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John Key has put a time limit on our stay in Iraq, but Australia isn't impressed with that kind of thinking, showing the Wellington-Canberra divide on Iraq
John Key and Tony Abbott were putting a brave face on it today, with talk of the countries' "long, strong and intimate partnership", but on Iraq the cracks are showing.
There's no doubt New Zealand and Australian defence forces and politicians work closely on these sorts of issues, but there's no hiding the fact that they are taking very different approaches to Islamic State. While Key says our commitment to a two-year effort is set in stone, Australian Foreign Minister Julie Bishop has said giving a timeframe is just playing into the terrorists' hands, effectively damning our strategy against Islamic State.
Not very ANZAC.
Australia has been at the gung-ho end of the response, quick to send in special forces, while New Zealand has taken months slowly coming to a decision to send in just 16 trainers, plus support and logistics personnel.
While the rhetoric from both countries has been strong -- with talk of an evil, brutal regime and a great risk to the global community -- Australia's actions more honestly reflect that sort of language than New Zealand's.
When John Key announced the decision to send those trainers and troops to Irag, he talked openly about a joint force with Australia. On the other side of the Tasman, the Australian government was hinting at an announcement in short order. Yet Abbott and Bishop have been in the country these past two days with nothing confirmed. Indeed Bishop get rather snippy when on The Nation Lisa Owen asked how the joint mission would work.
JB: I'm not saying it is a joint operation.
LO: Is it not going to be a joint operation? Is there some—?
JB: Well, the Prime Minister of Australia has not made an announcement, so I'm not sure what you're going on.
LO: In saying that, our Prime Minister has publicly said that it's likely to be a joint operation. Is he mistaken in that?
JB: I am not pre-empting any announcement that my prime minister would make.
But the different strategic approach became clear when Bishop talked about setting a time limit for Australia's involvement in the war against Islamic State. She said:
It's not useful to put a timeframe on it. That would just play into the hands of the terrorist organisations. They would either wait it out or increase their activities, so I don't intend to give the terrorist organisation the comfort of knowing how long the coalition of countries will seek to defeat it.
Contrast that to John Key speaking on the same programme, to Paddy Gower:
JK: I think this is about making a contribution and leaving. We could be in the Middle East forever if we don't take that approach.
PG: So how concrete is this? How concrete is this?
JK: Look, I've made it quite clear, for instance, to the Australian prime minister that we're out in two years. That's our mandate that we've got.That's what we intend to follow through.
So New Zealand has chosen an approach that Australia thinks plays "into the hands of the terrorist organisations". That's a strategic divide bigger than the Tasman. While neither side will want to inflame the situation, Bishop's assessment of New Zealand's option seems scathing, as is Key's assessment of what Australia is doing. At very least, they are at odds in their thinking.
Consider then that Australia has sent in special forces and New Zealand won't. In fact, Key says doing nothing in Iraq is a bad choice because Islamic State is already a risk to New Zealanders and we have obligations to our friends. But, by his judgement, doing more is also unwise.
But if we fight Iraq's wars, then we involve ourselves in something that we can't hope to solve for them. They have to solve it for themselves, so it's about where is that line.
He warns that if we don't limit our involvement we could be in the Middle East forever.
For two countries with such a long and close friendship, this is quite a strategic divide. No wonder there are still details to be worked out before any joint mission can be agreed.

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Detroit's new bankruptcy plan lowers payouts
DETROIT — The city of Detroit on Monday proposed slightly lower payouts for some pensioners and unsecured bondholders as feverish negotiations continue in the largest municipal bankruptcy in U.S. history.
In an amended bankruptcy restructuring plan filed electronically in federal Bankruptcy Court in Detroit, the city maintained its previous proposal to invest $1.5 billion over 10 years to improve services while delivering steep cuts to unsecured creditors, including retirees and debt holders.
Among the biggest changes compared with a February version of the plan of adjustment and accompanying disclosure statement:
• The city said that police and fire retirees would get a 14% cut to their monthly pension checks if they reject the city's restructuring plan. The original figure was a 10% cut a month ago.
• The city proposed paying general obligation bondholders 15 cents on the dollar instead of 20 cents on the dollar.
• The revised plan also includes a proposal for the elimination of the current board of trustees for city's general retiree pension fund and the police and fire retirement fund.
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• Fresh details about the city's reinvestment plans — including $78.7 million to hire civilian police employees so that officers can be redeployed, $25 million for a Department of Transportation security force and $90.6 million for software and servers to improve the city's dilapidated IT systems.
"The City continues to make progress with its creditors and retirees and hopes to reach agreement in the near term on a number of outstanding issues," Detroit emergency manager Kevyn Orr said in a statement. "We believe that the Plan we have proposed, and continue to refine, is feasible and allows the City to reduce its staggering $18 billion in debt and live within its means. The Plan puts the focus back on providing essential public services to the City's nearly 700,000 residents."
The city maintained its proposal of 26% cuts to monthly pension checks for general retirees if they vote in favor of the restructuring plan and 34% if they reject it. The city also maintained its proposal of 6% cuts to monthly pensions of police and fire retirees if they accept the restructuring plan.
But the city acknowledged that its proposal to cut annual cost-of-living adjustments to pensions increases the overall benefit cut to retirees. The loss of COLA represents an 18% benefit cut for police and fire retirees and a 13% cut for general retirees.
About 32,000 people receive pension checks from the city of Detroit, including about 22,000 retirees.
Orr proposed a new structure for the General Retirement System and Police and Fire, saying both are underfunded. That move is generally viewed as necessary before Republican state legislators agree to vote in favor of providing the city with $350 million toward the city's restructuring.
The new board would include five voting members with an annual stipend of $36,000 and two non-voting members and a CEO, according to the documents filed Monday. The five voting members must have financial expertise and cannot be employed by the city or be affiliated with any of its unions.
Tina Bassett, a spokeswoman for the city's general retirement pension board, said she hadn't reviewed the amended documents and couldn't comment extensively on them.
"We're still negotiating in good faith, and those numbers may not be the same numbers you see at the end of the deal," said Bassett.
Bruce Babiarz, a spokesman for the police and fire pension board, also said the pension fund needed more time to review the amended plan of adjustment, but said the "POA," or plan of adjustment, is still "DOA."
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While the police and fire pension plan remains "committed to negotiating in good faith toward a consensual agreement," Babiarz said, "pushing a POA with continued blanks is an affront to good-faith negotiations and the court-ordered mediation process."
Orr has argued that significant cuts are necessary to improve public safety and restore basic services for the city.
But creditors, including major financial investors and the city's retirees, have fiercely objected to the plan of adjustment, saying the cuts are too steep.
In the new documents filed Monday, the city also included details of a proposed settlement with UBS and Bank of America Merrill Lynch, which would collectively receive $85 million to eliminate a $288-million financial obligation called swaps.
That deal would eliminate a disastrous pension debt-interest-rate bet brokered by Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick's administration in 2005 to secure a steady interest rate of 6% on a $1.4 billion borrowing transaction.
Several major creditors have objected to the proposed swaps settlement.
U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Steven Rhodes will determine the fate of Orr's updated proposed restructuring plan. In a hearing currently scheduled for April 14, Rhodes will decide whether the disclosure statement contains enough information about the city's plans.
In a trial currently expected to start July 16, Rhodes will hear arguments and weigh evidence about whether the city's restructuring plan is feasible.
Creditors, including retirees, will get a chance to vote on the plan of adjustment. To implement the plan, the city must get a majority of creditors representing two-thirds of the city's debt to vote yes. Alternatively, however, the city could pursue a forcible restructuring plan in a legal process called a "cram down," which would allow Rhodes to implement debt cuts over the objections of creditors.
In a statement Monday, the city said it plans to file additional amendments to the restructuring plan before April 14.
Among the new documents filed Monday is one outlining the principal terms of the Detroit Institute of Arts settlement. It sets out the funding formula that includes $366 million from foundations and the museum pledge to raise an additional $100 million.
Orr has said he wants to avoid selling art. Instead, he has proposed accepting $816 million in non-profit foundation donations, the state of Michigan and Detroit Institute of Arts pledges to reduce pension cuts and allow the museum to be transferred to a non-profit. State lawmakers have yet to approve the funding, in part because retirees haven't agreed to accept the offer.
But pensioners would have to vote for the deal, referred to by some as the "grand bargain," and would have to give up their right to sue the state of Michigan over pension cuts.


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Greer, known to his patients as "Doctor Joe," tells them all: If they lose their insurance while under his care, that's OK — he'll continue to treat them, regardless of how much, or little, they can pay.
"When did it become acceptable in my profession," says the 53-year-old physician, "to say 'No' to somebody because they have no money?"...Even today, even after receiving the Medal of Freedom from the president in August, Greer doesn't mince words when talking about insurance companies and the impact they have had on U.S. health care.
"I do get outraged," he says. "Is it acceptable when an insurance company refuses someone for a pre-existing condition? Where in hell is that acceptable? Hell is going to be filled with insurance people. I hope they enjoy all the money they're making."


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North Korea is the best and most advanced country. No other country can beat North Korea. North Korea leads all others in the fields of magnificence, deep joy and successfulness.
Western lies
We've all heard the scare stories about North Korea: the homemade nuclear arsenal built while their people starve and then aimed imprecisely at the rest of the world, a leader so deluded he makes L Ron Hubbard look like a man excessively overburdened with self-doubt and their deep-seated belief that foreign capitalists will invade at any moment and steal all their bauxite.
The popular portrayal of this Marxist nation is something like one of the more harrowing episodes of M*A*S*H, only with the cast of wacky characters replaced by twitchy, heavily armed Stalinist meth addicts
Cracked would like to take a moment to celebrate the good things about North Korea though, the things that the country's enemies prefer to suppress as part of their politically motivated jealousy. Like how no different to you and me, there's nothing every North Korean likes more after an 18 hour shift at the phosphorus plant than a nice beer to go with his dried fish ration. Ever attentive to its people's needs and in the twinkling of a decade, North Korea's leadership bought, disassembled, transported and rebuilt a British brewery in order to discover and reproduce the secrets of beer and then brew the sweet nectar for its hardworking people, up to 18 bottles at a time. And with minimal fatalities. When was the last time YOUR leader got a beer for YOU, American? (NB do not answer this question if you are Henry Louis Gates).
Or how about the fried chicken restaurant that downtown Pyongyang boasts? Yes real chicken, fried and then delivered to your sleeping cube, with optional beer if you like! You don't even have to remove the feathers or pull out the gizzard yourself. Mostly. Americans must eat their fried chicken from a bucket, like swine, sold by a company so secretive that even the very blend of seasoning used is intentionally kept from them. And they call North Korea paranoid?
And how many nations would entertain the syphilitic, bourgeois ramblings of Bill Clinton let alone permit him anywhere near their proud womenfolk? Only wise Kim Jong Il could see past Bill's many, many imperfections and treat him with the pity and kindness he deserves, accepting his feeble pleas to pardon the American spies rightly convicted of photographing the nation's sensitive beetroot fields.
Industrious North Korea invented the can opener. Here we see a monument to the early can-opening pioneers.
Cracked's commitment to balanced journalism naturally means that a small section of each article must present a conflicting view, no matter how unnecessary and insulting. For your own wellbeing however, pay no heed to traitorous claims that North Korea is no more than a target for grim satire (6 Reasons North Korea is the Funniest Evil Dictatorship Ever). Cracked's inclusion of glorious North Korea in their list of Worst Countries is presumably some oversight for which its author will be punished severely. Finally, laugh with righteous derision at the foolish former American president and his A Letter From President Bush to Kim Jong-Il.
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North Korean Achievements
North Korea's greatest achievement is simply the birth of its leader Kim Jong Il, from whose agency all its many wonders have sprung. Official historians record that at the moment of Kim's birth, bears soared through the clouds, the mountains tearfully embraced and the moon sang a number of patriotic anthems. Since this great day North Korea has conquered the heavens, harnessed the atom, fried the chicken and defeated a superpower. Other personal triumphs of Kim's include holding the Olympic 100m sprint record from 1972 to the present day, winning twelve Nobel prizes, six Michelin stars and an Oscar for best adapted screenplay, defeating Hulk Hogan and David Blaine in hand to hand combat and competitive box standing respectively, and seven World Hot Dog Eating titles.


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Oh Matt. Long may your bar mitzvah stand as the ultimate bringer of joy to 13-year-old boys. In the great oral tradition of young men, may this story be passed to your children, your children's children and Nicki Minaj's children's children.
Nicki Minaj was the special guest at New York youngster Matt's bar mitzvah this weekend and the photos have swept the web. She posted the photo above on Instagram with the caption, "Get a load of these little hunks I met last night @ the Bar Mitzvah they were very ummm turnT".
There really is just so much to unpack here. As Gawker put it, "This Is The Horniest Photo of All Time."
And that really weird hand holding? It is a beautiful thing. Not to mention the idea that it cost at least $250,000 for her to perform at the event.
This got us thinking about all of the times things got a bit weird when fans met their favourite artists when forced to pose in front of a vinyl screen. This is the odd other world of the celeb/fan meet and greet.
Avril Lavigne
Poor Avril got a lot of flack when a bunch of photos came out of her standing feet apart from her fans at a meet and greet in Brazil. According to reports, the fans paid $400 to stand near the singer but not get too close. She later told a radio station that she does touch her fans but has to be careful because of security breaches in the past. "If there's been a certain circumstance prior to a meet and greet, someone sneaking into a hotel or doing some shady stuff, they have to take extra precautions when people sneak backstage and stuff. I love my fans," she said.
Justin Bieber
In January 2013, at the very start of the Bieber antics marathon, a photo was posted on his official fan page of what seems like the Biebs groping the breast of a fan at a meet and greet. It does really look like it. Not long after, both a representative from the Bieber team and the woman in the picture said that it was an accident and Bieber was just pulling away. There were rumours that the fan asked Bieber to grab her boob but she denied that too.
Britney Spears
Britney and this particular fan had matching awkward body language backstage at her Femme Fatale show. But we feel for her! We would be that uncomfortable too if we were forced to stand there in that outfit taking pictures. Throw a wrap dress on that woman!
Fifth Harmony
These girls make the fan meet and greet fun. We clicked through dozens of outrageous Fifth Harmony photos before we decided that this was the best one. We saw the girls throwing bills in the air, placing a crown on a young man's head and pretending to be asleep. These ladies are wacky. So if anyone has a lead on how we can get a spot at their next Toronto meet and greet, LET US KNOW!
Miley Cyrus
And while we are shamelessly asking for inside hook-ups, we want in on this Miley Cyrus meet and greet business. Now this is an intentional grope. No one can pretend that this one was accidental. There is something about this photo that is almost yawn-worthy because we wouldn't expect anything else from Bangerz era Miley. But, we truly love her just the way she is.
Aaaaand… Miley Cyrus
No words.
We couldn't compile this list without including the queen of the fan meet and greet, Rihanna. Or as we like to call her after revisiting her fan pictures, Ri-aunchy. Her meet and greet pictures really became popular around the time of Avril's photo controversy, becoming an example of the exact opposite of her awkward body language. We also love this picture of RiRi getting her breasts groped. Hmm… we are starting to see a theme.


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Peer Pressure
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As you grow older, you'll be faced with some challenging decisions. Some don't have a clear right or wrong answer. Other decisions involve serious moral questions. Making decisions on your own is hard enough, but when other people get involved and try to pressure you one way or another it can be even harder.
People who are your age, like your classmates, are called peers. When they try to influence how you act, to get you to do something, it's called peer pressure. It's something everyone has to deal with, even adults. Maybe you want to do it, and you just don't have the courage to do it and your friends talk you into it.
Peer Pressure can be broken down into two areas, good peer pressure and bad peer pressure. When we think of peer pressure we always think of it in terms of bad. We think of peer pressure in terms of pressuring others into, smoking, do illegal drugs, drink alcohol, have promiscuous sex, engage in criminal and quasi-criminal, behavior, do violence, join gangs, and so on.
We rarely think of the many good ways that peer pressure can influence us and neither do the parents of teens. It is tough to be the only one who says no to peer pressure, but you can do it.
Paying attention to your own feelings and beliefs about what is right and wrong can help you know the right thing to do. Inner strength and self-confidence can help you stand firm, walk away, and resist doing something when you know better.
Peers influence your life, even if you don't realize it, just by spending time with you. You learn from them, and they learn from you. It's only human nature to listen to, and learn from other people in your age group. Peers can have a positive influence on each other. Sometimes peers also influence each other in negative ways.
Some kids give in to peer pressure because they want to be liked, to fit in, or because they worry that other kids may make fun of them if they don't go along with the group. Others may go along because they are curious to try something new that others are doing. The idea that everyone's doing it may influence some kids to leave their better judgment, or their common sense, behind.
It can really help to have at least one other peer, or friend, who is willing to say no, too. This takes a lot of the power out of peer pressure and makes it much easier to resist. It's great to have friends with values similar to yours who will back you up when you don't want to do something.
It is very important to proper social development that we do learn to follow the crowd. This is how we learn acceptable social customs that is, how we are expected to act in the world in order to be good people. The
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January 10th, 2017
Assassin's Creed is utterly, delightfully bonkers as a movie. It's really damning the movie with faint praise to say it's probably the best video game film I've ever seen, but that's one statement that it feels very fair to make.
In Assassin's Creed, Michael Fassbender plays a being of pure manpain named Cal, who after being executed for murder finds that it was all a massive fake-out. He's now prisoner in a facility run by the Templars, an organization so secretive that they put their logo on everything, including the outside of the giant building they own in Spain. The Templars also really hate the fact that humans have free will. Templar scientist Sofia (Marion Cotillard) uses Cal to search for the free-will McGuffin "the Apple of Eden" by using his "genetic memory" to make him relive the life of his ancestor Aguilar from 500 years ago and sticking him on the end of a giant mechanical arm that shakes him around like a ragdoll.
The concept of the film is quite stupid. I think, honestly, it's meant to be stupid. You either nope out of the film because your disbelief can't handle this level of suspension after the first ten minutes, or get over the stupidness threshold of the plot. At which point you are free to enjoy the absolutely batshit ride that involves Michael Fassbender being flung around at the end of a mechanical arem while loudly singing, or very memorably, stripping off his shirt for a protracted sequence for no reason other than he presumably knew I would be watching the movie. (Thank you Mr. Fassbender, by the way.)
And it's a very pretty batshit ride, by the way. There's an excellent contrast in the cool pallet of colors used in the "modern" sequences versus the warm in the memories. All of the assassin parkour nonsense is a pleasure to watch. This is a film that's easy to enjoy on purely aesthetic levels, particularly when those aesthetic levels keep you from screaming every time the nonsensical genetic memory thing gets brought up.
I haven't played the Assassin's Creed games myself, though now I'm a bit tempted to try. The friends I saw the movie with reported that they were very pleased that the movie used the mythos but had its own story rather than trying to directly rehash one of the games. They were also happy to report that the modern-time sequences that insisted on punctuating the lengthy sequences of Michael Fassbender and Ariane Labed free running through fake medieval Spain were at least less boring than the ones in the game. So good for that.
Looking back on the movie, I'm pretty sure that it passes the Bechdel-Wallace test handily, thanks to a couple of the villains having a chat about their plans for humanity. I was actually pretty surprised just how many women there were in the movie. The apparent head of the evil organization is an older woman; Sofia is in charge of the project that's using Cal and the other descendants of assassins. Maria (Labed) is a joy to watch, and I'd like to know when we're going to get her movie. Michelle H. Lin gets a pretty significant chunk of screen time in the modern-day bits of the movie. The cast also wasn't entirely Wonderbread white, and I want to call on Michael K. Williams as Moussa as a particular favorite.
It's not a good movie, but it's definitely a fun movie, and in its own way felt less soulless than a lot of scifi action movies I've watched lately. It is beautifully and unabashedly what it is.
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A.M. Three Strikes: Former airman guilty after failed ruse; Man in Gumby suit warns against full-body disguise
A Saturday morning news round-up to help kick off today's CU-CSU Showdown.
LEADING OFF: The Denver Post's Kirk Mitchell is chasing down an overnight homicide in Denver, after a woman was found with multiple gunshot wounds a few blocks from Coors Field. She was pronounced dead a short time later. Police say the shooting happened after a fight broke out following a game between the Colorado Rockies and the San Francisco Giants. Check back at Denverpost.com for updates on the story.
STRIKE 1: In The Denver Post, Jessica Fender details the guilty verdict concluding the three-week trial of former airman Robert Walters, convicted of beating and chocking his girlfriend in 2009, before attempting to cover up her death by staging a car wreck. John Ingold reports on the owner and vice president of an Englewood electronics recycling business, who were indicted in federal court on charges of environmental crimes and fraud.
STRIKE 2: The Colorado Springs Gazette reports that former Springs police officer Joshua Carrier will face trial on all 189 counts related to accusations that he molested 22 children at Horace Mann Middle School and used a video camera to record some of the alleged assaults. The Boulder Daily Camera follows up on the story of Anna Nicole O'Neill, who is accused of stabbing a woman several times in what investigators now believe to be a premeditated attack. The Greeley Tribune reports on a man who was arrested after he sent a Facebook friend request to a woman, after he allegedly broke into her home and stole her cellphone.
STRIKE 3: The New York Times reports on a Staten Island couple who, during a five year period, siphoned at least $2.5 million in federal funds meant to provide nutritious meals and snacks for preschoolers. The Los Angeles Times follows up on the 19-year-old man who entered a 7-Eleven store in San Diego wearing a Gumby suite. The man said the suite was a joke and warns people about wearing chicken suites, gorilla suites or other costumes when going into stores. The Baltimore Sun continues its coverage of a 91-year-old woman who was fatally stabbed during a burglary as they outline how DNA found on a discarded cigarette butt lead police to a suspect.


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In this new timelapse video, woodworker Frank Howarth (previously) demonstrates how he designed and constructed a replica of the Star Wars' Death Star out of bamboo. The Portland-based designer, who also has a degree in architecture from Harvard, shares much of his behind-the-scenes processes through his wildly popular YouTube channel. I expected to skip through different parts of the video, but Howarth has an uncanny ability to film himself working, it really is worth watching the whole thing straight through. Even the sound design is great.


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I've been using Google Analytics for a while, and was absolutely thrilled to hear they were upgrading the services. After waiting with bated breath for a few days, my account was upgraded. After a quick look-over, here's my take on it.
The new user interface is lovely! Don't think Google is only good at back end stuff. They're catching up with Yahoo! in this area (though a lot more can be done to dress up their Gadgets to compete with Yahoo!'s Konfabulator).
My favourite new Google Analytics feature so far is the ability to export graphical reports to PDF. This is useful for presenting reports in a more attractive manner. Previously, I would either settle for an Excel spreadsheet or screen capture the relevant pie charts.
In the new version, all the graphs remain in Flash, but with more dynamic features like a new date range selector. I like the larger world map which gives an overview by region (Americas, Europe, Asia, Africa, Oceania). Clicking on each region lets you zoom into states and cities.
Another feature that will prove to be very convenient, is email notifications. You can now schedule emails to be sent to you regularly, with an attachment containing the latest statistics report. This means you no longer have to remember to log into Google Analytics at a certain date each month and extract the report manually.
However, the new version isn't entirely bug-free. There was an error message when I tried viewing the map with a date ranging from Jan to April 2007, despite my account being active and gathering data for the last couple of years. I hope this is just a temporary kink since a lot of migration is currently taking place.
Another area that can be fine-tuned is the 'Add to Dashboard' feature. When you first log in, you'll see the Dashboard which is very much like the personalised Google News page that has summaries of each topic. Likewise in Analytics, you can drag and drop different windows showing various types of data on your website to re-arrange them. Also, when you go to a specific section for more info, you can click on the 'Add to Dashboard' button to add that data. This in itself is fine.
However, the 'Add to Dashboard' button appears even on sections which have already been added to the Dashboard. You only find out when you click on it, and a message informs you that it's already there. Google should remove the button where it is redundant.
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Wow, the summer has just flown by (as always). Among other things this summer, I've been working hard on creating new units for 6th grade math. I've made an effort to include different "colorable" sections on many of the pages, and all of the units include a couple different Fold it Ups that I've created or tweaked over the years. I just love the Fold It Ups, as I'm sure many of you do.
This one is from my Rational Numbers unit - (it's also in my Fold It Up book, but the labels on that one are black rather than "colorable").
I especially like this one because it gets glued onto a second page, which has a number line. This allows for some flexibility when teaching about negatives, positives, and opposites. The number line can be used during the introduction of the concepts, to label vocabulary on the number line....make it a visual. Or, it can be used during review, when preparing for a test or quiz....students can label when self-quizzing (or quizzing each other)!
The download also includes notes for the inside:-)
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REGION — In a close race for the County Board of Supervisors District No. 5 seat incumbent Bill Horn succeeded in earning the most votes.
Results still need to be verified in the race that teetered back and forth between candidate leads, but at last count Wednesday morning Horn received 51.22 percent of the votes. His opponent Oceanside Mayor Jim Wood earned 48.78 percent of the votes, allowing Horn to squeak by with a 1,378-vote lead.
Wood said he was thankful to supporters, and a bit tired after the race that covered the district's 1,800 square miles that include Oceanside, Carlsbad, Vista, San Marcos and Fallbrook.
He added he was optimistic that he might win.
"Win or loose I enjoyed it," Wood said. "There were no surprises on issues."
The two candidates are markedly different in their leadership approach.
Wood credits himself on his the ability to listen to residents, and get along with fellow politicians of all parties. He said he has worked with county supervisors on regional issues, and was ready to hit the ground running if he was elected as supervisor.
Horn was not available for an interview, but previously stated that he considers himself a straight shooter.
"I know where I stand," Horn said. "My mind can be changed if I have all the facts."
"I'm a very frank person and get right to the point," he said. "You need to deal with the facts. Jim beats around the bush."
Another difference between them is their outlook on future planning and growth.
Horn voted against the county general plan that promotes smart growth.
Wood said he supports the plan.
Wood added future decisions on countywide planning and building will be critical. He said he hopes each project will be looked at on a case-by-case basis, with consideration for quality of life.
Horn (previously) said he voted against the general plan because it infringed on the property rights of farmers.
"It basically confiscated property from property owners who had it for years," Horn said. "I fought for agriculture for 19 years. I want to keep it a viable industry. That moniker I'll take for sure."
Horn has served as county supervisor for 20 years. This win will be his last allowable term.
County Supervisor Ron Roberts ran unopposed and won re-election for the District No. 4 seat, which includes central San Diego.


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Ermm well wrong, I'm always going on about how insecure HTTP is but I'm afraid HTTPS and SSL isn't much better either. The Black Hat Conference at Washington revealed a rather neat tool called sslstrip.
An 'independent hacker' - (I love that phrase!) has apparently figured out how to fool both the website and the browser that a connection is encrypted whilst intercepting the unencrypted communications. He has created a tool to exploit this called SSL strip . The problem is the way SSL is implemented - have you ever wondered why we browse through lots of unencrypted pages building up to the secure page protected by SSL - I mean why not encrypt it all !
This is how the tool works it intercepts the communication when a HTTP site moves to HTTPS (probably when you're just about to hand over your account details and passwords) - sslstrip tricks the server anduser into thinking the connection is encrypted.
SO how does it do this - well basically it runs a proxy on the local network which actually contains a valid SSL certificate (which keeps the browser displaying HTTPS in the address bar)
Then it uses homographic techniques (errm I looked this up - basically exploits the way a url is displayed - uses lots of fake slash marks in the address) The page you are visiting is false but it looks like the correct https://secureserver.com in your address bar.
So everything looks great and super secure and the user types in all the login details on the secure web page - which is actually just a hackers proxy server on the local network. Apparently he tried it on a TOR host and extracted 254 password and user accounts in 24 hours !!!
I expect to see this tool be installed fairly rapidly on free anonymous proxies across the internet. If you are insane enough to carry on using them to do anything other than occasional browsing I'm afraid you'll regret it.
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If you've noticed that FRED searches don't look quite the way that they used to, you're very perceptive. If you haven't, you should probably visit FRED more often.
While we always consider more data a good thing, FRED has been getting a little harder to navigate lately. Knowing this, we wanted to help the FRED users get to the data they were looking for more easily. We've changed a few things about the site and hope that (after a few minutes of orientation) you'll find these new tools as indispensable as we do. So let's navigate to a FRED series and see what kind of trouble we can get into.
To start off, locate the Search FRED box in the header here:
Enter 'GDP' into the Search FRED box --take a deep breath-- and press return.
Before we dive in deeper, let's go over some of the basics. We'll break this area down into three sections:
1.) Let's call this the Series Return Header.
2.) This area can be referred to as the Series Returns List.
3.) Finally, we'll call this the Tags Interface.
The Series Return Header
In the Series Return Header you'll find the bread-crumb trail and page index. This is also where you'll find the Add to Data List and Add to New Graph buttons. Using these buttons in combination with the check boxes next to the data series, you can create a personal list of indicators, or quickly populate a graph for immediate viewing. Here, we'll pay special attention to the drop-down selection to the right of the Add to New Graph button.
This Sort by: drop-down menu allows user to quickly sort the order of the series returns list. By default, the list is sorted by the popularity of each series. This works well to help quickly navigate to series but isn't always exactly what we're going for. For instance, what if we wanted to know which data series had the earliest observation? Using the Sort by: drop-down we could quickly select 'Obs Start' to find out.
Once we have selected Obs Start and sorted our list, it should look something like this:
Notice that FRED has highlighted the start dates of our data series to help us quickly identify this information. This brings us to the Series Return List.
The Series Return List
The Series Return List itself has undergone a little overhaul. Gone are the old columns and rows that were difficult to visually sort through. They have been replaced with larger fonts and titles enhanced with gray backgrounds to help your eye identify them more quickly. All of the pertinent series information is still available below the title, and if you scan down one more row you'll encounter something entirely new to FRED, tags. If any of the tags that you see interest you, simply click on that tag to create a sub-set of the current Series Return List. If this sounds confusing, don't worry. It's easy and we're going to walk you through it all the way to the end.
The Tags Interface
FRED tags themselves are essentially FRED series metadata that have been parsed out to their most finite terms. These metadata allow the user to sort through vast amounts of information very quickly. The tags displayed in the Tags Interface pertain only to the series that we have in our Series Return List. In our case, there are 696 series in FRED that are associated with GDP. Therefore, all of the tags available in the Tag Interface are tags that are associated with these 696 series. Let's move through the interface and then work through an example of how tags can help us quickly sub-set data.
The first place to look is the Selected Tags area. As you add tags to refine your selection, they will populate here. If you wish to remove a tag from your list, simply click the [X] next to the tag. One thing to note is that if FRED knows that one of your original search terms is a tag, it will pre-assign that tag for you. So, as we searched for GDP, and FRED knew what GDP was, the tag has already been assigned. This area also indicates how many series match all of the tags that we have selected. If multiple tags are selected, a Clear All Tags link will show up allowing us to quickly reset our search.
Now, about the Tag Search Area. This area searches the tags available in your data sub-set. In our case this means that it will search only across the tags associated with our 696 GDP series. If we search for 'commercial paper' here, nothing will show up and we'll get a message telling us that there are no related tags.
This makes sense because there aren't any series in FRED that relate to both GDP and commercial paper. But if we search for 'Bureau of Economic Analysis' FRED will find a tag (bea) because this is one possible source of GDP data.
If we hit enter after typing in 'Bureau of Economic Analysis' or simply click on the 'bea' tag, the tag will be assigned and a smaller Series Return List will be displayed. This list will contain only data series that have to do with GDP that are produced by the BEA.
We can see that from our original list of 696 series, only 111 remain. Much more manageable, right?
As we were creating the Tag Interface, we realized two things. The first was that we had a lot of tags. The second was that quite a few of our tags fell into particular groupings. So, in order to reduce the visual clutter that arises from thousands of tags, and to increase the organization of the interface, we, err.., grouped them.
The Sources group will contain all of the sources for the tags you have selected. The sources associated with the tag GDP are displayed here.
A similar drop down will be available for all of the other groups. Most of these you can figure out on your own, but one bears special mention. Geography Types allows the user to select what type of geographic region he or she wishes to define. Do we want county, state, MSA, or national level data? We can define that here.
Beneath all of the tag groupings, a user can find the All group. This is as obvious as it sounds. It is a group of all tags associated with the sub-set of data we have selected. If you're in a browsing mood, this one's for you.
And now, a quick tip. We had to keep tags short. That means that a lot of tags are abbreviations or acronyms. It's not always completely obvious what these mean. Any idea what the tag bi stands for? We know that this could get really confusing, really fast. That's why we've included a large amount of hover-overs with the tags. If we search for the tag 'bi' in the Search Tags box, we can hover over the tag itself without clicking and see that bi does indeed stand for the central bank of Italy, Banca d'Italia.
This is all great, you say. But what if I don't want to search this one group of data? What if I want to start my search over from scratch? Continuing on from when we had the GDP and BEA tags selected earlier, let's say we want to switch gears to unemployment instead of GDP. We can accomplish this in one of two ways. The first method is to return to searching in the Search FRED box as opposed to the Search Tags box. Any time we do this, we will completely reset our search.
The second option would be to use the 'Clear All Tags' link in the selected tags box.
Either one will completely reset the search and let you start from scratch.
But instead of starting from scratch, were going to forge ahead just to show you how efficient tags are at getting to the point. We'll use the Concepts group to select the 'real' tag because we want our data inflation adjusted.
And finally, we'll select our home state of Missouri in the Geographies group.
There you have it, instant Missouri real GDP!
We hope that you like the new layout and the new tools as much as we do. In a world that demands more and more of the time that we have less and less of, efficient tools are precious. If you have any feedback, drop us a line at: email@example.com
The FRED team


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Freeze relief debated in bills
The deal-cutting season starts now for San Joaquin Valley freeze relief.
By this morning, the Senate will pass an emergency spending bill that includes funding for California farmers, farmworkers, dairy producers and small-business owners. It's more money than the House offered, so lawmakers must negotiate a final package.
"We've worked hard to get where we are," said Democratic Sen. Dianne Feinstein. "The losses have been substantial, the disasters have been large, and families that ... lose their farms if they can't make the payments, can be helped by this. So I hope it remains in."
Nonetheless, several potential sticking points will confront congressional negotiators in coming weeks. These include:
Juggling numbers. The Senate bill offers $40 million to help citrus producers replace trees damaged by a sharp January freeze. The competing House bill offers $20 million for the same purpose. In negotiations like this, lawmakers often simply split the difference.
Targeting crops. The House bill includes a $25 million package for California spinach producers who lost sales because of an E. coli-contamination scare last year. The Senate does not include similar funding, and budget hawks have highlighted the spinach money as unnecessary.
Targeting the needy. The Senate bill includes $100 million for farmworkers and small-business owners hurt by natural disasters. The House bill does not offer this money, and some conservatives are leery of public funds going to help illegal immigrant workers.
Defining disasters. Both House and Senate bills cover the waterfront, with money for disasters ranging from freeze to drought. Some critics question this wide scope, which includes in the Senate bill $95 million for farmers who lost milk production due to last summer's blazing heat.
"When some people saw that there was also an appropriation for dairy milk loss, some people actually laughed," Feinstein said, "and I was really offended, because [last July] California experienced two weeks of blistering triple-digit temperatures."
Taken together, the agricultural aid proposals account for roughly $4 billion in legislation primarily designed to fund the U.S. war effort in Iraq and Afghanistan. Language setting timetables for a U.S. military withdrawal from Iraq has already drawn a White House veto threat. The Iraq language fight, in turn, could shape what the rest of the 169-page bill looks like when bargaining stops.
"This is something where the leadership will have to go down the street to the White House," said Rep. Dennis Cardoza, D-Merced.
Already, the Bush administration has admonished Congress for stuffing the Iraq war bill with domestic provisions. The White House has not specified any of the farm items, so far, but the general unhappiness is clear.
"This bill adds billions in unrequested spending that is largely unjustified and nonemergency," the White House's Office of Management and Budget warned.
House and Senate bills reflect different political imperatives. The Senate bill, for instance, includes the $95 million for dairy farmers whose cows died or dried up during a San Joaquin Valley heat wave that drove temperatures above 105 degrees. More than 30,000 cows and calves died in California last summer, while surviving cows produced less milk.
"And what's more," Feinstein added, "this funding can be accessed by dairymen on the Gulf Coast, Mississippi, Louisiana, Arkansas, who also suffered losses."
But the House proposes something different. There, the chairman of the powerful House Appropriations Committee is a Wisconsin Democrat, Rep. David Obey. Obey insisted on a $252 million dairy provision whose primary beneficiaries will be the smaller dairy producers in the Midwest and Northeast.


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Purpose: This procedure outlines the steps for facilities, such as nursing homes or hospitals, to offer state-approved Nurse Aide I training. Federal training and competency requirements are contained in 42 U.S.C. 1395i-3(e) and 42 U.S.C. 1396(r)(e). State requirements can be found in the N.C. General Statute § 131E-255 (PDF, 11 KB) and in the N.C. Administrative Code at 10A NCAC 13D .2304 (PDF, 11 KB).
Contacts: For questions regarding any part of this process, please contact the Health Care Personnel Registry (HCPR) Section's Center for Aide Regulation and Education Branch in the N.C. Division of Health Service Regulation or the N.C. Community College System Office.
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Additional information can also be obtained at the HCPR Section Education Department page.
Procedure to offer a state-approved Nurse Aide I training program:


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This time of year is super busy: What with buying pressies, wrapping them, putting up the Christmas decs, attending parties and nursing hangovers. All of that leaves very little time for food (although somehow we manage to consume more during December than any other time). If you're anything like me, you'll need something a little more substantial than the Galaxy Caramels plucked from a tub of Celebrations, so I've found the best local places serving up good food in double quick time. So, you can have your cake, eat it and go to the ball!
First up, is Simpsons for a bag (or I should say box) of their fish and chips. They're not just the best in my humble opinion, they have actually been named as the UK's best fish and chip shop. They focus on sustainability and really good ingredients. If fish isn't your thing, they do a bloody good battered halloumi and I can personally vouch for their fish finger butties too. I've written a number of blog posts on Simpsons but here's just one of them if you want to find out more about them: Local Eat Treats #1 Aye Aye Yippee, Going to the Chippy.
Fat Toni's do the best pizzas in the county. Their pizza bases are made with sourdough and are all hand-stretched. Each topping is carefully chosen and ethically sourced. What's more, their pizzas come in two sizes: Normal and Mahoosive. The latter being 20 inches in diameter - perfect for this time of year to share with family and friends who pop-in to visit. You can find more about our epic pizza from Fat Toni's here.
Whilst doing the Christmas shopping in Cheltenham, Paparrito's is the perfect place to stop for a burrito. You can eat on the go, but I always tend to make quite a mess, so you might want to grab a table in there and just take ten minutes to rest your feet, put down the shopping bags and enjoy your food. As far as fast-food goes, I'd say this is your 'healthy' option. It's all made fresh and you have the choice of wholemeal wraps and rice too. Of course, once you top it all with lashings of cheese and sour cream the last sentence may not apply. To read more about Paparrito's just click here.
Another great option whilst you're doing the shopping is Real Burger who have just moved to a new place on Winchcombe Street allowing them to have some seating too. As the name suggests, this place does real burgers using 100% pure, grass-fed Gloucestershire beef, finest chicken fillets and freshly baked bread; they also hand cut all of their chips. There are loads of burgers to choose from with my personal favourite being the P.B.J which has peanut butter, raspberry jam, bacon and hot sauce in it - it's a party in the mouth. To find out more about Real Burger you can read this blog post.
I hope these recommendations save you some time over the next week – although I apologise they may not do your waistband any favours.
All that is left for me to say now is that I hope you have a very happy and food-filled Christmas with your nearest and dearest.


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anyone with sponge experience?
I went to the LFS today and they have a beautiful bright red sponge. It's big, about 4 inches long and 2-1/2 inches wide. The color is fantastic. They have had it for 1 month and it is doing great. Now I do have a really nice bright yellow sponge that popped out of nowhere 2 or 3 years ago and it is doing great. It grew to a rock that was touching it, so I moved the rock and now I have 2 beautiful yellow sponges. I really want to get this red one. I know that if they touch air, they will die. The LFS guy, repeated what I already new about this and it made me feel more confident that he seem to know what he was talking about. Well, it's only $40.00 and I really want it but I want to here from you sponge keepers 1st.
Ain't like going down to the pond, cetching bluegills and tommy cats!
post #2 of 5 Old 01-09-2010, 11:50 PM
Depending on the type of sponge it can be toxic. Most sponges though are very beneficial. They remove toxins from the water and depending on the type they can also grow into beautiful formations. I've had white, black, yellow, orange, and this redish purple sponge. They all grow differently and take on different shapes. Yes you'll kill it if it is exposed to air, but you can still save it. Some fish do eat them so check that before you get them and some like high water flow and low light while others need no lighting at all and are completely heterotrophic then others that are completely autotrophic. Some that need high flow and so-forth. Make sure you do some more research and post many PICTURES! you really don't see too many people keeping beautiful formation sponges in the reef and that's sad to me. I wish mine had survived that was really pretty, but i didn't realize that too much water flow was way too much!
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post #3 of 5 Old 01-10-2010, 12:06 AM Thread Starter
I Thankyou for the reply, Did any of yours live? I've had great success with my yellow one but this tomato,red,orange colored one is amazing! HELP!! I WANT IT!!!
Ain't like going down to the pond, cetching bluegills and tommy cats!
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post #5 of 5 Old 01-10-2010, 11:42 AM
Brain, for $40 bucks you just need to go for it, provided it's not of the toxic variety. You work too hard to not treat yourself every once in awhile. (I don't know anyone else who is putting up roofs in sub-zero temps!) Agree with Kells, pictures, pictures, pictures.
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Internet of Things is leading the way for Agile
Every day, hour and minute, devices are becoming connected. The Internet of Things (IoT) has gone from a buzzword to a tangible and quickly advancing movement in the world of IT. Furthermore, a report cited by the MIT Technology Review estimates that by 2020, the number of connected "things" will reach nearly 30 billion.
In fact, organizations across the globe are looking to leverage the power of the IoT revolution for their products, causing major shifts in the way both hardware and software for connected devices are being developed and released.
- The challenges
While there are many benefits to the IoT and the way it is changing the world of embedded systems, it is also shifting the focus of product development. Consumer behavior and expectations are changing, and they not only expect more, but they are coming to expect more, faster.
Consumers have an expectation of frequent product releases and feature upgrades, with great user experience and this expectation puts a big pressure on both the product design and the support system behind it.
Moreover, if, in the past, the development process stopped with deployment, with IoT the growing expectation for post-deployment content and updates is increasing. This is why companies now need enhanced change and management solutions while focusing on testing a greater development cycle.
- The solution
The best solution to these challenges presented by the Internet of Things is the implementation of agile development methodologies. While serial and waterfall methods have been widely used for decades, those methodologies are proving to be inefficient when it comes to IoT.
Agile methodologies and continuous delivery, on the other hand, are very well equipped for dealing with the demands of the connected device. With agile, frequent updates are basically a requirement, satisfying the end user's desire for a constantly updated device, the developer's need for a manageable development schedule, and the business requirements to respond quickly to market needs.
Agile methods also support the use of application release automation. Many tests that are required for security purposes in IoT can be automated, leading to a reduced risk of security flaws in the end product. Also, by automating updates, developers will have more time to create new features and functions for their products.
In the past, engineers and developers worked in silos with different teams, focusing on very specific products or functions. With IoT, the practice of separating teams or functions is no longer profitable, because consumer expectations are fueling the need for more communication between project teams. The agile methodology truly focuses on collaboration between teams. By utilizing the power of newly available tools (provisioning, manipulating, and debugging systems virtually) teams are able to collaborate on products in completely new ways. This results in shorter lead times, faster overall development efficiency, and more product updates and releases.
In the next few years, we can expect that the transition to the Internet of Things will continue to speed up. This is why I personally believe that companies should look to implement agile methodologies into their teams in order to fully take advantage of what it has to offer.


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The idea for the Science Focus Program originated in 1995. Teachers met and worked part-time planning for the Zoo School, and part time teaching at their high schools. The original teachers were Jim Barstow (Social Sciences), Deb Sharp ( English) De Tonack ( Math and Physics) and Jane Obbink (Natural Sciences).
Teaching Staff for the 2015-2016 Academic Year
Mark Anderson: Social Studies
Beth Briney: English
Mark James: Science
Matt Johnson: Math
Emily Seifferlein: Science
The main idea for the focus program was to give students an alternative to regular high school. The teachers' vision consisted of a place where students could come and feel welcome and comfortable enough to express their individual talents and ideas.
The school opened for the 1997-1998 school year, accepting juniors and seniors. Since then the Zoo School is now able to accept sophomores and freshmen.
In 1999, Zoo School created its own Key Club, partnering with the Lincoln Kiwanis Club. Every week, students meet to work on fund-raising, community events, and volunteer work.
The students are also involved in Science Olympiad, Science Day, and History Day
Zoo School's technology consists of a lab of 23 MacBooks, which arrived during our Spring Break of the 13-14 school year. Zoo School works with the Information Technology Program (also with LPS) to gain access to state of the art equipment.
Zoo School has made some changes throughout the years, but the goals remain the same:
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Agent: Conrad Williams
Biography: Kaite is a multi-award winning playwright and radio dramatist.
She has won many awards for her work, including the Peggy Ramsay Award, Manchester Theatre Awards best play of the year, Theatre-Wales Award and the Ted Hughes Award for new works in Poetry for 'Persians' for National Theatre Wales. Widely published and produced, she works internationally.
2016/17 productions including 'Cosy' at Wales Millennium Centre (The Llanarth Group), 'The Almond and the Seahorse' in Estonia and Germany, and the Taiwanese production of 'the 9 Fridas' in Mandarin transferring to Hong Kong Repertory Theatre.
In 2018 she co-created 'richard iii redux' - a one woman show from a politicised disability perspective deconstructing the 'othering' of Richard III for a disabled actress, premiering on International Women's Day, plus 'And Suddenly I Disappear: The Singapore/UK 'd' Monologues', a dialogue about difference, diversity and disability from opposite sides of the world. It premiered in Singapore in May 2018 and will transfer to Southbank Centre, London, 5/9/18, then have a short tour, concluding at Chapter Arts Centre, 11-12 September 2018.
Her plays are collected in the critically acclaimed 'Atypical Plays for Atypical Actors', published by Oberon, with the forthcoming 'The 'd' Monologues' about disability, difference and diversity published to coincide with the UK Autumn tour.
She has written extensively for radio, and she wrote and directed 'Mouth', a Screen Gem, back in 2000. Her first screenplay The Almond and the Seahorse, co-written with Celyn Jones, is in development with Mad As Birds Films.
A veteran of the disabled peoples' movement, she received two Cultural Olympiad Commissions for 'In Water I'm Weightless', part of the official Olympiad Festival during the 2012 London Paralympics/Olympics. A leading figure in the UK's disability arts and culture, she is patron of Disability Arts Cymru and DaDaFest.
2013: Nominated for the inaugural James Tait Black Memorial Prize (drama) for IN WATER I'M WEIGHTLESS
2011: Winner of The Ted Hughes Award for New Works in Poetry, for PERSIANS, a reworking of Aeschylus's classic. Awarded by the Poet Laureate Carol Ann Duffy and The Poetry Society
2009: Finalist in international Susan Smith Blackburn Prize for THE ALMOD AND THE SEAHORSE
2004: Best New Play for PERFECT, Manchester Evening News Theatre Awards.
2003: Best New Writing Award for PEELING, Theatre Wales Awards
1998: Peggy Ramsay Award for most innovative play of the year for YARD
1997: Image Magazine Irish Short Story Writers of the Year Awards
1996: Stand International Short Story Competition - runner-up with MOUTH
1994: Mind/Allen Award - contributor to MUSTN'T GRUMBLE, a prize-winning collection of short stories, published by The Women's Press
AND SUDDENLY I DISAPPEAR, UK tour September 2018
'an impassioned, provocative and constantly stimulating production… demands that difference be celebrated and valued and not merely tolerated' Wales Arts Review
LIE WITH ME (2017, a modern adaptation of La Ronde for the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art)
WOMAN OF FLOWERS (2014. A commission from Forest Forge. Drawn from the Mabinogion. World premiere and UK tour)
"Kaite O' Reilly's script sparkles with her trademark wit and use of evocative language which feels, although heightened, completely naturalistic… I was left quite exhausted but elated after 80 minutes of emotional ups and downs but with a renewed sense of value for my independence and freedom."
Disability Arts Online
"Captivating… Kaite O'Reilly's play… takes elements of ancient Welsh myth and splices them with something more contemporary and sinister…"
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Lyn Gardner's Pick of the Week - The Guardian
THE 9 FRIDAS (2014. A commission from Sherman Cymru. World premiere in Mandarin at the Taipei Festival directed by Phillip Zarrilli)
IN WATER I'M WEIGHTLESS (2012. To be produced by National Theatre Wales in July 2012, directed by John McGrath, part of the Cultural Olympiad to celebrate the 2012 London Olympics and Paralympics. Premiering July 23rd at Wales Millennium Centre, Cardiff, and transferring to London's South Bank Centre as part of the official Olympic and Paralympic festival)
LEANER FASTER STRONGER (A commission from Chol Theatre in a co-production with Sheffield Theatres. Directed by Andrew Loretto, as part of the Cultural Olympiad. May 2012. Sheffield Crucible Theatre, then touring in 2013)
THE ECHO CHAMBER (The Llanarth Group. A performance text co-created with Ian Morgan, Phillip Zarrilli and Peader Kirk. Premiering at Chapter Arts Centre, Cardiff, in January 2012)
2011 TOLD BY THE WIND (The Llanarth Group,The Dance Centre, Chicago, USA)
PEELING (A new production by Forest Forge Theatre Company, directed by Kirstie Davies. Regional tour)
THE ALMOND SEAHORSE (Staged reading at The Irish Repertory Theatre, New York, USA)
PERSIANS (2010. A new version of Aeschylus' PERSIANS for National Theatre Wales. A site-specific production on Ministry of Defence land in Brecon, directed by Mike Pearson. August 2010. Cited as one of the outstanding cultural events of 2010 by The Guardian, Telegraph, and Sunday Times)
TOLD BY THE WIND (For The Llanarth Group. Dramaturg and writer in a co-creation with Jo Shapland and Phillip Zarrilli. Premiered at Chapter Arts Centre, Cardiff, then toured to TanzFabrik, Berlin; Exeter Phoenix and Grotowski Institute, Wroclaw, Poland)
I FALL TO PIECES (One woman show on survivors of the mental health system. Co-directed with Phillip Zarrilli. DaDaFest International Festival)
A LIBRARY OF HANDS: THE EVORA BOOKS (Dramaturg/tutor for site-specific performance project in Evora's historic library, with director Phillip Zarrilli. Escrita na Paisagem Performance Festival, Evora, Portugal)
THE 'D' MONOLOGUES (2009. Rehearsed readings at National Theatre Studio; Cardiff Disability Pride; Unity Festival, Wales Millennium Centre)
THE ALMOND SEAHORSE (2008. Sherman Cymru Theatre Company. Directed by Phillip Zarrilli. Premiere in Cardiff, then national tour)
THE ALMOND SEAHORSE (2007. Workshop and rehearsed reading. Directed by Sandy Shinner. Madison Rep' New Play Festival, USA)
IN PRAISE OF FALLEN WOMEN (2006. The Fingersmiths Ltd, Drill Hall. London. Writer and director of bilingual performance. English/BSL)
SPEAKING STONES (2005. Theatre Asou, Austria. Director Phillip Zarrilli. Grotowski Centre, Poland. English language premiere).
SILENT RHYTHM (2004. Liverpool International Live Art Festival commission. Writer and director. Bluecoats/Tate gallery)
HENHOUSE (Arcola Theatre London, by Glossalaila Theatre. Director Bill Hopkinson)
PERFECT (Contact Theatre Manchester. Director John McGrath)
PEELING (2002/3. Graeae Theatre Company. Director Jenny Sealey. Two National and European tours. Chosen for British Council 'Best of British' showcase at Assembly Rooms, Edinburgh Fringe Festival 2003)
SPEAKING STONES (2002. Theatre Asou, Austria. Director Phillip Zarrilli. A site-specific performance inside an underground quarry, Aflenz, and Theatre Im Palais, Graz, Austria)
BELONGING (2000. Birmingham Repertory Theatre. Director Anthony Clark)
SLACHTHAUS (1999. In repertoire for two years. The Maxim Gorki Theatre, Berlin)
YARD (2001. Translated by Frank Heibert. Directed by Martin Kloepfer)
YARD (1998. The Bush Theatre London. Director Julie-Anne Robinson)
Radio drama:
WALKIE TALKIES (2008. Radio monologue for Liverpool Freethinking Festival. Directed by Justine Potter for BBC Radio 3)
BORAH BISTRA (2007. International Radio drama commission to commemorate 60th Anniversary of Partition. BBC Radio 3, transmitted 19 August. Directed by Shabina Aslam, diversity director of BBC radio drama)
REAN'S GIRLS (2006. Adapted from Foursight Theatre production for BBC Radio 4. Afternoon Play. Director: Kate Chapman)
AMBUSHED BY TIME (2005. BBC Radio 4 Friday Night Theatre. Director Roland Jaquerrillo for Fiction Factory)
PEELING (2003. BBC Radio 3 Sunday Night Theatre. Director David Hunter)
DROUGHT (2003. BBC Radio 4 afternoon play. Director David Hunter)
LOVES OUT OF STEP (2001. BBC Radio 3 The Wire. Experimental radio drama. Director David Hunter)
THE STORYTELLER (1994. BBC Radio 4 The Afternoon Play. Director Clare Grove)
MOUTH (2000. Writer/director of short film - Screen Gems. Channel 4/Sgrin. Screened at various international short film festivals and on general release as a 'B' movie throughout Wales and England 2000-01)
STIGMATA (2000/1. BBC2 television - 60 minute film commission. Trained in screenwriting on BBC Screen on Two six month writer's attachment. Shortlisted to final four, but the initiative was axed)
BBC Wales Writers' Laboratory (1999. Trained in screenwriting during six month residency at BBC Wales, Llandaff)
Honorary Fellow, Drama Department, Exeter University
Fellow in International Research Centre Interweaving Performance Cultures, Freie Universitat, Berlin. An on-going residency, 2011-13.
Published plays:
MOTHER/DAUGHTER MONOLOGUES VOLUME 1: BABES AND BEGINNINGS (2010. Edited by Emily Cicchini and Dr Gretchen Elizabeth Smith. Contributor. International Centre for Women Playwrights)
THE ALMOND AND THE SEAHORSE (2008. Sherman Cymru plays)
HENHOUSE (2004. Oberon Contemporary Plays)
PEELING (2003. GRAEAE: PLAYS REDEFINING DISABILITY. Edited by Jenny Sealey. Aurora Metro)
PEELING (2002. Faber & Faber single play texts)
BELONGING (2000. Faber & Faber single play texts)
YARD (1998. Bush Theatre play scripts)
Edited collections:
FACE ON: DISABILITY ARTS IN IRELAND AND BEYOND (2007. Editor and contributor. Arts Disability Ireland/Create)
SHELF LIFE (2002. An anthology of poetry and prose by those with a reduced life expectancy. Editor. National Disability Arts Forum, UK)
Anthologised short stories/prose:
LIVING WHERE THE NIGHTS JIVE (2008. Parthian. Editor: Maggie Hampton)
'CF11' CARDIFF CENTRAL (2003. Gomer. Editor: Fran Rhydderch)
CATWOMEN FROM HELL (2000. Honno Press)
MAMA'S BABY (PAPA'S MAYBE) (1999. Parthian. Editor: Richard Lewis)
PHOENIX IRISH SHORT STORIES (1998. Phoenix. Editor: David Marcus)
IMAGE MAGAZINE (1997. Short story winner)
NEW WRITING 3 (1994. British Council/Minerva. Editor: Andrew Motion)
MUSTN'T GRUMBLE (The Women's Press. Editor: Lois Keith)