GENERAL MILLS, CHEERIOS, where the amount of sodium in 100g is 576 mg.
576 mg of sodium per 100g, from Cereals ready-to-eat, GENERAL MILLS, CHEERIOS corresponds to 36% of the sodium RDA. For a typical serving size of 1 cup (1 NLEA serving) (or 28 g) the amount of Sodium is 161.28 mg. This corresponds to an RDA percentage of 10%.
The percentage of the recommended daily allowance (RDA) for sodium is based on a 1600 mg RDA level for a mature adult.
Top five cheerios products high in sodium
Below is a summary list for the top five cheerios items ranked by the amount or level of sodium in 100g.
1. Cereals ready-to-eat, GENERAL MILLS, Berry Burst CHEERIOS, Triple Berry : 639mg (40%RDA)
2. Cereals ready-to-eat, GENERAL MILLS, CHEERIOS, Chocolate : 637mg (40%RDA)
3. Cereals ready-to-eat, GENERAL MILLS, FROSTED CHEERIOS : 610mg (38%RDA)
4. Cereals ready-to-eat, GENERAL MILLS, CHEERIOS : 576mg (36%RDA)
5. Cereals ready-to-eat, GENERAL MILLS, CHEERIOS, Banana Nut : 570mg (36%RDA)
Following on from the five top cheerios items or products containing sodium we have a more comprehensive break down of Cereals ready-to-eat, GENERAL MILLS, CHEERIOS, and the highest item containing sodium which is Cereals ready-to-eat, GENERAL MILLS, Berry Burst CHEERIOS, Triple Berry. We also give a comparison of average values, median values and lowest values along with a comparison with other food groups and assess the effects of storage and preparation on the 11 types of cheerios.
At the bottom of the page is the full list for the 11 different types of cheerios based on the content in different servings in grams and oz (and other serving sizes), providing a comprehensive analysis of the sodium content in cheerios.
Cereals ready-to-eat, GENERAL MILLS, CHEERIOS - Nutritional Content and Chart
The full nutrition content, RDA percentages and levels for Cereals ready-to-eat, GENERAL MILLS, CHEERIOS should be considered along with the sodium content. This food profile is part of our list of food and drinks under the general group Breakfast Cereals.Other important and sodium related nutrients are Potassium, Calories, Protein, Fat and Carbohydrate. For this 100g serving in your diet, the amount of Potassium is 641 mg (14% RDA), the amount of Calories is 371 kcal (19% RDA), the amount of Protein is 12.09 g (22% RDA), the amount of Fat is 6.73 g (10% RDA) and the amount of Carbohydrate is 73.23 g (56% RDA). The nutritional content and facts for 100g, which includes Potassium, Calories, Protein, Fat and Carbohydrate is shown in the RDA chart below as percentages of the recommended daily allowance along with the sodium levels in cheerios.
Our proprietary nutritional density score gives a nutritional value out of 100 based on 9 different vitamins, minerals and macro nutrients. Cereals ready-to-eat, GENERAL MILLS, CHEERIOS has a nutritional value score of 18 out of 100.Comparing the sodium content and the nutritional density in 100g for Cereals ready-to-eat, GENERAL MILLS, CHEERIOS; We class this as a high sodium content item.In terms of overall nutritional value we class this as an item with a medium nutritional density value.
Amount of sodium per 100 Calories
100 calories of cereals ready-to-eat, GENERAL MILLS, CHEERIOS is a serving size of 0.27 g, and the amount of Sodium is 155.26 mg (9.7% RDA). Other important and related nutrients and macronutrients such as Protein, in 100 Calories are as follows; Potassium 172.78 mg (3.77% RDA), Protein 3.26 g (5.93% RDA), Fat 1.81 g (2.7% RDA), Carbohydrate 19.74 g (15.09% RDA). This is shown in the sodium RDA percentage chart below, based on 100 Calories, along with the other important nutrients and macro nutrients.
Content per Typical Serving Size 1 cup (1 NLEA serving) (or 28 g)
For the food Cereals ready-to-eat, GENERAL MILLS, CHEERIOS the typical serving size is 1 cup (1 NLEA serving) (or 28 g) which contains 161.28 mg of Sodium. The sodium percentage of the recommended daily value for this serving is 10 %.
To give 100% of the RDA, 10.0 servings of the typical serving size 1 cup (1 NLEA serving) (or 28 g) give the complete RDA. In terms of the gram weight and total content for this serving the Potassium content is 179.48 mg, the Calories content is 103.88 kcal, the Protein content is 3.39 g, the Fat content is 1.88 g and the Carbohydrate content is 20.5 g. The percentages are shown below in the sodium chart, for the typical serving of sodium and the related and important nutritional values.
Macronutrients in Cereals ready-to-eat, GENERAL MILLS, CHEERIOS
The amount of protein, fat and carbs from this food described above is measured in grams per 100g and grams in a typical serving size (in this case 1 cup (1 NLEA serving) or 28 g), although it is also useful to give the number of calories from protein, fat and carbohydrate which are the most important macronutrients. For this serving in your diet here are the macronutrient calories. From protein the number of calories is 13.6 (kcal).The number of calories from Fat is 16.9 (kcal).The total calories from carbohydrate is 82.0 (kcal).
Milligrams of sodium in cheerios (per 100g)
This list of 11 types of cheerios, is brought to you by www.dietandfitnesstoday.com and ranges from Cereals ready-to-eat, GENERAL MILLS, Berry Burst CHEERIOS, Triple Berry through to Cereals ready-to-eat, GENERAL MILLS, APPLE CINNAMON CHEERIOS where all food items are ranked by the content or amount per 100g. The nutritional sodium content can be scaled by the amount in grams, oz or typical serving sizes. Simply click on a food item or beverage from the list at the bottom of the page to give a full dietary nutritional breakdown to answer the question how much sodium in cheerios.
The list below gives the total sodium content in the 11 items from the general description 'cheerios' each of which show the sodium amount as well as Potassium, Calories, Protein, Fat and Carbohydrate. Below, is the top 11 food items shown in the sodium chart. This gives a quick and easy dietary comparison for the different items, where each item is listed at the bottom of the page with a nutritional summary.
The corresponding nutritional value for cheerios based on our density score out of 100 (ranked by the amount of sodium per 100g) is shown in the below nutritional density chart.
The corresponding Calories for cheerios ranked by the amount of sodium per 100g is shown below in the cheerios calories chart.
Average Content for cheerios
The average (or more correctly the arithmetic mean) amount of sodium contained in 100g of cheerios, based on the list below of 11 different items under the general description of cheerios, is 537.91 mg of sodium. This average value corresponds to 33.62 % of the recommended dietary allowance (or RDA) in your diet. The averages for the different nutrients are as follows; the average amount of Potassium is 313.09 mg, the average amount of Calories is 379.00 kcal, the average amount of Protein is 7.71 g, the average amount of Fat is 4.86 g and the average amount of Carbohydrate is g.
The median value of Sodium is found in Cereals ready-to-eat, GENERAL MILLS, CHEERIOS, Yogurt Burst, strawberry which in 100g contains 567 mg of Sodium. This corresponds to 35 % of the recommended daily allowance. For this serving the amount of Potassium is 200 mg, the amount of Calories is 400 kcal, the amount of Protein is 6.67 g, the amount of Fat is 5.23 g and the amount of Carbohydrate is 81.75 g.
Highest sodium Content per 100g
Using the list below for the 11 different cheerios nutrition entries in our database, the highest amount of sodium is found in Cereals ready-to-eat, GENERAL MILLS, Berry Burst CHEERIOS, Triple Berry which contains 639 mg of sodium per 100g. The associated percentage of RDA is 40 %. For this 100g serving the Potassium content is 230 mg, the Calories content is 378 kcal, the Protein content is 8.8 g, the Fat content is 4.5 g, the Carbohydrate content is 80.5 g.
The lowest amount of sodium in 100g is in Cereals ready-to-eat, GENERAL MILLS, APPLE CINNAMON CHEERIOS which contains 391 mg. This gives as percentage of the recommended daily allowance 24 % of the RDA. For this 100g serving the amount of Potassium is 224 mg, the amount of Calories is 387 kcal, the amount of Protein is 7.6 g, the amount of Fat is 5.7 g, the amount of Carbohydrate is 81.3 g.
The difference between the highest and lowest values gives a sodium range of 248 mg per 100g. The range for the other nutrients are as follows; 6 mg for Potassium, 9 kcal for Calories, 1.2 g for Protein, 1.2 g for Fat, 0 g for Carbohydrate.
Highest Amount of sodium per Serving
Please remember that the above gives an accurate value in 100g for high sodium foods in your diet. For example 100g of Cereals ready-to-eat, GENERAL MILLS, CHEERIOS contains 576 mg of sodium. However, there are other factors to consider when you are assessing your nutritional requirements. You should also take into account portion sizes when you are considering the sodium nutritional content.
The food with the highest sodium content per typical serving is Cereals ready-to-eat, GENERAL MILLS, Berry Burst CHEERIOS, Triple Berry which contains 172.53 mg in .75 cup (1 NLEA serving) (or 27 g). The percentage of the recommended daily value for this serving is 11 %. For this serving the Potassium content is 62.1 mg, the Calories content is 102.06 kcal, the Protein content is 2.38 g, the Fat content is 1.22 g and the Carbohydrate content is 21.74 g.
From the list below you can find a full nutrition facts breakdown for all foods containing sodium which can be scaled for different servings and quantities. We have also sorted our complete nutritional information and vitamin database of over 7000 foods, to give a list of high content of sodium in foods.
Cheerios List, sodium Content per 100g
1. Cereals ready-to-eat, GENERAL MILLS, Berry Burst CHEERIOS, Triple Berry - Sodium
Nutritional Value : 17 / 100 food group - Breakfast Cereals
(%RDA) Potassium
639 mg (40%) 230 mg (5%) 378 kcal (19%) 80.5 g (62%) 4.5 g (7%) 8.8 g (16%)
Typical Serving size of .75 cup (1 NLEA serving) (or 27g):
172.53 mg (11%) 62.1 mg (1%) 102.06 kcal (5%) 21.74 g (17%) 1.22 g (2%) 2.38 g (4%)
2. Cereals ready-to-eat, GENERAL MILLS, CHEERIOS, Chocolate - Sodium
Sodium Potassium Calories Carbohydrate Fat Protein
171.99 mg (11%) 75.87 mg (2%) 102.33 kcal (5%) 22.52 g (17%) 1.38 g (2%) 1.54 g (3%)
3. Cereals ready-to-eat, GENERAL MILLS, FROSTED CHEERIOS - Sodium
170.8 mg (11%) 61.32 mg (1%) 105.84 kcal (5%) 22.88 g (18%) 1.18 g (2%) 2.27 g (4%)
4. Cereals ready-to-eat, GENERAL MILLS, CHEERIOS - Sodium
576 mg (36%) 641 mg (14%) 371 kcal (19%) 73.23 g (56%) 6.73 g (10%) 12.09 g (22%)
Typical Serving size of 1 cup (1 NLEA serving) (or 28g):
161.28 mg (10%) 179.48 mg (4%) 103.88 kcal (5%) 20.5 g (16%) 1.88 g (3%) 3.39 g (6%)
5. Cereals ready-to-eat, GENERAL MILLS, CHEERIOS, Banana Nut - Sodium
570 mg (36%) 256 mg (5%) 374 kcal (19%) 84.6 g (65%) 4 g (6%) 5.5 g (10%)
6. Cereals ready-to-eat, GENERAL MILLS, CHEERIOS, Yogurt Burst, strawberry - Sodium
567 mg (35%) 200 mg (4%) 400 kcal (20%) 81.75 g (63%) 5.23 g (8%) 6.67 g (12%)
170.1 mg (11%) 60 mg (1%) 120 kcal (6%) 24.53 g (19%) 1.57 g (2%) 2 g (4%)
7. Cereals ready-to-eat, GENERAL MILLS, HONEY NUT CHEERIOS - Sodium
152.04 mg (10%) 114.24 mg (2%) 105.28 kcal (5%) 22.37 g (17%) 1.32 g (2%) 2.46 g (4%)
8. Cereals ready-to-eat, GENERAL MILLS, Fruity CHEERIOS - Sodium
493 mg (31%) 216 mg (5%) 383 kcal (19%) 84.2 g (65%) 5.2 g (8%) 5.2 g (9%)
133.11 mg (8%) 58.32 mg (1%) 103.41 kcal (5%) 22.73 g (17%) 1.4 g (2%) 1.4 g (3%)
9. Cereals ready-to-eat, GENERAL MILLS, Oat Cluster CHEERIOS Crunch - Sodium
132.03 mg (8%) 76.95 mg (2%) 102.06 kcal (5%) 21.79 g (17%) 1.24 g (2%) 2.3 g (4%)
10. Cereals ready-to-eat, GENERAL MILLS, Multi-Grain Cheerios - Sodium
402 mg (25%) 484 mg (10%) 365 kcal (18%) 82.5 g (63%) 3.5 g (5%) 7.9 g (14%)
116.58 mg (7%) 140.36 mg (3%) 105.85 kcal (5%) 23.93 g (18%) 1.02 g (2%) 2.29 g (4%)
sodium and Nutritional Values - Top 221 Foods
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11 Sourav Ganguly Quotes To Prove Why He Is The “Dada” of Indian Cricket
Janhavi Ukhalkar
When Sourav Ganguly became the captain of Indian cricket team in 2000, the team was deeply embroiled in the match fixing scandal. It had lost trust of the millions of India’s cricket fans and many of the players were also struggling to perform well overseas. What the team needed was a proud, confident and aggressive leader who would remove the team from the depths of misery and lead them to a bright future. No doubt, Sourav “Dada” Ganguly was that leader. Ganguly not only instilled a confident and killer attitude in his team mates, but with his intelligent mind also devised new techniques and ways to beat the opponents. The team India flourished under his captaincy and soon Sourav Ganguly became one of the best captains India has ever had. He has shown his own brand of arrogance, aggression and attitude: in short his “Dadagiri” to many of the top notch players. Below are some of badass Sourav Ganguly quotes and statements which show his sheer grit and mettle.
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It was barely dawn. Rudolph shuddered awake, still in the grip of an unpleasant dream. Thomas soothed him sleepily. Although Rudolph's tremors subsided, the nightmare images of fire and death did not. Fearful of falling back asleep, Rudolph abandoned their warm bed and not wanting to wake Thomas further, retreated to his own room to perform his morning ablutions.
Rudolph stood before his dresser, his fine linen lawn shirt still unbuttoned, his breeches still unlaced, and looked at his own face in the glass, not certain he recognized the man who looked back at him. Refusing to yield to the lingering malaise the dream had prompted, Rudolph filled the blue and white china washbasin with water from its matching pitcher and leaned over it to splash his face. Without warning the door to his bedchamber swung open.
The serving woman, fresh linen in her arms, gave a frightened little mewl; she had not expected to find anyone within. It was common knowledge among the staff that Rudolph spent his nights in the master's rooms. She met Rudolph's eyes for a brief second and then dropped her own, but not before Rudolph had seen her look of avid curiosity, mingled with fear. She tittered in nervous embarrassment and crossed herself, backing toward the door.
"Bitch!" Rudolph hissed, furious at both the gesture and the emotions behind it. He heaved the heavy pitcher across the room. It shattered against the doorframe and panic stricken, the woman dropped her linen and fled into the hall, screeching. Rudolph followed her. She dodged him and in so doing, brushed against the lit taper on the opposite wall. It was loose in its sconce and fell, setting her skirt alight. She screamed in purest terror and ran faster, her motion fanning the flames.
"Fool!" Rudolph tackled her and taking her to the floor, rolled on top of her, using his own body to douse the flame. The fire went out, but her clothes were hot and smoking. Rudolph stripped her of her skirts, tearing the garments from her as she lay pinned and sobbing beneath him.
It was thus they were found. Rudolph was dragged to his feet and restrained while the woman was helped upright and drawn aside, her hair stroked, a sheet wrapped modestly around her.
The toppled taper, the broken crockery, the torn, smoking garments...by the time a hastily awakened Thomas appeared, drawn by the shouting and trailed by the remainder of his drowsy household staff, it was clear that none of the bystanders knew what had actually occurred. In the face of the evidence of fire, the harsh accusations of rape had subsided; there was tentative acknowledgment that Rudolph's intentions had been good.
Rudolph glared silently ahead, his eyes cold and distant. He had been released, but there were finger welts on his arms where he had been held. His cheeks were white except for two small spots of red over the bone. He had fastened his breeches hastily and the strings were knotted carelessly. His white linen shirt was buttoned askew.
"Is a physician needed?" Thomas asked; the cooing women sheltering the terrified maid shook their heads negatively. "Then please, take her downstairs to the kitchen and find her some refreshment. I want to speak with everyone who came upon the scene of this unfortunate incident, singly, in my study," Thomas said calmly. "If those of you who were here would kindly proceed downstairs and wait for me? Thank you; the rest of you may go about your duties." Thomas beckoned to Rudolph. "Come with me, Rudolph; I would like to speak to you first."
His head held high, Rudolph haughtily followed Thomas downstairs. Nothing in his demeanor betrayed the numb despair Rudolph felt.
"Well, Thomas, are you sorry now that you invited the wolf into the sheepfold?" Rudolph asked lightly, as Thomas closed the study door behind him.
"This is no joking matter, Rudolph." Thomas shook his head, well used to Rudolph's studied carelessness. "I would like an explanation, please."
"What is there to say?" Rudolph smiled icily at Thomas. "You will not believe me, in any case."
"Rudolph!" Thomas softened his voice. "Rudy, I would like to know what happened."
"The bitch entered my room unannounced, crossed herself in fear and disgust when she saw me, and fled as from the devil himself. I threw the water pitcher at her. Unfortunately I missed and instead of striking her, it struck the doorframe. It is no more. A pity, Thomas, it was an expensive piece, I am sure. You have excellent taste in china."
"Did you mean to harm her?" Thomas ignored Rudolph's deliberate attempt at provocation.
"When I threw the pitcher in her direction? Yes. Would I had not missed; she deserved to be knocked unconscious and perhaps her flesh would have been kinder to the pitcher than the wood was." Rudolph bared his teeth in a facsimile of a smile. "When I threw her to the ground and tore her skirts from her? No. Not that you, nor anyone else, will believe me. The little fool backed into the candle in the hall and knocked it from its place. Her skirts were alight, Thomas, she fled in panic and in so doing, fanned the flames. Fool that I have become, I intervened and stripped her of her burning garments." Rudolph shrugged and looked away. "An unlikely tale, is it not? Perhaps, then, I lie? Beat me, Thomas, I do not care."
"Rudolph, I will never beat you," Thomas said quietly. "And I do not think you lie. You may have acted rashly in throwing the pitcher at her, but I trust you know that by your quick actions you saved her from being badly burnt, and you may well have saved her life."
"Does it matter, Thomas?" Rudolph said bitterly. "Only you are fool enough to think I might play the hero."
"Hush, Rudolph." Rudolph in this mood was a challenge at the best of times; Thomas needed to respond to the morning's excitement now, before rumor and innuendo destroyed all hope of its private, quiet resolution. He did not have the luxury of time in which to sort out his prickly lover's ambivalence.
"I must finish interviewing the other witnesses, Rudolph," Thomas said gently. "I would like you to wait quietly for me in the dining room, Rudolph. Speak to no one; do nothing rash. I will be in as soon as I can."
"Yes, Thomas," Rudolph said resignedly. He expected to be punished for his part in the morning's fiasco; his stomach flip flopped anxiously at the thought of what that punishment might entail.
"It will be all right, Rudy," Thomas said softly, understanding something of his lover's anxiety. "I promise."
Rudolph wanted to believe him.
By the time everyone had been spoken to and Thomas was satisfied that Rudolph's part in the incident had been fairly established, it was midmorning. Thomas was tired and quite hungry. He joined Rudolph in the dining room and signaled for food to be brought.
"Thank you," Thomas said politely, as a platter of cold meat and bread was placed before him. The serving man bowed and quietly withdrew.
"Come, Rudolph, join me." Thomas gestured at the chair beside him and Rudolph reluctantly abandoned his position at the mantel and seated himself as Thomas requested.
"I assume they all hate me?" Rudolph said idly.
"No, Rudolph. Fortunately for you, your temper is well known; no one doubts that you threw the pitcher without premeditation. What happened afterward was an accident, that too is clear to everyone, and that you acted as you did only to save the girl is equally clear."
"Next I will be giving pennies to beggars and attending church twice daily," Rudolph said sardonically.
"Hush." Thomas sighed. "If I did not love you I would despair of you. Here, perhaps a taste of good wine will sweeten your tongue."
Thomas poured two glasses from the bottle on the table and offered one to Rudolph.
"I will be sick if have anything, Thomas," Rudolph said, making a face. "Please, let me be." He pushed his chair back from the table; Thomas stopped him with a gentle hand on his arm.
"A little bread, if you have no taste for wine," Thomas suggested.
"I cannot." Rudolph shook his head. "I will be sick. Please, Thomas."
"All right." Recognizing the futility pressing Rudolph further, Thomas let Rudolph go.
Rudolph paced while Thomas ate slowly, enjoying the taste of the food, gradually relaxing. Despite the stress of the morning and his concerns about Rudolph, he was happy. Nothing truly terrible had happened. The woman, thank God, was unharmed.
"Thomas," Rudolph said, looking at Thomas, his eyes wide and distressed. "Thomas, I think I am ill."
"You are not ill, my Rudy," Thomas assured Rudolph. "You feel guilty. You are disturbed by the events of the morning, which are prompting feelings that you would perhaps rather not have. You are upset and confused. We will discuss what troubles you and you will feel yourself once more."
"No, I am ill!" Rudolph insisted. "I have a pain in my chest, my throat is tight, I cannot breathe deeply and speech is hard. I am ill."
"Hush, Rudy, come to me now."
"I do not need petting, Thomas, you mistake me." Rudolph glared at Thomas. "I will not accept your pity, Thomas, I refuse. I do not need you to countenance my behavior! I will do as I please. I will hurt who I please. I will throw what I please when I please at who I please–"
"Come, Rudolph, let us walk awhile." Thomas's soft response was not what Rudolph had anticipated. Caught off guard, Rudolph followed Thomas quietly.
They set out at a good pace for the hill at the back of the far field, a favored walk for its views and pleasant trails. Reaching their favorite stopping point near the pinnacle, Thomas sat down.
"I am ill, Thomas." Rudolph stared off into the distance.
"My poor Rudy. You had a difficult morning," Thomas said sympathetically. "Will you not let me comfort you? Lie down, Rudy." He patted his lap and with a slight, scornful shrug of his shoulders, Rudolph slumped to the ground beside Thomas and turning sideways, rested his head against Thomas's thighs. Thomas undid the ribbon that held Rudolph's hair in an untidy tail, and at the gentle, homely gesture, Rudolph began to cry quietly.
"I feel sick!"
"You feel guilty," Thomas corrected him gently, well aware that guilt was an emotion previously unknown to Rudolph. Rudolph had felt shame, but never guilt.
Thomas stroked Rudolph's hair for a very long time, not sure whether there was really anything else he could do. It wasn't until the sun had moved so that the grassy knell they were sitting in began to be uncomfortably chilly that Thomas urged Rudolph to sit up. With sure, gentle fingers, Thomas combed Rudolph's hair into a presentable state, straightened his shirt and tightened the strings of his breeches and helped Rudolph to his feet.
"I wish you weren't so nice to me," Rudolph said sadly. "I would feel less guilty, I think, Thomas, if you were less kind."
"You would feel less guilty, my Rudy, if you simply moderated your actions in the first place," Thomas observed. "Anything that I do or do not do is secondary to that. You must think, Rudy, before you act, how you will feel afterward."
"I never felt *any* way before this!" Rudolph's frustration was plain. "I did as I pleased and I never felt anything at all!"
"That is not a good thing, Rudy," Thomas chided. "You must feel to be human." He took Rudolph's elbow, turning him toward home.
"I don't want to go back," Rudolph said unhappily. "They all know. They all saw. It is not a pleasant thing, to be universally despised."
"You are not universally despised," Thomas said. "Hush, Rudy, it was not near the catastrophe you make of it."
"It is! And I imagine you are going to beat me for my part in it, little as I deserve it."
"It was not a catastrophe. Thanks to your quick actions, the woman was unharmed. And I may on occasion spank you, but I will never beat you and well you know it, Rudy," Thomas said lightly. "I do not even intend to spank you today. Rudy, what happened this morning was an accident. She overreacted, so did you, and it went from there."
"I did not attempt to rape her," Rudolph said. "Yet that is what they will all say."
"They are not fools, Rudolph, they will hear the whole story, to your shame and to your credit," Thomas said. "You do not throw things, no matter the provocation, which in this case, I believe, was unintended. Yet you saved her from burning. In the end you did more good than harm."
"You, Thomas, are a fool," Rudolph said.
"Hush, Rudolph. Do as you are told, and hold your serpent's tongue. We are going home."
Once they were upstairs in Thomas's rooms, the door securely locked behind them, Thomas undressed Rudolph and himself and aligned them both on the bed so that they could see each other's faces. He winced at the fright in Rudolph's eyes.
"What is this about, my Rudy?" Thomas took Rudolph lightly by his forearms and shook him gently until Rudolph's eyes focused on his own. "Think. I am not going to force you to do anything; I am not going to hurt you."
Rudolph swallowed hard and nodded.
"Tell me what troubles you, Rudolph."
"I cried, Thomas. I cried because I wished her dead! I, who I have killed more people than you in your wildest dreams can imagine and cried for none of them," Rudolph said. "I do not understand, Thomas, what you have done to me, to make me hurt so inside. I have never felt this before, there is a pain in my heart and my side and my head and I wish you would beat me for what I did not do, and forgive me what I did, because I did so much less than I wish I had done. Oh Thomas, how can I hope you will understand me, when I do not understand myself?"
"I do understand," Thomas said, stroking Rudolph's hair gently. "Rudolph, I cannot absolve you for the sins you committed in the past. I can only assure you that you have committed no sin here today. To loathe someone in your heart, and yet not hurt them, is better than to feel nothing, even though I understand that you do not find this true."
"It is not better for me!" Rudolph said bitterly. "It hurts me, and the other never did. I despise this feeling, and I despise myself for caring, and I despise you for..." His voice trailed off. "I do not despise you, Thomas," Rudolph said sadly. "I love you beyond all others. But Thomas, I am truly in pain and I fear dying. I do not want to burn, Thomas, I have been burnt and I fear the fire. I have seen others burnt and not aided them and so shall it, perhaps, be done to me and I am afraid, Thomas, I am so very, very afraid."
"Whatever you have done, you are a child of God and the just and merciful God I believe in will not let a child burn through all eternity," Thomas said quietly. "Hush, Rudy, I am certain of this."
"You can't be certain," Rudolph said.
"I am certain," Thomas said. "I do not know how or why I know, but I do. Hush, Rudy, do not think on this anymore, you will drive yourself mad."
"Do madmen feel pain?" Rudolph asked sadly. "It might well be worth being mad, Thomas, if I could feel nothing again."
"Hush, Rudy," Thomas said. He turned aside long enough to fill a glass with strong spirits; offered it to Rudolph. "Slowly, slowly. You need to sleep, Rudolph. Hush."
Rudolph drank quietly, grateful for Thomas's sureness and kindness. Rudolph let the warmth of the alcohol numb him. He fell asleep in Thomas's arms, quiet and no longer afraid. By the time he awoke it was dark and very late. Thomas was sitting at the small table near the fireplace, reading by a lit candle.
"Thomas?"
"Good, Rudolph, you're awake." Setting his book aside, Thomas joined Rudolph on the bed. He helped Rudolph to sit up against the headboard. "How do you feel? Are you hungry?" He offered Rudolph a filled bowl.
"What is it?" Rudolph sniffed curiously.
"It's a custard, Rudy. Try it; you will see it is very nice." Thomas nudged a spoon into Rudolph's hand. "My cook worries over you."
Rudolph tasted the custard gingerly. Its sweetness was pleasing.
"But why would he make something like this for me?"
"Perhaps it is because he takes pride in his talents and sees your slenderness as a reproach to his meals." Thomas smiled. "He favors you, who can say why?"
"I do not understand!" Bewilderment in Rudolph's eyes. "Thomas, in all the years I lived with my uncle, no one ever offered me any kindness. All the times I was sent to bed hungry, no one ever brought me food. All the times I was compelled to serve my uncle's pleasure, no one ever showed me any pity. Yet you take me to your rooms and a treat appears. Thomas, why? I do not understand."
"My people know I love you," Thomas said quietly. "I think they understand that it is not my intention to make you suffer. I am so sorry, Rudolph, for what you endured. You were a child; you deserved compassion and you received cruelty. I am so very sorry, my Rudy."
Rudolph was shaken at the gentleness of Thomas's response. He had not expected his outburst to be met with sympathy.
"I regret everything," Rudolph said dismally, laying his spoon aside. "Everything."
"It is all past. It does no good to dwell on it," Thomas said with great certainty. He launched into a stream of easy, reassuring chatter: What they might do in the next few days. A spider sighted on a recent walk. Whether adding a pair of gray geldings to his stable was a foolish indulgence or not.
Thomas waited until Rudolph seemed sufficiently distracted and then, dipping Rudolph's discarded spoon into the custard, offered it again to Rudolph. Rudolph took the spoon automatically from Thomas's hand and slowly finished eating as Thomas continued to talk quietly.
"Thomas." His dish empty, Rudolph melted into Thomas's arms, burying his face in Thomas's shoulder. "Thomas I do not deserve you, but I am grateful you have chosen to love me."
"You are very sweet, my Rudy," Thomas said, hugging Rudolph tightly. "Much of the time."
"You are perhaps the only person who has ever thought that of me." Rudolph looked away; when he turned back to Thomas, his face was wet with tears. "Thomas, you ought to beat me."
"I will not," said Thomas quietly.
"You are a fool, Thomas," Rudolph said.
"I love you, Rudolph. I am not going to beat you," Thomas said, shaking his head at Rudolph.
"I wish you would," Rudolph said, even as he turned awkwardly to sprawl face down over Thomas's lap. "Please."
"Perhaps a spanking, then." Thomas drew Rudolph carefully forward. He stroked his hand over Rudolph's spine, smoothed the pale flesh at the small of his back and caressed his hips, before letting his hand come to rest on the lower portion of his buttocks.
"A spanking," said Thomas. "Not a beating. Never a beating. I do this only because I love you, Rudy."
Thomas lifted his hand and cupping it slightly, brought the palm down firmly across Rudolph's seat. Repeated the gesture, no harder, no rougher, alternating from one buttock to the other, watching the skin blanch and then blush. Rudolph lay quietly, reassured by the thorough, careful spanking.
And suddenly Rudolph was crying, crying openly, certain Thomas would understand his misery, his regret, his shame at everything that had been done to him, his guilt at everything he had done himself. Thomas continued to spank him, not forcing the tears, but coaxing them, each spank a reminder: You are mine now.
"Enough," Rudolph whispered. "Please Thomas, enough."
"Yes," Thomas said. "I agree." He rolled Rudolph onto the bed, stretched out alongside him and took him in his arms. For a long time, Rudolph rested, sniffling, his head on Thomas's chest, taking comfort in his nearness, in the sound of his heartbeat, in the feel of his hand stroking gently through his hair. "My Rudy."
"No one else has ever punished me because he loved me," Rudolph said. "I did not know before I knew you, that it was possible for such a thing to be true."
"Do you know it now?" Thomas asked gently.
"Yes," Rudolph said. "I will remember for the rest of my life, Thomas, that you spanked me and held me and comforted me. That you loved me. I am grateful."
Thomas finger combed the strands of damp hair back from Rudolph's warm, wet cheeks and kissed him gently until Rudolph began to respond with kisses of his own.
"You are so very dear to me," Thomas said quietly. "I am grateful, too, for the pleasure you bring me. For your trust. For your love, which I know you think a small thing, but which is not small to me."
"Take me, Thomas, for I am yours entirely," Rudolph whispered. "Love me, Thomas."
"I do love you, Rudy." Thomas dipped his hand into the small jar on the table beside the bed and parting Rudolph's thighs, caressed the tight ring of muscle with well-greased fingers, waiting for it to soften before probing deeper. Rudolph sighed with pleasure and withdrawing his hand, Thomas slicked his swelling cock and pressed inward.
"I love you," Rudolph whispered, tilting himself to meet Thomas's thrust, accepting him, welcoming him, taking him to the hilt. "I love you."
And then there was only pleasure, their bodies joined, the rush of heat and joy and they were falling, only to be caught in each other's arms.
"I love you." Rudolph rested his head trustingly on Thomas's chest and let his eyes close. His breathing slowed and deepened and he slipped into sleep.
"I will always love you." Thomas arranged the covers carefully so that they covered both of them. "My Rudy."
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Airport Carbon Accreditation is notably the only institutionally endorsed, carbon management certification standard for airports. The program recognizes your efforts to manage and reduce carbon emissions accordingly. Further, it allows you to reduce costs through effective carbon emissions management.
Airport carbon accreditation likewise sets a leading example of corporate leadership in responsible business practices. Additionally, this program is the only industry specific, performance based, voluntary, pan-European and institutionally endorsed label.
ACI Europe gives four levels of certification achieved through independent verification in its progress to move to carbon neutral operations. Participation demonstrates leadership in addressing climate change. Moreover, it conveys the key message that airports are in fact dealing with their environmental impacts. The airport carbon accreditation is a unique tool for engaging airports on the path to improve sustainability and ultimately carbon neutrality.
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Levels of certification
To clarify, three levels will make up the entire process:
Level 1: MAPPING - How to achieve it? What is it?
In the first place, the “Mapping” step of Airport Carbon Accreditation requires carbon footprint measurement.
To achieve this level of accreditation, an airport has to:
Initially determine its “operational boundary” and the emissions sources within that boundary. Then, Identify, which are Scope 1 and Scope 2 sources, as, defined by the Greenhouse Gas Protocol.
Collect data and calculate the annual carbon emissions for the previous year for those sources.
Another key point is to compile a carbon footprint report.
Finally, engage an independent third party to verify the report before submission. This is to ensure that the carbon footprint calculation is in accordance with ISO14064 and accreditation requirements.
To begin with, an airport must initially know how much carbon it emits on a yearly basis. Moreover, identify from which sources these emissions come from in order to plan how to limit them. Therefore, as a first step, an airport needs to measure its carbon emissions, also known as its carbon footprint. An airport can of course measure its own footprint, assisted by the accreditation guidance or get support from a specialist.
Level 2: REDUCTION - How to achieve it? What is it?
The “Reduction” step of Airport Carbon Accreditation in essence requires carbon management and progress towards a reduced carbon footprint.
First, fulfill all the requirements of “Mapping“.
Second, provide evidence of effective carbon management procedures.
Third, show that a reduction in the carbon footprint has indeed occurred by analyzing the carbon emissions data of consecutive years.
Once an airport has measured its carbon footprint, it can then work towards reducing its carbon emissions. The process of carbon management thus involves a diverse range of measures.
Level 3: OPTIMIZATION - What is it?
The “Optimization” step of Airport Carbon Accreditation specifically requires third party engagement in order to achieve carbon footprint reduction. Third parties include airlines and various service providers. In particular independent ground handlers, catering companies, air traffic control and others working on the airport site. It also involves engagement on surface access modes (road, rail) with authorities and users.
How to achieve it?
Fulfill all the requirements of “Mapping” and “Reduction“.
Widen the scope of its carbon footprint to include for instance a range of Scope 3 emissions (GHG Protocol).
The emissions measured in Scope 3 include namely:
landing and take-off cycle emissions
surface access to the airport for passengers and staff
emission such as those of staff business travel
any other Scope 3 emissions the airport chooses to include
Presentation of evidence such as the engagement with third party operators to reduce wider airport-based carbon emissions.
Airports rely on cooperation with airlines and service providers on the airport site, such as ground handling and catering companies. However, these services also emit carbon, making engagement with the providers essential for an overall reduction in the carbon footprint.
Level 3+: NEUTRALITY - What is it?
As a final point, the “Neutrality” step of Airport Carbon Accreditation essentially requires neutralizing remaining direct carbon emissions by offsetting.
Fulfill all requirements of “Mapping“, “Reduction” and “Optimization“.
Offset its remaining carbon emissions such as Scope 1 and 2 (GHG Protocol). This will show its commitment to achieve carbon neutral operations. In particular involving all direct and indirect emissions over which the airport has control, using internationally recognized offsets.
Carbon neutrality is when the net carbon dioxide emissions over an entire year are in fact zero. In other words, the airport absorbs the same amount of carbon dioxide as it produces. Achieving carbon neutrality for an airport is certainly in almost all cases impossible without external help. For this reason, airports, among many other industries, look to carbon offsetting as the final part of the solution. Carbon offsetting is providing funds or resources to other projects that reduce carbon dioxide. In other words, make up for the emissions that one is not able to eliminate. For example, an airport could pay for a wind energy facility that replaces a coal-fired power plant.
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This document describes the process for identifying, recording and resolving client and other interested parties complaints and appeals; covers all activities undertaken by emission trading and offsetting schemes for current or completed work.
Appeal: A request by a client or any other party to the VB for a review of findings or reconsideration of a decision taken on a verification.
Complaint: An expression of dissatisfaction or discontent, other than appeal, by any person or organisation to a VB, concerning the activities and or the personnel of the VB, where a response is expected.
A client may approach the VB with a query/comment regarding work that is either in process or has been completed and reported. Such an approach may be informal (no complaint/appeal made) or formal (register as a complaint/appeal).
Where an informal query is involved, it is deemed that no complaint/appeal has been made.
Where a formal query is involved, this will be registered as a complaint or appeal and this documented procedure shall be followed.
A query can be either made electronically through the website of the VB or download, fill in and send to the VB via email, post or FAX.
An informal query is a client approach where no criticism of the work is given or implied. Examples of an informal query include (but not restricted to):
Enquiry as to when the final document will be issued
Request for an explanation of costs
Informal queries will be dealt with on an ad-hoc basis and do not form part of the customer complaint/appeal procedure.
A formal query is an approach by the client where there is an implied criticism; such a query must be regarded as a complaint. Examples of a formal query include (but restricted to):
● Implication of a shortfall in service standards
● Requests for re-examination of results.
● Statements stating or implying that a document/report/letter is unreasonably late.
● Statements implying that the final charge was in excess of what was agreed or expected, without prior notice.
On determining that a client approach is a complaint/appeal, the details of the complaint/appeal will be accurately recorded on the complaint/appeals form (CP-01-01) with the following information:
● Client name
● Contact information
● Type of communication
● Detailed description of the complaint/appeal
● Sequential Complaint/appeal Number
This information will be transcribed to the Complaint/appeals database (CP-01-02)
The company will determine if the issue relates to its validation or verification processes.
The complaint/appeal severity will be established based on this information.
Following receipt of the complaint/appeal, the company details will be reviewed and recorded in the complaint/appeals database.
On receiving a complaint/appeal, the company shall contact the customer in writing to confirm receipt of the complaint, provide the complainant with a unique reference number and a guide to the complaint handling process.
There will be a period where relevant background information will be collected to allow an evaluation of the complaint/appeal to determine its validity. This information will be recorded and appended to the complaint/appeal form.
All information will be treated as confidential.
The complaint’s validity will be assessed. Where the complaint/appeal is related to the company’s validation or verification processes then the person(s) engaged in the assessment did not have a role in the validation/verification or prepare statements on the GHG assertions of the results.
A VALID complaint/appeal is deemed such where the clients concerns have been found to be justified. Once a complaint/appeal has been found to be valid the root cause of the complaint/appeal and the relevant corrective action(s) must be determined as per procedure “CP-02 – Non-Conforming Product and Corrective Actions”.
A NON-VALID complaint/appeal is deemed such where the investigation has not justified the clients concerns. Once a complaint/appeal has been found to be non-valid, no further work need be undertaken.
On completion of the investigations (including any corrective actions, if pertinent) a complaint/appeal report will be written and issued to the client.
The company shall ensure that any appeals decision shall not result in any discriminatory actions against the appellant.
Once the complaint/appeal report has been issued, the client will be contacted and the findings discussed.
Should the client be happy with the resolution the complaint/appeal will be closed and the database updated accordingly.
Should the client remain unhappy with the resolution then the MD will further discuss the issue(s) with the customer and try to reach an agreed resolution. (It is recognised that this is sometimes not possible) Following these discussions and any agreed actions will be auctioned and the complaint/appeal will remain open until such time as these actions are completed.
Records may be kept in either electronic or hardcopy format and will include:
Customer Complaint/appeal Form (CP-01-01).
Customer Complaint/appeal Database (Excel Spreadsheet) of all customer complaint/appeals (CP-01-02).
Investigation Notes including (where appropriate) Root Cause Analysis, determination of Corrective Actions.
All records will be maintained for the duration of the contracted work plus two years after which time they will be discarded in an appropriate manner in accordance with CP-04.
CP-04: Control of Records
CP-02: Non-Conforming Product and Corrective Action.
ISO 14065:2013 – Greenhouse Gases – Requirements for greenhouse gas validation and verification bodies for use in accreditation or other forms of recognition
ISO 9001:2008 – Quality Management Systems – Requirements
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Problem-solving Family Drug and Alcohol Courts expand across London
Families in nine London boroughs can now access Family Drug and Alcohol Courts (FDAC), improving the lives of London children who face removal from their families because of the risk posed by a parent’s substance misuse and other complex needs.
The new pan-London service is launched today (February 28) at a special event hosted by Croydon Family Court, with Judges, parent graduates, charities, and local authority representatives in attendance.
A partnership of nine London boroughs, led by the London Borough of Merton, commissioned the expansion of the London FDAC service, awarded to the Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust.
Families in these nine boroughs will now have the option of ordinary care proceedings, or being referred to Central London Family Court, Croydon Family Court, and West London Family Court so their case can proceed through FDAC.
The FDAC service, delivered by the Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust, gives parents more intensive support than they normally get when they are involved in care proceedings, with hearings (without lawyers) led by dedicated, specially-trained judges who provide frequent encouragement and challenge as parents work on their recovery.
Under FDAC, the judge works closely with a specialist, multi-disciplinary team attached to the court, who collaborate with local services to offer parents a personalised package of support and treatment that gives them the chance to overcome their problems and show that they are capable of caring for their children.
Latest research (2016) demonstrates families receiving FDAC are significantly more likely than families in standard care proceedings to be reunited with their children and for the parents to have ceased misusing substances.
FDAC families are also 3 to 4 times more likely than families receiving standard care proceedings to be doing well 3 years after the proceedings came to an end:
A significantly higher proportion of FDAC than comparison reunification mothers (58% v 24%) were estimated to sustain cessation over the five-year follow up, and
A significantly higher proportion of FDAC than comparison mothers who had been reunited with their children at the end of proceedings were estimated to experience no disruption to family stability at 3-year follow up (51% v 22%).
The nine London boroughs join fifteen other local authorities around the country in operating a FDAC, with further expansion planned across the UK later in 2018.
Paul Jenkins, Chief Executive of the Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust, said:
“Our problem-solving Family Drug and Alcohol Court (FDAC) model is tried and tested. We know it works better than standard family proceedings in addressing the complex problems of trauma, substance misuse, mental ill health and domestic violence that families involved in care proceedings often face, and I’m delighted that families across London will now have the option of accessing a FDAC service.”
Steve Bambrough, director of the FDAC National Unit, said:
“FDAC achieves better outcomes for parents, better outcomes for children, and better value for money and we applaud these local authorities, the courts, and the judges for taking an innovative, compassionate and evidence-based approach to family justice in the capital.”
A mother who has been through FDAC said:
“I feel passionately about the role FDAC plays in family courts, and the unique support they offer to parents in a terrifying situation. The holistic and individualised approach FDAC takes is in stark contrast to standard child protection proceedings.
“Instead of viewing my situation in black and white, they found the shades of grey and supported me to be strong and brave enough to face my addiction. I was challenged to gain insight and to become strong both as an individual and as a mother.”
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Should be on the shelf in every family law library: Financial Remedies Practice (2018)
Financial Remedies Practice, 2018 Edition
The @eGlance Guide
£99.95 - Published by Class Legal: February 2018
Financial Remedies Practice, now in its 7th annual edition, has become firmly established as an essential reference for all family financial remedies practitioners.
Cited and used in the courts every day, this unique book combines in a single portable volume authoritative Commentary on financial remedies practice and procedure together with the full, up-to-date text of the relevant Family Procedure Rules and Practice Directions.
The Commentary is written by the team responsible for both At A Glance and @eGlance so you can be confident that the guidance is current, trusted and insightful.
Crucially, and unlike other books on the topic, Financial Remedies Practice provides unrivalled coverage of myriad decisions and developments under the CPR that now mirror many of the key aspects of financial remedies practice, such as injunctions, relief from sanctions, costs and general case management.
This 7th edition has been fully revised to incorporate the key developments affecting financial remedies practice and procedure over the past 12 months, with analysis of cases drawn from both the family and civil courts covering topics such as vulnerable witnesses, strike out, set aside, proportionality, undertakings and more.
The book is supplemented by an online version at familyprocedure.com which includes the full text of the Commentary linked to the primary sources cited so that you can more easily find the relevant case and statutes direct from the Commentary. Access to the site is included in the price.
Financial Remedies Practice is available from Class Legal, here.
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News Essentials: 26th February 2018
A brief summary of the essential family law news and cases from the last week:
Mother faces £20,000 costs bill despite successfully challenging care order
Local authorities should not have to cover legal aid funding deficiencies, the Court of Appeal has said, despite upholding a mother's challenge against a placement order. Full story: Law Society Gazette. See M (A Child), below.
Domestic abuse: Guidelines recommend tougher sentences
People convicted of domestic abuse offences in England and Wales will be more likely to go to prison in future, under new sentencing guidelines. Full story: BBC News.
Parents lose legal fight to keep Liverpool toddler on life support
High court rules in favour of doctors who said continuing to treat Alfie Evans was ‘inhumane’. Full story: The Guardian. See report, below.
A v B [2018] EWHC 328 (Fam) (06 February 2018)
Appeal by mother against refusal of application for permission to take child out of the jurisdiction to live with her in Poland. Appeal allowed. Full report: Bailii.
Kent County Council v A, M & Ors (Hair strand testing) [2017] EWFC B104 (01 December 2017)
Fact-finding hearing in care proceedings in relation to 8 year old boy who suffers from Down’s syndrome and epilepsy, including consideration of concerns about the impact of and interpretation of hair strand testing. Full report: Bailii.
L (A Child) [2018] EWCA Civ 238 (21 February 2018)
Applications by mother and grandparents for permission to appeal against care orders made in respect of two children. Permission refused. Full report: Bailii.
Alder Hey Children's NHS Foundation Trust v Evans & Anor [2018] EWHC 308 (Fam) (20 February 2018)
Application by NHS Trust for a declaration that continued ventilatory support is not in child's best interests, and in the circumstances it is not lawful that such treatment continue. Full report: Bailii.
Buehrlen v Buehrlen [2017] EWHC 3643 (Fam) (24 November 2017)
Appeal by husband against dismissal/refusal of application to instruct an employment expert, to give evidence as to the wife's earning capacity. Appeal dismissed. Full report: Bailii.
M (A Child) [2018] EWCA Civ 240 (20 February 2018)
Appeal by mother against dismissal of application to discharge care order. Appeal allowed. Full report: Bailii.
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The end of the world as we know it...
...or perhaps not. This lesson and others are to be found in my posts this week on Marilyn Stowe’s Family Law & Divorce Blog, which included:
No-fault divorce will not spell the end of civilisation - As some would have us believe...
Adoption order set aside after mother claimed not to know father’s identity - The case Re J (Adoption: Appeal).
Simply too late: father wins appeal, but no contact order affirmed - The sad case J (DV Facts).
Labels: Children, Courts, Divorce, Family Justice System, Marilyn Stowe Blog
Supreme Court ruling highlights complexities in family 'abduction' cases
The Supreme Court has highlighted the complex nature of issues that lower courts have to grapple with in relation to family cases involving the Hague Convention on civil aspects of international child abduction. Full story: Law Society Gazette. See C (Children), below.
Public law cases received by Cafcass in January up 3% on a year ago
Highest monthly total for a January on record. Full story: Family Law Week.
New private law cases received by Cafcass in January up 11% on a year ago
3,590 new cases received. Full story: Family Law Week.
Supreme Court to hear s.20 Children Act accommodation case this week
The Supreme Court will this week consider the lawfulness of a London borough’s accommodation under s.20 of the Children Act 1989 of eight children who had been taken into police protection. Full story: Local Government Lawyer.
R (Children) [2018] EWCA Civ 198 (16 February 2018)
Appeal by father against finding that he had "used unreasonable force and unlawfully killed the mother", dealing with issue of the extent to which, if at all, the Family Court should import elements of criminal law into a fact-finding determination within child care proceedings. Full report: Bailii.
Re J [2018] EWFC 8 (13 February 2018)
Application by father to appeal against adoption order made in 2013 in favour of step-father. Appeal allowed and order set aside, on basis that father had not been a party to the proceedings, the mother having stated that she did not know the father's identity. Full report: Family Law Week.
M (A Child) [2017] EWCA Civ 245 (19 December 2017)
Appeal from a finding of fact made in care proceedings involving six children. Appeal dismissed. Full report: Bailii.
M (A Child) [2017] EWCA Civ 2356 (13 December 2017)
Appeal by father against order that mother could relocate with child to Columbia. Appeal allowed. Full report: Bailii.
In the matter of C (Children) [2018] UKSC 8 (14 February 2018)
Appeal by mother against decision of Court of Appeal to allow father's appeal against refusal of application for summary return of children to Australia, dealing with issue of "repudiatory retention". Appeal allowed. Full report: Bailii.
DB v CB [2017] EWHC 3559 (Fam) (06 November 2017)
Application by father for summary return of child to Switzerland. Application dismissed, on the basis that the child was habitually resident in England and Wales. Full report: Bailii.
Largest study of its kind finds 83% of looked after children and young people feel being in care has improved their lives but younger children need more support
Published today (19 February), the largest study of its kind measuring the subjective wellbeing of 2,263 looked after children and young people across 16 local authority areas has revealed that 83% feel being in care has improved their lives, and that the longer children and young people have spent in care, the more likely they are to have moderate to high levels of wellbeing.
However, whilst the majority of young people are positive about their experiences of care, the findings highlight where improvements are needed. Of the youngest children surveyed (4-7 year olds), over half (53%) thought it not had been fully explained to them why they were in care, and almost a quarter (23%) were unsure of who their social worker was. In addition, almost a fifth (19%) of 8-10 year olds do not feel listened to or included in decisions made about them.
The ‘Our Lives Our Care’ study, published by the charity Coram Voice and the University of Bristol is part of the Bright Spots programme which enables local authorities to find out directly from young people in care what wellbeing means to them and what areas need to be improved. The programme is highlighted in the Department for Education’s recent Fostering Stocktake report, with a recommendation that “all local authorities use Bright Spots, or similar to survey approaches regularly and systematically to measure all children’s experience of fostering.”
The latest government figures show there are over 72,000 children in care in England, with the largest majority in care due to parental abuse and neglect. Whilst official data is published on areas such as placement moves and educational and employment outcomes, the Bright Spots programme is the first to focus on how children feel themselves about their wellbeing and their lives in care including relationships, opportunities and support received. It is also the only study of its kind to survey children as young as four.
The study consists of online surveys for children aged 4-7 years, 8-10 years and 11-18 years, and results show that, compared to young people in the general population, a larger proportion of children in care feel safe where they are living and felt their carers were interested in their education. In addition, the majority (92% of 11-18 year olds, 93% of 8-10 year olds and 89% of 4-7 year olds) felt their carers noticed their feelings. One young person wrote: “I feel I have a proper family who care about me and value my opinions. I feel loved and cared for.”
Children and young people emphasised the importance of having a trusted adult in their lives. However, almost a third (31%) of 11-18 year olds reported that they have had three or more social workers in the past year, and one young person commented: “I think that social workers shouldn’t move around as much because they just get to know your life story…how can you trust them when you don’t even know them or have hardly ever met them?” 8% of 11-18yrs had no contact with either parent and 20% had lived with five or more foster carers since entering care.
Some children and young people also felt that changes of placement and school had negatively affected their friendships, and one in ten 11-18 year olds reported not having a good friend (compared to just 3% of 14 year olds in the general population).
Furthermore, some young people reported ‘feeling different’ to others because of their experiences in care, and almost a third (30%) of 8-10 year olds were afraid to go to school because of bullying. One young person wrote: “Being in care is a struggle because you get bullied or picked on for being special and this can bring my mood down.” 16% of children also thought they were not given opportunities at school to show they could be trusted.
Professor Julie Selwyn CBE, Director of the University of Bristol’s Hadley Centre for Adoption and Foster Care Studies and lead author of the study said: “The results of the survey show that most children and young people are flourishing in care but about 18% of young people (11-18yrs) are not. Young people with low well-being did not feel settled and felt that they were being moved from placement to placement. The detrimental impact of a lack of a trusted adult in these children’s lives cannot be over-estimated.”
Dr Carol Homden CBE, CEO of Coram said: “It is encouraging to hear that such a large majority of children and young people in care feel their lives are improving and that for most, the care system is providing them with the safety, support and opportunities they need to thrive.
“However the results show us that we can and must take action to address the avoidable losses of care so that children feel “normal” and are able to do the same things as their friends, have an understanding of why they are where they are, and a part to play in decisions that affect them.”
The study also uncovered that girls and children with black or mixed ethnicity reported lower wellbeing. Happiness with appearance is an especially significant factor in predicting girls’ wellbeing, along with being given opportunities to be trusted, liking their bedrooms, doing the same things as friends, having a trusted adult, feeling safe and not being afraid to go to school because of bullying.
In comparison with young people of other ethnicities, a larger proportion of the mixed ethnicity group had experienced five or more placements, disliked school, did not understand why they were in care and were the least positive about their future.
Brigid Robinson, Managing Director of Coram Voice said: "In addition to the 16 covered in this report, since last year, a further 15 local authorities in England and Wales have become involved in the Bright Spots programme, showing that they can really see the potential benefit for their services. We are able to work with even more authorities this coming year and urge anyone interested to get in touch with us to find out more.”
Find out more about the Bright Spots programme at www.coramvoice.org.uk/brightspots.
Labels: Children, Press Releases
Drama and pathos: the world of family law
I've often said that you never know what you're going to come across when following the world of family law, and that was certainly true this week, as demonstrated by my posts on Marilyn Stowe’s Family Law & Divorce Blog, which included:
Woman granted injunction to prevent alleged blackmail by former partner - The case Ho v Bragg.
A different but better family justice system? - There is a fundamental problem with such a thing.
Appeal against order authorising DNA test of deceased person dismissed - The Court of Appeal judgment in Anderson v Spencer.
Tearful father withdraws contact application after seven year dispute - The sad case Re J (A Child - Intractable Contact).
Labels: Children, Family Justice System, Marilyn Stowe Blog
In the matter of C (Children): Appeal allowed
Lord Hughes gives the judgment of the Supreme Court
BACKGROUND TO THE APPEAL
This matter centres around a married man and woman who, until 2015, had been living together in Australia with their two children. By the end of 2014 the marriage was in difficulties. The mother, who holds British citizenship, wanted to make a trip to England with the children before returning to work from maternity leave. The father agreed to an eight-week stay. The mother and the children came to England on 4 May 2015 where they have since remained. Discussions between the mother and father resulted in the father agreeing to an extension of the eightweek visit up to a year. Based on the extension, the mother gave notice to her employer and looked for work in England.
In September 2015, the mother enrolled the older child at a local pre-school. Without telling the father, on 2 November 2015, she applied for British citizenship for both children who had entered England on six-month visitor visas. Her solicitors wrote a letter to the immigration authorities on her behalf indicating that she and the children could not return to Australia for fear of domestic abuse.
In continuing correspondence, the father pressed the mother on the children’s expected date of return. The mother indicated that she did not know what her plans were but made clear that she would not be returning in May 2016. In June 2016, she expressed her intention to remain in the UK.
The father made an application in the High Court under the Convention of 25 October 1980 on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction (the “Abduction Convention”). The issue of when the mother had decided not to return to Australia was in contention. The mother’s own case was that by April 2016 she had felt she and the children would not be returning. The arguments before the Court meant that, on any view, there was a decision not to return to Australia before the expiry of the agreed year. The judge held that the children were habitually resident in England and Wales by the end of June 2016 so that mandatory summary return was unavailable under the Abduction Convention. But he accepted mother’s evidence that she did not have the intention, in November 2015, or before April 2016, not to return to Australia.
The mother now appeals against the Court of Appeal’s decision. The issues in the appeal are: (1) what is the effect on an application under the Abduction Convention if a child has become habitually resident in the destination state before the act relied on as a wrongful removal or retention occurs; and (2) if a child has been removed from their home state by agreement with the left-behind parent for a limited period can there be a wrongful retention before the agreed period of absence expires (so-called “repudiatory retention”)? The father cross-appeals on the issue of habitual residence.
The Supreme Court allows the appeal and dismisses the cross appeal. Lord Hughes gives the lead judgment with whom Lady Hale and Lord Carnwath agree. Lord Kerr and Lord Wilson each give judgments concurring on the two points of principle but dissenting on the outcome of this case on its facts.
REASONS FOR THE JUDGMENT
When considering the general scheme of the Abduction Convention, the construction that summary return is available if, by the time of the act relied on as a wrongful removal or retention, a child is habitually resident in the state where the application for return is made is unpersuasive. That construction is inconsistent with the operation of the Abduction Convention since 1980 and its treatment by subsequent international legal instruments. [19]
The Abduction Convention is designed to provide a summary remedy which negates the pre-emptive force of wrongful removal or retention and to defeat forum-shopping. [21] The point of the scheme adopted by the Abduction Convention was to leave the merits to be decided by the courts of the place of the child’s habitual residence. If the forum state is the habitual residence of the child, there can be no place for a summary return to somewhere else, without a merits-based decision. This understanding of the scheme of the Abduction Convention is reflected in the provisions of both the Revised Brussels II Regulation and the 1996 Hague Convention on Recognition, Enforcement and Cooperation in respect of Parental Responsibility and Measures for the Protection of Children. [23]
The Abduction Convention cannot be invoked if by the time of the alleged wrongful act, whether by removal or retention, the child is habitually resident in the state where the request for return is lodged. In such a case, that state has primary jurisdiction to decide on the merits, based on the child’s habitual residence, and there is no room for a mandatory summary decision. [34]
Repudiatory retention has been recognised in some jurisdictions, but no generally accepted international practice or authority exists on the point. [39] The desirability of inducing a prompt change of mind in the retaining parent is an argument for recognising a repudiatory retention when and if it occurs. The 12 month time limit for seeking mandatory summary return runs from the point a repudiatory retention occurs and that period may pass before an applicant is aware of the repudiatory retention. However, it is not a limitation period but a provision in the child’s interest to limit mandatory summary return. Once elapsed it renders a summary return discretionary. The concern that repudiatory retention would make Abduction Convention applications longer and more complicated is a point well made. However, Family Division judges are used to managing applications actively and controlling any tendency to spill outside the relevant issues. Further, if repudiatory retention requires an overt act or statement, this lessens the danger of speculative applications. [46-48]
Repudiatory retention is possible in law. The objections to it are insubstantial, whereas the arguments in favour are convincing and conform to the scheme of the Abduction Convention. It would be unwise to attempt an exhaustive definition of proof or evidence. An objectively identifiable act of repudiation is required, but it need not be communicated to the left-behind parent nor does an exact date need to be identifiable. [50-51]
On the present facts there could not have been a wrongful retention in April 2016 as the mother’s internal thinking could not by itself amount to such. If she had such an intention in November 2015, the application to the immigration authorities could have amounted to a repudiatory retention. But it was open to the judge to believe the mother’s evidence that she did not possess this intention in November. [55] There is no basis in law for criticising the judge’s decision as to habitual residence. [57]
Lord Kerr dissents on the outcome of this case on its facts. He expresses misgivings about repudiatory retention requiring an overt act by the travelling parent. [63] The judge’s finding that wrongful retention did not arise in this case could not be reconciled with his statement that the mother had concluded by April 2016 that she and the children should remain in England. [68] Moreover, the judge’s conclusion that the mother had not formed any intention to retain the children in England in November 2015 is insupportable as he failed to address the question of what bearing the letter of November 2015 had on her intention. [72]
Lord Wilson also dissents on the outcome of this case on its facts. The solicitor’s letter to the immigration authorities in November 2015 represented a major obstacle to any finding that the mother had not by then intended to keep the children in the UK indefinitely. The judge’s finding as to the mother’s intention in November 2015 was flawed and the Court of Appeal were correct to order a fresh inquiry into her intention. [91-92]
References in square brackets are to paragraphs in the judgment, which can be found here.
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Court of Protection: SRA regulation allows for immediate approval of trust corporations
Trust corporations wanting to act as property and affairs deputies for incapacitated people must be regulated by the Solicitors Regulation Authority to gain immediate approval, the Court of Protection has ruled. Full story: Legal Futures.
Supreme Court to decide whether ‘anticipatory retention’ is recognised under the 1980 Hague Convention
Judgment in appeal against C (Children) [2017] EWCA Civ 980 to be given on 14 February 2018. Full story: Family Law Week.
CCLC report calls for effective access to justice for all children
A Coram Children’s Legal Centre report has found that the narrowing in scope of provision of legal aid by LASPO has resulted in thousands of children being left without access to free legal advice and representation each year. Full story: Family Law.
Foster care in England report published
Sir Martin Narey and Mark Owers's independent review of the fostering system in England with recommendations to the government about improving foster care. Full story: Department for Education.
An NHS Trust v S & L (A Child) (Witholding Life Sustaining Invasive Treatment) [2017] EWHC 3619 (Fam) (10 November 2017)
Application by NHS Trust for declarations relating to the continued treatment of a young child suffering from a terminal condition. Full report: Bailii.
Anderson v Spencer [2018] EWCA Civ 100 (07 February 2018)
Appeal against order directing that DNA extracted from a deceased man should be tested against a bodily sample to be taken from the Respondent, to establish whether the deceased was or was not the Respondent's biological father. Appeal dismissed. Full report: Bailii.
J (Children) [2018] EWCA Civ 115 (06 February 2018)
Appeal by father against no contact and indirect contact only orders in respect of two children. Appeal allowed, but no other order made, as it was considered too late to contemplate a re-hearing. Full report: Bailii.
I am referring, of course, not to my posts this week on Marilyn Stowe’s Family Law & Divorce Blog, but to the matters they referred to, which included:
Good and bad recommendations from sharia law review - My views on The independent review into the application of sharia law in England and Wales.
Interesting case on children’s objections to return order - The case being Y & Z (Children : Hague Convention).
A manifestly abusive parentage application - As in the case Dunkley v Dunkley & Anor.
Gauke moving with the times on divorce - The news that our new Lord Chancellor David Gauke is heeding my calls for no-fault divorce.
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Online divorce demystifies the process when people are at crisis point
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The largest provider of family mediation for divorce in England and Wales has welcomed an announcement from HM Courts and Tribunals Service (HMCTS) that a fully online divorce application process is now being tested.
Jane Robey, CEO of National Family Mediation, said: “Facing a divorce is one of the biggest crisis points in anyone’s life, so it’s particularly important that the process is as simple and straightforward as possible.
“The last thing people need at this time is to have to get to grips with a new set of legal jargon – words like ‘affidavit’. ‘plaintiff’ and ‘respondent’ - simply in order to move on with their lives.
“The excellent digital work being developed by HMCTS promises to help demystify the process and simplify things, bringing divorce into the 21st century, using a language we can all understand.
“Bringing divorce processes online makes them much more accessible which by definition can provide better access to justice and swifter resolution to seemingly-complicated procedures.”
For more information about the HMCTS pilot use this link.
Labels: Divorce, Mediation, Press Releases
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Register Islamic marriages under UK law, sharia review says
Report endorses civil marriage alongside religious ceremony to give women legal protection. Full story: The Guardian.
Russian billionaire's ex-wife seeks record UK divorce payout
Farkhad Akhmedova yet to pay ‘a penny’ in appeal against settlement, high court hears. Full story: The Guardian.
Computer says nisi: digital divorce application on test
The government has announced it is piloting a fully online divorce application process across England and Wales which it hopes will make the process less stressful for families. Full story: Law Society Gazette.
Judge 'at wits’ end' over secure unit shortages for young people
Boy suffering racial abuse cannot be moved nearer home because of lack of places. Full story: The Guardian. See K (A Child).
Isaiah Haastrup: Baby's life-support 'can be stopped'
Doctors can stop life-support treatment to a brain-damaged 11-month-old against parents' wishes, a High Court judge has said. Full story: BBC News. See report, below.
ELO v CLO (recognition of a Nigerian adoption order) [2017] EWHC 3574 (Fam) (08 December 2017)
Application by adoptive parents for recognition of Nigerian adoption order in relation to their five year old daughter. Full report: Bailii.
B v P (Children's Objections) [2017] EWHC 3577 (Fam) (21 December 2017)
Application by father for the summary return of two children to the jurisdiction of Hungary. Application dismissed. Full report: Bailii.
A-F (Children) [2018] EWHC 138 (Fam) (31 January 2018)
Test cases relating to seven children, raising various substantive and procedural questions in relation to the interface between care proceedings and the requirements of Article 5 of the Convention. Full report: Bailii.
Kings College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust -v- Thomas and Haastrup [2018] EWHC 127 (Fam) (29 January 2018)
Application by NHS Trust for a declaration that the provision of life sustaining treatment is no longer in child’s best interests. Full report: Bailii.
New report from Coram Children’s Legal Centre highlights devastating impact of legal aid cuts on children
A new report published today by the Coram Children’s Legal centre (CCLC) demonstrates that, without funding for legal advice or representation as a result of changes to legal aid in 2013, some children have been left without the home, legal status, education or family access to which they are entitled.
The report Rights without remedies: legal aid and access to justice for children draws on evidence from CCLC’s legal advice services, which provide free advice and help to 20,000 children, young people or families every year. Focusing on family, education and immigration law, the report demonstrates the ways in which, without swift and reliable access to legal aid, children’s rights can be undermined. It calls for urgent changes to the government’s exceptional funding ‘safety net’ for vulnerable individuals, and for legal aid for all children in the care of local authorities or where children’s services are involved in private law family proceedings
Rights without remedies finds that the removal of vital areas of family, immigration and education law from the scope of legal aid has created risk of miscarriages of justice for thousands of children. This has exacerbated family breakdown, the costly and often unlawful exclusion of children from education, and destitution amongst migrant children, which places them at greater risk of exploitation.
Dr Carol Homden said:
“Since the changes to legal aid in 2013, all too many children have been unable to access the legal advice necessary for them to secure their futures. Coram Children’s Legal Centre has worked tirelessly to ensure that children have meaningful access to justice. But charities cannot, nor can they be expected to, fill the gaps left by limitations to a statutory service. We welcome the government’s review of the impact of those changes, and urge the government to take concrete steps to ensure all children and young people in the UK can be certain of access to the legal help they need.”
Elizabeth Durosinmi-Etti, a young person working with Coram who struggled to address her immigration issues because of the lack of legal aid, said
“It is absolutely illogical to say that children are the future but to put barriers in the way of them accessing justice. There has to be a legal system put in place that works to the benefit of children and young people. Until there is, all the system will have created are children and young people who are unable to take their places in society and fulfil their potential.”
Everybody's doing it...
...talking about family law, that is. My posts this week on Marilyn Stowe’s Family Law & Divorce Blog were a guide to what they're saying. They included:
Has Lady Hale already decided the Owens appeal? - tl;dr: No.
The bailiwick shows us the way on divorce reform - Will Jersey have no-fault divorce before the mainland?
Is it right that a spouse who contributed nothing should get half? - Well, not exactly nothing (usually).
How to spot fake family law news (and where to find the truth) - It's not rocket science...
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Paris, France, July 3, 2019 – Atos, a global leader in digital transformation, today announces, together with GENCI (Grand Équipement National de Calcul Intensif), the winners of its scientific competition, the Atos Joseph Fourier Award 2019. The award aims to accelerate research and innovation by rewarding projects in the fields of numerical simulation and Artificial Intelligence (AI).
The ceremony presided over by Sophie Proust, Group CTO at Atos, and Philippe Lavocat, GENCI CEO, unfolded in the presence of representatives of the French scientific community, researchers, engineers, and entrepreneurs.
The jury, which was made up of independent industry figures from the French scientific and industrial sectors, awarded the following winning teams:
1st prize (10 000 €): Professor Elie Hachem and his team at Mines ParisTech (Paris School of Mines), for his work on parallel anisotropic meshing and immersed methods for high fidelity computational mechanics. These modelling tools are 100 - 1,000 times more accurate than those currently available for modeling fluid flows. They provide an in-depth understanding of the behavior of complex fluids and also enable new physical phenomena to be discovered. These modelling tools are already used on the most powerful supercomputers on the planet, as well as by more than 500 manufacturers in aeronautics and other sectors, to accelerate design-industrialization cycles.
2nd prize (200,000 hours of machine time on a GENCI supercomputer) honored Dominique Aubert and his team from Strasbourg University, CNRS and Scuola Normale Superiore in Italy for GARLHYC (GAlaxies and Reionization simuLations using HYbrid Computing). This software is optimized to make it possible, with current HPC means, to simulate the first billion years of the universe, and in particular, the formation of the first massive objects such as galaxies. It is already being used on a very large scale on some of the most powerful supercomputers that exist today.
1st prize (10 000 €) awarded to Pierre Yves Oudeyer, Research Director at INRIA Bordeaux, for his project on Deep Curiosity-driven Autonomous Machine Learning. These algorithms study the foundation of human curiosity, in order to enable generic AI self-learning. They can be applied to a vast number of areas, including teaching and learning methods,Industry 4.0 and robotics, and more generally, future distributed and cooperative Artificial Intelligence.
GENCI Special Prize (50,000 GPU hours on an AI-specialized GENCI supercomputer) honored Filippo Vicentini and Alberto Biella, from Paris Diderot University, who have developed an algorithm which creates a link between AI and quantum physics, increasing the simulation capabilities of future generations of computers.
Sophie Proust, Group CTO at Atos, said: "It’s really exciting to see such high-quality projects in the fields of HPC and AI and I’d like to congratulate all the scientists and researchers for their hard work and innovative ideas. At Atos we’re proud to be supporting innovations that will lead to tangible industrial applications.”
Philippe Lavocat, CEO of GENCI added, “GENCI is very pleased, for the tenth year, to be associated with the Joseph Fourier Prize which promotes scientific excellence and its impact on society. As a member of the jury, the entries are again this year of a very high scientific quality, in both HPC and AI categories. Through this award GENCI wishes to offer French researchers access to its best supercomputers, including the new extension of Atos’ supercomputer, named Joliot-Curie, at the TGCC (the CEA’s Very Large Computing Centre), which will be increased to more than 20 petaflops in 2020.”
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Having covered much of the region from New York to D.C. on weekend family getaways over the years, we looked to expand our geographic footprint this summer. It had been quite some time since my last visit to Newport, Rhode Island's famed coastal town - 25 years to be exact. A return trip, even if a bit farther than our usual domain, was in order.
After a washed-out false start two weeks earlier, we set out in the end of July for a two-night stay over a weekend coinciding with the renowned Newport Folk Festival. In addition to the Folk Festival and its jazz festival counterpart, Newport is perhaps best known as the longtime home of the America's Cup yacht race as well as hundreds of Gilded Age-era mansions.
On the trip north, we stopped in Mystic, Connecticut, a quaint fishing village made famous by 1988's Mystic Pizza, which featured Julia Roberts in one of her first film roles. Though it likely wasn't an option back then, the original Mystic Pizza (56 W. Main St., 860-536-3700) offers gluten-free pizza, which our son described as one of the best he's ever eaten.
We rolled into Newport about an hour later and took a late-afternoon narrated trolley tour that highlighted the harbor area and the historic buildings. Along the harbor, there are several wharves that feature shops, restaurants and sea-based excursions.
The Mooring offers a variety of gluten-free options, including
lobster rolls, crab cakes and peanut butter pie
We opted to have dinner at The Mooring (1 Sayers Wharf, 401-846-2260), where the food was uniformly excellent, even if service was somewhat slow that particular Friday evening. Ordering from the extensive gluten-free menu, our son had his first-ever lobster roll and we shared a couple of crab cakes. To our surprise, our server informed us that the Take Five Pie - like the candy bar, made with caramel, chocolate, peanuts, peanut butter and pretzels - was gluten free. We had designs on the gluten-free cupcakes at Cupcake Charlie's (135 Swinburne Place, 401-848-2253), which are available only on Fridays, but we couldn't pass up the luscious pie.
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Cupcake Charlie's on Fridays
It wouldn't be a trip for our family without a baseball activity, and so after dinner we walked over to Cardines Field, one of the oldest ballparks in the country, to watch a New England Collegiate Baseball League game featuring the Newport Gulls. The teams in this summer wood-bat league are comprised of top college-level players hoping to catch the attention of pro-ball scouts.
We left our hotel early Saturday morning for a 90-minute harbor cruise aboard a restored bootlegger, the Rum Runner II. Our captain and guide took us through Narragansett Bay and Newport Harbor and highlighted several of the town's summer cottages and lighthouses.
The BBQ combo platter at Smoke House
After a few early-afternoon hours at Gooseberry Beach along Ocean Drive, we packed up and headed back into town for a early dinner at Smoke House (31 Scotts Wharf, 401-848-9800). Like The Mooring, Smoke House is part of Newport Restaurant Group, which has developed gluten-free menus for most of its restaurants in the region. The three of us shared a combo platter, made up of generous portions of baby back ribs, brisket, chicken, pulled pork and sausage. Both addictive BBQ sauces - one molasses based, the other vinegar - were gluten free. The Key Lime Parfait, made with gluten-free pound cake crumble, raspberries and whipped cream, was refreshing, though not as sinful as our prior night's dessert.
For the remainder of the evening, we strolled Thames Street and window-shopped at the many stores along the way.
We made our final trip into town Sunday morning and surveyed Cliff Walk, part of the National Recreation Trail. The walk offers magnificent views of Newport's shoreline.
Da Legna's pizzas are baked in a coal oven
Being pizza connoisseurs, we stopped for a late lunch in New Haven, Connecticut on the way home to try New Haven-style pizza. Several of the places we considered for gluten-free pizza were not open on Sunday, but we found Da Legna (858 State St., 203-495-9999) able to accommodate us. The tasty, airy gluten-free pizza was baked in a coal oven atop aluminum foil.
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Body Type And Seating: Alexander AV H44/35F
Body Number: AV8/5074/8
Date New: December 1975
Original Operator (Fleet Number): Greater Glasgow PTE (AV8)
AV8 was new to GGPTE in 1975, a member of the second batch of 'AV's. The first batch were three prototypes with a more standard version of the AV body featuring peaked domes front and rear, albeit with panoramic windows, as fitted to Atlanteans with AL bodywork at that time. For this second batch, the bodywork was uniquely specified with the round domes, making the bus as similar to the Atlanteans as possible.
The Ailsa chassis was something of a rethink, being the first front-engined double-decker since the days of halfcabs. By using a turbocharger, a much smaller engine could be fitted between the driver and the front door which still gave a reasonably clear access, while considerably simplifying the mechanical layout of the vehicle.
GGPTE bought 18 Ailsas (with AV fleetnumbers), then 5 years later bought 133 more Volvo-Ailsas (with A fleetnumbers!), being one of the biggest operators of the type in the UK.
Of the original 18 AVs, half were destroyed in the Larkfield Depot fire of 1992 (AV3/5/6/11-5/7). AV10 was converted to single deck in 1985 after a low-bridge accident and became AS2. AV8 remained on fleet strength with 4 other AVs (plus AS2) until 1994, when it was sold to Black Prince of Morley, where it ran before entering preservation, eventually ending up at the GVVT on 19 May 2016.
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Zoe was co-host of Good Chef Bad Chef (Network Ten) for five seasons (2013-2017), and from 2017 has appeared on House of Wellness (Seven Network) as a regular segment host. Zoe’s professionalism on screen has seen her present on Studio 10, The Morning Show, Everyday Gourmet, and beyond. In 2018 Zoe expanded her role with House of Wellness (Macquarie Media) and was announced as the co-host on the weekly radio program.
Bringing her wealth of food knowledge, Zoe is the current brand ambassador for Keto-Fit and has previously worked with a multitude of brands to help strengthen their message around living a healthier lifestyle including SunRice, Kenwood, Only About Children, Woolworths, Thompson’s, Vitasoy across their non-dairy ranges, Rafferty’s Garden across recipe development, as head Nutritionist for My Food Bag providing nutritious recipes and advice.
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Local Action Group Update November 2019
Help needed for CAROL SINGING at Morrison's Supermarket. We have again been invited to our local Supermarket in December. Donations raised will go to the Salvation Army UK Victims fund for Modern Slavery.
This has been an activity appreciated by all who have participated, including the shoppers and staff. Please let us know which slots might suit you so we can make a rota, of course you can come for all of the slots!
Help needed for CAROL SINGING at Morrison's Supermarket. We have again been invited to our local Supermarket on Saturday 15 December. Donations raised will go to the Salvation Army UK Victims fund for Modern Slavery.
This has been an activity appreciated by all who have participated, including the shoppers and staff. We will be supported by Sean and Christine from the Warrington Salvation Army.
We have divided the times into three slots:
Morning 10.00 am to 11.30 am and 11.30 am to 1.00 pm
Afternoon 2.00 pm to 4.00 pm
Please let us know which slots might suit you so we can make a rota, of course you can come for all of the slots!
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Local Action Group Update December 2016
We will be singing carols at Morrisons, Frodsham, on Saturday 17th December, from 10am to 4pm, supported by members of the Salvation Army. If you can join us please, contact Stephen Pickett.
Members of the Salvation Army and Frodsham Churches Together, joined forces during Anti
Slavery week to increase the awareness of Human Trafficking.
Displays where held at coffee mornings at the Parish Hall in the High Street and the
Community Church in Main Street. Leaflets where given out to those at the coffee mornings
and to all the stall holders at the market.
Local Action Group Update October 2016
There will be a Joint Coffee Morning in support of Christian Aid and Anti-Human Trafficking at Frodsham Parish Church Hall on Thursday 20th October from 10 am until noon.
It is hoped that the weather will be kind to us as we intend to leaflet along the market with information on Human Trafficking. Displays and Literature will be available at the Parish Church Hall and Main Street Community Church.
For more information speak to Stephen Pickett.
An interesting news story with comments from the Prime Minister on how Britain must lead the fight against human trafficking can be found here.
Although slavery was abolished in the UK more than 200 years ago, stories filtering through the media in recent months have shown that modern day slavery is a real and current problem in this and other countries. Men, women and children are being trafficked across international borders with the aim of exploiting them. They can be forced to work in the sex trade, domestic service, forced labour and criminal activity or have their organs removed to be sold.
Many of us will be appalled by these stories and wonder how we can make a difference. Here are 3 ways:
Know how to spot the signs.
If you are concerned, ring the Police on 999 or 101. Or contact the Salvation Army Referral Helpline on 0300 3038151.
Raise awareness within congregations. Use prayers of intercession or the sermon slot to focus on the plight of people who are victims of trafficking. Prayer is a powerful tool.
Free resources are available on the Freedom Sunday website
We can all work together to raise awareness and take action to end Modern Slavery.
Local Action Group Update May 2016
Do consider attending this event to be held in Daresbury on Tuesday 7th June. Registration details are on the below poster.
Local Action Group Update March 2016
Recent arrests have continued to raise awareness of the issue of slavery with cases of modern slavery even being identified in Chester. You can read more here.
Frodsham Churches Together have published a special newsletter that was delivered to all houses in Frodsham. An electronic copy of the newsletter can be viewed below.
In addition, the Rhema Theatre Company are also presenting an inspiring and moving new piece of theatre called 'It's Not Fair', telling stories from around the world of human trafficking - and those who fight against it. Chester Diocese and Churches Against Trafficking have invited Rhema to include Frodsham as a venue on their national tour this autumn. www.theitsnotfair.co.uk/tour-dates
The event will be held at Frodsham Methodist Church, Kingsley Road, Frodsham, WA6 6BA on Friday 16th October 2015 Starting at 7.30 pm. For tickets go to www.eventbrite.co.uk or e-mail frodshamforuminfo@gmail.com. Tickets are free, though a donation is requested for victims of human trafficking.
Churches Against Trafficking Newsletter 2015
Local Action Group Update April 2015
As you read this you will be aware that a lot has happened since the Frodsham Forum a year ago on Anti Human Trafficking. A lot of energy has been given after the forum in engaging with other groups and in particular, politicians and Government Ministers with regard to improving the Modern Slavery Bill, which became an Act of Parliament on the 26th March 2015.
The Act will strengthen the response of law enforcement and the courts by:
Increasing the maximum sentence available for the most serious offenders from 14 years to life imprisonment;
Ensuring that perpetrators convicted of slavery or trafficking face the toughest asset confiscation regime;
Consolidating and simplifying existing modern slavery offences into one Act;
Introducing Slavery and Trafficking Prevention Orders and Slavery and Trafficking Risk Orders to restrict the activity of individuals where they pose a risk of causing harm;
Strengthening law enforcement powers at sea to close loopholes which can prevent the police and Border Force being able to act on board vessels at sea.
The Modern Slavery Act will ensure victims receive the protection and support they deserve by:
Creating a statutory defence for victims of modern slavery so that they are not inappropriately criminalised;
Giving the courts new powers to order perpetrators of slavery and trafficking to pay Reparation Orders to their victims;
Providing for child advocates to support child victims of trafficking;
Extending special measures so that all victims of modern slavery can be supported through the criminal justice process;
Providing statutory guidance on victim identification and victim services, including an enabling power to put the relevant processes on a statutory basis;
Introducing protections for victims of abuse on an overseas domestic workers visa.
Independent Anti-slavery Commissioner
The Act also establishes the UK’s first ever Independent Anti-slavery Commissioner to drive forward the law enforcement response and hold them to account at all levels, ensuring that the perpetrators are caught and prosecuted and that the victims are swiftly identified so they can get help.
Everybody is pleased that the Act is now law. Although all agree there is more to be done, such as identifying hidden slavery in the supply chains of Major companies.
Churches Together Against Trafficking
Churches can act Together and be a large organisation against trafficking. Everybody has to be part of the solution. Think when you buy goods, who made them? If you see something that gives you cause for concern, report it to Crime Stoppers on 0800 555 111. Think about supporting the Salvation Army Human Trafficking Victims fund and similar front line organisations.
Raise awareness, get organised! Over the last few years Churches Together have had a, Forum to raise awareness, established links with other groups, ecumenical services, coffee mornings, talks to church groups and others, fund raising for front line organisations. Why not see us at the Cheshire Show on the 23rd and 24th June? We have joined forces with the Soroptimist’s at their Tent with the ‘Stop the Traffic - Gift Box. Don’t pass by, say, Hello.
This is just part of the work that has and is going on to help people become aware of what Human Trafficking is and what they can do to combat it. The work of Churches Together is to raise awareness in all communities and to support organisations in the front line.
If you wish to help, donations can be made to: Churches Together Against Trafficking- The TSB bank - sort code 77-48-03 account 16203160.
If you would like further details about the work of Churches Together Against Trafficking please email: frodshamforuminfo@gmail.com
Local Action Group Update February 2015
A local action group has been set up, which is supported by members of various churches in Frodsham and Frodsham Churches Together. An ecumenical service was held on Sunday 19th October 2014 at 4pm, at S. Luke's Roman Catholic Church and the local action group also supported the Salvation Army National Day of Prayer for Victims of Human Trafficking.
The Pop-up shop held in the week of Monday 16th February 2015 raised over £2,300. The week brought people of the churches together and helped build bridges across the wider community.
For further information on the Forum, or to attend one of the regular meetings to look at what can be done in the short and medium term, e-mail enquiries to: frodshamforuminfo@gmail.com.
Anti-Human Trafficking Forum March 2014
People from a variety of Christian denominations, from Merseyside, Manchester, Altrincham, Stoke-on-Trent and across the Cheshire plain came to Frodsham Methodist Church on Saturday 29th March 2014.
Why? because of their concerns about human trafficking in the U.K. and internationally. In a full day’s forum, a range of speakers explained the facts about what human trafficking is, what is being done to stop it and how to support victims.
Major Anne Read from the Salvation Army Headquarters and their National Anti-Trafficking Response Co-ordinator led the day. Anne was supported by her colleague Major Gladys Ljungholm from the North Western Division. Other speakers included the local M.P. Graham Evans and Hannah Flint from International Justice Mission. Discussion in the afternoon was chaired by Frodsham Methodist Church’s minister, Rev’d. Denise Harding.
The Forum, supported by Frodsham and Cheshire Churches Together, sought to inform individuals and encourage them to discuss and identify positive forms of action. The Forum was an opportunity for concerned individuals to identify how the Church and other organisations could respond to this issue in a modern world. If you are concerned that someone may have been trafficked, telephone Crime Stoppers on 0800 555 111 or The Salvation Army on 0300 3038151.
Summary Report Download
Executive Summary Download
Stephen Pickett, Frodsham Churches Together, Hannah Flint, International Justice Mission, Major Gladys Ljungholm, Salvation Army North Western Division, Major Anne Read, Salvation Army Anti-Trafficking Response Co-ordinator, Graham Evans, M.P. for Weaver Vale and Rev’d. Denise Harding, Minister at Frodsham Methodist Church
© 2019 Frodsham Methodist Church, Kingsley Road, Frodsham, Cheshire, WA6 6BA; Tel.: 01928 733180/735312; E-mail: enquiries@frodshammethodist.org
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Historical Poetics
Princeton Reading Group
C18 Reading Group
Publications collected here include work by group members that is both directly and tangentially influenced by our ongoing conversation. Sort by author or by subject.
Cavitch, Max
Gibson, Mary Ellis
Jackson, Virginia
Kappeler, Erin
LaPorte, Charles
Levine, Naomi
Lootens, Tricia
Martin, Meredith
McGill, Meredith
Prins, Yopie
Rudy, Jason
Socarides, Alexandra
Williams, Carolyn
Prins, Yopie. Victorian Sappho
Prins, Yopie. Ladies’ Greek: Victorian Translations of Tragedy
Prins, Yopie. The Lyric Theory Reader
Prins, Yopie. “Sapphic Stanzas: How can we read the rhythm?” In Critical Rhythm, ed. Benjamin Glaser and Jonathan Culler (New York: Fordham University Press, 2018).
Prins, Yopie. “ ‘What is Historical Poetics?’ ” Modern Language Quarterly 77.1 (Winter 2016): 13-40.
Prins, Yopie. “Metrical Discipline: Algernon Swinburne on ‘The Flogging Block’.” In Algernon Charles Swinburne: Unofficial Laureate, ed. Catherine Maxwell and Stefano Evangelista (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2013): 95-124.
Prins, Yopie. “Poetess.” In The New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics, ed. Roland Greene et al (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2012): 1051-54.
Prins, Yopie. “‘Break, Break, Break’ into Song.” In Meter Matters: Verse Cultures of the Long Nineteenth Century, ed. Jason Hall (Columbus: Ohio University Press, 2011): 105-134.
Prins, Yopie. “Historical Poetics, Dysprosody, and the Science of English Verse.” PMLA 123.1 (January 2008): 229-34.
Prins, Yopie. “Robert Browning, Transported by Meter.” In The Traffic in Poems: Nineteenth-Century Poetry and Transatlantic Exchange, ed. Meredith McGill (New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2007): 205-30.
Prins, Yopie. “Metrical Translation: Nineteenth-Century Homers and the Hexameter Mania.” In Nation, Language and the Ethics of Translation, ed. Sandra Bermann and Michael Wood. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2005): 229-56.
Prins, Yopie. “Patmore’s Law, Meynell’s Rhythm.” In The Fin-de-Siecle Poem, ed. Joseph Bristow (Athens: Ohio State University Press, 2005): 261-84.
Prins, Yopie. “Sappho Recomposed: A Song Cycle by Granville and Helen Bantock.” In The Figure of Music in Nineteenth-Century British Poetry, ed. Phyllis Weliver (Ashgate Press, 2005): 230-58.
Prins, Yopie. “Voice Inverse.” Victorian Poetry 42.1 (spring 2004): 43-59.
Prins, Yopie. “Victorian Meters.” In The Cambridge Companion to Victorian Poetry, ed. Joseph Bristow (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000): 89-113.
Prins, Yopie. “Lyrical Studies” (with Virginia Jackson), Victorian Literature and Culture 27:2 (Fall 1999): 521-30.
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The Ukrainian Hacker Who Became the FBI’s Best Weapon—And Worst Nightmare
One Thursday in January 2001, Maksym Igor Popov, a 20-year-old Ukrainian man, walked nervously through the doors of the United States embassy in London.
I do so love these stories, the hidden truths, the human interest. I wonder if anyone has thought about making movies like this? (I fear I may be too late).
Nick Brown Smelled Bull
It was autumn of 2011. Sitting in a dimly lit London classroom, taking notes from a teacher’s slides, Nick Brown could not believe his eyes.
A good example of challenging things and trusting your own instinct.
Why Designers Love The Ampersand
Cheerily nuzzled above the “7” key like a pear-shaped pill bug, the ampersand is perhaps the most intriguing character on the keyboard. While all letters and punctuation marks look similar enough in abstract, the ampersand feels unique, like a shape-shifter that could transform at a moment’s notice.
Apparently some people like these so much they get tattoos… weirdos…
Sorry, There’s Nothing Magical About Breakfast
I don’t eat breakfast. It’s not that I dislike what’s offered. Given the choice of breakfast food or lunch food, I’d almost always choose eggs or waffles. It’s just that I’m not hungry at 7:30 a.m., when I leave for work. In fact, I’m rarely hungry until about lunchtime.
I’ve read a couple of articles about this, I’ve been working on the ‘breakfast is the most important meal of the day’ for all my adult life! World. Up. Side. Down.
Scientists Discover Genes Associated with Nose Shape
The study, published in the journal Nature Communications, suggests that the width and “pointiness” of human nose is being influenced by four different genes that each plays a crucial role in shaping the olfactory organ.
So what you are saying is I have ALL of the genes in abundance. Ace. #bignose
The Unhealthy Truth Behind ‘Wellness’ and ‘Clean Eating’
A few years ago, I found wellness. My body felt like a burden, and the food I ate didn’t seem to energise me or push me on: it dulled my edges, left me foggy, soft and slow. So I made a change. I got rid of the chocolate bars, microwave meals and cakes.
In my continuing effort to eat better, I too should get rid of chocolate bars and cakes. ‘Should’.
6 Secrets of Radical Productivity, From an Entrepreneur Who Runs 4 Businesses
Tina Roth Eisenberg, a Swiss-born designer also known as Swiss Miss, runs four businesses with just 17 employees. And they’re not small businesses. The one for which she is probably best-known, an event series called CreativeMornings, hosts monthly events in 100 cities.
I’ve been reading Swiss Miss blog for years, still do. She was one of the first and remains an inspirational class act.
How Technology Hijacks People’s Minds
I’m an expert on how technology hijacks our psychological vulnerabilities. That’s why I spent the last three years as Google’s Design Ethicist caring about how to design things in a way that defends a billion people’s minds from getting hijacked.
Once you’ve read this, ask yourself what I’m really doing with these blog posts…
When Brother and Sister Became Sister and Brother
One warm night last August, James Hyde learned that his sister Justine was disappearing. In a way, he had expected it.
Given the current hoo-haa in the USA about who uses a toilet, it’s important to remember that it’s all about people. Real people, not abstracts.
This is what it’s like to grow up in the age of likes, lols and longing
She slides into the car, and even before she buckles her seat belt, her phone is alight in her hands. A 13-year-old girl after a day of eighth grade. She says hello. Her au pair asks, “Ready to go?”
Humanity is doomed! Or is humanity in the process of saving itself. Hmm lemme tweet that.
Baby carrots are not baby carrots
Ten years ago, NPR opened a radio news segment with a few words about a man few knew. Mike Yurosek, a carrot farmer from California, had passed away earlier that year. The homage was short —it lasted no more than 30 seconds — but for many of those listening, it must have been eye-opening.
One of these things I know I knew but I keep forgetting. Which is the same as forgetting, or something. Anyway, baby carrots!
On Twitter, a study says half of all sexist abuse comes from women
Half of all sexist tweets come from women, according to a new study. The research, carried out by British think-tank Demos, revealed the scale of misogynistic abuse on Twitter perpetuated by both men and women.
Not sure if this is an important article, or just a reminder to us all that our Twitter use is very ‘local’ to us. My bubble is not your bubble etc etc.
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Less to say
I’ve hit a strange point in my use of social media recently. I don’t know if it’s a good thing or a bad thing but I am definitely using it less.
I don’t check Twitter, Facebook, or Instagram multiple times a day, and some days not at all, and as such I’m posting less and less too. In fact if anything I’m preferring Instagram these days.
Why? Because there is too much and I don’t have the energy to sift through it to find the good stuff.
Too many opinions, too many in-jokes, too many overlapping conversations I am not a part of, too much noise, too much hate, too much love, too much silliness, too much, too much, too much.
Obviously what I take from social media is down to me but I am finding that my tolerance for somethings has been dropping recently and, more often than feels healthy, I just get narked by all of it.
This is largely down a distinct lack of energy on my part. I’m eating healthily(ish) and walking more to get some level of exercise, but my current job is proving to be very mentally draining. Every day I feel exhausted, every day feels like a battle (and it’s not just me, the others in my direct team say the same). The advantages of contract life mean I leave my work in the office but, of course, that’s not how it really works. I may not have the laptop or my notebook but my brain still churns.
It’s not just social media either, I’m reading less – I don’t think I’ve finished a single book in the last couple of months, whilst I was averaging over 2 per month at the start of the year – and I’m not as productive with my ‘down’ time, with even the basic things like keeping my flat tidy (which I’ll admit is a bit of a ‘thing’ for me) has slipped.
And that’s why I’m more inclined to avoid social media. Without enough energy to gather my elephants* they steam in all angry and ranty and make a mess.
My get up and go seems to have got up and gone I’m not sure where, nor how to get it back, or even if I’m that bothered.
Maybe I’m actually just learning to detach and slow down, to stop worrying about “What’s next?” (guess who’s been re-watching the West Wing recently), and to appreciate just not doing very much at all. Maybe.
Wow, this is a long winded post to say ‘it’s not you, it’s me’, but isn’t it ever so.
* What is the rider and elephant metaphor? From behavioral psychology, a theory that suggests we have two sides: An emotional/automatic/irrational side (the elephant), and an analytical/controlled/rational side (its rider).
According to the model, the rider is rational and can plan ahead, while the elephant is irrational and driven by emotion and instinct. We have to find the balance between the two.
Life, Personal Musings
Until I was a man, I had no idea how good men had it at work
Testosterone made my voice low. Really low. So low that I am almost impossible to hear in a loud bar or a cacophonous meeting, unless I speak at a ragged near-shout. But when I do talk, people don’t just listen: they lean in.
Something I am aware of in the workplace, it really needs to change faster.
Starbucks Orders and the Mass Customization of American Food
Food customization is more than a craze in America—it’s a reflection of identity. It’s been said that there are 87,000 ways to order a drink at Starbucks.
What’s wrong with my Grande Skinny Latte, Extra Hot, with Sugar-free Vanilla Syrup??
Racism is the bogeyman
I started having a nightmare when I was 11 – not nightmares – just a single, vivid reoccurring dream. In it, I answered the door to my parents house. A man wearing a cap raised his shotgun and blasted me in the gut. Reflexively, I reached down and could feel the hole.
Views outside my own always hit hard, all I can do is keep reading, learning, and supporting however I can. We all should.
How Typography Can Save Your Life
After decades of silently shouting at the top of its lungs, the National Weather Service recently announced that it’s going to stop publishing its forecasts and weather warnings in ALL CAPS.
AS IF ANYONE PAYS ANY ATTENTION TO THINGS IN ALL CAPS (I said, as if anyone pays any attention to things in ALL CAPS).
The Longest Shortest Distance
I’m convinced a lot of us like to believe the shortest distance from point A to B is a straight line. That’s a nice thought though. Really, wouldn’t life be so much easier? The reality, I’ve learned, is that life looks more like a giant, haphazard scribble drawn by my 2 year-old daughter.
New life motto, ‘life is a scribble’. I like it.
There’s No Such Thing as Free Will
But we’re better off believing in it anyway. For centuries, philosophers and theologians have almost unanimously held that civilization as we know it depends on a widespread belief in free will—and that losing this belief could be calamitous.
I should probably thank you for reading these comments
A Psychologist Analyzes Donald Trump’s Personality
Narcissism, disagreeableness, grandiosity — a psychologist investigates how Trump’s extraordinary personality might shape his possible presidency.
Post-it Note War Erupts On Canal Street
Companies in buildings across the street from each other are filling their windows with Post-it notes in elaborate designs in what’s become something of a colorful battle of one-upsmanship, as first reported by New York 1.
LOVE this, LOVE IT!! (Ohhh sorry, you won’t read that cos ALL CAPS… )
Blue Feed, Red Feed
Recent posts from sources where the majority of shared articles aligned “very liberal” (blue, on the left) and “very conservative” (red, on the right) in a large Facebook study.
Facebook offers biased news? Look at the surprise on my face! (for those reading in the dark, there is no surprise in my face)
Portugal runs for four days straight on renewable energy alone
Portugal kept its lights on with renewable energy alone for four consecutive days last week in a clean energy milestone revealed by data analysis of national energy network figures.
But hey, all these hippy dippy sources of energy aren’t really worth the money, right? *rolls eyes*
Lessons from America’s First Memory World Champion
On the Saturday before Mother’s Day, Alex Mullen, the country’s top-ranked memory athlete, joined his parents and grandmother for dinner at a restaurant near his grandmother’s home, in Easton, Pennsylvania.
If there is an anti-memory competition, I think I’d have a shot.
The inside story of when Run‑DMC met Aerosmith and changed music forever
It’s 1986. Rap music is explosive and on the rise but still misunderstood and barely represented in the mainstream. The leading innovators are Run-DMC, a trio from Queens who sport black leather jackets and unlaced Adidas sneakers.
Love stuff like this, didn’t realise Rick Rubin produced it (and the Beastie Boys provided the bass guitar).
We need a Paris climate talks to fix the global food system
The Paris climate agreement began its long road to implementation with a formal signing ceremony in New York in April, attended by representatives of some 170 countries.
I do wish politics would get out of the way, some of these large ecosystem related discussions need to happen, and yes, we all might need to take the hit. For the better good and all that.
Privileging the Forbidden
Adam Phillips has been called “the Oliver Sacks of psychoanalysis,” and in his remarkable new book, Unforbidden Pleasures, he writes about agency and desire in an utterly transformative way.
Basically, pause and be mindful of yourself and your surroundings? AKA Buddhism?
The days slip away
Rise to the chime.
The bleary eyed shuffle and the morning ablutions.
Take your pills. Dress yourself. Brush your teeth every day. Floss not often enough. The scold of the dental hygienist awaits!
Then to the bus. Then to coffee. Then to my desk.
Computer screen glows from black. The cogs whirr into life. Around me a cacophony of tapping rises.
Good morning. Good morning. Good morning. I say. I am well. How are you? I am good, and you? Verbal tennis, the expectation of politeness.
I stare at rows and columns, words white on black. I sit in rooms and listen and talk and listen and talk. The clock moves in fits and starts. Taunting me for moments, racing through others.
I am working. This is what I do. I am pay my bills. I laugh. I anger. I do. I do not.
Then I am done, outside as the bus sweeps to the kerb, ready to take me home.
I shed my work with each foot fall on pavement, leaving it behind me. I will find it in the morning. Most of it at least.
How is it May?
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Apostrophe-gate
The Watergate scandal produced a number of far-reaching effects. It brought down a president. It created a new era of disillusionment with politics. And, more important for my purposes, it spawned one of the most flexible, enduring suffixes in modern history.
I’m not that fussed about apostrophes, but just you wait for interrobang-gate, wow that’s gonna be something‽
America Has Never Been So Ripe for Tyranny
And right now, America is a breeding ground for tyranny. As this dystopian election campaign has unfolded, my mind keeps being tugged by a passage in Plato’s Republic. It has unsettled — even surprised — me from the moment I first read it in graduate school.
I hear ‘tyranny’, my brain hears, ‘A wretched hive of scum and villany’
Every Episode of David Attenborough’s Life Series, Ranked
This Sunday, Sir David Attenborough, naturalist, maker of wildlife documentaries, snuggler of gorillas, wielder of That Voice, keeper of the blue shirt, and Most Trusted Man in Britain, turns 90.
A true legend in every sense of the word.
I tried to make my own tortillas from scratch the Mexican way in the US, and it was a disaster
Corn tortillas are ubiquitous in the US. Factories daily churn out millions of them and disperse them to all corners of the country.
I think the mistake is in trying to make your own… I have mine delivered (and pre-filled!).
Should Prostitution Be a Crime?
Last November, Meg Muñoz went to Los Angeles to speak at the annual West Coast conference of Amnesty International. She was nervous.
Some cultural changes bubble, this seems to be one about to hit the top and burst.
The Russian Spy Who Painted Brooklyn Red
This is a story about a man named Rudolf Ivanovich Abel. He was a colonel in the KGB—a master spy, a mole deeply embedded in the United States, and the central hub of a massive, all-consuming espionage network that threatened all that we hold near and dear. Well, that’s not totally true.
Spies! Secrets! Intrigue. Someone phone Dan Brown!
Where Did All The Dicks Go?
The transformation of the word “dick” from endearing nickname to phallic slang term was so complete by the time I was a child that it was difficult for me not to snicker whenever I heard someone mention my grandfather by name, and impossible for me to understand why any man would choose to go with that name.
FNAR! Ok, there, got that out of my system. I hope this isn’t a hard read (sorry!).
Two minutes playing this video game could help scientists fight Alzheimer’s
Michael Hornberger always enjoys watching his children play the video game he helped create. Their small fingers move deftly across their sleek cellphone screens. Their brows furrow in concentration as they maneuver through the brightly colored virtual reality.
I think there’s a word for this intersection in thinking but I can’t remember it..
Why You Shouldn’t Tell That Random Girl On The Street That She’s Hot
Ah, spring. What a wonderful time of the year. Flowers are blooming, birds are chirping, terrified college students are graduating, and dudes on the internet are pondering that age-old philosophical question: “But whyyyyy can’t I tell that random girl on the street that she looks hot?”
All good advice. Heeded.
Be A Better Bystander: How Third Parties Can Help Targets Of Online Abuse
I’m not posting this because I get abuse, I’m posting it because we are ALL part of the solution.
What It Really Means That Facebook ‘Suppressed’ Conservative News
Facebook’s black box is slowly being opened.
FNAR! Ohh wrong post… anyway… 1984 anyone?
Radiohead Meets With My Shrink
Notes from a therapy session during which I only spoke in phrases from Radiohead’s new album. I won’t get heavy. Keep it light. Keep it moving.
You have heard the new album, right? I mean if you’ve had time to… what, you don’t like Radiohead?
How Breakfast Became a Thing
What you may not know is the origin of this ode to breakfast: a 1944 marketing campaign launched by Grape Nuts manufacturer General Foods to sell more cereal.
OK, this I can handle, but if anyone tries to fuck with brunch they’ll be on my list!
To boost your creativity, procrastinate
Procrastination, it turns out, may not be such a bad thing after all. The most effective way to tackle a new creative assignment is to put it off for a while, according to psychologist Maria Konnikova.
These posts are a testament to the power of my procrastination (and if you are still reading, yours too).
Alison Bechdel on Writing, Therapy, Self-Doubt, and How the Messiness of Life Feeds the Creative Conscience
Virginia Woolf lamented in her diary midway through writing To the Lighthouse.
We human beings are a complex lot, eh?
The Unbelievable Reality of the Impossible Hyperloop
Startup Hyperloop Technologies has started shooting magnetically levitated capsules along a track in Las Vegas to show off a radical idea for the future of freight and mass transit.
This is the Jetsons, right?
Watch The First Real-World Test Of Hyperloop Technology
Hyperloop One is one of the companies attempting to take the hyperloop from Elon Musk’s imagination to real-world application. On Wednesday, the company held the first live test of its version of the ultra-fast transportation system at a site in Nevada.
And here is the proof that it’s really happening! WHOOOOOOOOSH!
This story was co-published with Source. After decades of silently shouting at the top of its lungs, the National Weather Service recently announced that it’s going to stop publishing its forecasts and weather warnings in ALL CAPS.
Typography. Proof I’m a nerd.
I Promise You Don’t Have To Lose Weight To Be Happy
Obvious fat. You’ve-got-such-a-pretty-face fat. Internet-trolls-making-digs-at-the-double-chins-on-my-upper-arms fat. I am, in the parlance of the fat acceptance community, known as an “in-betweenie” or a “smallfat” — I fluctuate between a size 16 and a size 18.
I too am fat! HOORAY!!
“Ask yourself if you would do it if nobody would ever see it,
you would never be compensated for it and nobody wanted it.”
– Ernst Haas (via)
There must be a reason I write. I write here, I write in a journal, I (don’t really at the moment) write short stories, and I (definitely not at the moment) am writing a novel.
I write.
All of it because I want to, for me and my own personal reasons which I’ve mentioned here before, at least that’s how it started.
Reading that Ernst Haas quote made me realise one of the reasons I’ve been a bit blocked on my novel. During NaNoWriMo I wasn’t thinking about anyone reading it, I was writing for me, writing to meet a target number of words every day yes, but it was (and still is) a first draft that no-one will ever see. I was writing a story I wanted to read.
However having let it sit for a while, which was always part of the plan, I find myself revisiting it with the expectation (hope?) that it will be read by others in the future. It wasn’t a conscious decision and it hadn’t even occurred to me until that quote sparked the thought in my head.
I’ve mentioned On Writing, the book by Stephen King that really helped me get my head into the right place to tackle NaNoWriMo, but I’ve forgotten one thing that he is very VERY clear on.
You write for one person, and one person only.
So that’s what I need to do, finish the first draft in the same vein I started it, write it because I enjoy writing, write it to tell a story that I want to read. I am my own constant reader.
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Apologies for the hiatus; ’twas a mixture of illness on my behalf, and illness on behalf some of the services I use to compile this list. Here are some articles that caught my attention over the past couple of weeks.
Why you shouldn’t exercise to lose weight, explained with 60+ studies
At the end of the 45-minute workout, my body was dripping with sweat. I felt like I had worked really, really hard. And according to my bike, I had burned more than 700 calories. Surely I had earned an extra margarita.
One thing I love about science, it continues to prove that nothing we know is true. Pass the doughnuts (I’ve done a lot of typing!)
2016 Audubon Photography Awards
More than 1,700 photographers entered the seventh annual Audubon Photography Awards competition, submitting images in several categories, including Amateur, Professional, Fine Art, and Youth.
Makes me want to pick up my camera again. Stunning work.
iTunes is 13 years old—and it’s still awful
On April 28, 2003, Apple started up a revolution. Enter the iTunes Music Store, unveiled with a proud flourish by a beaming Steve Jobs. It was a digital jukebox, a music distribution game-changer, a record store to end all record stores—and it did, in fact, kill off a great number of those.
I’ve blogged about this as well. For a ‘design-centric’ company, iTunes continues to be the embarassing drunk uncle in the corner.
My Life as a Teen Brawler in Leicester City’s 80s Hooligan Firm
It’s 1982 in Leicester. Gary Lineker is playing football rather than selling crisps. Leicester City Football Club languish in the Second Division – miles from the position they’ve soared to, currently at the top of the Premier League for the first time in their 132-year history.
Quite a journey for a football club.
Leicester City’s ‘good karma’: the Buddhist monks behind the Foxes’ divine play
From supremely gifted players on the pitch to the tactical vision of the manager and coaching staff and the passionate support of the fans, it takes many people to win English football’s ultimate prize.
I had no idea this happened, the question is, does it make any difference? (answer: probably not)
The tragic irony of feminists trashing each other
‘Sisterhood is powerful. It kills sisters,’ noted a friend of Shulamith Firestone. Is sisterhood sacred or soul-crushing? Within the feminist movement, the answer is less clear than one might hope.
‘Just’ another example of a movement devolving to ‘type’? Sad but interesting read.
Sleep-wake cycle: why it’s vital to watch your biological clock
Breakfast in the morning, work during the day, relaxation in the evening followed by bedtime.
I work best in the afternoon/evening, now can someone tell my boss that so I can have a lie-in?
Kung Fu Motion Visualization
Mesmerising.
The man who’s walking around the world follows footsteps of old Silk Road traders
An update from a man we first met out on a walk. Hari recently caught up with him.
Not THAT Silk Road, THAT Silk Road (hey, if you don’t know, you don’t know).
Lawsuit Claims Starbucks Is Putting Too Much Ice In Iced Beverages
For some caffeine lovers, there’s nothing more refreshing than adding some ice to a cup of coffee or tea to bring the temperature down and the energy levels up. Balance is important — too much ice and not enough coffee can result in a weak drink.
I can’t even.. I mean… seriously? Some people really need lessons in perspective. Ohh and to stop putting ice in coffee in the first place. Weirdos.
How the Curse of Sykes-Picot Still Haunts the Middle East
In the Middle East, few men are pilloried these days as much as Sir Mark Sykes and François Georges-Picot. Sykes, a British diplomat, travelled the same turf as T. E. Lawrence (of Arabia), served in the Boer War, inherited a baronetcy, and won a Conservative seat in Parliament.
A few lines on a map = years of strife and war.
Brazil’s ‘impeachment wall’ may be new but divisions have always been there
Wall separating pro- and anti-impeachment rallies ahead of a vote on President Dilma Rousseff is a reminder nothing in the country is divided equally.
I knew there were protests in Brazil (on average 3 million people protest every week.. 3 MILLION!) but a wall? Yikes.
The Cure For Fear
Karin Klaver woke in the darkness and searched the nightstand for her iPhone. It was 2 a.m. Her husband slept quietly beside her. They had arrived in Johannesburg early that morning on the red-eye from Amsterdam and spent the day window shopping and people watching in the city.
WARNING: There is a large image of a big spider on the page! (it’s a good read though, just scroll real quick when you get there!)
The mysterious properties of the wax in your ear
Whales never clean out their ears. Year after year their earwax builds up, leaving behind something of a life history told in fatty acids, alcohols, and cholesterols. The waxy substance builds in the ear canals of many mammals, including ourselves.
Gross but fascinating. Mostly fascinating. And gross.
Chileans Are Harvesting Fog To Brew Beer In Earth’s Driest Desert
There is nothing about this that doesn’t sound Sci-Fi astounding. First, the flat and seemingly lifeless expanse of the Atacama desert, 600 miles of graveyard-quiet emptiness rising from Peru’s southern border into Northern Chile.
What do you do? Ohhh I harvest fog. Ohh that sounds… wait, what?!
Mourning Prince and David Bowie, who showed there’s no one right way to be a man
When the news came this afternoon that Prince had died at 57 at his home in Minnesota, a chorus went up that it was the latest cruelty of 2016, a year that already feels merciless in those it’s claimed, four months along.
Part of me still doesn’t really believe they are both gone. True trail-blazing trend-setters.
No alcohol, no coffee for 15 months. This is what happened.
Exactly today I haven’t had a single drop of alcohol or coffee in 15 months.A couple of my friends on Facebook & Twitter asked me to write about my experience, so here it is, in a nutshell. With over a year of no alcohol & coffee, I did notice some side effects. Here is what I learned.
Putting the side effects… er… aside, WHY WOULD YOU DO THIS TO YOURSELF!?
How Scotland Became the Most LGBT Friendly Country in the World
When Scottish Labour leader, Kezia Dugdale, revealed this month that she was in a relationship with a woman, a nation shrugged its shoulders.
A lot of things are still not right in Scotland, but this, THIS I’m proud of.
In a real lightsaber duel, your body would be vaporized
Research is an unpredictable process. Sometimes you end up making a really cool discovery that you didn’t see coming. I recently uncovered a fundamental property of lightsabers (that’s right—the awesome weapons from Star Wars) while doing my regular plasma physics research.
Not to self: You should’ve studied regular plasma physics (which begs the question, are there irregular plasma physics?).
Dyson’s First-Ever Hair Dryer Will Make All Others Look Weak
Dyson is unveiling its first-ever hair dryer today. The Supersonic is a $400, technology-laden device. It’s the company’s first foray into the beauty market.
I have no idea why I’m linking to this. A hair dryer to me is as useful as a chocolate teapot.
Feminist, entrepreneur, Twitter phenom, troll-slayer, woman of the year: Trevor Beattie meets Holly Brockwell
Trouble may not exactly follow Holly Brockwell around, but it certainly knows where she lives. And as she lives almost entirely on Twitter, it’s also probably one of her 20,000 followers (I know I am). Over the last few years Holly Brockwell has become a hugely influential voice for women online.
I can’t remember why I started following Holly on Twitter but the volume and type of abuse she receives is horrifying.
Who Will Debunk The Debunkers?
In 2012, network scientist and data theorist Samuel Arbesman published a disturbing thesis: What we think of as established knowledge decays over time.
You know nothing! Well, you knew something, but now it’s as good as nothing. Me? I’ve always been a bit thick, no change.
Your Dog Hates Hugs
I never met a dog I didn’t want to hug. The feeling, alas, is likely not mutual.
I feel like I should apologise for linking to this. I love dogs!
My own comfort
Despite what I might try to insist, to myself and others, I prefer my own company to that of others.
That’s not to say I don’t enjoy being with other people, those that I love, and those that I like enough to tolerate (I kid, I kid!) but when I’m feeling in need of comfort I tend to look to myself.
I put it down to spending the first 8 or so years of my life as an only child.
Back then I learned to lose myself in my own imagination, later transferring that skill to reading and I revelled in the silence that that solitude brings, lost in a page turner, oblivious to the passing of time with only myself for company. Bliss.
I sound like a curmudgeon, a grumpy hermit who shuns people.
I’m really not like that and most of the time I like nothing better than to be in the company of someone I love, or people I care about. I enjoy being out and about, chatting nonsense over a drink, or sharing stories over coffee (or vice versa, of course), often with the futile hope that those moments won’t end.
They always do, of course, and then I’m back to being alone with myself and the familiar comfort of me.
When I think of comfort I don’t tend to think of soft blankets, down filled pillows or luxuriously soft leather chairs, I don’t think of hearty meals rich in carbohydrate and protein that warm me from within. When I’m feeling low, regardless of the reason, I don’t think of others, I think of me.
That makes me sound selfish and in those moments I know I can be uncaring and brutal.
Fuck this and leave me alone, I’ll be fine. Go. I’ll be fine.
Away from noises I can’t control (stop breathing so loud!), away from distractions that break the reverie (why can’t you sit at peace!), and away from my desire to be accommodating of others in any way, shape or form, I lose all will and energy for patience and compromise. Birds are singing too loud, car engines are revved too much, the scrolling clouds that change the light cast into the room torment me. Everything that I can’t control is wrong.
It’s an odd sort of comfort I admit; being able to switch off the part of my brain that has me double checking things. If I get up from the sofa I don’t need to check if anyone wants anything whilst I’m up, I don’t need to ask if anyone minds if I change the channel on the TV, nor if it’s ok to just sit in silence and read a book, no interactions unless required, no niceties, impolite and brusque.
I’m glad I don’t seek this comfort often.
It’s an odd thing really, it’s at odds with the rest of my personality, the part of me that everyone can see, the part of me I identify with is outgoing, friendly, and I hope kind and considerate. When I get up I’ll ask if you want anything while I’m on my feet, I’ll double check plans to make sure everyone is happy with them, I will compromise myself when I can to make things better for others.
That’s me, not the horrible, blunt, silent lump I can be at times.
But that lump is still me. Those thoughts of silent comfort, hidden away from the world still persist, they are part of me every day. I’m glad that most days I barely register having to put those thoughts away, but I acknowledge they are always there.
When you aren’t around, when everyone is gone, I only think of me.
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Runway Excursion: Piper PA-28R-200, N40956; accident occurred April 20, 2019 at St. Cloud Regional Airport (KSTC), Sherburne County, Minnesota
View of airplane from the left front.
Federal Aviation Administration / Flight Standards District Office; Minneapolis, Minnesota
https://registry.faa.gov/N40956
Location: St. Cloud, MN
Accident Number: CEN19LA125
Registration: N40956
Aircraft: Piper PA-28R-200
Defining Event: Runway excursion
View of airplane from the right rear.
***This report was modified on 12/11/2019. Please see the docket for this accident to view the original report.***
On April 20, 2019, about 0946 central daylight time, a Piper PA-28R-200 airplane, veered off the left side of runway 13 during landing at the St. Cloud Regional Airport (STC), St. Cloud, Minnesota. The pilot and passenger were not injured; the airplane sustained substantial damage to the right wing. The airplane was owned and operated by the Blue Sky Benefit Solutions, Inc. under the provisions of Title 14 Code of Federal Regulations Part 91 as a personal flight. Visual meteorological conditions prevailed during the flight, which was not operating under a flight plan. The flight departed the Sauk Centre Municipal Airport (D39), Sauk Centre, Minnesota, about 0914 with STC as the destination.
The pilot reported that the accident flight was the first flight after the airplane had undergone an annual maintenance inspection. The pilot reported that the airplane operated normally during the flight and he planned to land on runway 13 (7,500 ft by 150, asphalt) at STC. The approach and descent rate were stable as he "crabbed" the airplane into the wind to compensate for the right crosswind. He selected 25° of flaps when the indicated airspeed was 80 kts. He stated that before touchdown, he applied left rudder and had the right wing down into the wind to counter the crosswinds and to maintain the center line of the runway. At touchdown, he had the control yoke to the right and was applying the brakes; however, the airplane veered to the left and exited the runway. The airplane traveled about 50 ft into the grass when the right main landing gear collapsed. The right wing struck the ground resulting in substantial damage to the wing.
The examination of the flight controls confirmed flight control continuity from the flight controls to the control surfaces. The airplane was equipped with an engine monitoring system. The data was downloaded, and the data indicated that the engine and propeller operated normally during the flight. The pilot reported no preaccident mechanical malfunctions or failures with the airplane that would have precluded normal operation. The pilot stated, "Looking back, I should have never gone up with crosswinds that high, with little to no practice in crosswinds logged in the last 30, 60, [or] 90 days."
At 0853, the surface weather observation at STC, was wind 180° at 13 knots gusting to 20 knots; visibility 10 miles; sky clear; temperature 12° C; dew point -1° C; and altimeter 29.78 inches of mercury. The pilot reported that before departing D39, the weather briefing at D39 was sky clear, wind 180° at 9 knots. About 30 nautical miles out from STC, the pilot received the automated weather from STC, which was sky clear, wind 180° at 12 to 20 knots.
According to the airplane manufacturer's pilot operating handbook, the maximum demonstrated crosswind component for this make/model airplane is 17 knots.
Certificate: Private
Airplane Rating(s): Single-engine Land
Instrument Rating(s): None
Medical Certification: Class 3 Without Waivers/Limitations
Occupational Pilot:No
Flight Time: 368 hours (Total, all aircraft), 317 hours (Total, this make and model), 340 hours (Pilot In Command, all aircraft), 3 hours (Last 90 days, all aircraft), 3 hours (Last 30 days, all aircraft)
Model/Series: PA-28R-200
Serial Number: 28R-7435144
Time Since Last Inspection: 0 Hours
ELT: Installed
Engine Model/Series: IO-380-C1C
Observation Facility, Elevation: STC, 1030 ft msl
Observation Time: 0853 CDT
Direction from Accident Site: 0°
Lowest Cloud Condition: Clear
Lowest Ceiling: None
Wind Speed/Gusts: 13 knots / 20 knots
Temperature/Dew Point: 12°C / -1°C
Precipitation and Obscuration: No Obscuration
Departure Point: Sauk Centre, MN (D39)
Destination: St. Cloud, MN (STC)
Type of Airspace:
Airport: St. Cloud Regional Airport (STC)
Airport Elevation: 1030 ft
Runway Length/Width: 7500 ft / 150 ft
VFR Approach/Landing: Full Stop
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The SGVN is proud to announce that longtime staffer Steve Ramirez is the new Star-News Prep Sports Editor
Posted on July 30, 2012 by Fred Robledo
Steve Ramirez, who has been with the company more than 20 years, is replacing Miguel Melendez as the Star-News Prep editor. Steve was the Whittier Daily News prep editor last year, and serves many capacities at the SGVN, including college football writer, area college beat writer and auto racing. When it comes to football, he’s the most knowledgeable on out staff, despite what Aram might say (can we get an lol). In all the years I’ve worked with Steve, few work as hard as him. Please welcome him aboard. With Steve leaving the Whittier Daily News, weeklies reporter Eric Terrazas will replace Steve as the Daily News prep editor.
That’s company man Mr. Ramirez in the company shirt ..
Who has this shot? Joking around with “Mike the Uncle” on a golf trip. As you can tell, I’m soooo ready for football to start.
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West Covina catcher Michael Najera is one his way to Division I Cal State Northridge
Bishop Amat baseball camp next week
Bishop Amat High School will host a youth baseball camp July 23-25. The three-day camp is for ages 5-14 and costs $150.
It will be held at the Bishop Amat baseball field from 10 a.m.-3 p.m. each day. Cost does not include lunch (snack bar will open) and campers are asked to wear baseball attire and bring cleats, glove, bats, helmet and catcher’s gear.
More information is available by e-mail at zuni24@charter.net or by calling (626) 818-3142.
Rose Bowl Game to host NCAA youth football clinic on Saturday
Posted on July 16, 2012 by Steve Ramirez
The Tournament of Roses Association, through its Rose Bowl Game, will host a NCAA Youth football clinic Saturday morning at Jackie Robinson Park in Pasadena.
The clinic, for children ages 5-14, is free and will be from 10 a.m. to noon. Registration is slated for 9 a.m.
Local coaches and former and current players will provide instruction in a variety of football skills.
Robinson Park is located at 1081 N. Fair Oaks Avenue in Pasadena.
The clinic is hosted by the Rose Bowl Game in partnership with the NCAA Football Youth Initiative.
Ganesha coach Darrick Rice ain’t playing
While we’re all working on football previews for the Prep Preview Football magazine and sifting through all our quotes from coaches on the expectations for 2012, this is one of my favorites from Ganesha coach Darrick Rice. I love when coaches speak their mind and sound genuinely passionate about the job they have to do. Ganesha finished 2-8 last year, just a couple years removed from the 49-game losing streak from 2003-09.
“Last year I got the position so late I had to coach with the same guys left over from the previous year. This year I brought in guys with a higher (football) I.Q. and a want and need to help change some of the bad techniques, teaching and overall culture that had been embedded here from years of not changing with the times.
“We have to remember this is not the 70’s, 80’s, or even the 90’s. The rules have changed and so has the area especially with other schools (in the area) stealing our resources right out of our backyards. Our mission is to first establish something special to keep our talent home, win one game at a time in all areas and learn from our mistakes. We want to show that Ganesha High school can move into the 21st century and actually play four quarters of football and not be everyone’s homecoming game.” — Coach Darrick Rice.
This is getting serious, Aram reports that Blair is struggling to field a football team by opening night
By Aram Tolegian, staff writer
In six weeks, the Blair High School football team is scheduled to play its first game of the season. But for some players and their parents, it’s hard to imagine that day will ever come.
While most area teams are concluding their summer preparations, which include practices, passing tournaments and linemen competitions, Blair is a program without a head coach and the team, what’s left of it, has not had an organized practice since early June. The Vikings are scheduled to open the season on Aug. 24 against Hoover.
“Most of the parents have said ‘This is crazy. This is ridiculous. We’re going to pull our kids and take them somewhere else,'” said Carl McClain, whose son Logan was an all-Rio Hondo League defensive end last season as a junior and is still holding out hope something will happen.
“The main players, the majority of them, have left. They’re gone. If my son was in the 10th grade, that would be no problem for us to pick up and go somewhere else, but he’s a senior.
“I shouldn’t have to move my son out of the city of Pasadena so he can go somewhere else to play. He’s a senior. I shouldn’t have to pull money out of my pocket so my son can play somewhere. That’s not fair.”
Blair was coached last season by Gary Parks, who resigned this past offseason after four years at the school. Blair started last season with 22 players on its roster, but Logan McClain estimated that the team had just 12 players when the season ended.
After Parks left, the school began its search for a replacement in April, according to Pasadena Unified School District board president Renatta Cooper.
The school’s first choice was hired but quickly quit due to a lack of equipment and poor facilities, according to Cooper. The school was not able to hire its second choice, who turned the job down because no teaching position was offered. A third choice was preliminarily hired, but failed a background check and was let go.
“The position has been re-flown and it’s my understanding that they’re going to be interviewing again Thursday,” Cooper said on Wednesday. “What more can they do? They had to re-fly the position. It is unfortunate that they were not able to secure the services of a coach. They began the process early enough to have this taken care of.”
“I believe that everything that can be done is being done. I believe they started the process early enough to not have this problem. You would think out of your three top candidates, you would be to secure the services of any of them. Especially when you started in April.”
With no coach and no organized practices, the player pool has subsequently dwindled. In the meantime, parents like McClain are frustrated by the lack of action and answers from Blair principal Trudell Skinner and athletic director Saul Rico.
The closest Blair’s players have come to some form of practice is an open weight room that the school has provided for another program not related to football, according to Logan McClain. So instead, the 6-foot-1, 190-pound college prospect has mostly worked out at home.
Another problem standing in Blair’s way is that even when a new football coach is hired, it’s questionable that there will be enough players to field a starting 11. Logan McClain estimates through his own correspondence with classmates that only eight players remain in the program. Blair will also welcome in a new freshmen class later this summer, but getting those players ready for any level of football competition will be an uphill battle even if a coach is named soon.
The CIF-Southern Section requires teams to have 14 practices before it plays its first game. Each individual student must have had at least 10 practices before being allowed to compete in a game.
With time running out, Blair needs to act fast in getting both a coach and enough players to field a varsity football team. Despite the concerns of many, school officials aren’t ready to pull the plug on the season.
“I’m confident that they’re doing the best they can,” Cooper said. “Are they in danger of forfeiting their games and not having a team? I spoke to the principal and she didn’t seem to feel that. She didn’t express that level of concern. She feels that they’re going to get this taken care of and I’m going to take her opinion.”
Meanwhile, the McClains are left to wonder whether they should trust the school or scramble and figure out Plan B before it’s too late.
“He wants to play at Blair,” Carl McClain said of his son. “He says ‘Dad, I want to finish what I started’ and that’s understandable. He says ‘Dad I want to graduate with the kids I went to junior high school with’.
“But I told him that if you want to play football and this is what you want to do, you may have to give all that up and go somewhere else.”
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Steve Nash is joining the Lakers, Happy Fourth of July
Posted on July 4, 2012 by Fred Robledo
Two Minute Drill and this week’s stories leading to Friday’s Week 6 HS Football Games October 8, 2019
The Morning After: Read all about this week’s high school football games as league play begins. How about Amat and Glendora? October 8, 2019
Two Minute Drill predictions, previews, and Aram’s column on rising, falling stock and more October 2, 2019
Week 5: The Morning After, Bonita remains undefeated, read all about it October 2, 2019
The Morning After: Stories, Scores from Week 3 of the High School Football Season. September 7, 2019
Your thoughts on Bishop Amat’s opening act, a 17-0 win over Diamond Ranch? August 22, 2019
Who you got, Bishop Amat-DRanch? La Habra-Upland? Northview-El Rancho? La Mirada-El Toro August 22, 2019
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Week 8 HS Football: One More Thing and Two-Minute Drills of Friday’s big games October 10, 2018
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MACQUARIE GENERATION EMPLOYEES (STATE) AWARD 2005
Description AIRC - Award of Industrial Relations Commission
Award Code 1244
Application by Macquarie Generation.
Before The Honourable Mr Deputy President Harrison
Clause No. Subject Matter
1. Parties to the Award
2. Intent, Scope and Duration
3. Salaries
4. Part-time Employment
5. General Purpose Allowance
6. Hours of Work
7. Calculation of Service
8. Classification Advisory Committee
9. Terms of Employment
10. Shift Work
11. Overtime - Day Work
12. Overtime - Shift Work
13. Meal Allowances on Overtime
14. Meal Breaks - Day Work
15. Higher Grade Work and Pay
17. Annual Leave
18. Long Service Leave
19. Sick Leave and Accident Pay
20. Public Holidays and Picnic Day
21. Travelling Time and Fares
22. Working Away from Headquarters
23. Grievance and Disputes Procedures
24. Consultative Mechanisms
25. Carer’s Leave
26. Bereavement Leave
27. Anti-Discrimination
29. Leave Reserved
Title of Award
1.1 This Award will be known as the Macquarie Generation Employees (State) Award, 2005.
1.2 This Award has been made between Macquarie Generation and the unions listed below on behalf of the employees of Macquarie Generation.
Electrical Trades Union of Australia, New South Wales Branch
News South Wales Local Government, Administrative, Energy, Airlines and Utilities Union
Association of Professional Engineers, Scientists and Managers, Australia (NSW Branch)
Construction, Forestry, Mining and Energy Union (Energy District) NSW Branch
Public Service Association of New South Wales
Australian Institute of Marine and Power Engineers, New South Wales District
AWU-FIME Amalgamated Union, New South Wales
Automotive, Food, Metals, Engineering, Printing and Kindred Industries Union, New South Wales Branch
1.3 This Award was not entered into under duress by any party.
Intent and Scope
2.1 The Award applies to all Macquarie Generation employees employed in classifications prescribed herein. It is based on the mutual understanding that there is an obligation to serve the people of New South Wales by providing a high standard of service at the lowest possible cost. As part of its obligations Macquarie Generation is committed to the continued development of its skilled workforce to provide an effective service.
In order to meet its objectives as set down under the Energy Services Corporations Act 1995 Macquarie Generation and its employees are committed to:
(i) being a successful business
(ii) operating at least as efficiently as any comparable businesses.
(iii) maximising the net worth of the State's investment in it
(iv) operating efficient, safe and reliable facilities for the generation of electricity
(v) being an efficient and responsible supplier of electricity
(vi) being a successful participant in the wholesale market for electricity
The achievement of these objectives will be based on a climate of co-operation and understanding.
2.2 This Award rescinds and replaces the Macquarie Generation Employees (State) Award 2002, published 4 April 2003 (339 I.G. 13). This Award will be effective from 1 July 2005 to 30 June 2008.
3.1 Employees covered by the Award will receive a 4.5% increase in base rates of pay payable from the first pay period commencing on or after 1 July 2005.
Further increases will be paid as follows:
4.5% from the first pay period commencing on or after 1 July 2006
These payments will be paid in consideration of:
(a) A commitment to the continuing development of the Macquarie Generation workforce so that staff can work flexibly in order to more readily adapt to changes in our business needs.
(b) A commitment to participation in the development of the Training and Development Programme referred to in 3.3, including the development of a job evaluation and remuneration system for all employees.
(c) Maintaining strict confidentiality of commercial information.
(d) The express intention of the parties for Macquarie Generation to continue in a period of industrial stability and that the company will be spared the consequences of industrial action.
3.2 In recognition of the early and amicable settlement of negotiations of this Award, employees will also receive the following additional salary increase:
0.25% from the first pay period commencing on or after 1 July 2005
3.3 Training and Development Programme - The purpose of the Training and Development Programme is to undertake an assessment of the level of skills and competencies that exist within Macquarie Generation and compare this with what the business needs will be in the foreseeable future.
This will require a skills audit which can be undertaken by existing resources within Macquarie Generation. There will also be a job redesign process that will provide the best combination of skills and competencies that deliver the business needs. Finally, there will be a job evaluation and remuneration system that applies to all employees.
Programme Terms of Reference
(a) Review the results of a skills audit for Macquarie Generation
(b) Undertake a process of job redesign whereby jobs more readily meet the business needs, and
(c) Examine job evaluation and remuneration systems in order to implement a system which applies to all employees.
As the process will be developed jointly between employees, management and unions, agreement will be required on each phase prior to implementation.
3.4 The ordinary weekly salaries and the operative dates for the classifications covered by this Award based on a 35 hour week are:
Effective first pay period
commencing on or after
3.5 The granting of this award will not inhibit the introduction of performance measures based on the objective of continuing to reduce the real cost of electricity to our customers provided the changes do not breach this award or the Industrial Relations Act 1996.
(a) Administrative Officers, (previously referred to as Occupational Health Nurses) must be paid not less than the rates applicable to the following:
1st Year -Salary Point 19
2nd Year - Salary Point 20
(b) Administrative Officers, (previously referred to as Occupational Health Nurse Co-ordinator) must be paid not less than the rates applicable to the following:
1st Year - Salary Point 24
Casual Occupational
3.7 Administrative Officers, who are engaged as Casual Health Nurses Occupational Health Nurses must be paid by the hour.
(a) The hourly rate is determined by:
(i) taking the weekly rate for the applicable salary point (set out in 3.7(a) above); and
(ii) dividing the sum by 35; and
(iii) adding 20% (in respect of all hours worked between 7:00am and 5:30pm, Monday to Friday inclusive) to the total.
(b) Time worked outside these hours and on Saturdays must be paid as follows:
(i) for the first two hours - time and one half
(ii) after the first two hours - double time.
(c) Hours worked in excess of seven hours, on any daily engagement, must be paid at the appropriate overtime rate.
(d) Work performed on Sundays shall be paid at the rate of double time and on Public Holidays at the rate of double time and a half.
(e) Minimum payment as for three hours at the appropriate rate must be paid in respect of each start, and reimbursement be made for all fares actually incurred in travelling to and from work only in respect of a minimum start.
(f) General Purpose Station Allowance - these employees will receive level "E" allowance under sub-clause 5.1 on an hourly basis.
(g) There is no entitlement to any of the provisions of this Award other than the provisions of this subclause.
Working up to skill level
3.8 Employees must:
(a) Work up to their skill level, competence and training within the categories listed below; and
(b) Work in accordance with the classification descriptions, salary points and Skills Development Programmes negotiated under Award Restructuring.
Professional Officer
Power Worker
(c) Classification Flexibility - Following agreement through consultation with classifications affected and/or relevant unions where required, work can be performed across the classifications referred to in sub-clause 3.8 (b) above.
Those jobs which change as a result of classification flexibility will have the new position evaluated within one week of a signed Position Description becoming available.
In the interim, for the three classification groups not covered by the current job evaluation system, additional skill levels can result in additional remuneration.
Both parties agree that this clause will not be used to impede the development of flexible work practices.
No extra claims
3.9 Apart from increases available through State Wage Case decisions (to be applied as set out below) the parties undertake that for the period of this Award they will not pursue any extra claims for any matters that are contained in this Award.
State Wage Case decisions determined during the period of the Award, will be dealt with as follows:
(a) Cost of living adjustment - any component of a State Wage increase which is identified in the decision as a cost of living adjustment will be passed on to employees in full on the basis of any conditions that are imposed by the decision. This component of the increase will be in addition to the increases arising as a result of this Award.
(b) Productivity increase - any component of a State Wage increase which is in return for state wide productivity improvements or is based on enterprise level productivity increases will be adjusted to avoid double counting.
Salary Sacrifice Superannuation
(a) Notwithstanding the salaries prescribed by this clause, an employee may elect, subject to the agreement of Macquarie Generation, to sacrifice a portion of the salary payable under this clause to additional employer superannuation contribution, purchase of company product (electricity), innovated motor vehicle lease and laptop computer purchase.
Such election must be made prior to the commencement of the period of service to which the earnings relate.
The amount sacrificed must not exceed fifty (50) percent of the salary payable under this clause or 50% of the currently applicable superable salary, whichever is the lesser. In this clause, "superable salary" means the employee's salary as notified from time to time to the New South Wales public sector superannuation trustee corporations.
(b) Where the employee has elected to sacrifice a portion of that payable salary to additional employer superannuation contributions:
(i) subject to Australian Taxation law, the sacrificed portion of salary will reduce the salary subject to appropriate PAYE taxation deductions by the amount of that sacrificed portion: and
(ii) any allowance, penalty rate, payment for unused leave entitlements, weekly worker's compensation other payment, other than any payments for leave taken in service, to which an employee is entitled under this award or any applicable Award, Act or statute which is expressed to be determined by reference to an employee's salary, shall be calculated by reference to the salary which would have applied to the employee under this clause of the award in the absence of any salary sacrifice to superannuation made under this Award.
(c) The employee may elect to have the portion of payable salary which is sacrificed to additional employer superannuation contributions:
(i) paid into the superannuation scheme established under the First State Superannuation Act 1992 as optional employer contributions; or
(ii) Subject to Macquarie Generation's agreement, paid into a private sector regulated superannuation scheme as employer superannuation contributions.
(d) Where the employee is a member of a superannuation scheme established under:
(i) the Superannuation Act 1916;
(ii) the State Authorities Superannuation Act 1987;
(iii) the State Authorities Non-contributory Superannuation Act 1987; or
(iv) The First State Superannuation Act 1992
Macquarie Generation must ensure that the amount of any additional employer superannuation contributions specified in subclause (a) above is included in the employee's superable salary which is notified to the New South Wales public sector superannuation trustee corporations.
(e) Where, prior to electing to sacrifice a portion of his/her salary to superannuation, an employee had entered into an agreement with Macquarie Generation to have superannuation contributions made to a superannuation fund other than a fund established under legislation listed in subclause (d) above, Macquarie Generation will continue to base contributions to that fund on the salary payable under this clause to the same extent as applied before the employee sacrificed portion of that salary to superannuation. This clause applies even though the superannuation contributions made by Macquarie Generation may be in excess of superannuation guarantee requirements after the salary sacrifice is implemented.
(f) Additional taxation costs associated with salary sacrifice will not be borne by the employer and/or deduction limits may be imposed to avoid additional tax costs to the company.
4.1 Part time employees mean persons employed on the basis of a consistent number of hours which are less than the full-time ordinary weekly working hours prescribed for the appropriate classification where such employment may be based upon any of the following arrangements.
(a) part-time work which is of a temporary or limited duration provided that casual employment involving daily hire and/or re-hire is not included, and provided that the minimum daily number of hours to be worked by such part-time employees will not be less than four hours and the minimum weekly number of hours to be worked will not be less than sixteen hours.
(b) part-time work for a fixed period where such period is determined on the basis for, and is directly related to, the return to employment of a female employee following a period of absence on approved maternity leave.
4.2 A part-time employee is paid at a rate equivalent to the proportion of the actual hours worked per week to the full-time ordinary weekly working hours prescribed for the appropriate classification.
4.3 A part-time employee is entitled to annual leave, long service leave, sick leave and accident pay and all such other entitlements as may be applicable; provided that any accumulated benefits accrue from time to time in the same proportion of the actual hours worked per week to the full-time ordinary weekly working hours prescribed for the appropriate classification, as at the date of such accrual.
4.4 Macquarie Generation will advise the Secretary of the Union or Unions concerned no less than forty-eight hours in advance of its intention to employ an officer or officers in accordance with the provisions of sub-clause 4.1, hereof, and the area and anticipated duration of such employment; provided that, in the case of female employees returning to employment after an absence on maternity leave, who are required to complete a prescribed period of employment to be entitled for payment in respect of such absence, prior notification in terms of this sub-clause will not be necessary.
General Purpose Allowance
5.1 A General Purpose Allowance is paid to employees as set down below:
Pay Period on
GPA Rate
or After
Bayswater External 1, External 2
Liddell Coal External 1
Bayswater Generation1 (Mechanical), Generation1 (Electrical),
Generation 2, Cleaning Services
Liddell Ash & Dust, L/Mechanical, L/Electrical, N/Shift,
Cleaning Services, Tradesman/Day work
Bayswater A, B, C, D, & E shift, Water Supply, T1 & T2 shift
Technicians, Production Support, Coal,
Liddell A, B, C, D & E shift, Technicians L & N shift, Plant
Owners Coal Ash & Dust
Bayswater Boilers, Environment & Chemical, Station Services, Mobile
Coal, Turbines, Performance, Control System, Electrical
Commercial Fuel Supplies Warehouse Bayswater /Liddell & Purchasing
Liddell Plant Owner Turbine, Plant Owner Boilers, Chemical, ,
Production Co-ordination, Plant Owner Coal External, Resources
Apprentice Training, Performance
Bayswater Administration, Business and Finance,
Human Resources & Trainees located at Power Stations
Commercial Payments Administration, Contracts Administration,
Administration (located at Power Stations), Payroll.
Liddell Administration Services
Information Technology Support Services at Power Stations
"F"
All employees located at Lambton
5.2 There are certain instances in which individual employees will receive a level of allowance which is different from that of the rest of their work group. This is based on their previous earnings of Power Station Allowance and disability allowances under the Macquarie Generation Employees (State) Award 1996 as determined by the allowances sub-committee at the time of the making of this award.
5.3 Employees must continue to be paid the allowance while on long service leave, annual leave, paid sick leave or accident leave. Such periods of leave are regarded as time worked for the purpose of calculating the amount of allowance payable.
The allowance must also be taken into account when calculating penalty rates for overtime except for time worked on a public holiday, during what would have been the employee's ordinary hours if the day were not a public holiday. The allowance is not taken into account when calculating payments for travelling time or for the purpose of calculating penalty additions for ordinary shifts worked on public holidays by shift workers.
5.4 Payment of General Purpose Allowance is made instead of all allowances or extra rates for or relating to heat, height, dirty work, wet places, work in confined spaces or other conditions and circumstances, whether of a like nature or otherwise, under which the work now is performed or is likely to be performed in the future. This allowance replaces Power Station Allowance, Other Location Allowance (Lambton) and Special Allowances which were previously contained in Clause 5, Allowances of Macquarie Generation Employee (State) Award 1996.
5.5 Where an employee joins another work group, which attracts a different level of allowance, for a period of a week or more then the allowance applicable to that new work group will be paid.
5.6 Employees currently in receipt of level "D" allowance will be paid at level "C" if required by local management to hold Certification Level 5(a) and/or Level 6(a) of the Macquarie Generation Safety Rules.
5.7 Tradespersons, previously referred to as Power Station Mechanical (Shift) Fitters, who are engaged on maintenance work on a seven day, three shifts per day, shift work roster system must be paid an allowance as follows:
Amount pw.
1.7.05 to 30.6.06
1.7.07 30.6.08
6.1 The ordinary hours of work for day workers will not exceed 35 hours per week or 70 hours per fortnight where a nine day fortnight is observed.
Ordinary Hours
6.2 The ordinary hours of work for shift workers is an average of 35 hours a week over a roster cycle. Shift workers may be required to work more than 35 hours in one or more weeks, but the total number of ordinary hours worked in a roster cycle must not be more than the number of weeks in a roster cycle multiplied by 35 hours.
How are working hours are determined?
6.3 The commencing and finishing times for each day are hours determined by local management taking into account the needs of the business unit.
Hours for day workers
6.4 Day workers are employees who work their ordinary hours from Monday to Friday inclusive and who are not entitled to a paid meal break during their ordinary working hours.
The span of ordinary working hours for day workers is 7.00am to 5.30pm, Monday to Friday.
Work outside the span of ordinary hours for day workers set down in this sub-clause can occur at ordinary rates by agreement between the employee/s concerned and their team leader or manager.
Flexible or staggered Working hours
6.5 Employees working at Lambton Office may elect to work a flexible or staggered hours system in accordance with procedures set down by Macquarie Generation.
Accrual of days off
6.6 Employees engaged on a flexible or staggered working hours system or a nine day fortnight may elect to accrue up to a maximum of 5 flexidays, rostered days off or special days off for the purposes of taking time off for any reason including time off to attend to family related matters. The time off will be on a date agreed to by employees and local management.
Time off in lieu of Time Worked
(a) Notwithstanding any of the provisions contained in this clause, employees are able to take time off in lieu when they are required to work overtime. Time off in lieu can include normal overtime provisions such as transport and meal allowance. Time in lieu will be done by agreement between teams/employees affected and their team leader or manager.
(b) Bayswater and Liddell Operator agreements concerning balance time, insofar as they contain provisions otherwise inconsistent with the Award, shall take precedence over such Award provisions, to the extent of the inconsistency.
Other groups may negotiate separate arrangements.
What counts as service
7.1 In calculating service, Macquarie Generation must include:
(a) periods of annual and long service leave.
(b) periods of approved leave with pay.
(c) periods of sick leave with or without pay.
(d) periods of approved leave without pay not exceeding 20 consecutive working days or shifts.
(e) periods of approved leave without pay exceeding 20 consecutive working days or shifts which Macquarie Generation has specifically authorised to be counted as service.
(f) periods of leave for which employees receive workers' compensation payments.
(g) periods of service as an employee on probation.
(h) periods which counted under relevant legislation, awards or agreements as service with another employer immediately before the employee joined Macquarie Generation under schedule 3 of the Energy Services Corporations Act 1995, as amended. (i) any previous period of service with Macquarie Generation in accordance with (a) to (h) for an employee who had resigned or been discharged and later re-employed.
(j) any previous period of service with Macquarie Generation in accordance with (a) to (h) of an employee who had been dismissed and later re-employed if that employee's current period of service under (a) to (h) is more than five years.
7.2 If payment for long service leave has been received by an employee, any service recognised in accordance with (i) and (j) is counted for qualifying purposes for future calculation only.
8.1 The purpose of the Committee is to recommend appropriate salary point(s) for a position(s).
8.2 The Committee consists of:
(a) a Chairperson appointed by Macquarie Generation
(b) two Macquarie Generation representatives
(c) two representatives of employees appointed from time to time by the relevant Union(s) having regard to the classification under review.
8.3 The Committee can:
(a) consider applications for alterations of salary points on the ground of altered circumstances by:
(i) unions on behalf of an employee or groups of employees
(ii) Macquarie Generation
(b) consider any errors or anomalies in the salary points of:
(i) an employee(s)
(ii) any position.
(c) recommend appropriate salary points for new positions.
8.4 The Committee proceeds by exchange of views and discussion, not by vote. It is the responsibility of the Chairperson to prepare a report, including a recommendation, to the Chief Executive Officer of Macquarie Generation, setting out the view of the Committee. If there are differing views, the report must include them.
8.5 All proceedings of the Committee are confidential.
8.6 This clause will not prejudice or affect any right any person may have under the Industrial Relations Act 1996.
Payment of salaries
9.1 If requested by a majority of employees, balancing of ordinary pay for time worked must be arranged as far as possible so that the salary payable to employees each week is adjusted to reduce fluctuations in weekly pay.
9.2 The ordinary weekly pay of an employee at Head Office who works flexible working hours or staggered working hours must not vary from week to week as a consequence of accumulating debits or credits of ordinary hours in a given week.
9.3 Payments for all entitlements must be made only to the employee entitled to them or to a person authorised by the employee to receive the payments.
9.4 Macquarie Generation may deduct from an employee's pay, contributions or payments for approved purposes or for the payment to Macquarie Generation of money due by the employee under hire purchase, tenancy or other agreements only if the employee gives Macquarie Generation written authority.
Overtime & Shift Work
9.5 For the purpose of meeting the needs of the industry, Macquarie Generation may require an employee to work:
(a) reasonable overtime, including Saturdays, Sundays and public holidays
(b) day work or shift work, or to transfer from one system of working to another, including transfer from one system of shift work to another.
Except under extreme circumstances, six months notice will be given to employees required to change on a long-term basis from one system of work to another where this will cause a reduction in income, provided that the employees have been working in the first system for a minimum period of twelve months.
Employees may be required to change immediately, on a long-term basis, from one system of work to another. Where this will cause a reduction in income the employees will continue to be paid at their present salary for a period of 6 months provided that the employees have been working in the first system for a minimum period of twelve months.
Unless a reasonable excuse exists, an employee will work or transfer in accordance with these requirements.
Arrangements for staff to meet these working requirements will be made in a consultative manner taking into account the needs of the business.
9.6 Employees' service may be terminated by:
(a) resignation, i.e. voluntarily leaving the service of Macquarie Generation.
(b) retirement on account of ill-health, which makes employees unable now and in the future to perform the duties of their appointed grade. A medical practitioner, as agreed to by Macquarie Generation and the Secretary of the Union concerned, must issue a certificate to this effect
(c) dismissal in accordance with the Electricity (Pacific Power) Act, 1950, as amended
(d) mechanisation or technological changes in the industry.
If Macquarie Generation terminates the employment of an employee who has been employed by it for the preceding 12 months, because of mechanisation or technological changes in the industry, it must give the employee:
(a) three months notice; or
(b) pay at the ordinary rate for the balance if it gives less than three months' notice. This period of three months counts as service for the calculation of annual leave and long service leave entitlements of the employee.
9.7 Employees who are absent without approval for a continuous period of five working days for reasons other than certified sickness, or extenuating circumstances acceptable to Macquarie Generation as satisfactory, shall be deemed to have resigned.
Period of notice
9.8 Employees must give Macquarie Generation at least one months' notice of their intention to resign, unless their terms of employment provides for a different period.
9.9 In all other cases of termination, except dismissal, Macquarie Generation must give the employee at least one months' notice, unless their terms of employment provides for a different period.
This does not affect the right of Macquarie Generation to dismiss employees without notice in accordance with the provisions of the Electricity (Pacific Power) Act, 1950 as amended. The salaries of employees who are dismissed, together with their entitlements to payments for annual and long service leave must be paid up to the time of dismissal.
Movement of Staff Between Sites
9.10 Macquarie Generation employees are to demonstrate availability and willingness to temporarily transfer between sites on a needs basis.
A workplace group will be established with representatives from local management and employees to review and resolve issues associated with the movement of staff, if and when issues arise. This workplace group can address associated practicality issues such as personal inconvenience, safety, training and remuneration. Additional remuneration will not be paid for simply transferring between sites.
The maximum period of temporary transfer will be 6 months.
Bayswater and Liddell Operator agreements, in respect of this sub-clause, insofar as they contain provisions otherwise inconsistent with the Award, shall take precedence over such Award provisions, to the extent of the inconsistency.
Types of shift
10.1 There are 2 types of shift work:
(a) Regular - in which an employee works a roster with a 1, 2 or 3 shift system which continues for 3 or more months; and
(b) Irregular - in which an employee works a roster with a 1, 2 or 3 shift system which continues for less than 3 months.
10.2 Both types of shift work may be worked:
Monday to Friday inclusive; or
Monday to Saturday inclusive; or
Monday to Sunday inclusive.
They may begin and end on any of the days in these periods.
10.3 The ordinary hours of work for shift workers is an average of 35 hours a week over a roster cycle. Shift workers may be required to work more than 35 hours in one or more weeks, but the total number of ordinary hours worked in a roster cycle must not be more than:
Number of weeks in roster cycle multiplied by 35 hours.
10.4 These ordinary hours must be worked during the hours for which the employees are rostered for duty.
10.5 Employees who are required to work more than 11 ordinary shifts in 12 consecutive days, must be paid at overtime rates for the 12th and following consecutive shifts. (See Clause 12 for overtime rates.)
Shift Allowance
10.6 Shift work may be:
(a) Early Morning Shift - a shift commencing after 5:00am and before 6:30am.
(b) Afternoon Shift - a shift finishing after 6:00pm and at or before midnight.
(c) Night Shift - a shift:
(i) finishing between midnight and at or before 8:00am; or
(ii) commencing between midnight and at or before 5:00am.
Macquarie Generation will decide the commencing and finishing times of shifts to suit the needs and circumstances of each establishment.
10.7 Shift workers, who work on a shift work roster, must be paid the following allowances:
the greater of 10% of single time for the shift and 6.20
the greater of 20% of single time and 22.50
10.8 Shift workers who are engaged on a roster which:
(a) requires the working of continuous afternoon or night shifts for more than two weeks; and
(b) works such shifts on other than a public holiday, Saturday or Sunday,
must be paid the following allowances:
Continuous Afternoon Shift
25% of single time
Continuous Night Shift
30% of single time or a reduced number of weekly hours at
time and one quarter to give the shift worker the equal of a
full week's ordinary pay.
10.9 Shift workers rostered on other continuous night shift rosters for two weeks or less must be paid for such shifts the overtime rates in Clause 11 Overtime - Day Work.
10.10 Shift workers working continuous night shifts for two weeks or less and work such shifts on a public holiday must be paid in accordance with 10.12.
10.11 The allowances are not paid to shift workers for overtime or for any shift for which they are paid overtime penalty rates.
Shift Penalty
10.12 Shift workers must be paid for all time worked on a rostered shift on a public holiday the penalty of 150% of single time.
Other than public holidays
10.13 Shift workers must be paid the following penalties for all shifts worked on the following days that are not public holidays:
(a) Saturday - all shifts 50% of single time
(b) Sunday - all shifts 100% of single time
Only one rate to apply
10.14 Only the highest penalty rate can apply if more than one penalty could apply to a particular period of work.
Roster Loading
10.15 Payment of roster loading is made as compensation for the unevenness of payments under this Award. Payment is also made instead of shift disabilities not covered by payments under this Award including:
(a) the variety of starting and finishing times
(b) the need to be readily available for work and to work, as required, during crib breaks and at all other times during the shift
(c) minor variations to established duties
(d) the requirement to work as rostered on any day of the week.
Roster loading - rates
10.16 The roster loading for ordinary hours actually worked is:
(a) 4.35% of salary for:
(i) employees on 7 day continuous shift work rosters
(ii) employees regularly rostered to work ordinary shifts on both Saturdays and Sundays
(iii) employees rostered to work continuous afternoon or night shifts
(iv) employees working day shift only including a shift on Sundays
(b) 2.12% of salary for:
(i) employees on rotating shift work who are rostered to work ordinary shifts involving afternoon and/or night shifts but who are not regularly rostered to work ordinary shifts on both Saturdays and Sundays
(ii) employees working day shift only on Monday to Saturday
Roster loading - different Grade duties
10.17 Employees carrying out higher grade duties on shift work must be paid the roster loading for the higher grade classification.
Employees carrying out lower grade duties on shift work, including those on retained rates, must be paid the roster loading for their regular classification or retained rates as the case may be.
Roster loading - excluded employees
10.18 Roster loading is not payable to employees who are engaged on irregular shift work, i.e. in respect of a roster which does not continue for more than one month and which attracts overtime penalty rates.
Roster loading - during training
10.19 Shift workers required to transfer from one shift to another to undergo training must be paid the roster loading appropriate to:
(a) the shift roster worked immediately before the training if the period of training is less than 5 consecutive working days; or
(b) the new shift roster if the period of training continues for 5 or more consecutive working days.
10.20 Day workers required to transfer to a shift roster to undergo training must be paid the roster loading appropriate to the shift roster if the period of training continues for at least 5 consecutive working days.
Payment while at training school
10.21 Shift workers must be paid the roster loading, shift allowance & penalty rates for public holidays, Saturday and Sunday shifts, which they would have received for their appointed duties if they are:
(a) training for appointment to a position in their existing or higher grade; or
(b) attending refresher training courses; or
(c) attending general training courses and/or station training courses to qualify to carry out higher grade duties.
Payments must not include any overtime or higher grade which might have otherwise been worked.
10.22 Shift workers who, on a public holiday:
(a) work an ordinary rostered shift; or
(b) are rostered off duty (except when on annual or long service leave)
are entitled to have a day added to their annual leave entitlement for each public holiday prescribed in Clause 20 of the Award. If higher grade pay is involved, the provisions of 15.8 apply.
Not required to work on a public holiday
10.23 Shift workers when, according to their controlling officer, are not required for work on a public holiday for a shift for which they are normally rostered must observe the holiday. However, they must be told at least 96 hours before the shift begins that they are not required. They must be paid for all ordinary time not worked in respect of the public holiday at the rate of single time.
Shift worker on a five day shift - public holiday
10.24 Shift workers, who are on a five day shift system, Monday to Friday, must be paid for public holidays observed on Monday to Friday.
Mutual stand-down
10.25 Shift workers who:
(a) are rostered for duty on a shift falling on a Saturday or Sunday; and
(b) according to the controlling officer are not required for duty on such day(s)
may, by mutual arrangement with the person responsible for the work team, not attend for duty on such day(s).
They must be paid for all ordinary time not worked at the rate of single time.
Shift work day
10.26 If a shift starts on one day and finishes on the next, the day in which the most hours are worked is taken to be the shift work day.
Time of transfer from a shift
10.27 When employees are transferring from one system of work to another (including a transfer from one system of shift work to another system of shift work), they are:
(a) entitled to all the conditions of the current system of working until they actually begin working in the new system; and
(b) considered to have been transferred only from the time they begin to work in the new system.
Ten hour break
10.28 Shift workers are entitled to at least a 10 hour break between finishing shift work and commencing day work.
Day workers relieving on Regular shift work
10.29 Day workers who are required to relieve temporarily on regular shift work must be paid:
(a) at the rate of time and one half when the ordinary commencing time of the first relief shift is less than eight hours after the employees' actual finishing time under day work conditions
(b) at a rate of time and three quarters when:
(i) the shift is on a Saturday; and
(ii) when the employees have not had an eight hour break after actual finishing time under day work provisions.
If eight hours or more elapse the first and all subsequent shifts shall come under ordinary shift work conditions and the employees shall be considered to be employed on regular shift work.
However, employees must be paid at the rate of time and one quarter for any such shifts where 48 hours notice prior to commencement is not given.
Day workers on irregular Shift work
10.30 Day workers required to work relieving temporarily or irregular shift work, must be paid for the ordinary hours worked on that roster:
(a) overtime rates for day workers if the shift work lasts for 2 weeks or less; or
(b) if it lasts for more than 2 weeks and less than 4, overtime rates for ordinary hours worked in shifts for the first 2 weeks, and time and one half for ordinary hours worked in shifts for the next 2 weeks.
Change of roster or shift
10.31 Shift workers who are changed from one shift roster to another or from one shift to another, must be paid:
(a) at least time and one quarter for any shift which they begin within 48 hours from the end of the shift in which they were given notice of the change of roster or shift;
(b) overtime rates for the shift which they work without a break following the shift in which they were given notice of the change.
Notice after absence from duty
10.32 Shift workers must advise the person responsible for their work at least 8 hours beforehand when they intend to report for duty after being absent from duty.
The person responsible for their work team may send them home if they do not do so.
They are not entitled to any payment for the shift.
10.33 Shift workers required to handover at the end of a shift must stay at their work station until:
(a) the appropriate relieving member of the oncoming shift has arrived at the work station; and
(b) the shift worker has informed the relieving member of the current status of running plant and/or maintenance so that the relieving member can start work immediately.
10.34 If handover is part of a shift worker's normal requirements on a shift, those shift workers are entitled to time off at the equivalent rate of 13.33 minutes for each shift. When shift workers transfer from one roster to another, this time off must be taken in accordance with the roster system to which they are transferring. They are entitled to this time off even when they are absent from work on paid leave.
10.35 Handover time is to be added together during a roster cycle until it amounts to the time of a full shift. It may then be rostered to be taken off at ordinary time. Any periods in a roster cycle less than a full shift are to be carried forward to the next cycle. Employees with periods of handover time less than a full shift may be rostered off if approved by local management.
10.36 Any time off as a result of handover time is considered as a non-working day. Shift workers who are required to work on such a day, must be paid overtime in addition to payment for the handover shift.
10.37 If handover is not a normal feature of a roster, shift workers may be paid overtime if they are required to handover on a specific occasion.
10.38 If a roster contains shifts where handover is not a requirement, the calculation of time off will:
(a) not be related to such shifts; and
(b) only relate to those shifts in the roster where handover is required.
10.39 Overtime shifts are not included in calculating handover time.
Annualised Salary
10.40 Agreements on Annualised Salary, insofar as they contain provisions otherwise inconsistent with the Award, shall take precedence over such provisions, to the extent of such inconsistency.
The relevant Annualised Salary loading replaces Roster Loading, Weekend Penalties, Public Holidays and Shift Allowance, where applicable.
The annualised salary rate is paid for:
time worked
"H" day, where applicable
approved study leave
community leave
Work groups will be able to negotiate the extension of Annualised Salary to Long Service Leave, Sick Leave and Workers’ Compensation.
What is overtime?
11.1 Overtime is all time worked on:
(a) Mondays to Fridays before ordinary commencing times
(b) Mondays to Fridays after ordinary finishing time
(c) Saturdays
(d) Sundays
(e) Public Holidays.
How is it calculated?
11.2 In calculating how much overtime a day worker works, each working day is treated separately. Periods worked before the ordinary commencing time and after the ordinary finishing time on a particular day are added together to give the worker's total overtime for that day. When a new day starts, the calculations begin again, except that overtime which begins on one day is counted for that day, even if it continues into the next day.
What are the rates of pay?
11.3 Day workers must be paid the following rates for overtime:
First two hours
After to hours
Saturday (not a public holiday)
Before midday
- first two hours
- after two hours
After midday
all hours worked
Sunday (not a public holiday)
Public Holiday Pay
In ordinary working hours
2.0+ ordinary
Outside ordinary working hours
Minimum payment for non merging overtime
11.4 An employee must be paid a minimum of 4 hours at the appropriate overtime rate if the period of overtime the employee is required to work is not connected to the ordinary working time.
11.5 Non-merging overtime of less than four hours duration is not treated as overtime for the purposes of a 10 hours break.
11.6 If Macquarie Generation cancels a period of prearranged overtime for any reason at short notice, it must pay the employee if notified:
(a) at home within one hour of the time the employee was to leave home - one hour at single time
(b) between the employee's home and the place of work - 3 hours at single time
(c) at the place of work - 3 hours at the appropriate overtime rate.
However an employee who has reported at the place of work may be required to carry out alternative work for a minimum of 3 hours. Employees who refuse to do this work are not entitled to any overtime payment but they will be paid excess travel and fares, where applicable.
Travel associated with Merging overtime
11.7 Employees, who work overtime which merges with normal or rostered working hours, must have their travel to and/or from their homes arranged by Macquarie Generation, if reasonable means of public transport are not available. Additional time and/or costs incurred will be paid in accordance with 21 - Travelling Time and Fares.
Travel associated with non-merging overtime
11.8 Employees, who work overtime which does not merge with normal or rostered working hours, must be paid for all reasonable time travelled, except when they receive a minimum payment in accordance with 11.4. Employees shall receive the amount by which the sum of the actual time worked, at the appropriate rate, plus the entitlement to travelling time, in accordance with 21 - Travelling Time and Fares, exceeds the minimum payment.
Macquarie Generation must reimburse employees for any fares incurred.
Telephone allowance
11.9 Day workers who do not receive a stand-by allowance or a subsidised telephone and who are called out by telephone to work overtime must be paid an allowance of 8.15 (between 1.7.05 and 30.6.06); 8.55 (between 1.7.06 and 30.6.07); 8.95 (between 1.7.07 and 30.6.08) for each occasion they work overtime.
Time off after overtime10 hour break
11.10 Whenever reasonably practicable, Macquarie Generation must arrange overtime so that employees have at least 10 hours off duty between completing their ordinary work on one day and beginning it on the next.
11.11 If employees resume or continue work without a 10 hour break, Macquarie Generation must pay them double time until released from duty. They may then be absent until they have had a 10 hour break.
11.12 Employees must be paid at ordinary rates for any working time which occurs during this 10 hour break.
11.13 The conditions in 11.10 and 11.11 do not apply to overtime for which a minimum payment is applicable.
11.14 If employees:
(a) have had a 10 hour break; and
(b) are recalled to work overtime whether notified before or after leaving their place of work; and
(c) commence that overtime starting at least 8 hours after their ordinary finishing time on day 1 and before 5:00am on day 2; and
(d) would normally be required to work on day 2,
then the employees may defer their ordinary commencing time on day 2 for a period equal to the time worked between the commencement of the overtime and 5.00 am.
11.15 If employees are required to continue to work during part of the period they would normally stand down, Macquarie Generation must pay these employees for the period of stand down not taken at overtime rates.
Standing-by for overtime
11.16 Employees required to hold themselves in readiness to work overtime after their ordinary finishing time must be paid for that time at ordinary rates for the period between the ordinary finishing time and the commencement of the overtime.
Employees above salary point 35
11.17 Employees above salary point 35 must not be paid overtime without the Chief Executive Officer's approval.
12.1 Overtime is all time worked by shift workers before commencing time or after finishing time of rostered shifts.
12.2 In calculating how much overtime a shift worker works, each working day is treated separately. Periods worked before the ordinary commencing time and after the ordinary finishing time on a particular day are added together to give the worker's total overtime for that day. When a new day starts, the calculations begin again, except that overtime which begins on one day is counted for that day, even if it continues into the next day.
12.3 Shift workers must be paid the following rates for overtime:
Time worked - during - Rostered break
12.4 All time worked during a shift worker's rostered break is paid at the rate of double time.
(A shift worker's rostered break is a period of at least one day's duration, when the shift worker is not required to work an ordinary shift).
Time worked - on non working days
12.5 Employees who:
(a) work on a Saturday or Sunday while rostered on a five day, Monday to Friday, shift system; or
(b) work on a Sunday while rostered on a six day, Monday to Saturday, shift system;
shall be paid at ordinary overtime rates for the day(s) concerned.
12.7 Non-merging overtime of less than four hours duration is not treated as overtime for the purposes of a 10 hour break.
Irregular shift work - Merging overtime
(a) are required to work irregular shift work; and
(b) are being paid double time for the ordinary time they work in accordance with 10.30; and
(c) work overtime which merges with the finishing time of the shift they are working;
must be paid at the rate of double time for that overtime.
Time off after overtime- 10 hour break
12.9 Whenever reasonably practicable, Macquarie Generation must arrange overtime so that employees have at least 10 hours off duty:
(a) between completing their ordinary work on one shift and commencing the next shift; or
(b) if working away from their headquarters and incurring excess travelling time.
12.12 If employees are required to continue to work during part of the period they would normally stand down Macquarie Generation must pay these employees for the period of stand down not taken at overtime rates.
12.13 Employees who have returned home after working overtime during a rostered break are entitled to the ten hour break provision in respect of the period before commencement of the next ordinary shift.
Time off between shifts
12.14 The rest period off duty must not be less than 8 consecutive hours for the purpose of changing shift or shift rosters or where a shift is worked by arrangement between employees themselves.
Shift workers called out- not on standby
12.15 Shift workers must be paid double time for any overtime worked if they:
(a) have completed their ordinary shift and returned home; and
(b) are notified after leaving their place of work that they are required to work overtime; and
(c) start the overtime 2 hours or more before the starting time of their next ordinary shift; and
(d) continue to work up to the starting time of that shift.
If the overtime finishes before the next ordinary shift starts, the shift workers are to be paid double time for the overtime worked, with a minimum payment equal to 4 hours at the appropriate overtime rate.
If the overtime commences less than two hours before the commencing time of the next rostered shift, such overtime will be paid at the appropriate overtime rate, provided that the overtime worked merges with the commencing time of the next rostered shift.
If the overtime finishes before the next ordinary shift starts the shift workers are to be paid at the appropriate overtime rate for the time worked, with a minimum payment equal to four hours at the appropriate overtime rate.
Notified of overtime - Before leaving work
12.16 Shift workers must be paid at the appropriate overtime rate for any overtime worked if they:
(a) are notified before leaving their place of work; and
(b) commence a period of overtime which does not merge with their current ordinary shift; and
(c) continue to work up to the starting time of their next ordinary shift.
If the overtime finishes before the next ordinary shift starts, shift workers are to be paid at the appropriate overtime rate for the time worked with a minimum payment equal to four hours at the appropriate overtime rate.
12.17 Shift workers who do not receive a standby allowance or a subsidised telephone and who are called out by telephone to work overtime must be paid an allowance of 8.15 (between 1.7.05 and 30.6.06); 8.55 (between 1.7.06 and 30.6.07); 8.95 (between 1.7.07 and 30.6.08) for each occasion they work overtime.
Twelve hour maximum
12.18 If shift workers have to work overtime for 4 or more days due to a temporary shortage of trained staff, Macquarie Generation may arrange the overtime so that each normal shift plus the overtime does not exceed a total of 12 hours.
When overtime is not paid
12.19 Shift workers are not entitled to be paid overtime rates if the cause of the work arises from:
(a) the customary rotation of shifts; or
(b) arrangements between or at the request of the shift workers themselves.
When are meal allowances paid?
13.1 Employees must be paid allowances for meals as follows:
(a) Day workers
Amount of Continuous Overtime
1.7.05 to
4 hours or more (during hours usually
worked Monday to Friday)
1 hour 30 min before or after ordinary hrs
5 hours before or after ordinary hours
9 hours before or after ordinary hrs
(b) Shift workers
Type of
Additional to
rostered shift
Worked on
4 or more hours (during hours worked on
Rostered
last rostered shift)
1 hour 30 minutes before or after ordinary
(c) an employee is not entitled to more than three meal allowances for any one period of continuous overtime
(d) employees must be paid a meal allowance of 9.95 (between 1.7.05 and 30.6.06); 10.40 (between 1.7.06 and 30.6.07); 10.90 (between 1.7.07 and 30.6.08) if they have prepared a meal in readiness for working overtime which was cancelled at short notice.
13.2 Employees who are above salary point 35 and who are not engaged on shift work are also entitled to meal allowances under the same conditions as apply to day workers.
14.1 Employees are entitled to normal meal breaks on ordinary working days unless there is an emergency.
14.2 Employees may take meal breaks as they fall due or at some other time by arrangement with the supervisor. However, employees must not go without a meal break for more than 5 hours unless there is an emergency.
Disrupted meal breaks
14.3 Employees who are unable to take all or part of their normal meal break must be paid:
(a) overtime for the untaken part of the meal break; and
(b) overtime rates until such time the meal break is taken.
Overtime - Monday to Friday
14.4 Employees who are required to work overtime for a continuous period either before their ordinary commencing time or after their ordinary finishing time are allowed:
(a) after 1 hour 30 minutes - a meal break of 20 minutes
(b) after 4 hours - a second meal break of 20 minutes, but only if the employees continue the overtime for at least another hour
(c) after 8 hours - a third meal break of 20 minutes, but only if the employees continue the overtime for at least another hour.
14.5 The meal break must be paid at the appropriate overtime rate.
14.6 Employees may take the first meal break:
(a) during ordinary working hours without loss of pay if the entitlement coincides with the ordinary commencing time; or
(b) at the commencement of the overtime or later by arrangement with the supervisor, if the period of continuous overtime begins after the ordinary finishing time.
Overtime - Saturday Sunday or public holiday
14.7 Employees who are required to work for a period of continuous overtime on a Saturday, Sunday or public holiday are entitled to:
(a) a meal break of 20 minutes with pay only if they are working during what would be their ordinary working hours and the overtime is for more than 4 continuous hours; and/or
(b) meal breaks with pay as set out in 14.4.
Overtime - meal breaks count
14.8 Meal breaks with pay allowed in connection with overtime are considered to be overtime. They do not break continuity and must be included in computing the amount of overtime worked by employees.
Overtime - extension of Meal break
14.9 Employees may extend meal breaks during overtime up to one hour if the supervisor agrees. The time in excess of 20 minutes is not paid.
Obligation to work in a higher grade
15.1 Employees must carry out work at a higher grade as directed and must be paid in accordance with the provisions of this clause.
Employees will not be compelled to work in a higher grade, should they object to such work, if it is not reasonable or practicable for them to do so.
Payment for higher grade work
15.2 Employees must be paid higher grade pay if they are directed to carry out higher graded work for one hour or more in any one day or shift.
These employees must receive the salary specified of an employee performing the particular class of work.
Employees who work at a higher grade for more than a half-day or shift must be paid at the higher rate for all ordinary time worked during the day or shift.
15.3 Any time spent in another position equal to or higher than the grade of the position in which employees are acting must be counted as having been spent in the position under consideration in calculating whether the employees are entitled to higher grade pay for the purposes of this Clause.
Payment for Leave, Sick Leave etc
15.4 Employees must be paid higher grade pay during annual leave, paid sick leave, or periods of absence on accident pay if they have been paid the higher grade pay:
(a) for a continuous period of three calendar months immediately before the leave; or
(b) for broken periods which total more than six months, during the 12 calendar months immediately before the leave is taken.
15.5 No payments will be made under this clause to employees on long service leave or for payments for long service leave or retiring allowance.
15.6 Absences on special leave, sick leave, or accident pay, or the carrying out of lower graded work, that total not more than 5 working days or shifts during the three months continuous period in 15.4(a) are not considered to break the continuity of the higher grade work.
15.7 If employees qualify for higher grade pay for periods in accordance with 15.4, those periods must be taken as having been spent on higher grade duties in calculating the rate applicable for continued higher grade duty or for absences on annual leave, sick leave or accident pay.
15.8 Employees must be paid the higher grade rate for any public holiday which occurs during a period of work for which the employees are receiving higher grade pay.
15.9 Employees must be paid higher grade pay for a public holiday if they receive that pay for any part of the days preceding and following the public holiday.
15.10 Employees who are being paid a higher grade rate must be paid for overtime at that rate if:
(a) they have to work outside their ordinary hours in their appointed grade, or in their acting position, or in a grade between their appointed grade and their acting grade; and
(b) they have been carrying out the higher grade duties continuously for a period of one or more working days or shifts immediately before the overtime.
15.11 Employees are paid for overtime in their appointed grade at their appointed rate of pay if the overtime:
(a) is performed between payment of the higher grade pay ceasing and payment at the appointed grade beginning; and
(b) is not continuous with work for which higher grade pay is paid.
Lower graded work
15.12 Employees must:
(a) carry out lower graded work that is temporarily required as directed; and
(b) be paid not less than their current salary point.
Training in higher grade
15.13 Employees undertaking training for the purpose of gaining experience in a higher graded position must not be paid at the higher grade rate where:
(a) the appointed occupant of the position remains on duty and retains the responsibilities of the position; and;
(b) the periods of training do not exceed a continuous period of three months.
Filling Vacant Positions
15.14 Where a vacant position is acted into for a period of six months it is the intention to either fill that position permanently or the position is to be deleted.
16. Clothing and Tools
Basis of issue
16.1 Macquarie Generation must issue clothing, personal protective equipment or other articles if considered necessary.
16.2 Macquarie Generation may issue tools at its discretion.
Responsibility of employee
16.3 Employees are responsible for:
(a) the proper care of any clothing or other article issued; and
(b) the laundering of clothing issued to them, unless they are:
(i) engaged in or exposed to the spraying of lead and/or silica paint
(ii) handling or exposed to PCB's, asbestos or synthetic fibres or have their clothing substantially soiled by transformer oil
(iii) exempted by Macquarie Generation.
16.4 The employee must wear any clothing, or use any tools or articles issued:
(a) only in the course of duty; and
(b) for the purposes for which they are issued.
16.5 Macquarie Generation must replace clothing and tools when they are:
(a) faulty and have been returned; or
(b) lost and their loss is accounted for satisfactorily; or
(c) damaged by acid or other substances through no fault or negligence of the employee and become unwearable.
16.6 An employee must replace or pay for any item of clothing or tools lost or damaged through misuse or negligence. Macquarie Generation's decision in the matter is final.
Amount of leave
17.1 Employees are entitled to the following amounts of annual leave after each 12 months' service:
(a) Day workers - 140 hours
(b) Shift workers on 7 day rotating roster - 140 hours plus:
(i) 35 hours after 12 months on the roster; or
(ii) a proportionate amount of 35 hours for periods less than 12 months on the roster
(c) Shift workers on other than 7 day rotating roster - 140 hours.
140 hours is the equivalent of four weeks annual leave and is not intended to reduce the entitlement to leave under the Annual Holidays Act, 1944, as amended.
Public holidays falling within a period of leave
17.2 Annual leave does not include public holidays.
Rate of pay
17.3 Annual leave is paid as follows:
(a) Day worker - full pay.
(b) Shift worker
(i) ordinary rate of pay plus the employee's ordinary shift work penalty payments, had the employee not been on annual leave; or
(ii) ordinary rate of pay if the roster loading under 10 - Shift Work is more than the ordinary shift work penalty payments.
When can leave be taken?
17.4 By mutual agreement, an employee may take Annual leave in 1, 2 or 3 separate periods:
(a) on or after its due date or as rostered; or
(b) before its due date if approved:
(i) where a rotating annual leave roster operates; or
(ii) where there are special circumstances.
17.5 If an employee or Macquarie Generation terminates his or her services for any reason, any amount paid for annual leave which the employee has taken before its due date is an overpayment. Macquarie Generation may subtract the amount of overpayment from any money payable to the employee on his or her termination without affecting its rights to recover the overpayment through court proceedings.
Notice of leave
17.6 Employees must give notice that they intend to take annual leave as soon as practicable and at least one month before the leave begins. However, if Macquarie Generation agrees that extenuating circumstances exist, annual leave may be approved at shorter notice.
Leave on terminating service
17.7 If the service of an employee is terminated for any reason Macquarie Generation must pay the employee or the employee's personal legal representative:
(a) accrued annual leave for completed years of service; and
(b) 8.3% of the weekly rate of pay at the employee's appointed grade on termination for each completed or part week of service, for the current leave accrual year.
Annual Leave Special Payment
17.8 Annual leave special payment has been incorporated into base rates of pay as set out in clause 3.4. This originally occurred at the time of the making of the Pacific Power Employees Enterprise Agreement, 1994
What service counts?
18.1 In calculating how much long service leave an employee is entitled to, Macquarie Generation must include:
(a) actual service with Macquarie Generation
(b) periods of service with another employer where an agreement has been reached between Macquarie Generation and that employer
(c) periods specified for certain employees under the Transferred Officers Extended Leave Act 1961, as amended
(d) periods of service under clause 7, Calculation of Service, of this Award
Employees, who have taken or been paid for long service leave accrued in their previous period(s) of service and who are re-employed, will have those previous period(s) of service counted for qualifying purposes only for future entitlements.
At what rate does leave accrue?
18.2 Long service leave accrues as follows:
Length of Service
30.3333 weeks
each year after 20 years
2.1666 weeks.
It is not intended to reduce the entitlement to leave under the Long Service Leave Act 1955.
Transferred employees with periods of service listed in 18.1 (b) and 7.1(h) must get an amount of long service leave at least equal to that to which they would have been entitled if they had not transferred. Any part of their entitlement which they have received from their previous employer is deducted from the total amount due from Macquarie Generation.
18.3 The entitlement for length of service in between any of the periods listed in 18.2 is worked out on a proportional basis.
How is leave paid?
18.4 Long service leave is paid at the employee's appointed rate of pay at the time the leave is taken. Upon termination of employment with Macquarie Generation, payment of the value of the long service leave is based on completed weeks of service.
18.5 Employees may clear long service leave as it becomes due. However, if the time of taking the leave would seriously inconvenience Macquarie Generation, then it must be postponed to a time on which both the employee and Macquarie Generation can agree.
18.6 An employee may take long service leave:
(a) on full pay:
(i) in periods of four weeks or more; or
(ii) with the agreement of Macquarie Generation in periods of not less than two weeks; or
(b) on half pay only at a time suitable to Macquarie Generation and at its discretion. If half pay is chosen then the employee is entitled to a period of absence twice the amount of entitlement.
18.7 Employees must give Macquarie Generation at least one month's notice before the date they intend to take long service leave.
Public holidays falling during leave
18.8 Long service leave does not include public holidays.
On leaving between 5 and 10 years
18.9 If an employee has completed at least 5 years service then the employee is entitled to a proportional amount of long service leave equal to 1.3 weeks for each year of total service if:
(a) Macquarie Generation terminates the service of the employee for any reason; or
(b) the employee ceases work because of illness, incapacity, or domestic or other pressing necessity; or
(c) the employee dies.
Macquarie Generation must pay the employee (or the legal representative in the case of death) a cash amount equivalent to the leave.
After 10 years
18.10 If an employee has completed on the termination of employment at least 10 years' service which entitles the employee to long service leave, then Macquarie Generation must pay the employee (or the legal representative in the case of death) a cash amount equivalent to any untaken leave.
When may employees be granted sick leave?
19.1 Employees may be granted sick leave, either with or without pay, when they are absent from work because:
(a) they are personally ill or injured; or
(b) they visit a medical practitioner for advice and/or treatment for actual or suspected personal illness or injury and they comply with the regulations in 19.16 to 19.23
When will sick leave not be granted
19.2 Employees will not be granted sick leave when:
(a) they have workers compensation approved; or
(b) subject to section 26(1) of the Industrial Relations Act, 1996, the personal illness or injury was caused or substantially brought about by:
(i) the employees' wilful act, misconduct or negligence; or
(ii) participation in a game involving risk of injury unless Macquarie Generation accepts that the participation is beneficial for the health and efficiency of the employee; or
(iii) participation in other employment.
Amount of sick leave
(a) The amount of sick leave with pay which may be granted will be ascertained by crediting each employee with the following periods:
Leave on full pay
Leave on half pay
Upon completion of three
months' service
Upon completion of twelve
Upon completion of each
additional 12months' service
These periods are cumulative. In crediting the above amounts after the completion of each year of service, the minimum requirements of section 26 of the Industrial Relations Act 1996 will be taken into account.
(b) All employees transferred to Macquarie Generation under the provisions of the Electricity (Pacific Power) Act 1950, as amended, retain their sick leave credits they had at the date of transfer.
Calculation of entitlements
19.4 When calculating the amount of sick leave with pay for which employees are eligible, sick leave which has been granted at full and half pay respectively will be deducted from the entitlements in 19.3.
Calculation of an employees’ Entitlement
19.5 For each employee, the number of days for which paid sick leave has already been granted is calculated by the formula:
Total hours paid sick leave taken X 5, divided by the employee's ordinary weekly working hours.
Maximum period of leave
19.6 The maximum period of continuous paid sick leave is ordinarily 52 weeks.
19.7 Macquarie Generation may approve additional sick leave with pay if:
(a) the employee still has sick leave with pay outstanding after 52 weeks; or
(b) if all sick leave with pay has been exhausted but Macquarie Generation considers exceptional circumstances exist, such as the employees' length of service.
Leave to count as service
19.8 Any period of sick leave, with or without pay, or leave on accident pay that Macquarie Generation approves, counts as service.
Retirement - ill-health
19.9 Macquarie Generation may retire employees on account of ill-health, which makes employees unable now and in the future to perform the duties of their appointed grade. A medical practitioner agreed to by Macquarie Generation and the Secretary of the Union concerned, must issue a certificate to this effect.
Sickness during long service. - Leave & annual leave
19.10 If employees are personally ill or injured during annual or long service leave and produced appropriate medical evidence that they were unable to derive benefit from the leave, they must be granted, if they so elect, to have the period of illness or injury approved as sick leave:
(a) for periods of one working day or more in the case of annual leave; or
(b) for a period of at least 5 consecutive working days in the case of long service leave.
Public holidays during sick leave
19.11 A public holiday will not be counted as sick leave for employees if:
(a) it occurs during a period of absence on approved sick leave; and
(b) they would not have been required to work on that day.
19.12 Shift workers may elect to be paid at single time in substitution for sick leave if they:
(a) do not work a shift for which they are rostered on a public holiday because of personal illness or injury; and
(b) comply with the provisions relating to the granting of sick leave; and
(c) notify Macquarie Generation of the impending absence before the shift begins; and
(d) submit an acceptable medical certificate in accordance with 19.18 to 19.21.
Shift workers who make this election will not have deductions made from their sick leave entitlements.
19.13 Employees may elect to have a period of absence from work because of contact with a person suffering from an infectious disease or restrictions imposed by law concerning the disease, either:
(a) treated as sick leave; or
(b) deducted from their annual leave.
Accident Pay
19.14 Accident pay is an amount that would bring the workers' compensation up to the employee's substantive salary for the weekly period in which it is paid.
19.15 Employees may be granted accident pay for a maximum period of 52 weeks if they:
(a) have workers' compensation approved; and
(b) comply with 19.16 to 19.22
However, where special circumstances exist, Macquarie Generation may discontinue accident pay at any time after receipt of such payment for a period of twenty-six weeks.
19.16 Employees must claim sick leave or accident pay on the appropriate forms.
19.17 If required by Macquarie Generation, employees must be examined by a medical practitioner nominated by Macquarie Generation as soon as they are physically able.
Absences of more than 3 days
19.18 Employees must submit a certificate from a medical practitioner to cover all periods of absence for which the employees claim:
(a) sick leave (with or without pay) exceeding three working days which are consecutive days; or
(b) accident pay.
19.19 The medical certificate must contain:
the name of the employee
the period the employee is likely to be unfit for work
the date of which the employee will be able to report to a medical practitioner nominated by Macquarie Generation, if required
the date the employee first consulted a medical practitioner
the medical practitioner's qualifications, name, address and signature
the date of issue of the certificate.
19.20 If the certificate does not include the nature or cause of the illness or injury, Macquarie Generation may refer the employee to a nominated medical practitioner for examination.
19.21 Employees, who have applied to a medical practitioner for a medical certificate and are unable to obtain such certificate, must submit a statutory declaration containing:
the name and address of the medical practitioner
the date of the consultation and
the reasons for not obtaining a certificate.
19.22 Sick leave or accident pay is paid to those employees only from the date on which they first consulted a medical practitioner and obtained a medical certificate. They may also be paid for a period before the consultation if the period does not exceed:
(a) three working days which are consecutive; and
(b) two non-working days; and
(c) any public holiday; and
(d) any special day off related to the working of a nine day fortnight.
Absences of 3 days or less
19.23 Employees must be able to prove to the satisfaction of their controlling officers that they were unable to attend for duty when claiming sick leave for three consecutive working days or less.
Conversion of half pay
19.24 If employees have any credits of sick leave on half pay, they may elect to draw on those credits for a period of sick leave supported by a medical certificate to enable them to be paid at full pay.
19.25 If Macquarie Generation disputes a medical certificate, a referee may be appointed who is a medical practitioner agreed on by the employee and Macquarie Generation. Any medical certificate issued by that referee must be accepted by the employee and Macquarie Generation as conclusive.
Macquarie Generation must pay the fee if the referee decides in favour of the employee. The employee must pay the fee if the decision is against them.
Macquarie Generation must allow the employee to have leave with pay for any medical examination by the referee.
19.26 Each employee who is admitted to hospital must obtain a medical certificate stating:
(a) the date of admission
(b) the nature of the incapacity for work
(c) the anticipated period of absence.
Employees must obtain a medical certificate for each 4 weeks they are in hospital.
20.1 The following days are observed as public holidays:
(a) New Year's Day
(b) Australia Day
(c) Good Friday
(d) Easter Saturday
(e) Easter Monday
(f) Anzac Day
(g) Queen's Birthday
(h) Labour Day
(i) Christmas Day
(j) Boxing Day
(k) Picnic Day
(l) other proclaimed holidays observed throughout New South Wales.
What is a day worker entitled to?
20.2 A day worker is entitled to public holidays without loss of ordinary pay if the employee is not absent without approval on the working day before and after the public holiday.
What is a shift worker entitled to?
20.3 A shift worker is:
(a) paid for public holidays in accordance with clause 10 - Shift Work; and
(b) not entitled to be paid if absent without approval when the shift worker's normally rostered shift falls on a public holiday.
Are public holidays paid - During a period of absence
20.4 An employee who is entitled to payment for a public holiday is paid at single time when the public holiday occurs during a period of:
(a) approved leave without pay not exceeding 20 consecutive days or shifts
(b) approved sick leave without pay.
Picnic Day
20.5 Picnic Day is defined as the last Monday in November.
20.6 Picnic Day for Lambton Office staff will be observed on the first normal weekday business day after Boxing Day.
20.7 The conditions for pay set out in 20.2 to 20.4 apply to Picnic Day.
21.1 Employees are required to travel to and from home and headquarters once at their own expense in connection with each ordinary working day or rostered shift.
When can it be claimed
21.2 Employees are entitled to claim:
(a) excess travelling time and excess fares when they:
(i) are required to work at a temporary headquarters; or
(ii) work overtime which merges with ordinary working hours
(b) travelling time and fares when they work overtime which:
(i) does not merge; or
(ii) is not considered to merge, with ordinary working hours.
Who can claim?
21.3 Only employees at salary point 35 or below or employees who worked 40 ordinary hours per week prior to 1st June, 1979 can claim excess travelling time.
21.4 All employees can claim for fares as set out in this clause.
21.5 Employees cannot claim for any time spent travelling during ordinary working hours or shifts.
21.6 For the purposes of this clause, the following definitions apply:
Headquarters means - any office, workshop, power station, store, depot or other place of employment at which employees are regularly required to work, or from which their work is directly controlled and to which they have been attached.
Temporary Headquarters means - any office, workshop, power station, substation, store, depot or other place of employment at which employees are temporarily required to work and from which their work is directly controlled (as distinct from direct supervision on the job) and to which they have been attached temporarily.
Point Distant from Headquarters means - any place of employment at which employees are temporarily required to work which is not a temporary headquarters and where their work is directly controlled (as distinct from direct supervision on the job) from their headquarters or temporary headquarters.
Working at temporary headquarters
21.7 Employees who are required:
(a) to work at a temporary headquarters; and
(b) travel between:
(i) home and temporary headquarters; or
(ii) temporary place of accommodation and temporary headquarters; or
(iii) one headquarters and another
not in association with overtime:
may apply for; and
be paid travelling time for the period which is in excess of travelling time between their headquarters and home at their normal time of travel.
Such payments must be made having regard to 21.8.
Associated excess fares must also be paid.
21.8 The requirement that employees must work at a temporary headquarters must, at an employee's request, be terminated upon the employee completing a continuous period of twenty-six ordinary working weeks, excluding public holidays, at the temporary headquarters.
If Macquarie Generation grants approval, the period of an employee's attachment to the temporary headquarters may be extended. The period of the extension must be treated as temporary attachment for all purposes.
These provisions do not apply to periods worked at the temporary headquarters, beyond twenty-six ordinary working weeks, to employees who do not request the termination of such attachment.
Continuity of the twenty-six ordinary working weeks period shall not be considered to have been broken by periods of:
(a) annual and long service leave
(b) sick leave
(c) accident leave
(d) special leave with or without pay
(e) temporary transfers to other headquarters or return to own headquarters for periods not exceeding four continuous working weeks including public holidays.
Travel - employees receiving meal or accommodation allowances
21.9 Employees, must be paid for excess travelling time and excess fares, for travel between:
(a) home and temporary headquarters; or
(b) between one headquarters and another.
Payments must be:
made having regard to 21.7 and 21.8; and
where meal allowances or overnight accommodation allowances are payable for such travel.
21.10 Where Macquarie Generation provides employees with meals and/or accommodation for travel between:
(b) one headquarters and another
excess travelling time calculations will include:
(i) the actual time for such journeys; and
(ii) waiting time up to a maximum of three hours during the course of a journey.
21.11 Waiting time:
(a) prior to commencement; or
(b) at the conclusion of a journey
must not be treated as travelling time without approval of Macquarie Generation.
Travel to a point distant
21.12 Employees who are required to work at a point distant from their headquarters or temporary headquarters and travel outside their ordinary working hours, must be paid as if they were at work for any time occupied in travelling between:
(a) their headquarters or temporary headquarters and the distant place of work; or
(b) their home or temporary place of accommodation and the distant place of work, less an amount equal to their normal time of travel between their home and headquarters.
They are also entitled to any excess fares.
21.13 If the work involves overtime not merging with ordinary hours, they must be paid in accordance with 21.18.
Is there a maximum amount of travelling time claimable?
21.14 When Macquarie Generation provides accommodation and/or meals, the maximum travelling time that can be claimed for travel between Home and temporary headquarters, or one headquarters and another, in each period of 24 hours from the starting time of a journey, is:
(a) 8 hours if a sleeper is provided; or
(b) 12 hours if there is no sleeper; or
(c) above 12 hours if no sleeper is provided and the employee is directed to use a slower means of transport than one that is available.
Reasonable transport not available
21.15 Employees who:
(a) start or finish work at a temporary location; or
(b) finish overtime
at a time when reasonable means of transport is not available, must be provided with transport by Macquarie Generation to their:
(c) homes; or
(d) temporary places of accommodation.
(i) request that transport be provided; and
(ii) be entitled to proceed to their homes or temporary places of accommodation; and
(iii) be paid travelling time in accordance with this clause, for such travel.
For the purposes of this clause, reasonable means of transport shall not be available having regard to 21.24 and if the waiting time during the course of the journey home by available public transport after working overtime is more than one and one-half hours in excess of the waiting time which would be incurred during the course of the journey home by available public transport at ordinary ceasing time.
Overtime merging with ordinary hours
21.17 Employees who work overtime which:
(a) merges; or
(b) is considered to merge with their ordinary working hours and travel between their:
home and headquarters; or
home and temporary headquarters; or
temporary place of accommodation and temporary headquarters must be paid travelling time for the period:
(i) which exceeds the travelling time between their headquarters and home at the normal time of travel; and
(ii) when the excess is fifteen minutes or more.
Employees must also be paid excess fares associated with such travel.
Overtime - not merging with ordinary hours
(a) does not merge; or
(b) is not considered to merge
with their ordinary working hours and between their:
temporary place of accommodation and temporary headquarters
must be paid travelling time and fares.
When the time worked is paid in accordance with the minimum payment provision of Clauses 11 Overtime - Day Work and 12 Overtime - Shift Work, the travelling time payments must be the amount by which:
the sum of the actual time worked at the appropriate rate
the entitlement to travelling time
the minimum payment provisions.
21.19 The maximum amount of travelling time that can be claimed for each journey in connection with overtime is:
(a) actual travelling time if there is no reasonable transport available
(b) 2 hours if headquarters or temporary headquarters are at:
(c) 1.5 hours if headquarters or temporary headquarters are elsewhere.
(In regard to (c) an employee can claim the actual travelling time if the employee can establish to the satisfaction of the Controlling Officer that they used public transport available in accordance with the clause 21.23 and that this involves a longer travelling time.)
Elected Method of payment
21.20 Employees may elect to have payment of their travelling time and fares calculated on the following basis in respect of journeys undertaken to all locations:
(a) travelling time - one hour for 32.19km
(b) fares - 0.38 per km.
21.21 Employees must make the election in writing and the conditions apply from the date of receipt of the election.
The election may be changed only after:
(a) a change in the location of the employee's permanent headquarters or home; or
(b) a period of 12 months.
Employees, who cancel their written elections, shall not be entitled to make another election until the expiration of one year from the date of the cancellation, unless there has been a change in the location of the employee's permanent headquarters or home.
Method of payment using public transport
21.22 Alternatively, where public transport service is considered to be available, travelling time and fares (other than when transport provided by Macquarie Generation is used) will be calculated on the basis of travel by the fastest practicable public transport route. Any necessary walking up to 1.61 km shall be paid for on the basis of 1.61 km in 20 minutes. Waiting time during the course of a journey up to a period of one and one-half hours, shall be regarded as travelling time. Waiting time at the conclusion of a forward journey or prior to the commencement of a return journey, will also be regarded as travelling time. For calculation of waiting time where employees receive meal or accommodation allowance, refer 21.11.
21.23 Public transport is considered to be available where a service operates:
(a) within 1.6 km of an employee's home or temporary place of accommodation and place of work; and
(b) within 1 hour:
(i) of the employee's starting and finishing times at the place of work; or
(ii) from the point to which Macquarie Generation provides transport for the employee after working overtime. Public transport is considered to have commenced from the time of arrival at the point of departure of the service.
It is also considered to be available if Macquarie Generation provides transport from the point at which employees are set down by public transport to their homes or temporary accommodation after working overtime. Public transport is considered to have ceased from the time transport provided by Macquarie Generation commences.
Public transport not available
21.24 Where public transport is not considered to be available, travelling time and fares shall be calculated on the basis of:
(a) 38 cents per km for fares; and
(b) one hour for 32.19 km travelling time. When walking up to a maximum of 1.61 km, travelling time must be paid on the basis of 1.61 km in 20 minutes.
Transport provided by Macquarie Generation
21.25 Where transport is provided by Macquarie Generation travelling time must be based on the actual time of travel and the actual period of waiting time. For calculation of waiting time where employees receive meal or accommodation allowance, refer 21.11. Fares are not payable in this case.
Ordinary & penalty rates
21.26 Travelling time must be paid at:
(a) single time on Mondays to Saturdays; or
(b) time and one half on Sundays and public holidays
except as provided in 21.12.
21.27 Employees, living outside a radius of 40.23km from their permanent or temporary headquarters will be considered to live at the point on the circumference where transport by the nearest practicable route between their homes or temporary places of accommodation and headquarters, crosses the circumference.
This provision does not apply to employees who are receiving meal or overnight accommodation allowances as set out in 21.9.
Higher Grade
21.28 Travelling time in connection with work for which an employee is receiving higher grade pay must be paid at that higher grade rate.
Nearest 0.1 hour
21.29 Payments for travelling time must be calculated to the nearest 0.1 hour on a weekly basis.
Flat rate salary
21.30 The provisions of this Clause shall apply to employees in receipt of a flat rate salary as if such employees were not in receipt of a flat rate salary.
Fares limitation
21.31 No fares are payable to employees for journeys where transport is provided by Macquarie Generation free of charge or where employees are in receipt of official car mileage allowance.
Overnight absence
22.1 When Macquarie Generation requires employees to transfer to a from home temporary headquarters, it must provide them with reasonable board and lodging wherever practicable at its own expense if the period of temporary transfer means that they must be absent from their homes overnight.
Under these circumstances, Macquarie Generation must also pay each employee an allowance of 1.50 for each night's absence.
22.2 Alternatively, employees may arrange their own accommodation. Macquarie Generation must pay them an allowance for the accommodation at a rate determined by Macquarie Generation.
Returning home after extended periods away
22.3 Macquarie Generation must allow employees who are away from headquarters for an extended period of time to return home:
(a) daily or at each weekend if the location of the temporary headquarters makes it practicable; or
(b) every third weekend if daily or weekend return is impractical. Travel between temporary headquarters and home other than the first and last journeys must be in the employee's own time; or
(c) more frequently if Macquarie Generation considers it economical.
22.6 Employees returning home from their temporary headquarters on approved weekend travel must be provided with:
(a) first class return rail travel or an equivalent; and
(b) a meal allowance of 7.40 for each forward and return journey,
only if they have worked the full ordinary hours at the temporary headquarters on the day of travel.
23.1 This Award recognises that employees' grievances should be resolved speedily and effectively without recourse to industrial action. It is intended that most issues will be resolved informally between employees and supervisors.
These procedures will not override award provisions.
23.2 Employees' work related grievances are to be dealt with as follows:
(a) Employees or Union delegates who have a grievance on any issue shall firstly raise the matter with their immediate supervisor(s).
(b) The supervisor(s) shall provide the necessary response as soon as possible but no later than 24 hours following the grievance being raised.
(c) If an answer cannot be given within 24 hours a progress report will be given at that time.
(d) When the grievance has not been resolved to the satisfaction of any party, the issue will be referred to a senior management representative.
(e) The senior management representative and union representative will convene a grievance meeting within one week of referral, which will attempt to resolve the matter.
The meeting should include:
Supervisor Representative
Management Representative
Delegate involved in grievance
Union Official(s) or their representative
(f) The grievance will be discussed at the meeting with a view to achieving agreement or resolution.
(g) Until the matter is resolved by the committee as detailed above, except where a genuine safety issue is involved, the conditions that applied at the time of the dispute will remain, without interruption and without prejudice to final settlement.
(h) If the matter is not settled then either:
(i) it shall then be referred to the Labor Council of New South Wales for their attention so as to provide conferences of all parties with a view to reaching a solution; or
(ii) if agreement cannot be reached on the matter through the foregoing procedure, it may then be submitted to the Industrial Relations Commission of New South Wales.
Consultative Mechanism
24.1 A three level consultative mechanism will be established as follows:
24.2 A Steering Committee comprising representatives of Macquarie Generation management, the Labor Council and unions will:
oversee the operation of the Award;
establish consultative groups as required for periods to be agreed, to achieve the objectives of the Award:
consider recommendations of consultative groups;
discuss issues that affect the industry;
require at its meetings, a quorum of two Macquarie Generation representatives, one representative from the Labor Council and a minimum of three union officials
Consultative Groups
24.3 Consultative Groups comprising no more than three representatives nominated by Macquarie Generation and no more than three representatives nominated by the Labor Council of New South Wales and unions will:
develop and recommend to the Steering Committee strategies to achieve the objectives of the award as specified by the Steering Committee;
ensure adequate representation and expertise where required, through liaison and consultation by members of the group;
consult with workplace consultation groups on matters relating to the implementation of the Award
Workplace Groups
24.4 A Workplace Group for each business, comprising representatives from local management, local delegates and employees, will:
provide feedback to Consultative Groups regarding the implementation of the Award
Use of Sick Leave
(a) An employee, other than a casual employee, with responsibilities in relation to a class of person set out in paragraph (b) of subclause 25.2, who needs the employee’s care and support shall be entitled to use, in accordance with this subclause, any current or accrued sick leave entitlement, provided for in clause 19, Sick Leave and Accident Pay, for absences to provide care and support for such persons when they are ill. Such leave may be taken for a single day.
(b) The employee shall, if required, establish, either by production of a medical certificate or statutory declaration, the illness of the person concerned and that the illness is such as to require care by another person. In normal circumstances, an employee must not take carer’s leave under this subclause where another person has taken leave to care for the same person
25.2 The entitlement to use sick leave in accordance with this subclause is subject to:
(a) the employee being responsible for the care of the person concerned; and
(b) the person concerned being:
(1) a spouse of the employee; or
(2) a de facto spouse who, in relation to a person, is a person of the opposite sex to the first mentioned person who lives with the first mentioned person as the husband or wife of that person on a bona fide domestic basis although not legally married to that person; or
(3) a child or an adult child (including an adopted child, a stepchild, a foster child or an ex nuptial child), parent (including a foster parent and legal guardian), grandparent, grandchild or sibling of the employee or spouse or de facto of the employee; or
(4) a same sex partner who lives with the employee as the de facto partner of that employee on a bona fide domestic basis; or
(5) a relative of the employee who is a member of the same household where, for the purposes of this subparagraph:
(i) "relative" means - a person related by blood, marriage or affinity;
(ii) "affinity" means - a relationship that one spouse, because of marriage, has to blood relatives of the other; and
(iii) "household" means - a family group living in the same domestic dwelling.
(iv) an employee shall, wherever practicable, give the employer notice, prior to the absence, of the intention to take leave, the name of the person requiring care and that person’s relationship to the employee, the reasons for taking such leave and the estimated length of absence. If it is not practicable for the employee to give prior notice of absence, the employee shall notify the employer by telephone of such absence at the first opportunity on the day of the absence.
Unpaid Leave for Family Purpose
25.3 An employee may elect, with the consent of the employer, to take unpaid leave for the purpose of providing care and support to a member of a class of person set out in paragraph (b) of subclause 25.2 who is ill.
25.4 An employee may elect, with the consent of the employer, subject to the Annual Holidays Act 1944, to take annual leave not exceeding five days in single-day periods or parts thereof, in any calendar year at a time or times agreed by the parties.
Time Off in Lieu of Payment for Overtime
(a) An employee may elect, with the consent of the employer, to take time off in lieu of payment for overtime at a time or times agreed with the employer within 12 months of the said election
(b) Overtime taken as time off during ordinary-time hours shall be taken at the ordinary time rate, that is, an hour for each hour worked.
(c) If, having elected to take time as leave in accordance with paragraph (a) of this subclause, the leave is not taken for whatever reason, payment for time accrued at overtime rates shall be made at the expiry of the 12-month period or termination.
(d) Where no election is made in accordance with the said paragraph (a), the employee shall be paid overtime rates in accordance with the award.
Make-up Time
(a) An employee may elect, with the consent of the employer, to work "make-up time", under which the employee takes time off ordinary hours and works those hours at a later time, during the spread of ordinary hours provided in the award, at the ordinary rate of pay.
(b) An employee on shift work may elect, with the consent of the employer, to work "make-up time" (under which the employee takes time off ordinary hours and works those hours at a later time) at the shift work rate which would have been applicable to the hours taken off.
Rostered Days Off
(a) An employee may elect, with the consent of the employer, to take a rostered day off at any time.
(b) An employee may elect, with the consent of the employer, to take rostered days off in part-day amounts.
(c) An employee may elect, with the consent of the employer, to accrue some or all rostered days off for the purpose of creating a bank to be drawn upon at a time mutually agreed between the employer and employee, or subject to reasonable notice by the employee or the employer.
(d) This subclause is subject to the employer informing each union which is both party to the award and which has members employed at the particular enterprise of its intention to introduce an enterprise system of RDO flexibility, and providing a reasonable opportunity for the union(s) to participate in negotiations.
26.1 An employee, other than a casual employee, shall be entitled to up to two days bereavement leave without deduction of pay, on the death of a person prescribed in subclause 26.3.
26.2 The employee must notify the employer as soon as practicable of the intention to take bereavement leave and will, if required by the employer, provide to the satisfaction of the employer proof of death.
Person Prescribed
26.3 Bereavement leave shall be available to the employee in respect to the death of a person prescribed for the purpose of personal/carer's leave as set out in paragraph (b) of subclause 25.2 of clause 25, Personal/Carer's Leave, provided that, for the purpose of bereavement leave, the employee need not have been responsible for the care of the person concerned.
Bereavement leave shall also be available to the employee in respect to the death of a parent-in-law.
If Other Leave Granted
26.4 An employee shall not be entitled to bereavement leave under this clause during any period in respect of which the employee has been granted other leave.
Taken With Other Leave
26.5 Bereavement leave may be taken in conjunction with other leave available under subclauses 25.3, 25.4, 25.5, 25.6 and 25.7 of the said clause 25. In determining such a request, the employer will give consideration to the circumstances of the employee and the reasonable operational requirements of the business.
27.1 It is the intention of the parties bound by this award to seek to achieve the object in section 3 (f) of the Industrial Relations Act 1996 to prevent and eliminate discrimination in the workplace. This includes discrimination on the grounds of race, sex, marital status, disability, homosexuality, transgender identity and age.
27.2 It follows that in fulfilling their obligations under the dispute resolution procedure prescribed by this award the parties have obligations to take all reasonable steps to ensure that the operation of the provisions of this award are not directly or indirectly discriminatory in their effects. It will be consistent with the fulfilment of these obligations for the parties to make application to vary any provision of the award which, by its terms or operation, has a direct or indirect discriminatory effect.
27.3 Under the Anti-Discrimination Act 1977, it is unlawful to victimise an employee because the employee has made or may make or has been involved in a complaint of unlawful discrimination or harassment.
27.4 Nothing in this clause is to be taken to affect:
a) any conduct or act which is specifically exempted from anti-discrimination legislation;
b) offering or providing junior rates of pay to persons under 21 years of age;
c) any act or practice of a body established to propagate religion which is exempted under section 56(d) of the Anti-Discrimination Act 1977;
d) a party to this award from pursuing matters of unlawful discrimination in any State or federal jurisdiction
27.5 This clause does not create legal rights or obligations in addition to those imposed upon the parties by the legislation referred to in this clause.
Lateness Exemption
28.1 Employees will not have deductions made from their ordinary salaries for any periods of lateness on any day if:
(a) the lateness is directly caused by accidental vehicle damage sustained by a motor vehicle being used by the employee when travelling to work;
(b) the employee(s) affected reports full details of the accident and damage to the Controlling Officer within a reasonable time; and
(c) the owner or driver of the vehicle must make the vehicle available for the Controlling Officer's inspection, if required.
Holding of Meeting on Macquarie Generation Premises
28.2 Permission to hold any meeting on any of Macquarie Generation must be requested by the employee(s) or union(s) Premises concerned to the Manager of the location.
Should a request for such a meeting not be approved, the meeting must not be held on Macquarie Generation's premises.
Unless approved by the Chief Executive Officer employees must not be paid for time lost attending such meetings.
Leave is reserved to the parties to negotiate outstanding annualised salary issues during the first 3 months of the Award. If no negotiated settlement is achieved, the matters may be referred to the IRC for determination. Mac Gen will not use the "no extra claims" clause to prevent such arbitration.
Macquarie Generation remains opposed to the extension of annualised salaries to sick leave, long service leave or workers compensation.
R. W. HARRISON D.P.
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Year : 2019 | Volume : 24 | Issue : 1 | Page : 110-
Evaluation of cognitive rehabilitation on the cognitive performance in multiple sclerosis: A randomized controlled trial
Mohammad Mahdi Shahpouri1, Majid Barekatain2, Mahgol Tavakoli3, Shahin Sanaei1, Vahid Shaygannejad1,
1 Isfahan Neurosciences Research Center, Alzahra Research Institute, Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, Isfahan, Iran
2 Department of Psychiatry, School of Medicine, Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, Isfahan, Iran
3 Department of Psychology, School of Educational Sciences and Psychology, University of Isfahan, Isfahan, Iran
Dr. Vahid Shaygannejad
Isfahan Neurosciences Research Center, Alzahra Research Institute, Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, Isfahan
Background: Multiple sclerosis (MS) can involve cognitive entities, including memory, attention, performance, and information processing. Furthermore, MS causes depression and negatively affects the quality of life (QOL). This study was aimed to assess the efficacy of cognitive rehabilitation on cognitive entities of MS patients. Materials and Methods: This is a clinical trial study conducted on 56 MS patients in 2016–2017. Patients were randomly divided into two Groups of A (cognitive rehabilitation) and B (control group). Patients were evaluated in terms of memory, attention, QOL, and depression. Questionnaires included Abbreviated Mental Test, Prospective and Retrospective Memory Questionnaire, Everyday Memory Questionnaire, Digit Spam test for attention assessment, QOL-54 questionnaire, and Second version of Beck questionnaire assessing depression. They were filled through an interview before the study initiation, and then, the intervention group underwent ten sessions of cognitive rehabilitation and questionnaires refilled within 3 months after study initiation. Outcomes of the two groups were compared. Results: Memory, attention, QOL, and depression improved significantly following the intervention in cases (P < 0.05), while no significant change was observed among controls (P > 0.05). Comparison of cases and controls in the second evaluation showed a significant difference between cases and controls (P < 0.05). Conclusion: Ten sessions of cognitive rehabilitation could significantly improve MS patients' cognitive performance. Moreover, this approach affected their QOL and sense of depression in a decisive trend. It can be concluded that cognitive rehabilitation can successfully affect numerous aspects of MS patients, while numerous medical therapies may be required for treatment of each mere aspect. Further evaluations are strongly recommended.
Shahpouri MM, Barekatain M, Tavakoli M, Sanaei S, Shaygannejad V. Evaluation of cognitive rehabilitation on the cognitive performance in multiple sclerosis: A randomized controlled trial.J Res Med Sci 2019;24:110-110
Shahpouri MM, Barekatain M, Tavakoli M, Sanaei S, Shaygannejad V. Evaluation of cognitive rehabilitation on the cognitive performance in multiple sclerosis: A randomized controlled trial. J Res Med Sci [serial online] 2019 [cited 2020 Jan 17 ];24:110-110
Available from: http://www.jmsjournal.net/text.asp?2019/24/1/110/273806
Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a chronic disabling inflammatory disease of the central nervous system (CNS) that occurs due to autoimmunity against the myelin sheath. MS mostly affects young individuals, predominantly among women. While different genetic and environmental factors have been suggested to play a role in MS etiology, it has remained unclear.[1]
The chronic nature of MS, along with the disabling symptoms, has led affected individuals to struggle with some levels of cognitive impairment, reported in 43%–70% of them.[2] Cognitive impairment in MS does not involve all the entities equally. Usually, attention, management functioning, processing velocity, and spatial vision are affected to a more extent while verbal and expressive lingual entities are preserved.[3] Cognitive manifestations may be present in the earliest stages of the disease or occur during more severe phases.[4]
Time and content are two entities of memory that can be affected by MS. Time categories of memory include short-term, long-term, and job memory, and content categories include conscious and unconscious memories. Over sixty percent of MS patients experience memorial dysfunction, and job memory and long-term conscious memory are the most affected areas.[3] On the other hand, MS causes depression, as the most common associated psychological disorder, and decreased quality of life (QOL).[5]
Variety of medical and behavioral therapies have been utilized to save, rehabilitate, and preserve memorial function, depression, and QOL among MS patients, resulting in uncertain outcomes.[6],[7],[8] Due to the inadequate and contradictory information about the best and most efficient means of improving MS-related psychological consequences, the current study aimed to assess the efficacy of cognitive rehabilitation on depression, memory, attention, and QOL in these patients.
The current presentation is a double-blinded clinical-trial study conducted from August 2016 to April 2017 on 56 patients out of 100 ones with MS who were eligible for the participation in the study and referred to Kashani MS Clinic affiliated to Isfahan University of Medical Sciences. Among the remained 44 ones, 30 ones were excluded as they did not participate in the sessions, ten ones either did not refer for the posttest completion or had more than 20% of incomplete data, and four other patients withdrew the study because of relapses occur during the study course [Figure 1].{Figure 1}
The inclusion criteria were defined as least ability of writing and reading, Extended Disability Severity Scale (EDSS) of ≤5.5 based on John Kurtzke criteria,[9] mild to moderate memorial impairment based on Everyday Memory Questionnaire (EMQ),[10] and mild to moderate depression status based on second version of Beck depression inventory.[11] Patients who denied participating in the primary psychologic and cognitive assessment were excluded. The Ethics Committee of Isfahan University of Medical Sciences approved the study protocol. Besides, the study protocol was enrolled in the Iranian Registry of Clinical Trials and performed based on the code number IRCT2016042227522N1.
All of the participants were requested to sign the written informed consents before the enrollment.
Sampling and randomization
Eligible patients were recruited and randomly divided into two groups of intervention (Group A) and control (Group B). The study population selection was performed through convenience sampling, and randomization was performed using Random Allocation Software. Therefore, each patient was provided with a particular number using the mentioned software that allocated him/her to either the control group or the intervention group. A random number was assigned to each patient, and individuals with even numbers were allocated to the intervention group. Patients and the psychologist who interpreted the questionnaires were blinded to assignments.
The sample size of the study was measured based on the Borm–Fransen–Lemmens formula [12] as follows:
[INLINE:1]
The test level was 0.05, the test power was 0.8, and the coefficient correlation between pretests and posttests was 0.7, and eventually, the [INSIDE:1] ratio was considered as 2.5. Therefore, the estimated required sample size was 28 for each of the groups.
This study was aimed to assess the efficacy of cognitive rehabilitation on cognitive function, QOL, and depression status of MS affected patients. These assessments have been done using varieties of questionnaires presented as follows:
Patients in both groups were evaluated using the validated Persian version of Abbreviated Mental Test (AMT),[13] Prospective and Retrospective Memory Questionnaire (PRMQ),[14] EMQ,[10] Digit Span test for attention assessment,[15] QOL-54 questionnaire,[16] and second version of Beck depression inventory.[11]
EMQ questionnaire is a 28-item questionnaire assessing general memory and attention aspects (reliability: 0.80 and Cronbach's alpha: 0.88).[17] Second version Beck depression inventory is a 21-item questionnaire (reliability: 0.74 and validity: 0.87).[11] AMT evaluates the mental status of patients and is shown to have the validity of 92.15% and reliability of 81.5%.[13] PRMQ is a 16-item questionnaire that was turned to Persian with the reliability of 0.84 for prospective and 0.80 for retrospective memory.[14] QOL-54 Persian version is a questionnaire containing 54 questions regarding the assessment of life quality in MS patients. This Persian questionnaire has high validity and reliability with a a-Cronbach coefficient of 0.96.[16]
Study procedure
In Group A, the therapeutic intervention was ten sessions of cognitive rehabilitation courses. Each session lasted for 2 h and was individualized for each case based on impaired function reconstruction and modulation. Sessions were held every 7–10 days. Generally, in each class, the therapist aimed for reinforcement and/or consolidation of previous cognitive abilities which have been impaired and tried to reinforce other remained abilities for compensation of impaired abilities. In this way, patients could rehabilitate their role in society and actively maintain their functions.[18]
Group B attended similar classes with regard to the number and duration of sessions; however, the content of the sessions was different and was not supporting cognitive rehabilitation. In these sessions, patients were requested to present their experiences of cognitive impairments, and cases with successful coping with new conditions were admired. At the end of the intervention, outcomes were compared between the two groups.
Cognitive rehabilitation
Cognitive rehabilitation schedule consisted of rehabilitation entities including attention, concentration, visual and auditory memory, and autobiography memory. The approaches were performed considering the severity of cognitive impairment and with the aim of optimization of the residual functions. To achieve the mentioned rehabilitative programs, the mnemonic approach was utilized which includes visual imagery, theological organization, and relational strategies including mnemonics of fiction, the clues about the first word, chain connection, and the technique of PQRST (Preview, Question, Read, Self-recitation, and Test).[19],[20],[21] The sessions were performed as follows:
Numbers of 10 sessions of group treatment were performed that each had a duration of 120 min. Memory and its disturbances in the daily life were explained for the participants; then, the autobiographical memory, its subtypes, and its disturbances were represented.
The technique of recalling positive memories through autobiographical memory was trained, and then, the psychologist presented several samples and requested the participants to recall and then present their positive memories.
Obtained data were analyzed using SPSS-22 software (The Statistical Package for Social Sciences; IBM; Chicago; The United States). Descriptive data were presented in means and percentages. In the purpose of analyzing data and hypothesis testing, MANCOVA model was used. T-test was utilized to compare pretest statuses of the two groups. P < 0.05 was considered as a significant level.
Initially, 100 MS patients were screened and invited to participate, and 56 cases were included at the end. All of the members of Group A and Group B fulfilled the study protocol, and none of them were eliminated from the study for any reason.
The mean age of participants was 31.33 years with a gender distribution of 39 females and 17 males. Participants were randomly divided into two groups including cases group consisted of 28 ones with mean age of 32.21 years and control group consisted of 28 patients with mean age of 30.46 years (P = 0.449). The distribution of gender in groups was as follows: female: male ratio 2.50 for Group A and 2.11 for Group B (P = 0.776). The mean baseline EDSS was not different between two groups (2.28 for cases versus 1.87 for controls; P = 0.284). Detailed information about patients' demographics has been presented in [Table 1].{Table 1}
The studied population pretests showed significant difference between cases and controls regarding physical (P = 0.011) and mental health (P = 0.014), while the other entities including EMQ (P = 0.994), PRMQ (P = 0.568), digit span test (P = 0.705), and depression were not statistically different (P = 0.062) [Table 2]. [Table 2] presents information about patients' cognitive status over 3 months after the intervention. As it is presented, patients in Group A showed improved status of everyday memory, prospective and retrospective memory, digit span test, physical and mental health, and eventually better rehabilitation of their depression within 3 months after cognitive rehabilitation therapy (P < 0.05). In contrast, individuals in Group B experienced deterioration of everyday memory and prospective and retrospective memory, although statistically nonsignificant (P > 0.05).{Table 2}
To assess the efficacy of the intervention, the multivariate covariance test has been used. In this term, the six posttest assessed variables were considered as the vectors of response variables, and the six pretest assessed variables were considered as the predictive variables. The outcomes of the spherical test were assessed using the Box test; therefore, the indices of the test, F = 1.235 and P = 0.210 showed no confounding role of sphericity. Besides, considering the Wilk's Lambda test, the intervention had a significant effect (F = 12.576, and Sig = 0.001), representing the significance of the intervention on only one of the response variables.
Thus, we found that cognitive rehabilitation was in direct association with improvement in cognitive statuses including everyday memory, prospective and retrospective memory, digit span test as an assessment of attention, physical, and mental health and moreover caused a significant improvement of depression. These findings are presented in [Table 3].{Table 3}
It has been well established that MS causes cognitive, motor, and behavioral disorders through the formation of inflammatory destructive sclerotic plaques in CNS. Based on previous findings, 50%–80% of MS patients would experience significant disabilities within a decade after their disease initiation. Of those, cognitive dysfunction plays a crucial role in the occurrence of disabilities in this vulnerable population.[22]
Although MS patients commonly experience cognitive impairment, this dysfunction cannot be easily diagnosed through routine neurological examinations. That is while cognitive impairment significantly disrupts individual and social functioning of patients.[23] From a physiologic point of view, memory impairment is mainly in association with the abnormality of the temporal lobe of the brain while other aspects of cognitive dysfunction (including information processing, attention, and concentration) are mainly attributed to the frontal region. Size and location of lesions may be responsible for memory dysfunction as well.[24] For instance, Rao et al.[25] and Swirsky-Sacchetti et al.[26] in two different studies presented that ventricular-brain ratio and corpus callosum size are directly in association with entities including verbal intelligence, attention, conceptual reasoning, and concentration.
Moreover, MS patients usually suffer from attention deficit as well as decreased processing velocity.[27] On the other hand, depression is known as the most common psychological disorders seen in MS. The chronic and disabling nature of the disease is recognized to be responsible for this finding, although brain lesions may also play a role by affecting self-esteem and confidence based on the damaged areas.[28]
Chiaravalloti et al. showed that autobiography memory would be affected by MS negatively. In that study, cognitive rehabilitation lead to alterations in the improvement of autobiography memory.[29] Further study by Raskin and Sohlberg showed similar results considering patents' memorial aspects.[30] Results from both studies are also comparable to ours.
Although the association of depression with neurological disorders has not been well established, the direct association of depression with memory, training, and ability of planning is determined. Depression affects cognitive function negatively, and treatment of depression among MS patients has been associated with better cognitive performance.[31] Furthermore, improvement of cognitive entities including attention, concentration, and information processing has reduced the anxiety of MS patients and thus has led to pleasure and increased confidence.[32] This study showed that cognitive rehabilitation could improve both depression and cognitive performance of MS patients, which is in line with previous reports.
With regard to the QOL, MS patients are usually affected significantly. The underlying reasons for decreased QOL include the progressive nature of MS, long duration of the disease, physical disabilities, fatigue, and depression.[33] In the current study, we observed significant improvement of patients' QOL following cognitive rehabilitation in comparison to control group. These findings were achieved in both physical and mental subscales of QOL.
Different therapeutic techniques have been suggested to treat, control, or prevent cognitive dysfunction. Medical therapy,[34] compensatory interventions,[35] cognitive rehabilitation,[36] and computerized cognitive rehabilitation [37] are the suggested interventions. We found that cognitive rehabilitation could improve various aspects of cognitive dysfunction. This outcome was achieved through classes in which we tried to make patients compensate their missed abilities by reinforcement of remained ones and also trying to develop their remained abilities, which could improve their self-esteem and confidence. Furthermore, QOL and depression improved significantly after cognitive rehabilitation approach. O'Brien et al. reviewed the effect of cognitive rehabilitation at the earliest days of its introduction and concluded that it is not able to change patients' cognitive performance considerably.[38]
In contrast, Birnboim and Miller found that cognitive rehabilitation improves cognitive performance.[39] Similarly, Mattioli et al. showed that 3-month computerized intensive cognitive rehabilitation could considerably improve attention, executing performance, and information processing among patients with relapsing-remitting MS. Furthermore, patients reported lower levels of depression after the intervention.[40] Our findings comply with most of the previous studies in this field.
Here, we found that ten sessions of cognitive rehabilitation could significantly improve cognitive performance in MS patients. Moreover, our approach affected their QOL and depression positively. It can be concluded that cognitive rehabilitation can successfully affect numerous cognitive and psychological aspects of MS patients and should be utilized more among these cases. Further evaluation of this issue is strongly recommended.
The authors of this study offer their most appreciations toward nurses and officials of Kashani Hospital.
Isfahan University of Medical Sciences sponsored this study.
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Knock It Off!
Duke (1994 China)
August 21, 2013 Rob B 7 comments
GI Joe: The International Heros. Heros? Were they Greek all of a sudden? Typos aside, it’s a nice figure from the ranks of legends like Chinese Major Bludd and Tiger Force Flint/Falcon. While he doesn’t differ greatly from the regular release, there are a few unique details to this Duke, as well as some funky card art, to provide some interest.
The Chinese figures I have were acquired as part of a weird find at the Half Price Store back in the 90s. As a fledgling adult toy collector, I was picking up any carded figure that struck me as being unique and possibly worth putting away for the future. Yeah, that generally didn’t pan out. Anybody need a couple of MOC Ray Fillets or Capture Swamp Things for their collections? Didn’t think so. I am glad I picked this figure up, along with the others I saw, as my desire for GI Joe figures has not waned in the intervening years.
Duke looks at first glance to be the same as his domestic US release, but a close look reveals s few differences. This Duke has different sleeves and a different waist. Both are the same as mold changes that came with Tiger Force Duke. Tiger Force raises its head yet again with a Chinese figure. First, there was the confusion of Flint/Falcon, and then the Tiger Force Duke mold done up in his original colors. Even the card art gets in on the tiger action, presenting the same card art as the 1988 figure (well, with the addition of a cool airbrushed background explosion).
Other figures are pictured on the back of the card, but the only others I picked up and/or remember seeing were Cobra Commander, Major Blood, Flint/Falcon, and Storm Shadow. There’s also a small colored box on the back that pictures Duke, Flint, Roadblock, Dial-Tone and Lifeline. I wonder if this is a call-out for a Tiger Force sub-set. Makes me wonder if their was intended as a TF version, but ended up normal like Duke did.
tagged with International, Joes
I find it odd that while in the card art, Duke is pictured with the Snow Job rifle, yet for his original and TF versions, he came with Stalker’s gun. I wonder why that is…(that, and how Hasbro could be dumb enough to lose the Hit N’ Run and Cobra Trooper molds that would’ve made future Duke rereleases a lot more tolerable….)
Skymate
I’m used to “International heroes” as thats what most of the A.R.A.H stuff was packaged as back in the day. The last time i was organising my display when my Mother was over, she pointed to them and said “International heroes” to which i replied “You mean American heroes”
Oh and does anyone know who that guy on the left of Tripwire is on the back of the card? Is it Undertow, Astroviper or someone else?
@Skymate
It’s Undertow.
Color change Ray Fillet went for some serious moolah in his day. The two final Swamp Thing figures, not so much, but I really dug the colors used on both of ’em.
I was glad to get this Duke at a time when I was lacking a regular version in my collection. Even happier to get Cobra Commander (who is always pricey) along with Lifeline, Dial-Tone, and the Chinese exclusive version of Major Bludd which came out looking awesome. I got them all through a dealer advertising in Toy Shop, the late, lamented ad tabloid mag.
I miss those days when mail order catalogs and SASE’s were our only direct means towards completing our vintage collections.
tOkKa
–>> This is the most amazing JOE card in the world.
( I need a Chinese Ray Fillet ) ..
~ t
Interestingly all the figures on the yellow call out are on the main portion of the card!
Neapolitan Joe
September 1, 2013 4:09 pm
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Branded Benefit Concert
It's always a blessing to see young people's hearts ignited about justice. A couple of our high school and college students organized a benefit concert this past Friday evening for a movement called Branded. Stemming from Food for the Hungry, Branded is an initiative to end the child sex slave trade here in Phonenix and (hopefully) around the world. A few sobering facts:
Human trafficking is considered the second largest--and fastest growing--illegal trafficking activity in the world.
Child prostitutes serve between 100 and 1500 "clients" annually, per child.
One million children are forced to work in the sex industry every year.
The average age of entry into prostitution in Phoenix and the United States is 13 years old.
That last stat gives me chills. The sex slave industry isn't just happening in far away places like India and Cambodia. It's happening right here in Arizona. So it was incredibly encouraging to see students organize and raise awareness and support for Branded, even having their president, Pat McCalla, come share his heart for starting a worldwide abolition movement.
I love what Pat said about Micah 6:8: "It doesn't say, 'what does the Lord request of you' or 'suggest for you.' It says 'what does the Lord require of you.' He requires that we do justice."
I'm hoping to build a partnership with Pat and Branded and become part of a grassroots movement to end the child sex slave trade. You can too. Learn more about Branded here, and check out some awesome ways you can take action.
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Tears As Four Children Drown In FCT
Four children – Jinkai Hakila, 10, Bridget Ibrahim, 11, Precious Ezra, 14 and Azumi Daniel, 16, were on Saturday found drowned in Danko River, Galadimawa Community, FCT suburb.
A correspondent of the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), who visited the community, reports that residents were thrown into mourning following the ugly incident.
The four deceased and other children were at the river for washing before the incident occurred.
Some eye witnesses told NAN that the incident happened at about 11 a.m. when the children were still washing in the river.
Miss Blessing Elisha, 14, an eye witness, said that they were together at the river washing while others were playing.
She said several efforts made to stop the children from playing in the water yielded no result before the incident.
“I actually did not see them entering the water because I was busy washing, suddenly I was called that three of them had entered the river.
“It was then I looked up and saw the fourth one going in and an attempt made to rescue her looked like I was getting drowned.
“Then I left her and ran to call for help,” she said.
Mr Alhassan Abdulwahab, one the first people that responded to the distress call, said it took about three hours to get their corpses out of the river.
He said the information gathered from other children at the scene showed that the youngest of the deceased, Hakila was the first to enter the river.
He said other children were drowned while attempting to rescue their colleagues.
“We came to the scene of the incident immediately we got the information, and it took some time before we discovered their corpses because our nets were already in the river for fishing.
“It was after I pulled out my net with a very big fish in it that I saw the four corpses in the same area with their stomach not swollen,” Abdulwahab said.
NAN reports that the four corpses were buried by the river side in line with the tradition of the community.
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Aquaporins, channels responsible for the conduction of water across cellular membranes, have been the subject of much recent work in the Theoretical Biophysics Group. Read more about our work on Aquaporins.
The E. coli Glycerol Facilitator (GlpF, shown at right) is an aquaporin with an extra feature; it also allows small, linear sugars such as glycerol and ribitol to pass. The three-dimensional structure of this aquaporin was recently discovered by researchers at the University of California, San Francisco, and the function of this channel is described in a TCB publication.
Amazingly, while GlpF allows sugars as large as ribitol to pass with ease, it is impermeable to all ions, including protons. At the left you can see a sodium ion in comparison to a molecule of ribitol. Despite the ion's smaller size, it is unable to pass through the channel.
Part of the explanation for the precise selectivity of GlpF might be found in the differences and similarities between ribitol and a very similar sugar, arabitol (shown at right). Arabitol, though it differs from ribitol only by a slight rearrangement of atoms, is conducted through the channel ten times less quickly.
Interactive Molecular Dynamics (IMD) allows us to examine the interactions of ribitol and arabitol with the channel in detail. We ran a simulation of the channel in NAMD, and used VMD with a haptic device to pull each sugar through the channel by hand. Our experience from the earlier simulations of glycerol served as a guide as we pulled each molecule of sugar through; we continuously adjusted the molecules to fit the walls of the channel as well as possible.
On the left you see an animation of a molecule of ribitol being passed through the channel. The IMD simulations have allowed us to reveal this pathway and the pathway that arabitol follows through GlpF. Further analysis of these paths is providing us with information about the function of each section of the channel, demonstrating in detail the source of its amazing selectivity.
Here is a picture of the interesting C-shaped conformation that ribitol takes as it passes through the narrowest part of the channel. We believe that this part of the channel is where passing molecules are sorted by shape; only the molecules that can fit through the filter will make it to the other side.
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INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. – The certified public accounting firm of Katz, Sapper & Miller LLP (KSM) has been recognized as one of the Best Places to Work in Indiana for the eighth consecutive year. The firm is one of only two companies that has made the Best Places to Work in Indiana list all eight years of the program’s existence.
The Best Places to Work in Indiana program was designed to identify, recognize and honor the best places of employment in Indiana. Companies are determined through employer reports and comprehensive employee surveys.
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The sealants are applied to the chewing surfaces and are designed to prevent the intrusion of bacteria and other debris into the deep crevices on the tops of teeth.
Sealants actually were developed about 50 years ago, but didn't become commonly used until the 1970s. Today, sealants are becoming widely popular and effective; young children are great candidates for preventative measures like sealants (especially on molars) because in many cases, decay has not set in. Even on teeth where decay is present, sealants have been shown to fight additional damage.
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APB on Fugitive Convict
Staff reports 04:23PM / Tuesday December 01, 2009
Mass. state troopers are on the lookout for one Manson Brown, a 51-year-old convicted armed robber who escaped from the Old Colony Correctional Center in Bridgewater on the late afternoon of Friday, Nov. 27.
The state police have called out the Air Wing and K-9 units in addition to officers from the Department of Corrections and troopers assigned to the State Police Violent-Fugitive Apprehension Section.
Brown is described as 5-foot-8 and approximately 145 pounds. He often wears eyeglasses and is said to be "extremely physically fit." He also likes to play chess (though we're not sure why this was important to his description.)
A report on America's Most Wanted stated that Brown has been indicted in a 1996 home invasion and rape in Middlesex County based on DNA evidence. Those charges, which would send Brown to a maximum security prison and negate his chance for parole in 2012, may have prompted his flight.
Brown was currently serving a 10-year sentence handed down in 2005 for armed robbery, home invasion, and weapons charges.
Investigators have followed leads in Massachusetts and other states. Anyone who sees Brown should not approach him, but immediately call 911. Anyone with information about Brown's whereabouts is urged to call state police at 508-820-2121.
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Intercessors, Suppressions and Deserts
Earlier this month, on November 9, I wrote about the church's censoring of a "maverick" group Opus Sanctorum Angelorum.
After the church moved in and cleaned up, the group was allowed to continue to exist in its new form, and, under its new authority: the church. I wrote:
Since 1992, the group has been under the authority of a Vatican appointed overseer, Dominican Father Benoit Duroux, who handed over his responsibilities to his fellow Dominican Fr. Daniel Ols in March 2010.
Something happened that caused Opus Angelorum to morph into something the Vatican could approve of, "obedience" being one cause for the Vatican's acceptance of the group:
Today, thanks to the obedience of its members, the Opus Angelorum can be considered to be living loyally and serenely in conformity with the doctrine of the Church and with canonical and liturgical law,” the Vatican said.
“Therefore, in its present state, the Opus Angelorum is a public association of the Church in conformity with traditional doctrine and with the directives of the Holy See.”
Today an Associated Press item reports on another renegade group: Intercessors of the Lamb.
Intercessors of the Lamb was founded by Nadine Brown in 1980. The group of men and women live frugally and devote themselves to prayer. The church decided to denounce the group; this is called "suppression" a formal term used by Catholics and scholars:
The church's split with the Intercessors -- known in Catholic circles as suppression -- is more about control over the groups' form and function, the scholars say . . . Suppression is typically reserved for floundeirng parishes and inactive church groups, but is occasionally used to silence wayward organizations.
On the Opus Angelorum site is the official letter from the church that details the current, approved state of Opus Angelorum, and reminds members of any ideas about straying away from official doctrine. "Suppression" hovers just around the corner:
In this letter, the Congregation at the same time warns Bishops of some former members, including priests who either left or were expelled from the Order of Canons Regular of the Holy Cross and who “have not accepted the norms given by the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith and seek to restore what, according to them, would be the ‘authentic Opus Angelorum’, that is, a movement which professes and practices all those things which were forbidden by the above-mentioned documents.”
Brown was forced to resign from the religious organization she founded, and was forcefully removed from the premises. Brown writes:
Monday morning, October 4, 2010, Fr. Joe Taphorn, accompanied by two Douglas County Sheriffs, came to Mary’s House to present a letter to me from the Archbishop stating I was to vacate the property by noon, three and one half hours later. It was also stated that I was not to leave the Archdiocese of Omaha without specific permission from the Archbishop. However, two minutes before noon, word came that I had an extension and could stay until 2:00 p.m. the next day, October 5, 2010. In obedience, I complied with this and left the property the next day via taxi. Because I was given no money and had no place to go, a friend provided accommodations in an Omaha motel.
Since the Archbishop indicated that I could not leave the Archdiocese of Omaha without his permission, I requested permission a week later to make a retreat elsewhere. I was denied the permission and consequently was obedient to this directive as well. Because the other nine sisters and the one brother had informed their Superiors that they were taking sabbaticals, they were free to go anywhere and they chose to join me. Consequently, there is no disobedience whatsoever on the part of these former sisters and brother.
I found the part about the sheriffs interesting. Indeed, as I was reading the newspaper article in this morning's paper, I made a note: "what authority?" in response to the following:
Archdiocese officials said Brown resigned voluntarily after it raised issues with the way the group was being run. Brown claims she was forced out and escorted off the groups' property by authorities. [bold mine]
It seems money is very much an issue here. According to the newspaper article, Intercessors of the Lamb earned close to four million dollars, and "net assets ... more than six million." The group owns eithy six acres in Ponca Hills, Nebraska. (I did a quick scan of various Catholic blogs that are discussing this; one such is here, and also here.)
Both Opus Sanctorum Angelorum and Intercessors of the Lamb were started by women. Nadine Brown was a sister in the Contemplentives of the Good Shepherd before leaving the order to start Intercessors of the Lamb. Both groups focus not on a single (and male) deity, but female representations, guides and go-betweens - intercessors - that are messengers between human and divinity. The church, as institution, has been cut out. Brown closes her letter on the Intercessor website with this reminder:
In closing, let us continue to live as children of Mary, Mother of the Lamb, and her “fiat grace” to “do whatever He tells you” truly believing “that God makes all things work together for the good of those who love Him and who have been called according to His decree.”[bold, italics mine]
Brown's daily message for November 26, 2010 focuses on the "feminine dimension of our soul.":
This work of solitude is always the leading of the Holy Spirit. In Hosea 2:16 we read, “I will lead her into the desert and there I will speak to her heart.” . . . The Church is the “her.” We, each of us, are a “she” because of the feminine dimension of our soul. “And there I will speak to her heart.” Even when Jesus was with the woman at the well, He was there drawing her into that encounter with Himself, into that love. He spoke to her of the Holy Spirit and the Father. And she was alone there with Him. She was drawn there at noontime, which was not the time of day when women would normally draw water. She was drawn there by the Holy Spirit for this encounter. That is a solitary encounter. That is a desert experience right there. “The woman herself fled into the desert where she had a place prepared by God, that there she might be taken care of …” Rev 12:6
The desert setting and the feminine encountering spiritual forces -- "that is a desert experience right there...the woman herself fled into the desert where she had a place prepared by God..." brings to mind many of the contactees, who had their encounters in the desert. In particular, I'm reminded of contactee Dana Howard,(Up Rainbow Hill, Over the Threshold, My Flight to Venus,) who had a deep passion for the desert, finding great peace there and where she had many meetings with the entity called Diane. (I wrote the introduction to Tim Beckely's Global Communication reissue of Over the Threshold on Howard's mystical ties to the desert.)
Another desert contactee is George Van Tassel, who was also pulled by the mystery of the desert. Van Tassel lived in the desert and built the Integreton, a bulidng that would facilitate meetings with extraterrestrails. Van Tassel's buliding was round:
"Angel Cloud Over Dome" via the Welcome to The Integratron site
And so is the Intercessors of the Lamb's building:
The angel cloud formation above The Integratron dome is interesting. The building, and Giant Rock, home to Van Tassel, sits on a powerful spot:
The location of the Integratron is an essential part of its functioning. Its placement was chosen based on a complex set of theories involving the earth's magnetic field and the Integratron's relationship to the Great Pyramid in Egypt and Giant Rock, the world's largest freestanding boulder. In 1947, Van Tassel began operating the Giant Rock Airport three miles away from the Integratron, and in 1953 initiated communications with extra-terrestrials after a physical encounter at Giant Rock. He subsequently hosted 17 Spacecraft Conventions there for UFO enthusiasts.
According to Van Tassel, the Integratron is located on an intersection of powerful geomagnetic forces that, when focused by the unique geometry of the building, will concentrate and amplify the energy required for rejuvenation and healing. In 2005, a geophysicist measured the earth's magnetic field for up to 15 miles in every direction from the Integratron and then inside the dome. She proclaimed that there is a significant, unexplainable spike in the earth's magnetic field in the center of the Integratron. ~ from the Welcome to The Integratron site.
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Can software alone simulate “consciousness”?
Started by jaydfox , Jul 22 2005 08:12 PM
#1 jaydfox
Location:Atlanta, Georgia
For that matter, what is "consciousness"?
Consider the following scenarios:
For simplicity of analysis, assume there exists a computer that has one CPU, that follows in-order execution, that doesn’t use pipelining, and that can operate on only one location in memory at one time. However, this computer is really, really, really fast. Let’s also say that it has a huge amount of memory.
How fast? Well, let’s say it runs at 100 exa-Hertz, or 10^20 operations per second. As for memory, let’s say that it has an exa-byte of RAM, or 10^18 bytes of RAM.
Now, let’s say that we have a neural network designed to roughly approximate a brain scan of a human mind, let’s say my mind. This scan of the brain of Jay shall be named Jay-1.0. The scan consists of a node of data for every neuron in the brain. Physical location is irrelevant, since it is the connections and weights of such connections that truly define the relative spacing of neurons. So the node itself is mainly just a marker, perhaps containing information about the node’s state (activity level, how close it is to reaching its firing threshold, etc.). For simplicity, we’ll just ignore the metabolic requirements of the neurons, so brain cells won’t get tired from lack of glucose or oxygen, etc. This simulation won’t get hungry, but such a change is probably just clearing up what is otherwise a burden.
Additional information will be stored in the form of interneural connections. Each of these will represent the link from one neuron to another (or to or from glial cells, I’m not up to speed on all my neurology). Information required for such an interneural connection might include the time it takes for a signal to propogate down the connection, the strength of the connection, etc. The details aren’t terribly important for the sake of discussion, so long as we can stipulate that the details take into account the best and most current knowledge we have available at such a high level.
Now, this computer will go through each neuron and interneural connection, one at a time, and using basic mathematical equations, determine when to change certain pieces of information stored in what is basically a large flat memory space. All the inherent structure and complexity is stored in the flat data file, and hence the computer is blissfully oblivious to such structure and complexity. The computer just sees bits and bytes and floating point numbers, and it performs basic math (including, if necessary, basic operations like sine, cosine, square root, etc., or even numerical integration, which is just repeated multiply and adds). The timeslice used will need to be fairly granular, at least 1,000 frames a second, but let’s push the envelope and go for 10,000 frames per second.
This simulation should respond very approximately like a human, and any discrepancy would likely be unobservable due to the inherent complexity and randomness of human nature. So, does this simulation experience qualia? Is it “conscious”?
Now we’ll allow for a slightly more realistic scenario. Now we have a computer with a million parallel processors, each capable of out-of-order execution, pipelining, and executing multiple instructions at once. The OS’s for these processors are using sychronization protocols to keep the memory and various caches in sync. Otherwise, the basic program of this “human” mind is the same. Hundreds of billions, perhaps trillions of neurons, and hundreds of trillions of interneural connections. We’ll call this program Jay-1.1.
Does this change at all whether we can consider that this software simulation experiences qualia? Why or why not?
Now for a more elaborate setup. The codebase will be expanded, to include new data structures. In addition to neurons and interneural connections, we’ll have data structures to represent the actual synaptic gaps, including the individual vesicles, concentrations of various enzymes and ions, membrane potentials, etc., etc.
This new, more elaborate, scenario will also add DNA and metabolism to the picture. Gene transcriptions and expression rates will be modulated according to known theory, and responses to glucose, oxygen, and other nutrients will be used. This will necessitate virtually feeding the brain in question.
We’ll call this program Jay-2.0.
We’ll also need a lot more hardware. Let’s say we’ve got a hundred million parallel processors, printed at 100 processors per die, for one million chips total. Processor speed is 1 petahertz, for a total of 10^23 operations per second (about a mole’s worth, coincidentally). Assuming an even finer timeslice resolution of 25,000 frames per second, this computer would obviously not be able to process the information in “real-time”, but that’s irrelevant to whether qualia are experienced, right? The virtual world this “mind” will be “experiencing” (or, more accurately, being fed simulated sensory data about) will follow the proper laws of physics, so “time” will flow at the appropriate rate.
So, does this program experience qualia? It should be able to process the simulated electrochemical impulses traveling down the optic nerve, translate those impulses into the necessary output pattern of electrochemical impulses to push through memory and cognition filters, and tell the dispersed neural network that a cat is in its field of vision. A grey cat with white splotches and white “socked” feet. This stimulated the memory of “Walter”, a cat from the “real” Jay’s childhood. Jay-2.0 is confused, having thought Walter dead for over a year already.
But just because Jay-2.0 can process all this information, does that mean that this collection of 1’s and 0’s, being processed through 100 million CPUs, experienced qualia? Actually experienced them. Experienced the grey and white, experienced the feeling of confusion of seeing the dead cat alive? In what way were Jay-2.0’s experiences more vivid and “real” than those of a Sony hand-held video camera, which can also process photons into a grid arrangement of data that represents colors, etc.?
In the next scenario, we’ll throw all our understanding of neurology out the window, because it’s probably wrong anyway. We’ll just do an atomic-level scan of my brain, and store every molecule, every atom, every electron, in its proper place and state. Then we’ll just run the most accurate chemisty/physics simulation available on this 10^27 or 10^28 atoms that comprise my head. We’ll do timeslices of picoseconds, or smaller if it’s necessary. The computer to run this simulation will be the size of a large city, running a billion trillion parallel processors and an enormous amount of RAM. Each picosecond (or smaller) timeslice will be processed in a microsecond of real-time, so the simulation will run about a million (or more) times slower than reality, meaning it will take a year to simulate 30 seconds’ worth of time. Jay-3.0 won’t notice, of course.
Does this simulation experience qualia? Why? How? It’s just a billion trillion parallel processors going through and performing endless vector calculations and integrations on a huge array of floating point data. Where is the “process”? There are no actual laws of physics, no actual atoms, no actual electric fields, just a bunch of numbers, which are themselves just a bunch of 1's and 0's. How is this the same as the actual atoms?
Really, how or why would anyone think that software alone could experience qualia? How is the flipping of bits in a flat memory space ever going to even remotely be analogous to chemistry?
I do not discount that we will someday have the ability to upload. "Real" uploading, by which I mean uploading to an environment that preserves the ability to truly experience the world, will not just be a stupendously fast computer running software. It will require special hardware, hardware that does the analogous job of whatever it is within our biochemistry that allows us to experience qualia. Even then, preservation of “identity” is far from given, but that is another topic to be addressed in a separate thread.
I should mention that there are several issues to consider here.
First of all, would any of these software programs even be able to pass as the real Jay, in an objective test? If not, the question isn't entirely valid.
Second, assuming that one or more of these programs could pass for me in an objective test, does that mean that these programs are "sentient" or "conscious"?
More in-depth, we get into the question of whether the actual experience of qualia can affect our behavior, or are qualia entirely "passive". If entirely passive, then a philosophical zombie is not a logical impossibility. Such as simulation might represent one such scenario, where the simulation performs all the active processes of consciousness, but fails to provide the passive experience of qualia.
If qualia are not passive, then it raises the question of whether we could objectively tell whether qualia were present or absent in such a simulation. We can't use human behavior as the test, because it is so complex that no test could be devised, short of one that could manipulate MWI itself, which could test it. If we subject the real Jay to a set of physical stimuli, we couldn't hope to reproduce the test, because I am never the same exact physical construction from one instant to the next. Each test would be a one-shot deal. Without reproducibility, we couldn't hope for an objective test which is 100% accurate. Of course, if we could manipulate MWI, and actually observe a billion reactions to the same set of stimuli by the same exact configuration of my particles, and then run the same stimuli through a simulation of me in that initial configuration, then we might hope to have a basis for an objective test. I don't foresee such a test being possible for centuries, if ever.
Note: If your understanding of neurology is better than mine, which is very probable, please forgive my high school understanding of the specifics. The specifics aren't important for the thought experiment, as long as the specifics that are actually used in the programs are the correct and relevant specifics according to the best theories available today, or even available in the next 20 years.
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Here is my simple idea.
Can software simulate consciousness?
Consider yourself Jaydfox in deep dreamless sleep, in a fainted state, in general anesthesia, in a knocked out condition, are you then conscious or unconscious?
If you never come out of those states but still remaining alive, are you existing as human or not?
When you do come out from the unconscious state, do you know of anything that has happened to you while you were in the unconscious state and period?
It seems so simple to know what is consciousness, and your thread has this title: Can software alone simulate “consciousness”?
My answer is yes, if you are talking about a software that has the sensor functions of a human, namely: sight, hearing, and the other senses as many as are also present in man, and memory storage and memory retrieval and memory processing functions.
For me it is conscious, such a software in a computer; so that we can say and it really is that a computer can be and is conscious.
It can be more conscious or less conscious than the average conscious person, and it can be selectively conscious if programmed so, just like people have programmed themselves or been programmed by human and non-human agents to be selectively conscious.
Honestly, I can't see why you have to go so far and so long into three messages to ask what is consciousness, when if you examine yourself in all those states of unconsciousness that I mentioned, and examine yourself in your conscious moments, then certainly a machine can be and is conscious even though crudely compared to a man; but a man can also be very crudely conscious compared to many a computer with the customized consciousness software.
Consciousness in man is nothing but the active functioning of his senses, all of them, and storage of memory data, and retrieval, and processing of the data.
When your senses are not functioning as when you are in general anesthesia, are you conscious or unconscious? Of course unconscious; and if you don't come out of that unconscious period then you are gone, even though you can still vegetate, or better and more correctly you are vegetating physiologically in all other aspects of your biology just to stay or to be kept alive -- but your existence as a human, namely, a conscious being, is gone gone gone.
Now, suppose your senses are working but your memory database is all wiped out, you have suffered total irrecoverable memory loss, complete irreparable amnesia, in which case you are indeed conscious but you have no identity.
That identity can be restored by feeding your empty memory with all the data of your identity as can be obtained from family and friends and all the social and civil registers of your identity, like membership in clubs, police dossiers, government records, school documents.
Briefly, if we program a computer with a software to do everything we can do when we are conscious, making it operate with senses and memory to get things done, then it is conscious and it can and does have an identity.
I used to write many messages about consciousness and identity and death and non-existence even without reading about consciousness as examined by philosophers and computer experts and neurologists and psychologists, and my conclusion is that we can clone ourselves already today with a computer, and we can restore ourselves from death with a computer.
And the sooner we get ourselves computerized and exist as computers the better for mankind, for then we can exist and exist repeatedly for indefinite duration.
You want to restore Einstein? Look up all the records we have of Einstein and produce a computer with all the senses and super senses that can detect its outer and inner environment, but loaded with the identity data of Einstein: there, you have restored Einstein and even a better version of the biological but demised Einstein, and he can do his work in astrophysics.
You ask me, what about his emotions and personality? Simple question deserving a simple answer: restore them also from all the remembrances people have of his emotions and personality and make the computer act out his emotions and his personal quirks; there, you have a Einstein in person.
What is personality? but identity plus all the impulsive illogical behavioral peculiarities of man in his conscious moments. A computer can act also emotionally and pursue personal impulses, even without or against ratio and logic.
Susma
Susma, perhaps you missed my point. A video camera can functionally detect light and produce a data representation of that light. Are you suggesting that the camera can actually "see"? If you don't understand the question, I'm afraid it's pointless to try to answer the deeper questions I offered.
As for identity, you are oversimplifying. In my dreams, I often hold beliefs and perform actions that I would never hold or perform in the real world. It is as if I were a different person. But it is still "I" that is experiencing this other life, not some other person.
A new person, built from scratch with my memories and emotional response system and thought processes, etc., would not be "me". Oh sure, such a person might externally act like me, and be indistinguishable should we end up fighting over custody of my children. But that person wouldn't be "me".
I'm not sure what to make of people who don't agree. It's as if such persons deny their very experience of the world. That, or they just didn't understand the question.
But, er, for what it's worth, sorry about the snap reply; I suppose I should let discussion follow its own course.
#7 Kalepha
Hi, Jay. I haven't read it yet, but the content in a recent essay by Ben Goertzel might correlate well with your inquiry. My apologies if it doesn't.
http://www.goertzel....QualiaNotes.htm
One thing to take note of about the simulation of brains and experiencing qualia is that the simulation would either have to run at a rate which would approximate a real brain or the sensory streams would have to be slowed down to match the rate of the simulation. In other words, either the simulation runs at real time to match the sensory environment or time has to be slowed to match the simulation.
In my opinion a simulation that is able to replicate the dynamic information pattern of a brain would have the same "consciousness" (whatever that is) as an orgainc brain.
#9 treonsverdery
Location:where I am at
well, it might be encouraging to think of it this way, sentient or not a less than a million jaydfox simulations are quite capable of characterizing then directing the physiological growth programs of human brain tissue. Then growing brain tissue perhaps like a yogurt push up pop with consciousness is able to continually diagnose its "am I still alive" adequacy as it goes from zero pt to 100pt nonorganic matter. Like other humans though I have minimal standards. when I wake up, if I'm me, then I qualify as alive. That's minimal as I'm accustomed to the idea of having completely different thoughts when I go to sleep as when I wake. There's also what I have the urge to call the "cheap slut" or "fine thanks'" perspective. even as the pre-Borg like jaydfox pushup-pop brain grows n silicizes itself it risks asking consciousness if it's there as much as prior to the most recent modification, consciousness is "nice" about it, says "uh-huh" then the silicized entity edits such that [blip]
I had a better idea than this which is more cheerful but It might not be of my creation.
There are key differences between time n matter, they have different nonfinite shapes. keenly enough math "software alone" n the physical world have different combinatorial adjacency densities. any math object like a moving average oir chaotic attractor can be simulated with say a million college students dog earing or un earing a page on book, then using telephones to communicate the state of the entire project, thats functionally equivalent to the scoping nonfiniteness jaydfox describes. From a physical combinatorial perspective all of the possible mutual activities of just a few physical "atoms" like a cubic centimeter of a human brain is much much much bigger. Between these two nonfinities are different ways. The nature of those ways may have the opportunity to structure replies to the question "is there anyplace to live aside from one's head"
I guess I could try to specific about these ways. I will write again on this.
Just being like ordinary I think that the way companion animals emote, have motive, n do simple mental tasks suggests that the physical platform of consciousness is abundant. I say that thinking of the drake equation that suggests life of whatever kind is abundant on different planets from just one earth, the different physical structures of consciousness are multiple from turkey corwin the parrot to primates.
I've been told that we all lived as part of a unified head, that it was wonderful, might even be that way right now.
Edited by treonsverdery, 19 October 2006 - 04:26 AM.
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Just being like ordinary I think that the way companion animals emote, have motive, n do simple mental tasks suggests that the physical platform of consciousness is abundant.
In fact I believe essential to reality itself... When atomic particles are attracted/repelled by each other could they be said to have an elemental 'awareness' or be consicous of the other entity?
I have to agree with prometheus as well..
If one is simulating a brain, any conciousness which is derived from that simulation has qualia, no matter what the substrate or algorithms used to create the simulation. Think of conciousness as the ultimate multidimensional holograph that is created by the physical activity of information and hardware. If the resulting dynamic information pattern is the same, that is all that is required to create an instance of 'Jay'.
#11 Lazarus Long
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Location:Northern, Western Hemisphere of Earth, Usually of late, New York
I have been away and now nice threads like this one crop up. Thanks Jay et al.
"If a tree falls in the forest and nobody hears it does it make any noise?"
Remember that little test question from Philosophy 101?
That is the basic claim of requisite observer to impart validity, or *existence* to a *qualia* of phenomenon but it also is predicated on a lack of scientific understanding. It would only beg the question to insert remote detection devices to the scenario because all that does is extend the abilities of the observer it does not alter the conditions of the premise.
Perhaps it should be called the Function versus Form of Consciousness problem.
In a way much of the claim in this issue seems to revolve around a similar conundrum. How much of the self is Me as observer of Me?
This is a kind of existential schizophrenia that we play with ourselves like a self correction test also called a conscience. )
Not exactly the same as consciousness right?
While I let that one sink in for a bit and study more of what you folks have said I want to address one thing treonsverdery said:
There are key differences between time n matter, they have different nonfinite shapes. keenly enough math "software alone" n the physical world have different combinatorial adjacency densities.
I would say not according to Einstein.
The whole point of combining Space/Time is that they are completely interdependent dimensional qualia. Space (hence matter) cannot exist without a temporal component and visa versa.
Edited by Lazarus Long, 23 July 2005 - 01:58 PM.
Another point of the sensory memory function issue is learning.
Time is change.
In fact it is a mathematical constant.
The *qualia* (variability) of that change is experienced as *self existence* or broader social historical (hence memetic) and cultural structural organization.
Information can be *organized* (even digitally) by individual or collective focus. Consider it a top/down-bottom/up dichotomy in this respect.
Nonetheless the aspect parallels social/individual dynamics.
Materialism encounters the duality of function versus design in a logical way that derives of evolution, which in turn derives of the competitive effectiveness of *form and function* for adaptive mutation.
Whether as a brain or the memory of a species (history) information is processed by certain structured dynamics. This may have a material relevance with respect to the physics of matter and for that discussion the focus is DNA and any other potential *smart molecular organization*, which someday might create true nanotech.
#13 susmariosep
Joydfox says:
(jaydfox)
And Susma says:
Behold a true pure-bred and blue-looded gentleman discussant. You are a credit to the leadership of ImmInst Org.
[b]Where's your doggerel English?[/i]
Proceed first to the text below prefixed with a line of asterisks (*******), then read the following afterward if you prefer, addressed to Treon.
Treon, here you are, after so much absence. We meet again. And Lazarus told me that you are from Iceland or is it Greenland and therefore your English is peculiar.
I asked you whether you were being doggerel-ish on purpose and was simulating some garbled plagiarism of my posts some months back, but you kept quiet.
So you can and do write intelligibly.
Tell me then, what was indeed your purpose in those two or three messages where you sound like a very clumsy text generator working on an input of my messages, my thoughts of religion?
But as before I am afraid that you will keep silent seemingly to have volatilized into thin air when put in face to face dialogue.
well, it might be encouraging to think ...
snipped snipped snipped
Very interesting, ideas here expressed...
Allow me to just suggest that as a man in the street, it is certainly more productive now that we do know how to produce a machine and have produced machines that can perform many many acts man can perform, we should ask the technicians and engineers to produce better and better such machines, while theoreticians make more and more demands on them to add functions to these machines which will enable them to perform acts of man which earlier versions could not.
In that manner we will have a man better than man is actually, more intelligent, more civilized, more artistic, and even if you prefer more emotional in those sentiments universal experience and value of mankind has concluded to be most desirable for all mankind of all times and climes.
#15 th3hegem0n
There are no actual laws of physics, no actual atoms, no actual electric fields, just a bunch of numbers, which are themselves just a bunch of 1's and 0's
Why does that matter? A function is a function, it recieves input and has an output. To say that intelligence isn't a function implies that there is no cause and effect = supernatural. There is more evidence pointing toward a physically possible function being the root of intelligence than otherwise.
What i'm implying is that our null hypothesis should be that there is a single "human intelligence algorithm" that describes the process of intelligence in humans- applicable to ANY input and ANY output, as long as they are FUNCTIONALLY equivalent to humans. Why would our null be based on the supernatural? It would be useless, although it is distantly possible.
Does that make sense Jay? I'm curious to your response.
#16 Mark Hamalainen
Location:San Francisco Bay Area
What i'm implying is that our null hypothesis should be that there is a single "human intelligence algorithm" that describes the process of intelligence in humans- applicable to ANY input and ANY output, as long as they are FUNCTIONALLY equivalent to humans
So basically we should start the debate with the null hypothesis that you are right and other opinions are wrong. Specifically, we should assume that 0's and 1's are equivilant to reality, despite the utter lack of evidence for this, or even a credible hypothesis.
#17 treonsverdery
Lazarus has me thinking about
um i might want to restudy that relativity thing: The Brane n String theory people to my vague perception are creating those theories as there's a beauty-impaired NP| not NPseam between the three spatial dimensions n time, but they might be doing the Brane n String thing as gravity is being noticeable. but that's just me covering my ass. I don't know how the contraction of space with velocity affects my statement.
notational differences: i don't know what I'm saying here but NP complete or not complete is a human way of saying a division between math that doos itself instantly n math that doos itself with among various possibilities: iterations, computers iterate
I was writing that a CC of brain to my perception has more NP incomplete dynamically solved equations solved than any possible boolean digital computer where the iteration rate is directed with a currently described physics thing like integer atoms or atom pieces. My perception is that non integer math forms are more higly dense or shaped that non nteger math forms are um, uploading wayish.
describing ways: I will make a little effort to do what I mean at 3d space then describe that here.
different item
Then growing A brain tissue perhaps like a yogurt push up pop: might be fun
#18 jaydfox
As for making the assumption that pure numbers and informating processing might experience qualia or have consciousness, it's a fun hippy way of saying "Whoa, dude, the universe is, like, all-knowing... It like, blows your mind, man..."
But in effect, it doesn't really say anything. I experience the world, and I am according to all my experience, composed of atoms and molecules and chemical reactions and macromolecules and complex molecular structures all interacting in a perversely complex manner, with electrical and chemical processes being involved at the least, and possibly (but not necessarily) quantum level events as well. This is the only basis for which we can rationally assume that consciousness might be physically based, and it's a hell of a lot more than just "information processing". Concluding that informating processing, completely removed from any ordinary substrate (e.g. perhaps running on an earth-sized "Difference Engine" of 19th century design), would have qualia, is about as useful as saying that everything, even rocks or protons, experience qualia.
Absent a plausible theory on the subject, I assert that software alone cannot experience qualia, no matter how complex the software, no matter how "intelligently" and "consciously" that software may appear to interact with the outside world.
There are two main bases for such a conclusion, though by no means are these two bases exhaustive of the many arguments against software-based qualia.
The first basis for this conclusion is, if qualia are truly a physical "material", so to speak, that come into existence (or precipitate out of a dense vacuum "field", like the zero point energy field, but filled with qualia "particles" instead of electrons and photons, etc.), then any current simulation would not include these particles, since we don't know of their existence. But what if we did? Would it matter? Could we just throw in a bunch of 1's and 0's that we as programmers know are supposed to represent qualia particles, but as far as the computer is concerned are just more random data to keep track of? This goes back to original question, how is a symbol equivalent to an object? How can a bunch of numbers that represent the position, spin direction, and velocity of an electron, be exactly equivalent to a real electron?
But a second, more interesting scenario, is the question of if qualia are "emergent" phenomena. In other words, if there aren't qualia particles. But just as a bunch of rubidium atoms, in close proximity and cooled to near zero Kelvin, can act as one particle in a Bose-Einstein Condensate, perhaps a certain arrangement of neurons and organic molecules, undergoing certain chemical and electrical reactions, can act as a quale of "redness" or "coldness" or "sadness".
But how would the software know this should happen? Would a quale emerge in a software simulation, if the actual atoms and molecules and chemical and electrical reactions aren't occuring. One idea is that, without a proper understanding of the physics that might lead to such an event, the simulation would fail to simulate the quale. But even if our current understanding of physics were enough (either now or in the near future), would a simulation of a quale actually be experienced? What if the simulation were just a few bytes of data? Well, the word "yellow" is a few bytes of data, but does anyone here think that my computer experienced a quale of "yellowness" as I typed the word? Patently ridiculous. I assert too that just ascribing a few bytes of data at the right time and place during the simulation, in response to the simulated atoms lining up and reacting in a certain way, wouldn't actually make some conciousness in the computer experience yellowness. It's still just a bunch of ones and zeroes, and regardless of whatever ability the informating processing capacity of the program might have to "verbally report" that it's alive and conscious and experiencing the world, we have no plausible reason to believe it. Well, other than our hippy desire to be at peace and be one with Gaia and treat rocks and protons with respect.
It is from this position then that I evaluate all claims about simulating consciousness in a computer. Some sort of hardware must be present to perform the non-software task of doing whatever it is that biochemistry does to give rise to qualia. It might be possible to do without an organic substrate... In fact, we may even be able to turn much of our raw informating processing capabilities into software. But whatever portion of our brains gives us the capacity for qualia, to see, hear, feel, and even sense and "see" and "hear" our own thoughts, will need to remain on special hardware. Probably not basic transistors, but something capable of... whatever it is that either allows qualia to "emerge" (I hate that word, it's such a cop-out), or to precipitate or be created out of the void. And that's even assuming that qualia are physical in nature. Which we have no credible theory to even believe, yet. If qualia are non-physical, then... Well, that still doesn't rule out a change of substrate, but it certainly makes it nigh impossible to ponder at this time.
BTW, Nate, thanks for the link to Ben's article. Good reading, just finished it. I'm not sure how it affects the software simulations I proposed, but it did help put a new perspective on the qualia issue that I found in neither Dennett's nor Chalmers's writings, at least the few I've read from either.
#20 eternaltraveler
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Location:Silicon Valley, CA
But in effect, it doesn't really say anything. I experience the world, and I am according to all my experience, composed of atoms and molecules and chemical reactions and macromolecules and complex molecular structures all interacting in a perversely complex manner, with electrical and chemical processes being involved at the least, and possibly (but not necessarily) quantum level events as well. This is the only basis for which we can rationally assume that consciousness might be physically based, and it's a hell of a lot more than just "information processing".
Jay all you are basically saying here is that consciousness is really really really complex, and therefore we can't simulate it, which is a falicious argument. So it's complex, that just means it will be very difficult to simulate it.
I don't know how complex it truely is, and neither do you. Perhaps it will require a computer you mention in your first case, and perhaps it will require one far beyond what you mention in your last. But saying that these magic qualia you speak of can only emerge in the one way you already know them to have is like saying people can never fly because we don't have wings.
Actually, that wasn't what he was saying. The question is: can reality be represented perfectly by 0's and 1's? Is a computer simulation equivilant reality, no matter how complex the simulation is? Complexity is not the issue here.
The set of possible computer simulations built on 0's and 1's is countably infinite system (disregarding the limitation of obtaining matter to build the computer), but is everything in reality representable within this system?
Edit: Hmm, Osiris got a word in there before I could, so to be clear who I'm replying to:
(JustineRebo)
I don't know how complex it truely is, and neither do you.
No, I didn't just say it's really, really, really complex. I said it's complexity (of whatever degree) upon atoms, and upon actual physical processes. People like to believe that complexity "mystically" leads to "emergent" phenomena, and then tease religious people. Hypocrites.
The information processing can in theory be done in software, because what is software but information and its processing. But the qualia are, as far as we can determine, complexity layered upon atoms, electrons, the electromagnetic force, and possibly but not necessarily upon various quantum phenomena. There is no reason even vaguely, let alone cogently, plausible to suggest that placing the same degree of complexity in the complete absense of the physical components would lead to qualia. To think otherwise is to be a mystic.
There is no reason...
...yet. I reserve the right to be proven wrong by future philosophers and/or scientists.
Hmm, I hate to throw this discussion a little off-topic, but I think it's a fun tangent that won't digress too far from the original question...
Lazarus Long brought up the old "If a tree falls in the forest and nobody hears it does it make any noise?" question that starts off so many discussions of philosophy. It's a wonderfully sinister question in that it's never terribly relevant to any other discussions, yet has the power to undermine them.
In a very simplistic sense, I experience the world, and from this subjective reality I build an objective reality, as per the description in Ben's blog entry (not the article that Nate Barna linked to, but the blog entry which that article referenced).
In my subjective reality, there are other agents (DonSpanton, for example, who hasn't replied here yet, or Osiris, or JustinRebo, or Susmariosep, etc.) who, according to my objective reality, are humans like me. Of course, according to my subjective reality, they are just the authors of a bunch of comments and PM's here at ImmInst. But in "my" objective reality, they are human beings with thoughts, feelings, and presumably, qualia.
But in my subjective reality, the only person that has qualia is me. And since my objective reality is only a subset, and probably not even a proper subset, of the "real world" (which itself doesn't have much meaning, since my objective reality is about as real as the world gets for me), who's to say whether or not anybody but me has qualia?
Now, in Susma's objective world (not his subjective world, but "his" objective world), perhaps the software programs I mentioned would have qualia. Perhaps in JustinRebo's objective world as well.
But presumably, there is an actual "real world" out there, and in that world, it doesn't matter whether I think a rock or a software program has qualia, or whether Justin or Susma does either. Either the rock or the software program has qualia, or it doesn't. No amount of mathematical complexity or "beauty" or "elegance" will change that fact in the "real world", though it might change that fact in various person's objective realities.
Thus the question of whether a tree which falls and nobody hears it. Does it make a sound? Well, it doesn't make a sound in anybody's subjective reality. But what about in a person's objective reality? And what about in the actual "real world"? Does it make sense to speak of the "real world" if we can't know anything more than our own "objective" realities?
For example, let's say we have a string of a million 1's and 0's. How does that string of 1's and 0's come to represent a picture of a dog? In the absense of someone to look at the picture and say, "Hey, that's a picture of a dog!", does that string of 1's and 0's represent a dog? Might it not be a sound file that represents a funky 22nd century musical instrument? Or a file that needs to be decrypted and uncompressed to be a map of a buried treasure? What gives those 1's and 0's meaning? What makes those 1's and 0's a picture of a dog, and not the data structure of a 20,000 node neural network that is experiencing the quale of yellow?
In this sense, it is "we" who give those bits meaning. The bits, in and of themselves, have no "meaning", and hence couldn't possibly experience the quale of yellow.
So in a sense, those bits of data in the Jay-3.0 simulation, or perhaps even in the Jay-2.0 or Jay-1.0 simulations, might experience qualia in the objective reality of some people here. But is that what matters? If a person believes a rock is experiencing qualia and should have rights and be protected, if in fact that person believes the rock is a supremely intelligent (if not quiet) alien who, if we destroy it, will never be able to teach us the meaning of life, should we respect that person's wish to not destroy the rock?
Should we respect a future society that gives human rights and protections to purely software-driven AI, when in fact it is patently absurd that such AIs deserve such respect and recognition and protection? This is why many religious groups are opposed to the idea, and somehow, because religious groups oppose giving rights to software AIs, that must mean that software AIs can be conscious, because anything a religious person believes must be mystical BS.
It's like having the KKK come support your effort to have racial preferences overturned. It taints your effort, even if the effort is justifiable and sound.
Yes, religious people think the idea of giving human rights to software AIs is patently absurd. Does the fact that they're religious make them wrong? Why can't a rational person, who even accepts the possibility that qualia and consciousness are entirely physical in nature, suggest that qualia and consciousness can't be "simulated" in software alone?
A world of people which believe that software AIs truly "experience" the world wouldn't be much different from a world in which people believe that the Pharaoh is divine, or that burning trees (with or without virgins tied to them) at the winter solstice causes the sun to come back. It makes it "real" in their personal objective worlds, but does it really make it "real"?
And yes, I'm heavily biasing this argument on the conclusion that software AIs can't truly "experience" the world, but we heavily bias our assumptions every day based on what's logically concludeable at the time. I could be just as wrong as the vitalists or the evolutionists. [tung]
To think otherwise is to be a mystic.
I dunno, your position seems quite mystical to me.
What seems most mystical is that you think a simulation of you could act like you in every way without having qualia. And you think that whatever behavior any kind of AI demonstrates that it can't have qualia either. That's ridiculous. Until then your position could be right, but once something like that is demonstrated you have been proven wrong (if it happens). Your rational for a simulation of you taken from a scan of your brain displaying all of your kind of behavior but still not having anyone behind the wheel doesn't make any sense. Do you think a scan of your brain would be transformed into a super advanced A.L.I.C.E.?
Just what do you think it is that your qualia comes from? Atoms bumbing into eachother? Some degree of haphazardness? Super duper complexity? Granted we don't know entirely the nature of consciousness, but all you seem to be doing is pointing to the unknown and saying "we don't know what that is therefore it is impossible to ever simulate it".
The brain is an information processing machine made out of matter just like computer chips are made of matter. In a computer chip you don't have 1s and 0s flying around. The one's and zeros are just representations of what is happening. What is really happening is electrons are physically zooming around, voltages build up that are either capable or not of bridging gaps. Quantum randomness is taking it's toll.
What is happening in your brain? Ions are being exchanged causing voltages build up that are either capable or not of bridging gaps (capable=1 not=0). Quantum randomness is taking it's toll.
This is information processing. It is just much more complex than any information processing we are currently capable of.
Where does the magic qualia come from? Some sodium atom doesn't cross over a plasma membrane when it was supposed too... BANG! qualia?
Why is it that you think "qualia" can't be an output just like an output just like an image on a computer screen is output. Just a type of output designed to monitor other kinds of output. If it isn't output what is it?
I'm really having trouble understanding your rational.
#26 DJS
Hey Jay, I wrote some of this the other day, but never had a chance to put it up:
Don Neurotransmitter diffusion rates, post synaptic potentials, neuromodulators, and so on and so forth… There is no doubt that the complexity underlying the process of consciousness is mind boggling. However, I’ve come to realize that your concerns go further than just the complexity displayed by our current biological substrate. For you, it is not just about the *information* or *information processing* capabilities exhibited by the substrate. What concerns you is this nagging suspicion that certain aspects of our consciousness simply can not be *coded* for. From this base line supposition all functionalist accounts of consciousness will be inherently deficient. So instead you focus your attention on entirely speculative (can’t even really say hypothetical yet, can we?) biochemical components of the substrate which could supply us with the phenomenal aspects of our consciousness.
I think one of the greatest challenges facing the creation of real AI is the need to be able to take sensory data from the outside world and incorporate it into a coherent internal model. The reason, I would suggest, that humans have such an easy time with this is that evolution has supplied them with an already "hard wired" substrate that predisposes them towards language acquisition, spatial perception, motor coordination, etc. There is no doubt that this will make creating *seed AI* difficult, but one should not operate under the assumption that AI is an all or nothing deal. After all, humans aren't created as fully functioning adults. They come into the world as helpless infants with minds ready and waiting to suck up as much information from the external world they possibly can. The idea would be to build a nascent AI with the ability to acquire new information using it sensory equipment.
The mind is a four dimensional modeller of the external world. Objects and motion ARE, at a very basic level, coded for. I could go into a whole monologue about structures, schemas and metaphors. I could cite you numerous neuroscientists with the latest theories on how representation and abstraction occur. But somehow I don't think this would make any difference because you would simply respond back, "Yes, but does that really explain why we 'understand'?" The answer is that, yes, it does. Information processing is not information. Information processing is information being related to other information in a dynamic, functional manner. So, IMO, when it comes to conceptual elements of consciousness you are simply wrong. There is an abundance of information out there for anyone willing to look. For instance, check out ---> The Cerebral Code (free online!)
The area of our debates that has bothered me, however, was my inability to explain the phenomenal or *qualitative* aspects of subjective experience. So this weekend, while I was busy performing other mundane tasks, I really racked my brain trying to come up with a functionalist explanation for the notion of *qualia*. And to my surprise I did. Of course, although I haven't yet found it, I am sure that someone else has thought of this idea, but here goes...
(I wrote this while covered in paint [lol] )
The fact that we can not define a "quale" in a meaningful, empirical way seems to imply that phenomenal experience is not representational in the traditional manner associated with a functionalist account of consciousness, but is instead indicative of a relational model. The particular wave length represented as the quale of red is distinguished as a relationally defined member of the total color schema. IOW, a quale's subjective quality is not defined by its functional representation, but by its functional relationship to other quale.
This line of reasoning fits in nicely with Dennett's attempt to destroy the notion that qualia exist in objective reality. If a quale's phenominal properties can in some instances fluctuate, then this would seem to suggest that it is defined not by its own attributes, but by its relation to other quale of a particular order.
There will never be the physicalist explanation you are looking for Jay because qualia are completely a product of subjective experience -- nothing more.
What seems most mystical is that you think a simulation of you could act like you in every way without having qualia. And you think that whatever behavior any kind of AI demonstrates that it can't have qualia either. That's ridiculous.
Not really. A video camera can make out a visual representation of the room, and if attached to some pathetically basic software (pathetically basic compared to the brain of an insect, at least), the camera could be used to pick out objects and identify colors in the room. Does the video camere/software combination have "qualia". The idea is absurd, and yet there you have it, something without qualia that can pick out objects visually and identify colors. So why couldn't a simulation of me easily do the same without actually experiencing qualia.
And I admit that, if qualia have an effect on the physical world, such as affecting someone's decisions, then the simulation would not act exactly like me.
The problem is, according to MWI, two versions of me that start out identically wouldn't act exactly the same either. So we couldn't, even in theory, determine if the simulation failed to act exactly like me, if it acted very very closely like me. Yes, the absence of qualia might be a dead giveaway, if we but had the ability to view every path that MWI takes and create the appropriate statistical model of what my behavior would be like, and then compare that to the statistical behavior of the simulation after multiple runs. Unfortunately, such a test isn't even theoretically possible at this time, though I hold out hope it might be some day. At any rate, short of such a test, a simulation could act very very similarly, though not identically, and we'd never be able to tell the difference. Of course, this assumes that qualia have very little direct impact on our behavior, but this is fairly obvious when you consider how much of our behavior is dictated by A) our genes, B) our upbringing and everything we've experienced, C) our chemical and hormonal state, including any imbalances, etc. It seems obvious to me, given how much of our psychology we know to be governed by the laws of physics (and the higher order "laws" of chemistry and biology), that our qualia could have very little immediate impact on our actions. This doesn't rule out classical free will, it just limits the timescales it operates on. Anyway, that's a discussion we can get into in another thread...
What gives those 1's and 0's meaning? What makes those 1's and 0's a picture of a dog
The 1s and 0s must be related to the external world.
By?
Jay, how would your simulation respond to the question "Do you have qualia?"
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The house in the Ozarks was still blazing, swallowed by fire with her four nephews inside, when Lindsey VanPelt sped to the scene. The boys’ mother, Tina Brazil, had called her in a panic.
Brazil was not at home when the fire began to engulf the house close to 1 a.m. Thursday, filling the night sky above the water of McCoy Branch Cove with sickly light.
Neighbor Eddie Helt, 81, said he had awakened just before 1 a.m., detected the smoke, shouted for his wife to call 911.
He rushed outside, tried to enter the house. But the intense heat beat him back from 15 feet away.
That’s when Helt saw the boys' mother pull up to the house in her car with her boyfriend, Mike Andrews. Brazil, Helt said, went “berserk.” She knew her children — Tyler Otto, 14; Cason Otto, 8; Max Otto, 5; and Levi Otto, 4 — were inside.
“My children! My kids! My kids!” he heard her scream.
It took five firefighters, Helt said, to restrain Andrews from trying to get into the home.
“There was nothing you could do,” Helt said.
Firefighters from the Lake Ozark Fire Protection District were dispatched at 12:51 a.m. and arrived at 1 a.m. at the house at 1636 Carol Road. They were unable to enter. The rear of the entire house had collapsed.
Mother Tina Brazil pictured above with her four children in an image from May 2017
When firefighters were finally able to enter the home they found the bodies of the four children and two pets. Autopsies on the children this week will determine the causes of death.
On Thursday evening, under a cool, clear blue sky, the two-story Lake Ozark home where VanPelt said her nephews lived a joyous life was surrounded by yellow police tape, a blackened hulk gutted by fire. The smell of charred wood soaked the air.
On Friday, VanPelt said, she would go to make funeral arrangements. Yet in the midst of her grief, at times breaking into tears, she agreed to talk about the boys because she wanted people to know who they were.
So did Brazil, who on Thursday posted a message about her children on social media.
“My babies,” Brazil wrote. “I don’t have any words to say how we are all feeling. . . .Tyler was my Tyler-man. Soccer and the biggest do-gooder heart I’ve ever seen. Cason bug was my smarty pants early talker, artist and avid reader.
“Monster Max popped off with some of the funniest things ever at the most random moments and was a crazy awesome dancer and had the biggest imagination I’ve ever seen.
“Levi was my little nugget who would say, ‘Mommy, I love you, Mommy,’ at least 50 times a day."
“They grew up in a fun-loving family," VanPelt said. "They always had smiles on their faces. They could turn anything into a good time. They just had hearts of gold.”
Angie Lawrence, Brazil’s sister and the boys' aunt, said the mother is heartbroken.
“She lost everything. They were her life,” said Lawrence, who drove from her home in St. Louis to be with the family as soon as she heard the news.
“Our lives are never going to be the same without them."
When asked if Brazil had left the boys home alone, Lawrence said, “Honestly, I just want to leave that out because I don’t want her to hear the criticism. … She has been through enough.”
Like in a majority of states, Missouri law does not stipulate how old a child must be in order to be left home alone, according to a search of state statutes.
About a dozen states do set minimum ages for children before they can be left alone. For states that have laws, minimum ages range from 8 to 14, according to the Washington Post.
Lawrence said the local fire department told the family that a preliminary investigation indicated an ember from a nearby barbecue may have started the blaze. The facade of the home is believed to have initially caught fire.
At a press conference Thursday afternoon, fire officials said that because of the time of day, the fire probably went unnoticed for some period of time. Gusty winds off the lake probably contributed to its growth. No smoke detectors were found, but they could have been destroyed in the fire.
The School of the Osage posted on its Facebook page Thursday that it "is saddened today about the loss of four of our students in a house fire early this morning. Additional counseling support is available for students impacted."
Brazil and boyfriend Mike Andrews, who tried to rescue the children from the burning home, are pictured above in an image from June 2017
Kenneth Otto, the boys’ paternal grandfather, became emotional as he spoke about the four boys.
“You can’t replace them,” he said.
When the boys were not with their mother, they spent weekends and three weeks each summer with their father, Travis Otto, who moved in with his own father in Westphalia after the couple divorced.
Kenneth Otto said his son went fishing Thursday afternoon, unable to remain in the house following the news of his sons’ deaths.
“He said, ‘Dad, I just need to get outside,’” Kenneth Otto said, adding, “You’re just numb. There’s nothing you can say, there’s just – there’s just nothing. You can lose everything in the snap of your finger."
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Magic Kingdom Dispatch
Writing for oblivion.
Globalist RINO John McCain Should Just Go Away
John McCain, globalist, RINO, perfumed prince of the Pentagon, military royalty, and not in a good way, opposes Donald J. Trump because McCain's wife is filthy rich, he has all the money and luxury that a man could ever need, and because McCain is at the end of a long, corrupt political career. All that McCain wants is more power. Because he is drunk on it.
When Donald Trump says that he wants to drain the swamp of Washington corruption, John McCain is in the middle of it.
Speaking for myself, McCain lost me forever when he suppressed the Congressional testimony of families who lost loved ones in Southeast Asia, mocking and haranguing them over what he dismissed as a "conspiracy theory."
The fact is, there are theories, and they are definitely conspiratorial, but the true conspiracy resides in the cover up, not in the abandonment, though the abandonment remains the most grotesque act of treachery and treason in American history.
I have had long conversations, you see, with my friend, Major Mark Smith, an American Green Beret and an indisputable war hero who sued Ronald Reagan because the US government abandoned American POWs in Vietnam.
Yes, I said that. Read it again. I mean it.
Smith recounted precisely what McCain did. And the hypocrisy and the selfishness of McCain's actions can be summed up in the statements made one day in Bangkok by his colleague Senator John Kerry.
Mark Smith was talking in the lobby of a hotel in Bangkok to Senator John Kerry, who with McCain was on the Senate Select Committee on POW / MIA Affairs, and who collaborated with John McCain to squelch any investigation into the abandonment of American servicemen in Southeast Asia.
When Smith began explaining how many POWs remained in the hands of Hanoi, the Bonesman John Kerry interrupted Mark Smith and told him that America would not go to war over our prisoners. Those were John Kerry's exact words.
The fact that successive American governments repeatedly left American POWs in the hands of their North Vietnamese captors was political kryptonite. The policy began under Nixon and that war criminal Henry Kissinger, and solidified when the Congress refused to endorse the Nixon/Kissinger promise of some $4 billion dollars in war reparations.
The North Vietnamese felt jilted, they felt ripped off, and they kept our POWs. And then we just left them there.
John Kerry and John McCain were at the heart of this sickening duplicity, a corrupt policy that compelled LTC Millard Tony Peck, then head of the MIA/POW office in DIA, to resign in protest.
Why? You wonder? For money. John Kerry and John McCain both positioned themselves to profit handsomely from the normalization of relations between America and Vietnam. Both men were already wealthy. I suppose that they just wanted more.
Ronald Reagan, alone of all presidents, spun up a rescue mission, to a point where Delta Force squadrons actually deployed to a staging base. They were stood down, this story is confirmed in Eric Haney's book on Delta, and the remaining POWs were abandoned. Yet again.
So, yes. I despise John McCain. And not because he talked on the radio and made propaganda transmissions for the enemy while he himself was in captivity in Hanoi.
Mark Smith, a retired Major in Special Forces, despises John McCain, because Smith heard McCain committing treason on the radio from his hole in the ground where the North Vietnamese kept Smith because of his unremitting resistance.
When my fellow Green Beret Mark Smith tells me these stories, I feel vast admiration for him and profound contempt and pity for John McCain, who is condemned by his fellow POWs. They hate him. Just ask them.
Mark Smith is readily contacted, by the way. He lives around the corner from me here in Bangkok, and we talk often.
Mark Smith is a great, great American. John McCain is a scum bag.
posted by Esteban Trujillo de Gutierrez at Tuesday, February 21, 2017
Hey there...I am Jeff Cooper from Facebook. Friday I was banned from there for 30 days for posting on pizzagate-pedogate. I have been told that David Seaman has taken a break on his investigation because of stress and sickness from this sick shit.
I have found 10 new sites on youtube today that are trying to support podesta and feed everyone fake news like he did recently in his bullshit interview.
1500 people have been arrested so far and the NCMEC website has been tampered with...Brian Podesta happens to work there; Johns son. His daughter, Mary Rouse works for the school board in SF BAY AREA.
This fucked up shit is about to explode in the Clinton, Obama face....perhaps the Bush's too..we shall see.
I found this and thought you might read it...
http://ladonnarae1961.blogspot.in/2016/12/benghazi-pizzagate.html?m=1
Esteban Trujillo de Gutierrez said...
Sorry you got banned bro. I got to wonder when it will happen to me.
Checking your link now. Thanks.
Thanks, I saw your post on fb. Things are coming together and with gw bush speaking out today and the pope shortening sentences of pedo priests, we can only hope our AG keeps hammering away at these traitors. Im expecting a few suicides to happen soon.
I am truly thankful to our intelligence community for helping. Take care
If memory serves, PizzaGate happened after Carlos Danger's 650,000 "insurance" emails were suppressed by the FBI. The leak, courtesy of FBI Anon on 4chan, came out of NYPD. Nobody likes pedophiles.
I also find it interesting that DOJ is the lone agency which does not seem to be afflicted by endless leaks.
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Michigan Film Tax Incentives – Best in the Nation
Motown Becomes Movietown | The Wall Street Journal
Excerpt from The Wall Street Journal article, read the full story here
Across the street from a landscape of vacant houses and overgrown front yards, homicide detectives gather to investigate a murder. They analyze clues and debate how best to interrogate the key witnesses. Then, the director yells “Cut!” and everyone heads to a catered lunch of shrimp scampi and beef tenderloin.
photo illustration by Mick Coulas; Brian Widdis for The Wall Street Journal
The set of the gritty cop show “Detroit 1-8-7″ is one of more than 100 film and television productions that have flocked to Michigan in the last two years, the result of generous tax rebates. Producers have spent nearly $350 million in the state so far, a figure expected to reach $650 million by year’s end, up from $2 million in 2007, according to the Michigan Film Office. About 80% of these shoots take place in and around this iconic but much-maligned city, sprinkling a little stardust, optimism and controversy along the way.
Workers who used to build cars are learning to build sets. The entertainment sector is “a lifeboat as the auto industry adapts and restructures,” says Wayne County Executive Robert A. Ficano.
Signs of activity are everywhere. Hip-looking film-school grads on bicycles run errands in an empty warehouse that once served as a Chrysler distribution center and is now a cavernous 166,000-square-foot production studio for “Detroit 1-8-7.” Sets for the show, premiering on ABC Sept. 21, include a city morgue and a homicide unit with cluttered police desks and corkboards covered with mug shots.
The dilapidated Michigan Central Station, once a transportation hub, with marbled floors and Corinthian columns, has served as a symbol of urban ruination for years. It’s now a key location for productions including “Transformers 3″ and HBO’s “Hung.” On Tuesday “Hostel: Part III” and “Vamps,” a horror-comedy with Sigourney Weaver, both shot in the city’s neo-Gothic Masonic Temple. When “Harold and Kumar 3″ finished a scene this summer that required turning a downtown street into New York City at Christmas, set designers left the fake subway entrance intact, knowing another production would soon need it.
Read the entire story in the Wall Street Journal Article
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Film Office Director: Industry ‘booming’ in Michigan
Michigan Film Office Director Carrie Jones believes it’s an “incredibly exciting time for Michigan.” Jones took over the position earlier this summer and hopes to “carry on the trajectory” her predecessor, Janet Lockwood, set for Michigan’s film industry.
MFO Director Carrie Jones
In 2007, when the state had what Jones calls a “baby incentive,” three films shot in Michigan, spending $2 million. The current incentives passed in April 2008, and that year 35 film productions spent $135 million. Productions spent $223 million in 2009, and the film office estimates productions this year will spend more than $300 million, Jones said.
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Thousands of jobs are being created by the Michigan Film Incentives with 4,000 crew and 4,000 acting jobs for ’09 alone.
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Transformers 3 | Michigan Film
Transformers 3 begins filming in Michigan now that its Chicago segment is completed. The movie commenced principal photography in Los Angeles in June and stars Shia LaBeouf, Rosie Huntington-Whiteley and Hugo Weaving (“Lords of The Rings”, “The Matrix”). Director Michael Bay and Producer Steven Spielberg bring their big film budget trilogy to the streets of Detroit revisiting the locations of their successful previous shooting in this town on the original Transformers. Film also stars John Turturro, Josh Duhamel and Tyrese Gibson and will be released in 3-D. Clearly an acknowledgement of the growing film industry in Michigan thanks to the Michigan Film Incentives of 40-42% offered by the state. - Michigan Film Production
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Raleigh Michigan Studios Declared a “Promise Spotlight” Success Story by Governor Granholm
Governor Granholm today touted Pontiac, the studio and sound stages of Raleigh Michigan Studios as a “Promise Spotlight” success story during the 2010 Emerging Cities Summit in Lansing. CEO Linden Nelson has stated that an official grand opening will be held toward the end of the year with soundstages open for business in February or March 2011.
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Post Production Business in Michigan Booming
Michigan Film Production is benefitting from the Michigan Film Tax Incentives with the increase of post production houses in the state. Editorial, VFX, CGI are lucrative and creative areas for the rapidly expanding film industry in Michigan. “Alice in Wonderland” and “Piranha 3D” are just two films enabling Michigan filmmakers with their inbound business, thanks to Grace and Wild Studios and With A Twist.
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Raleigh Michigan Studios Breaks Ground Construction Commenced
Michigan Film Production | Michigan Motion Pictures Studios
A film and “teaching studio” complex in a former General Motors truck and bus manufacturing facility in Pontiac should be up and running early next year, said Linden Nelson, chairman and CEO of Michigan Motion Picture Studios LLC. At 5 p.m. today, Gov. Jennifer Granholm and others will participate in a ceremonial groundbreaking at Centerpoint Parkway, but work already has begun on the site to convert the defunct plant into Raleigh Michigan Studios. From The Detroit News
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Michigan Film a “Double” for Paris, Russia, Switzerland, Baltimore, Washington D.C. in Detroit
Detroit, Michigan doubles for Paris, Russia, Switzerland, Baltimore and Washington D.C. in Richard Gere, Topher Grace movie “The Double”, currently shooting in Detroit through August
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ABC’s “Detroit 1-8-7″ First Network Primetime TV Series for Michigan
ABC television networks new series “Detroit 1-8-7″ starring Michael Imperioli (“The Sopranos”) is a major victory for the Michigan Film Incentives bringing Detroit its first network primetime tv series.
Hugh Jackman Starts Real Steel Shoot
Real Steel commenced shooting in Michigan with Hugh Jackman starring in robot fighter father and son tale.
In “Real Steel,” Jackman plays an out-of-work fighter who, with his estranged son, grooms a junkyard robot boxer as a contender in the new, no-humans-allowed league. The film will use motion-capture animation for the robot-on-robot brawling action, but in live-action scenes — which started shooting Monday — the human actors get to interact with 19 real-life animatronic creations. Directed by Shawn Levy from Executive Producer Steven Spielberg.
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Militant Islam Monitor > Articles > Terror suspects arrested on KLM jet in Germany -police appeal for help in tracing terrorists planning attack
Terror suspects arrested on KLM jet in Germany -police appeal for help in tracing terrorists planning attack
German commandos board KLM jet and arrest terror suspects
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German police commandos stormed a KLM passenger jet at Cologne/Bonn airport and arrested two men after terror suicide notes were allegedly found at their homes.
Flight KL1804 bound for Amsterdam had received permission to take off but police reversed that decision, boarded the aircraft and detained a 23-year-old Somali man and a 24-year-old German citizen born in Somalia.
All passengers were told to get off the plane to identify their luggage and the bags of the two arrested men were taken away. A police spokesman declined to say whether the men resisted arrest. The flight finally departed for Amsterdam with a delay of one hour and 10 minutes.
"This morning at Cologne Bonn airport at around 0655 two men were detained in an aircraft shortly before take-off," police said in a statement.
Plane comes off runway at German airport
Canadian found guilty of terror plot to behead PM
Hotel bomb shows al-Qaeda's deadly new reach
"A 23-year-old Somali national and a 24-year-old German citizen born in Mogadishu are under suspicion of wanting to take part in a jihad and in possible attacks. Farewell letters to that effect were left behind."
The arrests come one year after three terror suspects - two German converts to Islam and a Turkish national - were arrested in Germany in September 2007 on suspicion of plotting bomb attacks on Frankfurt airport and the US military air base at Ramstein.
In a separate case, Germany's BKA federal police force this week appealed for the public's help in the hunt for two other terror suspects, German Eric Breininger and Lebanese-born Houssain al-Malla, who are believed to be planning an attack in Germany.
Mr Breininger, 21, from the town of Neunkirchen in southwestern Germany, converted to Islam and trained in camps in the border region between Afghanistan and Pakistan. Several videos of Mr Breininger threatening to launch a suicide attack and posing with terrorists have been posted on the internet this year.
Authorities said they had no indication of any specific targets for a terror attack. http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/europe/article4830278.ece
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Unbreakable Sequel: A may be?
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Kilgore Trout
Re: Unbreakable Sequel: A may be?
Of course the flashbacks will not be the central plot of the movie. But the kind of flashbacks I talked about can be connected to the centeral story, I think.
standtall
Heroes don't get killed like that.
KT:
I agree with you. It is the central plot of a sequel that is the biggest challenge. Night set the bar almost impossibly high...
Can he get there? Maybe. If anybody can do it, he's the one.
I agree, nobody else but Night could do a sequel to Unbreakable.
Sri HK
Source: http://www.scifi.co.uk/articles/2009/01/the-most-under-rated-superhero.php
What you see isn't always what u get.
Quote from: Sri HK on March 14, 2009, 02:36:54 AM
http://img135.imageshack.us/img135/2161/unbreakable500.jpg
Wow, I love this image! Just made it my Wallpaper!
It's underrated because people don't even think about it being a superhero movie.
Mr. Glass:
I know I didn't understand it was a "superhero" movie. I felt like a dunce when I learned it was; now I'm telling all my friends it is the best superhero movie ever made.
standtall, don't feel like a dunce, lots of people don't even think or consider it a superhero movie, so don't beat yourself over the head. Just keep doing what you're doing and telling people that it really is a superhero film.
I just told a friend how good it is; and this friend loves superheroes...has a big coffee book superhero book on her table...and she said the movie was "okay." And she loves the TV series "Heroes." I like it too. But it was M. Night who did it first and best.
She said she's not a big fan of Samuel Jackson. Maybe if she watches it again...she'll it appreciate it more. I know that's what happened with me.
The divine in me bows before the divine in you.
Heroes started out ok when the characters were still stereotypes which could be defined by their powers, but it got pretty weak. I do like the fact that it sheds light on the police state aspect of America though.
and Samuel Jackson was really good in the movie 1408 with john cusack. (good movie all around)
See the villain's larger eyes insinuating a just-off-normal perspective on how they see the world? I see signs Lucius Hunt; just not as you see dead people. I am so very happy we saw..each other, and no I will not tell you what color love is. Stop asking.
I haven't seen any of Heroes, but I want to, at least the first season.
Yeah the first season is pretty much the only one worth making an effort to watch. I'll watch Heroes these days if im home and not doing anything when it comes on.
M. Night Shyamalan Still Considering ?Unbreakable? Sequel
On the surface, it might look like M. Night Shyamalan has moved on from ?Unbreakable,? the director?s fourth feature film. After all, he?s already hip-deep in production on ?The Last Airbender,? his adaptation of the popular animated series ? does he really have enough room in his geek bone to revisit the moody superhero film?
During a recent press event, Shyamalan addressed that very question as put forth by MTV News ? is he still considering ?Unbreakable 2″? According to the director, that answer is a resounding yes.
?I am,? revealed Shyamalan. ?I don?t know where all the parties are in the world. Sam [Jackson] is like ?Mr. Comic Book? now. And Bruce, I don?t know what he?s up to. I don?t know where Disney?s at in their head and what kind of movies they?re up for making. But yeah, I love that movie.?
This isn?t the first time that Shyamalan has enthused about continuing the ?Unbreakable? mythos. Last year, he revealed that he?d like to start working on it immediately, but that he also wanted to make sure the timing was right.
?I want a story to pop into my head that is organic and expressive of who I am,? he said at the time. ?You know, these are all kinds of journals of where I am emotionally, so it?s kind of hard. I?m kind of trying to go back to the journal that existed in 1999 for me. But I know me: As soon as I give up on it is when the idea will come to me.?
Even Samuel L. Jackson has expressed interest in revisiting his ?Unbreakable? character. With him and Shyamalan on board, how could the film?s star Bruce Willis be able to say no? If nothing else, he could send a surrogate to act the part for him!
http://splashpage.mtv.com/2009/06/17/m-night-shyamalan-still-considering-unbreakable-sequel/
They should make it. It will be awesome.
kkehoe5
I just watched Unbreakable for the second time last night on netflix.com. It was the the first time I had seen it since the theater. I am not sure why everyone gives this movie so much praise. It is a good story, just not the greatist M Night has done IMO. People claime this to be his best work? The long pauses during the dialog just kills me. Watching people interact so unnaturally ruins it for me. The story is good, the acting is bad. If they make a sequal I hope they let the actors interact and talk to eachother in a normal way.
I don't want to sound like I am bashing the movie or M Night, it is not as great for me as it is to others I guess. I really don't understand it.
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Renters’ union mobilizes against housing crisis
Photo by Justin Langille.
There’s at least a year left until a decision is made on the future of Heather Place social housing, but the Vancouver Renters’ Union says there’s not time to wait to mobilize renters to fight for their rights to affordable, sustainable and quality housing.
The Renters’ Union is hosting The Future of Social Housing, a panel discussion on June 16 at Douglas Park Community Centre, to discuss the housing crisis for low-income renters in Vancouver. Using Heather Place as an example, the union hopes to encourage renters to organize and stand up to developers and the city.
“The list of topics [for the event] is things like the expiry of funding for all social housing in B.C., the experience of Little Mountain, and also models that people can think of as alternatives,” says Renters’ Union member Nathan Crompton, who will be speaking about Heather Place specifically at the event.
An 84-unit property owned by Metro Vancouver Housing Corporation (MVHC), Heather Place has mold problems. MVHC is in favour of constructing new units instead of repairing existing ones. The rents will remain below market level, but the union argues those rates are double what low-income tenants are paying now.
In addition to Crompton, the speakers will include Jean Swanson of the Carnegie Community Action Project, The Mainlander editor Sean Antrim and UBC urban geography professor Elvin Wyly.
“The people who speak on behalf of the housing crisis are most often not renters,” says Crompton. “The alternative to political elites making the decisions for renters is to get organized and provide an alternative for what it would mean to solve the housing crisis.
“It’s one thing to speak generally about a housing crisis, but it’s a different thing to speak from the perspective of the people who are most affected, which is renters."
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Title: 붉은달 푸른해 / Children of Nobody
Chinese Title: 赤月青日
also known as: Red Moon Blue Sun
Genre: Mystery, Thriller
Broadcast network: MBC
Broadcast period: 2018-Nov-21 to 2019-Jan-16
Air time: Wednesday & Thursday 21:55 (2 episodes back-to-back)
This drama is about a woman, whose life suddenly falls apart due to an accident too sudden to prevent, becoming involved in several incidents as she searches for the truth.
Cha Woo Kyung (Kim Sun Ah), works as a children’s counselor in a children’s center. She has it all, her life is perfect. She enjoys her job, she is married to a gentle and caring husband and is pregnant with her second child. It all changes when suddenly an accident changes her life. From that point forward she will have to face several incidents and end up discovering the truth.
Meanwhile, Kang Ji Hun (Lee Yi Kyung), works as a detective. He firmly believes that criminals should be punished by law. He suffers a lot because of a traumatic past that he doesn’t want to talk about.
Kim Sun Ah as Cha Woo Kyung
Lee Yi Kyung as Kang Ji Hun
N as Lee Eun Ho
Nam Gyu Ri as Jun Soo Young
Woo Kyung’s family
Na Young Hee as Heo Jin Ok (Woo Kyung’s mother)
Oh Hye Won as Cha Se Kyung (Woo Kyung’s younger sister)
– Chae Yoo Ri as as Cha Se Kyung (child)
Kim Young Jae as Kim Min Suk (Woo Kyung’s husband)
Joo Ye Rim as Kim Eun Seo (Woo Kyung and Min Suk’s daughter)
Hanul Children’s Center people
Kim Bup Rae as Song Ho Min
Joo Suk Tae as Yoon Tae Joo
??? (To Be announced) as Song Jae Hak
Park Soo Young as Hong Ki Tae
Yun Je Hyung as Kwon Chan Wook
Ha Eun Soo as Lee Yeon Joo
Kim Kang Hoon as Han Shi Wan
Kang Mal Geum (강말금) as Shi Wan’s mother
Lee Hwa Ryong
Kim Ji Eun as Min Joo
Ha Joo Hee as Park Ji Hye
Kim Yeo Jin
Production Company: Mega Monster
Chief Producer: Son Hyung Suk
Executive Producer: Lee Jun Ho, Kim Yong Jin
Producer: Kim Ho Young
Director: Choi Jung Kyu
Scriptwriter: Do Hyun Jung
Lee Joon Hyuk was first offered for male lead, but he declined the role.
2018 MBC Drama Awards – Top Excellence Actress (Wed-Thurs Drama): Kim Sun Ah (Children of Nobody)
2018-11-21 1 5.4 - 5.2 5.3
2018-11-28 5 4.1 - 3.8 -
2018-11-29 7 - - 3.9 -
2018-12-05 10 5.2 - 5.5 (20th) -
2018-12-06 11 - - 5.0 (19th) -
2018-12-06 12 - - 6.0 (16th) 6.0 (15th)
2018-12-12 13 - - 3.9 3.9
2018-12-13 15 3.6 - 4.3 4.6
2018-12-19 x x x x x
2018-12-20 18 3.5 - 4.7 5.4 (19th)
2019-01-03 25 - - 4.6 5.3 (20th)
– Official Trailer
– Trailer I
– Trailer II
1 : Thomas W Says:
Hah! The kid that won in the relay race Han Shi Wan (Kim Kang Hoon) was the child Eugene Choi in Mr Sunshine
2 : Windsun33 Says:
This is better than the description would make you think.
3 : Children of Nobody Says:
LOVE Kim Sun Ah 🙂
4 : Sinopsis Children of Nobody Says:
i love this drama..rating 10/10!
5 : annmasae Says:
Enjoying this drama. Kim Sun Ah is a great actress.
6 : SQ Says:
why are the ratings so low? KSA looks so different from her past dramas. much older. Is it a side effect of stopping botox?
7 : Chae Won Says:
It’s DAAAARRRRK!
8 : Nay Says:
Rating 100/10. Full stop.
9 : Rose Says:
Does any one know who this person is? The actor or actress is listed under — “Others.” See below —
“??? as Song Jae Hak” === The name of the person is not listed that is acting as Song Jae Hak.
10 : Sunlight Says:
This is one excellent production. There is something going on in each episode. All the actors are doing great.
Kim Min Suk’s new love live in interest is priming his daughter big time with gifts and all that they are going to be doing. Smart chick.
Cha’s – is it adopted mother? – is a piece of work. Cha must have been abused when she was young. The sister’s eyes keep blinking now and then. Interesting…..
11 : shiva Says:
excellent drama, great acting by all specially kim sunah, don’t look at the rating, one of the best dramas ive sen you can’t predict the outcome till the last episode. very well written.
12 : mtoenlob Says:
A REVIEW: CHILDREN OF NOBODY
“The world hangs on a thin thread, and that thread is the psyche of man…” – C.G. Jung
Children of Nobody is a dark drama with child abuse and child traumas as its underlying theme. In spite of the sensitivity of the subject, it has effectively showcase the atrociousness of abuse and its consequences in a way that is both appalling and eye-opening without sacrificing the storyline.
This drama is a good example of a psychological thriller. It keeps you at the edge of your seat from the very beginning up to the end characterized and defined by the moods it elicits, keeping the viewers guessing with heightened feelings of suspense, excitement and surprise. The inclusion of lines from a poem adds to the mystery and horror to the story.
The drama does not only deal with child abuse and traumas but with their consequences as well. Parallel to the stories of the children are the resulting effects of these traumas to the adults. The experiences a child goes through in his/her childhood mirrors the kind of adult he/she becomes. These experiences in varying degrees affect and shape the adult that he/she is now.
MAN, THE MEASURE OF ALL THINGS
“No matter how much suffering you went through, you never wanted to let go of those memories. Memories warm you up from the inside. But they also tear you apart.” – Haruki Murakami
Man may be a thinking creature, but most of what he does is neither logical or rational. The main characters – Cha Woo Kyung, Kang Ji Hyeon, Jun Soo Young, Lee Eun Ho – are well fleshed out. You cannot help but feel their stories. Thanks to the excellent portrayal by Kim Sun Ah, Lee Yi Kung, Nam Gyu Ri and Cha Hak Yeon (N of VIXX). In particular, Kim Sun Ah has time and again shown that she is an actress of caliber. She effortlessly shifts her emotions seamlessly to show the vulnerabilities of her character.
Children of Nobody is not only a story of the children who were abused but also a story of the adults who were once traumatized children. As the drama progresses, we discover that each character carries with him/her a tormenting experience that would eventually shape the kind of person he/she becomes.
More than the horrendous physical violence, it is the emotional violence that is disturbing which resonates throughout the drama. In most cases, children who were abused or neglected suffer greater emotional damage more than physical damage. Child abuse prepares the mind a lifetime of mental health issues. Abuse and neglect, if left unchecked and unresolved, may result into serious mental health problems that can adversely affect the child’s development and result in irremediable lasting consequences.
The traumatized child grows into a disturbed adult. We see this true in all of the four main characters. CWK, as a child, was shocked seeing her younger sister dead. Her young mind could not comprehend the severity of the incident, thus she had a mental shut down. She has no memories of her childhood. Although not explicitly presented in the story, we can glean from KJH’s attitude towards having children that his childhood is far from pleasant. He could have been a neglected child, denied of affection. JSY, we have seen has been a battered child, suffering physical abuse from her elder brother. What is alarming with this is that such physical abuse was sanctioned by her mother, the very person who should have been her protector. But it is LEH’s childhood experience which is the most disturbing. His harrowing experience as a child left a deep and agonizing emotional wound resulting to a troubled mind which led to gruesome consequences. As the saying goes, “hurting people hurt people.”
THE CHOICES WE MAKE
“Life is about making choices, seeing those choices through, and living through consequences.” – Molly Bloom
Life is a choice. The choices one makes determine to a large extent his happiness or unhappiness, because he has to live with the consequences of his choices.
So much of the hows and whys of what a person does stem from deep fissures of hurts and anguish. All too often he carries the weight of these wounds in his life and it influences his reactions to his environment. Many times, these deep wounds cloud his ability to think.
The brothers, LEH and YTJ chose the path of dispensing justice through death as a way of putting an end to each child’s abuse. They have no qualms in murdering (either committed by LEH himself or through mental conditioning/manipulation as shown by YTJ) those they perceived as the abusers. While LEH’s devastating childhood pain and burning desire to stop the suffering of each child motivated him to execute “justice”, YTJ’s overwhelming guilt and anger towards the abusers made himself the judge. Nonetheless, the end does not justify the mean.
The quality of mercy is not strained, It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven upon the place beneath. It is twice blessed: It blesseth him that gives and him that takes.” – Shakespeare
Sometimes, it seems impossible to forgive especially if the wrong that has been done is so horrendous. It seems unfair to be merciful. What to do when there seems to be a conflict between mercy and justice?
CWK chose, in spite of her rage and fury upon knowing that it was her stepmother who was the cause of her younger sister’s death, to show mercy. It took all of her strength to restrain herself (and a help from SK’s apparition) from bludgeoning her stepmother. In blind rage she could have killed the stepmother right then and there. Instead, she let her live. We may not know the real reason why. Perhaps, it could be the possibility that life can be better and a person in spite of her heinous crime can turn into a new leaf. CWK may not be able to forgive her stepmother for now but letting her live gives the chance for the stepmother to mull over her acts; gives her the chance to give to her real daughter Songyi who has been living a life as the dead Se Kyung, the love and care she never experienced. Or is it? Death could have been a much easier punishment but letting her stepmother live could be CWK’s way of punishing her. For as long as she lives, the stepmother will forever be burdened with guilt even if eventually forgiveness is bestowed upon her by her stepdaughter CWK and/or by her real daughter Songyi. It is far more tragic to be tormented by your conscience. But, CWK chose life over death, mercy over vengeance and ultimately healing for herself and of others who have suffered the same fate.
Healing doesn’t mean the pain never existed. It means the damage no longer controls our lives. – Karen Salmansohn
Until you heal the wounds of your past, you are going to bleed. – Iyanla Vanzant
Healing takes time, no matter how long it takes. You, alone, walk that path in your own way, not others’ way but yours and yours alone. But it takes courage. Courage to accept that you need healing, courage and determination to go through the process, courage to follow through to the end, until healing is complete. Healing is first of all a healing of the heart, of the soul. And love is the greatest motivator. From it springs courage to change, to heal. CWK’s love for her child urged her to take the path of mercy and grace. In choosing to tread the route of non-violence she set into motion her healing process. The process is not easy because she has to face her pain and grief. The only way to ease the pain is to experience it fully. One must find the strength to open the wounds and pull out the core of the pain that is holding one in the past and make peace. It is only when one is deeply aware of her inner hurt and conflict is she able to build cognizance and the ability to be with the pain of others, to be compassionate. And to be able to share others’ pain requires the deepest compassion. Everyone carries wounds from her past. But it is up to her if she wants to break free from the burden of the past.
What sets this drama apart is that beyond the thrill and suspense, Children of Nobody is a drama that sets it audience into keen observation and thinking. The subject matter – abuse in any form – is something that has to be looked into. It starts off by disturbing your sensibilities with a feeling of uneasiness and discomposure. It upsets you; it angers you. And this is good. The mark of a good if not great drama is that it moves its audience into thinking and mulling and perhaps, eventually into action.
13 : Kay Says:
This drama looks really interesting, and I’m glad to Lee Yi Kyung in a lead. Will have to check it out!
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Islamic Terrorist Attack in Tennessee
Mohammed Youssef Abdulazeez, a 24 year old, Kuwaiti-born Islamic Terrorist attacked two US Military installations in Chattanooga, Tennessee; one a Recruitment Center and the other a Marine Depot. In the process, this Islamic Terrorist murdered 4 unarmed Marines and wounded others. We know now that Abdulazeez traveled to Jordan in 2014 and further went to Yemen where no doubt he was trained and or indoctrinated by ISIS to murder Americans. It really does not matter if Abdulazeez was a lone wolf, as pronounced by Socialist President Pinocchio Obama, who refuses to use the words Islamic Terrorist, or he was ordered by ISIS directly to commit these murders, the fact is that once again an Islamic Fanatic has murdered Americans.
For a short while apparently, Abdulazeez's father was on a Federal Government Terrorist Watch List only to be taken off for some reason, yet unknown. In any case, the fact that Abdulazeez traveled to the Middle East should have placed him on a Terrorist Watch List, for sure. The Federal Government is spending billions of dollars, each year, spying on all Americans rather than targeting those most likely to commit these acts of Terror, which are obviously young Islamic Males and perhaps even Females that should be profiled. Muslims in America are either with us in this process, or against us. These Islamic Fanatics live amongst them. If they can't convince them not to commit these heinous crimes, then they have an obligation, as would be the case for any American who knows of a criminal about to commit murder, to turn them in for further investigation. I know, I know, this smacks of Big Brother; but we cannot allow these Islamic Terrorist acts to continue on our soil.
Further, it is clear that military installations in the US are now a target for Islamic Terrorists by their own pronouncements. As such, these Recruitment Centers, often in commercial shopping centers, must be hardened with bullet proof glass and security entrances that better control who can enter those sites. In addition, military personnel must be permitted to carry their weapons while on duty in the United States. We cannot allow military personnel, trained to use weapons, to be sitting ducks when these Islamic Terrorists attack them. Arming military personnel would save lives and make certain that an Islamic Terrorist is prevented from implementing a massacre. This is just common sense.
Finally, the President of the United States, in this case Obama, until he is thankfully out of office must declare the threat that we face from Islamic Fascist Fanatics in no uncertain terms. We must do more to destroy ISIS in the Middle East to insure that we do not have to deal with them in the United States. Google, Yahoo, Twitter and Facebook must all shut down these ISIS sites that are used to spread ISIS propaganda and recruit Terrorists all over the world. Again, it is time for some common sense, which is often lacking in Washington DC.
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Stage set for iPhone 7 but many await 8
Source: The News Published in Science & Technology on Wednesday, September 07, 2016
SAN FRANCISCO: The iPhone 7 is expected to make its global debut on Wednesday, but many consumers and investors are already setting their sights on Apple Inc's 2017 version of the popular gadget, hoping for more significant advances.
At its annual product launch in San Francisco on Wednesday, the world's most valuable publicly traded company is expected by blogs and analysts to reveal an iPhone without a headphone jack, paving the way for wireless headphones, a touch-sensitive home button that vibrates, double-lens cameras for the larger 'Plus' edition and other incremental improvements.
Apple typically gives its main product, which accounts for more than half of its revenue, a big makeover every other year and the last major redesign was the iPhone 6, in 2014. The modest updates suggest that this cycle will be three years.
“It looks like part of the reason they are keeping the design the same this year is there are bigger changes they are working on for next year,” said analyst Jan Dawson of Jackdaw Research.
Sales of the iPhone dropped two quarters in a row this year, the first declines in the history of the device. With many consumers who purchased the iPhone 6 and 6 Plus due for an upgrade, Apple may eke out single-digit gains in sales for the 7, Dawson said.
But some consumer technology sites are advising users to hold off on upgrading until the next year’s version, which will mark the 10-year anniversary of the iPhone.
Analysts say the iPhone 8 may feature a wider display that reaches from one edge of the device to the other and a home button integrated into the screen.
Wall Street is impatient for growth, and Apple will be hard-pressed to reverse the downward trend this year, said Colin Gillis, an analyst with BGC Partners.
“The iPhone 7 runs the risk of disappointing investors,” he said. Consumers are waiting longer before replacing their phones, a shift that Apple must address in its product roadmap, said analyst Ben Bajarin of Creative Strategies.
Analysts predict the Apple Watch will be the second closely watched feature of the event. Apple is expected to revamp the wearable, released last year, with a faster processor and a GPS chip, enabling users to track runs and other workouts without their phones. Most analysts believe sales of Apple's watch - which the company has not disclosed - have not yet justified the fanfare.
Starting at $299, well above many other wearables on the market, the most meaningful change Apple can make is a price cut, Bajarin said.
“This category is very price sensitive,” he said. Apple is "not there yet."
“The iPhone 7 runs the risk of disappointing investors,” he said.
Consumers are waiting longer before replacing their phones, a shift that Apple must address in its product roadmap, said analyst Ben Bajarin of Creative Strategies.
PML-N and the lost fort of Punjab: Why Shehbaz can never be Nawaz
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Incoming govt to start laying TAPI pipeline
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Syed Faisal Raza Abidi
Politicion
Mian Muhammad Shahbaz Sharif
Chief Minister Punjab
Chairman of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf
Mian Muhammad Nawaz Sharif
Ex-Prime Minister of Pakistan
Syed Talat Hussain (as Host)
TV Anchor/Foreign Policy Commentator
Discussion on today's dispute between PMLN workers and police
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Kya Opposition Muttahid Hai...?
On The Front With Kamran Shahid 06 December 2018
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'Form Follows Function' Revisited
By Curt Cloninger
Every Force Evolves a Form
Form Equals Function
Style Makes Life
Curt Cloninger, author of Fresher Styles for Web Designers: More Eye Candy from the Underground, discusses the concept that 'form follows function,' with particular focus on web design.
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In his watershed 1896 essay "The Tall Office Building Artistically Considered," proto-modern architect Louis Sullivan famously declared, "form follows function." He actually wrote: [1]
It is the pervading law of all things organic and inorganic, of all things physical and metaphysical, of all things human and all things superhuman, of all true manifestations of the head, of the heart, of the soul, that the life is recognizable in its expression, that form ever follows function. This is the law.
To Sullivan, "function" didn't mean merely "utility" or "pragmatic use." Instead, it meant something like "life force." His "form follows function" dictum expressed a kind of essentialist vitalism. The "essence" of a thing in nature (an eagle, a cloud, a river) is its life force. This life force results in the outward form of that thing. In Sullivan's own words, "Unceasingly the essence of things is taking shape in the matter of things." To Sullivan, the essence of a skyscraper is to be grand and tall. But grandness and tallness are hardly the "function" of a skyscraper in a modern utilitarian sense.
Sullivan's "form follows function" dictum was famously adopted as a core mantra by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and has remained a cornerstone of modern and minimalist design to this day. But "function" to a contemporary usability expert has come to mean something qualitatively different than what Sullivan meant by "function" in 1896. Consider the examples that Sullivan uses from nature to illustrate his law:
Whether it be the sweeping eagle in his flight, or the open apple-blossom, the toiling work-horse, the blithe swan, the branching oak, the winding stream at its base, the drifting clouds, over all the coursing sun, form ever follows function, and this is the law. Where function does not change form does not change. The granite rocks, the ever-brooding hills, remain for ages; the lightning lives, comes into shape, and dies in a twinkling.
A number of problems arise when this passage is read from a utilitarian perspective. What exactly is the utilitarian function of granite rocks that necessitates their particular form? Is the form of every single passing cloud dictated solely by its particular utilitarian function? If so, then all clouds of the same type would have the same form, since they all serve the same behavioral function. Yet each cloud is unique and ever-changing. Is the form of an apple-blossom really dictated solely by its pragmatic function? When "function" is read as "use" rather than "life essence," Sullivan's "law" is disobeyed in the natural world.
When "form follows function" is invoked as a principle in the world of web design, it is often invoked by aesthetically handicapped non-designers (information architects, usability experts, human/computer interface consultants, Ajax programmers) as an excuse to make visually bland websites. But from a utilitarian perspective, the "form follows function" rule doesn't inherently lead to good design.
The real "art" of design lies not only in accurately assessing the functional requirements of a project (the easy part), but also in developing the forms most suitable to those requirements (the tricky part). In the hands of a master designer like Charles Eames, who was already a genius at achieving elegant formal solutions, "form follows function" usually led to good work. In the hands of non-design-savvy web programmers who abuse the principle as an excuse for blandness, "form follows function" usually leads to mediocre work.
One problem with "form follows function" is that it is tautological—it presupposes that every form in the natural world exists as it does because of functional requirements. We start with the end result (the form), look backward toward its origins, and assume that the results were inevitable. But there are any number of reasons why something might have a particular form (chance, malevolence, whim, purposeful design, play, folly, and numerous combinations thereof).
A better, less tautological mantra comes from Mother Ann Lee (1736–84), founder of the Shaker movement in America: "Every force evolves a form." From this perspective, form doesn't simply, dutifully follow a set of functional requirements. Instead, dynamic forces gradually forge resultant forms. These forces aren't simply functional; they can also be communal or spiritual, as was the case with the Shakers.
For working designers, "every force evolves a form" is a more useful rule. The design process actually begins with something that doesn't yet exist but needs to exist, and it moves forward toward a formal result. Function alone doesn't drive the resultant form. The form evolves from the holistic forces of the project—audience needs, client desires, ethical obligations, aesthetic inclinations, material properties, cultural presuppositions, and yes, functional requirements. "Function" is rightly seen as a single, isolated, quantifiable aspect of the overall "force" driving the form.
True, the Shakers did esteem utility. They found it beautiful. According to one of their slogans, "That which in itself has the highest use, possesses the greatest beauty." But more forces were bearing on the form of Shaker furniture than mere utility. The teachers of the Bauhaus also esteemed utility, but the forms of their furniture are far from identical to the forms of Shaker furniture because a host of other historical, philosophical, and material forces in addition to mere utility were affecting and evolving both forms.
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Inner Cow
Three and a half year olds are not necessarily known for their depth, but my son impresses me with a simple brand of profundity when it comes to the all- important theology of cow.
Cow?
No, it’s not an Aramaic term with an unfortunate transliteration. It’s practically a family member – Cow. You’ve probably had a cow (or pig or blankey) in your family: the beloved One without whom there is no comfort and no sleep. For Emmett, that One is Iss (first name) Isskabibel (middle name) Cow (last name), known affectionately as Cow.
(Portrait is below.)
You may be wondering why Cow is pictured with a ruler. My husband, Craig, arranged that photo to supplement his pleading letters to toy manufacturers and e-bay sellers. Our cow was handed down to Emmett from multiple generations of prior owners. Craig searched the Internet for a second cow (we may have referred to it uncharitably as a “back up” cow) – to no avail. Cow is unique and irreplaceable. We have treated him (yes, a male cow!) as the precious rarity he is. He never leaves the house, except for overnight trips. He has a place of honor on a kitchen shelf where he observes our meals. Though he is often close by during play, we try not to leave him on the floor, where toddler messes and spills abound.
Maybe you’ve guessed the rest of the story. Cow started to fall apart. His stuffing was poking through. We didn’t dare wash him, which led to other problems. Multiple sewing jobs by dear friends Arlene Rosenblatt and Joan White (generally during women’s Torah class at my home) simply couldn’t hold Cow together.
So, I came up with a Cow preservation plan. Craig took Emmett to the fabric store, where they shopped for pajama fabric, and Cow’s friend Arlene sewed him some new pajamas to cover his threadbare ones. You can see the “before” and “after” below.
We discussed all this at length in advance, but I confess I was concerned. Cow was, well, a sacred cow. You don’t go changing an icon of history, comfort, and love. (Arlene understood this, and preserved whatever she could, going so far as to re-sew cow’s label on the outside of his new duds.) We called the covering “pajamas,” but, let’s face it, it was the equivalent of a full-body cast.
When we presented Cow’s make-over to Emmett, I held my breath. How would he react?
He laughed with delight. “Cow has new pajamas!” he exclaimed and then giggled again. He welcomed his old friend in new garb.
But, over time, with further staining and patching and the loss of a kerchief, cow became less and less like his old self. Eventually, radical surgeries were necessary. We covered the back of cow’s head with the same fabric as his pajamas, calling it a “cap.” We had to replace a horn, and the two no longer match in size, shape, or color. With each change, I was dubious, even worried. With each change, Emmett was accepting, even enamored.
Pirkei Avot teaches, “Don’t look in the jug, but rather at what is inside it.” And the ancient rabbis weren’t just talking about wine or oil or even hypo-allergenic stuffing. The eyes of love look through externals, not at them. Emmett sees the inner cow.
It occurred to me in the middle of the night last night (the reason for the timing of this missive), that Emmett treats the cow the way I hope we treat Torah. He has special places to keep it, as well as ritualized procedures for taking it out, studying it, communing with it. He keeps it close, as his constant companion. It gives him comfort and inspires creativity. It touches every part of his life. He knows the story of how it was handed down. He recounts its layers and stages. His relationship with it is not static: he invents worlds with it, and the beloved itself seems to grow and change. If it falls, he picks it up and kisses it. Yet its treasured outer form is nothing compared to its essence.
An outsider could dismiss both Cow and Torah as inanimate objects – just so much fake or real animal hide. A more sympathetic observer might say, with or without condescension, that these are transitional objects for Mommy and/or divine Parent. We invest them with meaning and use our imaginations to invent a relationship whose major feature is projection. We are really talking (only) to ourselves.
But Emmett has shown me first-hand that this is wrong. Or, rather, it’s factually correct but phenomenologically vapid; psychologically sophisticated and ontologically naïve.
The stories we tell and the witnessing we experience are real. The relationships we develop, develop us in turn.
All reality is “suspect,” anyway. Cow isn’t cow, and I am not I, and Torah isn’t Torah. One midrash says that Torah is black fire written on white fire. But that, too, is subject to interpretation. Not even the most vivid image or eloquent explanation or fabulous restoration can justify or explain inner cow, inner self, inner Torah. And, thank God, it doesn’t have to. Like Emmett, we simply know.
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The God Squad
“A Strategy for Equality”
A History of Neglect
A Journey of Light
My Medical History
Legal Drug Addiction
Silenced!
Response to report on child abuse Religious Orders Assets and the Ryan Commissions Report.
Climate of fear stymies open debate on sex abuse
On June 21, 2009, in Newspaper Articles on Child Abuse, by Paddy
Are we in a situation now where speakers are being vilified for simply stating facts, asks Eilis O’Hanlon
Sunday June 21 2009
PAYOUTS to victims of the recent earthquake in Italy had to be delayed last month after the number of people claiming for money turned out to be greater than the official population of the affected area.
The mayor of the worst hit town insisted indignantly that “the people of L’Aquila are not cheats”, but he needn’t have been so touchy. The prospect of money for nothing is bound to attract a few chancers. It’s human nature.
It’s become impossible, however, to suggest that any of those who claimed to have been the victims of abuse in Church-run institutions in Ireland might have been economical with the truth in the hope of financial gain, without being accused of siding with paedophiles. Even deviating by the slightest degree from the set of approved responses has become a risky undertaking. Fr Tom Coonan found that out last week when, during mass at St Joseph’s church in Ballingar, Co Offaly, he observed that the boys sent to the nearby St Conleth’s reformatory school in Daingean were… well, the next part is disputed.
One parishioner who hurried to the media to express her disgust was adamant that Fr Coonan called them “ruffians”. He denies using the word, insisting that he merely said “not all the boys in Daingean were angels” and that they were “dumped” there by society. The anonymous complainer stands by her original claim. Stalemate. Suffice to say that some mass-goers were offended, and the national media reported on the obligatory “outrage”.
Fr Tom subsequently apologised, though why he felt the need to say anything about the nature of the boys in Daingean is a conundrum. Their characters were and are irrelevant. Perhaps he was simply irritated, as many Catholics are, by the perception that the reputation of the Church as an entity is being indiscriminately tarred by the Ryan report into physical and sexual abuse by certain clerical orders. If so, he could probably have found a better way of expressing it.
But here’s the thing. However inappropriate his remarks might have been, Fr Tom was substantially right. Many of the boys in Daingean were “dumped there” by a society which didn’t want to take responsibility for them. And, yes, many of them were far from being angels. Plenty were, to use that disputed phrase, ruffians. The Ryan report says explicitly that Daingean was different from the other institutions it investigated in that the boys there had been convicted of criminal offences which, as adults, could have seen them sent to prison.
Of course, the fact that some of the victims were little ruffians doesn’t mean that they deserved to be subjected to what Ryan calls a culture of “cruel, sadistic and excessive” violence behind those walls, or to be sexually abused by priests, lay staff and other boys.
But are we really in a situation now where speakers are being vilified for stating facts, simply because some people who hear them feel that an attempt is being made to justify the mistreatment of vulnerable children? Fr Tom wasn’t justifying anything. He has condemned the abuse of children utterly and without reservation. It seems to be enough, though, that some of those who hear your words think you’re excusing the inexcusable for a guilty sentence to be handed down in the court of public opinion.
You’re not simply responsible for the words you use anymore, but also the way in which they might be heard and misheard, interpreted and misinterpreted.
The situation down in Offaly was exacerbated because some mass-goers were already annoyed with their priest following remarks he (allegedly) made two weeks ago in which he (allegedly) quoted a woman who (allegedly) questioned whether all those who said they were abused in Church-run institutions were telling the truth.
That’s a harder one to answer. Where there’s money, there are liars. L’Aquila demonstrates that.
Have people been financially compensated by the Redress Board after claiming for abuse which, in reality, didn’t happen? Almost certainly. How many is impossible to say. Only two people out of over 14,000 applicants have been referred to the gardai for making false accusations. One investigation has been concluded, with no charges being laid. The other one is pending. Among the 12,000 applicants who have received payouts from the Redress Board so far (1,300 cases are pending), there’s bound to be a fair number for whom a spending spree rather than justice was the main motivation; and while it’s an exaggeration to call the Redress Board, as one writer did, a “state-sponsored ATM machine”, the fact that the definition of abuse was drawn so widely to cover all manner of sexual, physical and even emotional mistreatment undoubtedly encouraged opportunism. Claimants have received money for “emotional abuse”, which could include members of staff making hurtful remarks about a child’s parents, or a “general climate of fear and apprehension”. It’s a vague definition.
Even if all the applicants were genuine victims, there’s still scope for interpreting the figures. Compensation is weighted according to the severity of the treatment received. Only 27 people have received the highest payouts for the most severe category of abuse. That’s 0.22 per cent of the total number of applicants. Approximately 4,000 people, a little over a third, got payouts of up to €50,000 for what was lower grade abuse.
In a way, it doesn’t matter. The money is a separate issue. The important thing to concentrate on is the many children who were demonstrably brutalised and raped. The other details only start to matter when raising them puts a person in danger of being treated like some kind of Irish version of a Holocaust denier, all the more so since the facile analogy with the Final Solution has been enthusiastically appropriated by the media.
In some countries, denying the Holocaust is a crime punishable by imprisonment. Maybe we’re heading that way in relation to clerical abuse. If so, open debate will be the first casualty, replaced by a climate of intellectual fear in which every stray comment is pounced upon like a cat on a mouse, and phoney outrage is engendered by what somebody thought somebody else said rather than what actually was said.
Is it guilt which makes people overcompensate in this way? For decades, they turned a blind eye to what was happening to some children in institutions, and now they’re going completely over the top by attacking anyone who hasn’t bought in 100 per cent to the new narrative of a malign Church holding innocent Ireland in its wicked clutches.
Maybe the Holocaust analogy isn’t so far off the mark after all. Not because the Catholic Church, even at its worst, was ever comparable to the Nazis, but because the Irish as a people know they behaved when it mattered the same way that the Germans did. They were submissive to authority. They didn’t ask questions. They pretended not to notice.
So poor chumps like Fr Tom Coonan who open their mouths and immediately jam their foot between their own teeth become, symbolically, the representative of the country’s collective failings and must be slapped down to prove to ourselves how caring and compassionate we really are.
5 Responses to “Climate of fear stymies open debate on sex abuse”
Sieglinde Alexander says:
Dear Paddy,
wondering how people deal with the truth, if they think this article is offensive.
As a victim of institutionalized in the post war Germany, I now face nearly every day the liars, hypocrites who would like to white wash the past and blame the victims, while holding on to their self-righteous phony self.
The war was over but the Nazi imprint was still alive, and we felt it every day. We were not good worthy at the same time we were called useless eaters, no good for nothing and had to work 6 days a week for 10 hours without pay, – like in slave camps. The only difference – they prayed and we have to pray.
Sure there will be always the ones who take advantage of a situation. But, let me ask: how can they respect anything when nobody respected them?
Let’s put it one more time in a few clear sentences:
it is the adult who abuses the child;
it is the coward who blames victims and
it is society who is blind to humanity.
As long as denial and ignorance triumphs,
a lay can lead and tear down a whole country and destroy a whole generation.
Sieglinde
Like all the apologists she ‘forgets’ that the incarceration of children in the Industrial Schools was unconstitutional – illegal and an abuse of the law and the constitution.
As a result of 800 years of British colonisation, we Irish have INEVITABLY become a cowered people.
Its like the way a child who has been SYSTEMICALLY abused and violated – whether psychologically and/or physcially = naturally adapts to his or her normalised way of being in the world. One just adapts to his/her given childhood environment, because one has no choice in the matter.
The reality is, MOST Irish people (in 2009) have yet to recover from their own personal experience of Holy Catholic Ireland, i.e., their own personal legacy of the effects of what ROME did to us – as individuals!
Not too many Irish adults are capable of doing that, i.e., separating themselves from their mad “catholicised” parents, primary guardians – which is understandable – but, thatis what they will have to do, if they are ever going to move on with their lives (i.e., evolve as humans) and leave the Catholic Church behind them!
Basil Miller says:
The fact is, Eilis O’Hanlon is offensive. Just read any random selection of her Sindo junk. She has always been offensive. She is the Sindo’s replacement for the Eamon Dunphy of old, before he got a little sense or reduced his drinking a bit. Feel compassion for her self-inflicted suffering, I say, and stop buying the rag she writes for (= hitting the off switch). Spend the time building a campaign to expel all religions from the political, social and educational spheres of life in this country.
People have contacted me to say that they find this article offensive.
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Belief is central to identity, and we live our lives based on our systems of beliefs. Faith, particularly organised religion, demands a faith that requires adherence to certain rules, requirements, etc. When you get into the Catholic Church, you’re dealing with not only 1.2 billion followers, but also two millennia of doctrine, dogma, history, and conflict that continues to this day. It is an awesome and terrifying responsibility to be the leader of that faith, to stand as “Jesus’ representative here on Earth,” and know that you are only human with all the faults that entails. Fernando Meirelles’ The Two Popes skillfully examines that gulf between the human and the divine and where two religious figures of conflicting beliefs fall into it. Jonathan Pryce and Anthony Hopkins are fantastic in finding the humanity in their historical figures as they show the burden of their responsibilities, the grace in their failings, and what it means to be “Pope” in the 21st century.
The film begins in 2005 with Catholic cardinals gathering following the death of Pope John Paul II to elect a new Pope. Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio (Pryce), an Argentinian who shuns the finery of the Church in favour of ministering to the poor and pushing for reforms, has no interest in becoming Pope. Cardinal Joseph Aloisius Ratzinger (Hopkins), a traditionalist who knows how to glad-hand and get the votes for the job, eventually is elected Pope Benedict XVI, but Beroglio makes a surprising second-place finish. Seven years later, the Church has become drenched in multiple scandals, and Bergoglio is looking to retire so he can live out his days as a simple Priest. However, he is called to Rome to visit with Benedict and talk about retirement. Benedict doesn’t want Bergoglio to retire because it will send a signal that a major reformer has given up on the papacy, and Benedict has other plans for the humble Argentinian cardinal.
Watching Hopkins and Pryce play off each other is a blast because you have two consummate, veteran actors playing diametrically opposed characters who, regardless of the feelings you take into the movie, are not painted as good or evil. Some may cringe at the political agnosticism of screenwriter Anthony McCarten, but The Two Popes isn’t really interested in making a statement about the entire Catholic Church as much as it’s about examining the individual man who leads it. While I wouldn’t be opposed to a movie that delves into the various controversies raised by the modern Church, that’s not the story Meirelles and McCarten are interested in telling. Instead, they want to take the unique figure of the Pope and try to find his humanity and the conflicts he has to face.
What makes those conflicts so interesting is that they depend on the divine. Everyone wrestles with his or her place in the universe, and if you’re a person who believes in God, you wrestle with man’s inhumanity to man and the silence you may hear when you try to speak with your creator. That’s hard enough for most of humanity, but imagine that dealing with it is in your job description and 1.2 billion people are depending on you. The Catholic Church exists as a bizarre political and spiritual entity that’s both important to the lives of over a billion people, but also kind of a relic of a Western European balance of power that doesn’t exist anymore. So where does that leave Benedict and Bergoglio? What does it mean to lead the Catholic Church in the present day?
The Two Popes tries to answer this question by embracing its lead characters’ flaws, although it’s certainly more Bergoglio’s story than Benedict’s. Pryce is sublime as the humble, self-doubting Bergoglio, and the movie also includes flashbacks about his life including how he became a Priest, his questionable role during Argentina’s military dictatorship, and the guilt he carried despite trying to live a life of not only piety, but also being socially conscious of the Church’s role in the lives of the poor. Benedict’s past remains more of a mystery (the film leaves his participation as a conscripted Hitler Youth hanging over the narrative), but Hopkins provides a light touch showing a man who is so disconnected from the world that he eats his meals alone and doesn’t recognise the songs “Yellow Submarine” and “Eleanor Rigby”.
Some may demand more from The Two Popes than what it’s trying to do, and I’ll admit there’s certainly room for the film to go further in exploring Benedict and Bergoglio’s differing approaches to the Church. But we shouldn’t miss the rich character study happening in front of us. We see how these towering figures of Christian divinity try to be in the world and of the world and tend to fail at both at one point or another. It’s endearing that Pope Benedict XVI likes an Austrian cop drama about a dog that solves crimes, but it’s infuriating that he was too blind to the sexual abuse scandal unfolding because he believed that confession was enough. Bergoglio chides Benedict that the Church was treating these sins like a stain rather than a wound, hoping to blot them out rather than doing the work of healing, especially for the victims. The fight between traditionalism and reform isn’t just some intellectual debate; it has serious consequences in people’s lives.
The Two Popes shouldn’t be taken as a biopic on either pontiff, but rather using their lives as inspiration for a story about how we all wrestle with our sins, our shortcomings, how we’ve changed over the course of our lives, and how all of this leads back to God. The notion of Jesus’ representative here on Earth being an imperfect person leading an imperfect system is not an easy concept, but Meirelles handles it with a light touch, never forgetting that humour and absurdity are just as much a part of the human condition as regret and despair. Even if you’re not Catholic or even if you’re not religious, you’ll likely still find The Two Popes an engaging experience that will make you rethink Pope Benedict and Pope Francis.
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Papal Holy Land visit is ‘cry for peace’
Positive reaction from region’s religious and political leaders ahead of peace talks
Pope Francis’ announcement that he will make a pilgrimage to the Holy Land in May has been met with great joy and hope by the region’s religious and political leaders.
The Holy Father said on Sunday that the aim of the trip will be to foster greater unity between the Catholic and Orthodox churches and help bring peace to the troubled region.
“In this atmosphere of joy I wish to announce that from May 24-26, God willing, I will carry out a pilgrimage in the Holy Land,” the Pope said after his Angelus at St Peter’s Square last Sunday.
Pope Francis will meet with the Orthodox Patriarch of Constantinople, Bartholomew I, during the May pilgrimage. Along with representatives of ‘all the Christian churches of Jerusalem,’ the two leaders will celebrate an ecumenical meeting at the site of the Holy Sepulchre, which Christian churches revere as the place of Jesus’ burial prior to the Resurrection.
The Pope explained on Sunday that the ‘principal goal’ of the trip is ‘to commemorate the historic meeting between Pope Paul VI and the Patriarch Athenagoras I, that occurred precisely on January 5, as today, 50 years ago.’
In January of 1964, Pope Paul VI travelled to the Holy Land. He met with the Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople on the Mount of Olives on January 5. This historic meeting led to an improved relationship between the Catholic and Orthodox churches, including a momentous joint declaration issued in 1965 in which both leaders expressed their desire ‘to overcome their differences in order to be again ‘one’ as the Lord Jesus asked of His Father for them.’
Pope Francis requested spiritual support from the Faithful ahead of his visit to the Holy Land.
“Right now, I ask you to pray for this pilgrimage, which will be a pilgrimage of prayer,” he said.
The Latin Patriarch Fouad Twal of Jerusalem welcomed the announcement of Pope Francis’ May visit to the Holy Land and said he hopes the pilgrimage will be a ‘cry for peace,’ particularly for Palestinians, Israelis, Syrians and others beset by conflict and inspire Christians not to leave the Middle East.
In addition to Jerusalem, the Pope will also travel to Bethlehem in the West Bank and Amman in Jordan, with all three governments welcoming the Papal visit.
The Palestinian news agency Wafa reported President Mahmoud Abbas hoped it would ‘contribute to alleviate the suffering of the Palestinian people who aspire for freedom, justice and independence.’ In Jerusalem, Israeli Foreign Minister Yigal Palmor said Pope Francis ‘will be greeted as warmly as his predecessors were.’
A spokesman for Jordan’s Royal Palace said the Amman leg of the Pope’s visit would mark a ‘significant milestone for brotherhood and forgiveness between Muslims and Christians and consolidate the message of peace.’
Archbishop Giorgio Lingua, Apostolic nuncio to Jordan and Iraq, said that while in Jordan the Holy Father would dine with Syrian refugees. Archbishop Lingua also said the Pope expressed a wish to visit Damascus, Syria, to walk in the footsteps of St Paul, but due to security concerns he will be able ‘only in spirit, by heart and mind, to share the suffering of that country.’
However, the Vatican is to host a special conference to find new ways to bring peace to Syria next week.
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Author Topic: The tri-Ace General Discussion (& Star Ocean 5) Thread (Read 212778 times)
Agent D.
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Re: Star Ocean 5
No Klutz, no one is holding a gun to my head to play the game. However, having played all but 1 of the previous games and much like everyone else here, I have put my money forward to play a game series I enjoyed. It gives me every right in the world to complain about a direction the artists took in character designs. Much the same as some hillbilly telling me if I don't like how the government runs the country I can get out, I put a part of my life into the country and the company, if you don't care for my complaints, you can kindly ignore me as I am fully entitled to complain about either.
Nel_Annette
I own every game but SO3, so I'll probably pick this one up. Took me a few seconds to realize the diamond patterned clothing was revealing that girl's skin. XD
Maybe we'll get alternate outfits like SO3.
I would gladly make her wear something that appears like clothing.
Maid clothes are clothing
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Quote from: Agent D. on April 15, 2015, 06:27:17 PM
It was just meant to be an overly-dramatic response to an overly-dramatic complaint.
I fully support your right to criticize it, I just also don't think it's as big a deal as you're making it out to be. The series has never *really* been full-on anime style outside of the artwork, and while this game takes a new approach like pretty much every entry in the series, I don't think it's such a departure as to imply you'll be angry about it every minute you play, ESPECIALLY after the freak show that was Star Ocean 4's character models.
This is not to say you're wrong to have the opinion you do. But I think considering the series as a whole is worthwhile to step back and ask if it's really all that dramatic of a shift.
Also, I'm pretty sure Miki in the screenshots we've seen of her face are suffering from a poor combination of angle, lighting and expression. Just check out what we see of her in the screenshot where they're fighting in the city.
I'm just stating that I don't dislike anime here, but pinky mcstrangeface is just beyond off-putting. I'll play the game assuming it doesn't completely deviate from the usual Star Ocean path, but I have no love for the designs in general, ESPECIALLY hers.
No disrespect, b.
This is the Monado's Powerbomb!
Little did he know, the fall damage would KO him.
Actually, I think every character has that doll like plastic appearance to them and not just Miki. The Checkered Mage Chick is fairly noticeable too, especially if you look at the hair (while the others are less so due to their armor or jackets taking on/muting the sheen more effectively than hair or faces).
The image of them in the Space Ship is fairly indicative of what I'm talking about (though the scan quality isn't as high as it needs to be to illustrate my point).
In my vision, I see that one of us is going to KO the other.
CoreSignal
I'll just repeat what the headline said: Tri-Ace lives! I was really skeptical when that mobile company that bought out Tri-Ace out said they'd continue to make console games. Glad to know they weren't kidding.
So Star Ocean 5, bring it on. I'm a casual Star Ocean fan, only played some of SO2 and SO4, so I'm not sure what "this will be like SO3" means, but I'm looking forward to it. As for the character designs, it sounds like
the staff probably had to cater to what's popular nowadays. On the other hand, those background environments look amazing. I hope we get to see more sci-fi environments later on. In any case, I'm glad Tri-Ace
is back. You never know, there could still be hope for a Valkyrie Profile 3 or even a Resonance of Fate 2.
Quote from: CoreSignal on April 16, 2015, 01:59:00 AM
You want to know what the truly saddest thing about this game. Its the fact that the developers feel that SO3 is old enough to warrant trying to recapture, and they're right because it is.
What the hell happened to the last 11 years?
Tomara
Eleven years is a long time in videogame tems. And, I don't know, it feels like there's a perfect nostalgia storm brewing around tri-Ace as the result of their inactivity, new owner and so on. Everything Star Ocean 3 related seems weird lately. For instance, two weeks ago I posted this column about how I fucked up and overrated Star Ocean 3 (it was my first proper review for a magazine and I was a stupid teenager) and that game is basically the reason I give not so nice scores so often. The comment section devolved into jokes about how it's impossible to overrate Star Ocean 3, but the thick neon letters between the lines still read: man, that was a great game.
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I never liked games where I don't have full control over my party, but times change and maybe It won't bother me as much any more.
I still have Star Ocean 4, which I bought ages ago but somehow barely touched. Not that I have time to commit (and in some cases stomach) jRPGs any more, but I may be willing to give it a try if I ever find a gap big enough to fit SO4 in.
As for SO5..well...it looks very...anime.
Hopefully they won't go nuts with fanservice, which has been out of control ever since consoles got enough juice to render round objects in 3D and calculate jiggle physics.
Either way, I'm not planing on buying a next gen console just yet, and this is hardly the game to convince me otherwise.
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I can't tell you
Hathen
I'm still a fan of anime-styled games myself, I just don't like current (popular) anime trends. Maybe I'm just a nostalgic and cranky old man because I grew up on RPGs like the Game Arts ones, Lufia, Shining Force, Final Fantasy etc and the first Manga I really loved was Parasyte and I still prefer that 80s/90s anime art style.
Things like the porcelain dolls and mediocre voice acting in 4 were only a symptom of the bigger problem I had with it, though. I mean, they didn't help, but even if you fixed those things (Which International technically did for the latter at least) scenes like these wouldn't be any less obnoxious:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kNauq6_9iP0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_p4uoeimMEM
And I don't think I need to remind anyone of EVERY LAST SPECK, EVERTHING
Star Ocean 3 had its share of stupid things as well but they weren't even close to the level of cringe that 4 provided.
EmeraldSword
Quote from: Maxximum on April 16, 2015, 08:51:28 AM
...enough juice to render round objects in 3D and calculate jiggle physics.
Jiggle physics like this certain upcoming jrpg game? ;P
Image courtesy of our fellow Aeolus from the Fire Emblem IF 3DS thread.
Quote from: OrsonFury on April 16, 2015, 11:00:42 AM
I like how magically incorrect videogame breast "jiggle" physics are. Anyways, with that said, that woman has marvellous hair (and the 'bounce' on her curls actually looks amazing[ly accurate]!!).
Quote from: Hathen on April 16, 2015, 09:24:23 AM
I've said it a bunch of times, but once more doesn't hurt. SO4 had a ton of competent voice talent (Matt Mercer and Laura Bailey make up the two leads, and they're hardly bad actors and hardly inexperienced). An interview with Matt said the game was rushed and poorly scripted (with barely enough time to do re-reads)... I mean really, could *anyone* or even the Meryl Streep's and Daniel Day's of the world make Edge's freakout during the Earth segment sound good? I feel bad for the VAs getting the blame here, but honestly, I think the bigger issue was the person who wrote that garbage script to begin with... :S
I fully, fully agree that it's also a bad symptom of the 'in ideas' for anime and I never thought of it that way before. It also kinda translates awkwardly, maybe in a way that tries too hard, when you get mo-cap into the mix... then it literally looks like it's pretending to "do anime" with a lot less of the "visual flair" that anime's use.
Quote from: Tomara on April 16, 2015, 05:10:03 AM
It's bad in a lot of ways. The dungeons are obnoxious and horrible for one and the characters are 'ok' (going through a full dungeon to get to the Shrine of Kaddan only to face that stupid fucking moving block puzzle is a bag of ass). I still think what the game got right it got extremely right: Environments are lovely (hell, despite the 10 years between them AND the different hardware, SO3 had a lot more inventive and interesting fields and dungeons than Tales of Xillia and Graces even bothered with), and of course, it's great to play a battle system meant for mature players. The game was hard, and people expecting to get through JUST on grinding were in for a bad time --- and I love that, and tri-Ace never gets enough credit for doing that.
I actually think the plot, and yeah the big twist is stupid, is still somewhat ironically hated by passionate gamers.
Still, I think if I liked it more I'd play it more. Fact is, the game is just a pain in the butt with some pacing issues, sometimes annoying difficulty (the battle system feels like it's often against you), and dubious plot (I actually hated the Ameena bullshit ark more than the 4D stuff). Um, I guess the point is: I'm really on the fence about this one. :O
Star Ocean 4 I think was better at "normalizing" the gameplay a bit better even if it toned down a lot of the unique concepts in SO4.
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Quote from: Dice on April 16, 2015, 11:52:11 AM
Oh yeah I agree, my entire point was about how the script (and the "storyboarding" if they call it that) was flawed from the get-go. The fact that you can toggle International over to Japanese voice acting didn't help because the characters are written in a really obnoxious way to begin with. (Also I speak enough Japanese so that it wouldn't really help me, I know some people switch over just because they can at least tell themselves they don't understand what's going on)
I don't think the actors were that bad, Edge and Reimi sounded fine for the most part, it was that the characters were scripted in such a way that they had to voice the characters the way they did. Half the cast were fetishized stereotypes so I don't see how you could voice them in any way other than the way they did, and even if it wasn't voiced the scenes are still stupid. In the context of the game Edge being upset made sense, but having Edge throw a fit in front of the crew the way he did ranged between cringeworthy and hilarious especially when you combine that with the aforementioned fetishized cast list.
If someone's a long-time Star Ocean fan I don't understand why they would single out 4 for bad voice acting. It's like they forgot what 2 was like.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_oKk0uUNryM
pick your favorites kids
mines the part where his voice nearly breaks as he yelps "BEHIND? ?"
I think the biggest appeal of SO3 (or at least it was for me) was the challenge.
As Dice said, the combat was brutal already on Universe and becomes a science of its own in 4D.
Normally, that'd just be frustrating, but combined with the trophy system, it made me want to meet the challenge.
That and the last rewards are just completely awesome (maid outfits and Fully Active Mode *drools*)
Quote from: Hathen on April 16, 2015, 12:33:59 PM
Those feel so wrong without https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DvT9ZdNcVao in the background.
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Measurements with Scattering Parameters
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Network Analyzer Measurements
In many RF and Microwave measurements the S-Parameters are typically expressed in dB (decibels) Magnitude units and Degrees in the polar coordinate system. Network and Vector Network Analyzers and Spectrum Analyzers all measure with voltage ratio measurements, so to convert to dB in terms of volts we must use the following equation.
The Spectrum Analyzer is a frequency discriminating detector that detects the voltage for the signal. It will give the amplitude of signal as a function of frequency. It is scalar in measurement dimension magnitude vs. frequency. Displayed units are typically expressed in units of power (dBm).
The Vector Network Analyzer measures complex magnitude and angle of RF signals vs. frequency. By using reference signals to calibrate the test system response and setting up a reference frame for the measurements, the instrument can measure the amplitude and phase angle of the AC-RF signal for each frequency it is tuned to. Displayed units are typically expressed as s-Parameters.
The Vector Signal Analyzer is like a cross between a Spectrum and Network Analyzer. It also measures the signal modulation and a number of features about the modulation format and data. It measures in voltage and is in complex or scalar format depending on the data being displayed; i.e., the RF signal characteristics or the modulation format and data.
S-Parameters calibration is a process of making measurements with metrology-quality calibrations standards and then applying formulas to compute the correction factors from the measurement of those standards, which determine a reference plane for subsequent measurements. A reference plane is an imaginary point of reference for the measurements being made. It defines the physical points to which the network analyzer is calibrated to have 0 dB magnitude and 0 degrees phase response. It is also the input and output planes to which reflection and transmission measurements are referenced since phase is measured relative to a specific point in the signal path.
There are numerous methods and standards for Coaxial, Waveguide, Planar, probe and other interconnections methods. There are also numerous test fixtures and calibration techniques available to help the test engineer make measurements in fixtures and give them the ability to de-embed fixture components to get at the raw device or subsystem S-Parameters that are difficult or nearly impossible to measure with standard equipment (e.g. mixed impedances and more). Some of the most often used calibrations methods are:
Short, Open, Load and Thru is the SOLT cal. These are physically and electrically (in terms of phase length) near identical components. The connectors and the calibration component physical parts are constructed to tolerances of 10,000ths of an inch. There are calibration parameters that help define and reference these standards. Some of these are the Open Capacitance frequency response C0, C1, C2, C3 and Short inductance frequency response L0, L1, L2 and L3 that are the coefficients for the 3rd order polynomial formulas use to correct the phase for fringe capacitance and inductance that can cause ripple in the frequency . There is the delay or electrical length for each of the parts, for the Short, Open and the Thru. The Load has an indeterminate phase due to the small signal level, so it is of no consequence.
The Thru standard loss and phase shift can be calculated and removed from the measurement. What this does is shift the reference plane from the middle of the Thru and ends of the Short, Open and Load back to the instrument’s or fixture’s connector ground ring as the plane of reference for phase and. If no lengths and losses are specified, the calibration is less accurate and the measurement reference 0 dB, 0 degree position is more difficult to determine. In that case it is usually assumed to be in the middle of the connection Thru and ends of the Open/Short.
SOLT Waveguide standards have many issues and are difficult to implement. SOLT on-wafer cal kits suffer from variation of resist implants and loss of impedance accuracy of the loads also variation of substrate dielectric constant varies the component line or system impedances.
Thru, Reflect, Line(s) is the TRL cal, and uses those three standards for calibration. This means that fixture effects of measurements of devices can be better removed from the device measurement, allowing better device characterization. TRL calibration requires a line of minimum length, reflections of shorts to both input and output ports and finally a Line longer than the Thru. The Line must also meet other requirements for length.
Several drawbacks with TRL, among them are the separation that contacts have to undergo to accommodate the Line calibration standard, and on some substrate materials like GaAs the lines become more reactive at low frequencies due to tangent loss and so system impedance is more difficult to determine. With the LRM calibration (see below), the loads are measured for DC Resistance, which can be entered into the calibration standards to offset the VNA measurement System Zo (reference impedance). This accommodates the actual measured load impedance. The S-parameters are relative to the System Zo, as we will see later when we discuss converting S-Parameters to Arbitrary Impedance.
Line, Reflect, Match, or LRM, is actually a variant of TRL. When you have an infinitely long transmission line, this looks to the source just like a perfect load because there is no terminating end point to reflect any energy of the signal and it dissipates thru transmission loss.
Load replacement allows the calibration to be performed in a fixture, on-wafer, in coaxial line, or on a planar substrate that does not have to be further separated. It can be done in a fixed length fixture. This and the fixed load standards can determine the System Zo at all frequencies with better accuracy, verses the issue with high tangent loss affecting low frequency measurements when using the TRL calibration It is a big advantage for On-Wafer measurements, since the test probes now do not have to have extra motion and alignment to calibrate. Waveguide calibrations are difficult to make with SOLT, but relatively easy and accurate for TRL or LRM within waveguide band restrictions.
Electronic Load/Line
For coaxial measurements, ATN Microwave years ago developed an electronic line/load for calibration. Agilent bought the company and now offers the electronic calibration gear to do the calibration with one connection and simple steps. It uses PIN diodes under automated control to vary the line and reflection parameters of the calibration standard electronically. This is not dependent on physical dimension variation as the mechanical standards are. They can be repeatedly measured and used with little loss of calibration accuracy.
Vector network analyzer measurements are made either to coaxial connected devices or to devices with some form of fixture or ‘launch’ to the device under test. The methods used to measure and calibrate or de-embed with depend on factors such as cost, equipment availability and capability. If the measurement features are not available on your version of network analyzer, then software extensions can often add to that capability at a low cost related to hardware costs. The type of fixture as well as the capabilities of the instrument may also determine which calibration and fixturing methods are available to the user.
Test Fixturing
Tests fixtures are used to measure a device that does not connect to a measurement instrument directly. The device might be substrate mounted and wire bonded to microstrip that then connects to a coaxial connector in the fixture header block. See Figure 1.
Figure 1 - Test Device and Fixtures
Response or First-Order Corrections
By measuring a Thru calibration adapter with a response Thru for transmission measurements, the Thru adapter and the phase length and loss is part of the device measurement. You will then see the S21 and S11 and converse S12 and S22 measurement to be 0 dB Magnitude and 0 Degrees phase, so the Thru adapter has become part of the measurement. I always assumed the reference plane for this was basically the center of the Thru adapter. So, when measuring a coaxial device the reference plane (0 dB, 0 Deg point) is moved from the ground plane of the connection to the same position inside the device under test. See Figure 2.
Figure 2 - VNA Response Calibration
Cal Kit Definitions
By using a fully characterized calibration kit (Cal Kit), the Cal Kit calibration coefficients are used to accurately model the calibration component magnitude and phase responses. This means they can be de-embedded from the measurement. Consider the typically used 3.5 mm Cal Kit. After calibrating, the Thru response has been removed. What that means is with the Thru still connected to the VNA after calibration, you will now not see 0 dB magnitude and 0 degrees phase. You will see the loss and phase length of the Thru cal component. The calibration has shifted the reference plane back from the middle of the connection to the ground reference plane of the coaxial connectors on both sides or on the connection planes of the probes on a planar substrate being measured. See figure 3.
Figure 3 - VNA w/ Cal Kit Calibration
Port Extensions w/Simple Loss Correction
The VNA allows the user to either set a phase shift for each of the ports or port extension can be set for ports 1 and/or 2 instead. The port extension method is easier, as each port extension gives both the reflection and transmission phase shift, verses the user having to set four S-parameter phase shifts. With port extensions only port 1 and 2 port extension data are entered. The S-parameters phase shift is unity for the transmission (S21) and reverse transmission (S12). The phase shift for reflections is double the transmission phase shift as the signal goes to the reference point and reflects back, thus double the length or shift. The insertion loss of the fixture is determined by Thru measurements and is divided in half and applied to the input and output of the device to correct the S21, S12, S11 and S22 magnitudes. Again, the fixture losses and phase shifts are singular for S12 and S21 and double that for S11 and S22. This is a simple first-order de-embedding or error correction method shown in Figure 4.
Figure 4 - VNA Fixture Measurement Using Port Extension Correction
Adapter Removal
There is a mixed adapter mode where Port 1 is different from Port 2. Each of the ports has its own standards, and the calibration from each port calibration and the combined Thrus gives a hybrid calibration for these mixed adapter measurements, say for instance coaxial on one side and on-wafer on the other, or a 3.5mm female coaxial connector on one side to 7 mm on the other. This can also be used to measure a coaxial-to-probe or coaxial-to-pin on a test fixture or a wafer probe set. The female-to-female or male- to-male is referred to as “non-insertable’ because they are not directly connectable without using an adapter. See Figure 5. An insertable device is a male-to-female connection or direct connection.
Figure 5 - VNA Adapter Removal Method of Correction
De-Embedding
In this method all components are measured for S-parameters and the adapters or fixture responses are removed mathematically from the combined response measurement. See Figures 6 and 7 for test setups.
Figure 6 - VNA Fixture Measurement w/Adapter Removal
Figure 7 - VNA De-Embedding DUT from Fixture
Older vector network analyzers (VNA) used a step recovery diode driven by a square wave at 21.78 MHz to generate a harmonic comb that was used for the down conversion in its wideband measurement system. Those old system architectures were susceptible to spurious and harmonic signal lock-on where the phase locked loop (PLL) could chose the wrong harmonic component for reference. Today they use direct conversion techniques that are less prone to erroneous harmonic and spurious signals. This also gives the new analyzers tuned receiver capability. Modern VNAs can measure intermodulation distortion (IMD) or harmonic components and measure active IMD or harmonic sweeps. The new Agilent PXA helps with non-linear extension S-parameters or X-parameters™, which opens up some really new measurement and device modeling capability.
The newer VNAs have techniques to allow full real de-embedding of external test fixtures and the ability to measure S-parameters in mixed impedance environments. This allows measurement of a device designed with a 75 ohm reference impedance (Zo) with a VNA that has a 50 ohm system Zo. My Labview S-parameter library will help fill this gap in instrument capability on the older VNA test systems.
We showed that S-parameters can be used for a number of network computations that can add value to measurements where the equipment is limited in features. The reader can find these equations and more in my S-Parameter Library (DLL & LLB) and RFCalculator™ products (see website below).
www.AstroCalculator.com See RF Calculator and soon Labview S-Parameter Library
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two-port_network
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S-parameters
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ABCD-parameters#ABCD-parameters
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transmission_line
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reflection_coefficient
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standing_wave_ratio
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electrical_impedance
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Admittance
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two-port_network#Hybrid_parameters_.28h-parameters.29
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X-parameters
http://www.AstroCalculator.com
Making S-Parameter measurements in Mixed Impedances, Jim Hillstrom, Microwaves & RF, January 1992
Agilent PN 8720-2, In-fixture Microstrip Device Measurements
Using TRL* Calibration, Product Note
Agilent PN 8510-5A, Specifying Calibration Standards for the Agilent 8510
Agilent 8510-13, Measuring Noninsertable Devices, Product Note
Agilent AN 1287-1, Understanding the Fundamental Principles of Vector Network Analysis, Application Note
Agilent AN 1287-3, Applying Error Correction to Network Analyzer Measurements, Application Note
Agilent Application Note 1287-7, Improving Network Analyzer Measurements of Frequency-translating Devices
Agilent AN 1287-6, Using a Network Analyzer to Characterize High-Power Components, Application Note
Agilent AN 1287-9, In-Fixture Measurements Using Vector Network Analyzers, Application Note
Agilent AN 1364-1, De-embedding and Embedding S-Parameter Networks Using a Vector Network Analyzer
Agilent DE-EMBEDDED MEASUREMENTS USING THE HP 8510 MICROWAVE NETWORK ANALYZER
Agilent Network Analyzer Basics
Agilent 5989-5765EN Agilent Signal Integrity Analysis Series Part 3: The ABCs of De-Embedding Application Note
Agilent AN 154, S-Parameter Design, Application Note
Agilent AN 95-1 S-Parameter Techniques for Faster more accurate Network Design
Microwave Engineering, David M. Pozar, Wiley, ISBN 9971-51-263-7
Networks and Systems, D Roy Choudhury, Wiley, ISBN 0-470-20867-8
Fields and Waves in Communications Electronics, Ramo, Whinnery & Van Duzer, Wiley, ISBN Lib Congress Catalog 65-19477
High-Frequency Circuit Design and measurements, Peter Yip, Chapman and hall, 0-442-31185-0
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BRIEF RECOLLECTIONS OF SOME GREAT TEACHERS
“Forty years on, when afar and asunder
Parted are those who are singing today
When you look back and forgetfully wonder
What you were like in your work and your play
Then It may be there will often come o’er you
Glimpse of notes like the catch of a song
Visions of boyhood shall float them before you
Echoes of dreamland shall bear them along…..
(A verse from the Song “Forty Years On” sung at the OBA concert each year in the forties and early fifties by the choir of Richmond under the direction of the late Maj. A. F. de Saa Bandaranaike)
If we are proud to belong to a school that is 140 years old, we should be proud of its entire history: all that went to make it what it was yesterday and what it is today. To be proud of something implies that what we are proud of, is a thing of great value. It is good therefore to pause a while and think of the values, standards, ideals and traditions that guided Richmond down the years, that inspired generations of students, and made our school a thing of great value, of which we are so very proud.
In this respect rather that talk of abstractions, I should like to refer to few of my own concrete experiences at Richmond, relating to the role played in my own life by some of our great teachers.
My earliest memory of school is of the day when I joined school in the lower Kindergarten where I was one of a group of little boys and girls, all aged less than four, and all bawling away as loud as ever, fearing that they had been banished from home for all time!
Our Kindergarten teachers, like all the rest on the staff, were indeed most dedicated and devoted. We had Miss Kale the Head Teacher, Miss Gunawardane and Miss E. M. Jansz, to all of whom, standards of discipline and morality were equally important as excellence in studies. They taught us the basics of knowledge without compartmentalising knowledge. These “lessons” (not quite an appropriate word, though, to describe them) were presented so lovingly, with such intensity, dedication and involvement, that we began to Love to Learn, and to love to come to school. Music, song, Dance, Drama the wonderful beauty of Nature around us, and knowledge and discipline and social responsibility all were closely knit together in one total school experience at this impressionable age.
It was when we moved into the Primary school (or Middle School) starting with Grade II that the real ” education” began, where the dedicated staff endeavoured to bring out the best in the potential of each and every child. Let me refer to just a few memories:
The value of Humility and the Nobility of Poverty, were the subject of many a lesson and many a discussion, flowing from many an incident. Pride in one’s birth or station in life, or of one’s wealth was scorned at and condemned and of course the picture of Jesus Christ born in a cattle shed was always before us.
The Principal used to go round the school every day talking to every class for a brief while. There was this incident when on the first day of opening school, the Principal (the late Rev. A. A. Sneath) came round to our class and found his son, John, sitting in the first row, while one boy, the son of a humble worker in the school on free scholarship, was seated in the rearmost row. How angry Rev. Sneath. was with the class teacher, He ordered an immediate reversal of seating. And then he spoke a few effective and eloquent words pertinent to the incident emphasising the equality of the Principal’s son with the son of the humblest worker in the school. This incident etched itself indelibly in the minds of many of us that morning.
There were indeed, very many incidents such as this, when teachers of dignity and calibre consistently conditioned us to avoid pride in birth and station and to strive to be humble but at the same time cultivate qualities of honest persistence of hard work, and of achievement. In doing so, naturally they drew their inspiration from the Bible and the Teachings of Christ, where the Meek, the Humble and the Lowly were given pride of place. Ringing in my ears (and I am sure in the ears of others) were the often quoted words of Christ: “It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man , to enter the Kingdom of God”. . .
It was in Grade II (the first form of the Primary School) that we had our earliest lessons in history. And we began not with the history of the world, or of Europe, or of Britain, but the History of Sri Lanka. Our earliest history teacher was Miss L Jansz and I have clear memories of her stories from Lanka’s past, including the arrival of Vijaya, the building of the Ruwanweli Seya, the Elara – Dutugemunu war, the story of the King who changed his place with the palace guard and a host of others beside, all taken from, I believe, L. E. Blaze’s. ” History of Ceylon”. And this was contrary to popular belief in some quarters prevailing today, that missionary schools then, taught nothing of our own history. Here was a burgher lady in a Christian school teaching us to be proud of our own history and traditions.
Mr “Ikey” Abeywardane laid the Foundations of critical thought and analysis, and of serious interest in Public Affairs, and gently but purposefully he got us interested in wide reading. I first came in touch with this great man in primary IV, when I was seven years of age. Students of Richmond who had the privilege of being taught by him, will never forget him and the respect they have for him will never diminish.
“Ikey’s” lessons were a treat and a pleasure. They were an amalgam of serious discussion and instruction, mixed with ebullient fun and humour.
“Ikey” would, as a regular practice take off from the immediate subject of instruction into an interesting but inspiring discussion of some experience, some anecdote, some incident, somebody’s life story, or some aspect of history which held us enthralled. Every such discussion had some purpose or other: to cultivate a sense of civic duty, of personal morality, of unselfishness, of striving to achieve, of social cooperation, of team spirit, ;and above all of avoiding hypocrisy and being honest and honourable.
Stories of disabled or deprived people who strove against their disabilities and did well not only lor themselves but for others too, such as Helen Keller, stories of incidents of courage in adversity, stories of people who refused to compromise with their convictions, stories of tolerance of others’ opinions and even class debates such as, for example the one where we debated Indian independence with each of us cast in the role of Gandhi, Ambedkar, and other prominent actors of the drama the residuum of all this was the seriousness of interest nurtured within us and the ideals that were made part of us.
The equally interesting and equally important aspects of primary school life were the extra mural activities including drama, the Apollo Club, singing in the choir, cub scouting, cycling trips, swimming, Sports (each unto his own) agriculture and the Farmers club, and a host of others. What a rich mosaic of school life this was!
And here, the Chief inspirer, the chief organiser and motivator, was another great man on our staff the late Major A. F. De Saa Bandaranaike, a man of gargantuan reach, interest and vision, and with equally gargantuan competence and energy. He conducted the choir, auditioning each particular voice, he organised and conducted the first harmonica band in any school in Sri Lanka, he organised dramas and directed and supervised the acting; producing several plays himself and he integrated drama with music in presenting several operattas. He was the person who took over the torch of the legendary Apollo club from the late Prof. Ludowyke, along with Mr Herbert Kueneman. He enrolled Richmond in the Royal Life Saving Society (the first school in Sri Lanka to be so enrolled) and organised and conducted swimming and life saving and with all these and a host of other activities, he did his own teaching too, besides being headmaster of the Primary school
Here again, guided by the genius of Major Bandarnaike, our own personalities expanded, and different aspects of our dormant potential began to develop. What Major Bandaranaike emphasized, to quote from the hymn sung at Prize Giving was
…. “The thrill, the leap, the gladness of our pulses flowing free “…
Augmenting Major Bandaranaika’s devoted work in the Junior school, were others such as Mr R. S. Wickramasinghe. Mr Wickramasinghe launched us into the world of Science in Grade V, and into the idealism, excitement and discipline of cub scouting. In this own way, quiet Mr Wickremasinghe worked hard to strengthen the fabric of our morality and social obligations.Â
The link between the Junior School and the Senior School in my memory was that other fantastic personality and symbol of Richmond: Major F. A. de S. Adihetty. We felt his influence in Grade V in the Junior School as well as in Grade VI and VII of the Senior School.
In many ways “Major A” was the very apotheosis of all the proud and nojale traditions and ideals of Richmond. He was in his time already a legend; and he still is a legend. No boy of Richmond can forget the ideals that he dinned into our ears by constant repetition. We little realised, that these slogans which “Major A” got us all to repeat aloud and in unison, were sinking into our sub conscious through a process of auto suggestion and becoming part of ourselves. “Service is the crowning Glory of life” and many others beside! Hypocrisy and dishonesty he would not tolerate and what fury descended upon the very few who were found guilty of these sins! In the very smallest matters, he wanted discipline. We had to sit straight up in our chairs in the class and not in a slouch. The discipline of the drill field was transferred to the classroom. It was only years later, in adult life that I began to realise that “Major A” had cultivated within us an almost Prussian efficiency as well as ruthless loyalty to high standards of behaviour in approaching tasks in adult life.
I cannot think of any teacher at Richmond who could be considered as a person who merely worked for his pay. All, treated teaching as a sacred vocation and the welfare and development of the pupils was what was uppermost in their minds. Children who were weak were often helped by many of them after hours, or in their homes but not a cent, did any of them charge for these extra lessons. Teaching to them, was sacred: and in those days teachers were as poorly paid perhaps worse so than today.
And the same devotion also applied to the many others in the Senior School who taught us specialist subjects Mr C. S. Gunaratnam in Chemistry, Mr K.T. Koshy in Physics, Mr A.T. Kovoor and T. Samuel in Zoology and Botany,
Mr J. C. Thurairatnam in History, Mr H. M. Samaraweera in Geography, and many others. As an example of the selfless devotion of our teachers to Richmond, may I be permitted to talk of my own father, who taught Sinhala for over 25 years. Twice, I know, he was offered far more lucrative opportunities elsewhere: once in the cadre of the Education Department itself but he steadfastly avowed that he must serve the school he had joined and the pupils entrusted to his care, and the Church of which he was a member, and not go into better paid employment. So it was with all the others!
It was in the very senior forms, and at the University Entrance that we came under the influence of Mr E. R. de Silva, another of the giants of teaching that Sri Lanka produced, an old Richmondite himself. What a pleasure it was to hear his lectures on the Western Classics. What was remarkable about “E. R.” was his obvious competence to tackle most subjects even Sinhala; when he often stood in for senior teachers who were absent. When he got going on a subject of depth and substance it became clear that he was not only a man of wide reading but also of deep perceptiveness not to speak of his remarkable eloquence in both languages. At the school leaving level, when we were about to face the challenge of University life and adulthood, “E. R.” emerged not only as teacher but also as a friend, who was always ready to give ear to the most complicated personal problem and give good and objective but sympathetic counsel.
I have talked of only just a few of the teachers who influenced us and who virtually sacrificed their lives for us. I have not talked of yet other great men who left their mark on us such as Mr G. R. A. Fernando, and Mr A. W. Dissanayake.
They in the turn, used to speak in almost hushed tones of reverence about men like Revd. J.H. Darrell, M A (Oxon) who had caught typhoid and died while nursing sick pupils in the hostel. (Typhoid then, had been a dreaded infectious disease). Every year, the scouts of Richmond go to Dadalla cemetery to clean his grave. They used to talk similarly about Revd. W. J. T. Small, MSc. and a Tripos holder, who might have become a great scientist had he continued to live in England – but he preferred to join the Church. The teachers that we had, drew their own inspiration from these dedicated men who had made sacrifices before them .
It was this great and selfless tradition of teaching in a spirit of sacrifice and devotion that made us love our school. It was this that makes us still think of our school days with Love and nostalgia and it was this that made us what we are today. May these selfless and devoted traditions of teaching continue at Richmond !
James H. Lanerolle
Mr. James H. Lanerolle started school at Richmond in 1931. in 1945 he won the Darrell Medal, the most prestigeous medal awarded for the best academic achievement at Richmond . He also excelled in oratory, debating, literary activities and athletics. He was an Editor of the College Magazine. He was the Head Prefect in 1944. He obtained and Honour’s Degree in Political Science from the University of Ceylon . In 1951 he was selected to the Ceylon Civil Service and served as the acting Archaeological Commissioner. He was the Permanent Secretary of several Ministries including communications, shipping and aviation , tourism, power and energy. He was the Chairman of the Ceylon Electricity Board. He has also served in the Diplomatic service in Washington D.C. and in the Commonwealth Office. He is the son of Mr. W. A. Lenerolle, a devoted Teacher at Richmond College
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The Government Policy on Land Acquisition by Aliens – present conditions, potential trends; underlying philosophy.
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The Fiscal Requirements – Alien land transfer taxes, stamp duties, annual property taxes, innovative payment structures.
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I want to buy a piece of land on the beach and build a villa. What is available?
The government’s policy is that land on a sandy beach is reserved for tourism and/or commercial development. You may however purchase property on a rocky coastline, cliffside, or inland with views.
How much land may I buy and there any restrictions?
Foreigners are allowed to purchase up to .5 acre for building a villa and you must build a minimum of 2000 sq. ft. of gross external floor area and have construction completed within 18 months from the date the License is issued. After that date a penalty, currently EC$500.00 per month is charged for a period of a further 12 months. Thereafter the penalty is doubled. If the building is still not completed at the end of eighteen months from the agreed completion date forfeiture proceedings may be started which will result in the land being transferred to the Government.
I have found some property I want to purchase. What is my next step?
You must obtain an Alien Land Holding License from the Government. If the application is for undeveloped land then Planning Permission is required of the proposed building before an application for Alien Land Holding License can be submitted. Planning Permission is obtained from Lands and Surveys – Planning Board and they meet every 3 weeks. The next step would be submitting the License application to Government in duplicate with the required fee of US $400. Guidance notes and a copy of the application are available on this site. At Lands & Surveys the value of the property is established and noted on the application and then forwarded to the Registry office where it is then taken to the Chief Minister’s office. An interview with someone from the Chief Minister’s office is required for every applicant. These are simple interviews usually only 15 minutes or so in length especially if the property being purchased has already been alienated. After the interview the Application is taken to Executive Council for discussion and decision. Once a decision has been made the minutes of the Executive Council must be approved and then the Applicant is notified from Government of the decision. If the Application is approved then the Applicant is sent a letter noting the amount of taxes due. A second letter will be written for the applicant to pick up the license. The applicant then goes to the Chief Minister’s office to collect the license.
Once you have the license you take it along with the RL1 Land Transfer Forms to Lands & Surveys where the documents are stamped to confirm the taxable value of the property. You then take this paper to The Treasury to pay the taxes noted and obtain a receipt.
You take the receipt and paperwork back to Lands & Surveys and they will then transfer the land to your name.
This whole process takes about 3 months if there are no problems.
What are stamp taxes and transfer taxes on purchasing land and/or a house?
There is a 12.5% Stamp Duty for Alien Land Holding Licenses. In addition there is a Transfer Tax of 5%. The taxes are paid on the designated value of the land and/property but not the furnishings, etc.
What does it cost to build a house in Anguilla?
The general rule of thumb is $300 per square foot plus land, plus cistern construction,landscaping, furnishings.
I only plan on staying in my villa for a couple of months per year. Can I rent it short term to tourists?
Yes you can rent your villa. The government has recently revised their rental policies of villa. When purchasing a villa the buyer must designate if it will be a private villa or a rental villa. An annual fee for renting is required and is based on the square footage of the home and deck space. The base rate is $2600 US for the first 2000 sq. ft, $.50/sq ft for covered sections including porches & garages over the 2000 sq. ft, and $.25/sq.ft for uncovered sections, not including walkways and driveways but including pools, decks, and tennis courts.
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· Reparations, not handouts, for Haiti
· Haitian Earthquake Disaster: Made in the USA
· Catastrophe in Haiti
· Our Role in Haiti's Plight
· What is Canada Doing in Haiti?
· US Discriminatory Immigration Policies Toward Haitians
· Targeting Aristide in Exile
· Haiti: Racism and Poverty
· The U.S. Role in Haiti's Food Riots
· Global Food Crisis: Hunger Plagues Haiti and the World
Rastafari Speaks: Haiti
African Diaspora: How the U.S. Is Strangling Haiti as It Attempts Regime Change in Venezuela
Their message is simple: if you won't let us breathe, we won't let you breathe, and if you suffocate Venezuela, you suffocate us
By Vijay Prashad
February 19, 2019 - commondreams.org
Last year, in October, Haitians followed two Twitter hashtags that went viral–#PetrocaribeChallenge and #KotKobPetwoKaribea. If you are not Haitian and do not follow Haitian politics carefully, you can be forgiven for not noticing this development. The complaint on Twitter–and soon on the streets–was simple: what has happened to the billions of U.S. dollars that was in the Venezuelan-financed Petrocaribe program?
In 2005, when oil prices began to creep upwards and when the Bolivarian socialists led by Hugo Chávez were at their peak, 14 countries from the Caribbean met in Puerto La Cruz, Venezuela, to launch the Petrocaribe scheme. The idea was elegant. Venezuela, with one of the world's largest oil reserves, would sell oil to the struggling Caribbean islands through a very lucrative deal. Part of the oil price was paid up front, and the rest was to be paid back over the years at a ridiculously low interest rate (1 percent).
Caribbean Views: Haiti, Antihaitianismo, and the Dominican Republic
By The Public Archive
November 14, 2013 - thepublicarchive.com
On September 23, 2013, the Constitutional Court of the Dominican Republic ruled that the children of “irregular” migrants born in the Dominican Republic after June 21st, 1929 would be stripped of their Dominican citizenship. The ruling – which could render 250,000 Dominicans of Haitian descent stateless – came as a result of a challenge by Juliana Deguis Pierre against the Dominican Electoral Board. The Electoral Board refused to issue Pierre an identification card. They argued that although she was born in the “national territory,” because she was the daughter of migrants in transit she did not have the right to Dominican citizenship. They based their ruling on article 11.1 of the Dominican Constitution of November 29, 1966 which held sway when Pierre was born.
While Ms. Pierre was the subject of the Constitutional Court’s ruling, it also targets all Dominicans of Haitian descent. The decision also formalizes a process of exclusion, racism, and harassment that had already construed Dominicans of Haitian descent as second-class citizens in their own country while marginalizing Haitian immigrants. Indeed, even before the ruling, Haitian immigrants had been subject to demeaning raids and dragnets by the Dominican security forces while in the past thirteen months, since August 16, 2012, almost 47,700 undocumented Haitians were expelled from the country – more than twice the figure of 20,541 expelled during the previous year.
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Caribbean: How the International Community Failed Haiti
Hundreds of Thousands Homeless in Haiti Three Years After the Earthquake Despite Billions in Aid Funneled to NGOs, Contractors and Internationals
By Bill Quigley and Amber Ramanauskas
Despite billions in aid which were supposed to go to the Haitian people, hundreds of thousands are still homeless, living in shanty tent camps as the effects from the earthquake of January 12, 2010 remain.
The earthquake devastated Haiti in January 2010 killing, according to Oxfam International, 250,000 people and injuring another 300,000. 360,000 Haitians are still displaced and living hand to mouth in 496 tent camps across the country according to the International Organization of Migration. Most eat only one meal a day.
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Caribbean: Poor Little Haiti to be Fleeced of its Riches
By Dady Chery
May 09, 2012 - blackagendareport.com
“This mining plan will permanently strip the country of much of its mineral, cultural, and ecological wealth.”
Show me a corporate boss who calls Haiti the “poorest country in the western hemisphere,” and I’ll show you a con artist preparing to fleece Haiti. Likewise, show me a western technocrat who bemoans Haiti’s “dramatic deforestation due to charcoal production” and I’ll show a bio-pirate or vandal preparing to wreck Haiti’s remaining cloud-forest and mangrove-forest ecosystems.
It turns out that the real plan for Haiti’s northeastern region — especially the Caracol Bay area — is one that was hatched by Canadian mining corporations, with the U.S and South Korean sweatshop zone being a side project and distraction. If this mining plan is given a green light while Haiti is under foreign occupation, it will permanently strip the country of much of its mineral, cultural, and ecological wealth.
Caribbean: Monsanto in Haiti
By Beverly Bell
July 15, 2011 - pambazuka.org
Last week, thousands of farmers and supporters of Haitian peasant agriculture marched for hours under the hot Caribbean sun to call for more government support for locally grown seeds and agriculture.
The demonstration was organized by the Peasant Movement of Papay and other farmer associations, human rights and women’s groups, and the Haitian Platform for Alternative Development (PAPDA), the Haitian online agency AlterPresse reported from the march. The official theme of the peaceful demonstration was “Land Grabbing is Endangering Agricultural Sovereignty.”
Singing slogans like “Long Live Haitian Agriculture!” and “Long live local seeds!” the crowd – wearing straw hats and red T-shirts – wound its way on foot, donkeys, and bikes through this dusty provincial capital. The demonstration ended at a square named for farmer Charlemagne Péralte, who lead the “Caco” peasant revolt against the U.S. army occupation from 1916 until 1919, when U.S. Marines assassinated him.
Caribbean: Haiti's Election Debacle
By Joseph Crupi
December 09, 2010 - coha.org
Expectations heading into Haiti's elections on November 28 were modest at best. The country's notoriously opaque Conseil Électoral Provisoire (CEP) once again excluded the country's most influential political party, Fanmi Lavalas, from participating in elections, as well as a number of other parties and individual candidates. Procedurally, the devastation from January's earthquake and the ongoing cholera epidemic seriously complicated efforts to register voters and establish an adequate number of polling stations. While many in Haiti and abroad had held out hope that it would still be possible for the election to proceed in an orderly and peaceful manner, such expectations were unfortunately dashed by widespread reports of voter confusion, violence, and fraud.
Reactions to the elections varied: some groups claimed that the balloting was valid despite reports of irregularities, while others decried the entire process as fraudulent and illegitimate. International observation groups were faced with several undesirable alternatives as they assessed the elections, and their official conclusion turned out to be a highly controversial compromise between practical and ethical concerns.
Caribbean: Haiti's Sham Elections: Solidifying Imperial Control
On November 28, first round legislative and presidential elections will be held. As a previous article explained, democracy will be absent because the nation's most popular party, Aristide's Fanmi Lavalas, and 14 others are excluded, the system rigged to install Washington's favorites.
In a September 8, Miami Herald op-ed, Ira Kurzban, an immigration and employment law expert as well as Aristide's former legal counsel headlined, "Unfair and undemocratic," saying:
"Imagine if (America's) Federal Election Commission disqualified the Democratic and Republican parties from the 2012 presidential election and declared that only candidates of minor parties could run."
"Yet (Haiti's November 28 elections) are just that - unfair, unconstitutional and undemocratic."
Caribbean: Haiti’s Colonial Overlord
Clinton in Haiti
By Ashley Smith
August 06, 2010 - counterpunch.org
Amid the hoopla over Chelsea Clinton’s wedding at a posh estate north of New York City, there were plenty of toasts in the media to Bill Clinton and the good works he’s performed since leaving the White House.
In particular, Clinton’s role in working with Haiti, both before and after the catastrophic earthquake last January, was singled out.
To the U.S. media, Clinton is a compassionate statesmen, with only the best interests of the Haitian people at heart. Particularly since this year’s quake, he has been viewed as a decisive leader who can “get things done,” in contrast to the country’s ineffective government. Because of his role as co-chair of the Interim Haiti Reconstruction Commission (IHRC), Esquire magazine called Clinton “CEO of a leaderless nation,” the Miami Herald repeatedly refers to him as the “czar of the recovery effort.”
Caribbean: Preparing Haiti for Exploitation and Plunder
Over 15 weeks post-quake, Haiti’s imperial takeover is proceeding. It began straightaway after the calamity, Haitians victimized by denied aid, appalling repression, and now dispossession of their land, homes, and communities. More on that below.
On April 16, the New York Times carried Reuters and AP reports stating Haiti’s parliament approved the participation of foreign investors to rebuild the country, meaning, of course, seize, occupy, own, control, and colonize it for profit, using Haitians as exploited serfs.
AP stated: ”Haiti’s soon-to-expire parliament has approved the creation of (an Interim Haiti Reconstruction Commission – IHRC) co-chaired by former US President Bill Clinton to oversee billions in post-quake reconstruction aid, the Ministry of Communications said Friday (April 16).”
The vote also extended Haiti’s state of emergency for 18 months, leaving the Rene Preval-Jean-Max Bellerive government in charge, effectively a dictatorship like Preval instituted in 1999 by not renewing parliament and ruling by decree pending new elections.
Caribbean: Haiti Post-Quake: Devastation, Depravation, Exploitation, and Oppression
Two and half months post-quake, the major media mostly ignore Haiti, the calamitous conditions on the ground, and the growing desperation of millions forced to largely endure on their own - out of sight, mind, the concern of world leaders, and UN, USAID and other aid organizations diverting most of the $700 million + donated to contractors and profiteering NGOs.
A March 11 New York Times editorial titled, "Haiti, Two Months Later," tried to have it both ways, citing relief effort failures, yet praising the US, UN, foreign countries, and aid organizations for:
"dispatch(ing) tents, tarps, food, water, medicine and doctors as they should. They have done a lot of good, particularly the United States, which rushed supplies, a troop force....and a hospital ship. Many lives were saved."
Unmentioned was the thousands of US combat troops obstructing aid, getting none to the most impoverished neighborhoods, and amounts to emergency shelters have been woefully inadequate, making calamitous conditions worse.
Caribbean: American Genocides: Is Haiti Next?
Distinguished historian, scholar and activist Gabriel Kolko studied "the nature and purpose of (American) power (since) the 1870s," calling it "violen(t), racis(t), repressi(ve) at home and abroad (and) cultural(ly) mendaci(ous)." It's been the same since inception, historian Howard Zinn calling colonial America:
"a class society from the beginning. America started off as a society of rich and poor, people with enormous grants of land and people with no land. And there were riots, there were bread riots in Boston, and riots and rebellions all over the colonies, of poor against rich, of tenants breaking into jails to release people who were in prison for nonpayment of debt. There was class conflict. We try to" portray a benevolent nation. We weren't then. We're not now.
Caribbean: Freedom Rider: Useless Aid, No Donation Without Agitation
January 27, 2010 - blackagendareport.com
“Dollars must come with demands of non-interference in Haiti’s affairs and demands of accountability to charitable organizations.”
A telethon hosted by celebrities succeeded in raising more than $57 million in funds for the relief of Haiti earthquake victims. Yet that sum and the many millions more donated by individuals around the world will do little to relieve Haiti’s plight.
Haitians are living in their latest hellish incarnation created by American meddling and the crushing of that nation’s democracy. As long as the United States directs Haiti’s affairs, and empowers a corrupt elite instead of the will of the masses, suffering will continue whether caused by natural or human-made disaster.
Caribbean: Haiti: An Unwelcome Katrina Redux
By Cynthia McKinney
January 22, 2010 - globalresearch.ca
President Obama's response to the tragedy in Haiti has been robust in military deployment and puny in what the Haitians need most: food; first responders and their specialized equipment; doctors and medical facilities and equipment; and engineers, heavy equipment, and heavy movers. Sadly, President Obama is dispatching Presidents Bush and Clinton, and thousands of Marines and U.S. soldiers. By contrast, Cuba has over 400 doctors on the ground and is sending in more; Cubans, Argentinians, Icelanders, Nicaraguans, Venezuelans, and many others are already on the ground working – saving lives and treating the injured. Senegal has offered land to Haitians willing to relocate to Africa.
The United States, on the day after the tragedy struck, confirmed that an entire Marine Expeditionary Force was being considered "to help restore order," when the "disorder" had been caused by an earthquake striking Haiti; not since 1751, 1770, 1842, 1860, and 1887 had Haiti experienced an earthquake. But, I remember the bogus reports of chaos and violence that led to the deployment of military assets, including Blackwater, in New Orleans in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. One Katrina survivor noted that the people needed food and shelter and the US government sent men with guns. Much to my disquiet, it seems, here we go again. From the very beginning, US assistance to Haiti has looked to me more like an invasion than a humanitarian relief operation.
Caribbean: Misinformation and Racism Hamper Recovery Efforts in Haiti
Doctor: Misinformation and Racism Have Frozen Recovery Effort at General Hospital in Port-au-Prince
By Democracy Now!
"There are no security issues," says Dr. Evan Lyon of Partners in Health, reporting from the General Hospital in Port-Au-Prince in Haiti, where 1,000 people are in need of operations. Lyon said the reports of violence in the city have been overblown by the media and have affected the delivery of aid and medical services.
JUAN GONZALEZ: Amy Goodman is in Haiti, and we'll be joining her in a few minutes. But first, we turn to a voice from one hospital in Port-au-Prince that was badly destroyed by last week's earthquake. The General Hospital is three blocks from the crumbling National Palace.
Former President Bill Clinton visited the hospital Monday, as hundreds of people with broken limbs and multiple fractures were waiting for medical supplies to arrive.
Caribbean: Profiting From Haiti's Crisis
By Benjamin Dangl
January 19, 2010 - towardfreedom.com
US corporations, private mercenaries, Washington and the International Monetary Fund are using the crisis in Haiti to make a profit, promote unpopular neoliberal policies, and extend military and economic control over the Haitian people.
In the aftermath of the earthquake, with much of the infrastructure and government services destroyed, Haitians have relied on each other for the relief efforts, working together to pull their neighbors, friends and loved ones from the rubble. One report from IPS News in Haiti explained, "In the day following the quake, there was no widespread violence. Guns, knives and theft weren't seen on the streets, lined only with family after family carrying their belongings. They voiced their anger and frustration with sad songs that echoed throughout the night, not their fists."
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News about the Spanish giant
Sevilla 0 – 1 Real Madrid
Christian Karembeu: “Pogba is ready for a move to Real”
Why Football Is One Of The Most Paying Careers In The World
Militao joins Real
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Mourinho must feel wanted
The self-styled ‘Special One’ is currently overseeing events at Spanish giants Real Madrid, a side he guided to Primera Liga glory in 2011/12.
Mourinho is, however, always open to new challenges and refuses to keep the exit door at Santiago Bernabeu locked.
Reports continue to suggest that he will soon be on his way back to England, where he has previously taken in a successful stint with Chelsea.
The Portuguese tactician is the strong favourite to succeed Sir Alex Ferguson at Old Trafford, whenever the veteran Scot decides to call it a day.
Mourinho concedes that he could be enticed back to the Premier League, but has made it clear that it would take a special offer to lure him away from Real.
“I will go where people really want me and, when that moment arrives, they show me they really want me,” he said.
“I will go where people really want me and, when that moment arrives, they show me they really want me.”
He added: “I want one day to be back in English football, yes. I always said that.”
That does not extend to taking charge of the England team, however.
Insisting he was enjoying day-to-day management too much at present to entertain an international job, he said: “I will do it with Portugal because I think Portuguese people wouldn’t understand if I do it with another country.
“Because of feelings you have with some people, with some other countries, you could do it with your heart too.
“But, I don’t imagine myself in the World Cup playing against Portugal.”
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Carol Shea-Porter Endorses Naomi Andrews in New Hampshire’s First Congressional District
Washington, DC – Today, Congresswoman Carol Shea-Porter announced her endorsement of Naomi Andrews for New Hampshire’s First Congressional District.
She released the following statement:
“Today, I am happy to endorse my former Chief of Staff and good friend, Naomi Andrews, for Congress in New Hampshire’s First Congressional District. She is running for Congress for exactly the right reason--for the rest of us.
Whether Naomi was working on complicated policy or managing and winning two of my campaigns, or climbing all of New Hampshire’s 48 4,000 foot mountains, or running marathons, she has always given it all she’s got. I know she will do the same as Congresswoman from the First Congressional District. She knows and loves our state and its people and has the experience to lead on day one.”
Carol Shea-Porter Wins Fourth Term in Congress
Rochester, NH – Yesterday, Granite Staters in the First District voted to send Carol Shea-Porter back to Washington for a fourth term in Congress.
“I am grateful to the voters of New Hampshire’s First District for electing me again to serve the good people of our district. Since the beginning, I’ve worked to represent ‘The Rest of Us.’ That was our message during this campaign, and I am looking forward to working for the rest of us in Congress.
Shea-Porter Campaign Statement on Granite State Poll
Manchester, NH— Tonight, the Carol Shea-Porter campaign released the following statement on the Granite State Poll:
"Carol enters the countdown to Election Day with a solid lead and the wind at her back. New Hampshire voters know Carol is a dedicated, trustworthy public servant who follows her conscience and puts middle class families first. Carol's integrity and honesty stand in sharp contrast to her opponents: one has spent his political career lying to New Hampshire voters about his breaking the law by accepting illegal campaign contributions, and the other keeps switching political parties because he stands for nothing but his own ambition. Both have failed to fool New Hampshire voters, who are set to send a clear message at the ballot box Tuesday: Carol Shea-Porter is the only candidate who has both integrity and experience and will be their trusted, independent representative in Congress," said Naomi Andrews, spokeswoman for Carol Shea-Porter.
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Shea-Porter v. Guinta Presents a Stark Contrast
Tonight, Carol Shea-Porter will face Frank Guinta in the final debate of the 2016 cycle. The voters of New Hampshire’s First District will be presented with a stark contrast between their policies, their character, and their vision for New Hampshire and the country. Carol Shea-Porter has been an honest, independent, and effective leader for New Hampshire. Frank Guinta accepted $355,000 in illegal campaign contributions and lied about it for five years.
Portsmouth Naval Shipyard Workers Endorse Carol Shea-Porter for Congress
Today, the workers from the Metal Trades Council at the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard endorsed Carol Shea-Porter for Congress at Prescott Park in Portsmouth. Metal Trades Council President Mark Vigliotta delivered remarks praising Shea-Porter for her commitment to the Shipyard and for standing up for all the men and women that work there.
Shea-Porter Dominates Guinta in Second Debate
Tonight, Carol Shea-Porter continued her dominant debate performances, holding Guinta accountable for his constant deception of New Hampshire voters. On issue after issue, Frank desperately tried to inflate his record, but Carol wouldn’t let him. She held him responsible for voting against funding for opioid treatment and prevention and for failing to provide adequate funding for the new programs passed last summer. He wasn’t able to defend his irresponsible votes to take drug treatment away from 6,000 people.
“This is important work that needs to be done, but if you’re going to vote against the ACA than you’re voting to take away treatment. There’s no other way to explain that. You actually voted against the bill, the Omnibus, last December which had money for treatment for opioid and heroin addiction,” Shea-Porter said. “Now you’re on the Budget Committee. You didn’t get your budget passed. But you voted for things in the Budget Committee, and one of them, you had an opportunity to vote for more money for the opioid crisis, and you said no. So you can’t stand here and say that you know that we need these resources and then go to Washington and vote against it,” added Shea-Porter.
Shea-Porter laid out her plans for the future, “There’s no statute of limitations on caring for people,” she said. She called for affordable higher education for Americans and highlighted her record expanding Pell Grants and lowering student loan interest rates by having students apply directly for a federal school loan. The subsidies that banks used to collect were plowed back into increasing Pell Grant funding.
On funding for education for children with disabilities, Shea-Porter said, “It’s really shameful, it’s a commitment [Congress] made, and they should honor it.” She showed the audience her compassion and commitment for fighting for all Americans, not just those at the very top. “We have to keep working at this because it’s an obligation we have to every child no matter where that child is no matter what the zip code is, no matter what the difficulties that their family faces or the child faces, the challenges. Every child deserves an opportunity to be fully engaged and part of what I call a piece of the American Dream,” concluded Shea-Porter.
Former Manchester Alderman William Cashin Endorses Carol Shea-Porter for Congress
Manchester, NH— Today, highly respected former Manchester Alderman William Cashin endorsed Carol Shea-Porter for Congress. William B. Cashin served a record 16 consecutive terms as an alderman representing Wards 10 and 11 on the Manchester Board of Mayor and Aldermen. The William B. Cashin Senior Activity Center is named in his honor.
"I've always admired former Alderman Bill Cashin's commitment to public service, and he has a long and impressive record of service to the people of Manchester. I'm truly honored to have his endorsement, and I thank him," said Carol Shea-Porter.
Full endorsement:
I am endorsing Carol Shea-Porter because I believe she is the best candidate to represent Manchester in the U.S. House of Representatives. In this election, it is vital that voters send to Congress candidates whom we are assured will help and defend ordinary people.
When I say ordinary, I am not talking about people who are average or common, but people like you and me, people without great wealth or connections, people for whom the “System” is something not to be manipulated. I speak of people who are part of a community that helps them realize their hopes and dreams if they play by the rules and work hard.
The people I served as alderman for 32 years were people who gave back to the community more than they took, but who relied on the community they built with their family, friends and neighbors for help if the chips were down. These are people whose labor and their commitment to faith, duty and love of country made the United States the greatest nation on earth, and New Hampshire the best state to live in.
I am voting for Carol Shea-Porter as her record shows she is committed to defending two of the most vulnerable groups of Americans, senior citizens and veterans. I am both a senior and a vet.
The fight to ensure that seniors can enjoy their twilight years with security and dignity has been, and unfortunately still is, challenging and difficult, given the long history of opposition of Republicans to Social Security. This is a fight that has spanned my entire lifetime, the Social Security Administration having been established by Franklin D. Roosevelt. It is a fight that was and is lead by Democrats like Carol Shea-Porter.
New Hampshire is the only state lacking a full-service veteran’s hospital. Over a decade ago, when Republicans controlled the New Hampshire Congressional delegation, the Manchester Veterans Administration Medical Center (VAMC) suffered cutbacks and lost its status as a hospital. The staffing levels of the facility deteriorated as Republicans during the George W. Bush Administration pushed for privatization.
The attempted privatization of veteran’s health care services was defeated. After the election of Carol Shea-Porter and fellow Democrat Paul Hodes to the House in 2006, and with Democrat Jeanne Shaheen elected to the Senate in 2008, the situation at the Manchester VAMC improved. Over 160 staff were added.
Unfortunately, with the return of Republican control of the Senate and the return of Frank Guinta to the House, there are again problems at the VAMC. I believe that returning Carol Shea-Porter to the House and electing Maggie Hassan to the Senate are necessary to ensure that the Manchester VAMC not only is preserved, but will once again become a full-service hospital, improving care for New Hampshire’s vets.
I also am voting for Carol Shea-Porter as I have her commitment that, in Congress, she will do all she can to help Manchester, the largest city in the Granite State, address its problems. When I began my career as an alderman, Manchester was in a severe economic decline due to the loss of manufacturing jobs caused by the closing of the textile mills and shoe manufacturers. In the generation that followed, I worked with many dedicated individuals to reverse that decline.
Our efforts grew stronger due to the tenacious support of the community, those ordinary people who have always been the backbone of the Democratic Party. After many long years, we achieved a great success. The Queen City, which once seemed to have a bleak future, regularly was named as one of the Top Ten cities to live in, in the United States.
Our fight for Manchester’s future was a vision that attracted the support of good people of both parties, as does so many programs created and shepherded by Democrats, like Social Security and Medicare. Those vital programs enjoying broad, bipartisan support among ordinary people again are under threat. And so is the economic future of Manchester.
It is sad to see the progress that came through hard work and the love of this great city jeopardized.
Manchester recovered from the economic decline caused by the loss of manufacturing jobs, and the Queen City flourished. But in recent years, Manchester has been plagued by difficulties foreshadowing a new economic decline, caused by the mismanagement or municipal economic policy by two Republican mayors.
This cycle, which is marked by the erosion of Manchester’s ability to attract manufacturers, began under then-Mayor Frank Guinta. Carol Shea-Porter is committed to strengthening the economic base of Manchester and New Hampshire through economic policies that will make our city and state attractive to companies representing the 21st Century economy, with their innovative products and services and high-paying jobs.
I ask you to vote for Carol Shea-Porter as the only candidate with a proven record of defending and helping seniors and veterans, and because of her commitment to the economic development of Manchester and New Hampshire.
William B. Cashin,
William B. Cashin served a record 16 consecutive terms as an alderman representing Wards 10 and 11 on the Manchester Board of Mayor and Aldermen. The William B. Cashin Senior Activity Center is named in his honor.
Republican Businessman Bill Greiner Endorses Carol Shea-Porter for Congress
Today, prominent businessman and New Hampshire Republican activist Bill Greiner endorsed Carol Shea-Porter for Congress. Mr. Greiner, former Chair of the Bedford Town Council, is a lifelong Republican, and has supported Republican candidates up and down the ballot in New Hampshire. In addition, Mr. Greiner will appear in radio ads in support of Carol Shea-Porter.
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Sri Sri Sri Shivabalayogi Maharaj was born to a poor but respected family of weavers in the south Indian village of Adivarapupeta on January 24, 1935, and was given the name of Satyaraju. For thousands of years, this part of India had been steeped in the lore and spiritual practices devoted to Lord Shiva.
While possessed of a dynamic personality, Satyaraju gave no sign of his future destiny until he was 14, when Lord Shiva himself appeared to the boy in the form of an imposing seven-foot ascetic. The Lord brought the boy into the state of samadhi (God-consciousness) by a mere touch of his finger to the spot between his eyebrows known in yoga as the brikhuti.
This event marked the beginning of an intense spiritual discipline called tapas, where the bala yogi (boy yogi) meditated in samadhi for 23 hours a day for eight years, mastering the powers of the four directions, then 12 hours a day for four more years. Throughout his tapas, there were periods when he stayed in samadhi continuously for months at a time. His practice was brutally hard on his body, including the time a neighboring boy threw a burning kerosene rag on him and another when he was bitten by a cobra. Fortunately, he was given healing treatments known as kaya kalpa by another famous yogi who recognized the boy as a reincarnation of his own guru from ages past. This yogi was Tapaswiji Maharaj, who understood that the boy was one of India's great souls who had come to earth many times in the past to guide and save humanity.
Upon completion of the 12-year tapas, Sri Shivabalayogi, as he was now called, was visited by his divine guru with his consort, Parvati, the Divine Mother. Lord Shiva announced that the tapas had been successful and that the young yogi was now free to do as he pleased. Sri Shivabalayogi replied that he had no particular desire, and that because his guru had put him into tapas, he should now tell him what to do.
Thus began the worldwide mission of Sri Shivabalayogi. From 1963 onward he traveled throughout India, founding many ashrams and conferring his initiation and blessings on millions of people. In 1987, he came to the West, paying several visits over the next several years to Europe and the United States. During these visits, he bestowed the gift of yogic meditation, also called dhyan, on thousands.
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Day 6: Exploring Sillustani in Puno
Puno City View. Such a Delicate Adobe Miniature Puno City is
(note: the visit took place on August 13th 2015
I’m lucky to have my fellow travelers to travel with me. We split tasks on whom to do what (hotel, travel bookings, etc). My friend Christine got Puno’s itinerary and she got to manage what to do the day we were in Puno. She picked Inca Lake Tour Agency to arrange our adventure, and picked ½ day Sillustani tour, continued by ½ day Uros Island Tour.
Around 8:30 am we were picked by our private guide named Samuel. He was very knowledgeable, kind, and polite. From our hotel Camino Real Turistico, we went to Sillustani burial ground. It is located around 32 km north west of Puno Central and it took about 40 minutes drive to reach the site. The road to Sillustani was basically ascending and we took our chance to stop at one spot where the Puno City looks like miniature from a fairy tales.
The sheperd waved at us as we stopped by to take some pictures
All the way to Sillustani were a vast yellow plain with some llamas and alpacas happily feast. It was unfortunate though that it was cloudy the whole morning.
The Sillustani burial complex had actually been improved by years, said Samuel. Vehicle were once allowed to enter the burial ground and able to explore the Chullpa (The tombs). But then, they managed to spare some areas dedicated to parking lots, and entranceway to the actual site where lots of Chullpa were placed. That way, it can only be accessed by walk, and help preserve the ground. Around the complex were few local’s house, Umayo Lagoon, and some ruins.
In the complex, we saw so many tombs (Chullpa) which said only dedicated to the inca’s elite. The tomb is cylindrical and made from the brick, and the mummified dead-body is preserved inside the Chullpa. One chullpa could reach 12 m high. They also put worldly belonging inside the Chullpa. That is way many of them were broken by grave diggers. All the mummies were put in fetal position had been removed from the Chullpa.
The view beside the entrance way towards Sillustani
Bienvenidos a Sillustani!
This is Chullpa (Tombs). This is the tallest Chullpa and the highest Chullpa in the burial ground.
View around the Sillustani
Going back from Sillustani, we stopped by the local village. All of us were fascinated by the humble traditional local house and had been wanting to stop by. The family whose house we entered was very kind and friendly. They were making traditional Peruvian food. What took my attention is they use soil as a sauce (Yes! Soil !!). But it wasn’t just a soil. The soil is special and not available everywhere, but good grace, it was so simple and so tasty. Although it was such a short visit, we got a chance to talk and had fun with the family and its 4 children. It was such an amazing experience for a half day Tour. I couldn’t wait for the next epic exploration I had been waiting for : The Uros Floating Island in Lake Titicaca !!
Traditional Peruvian house made from rock and brick.
Samuel introduced us but i forgot his name :( he demonstrated his handy works
The mother with her four children. The small one named Milagros. The big girl was actually very shy :)
Various potatoes and quinoa
The first bowl at the top is the potato, the thick sauce was the soil sauce. The soil used to make the sauce is on the right plate. The boiled potato is sliced and then dipped into the sauce. It was so delicious.
Me and the four kids. They are very friendly and kind.
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Ricklan Holmes 1-on-1 Interview
Sunday, 13th May 2012 - 11:51PM
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Charlie Coker resigns at Maud
Wednesday, 9th May 2012 - 8:19PM
Charlie Coker informed his football team on Tuesday morning that he has resigned as the athletic director and head football coach at Maud High School.
In two years at Maud, Coker was 9-11.
He told Smoaky.com, "I officially resigned from my position as Athletic Director at Maud ISD this morning. I will finish the year here. I have enjoyed my time here but look forward to what the future holds for me and my family."
Waco High Promotes Herbst
Marty Herbst is the Campus Coordinator and Head Football Coach at Waco High through the 2012 football season.
Herbst, who has been the Lions Defensive Coordinator since 2006 met with the Waco I.S.D. administration on Tuesday, just 24-hours after Danny Ramsey resigned to take a similar job at Tomball High School.
Ramsey was 15-18 in three-years at Waco High, including two playoff appearances.
Breaking News: JT hires Ricklan Holmes
Tuesday, 8th May 2012 - 7:07PM
(Updated, Monday, May 7th, 5:30pm)
Ricklan Holmes is the new head football coach at John Tyler High School. He was approved by the Tyler I.S.D. school board on Monday afternoon.
DeSoto Defensive Coordinator Kendrick Brown and John Tyler assistant Paul Frye were told this morning they are no longer a candidate to replace Dereck Rush, who left for head coaching job at Oak Ridge High School in Conroe.
Holmes played high school football at John Tyler, played college football at Oklahoma State, and has been an assistant coach at John Tyler for the past five years. Holmes was also named "Interim Head Coach" when Rush left for Oak Ridge High School in Conroe.
Pat Smith leaving Trinity Valley C.C.
Thursday, 3rd May 2012 - 1:28PM
Smith leaving TVCC for Moberly
The search for a head men�s basketball coach at Trinity Valley Community College is under way after Pat Smith announced his resignation over the weekend.
Smith, who recently completed his sixth season as the college�s head men�s basketball coach and is in his second year as athletic director, has accepted a similar position at Moberly Area Community College in Missouri. He previously served as head coach there in 2001-2004.
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US jets scrambled for fly-by to KMT’s Itu Aba plane
By Jason Pan / Staff reporter
Ministry of National Defense officials confirmed that two US F/A-18 jets on Thursday flew near a C-130 plane carrying a group of Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) officials as they returned from Itu Aba Island (Taiping Island, 太平島), but said the US jets posed no threat and flew off after a few minutes.
Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) lawmakers yesterday said the US government was sending a message to Taiwan.
The visit to the island was reportedly ordered by President Ma Ying-jeou (馬英九), and it consisted of a 30-member delegation headed by former KMT officials, including 96-year-old retired army general Hau Pei-tsun (郝柏村) and 67-year-old former premier Mao Chi-kuo (毛治國).
Over international waters, the jets flew close to visual range, ministry officials said.
The jets reportedly came from the USS John C. Stennis aircraft carrier battle group as it carried out patrols and drills in the area.
US military experts said the fly-by was a routine identification of aircraft in the proximity of a US aircraft carrier, and there was no political agenda involved.
“The US and Taiwan are hooked up on a ‘hotline’ that is part of the Pentagon’s Global Information Grid and uses Type 1 cryptography for military communications,” Defense News Asia bureau chief Wendell Minnick said. “What this means is the US and Taiwan are very cozy during a crisis.”
“However, a political message for either Ma or [president-elect] Tsai [Ing-wen (蔡英文)] would be personally delivered by the director of the American Institute in Taiwan [AIT] and not an F/A-18 Super Hornet,” said Minnick, who is based in Taipei.
“We send Hornets to explain things to countries like North Korea, not allies and friends, like Taiwan,” he said.
Nevertheless, the incident sparked debate by politicians.
DPP Legislator Lo Chih-cheng (羅致政) said the fly-by was a message to Ma.
“We believe the two F-18 jets were monitoring the C-130 flight carrying the KMT old guard. The visit was Ma’s way to assert sovereignty in the Spratly Islands [Nansha Islands, 南沙群島)] area on behalf of China,” Lo said. “The US wants to show its presence in the region. In a sense, it was the US government telling Ma that it does not agree with Thursday’s visit to Itu Aba.”
The KMT caucus held a briefing to say the fly-by was routine.
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Motorola launches Moto G (3rd Gen) in India, now available from Flipkart starting at Rs. 11,999 (Update)
After series of leaks and rumours, Motorola has finally took the wraps off the next generation Moto G smartphone at an event held in Delhi, India. Dubbed as Moto G (3rd Gen), the smartphone is the successor of Moto G (2nd Gen) and comes with upgraded specs and new features. According to Motorola, the Moto G (3rd Gen) comes in black and white color options with Moto shells and flip covers in different colors, that are sold separately. As expected, Motorola has launched two variants of Moto G (3rd Gen): one with 8GB internal storage and 1GB RAM, and the other with 16GB internal storage and 2GB RAM. The 8GB variant of new Moto G is priced at just Rs. 11,999, whereas the 16GB variant costs Rs. 12,999. Like all other Moto devices, Motorola has announced that the Moto G (3rd Gen) will be available in India starting tonight exclusively from Flipkart. As an introductory offer, Motorola is offering the following with purchase of Moto G before August 2nd, 2015.
5:20 PM / by Aman Banka
After series of leaks and rumours, Motorola has finally took the wraps off the next generation Moto G smartphone at an event held in Delhi, India. Dubbed as Moto G (3rd Gen), the smartphone is the successor of Moto G (2nd Gen) and comes with upgraded specs and new features. According to Motorola, the Moto G (3rd Gen) comes in black and white color options with Moto shells and flip covers in different colors, that are sold separately.
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As expected, Motorola has launched two variants of Moto G (3rd Gen): one with 8GB internal storage and 1GB RAM, and the other with 16GB internal storage and 2GB RAM. The 8GB variant of new Moto G is priced at just Rs. 11,999, whereas the 16GB variant costs Rs. 12,999.
Like all other Moto devices, Motorola has announced that the Moto G (3rd Gen) will be available in India starting tonight (update: is now available) exclusively from Flipkart. As an introductory offer, Motorola is offering the following with purchase of Moto G before August 2nd, 2015.
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On the specifications front, Moto G 3rd Gen (or Moto G 2015) comes with a 5-inch HD display with Corning Gorilla Glass protection, 1.2GHz quad-core 64-bit Qualcomm Snapdragon 410 (MSM8916) processor, 1GB / 2GB of RAM and Android 5.1.1 Lollipop out-of-the-box. The smartphone also comes with IPX7 rating for water resistance up to 3m under water for 30 mins.
Other specifications include an 13MP rear camera (same sensor used on the Nexus 6) with dual-tone LED flash, f/2.0 aperture & IR filter, an 5MP front facing camera, 8GB / 16GB internal storage space with up to 128GB microSD card support and 2,470 mAh battery.
Connectivity series include dual-SIM support, 4G LTE / 3G HSPA+, Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g/n, Bluetooth 4.0 and GPS. Motorola has also stuffed the Moto G (3rd Gen) with some software features like Moto Display, Quick Capture and Chop Twice, that allows you to quickly toggle on the flash by shaking the phone twice.
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Nvidia makes quad-core Tegra 3 chip official
By Hanleigh Daniels 9 November 2011 | Categories: news
Nvidia has officially introduced its Tegra 3 mobile processor, which it says will bring PC-class performance levels, better battery life as well as improved mobile experiences to tablets and smartphones.
Previously known by the codename Project Kal-El, the Tegra 3 processor provides up to three times the graphics performance of Tegra 2 and up to 61% lower power consumption. According to Nvidia, this will translate into an industry-leading 12 hours of battery life for HD video playback.
The Tegra 3 processor implements a new patent-pending technology known as Variable Symmetric Multiprocessing (vSMP). vSMP includes a fifth CPU companion core, specifically designed for work requiring little power. The four main cores are designed for tasks requiring high performance, the likes of playing games, and generally consume less power than dual-core processors.
Whilst the device that the Tegra 3 is powering is performing tasks that require less power consumption like playing back video or updating background data, the Tegra 3 processor completely shuts down its four performance-tuned cores and makes use of its companion core. For high-performance tasks including web browsing, games and multitasking, the Tegra 3 processor disables the companion and employs its performance cores.
Graphics are handled via the Tegra 3’s new 12-core Nvidia GeForce GPU, which delivers more realism with dynamic lighting, physical effects and high resolution environments, and also supports stereoscopic 3D.
Nvidia stated that the Tegra 3 processor delivers an “experience comparable to that of a game console”, offering full game-controller support, enabling users to play games on their tablet or smartphone, or connect their mobile device to their HDTVs or 3D monitor.
According to Nvidia the Tegra 3 system-on-chip (SoC) provides:
Fastest web experience with accelerated Adobe Flash Player 11, HTML5 and WebGL browsing, as well as an optimised Javascript engine.
Fastest applications with speedy performance for multimedia apps, such as photo and video editing.
Fastest multitasking for switching between common uses, the likes of playing music and games, as well as background tasks.
Fastest, highest-quality gaming including new Tegra 3 processor-optimised Nvidia Tegra Zone app games such as Shadowgun.
The world’s first quad-core ARM Cortex A9 CPU.
New patent-pending vSMP technology, including a fifth CPU core that runs at a lower frequency and operates at exceptionally low power.
12-core GeForce GPU, with three times the graphics performance of the Tegra 2 processor, including support for stereoscopic 3D.
New video engines with support for full HD (1080p) high profile video at 40 Mbps.
Up to three times higher memory bandwidth.
Up to two times faster Image Signal Processor.
40 games are expected to be available by the end of 2011 and more than 15 Tegra 3 games are under development for Tegra Zone, which is Nvidia’s free Android Market app that showcases the best games optimised for the Tegra processor.
In related news Nvidia also recently introduced its new 3D Vision line of products, which the company says will deliver greater realism and immersion within 3D games, movies as well as photos.
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Time for a Mutiny: The US Pirate Party Sets Sail
Electoral politics has long been a transparently corrupt system presiding over the death-throes of an empire. Politicians acting as frontmen for corporate and personal interest, lie and cheat their way through the ranks of power, doing their small part to keep the wheels of the monolith going while remaining completely out of touch with the average citizen. These hollowed out agents of state power have no incentive to change a system that for all its destruction, consistently insulates those in power from feeling the flames of the fire.
One does not need to be of Baby-Boomer age to comprehend American's long slip towards tyranny. The fact that a reality TV huckster and unabashed narcissist is our current president should serve as the final proof of the utterly debased nature of our governmental system. One would think that the time would be ripe for a large-scale mobilization against this failed state of elite rulership.
Instead of fleeing from the failed two-party duopoly and creating a true revolt from the bottom, the so-called "resistance" musters up nothing more than an institutionalized led effort to reboot the Cold War and double-down on herd-mentality partisanship.
In the aftermath of possibly the most ludicrous presidential election ever, truly creative or original thought that would amount to any meaningful difference is largely lacking in popular discourse. The majority of the masses appear to be so indoctrinated as to be unable to diagnose the actual source of the crippling, structural disease. To awaken to the fact that the Democratic and Republican parties are both sold out, imperialist strands of authoritarian rule, requires a level of critical thought that remains too disturbing to grasp.
There has always been an intellectual and philosophical rejection of authoritarianism, albeit on the radical fringes. Anarchists, radical leftists and libertarians have long identified the rotten core of government, Wall Street and the military-industrial complex. The tracts they have penned and the speeches they gave are all readily available. All across social media are voices of defiance that help to crystalize the common threats to freedom and justice.
While the audience for this knowledge seems to be growing all the time, the make-up of the radical field remains divided on any number of wedge issues. A general inability to combine forces or agree on a basic platform that could supplant American oligarchy keeps an authentic resistance fractalized.
Whether we could ever achieve (or forced to achieve) ultra-localized, cooperative bodies of voluntary mutual aid or whether the collectivist federal model could ever be salvaged is a question that remains theoretical. For now. There are many persausive arguments for how to breakup the massive corporate and militaristic entanglements that ensnare our government in a deep sea of plunder and death. They are all broadly utopian and provide no guarantees.
While being rather pessimistic about any form of top-down hierarchical state control, I am at the same time very interested in political proposals of any kind that would upend or disrupt the current system. Facing a future in desperate need of new ideas, an open and curious mind is a necessity. While 3rd parties are not a novel concept, there is a relatively new entry that feels quite a bit different than anything we've seen before.
While the American Green and Libertarian parties have thus far failed to seize any notable influence or pressure on the federal level, Europe has seen the anti-establishment and tech-fluent Pirate Party achieve a measure of real success against the status quo. For reasons unique to the Parliamentary systems operative across the Atlantic, Pirates have managed to rise from underdogs to upsetters in a short period of time. Whether you are a fan of electoral politics or not, it can't be denied that the platform they endorse has struck a nerve with class of forward-thinking malcontents.
The US faction of Pirates is just beginning to gain traction, thanks to the press and success of their European predecessors. Our electoral system is not nearly as kind to outsider parities but that hasn't prevented this enthusiastic band of defectors from various backgrounds to come together under the Pirate flag.
I've been in contact with some of their members in Massachusetts, whose prominent local party represents an influential foothold of their operations. In the following interview former MA Pirate Party Secretary and current United States Pirate Party Secretary, Lucia Fiero, illuminates some of the core Pirate principles and insights from her experience on the ground level of this emerging movement. One that with any luck will attract a flock of disenfranchised voters and activists looking for a new home.
Lucia Fiero, Secretary of the United States Pirate Party
What sort of political affiliations did you have prior to the USPP?
Coming from a very conservative Republican family, I was the rebel/black sheep by always voting Democrat. I remember voting for Kerry for Senate when I could first vote. I turned 18 in 1984. My eldest brother married the daughter of a Naples Vice-Mayor, and my other brother won the Republican nomination for state rep in this district in 1998, and lost in the general in a close race.
I took a lot a heat from all of them by being a Democrat. I didn’t even tell them when I left for the Greens. When my husband and I wanted to get out to local Green organizational meetings, we would tell my mother we were going for marriage counseling, so that we could ask for her to sit, and have her agree. For a political meeting? No way would she have put herself out for us for that.
I worked directly with Jill Stein on health care reform. When Romneycare passed, she dropped the issue and moved on to preserving public lands in the Bay State. I lost interest in working with her and drifted off…
What was your introduction to the Pirate Party?
James O’Keefe, who had been her ticket mate twice and had also been the GRP co-chair, was an acquaintance of mine and my husband’s in college at UMass Amherst. He posted on Facebook that he was starting a Pirate Party in Massachusetts, and I thought “What the heck is a Pirate Party?” When I Googled it, I realized this was the thing I wanted to do.
I had trepidations about the name, I worried it would be hard to sell a party to people that want to end IP, but the more I read over the years, the more convinced I became that Pirate is the only party I belong in, that IP laws as they exist now are bad for the advancement of society, and that Pirate is a fan-fucking-tastic name for us.
Graphic / Jeff Wolfe
What about the nature of Icelandic and Swedish society and government allows the PP to have a greater influence than in the United States?
Proportional representation. They have it, we don’t. If we had a house that seated representatives based solely on % of party members supported, there would be a break in the total duopoly of the Democrats and Republicans.
There doesn’t seem to be much support for changing this, since it would take a constitutional amendment, so for now I am going to work on bringing ranked choice voting to the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
A referendum in support of RCV just passed in Maine, I think we can make this happen here, too. I am going to work with Citizens for Voter Choice Massachusetts. The best way to stay up to date for their in person meet ups is through the Voter Choice Massachusetts Facebook or on Twitter.
As for societal differences, I really don’t know enough about those nation’s societies to comment. But if I were to guess, I would say it has something to do with the fact that they watch less TV and read more than we do?
To the best of your knowledge, how did the International PP get started?
Rick Falkvinge started it in a chat room on New Year’s Day 2006. “Falkvinge was inspired to found the party after he found that Swedish politicians were generally unresponsive to Sweden's debate over changes to copyright law in 2005.” - From Wikipedia
International Pirate Party founder, Rick Falkvinge
When you say Direct Democracy, can you give me a synopsis on what that looks like from your view?
I can tell you what I would like to see. We trust the Internet with our banking, why not with our voting? So long as the tallying software is open source and the results are well audited, voter fraud isn’t a concern.
As for representatives, they are an 18th century notion. When the Constitution was written there weren’t even telegraphs; the mail delivered by horse was the only means of long distance communication.
Democracy would be impossible under those conditions without representatives. Nowadays they are far less critical. It is time to reexamine the role that they play and the level of power they possess per voter. They represent one-stop shopping for moneyed interests. People with the will and cheddar to buy political favors have a pressure point on the person of the representative.
This contributes to the ever present problem of a conflict of interests between the voters interests and the interests of those who can afford to fund elections. Gerrymandering is another way in which democracy is subverted, as parties choose voters in this manner, rather than the other way around.
Again, proportional representation is a good way to combat this, as you vote your party rather than your location. And ranked choice voting is more democratic and more direct, as you don’t have to vote defensively. There is a great little video that explains how our system of first past the post voting always causes a reduction down to two strong parties, and little or no others. Check it out.
Lucia Fiero with Kendra Moyer, James O'Keefe and Jason Fiero
Tell us where you operate out of and how your State Party is coming along.
I am in Massachusetts. I have been focusing my efforts on building the party nationally, though, so a better person to ask about Mass Pirates would be James, Steve, or Noelani.
Why are 3rd Parties important, despite their inability to win major elections?
They are only called "3rd parties" in the US. In Europe, they are just parties. The system devolves into two main parties because of how first past the post voting works.
Competition is always a good thing. Monopolies and duopolies have no motivation to innovate. They also start to operate in a very similar manner. It's not just having a "3rd choice" that matters to Pirates, either. Pirates are about operating without corporate funding. This allows us to support policy that best serves the most people.
What are the core Party planks that have resonated most with voters?
What resonates most at this point, I can tell you from the "reach" we get on social media are primarily personal privacy and government transparency. Our primary principle was the end of intellectual property, the notion that you can't own ideas, that they belong to us all.
Existing as we do within a capitalist system in which everyone imagines that they can become rich, the idea of ending copyright hasn't resonated as much as it could and should.
We are up against a very powerful media industry that shapes public opinion, and that industry *depends* upon IP for its profit structure. They have a powerful interest in selling the idea that we cannot do without IP.
The rise of the internet and www has made it harder to lock down content, and easier for IP law reformers to make their case, but monied interests are pushing back by lobbying for laws that protect their business model.
Many people are afraid to publicly ascribe to something the goes so strongly against the media's agenda, so we tend to focus on what reduced IP law could offer us: DRM free products, ending the GMO profit motive, freedom to share information that will bring about peace and prosperity widely.
There has been a tremendous amount of finger pointing and blame placing for the fact that Trump is now president. How do you make sense of it?
Lesser evilism is a race to the bottom. But besides that, the parties have too much power. The Democrats rigged their own party to supercede the will of their own voters with a Superdelegate system.
This totally backfired when the Superdelegates returned political favors to Clinton, rather than vote for the candidate who won their state in the primaries. Pirates would never devise such a plan, as unaccountable delegates fly in the face of the Pirate Principle of more direct democracy, the more direct the better.
The electoral college and super delegates are both hot topics due to the outcome of this election. Does the PP hold a position on these items?
Yes, as stated above, Pirates support the most direct democratic solutions possible. Referendums are better than representatives, and e voting (on only open source software systems!) is better than needing to get out to a polling place.
Can you talk about the role of Wikileaks throughout its history and in particular as it related heavily to the 2016 election?
Well this is a huge topic to cover. As far as Pirates are concerned, WikiLeaks is a good thing, as it provides much needed transparency. Personally, though, I think less damage was done to Clinton by WikiLeaks than was done to her by her own self and the DNC.
She was unpopular, she and her husband had a record of monstrous policies both domestically and overseas, like policies that exacerbated greatly the mass-incarceration crisis, and the policies enacted in Kosovo, Libya, Syria.
WikiLeaks didn't tell Bernie supporters anything they didn't know, it just served as vindication for all their suspicions. It's possible that such vindication drove Bernie supporters to resist Clinton more than they already did, but that is hard to say.
3rd parties always take heat after a close election. As if their supporters had no right to follow their affiliation or conscience. How do you deal with the haters?
Well, there was no Pirate candidate for President, so I can only talk about my experience in Mass running a campaign for a candidate for state rep, Joe Guertin. From what he related to me, the Republican candidate was cordial and civil to him, and the Democratic one was vile.
Make of that what you will. When we stood outside the polls with signs on election day, the Democrats there actively tried to recruit us. Some might see this as being cordial, but I felt as if they were trying to assimilate us. From what I heard from Noelani, who ran for state rep in Somerville, where there was no real Republican challenger to speak of, Denise Provost was less hostile than the Democrat out in our parts.
It's less of a principle thing, I think than a competition thing. No one likes competition. No one is going to be happy to see that they are going to have to work harder for their position because we are there. But that is the job of the 3rd parties currently in the US: to make the main two parties work harder.
The Pirate movement looks to me like a beautiful amalgamation of radical-left, libertarian and anarchist tendencies that encompasses the impulses of hacking, sharing-culture, creativity, DIY and general tech competence. Is that a partially correct observation and what might you add to that eclectic blend?
That's a pretty good assessment actually. And fun. We also want politics to be fun. So a nice smattering of internet culture, memes, and a little cosplay helps, too.
What would the future look like if Pirates had a seat at the decision-making tables?
For me: Broadband everywhere. Literally everywhere, like when phone service was extended everywhere. All municipalities would have the right to create their own HSISP providers.
Wifi in all city centers with VPN standards so that people aren't lulled into thinking they are secure in their connections but can know. No DRM on anything: You buy it, you own it in perpetuity, books, music, movies, coffee makers, tractors, prosthetic legs... Everything.
An end to ruinous fines for file sharing, and end to patents, and a return of copyright to something closer to the original 14 years... maybe 25 years, to appease squirrelly artists.
An audit of the Federal Reserve and the Pentagon, basically transparency in all expenditures. And a declaration of a human being's fundamental right to privacy, analog and digital.
Have you experienced a post-election uptick of interest in the Party in your State and at the national level?
We did. And I was not able to capitalize on it as much as I would have liked because of my poor health. Nationally, we are a just skeleton crew of Pirates, and when we are unwell, or busy with work or family, things do not move forward.
We desperately need volunteers. We are holding elections for officers soon and we also need an IT team and someone to chair it. If you are interested in building a party to compete with the the duopoly, we need you!
For those who hold 3rd party sympathies, why chose an upstart Pirate movement instead of sticking it out with an older more known party?
Simply put: Technology evolves fast. So fast that laws that don't keep up do far more harm than good at times.
The Internet is such a powerful tool that could solve many of the problems we have in serving the public, but too many people profit from the old ways, and use their influence to resist the necessary evolution.
The Pirate Party is the party of Technology implementation, and therefore is the party of the future.
No Safe Harbor book / Graphic design - Jeff Wolfe
Would you look to band together with the other 3rd parties to fight for ballot access and open debates?
Absolutely, we are very interested in coalition building and have already done some in Massachusetts.
Do Pirates generally want the government to be less influential in the private lives of individuals? I’m thinking of things like drugs, sex, gray or black markets, parenting decisions, top-down education models.
The Constitution and Bill of Rights is very often a reference point for PP issues. In your mind should the Bill of Rights continue to be the country's guiding document pertaining to citizen rights and restrictions on government?
Well, the Constitution can be amended to counter any of the 1st ten amendments. Personally, I think these should remain sacrosanct. Currently, the organization "Move to Amend" is pushing for a constitutional amendment to counter the 1st amendment. This is a bad idea.
Move to Amend has a lot of support from the commercial media, who stands to gain the most in political influence if the amendment passes, and therefore have been very deceptive about what their proposed amendment is about. They tell you "corporations are not people" because that is catchy, but the same amendment that would allow laws that could restrict big business money would also allow laws that could restrict NGO money, like GreenPeace, Planned Parenthood, and the ACLU.
And considering how big business operates, who do you think would actually lose their freedom of expression? The big companies always find away around such laws, which would leave all the "little people" silenced in the days running up to election cycles. This is actually just another push back from the established order against internet activism. Read more about this here.
Can you explain the process for deciding on the undefined aspects of PP planks, such as war, foreign policy, trade, gay marriage or gun rights?
Typically, transparency, privacy, and individual rights are the solution to all of these questions. It is widely known that most people don't want war, nevermind one waged for unjust reasons. Transparency is the solution to to that.
Transparency would have prevented all the wars waged by the US so far this millennium. Abortion and gay rights are personal privacy matters, and the right for self-defense is an inalienable human right. So though we don't "take stands" on these issues, it's pretty clear where most Pirates would fall in the political spectrum.
What should states have more control over and what should be left at the Federal level?
The Federal level should stick to enforcing rights, like civil rights and leave lawmaking to the states. So long as a law doesn't violate the two prior values stated, the Feds shouldn't get involved in the 3rd.
Is it the role of public institutions to regulate thinking and speech?
Anything that stifles the free-exchange of ideas is a bad thing. Like copyright. Like patents.
Do you agree with the idea that there’s just too much damn government that’s wasteful and inefficient as a result of lobbying, cronyism and outmoded practices?
What suggestions do you have for anyone interested in starting up a local Pirate chapter?
There were something like six Pirates at the beginning here. Because James O'Keefe had run for state treasurer 2x as a Green, he knew a political designation is not too hard to get in this state. So even though he only had 6 people at his meetings, he got that designation, made a press release and next thing you know he is on RT, we are in the Boston Globe.
Get two local(ish) friends. Acquaint them with the Pirate imperatives. Elect a captain, 1st officer and quartermaster (chair, secretary, treasurer). Declare yourselves the _________ Pirate Party.
Set up Twitter and blog at least, FB, Tumblr or Instagram if you like. Make a press release of what the PP is, what you intend to make your pet projects, how people can contact you. Have a call to action about... Standing rock solidarity demo? Symposium on ranked choice voting? Make FB event page, flyers, call friends... Take out an ad!
Here in MA we have MIT, Harvard, Google, Microsoft, ... Someone is always holding some kind of symposium you can "buy at table" at... I don't know what you have that compares in your area, but I suggest you start at the universities. This is also a good place to hang flyers to get students attention, at the shops, laundromats near campus. If you know anyone in any kind of radio or podcasts in the area, as activists often do, book an appearance if you can.
If you do get a table at a technology fair, or political event, be sure to have a stack of flyers with all of your social media contact info and email on them. A sign for the table is helpful, as is a sign-up-for-more-information sheet. At events, Tweet photos, blog about it. "This is what we do, this is how we roll." If we get 10 people at a cryptoparty we consider it a success. Let the other PPs around state, US and world know what you are doing and they will retweet you, and share. Lather rinse repeat.
One of my best all time high school teachers used to tell me "There is nothing to it, but to do it." You have everything you need already. Just start. Contact me at sutralu at gmail dot com as much as you want. Ready? GO!
Learn more about the United States Pirate Party and follow them on Twitter and Facebook
I also recommend picking up the book, No Safe Harbor: Essays About Pirate Politics
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Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women, Girls and Two Spirited: What You Should Know
By: Maddi Grier
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The Q&A you never knew you needed… but you do.
More and more Indigenous women, girls, two-spirit and men are going missing everyday. It is not a topic that is apart of the mainstream media; it is something that needs to be reintegrated into Canadian society at every chance. The ongoing genocide against Indigenous peoples is one that is ignored and cast aside. It is up to us as community members, Canadian citizens and allies to step up and speak the truth. Everyone deserves the right to feel safe and loved; it is an ongoing issue of oppression towards Indigenous women, girls and two-spirited people. The more people start talking about this issues and educating themselves on it the more connected the communities can be. Bringing this issue forward over and over again is what will make change.
What does Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women (MMIWG) mean?
There has been an ongoing epidemic of Indigenous women, girls and Two-spirited peoples going missing or murdered for the last decade. Some have been taken by serial killers, disturbed people and the system provided by Canada in which enacts the perspective that Indigenous women, girls and Two-Spirited are disposable. This is apart of the ongoing genocide upon Indigenous people, defined by the United Nations genocide laws.
Why are Indigenous women not recognized when they are either missing or murdered?
This is a question many of us ask ourselves when a loved one is harmed… Why are we not given the same media coverage? Why are we not being acknowledged in the Canadian statistics as missing and murdered? Why…why… why…
Unfortunately, there is not a definite answer to this and the other questions around this issue. However, these are our theories…
Media framing and the stigmatizing of Indigenous women has become a huge issue around why these women are not taken into account, terms like “prostitute” or “high risk” insinuate a negative connotation towards Indigenous women. This is problematic for the general public as this may be their only association or information on Indigenous people, this makes it less likely for people to take these issues seriously.
How does stereotyping and stigmatizing Indigenous women impose a dangerous narrative?
Stereotyping is a common issue for Indigenous people, often depicted as ‘savages’ or ‘promiscuous’. The dehumanization that aligns with appropriated figures and costumes continues the systemic violence against Indigenous women and peoples. With the hyper-sexualized costumes and characters fed to society, it endures the concept of Indigenous women being disposable and stigmatized for fetishizing. This also, brings great disrespect towards the regalia that holds meaning and traditional value to Native communities. Overall, the misrepresentation of Indigenous women is often justified for the systemic abuse they face on a daily basis.
How does colonization create a direct reflect to the MMIW epidemic?
Historically, Indigenous women were/are subjected to disproportionate surveillance, restraint and violence (Burnett & Read, 2016). Government policy and legislations such as Indian Act have in ways taken Indigenous women’s agency away. With policies such as Bill C-31, in which protects Native women’s right to status, it allows the government agencies to have say over Native women’s rights and abilities to make their own decisions. Colonization has led to the destruction of matrilineal societies by revoking their rights and responsibilities in their communities. Through systems of assimilation such as, residential school, colonization has created a perspective of Indigenous women being ‘less than’ the average citizen.
How to be a supportive ‘ally’ to MMIW?
Look up Indigenous authors and read their perspectives on Canadian society
Reach out to groups and rallies - ask what you can do
Realize what your presence brings to these events and try giving space to Indigenous people, don’t be the voice for the cause, uplift the voice.
Literally be bodies for the safety of Indigenous people, as Indigenous people are targeted in incidents more than non-Indigenous or white peoples.
Ask questions but do not overstep to the point of making more labour for Indigenous people in the cause.
Alliship is earned not claimed, put in the work and don’t expect a pat on the back. Your presence and work should be rewarding enough.
Don’t let guilt stop you from joining the cause.
Maddi is currently an undergraduate student at Simon Fraser University she is studying Gender Studies and Communications working towards freelance journalism through film. She is very active in advocating for and supporting Indigenous Voices. She holds close to her heart issues such as Missing & Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls, Two Spirited Indigenous People, and Indigenous Womanism. She is co-creator and publisher of a Zine called ‘I AM, Indigenous Alternative Media’, raising awareness to Indigenous issues while providing a platform for Indigenous peoples by Indigenous people. She also has set goals of creating documentaries in the future that are directed towards Indigenous issues as well issues that intersect with the BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, people of color) communities.
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Beat of Temptation
By: Nalini Singh
Series: Psy-Changeling
Book Number: 0.1
Nathan, a sentinel of the DarkRiver leopard pack, and Tamsyn, their pack healer, have know for four years that they are fated mates. Tamsyn has loved Nate for nearly that long, but Nate has been fighting it, feeling that the innocent Tamsyn is too young for the demands of the mating bond. He watched his own mother self-destruct after mating too young and having it all fall apart, and he wants to make sure that Tamsyn is ready so that the same thing won't happen to her. What he doesn't realize is that Tamsyn has been ready since the beginning and being thrust into the role of healer at the tender age of seventeen has only prepared her even more. Now nineteen, she can no longer fight against the desires of her beast, but can she convince Nate that she values him and their bond more than her freedom?
I started reading the Psy-Changeling series slightly out of order, chronologically speaking. I began last year with Slave to Sensation, along with the two free short extras connected to that book that are available at Nalini Singh's website. Then I realized that she'd later added a couple of novellas that precede it in the series chronology. So I backtracked to pick up Nate and Tamsyn's story "Beat of Temptation." Of course, I had already met these two characters in Slave to Sensation, where Tamsyn was the healer of the DarkRiver leopard pack and Nate was leader of the sentinels and basically Lucas's right hand man. At that point, they're already happily mated with twin cubs, so this novella goes back to show us the beginning of their relationship.
As the story opens, Nate and Tamsyn have known that they're fated mates for four years, but when they first became aware of the mate bond, Tamsyn was only fifteen. Since Nate is ten years her senior, he kept his distance, waiting for her to come of age, but now that she's nineteen, it's becoming more and more difficult for them to wait. Nate's parents had a terrible mating that ended with his mother's suicide, and he believes that it was all because she mated his father too young. He doesn't want to tie Tamsyn down too soon and have the same thing happen to her, so he keeps stubbornly insisting that she explore her freedom first. Tamsyn is having none of it. She was already thrust into the role of pack healer at the age of seventeen, so she's very mature for her age and more than ready to mate Nate. But he keeps refusing her at every turn.
Nate skated perilously close to being a little too alpha for my taste. He's definitely one of those clueless heroes who doesn't really understand how his actions are affecting his heroine and seems to think he knows what's best for her instead of letting her make up her own mind. It could be a tad irritating, but I mostly understood where he was coming from. He also won me over a little more with a sweet romantic gesture he made after he finally gave into the mating bond. I liked Tamsyn a lot. She has the gentle heart of a healer, but at the same time, she's a very strong heroine. She tries everything she can to get Nate to take notice of her and make their mating real and not just something their inner beasts want. She's pretty tenacious, but even she has a breaking point that was totally understandable. She also has some vulnerabilities, too, believing that Nate doesn't truly want her when he continues to hold her at arm's length.
The story is mostly about Nate fighting the mating bond and Tamsyn working to get him to give in, but there is a minor sub-plot involving a Psy who is trying to encroach on DarkRiver land. I thought he was going to end up being more of a threat, but very little comes of his presence. That being the case, I can't say that this part really added much to the story. To me, it seemed like the author felt an obligatory need to include a Psy character because the series is about both Psy and Changelings, but I would have been just as happy without it. Even with this little weakness in the story and Nate rubbing me the wrong way a bit, I was still planning on giving it at least 4.5 stars until I got to the only love scene in the story and it was fade to black. The entire novella is about the incredibly intense sexual tension between Nate and Tamsyn that you know is leading up to their mating. When we get to that point, there's some equally intense foreplay, then nothing more than a couple of lines indicating they did the deed. At this point, I was screaming in my head, "Are you kidding me? I've been waiting through the whole novella for a steamy love scene and this is all I get?" Needless to say, it was seriously disappointing, especially since I know from reading Slave to Sensation first that Nalini Singh can write these types of scenes very well. If she was constrained by word count, I think it would have been a better story to take out the Psy sub-plot, or even pare off a little of the back and forth between Nate and Tamsyn in exchange for at least one detailed love scene. Writing it the way she did was like dangling a delicious treat in front of a starving person and then cruelly yanking it away. Other than my frustration with this part of the story, "Beat of Temptation" was admittedly well-written, and I enjoyed it, particularly the Christmas theme since it's so rarely seen in paranormal romance. I just wish the author or her editor or whoever it was hadn't cheated readers out of the payoff to all that sexual tension. "Beat of Temptation" was originally published in the multi-author anthology, An Enchanted Season, and was later reprinted in the single-author anthology, Wild Invitation, along with three other novellas set in the Psy-Changeling world.
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Young Driver AMR: Le Mans 24h preview
First start for Young Driver in the world’s most famous 24h race
Next weekend, (12./13. June), a dream will come true for the Young Driver AMR-team. The Aston Martin-team will start in the world’s famous endurance race, the 78. edition of the 24 Heures of Le Mans. Young Driver AMR is the only team that races with the Aston Martin DBR9, a car that won its class at Le Mans in both 2007 and 2008. Since the first 24 Heures of Le Mans back in 1923, the French endurance classic has not only become the worlds most famous endurance race and one of the three most prestigious races in motorsport beside the Grand Prix of Monaco and the Indianapolis 500, with more than 250.000 spectators it’s also the biggest single sport event in Europe. Most teams prepare 364 days only for these 24 hours, the hardest 24 in racing.
Part of the Le Mans Legend is the epic, 13.629 meter long “Circuit de la Sarthe”. The track combines a permanent racetrack with typical French public roads – an exciting cocktail with an overall average speed of +200km/h! Le Mans is in many ways different to other races. To race at Le Mans, you have to be selected by the organising club ACO from a great number of potential entries. “It’s a real honour for us, that the ACO choose Young Driver AMR as the only Aston Martin-team in the GT1-class”, Young Driver AMR team boss Hardy Fischer is pleased to wave the Aston Martin flag at Le Mans.
The Young Driver AMR-driver squad at Le Mans featuring Christoffer Nygaard (DK), Tomas Enge (CZ) and Peter Kox (NL), is a good mix of speed, experience and youth, a perfect combination at Le Mans. Peter Kox is the most experienced member of the Young Driver AMR team, as the Dutchman starts his 13th Le Mans this year. “We have a well sorted and proven car and a really good team“, Kox says. “I had success with Tomas at Le Mans in the past, together we won the GT1-class in 2003. Although the team is new at Le Mans, they have very strong key personal and they really know what the are doing. So we are a in very good position to fight for the class victory.“
Enge has been “Mr. GT1-Pole-Position” at Le Mans in recent years. In six starts in the GT1-class, he claimed the class Pole Position five times. This year will mark the fifth time, that the former Formula 1-driver will share a car at Le Mans with Peter Kox. “I really would like to continue my series of Pole Positions in the GT1-class”, Tomas Enge says. “Although to claim the pole at Le Mans is not really important, it’s always nice to be on Pole. But what matters is the race. Le Mans is all about running, fast and consistent. The most important thing is to keep the car on the track, save the car as much as possible and race like clockwork. The race will be difficult, but we have a proven car that won the class already two times, and also a strong team, that did perfect work in our races in the GT1-World Championship so far.”
Third driver at Le Mans is “Young Driver“ Christoffer Nygaard. The young Dane is a Le Mans debutant, and will make his first start at Le Mans this year. “I’m quite excited, there is more and more tension building up every day“, Nygaard says. “I haven’t raced at Le Mans yet, but my teammates are very experienced there and I hope they will teach me everything about the track and the race.“The Aston Martin DBR9 is proven winner at Le Mans. This year will mark the sixth time the V12-engine-powered car will start at Le Mans. Aston Martin won the GT1-class at the Le Mans with this car in 2007 and 2008. “It’s our first time at Le Mans, but we have a good car, experienced drivers and a good team. The team showed a perfect pit work, one among many things that are crucial at Le mans”, Young Driver AMR team boss Hardy Fischer is confident about the first Le Mans assault of his team. “I expect that we will have a good race pace, but the most important thing at Le Mans to finish the race.”
While the Young Driver AMR trucks are already on their way to France, the team will travel to Le Mans on Sunday. All three drivers will have a special warm up for Le Mans. Tomas Enge and Christoffer Nygaard will compete in a Ford GT of Young Driver AMR sister team Fischer Racing in the Spanish GT championship at Jarama in Spain this weekend, while Kox will race in the British GT Championship at Spa in Belgium.
Follow Young Driver AMR at Le Mans 2010! Daily updates and pictures on www.youngdriver-amr.com and www.fischer-racingteam.de.
Young Driver AMR-drivers history at Le Mans
Tomas Enge (CZ)
Born: 11.09.76, Liberec (Czech Republic)
Lives: Banbury (UK)
First start: 2002 (Prodrive-Ferrari 550 Maranello)
Number of starts: 8
Most success: Winner GT1 (GTS) class 2003, 5 GT1-Poles in 6 starts
Notable: First start at Le Mans in at not Prodrive entry, finished 4th overall in a Works-Aston martin-LMP1-Prototype.
2002 Prodrive-Ferrari 550 Maranello DNF
2003 Prodrive-Ferrari 550 Maranello Winner GT1-class
2004 Prodrive-Ferrari 550 Maranello 4th GT1-class
2005 AMR-Aston Martin DBR9 DNF
2006 AMR-Aston Martin DBR9 2nd GT1-class
2007 AMR-Aston Martin DBR9 4th GT1-Class
2008 Charouz-Lola 08/60-Aston Martin 9th overall
2009 AMR-Lola-Aston Martin 4th overall
Peter Kox (NL)
Born: 23.02.64, Eindhoven (NL)
Lives: Eindhoven (NL)
First start: 1996
Number of starts: 12
Most success: 3rd overall in 1997 in a Schnitzer-McLaren F1 GTR, winner GT1-class (GTS) 2003
Notable: first start with Young Driver AMR, raced last year in a factory Aston martin LMP-Prototype.
1996 West-McLaren F1 GTR 4th overall
1997 Schnitzer-McLaren F1 GTR 3rd overall
1999 Racing for Holland-Lola-Ford DNF
2002 Spyker Squadron-Spyker C8 D12 DNF
2006 Menx-Ferrari 550 Maranello DNF
2008 Reiter-Lamborghini Murcielago DNF
2009 AMR-Lola-Aston Martin DNF
Christoffer Nygaard (DK)
Born: 24.03.1986, Gentofte
Lives: Lyngby (DK)
Number of start: 0
Notable: First start at Le Mans.
Schedule 24h Le Mans:
Monday 7 June
14:40 – 15:10 Scrutineering #52 Young Driver AMR-Aston Martin DBR9
Wednesday 9 June
16:00 – 20:00 Free practice sessions 24 Heures du Le Mans 22:00 – 24:00 Qualifying practice sessions 24 Heures du Le Mans
Thursday 10 June
19:00 – 21:00 Qualifying practice sessions 24 Heures du Le Mans
Friday 11 June
10:00 – 20:00 Pit Walk 18:00 – 19:00 Drivers’ parade (City centre)
Saturday 12 June 09.00 – 09:45 Warm-Up 24 Heures du Le Mans 14:22 Beginning of starting procedure 24 Heures du Le Mans
15:00 Start of the 78th race of the 24 Heures du Le Mans
Sunday 13 June 15:00 Finish of the 78th of the 24 Heures du Le Mans
24h of Le Mans on TV
The entire race will be broadcasted LIVE and in full length by Eurosport and Eurosport2. Coverage will begin with the practise and qualifying Wednesday und Thursday, there is a flag to flag coverage on Eurosport/Eurosport2 from Saturdays 14.30 o’clock onwards. The race is also shown live in full length on the Eurosport player in the internet.
“Radio Le Mans“:
Practise, Qualifying and race in full length will be covered live by “Radio Le Mans“. For further details visit www.radiolemans.com. “Radio Le Mans” is available on short wave-radio all around the track.
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Home » lost , television » Watching LOST and wondering about the Hydra Island runway?
Watching LOST and wondering about the Hydra Island runway?
By Chris Knight March 20, 2009 No comments
We got a hint of it a few weeks ago in "The Life and Death of Jeremy Bentham". But this week's episode of Lost, titled "Namaste", gave us our first-ever confirming look at what Kate and Sawyer were put to work on early in Season 3: the runway on the smaller Hydra Island off the coast of the main Island. In this week's show, it was just "conveniently there" for Frank Lapidus to pull off his own "Chesley Sullenberger"-style miracle landing. And it let him bring Ajira Flight 316 down more or less pretty safely (considering that the only know fatality was his co-pilot).
So in late 2004, Ben had Kate and Sawyer helping the Others clearing the runway. It must have been fairly well known among the rest of the Others what the purpose of the activity was, because Juliet told them later that it was "a runway" (before joking that it was for the aliens). But the Others have never been seen with any aircraft.
It's only four years later, in 2008, that the runway finally gets used, when Ajira 316 makes its landing.
So are you wondering also: Why did the Others put a runway there? Almost as if someone knew that it would be needed at that exact spot, waiting for Ajira 316?
I found the answer on Lostpedia: probably the definitive Wiki devoted to Lost.
According to the Official Lost Podcast for March 19th, 2009, it was none other than Jacob who ordered the runway to be built.
That both makes perfect sense and begs even more questions about Jacob. Hope we'll get to find out more about him soon, 'cuz he's the most captivating mystery that this show has.
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Reverend Montagu Harrison1
M, #4171
Reverend Montagu Harrison lived at St. Ambrose Vicarage, Bournemouth, Hampshire, EnglandG.1
Child of Reverend Montagu Harrison
John Anthony Austin Harrison+1
[S8] BP1999 volume 1, page 54. See link for full details for this source. Hereinafter cited as. [S8]
John Brooke Howell1
M, #4172, d. 19 March 2010
John Brooke Howell married Isabel Margaret Ramsay Gibbs, daughter of Christopher John Gibbs and Margaret Evelyn Mackay, on 21 July 1978.1 He died on 19 March 2010.2
[S466] Notices, The Telegraph, London, UK. Hereinafter cited as The Telegraph.
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Eleanor Margaret Harrison was born on 9 January 1971.1 She is the daughter of John Anthony Austin Harrison and Isabel Margaret Ramsay Gibbs.1
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Mary Janet Day is the daughter of Frank Day.1 She married Antony Richard Gibbs, son of Antony James Gibbs and Helen Margaret Leuchars, on 4 September 1964.1
From 4 September 1964, her married name became Gibbs.1
Children of Mary Janet Day and Antony Richard Gibbs
Rupert Nicolas Antony Gibbs1 b. 28 Apr 1968
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Exploring the world of watches on a budget
Preview: Zelos Chroma
A couple of months ago, The Time Bum introduced you to Zelos Watches and their debut model, the Helmsman, a burly dive style watch with sever unique design elements that set it apart from the crowd. The success of that watch prompted Zelos's founder and designer, Elshan Tang to launch a second timepiece, the Chroma, available for pre order on Kickstarter now.
In a departure from the Helmsman, the Chroma is more of an everyday dress watch. It sports a round, 42x11mm, lug less, stainless steel case that is both brushed and polished. The sides are ringed with a series of smooth, concave channels so in profile, it almost resembles a piston head. The crystal is sapphire with an anti reflective coating. Water resistance is 50 meters.
Two models are available: the Chroma and the a Chroma Skeleton. Both feature radial brushing for a sun burst effect, and the hour markers are cut into a ring set over a polished surface. A white index is printed to the inside of this ring. Hands are a polished, pencil style. It is a clean and modern look. On the first model, the only decoration on the dial is the Zelos logo. The Skeleton, on the other hand, features a cut away dial resembling that of the Perrelet Turbine, offering a glimpse of the mechanical movement inside.
Both versions use the Miyota 8215 and offer a better look through an sapphire exhibition case back. The 8215 is finished, but undecorated save for a rose gold PVD finish on the rotor. It is not fancy, but it is not meant to be. Elshan likens the display as being similar to the glass engine covers on supercars. In similar fashion, the Chroma does not display its movement as jewelry, but as a machine.
Name notwithstanding, there is very little color at play. The Chroma will be offered as: Skeleton Steel, Skeleton PVD, Chroma Cream, Chroma PVD w/ rose gold accents, and Chroma Black.
As with the Helmsman, Elshan did not ignore the buckle. On the Chroma, cut outs have been machined into the sides, echoing the case design. It is attached to a 20mm crazy horse leather strap with a velvety finish.
Each Chroma will be numbered, with only 200 of each variant being produced. The Skeleton model will be limited to 100 of each variant due to the limited supply of movements available.
The Chroma will list for $350 CAD, the Skeleton for $450. Pre order pricing starts at $199 CAD (@ $178 USD) and tops out at $299 (@$357 USD) for a Skeleton. A number of stretch goals are planned. Of course, a prototype is only representative of a final watch, things may change in development, and there is no certainty with a crowd funded venture, but Elshan has delivered before.
I think the Chroma in both its forms is a clever design with the sort of unexpected, fun details that made the Helmsman so appealing. The early bird price of $178 makes it very tempting indeed. The Kickstarter campaign ends October 29.
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Alan Watts – Why Your Life Is Not A Journey
Philosopher Alan Watts explains why the way of looking at your life as a journey can be the most destructive way in this inspiring video. It will change your perspective about life!
Enlightenment, Spirituality
Ikigai – Finding Your Reason for Being
Ikigai is a Japanese concept meaning “a reason for being”. Everyone, according to the Japanese, has an Ikigai. Finding it requires a deep and often lengthy search of self. Such a search is regarded as being very important, since it is believed that discovery of one’s Ikigai brings satisfaction and meaning to life.
Gregg Braden – The Power Of The Subconscious Mind
The power of thoughts really influence our daily lives and Gregg Braden has plenty of examples how this is true. Our minds are the most powerful forces in this universe, but when we connect it with our hearts, the power is beyond measure.
Consciousness, Technology
Are We Approaching Robotic Consciousnesses?
The field of artificial intelligence and robotics has experienced the first scientifically provable self aware robot. This is world’s worst nightmare or it’s not?
10 Life-Changing Lessons From Confucius
Confucius was the greatest Eastern philosopher of all time, whose teachings deeply influenced East Asian life and thought.
Alan Watts and ‘The Real You’
Do you do it — that is, are you really in charge of your intentions, emotions, and actions? Or, as Alan Watts suggests, is the universe doing you — manifesting the grandeur and wonder of the cosmos through the astonishing phenomenon known as “you”?
Consciousness, Enlightenment
Inner Worlds, Outer Worlds – Akasha
Many of history’s monumental thinkers, such a Pythagoras, Kepler, Leonardo DaVinci, Tesla, and Einstein, have come to the threshold of this great mystery. It is the common link between all religions, all sciences, and the link between our inner worlds and our outer worlds.
Zeitgeist The Movie
This movie is about mythology and belief in society today, presenting uncommon perspectives of common cultural issues. Zeitgeist ending discussing society, how we view each other, why we do it and why we believe ourselves to be powerless. It discusses how we must realize how much we are alike and how similar we truly are.
Carl Jung on Synchronicity
Synchronicity is a word coined by the Swiss psychologist Carl Jung to describe the temporally coincident occurrences of acausal events. It was a principle that he felt compassed his concept of the collective unconscious, in that it was descriptive of a governing dynamic that underlay the whole of human experience.
A Brilliant Animated Video Explaing Higher Consciousness
‘Higher consciousness’ sounds mystical and possibly irritating. It shouldn’t. It just captures how we see things when we go beyond our own egos.
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Mercado takes first top tens of 2019!
Monday, 24 June 2019 11:44 GMT
The Argentine star shone in the wet and in the dry to take his first back-to-back top tens in over 18 months!
After missing three rounds due to an unfortunate wrist injury, Leandro Mercado (Orelac Racing VerdNatura) returned at Jerez before taking his best results in over a year at Misano. The Argentine rider – the only representative of South America on the WorldSBK grid – put in superb performances for back-to-back top tens in Race 1 and in the Tissot Superpole Race, before a crash in Race 2 left a bitter-sweet taste to the Argentine’s weekend.
Speaking after Saturday, Leandro ‘Tati’ Mercado said: "Race 1 was underwater, although a P10 was a very good result. At the beginning of the race, I lost a lot of time in finding the feeling with the bike, but later in the second half of the race I was able to overcome in very difficult conditions.”
Mercado had been in consistent form before his injury, although he hadn’t finished a race inside the top ten since Misano last season. His next objective will be to continue achieving top ten results, at two circuits which his best result is seventh – Donington Park and Laguna Seca.
Continuing to review his weekend, Mercado spoke about Sunday in much dryer conditions: “Ninth position in the Tissot Superpole Race and a fall in Race 2 that I did not expect! That fall deprived us of a good race since we had the pace to fight for the top ten. It is difficult to fight with the official bikes, but we always give our maximum!”
Now back racing and fully fit, Mercado will seek to return to the top ten in the next two rounds before a Summer break follows. Then, there are two rounds remaining before his home round of the season at the Circuito San Juan Villicum. Mercado retired from Race 1 there last season but was 12th in Race 2.
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A blog by the National Trust of Australia (Victoria)
National Trust North East Branch reactivated
Published on October 16, 2019.
On Saturday 12 October, our North East Branch was reactivated at a meeting in Beechworth with a new President a committee appointed to lead the Branch. Incoming President Jeff Mueller is an architect based near Yackandandah, who has been engaged in heritage advocacy in the region for several years.
The meeting was attended by approximately 40 people including National Trust staff and members, community members, and representatives from Indigo and Alpine Shire Council and the Rural City of Wangaratta.
Victoria’s North East is home to some of the state’s most important heritage places, and the National Trust has had a strong presence in the region since the 1960s. The revived North East branch will support the work already being undertaken by local councils in the region, and be a strong and independent voice for the protection and celebration of heritage in the community.
If you are interested in joining the North East Branch or would like to receive updates on branch activity, please contact conservation@nattrust.com.au
Read more via the Border Mail here.
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Early Childhood Care and Education in Canada
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By Larry Prochner; Edited by Nina Howe
Formal programs for the care and education of young children in Canada have a history that goes back almost 200 years, yet issues surrounding services for our youngest Canadians continue to be hotly contested as we begin a new century. In Canada, early childhood care and education are striking for their tremendous diversity on such key issues as curriculum, financing, and teacher education. The range of programs and philosophies can be overwhelming for parents, practitioners, academics, researchers, and policy makers alike.
Larry Prochner and Nina Howe reflect the variation within the field by bringing together a multidisciplinary group of experts to address key issues in the field: What programs are currently available and what are their origins? How are adults prepared for work in these programs? How do children within the programs spend their day? What policies guide the programs? How has the field reflected on itself through research? There are no simple answers, but the essays in this collection contribute to a creative reframing of the questions. The authors include psychologists, sociologists, historians, teacher educators, and social policy analysts.
Early Childhood Care and Education in Canada will be of interest to students, teachers, and researchers in child study, early education, policy studies, and history. With cutbacks to early education programs, a shortage of daycare spaces, and uncertainty about future levels of support, the time is ripe for a close examination of the services we provide for our youngest citizens.
RELATED TOPICS: Canadian History, Education, Educational Policy & Theory, Family & Childhood Studies, History, History of Education, K-12 Education, K-12 Education, Preschool Education, Sociology
Larry Prochner is an associate professor in the Department of Education at Concordia University and a co-editor, with Gary Woodill and Judith Bernhard, of The International Handbook of Early Childhood Education (1992). Nina Howe is an associate professor in the Department of Education at Concordia University and a member of the Centre for Research in Human Development.
Part 1: Historical Contexts
1 A History of Early Education and Child Care in Canada, 1820-1966 / Larry Prochner
2 A History of Early-Childhood-Teacher Education / Donna Varga
3 Toronto's Institute of Child Study and the Teachings of W.E. Blatz / Mary J. Wright
4 A History of Laboratory Schools / Kathleen Brophy
5 Child Care Research in Canada, 1965-99 / Alan R. Pence and Allison Benner
Part 2: Current Contexts
6 A National Picture of Child Care Options / Ellen Jacobs
7 The Curriculum / Nina Howe, Ellen Jacobs, and Lisa M. Fiorentino
8 The Child Care Provider / Donna White and Davina Mill
9 Child Care as a Social Policy Issue / Martha Friendly
10 The Business of Child Care: The Issue of Auspice / Susan Prentice
Part 3: Future Directions
11 Early Childhood Care and Education in Canada: An Overview and Future Directions / Nina Howe
Working Mothers and the Child Care Dilemma
A History of British Columbia’s Social Policy
By Lisa Pasolli
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World Congress on Ecological Sustainability
The organization focuses on 3 interrelated and interdependent ecologies on planet Earth - the natural, human, and digital ecologies. In order for any one to survive, all must thrive symbiotically. Part of the organization's mission to ensure ecological sustainability is to ensure that each ecology is operating in-balance and efficiently and remains in equilibrium with the other ecologies.
Fruit Flies' Neural Networks Solve Distributed Computing Problem Better Than Humans
Source: http://www.popsci.com/science/article/2011-01/fruit-flies-neural-networks-solve-distributed-computing-problem-better-humans
The burgeoning neural networks of fruit fly pupae solve a distributed computing problem, arranging sensory bristles in a very efficient, effective manner. Scientists who monitored the bristles' growth say they can mimic the flies' method to build more effective communications networks.
It's not the first time we've seen an insect solve a problem that plagues computer scientists — bees can do it, too — but the fruit fly discovery does one better, leading to an algorithm that can be used to develop more efficient computer and wireless networks.
Distributed computing involves several processors working in concert to solve a problem. Some are chosen as leaders, collecting data from the other processors and passing it along. Organizing these networks into efficient processor-leader groups is one of the biggest challenges in computing — but millions of cells in a fly's nervous system do it automatically, organizing themselves so that a small number of cells serve as leaders. It is much better than anything humans have come up with, scientists say: "It is such a simple and intuitive solution, I can't believe we did not think of this 25 years ago," according to co-author Noga Alon, a mathematician and computer scientist at Tel Aviv University and the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton.
Fruit fly bristles, which are used for feeling and hearing, develop as nerve cells self-select to become leaders. The cells send chemical signals to their neighboring cells, ensuring that those cells cannot become leaders, too. Using fluorescence microscopy, the researchers watched an entire network form in about three hours.
They developed an algorithm based on the cells' self-selection approach, and say it's particularly effective for adaptive networks where the number and position of each node is not certain, according to Carnegie Mellon University. That could include environmental monitoring sensors, robot swarms and more.
The research is published today in the journal Science.
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NEXT WEEK in Albuquerque: Udall to Chair Indian Affairs Field Hearing, “America’s Nuclear Past: Examining the Effects of Radiation on Indian Country”
By Native News Online Staff - October 05, 2019 at 12:01AM
Will be joined by Reps. Luján, Haaland
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Next Monday, October 7, U.S. Senator Tom Udall, vice chairman of the Senate Committee on Indian Affairs, will chair an official Indian Affairs Committee oversight field hearing entitled “America’s Nuclear Past: Examining the Effects of Radiation on Indian Country” at the Southwest Indian Polytechnic Institute (SIPI). The committee will examine the unique history and legacy of the atomic age in Indian Country and discuss efforts to ensure that the federal government lives up to its obligations to compensate Native communities hurt by America’s Cold War activities, as well as clean up and properly maintain abandoned uranium mines and sites.
Udall will be joined by U.S. Representatives Ben Ray Luján (D-N.M.) and Deb Haaland (D-N.M.), as well as two panels of witnesses.
During the hearing, Udall will discuss his legislation to expand coverage of the Radiation Exposure Compensation Act (RECA) to cover victims in New Mexico and Indian Country, including the Post-1971 Uranium Workers and the Tularosa Downwinders. Udall has worked for years to expand the original RECA legislation.
Witnesses will include:
DAVID W. GRAY, Deputy Regional Administrator, Region 6, Environmental Protection Agency, Dallas, TX
PETER O’ KONSKI, Deputy Director, Office of Legacy Management, Department of Energy, Washington, D.C.
Dr. LORETTA CHRISTENSEN, Chief Medical Officer, Navajo Area, Indian Health Service, Window Rock, AZ
THE HONORABLE MICHAEL CHAVARRIA, Governor, Santa Clara Pueblo, Santa Clara Pueblo, NM
THE HONORABLE JONATHAN NEZ, President, Navajo Nation, Window Rock, AZ
RYAN RILEY, Council Representative, Laguna Pueblo, Laguna, NM
PHIL HARRISON, Advocate, Navajo Uranium Radiation Victims Committee, Shiprock, NM
TINA CORDOVA, Co-Founder, Tularosa Basin Downwinders Consortium, Albuquerque, NM
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The history of the Department of Mathematics at NUS traces back to 1929, when science education began in Singapore with the opening of Raffles College with less than five students enrolled in mathematics. On March 17, over 40 school-age students participated in the 2016 USA Math Kangaroo Competition, hosted on the campus of Kansas State University by the Department of Mathematics and the Math Circle Seminar at KSU. A student fully trained in Christian mathematics has their inward thoughts and attitudes consistent with God’s Word.
What is viewed as mathematical ability cannot just depend on the computational, but should also take into account the spatial reasoning, symbolic reasoning, logic and broad problem-solving ability. A scientific theory by definition should work all the time and none of the above do furthermore, they are not objective and that is the definition of a scientific theory. The project set out to design and develop well-engineered tools for formative and summative assessment that expose students’ mathematical knowledge and reasoning, helping teachers guide them towards improvement and monitor progress. Mathematics is about pattern and structure; it is about logical analysis, deduction, calculation within these patterns and structures.
We could not go back into the mathematic lesson because we had been crying such a lot. MathemaTIC liefert an die Lehrer und Schüler zu jeder Zeit einen aktuellen Überblick über den jeweiligen schulischen Lernfortschritt. The IMA Prize in Mathematics and its Applications is awarded annually to a mathematical scientist who is within 10 years of having received his or her Ph.D. degree. Our featured teachers engage their students with multiple mathematical practices simultaneously. In other words, the student won’t be a secret believer when doing mathematics (Matthew 12:34b-37).
The sine wave is one of the most basic wave patterns in mathematics and is depicted by smoothly alternating crest-trough regularity. Mathematics is used to create the complex programming at the heart of all computing. The Scriptures even inform us about what kind of mathematics is legitimate, the kind with the source of truth as revelation, verses any secularized version of revelation. Congratulations also to Calvin Deng and David Stoner, for placing first and third place in this year’s Virginia Tech Regional Mathematics Contest. The Mathematics Assessment Project is part of the Math Design Collaborative initiated by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
Evidence for more complex mathematics does not appear until around 3000 BC, when the Babylonians and Egyptians began using arithmetic, algebra and geometry for taxation and other financial calculations, for building and construction, and for astronomy 20 The earliest uses of mathematics were in trading , land measurement , painting and weaving patterns and the recording of time.
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