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Error code: DatasetGenerationError
Exception: ArrowInvalid
Message: JSON parse error: Missing a closing quotation mark in string. in row 129
Traceback: Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/datasets/packaged_modules/json/json.py", line 153, in _generate_tables
df = pd.read_json(f, dtype_backend="pyarrow")
File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/pandas/io/json/_json.py", line 815, in read_json
return json_reader.read()
File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/pandas/io/json/_json.py", line 1025, in read
obj = self._get_object_parser(self.data)
File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/pandas/io/json/_json.py", line 1051, in _get_object_parser
obj = FrameParser(json, **kwargs).parse()
File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/pandas/io/json/_json.py", line 1187, in parse
self._parse()
File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/pandas/io/json/_json.py", line 1403, in _parse
ujson_loads(json, precise_float=self.precise_float), dtype=None
ValueError: Trailing data
During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/datasets/builder.py", line 1997, in _prepare_split_single
for _, table in generator:
File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/datasets/packaged_modules/json/json.py", line 156, in _generate_tables
raise e
File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/datasets/packaged_modules/json/json.py", line 130, in _generate_tables
pa_table = paj.read_json(
File "pyarrow/_json.pyx", line 308, in pyarrow._json.read_json
File "pyarrow/error.pxi", line 154, in pyarrow.lib.pyarrow_internal_check_status
File "pyarrow/error.pxi", line 91, in pyarrow.lib.check_status
pyarrow.lib.ArrowInvalid: JSON parse error: Missing a closing quotation mark in string. in row 129
The above exception was the direct cause of the following exception:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/src/services/worker/src/worker/job_runners/config/parquet_and_info.py", line 1529, in compute_config_parquet_and_info_response
parquet_operations = convert_to_parquet(builder)
File "/src/services/worker/src/worker/job_runners/config/parquet_and_info.py", line 1154, in convert_to_parquet
builder.download_and_prepare(
File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/datasets/builder.py", line 1029, in download_and_prepare
self._download_and_prepare(
File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/datasets/builder.py", line 1124, in _download_and_prepare
self._prepare_split(split_generator, **prepare_split_kwargs)
File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/datasets/builder.py", line 1884, in _prepare_split
for job_id, done, content in self._prepare_split_single(
File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/datasets/builder.py", line 2040, in _prepare_split_single
raise DatasetGenerationError("An error occurred while generating the dataset") from e
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Private Jets By Editorial Team
Do You Tip a Private Jet Pilot?
Businesswoman Shaking Hand With Pilot
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Tipping is common and even expected in many situations. You tip your hairdresser, your Uber driver, and your restaurant server. Generally, you tip those who provide you with a service. Pilots provide a service, but commercial pilots don’t get tips. This leads to the question, do you tip a private jet pilot?
Do Private Jet Pilots Get Tips?
Do You Tip the Crew?
Why Are Pilots Forgotten When It Comes to Tipping?
How Much Do you Tip a Private Pilot?
The general rule is tipping your pilot is appreciated but not expected. Some companies prohibit the pilot or crew from accepting tips. Turning down a tip is awkward. It feels similar to extending your hand for a handshake, and the other party not reciprocating.
According to Forbes, private jet pilots get tips 25% of the time. They say there’s no discernible pattern or reason, and it comes down to the preference and generosity of the passenger.
If you wish to tip your pilot, it’s a good idea to find out if they are allowed to accept tips beforehand. This will avoid the awkward tip turn down. You can find this information on the company website, or simply ask your pilot or crew.
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There are lots of people who help ensure a smooth and comfortable flight. The ground service provider, line crew, and cabin attendant are all key players in each flight.
Tipping is more common for these crew members than the pilot. It’s considered good form to tip crew members, particularly if they provide exceptional service.
On short flights, the pilot may also act as the cabin attendant. Consider tipping extra when the pilot is performing two services.
Co-founder of PrivateFly, Adam Twidell, states that the baggage handler who brings the bags to and from the aircraft is the most commonly tipped crew member.
This sometimes causes pilots to feel offended. After all, they are the ones who are placing and removing the bags from the cargo hold. Why aren’t they tipped for handling bags as the baggage handler is?
One theory is that passengers feel pilots are higher paid, so tipping them isn’t important. There are essentially two types of people who receive tips.
The first is the group that relies on tips as a significant portion of their pay. Restaurant servers, for example, are often paid less than minimum wage. The majority of their pay comes from tips, instead of their regular wages.
The second group doesn’t rely on tips to make a decent living. Hairdressers and taxi drivers get the majority of their pay from the fees they charge for the service. Tips are an appreciated bonus to their earnings.
Pilots and crew members also fall into this group. Tipping isn’t relied on for income. Instead, it’s a way to show appreciation for the work they do. Pilots do make more than most crew members, but this shouldn’t be a barrier for receiving this token of appreciation.
It’s considered good form to tip your pilot, but how much do you tip a private pilot? Tipping too much can seem extravagant. Tipping too little can leave the recipient feeling offended, and is often seen as an insult.
$50 is considered a reasonable tip for private pilots. The range often mentioned is $50-300 in the U.S. However, it varies greatly, just like the act of tipping itself. In the Middle East, tipping is more common, and luxurious, material tips are sometimes given.
The Tipping Debate
There are two schools of thought when it comes to tipping those who don’t depend on tips as a significant source of income. Companies that prohibit tipping do so because the pilot is simply doing their job. They are performing their expected duties, so a tip isn’t necessary.
After all, tip stands for To Insure Prompt Service. The concept is that someone will provide better service if a cash incentive is offered for exceptional service. However, a pilot is expected to provide good service and get you there safely, whether a tip is given or not.
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The other school of thought is that tipping is a way of showing gratitude for the services offered. This is why it’s often called a gratuity. If you are thankful for the service your pilot provided, why not reward them with a tip?
In some countries, like the U.S., Canada, Mexico, and many European countries, tips are expected or appreciated, although the amount of the tip and etiquette varies based on the culture. In other countries, like Japan, tipping is actually considered an insult. In their view, doing their job well is expected.
Tipping Options
There are ways to show your appreciation other than a cash tip. Some companies that don’t allow tips will allow small tokens of appreciation. A box of chocolates can be a very meaningful tip that shows your appreciation. A handwritten thank you note is also a great idea.
Another way to tip without tipping is to call the pilot’s employer and tell them what a great job they did. This can pay off for the pilot in a bigger way than a $50 bill.
The Type of Flight is Key
Pilots who work for large corporations or individuals generally don’t expect tips. Many corporations prohibit pilots from accepting tips. Pilots in these positions are generally well compensated, so tipping isn’t necessary.
Tipping is appreciated by charter and fractional pilots. However, the pay is generally lower for these positions, so tips are appreciated.
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There was a lot of dying to do in August during my holiday in the Philippines.
Philippine heroine and former President Corazon C. Aquino succumbed to colon cancer August 1. The grief and nation-wide angst over her demise just about obscured another death or dying --- that of the National Artist Award, a presidential recognition for Filipino artists who have distinguished themselves as assets of Philippine culture and patrimony. We will not even mention those who died in the landslides and floods triggered by yet another typhoon pummelling this archipelago in the season of the storms. Drowning of kids in fetid, bloated esteros and murky rivers around Manila and its environs excite scant column inches in the papers and desultory sound bites on broadcast media. Insurgency in Mindanao rounds up the death count with citizens, soldiers, and rebels snuffed out in the hands of territorial wars. Dying is de rigueur here.
“At a ‘necrological service’ for the award (National Artist Award)---a protest action held yesterday afternoon (August 7)---four National Artists ‘buried’ their gold medallions to protest what they said was a mockery of the recognition given to exceptional Filipino artists,” a daily, Philippine Daily Inquirer reported.
The kerfuffle resulted from President Gloria Arroyo’s appointment of a film director and “funnies “writer Carlo J. Caparas and National Commission on Culture and the Arts executive director and stage and theatre artist Cecile Guidote-Alvarez, who runs the recommending body for the awards. Their appointment did not go through the nomination process of the joint recommendatory boards of the Cultural Centre of the Philippines and the NCCA. Nothing, however, in the process precluded the President from appointing her own nominees.
“We want to show our disgust. We will not use our medallion until the issue is settled,” National Artist for Literature awardee, poet Virgilio Almario told the Inquirer.
“It‘s really frustrating how some people like (Mrs. Arroyo) disregard the real essence of the award,” Bienvenido Lumbera, another awardee for literature, protested.
National Artists for Visual Arts Benedicto “BenCab” Cabrera and Arturo Luz also laid their medallions to rest in a symbolic funeral ceremony in front of the CCP in Pasay City. National Artists (for Sculpture) Napoleon Abueva, (for Cinema Arts ) Salvador Bernal and Eddie Romero were “also in attendance” according to the paper.Novelist and National Artist for Literature Francisco Sionil Jose was among the leaders of the protest who lambasted President Arroyo’s exercise of her prerogative.
They all heaped umbrage on Caparas’ and Alvarez’s nomination. In the process of lambasting President Arroyo for her choices, they also attacked the awardees -- Caparas as not up to par and Alvarez’s as “inappropriate” or without “delicadeza” (sensitivity to niceties), simply crass.
None of the protesting awardees, however, returned their medals, a hundred-thousand-peso lump sum award, or waived a 24,000-peso monthly pension, health benefits, and ceremonial place of honour prerogatives in state functions. A genuinely no-holds-barred grand gesture of dumping the award altogether, a surrender of these perquisites was the logical conclusion of their loss of faith and disgust over the Presidential “mockery” of the process of selecting awardees. A symbolic funeral for the awards sufficed for the “insulted” National Artists. Some branded it as a theatrical “palabas” (show or spectacle). Former Censor Board chief Manuel Morato alluded to this as “so much falsehood, insincerity, and hypocrisy have infected our culture…it is indicative of the culture of hatred that is so embedded in our society today,” Morato said in the course of lamenting the violent reactions to the President’s award of the title to his friends Carlo J. Caparas and Cecile Alvarez, the paper reported.
Caparas, who said he did not ask for the award, called a press conference and labelled his critics as “elitist”, and his wife said “if you don’t belong to their cliques, you are declared unqualified.” The issue cracked a wide chasm between the “elitist” and the popular “mass” artists, and exposed an essential flaw in the awards. Critic Lumbera invokes the sanctity of the “real essence of the awards” as a source of frustration, disgust, and insult. Is not the award a recognition of artistic achievement whether it is “high brow” or “low brow” art as long as they are a contribution to the national patrimony and cultural heritage? Are these critics prepared to denounce popular art (like stage burlesque, soap operas, exportable scenery paintings of the Ermita Impressionists) as flotsam and therefore not contributory to national culture? Is Dolphy not an artist on his own? What about the late Chichay and Tolindoy, Pogo and Togo, et al as stand-up comics of pre-and-post-war years?
Alvarez said she did not have anything to do with her selection. A pioneer in educational theatre, she is deemed in various artistic quarters as eminently qualified, but why did she have to be appointed to the order outside of the normal process? The NCCA chairman, Dr. Vilma Labrador said President Arroyo was attentive to Alvarez’s “lifetime dedication to the arts … in leading the movement for a national theatre and its development to forge our cultural identity and preserve our heritage.”
Who is an artist? If he comes from the disparate regions and not Manila-based, what are his chances of being considered for the title? Is he a fine artist or an artisan? What has he contributed to the culture of the nation? Who will pass judgment on his particular art? Is there a standard state yardstick for what a national artist must be? Will this not delimit the universe of celebration of the creative artist who must hew close to “national aspirations” as opposed to free expression and creative imagination? Why must there be a national artist, but not a national teacher, scientist, biologist, pharmacist, farmer, businessman, overseas worker, salesman, or call-centre expert? Reductio ad absurdum, it is pretentious, superfluous, and discriminatory to recognize only the national artist.
If the awards are calculated to compensate the artists for their work, why not create a National Arts Council that would determine the subsidy for the artist’s work. That is a more substantial recognition of his work than any photo-op award or medallion. That guarantees continued production of art as part of the stockpiling of treasures that form part of the nation’s cultural heritage. Otherwise, the artist will be pigeonholed as destitute and deserving of a pension to continue supporting him throughout his lifetime. Why limit it to artists? Are there no other contributors to culture who deserve the financial support?
It is just as well that the protest took the form of a funeral and necrological tableau. Let the National Artist Award die this ignominious death.
When it was first conceived during the rule of deposed President Ferdinand Marcos, its exponent, Mrs. Imelda Marcos, saw it as a manner of getting the art community behind the Marcos regime. Then Presidential Strategic Services Institute director, the late Adrian E. Cristobal, saw it as an opportunity to recognize Philippine artists, some of them expatriates like Jose Garcia Villa. A noisy critic of the Marcos regime, the late lamented writer Nick Joaquin was a hesitant awardee who saw it as a chance to create leverage for petitioning the martial law government to free incarcerated writers and journalists.
Hatched in one of those Cristobal-led meetings of artists and intellectuals in the 70s, the award offered a P75.000 prize for the winning artist, a medal, and a chance to grace all state functions as an honoured guest. In one of these meetings at the Solidaridad Bookshop of author and now National Artist Francisco Sionil Jose, Joaquin said he might consider to receive the award if the martial law government would release political prisoners like poet and journalist Jose F. Lacaba, imprisoned for vitriolic articles in the Philippines Free Press against the Marcos regime.
Throughout the subsequent years, the Award metamorphosed into a pension fund for the awardees who would then consider themselves beholden to the leader who appointed them.
Because there was money behind the award, it became a sought-after award; lobbying for it became a game of chance for whoever felt like an entitled artist. (What would prevent graffiti artists to lay claim?) Cliques of artists considered others outside of the ambit of the award. Those in the academic circles felt those practising their art in the “market” (Ermita art shops, script writers, commercial movie directors, fashion designers) were not of the same league as they were who preen in the ivory towers of the academe. Academics doubled as cushioned poets, novelists, and avant-garde authors whose works got published by their university publishing houses. They provided for their own health benefits and pension funds. Meanwhile those in the “palengke” had to scrounge to please the bakya (wooden clogs) crowd to support their popularized by-products.
Hence, Carlo Caparas cannot be an “artist” within the ambit of the National Artist Award, if Virgilo Almario and Bienvenido Lumbera were consulted. Who has the right and the imprimatur to determine who is a qualified artist who might compete for the awards? Dare other artists do that? When did art hew only to the line of the Parnassian? What is so base about the artistic aspirations of massmen or the great unwashed? What is art for, but also for those among the benighted that they may edify their small lives in the slums of unforgiving poverty? Arts gratia artis (art for art’s sake) died with Aristotle, Cervantes, and Shakespeare and the authentic artists who lifted their audience from the depths of ignorance to the light of celebration. Art is for all men. Art will be democratic, like it or not. "Let the artist beware" is his own caveat in a world of diminished sensitivity.
Davao City Writers’ Guild president, poet, and university professor Ricardo de Ungria wrote the NCCA and CCP a comprehensive set of proposals to improve the selection process and policies of the National Artist Award last May 2009 to forestall the looming disrepute and disenchantment over the awards. His suggestions were not acted upon. Author Jose Dalisay, Jr. said in his Penman blog, had the NCCA and CCP acted on de Ungria’s suggestions, the imbroglio that has become the “other death” in tandem with Corazon Aquino’s would not have happened.
Artists as contributors to a distinct patrimonial, cultural heritage deserve to be honoured. The country’s now moribund Republic Heritage Award would have been a better vehicle for this award. Artists are not the only contributors to a heritage worth living in the Philippines for – there are as many sectors as there are Filipinos who believe that greatness abides in this nation. If heroes have to be “emulated” by the restive populace, a system of recognition could be developed by the Philippine Government that is free of partisanship, political opportunism, and spurious image building. The Filipino as a hero in his homeland need not be a puffed-up “bayaning huwad” (fake hero) na karaniwa’y hubad” (often stripped of value). The Filipino as hero is a paradigm of Citizen Juan de la Cruz, but not at the expense of authenticity.
Leave the artists to carve their own monuments among the people. No Government award can do that. If Caparas’ komiks and movies are more cogent communicators of Philippine culture and values, they will be supported by art’s consumers, the masa, the Philippine everyman. The authentic culture of a people is what they develop and live by. Neither Presidential award nor isolated artistic persuasion (artistic cliques, salon artistry, boutique and haute couture, ad nauseam) can beget this. Besides, awards for those who strive to create beauty in their souls are nothing but craven vanities -- a refuge of the shallow and vacuous poseurs who strive for the wind -- vanity of vanities. Art remains as the artist’s life blood. Awards or none.
features/rosie said...
Arroyo is not supposed to MESS up with artists. She could be the president of the Philippines and comment on these issues, but PLEASE she doesnt have a clear idea of what a national artist is. In this field, we learn from our artists, national artists - we have different disciplines - including those out of the academe. As a fine art student and common writer --- let it be known that we have our Teachers, and those who eke their way writing. We are not we the movie stars all the time... we are with people, and learners of culture, we try to carve our own niche --- and somebody just like pres arroyo is not an artist. Please give the freedom to those artists who are capable and worthy to choose such awards. I am not an elitist, only that our profession and studies deem respect because we are not IN FOR MONEY and popularity here, but to contribute something more valuable history could preserve.
I go with the cause of my teachers.
Of course---- delicadeza is out of this world, the greedy will eat everything.
May GOD help us in this cause.
huhuhu, sir albert ----- i didnt know about this.. i was out of touch. i lament for this cause, im so affected.
http://rfvietnamrose09.blogspot.com
7:50pm, philippines
huhuhu... the Filipinos would live in FICTION all of their lives, if this will be the case...
i pray that writers would know their places, just like any good worker
its a shame to accept an award without the consensus of many and the masters of writing
the real artist is humble in heart and in state of mind, he would never go through getting an award that the masters/ other capable writers wouldnt approve. It will be a shame if this happens and what would result is a popularity contest, or it better be a special award from someone. Hence, the award can never be authentic.
YUCK!
/rose flores - martinez
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Newquay Cornwall Email
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Town Beaches - Newquay - Cornwall
Newquay's town beaches are right in the centre of town, within short walk from shopping, entertainment and hotels.
Harbour Beach
Newquay started as a small fishing village with a small quay. This quay had only one very short pier which could not accommodate many boats. Sadly,it was destroyed by storms and so in 1439 the Bishop of Exeter gave leave for a bigger harbour to be built.
This harbour grew rapidly between then and 1872 when it was very busy and had many facilities. It had two piers and a railway connection and in that same year a jetty was built with a connection to the aforementioned railway.
When the steamships came in the early 1900's Newquay Harbour was of no use anymore. The harbours main use now is for pleasure craft and a few small fishing boats. On the west side of the Harbour is the historical Huer's Hut.
Towan Beach
Towan is the closest beach to the town centre and can be very busy in the summer due to it's level access. As it is right next to the harbour entrance, it is very sheltered, it gets little swell. It has a small, sea filled swimming pool. Often referred to as "Town Beach". The Newquay Sealife Centre is situated on the promenade. Newquay is often symbolized by the Island, connected to the cliffs by a suspension bridge, that rises from the beach and is depicted in many picture postcards.
A S.W. wind is offshore at Towan and Western and can produce fast hollow waves with an optimum swell size of 4-6ft. Look out for occasional surfing restrictions.
Great Western Beach
Accessed by a steep winding road left of the Great Western Hotel, this is another popular family beach. Great Western, which, like the hotel, took it's name from the railway is slightly less crowded than Towan or Tolcarne and has a wide range of amenities. These include refreshments, shop, surf and deck chair hire, toilets and showers. The beach comprises several coves with towering cliffs, which makes it very sheltered from the elements. An unusual feature is the private lift which descends through the cliffs from the Victoria Hotel. The old tram track, now a public footpath, runs above the beach and once carried goods for export, especially tin, from the railway to the harbour.
Tolcarne Beach
This beach, backed by 150 foot cliffs, is one of Newquay's most popular family beaches. It's a short stroll out of town, situated just below the Barrowfields. It may be a long way down and have about 250 steps, but, it is well worth the descent. The beach has plenty of space but is nowhere near the size of Fistral. From the beach and the cliffs above there are beautiful views of the headland and Newquay's Harbour.
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Afcon 2022 Awards Winners: Golden Boot, Best Player, Goalkeeper
The Afcon 2022 Awards winners have been announced. Afcon 2022 Player of the Tournament Sadio Mane said, “It’s a dream come true for me and my teammates as well.
Afcon 2022 Player of the Tournament Sadio Mane said, “We’ve made history and we can’t wait to go back home and celebrate with our fans.”
Senegal’s Afcon 2022 best keeper winner Edouard Mendy said, “It’s an Afcon trophy, it’s something huge for Senegal and all the people of Senegal. It’s been a tough journey but we’ve been very strong together.”
Afcon 2022 Afcon Golden Boot winner Vincent Aboubakar said, “It’s not just for me but it is for Cameroon as well. I am very happy.”
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Player of the Tournament: Sadio Mane
Best Goalkeeper: Edouard Mendy
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La Mala educación (Bad Education) (2004)
Amores Perros (2000)
El Crimen del padre Amaro (2002)
Even the Rain (2011)
Rosewater (2014)
Coco (2017)
Nuovomondo (a.k.a. Golden Door) (2007)
Ma femme est une actrice (My Wife Is an Actress) (2002)
Melancholia (2011)
Le Scaphandre et le papillon (The Diving Bell and the Butterfly) (2007)
Ma Mère (2005)
Michel Gondry
Be Kind Rewind (2008)
Dave Chappelle's Block Party (2006)
The Green Hornet (2011)
La Science des rêves (The Science of Sleep)
The sum of Gondry's parts may be a hole, but the parts can be pretty darn clever and captivating.
106 min. Warner Independent Pictures. Director: Michel Gondry. Cast: Gael Garcia Bernal, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Alain Chabat, Jean-Michel Bernard, Emma De Caunes.
With his new film, Michel Gondry takes whimsy to its breaking point, but at least he makes the annoyance part of the point. Artists, or "creative types"—especially the fantasists, fabulists, and dreamers—make life interesting, but they're also all too often insufferable as real-world companions. To celebrate his own abundant creative energy and confess his own emotional and behavioral quirks, Gondry wrote and directed the dreamy The Science of Sleep, and it's all that and a bag of chips.
Gael Garcia Bernal plays Gondry surrogate Stéphane, a head-in-the-clouds graphic designer who restlessly produces art that's destined to be misunderstood. After growing up (but not maturing) in Mexico, Stéphane returns to Paris, where he's hosted by his mother (Miou-Miou). He makes an effort to go to work like the rest of the squares, but he can't get his mind around his quirky workplace. "It's your first day here," he's told. "You've got to choose sides." Worse, his colleagues and boss mock his concepts (chief among them a monthly calendar of historic disasters).
Stéphane finds hope of a meaningful outlet for his art when he meets his mother's neighbor Stephanie (Charlotte Gainsbourg). The two circle each other with interest, Stephanie proving a not-unwilling sounding board for Stéphane's prodigious invention, but before long the young man's childish neediness makes him appear to be a desperate, idiot-savant stalker. Trying too hard isn't an attractive quality in either a mate or an artist.
That Stéphane becomes a creepy and volatile romantic bully is a bold choice on Gondry's part, but the complexity of dangerous immaturity mixed with naivete never gets its full due, mostly because we never come to believe that Stephanie's as intrigued with Stéphane as he is with her. Gainsbourg is too normal not to run screaming from Stéphane and his endless gimmickry; had she brought her own dash of madness to the role, the couple's bizarre courtship would have held more water.
As is so often the case with Gondry (a frequent collaborator with intellectual whirling dervish Charlie Kaufman), the filmmaker gets an "A" for effort. The Science of Sleep bursts with ideas, optical illusions, and a unique handmade aesthetic rarely seen outside of short subjects. Collage, montage, animation and detailed production design contribute to a mad world of lucid dreams and dreamy reality; Gondry's eccentric absurdism hangs by a thread to the tether of the romantic narrative. The sum of Gondry's parts may be a hole, but the parts can be pretty darn clever and captivating.
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Category: Young Adult reviews
A review of The 99 Boyfriends of Micah Summers by Adam Sass
The 99 Boyfriends of Micah Summers is not exactly a story begging you to unravel it (the happily ever after is apparent early on) but it does make one thing clear – Adam Sass is just as capable a builder of romance as he is of mystery. And Micah Summers’ story benefits from Sass’s adept management of both genres.
A review of Fireworks by Oliver Smuhar
The book is beautifully presented, with hand drawn illustrations, photographs, quotations, and facts about the different animals in the book and the events that inspired them, particularly the 2019/20 Australian bushfires, which were particularly devastating in Smuhar’s Blue Mountains hometown and which had some an intense impact on Australian flora and fauna (for example, some 60,000 koalas were negatively impacted by the fires). Smuhar’s goal with this book is not only to raise funds, but to entertain and educate.
A review of You Must Be Layla by Yassmin Abdel-Magied
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A review of Life of a Firefly by Sandra Brown Lindstedt
Life of a Firefly is funny, uplifting, and, according to the author, ninety-eight per cent true. A graduate in English and Theatre from Lewis and Clark College in Portland, Oregon, Ms Brown Lindstedt lives with her husband, Christer Lindstedt, in Goteburg Sweden where she is drama director for Smyrna International Church. Life of a Firefly is a book that parents and librarians should put in the hands of young readers.
A review of The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas
Characterisation, themes and messages conveyed are executed beautifully in this novel. With Starr, being the voice of this book, sharing her insight on the life-altering events which occur throughout this journey. Our main character’s relationships with others are demonstrated beautifully, with rapid-fire dialogue and pop-culture references, all of which I adored. Yet again, the characters are easy to love and their development and arcs throughout is done so brilliantly.
A review of Girls with Sharp Sticks by Suzanne Young
As a whole, I really enjoyed the story and setting of the text, as well as the themes being expressed, which highlight particular areas/issues in relation to modern society. On average, I don’t normally read this type of genre, GWST has altered my perspective on several things and encouraged me to seek out more sci-fi, dystopian, psychological thrillers.
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A review of Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine
Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine is an incredible novel and my expectations were lived up to, indeed. Although considered an ‘adult’ read the text can be suitable for young adults, dependant on the readers taste and other sensitivities to certain themes. Gail Honeyman creates such marvellous characters who once only a few pages into the book, I felt like I’d known them for years.
A review of Fangirl by Rainbow Rowell
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A review of The Ballad Of Songbirds And Snakes by Suzanne Collins
Readers of The Hunger Games will remember notorious ruler President Snow, bent on what feels like a personal vendetta against the lower class districts and their citizens. This new look on 18-year-old Coriolanus implores readers to see reasonable intentions and views going through his head.
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The word professionalism originally applied to vows of a religious order. The AICPA , state boards of accountancy, state societies of CPAs, state statutes, and other regulatory agencies (such as the GAO , DOL , etc.) The organization has relationships with distributors and retailers who offload the finished product to consumers. In this activity, you'll be asked to analyze a scenario and provide a written response to the questions that follow. core ethical responsibilities, they are part of ethical practice and serve as a helpful motivational and educational tool for all nurses. All rights reserved. He should do ethically responsible things, such as disposing of waste properly and considering the impact of job creation or deletion on local, regional and national economies. Today, the 4 major ethical responsibilities of real estate professionals can be classified as: Duty to Clients . IAIA as an Org promotes the following: We compile or review impact assessments with integrity and honesty, and free from misrepresentation or deliberate bias. Here is a general definition: Ethical behavior represents a set of moral principles, rules, or standards governing a person or a profession. In general, I believe a computer professional should be able to grasp and understand the goal of the intended system or systems they are working on. Solicitation 8. Spell. Individuals have an ethical responsibility to friends and family, and businesses are obligated to promote ethics in the workplace. Ethical, Social and Environmental Standards and practices of âFordâ Khaled Alotaibi . The first module in this course will describe some key ethical frameworks in the field of data-driven technology. There are several ethical ⦠Legal and Ethical Responsibilities of RTOs and Trainers. For example, your small business can sponsor a local children’s sports team for a season or offer to provide a holiday lunch for a community seniors group. Ethical Responsibilities of Physicians in the Opioid Crisis. She has experience ghostwriting and editing business books, especially those in the "For Dummies" series, in addition to writing and editing web content for the brand. Ideals. The ⦠Learn. Video created by CertNexus for the course "Turn Ethical Frameworks into Actionable Steps". A business should administer employee behavior and HR decisions in a manner that fits the law and establishes social responsibility. Chapter 4 Ethical Issues in Qualitative Research 53 Did You Know It was in 1906, when the Pure Food and Drug Act was passed, that regulations regard-ing the use of human subjects in research came into being. Professional Responsibilities. Therefore, to maintain ethical considerations in a study, researcher need to maintain the certain elements, as stated by various scholars such as: Kumar 2014; Stern & Elliott 1997; Bryman, A. and Bell 2011; Miller et al. The company's activities can affect them, convincing them of the company's value as a social organization. Responsibility Description; Workplace Health & Safety: There are laws that require us and our managers to make sure that we provide a safe work environment for staff and clients, and to make sure that we have a system in place to record and report any workplace injuries. Audra Bianca has been writing professionally since 2007, with her work covering a variety of subjects and appearing on various websites. We have solutions for your book! START YOUR BUSINESS These rights and responsibilities are at the root of the relationship between members of the university community, and students. This often includes environmental and sustainable initiatives, initiatives based on diversity in the workplace or providing substantial charitable donations to local organizations. Explain why it is important for Liam to evaluate the ethical responsibilities of the organisation to workers, service users, and the broader community. Teachers shall not intentionally expose the student to embarrassment ⦠Different points of views do NOT mean that they are wrong points of views. It is an ethical responsibility of a business toward employees. The Role of Teachers in Higher Education Settings 9. Respect the privacy of participants (and avoid undue intrusion) Operate with transparency (open dealings with participants) Provide equality of treatment. We understand that to be ethical ⦠Ethical Responsibilities of Reviewer Last Updated: 03-09-2020. What Are the Key Elements of Ethical Leadership in an Organization? Acknowledgements. Sometimes, it’s not easy to see which actions are right and which are wrong. In this chain of relationships, a business owner has an ethical responsibility to act honestly in all transactions. Anam works as a marketing strategist and copywriter, collaborating with everyone from Fortune 500 companies to start-ups, lifestyle bloggers to professional athletes. the ethical responsibilities of pharmacists in relation to the sale of complementary medicines tends to provide general advice, focusing on the identiï¬cation of the con-ï¬icting principles at stake. Even providing services free of charge to certain groups in the community is a common way to pay it forward. ETHICAL RESPONSIBILITIES OF THE AUTHORS According to the proposed international standards, the respective separate section should be placed in all issues after the main text and before the list of references of any paper. Not only to make ethical ⦠Match. It should include the following points. Anam earned an M.A. Acknowledgements. Assure the anonymity of participants, where appropriate. This principle would include property ⦠No Dishonesty, fraud,Deception 5. By no later than the year 1675, the term had seen secular application and was applied to the three learned professions: Divinity, Law, and Medicine. Responsibility Description; Workplace Health & Safety: There are laws that require us and our managers to make sure that we provide a safe work environment for staff and clients, and to make sure that we have a system in place to record and report any workplace injuries. STUDY. As a member of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) the journal will follow the COPE guidelines on how to deal with potential ⦠Copyright 2020 Leaf Group Ltd. / Leaf Group Media, All Rights Reserved. Business ethics take into consideration responsibilities not just inside the workplace, but also within the environmental, cultural, and social structures of communities. It is likely that computer chips implanted in ⦠Focusing on tenants such as honesty, dedication, teamwork and commitment can create an ethical culture in the workplace. The Value of Strong Ethical Business Practices and Social Responsibility, Privacy Notice/Your California Privacy Rights. To listen to families, ac-knowledge and build upon their strengths and competencies, and learn from families as we sup- port them in their task of ⦠Flashcards. When a business owner becomes aware of problems with a product or the way that his company supports it, he will take steps to solve them, especially to protect his brand. Legal and Ethical Responsibilities of RTOs and Trainers. List the ethical responsibilities of group members and leaders. Peer review basically defined as the evaluation of work that is done by one or more people with similar competencies as producers of work. If the organization is a producer, it receives raw materials from suppliers and then uses them to make a product. All these people have consumer rights that must be satisfied to a reasonable degree by the company. The Ethical Responsibilities of Prosecutors Presented By: Ralph R. Alexis, III Porteous, Hainkel & Johnson, LLP INTERCONNECTION BETWEEN ABSOLUTE IMMUNITY DOCTRINE AND ETHICS Imbler v. Pachtman We emphasize that the immunity of prosecutors from liability in suits under Section 1983 does not leave ⦠A company has an ethical responsibility to pay its employees what their labor is worth, to provide a respectful workplace free of harassment and dehumanization, and to operate a safe facility or supply the appropriate safety equipment to deal with hazards. Mark A. Rothstein. Computer professionals, in my opinion, have ethical responsibilities but I do believe that in some circumstances these responsibilities are unattainable due to external circumstance. treat colleagues with respect avoid unnecessary negative criticism of colleagues in communications with clients or with other professionals. Itâs about changing the way we think about how goods are provided, the people who ⦠If the study was carried out with ⦠Student responsibilities towards the members of the University; The code of ethical students defines the rights and studentsâ responsibilities. Students explore various complexities, dynamics and issues surrounding behavior and ethical practices in order to understand best ⦠Evaluation and research. The word professionalism originally applied to vows of a religious order. Providing stakeholders with a strategic plan for future initiatives also helps to build trust in the organization. In this activity, you'll be asked to analyze a scenario and provide a written response to the questions that follow. By establishing policies and applying them fairly to all employees, a business owner creates a climate of fairness and equity. Giving a purchasing discount to members of the community for a special occasion is also another option. An entrepreneur can consider the impact of business decisions on other aspects of society, such as environmental impact and social impact. Chapter 4 Ethical Issues in Qualitative Research 53 Did You Know It was in 1906, when the Pure Food and Drug Act was passed, that regulations regard-ing the use of human subjects in research came into being. Describe differences in ethical responsibilities ⦠Historically, unethical behavior toward employees has been responsible ⦠If you have the appropriate software installed, you can download article citation data to the citation manager of your choice. List the ethical responsibilities of a business professional Each and every business professional has a responsibility to adhere to the key ethical principles because in so doing will increase the public image not only of the individual but basically for the all organization he works for. Private conduct 4. Maximizing Profit; Moral minimum; Corporate citizenship; Stakeholders interest; Profit Maximization: According to the theory of the profit maximization it is the responsibility of the organization to take the particular steps ⦠Click again to see term ð Tap again to see term ð Favoring friends or relatives. There are people who directly consume the goods or services that the business sells and people who buy them downstream in the after-market. Social workers should cooperate with social work colleagues and with colleagues of other professions when such cooperation serves the A business must remain profitable in order to survive. Ethical Responsibilities To Families Below are some Ideals that families should To develop relationships of mutual trust and cre-ate partnerships with the families we serve. Here is a general definition: Ethical behavior represents a set of moral principles, rules, or standards governing a person or a profession. Definition: Ethical responsibility is the ability to recognize, interpret and act upon multiple principles and values according to the standards within a given field and/or context. Responsibility Description; Workplace Health & Safety: There are laws that require us and our managers to make sure that we provide a safe work environment for staff and clients, and to make sure that we have a system in place to record and report any workplace injuries. The ethical responsibility of a business to stakeholders, employees, prospects and customers is to be honest, run transparently, take care of the community and manage the effects of its operations. Learn more at www.anamahmed.ca. Search for Library Items Search for Lists Search for Contacts Search for a Library. Back to listing. from the University of Toronto and a B.A.H. WorldCat Home About WorldCat Help. Apply these guidelines for ethical research behavior in the development of research studies 3. Ethical Responsibilities to Families. Social work profession 10. Search. Another important ethical responsibility of a teacher is to make reasonable effort to protect the students from conditions harmful to learning or to health and safety. Establishing an ethical company vision and mission and set of core values helps employees to manage their own behavior. This principle would include property ⦠Most companies have written ethical code of conduct ⦠Legal and Ethical Responsibilities of RTOs and Trainers. Video created by CertNexus for the course "Turn Ethical Frameworks into Actionable Steps". Ethical Values: Assign degree of importance to anything or anyone according to morally based principles, rules, or norms that define virtuous behavior. If the study was carried out with ⦠What Are the Elements of a Strong Corporate Culture? Social worker ethical responsibilities to the profession. Code of Ethics 2008.qxd 5/8/08 2:20 PM Page 2. sociation Code of Ethics for Registered Nurses 3 The code is organized in two parts: PART I: Part I, âNursing Values and Ethical Responsibilities,â describes the core responsibilities central to ethical ⦠With stakeholders everywhere, the relationship is laden with moral responsibilities. Code of Ethics 2008.qxd 5/8/08 2:20 PM Page 2. sociation Code of Ethics for Registered Nurses 3 The code is organized in two parts: PART I: Part I, âNursing Values and Ethical Responsibilities,â describes the core responsibilities central to ethical ⦠[Jane Singleton; Susan Goodinson-McLaren] Home. builds on the WCPT ethical principles and explains the ethical responsibilities of physical therapists and member organisations addressing all aspects of professional conduct. These ethical considerations help to guarantee that the researcher can be held accountable to the public. Critical Analysis of Societal Expectations from Higher Education Teachers Part III Professional Ethics: Case ⦠If your business manufactures products, for example, you can ensure that the waste from production is managed appropriately so as not to pollute the local resources. Competence 2. ETHICAL RESPONSIBILITIES OF THE AUTHORS According to the proposed international standards, the respective separate section should be placed in all issues after the main text and before the list of references of any paper. Because the organization is open, it is vulnerable to changes in the environment. Cohen (2007) agrees that the researcher has responsibilities to the research community, for example, not to jeopardize the reputation of the research community (e.g. Management and Organization Review: Behavioral Ethics, Organizational Justice and Social Responsibility Across Contexts Call for Papers, Electronic Journal of Business Ethics and Organizational Studies: Business Ethics and Social Responsibility in the e-Economy, a Commentary. Click card to see definition ð Tap card to see definition ð Not calling into work when you are sick. Identify and apply key ethical components of an informed consent letter 4. In this chain of relationships, a business owner has an ethical responsibility to act honestly in all transactions. A business does not exist in a vacuum, but it maintains an open system of relationships with internal and external stakeholders. It’s important for businesses to take part in community activities. the ethical responsibilities of pharmacists in relation to the sale of complementary medicines tends to provide general advice, focusing on the identiï¬cation of the con-ï¬icting principles at stake. Responsibility Description; Workplace Health & Safety: There are laws that require us and our managers to make sure that we provide a safe work environment for staff and clients, and to make sure that we have a system in place to record and report any workplace injuries. Professional ethics encompass the personal and corporate standards of behavior expected by professionals.. Businesses that participate in corporate social responsibility initiatives do so to manage the effects of its operations on the world. Ethics is actually a discipline of philosophy, and is sometimes referred to as ethical theory, moral theory, philosophical ethics, and moral philosophy. Assure the confidentiality of information, where appropriate. Ethical responsibility means following a moral path. When employees know there is a code of conduct to which they should adhere within the company, they are more likely to make choices that align with the ethics of the business. While this may seem like an embarrassing moment for your business, it shows consumers that you value them and their safety and are willing to make things right no matter the cost. Her favorite audiences to write for are small-business owners and job searchers. A business might belong to a supply chain. Responsibilities: Directorsâ and managersâ legal and ethical obligations or duties to various stakeholders of the business. Being transparent in business means that you should be willing to provide the necessary information to interested parties, including employees, stakeholders, investors, customers, prospects and the media. set forth ethical rules and regulations for their members or for CPAs ⦠The codes provide reminders about speciï¬c professional responsibilities.They provide valuable guidance for new or young members of the profession who want to behave ethically but do not know what is ⦠PLAY. Legal and Ethical Responsibilities of RTOs and Trainers. Anti ⦠⦠As an agent or broker representing either the seller or the buyer, your primary duty is to "protect and promote" your client's interest, as defined by Article 3 of the Realtor Code. Professionalism in Assessing Studentsâ Performance: Roles and Responsibilities of Higher Education Teachers 7. Therefore, a business owner must make ethical decisions, including hiring and contracting decisions, to demonstrate the company's social responsibility. The ⦠If there is something wrong with a product your business is selling, for example, it’s critical that you inform consumers immediately and recall the product, in addition to offering full refunds. Reviewed by: Michelle Seidel, B.Sc., LL.B., MBA. How Does it Benefit the Team If the Team Leader Has Great Work Ethics? Customers, suppliers, employees, business partners, investors and fellow business leaders are potential stakeholders. Test. By no later than the year 1675, the term had seen secular application and was applied to the three learned professions: Divinity, Law, and Medicine. Hence The science fictionâs âcyborgs,â part-man, part machine or people who have a relationship with machines. For example, the owner should give a fair price to the supplier for materials, study his costs and then determine a price per unit to charge the distributor or retailer. Ethical behavior in the community may involve volunteering time at local shelters or helping to raise funds for local nonprofit operations. We understand that to be ethical ⦠It has been formulated to provide a clear ⦠Medical personnel, such as nurses, also follow moral responsibilities. Perspective from The New England Journal of Medicine â Medicine's Ethical Responsibility for Health Care Reform â The Top Five List As an agent or broker representing either the seller or the buyer, your primary duty is to "protect and promote" your client's interest, as defined by Article 3 of the Realtor Code. Ethics are the set of moral principles that guide personal or group behavior. 2012; Elliott & Stern 1997; Penslar 1995; Barbour 2000; Smith 2003; Knoppers & Joly 2006; Flewitt ⦠Misrepresentation 7. ETHICAL RESPONSIBILITIES OF THE AUTHORS According to the proposed international standards, the respective separate section should be placed in all issues after the main text and before the list of references of any paper. Professional ethics encompass the personal and corporate standards of behavior expected by professionals.. core ethical responsibilities, they are part of ethical practice and serve as a helpful motivational and educational tool for all nurses. Computer professionals, in my opinion, have ethical responsibilities but I do believe that in some circumstances these responsibilities are unattainable due to external circumstance. treat colleagues with respect avoid unnecessary negative criticism of colleagues in communications with clients or with other professionals. Medical personnel, such as nurses, also follow moral responsibilities. In business, ethics are not always black and white. Ethical marketing relies on a long-term strategy of continuing education, campaigning, and activism. Inside the business, the owner must look at the obligations to customers. Evolving Business Models and an Ethical Paradigm Shift, Balancing Ethical and Fiduciary Responsibilities in Drug Pricing, David Alvaro, Ph.D., Cynthia Challener, Ph.D., Emilie Branch, Nice Insight We also have several field offices in overseas countries and we are required to comply with the laws of these countries, as applicable. For example, if two employees are in a situation where they have made a grave error in an important document, they may be more likely to speak up and take ownership of their mistake if they know that the culture of the business is an honest one. Violating the organizations policies. It is best to find a balance between profit-based employment decisions and morality-based employment decisions. Hiding information or misrepresenting certain details can lead to unethical behavior. CPAs, in particular, have significant ethical responsibilities they must meet in the day-to-day performance of their jobs. Hemera Technologies/AbleStock.com/Getty Images. Sometimes, the ethical choice affects much more than the company or the community. Ford Motor Company nominated sustainability committee that presents its progress to the Board of Directors ⦠It should include the following points. We are registered with the Australian Securities ⦠2020. âFrom Rationality to Relationality: Ubuntu as an Ethical and Human Rights Framework for Artificial Intelligence Governance.â Carr Center Discussion Paper Series, 2020-009. The first module in this course will describe some key ethical frameworks in the field of data-driven technology. Abstract-Mission and governance structure of Ford Motor embedded ethics, social responsibility and environmental sustainability. At the helm of a small business, the responsible owner appraises those who might have interests in the organization's activities. Ethical Responsibilities:-There are the following types of the theories of the ethical responsibility in business. While it’s important to always act within the confines of the law, there are many instances when you may need to make a choice for your business that is based on personal values, morals and ethics. The ethical responsibility of a business to stakeholders is that the business should be honest about its sales, revenue and profits. Though the pressures of self-interest are very powerful and compelling, both workers and bosses should guide their choices by basic ethical principles including honest, candor, respect and caring. By meeting each of these responsibilities, the board sets the tone for true ethical behavior in the company â and does its best to prevent future wrongdoing. Peer reviewers generally play a central and very critical part in the peer-review process. Ethical & Legal Responsibilities of Healthcare Workers: A Case Study. Ethical Responsibilities of Authors (Quoted, with Amendments in Bold Italics, from the Springer Publishing Webpage) This journal is committed to upholding the integrity of the scientific record. Anti ⦠Acknowledgements. I-2.2âTo develop relationships of mutual trust and create partnerships with the families we serve. Ethical leadership is the practice of being honest and virtuous in a role as a manager. Social workers should cooperate with social work colleagues and with colleagues of other professions when such cooperation serves the Ethics in Biomedical Engineering: Ethical and Professional Responsibilities. Oxfam Australia operates within the laws and legislation governing not-for-profit organisations in Australia. Therefore, an entrepreneur can examine how to make a product hold value for the consumer in terms of price, quality, usefulness and safety. She holds a Bachelor of Arts in history and a Master of Public Administration from a Florida public university. I-2.3âTo welcome all family ⦠Ethical Responsibilities To Families Below are some Ideals that families should To develop relationships of mutual trust and cre-ate partnerships with the families we serve. The Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics 2018 45: 4, 682-687 Download Citation. The responsible business owner can make decisions to respond to those changes, such as adjusting terms of employment with workers or the terms of business transactions with suppliers and customers. 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Miley and Hannah team up for a $34M opening weekend
Miley Cyrus and alter-ego Hannah Montana have double-teamed their way to another No. 1 box office debut.
Walt Disney's "Hannah Montana: The Movie" opened with $34 million in ticket sales, according to studio estimates Sunday. That followed Cyrus' first-place premiere last year with her 3-D concert film.
The movie is a big-screen installment of the Disney Channel series about an ordinary teen living a double life as pop star Hannah.
"Hannah Montana" drew $17.3 million on Friday for the biggest opening day ever for a G-rated live-action movie.
While girls 12 and younger and their moms made up most of the audience, "Hannah Montana" also attracted a solid crowd of teenage girls, fans reaching the age when they might be outgrowing the show, said Mark Zoradi, president of Disney's motion-picture group.
"Miley's audience stayed with her," Zoradi said. "Those that enjoyed the show on TV and maybe have become young teens themselves came back for the movie."
We were there opening night in our Hannah Montana t-shirts. The movie was amazing. We'd HIGHLY recommend seeing it! Even our non-believer friends who came along enjoyed themselves. The film made us hungry for Halloween, or even a Hannah Montana themed party! Any opportunity to whip out our favorite Hannah Montana costumes. What do you think? Would you come to a HM themed party?
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Feature Friday #18 - Dungeon Plunder
Every Friday on our blog I’ll feature a game that’s doing something unique, innovative, and truly noteworthy. This isn’t just an app review; it’s an analytical look at a fresh game from the perspective of someone within the game industry.
Okay, no more soccer games for a while, I promise. Actually this week I’ve been playing a game that’s really unlike anything I’ve seen in a while. Dungeon Plunder is a semi-open world roguelike that oozes old school. It does a great job of mixing chance and strategy, and offers way more depth than you might expect.
I’ll be honest, I wasn’t hot on Dungeon Plunder at first glance. The icon could use some work and both the pixels and somewhat clunky controls threw me a bit. It’s nice that you can choose your class from two or three options (this varies based on the game version - more on this later), and although not immediately apparent, your choice makes a pretty big difference. The game basically consists of your character roaming around fighting monsters and collecting rewards, pretty standard stuff. But Dungeon Plunder’s combat system is probably the highlight of the game, and really deserves a closer look.
When you engage an enemy you’re presented with a five reel slot machine. The same symbols appear on all the reels even though each character has an item only they can use. Turns are fast and play out basically like a hand of five card draw: one spin gives you items, you choose how many you want to keep, then you spin again and keep the results. Any item you have at least two of will affect play that turn - two weapons deals damage, two hearts heal you, etc. - and the more you have of each item, the more its effect is amplified. Each character class also gains stat points and special abilities by leveling up - e.g. amplifying damage or gaining extra spins. Combine these with the reel selection in battles, and players have a good amount of agency, keeping play fresh a long time.
This is all helped by the roguelike element, where each death is permanent, but some traits and items carry over to your next game. I haven’t been able to determine exactly when or how, but if you progress far enough in one game, you get to start over at a higher level the next time you play with that class again. You can also find runes randomly throughout the game - item drops that permanently immbue your character with stats - to help advance progress farther each time.
True roguelikes frustrate me, so I think this is a pretty good compromise. Between the art and the fairly barebones nature of the game, I’m assuming that Dungeon Plunder was a fairly low budget game. In this context, roguelikes are a great way to save money - most players won’t be able to advance too far, or at least not before you’re able to expand the game. Though as I’ve already mentioned, Dungeon Plunder is really fun and fairly deep, because the developer allowed enough of your progress to carry over. Well done.
I think the thing that impresses me most about Dungeon Plunder is how it handles multiple elements of mobile so well. Sure the graphics and leveling up are more reminiscent of NES or old PC gaming, but there’s more. All too often these days, developers try to implement a gambling or randomized element into their games, and rarely does it create a fun experience that doesn't feel slimey. Dungeon Plunder’s slot machine style battles are a perfect example of how this can be done right: they’re fun, strategic, and un-monetized. Equally important is the fact that the entire game is untimed and mostly playable with one hand. These are crucial features for mobile games - even ones with core elements - because they emphasize strengths of the platform: playing on the go and in short bursts. All the enemies in Dungeon Plunder are stationary, and even battles can go as quickly or slowly as you allow. All of this mixes extremely well with semi-roguelike to create an experience that’s immersive, but not too serious.
My biggest criticism for this game isn’t even content-based, it’s one of confusion. There are two versions of Dungeon Plunder in the App Store - one paid, one free - but both offer IAPs for additional content. Fortunately, a quick google search produced an explanation the developer gave on Reddit:
"Sorry for the confusion - here's a rundown of the differences:
Free has 2 classes with ads, Paid has 3 with no ads. Ads will be removed off the free when you spend $3 worth of classes/skins.
Free version has IAP runes and scrolls available, paid doesn't have them.
Full upgrade (platinum) with all classes and skins ends up costing the same as it's priced $2 cheaper on the paid but if you're just interested on the missing classes you'll save $1 by using the free version ($0+$3) vs Paid ($1.99 + $2.00).”
That may not all make sense without having played the game much, but it’s actually a fantastic answer. The developer not only provided a fully functional free version, he created a more robust paid edition and left a way to get the same full game no matter which you originally chose.
Dungeon Plunder looks mediocre at best, but in actuality is way better than that. Such a deep experience, built explicitly for mobile, does a ton to cover up what are ultimately superficial shortcomings. This is a game that crosses several genres and really captures the best elements of all of them.
Dungeon Plunder is only available on iOS but has equally cool free and paid versions. It’s definitely worth checking out the free one, and from there you can decide if and how you want to upgrade your experience.
Josh Dombro Community Manager
Feature Friday #17 - Pixel Cup Soccer: Maracanazo Crush Brazil
Every Friday on our blog I’ll feature a game that’s doing something unique, innovative, and truly noteworthy. This isn’t just an app review; it’s an analytical look at a fresh game from the perspective of someone within the game industry. ~~~ I didn’t write a post last week because Friday was the Fourth of July, but we’re back and the World Cup is still going, so let’s finish it off with another soccer game. This week it’s Pixel Cup Soccer: Maracanazo Crush Brazil (say that three times fast), a pretty fun soccer sim that captures the old school arcade feeling, but doesn’t really bring enough to the table. Pixel Cup Soccer: Maracanazo Crush Brazil starts with a quick intro video, alluding to the real-life match giving the game its name (I’ll abbreviate that going forward, but the full title is relevant here, plus it’s also necessary to differentiate it from the company’s other game, simply Pixel Cup Soccer). The Uruguayan developers at Batovi Games Studio made a really cool pixelated video that both provides context for the game and highlights their country’s triumph. Fittingly, they’ve set the player as their home team, pitted against the soccer powerhouse that is Brazil.
No hometown bias at all...
The soccer part plays very much like an old NES sports game with only two buttons and player quality that’s dramatically varied, and it’s great! Many sports games today are able to handle realistic detail and nuanced play, but just as often, the games seem to trip over themselves in the process. Too many controls, pass variations, chip shots, et al. often complicates gameplay and crushes the overall experience. Pixel Cup Soccer keeps it simple and creates a very playable game - on offense you can pass or shoot, on defense you’re able to switch players and slide tackle. That’s it.
Scoring isn’t too difficult - it basically requires doing laps in front of the goalie until you get him out of position, or curving a shot past him. In a weird twist, one goal is all that’s required to “win”, because a single Brazilian goal ends the game. This shifts the challenge from whether you can score, to how many times you can net the ball.
You can also pay to keep playing
The 45 minute clock is sped up to two minutes of real time, and each goal you score subtracts 10:30 from the time elapsed. With goals possible in less than five minutes of game time, your potential high-score is limitless, though I’ve had trouble reaching double digits consistently, and 154 is the mark to beat as of this writing. I enjoyed the gameplay and have had a good time with Pixel Cup Soccer, but with virtually no customization available, it gets old pretty fast.
Pixel Cup Soccer isn’t a bad game, and it succeeds in capturing the old school feel. The art is great, gameplay is super easy to learn and not too difficult to master, and the Game Center competition makes you want to keep playing. If you’re looking for a retro experience and a couple hours of fun, this should cut it, but the game lacks depth. For a free game that doesn’t bludgeon you too hard with ads, that’s not the end of the world, just would’ve liked to see a little more given how well it started. ~~~ Pixel Cup Soccer: Maracanazo Crush Brazil is free on iOS and Google Play. It’s aforementioned counterpart, Pixel Cup Soccer, can be found on both iTunes and Amazon App Stores for $1.99.
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The Pharma industry is driven by hordes of patient/consumer/ influencer data, and Pfizer is at the heart of it. The pharma giant has upped the game by investing in business intelligence and analytics self-service dashboards, turning lumbering metadata into a treasure trove of insights. Today, Pfizer believes that more data means more opportunities to descend into granular detailing.
Consumer-related data analysis is just the tip of the iceberg. If the economy at large is akin to a huge funnel, this funnel is bookended by microeconomic forces at the bottom of the funnel while macroeconomic forces are at the top. The advent of business intelligence (BI) and business analytics (BA) dashboards have compelled organizations to go down the funnel and extract real-time valuable insights via self-servicing dashboards.
Like any industry, pharma is driven not only by consumers, but is also dependent on influencers. As a result, Pfizer wants to derive insights from its massive amounts of data related to physicians, managed care and demographics. Here are 3 priceless lessons any industry, sector or organization can extrapolate from this case study.
1 | BI dashboards work best when they incorporate micro and macro factors
Understanding the vast pharma market is not only essential to Pfizer’s core standards, but is also a demand in the industry. Gaining this understanding of the market forces keeps Pfizer a step ahead of its competition. This not only leads to industry defining insights, but also ignites world class innovation within the company.
Pfizer has laid a strong technological foundation to make sense of the vast amounts of market data it gathers every year. With bespoke business intelligence and analytics tools embedded, the pharma giant has acquired the capabilities to tackle everything from ad-hoc reporting to predictive modelling.
2 | Self-service BIs increase ease of access to data insights
Most data stored in data warehouses end up being unused because extrapolation depends on cumbersome procedures. As a result, most business decisions are made based on data scattered across spreadsheets. Why?
As business units crave for custom reports ahead of, or in real time, they have to rely on the IT department. Every request sent for a detailed or new report is lost amidst a list of unsolved queries due to resource constraints. With the help of self-service BIs however, Pfizer has eliminated this hurdle. Pfizer’s BIs enable power-users to comb through gargantuan amounts of data insights in no time at all. Self-service BIs have not eliminated data warehouses but given business units easier access to it via bespoke BI applications.
3 | Self-service BIs improve the quality of Pfizer’s data
With the application of world-leading business intelligence technology, Pfizer has achieved a remarkable feat in reducing data inconsistencies. Steven Kern, the company’s vice president of global manufacturing business intelligence opines that the data warehouses act as conduits of metadata upon which the business units weave a layer of BI applications, thereby allowing all business units to share the same data. From there on, C-level staff can peruse top line trends via effective data visualization, whereas individual departments can immerse themselves deeper into the data to extract insights from specific cases using the same application.
Take a cue from Pfizer’s experience on using Business Intelligence to drill down to the metrics that matter. See how it can work for you!
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Kendrick Tilghman Lists Things That Set 5 Starr Enterprise Apart
by Donna Rash
5 Starr Enterprise was founded by Kendrick Tilghman who was born and raised in Baltimore. The Vision is to be the premier resource for STEM workforce diversity. The Mission is to be the pipeline from engagement to employment, PHD’s or Social Entrepreneurs. The focus of community outreach, educational services and community engagement. His passion is to provide community engagement services which include a master of ceremony and entertainment & marketing/media consulting. His company also provides IT training and support to new and small businesses. What truly sets 5 Starr Enterprise apart is the unique brand ideology.
Having his own company allowed him to be innovative and follow his heart. Being an educationist and having a degree in Computer and Engineering compelled him to do something that would include both of his passions; Engineering and DJing. That is how the idea of STEM education and its awareness using the science of DJing came into being and the company revolutionized edutainment and DJ business.
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“Have you ever heard of a DJ try to blend two records that just didn’t mathematically add up to blend together and it sounds like a train wreck? So what we try to do is apply those few math principles to the processes of DJin, that DJ wouldn’t train wreck.”
Kendrick’s company provides one-of-a-kind educational services that mix the art of DJing with mathematical applications and coding. For K-20, a product called Math Thru Music is designed to teach DJing using mathematical principles. There is also another innovative product promoted by the company called JayD which is a coding kit for DJing.
The true success of Kendrick and his business lies in the revolution it has managed to create in edutainment. Especially at times like the pandemic, when students are not being engaged with traditional learning through zoom, something interactive like media masters is amazingly unique and successful in engaging students and promoting learning in a fun manner.
Apart from being a pioneer of edutainment, Kendrick also promotes diversity in the workforce, and his struggle to promote STEM education in African American community and other marginalized communities speaks volumes. He aspires to see more Black, Latinos, and other minority groups in areas of Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics. America is currently suffering from a lack of diversity in the workforce and Kendrick aims to change that as he firmly believes that research and development can never be possible without equal representation of all groups of people.
Promotion of STEM education is the need of the hour and 5 Starr Enterprise is at the center of it, with its commendable initiative and nonprofit arm B.E.M.O.R.E.S.T.E.M (Bringing Everyone More Relevant Experiences in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math). Foundation inc. For more info check out the website of 5 Starr Enterprise here.
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Gen Yokosaka, Violoncello
6. July 2014 21. December 2022
Gen-chan (little Gen) is the youngest member of the ensemble. But he is familiar with the music stages of the world.
Gen Yokosaka has performed with such conductors as Seiji Ozawa, Kenichiro Kobayashi and Kazuki Yamada with orchestras including Symphonieorchester des Bayerishen Rundfunks, the NHK Symphomy, Yomiuri Symphony, Japan Philharmonic and Tokyo Symphony. He has had both recitals and concerto performances broadcast on national TV (NHK and TV Asahi)
Born in 1986, Gen Yokosaka began to play the cello at the age 4 and studied with Katsuro Washio and later with Hakuro Mori at the Toho School of Music as well as taking further lessons with David Geringas and Jian Wang at the Ishikawa Music Academy. He finished his studies at the Musikhochschule Stuttgart with Jean-Guihen Queyras.
Gen quickly became known as the most promising cellist of his generation in his native Japan after being awarded the top prize in the string section of the All Japan Classical Music Competition at 12 years old. He went on to win numerous competitions including, at 15, the 2002 Viva Hall Cello Competition in 2002 of which he is the youngest ever winner. Among his awards at major international competitions are the second prize at the 2010 ARD Competition in Munich.
In 2005 Gen performed in La Folle journée au Japon and took part in Pierre Boulez’ Lucerne Festival Academy. In the same year he was presented the Idemitsu Music Award.
On CD he released CD of the “3 Sonatas for Viola da Gamba and Cembalo” by J.S. Bach (WARNER 2016) and a Recital with works by Mendelssohn and Schumenn (EXTON 2020).
Gens LCP Highlights: Beethoven Septett, Offenbach Les Larmes de Jaqueline
Jacques Offenbach (1819 – 1880): Les larmes de Jacqueline – Élégie op. 76/2 für Violoncello solo und Ensemble von M. Ucki | Gen Yokosaka, Violoncello & Ludwig Chamber Players (life recording by SWR)
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The Year Dolly Parton Was My Mom
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Angel at Sea
A No-Hit, No-Run Summer
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The Year Dolly Parton Was My Mom hits Broadway!
The Broadway Theatre in Saskatoon, that is! The feature has an exclusive run at the theatre July 8 -14. Schedule to be available shortly on the website.
The Broadway Theatre in Saskatoon, that is! The feature has an exclusive run
at the theatre July 8 -14. Schedule to be available shortly on the website.
The Broadway Theatre is a film and performance venue located in the Nutana
neighborhood of Saskatoon.
The theatre was Broadway’s entertainment destination during the post-World
War II years. After closing briefly in 1993, the Broadway was granted
heritage status and has been hosting art, Canadian and regional cinema, as
well as some live music performances ever since.
The Year Dolly Parton Was My Mom is Tara Johns’ first feature film. Produced
by Palomar (Quebec) and Buffalo Gal Pictures (Manitoba) the film stars Macha
Grenon, Julia Stone and Gil Bellows.
On June 7, 2011, In THE YEAR DOLLY PARTON WAS MY MOM, By Theresa
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SDSU
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Viejas Arena at Aztec Bowl, San Diego, California
Seiko, No. 24 San Diego St beat Division III Occidental
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By RICHARD J. MARCUS
SAN DIEGO (AP) Adam Seiko scored 20 points, including six 3s, to lead No. 24 San Diego State over Division III Occidental 95-57 on Friday night.
The Aztecs (6-2) hit 19 of 37 shots from 3-point range. They won their second in a row after consecutive defeats to Arizona and Arkansas at the Maui Invitational.
"We found our mission, we were moving the ball around. It was good to see it go in for everybody," Seiko said. "We put that (Maui Invitational losses) behind us. ...We want to just get better from here on out."
San Diego State did not use regulars Aguek Arup (knee) and Darrion Trammell (hamstring).
"We sat them intentionally, they could have both played if we needed them," coach Brian Dutcher said. "We tried to get them extra rest leading into Monday because Monday will be a difficult game (hosting Troy)."
Occidental (2-3) trailed 30-18 with 7:40 left in the first half. The Aztecs then broke loose and led 59-29 at the break.
"It was the first zone we have seen all year," Dutcher said. "So that is good because Troy plays some zone and they will zone us on Monday."
Seven players for the Aztecs hit 3s, including four for Micah Parrish. Dutcher said his team needs to hit seven 3s a game in the Mountain West Conference on average.
Against Occidental, the Aztecs were hitting 3s in bunches, including 13 for 22 in the first half.
"It's fun to see the basketball go in and to make 19 3s, I think it was an arena record ... 26 assists, everybody that played scored a basket," Dutcher said. "I thought Matt Bradley was absolutely sensational."
Bradley had nine points and dished out eight assists.
"Matt moved it freely, he got everybody sharing the ball," Dutcher said. "He is by far our best playmaker so when he is playing like that everybody gets involved."
Aiden Williams scored 14 points for the overmatched Tigers.
"Our schedule is ranked in the top 10 in the country right now, strength-wise. So I don't think this game hurts us at all, to play a lesser non-Division I opponent at home. It gives us a chance to grow our team and hopefully build some confidence," Dutcher said. "It's a good game to get young guys in. Not every game can be a challenge."
San Diego State's 19 3-pointers tied a single-game high at Viejas Arena since it opened for the 1996-97 Aztecs season. Troy also had 19 3s at Viejas on Nov. 30, 2003.
The 19 3-pointers for San Diego State tops the Aztecs' previous high for 3-pointers at Viejas, which was 17 versus Wyoming on January 29, 2011.
"We tied the arena record, that is crazy," Seiko said.
Occidental: The Tigers lost their other matchup this season with a Division 1 school, a 106-30 drubbing at UC-Riverside on Nov. 19.
San Diego State: The Aztecs are 61-9 record in their last 70 non-conference games. ... The Aztec's 19 3-pointers tied for eighth most in a game in Mountain West history (beginning in 1999-00 season).
Occidental plays on consecutive days for back-to-back road games, traveling to Division III Claremont-Mudd-Scripps (6-1) for a matchup Saturday afternoon.
San Diego State hosts Troy (6-2) of the Sun Belt Conference on Monday night. Troy has road victories over Florida State and Montana and gave Arkansas a tough game on the road on Monday night.
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– Posted on 22/12/2015Posted in: Features, TV
Our countdown continues with 30 – 21 below…
30. River – BBC1
Some may argue that this should be higher up the list, the only reason it’s not, is it tried to hard to be noir and in doing so lost its pace compared to its Danish counterparts. However, I applaud its honest portrayal of Mental Health and Stellan Skarsgård and Nicola Walker acted their socks off throughout, with Walker providing the much needed light relief to Skarsgård’s depressed detective.
29. Inside No 9 – BBC2
The imagination of Reece Shearsmith and Steve Pemberton astounds me, plus an array of well-known faces adds the cherry on top. My favourite episode of the series ‘La Couchette’ (pictured).
28. The Game – BBC2
Apart from the fact I enjoyed recognising the Birmingham locations, the 70s set series turned the tables with the reveal of the mole. The “Daddy” name though was completely unrealistic. Are we really expected to believe no-one knows his real name?
27. Boy Meets Girl – BBC2
A romantic comedy with a warm heart tackling the subject of transgender issues.
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26. The Outcast – BBC1
George Mackay gave a nuanced performance of the troubled Lewis following the death of his mother.
25. Supergirl – Sky 1
Melissa Benoist probably had the most pressured role to take on as the new Supergirl. It took a while for the series to find its feet having to navigate the differences between her and Superman, modern feminist portrayal and still being a kickass superhero, but by the mid-season finale Supergirl is on the right track. Calista Flockhart also impresses as Cat Grant full of wit and air of disdain.
24. Doctor Who – BBC1
Like most series of Doctor Who it’s had it’s up and down’s, the first and last two-parters are particular highlights. As is the addition of Ashildr, played by Game Of Thrones Maisie Williams.
23. You, Me & The Apocalypse – Sky 1
An apocalyptic comedy bringing together the likes of Rob Lowe and Pauline Quirke driving in a car seems both amazing and ridiculous. A great mix of UK and US actors including Mathew Baynton, Jenna Fischer and Megan Mullally. The group all make mistakes in their final days to get to their loved ones and that elusive bunker, but it’s very entertaining none the less.
22. 24 Hours In A&E – Channel 4
I never get bored of watching 24 Hours In A&E, there’s a comfort in knowing that there is a team of people who know exactly what they’re doing and are doing everything they can to help people. Mostly though it’s a window into the human spirit of survival at the darkest and most frightening times.
21. Game Of Thrones – Sky Atlantic
It had a bumpy season but highlights included Daenerys tempestuous teenage dragons, Jon Snow’s shock (maybe) death and Ayra doing her own version of Mr Miyagi training.
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Green Tea Compound May Reduce Effects of Rheumatoid Arthritis
Components found in green tea can block rheumatoid arthritis (RA), according to findings published in Arthritis & Rheumatology.
Researchers from Washington State University used mice models that were administered transforming growth factor β–activated kinase 1 (TAK 1) in order to examine the post-translational modification to TAK 1 and its therapeutic regulation in RA. In this novel approach, the team used a phytochemical known as epigallocatechin 3 gallate (EGCG) in a 10-day treatment plan in the mice to study the effects. EGCG is a compound commonly found in green tea, the researchers added. The rats with modeled RA were given 50 mg/ kg/ day for 10 days.
“Existing drugs for rheumatoid arthritis are expensive, immunosuppressive and sometimes unsuitable for long-term use,” Salah-uddin Ahmed, the lead WSU researcher on the project, explained in a press release. ECGC was found to effectively block the effects of RA without disrupting other cellular functions, the researchers said.
“This study has opened the field of research into using EGCG for targeting TAK1 – an important signaling protein – through which proinflammatory cytokines transmit their signals to cause inflammation and tissue destruction in rheumatoid arthritis,” added Ahmed, who has been investigating RA for the past 15 years. The researchers observed significantly reduced ankle swelling in the mice during the 10 day treatment, but noted that the experiment was done in a preclinical trial setting.
The investigative team also found that ECGC enhanced the proteasome associated deubiquitinase expression which prohibited some of the proteins from proteasomal degradation.
“Our findings provide a rationale for targeting TAK1 for the treatment of RA with EGCG,” the study authors concluded. – See more at: http://www.hcplive.com/medical-news/green-tea-compound-may-reduce-effects-of-rheumatoid-arthritis#sthash.0zFhdLlc.dpuf
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Posted on April 2, 2014 by Petros Posted in Issues regarding US persons abroad 51 Comments
Here is a scenario, not unrealistic, which should explain to reigning Canadian government how they have failed in their duty to stand on guard for Canada by betraying Canadian citizens to the IRS.
Jake is a businessman in Canada who employs 50 people at his workshop in the Toronto area. He is nearing retirement age. He has made a decent living but has put so much of his company’s profits back into his business that he has basically lived a frugal, middle class lifestyle. He paid for his kids’ educations, but they went to Canadian universities not elite US Ivy League schools. His wife died a couple years ago, and he inherited her half of the house and her RRSP. Consider the following:
Toronto Home: $1.3 million, unrealized capital gains of 1.1 million.
Business: $3 million, retained earnings of 2.5 million
RRSP: $1.5 million
Unregistered stock portfolio: $1 million; unrealized capital gains of $750,000
Jake, however, was born in the United States to American parents. His parents brought him home to Canada three years later and he’s been living here ever since. At age 8, his parents and he became naturalized Canadians. He has no Social Security number and has never paid taxes in the United States. He has heard of FATCA and is thinking of renouncing US citizenship, even though he’s never acted on his citizenship–it has only been a novelty to him which he thought was kind of neat. He must renounce but he’s never done anything that the State Department would recognize as a relinquishing act.
Scenario One
What would the exit tax be in his case? His net worth is 6.8 million and his unrealized capital gains is as follows:
RRSP 1.5 million
House: 1.1 million
Business: 2.5 million
Investment Portfolio: 0.75 million
Total: 5.85 million
Now after $600,000 exit tax exemption, Jake would owe taxes on $5.2 million. At 30% tax rate, the IRS assesses Jake $1.56 million in exit taxes. But where is he going to get this money?
Jake sells his investment portfolio and kicks in a 15% Canadian tax rate on his investment portfolio’s capital gains. He now has $887,500 and still lacks $672,500. So he begins to deregister his RRSP, on which he will pay the top tax rate in Ontario of 42.16%. He withdraws $1.163 million from his RRSP and pays $490,000 in Canadian taxes. By destroying his RRSP and his personal savings, Jake can now be free of United States tyranny. Now Jake’s personal savings are gone, except about $300K in an RRSP. However, his business has a couple bad years and he loses money and has to close down his shop. Fortunately, from the Canadian perspective, he had no more retained earnings in his business–the bad years took care of that. But he has virtually no savings and he has had to lay off 50 Canadians from their jobs. If he had been able to keep his stock portfolio, he would have been able to save his business until the economy improved and none of his employees would have suffered unemployment. By the way, he also lost the house because he took a HELOC on his house to keep his business running for a few more months. He managed to clear $300,000 on the sale of his house and so he has $300K in a savings account and 300K in his RRSP.
This scenario is oversimplified. It doesn’t even take into account the bills from cross border accountants and lawyers, nor PFIC penalties or any taxes owed to the US on his five years of filing to be able to certify tax compliance on his Form 8854. In addition, it is nearly impossible to know how his business corporate tax would affect his personal taxes in the US.
Scenario Two
Jake is an avid reader of the Isaac Brock Society. He decides that he will donate $200,000 to C3F Charter Challenge. He decides that he is Canadian only and that his birth in the United States does not define who he is. The CRA eventually sends his stock portfolio account information to the United States, and the IRS assesses him $500,000 FBAR penalty every year, but he refuses to pay it. At first Jake just throws their letters in the garbage, but later he begins to write on them, “Addressee deceased, return to sender”. When the bad years happen to his business, he liquidates the remaining part of his stock portfolio and uses a HELOC to weather the storm. In the end he retires at 75, sells his business which now employs 75 people, and he clears after taxes about 50% of the sale of $5 million. He lives happily ever after, except that he never travels to the United States but takes his vacations elsewhere. In the meantime, his $200,000 along with the donations of several other Canadians results in a victory, and the Canadian government can no longer discriminate against so-called US citizens in Canada.
Now, dear readers, what do you think Jake should do? What is fair?
My wife’s family owns a business. Our personal savings have gone on the line over the last year in order to improve the working conditions of the business. Had things gone badly, we could have lost our house and/or a substantial part of our life savings. My wife didn’t need me to screw things up by being an American. I am glad that I relinquished in 2011. I am a free man.
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51 thoughts on “What should Jake do?”
@George, I have pointed out the comment to Richardson but he is traveling and said he will get back to me.
What can Maple Sandbox confirm?
The problem is that the rules are constantly changing. THATS the problem along with nobody to trust.
And the example given of Jake just illustrates what an abomination this all is.
GeorgeIII says
I believe Maple Sandbox asked the lawyer Richardson about extradition for failing to file US taxes.
Fatca info may be used if USA may want to extradite someone for other crimes. If the person has money it may encourage them to go after them. If the person committed fraud and he has money chase after him. Of course the person would have to have US indices in his account.
@ GeorgeIII
If those US indices are as hidden in the accounts as the FATCA is in the Omnibus then almost everyone should be safe. 🙂
Blaze says
I am not qualified to give an expert opinion on whether someone would be extradited over a tax issue.
I personally don’t believe it would happen, but a neighbour told me of a friend who has been a Canadian citizen since 1977 who paid ten of thousands of dollars to thw IRS when Canadian media was singing from the OVDI hymn book in 2011. She did this because she was convinced from media reports she would be deported and spend years in prison if she didn’t. Her Canadian accountant did nothing to reassure her. Not once did he mention to her that CRA will not collect for IRS.
‘An interlocutory order was requested and this was refused by R.E. Holland J. on August 10, 1988. Mr. Justice Holland gave brief reasons summarized in the sentence, “Canadian Courts will not directly or indirectly enforce the revenue laws of another country: United States of America v. Harden (1963), 41 D.L.R. (2d) 721 . . .”.
http://uniset.ca/other/cs6/68OR2d379.html
Extraditing people to USA for failing to file a simple USA tax form sound contradictory to court ruling.
Blaze I think someone asked Richardson at a meeting this question?
Blaze I believe I talked to you about this question in February at Maple Sandbox. If you have a log of all my post then we can confirm.
We are also talking about Canadian citizens,
@GeorgeIII This was all I could find about extradition at Sandbox. I may have posted more about it in another thread, but I wasn’t able to locate it.
http://maplesandbox.ca/2014/new-information-sessions/#comments
I don’t have anything in my notes of the actual meeting with John about extradition. I think I may have asked him the question informally and I think the answer was No. I must admit I don’t recall his answer for sure.
I’m sorry I can’t be more specific than that, but I’m feeling quite overwhelmed with numerous FATCA issues and projects.
Perhaps Deckard will see this discussion and share what was discussed at the Montreal info session: http://isaacbrocksociety.ca/2014/03/18/levin-and-mccain-ask-for-extradition-of-swiss-bankers-have-they-read-the-swiss-federal-constitution/comment-page-1/#comment-1248322
Blaze if could have been Joe Avary the question was asked but the Revenue Rule quoted above about Canadian court not enforcing USA tax ruling is pretty definite.
George: I have not raised the issue of extradition with Joe Arvay. My communications with him have been about FATCA, Canadian laws and he Charter.
Blaze found it. It is in reverse chronological order answer 1st. I do not want people to be doing the wrong things out of fear.
CRA Now Works For IRS
http://maplesandbox.ca/2014/cra-now-works-for-irs/comment-page-1/#comments
“Blaze on February 11, 2014 at 1:25 pm said:
@George: I asked about extradition on Saturday. It’s not going to happen for failure to file with IRS.
George III on February 11, 2014 at 1:20 pm said:
Blaze a question or confirmation for lawyer
The revenue Rule says Canadian Courts will not collect for a foriegn power, Can you confirm with lawyer if that also means they will not extradite Canadian for failing to file non resident US taxes?
Can you ask them if a Canadian has ever been extradite to USA for not filling USA taxes?
harrden
http://scc-csc.lexum.com/scc-csc/scc-csc/en/item/7322/index.do
I have been telling people can throw out nasty letter from IRS if they stay in Canada
“A foreign State cannot escape the application of the rule that in no circumstances will the courts directly or indirectly enforce the revenue laws of another country, which is one of public policy, by taking a judgment in its own courts and bringing suit here on that judgment. The claim asserted remains a claim for taxes. It has not, in our courts, merged in the judgment; enforcement of the judgment would be enforcement of the tax claim.”
schubert1975 says
RE the discussion about the extradition treaty amendment (and please, everyone note, I am NOT a lawyer and this is NOT legal advice, however from a logical viewpoint…)
The amendment quoted by Shovel clearly states that you can be extradited “for conduct which constitutes an offense punishable by the laws of both Contracting Parties by imprisonment or other form of detention for a term exceeding one year or any greater punishment.” (This is a cut and paste from the treaty amendment which can be found on the Government of Canada website here http://www.treaty-accord.gc.ca/text-texte.aspx?id=101349)
As far as I know, failure or refusal to file a tax return TO THE IRS or any other information return to them such as an FBAR or a Form 8858 is NOT an offense punishable BY THE LAWS OF CANADA at all, never mind for a prison or detention term of one year or more. By the laws of the US, yes; but not by the laws of “both contracting parties.” Failure to file a Canadian tax return to CRA may be a punishable offense in Canada and might land you in the slammer for a year or more, but not failure to file a US return to IRS AFAIK.
I was also told verbally by a tax and immigration lawyer when I first starting research this mess two years ago, that you can’t be extradited from Canada for failing to file US tax returns, but that is hearsay and maybe my memory is faulty (though I’m not about to lose any sleep over this issue tonight).
HOWEVER I would caution everyone that you can, in fact, be extradited between Canada and the US for filing a false tax return (or for swearing or “uttering” any other kind of false document). I know personally of someone who was extradited from the US to Canada about 20 years ago for filing fraudulent tax documents to CRA and then fleeing to the US when he learned CRA was after him. It took them a few years, but he was a whale (not a minnow) they wanted to make an example of, so they went after him big-time, and he was extradited, tried and sentenced to several years as a guest of Her Majesty in one of HM’s Canadian prisons for tax fraud and uttering false documents. So if you do file a piece of paper to the IRS, don’t lie or distort anything on it. Better not to file at all, then to file something that can be shown in court to be untrue.
Again, not legal advice, just my recollection of various things I’ve picked up over the years, and I’m not a lawyer. If you are going to lose sleep over this, spend a few hundred bucks for a one-hour consultation with a good lawyer in Canada if it will help ease your mind.
Anne Frank says
@Schubert1975 – that language essentially mimics the Extradition Act (Canada) which governs. Canadians are not required to file tax returns or report on their bank accounts to a foreign government and failure to do so is not an offence here. Little risk of IRS going that far – remember, they never tried to draft duals either. Just made them register. Not a headache Washington needs.
Schubert they enforce Canadian tax laws in USA. but not the reverse. Still it is better not to file a false IRS return.
Expatriation: The American’s Tax Experience in Canada
Kevyn Nightingale and David Turchen*
“It is possible, though cumbersome and unusual, for the CRA to pursue collection efforts through the US criminal courts. It appears that US criminal statutes can apply to evasion of Canadian tax.219 On the other hand, while such a conviction may bring unpleasant sanctions in the United States (fines and prison time), it does not result in collection of tax by the IRS and remittance to Canada.
The reverse is not true. Under Canadian common law (and in most common-law jurisdictions), Canada will not act to collect a foreign nation’s tax:”
http://www.mnp.ca/en/media-centre/library/2014/1/23/expatriation-the-americans-tax-experience-in-canada
I also talked to other lawyers who pretty much said you Canadian are safe from US tax laws in Canada.
Some of this paranoid talk will lead to bad decision
Well it would be kind of hard and moreover COSTLY to extradite 1-4 million people from Canada to USA.
Economically speaking- there might not be any profit in it for America if they have to go through all sorts of legal means to demand extradition. Not to speak of lack of jails. But they could pick and chose those who are worth the effort financially.
@Polly, that is of course not the way the IRS and the US government acts. Rather than try to destroy everyone’s life at the same time, they make notable examples of people to cause the rest to live in dread and fall into compliance.
So what we have to do, before fearing extradition, is wait until the US tries to extradite one of us for tax crimes. Then we build a legal fund to defend that person.
So as it stands, I don’t think any of us have to worry one bit about extradition. You cannot base today’s actions on changes that might take place tomorrow. You are only responsible for making decisions that best suit the information that we have at present.
Just a Canadian says
Polly said:
This is one of the key reasons I decided to renounce, although I chose to phrase it differently.
“I refuse to live my life subject to the whims of a foreign government”
@Just a Canadian, ““I refuse to live my life subject to the whims of a foreign government”
Music to my ears, that could be the motto of IBS.
@George III
Interesting what you say about US maybe enforcing Canadian tax laws, or at least extradition, and not the reverse. I can’t confirm or deny; the example with which I’m familiar is the only one I know of, and it was extradition from US to Canada and it was on the issue of fraud and false documents, not failure to file. Also, to the best of my recollection, the extradition process dragged on for several years. The individual wasn’t actually extradited until about five years (as I recall) after he fled. He did fight it tooth and claw, and I imagine the legal expenses both for him and for CRA were significant. The amounts involved were in the tens of millions of dollars in terms both of claims and tax benefits fraudulently obtained, so likely not in the same ballpark as anyone who visits this website (anyone in that financial circle doesn’t need us, they have pricey accountants and lawyers to advise them and can afford to pay for that). Which just reinforces the point that extradition isn’t something any government undertakes lightly or on a wide scale, and the “examples” they pick aren’t likely to resemble most people visiting this website.
@Just a Canadian
Well said. I renounced too.
I found this and dont know where to put it.- also will leave it up to more intelligent minds to make a statement on what this could mean. Is it a trend?
http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2014-04-02/how-alaska-and-wyoming-make-people-from-elsewhere-pay-their-taxes?campaign_id=yahoo
@Petros, you can add a paragraph like the following to make this post 1 July 2014. The Jake story could be sent to your politicians.
“As a small businessman in his local community, Jake is supported by by the Relationship Manager at his local branch of TD who oversees all Jakes and the accounts for the business. Aware that Jake was born in the USA because of previous documents in his file, the Relationship Manager notified the internal TD FATCA Compliance Officer that Jake has an unambiguous place of birth in the USA. TD FATCA Compliance Officer promptly coded Jakes accounts for CRA reporting.
In July 2016, Jake was surprised after his day at work when he had received a letter marked “Official Business” with a return address of Internal Revenue Service, Philadelphia, PA.
The letter included a tax assessment in which the US had estimated Jakes 2014 income as being equal to the gross deposits made into his business account and that he had thirty days to make payment or appeal.”
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A: FTP transfers that die suddenly are due, apparently, to some form of overrunning buffer. It occurs both with Linux and Microsoft servers. On Linux systems, the problem seems to occur most commonly with the distribution's server software.
If you receive ftp: connection refused errors, then the problem is likely due to a lack of authentication. Refer to Why Won't My FTP or Telnet Server Allow Logins?.
One remedy is to be replacing the distribution FTP server with the Linux port of the OpenBSD FTP server. The home page is: http://www.eleves.ens.fr:8080/home/madore/programs/.
To install the BSD server, follow the installation instructions, and refer to the manual pages for inetd and inetd.conf. (If you have the newer xinetd, see below.) Be sure to tell inetd to run the BSD daemon alone, not as a subprocess of, for example, tcpd. Comment out the line that begins ftp in the /etc/inetd.conf file and replace it with a line similar to (if you install the new ftpd in /usr/local/sbin/):
# Original entry, commented out. #ftp stream tcp nowait root /usr/sbin/tcpd
/usr/sbin/in.ftpd
# Replacement entry: ftp stream tcp nowait root /usr/local/sbin/ftpd -l
The replacement daemon will become effective after rebooting or sending (as root) a SIGHUP to inetd, e.g.:
# kill -HUP inetd
To configure xinetd, create an entry in /etc/xinetd.d per the instructions in the xinetd.conf manual page. Make sure, again, that the command-line arguments for ftpd are correct, and that you have installed the /etc/ftpusers and /etc/pam.d/ftp files. Then restart xinetd with the command: /etc/rc.d/init.d/xinetd restart. The command should report "OK," and the restart will be noted in the system message log.
A: In Linux 1.3.57 and later, the format of /proc/meminfo was changed in a way that the implementation of free doesn't understand.
Get the latest version, from metalab.unc.edu, in /pub/Linux/system/Status/ps/procps-0.99.tgz.
A: Netscape shouldn't crash, if it and the network are properly configured. Some things to check:
Make sure that the MOZILLA_HOME environment variable is correctly set. If you installed Netscape under /usr/local/netscape/, for example, that should be the value of MOZILLA_HOME. Set it from the command line (e.g, "export MOZILLA_HOME="/usr/local/netscape"" under bash or add it to one your personal or system initialization files. Refer to the manual page for your shell for details.
If you have a brand-new version of Netscape, try a previous version, in case the run-time libraries are slightly incompatible. For example, if Netscape version 4.75 is installed (type "netscape --version" at the shell prompt), try installing version 4.7. All versions are archived at ftp://ftp.netscape.com/.
Netscape uses its own Motif and Java Runtime Environment libraries. If a separate version of either is installed on your system, ensure that they aren't interfering with Netscape's libraries; e.g., by un-installing them.
Make sure that Netscape can connect to its default name servers. The program will appear to freeze and time out after several minutes if it can't. This indicates a problem with the system's Internet connection; likely, the system can't connect to other sites, either.
A: This applies to server daemons that respond to clients, but don't allow logins. On new systems that have Pluggable Authentication Modules installed, look for a file named, "ftp," or "telnet," in the directory /etc/pam/ or /etc/pam.d/. If the corresponding authentication file doesn't exist, the instructions for configuring FTP and Telnet authentication and other PAM configuration, should be in /usr/doc/pam-&version&. Refer also to the answer for FTP server says: "421 service not available, remote server has closed connection.".
If it's an FTP server on an older system, make sure that the account exists in /etc/passwd, especially anonymous.
This type of problem may also be caused a failure to resolve the host addresses properly, especially if using Reverse Address Resolution Protocol (RARP). The simple answer to this is to list all relevant host names and IP addresses in the /etc/hosts files on each machine. ( Refer to the example /etc/hosts and /etc/resolv.conf files in Sendmail Pauses for Up to a Minute at Each Command. If the network has an internal DNS, make sure that each host can resolve network addresses using it.
If the host machine doesn't respond to FTP or Telnet clients at all, then the server daemon is not installed correctly, or at all. Refer to the manual pages: inetd and inetd.conf on older systems, or xinetd and xinetd.conf, as well as ftpd, and telnetd.
A: This probably applies to most other browsers, too. In the Preferences/Navigator menu, set your home page to Netscape's bookmarks.html file, which is located in the .netscape (with a leading period) subdirectory. For example, if your login name is smith, set the home page to:
file://home/smith/.netscape/bookmarks.html
Setting up your personal home page like this will present you with a nicely formatted (albeit possibly long) page of bookmarks when Netscape starts. And the file is automatically updated whenever you add, delete, or visit a bookmarked site.
A: There are two clocks in your computer. The hardware (CMOS) clock runs even when the computer is turned off, and is used when the system starts up and by DOS (if you use DOS). The ordinary system time, shown and set by date, is maintained by the kernel while Linux is running.
You can display the CMOS clock time, or set either clock from the other, with /sbin/clock (now called hwclock in many distributions). Refer to: man 8 clock or man 8 hwclock.
There are various other programs that can correct either or both clocks for system drift or transfer time across the network. Some of them may already be installed on your system. Try looking for adjtimex (corrects for drift), Network Time Protocol clients like netdate, getdate, and xntp, or NTP client-server suite like chrony. Refer to How Do I Find a Particular Application?.
A: They aren't supposed to. This feature has been disabled in the Linux kernel on purpose, because setuid scripts are almost always a security hole. Sudo and SuidPerl can provide more security than setuid scripts or binaries, especially if execute permissions are limited to a certain user ID or group ID.
If you want to know why setuid scripts are a security hole, read the FAQ for news:comp.unix.questions.
A: The "free" figure printed by free doesn't include memory used as a disk buffer cacheshown in the buffers column. If you want to know how much memory is really free add the buffers amount to free. Newer versions of free print an extra line with this info.
The disk buffer cache tends to grow soon after starting Linux up. As you load more programs and use more files, the contents get cached. It will stabilize after a while.
A: This is a common symptom of a failure to cache the additional memory. The exact problem depends on your motherboard.
Sometimes you have to enable caching of certain regions in your BIOS setup. Look in the CMOS setup and see if there is an option to cache the new memory area which is currently switched off. This is apparently most common on a '486.
Sometimes the RAM has to be in certain sockets to be cached.
Sometimes you have to set jumpers to enable caching.
Some motherboards don't cache all of the RAM if you have more RAM per amount of cache than the hardware expects. Usually a full 256K cache will solve this problem.
If in doubt, check the manual. If you still can't fix it because the documentation is inadequate, you might like to post a message to news:comp.os.linux.hardware giving all of the details make, model number, date code, etc., so other Linux users can avoid it.
A: You are probably using non-shadow password programs and are using shadow passwords.
If so, you have to get or compile a shadow password version of the programs in question. The shadow password suite can be found at ftp://tsx-11.mit.edu/pub/linux/sources/usr.bin/shadow/. This is the source code. The binaries are probably in linux/binaries/usr.bin/.
A: You probably have the same problem as in Why Won't Some Programs (e.g., xdm) Allow Logins?, with an added wrinkle.
If you are using shadow passwords, you should put a letter x or an asterisk in the password field of /etc/passwd for each account, so that if a program doesn't know about the shadow passwords it won't think it's a passwordless account and let anyone in.
A: You may have too little real memory. If you have less RAM than all the programs you're running at once, Linux will swap to your hard disk instead and thrash horribly. The solution in this case is to not run so many things at once or buy more memory. You can also reclaim some memory by compiling and using a kernel with fewer options configured. See How To Upgrade/Recompile a Kernel.
You can tell how much memory and swap you're using with the free command, or by typing:
$ cat /proc/meminfo
If your kernel is configured with a RAM disk, this is probably wasted space and will cause things to go slowly. Use LILO or rdev to tell the kernel not to allocate a RAM disk (see the LILO documentation or type man rdev).
A: You probably have some permission problems, or you have a file /etc/nologin.
In the latter case, put rm -f /etc/nologin in your /etc/rc.local or /etc/rc.d/* scripts.
Otherwise, check the permissions on your shell, and any file names that appear in error messages, and also the directories that contain these files, up to and including the root directory.
A: You probably sent some binary data to your screen by mistake. Type echo 'c' to fix it. Many Linux distributions have a command, reset, that does this.
If that doesn't help, try a direct screen escape command: echo 'Ctrl-V Ctrl-O'.
This resets the default font of a Linux console. Remember to hold down the Control key and type the letter, instead of, for example, Ctrl, then V. The sequence Ctrl-V Esc C.
causes a full screen reset. If there's data left on the shell command line after typing a binary file, press Ctrl-C a few times to restore the shell command line.
Another possible command is an alias, sane, that can work with generic terminals:
$ alias sane='echo -e " c";tput is2;
> stty sane line 1 rows $LINES columns $COLUMNS'
The alias is enclosed with open quotes (backticks), not single quotes. The line break is included here for clarity, and is not required.
Make sure that $LINES and $COLUMNS are defined in the environment with a command similar to this in ~/.cshrc or ~/.bashrc,
$ LINES=25; export $LINES; $COLUMNS=80; export $COLUMNS
using the correct numbers of $LINES and $COLUMNS for the terminal.
Finally, the output of stty -g can be used to create a shell script that will reset the terminal:
Save the output of stty -g to a file. In this example, the file is named termset:
$ stty -g >termset
The output of stty -g (the contents of termset) will look something like:
500:5:bd:8a3b:3:1c:7f:15:4:0:1:0:11:13:1a:0:12:f:17:16:0:0:73
Edit termset to become a shell script; adding an interpreter and stty command:
#!/bin/bash stty 500:5:bd:8a3b:3:1c:7f:15:4:0:1:0:11:13:1a:0:12:f:17:16:0:0:73
Add executable permissions to termset and use as a shell script:
$ chmod +x termset $ ./termset
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A: You did create an emergency floppy (or floppies), right? Reboot from an emergency floppy or floppy pair. For example, the Slackware boot and root disk pair in the install subdirectory of the Slackware distribution.
A: There are also two, do-it-yourself rescue disk creation packages in ftp://metalab.unc.edu/pub/Linux/system/recovery/. These are better because they have your own kernel on them, so you don't run the risk of missing devices and file systems.
Get to a shell prompt and mount your hard disk with something like
$ mount -t ext2 /dev/hda1 /mnt
Then your file system is available under the directory /mnt and you can fix the problem. Remember to unmount your hard disk before rebooting (cd somewhere else first, or it will say it's busy).
Incorrectly editing any of the files in the /etc/directory can severely screw up a system. Please keep a spare copy of any files in case you make a mistake.
If your Linux distribution permits, try booting into single-user mode by typing single at the BOOT lilo: prompt. With more recent distributions, you can boot into single-user mode when prompted by typing linux 1, linux single, or init=/bin/bash.
If the above doesn't work for you, boot from the installation or rescue floppy, and switch to another virtual console with Alt-F1 -- Alt-F8, and then mount the root file system on /mnt. Then proceed with the steps below to determine if your system has standard or shadow passwords, and how to remove the password.
Using your favorite text editor, edit the root entry of the /etc/passwd file to remove the password, which is located between the first and second colons. '''Do this only if the password field does not contain an x, in which case see below.'''
root:Yhgew13xs:0:0: ...
Change that to:
root::0:0: ...
If the password field contains an x, then you must remove the password from the /etc/shadow file, which is in a similar format. Refer to the manual pages: man passwd, and man 5 shadow.
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A: No there isn't. You are obviously new to unices and need to read a good book to find out how things work. Clue: the ability to delete files depends on permission to write in that directory.
A: First make sure that your /dev/lp* port is correctly configured. Its IRQ (if any) and port address need to match the settings on the printer card. You should be able to dump a file directly to the printer:
$ cat the_file >/dev/lp1
If lpr gives you a message like myname@host: host not found" it may mean that the TCP/IP loopback interface, lo, isn't working properly. Loopback support is compiled into most distribution kernels. Check that the interface is configured with the ifconfig command. By Internet convention, the network number is 127.0.0.0, and the local host address is 127.0.0.1. If everything is configured correctly, you should be able to telnet to your own machine and get a login prompt.
Make sure that /etc/hosts.lpd contains the machine's host name.
If your machine has a network-aware lpd, like the one that comes with LPRng, make sure that /etc/lpd.perms is configured correctly.
Also look at the Printing HOWTO. "Where can I get the HOWTO's and other documentation? ".
A: There is a bug in the program clock (often found in /sbin). It miscounts a time zone offset, confusing seconds with minutes or something like that. Get a recent version.
A: To understand how you got into this state, see EXT2-fs: warning: mounting unchecked file system.
Remount it. If /etc/fstab is correct, you can simply type:
mount -n -o remount /
If /etc/fstab is wrong, you must give the device name and possibly the type, too: e.g.
mount -n -o remount -t ext2 /dev/hda2 /
A: None of the files in /proc are really therethey're all, "pretend," files made up by the kernel, to give you information about the system and don't take up any hard disk space.
/proc/kcore is like an "alias" for the memory in your computer. Its size is the same as the amount of RAM you have, and if you read it as a file, the kernel does memory reads.
A: The system call to format a floppy can only be done as root, regardless of the permissions of /dev/fd0*. If you want any user to be able to format a floppy, try getting the fdformat2 program. This works around the problems by being setuid to root.
A: The PCMCIA Card Services modules, which are located in /lib/modules/version/pcmcia, where version is the version number of the kernel, use configuration information that is specific to that kernel image only. The PCMCIA modules on your system will not work with a different kernel image. You need to upgrade the PCMCIA card modules when you upgrade the kernel.
When upgrading from older kernels, make sure that you have the most recent version of the run-time libraries, the modutils package, and so on. Refer to the file Documentation/Changes in the kernel source tree for details.
Important: If you use the PCMCIA Card Services, do not enable the Network device support/Pocket and portable adapters option of the kernel configuration menu, as this conflicts with the modules in Card Services.
Knowing the PCMCIA module dependencies of the old kernel is useful. You need to keep track of them. For example, if your PCMCIA card depends on the serial port character device being installed as a module for the old kernel, then you need to ensure that the serial module is available for the new kernel and PCMCIA modules as well.
The procedure described here is somewhat kludgey, but it is much easier than re-calculating module dependencies from scratch, and making sure the upgrade modules get loaded so that both the non-PCMCIA and PCMCIA are happy. Recent kernel releases contain a myriad of module options, too many to keep track of easily. These steps use the existing module dependencies as much as possible, instead of requiring you to calculate new ones.
However, this procedure does not take into account instances where module dependencies are incompatible from one kernel version to another. In these cases, you'll need to load the modules yourself with insmod, or adjust the module dependencies in the /etc/conf.modules file. The Documentation/modules.txt file in the kernel source tree contains a good description of how to use the kernel loadable modules and the module utilities like insmod, modprobe, and depmod. Modules.txt also contains a recommended procedure for determining which features to include in a resident kernel, and which to build as modules.
Essentially, you need to follow these steps when you install a new kernel.
Before building the new kernel, make a record with the lsmod command of the module dependencies that your system currently uses. For example, part of the lsmod output might look like this:
Module Pages Used by
memory_cs 2 0
ds 2 [memory_cs] 3
i82365 4 2
pcmcia_core 8 [memory_cs ds i82365] 3
sg 1 0
bsd_comp 1 0
ppp 5 [bsd_comp] 0
slhc 2 [ppp] 0
serial 8 0
psaux 1 0
lp 2 0
This tells you for example that the memory_cs module needs the ds and pcmcia_core modules loaded first. What it doesn't say is that, in order to avoid recalculating the module dependencies, you may also need to have the serial, lp, psaux, and other standard modules available to prevent errors when installing the pcmcia routines at boot time with insmod. A glance at the /etc/modules file will tell you what modules the system currently loads, and in what order. Save a copy of this file for future reference, until you have successfully installed the new kernel's modules. Also save the lsmod output to a file, for example, with the command: lsmod >lsmod.old-kernel.output.
Build the new kernel, and install the boot image, either zImage or bzImage, to a floppy diskette. To do this, change to the arch/i386/boot directory (substitute the correct architecture directory if you don't have an Intel machine), and, with a floppy in the diskette drive, execute the command:
$ dd if=bzImage of=/dev/fd0 bs=512
if you built the kernel with the make bzImage command, and if your floppy drive is /dev/fd0. This results in a bootable kernel image being written to the floppy, and allows you to try out the new kernel without replacing the existing one that LILO boots on the hard drive.
Boot the new kernel from the floppy to make sure that it works.
With the system running the new kernel, compile and install a current version of the PCMCIA Card Services package, available from metalab.unc.edu as well as other Linux archives. Before installing the Card Services utilities, change the names of /sbin/cardmgr and /sbin/cardctl to /sbin/cardmgr.old and /sbin/cardctl.old. The old versions of these utilities are not compatible with the replacement utilities that Card Services installs. In case something goes awry with the installation, the old utilities won't be overwritten, and you can revert to the older versions if necessary. When configuring Card Services with the make config command, make sure that the build scripts know where to locate the kernel configuration, either by using information from the running kernel, or telling the build process where the source tree of the new kernel is. The make config step should complete without errors. Installing the modules from the Card Services package places them in the directory /lib/modules/version/pcmcia, where version is the version number of the new kernel.
Reboot the system, and note which, if any, of the PCMCIA devices work. Also make sure that the non-PCMCIA hardware devices are working. It's likely that some or all of them won't work. Use lsmod to determine which modules the kernel loaded at boot time, and compare it with the module listing that the old kernel loaded, which you saved from the first step of the procedure. (If you didn't save a listing of the lsmod output, go back and reboot the old kernel, and make the listing now.)
When all modules are properly loaded, you can replace the old kernel image on the hard drive. This will most likely be the file pointed to by the /vmlinuz symlink. Remember to update the boot sector by running the lilo command after installing the new kernel image on the hard drive.
Also look at the questions, How do I upgrade/recompile my kernel? and Modprobe can't locate module, "XXX," and similar messages.
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Leewards Complete First Round Full House Against CCC
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ST. JOHN’S, Antigua – Leeward Islands broke a sequence of three matches without a win over against Combined Campuses & Colleges in the Regional 4-Day Tournament with a 72-run, come-from-behind victory on Tuesday.
Hayden Walsh Jr had 4 for 81.
Spin bowling all-rounder Hayden Walsh Jr, an attendee of the Sagicor West Indies High Performance Centre in the last year, grabbed 4-81 from 15 overs to trigger a CCC batting collapse, as they chased 262 for victory on the final day of their first round match at Warner Park in St. Kitts.
Gavin Tonge supported with 3-44 from 13 overs to flatten the top-order and leg-spinner Anthony Martin completed the demolition with a miserly 2-17 from 19 overs, as the Leewards ensured a full house of victories in the opening week of the Tournament.
The highlight of the match was the first hundred of the new term from Leewards wicketkeeper/batsman Jahmar Hamilton.
A graduate of the Sagicor WIHPC, he collected his second first-class hundred of 119 in the second innings to bring the home team back into the match and give them the inspiration to fight for a victory that has become quite rare.
It was the Leewards’ first victory over the CCC since they crushed them by 10 wickets four years ago at the Beausejour Cricket Ground in St. Lucia.
Jamaica continued their dominance of Guyana, when they started the Tournament with a resounding seven-wicket victory on home soil at Sabina Park.
Jahmar Hamilton scored 119.
The Jamaicans defied a seven-wicket, match performance from West Indies left-arm spinner Veerasammy Permaul to coast to victory before tea on the final day on Monday.
It was the home team’s seventh straight victory over the visitors and 12th in 21 matches since 2000 – a period during which the Guyanese have only been able to snare one victory eight years ago at Chedwin Park in the Jamaican district of Innswood.
Windward Islands were the first to the finish line, when they completed a confident nine-wicket victory inside three days over reigning champions Barbados on Sunday under the lights at Beausejour.
It was their third win in their last seven matches against the Barbadians and was set up by impressive fast bowling from Nelon Pascal and long-standing left-arm medium-fast bowler Kenroy Peters.
Pascal ended with match figures of 8-103 and Peters grabbed 7-45 in a contest ending before tea on the third day with Kraigg Brathwaite’s side demolished for 90 in their second innings – the third time in the last four matches between the two sides that Barbados had been dismissed for a total of less than 100.
The West Indies Cricket Board has also advised that the number of day/night matches to be contested in the Tournament has now been reduced from nine to six.
The third round contest between CCC and Barbados at the Three Ws Oval in Barbados, the sixth round match between Trinidad & Tobago and Jamaica at Queen’s Park Oval in Port of Spain, and the last round fixture between Leewards and the Barbadians at the Vivian Richards Cricket Ground in Antigua are all now scheduled to be day-time games, starting daily from 10 in the morning.
Antigua Leeward Islands Barbados Beausejour Cricket Ground Combined Campuses Colleges Gavin Tonge Guyana Jahmar Hamilton Jamaica Kenroy Peters Kraigg Brathwaite Nelon Pascal Park Oval Sabina Park Spain Trinidad Tobago Veerasammy Permaul Warner Park Windward Islands
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They found Jimmy James dead in his van on Rose Ave in Venice, CA about 10:30am today. Ibrahim said he first noticed something was wrong when he saw the van got a parking ticket on Monday. He said that wasn't like Jimmy to fail to move the van and allow himself to be ticketed like that. He became more concerned when he saw the ticket still on the van on Tuesday.
This morning he got Jimmy's friends Johnny and Joann and they went to investigate. They found Jimmy's body in the van and judging by the smell, he had probably been dead for some time. The last time anyone remembers seeing him was on Sunday night. They looked around for his cell phone so they could call a relative. Johnny said he use to call his mother every day. Then they called 911.
Jimmy's van in it's usual stop on Rose Coroner's van takes Jimmy away
Pictures above from YoVenice.com
Here's a link to the YoVenice story.
Ibrahim noticed the parking ticket Johnny & Joann who found Jimmy dead
Jimmy was 58 years old and we know that he was on medication for a heart condition. He was a sign painter who had painted many of the signs around Venice. Other than that, I can tell you little about him. Venice Neighborhood Council member Ivonne Guzman has just talked to well known Venice photographer Dave Healey who is sure he has pictures of Jimmy and will get them to me this evening when he returns to Venice. When I get them, I will post them here. Indigenous people use to believe the camera could steal your soul, I believe it can preserve your soul in the sense of presenting you after you've passed. I want you to see the man that died.
Ibrahim is preparing a Memorial, Venice Style, for Jimmy on the beach using a big white drum that Jimmy gave him as the centerpiece as I write this.
I never knew Jimmy very well, but his van regularly parked on Rose Ave just across from the Digital Domain studio a couple of blocks from my apartment. He parked along their fence because they didn't complain. Sometimes I would see him as I was walking down Rose, sitting in his van with the side door open. We would always greet each other and a few times actually said a few words but I don't believe I ever even got his name.
It is much too early for a coroner's report and we don't have a clue as to the cause of death, but because of the LAPD sweeps to arrest anyone caught living in their vehicles, Jimmy couldn't sit in there with the door open anymore. He had to stay couped up in that dark and airless van the way they found him. I can't help but wonder if that, together with the growing police harassment he was being subjected to, didn't contribute to his death.
Another Venice friend found out about Jimmy's death a harder way. She saw the tow truck towing Jimmy's van. She assumed it was simply a part of the campaign to rid Venice of the homeless [see yesterday's diary] and was first relieved when the tow truck driver told her that Jimmy hadn't been arrested. Did he know his van was being towed? He won't be needing his van, the tow truck driver told her. Oh. no she responded. Jimmy definitely needs his van. He won't be needing it, the tow truck driver said, because he's dead. When the women burst into tears, the driver then tried to comfort her.
Jimmy Jones with painting done by a local artist of his niece who died in a car accident. Photo by David Healey July 2010
Jimmy James lived in Venice for seventeen years. Rest in Peace Jimmy James
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Every Dog (Act) Has Its Day – An Interview With Playwright Liz Duffy Adams
by Karen Tortora-Lee on January 20, 2011 · 1 comment
in Interviews, Karen's Interviews, Manhattan, Off-Off-Broadway, Theatre
Liz Duffy Adams (photo by Joanna Eldredge Morrissey)
It’s no secret that as far as Theatre Ensembles go, Flux is one of my very favorites. Consistently turning out quality work that never fails to leave audiences utterly captivated and amazed, they set the off-off Broadway bar very high – only to sail over it with each successive production. I’m always expectant when I know a new Flux show is coming around because for me it means - as a reviewer as well as an audience member – a guaranteed great night of theatre.
Well, I won’t have to wait much longer to get my Flux Fix – because Liz Duffy Adams’ post-apocalyptic dark comedy, Dog Act, will be coming to the Flamboyan Theater (at the Clemente Solo Velez Cultural & Educational Center) on February 4th. Dog Act “follows Zetta Stone, a traveling performer, and her companion Dog (a young man undergoing a voluntary species demotion) as they walk through the wilderness of the former U.S.A. with their vaudeville troupe. They are heading toward a gig in China, if they can find it…and if they can survive to get there.” Sounds like nothing I’ve ever seen before – and exactly what I’ve come to expect from Flux!
In an interview with Liz Duffy Adams I was able to find out how this extraordinary play found this extraordinary ensemble; how she was able to make vaudeville and post apocalyptic themes mesh, and what undergoing a “voluntary species demotion” actually means . . .
Dog Act featuring Lori E. Parquet and Chris Wight (Photo by Isaiah Tanenbaum)
So many questions about Dog Act that I hardly know where to start! But first I’d like to talk a little bit about Flux. It’s no secret that I’m a big fan of Flux Ensemble and have been watching their progress for the past several years now. Tell me how you first came to collaborate with this group for Dog Act.
LDA: I met Gus [August Schulenburg - current Artistic Director of Flux] in 2002 at the Bay Area Playwrights Festival; he was there with his play RIDING THE BULL and I was there with DOG ACT. We stayed in touch, and when he told me recently that Flux wanted to produce DOG, I thought it would be a great fit.
Kelly O’Donnell is directing the piece – and she’s a very inventive and thoughtful director. How did her staging of the piece affect it? Were there any moments that changed because of her particular vision?
Oh, absolutely, I’m sure there will be many; we’re only half-way through rehearsals, so it’s a little hard to say specifically. I agree about Kelly being inventive and thoughtful; it’s been a joy to work with her. I’d say that her staging will bring out both the danger of the world and the comedy of the piece very vividly.
Dog Act is set in a post-apocalyptic world. I’m personally always curious about the idea of setting something in a post-apocalyptic world – what was your main reason for putting your play in (what I would expect) is the future? Is there any way it could exist now?
I don’t think this story could exist in the present; I think it’s inseparable from the setting. I tend to go to the future or the past for theatrical settings. For one thing, I like obliqueness of approach; talking about the present through the past or future takes it off “the nose.” Also, I love heightened theatrical language – one of the things I had the most pleasure with in writing DOG was the freedom to invent future dialects; how the different tribes of the play talk, and what that tells us about them.
I also love the idea of juxtaposing vaudeville – a very old-fashioned notion - with post apocalypse . . . a very futuristic idea. What made you join these two together?
One thing I’m always interested in is the cyclical nature of human history (something my last play, OR, addressed pretty directly in a very different way); the way certain historical moments repeat and echo through the ages. The “vaudeville” in this play is an expansive notion inspired by traveling players from ancient Greece to medieval Europe up through American vaudeville troupes of the early-21st-century, to name just three incarnations. And then I love post-apocalyptic stories, I love stories about how people recreate social/political systems and civilization in the midst of catastrophe, and protect human culture through the darkest of times. So having the central characters be performers who are the sole source of art in a very dark future seemed exciting to me, and potentially theatrical.
Dog Act is about Zetta Stone (LOVE that name) and her companion who is ”undergoing a voluntary species demotion”. I’m positive this is the first I’ve ever heard of any play, story, or writing of any kind that deals with a species demotion. What exactly is that?
The character Dog is a young man who has chosen, for reasons that become clear in the play, to live as a dog; specifically a working dog: a life of humble, loyal service. In the world of the play, where real dogs are scarce, this is a thing you can do.
Without giving away too much of the plot – what is your favorite moment of the play?
That’s a hard question! Well, I have a particular fondness for the play-within-the-play in Act 2, which includes a debased variation of the classic Abbott and Costello routine, “Who’s on First?” DOG ACT won the Will Glickman Award when it was first produced in San Francisco, and it turns out that Glickman (who was a playwright and screenwriter) wrote that routine for Abbott and Costello. So that pretty much blew my mind.
Wow! That’s amazing – I can’t even imagine what something like that must be like. Talk about “meant to be”!
Dog Act is a “dark comedy”. Is that because, as you wrote about a dark topic you were able to find the hidden humor in it, or is this a comedy that just happens to be set during a dark time?
Maybe both. I find that humor tends to enter into my work whatever I do, so I usually think about other things and let the humor take care of itself. In this case I wanted to tell a certain kind of story, set in a dark, dangerous, perilous world, and – since it was partly about theater itself – let it be as ridiculously funny as it wanted to be. If that makes sense.
What is the one theme that you hope resonates the most with audiences who come to see Dog Act?
I hope people in the audience will have a fabulous time, get caught up in the story, feel transported in that theatrical way of being on a wild ride together, and maybe find themselves thinking about the burdens of history, forgiveness, and what it means to be human.
I hope you’re all as excited as I am to see Dog Act! Check back to see my review in a few weeks.
Dog Act
By Liz Duffy Adams
Directed by Kelly O’Donnell
Flamboyan Theater
CSV Cultural and Educational Center
107 Suffolk Street New York, NY 10002
between Rivington and Delancey
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Xipamanine and Xiquelen: Biodiversity, Traditional Medicines, and Charcoal in Maputo Markets
24 September 2012. After our unsuccessful attempt to find the medicinal plants market in Phuza, near Ponta do Ouro (see The Map Is Not the Territory blog), the forest expert on our assessment team, Mario Falcão, promised to take me to Xipamanine Market in Maputo, which has a large section of traditional medicine sellers, supposedly the largest in Mozambique. Finding parking near the sprawling market was an adventure in itself. Once inside we wound our way through the narrow crowded passages looking for the medicinal plants area. Falcão had been here before and was navigating by feel: we passed sections of tea, beans, peppers, manioc, vegetables, rice; hurried past the nearly overpowering smells of stalls selling unrefrigerated chicken, fish, and beef; fought our way through the throngs shopping for cosmetics, shoes, underwear, CDs, DVDs, cell phones. Finally Falcão had to ask a teenage boy for orientation, who pointed “that way,” and at last we found the traditional medicine sellers.
Traditional medicines at Xipamanine Market
But oh! What dark secrets here! Stacks of roots, twigs, and sections of branches were piled up from the floor at each of the dozens of tiny stalls. On top of the stacks of roots and sticks were giant tubers like cancerous basketballs, huge blades from green spiny aloes, dried pufferfish and starfish, lumps of coral, bowls of mica, rocks, and a yellow amber-like resin, hard as plastic. Behind these displays were rows of jars of ground powders of all hues, mostly a spectrum of browns, but with some weird blues and purples mixed in. At one of the stands there were hanging strips of unknown fur with long black hair; a dried mummy of a brown eagle, trussed with leather thongs; the shell of a chambered nautilus; gourds of various shapes and sizes. At another the skin of a serval or other small spotted cat.
About 10% of the 5,700 plant species found in Mozambique are used in traditional medicines. According to a study of traditional medicinal plants in which Falcão was involved, “Traders sold an average of 27±12.5 plant products. Roots constituted more than 50 % of the products sold from 99 different species, of which 51 were identified. Half of the identified species were tree species.” This is biodiversity at work, and the conservation of forests and other natural habitats where this wild pharmacopoeia grows will allow local people to continue to benefit from these traditional medicines. But the economic and health importance of traditional medicine at household and individual levels is not well understood. Not surprisingly, there is a huge communication gap between practitioners of traditional and modern medicine. This gap will have to be closed to design appropriate health policies in a country like Mozambique, not to mention conservation strategies for the traditional medicinal plant biodiversity of the country.
Some of these plants may be overharvested, a botanist from the Universidade Eduardo Mondlane told us, and the ecology and population status of these medicinal plants needs to be studied in areas where they are traditionally gathered. The Licuáti Forest near Ponta do Ouro, where we tried to find the medicinal plants market, and the Potoni Forest near Angoche, in Nampula Province, where we went a week later, are some of these traditional medicinal plant harvesting areas. Slow-growing species with limited distribution and high demand, such as Warburgia salutaris, are nationally endangered.
Characterizing the chemical compounds in these traditional medicinal plants is a first step in pharmacological “prospecting” for potentially valuable drugs, but it is just beginning in Mozambique. Warburgia salutaris, sometimes called the Pepper Bark Tree, is used by the Maasai of Tanzania and Kenya to treat malaria. Its bark is also used as a snuff or smoked for respiratory complaints such as colds and coughs. Chemical compounds called furans and furanones isolated from the bark of this tree have been tested and have showed antimicrobial activity.
As indicated by the pufferfish, coral, fur, and mummified eagle, plants weren’t the only wild medicines used by traditional healers. One of Falcao’s students had studied the use of animal species in traditional medicine for his thesis, and found that in addition to their plant products vendors were selling an average of 13 species of animals as medicines, including terrestrial, marine, and domestic species. Some of the animals being sold were threatened and endangered species, so their harvest for medicinal uses may represent a conservation threat, as is the case for some plants.
After Xipamanine, Falcão also wanted to show me the charcoal market at Xiquelen, in another suburb of Maputo. Xipamanine, Xiquelen – these “X” names reminded me of Aztec words, and seemed so exotic. “X” is pronounced “sh” in Portuguese. When I described going into a market in Oaxaca, Mexico, to find the traditional medicine sellers in an area that had a similar feeling of dark mysteries as in Xipamanine, Falcão asked me how “Meshico” compared with Mozambique.
That conversation occupied us as we fought our way through traffic-clogged streets, sweating in the unairconditioned vehicle on a hot sunny morning. At Xiquelen, parking was easier, because the charcoal market was on the outskirts of the main market. At least a dozen sellers had large depots of charcoal in reused rice bags, like we had seen for sale on the roads leading back to Maputo from Ponta do Ouro. Falcão soon engaged a physically-substantial young woman toting a tiny baby, one of the charcoal brokers, in conversation. All of these charcoal brokers are women – apparently because their customers are also women, the cooks for the family. And so women do the business both of buying and selling the fuel for cooking. Her charcoal was for sale at a price of 900 Mozambican metacais per bag – about US $31 – each bag weighing about 75 kilograms, or around 165 pounds. The woman told Falcão that she buys charcoal from producers in areas ranging from 200 to 500 kilometers from Maputo – roughly 125 to 300 miles away – where the producers are selling it for 200 metacais per bag. That was the price of the bags we saw for sale on the road from Ponta do Ouro. Transportation costs account for a big part of the price markup.
Mario Falcão talking to a charcoal seller, Xiquelen Market
Falcão has been involved in many studies of the charcoal economy. In one study of charcoal production areas near Maputo, he reported that “… it is estimated that 75% urban households use charcoal (and all poor urban households use it) for cooking, about 50% use charcoal for heating water for bathing and water for drinking, and 70% use charcoal for heating in cold season. There is a kind of ladder of energy sources in the urban areas: from fuelwood at the bottom, through charcoal, kerosene and gas, to electricity at the top. People generally climb this ladder as their income increases. Therefore charcoal, which is hardly used in the rural areas because of availability of free wood, is quite popular in urban areas because of higher income and other factors such as its lightness and non-smoking nature.” Charcoal is a significant enterprise in a country where the average person’s share of the Gross Domestic Product is around $1,000 a year: “In Mozambique about 150,000 families are employed in charcoal production and on average the annual income generated is about US$250-300 per family.”
Charcoal for sale on the road from Ponta do Ouro to Maputo
These visits to Xipapanine and Xiquelen highlighted some interesting aspects of the value of biodiversity, the multitude of species that make up ecosystems. One person we interviewed used the image of a “flow of biodiversity,” in which the valuable wild species from the country’s ecosystems are harvested and move along transportation lines to the points of use, the population centers, the cities. This was a new idea to me: a “biodiversity-shed” – something like a watershed is for water. Here, in Maputo, at Xipamanine and Xiquelen, Falcão was showing me the focal points of the biodiversity collection networks for medicinal plants and for the tree species that are used for charcoal. Around a hundred species of wild plants and a dozen species of animals converge here in the traditional medicines market, and around thirty species of trees produce charcoal to cook the meals of the majority of Maputo residents.
Is this a threat to biodiversity? Or a good thing? It is a good thing if the people using these resources recognize their value, want to conserve them, and also have help from government policies and laws to do so. But it is “bad” – dangerous and unsustainable, that is – if the users don’t understand that these ecosystem products are not free and limitless, and don’t understand that they need to be managed and conserved so they can be used sustainably far into the future.
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