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2 Service history
2.1 1st patrol
2.2 2nd patrol
2.3 Wreck
2.4 Wolfpacks
German submarine U-533
Name: U-533
Ordered: 10 April 1941
Builder: Deutsche Werft, Hamburg
Launched: 11 September 1942
Commissioned: 25 November 1942
Fate: Sunk, 16 October 1943[1]
Class and type: Type IXC/40 submarine
1,144 t (1,126 long tons) surfaced
1,257 t (1,237 long tons) submerged
76.76 m (251 ft 10 in) o/a
58.75 m (192 ft 9 in) pressure hull
6.86 m (22 ft 6 in) o/a
4.44 m (14 ft 7 in) pressure hull
Height: 9.60 m (31 ft 6 in)
Draught: 4.67 m (15 ft 4 in)
Installed power:
4,400 PS (3,200 kW; 4,300 bhp) (diesels)
1,000 PS (740 kW; 990 shp) (electric)
2 shafts
2 × diesel engines
2 × electric motors
18.3 knots (33.9 km/h; 21.1 mph) surfaced
7.3 knots (13.5 km/h; 8.4 mph) submerged
13,850 nmi (25,650 km; 15,940 mi) at 10 knots (19 km/h; 12 mph) surfaced
63 nmi (117 km; 72 mi) at 4 knots (7.4 km/h; 4.6 mph) submerged
Test depth: 230 m (750 ft)
Complement: 4 officers, 44 enlisted
6 × torpedo tubes (4 bow, 2 stern)
22 × 53.3 cm (21 in) torpedoes
1 × 10.5 cm (4.1 in) SK C/32 deck gun (180 rounds)
1 × 3.7 cm (1.5 in) SK C/30 AA gun
1 × twin 2 cm FlaK 30 AA guns
Service record[2][3]
4th U-boat Flotilla
25 November 1942 – 30 April 1943
10th U-boat Flotilla
1 May – 16 October 1943
Commanders:
Kptlt. Helmut Hennig
25 November 1942 – 16 October 1943
1st patrol: 15 April – 24 May 1943
2nd patrol: 5 July – 16 October 1943
Victories: None
German submarine U-533 was a Type IXC/40 U-boat of Nazi Germany's Kriegsmarine during World War II. The submarine was laid down on 17 February 1942 at the Deutsche Werft yard at Hamburg as yard number 351, launched on 11 September 1942 and commissioned on 25 November 1942 under the command of Kapitänleutnant Helmut Hennig. After training with the 4th U-boat Flotilla in the Baltic Sea, U-533 was transferred to the 10th flotilla for front-line service on 1 May 1943.
German Type IXC/40 submarines were slightly larger than the original Type IXCs. U-533 had a displacement of 1,144 tonnes (1,126 long tons) when at the surface and 1,257 tonnes (1,237 long tons) while submerged.[4] The U-boat had a total length of 76.76 m (251 ft 10 in), a pressure hull length of 58.75 m (192 ft 9 in), a beam of 6.86 m (22 ft 6 in), a height of 9.60 m (31 ft 6 in), and a draught of 4.67 m (15 ft 4 in). The submarine was powered by two MAN M 9 V 40/46 supercharged four-stroke, nine-cylinder diesel engines producing a total of 4,400 metric horsepower (3,240 kW; 4,340 shp) for use while surfaced, two Siemens-Schuckert 2 GU 345/34 double-acting electric motors producing a total of 1,000 shaft horsepower (1,010 PS; 750 kW) for use while submerged. She had two shafts and two 1.92 m (6 ft) propellers. The boat was capable of operating at depths of up to 230 metres (750 ft).[4]
The submarine had a maximum surface speed of 18.3 knots (33.9 km/h; 21.1 mph) and a maximum submerged speed of 7.3 knots (13.5 km/h; 8.4 mph).[4] When submerged, the boat could operate for 63 nautical miles (117 km; 72 mi) at 4 knots (7.4 km/h; 4.6 mph); when surfaced, she could travel 13,850 nautical miles (25,650 km; 15,940 mi) at 10 knots (19 km/h; 12 mph). U-533 was fitted with six 53.3 cm (21 in) torpedo tubes (four fitted at the bow and two at the stern), 22 torpedoes, one 10.5 cm (4.13 in) SK C/32 naval gun, 180 rounds, and a 3.7 cm (1.5 in) SK C/30 as well as a 2 cm (0.79 in) C/30 anti-aircraft gun. The boat had a complement of forty-eight.[4]
1st patrol
U-533 departed Kiel on 15 April 1943, and sailed out into the Atlantic, but came under repeated attack from Allied aircraft, giving it very little opportunity to cause any damage to shipping.
On 24 April U-533 was attacked by a Hudson light bomber of No. 269 Squadron RAF. The U-boat was moderately damaged by the attack, defending itself with its AA guns. The next day, 25 April, the submarine was attacked again from the air, this time by an American PBY-5A Catalina of United States Navy squadron VP-84. Three of the U-boat's gunners were injured, but the U-boat was not severely damaged. On 20 May U-533 was attacked by a Halifax heavy bomber of No. 502 Squadron RAF, without suffering any serious damage. The U-boat arrived at her new home port of Lorient in occupied France, on 24 May after 40 days at sea.[5]
2nd patrol
On 5 July 1943 the U-boat sailed from Lorient, through the Atlantic, around the Cape of Good Hope, into the Indian Ocean, and up to the mouth of the Persian Gulf.[6]
Operating as part of the Monsun Gruppe, she was sunk in the Gulf of Oman on 16 October, in position 25°28′N 56°50′E / 25.467°N 56.833°E / 25.467; 56.833Coordinates: 25°28′N 56°50′E / 25.467°N 56.833°E / 25.467; 56.833, by depth charges dropped from a British Bisley (Blenheim) light bomber of No. 244 Squadron RAF,[2] piloted by Lewis William Chapman.[7] Of the crew of 53, only one survived; Matrosengefreiter Günther Schmidt, who was with an officer in the conning tower. The officer succeeded in opening the hatch, even though the submarine had sunk to a depth of 60 metres (200 ft). Without escape sets, the water pressure shot both men to the surface. Schmidt kept the unconscious officer afloat for an hour before he died, and Schmidt swam and stayed afloat without a life jacket for 28 hours until he was rescued by HMIS Hiravati near Khor Fakkan.[8] Schmidt spent the remainder of the war as a POW. Chapman received the Distinguished Flying Medal for his action.[8]
In 2009, divers found the wreck of U-533 at a depth of 108 metres (354 ft) some 25 nautical miles (46 km; 29 mi) off the coast of Fujairah.[8] The U-boat slid nose-first into the sandy bottom, leaving her bow partially submerged and stern and propeller exposed.[9]
Wolfpacks
U-533 took part in three wolfpacks, namely.
Star (27 April - 4 May 1943)
Fink (4–6 May 1943)
Monsun (5 July – 10 October 1943)
^ Kemp 1999, pp. 150-1.
^ a b Helgason, Guðmundur. "The Type IXC/40 boat U-533 - German U-boats of WWII - uboat.net". German U-boats of WWII - uboat.net. Retrieved 5 February 2010.
^ Helgason, Guðmundur. "War Patrols by German U-boat U-533 - Boats - uboat.net". German U-boats of WWII - uboat.net. Retrieved 5 February 2010.
^ a b c d Gröner 1991, p. 68.
^ Helgason, Guðmundur. "Patrol of U-boat U-533 from 15 Apr 1943 to 24 May 1943 - U-boat patrols - uboat.net". German U-boats of WWII - uboat.net. Retrieved 5 February 2010.
^ Helgason, Guðmundur. "Patrol of U-boat U-533 from 5 Jul 1943 to 16 Oct 1943 - U-boat patrols - uboat.net". German U-boats of WWII - uboat.net. Retrieved 5 February 2010.
^ "Submarine Casualties Booklet". U.S. Naval Submarine School. 1966. Retrieved 8 September 2009.
^ a b c "Untergang vorm Morgenland". Spiegel Online (in German). 18 December 2009. Retrieved 18 December 2009.
^ "What lies beneath: Nazi wreck off Fujairah". Gulf News. 17 December 2009. Retrieved 16 July 2012.
Busch, Rainer; Röll, Hans-Joachim (1999). German U-boat commanders of World War II : a biographical dictionary. Translated by Brooks, Geoffrey. London, Annapolis, Md: Greenhill Books, Naval Institute Press. ISBN 1-55750-186-6.
Busch, Rainer; Röll, Hans-Joachim (1999). Deutsche U-Boot-Verluste von September 1939 bis Mai 1945 [German U-boat losses from September 1939 to May 1945]. Der U-Boot-Krieg (in German). IV. Hamburg, Berlin, Bonn: Mittler. ISBN 3-8132-0514-2.
Gröner, Erich; Jung, Dieter; Maass, Martin (1991). U-boats and Mine Warfare Vessels. German Warships 1815–1945. 2. Translated by Thomas, Keith; Magowan, Rachel. London: Conway Maritime Press. ISBN 0-85177-593-4.
Kemp, Paul (1999). U-Boats Destroyed - German Submarine Losses in the World Wars. London: Arms & Armour. ISBN 1-85409-515-3.
Helgason, Guðmundur. "The Type IXC/40 boat U-533". German U-boats of WWII - uboat.net. Retrieved 7 December 2014.
Hofmann, Markus. "U 533". Deutsche U-Boote 1935-1945 - u-boot-archiv.de (in German). Retrieved 7 December 2014.
German Type IXC/40 submarines
Preceded by: Type IXC
Followed by: Type IXD
List of U-boats of Germany
Shipwrecks and maritime incidents in October 1943
1 Oct: Empire Commerce
3 Oct: USS Henley, HMS Usurper
4 Oct: U-279, U-389, U-422, U-460
5 Oct: USS LST-448
6 Oct: Yūgumo
7 Oct: USS Chevalier, USS S-44
8 Oct: ORP Orkan, U-419, U-610, U-643
9 Oct: USS Buck, HMS Panther
11 Oct: HMS Hythe, Mario Roselli, USS Wahoo, Jalabala
13 Oct: USS Bristol, U-402
16 Oct: USS Moonstone, U-470, U-533, U-844, U-964
17 Oct: Michel, U-540, U-631, U-841
19 Oct: Sinfra
20 Oct: U-378
21 Oct: HMCS Chedabucto, USS Murphy, SS Tivives, U-431
22 Oct: HMS Hurworth
23 Oct: HMS Charybdis, Taranto, U-274
24 Oct: HMS Eclipse, Mochizuki, U-566
26 Oct: James Longstreet
31 Oct: U-306, U-584, U-732
Unknown date: USS Dorado, HMS Trooper, U-420
Other incidents
9 Oct: HMS Carlisle
10 Oct: Mario Roselli
22 Oct: Adrias
23 Oct: James Iredell
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Matt Diaz: Man Makes Bold Video Showing Excess Skin, Gets Flood Of Donations For Surgery [Video]
Justin Streight
Matt Diaz lost 270 pounds in six years from age 16 to 22. His peak weight was 495 pounds. The weight loss was a huge achievement, but it left a permanent reminder — folds of excess skin that made Diaz self-conscious. After putting a courageous video on Youtube showing the problem, he’s received over $45 thousand through a GoFundMe page.
On March 18th, Matt Diaz uploaded a video on Youtube.
As he said, “I’m really really scared.”
Diaz showed aftermath of his body’s transformation: numerous folds of excess skin. He explained that showing the video was important, because he wanted to be open with who he was.
The video quickly went viral. Matt said there was nothing he could do about the excess skin, but it caused him a lot of embarrassment at the beach or other situations that required him to take off his shirt. He estimated the surgery to remove it would cost $20,000. The Internet answered the call.
According to PIX11, Diaz opened a GoFundMe page to raise money for the skin surgery. He received over $45,000 in three days.
He later wrote, “I can’t believe how much attention this has gotten in the last hour or so. You all are so incredible.”
Diaz’ situation might seem rare, but it’s not. NBC News documented a number of individuals suffering from excess skin after losing a significant amount of weight. They found those who underwent cosmetic surgery to remove the skin — like Diaz is trying to do — did better both psychologically and physiologically.
Excess skin can cause mental anguish from embarrassment and physical pain, like chafing.
Dr. Steve Wallach, a Manhattan-based cosmetic surgeon explained, “I had one patient who specifically said, ‘I’m wearing a fat suit; I feel like I’m a thin person inside wearing a body that’s twice the size of mine.'”
Excess skin often occurs after bariatric surgery, like a gastric bypass. NBC reports that about 100,000 of those kinds of surgery occur each year in the United States. Many are now arguing that more of those surgeries should include “body contouring” procedures to element excess skin before it becomes a problem (21 percent of bariatric surgeries already do).
The skin removal can better reinforce a positive body image, which in turn helps patients keep the weight off according to a recent study from the American Association of Plastic Surgeons.
The study on body contouring showed that patients who used a gastric bypass surgery to lose weight quickly, usually regained about 50 pounds after hitting their target weight. Those that included body contouring procedures only regain about 14 pounds.
Now that Matt Diaz can afford the works for his own excess skin removal, he should soon be able to hit the beach with confidence.
[Image via GoFundMe]
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‘The Divergent Series: Insurgent’ Takes In $54 Million On Opening Weekend, Nearly Matches First Film
Joseph Medina
It’s around the second movie in a series that we normally get to see what kind of a franchise the series will ultimately be. Will the franchise exceed all expectations like The Hunger Games: Catching Fire, or will it peter out like Percy Jackson: Sea Of Monsters? So where did The Divergent Series:Insurgent fall on this spectrum? Well, somewhere in the middle.
Box Office Mojo is reporting that despite its slow start, Insurgent will likely close out the weekend at $54 million dollars. This haul comes in just $3 million under the $57 million prediction, but about $5 million higher than what it was tracked at after Friday’s low numbers.
The real interesting thing to note, however, is that Insurgent earned only $600,000 less than Divergent, which was released on the same exact day last year. As far as what these kind of numbers mean for a sequel, Box Office Mojo goes into a bit more detail.
“When it comes to sequels, dropping a bit from one installment to the next is actually above-average. Still, if there is going to be a bump, it usually takes place between the first and second installment, so it’s a bit disappointing that it didn’t happen here.”
As of this writing, Insurgent has taken in just over $100 million worldwide, and Box Office Mojo has the film’s budget slated at $110 million. With that in mind, there is no doubt YA adaptation will be able to recoup its money, but it by no means a “knock out of the park,” especially considering Insurgent‘s budget was $25 million more than the original.
The Fault In Our Stars did a lot to raise Shailene Woodly's profile in the past year.
This is also disappointing considering the fact that actress Shailene Woodley has skyrocketed in popularity in the year between Divergent and Insurgent. According to Variety, Lionsgate was banking on the actress’s higher profile to help elevate the box office earnings.
“Call it the Fault in Our Stars effect. When Divergent premiered in 2014, Woodley was a relative neophyte whose biggest previous role had been a well-received supporting part in 2011’s The Descendants and her work as a teen mother on ABC Family’s The Secret Life of the American Teenager.”
Sadly, this effect seems to have had little to no effect on Insurgent‘s opening weekend.
All that being said, a $54 million opening is still a success in Lionsgate’s book, and will likely guarantee the future of Divergent franchise to the end.
Did you make it out to see The Divergent Series: Insurgent in theaters? Do you think it deserved to bring in more? Let us know your thoughts below.
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Charlie Sheen Chats About Directing A Music Video
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Kristina Smolenski Nelson
Most of us cannot picture Charlie Sheen directing a country music video, nor can we comprehend why the famously well-paid actor would express interest in that particular occupation. However, Sheen continues to surprise us. The actor recently earned a new job title by directing Tim Montana’s music video for the country star’s song “Mostly Stoned.”
It might seem ironic that Sheen, an admitted longtime user of illegal drugs, snatched up the chance to direct a video for a song with a title reminiscent of his antics. However, Montana wrote the piece without Sheen’s history in mind and instead composed the music to hint at a far deeper theme. The country star found his muse back in his home state, Montana, during the holidays. While visiting, Montana saw an old friend whose mother passed during the previous holiday season. When Montana asked his friend how he felt, his friend’s reply provided him with his song’s message and title, “Mostly Stoned.”
“I took it from that perspective versus being a song about smoking pot,” Montana explained, as quoted by the Tennessean. “It’s not really about that. It’s about this guy who is sad, there’s a little heartache in there. It’s about breaking free from the rat race.”
Sheen immediately loved the lyrics and realized that Montana’s work rang with masterpiece potential. Although Sheen admitted he is not a huge fan of country music, he appreciated the strength and talent apparent in both Montana and “Mostly Stoned.” Sheen felt honored to contribute his film industry skills to the music video.
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“It was never a question of, ‘Can I do it?'” Sheen said, according to the Tennessean. “It was a question of, ‘What can I bring to it to make it unique, make it original and keep myself out of the way and really put the song at the forefront of what we’re presenting visually?'”
According to Extra, Sheen and Montana connected with each other via a shared friend, Navy Seal Rob O’Neill. O’Neill, like both Sheen and Montana, is also famous, but his name is not well-known because of music or film. Instead, O’Neill achieved notoriety after claiming he fired the initial bullet that ended Osama Bin Laden’s life.
Montana and O’Neill developed a friendship because both are from Montana’s hometown of Beat, Montana, according to the Tennessean. O’Neill assisted Montana when Montana filmed his video for “Hillbilly Rich.” O’Neill’s suggestions earned Montana’s respect, and Montana continued to seek out O’Neill’s advice.
While O’Neill had a longstanding friendship with Montana, O’Neill also knew Charlie Sheen. O’Neill, when first considering a life as a Navy Seal, found inspiration in Sheen’s film Navy Seals. According to Extra, O’Neill was curious about Sheen’s perspective on the movie and reached out to the actor. O’Neill encouraged Montana to involve Sheen in Montana’s music video, and Montana agreed. O’Neill then sent Sheen the “Hillbilly Rich” video for feedback.
Sheen’s interest in directing music videos found motivation from O’Neill, who also shared Montana’s “Mostly Stoned” song with Sheen. After that, Sheen and Montana started discussing Montana’s next production over the phone. Montana then asked Sheen to direct his video for “Mostly Stoned.” Montana was thrilled when Sheen agreed to the project.
Sheen appreciated his time directing Montana’s video more than he anticipated. Not only did Sheen enjoy participating in an art form that was outside of his norm, but he also felt enthralled by Montana’s song. Sheen’s fascination with “Mostly Stoned” motivated his directing talent because of both the song’s theme and the actor’s ability to derive pride from a job title he never expected.
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Court of Appeal makes rare order for rectification, with interesting consequences…
Litigation United Kingdom
What is rectification?
Claim for rectification
Court of Appeal decision
The Court of Appeal has ordered rectification resulting in one party being in breach of warranty and liable to pay damages. The dispute in Persimmon Homes Limited v Hillier and Creed(1) centred on whether all plots of land required to create a development site were intended by both parties to be included in a sale, when in fact two plots out of six were not included.
Persimmon, the buyer, is a housebuilding company. It entered into discussions with the sellers, Mr Creed and Mr Hillier, who were business partners operating a housebuilding business through a number of companies with the name 'Hillreed'. Those companies held interests in various plots of land that together comprised a single development site.
The buyer entered into two share purchase agreements to purchase all of the shares in two of the sellers' companies, which purportedly held the interests in the six plots of land that made up the development site and agreed to purchase from a third company, a freehold office building, which was Hillreed's group head office. Despite the parties' intentions, the buyer acquired only four plots of land, not the six that were required to make up the development site.
Rectification is a remedy where there has been a common or unilateral mistake. For common mistake, a party must show that the agreement as drafted does not reflect the common intentions of the parties at the time that the contract was made and the agreement as rectified will reflect their intentions.
The buyer brought proceedings to rectify the share purchase agreements so as to:
include within the scope of the warranties provided by the sellers in the agreements that one of the sellers' companies did own the two relevant plots of land (that meant that the sellers were in breach of warranty, as the company did not in fact own the two plots of land; rather, it was owned by a third company of the sellers); and
rectify the disclosure letter in order to omit those two plots from the disclosures concerning the ownership. This meant that the sellers' liability for breach of warranty had not been disclaimed by the disclosure letter.
The claim succeeded and the buyer was therefore entitled to damages representing the difference at the date of the share purchase agreements between the value of the acquired company as warranted (ie, the whole development site) and its actual value.
The sellers appealed on two grounds:
the first-instance judge was wrong, on the evidence before him, to order rectification of the share purchase agreements and disclosure letter; and
in any event, the disclosure letter was incapable of rectification as a matter of law.
The Court of Appeal looked at the evidence before the first-instance judge and found that, objectively construed, the evidence suggested that the sellers had held out that the entire development site was to be included in the purchase and that both parties had proceeded with the share purchase agreements on the common understanding that they included all six plots of land. In particular, the sellers had sent the buyer a data package which often referred to the whole site as belonging to 'Hillreed', without referring to a particular company and it clearly suggested that if the buyer was to purchase the relevant entities, it would acquire the entire site regardless from which 'Hillreed' entity owned it. There was also nothing in the parties' correspondence that suggested that the sellers had intended to remove the two plots from the deal and both the seller and the buyer had proceeded on the basis that they were included.
Further, the Court of Appeal found that the common intention of the parties had been that one of the entities would be the corporate vehicle for the sale of the strategic landholdings (ie, the two plots) and the sellers could have ensured that ownership issues would have been resolved by completion without difficulty. The Court of Appeal therefore upheld rectification of the share purchase agreements as they did not accurately record the terms agreed between the parties and the requirements for rectification had thus been met.
The Court of Appeal also upheld rectification of the disclosure letter. The sellers argued that it was incapable of rectification as it was a unilateral notification of particular facts that existed at the time and the court could not re-write history and delete a correct statement of fact. The Court of Appeal found that the same mistake had informed both the share purchase agreements and the disclosure letter and found there was no difficulty in principle about rectifying both contractual documents to give effect to the common intention. Nothing turned on the fact that the document was unilateral; unilateral documents may be rectified if they do not give effect to the intention of the maker. The rectification of the disclosure letter did not "re-write history" but instead gave effect to the parties' common intention that there should be warranties in the share purchase agreements that the seller entities owned the two plots of land.
It is rare for the court to order rectification as it is often difficult to satisfy the test to do so. This case serves as a welcome reminder that the court is willing to order rectification to prevent one party from seeking to take advantage of a situation when a mistake is discovered. It is also a cautionary tale to practitioners to look closely at the relevant contractual documentation to make sure that it accurately reflects the parties' agreement. The devil is often in the detail, which can be overlooked in complex negotiations.
For further information on this topic please contact Rebecca Birkby or Alan Williams at RPC by telephone (+44 20 3060 6000) or email (rebecca.birkby@rpc.co.uk or alan.williams@rpc.co.uk). The RPC website can be accessed at www.rpc.co.uk.
(1) [2019] EWCA Civ 800.
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Crystal Palace Sport
“He’s done a really good job” – Roy Hodgson’s verdict on member of his Crystal Palace backroom team
27th April 2019 Richard Cawley 0 Comments
BY ANDREW MCSTEEN
Roy Hodgson says that it was a “very good decision” to bring in former Eagles’ U23 coach Dave Reddington earlier on this season when previous first-team coach Steven Reid left abruptly to take a break from football in September.
“He’s been very important; he’s done an excellent job,” Hodgson told the South London Press about Reddington’s role this season.
“He’s done the job that Steven Reid was doing before him and, of course, he had to leave us, but I think that we made a very good decision by asking Dave to move up from the U23s where we knew of his work.”
Reddington originally linked up with the Palace in 2004, working in the academy with the U13-U16 teams for four years before returning to SE25 after a spell at Watford. On his return, he was assistant to U23 manager Richard Shaw for two seasons before being promoted up to the first-team, initially as cover, before being given the role full-time.
“For him, it was quite a big step at the time, but I believe he’s enjoyed it,” continued Hodgson.
“We watched the U23s and saw that they were a coached and organised team, He got on very well with Richard Shaw there. It’s good when you can appoint from within and find the right man to step up and join you and we are certainly more than satisfied with the work he does.
“I try to involve him as much as I can, as does Ray [Lewington – Assistant Manager], so he’s taken on a lot more responsibility as the time moves on.
“Our coaching staff is a relatively small one; there’s three of us and a goalkeeper coach. Compared to some staffs it is relatively small, but I believe that it is a staff which is more than competent and able to do the job with the squad that we have out on the field.”
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Udi Behr
What It’s Like To Be Young And Gay In Russia
Much ado has been made of Russia’s so-called LGBTQ anti-propaganda law, making it a crime to promote “non-traditional sexual relationships” to minors.
We’ve also heard horror stories of beatings by antigay gangs — events so shocking and drastic that they manage to attract worldwide attention.
But what is it really like to be a young queer person living in Russia today? The everyday stories help to complete a fuller picture.
Dazed set out to answer that question by aggregating some first-person accounts from Russian youth. Below are some highlights (names have been changed) — you can find the full story here.
Aleksey*, 21, from Saratov
Everything’s hidden. It’s hard to find a soul mate when you’re gay. People aren’t tolerant. I’m out, and if someone asks me whether I’m gay I’ll say, ‘yes I am’. But it’s not always safe to do so. I often got insulted at school but it didn’t bother me. I only cared about the opinions of people I care about. And I always had the support of my friends.
Dmitri* (above left), 17, from the Leningrad Region
It’s not so scary. It can be hard to find a partner in a small town and plan for the future though. My friends and classmates know I’m gay and they reacted positively to it, but I haven’t told my family. They grew up in the Soviet Union and the way they were educated means they don’t tolerate such things.
In Russia, there are people who call themselves patriots but think that gays are traitors of the country; enemies; paedophiles. I often think about leaving Russia, but not because of the homophobia but because of the politics. I want to live the way that Europeans do. It’s difficult living in the Russia of today.
Despite the anti-gay law passed by Parliament banning ‘gay propaganda’, I do think in general the situation is improving for gay people. The younger generation don’t observe that law, although at any time it may change.
Nadya* (above), 18, From St. Petersburg
It’s dangerous for us. In the eyes of others, we are mistakes. We’re freaks. We’re sick. We’re killing our country, because we can’t have children – even though the laws do not allow us to adopt children. Gay people in Russia risk their lives organizing events for LGBT people or going out on pickets. Even straight people risk their lives standing up for the rights of LGBT people.
When I told my Mum I was bisexual she said she hates gay people. That gay people are sick people who rape children. That was the worst thing she’s ever said to me. Even when she used to hit me for my bad marks in school when I was little – that wasn’t as painful to me as her words. I don’t talk to my Dad anymore after he said that anyone who protects gay people is sick. I’m glad he doesn’t know I’m gay. I also feel scared. I’m scared I’m going to be alone until the end of my life. It’s painful.
Anna*, 17, from Moscow
Being openly gay in Russia is not easy. I know people who are out and they face homophobia daily. Some of my LGBT friends are persecuted in school; blackmailed; beaten. Only a few of my best friends know I’m a lesbian. Sometimes I’ll be watching Troye Sivan videos with my friends and they’ll be talking about how much they love him and they won’t even know I’m gay. My family doesn’t know I’m a lesbian either. I know they won’t accept it, so I don’t tell them. I love them, so I put that part of me aside.
I love Russia and I don’t want to leave here. It’s obvious to me that being openly gay in Russia is unsafe. I’ve encountered homophobia on social networks, but never in person. I hate politicians like Milonov and Mizulina and I hate the fact that Putin said that gays in Russia have many rights. We don’t. It’s not true.
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Meet Gerald Butts, the man who helped make his friend the PM of Canada
Meet the man who helped make his friend Canada’s next PM
He’s seen as the protective knight to the prince. How Gerald Butts helped mastermind Justin Trudeau’s victory
by Martin Patriquin
Justin Trudeau on the road during 2015 Federal election campaign. (Adam Scotti/Liberal Party of Canada)
On a recent sunny morning, Justin Trudeau bounded off his tour bus and into the campaign stop of the morning, a cavernous warehouse on the industrial scrapes of Montreal’s Côte-Saint-Paul neighbourhood. The next 30 minutes were a scripted variation on many of the 40 previous campaign stops: Trudeau shakes hands with business owners and the local Liberal candidate; Trudeau gamely tests whatever widget the business is selling; Trudeau stands in front of a wall of Liberal notables, delivering his campaign spiel and trashing his opposition. Then there is the second-to-last act of the spectacle: Trudeau takes questions from the media.
Gerald Butts stood behind everyone, away from both the media horde and the scads of Liberal staffers scattering about. Tall and slim, his outfit seemed to be as scripted as the campaign stop: black horn-rimmed glasses, tweed blazer over open-collared shirt, blue jeans and brown leather shoes. He fiddled with his smartphone as Trudeau, 30 m away, laced into NDP Leader Tom Mulcair, only looking up when he heard a question from a television journalist asking whether the Liberal party was lurching left to compete with the NDP.
“That’s the dumbest f–king question in Canadian politics,” Butts said to no one in particular, then turned his attention back to his phone. Minutes later, shortly after Trudeau performed the “Trudeau jaunts back onto the bus” segment of the stop, Butts slid in behind the boss. He then took to his Twitter account to talk up Trudeau’s economic plan, attack a national newspaper chain for critiquing it, and wonder out loud whether any of Trudeau’s rivals had any principles to speak of.
Related: The 2015 election’s realignment of the political spectrum
Tradition has it that the power of a senior political operative is matched only by his discretion. As principal adviser to the leader of the Liberal Party of Canada, Gerald Butts is one of perhaps five people with whom the Liberal leader consults, relies on and trusts enough to make sure he becomes prime minister. And while this makes him powerful, he isn’t particularly discreet.
Since Trudeau was elected Liberal leader in 2013, Butts has shaped and branded the vast majority of policy on which Trudeau is currently campaigning. He at once works literally inches from Trudeau and from 1,000 feet up, guiding the tectonic plates of Trudeau’s bid for the highest seat in the land. “His influence is profound on this campaign,” says consultant and pollster David Herle, who advises Liberal campaigns.
Butts is also Trudeau’s closest friend since their days together at McGill University, a fact that has informed and influenced their political relationship. Liberal observers (Butts declined interview requests for this article) see a deep bond between the pair, part blood brother, part protective knight to Trudeau’s prince.
In the early days of his leadership, when things were going swimmingly and some of those same observers were referring to Trudeau as a “stallion” and a “golden goose,” Butts was the wunderkind whose only job, it seemed, was to enable the second coming of Trudeaumania. He was the acerbic strategist behind Trudeau’s golden facade.
Things have become more complicated with the sudden, surprising rise of the NDP. Pulled to the centre by leader Tom Mulcair, the erstwhile socialist party has challenged the Liberal party as the go-to vaguely leftist party to which Canadians tend to flock when they’ve had enough of the Tories.
In many respects, the electoral fate of the party rests on the shoulders of this 44-year-old son of a coal miner from Cape Breton, who became an English literature graduate and, eventually, political Svengali. Praised even by his detractors for his policy breadth and political knack, he has nonetheless drawn the ire, however muted, of some Liberals existing beyond the echo chamber of the leader’s office.
They blame Trudeau’s entourage, Butts in particular, for the Liberal party supporting Bill C-51, the Conservative government’s far-reaching terrorism legislation that, they say, goes against the very Constitution the Liberal party birthed.
Other critics say his frequent partisan attacks on social media are a betrayal of the politico’s code of discretion, and of the supposedly positive campaign Trudeau promised he would lead. One recent example: During the Globe and Mail leaders’ debate, Butts accused a former aide to Stephen Harper of “speak[ing] dog-whistle” (speaking in racially coded language, essentially) for defending Harper’s maladroit reference to “old-stock Canadians.”
Others still blame Butts for cutting off both access to and dissension against Trudeau’s office. “The problem with Gerald is that if you are a single voice speaking to Justin, you aren’t allowed dissent. Anyone who doesn’t stick to the line that Gerry sets out has no place in the inner circle,” said one former Liberal staffer. “I quit because of Gerry Butts.”
Of course, such criticism will wither away, if Trudeau becomes the next prime minister. Having made himself the near-sole personal and political minder of Justin Trudeau, Butts has essentially laid out a bargain for himself. He will be praised to high heaven should Trudeau win. Should Trudeau lose on Oct. 19, he more than likely will be out the door before sunset the next day.
Justin Trudeau, right, chats to his chief advisor Gerald Butts after taking part in the the Liberal leadership debate in Mississauga, Ont., on Saturday, February 16, 2013. (Chris Young/CP)
The first commercial break during the Maclean’s debate last August came at about the 25-minute mark, after a spirited exchange on the economy. Each leader was approached by his or her designated adviser for the night. Tom Mulcair chatted with Jim Rutkowski, an NDP veteran. Green Leader Elizabeth May conversed with her daughter, while Harper’s son, Ben, towered over his dad for the few minutes that the cameras were at rest.
Butts, Trudeau’s chosen adviser, approached Trudeau and practically pinned his friend against the wall. He slung a jacketed arm over Trudeau’s shoulder and spoke in hushed tones, inches from his face. It wasn’t so much aggressive as intensely friendly—a boxer with his longtime coach—with Trudeau occasionally nodding at Butts’s words. The next two breaks were similar: While Mulcair, May and Harper chatted with their advisers, Butts looked as though he might send Trudeau back in with a mouthguard.
It was a snapshot of their relationship, and an indication of how far Butts had come. He was born in 1971 to Rita and Charlie Butts of Bridgeport, N.S., the youngest of five children. His father saw dozens of fellow miners die in the coal pits of Cape Breton; his mother, a nurse, cared for many who survived. “My dad never looked for a reason to be unhappy, though he had plenty in close proximity,” Butts wrote of Charlie in 2014. “It was almost as if he didn’t see the point. It was a waste of his time and energy.”
Peggy Butts, Charlie’s sister, heavily influenced Gerald’s politics and sense of partisanship. A Catholic nun, Peggy was a schoolteacher and social activist, credentials one might think would make her a deep-orange NDPer. Yet she was a lifelong Liberal, appointed to the Canadian Senate by former prime minister Jean Chrétien.
Butts would later remember why his aunt so mistrusted the NDP, which she felt took working-class Maritimers for granted. “The only thing that’s as bad as hating someone is loving someone stupidly,” Butts said his aunt told him.
Butts first left home in 1989 to attend McGill University. In 1993, he met Justin Trudeau on the steps of the school’s student union building. In a picture of the two in those years published in Common Ground, Trudeau’s 2014 biography, a tanned Trudeau sits resplendent in acid-washed jeans and a white cutoff T-shirt next to Butts, whose long hair and backward flat cap suggest a wayward Pearl Jam roadie.
Butts, then vice-president of the McGill Debating Union and decidedly apathetic about politics and politicians, nonetheless convinced his new famous friend to join. Trudeau was also busy being Trudeau. He was a staple of the Saint Laurent Boulevard bar scene of the mid-’90s. There was dinner and drinks at Globe, dancing at Jai Bar, even the occasional impromptu twirl on the luminescent bar at Go Go Lounge. In times like these, Butts was largely in Trudeau’s shadow. It was hard to be anywhere else.
After graduation, Trudeau went off to travel the world, read War and Peace and eventually become a math and French schoolteacher.
Butts completed a master’s in literature (he loved James Joyce), then pursued a Ph.D. at York University in Toronto. His adviser, philosophy professor Howard Adelman, remembers a genial, if cocksure, student. “It’s a good old cliché, but it’s true: Gerry Butts is a bit intolerant of fools,” Adelman says. He remembers a faculty member with whom Butts frequently clashed. Butts made as much known to Adelman and others. “He had contempt for the guy, and he didn’t hide it,” Adelman says.
Disillusioned with academia and reportedly compelled by his anger at the tax-slashing reign of Ontario premier Mike Harris, Butts abandoned his pursuit of a Ph.D. for a policy gig at Pollara Strategic Insights, a Toronto-based polling firm with close ties to the Ontario Liberal party. It afforded him a front-row seat to Ontario Liberal leader Dalton McGuinty’s lacklustre 1999 campaign, in which the party squandered its early lead to lose to the Progressive Conservatives.
McGuinty was seen as wooden and patrician—a man who could barely coax a smile from his pursed lips. “And we were up against a popular incumbent [Mike Harris], a strong provincial NDP party, and Dalton had no public profile,” says Pollara chairman Michael Marzolini.
Shortly after the election, Butts sent a three-page letter to McGuinty. In it he outlined what he felt the leader had to do to win the next election. McGuinty, Butts posited, lost because he wasn’t known for anything other than being the anti-Harris guy. He suggested the would-be premier should think of three things he wanted to do as premier, then take former prime minister Lester Pearson’s lead and devote two years to planning a platform. He suggested McGuinty surround himself with the best people in the world—Butts included. McGuinty obliged, hiring the 29-year-old as his principal secretary.
Nathan Denette/CP
How much Butts had to do with the political resurrection of Dalton McGuinty, which led to massive Liberal wins in 2003 and in 2007, remains an open question whose answer depends largely on one’s political stripe. “In 1999, we weren’t ready for the election or government,” says David Harvey, one of McGuinty’s senior advisers. “We basically started working on the 2003 platform in 1999. It was researched and costed out; it was a very focused effort.” Butts, he added, “led it all.”
Others—Conservatives, for the most part—credit Butts with little more than impeccable timing. “Butts came along at a good time, after Dalton got kicked in the balls by us and decided to buy a jock,” says a veteran Ontario Conservative war-room operative. Still, the operative grudgingly admits, “They had some strong policy ideas that originated from Butts, and they were successful.”
A Liberal government, McGuinty promised over the course of two election campaigns, would snuff out Ontario’s coal-fired electrical plants, cap classroom sizes and implement a poverty-reduction strategy, as well as save much of southern Ontario’s green space from the developer’s shovel.
Butts the policymaker helped to conjure the policies. Butts the political operative helped to sell them, along with a smiling McGuinty. “I can’t even remember a time when Dalton made a big policy decision without Gerald being involved,” says John Brodhead, one of McGuinty’s senior policy advisers at the time. “He was McGuinty’s right brain. Gerald is one of the biggest policy brains I’ve ever worked with in my political career. Some people are pure policy wonk, some people are pure communications people. He was a real hybrid.”
McGuinty’s big, expensive 2007 promise of a poverty-reduction strategy—which included the implementation of full-day kindergarten and an increase in Ontario’s minimum wage—served as both a rallying point for progressives and a wedge issue to differentiate the Liberal party from the provincial NDP, which, under leader Howard Hampton, had grown into a credible threat. “We put Hampton in a hell of a box in 2007. We outflanked him on the left,” Brodhead says.
The careful development and rollout of flashy, progressive policy, the polished delivery of it on the campaign trail, the all-important wedge issue to try to isolate the NDP: Gerald Butts’s fingerprints on the McGuinty campaigns in 2003 and 2007 are as evident on the deficit-spending Trudeau campaign of 2015. Another similarity: In the space of a few months, Butts quickly became very close with McGuinty.
“They found in each other a shared sense of values,” says Alex Johnston, McGuinty’s executive director for policy. “It wasn’t just public policy, but the way they envisioned the future. They were very sympatico. Not similar, sympatico. It was a beautiful thing to watch.” The relationship itself became fodder for a 2003 Progressive Conservative attack ad, which referred to Butts as an “unelected, backroom spin doctor.”
All the while, he remained close with Trudeau. In July 2003, Trudeau, Butts and a film crew went on a canoe trip on the South Nahanni River in the Northwest Territories. The pair posed at the base of Virginia Falls, the very spot where Pierre Trudeau stood while on a similar trip more than two decades before. “I had a feeling the two were going to run for the Prime Minister’s Office one day,” says Nadine Schwartz, the photographer who accompanied them.
(Nadine Schwartz)
Butts’s reputation for a salty tongue and an intolerance for fools, meanwhile, followed him from the classrooms of York University. “After 2003, Gerry became director of policy and, if one cabinet minister or another proposed things that just didn’t fit the government’s overall mission, he would just say that the guy is f–king crazy and we’re not going there,” says Greg Sorbara, who served as Ontario’s finance minister under McGuinty. “I think, often, it helped, but sometimes people got bruised and they’d say, ‘Who the f–k does Gerry Butts think he is?’ ”
In late September 2012, Butts was walking around the Princess Royal Island forest on British Columbia’s north coast, observing the native white-furred Kermode bears as the leader of a group from the World Wildlife Fund. He’d been president of WWF Canada since September 2008; after eight years, he’d left McGuinty’s office with two young kids and a case of burnout. The WWF position allowed for regular hours and a chance to pursue environmental initiatives he’d championed with McGuinty—and, on the side, to guide the burgeoning leadership aspirations of Trudeau. Butts played little role in Trudeau’s successful campaign to become MP in 2008. It would be a different story in 2012.
In the forest, Butts’s group happened upon another led by Ross McGregor, a Toronto-based capital fundraising consultant whom Butts knew. “So where do I get a button?” McGregor asked.
“The Canadians for the Great Bear button?” Butts said.
“No, the Trudeau button,” McGregor said.
Butts was surprised; though he knew of Trudeau’s planned announcement on Oct. 2—the birthday of Trudeau’s brother Michel, killed in an avalanche in 1998—news of it had apparently leaked. Butts used McGregor’s satellite phone to call Katie Telford, the director of Trudeau’s nascent campaign. “I told him that it was all hands on deck,” Telford says. Butts left WWF a few days later to manage the suddenly heightened media frenzy surrounding his best friend of 19 years.
Justin Trudeau with Gerald Butts, standing in blue, and former prime minister Jean Chretien, among others, on the road during 2015 federal election campaign. (Adam Scotti/Liberal Party of Canada)
Trudeau easily won the Liberal leadership seven months later, and Butts set to work on the policy. The broad lines of what Trudeau would eventually campaign on had been hashed out in August 2012, at a meeting of what would become Trudeau’s inner circle: Butts, Telford, Herle and Tom Pitfield, a childhood friend of Trudeau and son of former Pierre Trudeau mandarin Michael Pitfield. Others, like Liberal party national director Jeremy Broadhurst, Trudeau chief of staff Cyrus Reporter, Quebec Liberal adviser and national campaign co-chair Dan Gagnier, came in the following months. “There’s a myth out there that Gerry’s the only mind in the room, and that’s just not true,” says Pitfield, now the Liberal party’s chief digital strategist.
Still, it was largely Butts’s idea to have Trudeau focus on the plight of Canada’s middle class, which he believed has suffered under Stephen Harper. One of Butts’s key initiatives was to insert the “taxing the one per cent” into party lexicon, and to ensure that Trudeau—who, unlike Butts, was born into the one per cent—repeated the phrase, along with “giving child benefit cheques to millionaires.” Both are also staples of Butts’s Twitter feed.
“Gerry is an idealistic guy. He’s a believer that government is a source for change,” says Pitfield. “Canadians are logical human beings, and he believes that if you suggest real improvements that can change people’s lives, people will vote for you.”
Sometimes, though, seeking change has meant having to deal with Trudeau’s whimsy. On Oct. 2, 2014, two years to the day that Trudeau announced his bid for the Liberal party leadership, he delivered a keynote address at a conference for Canada 2020, a progressive think tank co-founded by Pitfield. In a sit-down interview, Trudeau was asked whether he would support a combat mission in Iraq against Islamic State. His three-minute, two-part answer was a treatise on politics, cynicism and the importance of principles, in which he referred to the looming refugee crisis and Canada’s history of accepting refugees from war-torn countries.
It might have made a decent campaign ad, except for what came next. “Why aren’t we talking more about the kind of humanitarian aid Canada must be engaged in, rather than trying to whip out our CF-18s and show them how big they are?” Trudeau said, flashing a righteous glare at the crowd.
The progressive audience tittered. “I was in the audience when he said it, and I was like, ‘That’s awesome, let’s tweet it,’ ” Pitfield says. “Gerry was at the back of the room, watching. “ ‘Uh, not awesome, guys,’ he said to me.”
Conservative minister Jason Kenney, also in the audience, tweeted his displeasure at Trudeau’s “juvenile humour” to his roughly 45,000 followers. A Conservative attack ad was ready within hours. The comment, coupled with the Liberal caucus decision not to support Canada’s participation in the American-led mission against Islamic State, hurt Liberal credibility in the area of foreign affairs, says former Liberal justice minister Irwin Cotler. “When the party voted against the multilateral mission, Harper was playing the adult in the room regarding fighting terrorism,” Cotler says.
(Sean Kilpatrick/The Canadian Press)
The worst for Cotler and like-minded Liberals was yet to come. Four months after Trudeau’s gaffe, the Liberal caucus supported Bill C-51, the Conservative government’s anti-terrorism legislation that gives enhanced powers to the Canadian Security Intelligence Service and increases information-sharing between security agencies. Though the decision to support C-51 wasn’t only his, Butts nonetheless became the target among certain Liberals, who suggested he had influenced Trudeau’s support of the bill. As Trudeau’s numbers began to dip, in part because of C-51, the whisper campaign against his adviser began in earnest.
Related: Trudeau defends his support of Bill C-51
Sitting in his riding office in Montreal, Cotler says he didn’t like C-51, despite ultimately voting for it. The Liberals, he says, supported C-51 largely out of political considerations. “The party voted against the multilateral mission [against ISIS]. Then comes C-51. Harper’s saying, ‘I’m the guy who’s standing up to terror.’ If, after the ISIS vote, the Libs had been against C-51, then Harper would have said, ‘You can’t really trust these Liberals; they’re soft on terror, soft on crime,’ ” Cotler says. Trudeau, Cotler says, was sure the Conservatives would be open to compromise on the bill. To no one else’s surprise, they weren’t. “Justin is a decent guy. He’s not yet realized how these guys operate, maybe,” Cotler says.
For Butts, the keeper of the Trudeau narrative, it was a serious hitch. An open letter signed by three former Liberal prime ministers decried the bill’s “lack of robust and integrated accountability regime for Canada’s national security agencies,” which caused “serious problems for public safety and human rights.” Much of the Liberal rank and file, meanwhile, was just as outraged. In a series of emails obtained by Maclean’s, Montreal Liberals (including Liberal candidate David Lametti) deplored the party’s position. One lifelong partisan vowed to vote for the Green party out of protest. In May, the party dispatched Liberal MP Marc Garneau to attempt to staunch the bleeding.
It wasn’t enough. In July, Liberal MP Scott Brison hosted an $800-a-plate fundraiser at a Bay Street law firm in downtown Toronto. Roughly 20 people were in attendance, many of whom were members of the party’s Laurier Club, the party’s gilded circle of big donors.
According to an attendee, these spendy Liberals were outraged at the party’s support of Bill C-51 and its potential political fallout among voters. At one point, Brison, who readily supports the party’s position, became agitated. According to the attendee, Brison said opposition to the law wasn’t registering with Liberals or voters beyond certain “urban elites and Volvo vigilantes.” (Brison, who has used the term “Volvo vigilantes” in Parliament, didn’t remember using it that night. “I’ve owned three Volvos myself,” he told Maclean’s by way of either explanation or justification.)
Coincidentally or not, Liberal polling fortunes, already on the wane, fell further in the wake of the party’s position on Harper’s anti-terrorism legislation. In early August, rumour of an attempted coup against Butts quickly spread. According to the rumour, pollster and consultant David Herle was to replace Butts and Telford, until Trudeau himself intervened on his friends’ behalf.
Though quickly discredited—“utter bulls–t,” is how Herle characterizes it—the extent to which people were prepared to believe it was indicative of how Trudeau’s success or failure seems to rest on Butts. “This is a common phenomenon when a party isn’t doing as well as the membership would like, and that would be the case with us right now,” Herle says. “First, they blamed C-51. Then they blamed staff.”
Yet Herle is inclined to side with Brison. Bill C-51 wasn’t the electoral millstone some of its members might have thought. Rather, Herle believes the provincial NDP win in Alberta after more than 43 years of Tory reign over Canada’s oil patch gave its federal cousin instant credibility across the country. “For those people desperate to get rid of Harper, all of a sudden, there was this belief that if the NDP can beat the Conservatives in Alberta, they can beat them everywhere. There’s no question that there was a big jump in NDP support across the country after the Alberta election, and it has largely been sustained,” Herle says.
In congratulating Alberta’s NDP, Butts nonetheless spun the election results for his 12,000 followers. “[B]iggest lessons are old ones: long-in-the-tooth, out-of-touch governments get smoked, and leaders matter.” It was yet another of Butts’s social media jabs at Harper, but his sights were already set elsewhere, against the emerging threat of the federal NDP and its leader, suddenly jolly Tom Mulcair.
On Aug. 1, just as Canadian media and political circles were alive with rumours of his demise, Butts tweeted an attack on John Wright, a vice-president of the Ipsos Reid polling firm. Wright’s apparent sin was to have critiqued a Trudeau campaign ad. “Premier Hudak (or is it Premier Tory?) on line 2,” Butts wrote in response, referring to former Ontario Progressive Conservative leaders Tim Hudak and John Tory.
An apparent dig at the accuracy of Ipsos Reid’s polling, it was a wholeheartedly bitchy line, and Wright responded eight minutes later. “Regardless of any outcome, I’ll have a job and you’ll likely be out of yours. Sorry I get under your skin. It shows,” Wright tweeted.
Liberal operative (and Telford’s husband) Rob Silver immediately joined in. “What a jackass thing to say to anyone,” he tweeted at Wright. Another Liberal said Wright was “exactly what is wrong with this country.” Several people made fun of Butts’s family name. Journalists commented on and retweeted the exchange. The whole thing was over in about 10 minutes, and probably forgotten in 12.
Since even before Trudeau became Liberal leader, Butts’s most visible role has been to start and/or participate in these sorts of nasty, ephemeral battles on Twitter, and he does so almost daily with apparent glee. On Aug. 25, he reproached the NDP for running a negative campaign. A few weeks later, without apparent irony, he berated a conservative with all of 15 followers for misspelling the word “effete” when referring to Trudeau.
During one week last August, he averaged more than 30 tweets and retweets a day—including the weekend. He is both Trudeau’s top adviser and the loudest Liberal in the catty online mini-world of Canadian politics. His Twitter feed is a marked departure from the otherwise sunny and positive nature of the Trudeau campaign, and some see Butts’s Twitter persona as a true reflection of his personality.
“This is the way he’s always been,” says National Post political columnist John Ivison, who has known Butts for 12 years and been a target of his online ire for nearly as long. “The definition of a political adviser is to have the tenacity of a water buffalo and a passion for anonymity. I’m not sure he’s adhering to that at all. That said, I like and admire him. He’s truly one of the three smartest people I’ve met in politics.”
Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau’s chief advisor Gerald Butts speaks on his phone as Trudeau holds a news conference in North Vancouver, B.C., on Friday May 29, 2015. (Darryl Dyck/CP)
Behind the scenes, Butts oversees just about everything else, including the Liberals’ campaign war room. Under his direction, the focus has sharpened on Mulcair with the latter’s rise in the polls. The party recently produced a 12-page background report on Mulcair outlining possible lines of attack on him. They included everything from Mulcair’s penchant for saying in French what he won’t say in English and vice versa, to his past refusals to give up his French passport and the 11 mortgages he has had on his home.
As with the McGuinty campaign eight years ago, Butts and his team spent several months planning the all-important wedge issue to isolate the NDP. On Aug. 27, Trudeau pounced, announcing $125 billion in infrastructure spending—“the largest infrastructure investment in Canadian history,” as the Liberal campaign put it. Of course, spending oodles of money on bridges, roads and the like is nothing new, particularly during a campaign. The main difference is that the party plans on going into deficit to fund it, a marked difference from the NDP and the Conservatives.
Butts the policy wonk, along with MP Chrystia Freeland, economists Mike Moffatt and Kevin Milligan, Liberal adviser Michael McNair and former cabinet ministers John McCallum and Ralph Goodale, crafted the infrastructure strategy. (Moffatt and Milligan are Maclean’s contributors.) Butts the political salesman co-wrote the hard sell with Trudeau and, according to Liberal sources, timed the pitch to coincide with the beginning of the school year, when more commuters would likely take note of the terrible roads under their wheels.
Butts was particularly prolific on Twitter that day; he tweeted or retweeted 56 times, either attacking the Conservatives, the NDP or further burnishing Trudeau’s image. “It’s taken a lot of discipline to sit there and take a beating,” Pitfield said of attacks against Butts from within and beyond the party. “He’s a very calm customer. He has a plan, and we’re sticking to it.”
Butts’s allies, and there are many in the upper echelons of the current incarnation of the Liberal party, are his fierce defenders. He’s like his Twitter profile: Yes, he is hated—“The guy’s unpleasant. He’s not good with people,” says the former Liberal staffer—but loved in greater measure by those around him, especially Trudeau. Whether that love will translate to power is the grand gamble of Gerald Butts, to be settled in less than a month.
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Safeguarding: Child Abuse and Safeguarding Children Board Essay
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1. Identify the current legislation, guidelines, policies and procedures for safeguarding the welfare of children and young people, including e-safety.
Ultimately it is the Government that decides on all legislation. It is then the role of Local Authorities to agree on policies and guidelines, and then the duty of the school to interpret and implement these policies and guidelines.
Children’s Act 2004
In 1999, a young girl called Victoria Climbie was brought to England by her guardian. During the months that followed she was tortured by her guardian, and the guardian’s partner, until in February 2000 she was murdered. A post mortem found 128 separate injuries on her body. A public inquiry into her death found that during her 8 month stay in this country she was known to 4 social services departments, 3 housing departments, 2 child protection police teams, 2 hospitals, 2 churches and 1 NSPCC centre. However the Laming Report of 2003, found that none of these services were working together to protect Victoria’s welfare, and Victoria tragically ‘slipped through the net’. The report resulted in a new government green paper known as ‘Every Child Matters’, and then a piece of government legislation, known as the Children’s Act 2004.
The Children’s Act 2004 states that “the interests of children and young people are paramount in all considerations of welfare and safeguarding and that safeguarding children is everyone’s responsibility.” It called for more accountability for all services involved with the welfare of children, and lead to the integration of children’s services. It also lead to the establishment of Local Safeguarding Children’s Boards, which have statutory powers to ensure that all services are working together to protect vulnerable children.
Another important feature of the Children’s Act was the development of the Common Assessment Framework (CAF) which is used in a multiagency approach when there are concerns about the welfare of a child, to enable early intervention.
The Children’s Act 2004 raised the priority of the safeguarding of children, and stated that ‘all children deserve the opportunity to reach their full potential’. It also set out five outcomes which are key to children’s wellbeing. These are as follows:
1. Stay safe 2. Be healthy 3. Enjoy and achieve 4. Make a positive contribution 5. Achieve economic wellbeing
Section 142 of the Education Act 2002
This piece of legislation enables the Secretary of State to prohibit certain people from working in educational settings. It is commonly known as ‘List 99’, and details any adult who has been convicted of a serious sexual offence against children since 1995. In addition, it also includes the names of those convicted of violent behavior towards children, drug offences and violent crime, and of adults engaged in drug or alcohol abuse or suffering from mental illness. Anyone applying to work in a school has their name checked against this list by the Independent Safeguarding Authority (ISA). (ISA was formed after the Bichard Inquiry into the ‘Soham Murders’ where two young girls were abducted and killed by the school care taker, who was known to the police as a danger to children, but who had passed a CRB check) It is important to note that List 99 only contains the details of those prohibited from working in schools. The ISA Children’s Barred List contains the name of those who are prevented from working with children in any setting.
UN Convention on the Rights of the Child 1989
This is an international piece of legislation which states that:
“Children have the right to be protected from all forms of abuse. They must be safe from harm. They must be given proper care by the those looking after them.”
It contains 54 articles detailing the human rights of every child aged under 18. It contains civil, political, economic, social and cultural rights and details what every child needs for a happy, safe and…
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Rate on 30-year fixed-rate mortgage hits new low
By Amy Hoak
Published: Jan 8, 2009 10:47 a.m. ET
Fed's purchase of mortgage-backed securities drives down rates: economist
AmyHoak
CHICAGO (MarketWatch) -- Long-term mortgage rates dropped again this week, with the 30-year fixed-rate mortgage hitting a fourth consecutive record low in the history of Freddie Mac's weekly survey.
The 30-year mortgage averaged 5.01% for the week ending Jan. 8, down from last week's 5.10%. The mortgage averaged 5.87% a year ago. The rate hasn't been lower since Freddie Mac's Primary Mortgage Market Survey began in 1971. The survey covers conventional, conforming mortgages.
"Interest rates for 30-year fixed-rate mortgages fell for the tenth week to a fourth consecutive record low due in part to the Federal Reserve's recent purchases of mortgage-backed securities issued by Freddie Mac, Fannie Mae and Ginnie Mae," said Frank Nothaft, Freddie Mac chief economist, in a news release.
"On Nov. 25, 2008, the Federal Reserve announced that it planned to purchase up to $500 billion of these securities by the end of June of this year. For the sake of comparison, there were roughly $4.7 trillion of such securities backed by home mortgages available as of Sept. 30, 2008.
The low rates, now nearly 1.5 percentage points below their level in October, have brought savings to those buyers brave enough to enter the housing market these days. The lower 30-year rate brings the monthly payment on a $200,000 loan down by $184 from the October peak, Nothaft pointed out.
Rates on 15-year fixed-rate mortgages also dropped, averaging 4.62% this week, down from 4.83% last week and 5.43% a year ago. The mortgage hasn't been lower since June 13, 2003, when it averaged 4.60%.
Five-year Treasury-indexed hybrid adjustable-rate mortgages averaged 5.49%, down from 5.57% last week and 5.63% a year ago. And 1-year Treasury-indexed ARMs averaged 4.95%, up from 4.85% last week but down from 5.37% a year ago.
To obtain the rates, the 30-year fixed-rate mortgage required payment of an average 0.6 point, the 15-year fixed-rate and 5-year ARM required an average 0.7 point and the 1-year ARM required an average 0.5 point. A point is 1% of the mortgage amount, charged as prepaid interest.
On Wednesday, the Mortgage Bankers Association reported that the volume of mortgage applications filed last week was down a seasonally adjusted 8.2% compared with the week before, due to a drop in refinance applications. See full story.
Freddie Mac FRE, -2.45% also joined with Fannie Mae FNM, +3.69% Thursday in saying they are extending a temporary foreclosure and eviction suspension on single-family homes to further work with servicers to modify mortgages.
Fannie and Freddie said they will extend the suspensions until Jan. 31. In November, Fannie and Freddie said they would not foreclose on occupied homes or evict homeowners from Nov. 26 to Jan. 9 to implement a streamlined mortgage modification program.
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Limerick’s Mayor: City of Culture 2014 can ‘unite us’ in upheaval
Alan Owens
LIMERICK’s designation as the first national City of Culture in 2014 will help the region through a time of change, the mayor has claimed.
The cultural designation, which will be modelled on Derry’s stint as UK City of Culture in 2013, is intended to shine a light on Limerick at a time when the local authorities will be amalgamated.
Mayor of Limerick, Cllr Gerry McLoughlin, speaking at the announcement this week, said: “Limerick is changing and we must embrace that change and let culture be one of the ways to unite us during this change”.
The mayor cited Limerick’s strong cultural history and heritage and said these things are “part of our culture, part of who we are, part of what makes us proud to be living in Limerick”.
“This designation as a City of Culture can empower us to tell Limerick’s story in our voices,” he added.
The mayor was joined by councillor Jerome Scanlan, cathaoirleach of Limerick County Council and ministers Michael Noonan, Jan O’Sullivan and Jimmy Deenihan in making the announcement, which the latter said would be of “major economic value to the city”.
Mr Deenihan said that the initiative would help to “regenerate and enhance the image of the city” throughout the year long programme of events, which will have government support, he stressed.
“I am very excited about what is happening here in Limerick and there will be funding available to ensure this project’s success,” he assured a huge crowd, made up primarily of those working in the arts in Limerick.
The minister noted that people would have to “embrace” the initiative both locally and nationally if it was to succeed.
There was little in the way of specific detail presented, but as previously established by sister paper, the Limerick Leader, an independent company is likely to be established to run the year long programme of cultural events in the city.
Mr Noonan said he was “delighted” with the announcement, which he stressed was part of the Regeneration process, which will also see Limerick city and country councils amalgamated in 2014.
“It is not only the body of Limerick that has to be regenerated - in terms of bricks and mortar projects - but also the soul of the city, and the arts speak to the soul,” said the finance minister.
Mr Noonan said that “the most successful cities are those that have creative people working in creative industries” and later stressed his strong belief that Limerick’s designation as national city of culture would be a first step towards a European Capital of Culture award in 2020.
Minister of State Jan O’Sullivan TD acknowledged that there was a “lot of work to be done, and this is day one of an ongoing process, but this is a wonderful opportunity for Limerick”.
Donations and funding will be sought by the company established to manage the year of cultural events, which will invite proposals from the public as well as involving established local and national arts organisations to create a programme of events for 2014.
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Christie supports Toronto International Film Festival with DLP-based projectors
Christie Helps Filmmakers Share Their Visions With Brightest Images as Festival’s Digital Projection Partner for 14th Consecutive Year
TORONTO, Ont. -- Christie®, a world leader in advanced cinema technologies and visual displays, is proud to once again be the official projection partner to the 2014 Toronto International Film Festival® in September. A Festival sponsor for 14 consecutive years, Christie has played an integral role in ushering in the digital age at this renowned showcase for local and international talents. Today, with the help of this partnership, more than 99 percent of all Festival entries are screened digitally, with an increasing number in 4K, sharpening the shared experience between filmmaker and audience.
The Toronto International Film Festival is recognized as the largest public festival in the world and one of the most prestigious venues for emerging artists. It screens close to 400 films from 60+ countries, from blockbusters to small independents and documentaries at every level, with nearly half the films making their world premiere. Last year’s People’s Choice Award winner, 12 Years a Slave, the powerful British-American historical drama from director Steve McQueen, went on to receive nine Academy Award® nominations, win “Best Motion Picture of the Year,” as well as a Best Supporting Actress award for its breakout star, Lupita Nyong'o. Other past favorites that premiered at the Festival and went on to international acclaim, including winning Oscars and Golden Globe awards, were Argo, Slum Dog Millionaire, and Silver Linings Playbook.
“Christie has been a true partner in every sense of the word. Its digital cinema projectors were among the first to be used at the Festival, helping us to demonstrate the exceptional power of this technology to reignite the excitement of the collective movie-going experience,” said Diane Cappelletto, TIFF’s director of technical production services. “The future is 4K and, as Digital Projection Partner, Christie continues to raise the bar of cinema excellence, increasing its 4K presence to more accurately present the filmmakers’ visions.”
A variety of Christie technologies will be used throughout the Festival venues, including the Christie Solaria Series 4K and 2K DLP Cinema® projectors, the Christie HD10K-M projector with dual HD-SDI input module, and six Christie CineIPM 2K digital cinema image processors. Reflecting the Festival’s move to 4K-resolution screenings, Christie’s sponsorship features 4K projections at Roy Thomson Hall, Ryerson Theatre, The Elgin Theatre’s Visa Screening Room, and Princess of Wales Theatre. Christie’s 4K projection technology is also installed at TIFF Bell Lightbox.
“Digital cinema is all about creating pristine, high resolution images that help filmmakers get closer than ever before to their audiences,” said Kathryn Cress, vice president, global and corporate marketing, Christie. “Christie has been a leading advocate for 4K technology, and TIFF’s impact in this arena is indisputable, with a programming team that ensures the best and largest variety of films, talent and emerging stars make their mark here.”
“Christie is committed to strengthening its leadership role in digital technology on the world stage,” said John Hallman, Christie’s director of Canadian sales. “It is a great privilege to partner with TIFF and help the next generation of filmmakers, as well as many of its current masters, share their vision with an international audience.”
Christie’s visual technologies are part of many leading film festivals around the globe, including Cannes International Film Festival, May 14-25, and the Shanghai International Film Festival June 14-22.
Read about Christie’s 2013 involvement with the Festival at www.christiedigital.com/TIFF13 and watch the video. Information on the company’s 2014 sponsorship will be available starting in July.
About Christie
Christie Digital Systems Canada Inc. is a global visual technologies company and is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Ushio, Inc., Japan, (JP:6925). Consistently setting the standards by being the first to market some of the world’s most advanced projectors and complete system displays, Christie is recognized as one of the most innovative visual technology companies in the world. From retail displays to Hollywood, mission critical command centers to classrooms and training simulators, Christie display solutions and projectors capture the attention of audiences around the world with dynamic and stunning images. Visit www.christiedigital.com for more information. Christie® is a registered trademark of Christie Digital Systems USA, Inc. All other trademarks acknowledged as the property of their respective owners.
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David Paolini, manager, media & public relations - Christie Digital Systems USE
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The Commonhold and Leasehold Reform Act 2002 (Commencement No. 1, Savings and Transitional Provisions) (England) Order 2002
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2. The following provisions shall come into force on the commencement date—
(a)sections 114, 129, 132, 133, 137 and 142;
(b)subject to the transitional provisions and savings in Schedule 2 to this Order—
(i)sections 115 to 120, 125, 127, 128, 130, 131, 134 to 136, 138 to 141, 143 to 147, 160 to 162, and;
(ii)section 180 in so far as it relates to those of the repeals in Schedule 14 which are set out in Schedule 1 to this Order;
(c)sections 74, 78, 80, 84, 92, 110, 122, 151 to 153, 156, 164, 166, 167, 171, 174 and Schedule 12, in so far as they confer power to make regulations.
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Payroll Tax Act 2008
An Act to provide for a tax on employers in respect of certain wages, to harmonise payroll tax law with New South Wales and Victoria, to repeal the Pay-roll Tax Act 1971 , and for other purposes
[Royal Assent 26 June 2008]
Be it enacted by His Excellency the Governor of Tasmania, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council and House of Assembly, in Parliament assembled, as follows:
PART 1 - Preliminary
1. Short title
This Act may be cited as the Payroll Tax Act 2008 .
2. Commencement
(1) Except as provided in this section, this Act commences on 1 July 2008 but, if it does not receive the Royal Assent on or before that day, it is taken to have commenced on that day.
(2) Part 4 of Schedule 2 is taken to have commenced on 1 July 2003.
(1) In this Act
agent includes
(a) a person who, in this jurisdiction, for or on behalf of another person outside this jurisdiction, holds or has the management or control of the business of that other person; and
(b) a person who, by an order of the Commissioner, is declared to be an agent or the sole agent for any other person for the purposes of this Act and on whom notice of that order has been served;
Australia means the States of the Commonwealth and the Territories;
coastal waters of the State has the same meaning as "coastal waters" in the Coastal and Other Waters (Application of State Laws) Act 1982 ;
Commissioner means the Commissioner of State Revenue appointed as such under the Taxation Administration Act 1997 ;
company includes all bodies and associations (corporate and unincorporate) and partnerships;
corporation has the same meaning as in section 9 of the Corporations Act 2001 of the Commonwealth;
corresponding law means a law in force in another State or a Territory relating to the imposition upon employers of a tax on wages paid or payable by them and the assessment and collection of that tax;
designated group employer means a member designated for a group in accordance with section 80 ;
director of a company includes a member of the governing body of the company;
employer means a person who pays or is liable to pay wages and includes
(a) the Crown in any of its capacities; and
(b) a person taken to be an employer by or under this Act; and
(c) a public, local or municipal body or authority constituted under the law of the Commonwealth or of a State or Territory unless
being an authority constituted under the law of the Commonwealth, it is immune from the operation of this Act;
employment agency contract has the meaning given in section 37 ;
employment agent has the meaning given in section 37 ;
exempt wages mean wages that are declared by or under this Act to be exempt wages;
exercise a function includes perform a duty;
FBTA Act means the Fringe Benefits Tax Assessment Act 1986 of the Commonwealth;
financial year means each year commencing on 1 July;
fringe benefit has the same meaning as in the FBTA Act but does not include
(a) a tax-exempt body entertainment fringe benefit within the meaning of that Act; or
(b) anything that is prescribed by the regulations under this Act not to be a fringe benefit for the purposes of this definition;
function includes a power, authority or duty;
group has the meaning given in section 67 ;
GST has the same meaning as it has in the A New Tax System (Goods and Services Tax) Act 1999 of the Commonwealth except that it includes notional GST of the kind for which payments may be made under Part 3 of the National Taxation Reform (Commonwealth-State Relations) Act 1999 by a person that is a State entity within the meaning of that Act;
interstate wages means wages that are taxable wages within the meaning of a corresponding law;
ITAA means the Income Tax Assessment Act 1997 of the Commonwealth;
liquidator means the person who, whether or not appointed as liquidator, is the person required by law to carry out the winding-up of a company;
month means the month of January, February, March, April, May, June, July, August, September, October, November and December;
option means an option or right, whether actual, prospective or contingent, of a person to acquire a share or to have a share transferred or allotted to the person;
paid, in relation to wages, includes provided, conferred and assigned, and pay and payable have corresponding meanings;
payroll tax means tax imposed by section 6 ;
perform, in relation to services, includes render;
return period, in relation to an employer, means a period relating to which that employer is required to lodge a return under this Act;
share means a share in a company and includes a stapled security within the meaning of section 139GCD of the Income Tax Assessment Act 1936 of the Commonwealth;
superannuation contribution has the meaning given in section 17(2) ;
taxable wages has the meaning given in section 10 ;
termination payment has the meaning given in section 27 ;
Territories means the Australian Capital Territory (including the Jervis Bay Territory) and the Northern Territory;
this jurisdiction means Tasmania and the coastal waters of the State;
voting share has the same meaning as in section 9 of the Corporations Act 2001 of the Commonwealth;
wages has the meaning given in Part 3 .
(2) Notes included in this Act do not form part of this Act.
4. Taxation Administration Act 1997
This Act is to be read together with the Taxation Administration Act 1997 which provides for the administration and enforcement of this Act and other taxation laws.
5. Act binds the Crown
(1) This Act binds the Crown in right of this jurisdiction and, so far as the legislative power of Parliament permits, the Crown in all its other capacities.
(2) Nothing in this Act makes the Crown in any of its capacities liable to be prosecuted for an offence.
PART 2 - Imposition of Payroll Tax
Division 1 - Imposition of tax
6. Imposition of payroll tax
Payroll tax is imposed on all taxable wages.
7. Who is liable for payroll tax
The employer by whom taxable wages are paid or payable is liable to pay payroll tax on the wages.
8. Amount of payroll tax
The amount of payroll tax payable by an employer is to be ascertained in accordance with Schedules 1 and 2 .
9. When must payroll tax be paid
(1) A person who is liable to pay payroll tax on taxable wages must pay the tax
(a) within 7 days after the end of the month in which those wages were paid or payable, other than the month of June; and
(b) within 21 days after the end of the month of June in relation to taxable wages paid or payable in the month of June.
(2) However, if the Commissioner has reason to believe that a person may leave Australia before any payroll tax becomes payable by the person, the tax is payable on the day fixed by the Commissioner by notice served on the person.
Division 2 - Taxable wages
10. What are taxable wages?
(1) For the purposes of this Act, "taxable wages" are wages, other than exempt wages, that are paid or payable by an employer for services performed and
(a) are wages that are paid or payable in this jurisdiction, other than wages so paid or payable for
(i) services performed wholly in one other State or a Territory; or
(ii) services performed by a person wholly in another country for a continuous period of more than 6 months beginning on the day on which wages were first paid or payable to that person for services so performed; or
(b) are wages that are paid or payable outside this jurisdiction for services performed wholly in this jurisdiction; or
(c) are wages that are paid or payable outside Australia for services performed mainly in this jurisdiction.
(2) For the purposes of subsection (1)(a) , wages that are payable to a person by the person's employer, but have not been paid (not being wages that under the terms of employment are payable in this jurisdiction or in another State or a Territory) are taken
(a) if those wages are payable in respect of services performed wholly in this jurisdiction, to be wages payable to that person in this jurisdiction; and
(b) if those wages are not payable in respect of services performed wholly in this jurisdiction or wholly in one other State or a Territory and where the wages last paid or payable to that person by that employer were included or are required to be included in a return under this Act, to be wages payable to that person in this jurisdiction; and
(c) if those wages are not taken by paragraph (a) or (b) , or by any provision in a corresponding law that corresponds to either of those paragraphs, to be wages payable to that person in this jurisdiction or in another State or a Territory, to be wages payable to that person by that employer at the place where that person last performed any services for that employer before those wages became payable.
(3) If, for the purpose of the payment of wages
(a) an instrument is sent or given or an amount is transferred by an employer to a person or a person's agent at a place in Australia; or
(b) an instruction is given by an employer for the crediting of an amount to the account of a person or a person's agent at a place in Australia
those wages are taken to have been paid at that place and to have been paid when the instrument was sent or given, the amount was transferred or the account is credited in accordance with the instruction (as the case may be).
(4) In determining the question whether services are performed wholly or mainly in this jurisdiction or another State or a Territory, regard must be had only to the services performed during the month in respect of which the question arises.
(5) In this section
instrument includes a cheque, bill of exchange, promissory note or money order or a postal order issued by a post office.
11. Wages not referable to services performed in a particular month
For the purposes of this Act, wages that are not paid in respect of services performed by an employee in a particular month are taxable wages as if they were paid or payable in respect of services performed during the month in which they were paid or became payable.
Division 3 - Other
12. Payroll tax paid under corresponding applied law
(1) For the purposes of ascertaining the payroll tax payable under this Act by an employer who during a return period pays taxable wages and Commonwealth place wages, there is to be deducted from the amount of payroll tax payable by the employer under this Act the amount of payroll tax payable by the employer under the corresponding applied law.
Commonwealth Act means the Commonwealth Places (Mirror Taxes) Act 1998 of the Commonwealth;
Commonwealth place wages means wages that would be taxable wages within the meaning of the corresponding applied law if the corresponding applied law applied in relation to each place in this jurisdiction that is a Commonwealth place;
corresponding applied law means the provisions of the Payroll Tax Act 2008 that would apply in relation to each place in this jurisdiction that is a Commonwealth place, pursuant to section 6(2) of the Commonwealth Act, if those provisions were "excluded provisions" within the meaning of section 6(1) of the Commonwealth Act.
PART 3 - Wages
Division 1 - General concept of wages
13. What are wages?
(1) For the purposes of this Act, "wages" mean wages, remuneration, salary, commission, bonuses or allowances paid or payable to an employee, including
(a) an amount paid or payable by way of remuneration to a person holding an office under the Crown or in the service of the Crown; and
(b) an amount paid or payable under any prescribed classes of contracts to the extent to which that payment is attributable to labour; and
(c) an amount paid or payable by a company by way of remuneration to or in relation to a director of that company; and
(d) an amount paid or payable by way of commission to an insurance or time-payment canvasser or collector; and
(e) an amount that is included as or taken to be wages by any other provision of this Act.
(2) For the purposes of this Act, wages, remuneration, salary, commission, bonuses or allowances are wages
(a) whether paid or payable at piece work rates or otherwise; and
(b) whether paid or payable in cash or in kind.
Division 2 - Fringe benefits
14. Wages include fringe benefits
(1) For the purposes of this Act, "wages" include a fringe benefit.
(2) Subsection (1) does not apply to benefits that are exempt benefits for the purposes of the FBTA Act (other than deposits to the Superannuation Holding Accounts Special Account within the meaning of the Small Superannuation Accounts Act 1995 of the Commonwealth).
15. Value of wages comprising fringe benefits
(1) For the purposes of this Act, the value of wages comprising a fringe benefit is to be determined in accordance with the formula
where
TV is the value that would be the taxable value of the benefit as a fringe benefit for the purposes of the FBTA Act;
FBT rate is the rate of fringe benefits tax imposed by the FBTA Act that applies when the liability to payroll tax under this Act arises.
(2) In this Act, a reference to taxable wages that were paid or payable by an employer during a month is, in relation to taxable wages comprising fringe benefits
(a) a reference to the value of the fringe benefits paid or payable by the employer during the month; or
(b) if an election by the employer is in force under section 16 , a reference to an amount calculated in accordance with that section.
(3) In this Act, a reference to taxable wages that were paid or payable by an employer during a year is, in relation to taxable wages comprising fringe benefits, a reference to an amount calculated by adding together the amounts under subsection (2)(a) or (b) (or subsection (2)(a) and (b) ), as the case requires, for the months of that year.
16. Employer election regarding taxable value of fringe benefits
(1) An employer who has paid or is liable to pay fringe benefits tax imposed by the FBTA Act in respect of a period of not less than 15 months before 30 June in any year may elect to include as the value of the fringe benefits paid or payable by the employer during the month concerned
(a) in a return lodged in relation to each of the first 11 months occurring after 30 June in that year, 1/12 of the amount determined in accordance with subsection (2) or that part of that amount as, in accordance with section 10 , comprises taxable wages for the year of tax (within the meaning of the FBTA Act) ending on 31 March preceding the commencement of the current financial year; and
(b) in the return lodged in relation to the 12th month, the amount determined in accordance with subsection (2) or that part of that amount as, in accordance with section 10 , comprises taxable wages for the year of tax (within the meaning of the FBTA Act) ending on 31 March preceding that month, less the total of the amounts of fringe benefits included in the returns for each of the preceding 11 months.
(2) The amount determined in accordance with this subsection is to be determined in accordance with the formula
AFBA is the aggregate fringe benefits amount within the meaning of section 136 of the FBTA Act;
(3) An election under subsection (1) takes effect when it is notified to the Commissioner in the form approved by the Commissioner.
(4) After an employer has made an election under subsection (1) , the employer must lodge returns containing amounts calculated in accordance with the election unless the Commissioner approves, by notice in writing given to the employer, the termination of the election and allows the employer to include the value referred to in section 15(2)(a) .
(5) If an employer ceases to be liable to pay payroll tax, the value of taxable wages comprising fringe benefits to be included in the employer's final return is (irrespective of whether or not the employer has made an election under subsection (1) ) the value of the fringe benefits paid or payable by the employer for the period commencing on and including the preceding 1 July until the date on which the employer ceases to be liable to payroll tax, less the value of the fringe benefits paid or payable by the employer during that period on which payroll tax has been paid.
Division 3 - Superannuation contributions
17. Wages include superannuation contributions
(1) For the purposes of this Act, "wages" include a superannuation contribution.
(2) A "superannuation contribution" is a contribution paid or payable by an employer in respect of an employee
(a) to or as a superannuation fund within the meaning of the Superannuation Industry (Supervision) Act 1993 of the Commonwealth; or
(b) as a superannuation guarantee charge within the meaning of the Superannuation Guarantee (Administration) Act 1992 of the Commonwealth; or
(c) to or as any other form of superannuation, provident or retirement fund or scheme including
(i) the Superannuation Holding Accounts Special Account within the meaning of the Small Superannuation Accounts Act 1995 of the Commonwealth; and
(ii) a retirement savings account within the meaning of the Retirement Savings Accounts Act 1997 of the Commonwealth; and
(iii) a wholly or partly unfunded fund or scheme.
(3) Setting aside any money or anything that is worth money as, or as part of, a superannuation fund, superannuation guarantee charge or any other form of superannuation, provident or retirement fund or scheme is taken to be paying a superannuation contribution.
(4) Making a superannuation contribution of anything that is worth money is taken to be paying a superannuation contribution of the amount equal to its value, and its value is to be worked out in accordance with section 43 as if that section referred to the contribution instead of to wages.
(5) A superannuation, provident or retirement fund or scheme is unfunded to the extent that money paid or payable by an employer in respect of an employee covered by the fund or scheme is not paid or payable during the employee's period of service with the employer.
employee includes any person to whom, by virtue of a paragraph of the definition of "wages" in section 13(1) , an amount paid or payable in the circumstances referred to in that paragraph constitutes wages.
Division 4 - Shares and options
18. Inclusion of grant of shares and options as wages
(1) For the purposes of this Act, "wages" include the grant of a share or option to an employee by an employer in respect of services performed by the employee.
(2) Any such wages are taken, for the purpose of the imposition of payroll tax, to be paid or payable on the relevant day.
(3) For the purposes of this Division, the "relevant day" is the day that the employer elects in accordance with this Division to treat as the day on which the wages are paid or payable.
(4) To avoid doubt, the grant of a share or option is valuable consideration for the purposes of section 46 .
19. Choice of relevant day
(1) The employer can elect to treat as the "relevant day" either the date on which the share or option is granted to the employee or the vesting date.
(2) A share or option is "granted" to a person in the following circumstances:
(a) in the case of a share, if the person acquires the share (within the meaning of section 139G of the Income Tax Assessment Act 1936 of the Commonwealth) or in the circumstances prescribed by the regulations under this Act;
(b) in the case of an option, if the person acquires a right (within the meaning of section 139G of the Income Tax Assessment Act 1936 of the Commonwealth) to the share to which the option relates or in the circumstances prescribed by the regulations under this Act.
(3) The "vesting date" in respect of a share is the date on which the share vests in the employee (that is, when any conditions applying to the grant of the share have been met and the employee's legal or beneficial interest in the share cannot be rescinded).
(4) The "vesting date" in respect of an option is one of the following dates (whichever happens first):
(a) the date on which the share to which the option relates is granted to the employee;
(b) the date on which the employee exercises a right under the option to have the share the subject of the option transferred to, allotted to or vest in him or her.
20. Deemed choice of relevant day in special cases
(1) If an employer grants a share or an option to an employee and the value of the grant of the share or option is not included in the taxable wages of the employer for the financial year in which the share or option was granted, the employer is taken to have elected to treat the wages constituted by the grant of that share or option as being paid or payable on the vesting date.
(2) If an employer grants a share or an option to an employee and the value of the grant of the share or option is nil or, if the employer were to elect to treat the date of grant as the relevant day, the wages constituted by the grant would not be liable to payroll tax, the employer is taken to have elected to treat the wages constituted by the grant of that share or option as being paid or payable on the date on which the share or option was granted.
21. Effect of rescission, cancellation of share or option
(1) If the grant of a share or option is withdrawn, cancelled or exchanged before the vesting date for any valuable consideration (other than the grant of other shares or options), the following provisions apply:
(a) the date of withdrawal, cancellation or exchange is taken to be the vesting date of the share or option;
(b) the market value of the share or option, on the vesting date, is taken to be the amount of the valuable consideration (and, accordingly, that amount is the amount paid or payable as wages on that date).
(2) If an employer includes the value of a grant of a share or option in the taxable wages of the employer for a financial year and the grant is rescinded because the conditions attaching to the grant were not met, the taxable wages of the employer, in the financial year in which the grant is rescinded, are to be reduced by the value of the grant as previously included in the taxable wages of the employer.
(3) Subsection (2) does not apply just because an employee fails to exercise an option or to otherwise exercise his or her rights in respect of a share or option.
22. Grant of share pursuant to exercise of option
The grant of the share by an employer does not constitute wages for the purposes of this Act if the employer is required to grant the share as a consequence of the exercise of an option by a person and
(a) the grant of the option to the person constitutes wages for the purposes of this Act; or
(b) the option was granted to the person before 1 July 2008.
23. Value of shares and options
(1) If the grant of a share or option constitutes wages under this Division, the amount paid or payable as wages is taken, for the purposes of this Act, to be the market value of the share or option (expressed in Australian currency) on the relevant day, less the consideration (if any) paid or given by the employee in respect of the share or option (other than consideration in the form of services performed).
(2) The market value of a share or option on the relevant day is to be determined in accordance with the Commonwealth income tax provisions.
(3) For that purpose, the Commonwealth income tax provisions apply with the following modifications, and any other necessary modifications:
(a) the market value of an option is to be determined as if it were a right to acquire a share;
(b) a reference to a taxpayer is to be read as a reference to the employee;
(c) a reference to the Commissioner of Taxation is to be read as a reference to either that Commissioner or the Commissioner.
(4) Section 15 does not apply to the grant of a share or option that constitutes wages, even if it constitutes a fringe benefit.
Commonwealth income tax provisions means the provisions of Subdivision F of Division 13A of Part III of the Income Tax Assessment Act 1936 of the Commonwealth.
24. Inclusion of shares and options granted to directors as wages
(1) For the purposes of this Act, "wages" include the grant of a share, or option, by a company to a director of the company by way of remuneration for the appointment or services of the director that would be wages under this Division if the director were an employee of the company.
(2) For that purpose, the other provisions of this Division apply in respect of any such grant as if a reference to the employer were a reference to the company and a reference to the employee were a reference to the director of the company.
(3) In this section, a reference to a director of the company includes a reference to the following:
(a) a person who, under a contract or other arrangement, is to be appointed as a director of the company;
(b) a former director of the company.
(4) In the case of wages constituted by the grant of a share or option by a company to a director of the company by way of remuneration for the appointment of the director, but not for services performed
(a) the grant of the share or option is taken, for the purposes of this Act, to be paid or payable for services performed during the month in which the relevant day occurs; and
(b) a reference in this Act to the place or places where services are performed is a reference to the place or places where it may reasonably be expected that the services of the director in respect of the company will be performed.
25. When services considered to have been performed
For the purposes of this Act, if the grant of a share or an option constitutes wages for the purposes of this Act, the services in respect of which those wages are paid or payable are taken to have been performed during the month in which the relevant day occurs.
26. Place where wages are payable
(1) The wages constituted by the grant of the share or option are taken to be paid or payable in this jurisdiction if the share is a share in a local company or, in the case of an option, an option to acquire shares in a local company.
(2) In any other case, the wages constituted by the grant of the share or option are taken to be paid or payable outside this jurisdiction.
Note: If the wages concerned are taken to be payable outside this jurisdiction, because the shares concerned are shares in a company that is not a local company, the grant of the share or option may still be liable to payroll tax under this Act if the grant is made for services performed or rendered wholly or mainly in this jurisdiction (see section 10(1)(b) and (c) ).
local company means
(a) a company incorporated or taken to be incorporated under the Corporations Act 2001 of the Commonwealth that is taken to be registered in this jurisdiction for the purposes of that Act; or
(b) any other body corporate that is incorporated under an Act of this jurisdiction.
Division 5 - Termination payments
In this Division
employment termination payment means
(a) an employment termination payment within the meaning of section 82-130 of the ITAA; or
(b) a payment that would be an employment termination payment within the meaning of section 82-130 of the ITAA but for the fact that it was received later than 12 months after the termination of a person's employment; or
(c) a transitional termination payment within the meaning of section 82-10 of the Income Tax (Transitional Provisions) Act 1997 of the Commonwealth;
termination payment means
(a) payment made in consequence of the retirement from, or termination of, any office or employment of an employee, being
(i) an unused annual leave payment; or
(ii) an unused long service leave payment; or
(iii) so much of an employment termination payment paid or payable by an employer, whether or not paid to the employee or to any other person or body, that would be included in the assessable income of an employee under Part 2-40 of the ITAA if the whole of the employment termination payment had been paid to the employee; or
(b) an amount paid or payable by a company as a consequence of the termination of the services or office of a director of the company, whether or not paid to the director or to any other person or body, that would be an employment termination payment if that amount had been paid or payable as a consequence of termination of employment; or
(c) an amount paid or payable by a person who is an employer under a relevant contract (within the meaning of section 32 ) as a consequence of the termination of the supply of the services of an employee under the contract, whether or not paid to the employee or to any other person, if the amount would be an employment termination payment if that amount had been paid or payable as a consequence of termination of employment;
unused annual leave payment has the same meaning as in section 83-10 of the ITAA;
unused long service leave payment has the same meaning as in section 83-75 of the ITAA.
28. Termination payments
For the purposes of this Act, "wages" include a termination payment.
Division 6 - Allowances
29. Motor vehicle allowances
(1) For the purposes of this Act, "wages", in respect of a financial year, do not include the exempt component of a motor vehicle allowance paid or payable in respect of that year.
(2) Accordingly, if the total motor vehicle allowance paid or payable to an employee in respect of a financial year does not exceed the exempt component, the motor vehicle allowance is not "wages" for the purposes of this Act.
(3) If the total motor vehicle allowance paid or payable to an employee in respect of a financial year exceeds the exempt component (if any), only that amount that exceeds the exempt component of the motor vehicle allowance is included as "wages" for the purposes of this Act.
(4) The "exempt component" of a motor vehicle allowance paid or payable in respect of a financial year is calculated in accordance with the formula
E is the exempt component;
K is the number of business kilometres travelled during the financial year;
R is the exempt rate.
(5) The "number of business kilometres travelled during the financial year" ("K") is to be determined in accordance with the continuous recording method, or the averaging method, whichever method is selected and used by the employer in accordance with Part 5 of Schedule 1 .
(6) The Commissioner, by order in writing, may approve the use, by an employer or class of employer, of another method of determining the number of business kilometres travelled during the financial year (including the use of an estimate). If so, the number of business kilometres travelled during the financial year is to be determined in accordance with the method approved by the Commissioner.
(7) For the purposes of this section, the "exempt rate" for the financial year concerned is
(a) the rate prescribed by the regulations under section 28-25 of the ITAA for calculating a deduction for car expenses for a large car using the "cents per kilometre method" in the financial year immediately preceding the financial year in which the allowance is paid or payable; or
(b) if no rate referred to in paragraph (a) is prescribed, the rate prescribed by the regulations under this Act.
30. Accommodation allowances
(1) For the purposes of this Act, "wages" do not include an accommodation allowance paid or payable to an employee in respect of a night's absence from the person's usual place of residence that does not exceed the exempt rate.
(2) If the accommodation allowance paid or payable to an employee in respect of a night's absence from the person's usual place of residence exceeds the exempt rate, "wages" include that allowance only to the extent that it exceeds the exempt rate.
(a) the total reasonable amount for daily travel allowance expenses using the lowest capital city for the lowest salary band for the financial year determined by the Commissioner of Taxation of the Commonwealth; or
(b) if no determination referred to in paragraph (a) is in force, the rate prescribed by the regulations.
Division 7 - Contractor provisions
contract includes an agreement, arrangement or undertaking, whether formal or informal and whether express or implied;
relevant contract has the meaning given in section 32 ;
re-supply of goods acquired from a person includes
(a) a supply to the person of goods in an altered form or condition; and
(b) a supply to the person of goods in which the first-mentioned goods have been incorporated;
services includes results (whether goods or services) of work performed;
supply includes supply by way of sale, exchange, lease, hire or hire-purchase, and in relation to services includes the providing, granting or conferring of services.
32. What is a relevant contract?
(1) In this Division, a "relevant contract" in relation to a financial year is a contract under which a person (the "designated person") during that financial year, in the course of a business carried on by the designated person
(a) supplies to another person services for or in relation to the performance of work; or
(b) has supplied to the designated person the services of persons for or in relation to the performance of work; or
(c) gives out goods to natural persons for work to be performed by those persons in respect of those goods and for re-supply of the goods to the designated person or, where the designated person is a member of a group, to another member of that group.
(2) However, a "relevant contract" does not include a contract of service or a contract under which a person (the "designated person") during a financial year in the course of a business carried on by the designated person
(a) is supplied with services for or in relation to the performance of work that are ancillary to the supply of goods under the contract by the person by whom the services are supplied or to the use of goods which are the property of that person; or
(b) is supplied with services for or in relation to the performance of work where
(i) those services are of a kind not ordinarily required by the designated person and are performed by a person who ordinarily performs services of that kind to the public generally; or
(ii) those services are of a kind ordinarily required by the designated person for less than 180 days in a financial year; or
(iii) those services are provided for a period that does not exceed 90 days or for periods that, in the aggregate, do not exceed 90 days in that financial year and are not services
(A) provided by a person by whom similar services are provided to the designated person; or
(B) for or in relation to the performance of work where any of the persons who perform the work also perform similar work for the designated person
for periods that, in the aggregate, exceed 90 days in that financial year; or
(iv) those services are supplied under a contract to which subparagraphs (i) (iii) do not apply and the Commissioner is satisfied that those services are performed by a person who ordinarily performs services of that kind to the public generally in that financial year; or
(c) is supplied by a person (the "contractor") with services for or in relation to the performance of work under a contract to which paragraphs (a) and (b) do not apply where the work to which the services relate is performed
(i) by two or more persons employed by, or who provide services for, the contractor in the course of a business carried on by the contractor; or
(ii) where the contractor is a partnership of two or more natural persons, by one or more of the members of the partnership and one or more persons employed by, or who provide services for, the contractor in the course of a business carried on by the contractor; or
(iii) where the contractor is a natural person, by the contractor and one or more persons employed by, or who provide services for, the contractor in the course of a business carried on by the contractor
unless the Commissioner determines that the contract or arrangement under which the services are so supplied was entered into with an intention either directly or indirectly of avoiding or evading the payment of tax by any person; or
(d) is supplied with
(i) services ancillary to the conveyance of goods by means of a vehicle provided by the person conveying them; or
(ii) services solely for or in relation to the procurement of persons desiring to be insured by the designated person; or
(iii) services for or in relation to the door-to-door sale of goods solely for domestic purposes on behalf of the designated person
unless the Commissioner determines that the contract or arrangement under which the services are so supplied was entered into with an intention either directly or indirectly of avoiding or evading the payment of tax by any person.
(3) For the purposes of this section, an employment agency contract under which services are supplied by an employment agent, or a service provider is procured by an employment agent, is not a relevant contract.
33. Persons taken to be employers
(1) For the purposes of this Act, a person
(a) who during a financial year, under a relevant contract, supplies services to another person; or
(b) to whom during a financial year, under a relevant contract, the services of persons are supplied for or in relation to the performance of work; or
(c) who during a financial year, under a relevant contract, gives out goods to other persons
is taken to be an employer in respect of that financial year.
(2) If a contract is a relevant contract under both section 32(1)(a) and (b)
(a) the person to whom, under the contract, the services of persons are supplied for or in relation to the performance of work is taken to be an employer; and
(b) despite subsection (1)(a) , the person who under the contract supplies the services is taken not to be an employer.
34. Persons taken to be employees
For the purposes of this Act, a person who during a financial year
(a) performs work for or in relation to which services are supplied to another person under a relevant contract; or
(b) being a natural person, under a relevant contract, re-supplies goods to an employer
is taken to be an employee in respect of that financial year.
35. Amounts under relevant contracts taken to be wages
(1) For the purposes of this Act, amounts paid or payable by an employer during a financial year for or in relation to the performance of work relating to a relevant contract or the re-supply of goods by an employee under a relevant contract are taken to be wages paid or payable during that financial year.
(2) If an amount referred to in subsection (1) is included in a larger amount paid or payable by an employer under a relevant contract during a financial year, that part of the larger amount which is not attributable to the performance of work relating to the relevant contract or the re-supply of goods by an employee under the relevant contract is as determined by the Commissioner.
(3) An amount paid or payable for or in relation to the performance of work under a relevant contract is taken to include
(a) any payment made by a person who is taken to be an employer under a relevant contract in relation to a person who is taken to be an employee under the relevant contract that would be a superannuation contribution if made in relation to a person in the capacity of an employee; and
(b) the value of any share or option (not otherwise included as wages under this Act) provided or liable to be provided by a person who is taken to be an employer under a relevant contract in relation to a person who is taken to be an employee under the relevant contract that would be included as wages under Division 4 if provided to a person in the capacity of an employee.
36. Liability provisions
If, in respect of a payment for or in relation to the performance of work that is taken to be wages under this Division, payroll tax is paid by a person taken under this Division to be an employer
(a) no other person is liable to payroll tax in respect of that payment; and
(b) if another person is liable to make a payment for or in relation to that work, that person is not liable to payroll tax in respect of that payment unless it or the payment by the first-mentioned person is made with an intention either directly or indirectly of avoiding or evading the payment of tax whether by the first-mentioned person or another person.
Division 8 - Employment agents
(1) For the purposes of this Act, an "employment agency contract" is a contract, whether formal or informal and whether express or implied, under which a person (an "employment agent") procures the services of another person (a "service provider") for a client of the employment agent.
(2) However, a contract is not an employment agency contract for the purposes of this Act if it is, or results in the creation of, a contract of employment between the service provider and the client.
contract includes agreement, arrangement and undertaking.
For the purposes of this Act, the employment agent under an employment agency contract is taken to be an employer.
For the purposes of this Act, the person who performs work for or in relation to which services are supplied to the client under an employment agency contract is taken to be an employee of the employment agent.
40. Amounts taken to be wages
(1) For the purposes of this Act, the following are taken to be wages paid or payable by the employment agent under an employment agency contract:
(a) any amount paid or payable to or in relation to the service provider in respect of the provision of services in connection with the employment agency contract;
(b) the value of any benefit provided for or in relation to the provision of services in connection with the employment agency contract that would be a fringe benefit if provided to a person in the capacity of an employee;
(c) any payment made in relation to the service provider that would be a superannuation contribution if made in relation to a person in the capacity of an employee.
(2) Subsection (1) does not apply to an employment agency contract to the extent that an amount, benefit or payment referred to in that subsection would be exempt from payroll tax under Part 4 (other than under Division 4 or 5 of that Part or section 50 ) had the service provider been paid by the client as an employee, if the client has given a declaration to that effect, in the form approved by the Commissioner, to the employment agent.
Subject to section 42 , if an employment agent under an employment agency contract
(a) by arrangement procures the services of a service provider for a client of the employment agent; and
(b) pays payroll tax in respect of an amount, benefit or payment that is, under section 40 , taken to be wages paid or payable by the employment agent in respect of the provision of those services in connection with that contract
no other person (including any other person engaged to procure the services of the service provider for the employment agent's client as part of the arrangement) is liable to pay payroll tax in respect of wages paid or payable for the procurement or performance of those services by the service provider for the client.
42. Agreement to reduce or avoid liability to payroll tax
(1) If the effect of an employment agency contract is to reduce or avoid the liability of any party to the contract to the assessment, imposition or payment of payroll tax, the Commissioner may
(a) disregard the contract; and
(b) determine that any party to the contract is taken to be an employer for the purposes of this Act; and
(c) determine that any payment made in respect of the contract is taken to be wages for the purposes of this Act.
(2) If the Commissioner makes a determination under subsection (1) , the Commissioner must serve a notice of the determination on the person taken to be an employer for the purposes of this Act.
(3) The notice must set out the facts on which the Commissioner relies and the reasons for the determination.
(4) This section has effect in relation to agreements, transactions and arrangements made before, on or after the commencement of this section.
43. Value of wages paid in kind
The value of wages (except fringe benefits and shares and options) that are paid or payable in kind is the greater of
(a) the value agreed or attributed to the wages in, or ascertainable for the wages from, arrangements between the employer and the employee, whichever is the greater; and
(b) if the regulations prescribe how the value of wages of that type is to be determined, the value determined in accordance with the regulations.
44. GST excluded from wages
(1) If a person is liable to pay GST on the supply to which wages paid or payable to the person relate, the amount or value of those wages on which payroll tax is payable is the amount or value of the wages paid or payable to the person minus the relevant proportion of the amount of GST payable by the person on the supply to which the wages relate.
(2) Subsection (1) does not apply in respect of the value of wages comprising a fringe benefit.
consideration has the same meaning as in the A New Tax System (Goods and Services Tax) Act 1999 of the Commonwealth;
relevant proportion, in relation to GST payable on a supply to which wages relate, means the proportion that the amount or value of the wages bears to the consideration for the supply to which the wages relate.
45. Wages paid by group employers
A reference in this Act to wages paid or payable by a member of a group includes wages that would be taken to be paid or payable by a member of a group if the member were the employer of the employee to whom the wages were paid.
46. Wages paid by or to third parties
(1) If any of the following amounts of money or other valuable consideration would, if paid or given or to be paid or given directly by an employer to an employee, be or be included as wages paid or payable by the employer to the employee for the purposes of this Act, they are taken to be wages paid or payable by the employer to the employee:
(a) any money or other valuable consideration paid or given, or to be paid or given, to an employee, for the employee's services as an employee of an employer, by a person other than the employer;
(b) any money or other valuable consideration paid or given, or to be paid or given, by an employer, for an employee's services as the employee of the employer, to a person other than the employee;
(c) any money or other valuable consideration paid or given, or to be paid or given, by a person other than an employer, for an employee's services as an employee of the employer, to a person other than the employee.
(2) If any of the following amounts of money or other valuable consideration would, if paid or given or to be paid or given directly by a company to a director of the company, be or be included as wages paid or payable by the company to the director for the purposes of this Act, they are taken to be wages paid or payable by the company to the director:
(a) any money or other valuable consideration paid or given, or to be paid or given, to a director of a company, by way of remuneration for the appointment or services of the director to the company, by a person other than the company;
(b) any money or other valuable consideration paid or given, or to be paid or given, by a company, by way of remuneration for the appointment or services of the director to the company, to a person other than the director;
(c) any money or other valuable consideration paid or given, or to be paid or given, by any person, by way of remuneration for the appointment or services of a director to the company, to a person other than the director.
(3) In this section, "director" of a company includes
(a) a person who, under a contract or other arrangement, is to be appointed as a director of the company; and
47. Agreement etc. to reduce or avoid liability to payroll tax
(1) If any person enters into any agreement, transaction or arrangement, whether in writing or otherwise, under which a natural person performs, for or on behalf of another person, services in respect of which any payment is made to some other person related or connected to the natural person performing the services and the effect of the agreement, transaction or arrangement is to reduce or avoid the liability of any person to the assessment, imposition or payment of payroll tax, the Commissioner may
(a) disregard the agreement, transaction or arrangement; and
(b) determine that any party to the agreement, transaction or arrangement is taken to be an employer for the purposes of this Act; and
(c) determine that any payment made in respect of the agreement, transaction or arrangement is taken to be wages for the purposes of this Act.
(2) If the Commissioner makes a determination under subsection (1) , the Commissioner must serve a notice to that effect on the person taken to be an employer for the purposes of this Act.
PART 4 - Exemptions
Division 1 - Non-profit organisations
48. Non-profit organisations
(1) Subject to subsection (2) , wages are exempt wages if they are paid or payable by any of the following:
(a) a religious institution;
(b) a public benevolent institution (but not including an instrumentality of the State);
(c) a non-profit organisation having as its sole or dominant purpose a charitable, benevolent, philanthropic or patriotic purpose (but not including a school, an educational institution, an educational company or an instrumentality of the State).
(2) The wages must be paid or payable
(a) for work of a kind ordinarily performed in connection with the religious, charitable, benevolent, philanthropic or patriotic purposes of the institution or body; and
(b) to a person engaged exclusively in that kind of work.
(3) For the purposes of subsection (1)(c) , an "educational company" is a company
(a) in which an educational institution has a controlling interest; and
(b) that provides, promotes or supports the educational services of that institution.
(4) For the purposes of subsection (3) , an educational institution has a "controlling interest" in an educational company if
(a) members of the board of management of the company who are entitled to exercise a majority in voting power at meetings of the board of management are accustomed or under an obligation, whether formal or informal, to act in accordance with the directions, instructions or wishes of the educational institution; or
(b) the educational institution may (whether directly or indirectly) exercise, control the exercise of, or substantially influence the exercise of, more than 50% of the voting power attached to voting shares, or any class of voting shares, issued by the company; or
(c) the educational institution has power to appoint more than 50% of the members of the board of management of the company.
educational institution means an entity that provides education above secondary level.
Division 2 - Education and training
49. Schools and educational services and training
Wages are exempt wages as provided for in Division 1 of Part 3 of Schedule 2 .
50. Community Development Employment Project
(1) Wages are exempt wages if they are paid or payable to an Aboriginal person who is employed under an employment project.
(2) An "employment project" is an employment project under the Community Development Employment Project funded by the Department of Employment and Workplace Relations of the Commonwealth or the Torres Strait Regional Authority.
Division 3 - Health care service providers
51. Health care service providers
(1) Subject to subsection (2) , wages paid or payable by a health care service provider are exempt wages.
(a) for work of a kind ordinarily performed in connection with the conduct of a health care service provider; and
(3) For the purposes of this section, "health care service provider" has the meaning given in Division 2 of Part 3 of Schedule 2 .
52. Division not to limit other exemptions
(1) Nothing in this Division limits the application of any other Division of this Part.
(2) For example, if a health care service provider is also a non-profit organisation, the exemption for non-profit organisations referred to in section 48 may still apply.
Division 4 - Maternity and adoption leave
53. Maternity and adoption leave
(1) Wages are exempt wages if they are paid or payable to an employee in respect of
(a) maternity leave, being leave given to a female employee in connection with her pregnancy or the birth of her child (other than sick leave, recreation leave, annual leave or any similar leave); or
(b) adoption leave, being leave given to an employee in connection with the adoption of a child by him or her (other than sick leave, recreation leave, annual leave or any similar leave).
(2) It is immaterial whether the leave is taken during or after the pregnancy or before or after the adoption.
(3) The exemption is limited to wages paid or payable in respect of a maximum of 14 weeks maternity leave in respect of any one pregnancy and 14 weeks adoption leave in respect of any one adoption.
(4) For the avoidance of doubt, a reference in subsection (3) to a period of 14 weeks leave is a reference to
(a) a period that is the equivalent of 14 weeks leave on full pay, in the case of full-time employees who take leave on less than full pay; or
(b) a period of 14 weeks leave at part-time rates of pay, in the case of part-time employees.
(5) The exemption does not apply to any part of wages paid or payable in respect of maternity or adoption leave that comprises fringe benefits.
54. Administrative requirements for exemption
(1) An employer wishing to claim an exemption under section 53 in respect of maternity leave must obtain and keep a medical certificate in respect of, or statutory declaration by, the employee
(a) stating that the employee is or was pregnant; or
(b) stating that the employee has given birth and the date of birth.
(2) An employer wishing to claim an exemption under section 53 in respect of adoption leave must obtain and keep a statutory declaration by the employee stating
(a) that a child has been placed in the custody of the employee pending the making of an adoption order; or
(b) that an adoption order has been made or recognised in favour of the employee.
Note: Section 63 of the Taxation Administration Act 1997 requires these records to be kept for at least 5 years unless the Commissioner authorises earlier destruction.
Division 5 - Volunteer firefighters and emergency service volunteers
55. Volunteer firefighters
Subject to section 57 , wages are exempt wages if they are paid or payable to an employee in respect of any period when he or she was taking part in bushfire-fighting activities as a volunteer member of a fire brigade under the Fire Service Act 1979 .
56. Emergency service volunteers
(1) Subject to section 57 , wages are exempt wages if they are paid or payable to an employee in respect of any period when he or she was engaging in emergency management or rescue and retrieval operations as a volunteer emergency management worker.
(2) For the purposes of subsection (1)
emergency management has the same meaning as in the Emergency Management Act 2006 ;
rescue and retrieval operation has the same meaning as in the Emergency Management Act 2006 ;
volunteer emergency management worker has the same meaning as in section 56 of the Emergency Management Act 2006 .
57. Limitation of exemption
An exemption under this Division does not apply to wages paid or payable as recreation leave, annual leave, long service leave or sick leave.
Division 6 - Local government
58. Local and county councils
Note. This section is contained in the Payroll Tax Act 2007 of New South Wales. The section does not apply in Tasmania because local government is not exempt from payroll tax in this State. In order to achieve uniform numbering with the Payroll Tax Acts of New South Wales and Victoria in accordance with the harmonised payroll tax arrangements, this section has been left blank.
59. Local government business entities
60. Limitation on local government exemptions
Division 7 - Other government and defence
61. State Governors
Wages paid or payable by the Governor of a State are exempt wages.
62. Defence personnel
Wages are exempt wages if they are paid or payable to an employee in respect of any period when he or she was on leave from employment because of being a member of
(a) the Defence Force of the Commonwealth; or
(b) the armed forces of any part of the Commonwealth of Nations.
63. War Graves Commission
Wages paid or payable by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission are exempt wages.
Division 8 - Foreign government representatives and international agencies
64. Consular and non-diplomatic representatives
Wages paid or payable to members of his or her official staff by a consular or other representative of any country in Australia (other than a diplomatic representative) are exempt wages.
65. Trade Commissioners
Wages paid or payable to members of his or her official staff by a Trade Commissioner representing any other part of the Commonwealth of Nations in Australia are exempt wages.
66. Australian-American Fulbright Commission
Wages paid or payable by the Australian-American Fulbright Commission are exempt wages.
PART 5 - Grouping of Employers
Division 1 - Interpretation
In this Part
business includes
(a) a profession or trade; and
(b) any other activity carried on for fee, gain or reward; and
(c) the activity of employing one or more persons who perform duties in connection with another business; and
(d) the carrying on of a trust (including a dormant trust); and
(e) the activity of holding any money or property used for or in connection with another business
whether carried on by 1 person or 2 or more persons together;
group means a group constituted under this Part, but does not include any member of the group in respect of whom a determination under Division 4 is in force.
68. Grouping provisions to operate independently
The fact that a person is not a member of a group constituted under a provision of this Part does not prevent that person from being a member of a group constituted under another provision of this Part.
Division 2 - Business groups
69. Constitution of groups
A "group" is constituted by all the persons or bodies forming a group that is not a part of any larger group.
70. Groups of corporations
Corporations constitute a group if they are related bodies corporate within the meaning of the Corporations Act 2001 of the Commonwealth.
71. Groups arising from the use of common employees
(1) If one or more employees of an employer perform duties for or in connection with one or more businesses carried on by the employer and one or more other persons, the employer and each of those other persons constitute a group.
(2) If one or more employees of an employer are employed solely or mainly to perform duties for or in connection with one or more businesses carried on by one or more other persons, the employer and each of those other persons constitute a group.
(3) If one or more employees of an employer perform duties for or in connection with one or more businesses carried on by one or more other persons, being duties performed in connection with, or on fulfilment of the employer's obligation under, an agreement, arrangement or undertaking for the provision of services to any one or more of those other persons in connection with that business or those businesses, the employer and each of those other persons constitute a group.
(4) Subsection (3) applies to an agreement, arrangement or undertaking
(a) whether the agreement, arrangement or undertaking is formal or informal, express or implied; and
(b) whether or not the agreement, arrangement or undertaking provides for duties to be performed by the employees or specifies the duties to be performed by them.
Note: Section 79 (Exclusion of persons from groups) allows the Commissioner, for payroll tax purposes, to exclude persons from a group constituted under this section in certain circumstances.
72. Groups of commonly controlled businesses
(1) If a person or set of persons has a controlling interest in each of 2 businesses, the persons who carry on those businesses constitute a group.
(2) For the purposes of this section, a person or set of persons has a controlling interest in a business if
(a) in the case of 1 person, the person is the sole owner (whether or not as trustee) of the business; or
(b) in the case of a set of persons, the persons are together as trustees the sole owners of the business; or
(c) in the case of a business carried on by a corporation
(i) the person or each of the set of persons is a director of the corporation and the person or set of persons is entitled to exercise more than 50% of the voting power at meetings of the directors of the corporation; or
(ii) a director or set of directors of the corporation that is entitled to exercise more than 50% of the voting power at meetings of the directors of the corporation is under an obligation, whether formal or informal, to act in accordance with the direction, instructions or wishes of that person or set of persons; or
(d) in the case of a business carried on by a body corporate or unincorporated, that person or set of persons constitute more than 50% of the board of management (by whatever name called) of the body or control the composition of that board; or
(e) in the case of a business carried on by a corporation that has a share capital, that person or set of persons can, directly or indirectly, exercise, control the exercise of, or substantially influence the exercise of, more than 50% of the voting power attached to the voting shares, or any class of voting shares, issued by the corporation; or
(f) in the case of a business carried on by a partnership, that person or set of persons
(i) own (whether beneficially or not) more than 50% of the capital of the partnership; or
(ii) is entitled (whether beneficially or not) to more than 50% of the profits of the partnership; or
(g) in the case of a business carried on under a trust, the person or set of persons (whether or not as a trustee of, or beneficiary under, another trust) if the beneficiary in respect of more than 50% of the value of the interests in the first-mentioned trust.
(3) If
(a) 2 corporations are related bodies corporate within the meaning of the Corporations Act 2001 of the Commonwealth; and
(b) 1 of the corporations has a controlling interest in a business
the other corporation has a controlling interest in the business.
(a) a person or set of persons has a controlling interest in a business; and
(b) a person or set of persons who carry on the business has a controlling interest in another business
the person or set of persons referred to in paragraph (a) has a controlling interest in that other business.
(a) a person or set of persons is the beneficiary of a trust in respect of more than 50% of the value of the interests in the trust; and
(b) the trustee of the trust (whether alone or together with another trustee or trustees) has a controlling interest in the business of another trust
the person or set of persons has a controlling interest in the business.
(6) A person who may benefit from a discretionary trust as a result of the trustee or another person, or the trustee and another person, exercising or failing to exercise a power or discretion, is taken, for the purposes of this Part, to be a beneficiary in respect of more than 50% of the value of the interests in the trust.
(a) a person or set of persons has a controlling interest in the business of a trust; and
(b) the trustee of the trust (whether alone or together with another trustee or trustees) has a controlling interest in the business of a corporation
the person or set of persons is taken to have a controlling interest in the business of the corporation.
(b) the trustee of the trust (whether alone or together with another trustee or trustees) has a controlling interest in the business of a partnership
the person or set of persons is taken to have a controlling interest in the business of the partnership.
73. Groups arising from tracing of interests in corporations
(1) An entity and a corporation form part of a group if the entity has a controlling interest in the corporation.
(2) For the purposes of this section, an entity has a "controlling interest" in a corporation if the corporation has share capital and
(a) the entity has a direct interest in the corporation and the value of that direct interest exceeds 50%; or
(b) the entity has an indirect interest in the corporation and the value of that indirect interest exceeds 50%; or
(c) the entity has an aggregate interest in the corporation and the value of the aggregate interest exceeds 50%.
(3) Division 3 applies for the purposes of the interpretation of this section.
Note: Division 3 sets out the manner for determining whether an entity has a direct interest, indirect interest or aggregate interest in a corporation, and the value of such an interest.
associated person means a person who is associated with another person in accordance with any of the following provisions:
(a) persons are associated persons if they are related persons;
(b) natural persons are associated persons if they are partners in a partnership;
(c) private companies are associated persons if common shareholders have a majority interest in each private company;
(d) trustees are associated persons if any person is a beneficiary common to the trusts (not including a public unit trust scheme) of which they are trustees;
(e) a private company and a trustee are associated persons if a related body corporate of the company (within the meaning of the Corporations Act 2001 of the Commonwealth) is a beneficiary of the trust (not including a public unit trust scheme) of which the trustee is a trustee;
domestic partner of a person means a person to whom the person is not married but with whom the person is living as a couple on a genuine domestic basis (irrespective of gender);
entity means
(a) a person; or
(b) 2 or more persons who are associated persons (as defined in this section);
private company means a company that is not limited by shares, or whose shares are not quoted on the Australian Stock Exchange or any exchange of the World Federation of Exchanges;
related person means a person who is related to another person in accordance with any of the following provisions:
(a) natural persons are related persons if
(i) one is the spouse or domestic partner of the other; or
(ii) the relationship between them is that of parent and child, brothers, sisters, or brother and sister;
(b) private companies are related persons if they are related bodies corporate within the meaning of the Corporations Act 2001 of the Commonwealth;
(c) a natural person and a private company are related persons if the natural person is a majority shareholder or director of the company or of another private company that is a related body corporate of the company within the meaning of the Corporations Act 2001 of the Commonwealth;
(d) a natural person and a trustee are related persons if the natural person is a beneficiary of the trust (not being a public unit trust scheme) of which the trustee is a trustee;
(e) a private company and a trustee are related persons if the company, or a majority shareholder or director of the company, is a beneficiary of the trust (not being a public unit trust scheme) of which the trustee is a trustee.
(5) For the purposes of the definition of "domestic partner" in subsection (4) , in determining whether persons are domestic partners of each other, all the circumstances of their relationship are to be taken into account, including any one or more of the matters referred to in section 4(3) of the Relationships Act 2003 as may be relevant in a particular case.
74. Smaller groups subsumed by larger groups
(1) If a person is a member of 2 or more groups, the members of all the groups together constitute a group.
(2) If 2 or more members of a group have together a controlling interest in a business (within the meaning of section 72 ), all the members of the group and the person or persons who carry on the business together constitute a group.
Division 3 - Business groups tracing of interests in corporations
75. Application
This Division applies for the purposes of section 73 (Groups arising from tracing of interests in corporations).
76. Direct interest
(1) An entity has a "direct interest" in a corporation if
(a) in the case of an entity that is a person, the person can, directly or indirectly, exercise, control the exercise of, or substantially influence the exercise of, the voting power attached to any voting shares issued by the corporation; or
(b) in the case of an entity that is 2 or more persons who are associated persons, each of the associated persons can, directly or indirectly, exercise, control the exercise of, or substantially influence the exercise of, the voting power attached to any voting shares issued by the corporation.
(2) The value of the direct interest of the entity in the corporation is the proportion (expressed as a percentage) of the voting power of all voting shares issued by the corporation that
(a) in the case of an entity that is a person, the person can directly or indirectly exercise, control the exercise of, or substantially influence the exercise of, as referred to in subsection (1) ; or
(b) in the case of an entity that is 2 or more persons who are associated persons, the associated persons can, if acting together, directly or indirectly exercise, control the exercise of, or substantially influence the exercise of, as referred to in subsection (1) .
77. Indirect interest
(1) An entity has an "indirect interest" in a corporation if the corporation is linked to another corporation (the "directly controlled corporation") in which the entity has a direct interest.
(2) A corporation is linked to a directly controlled corporation if the corporation is part of a chain of corporations
(a) that starts with the directly controlled corporation; and
(b) in which a link in the chain is formed if a corporation has a direct interest in the next corporation in the chain.
(3) The following are examples of how subsections (1) and (2) work (the examples are cumulative):
(a) corporation A (a directly controlled corporation) has a direct interest in corporation B. Corporations A and B form part of a chain of corporations, and corporation B is linked to corporation A. Accordingly, an entity that has a direct interest in corporation A also has an indirect interest in corporation B;
(b) corporation B also has a direct interest in corporation C. In this case, corporations A, B and C form part of a chain of corporations. Both corporations B and C are linked to corporation A. The entity that has a direct interest in corporation A has an indirect interest in both corporations B and C;
(c) corporation B also has a direct interest in corporation D. There are now 2 chains of corporations, one consisting of A, B and C, and one consisting of A, B and D. Corporations B, C and D are all linked to corporation A and an entity that has a direct interest in corporation A would have an indirect interest in corporations B, C and D. An entity that has a direct interest in corporation B would have an indirect interest in corporations C and D. However, an entity that has a direct interest in corporation C only would not have an indirect interest in corporation D, as corporation D is not linked to corporation C.
(4) The value of the indirect interest of an entity in a corporation (an "indirectly controlled corporation") that is linked to a directly controlled corporation is calculated by multiplying together the following:
(a) the value of the direct interest of the entity in the directly controlled corporation;
(b) the value of each direct interest that forms a link in the chain of corporations by which the indirectly controlled corporation is linked to the directly controlled corporation.
(5) The following are examples of how subsection (4) works (the examples are cumulative):
(a) an entity has a direct interest (with a value of 80%) in corporation A. Corporation A has a direct interest (with a value of 70%) in corporation B. The value of the indirect interest of the entity in corporation B is 80% × 70% (that is, 56%). Accordingly, in this example the entity has a controlling interest (within the meaning of section 73 (Groups arising from tracing of interests in corporations)) in corporation B;
(b) corporation B also has a direct interest (with a value of 40%) in corporation C. The value of the indirect interest of the entity in corporation C is 80% × 70% × 40% (that is, 22.4%). Accordingly, in this example the entity does not have a controlling interest in corporation C.
(6) It is possible for an entity to have more than one indirect interest in a corporation. This may occur if the corporation is linked to more than one corporation in which the entity has a direct interest, or if the corporation is linked to only one corporation in which the entity has a direct interest but is linked through more than one chain of corporations. In that case, the entity has an aggregate interest in the corporation (see section 78 (Aggregation of interests)).
78. Aggregation of interests
(1) An entity has an "aggregate interest" in a corporation if
(a) the entity has a direct interest and one or more indirect interests in the corporation; or
(b) the entity has more than one indirect interest in the corporation.
(2) The value of the aggregate interest of an entity in a corporation is the sum of the following:
(a) the value of the direct interest (if any) of the entity in the corporation;
(b) the value of each indirect interest of the entity in the corporation.
(3) For example:
(a) an entity has a direct interest (with a value of 40%) in corporation B;
(b) the entity also has a direct interest (with a value of 25%) in corporation A, which in turn has a direct interest (with a value of 60%) in corporation B. Accordingly, the entity also has an indirect interest in corporation B with a value of 15% (that is, 25% x 60%);
(c) the value of the entity's aggregate interest in corporation B is the sum of the direct interest (40%) and the indirect interest (15%), which is 55%;
(d) accordingly, in this example, the entity has a controlling interest in corporation B (within the meaning of section 73 (Groups arising from tracing of interests in corporations)).
Division 4 - Miscellaneous
79. Exclusion of persons from groups
(1) The Commissioner may, by order in writing, determine that a person who would, but for the determination, be a member of a group is not a member of the group.
(2) The Commissioner may only make such a determination if satisfied, having regard to the nature and degree of ownership and control of the businesses, the nature of the businesses and any other matters the Commissioner considers relevant, that a business carried on by the person, is carried on independently of, and is not connected with the carrying on of, a business carried on by any other member of that group.
(3) The Commissioner cannot exclude a person from a group if the person is a body corporate that, by reason of section 50 of the Corporations Act 2001 of the Commonwealth, is related to another body corporate that is a member of that group.
(4) This section extends to a group constituted by reason of section 74 (Smaller groups subsumed by larger groups).
(5) A determination can be expressed to take effect on a date that is earlier than the date of the determination.
(6) The Commissioner may by order in writing revoke a determination that applies in respect of a person if satisfied that the circumstances in which a determination may be made do not apply to the person.
(7) The revocation of a determination can be expressed to take effect on a date that is earlier than the date of the determination.
80. Designated group employers
(1) The members of a group may, with the approval of the Commissioner, designate a qualified member of the group to be the designated group employer for the group for the purposes of this Act.
(2) A member of a group is a qualified member if the member
(a) has paid during the preceding financial year wages that exceeded $1 010 000; or
(b) is likely to pay during the current financial year wages that are likely to exceed that amount.
(3) If none of the members of a group is a qualified member but the members together
(a) have paid during the preceding financial year wages that exceeded $1 010 000; or
(b) are, in the opinion of the Commissioner, likely to pay during the current financial year wages that will exceed that amount
the members may, with the approval of the Commissioner, designate any member of the group to be the designated group employer for the group for the purposes of this Act.
(4) If the members of a group do not designate a member as the designated group employer within 7 days after the end of the month in which the group is established, the Commissioner may (but is not obliged to) designate any member of the group as the designated group employer.
(5) The designated group employer of a group stops being the designated group employer from and including the earlier of the following days:
(a) the first day of a return period during which there is a change in the membership of the group;
(b) the first day of a return period during which the members of the group revoke the designation.
(6) The designation of a designated group employer under subsection (1) or (3) must be by notice in writing.
(7) Such a notice must
(a) be executed by or on behalf of each member of the group; and
(b) be served on the Commissioner.
81. Joint and several liability
(1) If a member of a group fails to pay an amount that the member is required to pay under this Act in respect of any period, every member of the group is liable jointly and severally to pay that amount to the Commissioner.
(2) If 2 or more persons are jointly or severally liable to pay an amount under this section, the Commissioner may recover the whole of the amount from them, or any of them, or any one of them.
(3) If, under this section, 2 or more persons are jointly and severally liable to pay an amount that is payable by any one of them, each person is also jointly and severally liable to pay
(a) any amount payable to the Commissioner under this or any other Act in relation to that amount, including any interest and penalty tax; and
(b) any costs and expenses incurred in relation to the recovery of that amount that the Commissioner is entitled to recover from any such person.
(4) A person who pays an amount in accordance with the liability imposed by this section has such rights of contribution or indemnity from the other person or persons as are just.
(5) This section applies whether or not the person was an employer during the relevant period.
PART 6 - Adjustments of Tax
82. Determination of correct amount of payroll tax
(1) For the purposes of this Part, the "correct amount of payroll tax" payable by an employer in respect of a financial year is the amount determined in accordance with Schedule 1 in respect of that financial year.
(2) This Part applies in respect of payroll tax paid or payable whether as a group employer or as an individual employer.
(3) If an employer is liable for payroll tax both as an individual employer and as a group employer (for different periods in the same financial year) separate adjustments are to be made under this Part in respect of any period as a group employer and any period as an individual employer (and for that purpose separate determinations of the correct amount of payroll tax payable by the employer are to be made).
(4) In this Part
group employer means an employer who is a member of a group;
individual employer means an employer who is not a member of a group.
83. Annual adjustment of payroll tax
(1) If the amount of payroll tax paid or payable by an employer when the employer made the returns relating to a financial year is greater than the correct amount of payroll tax payable by the employer in respect of the financial year, the Commissioner (on application by the employer) is to refund to that employer an amount equal to the difference.
(2) If the amount of payroll tax paid or payable by an employer when the employer made the returns relating to a financial year is less than the correct amount of payroll tax payable by the employer in respect of the financial year, the employer must pay to the Commissioner as payroll tax an amount equal to the difference.
(3) Any amount payable by an employer under this section in respect of a financial year must be paid within the period during which the employer is required to lodge a return under this Act in respect of the return period that is or includes the month of June in that financial year.
(4) The amount of any refund payable to an employer in respect of a financial year under this section is to be reduced by the amount of any other refund of payroll tax made in respect of that financial year to that employer (whether under this section or otherwise) before the time of the refund under this section.
84. Adjustment of payroll tax when employer changes circumstances
(1) If an employer changes their circumstances during a financial year, the employer must, if the amount of payroll tax paid or payable by the employer when the employer made returns relating to the relevant period prior to the change of circumstances is less than the correct amount of payroll tax payable by the employer in respect of the financial year, pay to the Commissioner as payroll tax an amount equal to the difference.
(2) A "change of circumstances" occurs when the employer
(a) ceases to pay or be liable to pay taxable wages and interstate wages; or
(b) becomes a group employer (following a period as an individual employer); or
(c) ceases to be a group employer (and becomes an individual employer).
(3) The "relevant period" prior to a change of circumstances is the period prior to the change (during the financial year concerned and since any prior change of circumstances) for which the employer paid or was liable to pay taxable wages or interstate wages.
(4) In calculating for the purposes of this section the correct amount of payroll tax payable by the employer, it is to be assumed that the wages paid or payable by the employer during the relevant period are the only wages paid or payable by the employer during the financial year concerned.
(5) Any amount payable by an employer under this section in respect of a relevant period must be paid within the period during which the employer is required to lodge a return under this Act relating to that relevant period or the last return under this Act relating to the relevant period.
(6) Any payroll tax paid or payable by an employer under this section is to be included as payroll tax paid or payable by the employer for the purposes of the annual adjustment of payroll tax under this Part.
Note: If an employer ceases to be a group employer during a financial year an adjustment will be made under this section. If later in that financial year the employer ceases to pay wages there will be a further adjustment under this section. The first adjustment will adjust payroll tax paid for the period as a group employer against the correct amount of tax that should have been paid (based on the assumption that the period as a group employer is the only period for which the employer paid wages throughout the year). The second adjustment will adjust payroll tax paid for the period as an individual employer against the correct amount of tax that should have been paid (based on the assumption that the period as an individual employer is the only period for which the employer paid wages throughout the year). Any amount of payroll tax paid under this section is taken into account for the purposes of the annual adjustment of payroll tax.
85. Special provision where wages fluctuate
If a person who did not pay and was not liable to pay taxable wages or interstate wages for any part of a financial year satisfies the Commissioner that, by reason of the nature of the person's trade or business, the taxable wages and interstate wages, if any, paid or payable by the person fluctuate with different periods of the financial year, the Commissioner may determine that the person is to be treated for the purposes of this Part
(a) if the person has conducted that trade or business in Australia during the whole of the financial year, as an employer who pays or is liable to pay taxable wages throughout the financial year; or
(b) if the person has conducted that trade or business in Australia during part only of the financial year, as an employer who pays or is liable to pay taxable wages throughout that last-mentioned part of the financial year.
Note: The effect of such a determination is that when the correct amount of payroll tax is calculated (for the purposes of a tax adjustment provided for by this Part) the employer may receive the benefit of the payroll tax threshold for the period for which the employer is to be treated as paying wages, and not just for the period for which the employer actually pays wages. Without such a determination, an employer may only receive the benefit of a proportion of the threshold amount that is equivalent to the proportion of the whole financial year for which the employer actually pays wages.
PART 7 - Registration and Returns
86. Registration
(1) An employer who is not already registered must apply for registration as an employer under this Act if
(a) during a month the employer pays or is liable to pay, anywhere, wages of more than $19 423 per week that are wholly or partly taxable wages; or
(b) the employer is a member of a group the members of which together during a month pay or are liable to pay, anywhere, wages of more than $19 423 per week that are wholly or partly taxable wages.
(2) The application for registration is to be made to the Commissioner in a form and manner approved by the Commissioner within 7 days after the end of the month concerned.
(3) The Commissioner is to register the applicant as an employer under this Act.
(4) The Commissioner may cancel the registration of a person as an employer if satisfied that the person has ceased to pay or to have a liability to pay wages as described in subsection (1) .
(5) If the Commissioner cancels the registration of a person as an employer in any financial year and that person subsequently pays or is liable to pay taxable wages during that financial year the person may, despite the fact that the person is not required to apply for registration, apply to the Commissioner (in a form and manner approved by the Commissioner) for registration as an employer, and the Commissioner is then to register the person as an employer under this Act.
87. Returns
(1) Every employer who is registered or required to apply for registration as an employer under this Act must
(a) within 7 days after the end of each month except June, lodge with the Commissioner a return relating to that month; and
(b) within 21 days after the end of June in each year, lodge with the Commissioner a return relating to that month and to the adjustment of payroll tax paid or payable by the employer during the financial year ending on the close of that month.
(2) The designated group employer for a group may, with the approval of the Commissioner, lodge a joint return for the purposes of this section covering specified members of the group (including the designated group employer).
(3) If a joint return is lodged and the return would, if lodged by a single employer, comply with this section, each of the employers covered by the return is taken to have complied with this section.
PART 8 - Collection and Recovery of Tax
Division 1 - Agents and trustees generally
(1) This Division applies to an agent of or trustee for an employer.
(2) Nothing in this Division limits or otherwise affects the application of Part 5 to an agent or trustee, or 2 or more persons one or more of whom is an agent or trustee.
89. Agents and trustees are answerable
An agent or trustee is answerable as the employer for the doing of all things that are required to be done by or under this Act in respect of the payment of any wages which are subject to payroll tax under this Act.
90. Returns by agent or trustee
(1) An agent or trustee must, in respect of the wages referred to in section 89 , make the returns required under Part 7 , but in a representative capacity only, and each return must, except as otherwise provided by this Act, be separate and distinct from any other.
(2) In the case of an executor or administrator, the returns must be the same as far as practicable as the deceased person, if living, would have been liable to make.
91. Liability to pay tax
(1) An agent or trustee is personally liable for tax on the wages referred to in section 89 if
(a) after the Commissioner has required the agent or trustee to make a return; or
(b) while the tax remains unpaid
the agent or trustee, except with the written permission of the Commissioner, disposes of or parts with any fund or money which comes to the agent or trustee from or out of which tax could legally be paid.
(2) Otherwise than as provided in subsection (1) , the agent or trustee is not personally liable to pay the tax in a representative capacity.
(3) The agent or trustee must retain from time to time out of any money which comes to the agent or trustee in a representative capacity enough to pay the tax.
(4) For the purpose of ensuring the payment of tax, the Commissioner has the same remedies against attachable property of any kind vested in or under the control or management or in the possession of the agent or trustee, as the Commissioner has against the property of any other person in respect of tax, and in as full and ample a manner.
92. Indemnity for agent or trustee
(1) An agent or trustee is indemnified for all payments that the agent or trustee makes under this Act or in accordance with the requirements of the Commissioner.
(2) An agent or trustee who pays tax as agent or trustee may recover the amount paid from the person on whose behalf it was paid, or deduct it from any money in the agent's or trustee's hands belonging to that person.
Division 2 - Special cases
93. Tax not paid during lifetime
(1) This section applies if, whether intentionally or not, a person escapes full payment of tax in his or her lifetime by reason of not having duly made full, complete and accurate returns.
(2) The Commissioner has the same powers and remedies against the trustees of the estate of the person in respect of the liability to which the person was subject as the Commissioner would have had against the person if the person were still living.
(3) The trustees must lodge the returns under this Act that the Commissioner requires.
(4) The trustees are subject to tax to the same extent as the deceased person would be subject to tax if he or she were still living, but the Commissioner, in any circumstances the Commissioner considers appropriate, may remit tax payable by the trustees under this section by any amount.
(5) The amount of any tax payable by the trustees is a charge on all the deceased person's estate in their hands in priority to all other encumbrances.
94. Payment of tax by executors or administrators
(1) If, at the time of an employer's death, he or she had not paid the whole of the tax payable up to the date of death, the Commissioner has the same powers and remedies for the assessment and recovery of tax from the executors and administrators as the Commissioner would have had against the employer, if the employer were alive.
(2) The executors or administrators must lodge any of the returns referred to in Part 7 that have not been lodged by the deceased.
95. Assessment if no probate within 6 months of death
(1) If, in respect of the estate of any deceased employer, probate has not been granted or letters of administration have not been taken out within 6 months after the death, the Commissioner may make an assessment under section 18 of the Taxation Administration Act 1997 of the tax liability of the deceased under this Act.
(2) The Commissioner must cause notice of the assessment to be published twice in a daily newspaper circulating in the State or Territory in which the deceased resided.
(3) Any person claiming an interest in the estate of the deceased may, within 60 days after the first publication of notice of the assessment, lodge an objection with the Commissioner in accordance with Division 1 of Part 10 of the Taxation Administration Act 1997 .
(4) Subject to any amendment of the assessment by the Commissioner or by the Supreme Court, the assessment so made is conclusive evidence of the indebtedness of the deceased to the Commissioner.
(5) However, if probate of the will or letters of administration of the estate of the deceased is or are granted to a person after the assessment is first published, that person may, within 60 days after the date of the grant, lodge an objection in accordance with Division 1 of Part 10 of the Taxation Administration Act 1997 .
96. Person in receipt or control of money for absentee
(1) This section applies to a person (the "controller") who has the receipt, control or disposal of money belonging to a person resident out of Australia (the "principal") if the principal is liable to pay tax under this Act.
(2) The controller must pay the tax payable by the principal at the time, or within the period, specified by the Commissioner.
(3) A controller who pays tax in accordance with subsection (2) may recover the amount paid from the principal or deduct it from any money in the controller's hands belonging to the principal.
(4) A controller must from time to time retain out of any money which comes to the controller on behalf of the principal so much as is sufficient to pay the tax which is or will become due by the principal.
(5) A controller is personally liable for the tax payable by the controller on behalf of the principal if
(a) after the tax becomes payable; or
(b) after the Commissioner has required the controller to pay the tax
the controller, except with the written permission of the Commissioner, disposes of or parts with any fund or money then in the controller's possession, or which comes to the controller from or out of which the tax could legally be paid.
(6) Otherwise than as provided in subsection (5) , a controller is not personally liable to pay the tax payable by the principal.
(7) A controller is indemnified for all payments which the controller makes under this Act or in accordance with the requirements of the Commissioner.
97. Agent for absentee principal winding-up business
(1) If an agent for an absentee principal has been required by the principal to wind-up the principal's business, the agent must notify the Commissioner of the intention to wind-up the business before taking any steps to wind it up.
Penalty: Fine not exceeding 5 penalty units.
(2) After receiving notice under subsection (1) , the Commissioner may notify the agent in writing of
(a) the amount (if any) of payroll tax for which the principal is liable; and
(b) the date (at least 21 days after the notice is given) by which the tax must be paid.
(3) An agent who is given notice under subsection (2) must
(a) set aside an amount out of the assets of the principal's business that is sufficient to pay the tax; and
(b) pay the tax to the Commissioner by the date specified in the notice.
(4) If an agent contravenes this section, the agent is personally liable for any tax that becomes payable in respect of the principal's business.
98. Recovery of tax paid on behalf of another person
A person who, under the provisions of this Act, pays any tax for or on behalf of another person is entitled to recover the amount so paid from the other person as a debt, together with the costs of recovery, or to retain or deduct that amount out of any money in the person's hands belonging or payable to the other person.
99. Liquidator to give notice
(1) Within 14 days after becoming liquidator of a company that has been an employer registered or required to be registered under this Act, the liquidator must give the Commissioner notice in writing of the liquidator's appointment.
(2) As soon as practicable after receiving the notice, the Commissioner must notify the liquidator of the amount that appears to the Commissioner to be sufficient to provide for any tax which is or will become payable by the company.
(3) The liquidator
(a) must not without leave of the Commissioner part with any of the assets of the company until the liquidator has been so notified; and
(b) must set aside out of the assets available for the payment of the tax, assets to the value of the amount so notified, or the whole of the assets so available if they are of less than that value; and
(c) is, to the extent of the value of the assets which the liquidator is so required to set aside, liable as trustee to pay the tax.
(4) A liquidator must not fail
(a) to comply with this section; or
(b) as trustee duly to pay the tax for which the liquidator is liable under subsection (3) .
Penalty: Fine not exceeding 50 penalty units.
(5) If a liquidator commits an offence against subsection (4) , the liquidator is personally liable to pay the tax, to the extent of the value of the assets of which the liquidator has taken possession and which are, or were at any time, available to the liquidator for the payment of the tax.
(6) If more than one person is appointed as liquidator or required by law to carry out the winding-up of a company
(a) the obligations and liabilities attaching to a liquidator under this section attach to each of those persons; and
(b) if any one of those persons has paid the tax due in respect of the company being wound-up, the others are each liable to pay that person that person's equal share of the amount of the tax so paid.
(7) Despite anything in this section, all costs, charges and expenses that, in the Commissioner's opinion, have been properly incurred by a liquidator in the winding-up of a company, including the remuneration of the liquidator, may be paid out of the assets of the company in priority to any tax payable in respect of the company.
(8) Nothing in this section
(a) limits the liability of a liquidator under section 91 ; or
(b) affects any of the provisions of the Corporations Act 2001 of the Commonwealth.
PART 9 - General
100. Provisions specific to this jurisdiction
Schedule 2 , which contains provisions that are applicable only to this jurisdiction, has effect.
101. Regulations
(1) The Governor may make regulations, not inconsistent with this Act, for or with respect to any matter that by this Act is required or permitted to be prescribed or that is necessary or convenient to be prescribed for carrying out or giving effect to this Act.
(2) In particular, the Governor may make regulations for or with respect to the following:
(a) the manner of making any application to the Commissioner under this Act;
(b) the evidence that the Commissioner may require for the purpose of determining whether or not
(i) an employer was an employer for part only of a financial year; or
(ii) a person was a member of a group at any time or during any period;
(c) the signing of returns, applications, notices, statements or forms by or on behalf of employers and deeming any return, application, notice, statement or form signed on behalf of an employer to have been signed by the employer;
(d) the authentication of any certificate, notice or other document issued for the purpose of this Act or any regulation.
(3) A regulation may create an offence punishable by a penalty not exceeding 20 penalty units.
102. Nature of proceedings for offences
Proceedings for an offence under this Act or the regulations may be dealt with summarily before a court of petty sessions.
103. Administration of Act
Until provision is made in relation to this Act by order under section 4 of the Administrative Arrangements Act 1990
(a) the administration of this Act is assigned to the Treasurer; and
(b) the department responsible to the Treasurer in relation to the administration of this Act is the Department of Treasury and Finance.
104. Savings, transitional and other provisions
Schedule 3 has effect.
105. Consequential Amendments
The legislation specified in Schedule 4 is amended as specified in that Schedule.
106. Legislation repealed
The legislation specified in Schedule 5 is repealed.
107. Legislation rescinded
The legislation specified in Schedule 6 is rescinded.
SCHEDULE 1 - Calculation of Payroll Tax Liability for Financial Year Commencing 1 July 2008 and Subsequent Financial Years
Sections 8 and 82
PART 1 - Interpretation
In this Schedule
financial year means the financial year commencing on 1 July 2008 or on 1 July in any subsequent financial year;
FY is the number of days in the financial year;
R is 6.1%;
relevant financial year means the financial year to which the calculation of the relevant payroll tax relates;
TA or "threshold amount" is $1 010 000.
PART 2 - Employers who are not members of a group
2. Application of Part
This Part applies only to an employer who is not a member of a group.
C is the number of days in the relevant financial year in respect of which the employer paid or was liable to pay taxable wages or interstate wages (otherwise than as a member of a group);
IW represents the total interstate wages paid or payable by the employer concerned (otherwise than as a member of a group) during the relevant financial year;
TW represents the total taxable wages paid or payable by the employer concerned (otherwise than as a member of a group) during the relevant financial year.
4. Payroll of employer not more than threshold
An employer is not liable to pay payroll tax for a financial year if the total taxable wages and interstate wages paid or payable by the employer (otherwise than as a member of a group) during that year is not more than the "employer's threshold amount", being the amount calculated in accordance with the following formula:
5. Payroll of employer over threshold
If the total taxable wages and interstate wages paid or payable by an employer (otherwise than as a member of a group) during a financial year is more than the employer's threshold amount, the employer is liable to pay as payroll tax for that year the amount of dollars calculated in accordance with the following formula:
PART 3 - Groups with a designated group employer
This Part applies only to an employer who is a member of a group for which there is a designated group employer.
C is the number of days in the relevant financial year in respect of which at least one member of the group paid or was liable to pay (as a member of the group) taxable wages or interstate wages;
GIW represents the total interstate wages paid or payable by the group concerned during the relevant financial year;
GTW represents the total taxable wages paid or payable by the group concerned during the relevant financial year;
TW represents the total taxable wages paid or payable by the employer concerned (as a member of the group) during the relevant financial year.
8. Payroll of group not more than threshold
None of the members of a group is liable to pay payroll tax for the financial year if the total taxable wages and interstate wages paid or payable by the group during that year is not more than the "group threshold amount", being the amount calculated in accordance with the following formula:
9. Payroll of group over threshold
(1) If the total taxable wages and interstate wages paid or payable by a group during the financial year is more than the group threshold amount, payroll tax is payable as provided by subclauses (2) and (3) .
(2) The designated group employer for the group is liable to pay as payroll tax for the financial year the amount of dollars calculated in accordance with the following formula:
(3) Each member of the group (other than that designated group employer) is liable to pay as payroll tax for the financial year the amount of dollars calculated in accordance with the following formula:
PART 4 - Groups with no designated group employer
10. Application of Part
This Part applies only to an employer who is a member of a group for which there is no designated group employer.
12. Calculation of payroll tax
Each member of the group is liable to pay as payroll tax for the financial year the amount of dollars calculated in accordance with the following formula:
PART 5 - Motor vehicle allowances
13. Continuous recording method
If an employer selects the continuous recording method for the purposes of determining the number of business kilometres travelled during the financial year, the following details are required to be recorded by the employer:
(a) the odometer readings at the beginning and end of each business journey undertaken by the person during a financial year by means of a motor vehicle provided or maintained by the person;
(b) the specific purpose for which each such business journey was taken;
(c) the distance travelled by the person during the financial year in the course of all such business journeys (which is taken to be the "number of business kilometres travelled during the financial year"), calculated on the basis of the odometer readings referred to in paragraph (a) .
14. Averaging method
(1) If an employer selects the averaging method for the purposes of determining the number of business kilometres travelled during the financial year, the following details are required to be recorded by the employer:
(a) the odometer readings at the beginning and end of each business journey undertaken by the person during the relevant 12-week period by means of a motor vehicle provided or maintained by the person;
Note: Clause 15 defines the relevant 12-week period.
(c) the distance travelled by the person during the relevant 12-week period in the course of all such business journeys, calculated on the basis of the odometer readings referred to in paragraph (a) ;
(d) the odometer readings at the beginning and end of the relevant 12-week period for each motor vehicle provided or maintained by the person for the purpose of undertaking business journeys;
(e) the distance travelled by each such vehicle during the relevant 12-week period, calculated on the basis of the odometer readings referred to in paragraph (d) ;
(f) the distance travelled by the person in the course of business journeys undertaken by means of each such vehicle during the relevant 12-week period, calculated as a percentage of the distance travelled by that vehicle during that period (the "relevant percentage");
(g) the odometer readings at the beginning and end of the financial year for each vehicle provided or maintained by the person for the purpose of undertaking business journeys;
(h) the distance travelled by each such vehicle during the financial year, calculated on the basis of the odometer readings referred to in paragraph (g) ;
(i) the distance travelled by the person in the course of business journeys undertaken by means of each such vehicle during the financial year (which is taken to be the "number of business kilometres travelled during the financial year"), calculated on the basis that the percentage of that distance that was travelled by the person in the course of business journeys undertaken by means of each such vehicle during the financial year is the same as the relevant percentage.
(2) For the next succeeding 4 financial years after the first financial year in which odometer details are recorded in accordance with subclause (1) , an employer is not required to calculate the relevant percentage, or record the details referred to in subclause (1)(a) (f) , for the person but is required to record the other details referred to in that subclause.
(3) Accordingly, for the next succeeding 4 financial years after the first financial year in which odometer details are recorded in accordance with subclause (1) , the number of business kilometres travelled during the financial year is to be calculated (as referred to in subclause (1)(i) ) on the basis of the relevant percentage calculated for the first financial year.
(4) Despite subclauses (2) and (3) , an employer is required to calculate the relevant percentage for a financial year, and record the details referred to in subclause (1)(a) (f) , if
(a) the Commissioner serves a notice on the employer before the commencement of a financial year during that period directing the employer to keep the details referred to in subclause (1)(a) (f) for that financial year; or
(b) the employer wishes to use the recording method referred to in this clause for one or more additional motor vehicles used by the person in any financial year or for any other reason.
(5) In a situation referred to in subclause (4) , the new record for the financial year replaces the relevant percentage details previously recorded and subclauses (2) and (3) apply in relation to the new record for the financial year as if it were the first financial year in which odometer details were recorded.
(6) An employer who has adopted and employed the method of recording referred to in subclauses (2) and (3) for a person for 4 successive financial years must, in the next succeeding financial year, make a fresh recording of all the details specified in subclause (1) if the employer intends to continue to use the same method of recording for the person. Subclauses (2) and (3) then apply in relation to the new record for the financial year as if it were the first financial year in which odometer details were recorded.
(7) If the odometer of a motor vehicle is replaced or recalibrated during any period for which its readings are relevant for the purposes of this clause, the odometer readings immediately before and after the replacement or recalibration are to be recorded.
15. Meaning of relevant 12-week period
(1) In clause 14 , "relevant 12-week period" means a continuous period of at least 12 weeks, selected by the employer, throughout which a motor vehicle is provided or maintained by a person. If the motor vehicle is provided or maintained for less than 12 weeks, the period must be the entire period for which the motor vehicle is provided or maintained.
(2) The period may overlap the start or end of the financial year, so long as it includes part of the year.
(3) If the averaging method is used for 2 or more motor vehicles for the same financial year, the odometer readings for those motor vehicles must cover periods that are concurrent.
16. Replacing one motor vehicle with another motor vehicle
(1) For the purposes of using the averaging method, an employer may nominate one motor vehicle as having replaced another motor vehicle with effect from a day specified in the nomination.
(2) After the nomination takes effect, the replacement motor vehicle is treated as the original motor vehicle, and the original motor vehicle is treated as a different motor vehicle. An employer need not repeat for the replacement vehicle the steps already taken for the original motor vehicle.
(3) An employer must record the nomination in writing in the financial year in which the nomination takes effect.
(4) However, the Commissioner may allow an employer to record the nomination at a later time.
17. Changing method or recording
(1) An employer may change from using the averaging method to using the continuous recording method with effect from the beginning of a financial year if the employer complies with clause 13 in respect of the financial year.
(2) An employer may change from using the continuous recording method to using the averaging method with effect from the beginning of a financial year if the employer complies with clause 14 in respect of the financial year.
18. Definition
business journey means
(a) a journey undertaken in a motor vehicle by a person otherwise than in the application of the vehicle to a private use, being an application that, if the person is paid a motor vehicle allowance for that use, results in the provision of a fringe benefit (within the meaning of the FBTA Act) by the employer; or
(b) a journey undertaken in a motor vehicle by a person in the course of producing assessable income of the person (within the meaning of the Income Tax Assessment Act 1936 of the Commonwealth).
SCHEDULE 2 - Tasmania-Specific Provisions
Sections 8 and 100
1. Introduction to Schedule
This Schedule sets out provisions that apply only in this jurisdiction.
PART 2 - Calculation of payroll tax
2. Calculation by reference to return period
The amount of payroll tax that an employer is required to pay in respect of taxable wages paid or payable by the employer in a financial year or a part of a financial year is a proportion (equivalent to the ratio of the number of days to which the return relates to the number of days in the financial year) of the payroll tax that would be payable by the employer for the whole of that year.
3. Amount payable for whole of financial year
For the purposes of this Part, the payroll tax that would be payable by an employer for the whole of a financial year is to be ascertained on the basis of the following assumptions:
(a) the assumption that the employer pays or is liable to pay taxable wages for the whole of the financial year;
(b) the assumption that the total amount of taxable wages paid or payable by the employer during the financial year is a multiple (equivalent to the ratio of the number of days in the financial year to the number of days to which the return relates) of the taxable wages paid or payable by the employer during the period to which the return relates.
4. Schools and colleges
Wages are exempt wages if they are paid or payable by a school or college (other than a technical school or a technical college) that
(a) provides education at or below, but not above, the secondary level of education; and
(b) is carried on by a body corporate, society or association otherwise than for the purpose of profit or gain to the individual members of the body corporate, society or association and is not carried on by or on behalf of the State of Tasmania.
5. Exemption for non-profit group apprenticeship and traineeship schemes
Wages are exempt wages if they are paid or payable to an employee who is employed
(a) by a non-profit organisation that is a training organisation registered under section 31 of the Vocational Education and Training Act 1994 ; and
(b) for the purposes of administering or participating in a group apprenticeship or group training scheme accredited under section 32U of the Vocational Education and Training Act 1994 .
6. What is a health care service provider?
For the purposes of Division 3 of Part 4 of this Act, a "health care service provider" is
(a) a public hospital; or
(b) a hospital that is carried on by a society or association otherwise than for the purposes of profit or gain to the individual members of the society or association.
PART 4 - Government bodies special provisions
Agency means a Government department or organisation specified for the time being in Column 1 of Schedule 1 to the Financial Management and Audit Act 1990 ;
Government Business Enterprise means a statutory authority specified in Schedule 1 to the Government Business Enterprises Act 1995 ;
State authority means a body or authority, whether incorporated or not, that is established or constituted under a written law or under the royal prerogative, being a body or authority which, or of which the governing authority, wholly or partly comprises a person or persons appointed by the Governor, a Minister or another State authority, but does not include an Agency;
State-owned company means a company incorporated under the Corporations Act 2001 of the Commonwealth that is controlled by
(a) the Crown; or
(b) a State authority; or
(c) another company which is itself controlled by the Crown or a State authority.
8. Application of this Act to Government Business Enterprises and State-owned Companies
For the purposes of this Act, each Government Business Enterprise and State-owned Company is taken to be a separate employer.
9. Grouping of government departments and organisations
The Government departments and organisations specified for the time being in Column 1 of Schedule 1 to the Financial Management and Audit Act 1990 together constitute a group constituted under Part 5 (Grouping of Employers) of this Act.
10. Grouping of Government Business Enterprises and State-owned Companies
For the purposes of Part 5 (Grouping of Employers) of this Act, a Government Business Enterprise or a State-owned Company is not a member of the same group as another Government Business Enterprise or State-owned Company because of section 72 .
PART 5 - Recovery of payroll tax from principal contractors
11. Liability of principal contractor for payroll tax payable in respect of employees of subcontractor
(1) This Part applies if
(a) a person (referred to in this Part as the "principal contractor") has entered into a contract for the carrying out of work by another person (referred to in this Part as the "subcontractor"); and
(b) employees of that subcontractor (referred to in this Part as the "relevant employees") are engaged in carrying out the work; and
(c) the work is carried out in connection with a business undertaking of the principal contractor.
(2) If, at the end of the period of 60 days after the end of a financial year, any payroll tax payable by the subcontractor in respect of wages paid or payable to the relevant employees during the financial year for work done in connection with the contract has not been paid, the principal contractor is jointly and severally liable with the subcontractor for the payment of the payroll tax.
(3) Section 56 of the Taxation Administration Act 1997 (subsection (3) excepted) applies to an amount payable under this clause.
Note: Section 55 of the Taxation Administration Act 1997 provides that the amount of tax payable may be recovered by the Commissioner as a debt due to the Crown. Section 56 of the Taxation Administration Act 1997 provides that, if parties are jointly and severally liable for the payment of an amount under a taxation law, the Commissioner may recover the amount payable from any of the parties. It also provides for the recovery of interest, penalty tax and costs from the parties who are jointly and severally liable for the payment of the tax.
12. Written statement relieves principal contractor of liability
(1) The principal contractor is not liable under this Part for the payment of any payroll tax payable in respect of wages paid or payable to the relevant employees during a period if the principal contractor has been given a written statement by the subcontractor in respect of that period.
(2) The written statement is a statement comprising the following statements:
(a) a statement by the subcontractor that the subcontractor is registered as an employer under this Act or is not required to be registered under this Act (whichever is applicable);
(b) a statement by the subcontractor that all payroll tax payable by the subcontractor in respect of wages paid or payable to the relevant employees during any period of the contract for work done in connection with the contract has been paid;
(c) a statement by the subcontractor as to whether the subcontractor is also a principal contractor in connection with that work;
(d) if the subcontractor is also a principal contractor in connection with that work, a statement by the subcontractor as to whether the subcontractor has been given a written statement under this clause in the capacity of principal contractor in connection with that work.
(3) The written statement is to be in a form approved by the Commissioner.
(4) The subcontractor must keep a record of a written statement given to a principal contractor under this clause.
Note: Section 63 of the Taxation Administration Act 1997 requires the record to be kept for not less than 5 years after it was made.
(5) The principal contractor may withhold any payment due to the subcontractor under the contract until the subcontractor gives a written statement under this clause for any period up to the date of the statement. Any penalty for late payment under the contract does not apply to any payment withheld under this subclause.
(6) The written statement is not effective to relieve the principal contractor of liability under this Part if the principal contractor had, when given the statement, reason to believe it was false.
(7) A subcontractor who gives the principal contractor a written statement knowing it to be false is guilty of an offence.
Penalty: Fine not exceeding 100 penalty units.
13. Right of recovery
The principal contractor is entitled to recover from the subcontractor as a debt in a court of competent jurisdiction any payment made by the principal contractor as a consequence of a liability arising under this Part.
(1) This Part does not apply in relation to a contract if the subcontractor is in receivership or in the course of being wound up or, in the case of an individual, is bankrupt and if payments made under the contract are made to the receiver, liquidator or trustee in bankruptcy.
(2) To avoid doubt, this Part extends to a principal contractor who is the owner or occupier of a building for the carrying out of work in connection with the building so long as the building is owned or occupied by the principal contractor in connection with a business undertaking of the principal contractor.
PART 6 - Miscellaneous
15. Exemption from lodging returns
(1) If the Commissioner is of the opinion that tax will not be payable by an employer, or, if paid, would be refunded, the Commissioner may issue a certificate to that employer exempting the employer from lodging monthly returns in accordance with section 87 and any employer to whom such a certificate is issued may refrain from lodging monthly returns but must, unless the contrary is expressed in the certificate, lodge a return relating to each financial year within 21 days after the close of that financial year.
(2) A certificate issued under this clause may be either unconditional or subject to such conditions as are prescribed by the regulations or as the Commissioner thinks fit.
(3) The Commissioner may, at any time, by notice in writing, revoke any certificate issued under this clause.
(4) The issue of a certificate under this clause does not exempt an employer from the payment of any payroll tax, despite the fact that it may have the effect of postponing the time for payment of any payroll tax.
16. Further returns
The Commissioner may, by notice in writing, call upon any employer or person to lodge, within the time specified in the notice, a return or further or fuller return as the Commissioner requires, whether on the person's own behalf or as an agent or trustee.
17. Notification of change in circumstances
An employer must give the Commissioner written notice within 14 days
(a) after a change in the employer's
(i) name; or
(ii) trading name; or
(iii) location of head office; or
(iv) postal address; or
(v) membership, if the employer is a partnership; or
(b) after the employer ceases to
(i) pay wages as referred to in section 86(1)(a) ; or
(ii) be a member of a group referred to in section 86(1)(b) ; or
(c) after the employer becomes a member of a group referred to in section 86(1)(b) .
SCHEDULE 3 - Savings, transitional and other provisions
1. Regulations
(1) The regulations may contain provisions of a savings or transitional nature consequent on the enactment of the following Acts:
this Act
(2) Any such provision may, if the regulations so provide, take effect from the date of Royal Assent to the Act concerned or a later date.
(3) To the extent to which any such provision takes effect from a date that is earlier than the date of its publication in the Gazette, the provision does not operate so as
(a) to affect, in a manner prejudicial to any person (other than the State or an authority of the State), the rights of that person existing before the date of its publication; or
(b) to impose liabilities on any person (other than the State or an authority of the State) in respect of anything done or omitted to be done before the date of its publication.
PART 2 - Provisions consequent on enactment of this Act
old Act means the Pay-roll Tax Act 1971 as in force immediately before its repeal.
3. Application of this Act and old Act
(1) This Act applies to payroll tax on taxable wages that are paid or payable on or after 1 July 2008.
(2) Despite its repeal, the old Act continues to apply to payroll tax on taxable wages (within the meaning of the old Act) paid or payable before 1 July 2008.
(3) The Taxation Administration Act 1997 , as in force immediately before 1 July 2008, continues to apply on and after that day in respect of any matter to which the old Act continues to apply on and after that day.
4. Superannuation contributions relating to pre-1 July 1997 service
(1) Despite anything in section 11 or 17 , "wages" do not include a superannuation contribution paid or payable in respect of services performed by an employee before 1 July 1997.
(2) A superannuation contribution that is alleged by an employer to be paid in respect of services performed by an employee before 1 July 1997 must be evidenced to the satisfaction of the Commissioner in the employer's records for payroll tax purposes.
(3) In particular, the employer's records must show the manner of calculation of the contribution and any actuarial basis for it.
(4) For the purposes of subclause (3) and of any assessment of payroll tax to which that subclause is material, the certificate of a fellow or accredited member of the Institute of Actuaries of Australia to the effect that the actuarial basis on which an amount is calculated is justified is evidence and, in the absence of evidence to the contrary, proof of that fact.
(5) If records are not kept as required by this clause, the Commissioner is entitled to assume that a payment of money by an employer as a superannuation contribution on or after 1 July 1997 is an amount payable in respect of services performed by an employee on or after that day.
5. Superannuation payments not readily related to particular employees
For the purposes of an assessment of payroll tax, the Commissioner may determine
(a) whether, and the extent to which, any monetary or non-monetary contribution paid or payable by an employer to a superannuation, provident or retirement fund or scheme that is not identified by the employer as paid or payable in respect of a particular employee (and whether or not purporting to be so paid or payable on any actuarial basis) is to be regarded as a superannuation contribution paid or payable in respect of a particular employee; and
(b) the portion of any monetary or non-monetary contribution paid by an employer as a superannuation contribution to a wholly or partly unfunded fund or scheme, being money paid in respect of an employee (or that is to be regarded under paragraph (a) to have been so paid) who performed services to the employer on or after, as well as before, 1 July 1997, that is to be regarded as having been paid in respect of services performed before that date.
6. Employment agents
A written statement given under section 2AB(3) of the old Act that was in force immediately before 1 July 2008 remains in force on and after that day for the purposes of this Act as if it were a declaration given under section 40(2) of this Act.
7. Registration of employers
An employer who was registered under section 12 of the old Act immediately before 1 July 2008 is taken, on and after that day, to be registered under section 86 of this Act.
8. Agreements to reduce or avoid payroll tax
Sections 42 and 47 extend to an agreement, transaction or arrangement entered into before the commencement of those sections.
9. Recovery of payroll tax from principal contractors
Part 5 of Schedule 2 extends to contracts entered into before the commencement of that Part.
10. General saving
Any act, matter or thing that had effect under or for the purposes of a provision of the old Act, or a provision of another Act repealed by this Act, immediately before the repeal of the provision continues to have effect under or for the purposes of the corresponding provision of this Act, subject to any other provision of this Part or the regulations under this Part.
SCHEDULE 4 - Consequential Amendments
Gaming Control Act 1993
1. Section 147(2) is amended by omitting " Part IIIA of the Pay-roll Tax Act 1971 " and substituting " Part 5 of the Payroll Tax Act 2008 ".
Judicial Review Act 2000
1. Clause 3 of Schedule 1 is amended by omitting paragraph (g) and substituting the following paragraph:
(g) Payroll Tax Act 2008 ;
Taxation Administration Act 1997
1. Section 4 is amended by omitting paragraph (c) and substituting the following paragraphs:
(c) Pay-roll Tax Act 1971 ;
(d) Payroll Tax Act 2008 .
SCHEDULE 5 - Legislation repealed
Pay-roll Tax Act 1971 (No. 43 of 1971)
SCHEDULE 6 - Legislation rescinded
Pay-roll Tax Regulations 1999 (No. 114 of 1999)
Pay-roll Tax Amendment Regulations 2005 (No. 68 of 2005)
[Second reading presentation speech made in:
House of Assembly on 29 MAY 2008
Legislative Council on 10 JUNE 2008]
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Leidos Named to 2018 Forbes Best Employers for Diversity List
RESTON, Va., Feb. 5, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- Leidos (NYSE: LDOS), a FORTUNE 500® information technology, science, and engineering leader, today announced it was named one of Forbes Best Employers for Diversity. The inaugural list ranks the top 250 employers across all industries in the United States based on surveying employees, examining employer diversity policies, and analyzing diversity in executive suites and board compositions. Leidos ranked #159 on the list for its diversity inclusion efforts.
Forbes partnered with data expert firm Statista to survey 30,000 employees working for large U.S. companies about diversity in the workplace. A company's score was determined by direct employee recommendations, public perception score, diversity and inclusion at the executive-level, and an index of objective and publicly available diversity key performance indicators. Recommendations from women, ethnic minorities, and older workers were given more influence, as well as any variations in statements between minorities and non-minorities.
Leidos – also recently added to Bloomberg's sector-neutral Gender Equality Index – cultivates a culture of inclusion and diversity through various initiatives, including driving employee engagement through seven Employee Resource Groups (ERGs). These groups work diligently to support an inclusive workplace through professional networks, recruitment, education, and community support and outreach.
"Diversity is a driving force within our culture of innovation at Leidos," said Ann Addison, Leidos Chief Human Resources Officer. "We believe that focus on diversity and inclusion improves team performance, influences innovative business strategies, and drives positive results by advancing our workforce, and advancing our reputation in the marketplace."
About Leidos
Leidos is a Fortune 500® science and technology solutions and services leader working to solve the world's toughest challenges in the defense, intelligence, homeland security, civil, and health markets. The company's 32,000 employees support vital missions for government and commercial customers. Headquartered in Reston, Virginia, Leidos reported annual revenues of approximately $7.04 billion for the fiscal year ended December 30, 2016. For more information, visit www.Leidos.com.
Statements in this announcement, other than historical data and information, constitute forward-looking statements that involve risks and uncertainties. A number of factors could cause our actual results, performance, achievements, or industry results to be very different from the results, performance, or achievements expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements. Some of these factors include, but are not limited to, the risk factors set forth in the company's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the period ended December 30, 2016, and other such filings that Leidos makes with the SEC from time to time. Due to such uncertainties and risks, readers are cautioned not to place undue reliance on such forward-looking statements, which speak only as of the date hereof.
Melissa Koskovich, Senior Vice President, Communications, +1 (571) 526-6850, [email protected]
Suzzanna Martinez, Director, Strategic Communications, +1 (303) 299-5343, [email protected]
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Your support helps us keep Menlo Park moving forward. Our city is the best in the Bay Area, and it continues to grow and evolve for a new century. Like so many other communities across the nation, our public library is a cornerstone of our community that will play a key role in our city's future health and success.
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We proudly support Menlo Park's public libraries. We speak out in the community about the value of the public library, and we advocate for positive library improvements including the current efforts to build new 21st century libraries in Belle Haven and the civic center campus.
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The company runs co-educational schools at Raigarh, Nalwa & Tamnar in Chhattisgarh, Angul in Odisha and Patratu in Jharkhand, where quality education is being imparted to over 10,000 students.
Education. We Nurture.
The company recognises education as one of the building blocks of any nation and consider it as a priority area for its CSR activities. The aim is to nurture young minds and educate them, so that they contribute to the nation’s development. Realising the importance and relevance of education, a number of initiatives have been undertaken in this respect like establishing a global university, specialised institutes and schools. All these initiatives have been undertaken to benefit the communities the company is operating in, by helping to increase the literacy levels of these areas.
O.P. Jindal Global University:
A non-profit global university established under the Haryana Private Universities (Second Amendment) Act, 2009 – equips the students with the knowledge, skills, scholarship and vision required to meet the challenges and demands of globalisation with help of a trained faculty. The university has established five schools: Jindal Global Law School, Jindal Global Business School, Jindal School of International Affairs, Jindal School of Government and Public Policy and Jindal School of Liberal Arts & Humanities.
O.P. Jindal Schools:
The company is running co-educational schools at Raigarh, Nalwa and Tamnar in Chhattisgarh, Angul in Odisha and Patratu in Jharkhand, where quality education is being imparted to over 10,000 students.
O.P. Jindal Institute of Power Technology:
The institute offers various undergraduate and postgraduate courses, which are based on renovation, research and modernisation of power plants by applying the correct methodologies and techniques. In accordance with the educational policy of the organisation, students are also provided with practical training on handling of power technology equipment. The institute promotes its long-term vision of tapping the best available talent from the nation and trains them accordingly in order to meet the heavy demand of the power industry.
O.P. Jindal Institute of Technology:
The Institute offers 4-year undergraduate engineering programmes in mechanical, electrical, electronics, civil and metallurgy courses. The curriculum for the courses is diverse and enriching, which helps students to deliver in new and creative ways. The institute is committed to develop a pool of high quality, professionally groomed technical and engineering manpower that will be respected for professional and social values.
O.P. Jindal Community Colleges:
These colleges have been established as an entirely philanthropic, pioneering institution is the realisation of the vision of Shri O.P. Jindal to educate and train a "skilled workforce who makes the products and services of industry as per international standards”.
These institutes offer vocational training in trades like electrical, welding, plumbing, fitting, computer operation, cutting & tailoring, steno Hindi and automotive. These institutes are located at Angul & Barbil (Odisha), Patratu and Godda (Jharkhand) and Punjipathra (Chhattisgarh). Besides the above educational initiatives, the company has also adopted four Industrial Training Institutes (ITIs) in Sarangarh, Kharsia, Gharghoda in Chhattisgarh and Barbil in Odisha. Besides this, adult literacy programs have also been undertaken where close to 300 community teachers are teaching.
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Motion for Reconsideration in Philadelphia
Many people are under the impression that once a verdict is given, that is the end of the road for a defendant, especially if it is an unfavorable case outcome. However, this isn't true. A defendant still has several options after a judge or jury makes a determination. One of these options is a motion for reconsideration. For the purposes of this article, we will address (1) what exactly is a motion for reconsideration, and (2) the general grounds for a motion for reconsideration in Pennsylvania.
What is a motion for reconsideration?
With the help of a knowledgeable attorney, a defendant may file a motion for reconsideration if he or she disagrees with a decision a judge has made in a case. The filing of this motion essentially asks the judge in your case to reconsider the decision in light of other circumstances, facts, and laws in relation to this determination that were not considered in the original hearing. In Pennsylvania, defendants are given a timeframe of 10 days to file a motion for reconsideration in the clerk's office of the same court where the case was originally heard. Once a motion is filed, it is sent to all parties involved in a case. If another party has an opposing response to the motion, opposition beliefs must be filed within 20 days after a motion is filed.
Motion for reconsideration grounds
Within a defendant's motion for reconsideration, he or she must include a number of details for it to be considered valid. It would need to contain a defendant's identity, what the defendant is asking for a judge to consider and what specific reasoning, or grounds, have justified your right to ask a judge to reconsider the decision. Typically, defendants establish at least one of the following grounds if applicable in their case:
The final decision was based on an incorrect interpretation or application of the law;
There has been an intervening change in the applied law; or
A manifest injustice (that is obvious or apparent) will occur if this motion for reconsideration is granted
An attorney will be able to help you determine which grounds will be applicable in your case and present these grounds in a way that will be effective. Having an attorney on your side will maximize the likelihood of this motion be granted, as these motions are commonly denied if not based on solid and substantiated grounds.
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If you have received a determination that you don't agree with, you should consult with an attorney to help you file a motion for reconsideration. Many people who may have grounds to potentially change a decision don't take advantage of their right to do so. Don't let an unfair or incorrect basis of a judge's decision continue to inconvenience your life. Contact knowledgeable attorney Joseph D. Lento today for help.
Filing Motions in Philadelphia County
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Zombie Apocalypse: The Walking Dead Season 3 Will Quench Our Thirst for the Undead...for Now
By Alex Marin
Let’s admit it: we love zombies. And this weekend we’ll be able to indulge in America’s No. 1 guilty pleasure with AMC’s The Walking Dead marathon, a prelude to the show’s anticipated third season premiering this August.
For those who haven’t been infected by Walking Dead fever yet, the post-apocalyptic drama television series – developed for television by Frank Darabont and based on the comic book series The Walking Dead by Robert Kirkman, Tony Moore, and Charlie Adlard – is starred by Andrew Lincoln (Love Actually, Heartbreaker) as sheriff's deputy Rick Grimes, who wakes up after being in a coma to find the world dominated by "walkers."
And The Walking Dead Season 3 would provide American zombie-hungry audiences -- who, apparently, haven't had enough with the real life episodes of cannibalism and zombie-like behavior caused by the now infamous bath salts drug -- with even more gruesome and disgusting episodes full of decaying and decomposing creatures (human or otherwise), and plenty of missing body parts and autonomous grabbing hands that will sure delight those of us who daydream with that anticipated zombie apocalypse. Someday.
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Erin Greenberg
Erin Greenberg has an M.A. in International Development and a B.S. in Journalism. She has traveled the globe, writing, reporting and investigating development, gender and freedom issues and her work has been published in newspapers, academic journals and blogs. She currently researches and writes for an international think tank that examines freedom around the world.
How Teaching Women Farming Could Help Feed 150,000,000 Hungry People
By Erin Greenberg
Far too many people in the world are hungry. Nearly 870 million people don’t know where their next meal is going to come from but one promising solution is to empower women with the tools they need to farm. A mounting body of evidence shows that…
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Intoxicated Man / Pink Elephants Double CD
Mick Harvey is set to release a double CD collection of his two Serge Gainsbourg albums, Intoxicated Man and Pink Elephants, on Mute on 7 April 2014.
Intoxicated Man (1995) and Pink Elephants (1997) are Mick Harvey’s interpretations of the songs of legendary singer, songwriter and poet Serge Gainsbourg and are the first major works translating Gainsbourg’s infuential work from French to English. The double CD collection will include two unreleased tracks, Dr Jeckyll and Run From Happiness.
Originally Harvey embarked on the project as a result of his own curiousity about the songs and particularly the lyrics. At the time of the original recordings Gainsbourg was little known outside classic works such as Je T’aime… Moi Non Plus (I Love You… Nor Do I), Lemon Incest, Harley Davidson, Initials B.B. and Bonnie & Clyde. On this collection these classic works are presented alongside some of Gainsbourg’s lesser known compositions.
The vocal parts originally sung by Gainsbourg’s muses Jane Birkin, Brigitte Bardot and daughter Charlotte Gainsbourg are here sung by long time collaborator Anita Lane. Guests on the albums include Bertrand Burgalat, Warren Ellis and David McClymont.
Mick Harvey explains, “Translating a great writer is like walking through a minefield and I set myself the difficult task of attempting to keep the places of rhyming, metre and meaning accurate to the originals. One or more of these elements is usually dispensed with in the translating of poetry and lyrics, but I did not want to iron out any of Gainbourg’s more aberrant angles or lose any of his especially perverse and peculair touches. Some word plays and turns of phrase were inevitably lost. For this I make no apology.”
2013 saw Mick Harvey and his band perform the songs of Serge Gainsbourg at the Yeah Yeah Yeahs curated ATP festival. After successful performances in Australia, a European tour is planned for spring 2014.
David Atkinson 1 March 2014 gainsbourg, intoxicated-man, pink-elephants
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Quantrill stellar in bullpen debut
With several off-days in late June, rookie isn't needed in rotation
By Jake Crouse @JakeCrouseMLB
PITTSBURGH -- Cal Quantrill had been a starter for the entirety of his professional career, spanning 75 starts, before he trotted out of the bullpen gate at PNC Park during Sunday's 11-10, 11-inning loss to the Pirates. The eighth overall pick in the 2016 MLB Draft was moved to the
PITTSBURGH -- Cal Quantrill had been a starter for the entirety of his professional career, spanning 75 starts, before he trotted out of the bullpen gate at PNC Park during Sunday's 11-10, 11-inning loss to the Pirates.
The eighth overall pick in the 2016 MLB Draft was moved to the bullpen for the short term, manager Andy Green said on Saturday, and the righty had tossed around in the bullpen as recently as the Brewers series that ended Wednesday. With a lot of tight games of late, Green hadn’t gone with Quantrill yet.
But Green decided it was time Sunday. Quantrill entered in the sixth inning with a 5-4 lead, and he fared well. He struck out three and worked around a first-and-third jam in the seventh to complete two scoreless innings.
Though Quantrill’s starting history shows a capability to be a long reliever if needed, Green said that’s “not necessarily” the role he’s looking to plug his rookie into, at least not early on.
With three off-days in the last 11 days of June, the Padres’ “seven-man rotation” plan a few weeks ago would produce rest times longer than what Green would like, he said. So Quantrill has become the odd man out, though not necessarily because of any lack in results.
“He could continue to go down to Triple-A and start every five or six days, or he could be here and be ready to help when the opportunity presents itself, and we’ll see how he responds to that,” Green said. “I think mentally, he’s the kind of guy who can handle it.”
Quantrill’s most recent relief appearance before Sunday came in 2014, when he was a freshman ace for the Stanford Cardinal. So it’s not uncharted territory for the Canadian product, but it’s certainly a different feel. To combat that, he’s translating some of a starter’s mentality into a next-man-up mindset.
“Just because this is a slightly different routine doesn’t mean that things are going to be so terribly different,” Quantrill said. “I still do as much as I can similar to what a starter would do before the game. Then the only difference is just a little less time to warm up, which honestly, a lot of guys think is a good thing -- less time to mess stuff up or over-warm up or waste pitches. Just get to the point, do what you need to do, so that the manager can call down as soon as he can.”
Green said Quantrill’s role in the bullpen will be defined by “how he responds to [his first inning], how that inning goes and then where we go from there.” But none of this is necessarily building to a long-term change.
“I think we definitely see him as a starter long run, but we see him as a versatile guy,” Green said. “I think [if] you look across the league, the teams that are able to add good arms to their bullpens tend to be better teams. Sometimes that’s starters going to the ‘pen, sometimes that’s guys getting called up and going straight to the ‘pen. For us right now, in this short-term period, we’ve told him we’re going to take him back to a starting role at some point in time, but right now, this makes some sense for us.”
“Long term, I still view myself as a starter,” Quantrill said, “but right now, it seems like the best way I can help the team is out of the ‘pen, and that’s what I’ll do.”
The Padres have seen solid pitching from their starters over the past six games, a span in which they’ve produced a 2.75 ERA (11 earned runs over 36 innings). So for the time being, Quantrill said he’s just happy to see his teammates perform like this to give San Diego a chance to win each day.
“I think ideally, most guys in this room want to pitch all the time,” Quantrill said. “The way I look at it is the reason I’m not pitching is because our team is playing well, and our starters are doing their jobs. It’s kind of a give and a take.
“As long as they’re doing their jobs, you’re not going to hear me complain.”
Jake Crouse is a reporter/editor for MLB.com based in Pittsburgh. Follow him on Twitter @JakeCrouseMLB.
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Allen latest Padres rookie to dazzle in Majors
By AJ Cassavell @AJCassavell
SAN DIEGO -- The kids are growing up so fast. When the Padres promoted Logan Allen on Tuesday afternoon, he became the sixth top-100 prospect to suit up in San Diego this season. Like the rest of them, Allen’s arrival inspired talk of the team’s bright future. • Box score
SAN DIEGO -- The kids are growing up so fast.
When the Padres promoted Logan Allen on Tuesday afternoon, he became the sixth top-100 prospect to suit up in San Diego this season. Like the rest of them, Allen’s arrival inspired talk of the team’s bright future.
• Box score
Then he pitched. And, yeah, that future sure seems bright.
Allen tossed seven scoreless frames, allowing only three hits, as the Padres rolled to a 4-1 victory over Milwaukee. Francisco Mejia hit a two-run homer to right-center. Fernando Tatis Jr. dazzled defensively. All three are rookies, expected to impact the big league club for years to come.
“Couldn’t draw it up any better than that,” said the 22-year-old left-hander.
Feeding of his adrenaline, Allen’s fastball played in the mid-90s during the first couple of innings. It dipped to the low-90s later in the start, but he spotted it perfectly. His changeup, meanwhile, was particularly effective. He threw it 16 times and recorded five swings and misses.
“We just couldn’t figure him out,” said Brewers center fielder Lorenzo Cain. “When we did figure him out, he was able to get the pitch he needed to get out of innings. He did a great job, had a cutter going, pretty good changeup, back-foot slider to righties. He mixed up his pitches really well.”
Mejia caught each of Allen’s last four starts at Triple-A El Paso before his promotion on Monday. The two didn’t miss a beat in the big leagues.
“I'd caught him in the Minor Leagues,” Mejia said. “But tonight was the night he had his pitches working the best. Everything showed up."
The Padres acquired Allen four years ago in the deal that sent Craig Kimbrel to Boston. Of the four prospects they landed in the deal, Allen was the last to make the big leagues. But he might end up being the best.
What’s next for Allen? That remains to be seen. The Padres have three off-days before returning home next Friday. They’ve shuttled pitchers back and forth between the Majors and Minors all year based on their off-days. But Allen’s brilliant debut might have earned him another start. Manager Andy Green seemed to indicate as much after the game.
Of course, that’s a question for another day. Allen spent Tuesday soaking in the atmosphere. At one point during pitchers’ batting practice he found himself disconcertingly calm.
“I looked at Eric Lauer, and I said, ‘Am I crazy? I’m not that nervous right now,'” Allen said. “He said, ‘Oh, you’ll get there.’”
Lauer was right.
“I start strapping the pants on, and it was like: 'Oh, this is real, this is happening,'” Allen said. “The nerves were there. But sometimes it’s a good thing, keeps you human.”
Allen’s emotions took over in a big way, as he finished warming up in the left-center-field bullpen. A fan handed bullpen coach Doug Bochtler a pin with a picture of Allen and his older brother Philip. Bochtler passed it along to Allen.
The entire Allen family was on hand Tuesday, save for his older brother, Philip, who, at a young age, had a seizure and slipped into a coma. He woke 15 months later, in a condition that’s best described as a severe case of cerebral palsy. Philip Allen can’t talk or walk, and he requires round-the-clock care.
“That really brought the emotions up,” Allen said of the pin. “... I’d love to see Philip, wish he was here.”
Philip watched the game with his nurses from across the country in Allen’s native North Carolina. And his younger brother turned in a performance for the ages. Allen joined Jimmy Jones and Ricky Bones as the only pitchers in Padres history with seven innings and three hits or fewer in his debut.
The highlight of Allen’s night came in the top of the seventh inning. He faced three hitters, striking out Yasmani Grandal with a fastball, Travis Shaw with a slider and Hernan Perez with a changeup.
When Allen whiffed Perez to end his night, he spun on the mound, let loose a roar and pumped his fist. John Cena, the professional wrestler and actor who has developed a close personal relationship with Allen over the past few years, offered a standing ovation from the terrace level. On Wednesday, Cena will pay up on a longstanding bet that dates back to Allen’s teenage years. Allen once bet Cena $1 that he’d make the big leagues.
As Allen strode toward the home dugout, the rest of Petco Park joined Cena in its thunderous applause. Two innings later, the Padres were back to .500.
Yet another bright-eyed rookie led the way.
AJ Cassavell covers the Padres for MLB.com. Follow him on Twitter @ajcassavell.
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What is Thyroid Disorders
This disorder occurs when the thyroid gland produces too much thyroid hormone, resulting in an overactive metabolic state. All of the body’s processes speed up with this disorder. Symptoms include nervousness, irritability, a constant feeling of being hot, increase perspiration, insomnia and fatigue and many others.
The most common type of this disorder is Grave’s disease. Many cases of hyperthyroidism is believed to result from an abnormal immune response. The exact cause is not understood, but the immune system can produce antibodies that invade and attack the thyroid, disrupting hormone production. Although no single immunological abnormality explains all of the clinical features of the disease, the common denominator is the presence of antibodies against receptors in the thyroid for thyroid-stimulating hormone (TSH). TSH receptor antibodies or thyroid stimulating immunoglobins are present in 80% of cases of Grave’s disease. About 25% to 30% of people with Grave’s disease will also suffer from Grave’s ophthalmopathy (a protrusion of one or both eyes), in which the eye muscles become inflamed, attacking autoantibodies.
There are many causes of hyperthyroidism but the main ones are stress, emotional shock, genetics, smoking, diet.
Hypothyroidism is caused by an underproduction of thyroid hormone. Symptoms include, chronic fatigue, inability to tolerate cold, low body temperature, a slow hear rate, easy weight gain, elevated cholesterol, dry/scaly skin and others.
The thyroid gland is body’s internal thermostat, regulating the temperature by secreting two hormones that control how quickly the body burns calories and uses energy. Thyroid problems can cause many recurring illnesses and fatigue. The thyroid can be affected by poor diet, fluoride in the water, excessive consumption of unsaturated fats, endurance exercise, pesticide residues on fruits and vegetables, alcohol and drugs.
A condition called Hashimoto’s disease is believed to be the most common cause of underactive thyroid. In this disorder, the body in effect becomes allergic to thyroid hormone. It then produces antibodies against its own thyroid tissue. Measuring levels of different hormones in the blood can determine if the thyroid gland is working properly. When thyroid hormone levels in the blood are low, the pituitary gland secretes TSH, if a blood test shows that thyroid hormone levels are low and TSH levels are elevated in the blood, it usually indicates defective thyroid hormone synthesis. This situation is termed primary hypothyroidism. If TSH levels are low and thyroid hormone levels are also low, this indicates that the pituitary gland is responsible for the low thyroid function and this situation is termed secondary hypothyroidism. In subclinical hypothyroidism, TSH is elevated while serum thyroid hormone levels are normal, so symptoms of hypothyroidism in the absence of laboratory findings are more accurately called hypothyroid syndrome.
The chief objective of the natural treatment of Grave’s disease and hyperthyroidism is to reduce symptoms while trying to re-establish normal thyroid status. Initially, it is recommended to use antithyroid drugs to reduce the immediate severity of symptoms. Recommended dietary and lifestyle measures may lower the required dose or duration of antithyroid drugs. Practical steps include reduction of risk factors. Stress control is important in normalization of the thyroid, and counselling can prevent a return to stress-generating life strategies.
Patients with autoimmune thyroid disease are more likely than the general population to suffer from celiac disease and/or gluten sensitivity. Therefore, these conditions must be ruled out. Assessment of gut health is particularly important because of the close relationship with immune health and antibodies production. Also, identification of food allergies and avoidance of problematic foods. It is also important to keep in mind that the diet may need to be higher in calories to compensate for the increase in metabolism. Malabsorption occurs, so a proper diet is important.
The medical treatment of hypothyroidism involves the use of synthetic thyroid hormone. At this time, it appears that thyroid hormone replacement is necessary in the majority of people with hypothyroidism. But also, it is important to nutritionally support the thyroid gland by ensuring adequate intake of key nutrients required in the body’s manufacture of thyroid hormone.
Natural treatment strategies for normalizing thyroid function vary depending on whether there is an autoimmune hypothyroid condition, clinical hypothyroidism, subclinical hypothyroidism. Thera are two basic facts underlying the diet-disease connection:
a diet rich in plant food is protective against hypothyroidism.
a low intake of plant foods is a causative factor and provides conditions under which causative factors are more active.
We also recommend the assessment of body’s nutritional status which may reveal vitamin/mineral deficiencies which in turn could be hindering thyroid hormone production and also ruling out gluten sensitivity, as gluten may lead to the formation of thyroid-related autoantibodies in sensitive individuals.
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Cross-platform play for PS4 still not happening because ''PlayStation is the best place to play''
By Sillicur at Tuesday, September 04, 2018 11:58:00 AM
Everyone and their cat have heard about the whole cross-platform debacle when it comes to the PS4 and although many may want cross-platform support between the Xbox One and the PS4, others do not. Everyone has their opinion about cross-platform play and specifically, why Sony should allow or not allow it.
At times cross-platform play was actually enabled accidentally and then removed again, which does indicate that it should be very easy to open the floodgates if Sony so chooses. Keep in mind that Sony has already opened up cross-play with PC in some games and Fortnite is even getting a system where if you play with a mouse and keyboard on your PS4, you will be matched with PC users (or others that use a mouse and keyboard).
But what is Sony’s stance on cross-platform play right now and is any progress being made or have they warmed up to the idea? As it turns out, it doesn’t seem like Sony has warmed up to the idea, so don’t hold your breath for cross-platform play anytime soon. Sony’s CEO, Kenichiro Yoshida, reportedly spoke at the IFA technology show in Berlin recently and mentioned why cross-platform play between the PS4 and other consoles aren’t open, stating that:
"On cross-platform, our way of thinking is always that PlayStation is the best place to play. Fortnite, I believe, partnered with PlayStation 4 is the best experience for users, that's our belief. But actually, we already opened some games as cross-platform with PC and some others, so we decide based on what is the best user experience. That is our way of thinking for cross-platform." - Source
We all know that the PS4 is far ahead of the competition this generation so this puts the ball in Sony’s court and they can really do what they want with regards to cross-play because let's face it, they don’t need it as much as others do. Mr Yoshida also simply stated that:
"I think competition with Nintendo and Xbox is a healthy situation."
Sure, some PS4 gamers might want cross-play and I, for one, wouldn’t mind, but for me, it also isn’t a deal breaker or anything I’ve ever hoped for. In the end, it is Sony’s decision and we will just have to wait and see if things start to change or remain the same throughout the remainder of this generation and the next.
What is your take on the cross-platform play debate and Sony's stance on the matter? Let us know in the comment section below
Source: Independent
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"On cross-platform, our way of thinking is always that PlayStation is the best place to play"
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Threat to mail deliveries after postman's steps fall
People living in an Edgware street face a future without post after the Royal Mail refused to deliver to the area.
Residents of North Parade and South Parade, off Mollison Way, were each sent a letter by the Royal Mail on June 30. It stated a postman slipped on the steps at the back of North Parade, leading to concern about the level of safety.
The letter, from Julia Ffoulkes at the Royal Mail, said: "We would like to hear from you within the next two weeks to let us know what you have done or will be doing t [sic] rectify this situation.
"If we have not herd [sic] from you by Monday, July 14 2008, we will cease to deliver mail to the premises and return all items to the sender."
Eric and Jan Graham, of North Parade, were told by a postman last Wednesday they would no longer be receiving letters at their flat.
Mr Graham, 61, said: "It seems to be at the postman's discretion whether he delivers the post or not. It is like they are making it up as they go along.
"I suffer from glaucoma and luckily a doctor's appointment letter came last week, but what if it hadn't?"
Councillor Nana Asante, who represents the Edgware ward, said: "Royal Mail have a duty to staff, but they have to find a way to make sure that every-body gets a delivery.
"They should not put the onus on residents."
Ms Ffoulkes, who completed a risk assessment of the area, told the Observer:
"We needed the letter to go out and it was completed in a bit of a rush, so we did not have time to proof read it. Our postman has fallen over several times and this time he hurt his back."
A Royal Mail spokesman said: "Royal Mail apologises to our customers in North and South Parade.
"There is a health and safety issue which needs to be addressed to ensure the safety of our delivery staff; however, the letter should not have gone out and we will be engaging with the residents to see how we can best resolve this matter."
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Acupuncture Reduces Back Pain Better than Drugs, Exercise
Monday, January 07, 2008 by: David Gutierrez, staff writer
Tags: acupuncture, health news, Natural News
https://www.naturalnews.com/022461_acupuncture_pain_back.html
(NewsTarget) Acupuncture provided relief and lasting benefit to nearly twice as many lower-back-pain patients as conventional pharmaceutical and exercise therapy, according to a study published in the Archives of Internal Medicine.
Researchers divided 1,162 adults with chronic, lower back pain into three groups. One of these groups was treated with the standard drug and exercise therapy commonly used in Western medicine. A second group was treated with traditional Chinese acupuncture, with 14 to 20 needles inserted at specific, traditionally prescribed locations ("medians") at a depth of up to 1.5 inches. A third group received sham acupuncture, with needles inserted less deeply at random spots around the pain area, with no needles inserted at the medians.
Among patients in the first group, 27 percent reported at least a one-third decrease in pain, along with improvement in their ability to function, with these benefits lasting over time. In contrast, 48 percent of the acupuncture patients reported such a benefit, along with 44 percent of the sham acupuncture patients. The similarity in effectiveness among both genuine and sham acupuncture led study author Dr. Michael Haake, of the University of Regensburg, Bad Abbach, Germany, to suggest that acupuncture may function by means of "a kind of superplacebo effect."
"The superiority of both forms of acupuncture suggests a common underlying mechanism that may act on pain generation, transmission of pain signals or processing of pain signals by the central nervous system and that is stronger than the action mechanism of conventional (drug and exercise) therapy," Haake writes.
Noting that anywhere from 70 to 85 percent of people will suffer from back pain at some point throughout the course of their lives, Haake praised the relative safety and effectiveness of acupuncture compared with other treatment alternatives.
"Acupuncture gives physicians a promising and effective treatment option for chronic low back pain, with few adverse effects or contraindications," he said.
"It's always fascinating to see conventional medicine's response to such studies on acupuncture," added consumer health advocate Mike Adams. "Conventional medicine doesn't understand acupuncture, and when they see something work that they don't understand, they consistently point to a placebo effect to explain what's happening."
"The simple truth, however, is that acupuncture works on an energetic level that remains outside the understanding of the limited thinking of modern western medicine. Chinese medicine has been developed over a period of nearly 5,000 years, which is 4,800 years longer than western medicine. When it comes to understanding the nature of the human body, mind and spirit, western scientists are intellectual infants," Adams added.
Acupuncture at FETCH.news
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The Greatest John Hughes Movie Quotes of All Time
By Zach Oat
Published Aug 7, 2009 at 11:23 AM | Updated at 2:54 PM CST on Jan 6, 2010
John Hughes' 1987 film "Planes, Trains and Automobiles," had Steve Martin and John Candy delivering hysterical lines.
The world lost a great filmmaker this week, as legendary screenwriter and director John Hughes passed away. Not only did the man write and direct many of the 1980s' greatest, funniest films -- Sixteen Candles, The Breakfast Club, Ferris Bueller's Day Off -- he wrote the screenplays for dozens more, including Pretty in Pink, Home Alone and the first three Vacation movies. We went through his body of work to pull out some of the funniest lines that we still quote to this day.
"I can't believe my grandmother actually felt me up." -- Samantha, Sixteen Candles
"Relax, would you? We have 70 dollars and a pair of girl's underpants. We're safe as kittens." -- The Geek, Sixteen Candles
"Could you describe the ruckus, sir?" -- Brian Johnson, The Breakfast Club
"Hey, homeboy, what do you say we close that door, we'll get the prom queen impregnated." -- John Bender, The Breakfast Club
"His name is Blane? Oh! That's a major appliance, that's not a name!" -- Duckie, Pretty in Pink
"Pardon my French, but Cameron is so tight that if you stuck a lump of coal up his ass, in two weeks you'd have a diamond." -- Ferris Bueller, Ferris Bueller's Day Off
"If whoever was in this house is still in the house, I'd like you to know that I've just called the police. I'd also like to add that I've got my father's gun and a scorching case of herpes." -- Jeannie Bueller, Ferris Bueller's Day Off
"I do have a test today, that wasn't bulls**t. It's on European socialism. I mean, really, what's the point? I'm not European. I don't plan on being European. So who gives a crap if they're socialists? They could be fascist anarchists, it still doesn't change the fact that I don't own a car." -- Ferris Bueller, Ferris Bueller's Day Off
"Funny enough, I was just talking to my friend about that. Our speedometer has melted, and as a result it's very hard to see with any degree of accuracy exactly how fast we were going." -- Del, Planes, Trains and Automobiles
"I don't want to hear any more about anyone blowing anything out of their ass." -- Connie Ripley, The Great Outdoors
"Nothing burps better than bacon" -- Dutch, Dutch
"What do you like to do for fun? Oh, you like to wiggle and grunt. Me, too." -- Dutch, Dutch
"We're gonna press on, and we're gonna have the hap, hap, happiest Christmas since Bing Crosby tap-danced with Danny fucking Kaye. And when Santa squeezes his fat white ass down that chimney tonight, he's gonna find the jolliest bunch of assholes this side of the nuthouse." -- Clark Griswold, Christmas Vacation
"Merry Christmas. Merry Christmas. Merry Christmas. Merry Christmas. Kiss my ass. Kiss his ass. Kiss your ass. Happy Hanukkah." -- Clark Griswold, Christmas Vacation
"This is what my girlfriend would look like without skin." -- Duncan, Some Kind of Wonderful
"I don't know why they call this stuff hamburger helper. It does just fine by itself, huh?" -- Cousin Eddie, Vacation
"I understand that you little guys start out with your woobies and you think they're great... and they are, they are terrific. But pretty soon, a woobie isn't enough. You're out on the street trying to score an electric blanket, or maybe a quilt. And the next thing you know, you're strung out on bedspreads, Ken. That's serious." -- Jack Butler, Mr. Mom
"Take this quarter, go downtown, and have a rat gnaw that thing off your face." -- Buck, Uncle Buck
Rattle off your favorite John Hughes-penned lines below.
For more from Television Without Pity:
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Stephen Colbert's Wax Figure Unveiled in D.C.
Published Nov 17, 2012 at 8:53 AM | Updated at 8:54 AM EST on Nov 17, 2012
Stephen Colbert Immortalized in DC
http://www.nbcconnecticut.com/entertainment/television/Stephen-Colberts-Wax-Figure-Unveiled-in-DC--179794961.html
Stephen Colbert visited DC on Friday to see his wax alter ego at Madame Tussauds museum. News4's Tom Sherwood caught up with the Comedy Channel political humorist who now sits among presidents in Washington. (Published Friday, Nov. 16, 2012)
Finally, an award fit for a political comedy king.
Washington D.C. native Stephen Colbert received a presidential honor in Washington on Friday, taking his place among the 44 United States presidents at Madame Tussaud's D.C. wax museum.
Colbert himself was at the museum to unveil the figure, which features his signature eyebrow arch.
More than 250 measurements and photographs were taken of "The Colbert Report" host at his studio in New York City to ensure a precise re-creation of his likeness.
Colbert even donated his own clothes, a full suit, shirt and tie combination, complete with socks, shoes, cuff links and a lapel pin to dress the figure. His iconic eyeglasses were re-created to the exact specification and magnification by wax artists.
In addition to the wax figure, a full replica of the "Colbert Report" set is in the works, where guests will be able to take photos sitting next to Colbert at his famous desk.
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Previous PDF Issues
We debut our online History section with an article on how plant catalogues in the nineteenth century influenced middle class landscape design.
Marketing and the American Garden in the Nineteenth Century
Figure 1: Courtesy of the Warshaw Collection of Business Americana: Seed Industry and Trade, Archives Center, National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution.
By Thomas J. Mickey
Colonial American gardens were functional, producing food for the table and medicines for the family. Later, encouraged by America's first landscape designer Andrew Jackson Downing, middle class suburban Americans became increasingly interested in ornamental gardening. The nineteenth century's prevailing style, developed in England over decades, became the romantic English garden with its sprawling lawn, dotted with trees, shrubs and flowerbeds.
The middle class garden contained elements of both the American colonial food garden and the English country estate, but evolved its own form with the inspiration of seedsmen and nursery owners, like James Vick of Rochester, New York. Downing found his inspiration in English horticulturalist and writer John Claudius Loudon. Vick, in turn, thought that Downing represented the best for America in landscape gardening.
Philadelphia nurseryman Thomas Meehan wrote in his magazine Gardener's Monthly in 1874 "At times, when reading in English horticultural magazines the immense amount of interesting matter freely contributed to the great cause, and which has been the great means of making English horticulture the great power it is today, we have wondered whether the time would ever come when American horticulture would ever be blessed by the same true love." The English model of gardening, written about in English garden magazines, but also expressed in England's initiative in public parks and horticultural societies, had long inspired the American seed company and nursery owners. The owners who were also often garden writers like Vick looked to England for garden inspiration.
Garden Catalogs
The young Englishman Vick made his way to America in 1833, eventually combining his journalism and horticultural skills to develop a garden business, the selling of seeds through mail order catalogs. Along with other seed companies, like Philadelphia's Robert Buist and New York's Peter Henderson, Vick promoted the romantic English garden in the catalog's essays and illustrations. That garden included the lawn, groups of shrubs, a vine climbing the wall of the house, flowerbeds on the lawn, and a kitchen garden behind the house. The Peter Henderson catalog cover of 1886 illustrated a landscape that reflected a gardenesque style, first proposed by Loudon in his books and magazine for the English middle class. [Figure 1]
Mass produced catalogs became vehicles to sell products, but also dreams and hopes. Though the company owners knew the Spanish, Italian and French garden styles, the American garden industry sold its customers the dream of the English garden. Late nineteenth century American gardeners experienced mass media for the first time through national magazines and catalogs shipped in the hundreds of thousands around the country. Since that time, the media have provided the gardener with products, but also hopes and dreams in its advertising. No longer was advertising simply information about a product. Advertising created a need for the product.
Advertising and the Garden
Advertising since 1850 enabled United States companies to control both product demand and price. Products for the garden were no exception. At that same time, nurseries and seed companies, especially in the Northeast, created a mass market for branded products like plants and garden accessories. From the vantage point of advertisers, the growing uniformity of taste was simply evidence of progress.[1]
Forms of advertising in the nineteenth century included the catalog, first and foremost, but also articles and ads in national garden magazines and newspapers. Trade cards and chromos also illustrated gardens for Americans. Popular garden magazines like Gardener's Monthly often discussed the important elements of garden and landscape, including the the lawn. Most of the illustrations reflected the prevailing romantic English garden.
As advertising and the mass media became increasingly essential for the economy, products became standardized. Branding became essential to sell anything. Customers no longer requested just oatmeal but Quaker Oats, no longer bar soap but Ivory. The look of the landscape in garden promotion too took on a standardized style, the English garden. Garden product promotion became one way of identifying a new middle class, especially in American suburbs where every home needed a lawn. National advertising, a creature of the modern corporation, played a key role in a more streamlined commercial culture that sought to stabilize market relations and product representations. [2]
The Standard for the Garden
The success of the plant and seed business coincided with progress in printing, advertising and transportation. As a result, seed and nursery catalogs arrived in more rural homes throughout the country, supporting an ever-growing readership. Standardization gave America a new garden style, a garden for the middle class, enthralled by the new mail order catalogs that offered them products along with advice for the home landscape. Illustrations and essays told them what the garden and landscape should look like. Advertising historian Jackson Lears wrote that mail-order catalogs helped America submerge local and regional idiosyncrasies in a standardized commercial style.[3] The garden industry, after all, was a business seeking to sell its products. The Childs Company of New York, among dozens of companies, sent out 750,000 catalogs in 1875, but by 1896, the number increased to 1,115,000. That same yearÂÂ Ladies Home Journal, the leading American magazine of its type, reached a circulation of more than one million.
The nineteenth century American seed and nursery industries promoted the English garden as the standard, and so it was no surprise that same garden appeared in suburbs across the country from California to Maine.
About the Author: Thomas Mickey, graduate of the Landscape Institute, class of 2006 with a certificate in Landscape Design, is Professor Emeritus of Communication Studies at Bridgewater State University. This article is based on his new book America's Romance with the English Garden (Athens: Ohio University Press, May 2013). His blog can be found at www.americangardening.net.
[1] Jackson
Lears, Fables of Abundance: A Cultural History of Advertising in America (New York: Basic Books, 1994), 205.
[2]_________, 88.
[3]_________, 205.
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Donald G. Sampson, the interim chief executive officer of Warm Springs Ventures, shared an update with Oregon Public Broadcasting regarding the plans for the Confederated Tribes of Warm Springs to proceed...
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Suquamish Tribe Opens Cannabis Retailer Agate Dreams in Washington
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Last week, the Squaxin Island Tribe of Washington opened the nation’s first cannabis dispensary on Native American tribal grounds, and the Confederated Tribes of Warm Spring could soon follow...
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Elevation, First Ever Native American Cannabis Dispensary, Opens 11/12/15
The Squaxin Island Tribe in Washington will make history on November 12th when it opens Elevation in Shelton. Another Native American tribe, the Suquamish Tribe, had announced plans to...
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The Suquamish Tribe and the State of Washington recently signed and entered into the first ever marijuana compact to allow a Native American Tribe to cultivate, process, and sell marijuana within a...
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Can James Daunt Save Barnes & Noble from Oblivion?
The CEO who managed to turn around U.K. bookseller Waterstones has been put in charge of fixing the U.S. chain.
Liz Wolf | Jun 20, 2019
After months of uncertainty regarding what will happen to the flailing Barnes & Noble bookstore chain, a sale is imminent.
U.K.-based hedge fund Elliott Advisors announced earlier this month that it will acquire the company in an all-cash transaction valued at $683 million, including debt. That breaks down to $6.50 per share.
The once-powerhouse U.S. bookseller will now become private after being publicly-traded since 1993. Elliott also owns Waterstones, Britain’s biggest bookstore chain, which it acquired in June 2018. This new deal brings together the largest booksellers in the U.S. and the United Kingdom. Barnes & Noble operates 627 U.S. locations and Waterstones has 293 bookshops in the UK, Ireland, The Netherlands and Belgium.
In an effort to breathe new life into Barnes & Noble, Elliott is bringing in James Daunt, CEO of Waterstones, to run the company. Daunt is expected to use the same turnaround tactics for Barnes & Noble that he used for the once-struggling Waterstones, including re-investing in stores and empowering local bookselling teams, Barnes & Noble revealed.
That means stores will be more tailored to their local markets—similar to a local bookstore—vs. operating as a massive, big-box chain.
Daunt revived Waterstones from a state of near bankruptcy to profitability. In a statement, Barnes & Noble executives said Waterstones has “successfully restored itself to sales growth and sustainable profitability” under Daunt’s leadership.
Daunt will take on the Barnes & Noble CEO role following the completion of the transaction, which is expected to close in the third quarter. While Daunt will head up both Barnes & Noble and Waterstones, the bookstores will operate independently.
Neither Barnes & Noble representatives nor Daunt could be reached for comment. However, Barnes & Noble founder and CEO Leonard Riggio, said in a statement, “We are pleased to have reached this agreement with Elliott, the owner of Waterstones, a bookseller I have admired over the years. In view of the success they have had in the bookselling marketplace, I believe they are uniquely suited to improve and grow our company for many years ahead.”
Riggio led Barnes & Noble for 54 years.
Barnes & Noble has been decimated by online competition for years, with Amazon as its most fierce competitor. The chain is suffering from declining foot traffic, store closings, falling sales and changing consumer demand. Barnes & Noble has closed some 150 stores over the past 10 years. Meanwhile, Amazon is expanding into the bricks-and-mortar world and opening its own bookstores.
Barnes & Noble attempted to attract more technologically savvy shoppers and expand into the digital marketplace with its Nook e-book reader. However, it couldn’t compete with Amazon’s Kindle and other tablets.
Last October, the beleaguered company said it was looking into a possible sale. It noted that there were “multiple parties" interested in making an offer to acquire the company, including Riggio.
Being a private company could allow Barnes & Noble to make improvements and investments with more speed and efficiency, because it would no longer have to manage publicly announced quarterly results and answer to Wall Street. Such changes could include closing unprofitable stores, rightsizing its portfolio and giving stores a fresh look.
The company has a new store prototype that’s about half the size of its traditional stores, with updated cafes and improved digital elements.
Industry reaction
Whether a turnaround is possible will be largely dependent on the financial structure and debt obligations that will be placed on the operating company, says Rachel Elias Wein, president of WeinPlus, a St. Petersburg, Fla.-based strategy and management consulting firm.
“When we look at the retailers that have suffered the most in recent years, it's been those companies that have been saddled with debt well beyond management's ability to make cuts in the operating company,” she notes, pointing to Payless Shoe Source, Gymboree, Shopko and Toys “R” Us as examples.
“Being private may be the best opportunity for them to turn around, with the ability to make long-term moves, including store closures, changes in distribution and possibly exiting underperforming markets altogether,” Elias Wein says. The public markets, she notes, can penalize long-term moves based on quarterly pressures.
While many blame Amazon alone for Barnes & Nobel’s downfall, Elias Wein disagrees.
“Is Amazon to blame for its demise? No. Or rather, no more than Walmart is to blame for small business closures and A&P is to blame for neighborhood grocers' closures. Retail is constantly evolving and the retailers that evolve with it will be successful. This could be an opportunity for Barnes & Noble to take a solid brand and make changes necessary to move forward.”
It has a ‘fighting chance’
A turnaround is possible; however, it will be a daunting task to overcome the age of e-readers, says Ben Terry, vice president of retail brokerage at the Coreland Cos., a real estate services company based in Tustin, Calif.
“I believe that Elliott Management has probably given Barnes & Noble a fighting chance by hiring the right gentleman for the job, James Daunt,” he says. “Daunt was successful turning around Waterstones in the U.K.”
Terry says Daunt accomplished that feat by eliminating doing business through the sales reps and creating a small team of buyers that would select books of the month.
“Furthermore, he gave the individual store managers the autonomy to tailor their stock to customers’ tastes,” Terry adds. “It worked in Europe, but the big question is: can it work here in the U.S.?”
There is still a demand and a need for a Barnes & Noble in the retail community, in Terry’s view.
“I’m just not sure if they can make the drastic changes needed to support their large footprint stores,” he notes. “If they are successful in downsizing their footprint and lowering their costs without sacrificing sales, then it might work. Only time will tell.”
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With the pressures facing most people today, it is essential to take your mental health seriously. This is especially true for college students and young people, whose lack of experience in the real world could lead to major mental health issues resulting from stress, overwork, fatigue, or even the onset of a more serious mental illness. In fact, up to 75 percent of college students with possible mental health issues do not seek help for what ails them.
While this resource is meant to provide college students and young people with quality information on maintaining good mental health and identifying mental health issues, it is not meant to take the place of professional advice from a qualified mental health specialist. Anyone who wishes to learn more keeping tabs on their mental health should consider taking this mental health assessment before diving into the resource.
Below is a list of serious mental health issues known to affect college students and young people:
Depression: While it might be easy for a busy college student to write their depression off as school-induced stress, depressive tendencies can of course be symptoms of more serious mental health issues. In fact, a 2012 study reported that 44 percent of college students have one or more symptoms of depression. This startling statistic shows that hits depression faced by nearly half of all college students could lead to more complex mental health issues without the proper counseling to help them identify the source of their depression.
Anxiety: It goes without saying that most college students experience some degree of anxiety. As you might expect, juggling assignments, exams, and part-time jobs can lead to serious levels of anxiety, which could then escalate into a major mental health issue or disorder. Students who feel like anxiety is getting the better of them should schedule some time to speak with a counsellor or mental health specialist in order to pinpoint the source of anxiety and figure out solutions to overcome it.
Suicide: The worst possible outcome of an untreated mental illness is suicide. Even for people without a serious mental disorder, the stress of an independent environment can lead to suicidal thoughts. Anyone who has seriously considered suicide should seek professional help immediately. Suicide hotlines staffed by specialists are usually the quickest and most discreet options for people to get the care and attention they need.
Bipolar Disorder: This is a major mental health disorder often characterized by extreme bouts of depression followed by periods of manic activity. With the stress and workload many college students face, it's easy to pass off symptoms of bipolar disorder as mood swings. According to WebMD, severe enough mood swings will interfere with a person's functioning could be related to an underlying bi-polar disorder. Young people who find that their mood swings are causing difficulties in their personal or academic life should seek counseling from a mental health specialist immediately.
Eating Disorders: According to the National Eating Disorders Association, approximately 20 percent of women and 10 percent of men in college struggle with an eating disorder. For some, the pressure of losing weight and "looking good" might be enough to trigger the beginning of an eating disorder. For others, the stress of a busy social, academic and work schedule may make it difficult for them to find time to eat properly, which could also lead to a serious eating disorder down the line. While there are several different eating disorders, anorexia and bulimia are two of the most common. Eating disorders are serious and could lead to devastating consequences for a young person's health without immediate treatment from a mental health specialist.
Addiction: For individuals of any age, addiction can lead to significant and life threatening health issues without proper treatment. Addiction can be especially devastating for young people, who may turn to drugs, alcohol, or food to deal with general stress or an underlying mental health disorder. Binge drinking is an especially common form of addiction found on American campuses. According to the National Survey on Drug Use and Health, of the 61 percent of surveyed colleges students that drank, 40.5 percent binge drank and 16.3 percent were heavy drinkers. For many who struggle with addiction, often the hardest hurdle for them to overcome is admitting that they have a problem. If you or a young person you know is struggling with addiction, counseling from a mental health specialist or admission to a substance rehabilitation center are two viable treatment options.
Self-harm: Unlike other mental health issues, the underlying reason behind why young people choose to physically harm themselves still eludes researchers. Moreover, people who do harm themselves tend to do so in private and on areas of the body that may not be visible to others. Some estimate that up to 15 percent of college students have engaged in some form of self-harming behavior. Self-harm is a serious mental health issue that should be monitored by a trained mental health specialist.
Struggles with Identity: U.S. society has gradually come to accept the many disparate identities found within its borders. That said, in certain areas of the country, there is still a significant amount of intolerance directed towards people who identify themselves in a certain way. While a given identity will not necessarily indicate mental health struggles, the pressures of withstanding a hostile social environment could lead to severe stress and anxiety. Anyone struggling with extreme social pressures due to their lifestyle or identity should immediately seek help from a qualified specialist at their school or workplace.
Each state in the U.S. maintains their own health and social services department. Some states even have departments entirely dedicated to mental health. These resources can be helpful for state residents who struggle with their mental health, or know someone who may need help. Below is a list of links to health and social services departments organized by state.
Alabama Alaska Arizona
Arkansas California Colorado
Connecticut Delaware District of Columbia
Florida Georgia Hawaii
Idaho Illinois Indiana
Iowa Kansas Kentucky
Louisiana Maine Maryland
Massachusetts Michigan Minnesota
Mississippi Missouri Montana
Nebraska Nevada New Hampshire
New Jersey New Mexico New York
North Carolina North Dakota Ohio
Oklahoma Oregon Pennsylvania
Rhode Island South Carolina South Dakota
Tennessee Texas Utah
Vermont Virginia Washington
West Virginia Wisconsin Wyoming
In addition to the government resources listed above, there are also many recognized national organizations that sponsor or host mental health support groups. These support groups offer those who struggle with their mental health an opportunity to listen and be heard in a community setting. Below is a list of some of the most respected mental health organizations in the United States.
Anxiety and Depression Association of America
Depression and Bipolar Support Alliance
National Eating Disorder Association
National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI)
Network of Care
American Association of Suicidology
Attention Deficit Disorder Association
Federation of Families for Children's Mental Health
Obsessive Compulsive Foundation
Self Mutilators Anonymous
Parents, Families, and Friends of Lesbians and Gays (PFLAG)
TARA National Association for Personality Disorder
Below is a general list of links to websites and portals that deal specifically with issues related to mental health.
ULifeline
SAMHSA Treatment Locator
MentalHelp.net
MentalHealth.gov
NICHY's State Search Tool
UCLA's Center for Mental Health in Schools
UMD's Center for School Mental Health
The Balanced Mind Foundation
Hazelden.org's Resources for Family Members
The Dart Foundation's Gateway to Post Traumatic Stress Disorder Information
University of Michigan's Mental Health Resources
The Brain & Behavior Research Foundation
National Institute on Alcohol Abuse & Alcoholism
Choices in Recovery
ACHA's Mental Health Resources
Active Mind's Mental Health Resources
The Jed Foundation's Programs & Research
McLean Hospital's College Mental Health Program
Behavior Online
NACADA's Mental Health Issues in Advising
The Checkup: Meltdown U. and Mental Health Tips for Parents of College Kids
Caltech's Online Mental Health Resources
The University of Chicago's Online Resources – Mental Health Disorders
LawLifeline.org
The New York Times's Information on Mental Health
The National Association for the Dually Diagnosed
The APA's College Students Guide
For college students and young people who do not struggle with significant mental health issues, there are still actionable steps to take in order to relieve stress and anxiety. Here are some suggestions to take into consideration:
Physical Activity: Physical activity releases "happy chemicals" in our brain known as endorphins that can have an almost immediate impact in balancing our mind and body's negative reaction toward stress and anxiety. Physical activity can also boost self-confidence and increase our ability to think clearly, focus, and inspire others to do the same.
Sleep and Diet Changes: Major changes in diet or sleep habits can also lead to elevated levels of stress or anxiety in a college student. Consistently staying up late to study for exams or finish assignments can mean some degree of sleep deprivation, which could lead to poor academic performance or more serious mental health issues. What's worse is that sleep deprivation and poor diet often go hand in hand. Dramatic shifts in diet will also impact a student's academic performance and mental health.
Psychiatric Care: If a student finds that the amount of stress they face is becoming too much to handle on their own, obtaining psychiatric care should be given serious consideration. Inpatient or outpatient care may be pursued depending on the severity of the mental health issues faced by the individual in need of care. Mental health specialists are there to help us overcome stress, anxiety, and many other issues impacting mental health. Remember that seeking psychiatric care should never be thought of as unreasonable.
Relaxation Exercises: No matter how stressed or anxious students become, there should always be something to count on as a source of positive relaxation. That said, many young people may not be able to find the opportunity to relax in the way that they prefer. Nonetheless, there are several quick and easy relaxation exercises to explore. Taking a few breaks each day to stretch, meditate, or even pick out a comfortable set of clothing can work to significantly reduce anxiety throughout the day.
Therapy and Counseling: Even if a young person feels that the stress in their life is not affecting their mental health, seeking therapy and counseling to understand how to better manage anxiety can still be helpful. Students may feel they have an exceptionally high tolerance for stress and anxiety, but that failing to learn new and better ways to manage their stress could rapidly lead to more serious mental health issues. Seeking therapy and counseling is often the safest and most effective way to get personalized advice before stress becomes a much more serious problem.
Your Right to Mental Health: Understanding Confidentiality and Insurance
As the public's awareness about the importance of mental health grows, more attention is being directed toward insurance and confidentiality solutions for people struggling with mental health issues. The stigma of mental health as being less important than maintaining good physical health has led to a crisis of mental health, which can only be corrected as more and more citizens recognize the power of quality mental health treatment.
A major trend bringing attention to the mental health of college students is the fact that more student than ever before are seeking mental health care. As with any rising demand for an important health service, institutions that work closely with students – Â like their colleges and universities – are incorporating mental care into the health care offered to students. Moreover, people who are 26 years old or younger are now able to be covered by their parent's health insurance policy as a result of the 2010 Affordable Care Act (also known as "Obamacare").
On top of providing young people with more health insurance options, the Affordable Care Act has also introduced some great provisions regarding mental health care. Supporters of the health law recognize mental health care as an important part of physical health care. As such, the ACA makes it easier for young people to afford health insurance and expands Medicaid to help more people that struggle daily with mental health issues. The law also ensures that certain mental health services and treatments that may have traditionally been declined by private insurance companies or Medicaid must now be covered.
Confidentiality is also a major roadblock discouraging people from seeking out the mental health treatment they need. Even though mental disorders are becoming more understood and accepted by the public-at-large, students may still feel embarrassed of their own mental health issues. Everyone should understand that the professional mental health community employs many safeguards to help keep information about your mental health confidential and only shared when coordinating a patient's care.
While the Affordable Care Act should ensure that all young Americans have access to affordable, high quality health care, there are still many young people today that remain uninsured. Young people who find themselves uninsured, however, should remain vigilant about obtaining mental health care the minute they need it. To help uninsured people find proper mental health treatment, Mental Health America has compiled an extensive list of options that should be kept handy in the event of a mental health crisis.
As the inclusion of mental health treatment becomes the rule and not the exception for health plans across the nation, college students will finally have the resources and support needed to help maintain both their physical and mental well-being while on-campus.
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Levittown man killed in Jericho crash
By JOHN VALENTI john.valenti@newsday.com March 3, 2010 7:12 AM
A Levittown man was killed early Wednesday in a single-car accident on North Broadway in Jericho, Nassau County Police said.
Rodd Langhamer, 29, was fatally injured when his 2008 Nissan left the roadway at the split between Route 106 and Route 107 and crashed into a tree on the grassy median at 12:40 a.m., police said. He was taken to Nassau University Medical Center, where he was pronounced dead at 1:33 a.m.
Police could not immediately say what caused the crash. They said the vehicle was impounded for brake and safety inspections, that no criminality is suspected and that the investigation remains on-going.
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A Russian doctor has killed his 25-year-old lover after discovering that she was a transgender during sex, a media report said on Wednesday. The 27-year-old doctor then dismembered her body and then cooked some of the parts in her oven before flushing down the remains in the toilet. Mikhail Tikhonov was madly in love with Nina Surgutskaya. They had gone out to Kursk on the night of the crime, and on returning to her flat, they started having sex, which is when he discovered that his lover was a transgender.
According to police, Tikhonov immediately strangled her on her bed and then to hide the murder, he cut her body into pieces. He then put some of the body parts in the oven while the rest he flushed down the toilet. Police have detained Tikhonov for further questioning. It was revealed to police that Tikhonov had cut her body in the bathroom. He took out her internal organs, chopped them into small pieces and threw them into the toilet. He also carved off the flesh and put it into the oven to get rid of the excess liquid, the metro.co.uk said. However, Tikhonov has denied that he was a cannibal. He also told police that he flushed the cooked organs down the toilet.
According to the report, Tikhonov stuffed the head and the limbs into a suitcase and took them to his flat. As he was in the process of disposing of the remaining body parts, police arrested him. The report said that Tikhonov had no time to get rid of the entire body parts as he was caught. He faces up to 20 years in jail if convicted for murder and mutilating the corpse.
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What Comes After Heirloom Seeds?
By Michael Tortorello
Luther Burbank in his garden.
Photograph by Underwood Archives / Getty
In the mid-nineteen-thirties, a California pomologist named W. L. Howard began compiling a list of plants. He intended to enumerate the botanical creations of the legendary American horticulturalist Luther Burbank. The task took him ten years. Howard’s completed inventory begins with the word “briefly” and then runs on, in list form, for more than ninety pages. Burbank had invented flowers, grasses, cacti, tubers, grains, fruits, and vegetables, more than eight hundred varieties in all. A great many of them—most of them, even—had been lost in the decades since his death, in 1926.
Burbank’s prolificacy grew out of a creativity that could seem almost shameless. He was willing to cross just about anything that had leaves: a plum with an apricot (originally a plumcot, now a pluot); a tomato with a potato (a worthless novelty); a blackberry with an apple (no clue); a peach with an almond (!). Burbank’s theoretical validation came from Charles Darwin and his 1876 survey, “The Effects of Cross and Self Fertilisation in the Vegetable Kingdom,” which Burbank seems to have mistaken for a how-to manual. He called himself an “evoluter” of plants.
In “The Garden of Invention,” her 2009 biography of Burbank, Jane S. Smith notes that “there are not very many agricultural celebrities.” (Try to name a living one.) Yet the Times saw fit to report both Burbank’s marriage to his secretary and the death of his dog, at the age of twenty-one, a full eleven years after his master. Burbank’s fame and stature can be gleaned from a photograph that commemorates the day, in 1915, when Henry Ford and Thomas Edison made a pilgrimage to his home grounds. Three men in dark suits sit on a stair, hats politely in hand. In the business of American progress, they were coequals.
Burbank was a small-time farmer when, in 1872, he discovered a blockbuster potato strain; closing in on its sesquicentennial, the Russet Burbank remains a potato of choice for the McDonald’s French fry. Until the middle of the twentieth century, in fact, almost every farmer was an erstwhile Burbank. In the fall, when you gathered, say, your muskmelon seed for the next year’s crop, you selected it from the most robust and productive vines. An exceptional fruit might earn its own name and a regional reputation. The advent of industrial agriculture, however, demanded a new type of food plant, one that would thrive under heavy applications of chemical fertilizers, herbicides, and pesticides—and look palatable at the end of a cross-country truck ride. The seed trade became the province of national agribusinesses and their hybrid seed—that is, proprietary plant crosses that farmers had to buy anew each year. This was the environment in which, in 1975, an organization called Seed Savers Exchange began a mission to stanch the loss of the country’s agricultural heritage. Old seeds got a new name: heirlooms.
As it happens, this is a serendipitous week to go rooting through the back forty of American horticulture. Five years ago, a vintage seedsman named Jere Gettle co-founded the National Heirloom Exposition, which bills itself as “the world’s pure food fair.” This year’s edition, which started Tuesday, is expected to draw some fifteen thousand visitors to the Sonoma County Fairgrounds. The three-day lineup includes an antique-tractor show, an old-time-fiddlers’ contest, and a headline lecture series, whose leading topic seems to be the perniciousness of genetically modified foods, presented by speakers who speculate that the herbicide glyphosate (a.k.a. Roundup) may trigger autism, and who cite as credentials their status as moms and dads. You won’t have time for everything.
Gettle, who is thirty-five years old, learned to read from a seed catalogue. In his book “The Heirloom Life Gardener,” he relates how his parents moved back to the land, schooling him at home in the Ozark Mountains of Missouri. By the time he was seventeen years old, he had started his own seed business. His first catalogue was a twelve-page list of seventy-five traditional varieties that he had sown and collected on the family farm. Last year, Gettle’s company, Baker Creek Heirloom Seed, reached seven hundred thousand customers and advertised more than eighteen hundred seed varieties. He told me that catalogue sales topped seven million dollars.
Were he alive today, Howard, the pomologist, would likely be flummoxed by the heirloom revival. Burbank’s plants, he wrote in 1945, disappeared for the simple reason that, every ten years or so, public tastes change and something better comes along. Smith, for her part, notes that Burbank had the good fortune to practice his breeding “at a time when the vast majority of people agreed that improving nature was, in fact, a very good thing to do.” That would appear to be a fringe opinion at the Heirloom Expo. Many of the heroes of the modern food movement—Michael Pollan, Gary Paul Nabhan, Alice Waters, and Jere Gettle, too—have lamented the predominance of hybrids, not just G.M.O.s. Most hybrid produce, they say, was bred for uniformity, predictable ripening, and efficient transportation rather than for flavor or nutrition.
It’s a fair argument. But how far forward can you march when you’re looking backward? Dan Barber, the executive chef of Blue Hill at Stone Barns, in New York, has described our obsession with heirlooms as largely “nostalgic.” In an interview with Food & Wine, he said, “It’s not the future of great eating. We know so much more about how to breed seeds for flavor.” Barber recruited an ally in Michael Mazourek, a vegetable breeder from Cornell University who has been collaborating with the Stone Barns Center for Food and Agriculture on a winter squash called the Honeynut. “Much of the heirloom seed is like the antiques stored in the attic or out in the barn,” Mazourek told me. “It tends to have been neglected. It’s sitting how your grandparents left it.” He added, “It needs some kind refurbishing.”
One such refurbishment project is taking place at the Appalachian Fruit Research Station, in West Virginia: an attempt to perfect Luther Burbank’s stoneless plum. Having imported a small shipment of plum seedlings by boat from Yokohama, Japan, in 1885, Burbank proceeded to develop a hundred and thirteen named varieties of the fruit. His introductions became the foundation of the modern Japanese-type plum and also of the California prune. But his highest achievement as a fruit breeder may have been a pair of French-type plums, Miracle and Conquest, that grew without a pit in the center. In some samples, a few edible grains of pit remained, however, and Burbank considered his breeding work unfinished. Those plums are now missing, as are their nonexistent stones.
The West Virginia team began by hunting for remnants of Burbank’s work, settling on a few likely descendants. From there, the effort took a modern turn. Burbank would have grafted thousands of seedlings at a time to quicken the arrival of test fruit, intending to shock nature into novelty with all the tools at his disposal. The new breeders inserted a flowering gene from a poplar plant. The result is a plum that fruits continuously, making it easier to study. (A Frankenfruit? Maybe, but then what is a pluot?) At a critical time after pollination, the researchers observed, the plum’s endocarp cells form the lignin of a hard pit. Comparing Burbank’s great-grand-plums with the typical fruit during this window, they identified more than two thousand genes that were expressed differently. The idea is that genetic engineering could either eliminate these endocarp cells, or convert the endocarp into mesocarp—stone into flesh.
If that feat of breeding ever proves possible, there’s still work to do on Luther Burbank’s spineless cactus.
Michael Tortorello is a writer and college teacher in St. Paul, Minnesota.
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We are amazed, blessed and grateful to present a stunning night of women’s music on Saturday, August 17, when Ferron, Jami Sieber and Cris Williamson all grace our Grand Hall stage. It is, quite simply, a night of powerful music not to be missed! Proceeds from this concert will benefit LGBTQ services for youth on Vashon.
In case you don’t already know these amazing musicians/songwriters/composers, here are insanely brief biographies for each of them, of whom volumes could, should and have been written. (If you just want to jump ahead and buy your tickets, scroll to the bottom of this page!)
JAMI SIEBER
Electric cellist and vocalist Jami Sieber reaches inside the soul with compositions that are contemporary, timeless, lush, and powerfully evocative. Sieber’s musical path has traveled from classical to folk to rock/pop where within her popular band “Rumors of the Big Wave”, she garnered the coveted Northwest Area Music Association (NAMA) Award for Best Rock Instrumentalist.
An innovative musician, Jami’s music moves beyond the surface, seeking and re-seeking her truth by creating musical bridges and connections, committed to doing what moves her and inspiring listeners with her honesty, musical prowess, and humanity. She transforms her solo instrument into an orchestra of sound that opens the heart, defies the mind, and sets the body dancing. Jami’s life-long commitment to the environment, social justice, and the healing arts is at the heart of her music, reflecting a deep dedication to the arts as a medium to express the interconnectedness of all beings.
Jami’s style of performance has been recognized internationally. This sometimes ethereal, sometimes hard-edged musician has earned rave reviews throughout Europe, Asia, and North America, and has been an invited guest artist in China, Russia, the Balkans, Italy, France, and Thailand.
Ferron is iconic in the genre of women’s music. In addition to being one of Canada’s most famous folk musicians, she is one of the most influential writers and performers of women’s music, and an important influence on later musicians such as Ani DiFranco and the Indigo Girls.
Ferron is a real salt of the earth singer who approaches her art with both sleeves rolled up, ready to dive in. When she was 15, she hit the road alone. She had a single shopping bag with a change of clothes, a toothbrush, a waitress uniform, and a Leonard Cohen LP. Little did she know then, but one day her own songs would be compared to Cohen’s for their depth of word-craft, intimacy, and wisdom.
Over the course of her four decades performing, she has continued to walk her talk. She performs with courage and commitment, her heart exposed through songs that don’t sound composed and sung as much as they feel wrung from the sweat and toil of hard fought experience. The contents of her songs appear as if they’re lived out on the canvas of her life and not just inside the confines of her art.
From the mid-eighties on, Ferron’s songwriting talents have been recognized and appreciated by music critics and broader audiences, with comparisons being made to the writing talents of Van Morrison, Bon Dylan,and Leonard Cohen.
Ferron has published 14 albums, including: her well known Testimony(1980), whose title song is something of an anthem for many in the women’s music community;Shadows on a Dime (1984); Driver(1993); Boulder(2008), and most recently Lighten-ing(2014).
Decades before indie labels were the norm, and years before women had any real access to the industry, Cris Williamson was busy changing the face of popular music. In 1975, the twenty-something former schoolteacher recorded The Changer And The Changedfor her brainchild, Olivia Records, the first woman-owned, woman-focused record company.
Cris Williamson’s music and voice quickly became the soundtrack of a movement, and was the cornerstone of what would become known as “women’s music,” music created, performed, and marketed specifically to women. Today, that recording, The Changer and the Changed, remains one of the best-selling independent releases of all time.
For Cris, the music became the vehicle for something larger. Her lyrics appear on a regular basis in books and thesis papers. Her albums are part of the curriculum for women’s studies courses, and thousands of people who may not even know her name join their voices in “Song of the Soul” around campfires and places of worship. She is embraced by women. She is sampled in hip-hop. Her music is used by midwives welcoming life into the world, while hospice choirs sing her songs in tender sacred escort.
Today, with 30+ full albums to her credit, Cris continues to tour the acoustic circuit adding new material at each juncture. Her performance career includes three sold-out shows at Carnegie Hall and the headlining of many of the great folk festivals, including Newport, Kerrville, Moab and Vancouver.
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We’re thrilled to have the Paoli Mejias Quintet make their fiery hot Vashon debut at Open Space! Carlos Santana‘s conga player, Paoli Mejias, is a Latin Grammy nominee and a distinguished master percussionist from Puerto Rico, ranked among the best in both Latin Jazz and salsa. His charisma and energetic Afro-Caribbean rhythms are notorious for bringing … Continued
Join us for an evening of drama and delight at our annual Open Air Outdoor Aerial Festival! Featuring internationally touring artists, local aerialists, and aerial students from the UMO School of Physical Arts, Open Air offers the community a fascinating display of aerial awe. Tucked away in the lush meadows that surround Open Space, guests … Continued
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United States. Executive Office of the President, Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents, Week Ending Friday, August 22, 2008 (Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 2008), 44:1150-1151
Author: George W. Bush
Checklist of White House Press Releases
The following list contains releases of the Office of the Press Secretary that are neither printed as items nor covered by entries in the Digest of Other White House Announcements.
Released August 16
Transcript of remarks by Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice on the situation in Georgia
Transcript of a press briefing by National Security Council Press Secretary Gordon Johndroe
Advance text of the President’s remarks on gulf coast reconstruction in New Orleans
Transcript of a press gaggle by National Security Council Press Secretary Gordon Johndroe and Paul Conway, chief of staff to the Federal Coordinator for Gulf Coast Rebuilding
Excerpts from the President’s remarks to the Veterans of Foreign Wars national convention in Orlando
Fact sheet: Rebuilding the Gulf Coast
Fact sheet: Protecting America From Terrorism
Statement by the Deputy Press Secretary on disaster assistance to Florida
Transcript of a press briefing by National Security Council Press Secretary Gordon JohndroeStatement by the Deputy Press Secretary: Visit by President John Kufuor of the Republic of Ghana
Title: United States. Executive Office of the President, Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents, Week Ending Friday, August 22, 2008 (Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 2008), 44:1150-1151
Chicago: George W. Bush, United States. Executive Office of the President, Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents, Week Ending Friday, August 22, 2008 (Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 2008), 44:1150-1151 in United States. Executive Office of the President, Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents, Week Ending Friday, August 22, 2008 (Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 2008), 44:1150-1151 Original Sources, accessed July 17, 2019, http://www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=PD3G78SRTKHFTS4.
MLA: Bush, George W. United States. Executive Office of the President, Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents, Week Ending Friday, August 22, 2008 (Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 2008), 44:1150-1151, in United States. Executive Office of the President, Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents, Week Ending Friday, August 22, 2008 (Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 2008), 44:1150-1151, Original Sources. 17 Jul. 2019. www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=PD3G78SRTKHFTS4.
Harvard: Bush, GW, United States. Executive Office of the President, Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents, Week Ending Friday, August 22, 2008 (Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 2008), 44:1150-1151. cited in , United States. Executive Office of the President, Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents, Week Ending Friday, August 22, 2008 (Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 2008), 44:1150-1151. Original Sources, retrieved 17 July 2019, from http://www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=PD3G78SRTKHFTS4.
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Fair Go for the West
In its second successful year, Fair Go for the West has launched with a bang. The campaign, led by The Daily Telegraph and supported by Channel Seven and Nova, is determined to bring a spotlight onto Western Sydney, by celebrating what is great about the region and championing new initiatives to benefit the local community.
The campaign kicked-off in mid February with the presentation of an Action Plan to Premier Mike Baird and Opposition Leader Luke Foley, in the lead-up to the NSW state election held in late March.
The plan with the theme of “Fairer, Smarter” has a focus on innovation and aims to build on the success of the first campaign in 2014 which resulted in the approval of the Badgerys Creek international airport site, 1,000 new apprentice jobs, as well as multiple upgrades to sports and public transport facilities.
We’ve long been active in the community of Western Sydney, through our Energy Made Fresh in Schools Program and the investments of the Origin Foundation in education programs that help break the cycle of disadvantage and empower young Australians to reach their potential.
We’ve also recently announced our community partnership with the NSW State Emergency Service and Careflight; to recognise, reward and recruit the dedicated volunteers that make these organisations great.
Champions of the West
Continuing this commitment to positively contribute to local communities and support good causes, we’re proud to have partnered with Fair Go for the West 2015 to help celebrate the great things happening in Western Sydney.
In addition to the Action Plan, this campaign includes an awards program called Champions of the West to celebrate what is great about the community. These awards recognise ordinary people doing extraordinary things, with grants of up to $10,000 across 14 categories.
We’re proud to be sponsoring the category of Energy Smart Business, which will look to highlight those who display excellence in making a difference with sustainable business operations and energy efficiency.
The winners of the awards will be announced on Wednesday 25th March, so be sure to check back and see who is named the Energy Smart Business for 2015.
Our Corporate Affairs Executive General Manager Phil Craig recently sat down and explained our support for the campaign. Watch this short video to find out more.
Proud partner of Far Go for the West 2015
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PUBLIC NOTICE - Alternate Approval Process
Printable - 2012 Alternate Approval Process Form
Pursuant to the Community Charter, the Council of the Town of Osoyoos is proposing to seek the assent of the electors in the Town of Osoyoos by means of Alternative Approval Process. The question before the electors is whether they are opposed to the borrowing of $287,250 for the Road Reconstruction of Cottonwood Drive from Highway 3 to remainder of Lot 1 Plan 46437 for a 20 year period.
The cost of the reconstruction project is $383,000 with 25% funding coming from development cost charges and the balance of $287,250 through long term borrowing. This loan authorization bylaw will cost an additional $4.75 per average single family residence in taxes.
If you are opposed to Loan Authorization Bylaw 1290, 2012 you can sign an Elector Response form.
Elector Response forms are available at the Town office at 8707 Main Street, Osoyoos, B.C., V0H 1V0.
A person who receives an Elector Response form may make accurate copies of the form.
Each Elector Response form or accurate copy of an Elector Response form may be signed by one or more electors.
To sign an Elector Response form an elector must meet the following criteria:
Resident electors must:
a) be 18 years of age or older;
b) be a Canadian citizen;
c) be a resident of British Columbia, for at least 6 months;
d) be a resident of the Town of Osoyoos for at least 30 days; and
e) not be disqualified by any Provincial enactment, or otherwise disqualified by law, from voting in an election.
Non-resident property electors must:
a) not be entitled as a resident elector of the Town of Osoyoos;
b) be 18 years of age or older;
c) be a Canadian citizen;
d) be a resident of British Columbia, for at least 6 months;
e) be a registered owner of real property in the jurisdiction for at least 30 days;
f) not be disqualified by any Provincial enactment or otherwise disqualified by law, from voting in an election; and
g) only register as a non-resident property elector in relation to one parcel of real property in a jurisdiction.
All alternative approval process elector response forms must be received by the Corporate Officer, 8707 Main Street, Box 3010, Osoyoos, B.C., V0H 1V0 on or before 4:30pm on October 1, 2012 to be considered.
The number of electors of the Town of Osoyoos is estimated to be 4,044. If 10% (404) of the estimated number of electors of the Town of Osoyoos sign an Alternative Approval Process Elector Response Form opposing the noted transactions, Town Council will not be able to proceed without then receiving the assent of the electors by referendum.
(T) 250-495-6515
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Yahoo Takes Aim at Spam
Yahoo has developed a system that will go a long way toward curbing spam, the company claims. But the technology's success is dependent on its widespread industry adoption beyond the borders of Yahoo's e-mail servers, it says.
The Yahoo technology is called DomainKeys and targets the spammers' practice of spoofing, or changing an e-mail message's header information so it appears to have been sent by someone else.
Spammers do this to increase the chances that the recipient will open the e-mail message.
Get Confirmation
Yahoo's DomainKeys is designed to let receiving e-mail systems confirm that a message in fact originated from a user authorized to send e-mail for the domain stated in the header. DomainKeys uses public cryptography technology to accomplish this validation. The outgoing message is digitally "signed" with a private key while the receiving e-mail system uses a public key to validate the signature.
"This is a clever and secure implementation," says Brad Garlinghouse, Yahoo's vice president of communications products at Yahoo. "This system is the right answer for the industry."
Policies can be implemented in mail servers at the receiving end to deal with messages that fail the validation test. Because the approach is based on the Internet's DNS, DomainKeys is said to provide domain-level credibility. That is, the control over generation and management of keys rests with the domain's owner, letting them control who has authority to send e-mail using their domain.
Of course, a legitimate organization that doesn't use DomainKeys will be unable to embed the private-key validation in its outgoing messages, leading these messages to fail the validation test at recipient systems that do use DomainKeys. "To be truly effective, DomainKeys needs widespread adoption," Garlinghouse acknowledges.
Challenges Ahead
This is a big challenge for DomainKeys' success, says Jonathan Gaw, an IDC analyst. "They'll have to convince a lot of people to cooperate with them," he says. "It's going to take a lot of effort on Yahoo's part to get everybody on board."
Achieving that type of consensus from people who run mail servers around the world will be difficult, especially at companies that may fail to see what value this has for them, he says. It's clear that initiatives such as this one are important for big e-mail service providers such as Yahoo, Microsoft's MSN, and America Online, but they are much less so for other companies and organizations that aren't in the e-mail provision business, he says.
Initiatives such as this one have been proposed in the past and have had mixed results, he says.
Yet, Yahoo is going to give its best shot, Garlinghouse says. To promote DomainKeys' wide adoption, Yahoo will license its source code royalty-free, he says. This open-source approach is also a message to partners and competitors in the industry that DomainKeys will not generate additional money for Yahoo nor give the company a technological advantage as the creator of the system, he says.
"The proposal isn't about creating value for someone in particular," he says.
Yahoo plans to implement this in its e-mail systems at some point next year. The company has already approached antispam organizations and individual e-mail vendors to present DomainKeys, getting positive feedback, and plans to continue evangelizing, he says.
Note: PCWorld.com has a partnership agreement to provide content to Yahoo.
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Some McDonald’s workers vote to strike over…
Some McDonald’s workers vote to strike over sex harassment
FILE- This Aug. 8, 2018, file photo shows the logo of McDonald’s at flagship restaurant in Chicago. McDonald’s workers are going on strike next week. Emboldened by the #MeToo movement, McDonald’s workers have voted to stage a one-day strike next week at restaurants in 10 cities. Plans are for the walkout to start lunchtime on Sept. 18. (AP Photo/Nam Y. Huh, File)
PUBLISHED: September 12, 2018 at 8:03 am | UPDATED: September 19, 2018 at 3:02 pm
By David Crary, The Associated Press
Emboldened by the #MeToo movement, McDonald’s workers have voted to stage a one-day strike next week at restaurants in 10 cities in hopes of pressuring management to take stronger steps against on-the-job sexual harassment.
Organizers say it will be the first multistate strike in the U.S. specifically targeting sexual harassment.
Plans for the walkout — to start at lunchtime on Sept. 18 — have been approved in recent days by “women’s committees” formed by employees at dozens of McDonald’s restaurants across the U.S. Lead organizers include several women who filed complaints with the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission in May alleging pervasive harassment at some of McDonald’s franchise restaurants.
The strike comes as union-backed organizations have been putting pressure on McDonald’s on several fronts for better working conditions, including $15 an hour wages — at a burger chain that employs tens of thousands of people around the country, many of them at low pay.
Organizers said the strike would target multiple restaurants — but not every local McDonald’s — in each of the 10 cities: Chicago; Durham, North Carolina; Kansas City, Missouri; Los Angeles; Miami; Milwaukee; New Orleans; Orlando, Florida; San Francisco and St. Louis.
They said they could not predict with precision how many workers would join the strike, but noted that hundreds of workers had participated in the committee meetings at which the strike was planned.
McDonald’s, in an e-mail to The Associated Press, defended its anti-harassment efforts.
“We have policies, procedures and training in place that are specifically designed to prevent sexual harassment at our company and company-owned restaurants, and we firmly believe that our franchisees share this commitment,” the company said.
The company also disclosed a new initiative that will engage outside experts to work with the company to help “evolve” those policies and procedures. Some of the experts would come from Seyfarth Shaw at Work, an employment law training firm, and RAINN, an anti-sexual violence organization.
Labor lawyer Mary Joyce Carlson, who has been collaborating with women who filed the EEOC complaints, says the company needs to back up such gestures with tougher enforcement.
“We see no evidence there’s been any change at all,” she said. “Whatever policy they have is not effective.”
Organizers of the planned walkout say strikers will be demanding that the company improve procedures for receiving and responding to harassment complaints, and require anti-harassment training for managers and employees. Another demand will be formation of a national committee to address sexual harassment, comprised of workers, representatives from corporate and franchise stores, and leaders of national women’s groups.
Carlson is an attorney for Fight for $15, a national movement seeking to increase the minimum wage to $15 an hour. She said McDonald’s has successfully resisted efforts to unionize its employees, and suggested that workers’ anger related to sexual harassment might fuel broader efforts to gain better working conditions.
Among the strike organizers is Tanya Harrell, 22, of New Orleans, who filed a complaint with the EEOC in May alleging that her two managers at a local McDonald’s teased her, but otherwise took no action after she told them of sustained verbal and physical harassment by a co-worker. Harrell, who makes $8.15 an hour, said she and many of her colleagues were skeptical of the company’s commitment to combating harassment.
“They want people to think they care, but they don’t care,” she said. “They could do a way more better job.”
Another organizer is Kim Lawson, 25, of Kansas City, who also filed an EEOC complaint alleging that managers responded ineffectively when she reported sexual harassment by a co-worker.
Lawson, who has a 4-year-old daughter, says she makes $9 an hour. She is heartened by strong support from other workers for the planned walkout.
“Everybody’s been brave about it,” she said. “It’s time to stand up for what we believe in.”
Thus far, the nearly year-old #MeToo movement has not triggered a strike targeting a specific U.S. company. Last March, on International Women’s Day, there were broad-based calls for women to stay away from work in several countries, notably in Western Europe.
Annelise Orleck, a history professor at Dartmouth College who has written about low-wage workers, said she knows of only one precedent in the United States to the planned McDonald’s walkout.
In 1912, she said, several hundred garment workers at a corset factory in Kalamazoo, Michigan, walked off the job in a strike prompted by pervasive sexual harassment, as well as other poor working conditions. The strikers did not win all of their demands, but succeeded in winning public support and drawing attention to workplace abuses.
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August 2018 Briefing - HIV & AIDS
Here are what the editors at HealthDay consider to be the most important developments in HIV & AIDS for August 2018. This roundup includes the latest research news from journal articles, as well as the FDA approvals and regulatory changes that are the most likely to affect clinical practice.
Medical Bills in Collections Decrease With Patient Age
FRIDAY, Aug. 31, 2018 (HealthDay News) -- Medical collections decrease substantially with age, possibly because of increased health insurance coverage and incomes, according to a study published in the August issue of Health Affairs.
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No Meaningful Increase in Physician Compensation Last Year
THURSDAY, Aug. 30, 2018 (HealthDay News) -- There was no meaningful increase in physician compensation in 2017, and a decline in productivity was noted, according to the results of a survey conducted by AMGA Consulting.
Survey (subscription or payment may be required)
Marketplace Premiums Increase More With Monopolist Insurers
WEDNESDAY, Aug. 29, 2018 (HealthDay News) -- Affordable Care Act Marketplace premiums increase more in areas with monopolist insurers, according to a study published in the August issue of Health Affairs.
Medical Practices Should Address Negative Online Reviews
TUESDAY, Aug. 28, 2018 (HealthDay News) -- Medical practice staff can effectively handle negative online reviews by staying calm and positive, looking for solutions, apologizing, and thanking the reviewers, according to an article published in Physicians Practice.
Artificial Intelligence Holds Promise in Medicine
TUESDAY, Aug. 28, 2018 (HealthDay News) -- Artificial intelligence (AI) in health care offers opportunities for early detection and triage, diagnostics and personalized medicine, and medical decision-making, according to an article published in Managed Healthcare Executive.
Alcohol Is Leading Risk Factor for Global Disease Burden
TUESDAY, Aug. 28, 2018 (HealthDay News) -- Globally, alcohol use is a leading risk factor for disease burden, according to research published online Aug. 23 in The Lancet.
Experts Address Loss of the National Guideline Clearinghouse
TUESDAY, Aug. 28, 2018 (HealthDay News) -- The demise of the National Guideline Clearinghouse (NGC) in July 2018 is likely to impact evidence-based health care around the world, according to an Ideas and Opinions piece published online Aug. 28 in the Annals of Internal Medicine.
Most Research Participants Not Concerned About Data Sharing
MONDAY, Aug. 27, 2018 (HealthDay News) -- Few participants in clinical trials have strong concerns about the risks of data sharing, according to a special article recently published in the New England Journal of Medicine.
Smartphone App Can Help Improve Outcomes With HIV
MONDAY, Aug. 27, 2018 (HealthDay News) -- A smartphone app designed for people living with HIV increases users' consistency in doctor visits and improves their health outcomes, according to a study recently published in AIDS Patient Care and STDs.
AMA Adopts Policy Promoting Health Equity As a Goal
FRIDAY, Aug. 24, 2018 (HealthDay News) -- The American Medical Association (AMA) House of Delegates has adopted a policy that sets health equity as a goal for the U.S. health care system, according to a report published in the organization's AMA Wire.
1997 to 2015 Saw Increase in HIV Viral Suppression Rates
THURSDAY, Aug. 23, 2018 (HealthDay News) -- From 1997 to 2015 there was a considerable increase in HIV viral suppression rates among people living with HIV (PLWH), according to a study published online Aug. 21 in the Annals of Internal Medicine.
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Small Practices Also at Risk for Data Breaches
WEDNESDAY, Aug. 22, 2018 (HealthDay News) -- Data breaches can happen to small medical practices, but staff can take steps to prevent them, according to an article published in Medical Economics.
Strategy Outlined for Shooter Incident in Health Care Facility
WEDNESDAY, Aug. 22, 2018 (HealthDay News) -- Adhering to a "secure, preserve, fight" strategy is recommended for health care professionals working with a vulnerable patient population, according to a Medicine and Society piece published in the Aug. 9 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine.
National Provider Identifiers Are Vulnerable to Theft
WEDNESDAY, Aug. 22, 2018 (HealthDay News) -- National Provider Identifiers (NPIs) are vulnerable to identity theft, according to an article published in Physicians Practice.
Advantages for HDHP Enrollees in Large Versus Small Firms
WEDNESDAY, Aug. 22, 2018 (HealthDay News) -- Workers in small firms are more likely to have higher deductible levels and lack employer contributions to help pay for out-of-pocket expenses compared to workers in larger firms, according to a study published in the August issue of Health Affairs.
Doctors Often Not Discussing Risk Factors With Patients
TUESDAY, Aug. 21, 2018 (HealthDay News) -- Patients report that doctors are routinely not discussing known risk factors for common causes of death, according to a survey conducted by ImagineMD.
Pennsylvania Case Could Affect Evidence for Malpractice Defense
TUESDAY, Aug. 21, 2018 (HealthDay News) -- The Pennsylvania Supreme Court has agreed to hear a case that could affect what evidence physicians may present in defense during medical malpractice suits, according to an article published in the American Medical Association's AMA Wire.
NYU Becomes First Medical School to Cover All Tuition
MONDAY, Aug. 20, 2018 (HealthDay News) -- The NYU School of Medicine has announced that it is offering full-tuition scholarships to all current and future students in its M.D. degree program, regardless of need or merit.
Experts Offer Tips for Provider Appeal of Denied Medical Claims
MONDAY, Aug.20, 2018 (HealthDay News) -- Knowing payer policies and regulatory requirements is critical to appealing denials, according to an article published in Medical Economics.
Little Global Development Assistance for Adolescent Health
MONDAY, Aug. 20, 2018 (HealthDay News) -- Development assistance for adolescent health (DAAH) makes up a small proportion of total development assistance for health, according to a study published online Aug. 10 in JAMA Network Open.
Comments Open on End of NIH Review for Gene Therapy Studies
FRIDAY, Aug. 17, 2018 (HealthDay News) -- A U.S. National Institutes of Health oversight panel will no longer review all applications for gene therapy experiments. Instead, the panel will assume an advisory role, while the U.S. Food and Drug Administration will assess gene therapy experiments and products as it does with other treatments and drugs. The proposed change will take effect after a public comment period which runs through Oct. 16.
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Residents' Sleep Deteriorates During Training
FRIDAY, Aug. 17, 2018 (HealthDay News) -- First-year residents experience worsening sleep duration and quality as well as daytime sleepiness, according to a study published in the June issue of the Journal of General Internal Medicine.
Practice Names, Logos Should Be Carefully Designed
THURSDAY, Aug. 16, 2018 (HealthDay News) -- Practice names and logos should be carefully designed to emphasize what is unique about a practice, according to a blog post published in Physicians Practice.
NIH Panel Will No Longer Review Gene Therapy Experiments
THURSDAY, Aug. 16, 2018 (HealthDay News) -- A U.S. National Institutes of Health oversight panel will no longer review all applications for gene therapy experiments, according to a perspective piece published online Aug. 15 in the New England Journal of Medicine.
Ibalizumab Active in Multidrug Resistant HIV-1 Infection
THURSDAY, Aug. 16, 2018 (HealthDay News) -- Ibalizumab has antiviral activity among patients with multidrug resistant (MDR) HIV-1 infection, according to a study published in the Aug. 16 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine.
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Steps Provided for Discharging Patient From Practice
THURSDAY, Aug. 16, 2018 (HealthDay News) -- Certain steps should be taken when discharging a patient for failure or inability to meet financial obligations, according to an article published in Physicians Practice.
Patient Portals Don't Appear to Have Much Traction
THURSDAY, Aug. 16, 2018 (HealthDay News) -- Patient portals have not taken off as expected, according to an article published in Medical Economics.
ACA Coverage Gains Include Workers Without Insurance
THURSDAY, Aug. 16, 2018 (HealthDay News) -- After the expanded coverage provisions of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) were implemented in 2014, self-employed individuals and wage earners without employer-sponsored health coverage offers had coverage gains equal to or greater than those of people not employed, according to a report published in the August issue of Health Affairs.
Integration of Opioid, Infectious Disease Treatment Needed
WEDNESDAY, Aug. 15, 2018 (HealthDay News) -- Steps should be taken to integrate treatment at the intersection of opioid use disorder (OUD) and related HIV and hepatitis C virus (HCV) infectious disease epidemics, according to an Ideas and Opinion piece published online July 13 in the Annals of Internal Medicine. The article was published to coincide with the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM) expert panel's recommendations for treating opioid abuse and its related infectious epidemics.
Trends in HIV/AIDS Have Worsened in African-Americans
WEDNESDAY, Aug. 15, 2018 (HealthDay News) -- Recommendations have been developed for addressing the HIV/AIDS epidemic in the African-American community; the recommendations are presented in an article published in the June issue of the Journal of Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities.
Intervention Cuts Risk for HIV in Young Transgender Women
TUESDAY, Aug. 14, 2018 (HealthDay News) -- A culturally specific, empowerment-based, and group-delivered behavioral prevention intervention can reduce sexual risk for HIV acquisition and transmission in sexually active young transgender women (YTW), according to a study published online Aug. 13 in JAMA Pediatrics.
6 Factors Related to Inclusion in Health Care Workplace ID'd
TUESDAY, Aug. 14, 2018 (HealthDay News) -- There are six broad factors that can affect inclusion within health care organizations, according to a study published online Aug. 3 in JAMA Network Open.
Four Pros to Integrating EHR, Practice Management Software
MONDAY, Aug. 13, 2018 (HealthDay News) -- Consolidating electronic health records and practice management software allows practices to save time and money, make fewer mistakes, and reduce the risk of privacy breaches, according to an article published in Physicians Practice.
AMA Adopts Policy on Augmented Intelligence
FRIDAY, Aug. 10, 2018 (HealthDay News) -- The American Medical Association (AMA) House of Delegates has adopted a policy on augmented intelligence, according to a report published in the association's AMA Wire.
AMA Adopts Policy to Advance Gender Equity in Medicine
THURSDAY, Aug. 9, 2018 (HealthDay News) -- The American Medical Association (AMA) House of Delegates has adopted a new policy to study, act for, and advocate to advance gender equity in medicine, according to a report published in the association's AMA Wire.
Cyber Insurance Recommended for All Physician Practices
WEDNESDAY, Aug. 8, 2018 (HealthDay News) -- The growing threat of hacking is increasing the number of physicians buying cyber insurance, according to an article published in Medical Economics.
Steps Taken to Increase Use of Electronic Tools in Medicine
WEDNESDAY, Aug. 8, 2018 (HealthDay News) -- Additional codes have been approved by the Current Procedural Terminology (CPT) Editorial Panel for chronic care remote physiologic monitoring and internet consultations, according to a report published by the American Medical Association (AMA).
AMA Proposes Policy Opposing Medicaid 'Lockout' Provisions
TUESDAY, Aug. 7, 2018 (HealthDay News) -- A new policy opposing lockout provisions that block Medicaid patients from the program for lengthy periods and instead supporting allowing patients to reapply immediately for redetermination was adopted by the American Medical Association (AMA) House of Delegates during the AMA's annual meeting in Chicago, according to an article published in the association's AMA Wire.
Variation in Specialty Drug Coverage Across Health Plans
FRIDAY, Aug. 3, 2018 (HealthDay News) -- There is considerable variation in specialty drug coverage across commercial health plans, according to a study published in the July issue of Health Affairs.
Some Bacteria Now More Tolerant of Alcohol-Based Sanitizers
FRIDAY, Aug. 3, 2018 (HealthDay News) -- Some types of bacteria are developing tolerance of alcohol-based hand sanitizers used in hospitals, according to a study published in the Aug. 1 issue of Science Translational Medicine.
Groups Urge CMS to Reconsider Suspending Risk Adjustment
FRIDAY, Aug. 3, 2018 (HealthDay News) -- In a letter sent to Administrator Seema Verma of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), medical organizations are urging reconsideration of the decision to suspend payments to insurers as required under the Affordable Care Act's risk-adjustment program.
Health Affairs Announces Launch of New Three-Year Initiative
THURSDAY, Aug. 2, 2018 (HealthDay News) -- A council on health care spending and value has been established by the journal Health Affairs.
Three Financial Metrics Can Improve Practice Performance
THURSDAY, Aug. 2, 2018 (HealthDay News) -- By understanding three indices and metrics, physicians can change the financial outcome of their medical practice, according to a report published in Medical Economics.
New Short-Term Health Plans Have Large Coverage Gaps
THURSDAY, Aug. 2, 2018 (HealthDay News) -- There are large coverage gaps in short-term health plans that were approved Wednesday by the Trump administration, and are described by critics as "junk insurance."
National Guideline Clearinghouse Offline Due to Funding Cuts
WEDNESDAY, Aug. 1, 2018 (HealthDay News) -- The National Guideline Clearinghouse (NGC) and National Quality Measures Clearinghouse (NQMC) websites were taken down on July 16 when funding for these federal databases ended, according to an announcement by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ).
Protease Inhibitors May Worsen Outcomes for HIV + Heart Failure
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Now residing in Las Vegas, Nevada, concert pianist and master piano teacher Elissa Stutz Lechnir is a former member of the music faculty at University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Since her critically acclaimed New York City recital debut in 1988, she has performed throughout the United States and the former Soviet Union as solo recitalist and orchestra guest soloist, appearing with orchestras such as the Wichita Symphony, Tulsa Philharmonic, Sioux City Symphony, Mansfield Symphony, Nevada Symphony, Lviv Philharmonic, and New Kharkiv Symphony, among others. As guest soloist with the USSR Ministry of Culture Orchestra in Moscow, Ms. Lechnir made a recording on the MK/Olympia label of Postludium for Piano and Orchestra, a piece written for her by Ukrainian composer Valentin Sylvestrov. She has made other solo recordings for Cambria Recordings. Ms. Lechnir has performed at international music festivals in cities such as Las Vegas, Los Angeles, New York, Kiev and St. Petersburg. At Kiev Music Fest '93 in Ukraine, Elissa Stutz Lechnir gave the world premiere performance of Virko Baley's Concerto No. 1 which was taped for broadcast on PBS throughout the United States. Her solo performances have included appearances at The Juilliard School, Harvard, Sarah Lawrence College, Miami University, and Palomar College, to name a few. She has also performed on television in Ukraine and live on Public Radio in Nevada.
Ms. Lechnir maintains an active private studio teaching students of all ages and especially loves working with children. Elissa Stutz Lechnir is one of the few master teachers in Nevada willing to accept beginning students as young as 4 years old, because she feels a proper start is crucial to the formation of a young musician. She fully supports whatever role music plays in the lives of her students, whether one of personal enrichment or professional career preparation. Her students regularly take top prizes in competitions and excel in performance opportunities throughout the city and elsewhere.
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Lauren Steadman: Who is the Strictly Come Dancing star, Paralympian and former University of Portsmouth student?
Matthew Mohan-Hickson
Published: 10:36 Saturday 13 October 2018
Paralympian and former Portsmouth University student Lauren Steadman is staring in the latest series of Strictly Come Dancing.
The paratriathlete was almost dropped by her partner AJ Pritchard in the official launch show, but has so far put in solid performances in the waltz and the Charleston, although impressed the judges slightly less with last week’s cha cha cha, scoring 20 out of 40.
Former Portsmouth University student Lauren Steadman with Strictly dance partner AJ Pritchard. Picture: BBC/PA Wire
But who is Lauren Steadman? Here is all you need to know:
When and where was she born?
Lauren was born in Peterborough on December 18, 1992. She was born with her lower right arm missing.
How did she get into sport?
She started to compete in triathlons after her uncle, who was a triathlete, suggested she try it out.
Lauren started her sporting career in swimming at the age of 11, with her first international competition at age 13 in Denmark.
Which Paralympics has she competed in?
She first competed in the 2008 games in Beijing, as well as at London 2012 – competing in the swimming events.
Lauren then switched to the paratriathlon for the 2016 games in Rio – and won a silver medal.
Why did she switch events?
The paratriathlon was not introduced into the Paralympics until the 2016.
What has she won during her career?
Lauren won bronze medals at the European Para Swimming Championships in Reykjavik in 2009 and Berling in 2011.
She has also won gold at the World Para Swimming Championships in Rio in 2009.
In 2014 she became the World Champion Paratriathlete in Edmonton, Canada.
At the 2016 Olympics she won a silver medal in the paratriathlon, finishing behind Grace Norman of the USA.
What did she study at Portsmouth University?
Lauren studied Psychology here in Portsmouth and graduated with a first class degree in 2014.
Not content with the one degree, she then studied and completed a master’s degree in business and management.
During her time at Portsmouth University, Lauren became a member of Portsmouth Northsea and Portsmouth Athletics Club.
Who is her partner on Strictly?
Lauren is partnered with dancer AJ Pritchard – who first joined the show in 2016.
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The World Is Running Out of Time
Jun 17, 2019 Bertrand Badré
For decades, most of the major economies have relied on a form of capitalism that delivered considerable benefits. But systems do not work in isolation. Eventually, reality asserts itself: global trade tensions reemerge, populist nationalists win power, and natural disasters grow in frequency and intensity.
WASHINGTON, DC – In 2015, the international community launched a renewed effort to tackle collective global challenges under the auspices of the United Nations Sustainable Development Agenda and the Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP21). But after an initial flurry of interest, the progress that has been made toward achieving the Sustainable Development Goals and tackling climate change has tapered off. Around the world, many seem to have developed an allergy to increasingly stark warnings from the UN and other bodies about accelerating species extinctions, ecosystem collapse, and global warming.
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Now is not the time to debate whether progress toward global goals is a matter of the glass being half-full or half-empty. Soon, there will no longer even be a glass to worry about. Despite global news coverage of civic and political action to address our mounting crises, the underlying trends are extremely frightening. In recent months, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has marshaled overwhelming evidence to show that the effects of global warming in excess of 1.5oC above preindustrial levels will be devastating for billions of people around the world.
A recent report from the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services serves as yet another wake-up call. Human activities, the report concludes, have put an unprecedented one million species at risk of extinction. The oceans that supply food and livelihoods to more than four billion people are under threat. If we do not take immediate action to reverse these trends, the challenges of playing catch-up later will probably be insurmountable.
For decades, most of the major economies have relied on a form of capitalism that delivered considerable benefits. But we are now witnessing the implications of the Nobel laureate economist Milton Friedman’s famous mantra: “the social responsibility of business is to increase its profits.” A corporate-governance model based on maximizing shareholder value has long dominated our economic system, shaping our accounting frameworks, tax regimes, and business-school curricula.
But we have now reached a point where leading economic thinkers are questioning the fundamentals of the prevailing system. Paul Collier’s The Future of Capitalism, Joseph E. Stiglitz’s People, Power, and Profits, and Raghuram G. Rajan’s The Third Pillar all offer comprehensive assessments of the problem. A capitalist system that is disconnected from most people and unmoored from the territories in which it operates is no longer acceptable. Systems do not work in isolation. Eventually, reality asserts itself: global trade tensions reemerge, populist nationalists win power, and natural disasters grow in frequency and intensity.
Simply put, our approach to capitalism has exacerbated previously manageable social and environmental problems and sowed deep social divisions. The explosion in inequality and the laser focus on short-term results (that is, quarterly earnings) are just two symptoms of a broken system.
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To maintain a well-functioning market economy that supports all stakeholders’ interests requires us to shift our focus to the long term. In some ways, this is already happening. But we need to channel the positive efforts underway into a concerted campaign to push systemic reforms past the tipping point. Only then will we have achieved a feedback loop that rewards long-term, sustainable approaches to business.
Most important, we must not succumb to complacency. Short-term tensions over trade and other issues will inevitably capture the attention of people and governments. But to permit the latest headlines to distract us from impending environmental and social catastrophes is to miss the forest for the trees.
Having said that, the impetus for driving positive change cannot be based on fear. The looming crises are both real and terrifying, but repeated warnings to that effect have diminishing returns. People have become immune to reality. Long-term change, then, must come from a readjustment of the market and our regulatory frameworks. Although consumers, investors, and other market participants should keep educating themselves and pushing for change, there also needs to be a thorough and rapid re-examination of the rules and norms governing capitalism today.
We need to impose real costs on market participants who do not change their behavior. That won’t happen through speeches, commentaries, and annual reports. The market economy is a powerful force that needs direction, and regulators and market participants themselves are the ones holding the compass. It is time to get serious about establishing the direct financial incentives and penalties needed to drive systemic change. Only after those are in place can we begin to debate whether the glass is half-empty or half-full.
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Dallas Weaver, Ph.D. Jun 23, 2019
The usual type of glib statements that date back half a century (my observation time scale). Worrying about the short term thinking of the CEOs has always been around by political busybodies, even as major companies plan decade long projects. The half a century-long validity of Moors law technology improvements in solid state devices required long-range planning at a scale and duration that far exceeded anything any government planners around the world can achieve.
Just look at the massive government programs by planners, bureaucrats, and politician to displace and take over high tech markets. The Japanese 5th generation project (the 80's) to just win against Intel and others wasted billions with no gain to Japan or the world. France blew a fortune on trying to make memory chips only to have Korean private companies blow them out of the market and even an American company. Even our DOD and DARPA threw $500 million at SEMATEC https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SEMATECH that lasted only 5 years before the political class cut the budget and it switches from technology to international supply chain information for international companies.
The implicit assumption by the author of this article that he and his associates are smart enough to make long-term optimal decisions is a pure delusion. If they are so smart at long term planning, they must be able to predict the future evolution of companies and should all be billionaires. In reality, their claims for more regulations and control are just power grabs and rent seeking.
william etheridge Jun 21, 2019
Makes a change. Yet another “we’ll all be rooned”.
Remember Ehrlich and the Club of Rome?
There is apocalyptic warning fatigue today simply because so far the dire warnings have yet to bite.
Yes it’s a bit warmer and yes the Arctic ice is melting a bit more than normal. But by and large life goes on.
Blaming “capitalism” for the ills is ridiculous. By and large it’s been a marvelous bringer of prosperity. What Russia and Venezuela today, among others, would do for a spot of “capitalism”!
Yes there are problems, always are. So it has always required government supervision, especially to keep competition fair and open.
Meanwhile just give thanks it’s getting warmer not colder. Now there’s a real problem.
Michael Harrington Jun 20, 2019
"global trade tensions reemerge, populist nationalists win power, and natural disasters grow in frequency and intensity"
Well, the first two we can certainly trace to human action and policies. The jury is still out on the third. So let's focus on the causes of trade tensions and nationalism. We would do better to trace these back to central bank financial policies and globalized trade over the past 30-40 years. The financial policies pursued by the U.S. Federal Reserve in collusion with the other central banks in the C5 have led to a credit bubble that has leveraged financialization in favor of the core under the US$ and other C5 currencies. But eventually, the centripetal forces of finance will settle on the US$ and US$ assets. This raises all kinds of tensions for those outside the US$ system.
This is not due to Donald Trump or any other nationalistic politics across the world, or climate change for that matter. It can be directly attributed to the concentration of globalization's benefits for the elites who have access to cheap finance and US$ assets. Yanis Varoufakis offers better insights.
Click-bait titles like "The World is Ending" don't help matters. The planet doesn't care about human civilization and will be here even if we're not.
Yes, most definitely. Cassandra fears of climate change will never move the needle, which is why we need to focus on managing the real threats of climate change rather than the speculative causes. It could be the sun has something different in store for us. Costing out pollution makes sense regardless.
"A corporate-governance model based on maximizing shareholder value has long dominated our economic system, shaping our accounting frameworks, tax regimes, and business-school curricula."
Okay, but this is not the problem. The problem is disconnecting shareholder value from shareholders by failing to protect the property rights of shareholders and concentrating control in the management class. Shareholders have common interests aligned with all other stakeholders, but corporate governance suffers many conflicts of interest. Corporate governance was transformed to align management with shareholders but has been overly abused to shelter management and pass on risks to shareholders. It's "heads we win, tails you lose," which is a gross violation of shareholder capitalism. That's where we should be focusing rather than throwing the baby out with the bathwater.
John Sweeney Jun 20, 2019
Joe Stiglitz, Bertrand Badré, and Adair Turner in one day. Can't Syndicate attract any other sort of writer?
Barry Rosenfeld Jun 23, 2019
Dear John:
Look at the bright side. As Pangloss said, we live in the best of all possible worlds. If anyone says the opposite, clearly they are wrong.
Instead of obsessing over endless summer, maybe we should attend to the prospect of nuclear winter, a much more probable short-term outcome now that a new Cold War has started with more nuclear players.
In the long run, if the Chicken Littles are correct, the population of the planet will fall to more sustainable levels, and the main driver of GhG will diminish. Ehrlich was correct in part, however, he didn't foresee the economic rise of China, a country responsible for 50% of the rise in GhG emissions in the past 30 years. On the bright side, several hundred million Chinese have been raised out of poverty.
The problem that resists solution is Pigovian: incorporate pollution to accurately measure the full cost of production by taxing these social costs. Then collect these revenues into a dedicated Trust Fund, and use them to subsidize new, alternative energy sources. Let the private sector bid for the funds in trust, presuming that private capital is more efficient in deciding on resource allocation. Panglossian?
Joseph Zorzin Jun 17, 2019
"the underlying trends are extremely frightening"- not everyone agrees.
Kerry Pechter Jun 20, 2019
Only because they don't appreciate the gravity of the situation.
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Current: Access to Contraception and Family Planning
Access to Contraception and Family Planning
The Clergy Advocacy Board of Planned Parenthood Federation of America (PPFA) strongly supports the availability of affordable birth control and government funding for family planning programs.
As clergy of diverse faith traditions, we celebrate the human capacity for sexual intimacy and the ability to bear and raise children. We value procreation and also the value of contraception that enables responsible intimacy to strengthen a relationship apart from bearing children.
The decision to have a child is one of the most important decisions women and couples make. Women, regardless of their socioeconomic status, should have access to affordable and comprehensive reproductive health care including the full range of contraception methods. Women and families struggling to make ends meet are just as capable of making moral decisions about having children as are affluent women.
As clergy, we believe that each person is endowed with the God-given gift of free will. Birth control enables people to plan the timing and size of their families. Giving people access to birth control and sex education is the best way to reduce the number of unintended pregnancies and abortion rates in America.
We are all created in God’s image, and all of us share as responsible agents in being good stewards of our bodies. Women should be able to treat their bodies with reverence and respect in order to plan pregnancies, prevent sexually transmitted infections, and help prevent breast and cervical cancer.
As clergy who have counseled women facing unintended pregnancies, we know that birth control is an important part of health care. We urge our elected officials to endorse reproductive health care by supporting programs that expand birth control access to low-income women and men, ensure that insurance plans cover the full range of FDA-approved birth control methods, help universities and nonprofit health care providers offer low-cost contraceptives, and guarantee that pharmacies dispense contraception. Birth control is basic, preventive health care. All women and couples should have access to affordable family planning.
The Planned Parenthood® Federation of America Clergy Advisory Board (CAB), launched in 1994, leads a national effort to increase public awareness of the theological and moral basis for advocating reproductive health and justice. CAB members are dedicated pro-choice clergy from different denominations and communities throughout the U.S. who work with Planned Parenthood at the national and state levels to further the goal of full reproductive freedom for all women and men.
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Stanley B. Greenberg, PhD, is a critically acclaimed pollster, political strategist, researcher and published author. He is known around the world for his erudite and research-based guidance that has enabled hundreds of politicians, political parties, corporations and grassroots organizations to realize their objectives. Greenberg’s profound and extensive research reveals reliable truths that are successfully guiding candidacies and corporate maneuvers on trending topics, such as climate change, gender role transformations, the role of millennials and political reform. He is currently Chairman and CEO of Greenberg Quinlan Rosner Research, the premier opinion research and political strategy consulting firm in the world.
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Stanley Greenberg’s client list reads like a roster of Who’s Who among the leaders of the world. For instance, Greenberg has served as pollster and political strategist to: President Clinton, President Nelson Mandela, Vice President Al Gore, British Prime Minister Tony Blair, U.S. Senator John Kerry, German Chancellor Gerhard Shroder, Joko Widodo, President of Indonesia and hundreds of other candidates and organizations in and outside of the United States.
Greenberg has provided strategic political consulting services to corporate giants, such as Microsoft, BP, Boeing, Sun Microsystems, Comverse, Monsanto and United HealthCare. He served as a strategic advisor to the Athens Olympics organizing committee in 2004, helping them prepare for the geopolitical challenges of the event. He has conducted polling for the campaign to ban landmines, the Israel Project, and for an international cadre of NGOs dealing with hot-button issues such as climate change, political reform, women’s advocacy and aging. Greenberg was the primary polling advisor to the Democratic Leadership Council during the period of major restructuring of the Democratic Party between the years 1988 – 1994.
Stanley Greenberg was born in 1945 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He received his undergraduate degree in political science from Miami University and his PhD also in political science from Harvard University. Greenberg spent 10 years as a professor at Yale University where he was the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship. He left Yale to launch Greenberg Quinlan Rosner Research in 1980. Greenberg is the recipient of numerous awards. For instance, he was inducted into the American Association of Political Consultants, “Hall of Fame” and he was named by Esquire Magazine as one of the most important people of the 21st Century. His colleagues describe him as the “father of modern polling techniques.”
Stanley Greenberg is also a prolific, internationally recognized, best-selling author. Many of his books have found their way to the New York Times bestseller list. His latest, which was published in 2015 and has been met with astounding reviews and sales, is “American Ascendant: A Revolutionary Nation’s Path to Addressing Its Deepest Problems and Leading the 21st Century”. Previous bestsellers include: “Dispatches from the War Room: In the Trenches with Five Extraordinary Leaders”.
In addition to his polling and political strategy consulting firm, Greenberg joined forces with James Carville to found Democracy Corps, the foremost organization providing research data and strategic counseling to public and private sector leaders, candidates and progressive groups. He and Carville also co-authored a best-selling book, “It’s the Middle Class Stupid.”—a playbook for how to speak to voters about economic issues.
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Corin Edwards is a highly versatile and professional all-round family entertainer. He has a wealth of experience gained from working at a young age for Warner Holidays as a TeamStar DJ. From there he moved into children’s entertainment and both comedy magic and stand-up comedy soon followed.
Since then his career has seen him take on the role of Entertainments Manager at various holiday and leisure centres throughout the UK together with the duty of DJ, compere and host on board various cruise ships.
All of this experience has resulted in Corin developing into a truly personality DJ. He has the proven ability to read an audience and can always be relied upon to make an event happen.
He presents a wide mixture of music based around classic hits and dance-floor fillers from the past five decades. DJ Corin can also provide an evening of Karaoke.
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Ian is a multi instrumental vocal and comedy entertainer. Playing guitars, five string banjo and ukulele, together with his own approach to comedy; he is fun, versatile and ideal for any age.
From an early age Ian was destined become an entertainer with his own band, three pantomimes and an appearance on the popular kids TV show Tiswas before he left school. Since then he has worked throughout the UK and Europe in bands and a duo performing his own brand of music and comedy. He still occasionally appears as part of top party band Red, Hot & Blue when not touring with his own solo act.
Appearances include the Royal Albert Hall and the Hard Rock Cafe in London together with holiday parks, hotels, tents in gardens, theatres, clubs, tents on the side of the road, boats on the water, small pubs, outside a public convenience and somebody’s front room.
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From the obscurity of a US military base in the outback of the border of Norfolk and Suffolk, airman Bruce McPherson Lucas catapulted to almost cult and legendary status in the 1960’s as a singer with both the Mike Cotton Sound and Geno Washington & the Ram Jam Band. He has recorded for the Polydor, Pye and MGM labels and appeared alongside fellow Americans and giants within the music industry, The Four Tops, James Brown, Stevie Wonder, Aretha Franklin, Ben E King, Edwin Starr and The Drifters.
Nowadays Lucas is still in demand as a solo vocal entertainer. He brings alive Soul classics by Marvin Gaye, Smokie Robinson, Otis Redding, The Four Tops, The Temptations, Stevie Wonder, The Drifters, James Brown and The Blues Brothers.
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The Institute is housed in an award-winning modern building, designed by the international architects Kohn, Pedersen, Fox. It is constructed from the traditional Oxford materials of Bath stone, with American oak and zinc - a fittingly trans-Atlantic building for a project designed to strengthen old ties and create new ones.
Large windows admit daylight into the offices of the professors, visiting scholars and post-doctoral fellows of American history, politics and literature, and the seminar rooms on the lower floors. The Vere Harmsworth Library occupies the upper floors, where there is study space for nearly one hundred researchers.
The RAI is committed to minimising its impact on the environment though energy conservation and efficiency. The Institute was built with environmental systems in place to lessen energy use: the building is naturally ventilated and designed to maximise air-flow within the library and its offices, and does not require air-conditioning.
In 2015, the RAI achieved an Energy Performance Rating of 54, showing its energy use to be significantly lower than would be typical for a building of its size – the typical rating would be 100. This also represented a fall since 2010 when the rating was 71. Emissions of carbon dioxide from the building’s energy consumption have also fallen considerably in recent years, from 131 tonnes in 2010 to 103 tonnes in 2015.
A two year project is currently underway to replace all the lighting throughout the building with energy efficient and responsive LEDs, while solar panels were installed on the roof in December 2015.
The Institute is fully accessible for those requiring level access, with a ramp to the entrance and lift access to all floors. There is limited parking but a space can normally be reserved on request for visitors needing to park close by.
Full accessibility information may be found on the University Access Guide, and visitors with particular access requirements are encouraged to contact us.
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Longer than an article, shorter than a book: UM Press director suggests (the return of) a new digital art form
by Heather on April 28, 2011
University of Michigan Press Director Phil Pochoda, along with coauthor Joseph Esposito, recently composed a piece for the Scholarly Kitchen blog of the Society for Scholarly Publishing on what they see as a new form of born-digital publications: the rebirth of the pamphlet-length, peer-reviewed piece, which is currently awkward in print (too long for a journal article, too short for a book). The entry is entitled “Through the Wormhole: A new format for the born-digital…
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University of Michigan Press writer Margaret Price, author of the new book Mad at School, recently appeared in an extensive story about mental disabilities on university campuses posted by the Chronicle of Higher Education. In the article, professor and author Benjamin Reiss writes, “Margaret Price makes clear in her book, Mad at School, influential voices are arguing that we should try to get around the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act regulations, which protect the…
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December 11, 2015 / 2:39 PM / 4 years ago
Neutral Finland to boost Iraq, Lebanon missions to help France
HELSINKI (Reuters) - Finland said on Friday it would boost its involvement in a training mission in Iraq and in a U.N.-led operation in Lebanon to help relieve French forces following the Paris attacks last month by Islamic State militants.
France made an unprecedented call for military help from its European Union partners under the bloc’s Lisbon Treaty following the attacks, which killed 130 people.
EU member Finland is officially neutral and not in NATO. Its constitution does not allow it to take part in military operations overseas.
However, the Finnish government said in a statement it would expand the number of people it has deployed to a training mission in the northern Iraqi city of Arbil and was stepping up its presence in the United Nations mission in Lebanon to help free up French forces needed elsewhere.
Finland is also considering boosting its participation in a crisis-management operation in Mali, the statement said.
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Iranian protesters attack police stations, raise stakes in unrest
Michael Georgy
DUBAI (Reuters) - Iranian protesters attacked police stations late into the night on Monday, news agency and social media reports said, as security forces struggled to contain the boldest challenge to the clerical leadership since unrest in 2009.
Videos on social media showed an intense clash in the central town of Qahderijan between security forces and protesters who were trying to occupy a police station, which was partially set ablaze. There were unconfirmed reports of several casualties among demonstrators.
In the western city of Kermanshah, protesters set fire to a traffic police post, but no one was hurt in the incident, Mehr news agency said.
Demonstrations continued for a fifth day. Some 13 people were reported killed on Sunday in the worst wave of unrest since crowds took to the streets in 2009 to condemn the re-election of then-president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
The protests have put pressure on the clerical leaders in power since the 1979 Islamic Revolution. President Hassan Rouhani made a televised call for calm on Sunday, saying Iranians had the right to criticize but must not cause unrest.
In the central city of Najafabad, a demonstrator opened fire on police with a hunting rifle, killing one and wounding three others, state television said.
Earlier, state TV said armed demonstrators on Sunday had tried to seize police and military bases but were stopped by “strong resistance from security forces.” It gave no further details and there was no independent confirmation.
State TV had reported that 10 people were killed in protests on Sunday. On Monday, that death toll rose when the deputy governor of the western Hamadan Province, Saeed Shahrokhi, told ISNA news agency that another three protesters were killed on Sunday in the city of Tuyserkan.
“NO TOLERANCE”
Hundreds have been arrested, according to officials and social media. Online video showed police in the capital Tehran firing water cannon to disperse demonstrators, in footage said to have been filmed on Sunday.
Protests against economic hardships and alleged corruption erupted in Iran’s second city of Mashhad on Thursday and escalated across the country into calls for the religious establishment to step down.
Some of the anger was directed at Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, breaking a taboo surrounding the man who has been supreme leader of Iran since 1989.
People protest in Tehran, Iran December 30, 2017 in this picture obtained from social media. REUTERS.
Video posted on social media showed crowds of people walking through the streets, some chanting “Death to the dictator!” Reuters was not immediately able to verify the footage. The Fars news agency reported “scattered groups” of protesters in Tehran on Monday and said a ringleader had been arrested.
“The government will show no tolerance for those who damage public property, violate public order and create unrest in society,” Rouhani said in his address on Sunday.
Unsigned statements on social media urged Iranians to continue to demonstrate in 50 towns and cities.
The government said it was temporarily restricting access to the Telegram messaging app and Instagram. There were reports that internet mobile access was blocked in some areas.
TRUMP, NETANYAHU VOICE SUPPORT
Iran is a major OPEC oil producer and regional power deeply involved in Syria and Iraq as part of a battle for influence with rival Saudi Arabia. Many Iranians resent those foreign interventions, and want their leaders to create jobs at home, where youth unemployment reached 28.8 percent last year.
Among reported fatalities, two people were shot dead in the southwestern town of Izeh on Sunday and several others were injured, ILNA news agency quoted a member of parliament as saying.
“I do not know whether yesterday’s shooting was done by rally participants or the police and this issue is being investigated,” Hedayatollah Khademi was quoted as saying.
Regional governor Mostafa Samali told Fars that only one person was killed in an incident unrelated to the protests, and the suspected shooter had been arrested.
Almost nine years since the “Green movement” reformist protests were crushed by the state, Iran’s adversaries voiced their support for the resurgence of anti-government sentiment.
U.S. President Donald Trump tweeted: “The great Iranian people have been repressed for many years. They are hungry for food & for freedom. Along with human rights, the wealth of Iran is being looted. TIME FOR CHANGE!”
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu praised the “brave Iranians” taking to streets to protest a regime that “wastes tens of billions of dollars spreading hate”.
“I wish the Iranian people success in their noble quest for freedom,” he said in a video posted on his Facebook page.
German Foreign Minister Sigmar Gabriel urged “all sides (to) refrain from violent actions”.
Reporting by Dubai newsroom; Editing by Matthew Mpoke Bigg, Robin Pomeroy and David Gregorio
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Breakingviews - Spanish election half-solves political paralysis
Liam Proud
Spain's Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez of the Socialist Workers' Party speaks to supporter while celebrating the result in Spain's general election in Madrid, Spain, April 28, 2019. REUTERS/Sergio Perez
LONDON (Reuters Breakingviews) - Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez has reasons to both cheer and sigh after Sunday’s general election. The Socialist leader secured a stronger political mandate, but faces lengthy negotiations with possible partners to form a new government. After a third vote in four years, Spain has only a partial solution to its political gridlock.
Sanchez’s party won 123 of the 350 parliamentary seats, up from just 85. His conservative rival People’s Party (PP) lost about half its seats, ending with 66, as the Catalan anti-separatist Ciudadanos and far-right Vox picked up support.
That result leaves Sanchez in a stronger position. The 47-year-old came to power last June after a no-confidence vote against the previous conservative minority government, which was weakened by a corruption scandal. In the months that followed, he was unable to secure the support of pro-independence Catalan parties which formed part of the so-called Frankenstein coalition he needed to pass a budget, forcing him to call an election.
Though still well short of the 176 seats needed for a majority, Sanchez is now clearly the only leader capable of forming a government. The Socialists have as many seats as the next two largest parties combined, while an alternative right-wing trio of PP, Ciudadanos and Vox could only muster 147. The question is which parties Sanchez approaches to help him form a government.
Financial markets would probably react best to a coalition between Sanchez and Albert Rivera, the economically liberal and pro-European Union Ciudadanos leader. Together they would control 180 seats. A deal seems unlikely, however, since the two have sharply differing views on Catalonia, which dominated the election campaign. Sanchez favours dialogue with separatists; Rivera is staunchly opposed.
That makes a revamped Frankenstein coalition the most plausible option. Together with Podemos, a leftist grouping and recent ally of the Socialists, Sanchez would have 165 seats in parliament. He would once again need the support of small regional groups and possibly a moderate Catalan independence party to get over the line – or at least a promise to abstain on key votes. The difference this time, however, is that Sanchez is in a stronger negotiating position. For a political system that’s been close to gridlock for years, that counts as progress.
Reuters Breakingviews is the world's leading source of agenda-setting financial insight. As the Reuters brand for financial commentary, we dissect the big business and economic stories as they break around the world every day. A global team of about 30 correspondents in New York, London, Hong Kong and other major cities provides expert analysis in real time.
Sign up for a free trial of our full service at https://www.breakingviews.com/trial and follow us on Twitter @Breakingviews and at www.breakingviews.com. All opinions expressed are those of the authors.
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The Royal and Ancient Golf Club announces Sir Bob Charles as an Honorary Member
Sir Bob Charles won The 92ND Open at Royal Lytham & St Annes in 1963
Sir Bob Charles ONZ, KNZM, CBE has become an Honorary Member of The Royal and Ancient Golf Club of St Andrews.
Sir Bob is one of the world’s most renowned and popular golfers, becoming Champion Golfer of the Year after winning The Open in a play-off at Royal Lytham & St Annes in 1963. He won nearly 80 titles around the world and was admitted to the World Golf Hall of Fame in 2008.
“I am extremely proud and gratified to be invited to become an Honorary Member of The Royal and Ancient Golf Club,” said Sir Bob. “Winning The Open was a tremendous part of my career and I have always had a huge affinity for the Championship and the wonderful links courses on which it is played. The Club is at the heart of golf in St Andrews and it is a privilege to follow so many other great champions in becoming part of its history.”
Gavin Caldwell, Captain of The Royal and Ancient Golf Club of St Andrews, said, “I am delighted to welcome Sir Bob Charles as an Honorary Member of the Club. He has graced the sport for many years as one of its outstanding champions and has given back so much to golf by supporting development initiatives in his native New Zealand. Sir Bob has made a substantial contribution to the growth of golf throughout a long and successful career and thoroughly deserves this recognition.”
Born in Carterton on New Zealand’s North Island in 1936, Sir Bob discovered a love for golf at an early age and began work as a bank-teller. He went on to win the New Zealand Open as an amateur in 1954 and enjoyed an extensive amateur career before turning professional in 1960. Sir Bob became the first left-handed golfer to win on the PGA TOUR at the Houston Classic three years later. In that same year, he finished tied with American Phil Rodgers at The Open at Royal Lytham and went on to win the 36-hole play-off by eight shots with a memorable display of putting.
In 1969, Sir Bob won the World Match Play Championship and, as well as achieving numerous victories around the world, he amassed a string of top five finishes in Major Championships, including finishing tied second in The Open in 1968 and second the following year. He then embarked on a successful senior career, winning the Senior Open on two occasions, at Turnberry in 1989 and at Royal Lytham, 30 years on from his victory there in The Open. Sir Bob announced his retirement from competitive golf after the Senior Open in 2010 at the age of 74.
Sir Bob received a CBE for services to golf in 1992, a Knighthood in 1999 and was appointed to The Order of New Zealand for services to his home country in 2011.
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39 LISTS Greatest and Favorite MoviesLook: There are hundred of thousands of movies out there for you to watch. All we're saying is that these are the ones you should put at the top of your list.
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World hails Trump-Kim summit as 'first step' to denuclearization
Here are some of the main reactions so far
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Published 7:29 AM, June 13, 2018
Updated 7:29 AM, June 13, 2018
TRUMP-KIM SUMMIT. US President Donald Trump makes a statement before saying goodbye to North Korea leader Kim Jong Un (L) after their meetings at the Capella resort on Sentosa Island in Singapore on June 12, 2018. Photo by Susan Walsh/AFP
PARIS, France – World powers welcomed the summit between US President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un on Tuesday, June 12.
Most cautioned that the summit in Singapore was only the first step in a long journey to full denuclearization of the the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, or DPRK, as North Korea calls itself. (READ: 6 things we learned from historic Trump-Kim summit)
Here are some of the main reactions so far:
In Beijing, which is Pyongyang's sole major ally and main trading partner, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi said the fact that the two leaders "can sit together and have equal talks has important and positive meaning, and is creating a new history."
"Resolving the nuclear issue, on the one hand of course is denuclearization, full denuclearization. At the same time, there needs to be a peace mechanism for the peninsula, to resolve North Korea's reasonable security concerns," Wang said.
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe saw the summit as a "first step" towards "complete denuclearization" and "the comprehensive resolution of issues concerning North Korea."
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said that while "we have not yet seen the documents... the mere fact that this meeting took place is of course positive."
EU diplomatic chief Federica Mogherini praised the summit as a "crucial and necessary step to build upon the positive developments achieved in inter-Korean relations and on the peninsula so far."
The aim of the international community remained "the complete, verifiable and irreversible denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula", she said. "The joint statement signed by the US and DPRK leaders today gives a clear signal that this goal can be achieved."
British Foreign Minister Boris Johnson said in tweet that the talks had been "constructive" and "DPRK's commitment to complete denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula is an important first step towards a stable and prosperous future."
Yukiya Amano, the head of the UN's International Atomic Energy Agency, welcomed the "DPRK's commitment towards complete denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula."
"The IAEA stands ready to undertake any verification activities in the DPRK that it may be requested to conduct by the countries concerned," Amano added.
Norway's foreign minister Ine Eriksen Soreide said that notwithstanding the "fundamentally positive" step the summit represented, it was now "that the largest part of the work actually begins."
Jacek Sasin, aide to Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki, said that "if as a result of the meeting, North Korea will abandon its nuclear aspirations and no longer threatens to launch an attack, it's very good."
President Andrzej Duda's chief of staff, Krzysztof Szczerski, hailed the summit as "spectacular" and a "triumph of diplomacy". – Rappler.com
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Our insightsIFRS Newsletter - July...
IFRS Newsletter – July 2017
Welcome to IFRS Newsletter – a newsletter that offers a summary of certain developments in International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) along with insights into topical issues.
We begin this second edition of the year by considering how tax issues resulting from the UK’s decision to leave the European Union may affect entities’ financial reporting. We then move on to look at a number of proposals that have been published by the IASB, including the latest instalment in the IASB’s Disclosure Initiative project – a Discussion Paper which suggests principles to make disclosures in financial statements more effective.
Further on in the newsletter, you will find IFRS-related news at Grant Thornton and a general round-up of financial reporting developments. We finish with a summary of the implementation dates of newer standards that are not yet mandatory, and a list of IASB publications that are out for comment.
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Using Genomics for the World of Tomorrow: This is Where We Stand… Are We Ready?
Pascal Grob
Senior manager | Ph., D. | Tax
The media more often report the challenges represented by climate change, population density, farming practices and the sustainable management of natural resources through a pessimistic—even a catastrophic—lens.
Yet, Philippe Rigault, the President and founder of Gydle, maintains that human development indicators such as life expectancy, education, improvements in the status of women, the reduction of poverty and hunger, the number of war casualties, etc. are constantly improving, so that objectively speaking, “things were no better before”.
In fact, certain global problems such as acid rain, the hole in the ozone layer and population growth in developing countries were resolved in very large part when a consensus was reached as to the proper course of action to take.
Managing the planet using genomics
Philippe is one of those fundamentally optimistic scientists who are convinced that scientific and technological advancements, which require new knowledge, have allowed for human progress and that it is by continuing along the same path that the new challenges before us will be resolved. We must therefore develop a real management plan for the planet by changing our way of life, our way of farming and producing goods and our way of managing ecosystems so as to address all of the challenges before us simultaneously. This means optimizing production yields and the efficiency of sustainable farming practices, ensuring public health and protecting biodiversity while taking into consideration the new climate realities in an open world. To achieve this, we must first and foremost know about the living world around us so that we may take action to meet these challenges. This is the ambitious gamble of genomics.
Genomics is a field that combines biology, genetics and informatics to study genomes, i.e. the genetic material in the form of DNA that makes up every living being. Having knowledge of the genome makes it possible to interpret this information, viewing it as a biological recipe for life, and to understand all of the molecular data of an organism as well as their function. Such knowledge also provides insight into genetic differences between individual members of the same species which underlie genetic diseases, personalized medicine, and different forms of cancer, but also all farming practices and improvements to certain organisms using technology. Finally, since all living organisms have common ancestors, comparing genomes makes it possible to study the evolution of species as well as the mechanisms and factors that have allowed them to adapt, and to understand ecosystems and biodiversity.
Philippe Rigault founded Gydle, a Québec-based bioinformatics firm, in 2008 after acquiring 17 years of international experience mapping the human genome (Généthon) and working in biotechnology (Incyte and Illumina), as well as being involved in university and pharmaceutical research. Gydle’s mission is to develop tools to assemble, analyze and compare genomes.
The genome is a puzzle for living things that is pieced together using algorithms
Philippe explains that “assembling a genome is like putting together a puzzle with no picture to guide you. You have the pieces and can see which ones would generally go together. We use this information to put the whole puzzle together using algorithms.” Where the genome is concerned, the pieces of the puzzle are sequenced DNA fragments (a hundred or so A, C, G or T base pairs) that are compared by aligning the sequences. The solution represents the DNA of the complete genome. The smallest genomes are composed of a million base pairs (e.g. for viruses and bacteria) while those for plants and animals are gigantic (from hundreds of millions to tens of billions of base pairs), requiring combinatory analyses of billions of fragments. DNA sequencing technology has made huge strides (25 years ago, it cost a dollar to sequence one base pair whereas today it costs the same amount to sequence 10 million base pairs). In fact, since sequencing technology has evolved even more quickly than information technology, the assembly and analysis of finished genomes are now the limiting factors.
That is why Gydle has been developing high-performance technology over a number of years to assemble, compare and analyze genomes in detail. Compared to other solutions, the Gydle nuclear DNA aligner is much more efficient due to the optimized multicore processors and memory. Data stored in the Gydle (GYM) format is 50 times more compact and is fully processed in an integrated visual environment (Vision). Gydle is teaming up with leaders in the field of genomics to provide solutions for all types of genomes and applications for farming, human health, forestry, bioenergy and biodiversity. For example, Gydle technology made it possible to assemble the finished genome for the chloroplasts of forty or so species of eucalyptus, thereby mapping all of the genetic changes for this family of plant over the last 80 million years. This provides an exceptional body of knowledge making it possible to better classify these plant species, to understand how they have adapted over time and to determine changes relating to more effective photosynthesis.
After seeing bioinformatics evolve over 25 years, from the mapping of the first human genome to quick and inexpensive genome sequencing, Philippe believes that within the next 25 years we will know the genome for most living organisms as well as how they function, how they have evolved over time and how they interact with one another. This is a new era of informational biology, which will allow us to understand all living organisms.
The key issue: is society ready?
The paradox, as seen by Philippe Rigault, is that as knowledge is being built and solutions are developed, there is resistance in Western societies as some people seek to halt development or even take a step backwards. Some people view any human intervention in a natural process as heresy. This applies to all new endeavours, specifically and preferably relating to others, since the proponents of these schools of thought will rarely shun vaccines, antibiotics, infertility treatments, fruits and vegetables developed through select genetic modifications since the Neolithic period (like the sweet potato), hydroelectricity or other technology contributing to their modern-day comforts.
In dealing with the major issues of tomorrow confronting the human race today, innovators like Philippe Rigault are boldly seeking solutions while trying to understand how to improve living organisms through technology. These researchers do not fear the world that awaits us and believe that it must be adapted quickly so that we may continue to live better, and in a sustainable manner. The conclusion of their analysis is that the solution involves using technology to address the functions of living organisms in order to improve natural and artificial ecosystems and to tailor these ecosystems to new realities and have a new management plan for the planet following a social debate informed by this new knowledge.
The challenges before us are urgent and must be addressed simultaneously and on a global scale. However, they cannot be resolved by taking a step backwards. What solution will society choose? This question is compelling, to say the least, and warrants consideration and debate.
Taxation – R&D and Innovation (SR&ED)
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Mr. Pascal Grob is the director of information technology SR&ED projects. He specializes in...
Agreements With a Government Entity and Their Impact on the TCEB
Jean-François Rhéaume
Senior Manager | CPA, CA | Tax
In the 2015 Quebec budget speech, the Finance Minister announced changes to the Tax Credit for the Development of E-Business (TCEB) by introducing the concept of “work under an agreement entered into by the employer and a government entity”.
As a result, the portion of an employee’s wages that is attributable to the employee’s duties in the performance of work in respect of a government entity no longer qualifies. This change applies to agreements entered into, renewed or extended after September 30, 2015.
This modification in the tax credit calculation does not change the eligibility criteria for the entity or its employees. Accordingly, even though the entity has ongoing agreements with government entities, its qualification tests are unchanged, since its income from such agreements still qualifies. The work performed by employees in connection with these agreements continues to qualify for the 75% threshold. Rather, the change results in limiting the credit amount on a prorata basis of work carried out under agreements with these entities.
Due to a subtlety in the calculation of eligible salaries, in some cases, the calculation will not be on a true prorata basis. In practice, it will be the employee’s total wages that will be reduced rather than the maximum wages for the tax credit. In certain situations, this subtlety alters the prorata to the claimant’s benefit. Consider the example of employees with annual wages of $100,000 who spend 15% of their time on agreements with entities targeted by the tax change—their qualified wages will be $85,000. Since the TCEB is calculated on maximum wages of $83,333, in this case, the tax credit is not reduced.
For clarification, a government entity is:
A Quebec government department;
An entity under Section 2 of the Financial Administration Act. Schedules 1, 2 and 3 of this Act list all the government bodies in question.
It’s interesting to note that not all Quebec government organizations are included within the scope of government bodies. Accordingly, agreements with universities, CEGEPs, hospitals, school boards, municipalities and organizations not listed in the schedules are not subject to the change.
A detailed analysis of employees’ individual timesheets, on the basis of the agreement signature date, will be needed to deduct a portion of the qualified employee’s wages.
Rhéaume
Jean-François Rhéaume is your expert in taxation for the Québec office. Contact him today!
Taxation in Québec : favourable measures to foster investment 2017
Intended especially for foreign companies considering investing in Québec, Taxation in Québec: Favourable Measures to Foster Investment provides an overview of the principal tax measures that apply to companies operating in Québec.
In addition to very attractive tax measures, Québec has given Investissement Québec specific tools that enable it to act as a financial partner to businesses. Although this brochure focuses on tax issues, Québec provides businesses with a range of financial solutions that complement those offered by financial institutions. These solutions may include conventional loans, loan guarantees, non-refundable contributions or equity interests.
Further information about these financial products can be obtained from Investissement Québec at 1 844 474-6367 or by logging on to investquebec.com.
The information in this brochure was up to date as at May 1, 2017, and does not reflect any modifications that might have been announced subsequent to that date. Monetary amounts are expressed in Canadian dollars.
This brochure is for information purposes only. It does not substitute for legislation, regulations or orders adopted by the Québec government.
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Capt. Augustine Washington[1, 2, 3, 4, 5]
Name Augustine Washington
Title Capt.
Born 1693/94 Wakefield, Westmoreland County, Virginia, USA [1, 6, 7]
Occupation At death, had amassed over 10,000 acres which he passed on to his heirs. [8]
Occupation Educated Appleby School, England. [2]
Occupation Justice of the Peace, High Sheriff 1727. [2]
Occupation Managed plantation at Hunting Creek, owned an iron mine in Fredericksburg. [2]
Occupation 26 May 1726 Mt. Vernon Estate (Epsewasson), Fairfax County, Virginia, USA [2]
Had estate of Epsewasson (later called Mt. Vernon) transferred from his sister.
Residence Wakefield, Westmoreland County, Virginia, USA [2]
Died 12 Apr 1743 Ferry Farm, King George County, Virginia, USA [2, 9, 10, 11]
Person ID I1750666450 Red1st
Father Lawrence Washington, b. 1 Sep 1659, Westmoreland County, Virginia, USA , d. 1 Feb 1697/98, Warner Hall, Gloucester County, Virginia, USA (Age 38 years)
Mother Mildred Warner, b. 1670/71, Warner Hall, Gloucester County, Virginia, USA , d. 26 Mar 1701, Whitehaven, Cumberland, England (Age 30 years)
Married 1688/89 Virginia, USA [12, 13, 14, 15]
Family 1 Mary Ball, b. 1708/09, Epping Forest, Lancaster County, Virginia, USA , d. 25 Aug 1789, Fredericksburg, Virginia, USA (Age 80 years)
Married 6 Mar 1730/31 Lancaster County, Virginia, USA [3, 12, 16]
1. General George Washington, 1st President of the USA, b. 11 Feb 1731/32, Pope's Creek, Westmoreland County, Virginia, USA , d. 14 Dec 1799, Mt. Vernon, Fairfax County, Virginia, USA (Age 67 years)
+ 2. Elizabeth (Betty) Washington, b. 20 Jun 1733, Bridges Creek, Westmoreland County, Washington State, USA , d. 31 Mar 1797, Western View, Culpeper County, Virginia, USA (Age 63 years)
+ 3. Samuel Washington, b. 16 Nov 1734, Wakefield, Westmoreland County, Virginia, USA , d. 9 Sep 1781, Harewood, Charles Town, Jefferson County, West Virginia, USA (Age 46 years)
+ 4. John Augustine Washington, b. 13 Jan 1735/36, d. 1787 (Age 50 years)
+ 5. Charles Washington, b. 2 May 1738, Stafford County, Virginia, USA , d. 16 Sep 1799 (Age 61 years)
6. Mildred Washington, b. 1739, d. 23 Oct 1740, Ferry Farm, King George County, Virginia, USA (Age 1 years)
Family 2 Jane Butler, b. 24 Dec 1699, Westmoreland County, Virginia, USA , d. 24 Nov 1729, Pope's Creek, Westmoreland County, Virginia, USA (Age 29 years)
Married 20 Apr 1715 [2, 11, 17]
1. Butler Washington, b. 1715/16, d. Bef 1729 (Age 13 years)
+ 2. Lawrence Washington, b. 1717/18, d. 1751/52 (Age 34 years)
+ 3. Augustine (Austin) Washington, b. 1719/20, Westmoreland County, Virginia, USA , d. 1762 (Age 42 years)
4. Jane Washington, b. 1721/22, d. 1734/35, Pope's Creek, Westmoreland County, Virginia, USA (Age 13 years)
Born - 1693/94 - Wakefield, Westmoreland County, Virginia, USA
Occupation - 26 May 1726 - Mt. Vernon Estate (Epsewasson), Fairfax County, Virginia, USA
Residence - - Wakefield, Westmoreland County, Virginia, USA
Married - 6 Mar 1730/31 - Lancaster County, Virginia, USA
Died - 12 Apr 1743 - Ferry Farm, King George County, Virginia, USA
[S50917211256] Another Royal Descent of President Washington from Edward I, King of England.
[S50917211463] Burke's Peerage of American Presidents, Lineage of President Washington.
[S50917195322] Presidents Database: Genealogy of the US Presidents, Brian Tompsett, Computer Science Dept, University of Hull (England), (based on book "The Presidents", pub. by Funk & Wagnall's).
[S50917205186] Royal Descents of 500 Immigrants, Gary Boyd Roberts, (Genealogical Publishing Comp, Baltimore 1993).
[S50917195509] Royal Descents of Famous People, Mark Humphrys, (copyright 1995, 1996).
b 1693/94
[S50917212544] George Washington's Family.
d 1743
[S50917205623] The Stronghold, A Story of Historic Northern Neck of Virginia & Its People, Miriam Haynie, (The Dietz Press, Richmond, VA 1959), p 131.
[S50917214442] Washingtons of Northampton & Virginia, USA.
[S50917195287] Plantagenet Ancestry of 17th Century Colonists, David Faris, (Genealogical Publishing County, Baltimore, MD, 1996), 1st ed, p. 275, "Washington".
m abt 1689
[S50917205355] Some Royal Descents of President Washington.
[S50917194003] GENDEX, various contributors.
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World of Warcraft: Warlords of Draenor
Warlords Of Draenor Now Part Of World Of Warcraft Base Game
By Philippa Warr • 3 years ago • 11
Warlords of Draenor is now part of the base World of Warcraft [official site] game, meaning it's included when you buy WoW so no need to pay extra for the expansion.
Tagged with Blizzard Entertainment, World of Warcraft, World of Warcraft: Warlords of Draenor.
Feature: Ships, time travelling and myths.
Returning To World Of Warcraft With Patch 6.2
By Ben Barrett • 4 years ago • 40
I've been playing WoW on and off for most of my adult life and quite a bit more besides. It is my comfort game, a warm blanket of mob-killing, number-crunching and loot-grabbing that has always been there when I've needed it. Latest expansion Warlords of Draenor [official site] was, on release, the best the game has ever been in terms of quality, though rather quickly…
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Avast: World Of Warcraft Adding Garrison Shipyards
For a game supposedly about war and the crafting of warthings, World of Warcraft [official site] doesn't have much of any of that. Mostly the Horde and Alliance stand on opposite sides of the warhall sneering and occasionally yelling e.g. "You're rubbish you are!" The Warlords of Draenor expansion did add a little warcrafting, though, letting folks build and upgrade their own garrison. Now Blizzard…
Buy World Of Warcraft Subs For Gold With WoW Tokens
MMORPG players buying and selling virtual money for real money is, we all know, very naughty indeed. Folks who want to skip the grind end up driving up auction house prices for everyone, making the grind even grindier for those without cash to flash. MMOs tend to ban users buying gold (or credz, shillings, cybershillings...), but a few have introduced roundabout official ways to do…
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Buy World Of Warcraft Subscriptions For In-Game Gold
Blizzard have announced that an "upcoming patch" will introduce the ability to buy World of Warcraft [official site] game time tokens to be sold on the in-game auction house for gold, the game's primary currency. This means two things: there is now a first party, risk free way to buy WoW gold for real cash, cutting the legs out from under a long-standing and TOS-breaking…
Warlords Of Draenor: Blackrock Foundry’s Raid Bosses
By Philippa Warr • 4 years ago • 6
Blizzard have released a preview for the upcoming Warlords of Draenor raid Blackrock Foundry, with info about its denizens and bosses as well as some general Foundry facts. The raid opens on February 4th with Normal and Heroic difficulties (Mythic is slightly later on Feb 11th and Raid Finder kicks in on the 18th) taking the titular Blackrock Foundry as its setting. The Foundry used…
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Feature: Best Writers Pick Best Games
Bestest Best Games Of 2014: The Contributor’s Picks
We're blessed at Rock, Paper, Shotgun with the best contributing writers in videogames, so it seemed only reasonable to ask them for some of their finely-worded thoughts on the bestest best games of 2014. We asked Tim Stone, Cara Ellison, Ben Barrett, Brendan Caldwell, Cassandra Khaw, Konstantinos Dimopoulos, Marsh Davies, Rob Sherman and Rich Stanton to pick their favourite and write a brief summary of…
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Feature: Garrison And On And On
Why WoW Is Now All About WarCraft 3-Style Player Bases
By Tom Mayo • 5 years ago • 32
Garrisons are the biggest, splashiest feature of Warlords of Draenor by a considerable margin. Players have been rhubarbing about the lack of player housing for years, and this is Blizzard answering them while drawing from their RTS roots for inspiration. Combine these factors and you get an instanced Warcraft III-style base of your very own, complete with meaningful building choices and dozens of NPC followers.…
10 Million World Of Warcrafteers And A Lawsuit Settlement
It looks like something of a double celebration for Activision Blizzard as the company announces a sizeable uptick in World of Warcraft subscribers (they're back above 10 million) and a settlement in that shareholder case. Party hats at dawn...
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Feature: Hearth and home
World Of Warcraft – Warlords Of Draenor review
World of Warcraft is ten years old and over that decade it has dominated the genre it popularised back in 2004. Given the size and devotion of its playerbase, it isn't surprising to see another spurt of growth, adding bulk in the form of a stack of new content. Tom Mayo explored that content and found that the game hasn't just expanded - with the…
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World Of Warcraft: Warlords Of Draenor Has Launched
With World of Warcraft's fifth expansion, Warlords of Draenor, having launched this morning, Alice and Pip offer their expert analysis after watching two (2) trailers. Pip: Alice. There is a World of Warcraft expansion out called Warlords of Draenor – I know this because I have seen TWO (2) trailers for it. You going to play it? Alice: I shan't, no - I have one…
Black, White And Free All Over: Mists Of Pandaria
Preparations for the Warlords of Draenor expansion to World of Warcraft continues. Yesterday brought The Iron Tide, the traditional pre-expansion patch with all its many changes. Now Blizzard have done the other now-traditional thing and folded the last expansion's content into the base World of Warcraft game. That means subscribers who never bought Mists of Pandaria no longer need to, as its landmass and quests…
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Interdimensional Time-Orcs: WoW 6.0.2 Coming Soon
I returned to World of Warcraft earlier this year on the encouragement of a few online friends. I hadn't played since the release of Mists of Pandaria in late 2012 and hadn't paid attention to the game's systems since the end of Cataclysm's life cycle. It was an odd experience; a game that I find in some ways intimately familiar, made strange through numerous small…
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WoW’s 10th Anniversary Brings Nostalgia, Molten Corgis
Blizzard usually throw a birthday party for World of Warcraft, but are really indulging their love of pomp and nostalgia as the MMORPG hits double digits. WoW's 10th anniversary celebrations will bring a level-100 version of the classic Molten Core raid and a new PvP battleground based on old favourite murderzones Tarren Mill and Southshore. Having a bash at those will get players special mounts and…
World of Warcraft Getting Warlordier On November 13th
I've spoken about the Blizzard cinematic siren before and it has gone off again. Yesterday evening at an event in Los Angeles (which, for some reason, was then simulcast to the Blizzard booth at Gamescom rather than just being ran there) the titanic MMO developer showed off the CGI intro to Warlords of Draenor, the next World of Warcraft expansion. Blizz announced its release date--November…
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This Means War: WoW’s Level 90 Boost To Cost $60
By Nathan Grayson • 5 years ago • 132
At what point does a microtransaction cease to be a microtransaction? It's a question that's plagued my more contemplative brain tubules for years now, twisting the follicles of my whiskey soaked beard until they snap. But finally, I think I have an answer: when it's the price of a full goddamn game. We already knew that World of Warcraft's Warlords of Draenor expansion would bring…
Feature: The War Against Time
Blizz On World Of Warcraft’s Procedural Future, Warcraft IV
By Nathan Grayson • 6 years ago • 25
By most estimates, World of Warcraft is now 17 million years old. Typically, Internet scientists carbon date it by slicing open expansion packs and counting the rings, but there is some controversy surrounding that method. One thing's certain, though: WoW's been at the top of the MMO food chain since before man invented either food or chains. Its age is starting to show, and even…
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Feature: Back To The Future Past's Present
Warlords Of Draenor – Outland, Housing, Naked Gnomes
World of Warcraft: Warlords of Draenor is officially, incontrovertibly A Thing. But what kind of a thing? Well, it's a WoW expansion, so don't expect the world's most immersive virtual minigolf park, a karaoke-based Annoy John simulator, or a really good hotdog. But it is pushing into *some* uncharted territory, and for the rest, well, there's always time travel. Warlords of Draenor is headed back in time…
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WIU unveils Promise Plus Program
MACOMB – In a recent press statement Western Illinois University introduced its Promise Plus Program as part of the new “AIM HIGH” merit-based scholarship program created by the state of Illinois.
The WIU Promise Plus program is designed to significantly reduce or offset tuition and fees, plus other costs like room, meal plan, books and course materials for new freshmen enrolling in Fall 2019. Promise Plus program works in conjunction with the AIM HIGH initiative which offers financial incentives to keep Illinois students in-state.
The AIM HIGH initiative was passed by the Illinois General Assembly and signed into law Governor Rauner on August 21 as SB2927.
WIU Associate Vice President for Students Services and Interim Director of Admissions Jason Woods spoke about the program during a Faculty Senate meeting on Tuesday. Although he was not on the agenda, Interim Provost Kathy Neumann gave some of her floor time for his report to the senate.
”(On Monday), we ended up launching our Promise Plus program, which is conjunction with one of the initiatives that the state has given in regards to AIM HIGH funding,” Woods said. “So, the state awarded (money) to each state institution for financial purposes... but you also had to match that money; there had to be an institutional match to that money.“
WIU was awarded a little over $1.4 million by the state. WIU has instituted the Promise Plus Program with that money, which he said will “hopefully allow us to leverage our financial aid even further than had before.” WIU has put up matching funds through its Promise Plus Program to meet the AIM HIGH funding grant which it has received from the state.
Woods said a student must meet certain criteria to be eligible to receive funding through the Promise Plus program, including a high school GPA of 2.75 out of a 4.0 scale and a 21 ACT score. Western sets the academic criteria while AIM HIGH funding criteria is set by the state of Illinois.
“And then there is threshold from a financial aid perspective that you need to have,” Woods said. ”...Depending on how many people are in your family, for example, a family of four can have a maximum income of $147,600, and this criteria is not based on Western setting this criteria. These are criteria that were set by the AIM High funding coming from the state.“
Woods reiterated that the criteria are by the state of Illinois, not by Western, and the program is not currently offered to transfer students. Woods said that the state requires a public institution commit to the AIM High funding program for four-and-a-half years, and the commitment begins next fall 2019.
Students will begin receiving funding beginning next year, Woods said, and will receive that funding for four-and-a-half years. Qualifying freshman students who begin their academic careers in the fall of 2019 at WIU will receive the funding, depending on their family size and income.
Funding from the Promise Plus Program is made available to students depending on their need for financial assistance. Determining that begins when they fill out and submit a completed FASFA application, Woods said, and “that comes back to us as to how much money you are eligible for. So, the goal is to maximize our institutional funds.”
The money a student is eligible to receive depends on their particular situation, and so there is no fixed amount allotted to a student who qualifies both academically and financially. Woods explained the state has the financial criteria set to where “students cannot have more than six times the poverty threshold for a family of a specific size. So, again if you’re a family of four, the limit is $147,600. If it’s a family of six, the amount is $197,760.“
If you are looking for additional information about AIM HIGH funding and WIU’s Promise Plus Program, go to http://www.wiu.edu/vpaps/your_choice/index2.php
This article was in the McDonough County Voice and written by Christopher Ginn, Voice Correspondent. Reach Christopher Ginn by email at [email protected] or find him on Facebook
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Congress should step off soapbox
Opposition is forming in Congress to the renewal of a landmark 1994 law against, of all things, domestic violence. It is inconceivable that lawmakers could erode progress made in this area for the sake of partisan election-year politics – or, for that matter, what constituency they’re hoping to attract.
Failure to renew the law would derail important protections for battered partners of both genders.
Almost 18 years ago, Congress passed the Violence Against Women Act to provide funding for law enforcement and community organizations to help victims of domestic violence and bring their attackers to justice. The latest reauthorization was introduced by a bipartisan group of co-sponsors late last year, but it failed to get a single Republican vote in the Senate judiciary committee last month. Democrats got it out of committee, but it faces a vitriolic debate.
How times change. Twice before, the U.S. Senate has renewed this law – in 2000 and 2005. The votes were not just bipartisan but unanimous. This time it’s facing a buzz saw of criticism from social-conservative Republicans.
Men and women are victims of domestic violence, but women are most often the victims. Republican Sen. Lisa Murkowski of Alaska has urged her colleagues to get on the right side of this measure or risk losing women’s votes in the fall elections. Many seem unmoved.
Iowa Sen. Charles Grassley said he objects to provisions that would broaden protection to same-sex couples and to illegal immigrants. Other Republicans say that expansion would increase bureaucracy. In fact most of the bill’s proposed changes are modest tweaks of programs and policies already in place.
The law already covers some illegal immigrants who are cooperating with law enforcement, and it includes a path to green cards for victims who were potentially qualified anyway through marriage to batterers who are U.S. citizens. The renewal would just allow more qualified victims to pursue that path.
Another update would make it clear the law applies equally to men and women who are battered and does not discriminate based on sexual orientation.
As to claims the bill would expand bureaucracy, this renewal measure does not increase costs. In fact, it calls for a reduction of 17 percent in overall funding by consolidating some grant programs. The measure would create only one new program for Native Americans that extends law-enforcement powers held by tribal leaders on Indian land so they can prosecute non-Indian batterers.
While it’s tempting to frame this as a women’s issue, it’s really about human decency. Domestic violence crosses lines of income and ethnicity. It can involve male-female or same-sex couples. It is a terrible and growing social problem. Democrats and Republicans once agreed on this. They must renew the domestic violence law.
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Roman Silva trying to make a big impression…
Roman Silva trying to make a big impression with Diamond Ranch boys basketball
Roman Silva at Diamond Ranch High School in Pomona, CA., Thursday, February 4, 2016. (Photo by Jennifer Cappuccio Maher/Inland Valley Daily Bulletin)
By Michelle Gardner | mgardner@scng.com | Daily Bulletin
POMONA >> Roman Silva has been tall his entire life, so one would think a basketball coach might have seen him at school and insisted he try that sport.
But it wasn’t until Silva got to the eighth grade, and he was already 6-foot-7, that he actually took to the court for the first time.
Now the Diamond Ranch High School senior is trying to make up for lost time.
He’s now 7-foot-1 and a pivotal player for the Panthers (19-7, 8-1), who had won 14 straight games, secured at least a tie for the Hacienda League title and are ranked third in CIF Southern Section Division 3A. He is averaging 18 points and 10 rebounds, but college coaches aren’t beating down his door yet. In fact, most don’t know who he is because this is his first full year of varsity basketball.
“He isn’t even close to his potential,” Diamond Ranch coach Eric Cooper said. “He’s really still learning on the court, and it is going to take that college coach that can see the potential. It’s tough because coaches are sold on those guys they have seen the last three of four years, and his name is just now getting out there.”
Silva started his high school career at Etiwanda and played on the freshman team his first year. He spent his sophomore on the varsity but played very little with the Eagles boasting more experienced and established players ahead of him such as Kameron Edwards and Jordan Naughton, both now Division I college players.
Then last year he transferred to Diamond Ranch. There was the sit-out period that came with the transfer, meaning he didn’t get on the court until January.
“I feel like I am still learning every day,” Silva said. “I do wish I had started playing earlier, and it’s something I have thought about a lot. I just have to keep working hard and hope someone notices.”
If playing varsity basketball for a year wasn’t enough, Silva had a setback over the summer that further delayed his development.
Silva, his parents and two siblings were involved in a serious auto accident while on their way to camping trip to Yosemite. They were in a vehicle that was pulling a trailer and were forced off the road by a semi, which was changing lanes.
The trailer hitch snapped and the vehicle rolled. Both the vehicle and trailer were totaled.
Silva, who was not wearing a seat belt, was ejected and thrown 30 feet from the vehicle. He sustained a punctured lung and some internal injuries but knows he was fortunate.
His father, also named Roman, was the most seriously injured. He had broken ribs and a ruptured spleen, which had to be removed.
All are thankful the injuries weren’t worse.
“We are very luck.y and we know that,” Silva said. “It was very scary. You never think something like that is going to happen to you.”
Silva was in the hospital for several days, but the effects of that horrific episode lingered. It wasn’t until November that he really started feeling normal again, which meant his eagerly awaited senior season was off to a bad start.
“I was really looking forward to this season and it was tough to have something like that happen because I just wanted to play,” he said. “But I know I’m lucky to be alive.”
Cooper is hoping an extended playoff run means added exposure not just for Silva, but for other players on his team as well. He has another senior in Ryan Haywood, who transferred from Mater Dei, where he didn’t play at all. Haywood would like a chance to play in college as well.
“We have a lot of people no one has heard of,” Cooper said. “Hopefully we can change that. But right now we’re flying under the radar.”
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Michelle Gardner has covered high school sports and local colleges for the Daily Bulletin and Sun since 2002. She previously covered a wide variety of sports from the high school level to the professional ranks in Florida with tenures at the South Florida Sun-Sentinel, Naples Daily News and the Fort Myers News-Press and is graduate of the University of Florida.
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Opening of the Schindler Award 2012
One of Europe's leading architectural competitions, the Schindler Award, is now accepting entries for 2012. Architecture students and schools from across Europe can register for the competition, which challenges participants to incorporate "Access for All" into their designs. The projects entered will be judged by a panel of internationally renowned experts in architecture and accessibility, led by Prof. Kees Christiaanse from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) in Zurich.
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Students and schools of architecture are invited to put forward proposals to redevelop an unsightly corner of the otherwise excellently preserved old town of the Swiss capital, Berne. Projects submitted must include a master plan, which provides a convincing answer to the shortcomings of the site, known locally as the "Schützenmatt".
Architecture for human beings
The key aspect of the competition is "Access for All", a design philosophy characterized by inclusiveness and barrier-free mobility for people of all ages and capabilities. The competition's organizer and sponsor, the Schindler Group, believes that it is a basic human right for people with physical or cognitive impairments to participate in social life. The Schindler Award therefore helps to improve young architects' practical knowledge and skills in planning. It also encourages an architectural approach that makes a lasting contribution to a better quality of life for everyone, including people with disabilities.
To adress all the shortcomings of the "Schützenmatt" would require a complete redesign of the area. The Schindler Award is concentrating on the urban concept including access to the nearby river valley and the integration of social services.
Unique opportunity for young architects
The 2012 competition gives participants a unique opportunity to develop new design possibilities for a part of one of Europe's best-preserved medieval cities. The site itself is a trapezoid adjoining the north-western corner of the historic city center, just a few minutes' walk from the central train station. It is cut in half by a railway bridge and strangled by streets and houses as well as a parking area for cars and buses. The district is also home to museums, cultural centres and a drug dispensary for heroin addicts.
Students interested in participating in the 2012 competition should register online at www.schindleraward.com. The competition also awards prizes to schools of architecture for incorporating "Access for All" into their curricula. The closing date for registrations is April 30, 2012. Completed projects must be submitted by July 30, 2012.
The Schindler Award is held under the patronage of the Schindler Group. Founded in Switzerland in 1874, the Schindler Group is a leading global provider of elevators, escalators and related services. Its innovative and environmentally-friendly access and transit-management systems make an important contribution to mobility in urban societies.
Website of the Schindler Global Award
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Cool and hot science for a bright future
Science in School is published by EIROforum, a collaboration between eight of Europe’s largest inter-governmental scientific research organisations. This article reviews some of the latest news from the EIROforum members (EIROs).
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CERN: proudly presenting the new (Higgs?) boson
On 4 July 2012, the ATLAS and CMS experiments at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider (LHC) announced the discovery of a new particle with a mass of about 126 GeV and characteristics similar to those expected for the long-sought Higgs boson. This discovery is a major step forward in our understanding of the origin of mass, and of the fundamental properties of matter, space and time.
One of the proton-proton
collisions at a centre of
mass energy of 8 TeV,
recorded with the CMS
detector, which contributed
to the discovery of the new
particle.
Image courtesy of CERN
The preliminary results come from data taken in 2011 and 2012, corresponding to about 1015 proton-proton collisions at 7 and 8 TeV energy. More data will be needed to study the different decay modes of the new particle, to find out if the theoretical predictions are correct, or if there are any – even tiny – differences between the predictions of the Higgs model and the observations.
Find out more about the search for the Higgs in this issue’s feature article:
Hayes E (2012) Accelerating the pace of science: interview with CERN’s Rolf Heuer. Science in School 25: 6-12.
To learn more about how the LHC works and the search for the Higgs boson, see:
Landua R, Rau M (2008) The LHC: a step closer to the Big Bang. Science in School 10: 26-33.
Landua R (2008) The LHC: a look inside. Science in School 10: 34-45.
Based in Geneva, Switzerland, CERN is the world’s largest particle physics laboratory.
EFDA-JET: paving the tungsten-tile road to ITER
ITER, the world’s biggest fusion experiment, is under construction in the south of France. During its construction, the Joint European Torus (JET) – currently Europe’s largest fusion experiment – is a vital test bed for ITER design and operation.
The remote handling mascot
is mounted on a 6 m
articulated boom, which
allows maintenance without
humans entering the JET
vessel. An operator in a
remote control room
controls the mascot’s two
gripper arms, which can
operate around 1500
bespoke tools.
Image courtesy of EFDA-JET
In this capacity, JET has successfully completed its 2011-2012 experimental campaign by running 151 identical high-powered plasma pulses, totalling 900 seconds of stable operating time.
This emulates a single pulse of ITER – by virtue of its superconducting magnets, ITER will be able to maintain a stable pulse 20 times longer than JET. On the basis of the recent experiments, scientists are confident that they will be able to maintain stable fusion conditions for the length of these longer pulses. The experiment also tested the long-term behaviour of the wall materials – a range of JET’s wall tiles will now be extracted by the remote-handling system (pictured) for analysis.
The ITER design team are very interested in the results, and have already requested an even more severe test for the materials when experiments recommence next year: deliberate melting of some tungsten wall tiles.
Situated in Culham, UK, JET is Europe’s fusion device. Scientific exploitation of JET is undertaken through the European Fusion Development Agreement (EFDA).
EMBL: ENCODEing the switchboard of the human genome
For the past five years, hundreds of scientists in the ‘Encyclopaedia of DNA elements’ (ENCODE) project have been systematically exploring what the human genome does, to identify all its functional elements. Their findings show that much of what has been called ‘junk DNA’ is actually a massive, 3D switchboard turning genes on and off.
Together with colleagues from around the globe, scientists at EMBL’s European Bioinformatics Institute have found that while only 2% of our DNA is genes, a much bigger part of the genome – at least 20% – is involved in controlling when and where those genes are active, and as much as 80% of the genome has a distinct biochemical activity. This opens up new avenues of biomedical research.
ENCODE researchers found
that most of our DNA has a
function: controlling when
and where genes are turned
on and off.
Image courtesy of EMBL-EBI
To give some sense of the scale of the project, ENCODE used around 300 years’ worth of computer time studying 147 tissue types to determine what turns specific genes on and off, and how that ‘switch’ differs between cell types. All of the data is now publicly available and the findings are published in 30 connected, open-access papers in three science journals: Nature, Genome Biology and Genome Research.
For more details including the full publication list, see the press release on the EMBL website.
What is the ENCODE project all about? Watch a video interview with leading scientists Ewan Birney, Tim Hubbard and Roderic Guigo.
Learn how the insights from the ENCODE project were represented in the ‘Dance of the DNA’ at the Science Museum, London, UK.
EMBL is Europe’s leading laboratory for basic research in molecular biology, with its headquarters in Heidelberg, Germany. The European Bioinformatics Institute is part of EMBL and is based in Cambridge, UK.
ESA: The Arctic ice cap is thinning
The year 2012 saw the surface area of Arctic sea ice hit a record low since satellite measurements began in the 1970s. The consequence of losing part of the Arctic’s ice coverage could be profound: the ice cap reflects sunlight back into space; sunlight that, unless reflected, would contribute to global warming.
The European Space Agency (ESA)’s satellites SMOS and CryoSat have found that not only is the area of sea-ice getting smaller but the ice is also getting thinner: 900 km3 of summer sea ice have disappeared from the Arctic ocean over the past year, a rate of loss that is 50% higher than most scenarios outlined by polar scientists.
ESA’s Earth Explorer CryoSat
mission is dedicated to
precisely monitoring
changes in the thickness of
marine ice floating on the
polar oceans, and variations
in the thickness of the vast
ice sheets that blanket
Greenland and Antarctica.
Image courtesy of ESA / AOES
In addition to the total ice volume, it is important to evaluate the thickness of the young ice that forms in winter.
Only those areas thick enough to survive the next summer’s melting period can become the basis of the following winter’s thick ice. It is this thick, multi-year ice that ultimately indicates how healthy the Arctic is.
ESA’s measurements show that this newly formed ice is becoming significantly thinner each year, so that less and less of it survives the summer. In particular, SMOS detected extensive areas less than half a metre thick. Scientists therefore predict that of the total Arctic sea-ice cover for Winter 2012-13, a larger fraction than ever before (about 12 million km2) will consist of thin ice. This suggests that less Arctic sea-ice than ever before will survive the melting phase in Summer 2013.
To model the effect of the changing ice cover with your students in class, see:
Shallcross D, Harrison T (2008) Climate change modelling in the classroom. Science in School 9: 28-33.
ESA is Europe’s gateway to space, with its headquarters in Paris, France.
ESO: Sweet discovery in space
The Rho Ophiuchi star-forming
region seen in infrared light.
IRAS 16293-2422 is the red
object in the centre of the small
square. Inset: an artist’s
impression of glycolaldehyde
molecules, the form of sugar
that has been found around
IRAS 16293-2422.
Image courtesy of ALMA (ESO /
NAOJ / NRAO) / L Calçada (ESO)
& NASA / JPL-Caltech / WISE Team
Astronomers using ALMA, one of the world’s largest ground-based astronomy projects, have spotted molecules of glycolaldehyde – a simple form of sugar – around a young binary star with similar mass to the Sun, called IRAS 16923-2422. Glycolaldehyde (C2H4O2) has been seen in interstellar space before, but this is the first time it has been found so near to a Sun-like star.
The molecule is one of the ingredients in the formation of RNA, which – like DNA, to which it is similar – is one of the building blocks of life. The discovery shows that these building blocks are in the right place, at the right time, to be included in planets forming around the star.
For more information, see the press release.
To learn more about ALMA, see:
Mignone C, Pierce-Price D (2010) The ALMA observatory: the sky is only one step away. Science in School 15: 44-49.
The European Southern Observatory (ESO) is by far the world’s most productive ground-based astronomical observatory, with its headquarters in Garching near Munich, Germany, and its telescopes in Chile. ESO is the European partner in the ALMA project, which is a collaboration between Europe, North America and East Asia, in co-operation with the Republic of Chile.
ESRF: Hot ice in Neptune
The main constituents of the planets Neptune and Uranus are water, ammonia and methane in solid phases called ‘ices’. They are very different from ice on Earth, though: up to 5000 K hot and under extreme pressures of several million atmospheres. Under such conditions, scientists have predicted the existence of a new state of ammonia ice, called superionic ammonia. Superionicity is an exotic state of matter that behaves simultaneously as a crystal (fixed ion lattice) and as a liquid (diffusive ions).
Neptune’s main constituents
are water (H2O), ammonia
(NH3) and methane (CH4)
ices. The core may be
composed of rocks and ice;
the outside layer is formed
mainly by helium, hydrogen
and methane. Click on image
to enlarge.
Image courtesy of Sandra
Ninet; image of Neptune by
NASA / JPL-Caltech; model
adapted from Hubbard WB,
Podolak M, Stevenson DJ
(1995) The Interior of Neptune.
In Cruikshank DP (ed) Neptune
and Triton. pp. 109-138.
Tucson, AZ, USA: University of
Arizona Press.
Now scientists have confirmed the existence of superionic ammonia experimentally at the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility (ESRF): they submitted an ammonia sample to very high pressure while heating it, and followed its phase transformations using intense X-rays. Unexpectedly, however, they detected superionic ammonia at a lower temperature than predicted: 750 K instead of 1200 K. The exact boundaries of this superionic phase are crucial, because they determine whether it could exist in Neptune and Uranus.
Therefore, the scientists will next test whether superionic ammonia is stable under even higher temperatures and pressures. Should this be the case, it could help explain the origin of the planets’ magnetic fields, which are not yet well understood.
To learn more, see the news item on the ESRF website or read the research paper:
Ninet S, Datchi F, Saitta AM (2012) Proton disorder and superionicity in hot dense ammonia ice. Physical Review Letters 108(16): 165702-1–165702-5. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.108.165702
Situated in Grenoble, France, ESRF operates the most powerful synchrotron radiation source in Europe.
European XFEL: The brightest light source on Earth
The European XFEL will deliver up to 27 000 very intense X-ray light flashes per second with a brightness more than 100 septillion (100 x 1024) times that of an ordinary 60 W light bulb, making the new research facility the brightest light source on Earth. Deliveries of the devices generating this incredible firework – the undulators – to the site in Hamburg have been taking place since October 2012. The magnetic structures of the undulators will force accelerated electrons onto a slalom course, inducing them to emit X-ray flashes of extraordinary quality.
The new facility will have three undulator systems, with the two larger ones each 212 m long. They consist of segments that have been produced in close collaboration with European XFEL. Before the segments are installed, the undulator group of European XFEL will extensively measure and tune their magnetic properties. The light they produce will eventually be used, for example, to examine biomolecules, to film ultrafast processes and to study matter under extreme conditions.
Tuning the pole heights of an
undulator in the magnetic
measurement laboratory.
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The European X-ray Free Electron Layer (XFEL) is a research facility currently under construction in the Hamburg area in Germany. Its extremely intense X-ray flashes will be used by researchers from all over the world.
ILL: Cold-blooded platypus and hot-blooded chicken
Using the facilities at the Institut Laue-Langevin (ILL), a team of biologists have shown that haemoglobin in different species has evolved to perform its function as an oxygen carrier very effectively at that species’ body temperature. They found variations in the amino-acid composition of this iron-rich protein, which is found in all vertebrates, that affect the protein’s softness and flexibility, and thus its ability to withstand warmer or cooler temperatures.
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The team studied haemoglobin from a range of vertebrates. The duck-billed platypus, at 33 °C, has the lowest body temperature of all endotherms (vertebrates that maintain a constant body temperature, such as mammals or birds). Humans, at 36.6 °C, have an intermediate body temperature, whereas the chicken, at 41 °C, is as hot-blooded as birds tend to be. The scientists also studied the ectothermic saltwater crocodile – which has a body temperature that is regulated by the environment, varying between 25 and 34 °C.
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The scientists found a direct correlation between the resilience of haemoglobin and the average body temperature of the species from which it was sampled. In other words, each species’ haemoglobin appears to have evolved to unfold at exactly the right body temperature.
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To learn more, see the press release on the ILL website or read the research paper:
Stadler AM et al. (2012) Thermal fluctuations of haemoglobin from different species: adaptation to temperature via conformational dynamics. Journal of the Royal Society 9(76): 2845-2855. doi: 10.1098/rsif.2012.0364
ILL is an international research centre at the leading edge of neutron science and technology, based in Grenoble, France.
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Silver City Library to develop long-term plan
Library Director Eileen Sullivan presented survey results to the Town Council.
Silver City Library to develop long-term plan Library Director Eileen Sullivan presented survey results to the Town Council. Check out this story on scsun-news.com: http://scsun.co/1j9H0wj
Randal Seyler, Silver City Sun-News Published 10:22 a.m. MT Nov. 19, 2015 | Updated 3:43 p.m. MT Nov. 19, 2015
Community survey results presented to Town Council
Library Director Eileen Sullivan, left, discusses the library's community survey with the Library Board, including Ted Lynn, board president, Lynda Aiman-Smith, town councilor, and board member Hannah Wecks.(Photo: Randal Seyler/Sun-News)Buy Photo
SILVER CITY – Now that the Silver City Public Library’s community survey is complete, the library staff is preparing for the second part of that task – Developing a long-range plan for the library.
“Now that we have completed the community assessment, the second part of that is creating a long-range plan, that outlines our vision and goals,” Library Director Eileen Sullivan told the Library Board on Wednesday. “I would like to request some funding for that process.”
The board members approved $2,000 in funding for the development of a long-range plan. Sullivan said the state library required the long-range plan be submitted in January.
Sullivan presented the results of the summer’s community survey to the Town Council on Oct. 27.
According to the report, results suggest that the Silver City Public Library is a central part of the community and that residents consider the library an essential public service.
“The library serves not only Silver City residents, but residents who reside throughout Grant County. The majority of respondents were women ages 50 and older, suggesting that the library is a critical resource for the city’s and county’s middle-aged and older adult population,” the report states.
A significant proportion of respondents were younger adults and children; their responses suggest that the library plays an essential role in promoting reading among children and youth, building analytical and spatio-temporal skills and supporting child development and education, according to the report.
The vast majority of respondents said they relied on traditional library services such as book borrowing, on-site magazines, research tools, and assistance from librarians.
“Online services were of interest to most respondents; however, many respondents were not aware of the depth and breadth of online resources available to them as library patrons,” the report states. “Several respondents said that the library’s Wi-Fi connection was their primary gateway to the Internet, indicating that the library plays an important role in helping to bridge the digital divide.”
Areas of improvement for potential expansion of services were also noted in the report. Respondents said they wanted a broader selection of books, especially fiction, non-fiction, and bestsellers.
Customers also called for expanded hours of operation, especially during evenings and weekends.
“While online services were not being used to their full extent, most respondents said they would like training in using those resources, especially in the areas of online safety and privacy protection,” the report states.
Respondents also indicated that they would like to see more adult programming, such as evening concerts, lectures, and workshops.
Other areas of need were language learning resources, online tutoring and distance learning courses, and additional children’s programming.
One of the most surprising results from the survey was discovering the distance people were traveling to use the library’s services, Sullivan said.
“We have people driving 30 minutes one way to our facility,” Sullivan said. “To me, that shows what an important role the library plays in our community.”
To see the full results of the community survey, visit the library’s website, silvercitypubliclibrary.wordpress.com.
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Does Removing Your Appendix Put You at Risk for Parkinson's?
by By Alan Mozes
THURSDAY, May 9, 2019 (HealthDay News) -- It's a connection few have probably considered, but new research suggests that having your appendix removed may up your risk for Parkinson's disease down the road.
The finding follows an analysis that examined health records for roughly 62 million patients. Of these, about 488,000 had an appendectomy. Among those who had the surgery, just under 1% developed the progressive nervous system disorder later.
In comparison, less than .3% of the patients who did not have an appendectomy faced the same fate.
That means that while the overall risk remained low, there was a tripling of risk among those had had their appendix removed.
With this latest study, "We found that there is an increase in prevalence of Parkinson's disease in patients with appendectomies, suggesting a correlation between them," said study author Dr. Mohammed Sheriff. He is an internal medicine physician with Case Western Reserve University and University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center.
But does that mean patients should avoid having their appendix removed?
Sheriff said no, given that the findings neither prove that one causes the other, nor clarify the exact nature of the link.
"At this point, it is unclear if it is the process in appendicitis itself versus the appendectomy that increases the risk of Parkinson's disease," he said. "Therefore, changes to practice should not be made. Of course, currently the predominant course of treatment for appendicitis is surgical, and it should continue to be so until further work is done."
Parkinson's affects movement, with symptoms starting gradually and progressing over time. Tremors are common, and walking and speech can be affected. There is no known cure.
Prior research has also pointed to an appendix-Parkinson's link, albeit in the opposite direction. In a study published in October, U.S. researchers looking at data on over 1.6 million Swedes found that appendectomy lowered Parkinson's risk by roughly 20 percent.
Sherriff's team acknowledges that prior research on the subject has come to "inconsistent" results. So, they conducted the current analysis by reviewing data collected by an Ohio-based electronic health records company that tracked the information of patients who had received care provided by 26 different health care systems.
The latest analysis did not track exactly how much time had elapsed between undergoing an appendectomy and the onset of Parkinson's among those who developed the disease.
But investigators did note that the increased risk they saw appeared to affect both genders, as well as all ages and races.
Still, Sherriff cautioned that despite evidence of some sort of connection between appendix removal and Parkinson's risk, "there is further work needed to be done to determine the mechanism."
That thought was seconded by Kuldip Dave, director of research programs with the Michael J. Fox Foundation in New York City.
"There's a growing body of evidence demonstrating a connection between the gut and Parkinson's," Dave acknowledged. For example, he noted that prior research has identified a pathway between the gut and brain that runs through the vagus nerve and the circulatory system.
What's more, "researchers have found alpha-synuclein, the primary Parkinson's protein, in the gastrointestinal tract," Dave said. "So, it's no surprise that the appendix and Parkinson's have been linked."
But he stressed that while ongoing research has directed increasing focus to a possible gut-brain connection, "there is nothing currently that definitively tells us that removing your appendix will increase your risk of getting Parkinson's," Dave said.
"This study proves an association between the two," he said, "but more research is needed to understand the exact connection between the gut and Parkinson's."
The findings are to be presented May 20 at the Digestive Disease Week meeting, in San Diego. Such research is considered preliminary until published in a peer-reviewed journal.
The Michael J. Fox Foundation offers more about Parkinson's disease.
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6 - UNH President Mark Huddleston has vision for school's future
Howard Altschiller
DURHAM — University of New Hampshire President Mark Huddleston began his term in July 2007 and has quickly won the admiration of movers and shakers across the state and Seacoast.
Huddleston carefully laid out his vision for the university in February when he presented the school's strategic plan: "Breaking silos, transforming lives, reimagining UNH."
This vision impressed many on the Seacoast, including entrepreneur Mark Galvin, who this year launched the New Hampshire Innovation Commercialization Center.
"Among many other important goals, the plan notes that the university can and should be the primary engine for sustainable economic growth in the state and region," Galvin said. "UNH is already working more closely with private sector entrepreneurs to translate UNH-generated intellectual capital into new ventures and new jobs for the people of New Hampshire. In a very short time, (Huddleston has) increased visibility of underutilized university inventions, (increased) support to entrepreneurial students and faculty, combined with greatly improved communication with the community. He has created an environment which is already leading to the formation of new companies in the region around UNH."
Two other high-profile examples of the improving relationship between UNH and the business community are the Green Launching Pad and the merger with Franklin Pierce Law Center. The Green Launching Pad, a partnership between the state and university, helps finance start-up green businesses and has already distributed hundreds of thousands of dollars. A second round of funding is now in progress. In March of this year, UNH signed an affiliation agreement with Franklin Pierce Law Center, which is nationally renowned for intellectual property law; the first step in the multi-year process of a full merger of the two institutions.
The strategic plan acknowledges that higher education is becoming too expensive and that economics, demographics and technology all demand that the school either innovate or die.
Huddleston came to UNH from Ohio Wesleyan University, where he served as president. He has a Ph.D. in political science and also served as an adviser in Bosnia after the Dayton Accords were signed in 1995, ending three-and-a-half years of war in that country.
While Huddleston clearly has substantive achievements, his down-to-earth style is also winning friends and influencing people.
"First off, he's just a really nice individual," said Ed Dupont, chairman of the University System of New Hampshire Board of Trustees. Dupont led the search that brought Huddleston to UNH. "He does not have the ego issues that a lot of academics and college presidents have. I think he truly loves being in New Hampshire. He has a great academic background and understands the change that is coming."
Michael Merenda, chairman and professor of Strategic Management and Entrepreneurship at the Whittemore School, has been at UNH for 30 years. He is very impressed with Huddleston's substance and style.
"From my perspective his energy alone has revitalized the university," Merenda said. "I see Mark as a visionary who has a long-term commitment to this place. It's not just a stepping stone to something else. When he put the strategic plan in place, it was from the ground up. He brought faculty and professionals together to work on the document. It's the first time in 30 years I've seen that. He held meetings and public forums, shared the vision with everybody and that was extremely healthy. People then can see what he's trying to do."
Huddleston lives in Durham with his wife, Emma Bricker. He has a daughter, Kate, and son, Giles. Outside of academia, he enjoys flying. Exeter-area author, historian and community organizer Carol Walker Aten, who has met Huddleston through her Gundalow related activities, thinks this may give him a certain perspective.
"UNH is fortunate to have such an approachable and adventurous president," Aten said. "He steps out of the Durham campus weekly and is connected to the Seacoast in ways I have never seen UNH leadership do. Maybe it's because he's a pilot — he sees things differently."
In a profile written by Jody Record of UNH media relations, Huddleston said he has no plans to sit in an ivory tower.
"If I had wanted to be a CEO of a large company, tucked away in an office somewhere, I would have done that," he said. "I think people here really want a president that they see and feel is a part of the fabric of UNH. That's very appealing to me."
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Kazuo Yamane’s WWII story shows the lengths to which some must go to prove their loyalty to America
Originally published November 11, 2018 at 6:00 am Updated December 6, 2018 at 8:18 pm
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Tyrone Beason
Seattle Times columnist
“I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America.”
I don’t know how many times I’ve said those words between grade school and now without really thinking about what it means to give oneself to one’s nation. For a lot of us, loyalty to country is second nature, a quiet assumption that goes without saying — even when our country fails to show its loyalty in return.
That realization washed over me when I spoke to Joyce Yamane about her late father, Kazuo Yamane, a Japanese-American veteran and World War II hero.
The elder Yamane, who died in 2010 at the age of 93, is the central figure in a new documentary on Japanese-American WWII soldiers that airs on PBS this weekend in celebration of Veteran’s Day, “Proof of Loyalty: Kazuo Yamane and the Nisei Soldiers of Hawaii.”
Watch the Kazuo Yamane documentary
The contributions of Japanese-American soldiers in World War II are the focus of the new documentary "Proof of Loyalty: Kazuo Yamane and the Nisei Soldiers of Hawai'i." The film airs at noon Sunday, Nov. 11, on PBS station KCTS. Go here for more information.
The film and Yamane’s life story are all-too-timely historical testaments to the profound role played by Asian immigrants and their American-born children, who were granted birthright citizenship under the same 14th Amendment protection that President Donald Trump has threatened to unravel.
Too many times in periods of conflict and anxiety in our history, and often on shaky grounds, America has questioned the sympathies, allegiance and basic humanity of whole populations based on the color of their skin, religious background, cultural heritage and national origin.
This was painfully true for Japanese Americans before, during and after World War II.
When the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941, everything changed for the community.
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Between 1942 and 1945, about 117,000 Japanese Americans, most from the West Coast, were relocated and imprisoned in internment camps as the United States fought the empire of Japan in the Pacific.
Virtually overnight, America’s Japanese community had been branded as an enemy within. The internment was one of this country’s grimmest acts.
What’s less known is that the experience of Japanese Americans living in what was then the U.S. territory of Hawaii wasn’t the same as for those on the mainland. Ethnic Japanese made up about 40 percent of Hawaii’s residents, but only a fraction of them, about 1,500, were sent to internment camps.
Despite a climate of hysteria, and despite the treatment of ethnic Japanese in Hawaii as second class in some respects, Japanese-American soldiers from Hawaii performed tremendous acts of bravery in wartime.
Their patriotism and valor in the face of prejudice are on full display in “Proof of Loyalty.”
Made by Bainbridge Island-based Stourwater Pictures, the film tells the story of the second-generation Japanese Americans, known as Nisei, who not only fought against the homeland of their immigrant parents and ancestors but against the suspicion among their fellow Americans, including those in their own military ranks, that they might betray the United States.
Yamane was the son of a successful immigrant businessman in Hawaii who had arrived in the territory in total poverty. The family eventually prospered there.
While putting down roots in Hawaii, Yamane’s strict parents tried to instill an appreciation for Japanese language and culture by sending him to a special Japanese after-school program when he was a child.
After finishing high school, he went to study at an elite university in Tokyo. While studying, he learned about Japanese military efforts to expand across East Asia up close and he developed an unusual proficiency in the Japanese language compared to most people back home in Hawaii.
All of these things would come in handy after the Pearl Harbor attack as Yamane, who by then was serving in the U.S. Army, went from helping to protect the beaches of Hawaii as a member of the mostly Nisei 100th Infantry Battalion to translating captured Japanese war documents for U.S. military intelligence.
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His discovery and translation of papers containing details of Japan’s armaments industry, and the empire’s struggle to build more weapons, proved crucial to America’s war strategy.
Yamane received the U.S. “Legion of Merit” medal for his work in 1997.
Joyce Yamane lives in Edmonds. Speaking to her, I wasn’t surprised to hear that her father didn’t talk much about his wartime experiences.
The trauma of WWII, both in the Pacific and in Europe, wasn’t something U.S. veterans tended to share with their families. By and large, they kept their memories locked away. Their sacrifice to the country would have to speak for itself. This was especially true for the Nisei veterans returning home to an American society still rife with anti-Japanese discrimination and for the Japanese who had been cut off from the world during their internment, Joyce told me.
“It’s that whole attitude of people who were in the camps of, ‘You persevere,’ ” she said. “The combat veterans, the Nisei, they didn’t talk about the horror of combat, and those in the Military Intelligence Service, like my father, were sworn to secrecy.”
Inspired by her own later discoveries about the role Asian Americans have played in building and defending the country, Joyce wants to make sure those stories, and the patriotism demonstrated by people like her father, don’t fade into obscurity.
Immigrant Japanese like Kazuo Yamane’s parents, a generation known as Issei, weren’t made eligible for U.S. citizenship until 1952 because of decades-old discriminatory policies aimed at excluding and marginalizing foreign-born Asians.
Still, they raised their U.S.-born children to love this country.
In a community that was often viewed as a threat, America found some of its greatest defenders.
Proof of Loyalty Trailer from Stourwater Pictures on Vimeo.
Tyrone Beason Tyrone Beason is a reporter for the Los Angeles Times. Previously, he was a Seattle Times columnist and Pacific NW magazine reporter.
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‘Driver did it on purpose’: Passenger on fatal Moscow bus crash
The driver whose bus crashed into a pedestrian underpass in Moscow on Monday was acting with malicious intent, one of the passengers claims. At least four people were killed and over a dozen injured in the incident.
The witness told the Russian media that he was sitting next to the driver and “saw how he did it on purpose.” The incident occurred at around 14:50 local time, the passenger recalled, adding that he asked the driver when the bus was going to move out and received the reply: “I’ll move at 15:00.”
“He seemed calm,” the man said of the driver. “Suddenly, for no reason he stepped on the gas and drove out into the sidewalk… I was surprised, there was a bus ahead of him, which he could’ve driven into if he wanted to stop, or the trees. But he deliberately drove [into the underpass],” he added.
“He drove into the underpass, right there… ramming people… there were so many people under the bus,” the witness said, adding that the five or six passenger on the bus, including himself, were unharmed.
The Telegram news channel Mash has obtained the testimony of the driver, identified as 58-year-old Viktor Tikhonov, who said that the vehicle was out of control at the moment of the crash. “There were three people on the bus and I had to wait 15 minutes to resume driving,” Tikhonov is cited as saying. He simply wanted to move his vehicle out of the way as another bus had arrived at the stop, the driver added.
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“When I took the handbrake off, the bus drove off. I did everything to stop it, but it wouldn’t stop. The vehicle is operated with an automatic stick, so I could do nothing,” he said, according to Mash. Tikhonov was detained by the police and expected to be questioned and tested for the presence of alcohol or drugs in his system.
The crash happened on Kutuzovsky Avenue, near the Slavyansky Bulvar metro station in the western part of the Russian capital. Four people were killed and about a dozen injured in the incident, police said.
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Canonmills Bridge
From: New Town, Edinburgh
To: Inverleith, Edinburgh
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Canonmills Bridge carries the B901 in Edinburgh across the Water of Leith.
The original bridge was a single arch built in 1766-67. It was designed by William Mylne, a master mason, architect, and civil engineer, who also designed the Yair Bridge over the River Tweed and built the original North Bridge in Edinburgh in 1769 - which unfortunately collapsed shortly before completion. This bridge fared slightly better, lasting until it was demolished in 1840. The replacement, comprising 3 arches, was built in 1840. It was widened in 1897 by Mr Proudfoot, the City Road Surveyor.
Canonmills was a medieval settlement, used by monks at Holyrood Abbey for a mill, hence its name. Today the bridge lies in a busy neighbourhood surrounded by shops and bars. The south approach to the bridge contains a row of low buildings used as a restaurant and for retail; their exact date is unclear but they precede the 1853 OS mapping. There was a plan in the early 2010s to demolish these and replace them with flats, but this seems to have been rejected.
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Crossings of the Water of Leith, and Tributaries
Balerno Bridge • Colinton Bridge • Colt Bridge • Dean Bridge • Stock Bridge (Edinburgh) • Canonmills Bridge • St Marks Bridge • Bonnington Bridge • West Bowling Green Street Bridge • Junction Bridge • Sandport Place Bridge • Bernard Street Bridge • Victoria Bridge
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Google, NASA add D-Wave 2X to quantum computing arsenal
JC Torres - Sep 29, 2015, 12:00 am CDT
Some companies need a few computers to go about their business, others need very fast mainframes and servers to function. And then there are others who need exponentially faster computing to run at peak efficiency. Google and NASA are two examples of those companies, which is why they are heavily invested in the still nascent field of quantum computing. Luckily for them, D-Wave, a leading manufacturer of quantum computing equipment, has just revealed the D-Wave 2X to cater to their, as well as others’, needs and experiments in the field.
In terms of performance, the D-Wave 2X tries to give justice to its moniker, meaning it is advertised to be twice as powerful as its predecessor. It doubles the number of qubits, quantum computing equivalent of bits, from 512 to 1,000. It also operates at an even lower 15 millikelvin, which is to say extremely and bitterly cold.
D-Wave has been supplying the quantum computers that Google’s Quantum Artificial Intelligence Lab, a contract that last seven years wherein it will supply Google with the latest models. Google then uses the computers for its own research but also “leases” computing power to its other partners. Google’s primary interest is, of course, in machine learning and problem optimization.
Quantum computing is a relatively recent development in the field of computing and is now being contested by some experts. Presumed to be faster than traditional computing, some research refutes this with evidence showing there is significant performance advantage to regular computers.
Google and proponents of quantum computing, however, believe that it just isn’t about speed but also about “creative problem solving”. Whereas a traditional computer would solve a given problem in a more conventional, linear, and mechanical manner, quantum computing would look for other solutions that could lead to more efficient use of resources. And when you’re a company faced with millions if not billions of queries each day, that is definitely an optimization you’d want to have at your disposal.
SOURCE: Popular Science
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The decade-long legal battle over responsibility for the structural-defect plagued Courthouse Square office and bus terminal complex in Salem, Oregon, finally came to a close last month. In March, the complex's two owners, Marion County and Salem-Keizer Transit, resolved its last outstanding construction defect claim by agreeing to accept a $650,000 payout from Century West Engineering Corp., the complex's structural engineers.
The sprawling $34 million, 163,000 square foot, five-story office building and bus mall opened on time and on budget to great acclaim in the fall of 2000. Alas, the acclaim did not last. By 2002 distressing settling and structural problems with the building had become apparent. Years of blaming, failing to fix the building and working with the courts to resolve various construction disputes ensued. Finally, in the summer of 2010 engineers declared the building's concrete and other structural elements dangerously weak and ordered its complete evacuation. Roughly 350 employees of Marion County, Salem-Keizer Transit and the Courthouse Square restaurant and coffee shop who worked at the site were displaced.
Litigation against more than half-a-dozen contractors and other companies involved in the design and construction of Courthouse Square began as early as 2006. The settlement with Century West brings the total compensation recovered by Marion County and Salem-Keizer Transit to off-set the $23 million needed to repair the complex to approximately $12.5 million. This amount includes a $9.5 million payment from Affiliated FM Insurance Co. to settle a breach of contract claim regarding a $29 million insurance policy held by the complex's owners.
How did things go so wrong?
In 2011, the forensics engineering firm of Golder Associates was charged with the task of finding out why the Courthouse Square construction project went so wrong and who is to blame. In their report, Golder found serious problems with the building's structural design, writing that it was inadequate; lacked sufficient detail and clarity; and was never subjected to peer-review before or during construction. Design revisions made during construction were also cited in the report as worsening the building's already-flawed structural design.
The report also blamed management and supervision errors for the poor construction practices which led to the building's structural and other defects, specifically pointing out the January 1999 departure of Century West's engineer-of-record and the elimination of its full-time structural engineering department six months later. The lack of experience in managing and overseeing construction projects similar in size and scope to the Courthouse Square project among County and Transit officials, the architect and the primary contractor were also cited in the report as contributing to the flawed construction.
Finally, the forensic engineering report, citing data from concrete strength tests it conducted during its investigation, concluded that the building's concrete elements were too weak. Investigation into the precise reasons for the concrete's weakness was inconclusive, but a lab test conducted during a previous investigation identified the concrete's abnormally high water content as a possible cause. (Water intrusion, water leaks and water proofing are common subjects of construction disputes in Oregon.)
Courthouse Square not an isolated case
Defects in structural design and construction, like those identified by the forensics engineer's who inspected Courthouse Square are not uncommon. Design defects and construction disputes appear routinely in residential and commercial real estate developments and building projects throughout Oregon and nationwide. In the United States, real estate developers, governments, businesses and individual homebuilders collectively spend hundreds of millions of dollars each year to repair construction defects.
Types of construction defects
Construction defects typically fall into one of four categories: defects and errors in the design made by architects and engineers; defective, improperly installed or inferior materials; improperly managed or substandard construction; and subsurface or foundation defects. It only takes one construction defect to derail or doom an entire construction project. For example, an improperly poured foundation which cannot be repaired may render the multi-million dollar office building built on top of it totally unusable.
And, as the Courthouse Square saga in Marion County illustrates, it can take years to fully realize the scope and severity of defects involving structural integrity in concrete, masonry, framing and foundations - and even after the scope and severity of the structural defects are determined, it can take years and cost nearly as much as the initial construction to make the necessary repairs.
The stakes are high in construction disputes, and outcomes often hinge on technical details and expert testimony. Anyone engaged in a dispute involving any aspect of construction, whether residential or commercial, should speak to a lawyer. The immediate intervention from an attorney who knows how to negotiate effectively according to the facts and applicable law to resolve constructions disputes could mean the difference between successful negotiations or expensive, ongoing litigation.
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Neymar to apologise to Barcelona fans?
Harry Kettle in La Liga, Transfer News & Rumours 25 Jun 2019
According to a recent report from Mundo Deportivo, Paris Saint-Germain forward Neymar has been informed that he needs to apologise to Barcelona’s fans in order to make the move back to the Nou Camp – and he also needs to take a pay cut. The manner in which the Brazilian sensation decided to leave the Spanish giants a few years back certainly rubbed people the wrong way, as many believed he was leaving for a big pay day and nothing more. While fans will continue to argue back and forth about that point, one thing is for sure: Neymar is still one of the best players in world football, and Barcelona will do anything in their power to bring him back.
It’s also no secret that Barca’s bitter rivals Real Madrid are interested in the idea of signing him, which could throw a spanner in the works as speculation over his future continues.
Harry Kettle
Harry is a University of Worcester graduate who has been writing professionally for the last two years. He specialises in several sports such as MMA, pro wrestling and athletics, with football being his primary love. He continues to dream of a life in the Premier League as a Wolves fan.
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STORYTELLERS IS A UNIQUE, FULL-SCALE, QUALITY THEATER ARTS ACADEMY THAT OFFERS PROFESSIONAL TRAINING AND PERFORMANCE OPPORTUNITIES FOR YOUNG PEOPLE. WE ARE COMMITTED TO TEACHING AND PRODUCING MEANINGFUL AND EXCELLENT THEATER BY INVESTING DEEPLY IN YOUNG ARTISTS IN A WHOLESOME, ENCOURAGING, AND CHALLENGING ENVIRONMENT. THIS WILL BE DONE IN ORDER TO EXPAND THE HEARTS AND MINDS OF OUR STUDENTS, TO IMPACT OUR AUDIENCES, AND TO ENRICH THE ART OF THEATER FOR GENERATIONS TO COME.
Artistic Director, Co-Founder, and Board Member: Terry Bouma
As an actor and singer, Theresa Sweet Bouma has performed music theater roles, opera roles, and concerts with companies that include Washington Repertory Company, Petrucci's, Washington Summer Opera, Charlottesville Symphony, Concert Artists of Baltimore, and many others in Baltimore, Washington DC, and up the east coast. She was also the 3rd place winner of the national Metropolitan Opera competition earlier in her career. Her education includes an undergraduate and graduate degree in voice and opera performance from Oberlin and Peabody Conservatories respectively, and a Master's of Science in Psychology from Loyola University of Maryland. Most recently, Terry has devoted much of her creative energies to inspiring, training, and supporting young performing artists. Her acting and voice students have been accepted as performing arts majors at schools such as Catholic University, Belmont, Elon, AMDA, Ithaca, University of Maryland, University of Hartford, James Madison, and also for agency representation. Terry has served as musical director and vocal coach for many musical productions in the DC/Baltimore area. She is a teaching artist and musical director with Imagination Stage in Bethesda. Her stage directing credits include the memorable, You're a Good Man Charlie Brown and The Pirates of Penzance with Rockbridge Academy, as well as Into the Woods, StoryTeller Cabarets, A Midsummer Night's Dream, and Twelfth Night with StoryTellers, a performing arts Academy where she serves as co-founder and Artistic Director.
Production Manager, Co-Founder, and Vice-President of the Board: Alyssa Bouma
Alyssa has a long history in the theater onstage and still works part time in theater production. In New York City she is currently the assistant to the Conceiving Producer of Chasing Rainbows: The Road to Oz, a musical about Judy Garland’s childhood, which is coming to Broadway next year! Some theater credits include: Company Manager for Chasing Rainbows at Flat Rock Playhouse, the State Theater of North Carolina (NC); Director at Rebel Theater Company (NYC); and Actor and Creative team member for Much Ado About Nothing, Pride and Prejudice, Cymbeline, and Comedy of Errors at Annapolis Shakespeare Company. With StoryTellers, Alyssa has Produced and Assistant Directed each year’s Cabaret, Into the Woods, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, and Twelfth Night. She also Produced A Tribute to Patsy Cline starring Terri Dixon. Additionally, Alyssa is a full time wedding and portrait photographer based in Maryland and New York City. She has owned her business, Captured by Alyssa for four years.
Assistant Director, Co-Founder, and Secretary of the Board: Alexander Foley
Alexander’s creative team credits include StoryTellers’ Into the Woods (Associate Director) andMidsummer Night’s Dream (Assistant Director, Set and Costume Designer), Jones Elementary’s and StoryTellers’ production of The Little Mermaid JR. (Director), Rockbridge Academy’s You’re a Good Man Charlie Brown (Associate Director) and Pirates of Penzance (Assistant Director and On Stage Teaching Artist), Annapolis Shakespeare Company’s Twelfth Night (Assistant Director), Comedy of Errors (Associate Director), and Much Ado About Nothing (Properties Master), and he served as the Properties Master to Firebone Theater Company’s productions of Red Flamboyant and Son of a Gun.
Artistic Associate: Alexa Cripe
Alexa recently graduated from Furman University with a degree in Vocal Performance. She has been in stage productions since she was six. Her favorite credits include: Rona Lisa Peretti in 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee and Brooke Wyndham in Legally Blonde with Furman University Pauper Players, Papagena in The Magic Flute with Furman Lyric Theater, Marian Paroo in The Music Man with Rockbridge Academy, and Werther, Hansel and Gretel, and Turandot with the Washington National Opera. She also loves playing cello and piano.
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Debate on ministries’ budgets: National Development
Parliament: Parking app helps drivers save over $3.3m since 2017
Mar 7, 2019, 5:00 am SGT
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Authorities to set aside $25m in next five years for more such inter-agency tie-ups
Rachel Au-Yong
Housing Correspondent
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Drivers have saved more than $3.3 million in parking fees since October 2017, by paying via an app only for the minutes they used, instead of the full hourly or half-hourly rates.
The Parking.sg app was funded by the Municipal Services Productivity Fund, and its success is one reason the authorities will set aside another $25 million in the next five years for more such inter-agency collaborations.
This is in addition to the $5 million earmarked in 2017.
Announcing the move in Parliament yesterday, Minister-in-charge of the Municipal Services Office (MSO) Grace Fu said she hoped to see more of such service improvements in the coming years.
The MSO was formed four years ago to coordinate multiple agencies' efforts in delivering municipal services.
Two new projects have been approved under the enhanced fund.
One is the use of drones for the Singapore Land Authority to detect maintenance issues early, more quickly and cheaply.
The other is a pilot trial of compactor litter bins for the National Environment Agency (NEA), a change that could cut waste collection from daily to twice a week.
Ms Fu, who is also Minister for Culture, Community and Youth, said the office has awarded $5.2 million for six projects so far, and expects "about five times that in productivity gains".
Responding to Mr Ong Teng Koon (Marsiling-Yew Tee GRC) and Ms Cheryl Chan (Fengshan), she also highlighted the office's plans to respond more quickly and effectively to residents with issues.
ST Engineering to carry out drone trials over Lower Seletar Reservoir
For one, it is using artificial intelligence to route cases to the right agencies automatically, "freeing up officers to focus their efforts on solving more complex problems", she said. About 1,500 such cases a month are routed automatically.
Another area is through a new Infrastructure Works Dashboard - a common platform where agencies can access one another's proposed and ongoing projects, and coordinate works to minimise inconveniences like dust pollution and traffic jams, she said.
Also, the MSO will introduce new features into its OneService app, for residents to use it not just to report problems, but also to make transactions and encourage community bonding.
For example, residents can soon pay for neighbourhood facilities like barbecue pits and receive alerts, for hawker centre closures, for example, through the app in the coming year, said Ms Fu.
"We also want to encourage residents to do their part in improving their living environment," she added, noting the HelpBuddy app pilot launched last year allows residents to take part in activities offered by agencies.
For now, residents can do things like check if gravitraps set up by the NEA to monitor the mosquito population are in good working condition.
"Going forward, we will enable residents to put up simple activities on the app. For example, residents can help spot missing pet dogs or share household tools with one another," she said.
"If the pilot is successful, we will incorporate it in the OneService app."
Ms Fu also gave an update on the app, which has 157,000 users who have reported 288,000 cases since 2015. About 20 per cent of the municipal feedback received by government agencies are reported through the app, double that from two years ago.
On average, cases are addressed in three working days.
For more complex cases, 90 per cent of them are closed in 13 days, while the average time taken has fallen from 8.5 days to 6.5 days in the last three years, she added.
A version of this article appeared in the print edition of The Straits Times on March 07, 2019, with the headline 'Parking app helps drivers save over $3.3m since 2017'. Print Edition | Subscribe
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Six pictures which show how Sunderland looked in 1985
Sunderland mum overcomes overwhelming challenges to be named Student of the Year by University of Sunderland
A mum who gave up her full-time job to build a better life for her family while looking after her ill son and meeting the needs of her disabled husband has been honoured by her fellow students.
Sunderland University student Vijayalakshmi Subramani, winner of the Rate Your Mate competition Picture: DAVID WOOD
Vijayalakshmi - or VJ to her friends - risked it all for a better education to help herself, her family, and those around her.
Giving up a fulltime job as a catering supervisor for school meals with Sunderland City Council, she decided to return to university in the hope of building a better life with husband Selvakumar and son James.
Her husband Selvakumar had been diagnosed with polio when he was just one month old, meaning he has spent his life in a wheelchair.
Her son James, who is just three-years-old, has been in and out of hospital suffering with asthma, eczema and also having been diagnosed with autism.
But despite all the obstacles she has faced in life, VJ, 33, has always been keen to put others first and, since enrolling at the University last year, has been supporting her fellow students, organising events and keeping everyone on the right track.
VJ, who is studying MSc in Environment, Health and Safety, arrived in the UK from India in 2009.
Her kindness was repaid when friends Kojo Basoah Fobri, 24, Muhammab Syafiq Afham, 22, and Brian Martin, 30, nominated her for Rate Your Mate, the university’s campaign aimed to find those who are not only dedicated to their studies, but who go above and beyond to help or support others.
She was named Student of the Year after her story impressed judges.
“I can’t believe I’ve been named Student of the Year, I’m still shaking, it’s such a real honour,” said VJ, who lives in Hendon, Sunderland.
“Both my husband and I know the true value of a good education. He is my inspiration.”
She added: “It wasn't easy coming back to studies after 14 years. It’s challenging to meet Selva's needs due to his disability, James's health condition and keep up with university studies.
“I’m thankful and happy that some of my friends have identified and recognised me for this award nomination, but the real success is someone getting inspired by my story, to come out of their home to develop their qualifications and enhance their skills.
“I am a first generation graduate in my family and I truly believe education is the most powerful tool to guide our future generation. In future, I will keep taking every single opportunity to spread the awareness and support.”
VJ said, who was born and raised in a village of Tamilnadu, India, said she is a prime example of the importance that education plays in life.
“(At home in India) we did not even have our own toilets until I was 21,” she said.
“Even though we were struggling with just basic needs, my dad could put me in a convent school.
“I did not have much opportunity to learn new skills in a small village. But I did reasonably well in my studies.
“I wanted to do engineering in computer science but I could not get in to university because we couldn’t afford it. But I ended up getting a place in BSc in Catering Science and Hotel Management with a scholarship, so my dad had to pay only a little bit of money to a university education.
“I ended up in the UK in November 2009 and have gone through quite a challenging time.
“My husband Selva is a short story writer and blogger. I used to read his stories, became his fan, then we became friends and we got married and our James was born.
“We love to integrate with the local community and those friends have always been a great support all these years. Sunderland has always been a welcoming home for our family and we would like to give something back to society in our own way.”
Other Rate Your Mate finalists:
John Mbandi
John relocated from his home in Kenya to study Sports and Exercise Sciences at the University and brought with him experience as a semi-pro football player, skills which he is today passing on to spinal and brain injury patients from charity Headway.
Kevin Rudkin
Fine Art student Linzi Saunders, 21, has had her life saved three times thanks to transplant surgery and took it upon herself to nominate friend Kevin Rudkin who supports her and keeps her spirits up.
Amanda Dryden
Biomedical Science student Amanda, 32, was nominated her friend Bethany Lamond who was in awe of how she so successfully juggles raising three young children with her studies - as well as holding down a job.
Thomas Crosby
When Liam Murray decided to return to studying in his late 30s, walking into university could have been a daunting experience. But it was a challenge he was more than able to overcome thanks to 20-year-old Thomas Crosby. Also starting a degree in Performing Arts, Thomas was the first person to speak to Liam and the pair became instant friends, despite coming from very different backgrounds.
Rebecca Daurat
Rebecca, 25, has spent the past two years performing the ultimate juggling act – working fulltime, giving birth to two children and fitting in her Social Work university studies.
Nathan Todd
Nathan, 22, has fought tooth and nail to achieve his dreams of becoming an accountant. But the accountancy student has always known the importance of helping others.
Konstantina Chatoupi
New mum Konstantina, 25, is performing the ultimate juggling act – being a new mum and fulltime student. Daughter Agape only arrived in the world last year, just as her mum was working on her dissertation.
Niyla Javaid and Aimee Cameron
Niyla, 34, and Aimee, 22, are worth their weight in gold. The pair are student reps for their MA Design programme and play a vital role in supporting and helping their friends stay organised.
Abigail Marshall
Film and Media degree student Abigail, 20, has been juggling her studies alongside helping her mum who is recovering from neurosurgery.
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10 Addictive Facebook Games You Can Still Play
Hey, remember Farmville?
(SPOT.ph) Back in the day, Facebook wasn't just about tagged photos and liking. Before cover photos and "life events," there were fun, old-school games that were so addictive, we'd log into Facebook every chance we got. Heck, we didn't even have data plans back then, so we always had to be at a desktop in order to play. Remember all those hours you spent "hugging" all your Facebook friends on Pet Society just to earn coins? Or the little arguments you used to have when no one would "buy" you on Friends for Sale?
Sadly, times have changed, and a lot of these games have faded away over the years. If you're in the mood for a little nostalgia, we found a couple of classic Facebook games that you can still play. Just go easy on the game requests.
Also read: Top 10 Throwback Video Games From the 1980s
Mafia Wars
If you weren't playing Pet Society, you were probably busy building a criminal empire in Mafia Wars. Nothing encouraged teamwork like the latter, which let players grow their own mafia by completing jobs, missions, and attacking other players. It wasn't the most action-filled—in fact, most of its gameplay was pretty much limited to just a lot of clicking—but the role-playing strategy game got a lot of players hooked when it first hit Facebook in 2009.
When you think Facebook game, the first title that probably comes to mind is Farmville. There was once a time when you couldn't log in to Facebook without being bombarded by Farmville requests. The premise is simple: Build the farm of your dreams with the help of your friends. Since its arrival in 2009, the game has expanded to two more titles, namely Farmville 2 and Farmville: Harvest Swap—which you can also still play on Facebook.
If simulation games weren't your thing, you and your friends probably spent a lot of time playing Words with Friends, which was essentially like Scrabble on Facebook. The game's one-on-one matches allow you to simultaneously play with different friends, and you are alerted with a notification when it's your turn. It also has a Random Opponent feature, which sets up matches with players outside of your Facebook circle. If you're feeling extra nostalgic, the game is available on iOS and Android.
Nothing fueled artistic creativity (or maybe competitiveness) like this game, in which two players take turns illustrating a word that the other player has to guess. The beauty of Draw Something was that it didn't matter if you were particularly skilled in drawing, as long as whatever you drew made sense. On Facebook, the game—now called Speed Guess by Draw Something—is an update of the original, and involves the added pressure of a time limit. The original version is still available on the App Store and Play Store.
There have been many, many app versions of poker, but the most popular one by far was Zynga's Texas HoldEm Poker, which first debuted in 2007. Facebook players participate in a virtual casino lobby where they can either play a table of choice (casual, tournament, and VIP) or join friends in a game. A leader board also shows players how they compare with the rest of their friends. You can still play via Facebook, or choose the "send to mobile" option, which will redirect you to its app counterpart on your device.
Mob Wars
This game pretty much has the same premise as Mafia Wars: You start off as a petty thief and you work your way up through the ranks of the criminal underworld by completing jobs and heists. Its gameplay is also similar, in that you need to form alliances with your Facebook friends and ask for help in order to progress through the game. Eventually, Mob Wars developed a "family" feature (a la The Godfather), giving players the option to create their own families or join others. Its sequel, Mob Wars: La Cosa Nostra, is also available for playing on Facebook.
Who knew staring at four photos to guess a random word would be so addicting? The game got so popular and notoriously challenging that other developers released cheat apps to get players through tougher levels. Technically, 4 Pics 1 Word started out as apps on iOS and Android but now, you can also give the game a go via Facebook.
YoVille
Facebook players are no strangers to games that let you create virtual worlds. In fact, you might remember titles like Sorority Life or Cafe World. YoVille was one of the first and longest-running games on the social networking site. You can build your own virtual character, decorate a house, get a job, and navigate a virtual world with other players. To many players' dismay, the game was discontinued in 2014 but was relaunched a few months later as YoWorld.
Just when you thought this '80s puzzle game couldn't get more addictive, along came Tetris Battle, which takes all the fun of a normal solo game and throws in some friendly competition with your Facebook friends. The game also adds some extra pressure by displaying your Tetris board alongside your friend's as you simultaneously play. You can even challenge up to three players for one huge Tetris battle!
Bejeweled Blitz
Remember that classic Bejeweled puzzle game that was first launched in 2001? Nine years later, PopCap released a remixed version called Bejeweled Blitz, originally on Facebook and then developed into downloadable apps. Like many puzzle games that came before and after it, the goal is to match similar tiles (in this case, gems) in order to get the highest possible score in just a minute. Normally, 60 seconds isn't a lot of time, but that hasn't stopped the game from being addictive. In fact, the Facebook version had a leaderboard, which we're pretty sure tapped into all our competitive streaks.
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Widening gap between state and private sixth form funding must be addressed – Sutton Trust
Responding to the AOC’s findings on the difference in funding between 16-18 year olds in state and private education James Turner, Sutton Trust Director of Programmes said:
“We are very concerned about the impact on social mobility of the increasing disparity in spending on privately educated and state funded sixth formers.
“This report shows that, on average, private sixth forms spend nearly three times as much as state providers on each student. Furthermore, private schools are increasing spending on sixth formers whilst state funding is frozen, which means this gap is set to widen even further.
“We know good teaching in the right subjects is vital to tackling the seven fold university access gap between students from the richest and poorest backgrounds. However, this report shows that whilst the private sector recognises the need to invest in sixth form education, spending an average 7% more on sixth formers than 11-15 year olds, the state sector is funding six formers 22% less than 11-15 year olds on average.
“While money is not everything, the widening gap between state and private funding of sixth form and college students should be addressed if we are serious about our commitment to fair access for all to the top universities.”
The Sutton Trust’s week long UK summer schools are designed to give bright students from non-privileged homes a taste of life at a leading university. The programme reaches over 1,900 sixth form students across ten leading universities – Bristol, Cambridge, Durham, Edinburgh, Imperial, King’s College London, Nottingham, the Royal Veterinary College, St Andrews and UCL. Independent evaluation has shown that young people have a significantly higher chance of going to a leading university if they attend one of the summer schools, with over three quarters (76%) going on to a leading university (either a member of the Russell or 1994 Groups) compared to just over half (55%) of students with similar academic and social profiles who did not apply to the scheme.
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Home News The unexpected rise of a country cricket team
The unexpected rise of a country cricket team
Gordon Findlater
BIG KNOCK: Henry Workman finished unbeaten on 75 to help Cheviot to a seven wicket win over Temuka on Sunday.
Two years ago Cheviot struggled to put together a team in the second tier of country cricket. Now they’re a win away from representing Canterbury at the national club championships.
After gaining promotion to the Canterbury country premier competition in 2017, they went on to win the one-day competition last year.
On Sunday they defeated South Canterbury champs Temuka and will now face Christchurch metro winners St Albans for a spot in the national week-long tournament in Auckland in April.
Cheviot’s rise to prominence has come about due to a combination of former junior players returning to the club after high schools such as captain Harry Fitzpatrick, who has represented Canterbury at under-19 level.
They have also been aided by some smart recruiting from Sidey brothers, Henry and Charlie, who convinced a number of their former Christchurch Boys’ High
School teammates to join them at their boyhood club following school. A large chunk of Cheviot’s team is now made up of players who were part of CBHS’s back-to-back Gillette Cup-winning teams of 2016 and 2017.
“Boys’ High finished their season and then my cousins grabbed Ben Hartland and Jack Harris to come and play for us. A few of us older boys were keen to let the young guys take over, so they brought more of them out,” said club vice-president Sam Sidey.
The latest CBHS product to make the move to Cheviot is promising rugby and cricket star Louie Chapman, who is set to debut for the team at the weekend.
The connection to CBHS doesn’t end there. The school’s coach Mark Lane has also recently started working with the premier team.
“I think it’s all about playing with your mates . . . they have a bloody good time off the field and I think that makes its way onto the field,” said Sidey.
Cheviot have made a major transition from three years ago when lettuce-pickers and other seasonal workers in the area, with little cricket experience, would often help make up numbers.
“The standard of cricket in the Canterbury country competition has improved immensely over the last couple of years . . . you go back three or four years ago and you would never hear of these young guns like Ben Hartland or Louie Chapman thinking about coming out to play in the country,” said Sidey.
Cheviot will go into the final next Sunday as considerable underdogs against a classy St Albans outfit.
St Albans created history last month by becoming the first team to win 10 premier one-day Christchurch metro titles. Cheviot are currently third in the Canterbury country one-day competition with three wins and two losses.
“As a group, we’re quietly confident but we’re going to take the underdog tag into the game,” said Sidey.
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Brand equity of the leading retail companies in Germany in 2014Brand equity of the leading retail companies in Germany 2014
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Revenues in the retail trade sector in Germany in 2013, by business size (in million euros)Retail trade revenues in Germany 2013, by business size
Gross profit margin in the retail trade sector in Germany in 2013, by business sizeGross profit margin in retail trade in Germany 2013, by business size
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Revenue distribution in retail trade in Germany from 2006 to 2017, by revenue sizeRevenue distribution in retail trade in Germany 2006-2017, by revenue size
Number of employees in retail trade businesses in Germany in 2013 and 2014, by revenue size classEmployees in retail trade businesses in Germany 2014, by revenue size class
Retail revenue distribution in Germany from 2000 to 2017, by sales channelRetail revenue distribution in Germany 2000-2017, by sales channel
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Market share of hypermarkets and consumer markets in the retail trade sector in Germany from 2000 to 2017Retail market share of hypermarkets and consumer markets in Germany 2000-2017
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Market share of non-chain specialist retailers in the retail trade sector in Germany from 2000 to 2017Retail market share of non-chain specialist retailers in Germany 2000-2017
Market share of specialist chain retailers in the retail trade sector in Germany from 2000 to 2017Retail market share of specialist chain retailers in Germany 2000-2017
Market share of specialist stores in the retail trade sector in Germany from 2000 to 2017Retail market share of specialist stores in Germany 2000-2017
Market share of department stores in the retail trade sector in Germany from 2000 to 2016Retail market share of department stores in Germany 2000-2016
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Gross revenue per square meter sales area of hypermarket sales channels in food retail trade in Germany in 2016 and 2017 (in euros)Space productivity of leading hypermarkets in Germany 2017
Revenue per company in the retail trade sector in Germany from 2005 to 2017 (in million euros)Revenue per company in retail trade in Germany 2005-2017
Revenue per employee in retail trade in Germany from 2005 to 2017 (in 1,000 euros)Revenue per employee in retail trade in Germany 2005-2017
Revenue per company in the retail trade sector in Germany in 2014, by business size (in euros)Retail trade revenues per company in Germany 2014, by business size
Revenue per employee in the retail trade sector in Germany in 2016, by business size (in euros)Retail trade revenue per employee in Germany 2016, by business size
Revenue per company in the retail trade sector in Germany in 2013, by revenue size (in million euros)Retail trade revenues per company in Germany 2013, by revenue size
Revenues per employee in the retail trade sector in Germany in 2013, by revenue size class (in euros)Retail trade revenues per employee in Germany 2013, by revenue size
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Number of part-time employees in the retail trade sector in Germany from 2004 to 2017Part-time employees in the retail trade sector in Germany 2004-2017
Number of persons in marginal employment in the retail trade sector in Germany from 2004 to 2017Number of marginally employed persons in the retail trade sector in Germany 2004-2017
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Prime retail street locations ranked by rental rate in Germany in 2017* (in euros per square meter per year)Prime retail street locations in Germany 2017, by rent
Distribution of retailers in selected cities in Germany in 2015, by classificationShare of luxury and premium retailers in German cities 2015
How would you evaluate the customer frequency development at your location over the past two years?Survey on the customer frequency development in the retail sector in Germany 2019
Index values for the retail purchasing power and revenue per inhabitant in Germany in 2017, by federal state (100=national average)Retail purchasing power and revenue per inhabitant in Germany 2017, by federal state
Distribution of shopping centers in Germany from 1964 to 2016, by type of locationDistribution of shopping centers in Germany 1964-2016, by type of location
Share of respondents who agreed with the following statements about consumption and shopping in Germany from 2015 to 2018Survey on statements about consumption and shopping in Germany 2015-2018
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Number of persons willing to drive to shopping centers in Germany from 2015 to 2018, by distance (in millions)Survey on willingness to drive to shopping centers in Germany 2015-2018, by distance
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Number of persons who went shopping and window shopping during their spare time in Germany from 2015 to 2018, by frequency (in millions)Frequency of shopping during spare time in Germany 2015-2018
Level of agreement towards the statement "I like to buy expensive things: luxuries make life more pleasant" in Germany from 2015 to 2018 (in millions)Survey on luxuries improving life in Germany 2015-2018
Level of agreement towards the statement "One is guaranteed good quality products when buying established brands" in Germany from 2015 to 2018 (in million persons)Consumer opinion on whether branded products guarantee quality in Germany 2015-2018
Level of agreement towards the statement "I often spend more money, than I had planned" in Germany from 2015 to 2018 (in million persons)Survey on frequently spending more than planned while shopping in Germany 2015-2018
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Number of customers of the most popular supermarkets (purchase in the last six months) in Germany from 2015 to 2018 (in millions)
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Share of gross value added (GVA) at factor costs in the revenues of the retail trade sector in Germany from 2005 to 2017
Gross value added (GVA) at factor costs in the retail trade sector in Germany from 2005 to 2017 (in million euros)
Share of operating surplus in the revenues of the retail trade sector in Germany from 2005 to 2017
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Focus of investments in the retail sector in Germany from 2010 to 2017
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Revenue per square meter retail space in the retail trade sector in Germany from 1970 to 2017 (in euros)
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Level of agreement towards the statement "I often spend more money, than I had planned" in Germany from 2015 to 2018 (in million persons)
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Level of agreement towards the statement "I am willing to spend more on a product if it is environmentally friendly" in Germany from 2015 to 2018 (in million persons)
Level of agreement towards the statement "When buying groceries, I look for ecological and organic product certification" in Germany from 2015 to 2018 (in millions)
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Survivor: 'If you are going through it, try to keep your life as normal as possible'
Derek Vital
Sep 30, 2010 at 12:01 AM Sep 30, 2010 at 12:13 PM
Simone Garant considers herself to be one of the lucky ones.
Diagnosed with breast cancer in 1998, Garant underwent a mastectomy but was not required to endure chemotherapy or radiation like a large number of women afflicted with the disease.
“I haven’t gone through a lot of the stresses that other patients did,” said Garant.
Her treatment option involved taking the anti-cancer drug tamoxifen for five years. Garant had surgery on a Friday, was out of the hospital the following day and returned to work one week later.
The 73-year-old Fall River resident was relieved that doctors discovered her cancer when it was still in an early stage. That allowed her to follow her normal routine, which involved caring for her elderly mother.
“I took the surgeon’s advice and never regretted it,” said Garant. “I wanted to get back to work, keep my life going.”
Garant participated in the Survivor’s Picnic sponsored by Saint Anne’s Hospital the first couple of years after her diagnosis and was involved with the Making Strides Against Breast Cancer walk several years ago.
She would recommend anyone that is currently dealing with breast cancer, to not let it get the best of you.
“I made up my mind I was going to deal with it,” said Garant. “If you are going through it, try to keep your life as normal as possible.”
E-mail Derek Vital at dvital@heraldnews.com.
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Second Generation (Programming) Language (2GL)
Definition - What does Second Generation (Programming) Language (2GL) mean?
A second generation (programming) language (2GL) is a grouping of programming languages associated with assembly languages. Unlike the first generation languages, programs can be written symbolically, using English words (also known as mnemonics), in a way that a human can understand and are subsequently converted into machine language by an assembler.
Assembly languages are specific to computer and CPU. The term is used in the distinction between Machine Languages (1GL) and higher-level programming languages (3GL, 4GL, etc.)
Also known as a 2nd generation language.
Techopedia explains Second Generation (Programming) Language (2GL)
Assembly Languages originated in the 1940s, and are attributed to the efforts of the American naval officer Grace Hopper, with the introduction of the FLOW-MATIC language for the ENIAC computer.
2GL are mostly used for the implementation of low-level kernels and drivers and for performance-oriented and processing-intensive applications such as computer games, graphic manipulation applications and video editing applications.
The symbolic representation of machine Instructions, registers and memory addresses allows the programmer to produce a human-readable program. For the computer to understand the program it must be converted to a machine readable format using an Assembler. The Assembler usually converts the Mnemonics via a one-to-one mapping from the mnemonic representation to machine language, for a particular processor family and environment.
Assemblers allow for easier debugging of the program, and also introduce more advanced programming mechanisms such as macro Programming and structured Programming.
First Generation (Programming) Language (1GL)
Third Generation (Programming) Language (3GL)
Fourth Generation (Programming) Language (4GL)
Fifth Generation (Programming) Language (5GL)
Computer Programming: From Machine Language to Artificial Intelligence
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Wednesday 17 July 2019 | UK News feed
Sports day cancelled because uneven playing field is a health and safety risk
A school sports day has been cancelled over health and safety fears, because teaching staff are worried that the children could trip up on the uneven playing field.
By Lucy Cockcroft
7:30PM BST 19 Jun 2008
The head teacher of Holmbush First School in Shoreham, West Sussex, has written to parents to tell them that the annual event has been called off to avoid accidents.
Rebecca Jackson told them that the surface of the school's playing field could be "too dangerous" for the traditional sack, egg-and-spoon, wheelbarrow and three-legged races.
She said there were concerns that cracks and holes in the surface could cause the young pupils to "trip or fall".
But parents have said the decision to ban sports day, which was scheduled for July 14, is "ludicrous".
Louise Powell, 32, a physiotherapist, was unimpressed when her daughter Maisie, five, came home from school with the letter.
Untrained staff teaching children 'on the cheap'
She said: "The school produces a newsletter every month. The latest issue said they've cancelled sports day for health and safety issues because the ground is uneven.
"I'm absolutely furious because we were so looking forward to it. We were excited because it would have been Maisie's first sports day, it's really upset me. It's ludicrous.
"I did sports day on ground that was uneven. Our playing field was on a slope and I know my husband did his on ground that was probably uneven. "When we were kids, you just got on with it."
She added other parents and children were equally disappointed.
Another mum, who didn't want to be named, said: "Part of the fun of school sports days is running about and falling over all over the place - especially the three-legged race.
"You are expected to fall over when you take part in a three-legged race, that's almost the point of it."
However, Mrs Jackson has defended the decision. She said the field, which has recently been acquired by the school, was used as farmland and is not yet ready for use by the 267 pupils.
She said: "The school has not had a sports day before and we were hoping to organise one this year because we have had some playing field access. "But we have inspected the field and it's not yet ready to be used for sports day because of cracks and holes in the surface, which could be dangerous and cause children to trip or fall."
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Former dictator of Burkina Faso charged with murder of leader dubbed 'African Che Guevara'
Blaise Compaore accused of 1987 'assassination' of his Marxist revolutionary predecessor, Thomas Sankara
Blaise Compaore Photo: EPA
By Colin Freeman, Chief Foreign Correspondent
The exiled former dictator of the west African state of Burkina Faso has been charged with the murder of the president he took power from in a bloody coup nearly three decades ago.
Blaise Compaore, who was overthrown last year after 27 years in power, was charged by Burkina Faso’s new government with the "assassination" of his predecessor, Thomas Sankara, a charismatic revolutionary often dubbed "The African Che Guevara".
The move to issue an international arrest warrant for Mr Compaore brings a new twist to the long-running mystery over how exactly Sankara, who is still revered by some for his anti-imperialist stance, met his death in October 1987.
"Question marks have always surrounded the circumstances in which Mr Sankara died."
It has long been understood that he was killed by an armed group during the coup, but Mr Compaore's exact role in the affair has always been in dispute.
The warrant is the outcome of a long-running investigation started in the wake of the popular uprising that ousted Mr Compaore in October 2014.
As part of the inquiry, officials exhumed Mr Sankara's body from a cemetery in May, along with a dozen others. They claimed to have found Mr Sankara’s corpse to be riddled with at least a dozen bullets, most of them allegedly fired by weapons used by the Burkinabe military.
At least five other people, mostly former soldiers, have been charged in connection with Sankara's killing - including General Gilbert Diendere, Compaore's former chief of staff, who led a failed coup in September.
"I confirm that an international arrest warrant was issued against (ex-)President Blaise Compaore by the investigating judge," Prosper Farama, a lawyer for Sankara's family, told Reuters. He said the charges were murder and complicity in the assassination, among others.
Two other judicial sources who wished to remain anonymous confirmed the warrant. However, a police lab helping investigate the killing reported that the "state of the remains" made it impossible to detect any DNA.
Either way, the decision to issue a warrant for Mr Compaore is likely to pose a dilemma for the government of the neighbouring Ivory Coast, which offered him sanctuary after the coup that toppled him.
• A very un-African coup - how peacebrokers thwarted carnage in Burkina Faso
While the current president, Alassane Ouattara, is widely considered a democrat, handing his guest over to face trial could lead to consequences from allies of Mr Compaore, who is still considered a powerful figure in the region.
Paul Melly, associate fellow of the Africa Programme at Chatham House, told The Telegraph: "In Burkina Faso, the decision to charge Mr Compaore is potentially very significant, as question marks have always surrounded the circumstances in which Mr Sankara died. There are accounts which say that they were originally very close friends, and that Compaore betrayed Sankara, and there are also accounts that dispute that."
Some 38 years after his death, the memories of Mr Sankara still loom large in Burkina Faso, where he was a galvanising but divisive figure.
A Marxist revolutionary who espoused the theory of pan-Africanism, he took power himself in a coup at the age of 33, pledging to end the dominance of France, the country's former colonial power.
Burkinese people celebrate after embattled President Blaise Compaore steps down in 2014. Photo: ISSOUF SANOGO/AFP
He even changed from its colonial name of Upper Volta to its current name of Burkina Faso, which translates roughly as "Land of Upright Man" or "Nation of Incorruptibles".
He also refused foreign aid, banned expensive cars for government officials, and introduced progressive social policies such as outlawing female genital mutilation.
However, his dirigiste economic policies helped keep Burkina Faso in dire poverty, while his Marxism made the West nervous.
He also made powerful enemies locally, such as Charles Taylor, the Liberian warlord who, like Mr Compaore, was a protege of Colonel Gaddafi's "school for revolutionaries" in Libya.
Once in power, Mr Compaore spent his early years ruling with an iron fist and stirring rebellions among his neighbours. Latterly, though, he re-invented himself as a regional powerbroker and mediator, and in 2012, played a role in trying to bring about peace between al-Qaeda-backed Tuareg separists and the goverment in Mali.
He also played a key role in several sets of negotiations to free Western hostages kidnapped by al-Qaeda in the region.
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Luis Alvarez, 9/11 responder who pushed for healthcare, has died at 53
[email protected] (Ellen Cranley)
Luis Alvarez, a former New York City detective who emerged as an activist after he appeared before Congress to push for extended health benefits to authorities who responded to the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, died Saturday at the age of 53.
Alvarez’s family announced in a post on Facebook that Alvarez had died in hospice care after a three-year battle with cancer.
“We told him at the end that he had won this battle by the many lives he had touched by sharing his three-year battle,” the post read. “He was at peace with that, surrounded by family. Thank you for giving us this time we have had with him, it was a blessing.”
Alvarez first joined the NYPD in 1990 and was assigned to work in his native Queens before being transferred to the department’s Narcotics Division and promoted to detective two years later, according to the New York Times.
The former detective was diagnosed in 2016, nearly 15 years after he spent three months in the toxic wreckage of the World Trade Center in Lower Manhattan searching for survivors and remains after the terrorist attack.
On June 11, the former detective appeared before a House Judiciary subcommittee in Washington, DC to argue for the replenishment of the September 11th Victim Compensation Fund
“I will not stand by and watch as my friends with cancer from 9/11 like me are valued less than anyone else because of when they get sick,” Alvarez said in his testimony. “You made me come here the day before my 69th round of chemo. I’m going to make sure that you never forget to take care of the 9/11 responders.”
Retired New York Police Department detective and 9/11 responder Luis Alvarez testifies during a House Judiciary Committee hearing on reauthorization of the September 11th Victim Compensation Fund on Capitol Hill on June 11, 2019 in Washington, DC.
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Read more: Jon Stewart and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez excoriate Congress for refusing to fund healthcare for 9/11 first responders
NYPD Commissioner James P. O’Neill tweeted that the NYPD would “#NeverForget” Alvarez’s “physical, mental & emotional” strength and commitment to “do what’s right.”
At the same hearing, comedian and former host of Comedy Central’s “The Daily Show” Jon Stewart called out the committee’s poor attendance as “ an embarrassment to the country and a stain on this institution” and said Congress should be “ashamed” for its lack of accountability.
“Sick and dying, they brought themselves down here to speak to no one. Shameful. It’s an embarrassment to the country, and it is a stain on this institution,” Stewart said, seated next to 9/11 responders. “And you should be ashamed of yourselves for those that aren’t here, but you won’t be. Because accountability doesn’t appear to be something that occurs in this chamber.”
House Republicans voted down a Democratic bill in 2010 that would have allotted billions of dollars on providing treatment to those with 9/11 related illnesses. The GOP members cited the costliness of the program and said it didn’t include sufficient measures to protect against waste and abuse.
The compensation fund was renewed for just five years in 2015. Thousands of 9/11 first responders have health issues, including dozens of different forms of cancer, linked to the toxic chemicals they were exposed to at Ground Zero.
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Reprographics Assistant, Haringey
Highgate SchoolHaringey
Salary: Circa £15,918 (FTE £22,000) depending on qualifications, skills and experience
Highgate School was established in 1565 by a Royal Charter of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth the First. Sir Roger Cholmeley, our Founder, was granted Letters Patent to found ‘a grammar School…for good education and instruction’. Today Highgate is a flourishing coeducational independent School which includes the Senior School for pupils aged 11-18; the Junior School for pupils aged 7-11 and the Pre-Preparatory School for pupils aged 3-7. There are currently in the region of 1,850 pupils at Highgate and the School employs approximately 550 full-time or part-time teaching and support staff.
The School is situated in one of the most attractive and sought after areas of North London, only a short journey from Central London and adjacent to Hampstead Heath. The hilltop site in Highgate Village is the historic site of the Senior School. A few hundred yards along Hampstead Lane in Bishopswood Road lie the Junior and Pre-Preparatory Schools and the extensive playing fields, adjacent to the open spaces of Kenwood and Hampstead Heath. The Northern Line underground station is a short walk away and it is four miles to Central London.
Working at Highgate offers the opportunity to be part of a vibrant and welcoming community, committed to academic excellence and the highest standards of pastoral care for its pupils. The Governors consider the development of excellence in the education offered to the pupils to be the underlying purpose of activities undertaken by all staff.
The purpose of this post is to provide reprographics and administrative support to colleagues in the Senior School. In addition, the postholder oversees the photocopier and associated reprographics servicing contracts and supplies.
The Reprographics Assistant will also provide administrative assistance to the Senior School Office Manager and the Office team.
Closing date is midnight on 24th July but applications will be considered on receipt
Location: Highgate, North London
Contract type: Permanent, term time only plus 10 days, 35hrs p/w
To apply: For further information and an application form, please visit our website: https://www.highgateschool.org.uk/work-with-us/
Highgate is committed to the safeguarding and welfare of children and applicants must be willing to undergo child protection screening appropriate to this post, including checks with past employers and the Disclosure and Barring Service.
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Science Technicians (Level A), Brighton and Hove
Closing date: 24 Jun 2019
Cardinal Newman Catholic SchoolBrighton and Hove
Start date: September 2019
Salary: Salary – NJC Scale 1/2 – £17,364 – £18,462 per annum, pro rata Actual Salary – £14,692
Science Technicians (Level A)
Full Time, Term Time Only
The Governors wish to appoint two enthusiastic and committed technicians to assist in our Science department. The successful candidates will be required to support students and staff in preparing materials for Science lessons. A knowledge of the science curriculum would be an advantage.
Cardinal Newman is a community where every individual is valued and expected to excel. The school is based on the south coast in the exciting and vibrant City of Brighton & Hove, East Sussex. We have a capacity of 2300 students, including 450 students in our state of the art Sixth Form building. In return the school can offer a strong and supportive community of colleagues, students and parents, and a culture of providing regular support for personal and professional development.
Closing Date: Monday 24 June 2019 at 10.00am
Interview Date : Friday 28 June 2019
More about Cardinal Newman Catholic School
Type: Mainstream School
Phase: Secondary
Funding status: State - Voluntary Aided
Gender: Mixed
Age Range: 11 - 18 years
Denomination: Roman Catholic
Address: The Upper Drive, Hove, East Sussex, BN3 6ND, United Kingdom. View in Google Maps
Website: http://www.cncs.co.uk/
Cardinal Newman Catholic School, based in Hove and Brighton is a mixed gender, secondary school for children between the ages of 11 and 18. The East Sussex school is voluntary aided and its denomination is Roman Catholic. The school was originally a ...
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WRITTEN INTERVIEW- JOHNNY HEDLUND of UNLEASHED
Where would Metal be without Unleashed? It feels like there would be an empty void left by a band that has inspired countless Pagan, Viking, and Death Metal bands. Thankfully, Unleashed is going stronger than ever nearly 30 years into the band's career. I recently, I got the opportunity to ask Unleashed Mastermind Johnny Hedlund a few questions about everything going on with Unleashed, including the brand new album, The Hunt For White Christ, available October 26th through Napalm Records. ENJOY!
Thank you very much for taking the time to do this interview!
October 26th brings us the 13th album from Unleashed The Hunt for White Christ. How does it feel to be able to have this album coming out in just a couple weeks?
It feels amazing! We worked on it for around two years so it is safe to say that we are looking forward to hear what people think of it. We are also preparing which songs to be on the live set list and it will have an affect also which songs people like the most.
The Hunt for White Christ continues on as the 4th album to follow the story of the World of Odalheim that you have penned yourself. How does it feel to be able to show off both sides of your creative mind by showing off this saga in musical form?
Very good indeed. Since the book never got finished I figured it might make sense to do the chapters into songs so to speak. And why not, much of the story line is inspired by stuff written on many Unleashed albums anyway.
For those that may not be familiar, where does The Hunt For White Christ fall in line with the story?
The story of Odalheim is about the Midgard Warriors and their fight against the main enemy “White Christ”. The last album “Dawn of the Nine” ended with the song where the Midgard Warriors led by the son of Thor returns to Folkland shores after a successful quest to take back Svithiod and the Nordic region from White Christs rule of terror. Now, as this happens, a few scattered surviving armies of White Christ took the opportunity to attack villages on the South. These villages were naturally inhabited mostly with unarmed women, children and old people. Needless to say they were slaughtered, dismembered, raped and ultimately burned. When the Midgard Warriors arrive at the village it is all too late. This exact moment is what you see in the cover art work. The Midgard Warriors realizes that something must be done, and quickly. If White Christ can do this…what will happen next? They raise the runic letter G over the village for Blot to the dead and for victory in the coming war. And as a symbol of the ultimate act of man – to give without expecting something in return. The Midgard Warriors stand ready to give their life for family and kin. And so the hunt begins,,,The Hunt For White Christ.
Lead Us Into War was chosen as the first single off the album and is an absolutely perfect opener of the album. Is that why it was chosen as the first single?
Not really. The first song was chosen because it had to be that song to start the next events in the story line. But ok, we could off course have chosen another song for the first single release. But it had to be this one as no one to start the album.
Without question, the album cover for The Hunt for White Christ may be my favorite Unleashed album cover ever. The more I look at it, I see all the little nuances and beautiful landscapes shown off, How much time and effort was made to create this cover?
Oh I am not sure how much time the artist (Pär Olofsson) actually used to put it together. It took me a pretty long time though figuring out which sequence of the story line that should be on the album cover though. But I agree, it might be our best looking one so far.
How much of The Hunt For White Christ will be represented in upcoming live shows?
I am not sure yet. But a few songs for sure will be in there. The trick is to play as many as possible but on the other hand after 13 records, well, we have some shit to choose from I guess. Pretty hard to make everyone happy though haha.
Not just a new album to be able to promote, but with 2019 also comes with the 30th Anniversary of Unleashed. How does it feel to be able to have Unleashed, arguably, at it’s strongest point 30 years into your career?
Well thank you very much for those words on the band. I’d say it really feels great. It is no small thing to be a recording and live playing artist for this long. I think most musicians feel the same closing in on 30 years in the music industry. You really have to keep shit together in order to continue with some dignity and quality. And there is much more where all this came from.
In some fantastic news for Americans like myself, you are coming back for Maryland Deathfest in 2019. What’s it like to be able to come back and play for the American fans once again?
Amazing to say the least! And we are very much looking forward to it. We always have a blast playing in the US.
What should people expect from Unleashed as you celebrate 30 years as a band?
We have a few surprises in the pipe so to speak but we are talking about them right now so I really can’t give out any real info yet. Sorry about that. But it will be some nice things happening.
When you’re not focused on music, how do you like to spend your time?
I spend much of my free time with my eight year old son. We do all kinds of things together. Watch soccer games, play ice hockey and soccer, bicycle, skiing, listen to metal (off course), go to festivals and well, all the things I possibly can do together with him. There is nothing better in this world as I see it.
Thank you very much for taking the time to do this interview. As a long time fan of your work in all forms it was an honor to be able to ask you some questions about everything you have going on right now. Before we are done, is there anything else you would like to mention that I haven’t brought up yet?
OK thanks for this interview! Hope to see you next time in the US!
Hail Odin!
Unleashed- The Hunt For White Christ available October 26th through Napalm Records
WRITTEN INTERVIEW: V.I.T.R.I.O.L. of ANAAL NATHRAKH
Anaal Nathrakh has been storming through the gates of Extreme Metal since 1999. With every album gradually becoming bigger, grander, and more vile than the last, the band returned in 2018 to unleash their 10th album, A New Kind Of Horror through Metal Blade Records. I recently got to ask V.I.T.R.I.O.L. (vocals) a few questions about what is going on in the world of Anaal Nathrakh right now. ENJOY!
Thank you very much for taking the time to do this interview! It’s a great honor to be able to help promote you guys once again and to talk about a fantastic new album.
Thank you for the support.
A New Kind of Horror comes out September 28th through Metal Blade, how does it feel to have this 3rd album through Metal Blade coming out?
It’s a good feeling. We’ve been looking forward to it coming out for what seems like a long time – we handed it over to the label quite a while back, but the release dates, schedules, blah blah blah – it’s exiting that it’s finally come out. We’re proud of it, and now it can finally spread its wings.
As described in the press release, this album is absolutely not a happy album and is easily one of the most intense albums you’ve released to date. Was that the approach going into this album, or did it come out this way naturally?
It came out naturally. That’s just the way we work – we do everything mostly by instinct. We have an idea, an atmosphere, a feeling in our heads, and making an album is a matter of translating that into music in the most direct way possible. Basically it’s not so much about writing music, it’s about letting it out, pouring out the thing in our heads. I think if we went into it saying ‘ok, this has to be intense’ or whatever then it could come out forced. But we don’t plan in that kind of way. We think ‘ok, this is going to be Anaal Nathrakh’ and then follow where that leads us.
I genuinely love the progression of the band over the years and hearing what’s happening with A New Kind of Horror takes all of my favorite elements of the band but somehow makes it even catchier, yet more chaotic and intense than ever before. With this style of songwriting, how do you know what direction you want the song to go in musically or thematically?
Thanks, I’m glad to hear you thought so. We don’t know what direction we want to go in until we do it. We have ideas, little things we want to include and sometimes there’ll be a rough sense of how we want a song to feel. And there’ll be a general atmosphere we have in mind for an album. But those are just signposts, and once we’ve started, the most important thing is then that the song should feel right as a whole. So what you start out to do can end up some way from what you in fact do. But that’s fine, and writing in an unconstrained way gives more room for the kind of innovative little things that keep music fresh, I think. Mick can write precise things perfectly easily, of course. But for Anaal Nathrakh, we follow where the music leads.
Lyrically, this is easily one of the most thought provoking albums I’ve heard in this current political climate. No matter where you stand, it’s the kind of lyrics to make you stand back and think about things. How do you feel about the political climate today? Do you see things getting better any time soon?
I’m glad you thought so – the intention is for people to think for themselves about the ideas that run through the album, not to take our thoughts and simply adopt or ignore them. I think we’re in pretty tortured times, politically speaking. One of my favourite journalists is a film maker called Adam Curtis. I haven’t seen all that much of his stuff, but what I have seen has a brilliant way of joining the dots of history. And I think we need perspectives like his to understand the royal clusterfuck that the world is threatening to turn into. There are deep seated reasons going back decades for the way things are today, but at the same time there are currents in society which often get in the way of understanding that. Certain narratives become dominant, and crowd out any other way of understanding what’s going on. That’s part of the thinking behind this album’s parallels between war a century ago and today – no other phenomenon showcases the exclusive concentration around one narrative as much as war does. Anything other than dogged, bloody minded adherence to the official line is considered treasonous. No regard for the fact that the other side are doing exactly the same, and always think they’re exactly as justified and fighting to protect and survive just as much. It’s something that really comes out in the work of the artists from WW1 – contrast the ever-more complex and abstract images produced by those on the Allied side with the work of someone like Otto Dix. There’s more common humanity and horror expressed than the narratives at the time could have ever allowed. And the same kind of thing persists today – my own country is currently embroiled in terribly ugly political divisions, and again we’ve heard calls on the fringe right for more patriotism – by which they mean ‘agree with my side and come to see the other side as enemies of the country’ – even though those not on the fringe right are still just as concerned with the national interest. Create a dominant narrative of being embattled – not arriving at an understanding with friends who seek to cooperate, but being forced to stand strong against enemies who seek to undermine. That’s just one tiny example from close to home. In general, I think the whole climate is increasingly fucked up – not just here, but in many other places, too. And no, I don’t think things will get better.
Brandan Schieppati was able to contribute some vocals to one of my favorite songs on the album, Vi Coactus. What was it like to add his vocals onto this song?
It was good fun. Brandan and Mick have been good friends for years, and it was great to be able to get Brandan on the album. He seemed to really like the stuff, and had a laugh recording, so it was good all round. And it came out well, I think. His style compliments what I was doing, and but it’s also subtly different and adds an extra flavour.
Forward! Was released as the first single - How was that decided as the first single?
We picked it ourselves, because we love the song and because it’s something a bit different. It’s an out and out head banger, and that might sound strange for us, but if you get the feeling in it and maybe catch some of the lyrics you’ll realize it’s absolutely Anaal Nathrakh at heart. So it’s a cool, possibly slightly unexpected but nonetheless powerful song, and that seemed like a good thing to introduce the album with. There’s plenty of other atmospheres on the album and it’s not like we’ve completely changed musical direction, Forward! is just one facet of a complicated whole. And it’s been quite successful as far as we can tell - the teaser video Metal Blade put on youtube has quite a lot of hits, as does the track on Spotify.
Is there any other single been determined yet from the album, or is that still to be decided?
Yeah, not long back we released a full video for Obscene as Cancer. That was a great thing to do - the film makers knocked it out of the park and delivered something which is a perfect distillation of and complement to the song. The song is particularly important in the context of the album because it’s the one based on a Wilfred Owen poem from World War 1, which is one of the motifs of the album as a whole. It’s not like a history concept album, and part of the point of reflecting on WW1 is to see parallels with the world today, but that poem in its own right is one of the most profoundly affecting pieces of writing I’ve ever come across. So to have the song and video we made under the influence of that poem as one of the ‘singles’ released in the run-up to the album coming out made perfect sense.
2019 will be 20 years since the start of Anaal Nathrakh. How does it feel to be able to say the band has lasted for two decades now?
Yeah, strangely enough I was thinking not long back about when I went on tour with Benediction, and took the first Anaal Nathrakh demo that we’d just recorded with me. I didn’t realize it was twenty years ago, and it doesn’t seem like that long even now I’m aware. The thing is, although it sounds like a big deal, and I can see why people might think it meant something, it doesn’t matter to us. We don’t really care that we’ve been doing this for a week, a year, a decade. We’re interested in what we’re doing, not where we’ve been. To a certain extent we’ll occasionally pause and think ‘not bad for a couple of kids messing about in the front room of a house that hadn’t been tidied up since the 50’s’. But we’re not particularly sentimental, and we have no sense whatsoever of resting on our laurels. We’re not comfortable self-satisfied prats, we’re hungry kids who feel driven forwards. Still.
What is next for Anaal Nathrakh?
We have a number of shows lined up, and we’ve been working on loads more shows that we can’t announce yet. So we’re going to be pretty busy. Beyond that, who knows? Aside from lining up live shows, we’ve never been ones for planning all that much, so we’ll see what happens!
What is next for you outside of Anaal Nathrakh?
Two main things. I also sing for Benediction, and we’re working towards recording the first new Benediction album for ten years in the next few months. We’re not sure of dates etc yet, but it’s finally happening and it’s exciting to be in that position after so long. The new material is sounding really strong, and we’ll have a brand new track on a compilation CD that Nuclear Blast are putting out soon. And alongside that I’m coming towards the end of a project I’ve been working on for what seems like forever. It’s a big body of work, and I’ve spent virtually the whole time for about 5 or 6 years with it in the back of my mind even when I’m not consciously working on it. But if things go according to plan, I’ll be finishing that off in the new year. So within the next twelve months or so I should be done with one of the things that has contextualized my life for a long time. That’ll be a very strange feeling.
Thank you so very much for taking the time to do this interview. As a long time fan of the band, I simply love the direction you guys go on every album and it’s amazing to hear where you are in 2018. Before we are done is there anything else you would like to mention that I hadn’t brought up yet?
Anaal Nathrakh- A New Kind of Horror available NOW through Metal Blade Records
INTERVIEW w/ EMIL GAMMELTOFT OF S.K.o.R.
S.K.o.R. is a band hailing from Stockholm Sweden bringing back sense of Hard Rock from yesteryear, but not afraid to be themselves in 2018. With unique visuals, diverse lyrical content and an overall fun vibe; S.K.o.R. released their latest album Rubus Tellus September 14th through GMR Music. I had the opportunity to ask frontman Emil Gammeltoft a few questions about everything you need to know about this band. ENJOY!
It’s my pleasure.
For anyone that may not be familiar, describe S.K.o.R.
S.K.o.R. is a band from Stockholm Sweden and play hard rock with I guess a bit of a modern touch. Energy-wise on a top level, some classic rock elements, some punk elements and my voice on top of that going mostly all the way up there.
September 14th brought on the release of the new album, Rubus Tellus. How does it feel to have this album for nearly a month now? What has been the reaction to the album so far?
Already around 20 ,000 streams and that is not bad for a newcomer to the scene I guess (?) and reviews is starting to get in and they seem to be very positive. We just got one in from Sweden Rock Magazine and that was a great one. People seems to like it and seems to appreciate we actually want to break new ground and have success with it!
What was the songwriting process like for Rubus Tellus?
It’s usually a melody that comes from any of the band members and if it is to everybody’s liking a song is created. So for the new album it was like this and it was important that all in the band had their input to the songwriting.
I personally love the fact that the album is so diverse in it’s sound. Being able to get some great hard rocking songs to cool acoustic tunes, all while feeling like it makes sense. Was that the intention of the album or did come out that way naturally?
Thank you very much! A good song is a good song never mind the musical genre but I think we have created a sound of our own and I guess my vocals makes it a red-line too to the whole concept of our sound.
Bubbleman was chosen as a single for the album, which is a great representation of what the album has to offer while not giving everything away. Is that why it was chosen as a single?
Our record label GMR Music felt that Bubbleman was the right choice for first single and a video was created also that you all can find on youtube. I think they saw the potential as it is kind of repetitive on the chorus and that the song represents the band in a way even if it’s far from the only single that have potential on this album!
With that, Bubbleman is shown off tremendously well as the album cover to Rubus Tellus. Where did the idea come from to use this as the album cover?
Bubbleman has now been developed to be S.K.o.R.s mascot so it felt right to put it on the front cover! Bubbleman will always be in the band concept from now on!
The lyrical content has a lot of great directions to it, from fun to hard hitting. How was the lyrical process for this album?
I try to be diverse in the lyric department, nevertheless serious stuff like in the song “Hell To Pay” to environmental issues of what we are doing to our earth on “Armageddon”. But also fun stuff like “Karate Girl” and wicked stuff as in the song “Seagull”. The whole spectre I would say is in content on this album.
With the band starting in 2006 and with it being almost 2019 already, how do you feel the band has progressed in that time?
S.K.o.R. started out as a folk rock band in 2006 and a completely other direction. That was the aim then and some EP:s and one full length album was done in that vein, but I got to the point where a need to rock hard felt right so we changed direction in 2015. So you can say a completely other sound and direction has been taken and now people is starting to wake up, so I guess this is what we should do and are best at!
What was it like to be able to get out there and start promoting this album live when the album came out?
We have just started actually. We are out this autumn in Scandinavia and hope to do a tour in the beginning of 2019 also in other countries! But it feels good and the songs and performance is getting the thumbs up!
With that, what should people expect from a S.K.O.R. live show?
Expect an energetic live show in high tempo and of course Bubbleman on stage!
What is next for S.K.O.R.?
Getting out to as many as possible both online and live. Choosing next single for a video and also start the songwriting process for the next album!
What do you like to do when you are not focused on music?
As most these days we who creates music can not live on music so we all have day jobs to get the economy together. Apart from that I guess we are all just ordinary people with those ordinary needs and don’t say no to feel good and live life!
Thank you very much for taking the time to do this interview. Rubus Tellus is a fun, 14 track adventure of hard rock that is so much fun to listen to from start to finish and it was great to be able to talk to you about it. Before we are done is there anything else you would like to mention that I hadn’t brought up yet?
Thank you very much for your fine words! The band is very much alive and creative and look forward to have contact with all rock fans who likes us via our websites, so please go in and say hi on our facebook (www.facebook/SomeKindofRubus) or our official site www.skorsaljes.se or our Instagram: s.k.o.r.sweden We look forward to keep in touch and a splendid and fruitful 2019!
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Athletic Hall of Fame inductions this week at Clear Fork High School
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BELLVILLE — Three teams and two individuals will be inducted into the Clear Fork Valley Athletic Hall of Fame this weekend.
The 1989 Clear Fork football team, a regional finalist, the 1994 boys’ and girls’ Clear Fork cross country teams, softball standout Taylor Thomas, and contributor Jack Bennett, will be enshrined this year.
On Friday, before the start of the football opener vs. Fredericktown, the enshrinees will be introduced before the game. On Saturday, the induction ceremony and banquet gets started at 6:30 p.m. at the high school.
The 1989 football team finished with a (9-3) record under head coach Dan Sparks and advanced to the regional finals in the Division IV football playoffs.
The cross county teams, coached by Don Thogmartin, put together very similar records that fall. The boys’ were Mohican Area Conference champs, Colt Stampede champs, Fredericktown Invitational champion, Lucas Invitational champion, Crestline Invitation champion, and Northmor Invitational champion. They were also regional qualifiers.
The girls’ 1994 team was the Mohican Area Conference winners, Colt Stampede champs, Northmor Invitational champion, North Union Invitational champion, and Lucas Invitational champs. They were also regional qualifiers. Both squads qualified one runner for the state finals.
Thomas, a 2011 Clear Fork High School graduate, was a first team All-Ohio softball player her senior year. She had 14 home runs, 62 RBI and 120 total bases. She also had 30 wins and four no-hitters in her pitching career.
Bennett graduated from Bellville High School in 1957, and was a member of some solid football and baseball teams, but he is being inducted for what he did after his graduation. He was part of a committee that built the current Clear Fork football field and he also helped with the construction of the baseball, softball and soccer fields.
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Micah Tyler Scores First No. 1 Single With "Never Been A Moment"
Micah Tyler,
Micah Tyler's "Never Been A Moment" has effectively become the most listened to song on Christian radio this past week, spending two weeks atop the Billboard AC Indicator and hitting No. 1 on the Mediabase Christian Audience chart earlier this week. In addition to the No. 1 chart placement, the single continues to make waves at radio, reaching No. 2 on the Billboard National Christian Audience chart and No. 3 on the Billboard AC Monitored chart.
Watch the music video for "Never Been A Moment," below:
As a thank you to fans who have supported the success of the debut, "Never Been A Moment" is now only $0.69 for a limited time. The single is available for purchase at the discounted rate on iTunes and Amazon Music.
Throughout the months of April and May, Tyler will join headliner MercyMe and Hawk Nelson on the "Lifer Tour," traveling to 12 markets across the U.S. This fall, Tyler will also join Big Daddy Weave as a guest artist on their "Set Free Tour," running from August to November.
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Colton Dixon & Hawk Nelson Co-Headline Spring Tour With Sarah Reeves
Colton Dixon, Hawk Nelson, Sarah Reeves,
Award winning artists Colton Dixon and Hawk Nelson will co-headline the spring tour, “An Evening With Colton Dixon & Hawk Nelson,” set to launch on Feb. 22, featuring special guest artist Sarah Reeves. Presented by Compassion International, the tour is slated to hit 16 markets in Arkansas, Texas, Iowa, South Dakota, North Dakota, Michigan, Illinois, Georgia and more, before wrapping up on March 24, in Mount Vernon, Ohio.
Dixon will be touring in support of his third studio project, Identity, which debuted at the top of Billboard’s Christian Albums chart last year, and includes the Top 5 radio single, “All That Matters,” the official music video for the song premiering on People.com this past year.
“I’m so excited to play new music for the fans and share the stage with our friends in Hawk Nelson,” Dixon says. “It’s going to be an awesome tour of celebrating life, love, and the One who makes it all possible.”
Hawk Nelson band members Daniel Biro, Jonathan Steingard, David Niacaris and Micah Kuiper add, “This will be a tour of firsts! The first tour of what is going to be a great 2018. Also the first time we get to tour alongside Colton Dixon and his awesome band. And the first time everyone can hear us play new music from our upcoming album, Miracles!”
A special VIP ticket is available in most markets which includes a pre-show artist meet & greet with early entry for the best seats. For details and ticket links, visit www.coltondixon.com or www.hawknelson.com.
"An Evening With Colton Dixon & Hawk Nelson" Spring 2018 Tour
*All dates and venues subject to change. Additional dates to be added.
22 – Fort Smith, AR – Evangel Temple
23 – Richardson, TX – First Baptist Church Richardson
24 – Corpus Christi, TX – American Bank Center
25 – Kerrville, TX – Cailloux Theater
1 – Oskaloosa, IA – Gateway Church of the Nazarene
2 – Watertown, SD – Watertown Event Center
3 – Grand Forks, ND – Hope Church
9 – Ottawa Lake, MI – Crossroads Community Church
10 – Elgin, IL – Judson University (The Herrick Chapel)
16 – Bellville, GA – Pinewood Christian Academy
18 – Jonesboro, AR – The Rock
23 – Waukesha, WI – Riverglen Christian Church
24 – Springfield, OH – High Street Church of the Nazarene
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