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Victoria University has been contracting its laundry services to Arohata Prison, a women's prison in Tawa, whose inmates are paid between 20 and 60 cents per hour for their work.
Prisoners who work in the laundry clean linen, bath mats, pillowcases, sheets and towels for Victoria University's Campus Services, Human Resources and Weir House.
Women who work at Arohata can be employed in the kitchen, laundry, textiles, asset maintenance and ground maintenance sectors. Their pay is typical of working prisoners in New Zealand.
The Department of Corrections has held the contract for the past 11 years. The University does not pay the prisoners directly, but pays a fee per item to Corrections, which then distributes pay to the prisoners.
A spokesperson for Victoria University told Salient that Arohata Prison, as opposed to a regular laundry service, is used because the Department of Corrections "provides a very good service".
Prisoners in New Zealand are encouraged to spend 40 hours each week in rehabilitation, education and training, and work as part of the Government's working prison strategy. The Government intends for all New Zealand prisons to be working prisons by 2017 as part of their goal to reduce reoffending by 25 per cent.
While at Arohata Prison, those who are able to work can gain qualifications including National Certificates in Cookery, Laundry Washroom Procedures, Painting and Decorating, Horticulture and Textiles Manufacture. In the year ending 30 June 2014, 3,801 prisoners across New Zealand achieved 3,858 qualifications.
Helen Kelly, head of Council of Trade Unions (CTU), told Salient that the work programme at Arohata would not realistically lead to employment for inmates, and the women are not paid fairly.
Kelly said the CTU supports working prisons, but only when the conditions are right. For the CTU this means that the work is not undermining the market, that those doing the work are paid properly, and that the work includes "an element of real training that will lead to real work".
"They should at least earn minimum wage and that can be put into a bank account and be used to pay for study or for training. Everyone that's contributing through their labour should be paid the minimum wage," Kelly said.
"Victoria University shouldn't be exploiting the labour of these women in that way. There's not going to be work in laundry for when these women [are released], and it will be undermining other laundry service workers."
CTU would like those using prison services to pay market rates for the work.
"We think there should be a market price paid for it by the person who is benefitting from the labour… and we think that would stop them doing it simply because it's cheap."
The University refused to confirm the value of its contract with Corrections or whether it paid market rates for the services, claiming that the information was "commercially sensitive".
John Pratt, Head of the Institute of Criminology at Victoria, supports the University's use of the prison laundry service.
Pratt said it was "patronising" to suggest that the work would not teach inmates marketable skills.
He said the work would impart productive habits and increase prisoners' employment opportunities in dry cleaning organisations or laundries upon their release.
"They are likely to have such poor work records and such limited educational backgrounds that their opportunities for employment are very, very small at best in most cases. If this does something to improve those chances then it's a valuable skill."
However, Pratt is concerned that prisoners are paid "absolutely minimal" wages for their work in New Zealand and would like all prisoners to be paid the going rate for their labour.
"Prisoners have always been paid remarkably little in this country as it's thought they shouldn't make a profit from their crime," he said. "They have to be disadvantaged and inconvenienced or made to suffer in some demonstrable way."
Pratt believes this is a key problem within the New Zealand prison system, and compared our system to that of the Scandinavian countries where prisoners often earn the going rate for their labour, with necessary deductions being made for their board, food, fines and child support.
If a similar system could be implemented in New Zealand, Pratt says prisoners would be "able to take some sort of responsibility for the development of their lives".
"If you're only being paid 20 or 60 cents an hour then you're going to feel pretty worthless, you're going to feel ripped off, and you are still not able to assume any great responsibility over the course of your life, because ultimately the state is there."
Dr Stephen Burnell, a senior economics lecturer at Victoria, says that if the University paid lower prices for the prison services then other laundry businesses would suffer.
"If prison industries charge lower prices, that would impair the working of the free market. The prison would be contracted rather than other firms, so it would stifle employment opportunities in Wellington.
"Competing laundries will not like the prison laundry, as it undercuts their commercial activities."
However, Burnell did not take issue with prisoners receiving low wages as they "have a debt to society".
John Weeds, operator of commercial laundry service Executive Laundry, is concerned about the competition from Corrections for his business.
"We do not support any government funded organisation competing with the private sector. The private sector has to pay real costs for capital and operating costs, whereas government funded organisations do not. Therefore there is not a level playing field," Weeds said.
"It is not just business opportunities that are impacted on. By competing with unreal costs they impact on the entire market. It could have the direct effect of taking real jobs within the community."
Although Weeds thinks it is valuable for prisoners to gain work experience, he is concerned that their work should "be conducted with the industries and not against them".
His business has employed prisoners as part of the government's Release to Work scheme, and has hired some of these people upon their release from prison.
In the Release to Work scheme, prisoners nearing the end of their sentences are able to spend time working in the private sector to increase their likelihood of employment upon their release.
While employed under this scheme, prisoners are paid market wages for their work and then deductions are made for child support, board, fines and work-related expenses such as travel and equipment.
Kim Workman, founder of lobby group Rethinking Crime and Punishment, told Salient that in his experience, "there are very few able prisoners who would not grab at the opportunity to work, or engage in constructive activity. Those that are part of the small group getting qualifications while in prison will grab that with both hands."
He feels that the most pressing problem comes when prisoners want to find a job on leaving prison, as "employers will not touch [people] with a prison background".


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Yogurt Brûlée with Winter Fruit
Yogurt and winter fruit like grapefruit, kiwi and clementines topped with a lid of caramelized sugar makes a bright and delicious start to any day.
While it's true that summer fruit reigns supreme, winter certainly has a nose in the game.
Clementines, tangerines, tangelos, lemons, meyer lemons, oranges, blood oranges, and grapefruit. Plus plenty of other fruits with winter growing seasons, like kiwi, pineapple and mangoes.
Winter is not just a dead zone to be endured!
I first tried brûléed yogurt a few years ago with this recipe, strawberry-yogurt brûlée, and it blew my mind. So simple— just 4 ingredients— and so delicious! Like crème brûlée for breakfast. Who wouldn't love that?
I couldn't wait for strawberry season to roll around and so I decided to give it a try with my favorite winter combo of grapefruit, clementines, and kiwi. Simply fabulous. And so sunny and bright!
This, this right here is how you beat the winter blues.
Yogurt Brulee with Winter Fruit
- 2 cups (455 grams) plain whole-fat yogurt, greek or regular
- 1-2 tablespoons honey
- 1 cup (125 grams) sliced oranges, grapefruit, kiwi, etc.
- 2 tablespoons (25 grams) sugar
- Combine the yogurt with honey to desired sweetness. Stir in half of the fruit. Spoon mixture into 4 small ramekins and top with remaining fruit.
- Sprinkle with the sugar and caramelize with a kitchen torch. Since yogurt and fruit are quite wet, you may need to do 2-3 layers of sugar and torching to achieve visible caramelization.
- Serve immediately as is or top with granola.
- It's best to work quickly with one ramekin at a time, sprinkling each individually with sugar and caramelizing before moving on to the next one. Letting the sugar sit too long on the yogurt mixture will release liquid which can inhibit caramelization.
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Butternut Squash, Carrot and Orange Detox Soup by Vintage Mixer
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Blood Orange Brûlée Upside Down Cake by Suitcase Foodist
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It's a sad fact that if you are prepared to stand up for what you believe in you will get attacked. Not just a debating of your views, which one must expect, but personal attacks. These are all the more vicious if you are female: women's voices are not heard easily. (See Mary Beard on this – Do You Listen to Women?)
The actor, Emma Watson, has been experiencing this lately. She has spoken up for gender equality in a speech to the UN. Everyone, of course, has the right to disagree with her views. She went out of her way to say feminism and gender equality is not about men hating and talked of the impact of inequality on men and young boys too. That hasn't stopped her being the target of much on line abuse.
Which is why I'm writing this post. Emma, thank you for taking this stance. I am sorry and appalled that you have been subjected to the type of misogynist abuse which rather proves your point. This is my humble attempt to redress some of the balance. There are many more 'silent' supporters of your views than detractors. We support you and applaud you.
'Harry Potter girl', you are doing something very valuable, please keep speaking out about gender equalities and lang may yer lum reek!
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Childbirth Issues - Lack of Good Medicated Childbirth Advice
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Tuesday, March 13, 2007I was thinking this week about my post on the lack of good information for moms that end up exclusively pumping. My biggest frustration with that wasn't just that there was a lack of information but that there seemed to be a lack of information because no one CARED about helping those moms. I could never help but shake the feeling that many people were secretly thinking "well it's nice that you're giving your kid breast milk, but you should have tried harder to make nursing work."
Now I'm well aware that that's MY issue...I'm sure it was the minority that thought that way, but I'm interested in how I see that type of attitude carry over to childbirth issues as well.
I host the Childbirth Choices Debate board over at BabyCenter and I do a lot of reading on natural childbirth, home birth and so on. While I don't know that it's intention, I see a lot of "all or nothing" attitude in that realm as well and it disappoints me.
Here's what I mean by that...
When I see a post by a mom talking about their first birth experience and how disappointing it was or I read a post from a mother that's pregnant and is running into problems with her caregiver, I'm often astounded at the response. Generally, the response boils down to "you should have a home birth, that will solve all of your problems" or "you need a midwife, that will solve all of your problems" or "plan for an unmedicated birth, that will solve all of your problems."
If a mom jumps on any of those three ideas, advice and support literally rains down on them as people share detailed information about how to get the birth they want, what studies support low-intervention birth, where to find a low-cost or even free doula and so on.
This is fantastic! I'm one of the first to ask people if they've ever considered using a midwife or having a baby at home. After all, that's how I "solved" the issues of my first birth when I wanted to make sure that they didn't happen a second time.
However, I also realize that home birth and even unmedicated birth isn't for everyone. Believe it or not, there are moms (and good ones too) that educate themselves on the risks and decide that they would like to have pain relief or that they would like their baby to be born in a hospital. No, they aren't crazy or deluded, they're just exercising their own choices. Homebirthers (myself included) spend a lot of time explaining that mom will progress much more easily in an environment where she feels comfortable. Well, guess what? Some women feel more comfortable having a baby in the hospital than they do at home. Yes, even when they know that home is just as safe.
The issue here is that once we find out a mom is planning a hospital birth and (gasp!) is using an OB instead of a midwife and (bigger gasp) might want to have the option of medical pain relief, we tend to just say "good luck" and leave it at that.
There's very little info from the educated childbirth community about how to have the BEST medicated birth possible. In other words, many childbirth advocates sort of act like if you plan to have a medicated birth, you kind of deserve whatever you get.
This bothers me. The same way that the subtle attitude against exclusively pumping from some breastfeeding moms bothered me.
So, I'd like that address that in this thread. I'd like to share some tips and suggestions for "medical mamas" on how to have the best birth possible and I hope that my readers would kick in their own suggestions. Let's go against the flow and realize that moms that choose to have pain relief during their labors also deserve to know how to avoid the problems that can come with that cascade of interventions.
My tips to medical mamas...
1.) Make sure that your health care provider is on the same page as you. Just because you plan on having an epidural doesn't mean that you want the whole intervention combo platter. Educate yourself about the various interventions and talk honestly with your doctor to find out when they use them and why they use them. Don't be afraid to switch providers to find someone that shares your philosophies of birth.
2.) Check out your hospital before the birth. Find out what their intervention rates are, what their c-section rates are, what their pre-birth and post-partum policies are. Is there an IBCLC on staff? How quickly can you have access to her? Basically, know what you're getting into and if you have a choice between hospitals, pick the one that best shares your philosophies of birth.
3.) If you plan on having medical pain relief, opt for the epidural instead of IV narcotics. While IV narcotics have the benefit of allowing you to be more mobile in labor, they carry greater risks for both you and your baby. If you do choose to have IV narcotics, find out which ones your doctor prefers to use and do your research on the possible side effects to you and the baby.
4.) Consider signing up for a natural childbirth class so that you can learn coping techniques. Even if you plan on having an epidural, the longer you can delay it, the less chance that you'll have the cascade of interventions and the less chance of harm coming to you or your baby. You may even find that the coping techniques work well enough that you don't want pain relief. Also, realize that 25% of epidurals do not give full pain relief...having some backup techniques can make that situation much more bearable.
5.) Refuse an IV until shortly before you get your epidural. Some women will labor for hours before they feel the need to have pain relief. While you do need to have your IV long enough to get some fluids before getting your epidural, you do NOT need to have it in for your entire early labor. In fact, having the IV in place can inhibit your mobility plus the longer it's in, the more fluids that will flood into your system. An overload of IV fluids can cause blood sugar issues for both you and your baby and can also cause edema which can significantly impact your breastfeeding abilities in the early days.
6.) Avoid induction unless there is a medical reason for it. Inductions carry increased risks to both mother and baby and mothers need to be aware of when the risk of baby staying in is greater than of being induced. Suspected big baby, being between 40 and 42 weeks and your doctor going on vacation are NOT medical reasons for induction. ;) If you do get induced, ask for a "long" induction using cervical ripening agents and then the absolute lowest doses of pitocin. Avoid Cytotec inductions like the plague.
7.) Try to push in an upright or side-lying position. Even if you have an epidural, most women can be assisted into upright positions that take the pressure off of their tail bone and that keep them from pushing against gravity. Pushing on your back with your knees shoved into your chest not only closes the pelvic outlet by 30%, it also greatly increases your risk of having a bad tear.
8.) Avoid an episiotomy unless baby is in distress. Episiotomies are not only unnecessary in 99.9% of moms, they also greatly increase your risk of having a third or fourth degree tear. Read up on episiotimies and make sure that your health care provider is on the same page as you and rarely does them.
9.) Get a doula. There's a common misconception that doulas are only for moms that plan to have a natural birth. While it's true that most doulas really enjoy helping a mom achieve the goal of NCB, most doula have the primary concern of helping mom have a good birth. Be honest with your doula upfront about your desire to have medical pain relief and find one that you can work with that has experience supporting medicated mothers. (As a mom that had an epidural with my first after a failed NCB attempt, I can attest that a doula would have been VERY handy.)
There are more, but that's all I've got off the top of my head. I'd also love to hear any advice from c-section moms on how to have the best c-section experience possible. Not everyone can or wants to have a natural birth at home, that doesn't mean that they don't deserve to have the best shot at a good birth.
What advice do you have to add?
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The bund was originally designed as a vertical reinforced earth structure with a concrete panel facing. Phi Group design and install such systems but quickly identified that this would have required the importing of vast quantities of granular material to form the reinforced soil block, whilst also increasing the amount of material that would have to be removed from site. Through discussions with VolkerFitzpatrick, Phi Group quickly realised that the key aspect of making the project viable from an economic perspective, was forming the bund using material won from site excavations, thus limiting importing of material and cart away costs.
The material on site was mostly over-consolidated medium to high plasticity Lias CLAY material. This material typically has low phi values, high moisture content and high plasticity. This makes it largely unsuitable for use as reinforced soil fill material. When considering whether site won material can be used within reinforced earth designs, additional testing is recommended. Moisture content and ability to compact the material adequately are very important.
To make the site won Lias CLAY suitable for use within the reinforced soil bund, Phi Group and VolkerFitzpatrick proposed the use of Lime Stabilisation techniques to improve the parameters of the Lias CLAY. Lime is introduced to the CLAY material on site and mixed by using large rotavators. The introduction of the Lime reduces the moisture content of the CLAY material and improves it strength characteristics. This makes it both better from a design perspective, but also makes it easier to work with and compact. This is essential in the design and installation of reinforced soil structures as the material is compacted in layers around the geogrid reinforcement. VolkerFitzpatrick used and adjacent field as their treatment area, where the excavated material was prepared. The material was then delivered to our working area for use within the bund. Prior to this Lime stabilised material being delivered to us, Ground Granulated Blast Furnace Slag (GGBS) was also added to the material. This acts as a cement substitute and hardens the material further. It acts slowly, but does mean that once it is added the treated material has to be used within 72 hours. The success of the project was very much dependant on this lime stabilised material being treated and delivered to us in sufficient quantities for us to meet the agreed programme. At full speed we would place and compact up to 5,000m3 of this material per week. Each layer of this material was tested for moisture content and compaction to ensure quality was maintained. Both the treatment and use of this lime stabilised material is very weather dependent. If rain was expected then there was no use in treating the material as when it gets wet it reverts back to its original state.
As the lime stabilisation increased the pH level significantly, a geogrid that was capable of withstanding these high pH levels was required. In the short term the pH levels were increased to 12.5, but reduced to 11 after just 48 hours. At maximum height the length of the geogrid reinforcement extended 13m from the face of the Textomur structure.
Typically vertical structures such as the modular block or concrete panel reinforced earth systems, do not lend themselves well to the use of this cohesive material, and thus require the importing of huge quantities of 6I/6J granular material. This obviously would increase the cost of building the bund, but also increases the amount of vehicle movements to and from site. Therefore Phi Group proposed the use of their Textomur system, installed at an angle of 70o. From initial drawing work and designs, it became apparent that there was enough room to accommodate the 70o angle. This system has a galvanised steel mesh panel that forms the front face, and was also widely used on the Olympics. It has 120 year design life and is maintenance free. The front face of the Textomur panel is then filled with a gabion stone to provide a gabion style finish. The majority of the facing stone came from an existing concrete service yard on site that was removed and crushed to the required size.
Structures Completed
1.Intermodal Wall retaining railway and loading yard
70o Textomur wall 9.0m high x 800m long Face Area 4,075m2
2.Railway wall acting as visual and acoustic barrier to loading yard
70o Textomur wall 5.0m high x 800m long Face Area 2,245m2
3.Landscape wall retaining base of the west side of the embankment
45o wraparound reinforced earth slope 5.0m high x 800m long Face Area 2,845m2
4.Car park retaining wall
Andacrib concrete crib wall 3.50m high x 300m long Face Area 970m2
5.A428 Bridge abutment Wing Walls
4 No Concrete Panel reinforced earth structures up to 6.50m high Face Area 935m2
Programme: 10 Months
In addition to the 70o Textomur Intermodal and Railway walls, Phi also installed several other retaining structures on site.
There are 4 no. concrete panel reinforced earth structures acting as wing walls for the bridge abutments of the new railway bridge over the A428. These concrete panel faced structures used polymer straps for the reinforcing elements.
Almost 3,000m2 of wraparound reinforced earth embankment (landscape Wall) was installed on site on the west side on the new bund. This was to create a vegetated green face to screen the site from new developments on the adjacent land. Again, the same re-engineered fill material was used.
Finally we designed, supplied and installed one of our Andacrib concrete crib retaining walls. This wall is supporting the new staff car park. Staff will enter the new warehouse via a link bridge. The Andacrib system has a design life of 120 years and is designed to EC7 & EC2. Quick to construct and maintenance free the system is far more cost effective compared to traditional retaining walls.
High Health & Safety Standards
Keller have successfully implemented a number of Director Safety Tours, where company directors visit site to specifically review safety on site. These visits also apply for colleagues from other Keller Companies within EMEA. As always, Health and Safety on site is a priority for both us and VolkerFitzpatrick. Phi Group operatives were commended for their pro-active approach to Health and Safety on this project. Any feedback from these tours is given first hand by the Director involved and then relayed to all operatives on site through the daily briefings.
Keller also have a Health & Safety Award Scheme that recognises outstanding contributions made by operatives specifically in the field of Health & Safety. Following good feedback from Directors, Health & Safety Managers or directly from the Client, rewards are given. This reinforces the Keller 'Think Safe' campaign, where our Operatives are encouraged to think about Health & Safety, raise concerns and recommend how things can be improved.


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NEET in Trekking
In partnership with: Associazione WARROLS
Breaking down the barriers that stop vulnerable young people from achieving their full potential, while building up sustainable, accessible tourism products that safeguard and promote the Itrian Valley's outstanding natural heritage.
You may have the universe, if I may have Italy. Giuseppe Verde's love for Italy is shared by the millions of tourists who visit its iconic attractions every year. Many of the hidden beauties are also being explored, although other equally striking parts of the country –the Itrian valley for example, the rolling, limestone plateau, criss-crossed with dry-stone walls and quaint cone-shaped trulli houses – are not being fully exploited.
The Barsento nature reserve, a designated protected site in the valley since 1986, offers dense woodland, timeless rural landscapes, and breath-taking geological phenomenon but the local population does not recognize its worth and local authorities have not invested in it. It lacks proper signage or mapped trails to make it more accessible and those who do come to walk are often greeted with the unappealing consequences of fly-tipping and poorly managed environmental services.
A Mayan prophecy called this rolling valley the safest place on earth. Unfortunately, it is no longer that for the many young people living there. Youth unemployment and migration are far higher than the national average, 33.1% are NEET (not in employment, education or training). There is also a 70% higher risk of people from immigration, disabled or disadvantaged backgrounds becoming NEET. Dropping out of education leaves a gaping hole in career pathways and isolation from the labour market;
unemployment leads to loss of self-esteem, poverty, depression and disengagement. These are alarming issues and they need to be addressed with system-wide actions that facilitate youth enterprise and invest in the lost potential of Puglia's most prolific economic sector: tourism.
NEET in Trekking aims to propel 25 young Italians who are neither employed, job-seeking or in full-time study back into education, work and society. From studying ecology and biodiversity, trekking and Nordic walking, to surveying the landscape and cleaning up trails, the project will invest in their abilities and offer five of them the opportunity to deploy their enterprise-building abilities in a start-up with the real-life task of safeguarding local heritage and running new accessible excursion products.
Warrols connects young people to an expert and multi-disciplinary support team and business enterprise professionals that will guide them through selection, orientation, practice in the field and launching a start-up.
To begin with, it works with local social services, the "Garanzia Giovani" programme and a public recruitment programme to select twenty-five young NEETs who would benefit the most from the opportunity.
Once inducted, they receive training to build their confidence and knowledge in a variety of pertinent fields – from ecology and biodiversity to path mapping, trekking and accessibility – to give them transferable skills for real-life career challenges. A monthly allowance will be paid as they study, and a certificate issued on completion to attest skills obtained.
The knowledge gained is then used to study the valley and rate its trails, the findings collated into a publishable report. On the strength of this assessment, action needed to protect the woodland and landscapes is identified and groups organised to make at least fifteen trails more accessible and attractive to a wider range of tourists, including the disabled, the elderly and children. To facilitate this, all debris and obstructions is removed, the trails physically marked out using red and white signage then plotted manually on paper charts and via GPS mapping.
Up to five individuals will then transfer this information to a publishable format for distribution to tourists and promoted on a dedicated website. For each path, cartographic information, a detailed description, the level of difficulty, and degree of accessibility will be indicated along with the GPS route.
To conclude, test trekking events – organised and led by the young NEETs – will invite mainly over 65s, children, people with disabilities and local residents and tourists to use the new trails.


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The Moulton Divan is a premium divan range, available as a divan, adjustable, or a manual/electric ottoman. It comes with a choice of 3 headboards and 3 beautiful tweed fabrics. The Moulton Divan can provide a practical storage solution for spare bed linens and other lightweight items with its dovetail-jointed detail. This divan range will complement any bedroom. Coupled with a mattress from the Sensation collection which has been designed for ease of movement. The mattresses allow you to move about easily but with the amazing comfort and support that only TEMPUR can provide. TEMPUR High Mobility technology supports you lightly,while TEMPUR materials gently conform and adapt to your shape.


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House Democrats won't give Obama funds to close Gitmo
WASHINGTON — The Obama administration's bid for $50 million to move prisoners from the Guantanamo Bay detention facility was left out of the Democratic-authored emergency war-spending bill unveiled Monday.
Even so, most Democrats remain committed to closing down the military prison, and the issue is likely to be attached to other legislation later this year.
Defense Secretary Robert Gates had sought the funds for the emergency spending bill in case the U.S. wanted to begin building an alternative facility for the detainees soon. He called the funds "a hedge."
He still has influential support for that approach in the Senate, where Appropriations Committee Chairman Daniel Inouye, D-Hawaii, said he still backs the funds "as of this moment yes, unless I'm convinced otherwise."
"It's not over yet," he said of the Pentagon's effort.
It's unlikely, though, that the House of Representatives will back any funding for this short-term legislation. When House Democrats released their $94.2 billion spending package Monday for funding the Iraq and Afghanistan wars and related expenses through the fall, the $50 million for Guantanamo was missing.
Leadership spokesmen explained there were two problems: The Pentagon has no policy in place yet for using the money, and Republicans as well as skeptical Democrats were likely to block the whole spending bill if the Guantanamo funds were included.
House Appropriations Committee Chairman David Obey, D-Wis., noted that there is no specific closure program yet.
"We will work with President Obama on the funding and policy to achieve our goal of closing Guantanamo Bay," said Nadeam Elshami, a spokesman for House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif.
Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., made plain the opposition's viewpoint: "Clearly, the administration lacks a plan and a safe alternative for closing Guantanamo," he said in a Senate floor speech.
"The American people want to keep the terrorists at Guantanamo out of their neighborhoods and off of the battlefield," he said. "At this point, the only way we can assure them that neither one of these things will occur is for the administration to keep this secure facility open until it develops a sensible plan for the Congress to evaluate."
Several Democratic senators voiced confidence that Congress ultimately will fund a plan to close Guantanamo. Many lawmakers first want to see a plan for closing Guantanamo and relocating detainees.
"I have no doubt that once the administration decides on a plan, that plan is going to go forward," said Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D.-Calif., the chairwoman of the Intelligence Committee. "I know there are some detainees to be continued in detention, some can be released and some can be repatriated," she said. "We need a plan."
Sen. Ben Nelson, D-Neb., an Appropriations Committee member, noted that the fight over the funds could last through the summer.
While the emergency bill would spend money immediately, Congress is also about to start writing its fiscal 2010 spending bills for the 12-month period, which begins Oct. 1.
"I suspect there will be other opportunities to do this," he said.
House Republican leader John Boehner of Ohio said that GOP lawmakers would look carefully at any effort to include the funding in future legislation.
"Removing this funding doesn't give the administration a green light to airdrop it into another bill down the road," said Boehner spokeswoman Antonia Ferrier. Though the House Democrats' bill provides money primarily for the two wars, it also includes $2 billion to help fight a possible flu pandemic.
Most of the funds would go to developing and buying vaccines and supplementing federal stockpiles, and $250 million to aid state and local governments to help prepare for and respond to a pandemic.
U.S. allies losing asylum bids over definition of 'terrorist'
Charleston, S.C., wonders if it'll house Guantanamo detainees
Report: Abusive tactics used to seek Iraq-al Qaida link
McConnell asks more scrutiny of Guantanamo closing costs


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Go Kart Design Challenge is a contest formulated to enhance the approach of students practicing Engineering and Diploma courses. This event is fundamentally all about designing and fabricating a Go Kart at very low expenditure. We expect the teams to manufacture Go Karts yielding optimum performance. The teams participating in this contest have to go through two rounds, Pre-Final Round (PFR) and Final Round (FR). It will be mandatory for all the teams to clear the PFR in order to advance to the FR. Teams are required to manufacture their Go Karts without any direct/indirect involvement of any kind of Professional help. The design challenge comprises of two rounds namely:
1- Pre Final Round (PFR)
2- Final Round (FR)
1- Pre Final Round (PFR)- (Design Report Presentation)
In order to get through the PFR, participating teams have to put on show a presentation which explains all the research and development work carried out by the teams in designing the vehicle. They would have to present a PPT through which they are supposed to explain all the work that goes into the designing process in front of the judges. The decision taken by the judges would decide the team's continuance in the contest.
2- Final Round (FR)- (Miscellaneous Tests)
All the qualified teams from the PFR are eligible to take part in the FR. All the participating teams are required to manufacture their respective Go Karts in their college campuses. Come event day, all the teams have to reach the specified venue. The vehicles manufactured by the teams would go through a number of tests namely, Technical Inspection, Brake test, Acceleration test, Skid Pad and so on. Based on the points achieved by each team in the following tests, the winner would be decided.


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Dear Neighbors:
The NSB Annual Meeting will take place on Thursday, June 13th at 6pm. The meeting will be held at the Water (the restaurant next door to Ciccio & Tony's). The address is 1015 S. Howard Ave.
The purpose of the meeting will be to vote in the new officers and board and to discuss neighborhood concerns, such as the new development.
Light hors d'oeuvres will be provided. Kids are welcome.
Please mark your calendars as this is a very important meeting!
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If my father were still alive, I would call him on Father's Day. I would not lie. I would not thank him for being my father, because I could not do that honestly. But I would send him photos of our Alaska island, our boats, the ocean. He loved the ocean and dreamed his live-long life of sailing around the world. Here, Dad, is the island we live on in the summers, where we fish.
He never came to visit. Not because I lived in Alaska, but because he had no interest in visiting any of his children and he didn't.
But I visited him. Finally. After 50 years of caring nothing for a man who cared nothing for me, God rattled my cage of a heart and sent me from Alaska down to Florida to see him. He was in his eighties then and in a nursing home. I couldn't believe what I found.
The 4 day visit did not go well. On the first day, my father, with all of his teeth gone, but his 88 year old face still unwrinkled, proclaimed his atheism again. In halting breathy words he made it clear he still didn't believe in God. And he thought I was a fool because I did.
I was defensive. I sniped back. I remembered why I had never liked him. But didn't I come here to try and love him? I wasn't doing a very good job.
But slowly, slowly, I began to see beyond my own hurt and dislike. He was so very alone. Did anyone love him? I calmed down, just focused on being with him. Giving him space when he needed it. Helping him eat his dinner in the dining hall. On the last day, knew, after 30 years of absence from his life, I knew I would come again. I wanted someone to love him. More, I wanted him to know about a love so much better than mine---the love of God. Had he seen it in me? If I asked him, he would look at me blankly, I am sure.
It was time now to leave. I inched toward the exit doors, my heart tight and heavy. A woman sat at a table near the door smiling at me. It was Sally. My father had introduced me to her that first day as she hobbled down the hall, her body twisted with arthritis.
I hesitated, then came over to her table. "Sally, I've got to go catch my plane. But I'm so thankful that my father has a friend here. "
"Oh yes," she smiled back, her eyes on mine.
"Does my father talk to you?"
"He doesn't say a lot, but yes, we talk."
"What do you talk about?"
"Your father and I and Bill, we meet out back in the smoking shed every day. We talk about God. Your father says he doesn't believe in God, but I'm not so sure." She lifts her eyebrows and looks wise.
My eyes widen. "You talk about the Lord with my father?" I did not even know she was a believer.
"I sure do," she says, smiling her beatific smile.
I see Sally and my father out in the smoking shed sharing cigarettes and the gospel.
I grabbed her hands, curled mine over her swollen, curled fingers. 'You're the answer to my prayers." We talked for five more minutes, then hugged, promised to pray for one another. I walked out, my mind ablaze.
Are God's mercies really this vast? Narrow is the gate that leads to heaven, and so shall it always be, but wide are God's mercies, so much wider and vaster than ever I knew. This was his love for my father. And had I not seen this same love even toward me?
And this is how it went: Jesus, the hound of heaven, lovingly dogged my father's heels all his days, even at the last.
A loving witness was constantly present with my reclusive, renegade father who had no friends.
I don't know if my father ever yielded to the God he was unsure of before he breathed his last lung of air. But I got to go visit him two more times. I got to love him. I got to live out Mercy. I got to see these staggering displays of God's character and heart. How narrow, yes, is the gate, but how inclusive His invitation, how wide and never-ending are his mercies.
This Father's Day, Go and be mercy to any father who needs it.
Every Father's Day it is my joy to give away 5 Forgiving Our Fathers and Mothers: Finding Freedom from Hurt and Hate. (It tells the rest of my story with my father---which ends so differently than I imagined. It's been translated into 8 languages and by God's great mercies has led to much healing.)
How do you enter?
1. Please share this hopeful message with others on social media---and let me know below in your comments that you've done this.
2. Include your email info so I can contact you if you win!
That's it. Friends, a Blessed merciful Father's Day to you all!


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We have practical experience of optimising milking routines resulting in reduced milking times, clinical mastitis and SCCs
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As a known name in this domain, we are able to manufacture and supply an excellent stock of Blue Steel Metal Scrap. Free from any kind of impurity, it is highly appreciated in the market. Widely demanded for in manufacturing of various heavy duty products and materials, it is stringently checked on various parameters. In order to manufacture this scrap in compliance with predefined industry standards, we use top-notch quality material. Clients can avail this Blue Steel Metal Scrap from us in bulk quantities.


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This is what schmedley is all about - we have embraced the web as a platform - to deploy a suite of web services applications that handle the most common, daily tasks of a broad range of internet users. Broken down by category, each application (schmedley "channel") is represented by an icon in the schmedley toolbar at the top of every page. Each channel offers data that is diverse and sometimes hard to get at, and organizes it into one clean, easy-to-use interface. In many cases schmedley becomes a content provider, dedicated to offering an innovative way to carry out different web searches and perform specific tasks while gathering data from various sources. Even greater functionality is achieved by giving users the ability to store and manipulate personalized data relevant to each task at hand.Check it out here!
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It was cold today, freezing even. This was the third downpour of the summer, which is unusual in San Diego, but greatly appreciated. The dogs woke me up by six and I fell back asleep until eight. I drank my coffee, two cups at a time, and lightened to the world crash down around me. Murphy shook a little, you could feel it when you put your hand on his small barreled chest. The birds didn't sing much in the rain, but you could see a squirrel from the back steps, walking the tightrope between two telephone poles.
I never feel alive when I sit home all day. I went out for coffee and got stuck in a downpour. Steam rose up on my glasses and I squinted the rest of the way home. I wanted something warm when I came home, something to comfort me. I craved the tastes of summer--heirlooms, grotesque in their bulging beauty, local chèvre. Laid on a bed of a brioche of sorts, eaten quickly to stay warm and sustain me through the night.
Summer Tomato Tart
Light, fluffy dough, smoky and sweet compote, and goat cheese create this updated mini-pizza. Recipe makes four 4-inch tarts, but can be adapted larger or smaller portions.
For the quick brioche dough (adapted from here)
- 1/4 cup milk, heated to 110*F (warm to the touch)
- 1 1/4 teaspoon active dry yeast
- 2 cup flour, separated + more for flouring board and hands
- 4 tablespoons butter, cubed and cold
- 2 tablespoon sugar
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1 egg + 1 yolk (reserve remaining egg white for egg wash)
- When assembling: 6 tablespoons chevre
For the tomato compote:
- 1 large heirloom tomato
- 1 teaspoon + 1 tablespoon olive oil
- Pinch of salt
- Pinch of pepper
- 3 basil leaves
- Half of medium-sized shallot
- 2 cloves garlic
- Place milk, yeast, and one cup of flour in small bowl. Allow to sit, covered, for 20 minutes or until top is dotted with small bubbles
- Pulse butter, sugar, salt, and eggs in a food processor for about 20 seconds. Mixture will look curdled.
- Add yeast mixture and pulse a couple times to blend.
- Slowly add one cup of flour through feeding tube with motor on until blended and smooth
- Allow to rest for half an hour
- Turn out onto a heavily-floured board and knead 5-6 times or until elastic
- Allow to double in size in a lightly greased bowl, about one hour (during this time, make tomato compote, below, and preheat oven to 350*F)
- Roll out into roughly a 12x12 square and quarter
- Place on a baking sheet lined with parchment paper.
- Spoon compote into center of tart, leaving a one inch border. Use remaining egg white to seal and press dough in on itself to create a border.
- Dot tops with chèvre and repeat for all four tarts. Brush each with egg white
- Bake for 15-20 minutes or until browned and cheese begins to melt.
- Brush tomato with 1 teaspoon olive oil and sprinkle with salt and pepper
- Heat grill on medium-high
- Place tomato on grill and roast for five to seven minutes, or until skin begins to crack and is blackened
- Turn over and repeat
- Remove from heat and place aside in bowl to cool before handling.
- Place in food processor, along with basil, garlic, shallot, and more salt and pepper
- Pulse until smooth, but with a few chunks (5 pulses should do it)


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Classical Singing, Jazz Singing, Accordion, Piano, Strings
250 eur
2 days, 8 academic hours
|Field of study
|2 days, 8 academic hours
|Application deadline
|1 June 2019
|Students who enrolled into other BSU courses, can have a special module of musical masterclasses
|Course Leaders
|Classical Singing Masterclass
Prof. Tomas Ladiga – professional bass singer, artist at Kaunas State Musical Theatre, lecturer and the head of Singing Department at VMU Music Academy. Awarded with acknowledgements by the President of the Republic of Lithuania Valdas Adamkus, the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Lithuania, the Parliament of the Republic of Lithuania, Kaunas City Municipality. The jury member of national vocal contests.
Prof. Sabina Martinaitytė – professional soprano singer, artist at Kaunas State Musical Theatre, lecturer at VMU Music Academy Singing Department.
Awarded with acknowledgements by the President of the Republic of Lithuania Dalia Grybauskaitė, the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Lithuania, Kaunas City Municipality, Lithuanian Musicians Union, etc.
The jury member of national and international vocal contests, board member of the International Music Association of Pedagogues (UA) and the International Association of Opera Singers (PL). Accomplished masterclasses in Poland, Russia, Czech Republic, Finland, Italy, etc.
Assoc. prof. Audronė Eitmanavičiūtė – professional pianist, concertmaster, lecturer at VMU Music Academy Singing Department. The participant and winner of numerous national and international festivals – "XXI Century Art" (PT), "Golden Mask" (RU), "Juventus Canti" (SL), Ada Sari International Vocal Artistry Competition (PL), etc. International vocal contests' jury member (Madeira, Portugese, 2011; Lempaala, Finland, 2010; Prague, Czech Republic, 2009), etc.
Assoc. prof. Rita Novikaitė – professional mezzo soprano singer, lecturer at the University of Music and Performing Arts Graz and VMU Music Academy Singing Department. The participant of numerous national and international festivals – Musika in Burg – Beeskow (DE), Cantiamo (LT), Ring Award (AT), 14th Pažaislis Music Festival (LT), etc.
Accordion Masterclass
Prof. Kazy Stonkus – professional accordionist, solo player and ensemble member, lecturer and the head of Accordion Department at VMU Music Academy. Recorded music for 65 performances. The jury member of national and international contests ("Ascoltate" (IT), "Snorum" (LT), "Trophee Mondial Spokane" (USA), "Coupe Mondiale" (IT), etc. Awarded with acknowledgements by Confédération Internationale des Accordéonistes, Member International Music Council, IMC'UNESCO, the President of the Republic of Lithuania Valdas Adamkus, the Mayor of Vilnius City Artūras Zuokas, etc.
Piano Masterclass
Assoc. prof. Donaldas Račys – professional pianist, solo player in Lithuania and abroad, lecturer at the and the head of Piano Department at VMU Music Academy, lecturer at the National M. Čiurlionis School of Art in Vilnius (LT). The laureate of numerous national and international piano contests, jury member in national and international competitions.
Justas Dvarionas – professional pianist, solo player in Lithuania and abroad, lecturer at VMU Music Academy and the National M. Čiurlionis School of Art in Vilnius (LT). Active organizer and participant of jury in national and international competitions. Last engagements include concerts, teaching and jury activities in Europe, Asia, North and South America. Accomplished masterclasses in Germany, Poland, Norway, France, Russia, Japan, Peru, Lithuania, etc.
Strings Masterclass
Prof. Raimondas Butvila – professional violinist, lecturer and the head of Strings Department at VMU Music Academy, former lecturer at Caracas Art University (Venezuela) and the director of "Colegio Emil Friedman" (Caracas, Venezuela). Awarded with Honoured Lithuanian Artist name in 1990.
|Target Group
|Advanced level students and young musicians (+16 years old)
|Entry requirements
|Application is open for students of education institutions who study music performance or those young musicians who plan to choose music performance studies as their future career.
Participants of the masterclass will be equipped with all the instruments according to the necessity.
|Short description
|A wide variety of practical lessons for young and advanced musicians will involve various disciplines including classical singing, accordion, piano, and strings.
Lessons will be tailored to each individual or group of individuals to cover auditions, development of instrumental or vocal techniques to reach certain musical expression.
The collaborative and constructive learning environment will be created to learn from music educators who will provide extensive and inspirational coaching with the feedback.
All the aspects of the participants' performance will be improved in a friendly, creative and supportive environment.
The participants will learn to assess music performance as masterclass will provide an opportunity to understand and develop relevant criteria which the student in the audience can apply when assessing their own performances as well as when working with fellow musicians.
The masterclass will give the students an understanding of what the standards of the music profession are. The masterclass leaders will demonstrate these standards through the demands and expectations they communicate when assessing, coaching and providing feedback for the students.
The final concert of all participants is the last activity of the masterclass.
|To provide enhanced skills in interactive instrumental or vocal performance.
|Learning outcomes
|By the end of the course students will be able to:
|Programme Structure
FROM MAY 1st: 300
(includes tuition, teaching material, social programme, trips, excursions, refreshments provided during the cultural evening and opening/closing ceremonies).


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Middletown residents dig out, carry on after devastation hits
After the inferno swept through town, incinerating homes and apartments and trees and power lines and his own home, Duane Harper did the only thing he could do.
He went to work.
Harper, 59, general manager of the Hardester's Market in this fire-ravaged community of about 1,300 people, reopened Middletown's only general store just before noon despite not having any electricity or Internet service.
"These are our friends and neighbors," Harper said. "We need to be open for the community."
The market was taking IOUs from residents who didn't have cash or checks to pay for water, food and other supplies, and was running on a backup generator provided by PG&E.
"Just pay us some time down the road," Harper said as he put on a brave smile for customers, despite the fact that his house in Cobb burned down Saturday night.
"It was an inferno," said Harper, who only had minutes to load up his belongings before the flames came. "Apocalyptic is the word I've been using."
Harper spent Saturday night with a friend in Sonoma County, then returned to the sight of a town pockmarked with destruction. Entire blocks were burned to the ground, with charred vehicles, downed power lines and fallen trees lining the streets.
On Sunday, as the Valley fire that swept through with little warning continued to threaten Lake County, residents passing through the market reflected on how close they had come to losing everything.
Joktan Stickney, 28, of Santa Rosa, grabbed some supplies, then headed up the hill toward his parents' 160-acre ranch in Hidden Valley.
His stepfather, Greg Zielsdorf, 55, worried "the hell out of everyone" because he just wouldn't leave the house, Stickney said.
"He's a cowboy," Stickney said of his stepfather, adding that his mother, Gabriela, had evacuated earlier.
At the Kelseyville High School on Sunday afternoon, hundreds gathered to receive an update from local officials, including state Sen. Mike McGuire, who represents Lake County. McGuire and Lake County Sheriff Brian Martin implored residents to cooperate with the evacuation orders.
"This has been a hell of a 90 days for Lake County," McGuire said, noting the preceding wildland fires to hit the region, including the Rocky and Jerusalem fires. "…Our county is now faced with this monster."
"We have not faced a fire like this in decades," he said, adding that law enforcement and fire resources are pouring in from across the state.
Inside the school, the gym was decked out with makeshift beds. Residents streamed in from around the county to ask questions about insurance and get supplies. Several tables of used clothing were laid out in front of the school for people to take.
Richard and Donna Wattenburger live in a community of Kelseyville called Clear Lake Riviera. On Sunday morning, they received a call about 7:00 a.m. from officials about a voluntary evacuation order. But only minutes later, they heard the sheriff's office broadcasting mandatory evacuation orders on a loudspeaker and sirens everywhere, Richard Wattenburger said.
"I've never packed a pickup that quick," Richard Wattenburger said.
The couple, their five dogs and one cat, along with their son, Dillon, jumped in the vehicle and headed toward Upper Lake, where Richard Wattenburger's parents live.
The Wattenburgers came to Kelseyville High School to receive the update Sunday afternoon and remained apprehensive about what's to come.
"It's better to be safe than sorry," Donna Wattenburger said of the evacuation orders.
About 185 miles to the southeast, some diehards refused to immediately flee the north state's other major blaze, the Butte fire.
"We are going to go, we are just going to go when we absolutely have to," said Willie Baechler, who owns a San Andreas machine shop.
He was one of a dozen residents of the Oak Park Estates that chose to keep watch from a bluff near their homes as the fire stirred.
They sat in lawn chairs, sipped light beer and waved at emergency personnel as they passed along Mountain Ranch Road. They said they have natural gas to cook, generators for power and plenty of food.
"We're not in anyone's way," Baechler said.
Another longtime Calaveras County resident, Sam Vassey, 70, stayed at the family compound near Mountain Ranch as long as he could. When he fled earlier this week, he scooped up two small dogs and a cat. Left behind were two dogs and a jackass. One of the dogs and the jackass have since been found.
Richard Chang: 916-321-1018, @RichardYChang


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Health Virtual Reality Apps By Us
This was another curricular collaboration for HealthDesignBy.Us. In the spring of 2014, Matthew Kenyon taught a Virtual Reality Mobile Applications course at the Stamps School of Art and Design. Students were asked to create and prototype an original mobile app that focuses on one of the following health-related categories: drugs and alcohol, well-being/mental health, or nutrition/food awareness. Joyce Lee served as the medical advisor to the students. The students presented their final projects at the end of the semester and awards were presented. The top winner's app called The Happy Project was created to increase the user's self-awareness of quality of life by logging how the user's feelings, activities, and comparing the results to others' happiness scores. Second place went to Xiaoying He (one of our summer interns) for her app called Eyecare U, which is an app that teaches you how to massage your eyes. Apparently kids in China are required to do eye massage (who knew?).


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Office Phone: 704-664-1927
About Rebekah Sidden
As a NC Farm Bureau agent, I have devoted my career to providing my clients with the superior service they deserve. Insurance is one of the most important purchases you make and you spend a lot of money on it. As your local Farm Bureau agent, I take personal interest in making sure you are spending your money wisely. I have helped many clients secure their valuable assets by providing them the protection they need. I give my clients a complete review to assure all their valuable assets are covered. Be it home, auto, life, boat, general liability, workers compensation, business auto, commercial, health, or the many things in between, I'd like to do the same for you.
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The 2012 Olympics are coming and we're asking — what effect, if any kind of, will this have upon Croydon?
With under a year to visit until the best sporting event on the planet arrives within the capital, Croydon is at risk of becoming the cultural wasteland as you will find no prepared Olympic events happening here. You'd expect Croydon, having one of the greatest populations just beyond London, to become having a substantial role within the 2012 Olympic Video games.
Croydon will be a perfect setting up area with regard to holding Olympic events since it has large sums of property to regenerate. And it also has the actual bonus of getting a completely integrated transportation system along with great hyperlinks to Birmingham and other Olympic websites.
Sadly nevertheless, at this time around Croydon is definitely an Olympic-free area. Why is actually this a person ask her?
Certain individuals in power within the ranks associated with Croydon local authority or council have place paid to that particular dream. Croydon local authority or council has chose to save cash on wonderful events such as the 2012 Olympics. Saying it's just for that capital (Birmingham and nearby areas encircling it) and might have no advantage for Croydon, it's people as well as businesses. Even so the people associated with Croydon, just like Londoners, are spending money on the 2012 Olympics games to become showcased right here.
Croydon Council's antipathy for the Olympics goes back to 2006, whenever Steve Hollands — then Croydon's darkness cabinet fellow member for Lifestyle and Activity, dismissed plans to have an Olympic cycle-way as well as footpath through Croydon towards the site from the 2012 recreation area in eastern London like a costly trick. He viewed the master plan as the publicity stunt made to bolster support for that games within an area associated with London unlikely to determine much direct enjoy the Olympics. Councillor Hollands stated:
"Other compared to publicity I'm unsure if it'll bring a lot to Croydon. In theory it's wise but if you're able to cycle through Croydon in order to east Birmingham then you ought to be competing within the Olympics. inch
Given a brand new type associated with vision as well as imagination through our 'leaders', the Olympics needs to be a massive chance of the town of Croydon. Getting the potential with regard to increased earnings for resorts, restaurants, list and leisure time industries; as well as an improvement of work opportunities. It may also generate an enormous boost in order to Croydon's economic climate as there's the chance of a high quality of wealth available that as soon as gained might be reinvested back to Croydon and it is people. Croydon could be a hub for a lot of visitors in the rest associated with Britain and all over the world – improving local companies. Who understands, if these people liked this here sufficient, some may come back again.
Is this likely to be an additional missed chance of Croydon?
Nevertheless, there is what's promising to end up being had with regard to Croydon and also the London Olympics 2012, since the Olympic torch is placed to journey through Croydon as well as Surrey.
The Olympic flashlight will spend each day travelling via Surrey following year upon its route in the united states to London's Olympic Arena. The flashlight which signifies peace, unity as well as friendship is going to be carried through 8, 000 inspirational Torchbearers throughout the Olympic Flashlight Relay since it makes it's way over the UK on the 70-day journey which will bring the actual excitement from the games towards the masses.
The fire will go through nine cities in Surrey upon July 20. The cities and villages it'll visit consist of Dorking as well as Redhill within the east from the county in order to Shere, Guildford as well as Godalming within the south. The flashlight will travel in the united states via horse back, bicycle, tram as well as steam-train, in addition to by street and train.
The next the main journey might find the fire travel via Croydon, Sutton, Merton, Wandsworth, Bromley as well as Lewisham upon July 23 since it makes it's way round the Greater Birmingham boroughs about the final days from the 70-date exchange.
It may be worth highlighting right here, that once more, Croydon as well as Surrey aren't getting equivalent access or even opportunities to see this possibly outstanding event since the torch may spend much longer in the areas in the united kingdom, including 4 days within Kent on it's own and going to almost forty towns, metropolitan areas and towns there.
Nonetheless Lord Sebastian Coe, chairman from the London Arranging Committee from the Olympic as well as Paralympic Video games stated "I'm delighted how the Olympic flashlight relay will require the 2012 Video games to nearly every corner from the UK. Now most people are invited in order to plan their own welcome to see where they are able to go to participate this historical occasion. inch
The street-by-street detail from the route is going to be confirmed following year. Nevertheless, here is definitely an outline associated with its prepared journey:
• The actual Olympic torch is going to be lit within Olympia within Greece within May, and flown towards the UK.
• The actual relay will start in Land's Result in Cornwall upon May nineteen, and continue to have an estimated 8, 000 miles round the UK, transported by 8, 000 torchbearers picked due to a 'personal achievement' or even contribution for their community.
• It will require in 1, 018 cities, cities as well as villages, and organisers say it will likely be within a good hour's trip of 95% from the UK populace.
• About the final day from the relay, This summer 27, the flashlight will journey down the actual River Thames towards the Olympic Arena, where it will likely be used in order to light the actual cauldron in the opening wedding ceremony.
Denise Saliagopoulos, Surrey Region Council cupboard member for that 2012 Video games, said: "The truth the flashlight relay may visit a lot of Surrey cities and towns over 3 days following summer is really a thrilling prospective client. "
Where it is possible to begin to see the Olympic flashlight in Surrey as well as South Birmingham:
Friday This summer 20, 2012
• Godstone
• Bletchingley
• Redhill
• Reigate
• Dorking
• Westcott
• Shere
• Godalming
• Guildford
Mon July twenty three
• Lewisham
• Bromley
• Croydon
• Sutton
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• Wandsworth
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Everything listed here has met food hygiene ratings at 3 or above.
Preston city centre boasts a wealth of restaurants and places to eat, each offering a wide selection of cuisines. From the innovative independents to the renowned longer-established speciality eateries, you will find some of the best places to eat in Lancashire. And if you're just after some light refreshment, then you can be sure that the many cafes dotted about Preston will provide you with exactly what you need.
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Guidelines for conducting a risk assessment
In this Q&A, security pro Mike Rothman offers advice on the best risk assessment procedures, and discusses whether or not ISO 17799 should be involved in the process.
What's the best procedure for conducting a risk assessment for an organization such as a drug research and trial company? Should ISO 17799 play a role by default?
A pharmaceutical company has a lot at risk since pretty much all its intellectual property is in the form of electronically stored compounds and trial data, which is very valuable. For instance, consider a blockbuster drug that has the potential to be a multi-billion-dollar business. Clearly the focus of the assessment should be on protecting those kinds of assets.
Once polices are to make sure they adequately set the stage to protect critical assets, it's time to see whether the rubber meets the road by conducting some vulnerability testing. I'm a fan of both electronic testing, as well as human testing. So perform automated scans (to find obvious stuff) and use penetration testing tools (for both networks/systems and applications) to view your environment as a hacker sees it.
Periodically an organization should administer a manual pen test, where a skilled attacker uses social engineering techniques and looks for logic flaws in an environment. Most regulations require a formal "assessment" at least once per year -- so these are probably already happening.
Relative to ISO 17799 and its successor, ISO 27001, those are relatively comprehensive frameworks laying out all of the things (policies and procedures) that can be protected, as opposed to all of the assets that should be protected.
If you need a list of things to "assess," one of the ISO frameworks can be used as a starting point. But I would consider it a default if it's already understood what's protected and how the attackers can get the data.


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Myth: Danish protesters have been saying that EC regulations forbid the marketing of a favourite orchard product, the Ingrid Marie apple variety.
Truth: Apples are classified, for the purpose of freedom of movement and consumer protection within the EC, into two categories: "small" apples, which have a minimum diameter of 55mm; and "large" apples, with a diameter exceeding 65mm. According to the apple variety, these sizes allow consumers to be sure that the apples they buy have reached the necessary state of ripeness/ripening. However, Danish apples of the Ingrid Marie variety fo not easily fit these classifications, so Danish producers have rebelled agains the EC rules.
In July 1989, the Danish fruit producers association, the Dansk Ehvervs frugtavl, classified the Inrid Marie as "large" apples. However, half of the harvest did not reach the required size. It could therefore not be marketed normally and had to be sold to the processing industry. To solve the problem, a new "medium-sized" category of apples could be introduced, but this would entail an increase in the management costs ofplacing the apples on the market. A different solution to the INgrid Marie probelm is envisaged. The Ingrid Marie could be classified under the category of "small" apples, giving the producers the resposibility of guaranteeing that the apples are ripe when they are marketed.


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and facilitators / moderators:
There were 8 questions posed over the hour, but I'm only posting the first 4 here.
Q1 In this Big Data era, do traditional concepts data quality, data governance & data stewardship even apply?
A summary of the answers:
craigmullins Big Data refers to datasets whose size, type and speed of creation make it impractical to process and analyze with traditional tools. That Big Data definition comes from wikibon; see http://t.co/awsPyuqXjZ. So given that, definitionally then, traditional concepts are at the very least "impractical"… no?
dvellante My belief is that ingest process & analysis of data changes with big data.
BigDataAlex Yes, I think they apply. Our clients are very concerned about these issues and it does apply.
jeffreyfkelly Absolutely, but vastly more complex.
Natasha_D_G Traditional concepts are even more critical in Big Data era especially in data governance.
craigmullins But, of course data quality, data governance and data stewardship SHOULD apply in the age of Big Data Management.
dvellante You still need clean and common policies for data taxonomies; but the unstructured and semi-structured data texture requires some new thinking and technology. Specifically ideas around function shipping, name value pairs, Hadoop, etc - applying traditional concepts to new model.
Dmattcarter In order for Big Data to be enterprise-ready, it needs to include those traditional concepts.
jeffreyfkelly The challenge is applying DQ and governance to high velocity data - hard enough with "traditional" data, ie CRM, ERP.
craigmullins Failing to apply these concepts will result in poor data quality. Analytics performed on bad quality data produces bad results.
BigDataAlex I think transparency is important too in this era of Big Data and how we govern. I would suggest Big Data Ethics manager.
BTRG_MikeMartin IG concepts apply to Big Data even more so as the issues solved by Information governance are only exaggerated.
furrier Data quality has to take on the idea that it will be moving around different systems/APIs.
craigmullins Yet there are issues and adaptations that will be required as we apply data quality, data governance and data stewardship to Big Data Management.
BigDataAlex Love the challenge on high velocity data....algorithms in streams.
jeffreyfkelly Big Data is experimenting with data sets, while governance is applying policies that sometimes restrict experimentation.
BTRG_MikeMartin You can't make good business decisions on bad data. http://t.co/8J1pQPy6eW
Natasha_D_G Data quality is an issue as "94% biz believe some of their customer/prospect info is inaccurate".
BTRG_MikeMartin Data governance is critical in the Big Data management era as it makes small problems bigger. You need data quality to enable Biginsights http://t.co/yVTA9NpXIB
furrier Data as a resource for applications; ownership of data is important to individual and/or company.
BigDataAlex In health care sector, orgs are combining medical ethics with their CIOs.
Aarti_Borkar Governance is even more important with Big Data as the security and trust is a bigger business issue now.
dvellante In part this is a discussion around the balance between data being an asset an a liability - good DQ is important for both.
searchCIO Metadata practices are gaining momentum as companies tackle Big Data. http://t.co/DSkdH4Yk6S
Q2 With data at unprecedented speed/volume, how can data quality measures be applied in time for analysis?
A summary of the answers:
craigmullins With data quality, cleansing can occur as humans eyeball the data - most raw Big Data is not eyeballed. In some cases (e.g. medical devices, automated metering, etc.) only rudimentary cleansing (if any) may be needed. At least as long as the meters are calibrated and maintained properly
BigDataAlex Real-time analytics is critical. We love Streams. The right algorithm at the right time.
Natasha_D_G Trust = Word we try to avoid. @Aarti_Borkar: Governance is even more important with Big Data as security & trust bigger biz issue.
BTRG_MikeMartin To deal with Big Data, speed, and volume: be proactive by starting Big Data Management across the enterprise now & maintain http://t.co/hGJ3QkTiJf
Aarti_Borkar Data Quality for Big Data can be handled right upfront before starting Big Data analysis
BigDataAlex A next-generation of KPIs for quality vs. quantity are being implemented to separate quality from quantity in real-time.
furrier Data quality is about the context of the application & what users experience for each use case is not always the same.
jeffreyfkelly Machine learning is required to improve data quality for Big Data - velocity too high for human methods IMHO
nenshad Variety of algorithms include semantics
zacharyjeans Ask your Big Data well crafted questions. Sloppy questions lead to sloppy answers.
craigmullins Speed + volume make data quality challenging…
searchCIO Data Quality is essential to master Big Data Management http://t.co/pxZ49Xgimm
BTRG_MikeMartin Start now on data quality because if you don't have it in now Big Data only magnifies data issues http://t.co/hGJ3QkTiJf
Natasha_D_G Excellent question especially given social media data and its 18 minute life span
jeffreyfkelly Also with Big Data, volume of data can sometimes smooth over anomalies in data quality.
Aarti_Borkar Data quality should also be handled as the results of the analysis are merged back into the reporting marts.
BigDataAlex The right analytics at the right time against the systems of systems integration.
dvellante Perspectives from a former CIO on the importance of data quality http://t.co/mYPfqNCCjm
nenshad It's all about the data first
dvellante In my view you can't deal with Big Data quality unless you can automate the classification of data at the point of creation.
Kari_Agrawal How exactly do we clean the data when it has no structure?
BTRG_MikeMartin You can't make good decisions and enable business biginsights without high data quality.
furrier Dirty data equals poor user experience. I wrote about it in 2009 re: twitter facebook & social data http://t.co/vpkfB0xS3h
Aarti_Borkar Data quality should be handed as part of data integration as the Information Server customers do - its the same with Big Data.
Q3 How do data governance policies apply when the point of Big Data is to explore novel use cases?
A summary of the answers:
craigmullins Finding novel uses of data does not diminish the need for data governance policies.
Natasha_D_G True, but still need boundaries.
BTRG_MikeMartin Exploring Big Data still requires trusted data so you must secure and govern even more so. http://t.co/UL0VNCiivP
craigmullins The novel uses need to be documented as part of the data governance policies.
BigDataAlex The right policy at right time. I think you can agility with accountability.
craigmullins Keeping in mind that even under ideal circumstances data governance policies can be difficult to enact.
tmustacchio Big data isn't just for novel new business cases - it can also vastly improve value in existing ones - i.e. R&D, cust service.
craigmullins Consider non-intrusive data governance; see this article by my friend Bob Seiner http://t.co/GogojXCcoV
craigmullins Seiner states: data governance refers to the administering (formalizing) of discipline (behavior) around the management of data.
craigmullins And data governance is an on-going process; it should formalize what already exists + address opportunities to improve.
jeffreyfkelly There is a need to set up boundaries but give analysts freedom to explore Big Data.
furrier Innovation will not come from regulations but creative developers to play with data -#slipperyslope
Q4 How does Big Data change data retention policies, ie, deciding what data to keep vs dispose?
A summary of the answers:
tomjkunkel Formal Data Destruction processes minimize the growing data landfill and need to be incorporated into Data Lifecycle Mgmt.
dvellante: Still must be able to defensibly delete data. you may not want WIP data hanging around - too much of a risk.
BTRG_MikeMartin Big Data is not immune to the laws of information economics: http://t.co/Ta361ASBkP
BigDataAlex Focus on workflow, business process, optimization. There is no set answer. Filtration - distillation
BTRG_MikeMartin Velocity of Big Data means current best data is changing rapidly, you want decisions on the best info.
BTRG_MikeMartin: It is important to have Big Data Management framework for good business outcomes inc. policy, security, ILM & quality.
craigmullins Data is retained for internal + external reasons... Internal because the org needs it for business – external because the law demands it.
tomjkunkel Isn't there also a need for Data Entrepreneurs (A business perspective with a knack for data)?
craigmullins You may choose to retain more data for Big Data Management analytics but be careful because data once retained is discoverable during court trials.
furrier Big data complicates data retention policies - we have shadow IT and now "shadow data" or what I call "dark data".
Natasha_D_G Big Data can extend data retention esp in R&D. Pharmas can leverage old research to accelerate new research.
jeffreyfkelly This is a major issue: with hadoop you can now store all data inexpensively - not possible before and new challenge.
BTRG_MikeMartin NO still too costly.
Kari_Agrawal If we see the huge amount of IP packets flying around, can we process those packets to get something meaningful?
craigmullins There are over 150 different regulations (at the local, state, national, and international levels) that impact data retention.
Aarti_Borkar Retention is about storing what the business needs later vs everything - that core concept does not change with Big Data.
BigDataAlex Do we need to store everything? Can we, should we?
craigmullins No, no, and no to that last series of questions!
Natasha_D_G Data hoards say keep all! Fear of losing critical info.
jeffreyfkelly Nothing worse than looking for data you know you had only to remember you threw it away!
Aarti_Borkar Defensible disposal of data becomes harder if multiple copies are made as part of Big Data analytics.
craigmullins MT @Aarti_Borkar: Defensible disposal of data becomes harder if... hence the need for #datagovernance policies!
furrier We all want data retention but who owns it after it's retained..will a data marketplace economy develop?
TheSocialPitt Storage is a huge challenge, especially in cases with many streaming video feeds, e.g. defense.
jeffreyfkelly Keep in mind regulations haven't caught up w the technology - industry needs to be proactive on this issue or the government will.
Aarti_Borkar Big Data allows for pattern searches and trends in retained data that was not easy to do earlier.