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Animal Wildlife | Leopard Seal | The leopard seal is the second largest species of seal in the world (behind the elephant seal) with some female leopard seals growing to 3.5 m in length!The bull leopard seal (male leopard seal) is generally smaller than the female leopard seal with large males growing to around 3m.The leopard seal is native to the frozen waters of the Antarctic but is also found to the north in the warmer climates.Leopard seals are often seen near South America,South Africa,New Zealand and around the south coast of Australia often in the warmer waters that are on close proximity of the frozen seas which the leopard seal thrives.
The leopard seal is a dominant predator in its environment and is rarely preyed upon by other animals with the exception of human hunters, the occasional desperate shark or killer whale . The leopard seal eats krill and plankton in the water but the leopard seals prefer to hunt larger fish and squid. Leopard seals have also been known to occasionally hunt even larger animals such as penguins. Leopard seal can live for more than 25 years, with this often depending on the size of the leopard seal and the skills of the leopard seal, as far as hunting goes. Leopard seals are extremely dominant and aggressive predators in their environment.
Like other species of seal , theb uses its hind limbs in order to push the leopard seal through the water. Leopard seals have also developed strong front limbs that help the leopard seal to be more agile in the water. The way in which the leopard seal uses its front limbs in conjunction with its hind limbs, is very similar to the way in which seal lions move about.
The Leopard Seal is a solitary animal with the leopard seals only coming together in small groups when it is time to mate. The female leopard seal digs herself a hole in the ice and the leopard seal pup is born after a gestation period of about 9 months, during the Antarctic summer time. The female leopard seal weans and protects her leopard seal pup until the leopard seal pup is big enough and strong enough to be able to fend for itself.


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Those well-versed in Scripture know that Matthew 25:31–45 sticks out like the open hand of a hungry panhandler. It's hard to ignore, yet many aren't sure what to do about it other than toss some spare change at the problem and hurry away.
Christians believe that this oft-quoted passage about serving the "least of these" is a central theme of the Bible, impossible to ignore. The theory goes that as Christ served us in dying and resurrecting for our sake, so we must symbolically die to our selves, be reborn and spend our lives serving others in love.
It's not easy. In fact, it's probably one of the hardest things about being a follower of Christ. What with all the social crises in the world today, it's hard not to feel small and helpless. Still, there are many ways to serve others, and even the smallest steps can be transforming for both the servant and the served. Here are some basic ways to take those first few steps:
1. Build a well
Lack of clean water kills nearly 150 children every hour in Africa. But the injustice of human beings dying from dirty water is something we can eliminate with minimal effort. The best way to help is to contribute to a water project in an African community. These projects build wells that provide water, health and hope to Africa. Go to www.bloodwatermission.com to learn more about how to help.
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2. Speak for the hungry
More than 852 million people around the world suffer from hunger. Most of us do a decent job stocking food pantries, serving at homeless shelters and raising funds for hunger charities, but few of us lobby organizations like our churches or government to offer greater aid to hungry people around the world. Learn who your representatives, leaders and pastors are and contact them about the problem of hunger. The financial means are there to wipe it out. The United Nations Development Program estimates that the basic health and nutritional needs of the world's poorest people could be met for an additional $13 billion a year—less than the amount of money animal lovers in the United States and Europe spend annually on pet food.
3. Volunteer at a women's shelter
Millions of women around the world are victims of sex trafficking, domestic violence, poverty and other types of repressive conditions. But there are many ways to empower these women. Be willing to adopt a child who might otherwise be aborted, or offer to feed, clothe, shelter and nurture a young unwed mother and her child. Volunteer at your local shelter for battered women and children. Be ready to help a victim of domestic abuse by learning the signs of abuse, the steps of preparation for a woman to escape an abusive situation and your local shelter's address and phone number.
4. Buy fair trade products
Fair Trade allows farmers and artisans in poor countries to get better prices for their goods; it also discourages exploitative working conditions and pushes for measures that protect the environment and improve producers' quality of life. Supporting Fair Trade can be as simple as buying products from Fair Trade vendors instead of mass-market chain stores. Learn more about the movement from the many informational websites just a Google search away; then spread the word, telling others to buy Fair Trade products and asking your local grocers to consider carrying products that are Fair Trade certified.
5. Serve as a mentor
The destructive gang lifestyle glamorized by popular culture beckons many vulnerable children, and without adult guidance, there is little hope that they will be able to resist the call to join gangs. The problem of gangs may seem daunting, but there are ways to help. Mentor a troubled youth, especially one whose mother or father is in jail for gang-related activity or who has been or is in a gang himself or herself. Your positive influence and caring can impact the life of a young person who has few or no role models.
6. Work with AIDS patients
Every day 8,500 people are killed by HIV/AIDS. The pandemic is spreading like wildfire across different parts of the world, particularly in Africa, Asia, Russia and the United States. If you'd like to help fight the war on HIV/AIDS, learn the facts and work to make sure those around you know the truth about the illness. Get involved with a local hospital that has a need for volunteers to minister to those with AIDS and HIV. Take a short-term missions trip to a country where HIV/AIDS is rampant and offer aid to the sick and their families. If you have the means, consider adopting or becoming a foster parent to an infant or child with HIV/AIDS.
7. Support the troops and support peace
Jesus said, "If anyone slaps you on the right cheek, turn to them the other cheek also" (Matthew 5:39–40, TNIV), and "Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you" (Matthew 5:44, TNIV). Scriptures like these inspired early Christians to refuse to become involved in war. In fact, until the time of Constantine, no Christian writing allowed for Christians to participate in war. Today, as our nation wages wars in foreign lands, we can take action by getting involved with pacifist organizations and participating in peaceful anti-war protests. Show support for our troops by sending care packages and letters to soldiers, telling them that we are praying for them as they struggle through the hardship of war. And ask your political representatives to vote against unnecessary or unreasonable military action.
8. Reduce your waste and consumption
In October 2005, anti-poverty organization World Bank reported that nearly one-fifth of health problems and millions of deaths in poor countries can be attributed to environmental factors like climate change and pollution. Many today suffer from the unfortunate misconception that we can exploit the natural resources of the earth without consequence, despite our call to be conscientious stewards of the earth God created. We all play a vital role in protecting and caring for the environment. You can help by making small changes in your lifestyle. Consider reducing meat and other animal products from your diet. Buy locally grown and organic produce. Drive a fuel-efficient car or try to drive less. Take measures to ensure that your home is as energy-efficient as possible. Reduce, reuse and recycle.
9. Befriend the poor
Jesus said, "The poor you will always have with you" (Matthew 26:11, TNIV). Indeed, in the world today, solutions to the problem of poverty continue to elude us. Still, there are ways to help, specifically on the local level. Volunteer with a street ministry. Put in hours at a local homeless shelter and get to know the homeless people in your community. Help build homes with organizations like Habitat for Humanity. Love and help your neighbors, and treat the homeless on the street like human beings, rather than vermin to be eliminated, avoided or ignored.
Overwhelmed? Don't be. You don't need to do all of these things, especially not today. Where you go from here depends on how motivated you are to learn about the many ills that plague our world, equipping yourself with the tools to reach out, lovingly and prayerfully caring for all of God's precious creation. This is the revolution that must take place—it is not a worldly revolution through which we strive to create some soulless communist machine. It is instead a personal revolution, a communal revolution; above all, it is what Mother Teresa once called a "revolution of love." Rather than relying on anger, bitterness and even violence to bring about change, we—militants of this revolution of love—use weapons of charity, love, peace and willful self-sacrifice to serve others using the richness of our talents. Though only God can eradicate all the world's ills in His time, while we're here on this earth, we can each fulfill His ultimate command to love our neighbors as ourselves and to serve the "least of these."
Heather Zydek is the editor of The Revolution: A Field Manual for Changing Your World (RELEVANT Books).

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This is an archived article that was published on sltrib.com in 2013, and information in the article may be outdated. It is provided only for personal research purposes and may not be reprinted.
Gene Montoya says when he alerted bosses at the Heber Valley Railroad to serious safety problems, they demoted him from rail inspector/foreman to laborer and ignored his warnings.
When he took his concerns to state rail and work safety agencies, documents show he was fired a week after inspectors cited the railroad for violations. No reason was given for his dismissal.
Montoya is now battling the railroad over whether he was fired illegally in retribution for being a whistle-blower, and whether the popular but old tourist train is safe on it trips on state-owned tracks from Heber City to Deer Creek Dam or Vivian Park in Provo Canyon.
Montoya sees that fight as akin to the movie "Jaws," when a police chief argues with a mayor about whether to close a tourist city's beaches on a lucrative holiday because of a possible man-eating shark. The beaches remain open, and shark mayhem follows.
"I feel like Chief Brody. I'm telling you there's a shark in the water, and you're telling me it's the Fourth of July. You don't let me go out there and work on the track. Instead you've got me sweeping the shop? Really?" he says he told bosses, and adds that the railroad often refused to spend money on needed repairs and tools.
But Mark Nelson, executive director of the railroad, insists Montoya was not fired because he is a whistleblower, though he says he can't discuss the real reasons because of likely litigation.
He rejects Montoya's allegations of safety problems.
"Safety," Nelson says, "is our highest priority and we have a great safety record."
Documents support some of both men's assertions and fuel a debate over whether Montoya was railroaded or is whistle-blowing things out of proportion.
Concerns • Montoya says he was hired by Heber Valley about 18 months ago as a rail inspector and foreman after he worked 36 years on other railroads.
"I can read a railroad like a book. I can tell you the history of a railroad, and I can tell you they had not done any [major] work on the track for 10 years," he says. Montoya says signs included lack of proper ballast rock in the track bed, ties breaking in the middle because of that, too much elevation on some curves that led to grinding away rails as a train's weight shifted, and other problems.
He started working to correct them, he says, and fixed most. But he says the line lacked adequate equipment, including even proper shovels. He says whenhe asked supervisors to buy them he was told, "We don't have money for that."
Montoya says he then paid for the equipment himself and was never reimbursed.
Worker safety was being ignored in other ways, too, he says.
He tells of a supervisor swinging the arm of a track crane into a power line and shooting electricity through rails where workers were then telling them to be quiet about it. And he says a train traveling too fast crashed through barriers into an end-of-line workshop, and workers there were told by the same supervisor who drove the train that it was somehow their fault.
Nelson refuses to talk about specific allegations because of possible lawsuits. But he stresses that "we have access to or have all of the tools that we need to provide a safe inspection environment and operation environment."
Accidents • Montoya's hand was crushed in November 2012 by heavy train wheels that he says were not properly secured and were being moved on a forklift driven by a man not certified to use it (use of forklifts by noncertified drivers would later be cited as a serious violation at the railroad by the Utah Division of Occupational Safety and Health, or OSHA).
Montoya was out of work for months with the injury and says no one worked on track maintenance in his absence.
He says an employee assigned to inspections without proper training warned officials of a problem with the track not holding proper gauge, or width, at a certain point that could lead to a derailment, but the warnings were ignored.
A train did derail on March 26. Nelson won't comment about whether the railroad was warned of problems at the site, but says the accident was minor and caused no injuries.
"I was on that train. It was in the evening. There was never any danger. The passengers got some free candy and sodas" as they waited for another train to come and take them to the depot, Nelson says. He adds passengers "were cheering as we pulled back into the depot" about an hour and a half late. He says the derailment was reported immediately to the Federal Railroad Administration.
Some 4.6 miles of track were taken out of service for a month after the derailment, according to Heber Valley records obtained by The Tribune through an open records request.
Demotion, firing • Montoya says when he returned to work July 8, Nelson told him, "Gene I don't know what to do with you. I'd be a fool to put you with [the supervisor he complained about] after the safety concerns you raised. Go home." He says he was brought back to work two days later, and told he would be a shop laborer and no longer was a track inspector/foreman.
He says he was put to work on top of 14-foot-high train cars cleaning them with compressed air with his bad hand. He complained ladders were not tall enough to reach the top and he ended up falling off a car.
Montoya raised his concerns about workplace safety with OSHA and track safety with the Utah Department of Transportation. OSHA made an inspection on July 25, and UDOT made one on July 29, records show.
OSHA found what it called 18 "serious" violations, but issued no fines. Records show they included: numerous violations for not protecting employees working around asbestos in cars, using highly compressed air for cleaning, employees working on roof of trains without fall protection, using forklift operators who were not certified, and a lack of safety protection on a variety of shop equipment.
"They are all issues that we are resolving," Nelson says, "and will be fully compliant." He adds some shop tools and machinery it uses on the old trains is more than 50 years old and "were built before there was an OSHA" and lack safety guards it is working to provide.
Montoya says the day after the OSHA inspection, he was sent home for a week without explanation. He says he came back for a day, was sent to pull weeds on the road with his bad hand, fainted in the heat, and was taken to a hospital. The next day he was fired without explanation, a letter of dismissal he has shows.
Rail inspection • Because Montoya had complained to UDOT that Heber Valley lacked rail inspections, UDOT conducted an inspection on July 29.
"One of the key elements is that our inspector did find out that Mr. Montoya was relieved of his duty," says Robert Hull, engineer for traffic and safety for the agency that oversees highways and rails. So UDOT's official asked who was Heber Valley's inspector. "They informed him that they didn't have one. He [the UDOT official] informed them that was a serious oversight."
Inspection forms show that UDOT cited Heber Valley for not inspecting tracks with required frequency, and for failing to keep proper written records of inspections.
Nelson says Heber Valley has since hired a contractor to inspect the track weekly. He says before that (and after Montoya was injured), "We had employees inspecting, and then we had a couple of third parties do inspections. I believe in the 18 months that I have been in charge of the railroad there's been perhaps one week that we haven't [inspected tracks]. We've never gone longer than two weeks."
However, Montoya not only claims that few adequate track inspections were occurring, but also that any problems found were not fixed but were mitigated merely by putting a "slow order" for the train to go slower than 5 mph or 10 mph in such areas.
Heber Valley documents obtained by The Tribune show that since Montoya quit inspecting in November 2012, "slow orders" were implemented at four different points on the line. The shortest lasted three days, and the longest was for five months but one was lifted only because the train discontinued going on that part of the track during winter.
Safe? • Some records back Nelson's assertion that the Heber Valley Railroad has a safe record.
UDOT inspects the rails every few months. Hull describes that as a "quality assurance" step mostly to ensure the railroad itself is inspecting and maintaining the tracks.
UDOT has an extra interest because the state owns the tracks, but leases them to the Heber Valley Historic Railroad Authority an independent agency set up by the Legislature to operate the train. It is governed by an eight-member board whose membership is set by state law, and must include such officials as the mayors of Heber and Midway.
Records show UDOT inspected the tracks, or sections of them, eight times over the past year. Five of the eight found no problems. One, as noted, complained about the lack of a Heber Valley inspector. The other two inspections noted some needed repairs to tracks. Hull says UDOT does follow-up inspections to ensure needed repairs it notes are completed.
Meanwhile, Federal Railroad Administration records show a generally good safety record for the railroad over the past 10 years. It reflects information submitted to it by the railroad and UDOT. FRA generally does not inspect tourist railroads itself to focus its resources on mainline rails, says FRA spokesman Rob Kulat.
Between 2003 and 2012, the data shows three accidents two in 2005 on Heber Valley's main line and one in 2009 in its yard. Five passengers were injured in the 2005 accidents. Another four passengers were reported as injured in "other incidents," all in 2007.
No fatalities occurred over the 10 years.
In that 10-year period, Heber Valley's trains traveled a total 133,273 miles, and carried 746,934 passengers. In 2012, it carried 54,261 passengers.
The railroad is currently offering its North Pole Express trains through Christmas Eve, which Nelson said are its more popular and crowded runs of the year.


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Thursday, April 21, 2011
The Exchange
Me, rambling about music with Todd, editor of RA (requires you to be signed in to grab it).
In conjunction, win a one-of-a-kind Skream 12" on Keysound and a Balistiq Beats "Yardman" TP.
Wednesday, April 13, 2011
Sunday, April 10, 2011
Lost Tour mix
So last year we were luckily enough to do some US dates with The XX and as preparation for the tour, were asked to do a studio mix for Fader mag. Dusk and I put it together in September, submitted it and got on with things. But for some reason Fader Mag chose not to use the mix - we never found out why.
As DJs Dusk and I are pretty committed to the 'upfront selection' guiding principle. The thinking goes, to us anyway, if we're not offering you some sounds you don't already know, why should you listen to our Rinse show or club sets, right?
Needless to say 7 months after we made it, some of these records are no longer upfront. But we put time and love into this mix so we'd hate for it to be entirely lost. We leaked it to the Salisbury Sessions Facebook group last week, but here it is for everyone. We hope you find something you enjoy...
Dusk + Blackdown present the NYC to ATL via LDN - Lost Tour mix Oct10 by Dusk + Blackdown
***Dusk + Blackdown present the NYC to ATL via LDN mix for The XX***
October 2010
Wiley & MJ Cole "From the Drop" [Prolific]
Wiley & MJ Cole "From the Drop [LVis 1990 mix]" [Prolific]
Rishi Romero "African Forest" [Made In NL]
Dusk + Blackdown "Dasaflex" [unreleased]
Gella "Twinkle Ft. Spyda (Baobinga & ID Remix)" [Bass = Win]
Mickey Pearce "What's Mickey Talkin' About? ft Ms Dynamite" [Blunted Robots]
Sully "It's Your Love" [unreleased]
Double Helix "Chamber of Light" [Keysound]
Vibezin "Hot 4 U" [forthcoming Keysound]
S-X "Woooo (Teeza remix)" [unreleased]
Balistiq Beats "Yardman Riddim (instrumental)" [forthcoming Keysound]
Balistiq Beats "Yardman Riddim ft Riko" [forthcoming Keysound]
Joker "Gully Goon Estate (Gully Brook Lane remix by Terror Danjah)" [Hardrive]
Damu "Ridin" [unreleased Keysound]
Trim "Confidence Boost (Harmonimix)" [unreleased]
Jamie Woon "Night Air (Ramadanman remix) [Candent Songs]
Monday, April 04, 2011
Sailsbury Sessions vol 1
At our album launch at Plastic People, Benji Bars rewound my copy of Omni Trio "Thu the Vibe (2-on-1 mix)" so hard I thought he'd break it. I took that as a compliment.
So when he said he was going to start his first night in the back of a massive old pub on Green Lanes, 50 feet from where "Margins Music" cover was shot and where we drove past with Goodz for the video, well... we thought we'd help him out.
So come join us, especially if you like the best kofte kebab in London. Double Helix is doing a jungle set, muttered something about Hidden Agenda 12"s but dont hold him to it. It'll be like a lock in but with more dubs. Oh and it's free.
Dusk & Blackdown (RInse FM, Keysound)
Double Helix (LHF) [Jungle Set]
Amen Ra b2b Vibezin (United Vibes)
Benjybars (Spatchcock)
Nath (Eyes Down)
Bukowski (Eyes Down)
Salisbury Sessions Vol.1
9th April The Salisbury, Green Lanes
PS visit the Facebook group for a little cheeky gift...
Friday, April 01, 2011
Twice fly: Teeth
Recently my Pitchfork column featured Teeth. Here's the full transcript. Oh and check the discography at the end if you think you've over achieved this week...
Can you introduce yourself, who are you, where are you from etc?
My name is Matti Pentikäinen, from Helsinki Finland. I work under the alias Teeth.
Can you tell me a bit about the music you've been making recently?
Teeth is a logical continuum of music I've grown up making. A hybrid thing. My background is in West Coast underground Project Blowed / Good Life Café -style hiphop (worked actively with my rap group between 1990 and 2006, recorded for EMI Finland among others). In the latter part of the 90s the sound of Ceebrolistics, my group, started developing towards electronic music, geared mainly by Warp style experimentations and Berlin techno, especially the dubbier side of the sound, Rhythm & Sound and stuff. In the turn of the century, we developed a soundsystem-style routine rapping on top of monotone, chord-filled techno, I remember Main Street Round 4 being my ultimate choice at the time. 2004-05 dubstep emerged as a logical step in the continuum.
The aesthetics and the means we had been combining for years were all of a sudden in a uniform package; the dub side (from Berlin/Detroit techno), the emphasis on the drums and the rhythm (from hip hop) and the 140bpm (ideal for styles, or double time rhyming). All we had to do was to add our raps.
So after a lengthy rap-induced prefix, Teeth follows the same path. My emphasis nowadays in on the rhythm and the stripped aesthetics. Rawness, if you will. I'm a pretty black and white person, simply into drum machines, garage swing and an impact.
What does it mean to you to be on 502?
502 is the future. Quite simply, Oneman is on point. The Jay Weed songs on the last 12" are some of my favorite music of late, a beautiful mixture of rhythm-driven percussions, space, concentration and somehow the same rooted feeling I get from the DMZ releases, especially the earliest ones. Even though 502 is only three releases strong, there's a sense of a sound they're after. I like that.
How did "Shawty" come about, why did you pick 147bpm and where did the sample come from?
The sample is the first 2 seconds of a pretty well-known pop song, actually one of my favorites of late. My wife's into the record and she was listening to it all the time last summer. One day, having started working on a rhythm, an instrumental predecessor of "Shawty," Maria put the sample on at home. I connected the dots, the stem and the sample, and finished the song the next day.
What was it like to play DMZ and Rinse?
My first attempt at Rinse was a bit of a fail (the mixer had blown up an hour before I was due on). I've also had a karma of sleeping past major parties I've wanted to attend. This happened to my first attempt at DMZ (as well as twice with Dub War in NYC). So finally getting to DMZ and Rinse was a win. I was years late with my DMZ initiation, but still the night Mala and Loefah put on was extraordinary. Honored to play both places, despite the minor technicals.
Tell me about Desto, the man who tipped us off to you?
Desto is the missing link, hahah. No, seriously, I am a big fan of Desto. Not just production-wise, but also as a person. After all he introduced us a while back, right? He's also a vital part of the recent Teeth past. I've used him as a filter before sending my songs to the world. We give each other feedback on music. If the arrangement of a tune is f'd up, I can trust in getting meaningful feedback to make it right. A helper. In a nutshell, he breakdances and makes incredible music. Enough said.
He also tells the most amazing stories about going round to Hatcha's house and meeting three generations of Hatch's family. This story is the stuff of keysound legends, ask Dusk after our trip to Tampere. Anyway, ahem... What is living in Finland like?
Have to say, I like Finnish people. Even though the weather can be completely foul for 7 months of the year, the people are cool. Finns get to the core of things, without too much hassle. Case example Dead-o, who started trading cassettes with a couple of Californian underground rappers and ended up starting an entire movement in Finland. I feel it's due to the "hermit work" of people like Dead-o, that Finns end up coming up with interesting variations to brewing phenomena.
Who else from Finland should we look out for?
The following names are in no particular order. Coming down from 140bpm: Non Person, Desto, RRKK, Clouds, Tes La Rok, JKRL, LAS,... A whole bunch of interesting music and a lot of people with abbreviations for names. Coming up from 120bpm: Renaissance Man, Femme En Fourrure and Lil Tony. DJ's (besides everyone mentioned in the 140bpm list): Anonymous, Tanelee and Smoodie. Otherwordly: Vladislav Delay, Samuli Kosminen (the drummer for Islandic Múm), Matala, Huoratron, and Lunne. Rap: Kylmä and SRKKPJT.
Can you tell me about the experience of writing music. Why do you write music? When you write music, who or what are you thinking about? How do you feel?
Have to admit, Teeth is pretty purpose driven. I'm a father of a three year old, so my production hours are limited. It's a process of to do-lists and 'get shit done'. Having said this, I enjoy working like this, setting goals, pushing myself and coming up with a finished outcome. My aim is for impact and straightforwardness. A lot of stuff I've done along the years has been fluctuating, blurred and undefined, like Aavaavaa my poem book / cd-project from 2005, but Teeth is focused.
Many of the scenes you mention (UK dubstep and electronica, US rap, German dub techno – one thing that links them is their geographical distance from Finland. Do many of the big canons of underground music traditionally seem distant to you in Finland or does enthusiasm for them and internet connectivity make them feel close? Do you think your relative geographical distance from say, LA, New York, London or Berlin (the sources of some of your inspirations) make any difference to how you make and enjoy underground music? I'm especially interested in the difference between say "inspired by" and "contributing to?"
Our initiation to West Coast rap was in the era of trading cassette tapes, rote learning underground music mags, and meticulously studying the credit lists of existing records to get to know what was going on in California. Ultimately pre-internet. So I think some of that is still present in how we perceive these phenomena.
We definitely perceive the flow of ideas a bit differently here. I feel there's a continuum of sound development and living off the heart of it all gives you a possibility to approach the development from an angle. To twist it slightly Finnish, slightly boondocks.
On that note, how do you think of your music in terms of genres or likeminded (international) producers? You write at 147, 130...
Guess I'm aiming at fitting the aforementioned continuum, in one way or another.
Why did you call yourself Teeth?
Names are weird. Whimsical ideas of what sounds good, and then you stick with one. Teeth stuck.
Did you really hurt your teeth in an ice hockey incident before DMZ? Tell us about that or was ASBO making it up?
My cheek actually. Yup, I got hit by a hockey puck the night before and I looked like a onesided trumpeteer at DMZ. Quoting Pokes: "An inch away from being called Gumz".
Do you miss working with vocals, as you did with Ceebrolistics?
Not really. With vocals you have to have something to say. I thoroughly enjoy not having to say anything for a change. At the moment I prefer working with other people's vocals rather than my own. Having said that, I used my own on Vibrate.
Can you tell me about some of your forthcoming releases and dubs you have written? What is inspiring you and what directions are you exploring in your music?
I like drum machines, obviously. Sequencing. Alterations. The 808 vein. The time is fruitful to be making music, as a lot of the influenced I've been into along the years all of a sudden fit together, ghetto tech, percussive house, audio of my wife going through her singing practises (used on most Teeth tracks in one form or another), techno, etc. I guess the ideal is a rhythm that is simultaneously stagnant and organically living.
What DJs have been playing your music and how does that feel?
Well, apart from yourself and Dusk, Oneman obviously, Ben UFO, Club Cheval guys from France, for example. As well as the Finnish DJs of course. Opened a bubbly with my wife for the first Rinse plays.
Seems a long way from making hip hop in 1990...
The 90s was an era of slanging tapes "out of the trunk of a car" in a true backpack rapper-style, so everything was self-paid, independent and self-released, pressings ranging between 300 and 3000. Our first pressed release was a cassette ep titled Spring in 1994-95, the first album A Day Of The People In Between recorded in 1997 and released in 1998. A curiosity fact: performed at LA's Project Blowed in 1998. All through the 90s I was principally a rapper. Started getting into production mid-00s.
Ö / cd, 12" (Fullsteam Records, 2005)
AINTIE / cd & 12" (Fullsteam Records, 2005)
0. EP / cd & 12" (EMI Finland, 2001)
HYVIÄ JUTTUJA / cd & 12" (EMI Finland, 2000)
PÖLY / 12" (Popzoo, 1999)
A DAY OF THE PEOPLE IN BETWEEN / cd, cs &12" (Ceebrolistics, 1998)
HOMELESS BEATS / cd & cs (Ceebrolistics, 1996)
SPRING / cs (Ceebrolistics, 1995)
ESCAPEMODULE / cd (Murmurecordings, 2004)
SELKÄ KOHTI MAAILMAA / cd (Murmurecordings, 2002)
POOR LOCAL POETRY / cd (Murmurecordings, 2000)
KASVOT / cd (Murmurecordings, 1999)
SAVE THE KING / cd & 10" (Fullsteam Records, 2008)
AAVAAVAA / poembook & cd (Katusea, 2005)
THE KING / cd, cs & 10" (Katusea, 2003)
CNT / 12" (Noppa Recordings, 2011)
SHAWTY / 12" & digi (502 Recordings, 2011)
FEMME EN FOURRURE: BRONCO (TEETH REMIX) / digital (Top Billin, 2011)
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Does freedom make us happy? Two things I've seen today suggest not. First, a cross-country study of the link between economic freedom and well-being concludes:
Economic freedom is significantly negatively related to life satisfaction if controlled for the influence of income per capita, unemployment, social trust, life expectancy and aging.
Of course, controlling for income is a big control. The raw correlation between freedom and happiness is positive. The message is that economic freedom make us happy insofar as it makes us rich, but it has no intrinsic value for well-being.
Yah boo sucks to neoliberalism, you might think. If you do, my second reading might discomfort you. This paper says:
Women's happiness seems to fall – at least in the short-term - when there are changes/improvements in gender rights.
This corroborates work by Sabrina Vieira-Lima.
All this is consistent with Sheena Iyengar's theory of choice overload - the idea that freedom can reduce our happiness because it increases our regret at options not taken. She's written(pdf):
Choosers in extensive-choice contexts enjoy the choice-making process more—presumably because of the opportunities it affords—but also feel more responsible for the choices they make, resulting in frustration with the choice-making process and dissatisfaction with their choices.
I don't write this to deprecate the value of freedom. None of this research undermines the possibility that freedom is an intrinsic good, worth having regardless of its impact upon happiness. Instead, the point is simply Isaiah Berlin's - that there are unavoidable conflicts between basic human values.


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By Jim Couch and Peter Williams Printed in Practical Homeschooling #36, 2000.
The benefits of homeschooling to homeschooled children have been documented - well-adjusted, literate students that excel on standardized examinations. Likewise, the inadequacies of public education are well known. Indeed, the average SAT scores of homeschooled children are considerably higher than those of individuals who choose public education. Homeschooling, according to our research, may offer additional benefits that have not been considered. We find that homeschooling provides competition for the public schools - competition that forces the public schools to improve the quality of education delivered.
Public schools, for the most part, do not have to compete for students because students are primarily assigned to schools on a geographic basis. Thus, the public school system functions as a monopoly and suffers from all the problems inherent with this type of market structure. The results are disturbing. With the release of the Third International Mathematics and Science Study in February of 1998, Americans learned that our students lag behind the students of other nations in both math and science. U.S. high school seniors came in last in physics, sixteenth in general science knowledge, and nineteenth in general math skills among the twenty-one nations in the study.
Monopoly breeds inefficiency, results in high costs, and is slow to respond to customers' demands for quality; competition produces efficiency and innovation. Breaking up the public school monopoly by offering alternatives that provide competition has been touted as one method to improve education. Evidence for this proposition exists.
Looking into the relationship between public and private schools, Couch and Shughart (1993), Minter Hoxby (1994), and Borland and Howsen (1996) all reach the same conclusion: Public schools, when faced with competition from private schools, produce students that score higher on standardized exams than when no private alternatives are available.
Furthermore, the competition does not have to actually exist. In a 1994 article, Lubman reports that charter schools, which are often freed from state regulations and union restrictions, provide competition for public schools. She asserts that "the mere threat of a charter school, even when one doesn't get approved, sometimes prods sluggish school systems to make changes."
Economists, studying the performance of firms in terms of pricing and output decisions, have found that competition and potential competition have an impact on the behavior of firms. Homeschooling, or the option for parents to select homeschooling, may force public schools to improve.
The ease with which a parent dissatisfied with public education can homeschool his child depends in large part upon the degree of regulation within a state. In states with tight restrictions, the public school monopoly is not threatened. Homeschooling in such an environment is not a viable option for many and therefore provides little if any competition. In a less regulated state, homeschooling may offer a legitimate alternative to parents that are unhappy with the quality of education provided by the public sector.
The degree of regulation varies widely from state to state according to Christopher Klicka in Home Schooling in the United States, 1997. In Tennessee, for example, "the parent-teacher must have a high-school diploma or a GED to teach grades K-8 and have a college degree to teach grades 9-12 or request an exemption from the commissioner." Most exemption requests are rejected. Moreover, "Grades 5, 7, and 9 must take a standardized test administered by the commissioner of education or someone designated by him or by a professional testing service approved by the local education agency." If scores are deemed too low, the parent must consult with a licensed teacher in order to design an appropriate remedial course. In addition, parents must notify the local school superintendent about their proposed hours of instruction and maintain attendance records which are subject to inspection. Alaska, on the other hand, exempts a child from compulsory attendance if the child is being educated in his home by a parent or guardian. "There are no requirements to notify, seek approval, test, file forms, or have any teacher qualifications. The burden is on the state to prove that parents are not teaching their children."
Choosing homeschooling in a state like Alaska is easier than choosing homeschooling in a state like Tennessee. Government intrusiveness serves to insulate the public school monopoly from competition.
To test this hypothesis, we examined the average proficiency of eighth-grade students on mathematics content area by state on a standardized test administered in 1996. Controlling for both student and school characteristics thought to influence test scores, we found that more lenient requirements for homeschooling within a state translates into a higher quality of education delivered by the public sector. In particular, the more restrictions a state places on teacher qualification, the lower the state's public school students score on the mathematics proficiency exam.
By making the homeschooling option more difficult, the state protects an established industry - the public schools. Competition, whether from charter schools, private schools, or homeschools, has been shown to improve the quality of education delivered by public schools.
Those parents selecting homeschooling not only provide an excellent education for their own children but also exert pressure on the public schools forcing them to more adequately educate their neighbors' children as well. State policy makers, seeking to improve the schools in their states, should consider relaxing the regulations imposed on homeschooling.
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Top Control Engineering articles, February 2012
The most-visited articles at www.controleng.com during February 2012 included articles on best products, motor sizing, robotics, programming with UML, cyber security, PID loop tuning, career and salary survey among others.
What do those interested in the control engineering profession consider important reading on the Control Engineering website? What haven't you read yet that you should? The most-visited articles at www.controleng.com during February 2012 included articles on best products, motor sizing, robotics, programming with UML, cyber security, PID loop tuning, career and salary survey, machine safety, among others.
2012 Engineers' Choice Awards: Winners, Honorable Mentions, Finalists
Subscribers voted on the best products in automation, control, and instrumentation, based on technological advancement, service to the industry, and market impact. Winners and honorable mentions were featured in the February 2012 issue.
Sizing motors right the first time
Determining load horsepower, wiring, and breaker size for safe and efficient installations.
Robotics at Frito-Lay: Flexibility, adaptability needed
Salty snacks have different motion profiles than automobiles, and snack food manufacturing differs significantly from automotive manufacturing. Robotics can do much more for consumer goods and food and beverage applications, says a Frito-Lay engineer, formerly of General Motors. Robotic palletizing at Frito-Lay requires half the space and 25% lower cost than prior methods.
UML use cases, sequence diagrams: easily converted into executable code
Engineering and IT Insight: UML (Unified Modeling Language) is the language of software engineering, and State Models in UML are used to define internal logic. When state diagrams, use case diagrams, and sequence diagrams are combined with UML class diagrams they define a system, can be easily understood by non-programmers, and can be rapidly converted into executable code.
UML use cases, sequence diagrams: easily converted into executable code
Cyber security vulnerability assessment
First step in creating an effective defense is figuring out where the vulnerabilities are in the system. This is a difficult but necessary process, and it never ends. (Article and video.)
Cyber security vulnerability assessment1
Tuning thermal PID loops
When dealing with critical temperature applications, PID controllers are a common regulatory approach, but tuning these often requires a different strategy than other types of loops. Auto-tuning features can help if you understand them.
Tuning thermal PID loops
Career and Salary Survey 2012
Career Update: The 2012 Control Engineering salary and career survey showed enthusiasm for automation, controls, and instrumentation professions. Pay is up, and survey respondents encouraged those interested in engineering to continue learning. Strategies for workplace success follow.
Control Engineering Salary and Survey, Advice
Cataloging loop drawings, tags in a spreadsheet
How a refinery used Excel to document its automation infrastructure during a DCS upgrade. Some simple tools can keep it all in order.
Cataloging loop drawings, tags in a spreadsheet
Machine Safety: NFPA 70E and international requirements
Machine Safety has several different focused areas of potential hazards. One of the areas getting a lot of attention is Arc Flash and NFPA 70E. A recent article published by Control Engineering earlier this month had some startling results. An alarming 72% of respondents (302) "always" plus "mostly" regularly violate NFPA 70E while working on control panels.
Monitoring critical vessel temperature
Radiometric imaging can help detect and measure uneven temperature gradients quickly and reliably.
Monitoring critical vessel temperature
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Using HART with asset management systems
Using HART with asset management systems
Inside Machines: PC versus PLC: Comparing control options
Inside Machines: PC versus PLC: Comparing control options
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WiFi technology for industrial environments
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It has been a while since I have done a craft displaying Rory's adorable hands and feet! Normally, our projects use either Rory's hands or her feet (not both); however, I am really excited because today's craft, Handprint and Footprint Lobsters, will use both hands and feet!
My family is fortunate enough to live by the beach and we take full advantage of it! We are at the beach almost every weekend- and Rory loves it! To avoid the scorching summer heat, we go to the beach first thing in the morning when it is cool, calm and filled with wildlife! One of Rory's favorite things is to watch the crabs running around the sand digging holes. She loves watching them run in the sand and will tell anyone a crab says, claw, claw, claw.
We wanted to use both hands and feet for this activity, but instead of making crabs we decided to made lobsters (which Rory still thinks is a crab)!
Handprint and Footprint Lobsters
Materials needed:
- Red paint
- paper
Optional materials:
- markers (to draw legs)
- google eyes
- scrapbook paper that looks like sand
- colors to draw a beach scene
Fortunately for us, we had a nice rainy afternoon, and we were able to make these as a family!
First thing I always do before painting with Rory is put a plastic table cloth down to minimize the paint we accumulate on our floor. Before I let Rory dive into the paint, I showed her how we would put both of her hands down on the paper at the same time, making sure to leave a little bit of space between her hands.
Rory is used to our hand and foot art projects. She is quite a professional at getting a good hand and foot print down on the paper but we normally only do one hand at a time. Two hands at the same time was a new experience for her! If your child is older you may not need to do the practice, but I think it helped Rory!
I started by painting one of Rory's hands bright red (making sure I stressed the color RED). She loved rubbing her little hands together, feeling the paint in between her tiny fingers.
She was geared up from practicing her double hand slaps, and immediately smacked both of her hands on the paper.
I set down several pieces of paper so we could make multiple hand prints, and then laid them aside to dry while we washed her hands.
The footprint creates the body of the lobster, and needs to be done upside down (or right side up if you turn the hand prints upside down). I painted Rory's foot bright red (again stressing the color RED) and had her stomp in between the two hand prints.
Washing off the paint is half the fun, when we were done painting, we were lucky enough to wash off in the rain!*
Once the hands and footprints are dry you can decorate them any way you choose! I took a marker and added more legs and Rory glued on some goggly eyes. Just for fun we added a piece of scrap paper that looked like sand on the bottom and colored a sun and some clouds. I thought it would be fun to bring some sand home and glue it on the paper, but decided I didn't want to clean up sand for the next 6 months!
Our vegetarian family now has a kitchen full of lobsters!
*We also made a few lobsters with eyes made out of Rory's finger prints. Just put some paint on your little one's fingers and press their fingers on the heel of the foot print. Just an added feature if you wanted to try it!
What cute handprint and footprint lobsters! If you'd like some more art projects with your children's own prints, check out these from the Quirky Mommas:
- Bat Crafts – make a bat with handprint wings
- Hand and Arm Print Trees
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Patent trolls: New Jersey out to stop companies unfairly profiting from patents (NJBiz)
They are called "patent trolls" — and that's the nice nickname. Their critics feel what they do is not so nice. Or ethical. Or really anything other than a shakedown or a shameful money grab.
Without any real consideration of ever developing or using the patents, these critics say trolls (also known as NPEs, or "non-practicing entities") look to acquire as many patents as possible and then proceed to find as many companies as they can to sue on the grounds of patent infringement.
It's like throwing darts at a wall and seeing what sticks.
New Jersey is starting to fight back.
In February, Assemblyman Troy Singleton (D-Mount Laurel) introduced what he notes is a "bipartisan measure" that would prohibit a person "from making a bad faith assertion of patent infringement."
"We wanted to take a strong approach to this in the state of New Jersey and try to address it," Singleton said.
Singleton said the measure is about more than stopping frivolous suits.
These trolls, he said, through their "very amorphous claims" of patent infringement, pose a serious threat to business innovation.
"I don't think we have the luxury, especially in a state like New Jersey … to allow individuals to stifle that innovation," Singleton said.
The trouble is they are tough to fight.
And as bogus as a case may be, settling out of court is often cheaper than fighting in court.
According to Jon Fallon, an intellectual property and patent attorney with West Orange-based law firm Mandelbaum Salsburg, the patent troll business model depends on this reality.
With the "astronomical" cost of patent litigation, trolls appeal to companies by offering them the ability to "pay less to get the guaranteed result," Fallon says.
For instance, the minimum a company might be faced with in legal fees is at least upwards of $25,000. Knowing this, trolls will offer to settle for $20,000.
"You're never going to go to trial," Fallon says of the patent troll business model. "It's just too cost-prohibitive. That's why most patent lawsuits end up with settlements."
And when one company settles with a troll, more are out there watching and waiting to pounce, Fallon says.
"Every client that I've ever had that's actually paid off a troll gets another suit in six months," Fallon said.
With "bare-minimum" legal work involved and little to no operating costs, Fallon says patent trolling has become quite the lucrative business model.
"There's no cost; it's all profit," Fallon said. "It's next to no work on the lawyer's part, and some of these trolls are, on average, filing a (suit) a week."
New Jersey is no stranger to this growing trend. According to PatentFreedom.com, Panasonic, which maintains its North American headquarters in Newark, is the 16th most targeted company by NPEs, amassing a total of 79 lawsuits since 2009. Apple leads the pack, with a total of 191 lawsuits during that same period, the website found.
New Jersey is not alone in the fight. Bills designed to fight the growing trend already have passed or are currently in motion through the state legislatures of Oregon, Virginia, Kentucky, Tennessee, Maine and Wisconsin.
One potential issue with New Jersey's bill is that it could set up a "slippery slope" in which patent trolls aren't necessarily distinguishable from those with valid patent infringement claims, Fallon says.
The other is that patents fall under the "exclusive jurisdiction of the federal government," and so anything tackled at the state level could be trumped in federal court.
"I believe that what we're going to see being raised (is) that we're running into a state versus federal government issue," Fallon said.
And it appears as if there's some action on the federal front.
U.S. Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-Missouri) introduced a bill in February that would give the Federal Trade Commission the power to require that patent trolls make minimum disclosures in their demand letters to businesses. Under the bill, the FTC would also be able to specify deceptive demand letters for businesses.
"Patent trolls are stifling innovation, endangering jobs and harming businesses and consumers," McCaskill said. "Acting now and giving the FTC the tools it needs to properly address this serious problem will send a message to these bottom-feeders they will understand that we plan to do whatever it takes to protect American consumers and small businesses from scam artists trying to make a quick buck."
President Barack Obama's administration has also announced that it intends to get tougher on patent trolls.
Singleton notes that if and when Washington is ready to stand up to patent trolls, the move would be welcomed. Until then, the state is prepared to press ahead, he says.


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No further charges are expected against individuals associated with a community infamous for practicing polygamy, according to the B.C. Prosecution Service.
A special prosecutor has announced there will not be additional charges stemming from investigations into Bountiful, a community south of Creston that was founded by a fundamentalist Mormon sect that practices polygamy as part of its religious doctrine.
In 2014, Peter Wilson was appointed by the provincial government to assess evidence submitted by police to Crown lawyers and recommend charges if warranted.
Wilson approved and prosecuted polygamy offences against Winston Blackmore and James Oler, who were accused of practicing polygamy — a central religious doctrine in the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (FLDS).
Both Blackmore and Oler were tried and found guilty in 2017, and sentenced to six months, and three months house arrest, respectively, along with community service.
Charges of removing a child from Canada were also approved by Wilson against three Bountiful individuals as the result of evidence that underage child brides were taken from the Bountiful community and married to American men associated with the FLDS in the United States.
Brandon James Blackmore and Emily Ruth Gail Blackmore were found guilty, while James Oler was acquitted. The acquittal was overturned on appeal and a new trial was ordered. Oler was found guilty in the second trial.
Additional charges of removing of a child from Canada against three unnamed individuals were also considered, but not approved, according to Wilson.
The announcement ends Wilson's mandate of assessing charges recommended by police in the Bountiful investigations.
Further counts of sexual exploitation relating to those investigations were not approved due to a number of problems identified in the charge assessment process, according to Wilson.
Those issues include lack of a complainant or uncooperative witnesses, difficulty establishing the necessary culpable relationship, and the public interest in prosecutions involving women who reject the notion that they are even victims of a crime.


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Obama Criticized for Signing Controversial Defense Bill
President Obama signed into law a controversial $662 billion military funding bill titled the National Defense Authorization Act on New Year's Eve.
Obama vowed to interpret the meaning of the legislation moderately and that he would not necessarily use all the powers granted to the executive branch under the new law. The new bill details how the military is to be funded and also expands the powers of the federal government in regards to the War on Terror to include indefinitely detaining terrorist suspects without trial – even U.S. citizens. The U.S. military now also has the authority to conduct anti-terrorism operations on American soil.
The law is considered by many to be extremely vague and therefore policy makers on both sides of the aisle are leery. Obama stated that he signed the bill into law with "serious reservations."
"The fact that I support this bill as a whole does not mean I agree with everything in it," the president said in a statement. "I have signed this bill despite having serious reservations with certain provisions that regulate the detention, interrogation and prosecution of suspected terrorists."
Initially, the provisions regarding arresting and detaining terrorist suspects prompted Obama to threaten a veto. In order to avoid this, Congress then added into the bill a provision that withdrew the military's power to detain suspects and gave that power to the president.
In the statement, however, Obama hinted that he would not strictly follow certain requirements of the law and that he would not necessarily use all the powers granted to him.
"My administration will interpret and implement the provisions in a manner that best preserves the flexibility on which our safety depends and upholds the values on which this country was founded," the statement reads.
However, the most controversial part of the bill, indefinitely detaining U.S. terror suspects, still raises concerns among many.
"Obama's signing statement seems to suggest he already believe he has the authority to indefinitely detain Americans – he just never intends to use it," Adam Serwer, a reporter at Mother Jones, writes.
"Left unsaid, perhaps deliberately, is the distinction that has dominated the debate over the defense bill: the difference between detaining an American captured domestically or abroad. This is why ACLU Director Anthony Romero released a statement shortly after Obama's arguing the authority in the defense bill could 'be used by this and future presidents to militarily detain people captured far from any battlefield.'"
The fact that Obama signed the hotly contested bill into law on New Year's Eve has sparked criticism within itself. Many civil rights advocates were angry that Obama would pass this bill on a day when many people were celebrating and not paying attention to politics.
"President Obama's action today is a blight on his legacy because he will forever be known as the president who signed indefinite detention without charge or trial into law," said Anthony Romero, executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union, in a statement.
Romero continued, "We are incredibly disappointed that President Obama signed this new law even though his administration had already claimed overly broad detention authority in court."
"Any hope that the Obama administration would roll back the constitutional excesses of George Bush in the war on terror was extinguished today."
Obama has always been critical of his predecessor's use of signing statements, saying that Bush misused his executive authority to bypass certain parts of the laws he did not like.
However, the Los Angeles Times points out that "Obama has made repeated use of signing statements, employing them 18 times in about the first 2 1/2 years of his presidency."


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Barry's story was written by the Mark Alexander back in December 2010. It has since been updated and re-published several times. The dates, times and people are fictional but the story is based on real life events.
It's a modern update of the classic "A Widow's story", this time written as a cautionary tale for landlords and their families.
Barry is 53 years old and married to Sharon. They have three teenage children; twin girls aged 15 and a 13 year old son. Barry worked as a self employed salesman in the plant hire business. Sharon had a part time secretarial job in a local school.
Barry and Sharon purchased their first investment property in 1996.
As property values have risen they have continuously remortgaged and used a proportion of the equity released as deposits to purchase additional rental properties. They also saved a proportion of the equity released for a rainy day. To accelerate the growth of their portfolio Barry and Sharon raised extra cash for deposits by remortgaging their home. The profits from Barry's plant hire business covered the family's commitments comfortably.
They had accumulated a portfolio of 23 properties with a combined valuation of £1,650,000, against which they had mortgages of £1,400,000. The portfolio produces rental income of £87,000 per annum. Their rainy day fund amounted to just over £64,000. By having all of the above in place you might be forgiven for thinking that they had set themselves up with a very safe future.
On Sunday 21st December Barry had a bad day. He was on the way home that evening having just been out to fix a tenants leaking shower tray when the traffic on the M6 came to a grinding halt. Barry managed to stop his car, avoiding the lorry in front of him, but the car behind him ploughed into the back of him, wedging his car under the back of the lorry.
The emergency services managed to free Barry from the wreck and his only damage was shock, whiplash and major bruising to his legs. However, two days later Barry collapsed whilst out shopping for last minute Christmas presents. He was rushed to hospital where it was discovered that a blood clot in Barry's leg had passed to his brain. Barry had suffered a major stroke.
He lost his speech and most of the use of one side of his body. The family were in tatters. Sharon had to give up work to care for him.
Up until having a stroke Barry had managed the property portfolio and taken care of most of the maintenance himself. Could Sharon care for her husband, her family and the management and maintenance of the property portfolio too?
They considered putting the properties on the market but soon realised that after deducting selling costs and CGT there wouldn't be much money left over. They would also lose their income and they would be leaving their tenants in a difficult predicament too. Sharon has had to employ a lettings agent to manage the portfolio. Since then it has cost the family an average circa £3,000 a month to pay for ongoing maintenance and management.
Fortunately there has been some good news, at least financially. First, low interest rates have meant that Barry and Sharon's mortgages have got much cheaper than when they started their property rental business. Many of their mortgages have reverted to tracker products due to their fixed rates coming to an end. They are focussing on Barry's recovery. What will happen when interest rates go back up again though? How will the restrictions on finance cost relief for individual landlords affect them?
The real saviour for the family has been insurance. Fortunately, Barry and Sharon were astute enough to insure against these eventualities. They took out life assurance policies that pay out a regular monthly income right up to Barry's 65th birthday. These policies were written on the basis that they also pay out in the event of a critical illness. The family are therefore confident that these provisions will see them through these troubled times and out the other side. They will then revert to plan A, which was to live off surplus rental income over and above the mortgage payments on their portfolio or to sell the properties and live off their gains.
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Over ten years ago I filed a lawsuit against the University of Michigan for racial discrimination because their admissions policy gave an unfair twenty percent boost to black and Hispanic applicants. I know firsthand how horrible it is to be discriminated against when "affirmative action" and "diversity quota" policies employ different admissions standards based on race. Although I personally won my lawsuit after it was heard by the U.S. Supreme Court, many universities and government agencies all over the country - including in Arizona – continue their policies that grant preferential treatment based on race to some, while discriminating against others.
Affirmative action job quotas, "minority" contract set-asides and extra points in college admissions are wrong and it's time to get rid of them. Achieving "diversity goals", however well-intentioned, often amounts to the functional equivalent of a quota. Achieving "diversity" should never be an excuse to discriminate against anyone.
Voters should vote Yes on Prop 107 to tell the government to stop picking winners and losers based on race or sex. Prop 107 is simple – it will ban "affirmative action" programs that give preference based on race or sex in three specific areas: public contracting, public employment, and public education. After all, it is everyone's, and unlike Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton, I really mean everyone's right, to be treated equally by their government without regard to race or sex.
Radical opponents of Prop 107 like ACORN and By Any Means Necessary (BAMN) falsely claim that health programs, domestic violence shelters, and social support programs that assist women would be banned if Prop 107 passes. But Prop 107 only affects public hiring, contracting and public education - not health programs or domestic violence shelters. Opponents know these facts, but try to deceive the public because they have a lot to lose given the massive industry set up to maintain and advance preferential treatment for the few rather than equal rights for all.
The operative language of Prop 107, which has already passed in four other states and has been in place for as many as 14 years, is simple and clear: "The state shall not grant preferential treatment to or discriminate against any individual or group on the basis of race, sex, color, ethnicity or national origin in the operation of public employment, public education or public contracting."
The language of Prop 107 mirrors the language of the landmark 1964 Civil Rights Act and advances civil rights by prohibiting discrimination and preferential treatment based on race, sex, and skin color. Prop 107 reinforces the fact that everyone is entitled to civil rights and should have an equal chance to compete for good paying jobs, government contracts, and college admissions – based on individual merit, not skin color or sex.
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The hunger for more and more user data demanded from Google by governments around the world showed no sign of abating, according to the company's latest figures.
Google said in its "Transparency Report" that requests from authorities had climbed in the second half of 2012.
For the first time since the company started publishing how often governments were attempting to intercept communications online, Google said it was now offering a further breakdown of its numbers by displaying the kinds of legal processes used in the US by gov agencies to compel internet outfits to hand over user data.
Google legal director Richard Salgado said:
68 per cent of the requests Google received from government entities in the US were through subpoenas. These are requests for user-identifying information, issued under the Electronic Communications Privacy Act ("ECPA"), and are the easiest to get because they typically don't involve judges.
22 per cent were through ECPA search warrants. These are, generally speaking, orders issued by judges under ECPA, based on a demonstration of "probable cause" to believe that certain information related to a crime is presently in the place to be searched.
The remaining 10 per cent were mostly court orders issued under ECPA by judges or other processes that are difficult to categorise.
Google added that requests for such data had increased by more than 70 per cent since 2009. During the July to December 2012 period government authorities worldwide submitted 21,389 demands for information about 33,634 users.
Requests about netizens using Google in the US kept the country in the top spot as the number one most snooped upon nation with more than 8,000 user data demands and nearly 15,000 appeals for access to user accounts coming from government agencies.
Overall, Google complied with 88 per cent of those requests.
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Meanwhile, Britain's authorities maintained their appetite for data access from Google servers - earning the UK a fourth spot on the spying nation league list, according to Mountain View.
Google figures show steady climb in UK government requests
UK agencies, which are trying to get the Home Office to legislate for deeper surveillance of Blighty's comms data, put forward to Google nearly 1,500 user information and more than 1,900 user account requests in the final six months of last year. The company said it complied with 70 per cent of all of those requests. ®


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A new generation is coming of age and starting to enter the work force.
How much do you know about Generation Z? Generational expert David Stillman knows quite a lot about them. Coauthor of Gen Z at Work, Stillman defines Generation Z as born in 1995 and later. (I put them at 2001 and later; however, people born between 1995-2001 may have characteristics of both millennials and Generation Z).
Much as Generation X didn't get the same attention baby boomers did, Stillman believes the current focus on millennials could leave Generation Z feeling ignored and misunderstood. What do you need to understand about them to get the most from them as employees? Stillman says the main thing to know about Gen Z is that they're not like the millennials.
Here are some more of Stillman's tips on Gen Z:
- They want frequent feedback. As you might expect from a generation that constantly checks their phones, Generation Z expects frequent feedback. However, it doesn't need to be a lengthy annual review or even a weekly one-on-one. Quick check-ins can be plenty for Gen Z workers.
- They seek security. Having seen their parents go through tough economic times, Generation Z looks for security and stability in a job — not necessarily "meaning." They're also more willing than millennials to start at the bottom and work their way up, as long as they can expect job security in return.
- They're very competitive. Raised by Gen X parents who had to compete in a tough economy, this generation is highly competitive and independent. While millennials are known for their collaborative, "group project" work styles, Generation Z employees are more likely to prefer working on their own.
- They want to personalize their jobs. Catered to since birth by companies that allow them to personalize everything from soft drinks to tennis shoes, Generation Z expects no less from their jobs. (More than half of those Stillman surveyed want to write their own job descriptions.) The more flexibility and customization your company can offer these workers, the better.
- They may be entrepreneurs as well as employees. The ease of starting a side business today appeals to Gen Z's desire for financial security, and Stillman says you should expect your Generation Z employees to have a "side hustle." You'll need to work out for yourself where you will draw the line. For example, if one of your Gen Z workers starts a business that competes with yours, what will you do? Try harnessing Gen Z's entrepreneurial spirit to create new ideas, products, or divisions for your business — and rewarding them for it financially.
- They suffer from FOMO. Constantly scanning social media to see what everyone else is doing, Generation Z is suffused with "fear of missing out," always worried there's something better going on somewhere else. They will apply the same to their jobs, according to Stillman. Rather than focusing on one career track or specialization, Gen Z may prefer trying out many different jobs or moving laterally to gain new skills. This can give a small business where everyone gets to do a little bit of everything a big advantage when competing for Gen Z employees.
- They're "phigital." Generation Z came of age never knowing a world without cellphones. Even more than millennials, they expect your business to have the latest technology (just like they do in their personal lives). If you're at all behind technologically, they're not likely to want to work for you.
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The existence of a 9,000-strong colony of emperor penguins in East Antarctica has been confirmed by three people who visited it for the first time.
Signs of the penguins were spotted by satellite, which took images of large stains on the snow in 2009 that scientists suspected were penguin feces. But it wasn't until early December 2012 that three people from Belgium's Princess Elisabeth Antarctica polar research station visited the colony to glimpse the penguins for themselves, according to a statement from the International Polar Foundation, which runs the station.
The first three visitors were the station's expedition leader Alain Hubert, mechanic Kristof Soete and Swiss mountain guide Raphael Richard.
The explorers decided not to chance a trip to the suspected colony earlier due to bad weather. But in early December the weather let up, and they arrived at the colony in the dead of night.
"It was almost midnight when we succeeded in finding a way down to the ice through crevasses and approached the first of five groups of more than a thousand individuals, three quarters of which were chicks," said Hubert in the statement. "This was [an] unforgettable moment!"
The trio was part of a team supporting scientific research on the Derwael Ice Rise, about 30 miles (50 kilometers) from the colony. Here, researchers are looking to see how quickly ice from the East Antarctic Ice Sheet is being lost to the sea due to warming-fueled melt.
Scientists estimate the population of emperor penguins of Antarctica is larger than once thought; satellite imagery has helped to find previously unknown colonies like this one, by pinpointing stains from penguin feces as well as spotting the penguins themselves.
Nevertheless, the fate of these and other penguins remains uncertain, and penguin numbers are likely to decline if the continent continues to warm. The Antarctic Peninsula, where emperor penguins are plentiful, is one of the fastest-warming places on Earth, with air temperatures rising between 4 and 4.5 degrees Fahrenheit (2.2 and 2.5 degrees Celsius) in the last 50 years.
Emperor penguins are the largest penguin species and stand on average about 45 inches (114 centimeters) tall and weigh 90 pounds (41 kilograms).
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Slitherine and Matrix Games officially announce a brand new add-on for award winning turn-based strategy game Battlefield Academy at Spiel 2010, the most visited games show in Europe.
May 1940. Following the invasion of Poland, Germany opens the western front and invades France. It's the Blitzkrieg, a new and dangerous form of warfare based on speed and aggression using concentrated mechanized forces to pierce the enemy lines and encircle them.
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