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Mike Savage Battles Through Crandon Friday morning saw all the competitors take their race vehicles to downtown Crandon for all the prerace festivities and the big parade back to the track. In the afternoon the Nismo Time Trials take place as...
Mike Savage Battles Through Crandon
Friday morning saw all the competitors take their race vehicles to downtown Crandon for all the prerace festivities and the big parade back to the track. In the afternoon the Nismo Time Trials take place as all the Pro-4, Pro-2, and Sportsman2 competitors vie for the 30 spots available for Sunday afternoon's Borg Warner Shootout. Mike and his team make a good safe run and qualified 25th. With that out of the way, Mike and the rest of the Savage Racing family cleaned the truck and prepped it for Saturday's competition.
Saturday - Round 11
The land rush start into Crandon's "world famous" turn one saw Mike get a good jump entering the turn. As Mike began to enter the grandstand straightaway, Ross Hoek made contact with the right side of the Savage Construction, Kumho Tire Ford F-150 and sent the truck into the side of Dan Baudoux. Mike and Dan both spun with Mike completing the first lap back in 9th place. The lead pack of truck were well out of range, but Mike put the hammer down as his Kumho Tires took everything the new and improved engine could produce. By lap 6 Mike had made his way into sixth place hoping to catch fifth place, Rhonda Konitzer. Unfortunately time ran out and the team settled for a sixth place finish. It was only the second time this year Mike finished outside the Top 5.
Sunday -- Round 12
After a good practice session, the team was looking for a better finish to the final round of the 2005 Lucas Oil CORR Sportsman 2 series. The land rush start saw Mike use the new found horsepower in combination with a new set of Kumho tires to get through turn one with only Mike Oberg ahead of him. On lap two, the 2004 champion Dan Baudoux made a great pass moving Mike to third. After keeping Ben Wandasega at bay for 6 laps, Wandasega made an inside move work going through the Precision Gear Gravel Pit Corner. At the flag Mike Savage finished fourth, the behind the "corporate" teams of Baudoux, Oberg, and Wandasega.
Sunday Afternoon- Borg Warner Shootout
The race for the $125,000 Borg Warner Cup puts 30 of the fastest two-wheel drive and four-wheel drive CORR competitors together for the most exciting 15 minutes of off-road racing on earth.
After qualifying 25th for the Shootout, and the CORR Sportmans series had concluded earlier in the day, Mike decided to really let it all hang out.
The land rush start saw Mike starting in the back row in 25th position, but by the time the pack came through turn one, Mike had already made it to 14th place. At the halfway point of the race, Savage Racing was in 10th place. At the finish, Mike Savage came in 8th place overall and third place among all the Sportsman 2 trucks that competed. Congratulations to the 2005 Borg Warner champion, Jason Baldwin.
For the year, Mike Savage finished the 2005 Sportsman 2 season third overall. Congratulations to 2005 Sportsman 2 champion Ben Wandasega, and runner-up Dan Baudoux.
During the year Mike completed every lap of the 2005 season (including the 10 lap Borg Warner Shootout), finished on the podium five times, finished in the TOP 5 ten times, and never finished lower than sixth (only twice) all year long.
Mike Savage would like to thank all those that have supported Savage Racing
during the 2005 season including:
Savage Contruction, Kumho Tires. Ford Trucks, Signature Salon, American Racing, Autometer, Beards Seats, Boatec, Dynomax, King Shocks, K&N Filters, Mechcanix Wear, MT Graphics, MSD Ignition, Optima Batteries, Phil's Inc, Precision Gear, Saco's Mini Mart, Summit Racing, and Unique Metal Products.
Mike Savage would also like to thank his family for all their support:
Kathy Savage, Ben Savage, Maggie Savage, Brian Savage, and Mark Savage.

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Plum City students earn Red Cross recognition
PLUM CITY--In an effort to engage high school students on the life-saving experience of donating blood, the American Red Cross has initiated dual programs designed especially for them.
Through the "Young Minds Change Lives Educational Scholarship Program," high school students have the opportunity to help others while also helping to establish a college scholarship fund to benefit students at their school. By helping at the blood drives and based on the number of units of blood collected, the students earned $2,000 for this year's class. The money was distributed evenly to five graduates.
In response to the question, "What have you gained from your experience of giving blood?" one scholarship winner responded, "The discomfort of getting poked by the needle is insignificant compared to the gratification of giving blood." What a great attitude!
The Red Cord Honors Program is designed to recognize students who have donated blood at least four times during their high school career. For students who are not eligible to donate due to weight or medical restrictions, the option to volunteer at least eight hours at a blood drive is available.
The American Red Cross awards students who qualify a red honor cord to wear during their high school graduation activities. Coordinators for Plum City were very proud to have six recipients of this honor.


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The announcement came a few days ago, and during the Grammy's last night Disney aired a new trailer for Maleficent which featured Lana Del Rey singing her dark and gloomy cover of Once Upon A Dream. I wouldn't say this is as good as Lana's work for The Great Gatsby, but there's no denying Disney has thrown a haunting little curve ball with this number which fits the tone of the film and Angelina's scene stealing villainous perfectly. via
The song is available on Google Play at the moment for free and will be available on amazon from 4th February. Maleficent is shaping up to be quite the fun ride:


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14 October 2009
Marketplace Of Ideas?
Posted by Richard G. Williams, Jr. at 7:00 AM
6 comments:
- Pam Walter said...
I'm afraid that this situation is not limited to American University. I have heard that on almost any college campus, conservative ideas are not only discouraged but very often punished by professors who use grades as a weapon. www.satisfiedsole.com
- 14 October, 2009 21:33
This post brought back memories of my own college experience. It's a good example of the liberal tyranny that prevails on many college campuses. I recommend reading the book "Welcome to the Ivory Tower of Babel", by Mike Adams. It's written by a former professor of mine. Sometimes it is the conservative professors that are in placed in the crosshairs.
- 15 October, 2009 13:50
I remember when I went back to Ga Tech after two tours in Nam. In'69 or '70. colleges and university students were going to boycott classes for a day and have a "teach in" against the war. Papers in Atlanta were full of the plans for Emory and Ga State. Tech administrators issued a one paragraph statement that any absenses on that day would be unexcused and drop your grade. Classes were full. Ah, the good old days.
- 15 October, 2009 22:51
- Kim said...
Hi Pam, just this week a University of New Hampshire student was asked to take down the American flag he had below his window (outside). It made it to the local news.
I substitute teach in Massachusetts and believe the schools here are too liberal. It reminds me of a 1960's flower child grown up and teaching in today's society, with teachers of all ages. I thought this was a state issue rather than a national one.
- 16 October, 2009 08:31
- jacksonianlawyer said...
Ah, the liberal bastion that are college campuses. This looks to be a fine analysis of the liberal-fascist ideology that dominates colleges, where leftist professors force their perverted views upon all of the student body, but, perhaps my bias is showing now, this was a tale, which, at its core, was best told over 50 years ago by one of my "patron saints," William F. Buckley, Jr. in "God & Man At Yale." To those who have not done so, definitely pick up a copy of that book and give it a good read. Then, read everything else WFB, Jr. has crafted. You'll be better for it.
- 21 October, 2009 08:16
- Richard G. Williams, Jr. said...
Thanks JL. I saw some of this in my short stint in college, though I don't believe it was quite as pervasive as it is now.
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GTK+ Indirect Renderer
From nanosleep.org
The GTK+ Indirect Renderer is a new GDK backend for the GTK+ toolkit. It renders each toplevel window to a Cairo image surface, and lets the application sort out the details of blitting these to a device. This is useful for applications that want to use GTK+ widgets in contexts that are not officially supported, such as games that use SDL or OpenGL.
Note that this is a different approach from the offscreen patches that are being merged into GTK+ at the moment. While those wrap the rendering being done by the current GDK backend (for instance, the X11 backend), this is a new backend that does all the rendering on the client side. Thus, we can render without depending on X11 or an equivalent display system at all.
Please note that this is a work in progress. Critical parts - like keyboard input handling - are missing, and the code quality is still very low.
That said, it already renders fairly well, and takes mouse input.
[edit] Downloading
The project lives in a Git repository based on the official GTK+ repository available from git.gnome.org. To set up a local Git checkout, do the following:
git clone http://nanosleep.org/git/gtk+ cd gtk+ git checkout -b gtk-2-16-indirect-backend origin/gtk-2-16-indirect-backend
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Once you have the gtk-2-16-indirect-backend branch checked out, you can compile and install it to $HOME/opt/gtk-test like this:
./autogen.sh --prefix=$HOME/opt/gtk-test --with-gdktarget=indirect make install
Note that you may need compatible versions of GTK+'s dependencies as well. This is best accomplished using JHBuild. After GTK+'s dependencies are built and installed, you need to set the PKG_CONFIG_PATH and LD_LIBRARY_PATH variables correctly before issuing the build commands above.
Hopefully, the indirect backend will be integrated with GTK+ proper at some point and appear in tarball releases. This should make building it a lot easier.
[edit] Examples
The indirect backend doesn't do much by itself. In fact, the tests and demos shipping with GTK+ will appear to do nothing at all when linked with it. This is because the indirect backend requires the application to bridge the gap between Cairo surfaces and the display device.
In order to show how this is done, I've prepared some example code that links with the indirect-enabled GTK+ and produces appreciable results. You can get it from its Git repository:
git clone http://nanosleep.org/git/gtk+-indirect-tests cd gtk+-indirect-tests
You will need the development files for SDL and OpenGL installed to build the tests. When you think everything is in order, issue:
export PKG_CONFIG_PATH=$HOME/opt/gtk-test/lib/pkgconfig export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$HOME/opt/gtk-test/lib make
If you built and installed GTK+ dependencies using JHBuild, you may have to adjust PKG_CONFIG_PATH and LD_LIBRARY_PATH accordingly. With a little luck, this should produce binaries in the toplevel directory and the gtk-demo subdirectory. The latter contains an adaptation of the gtk-demo that ships with GTK+, made to render to an OpenGL surface.
The demo windows can be fullscreened or windowized using <Alt-Enter>. <Escape> quits.
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ABIDJAN (Reuters) - Ivory Coast's presidential claimant said on Thursday he had asked for EU sanctions to be lifted as a first step to bring the country back to normal, despite a continuing standoff with incumbent Laurent Gbagbo.
The address by U.N.-backed Alassane Ouattara, whose forces have been waging an offensive in Abidjan to dislodge Gbagbo from the presidential residence, was a sign he was taking steps toward assuming executive powers.
Ouattara announced several measures, including providing security, basic necessities and utilities, resuming economic activities and paying salaries to return Ivory Coast to normal after five months of conflict that has killed thousands.
"I have asked that European Union sanctions on the ports of Abidjan and San Pedro and certain public entities, be lifted," he said in a speech broadcast on French television channel LCI.
"I have also asked the central bank BCEAO to reopen its branches in Ivory Coast, to ensure a resumption of operations in all banks so as to enable the payment of salaries and arrears in the shortest possible time," Ouattara said.
Gbagbo, who has refused to recognize Ouattara's victory in November's election according to results certified by the United Nations, said on Wednesday he had no plan to step down.
Diplomatic and military efforts to oust him this week have been met with fierce resistance and Ouattara said his residence had been sealed off to protect the area.
"As for the outgoing President Mr. Laurent Gbagbo, who has entrenched himself at the presidential residence in Cocody with heavy weapons and mercenaries, a blockade has been established around the perimeter to secure the inhabitants of the district," Ouattara said.
U.N. peacekeepers have surrounded Gbagbo's "last defenders," France said on Thursday, after a week of heavy fighting to unseat him. French Defense Minister Gerard Longuet said Gbagbo had about 1,000 men, 200 of whom were in the residence.
A U.N. spokesman in Abidjan told Reuters the United Nations had forces on standby in the upscale Cocody neighborhood.
"We have sent a patrol to Cocody and the surrounding area, but it is not to intervene," U.N. spokesman Hamadoun Toure told Reuters by telephone. "I am not aware that Ouattara has requested our intervention at this stage."
A week after Ouattara's soldiers arrived in Abidjan, gunfire could be heard on Thursday coming from Gbagbo's presidential palace in the Plateau district and also in the Cocody neighborhood where his residence is located.
"Right now there is shooting every 30 minutes," a Cocody resident, who gave his name as Jean-Claude, said by phone.
There was no sign of a major assault by Ouattara's forces, repelled on Wednesday by Gbagbo's feared Republican Guard and youth militias armed with heavy weapons, after talks led by the United Nations and France to secure Gbagbo's departure failed.
Ouattara's spokesman said then his forces had been given orders not to kill Gbagbo.
A week of fighting for control of the city has left terrified residents scrambling to find food and water, with frequent power cuts and hospitals overwhelmed with wounded.
"Every morning people have to take jerrycans to walk around the neighborhood and search for water," Cocody resident Jean-Claude said. "As for food, there is nothing left. People have to queue up in long lines to buy even a single baguette."
Ouattara said he had asked generals to take all necessary steps to maintain order and security of goods, people and their movements and also secure the delivery of food to markets and medicines in hospitals and health centers.
He said steps would be taken to shed light on all crimes committed during the conflict and would collaborate with international organizations to investigate human rights abuses and punish those found guilty.
The International Criminal Court prosecutor said on Tuesday he was in talks with West African states about referring alleged atrocities in the Ivory Coast to the court after a reported massacre in the west of the country.
"We have established a national commission of inquiry whose findings will be made public and the perpetrators of crimes will be severely punished," Ouattara said.
France has taken a leading role in talks to persuade Gbagbo to hand over to Ouattara and end the standoff.
Helicopters from French forces and the United Nations peacekeeping mission bombarded Gbagbo's heavy weapons stockpiles earlier this week, including those near his residence.
Political analysts said Ouattara forces, who swept south last week in a lightly contested march toward Abidjan, could struggle to defeat Gbagbo's remaining presidential guard and militias unless they are backed by French and U.N. forces.
Gbagbo has ruled Ivory Coast since 2000 and blames Paris for supporting the north of the country in the civil war of 2002-03. Rebels from that war now make up the bulk of Ouattara's force.
Last year's long-delayed election was meant to draw a line under the civil war, but Gbagbo's refusal to give up power has plunged the country into violence that has led to more than 1,500 deaths.
Additional reporting by Loucoumane Coulibali in Abidjan, Louis Charbonneau at the United Nations, John Irish in Paris, Bate Felix and George Fominyen in Dakar; writing by Silvia Aloisi and Richard Valdmanis; editing by Philippa Fletcher


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I am one of Courvoisier's Future 500
I have been accepted as one of "The Future 500" for Courvoisier's competition because of the work I am doing at UCL medical school and Patients Know Best. The full list of 500 is published in Today's Observer newspaper and on Thursday I get to meet them in London.
Launched in 2007, Courvoisier The Future 500 is an exclusive private members network for rising stars across the UK. It is your own private rolodex linking you with talent that ranges from the arts to business.
Selected by a panel of inspirational judges, all members have achieved significant success in their field – be it as an artist, businessman, entrepreneur or activist.
Courvoisier has created a platform for Britain's brightest talents to connect, share their vision, inspire one another and ultimately collaborate to achieve even greater success…
Bahrain tops Cochrane league table in the middle east
By October 2008 Bahrain's Cochrane center had published 10 evidence-based medicine reviews, topping the output of Egypt (8), Pakistan (8), Iran (6) and Saudi Arabia (4). In fact, in the Middle East, only Israel has produced more reviews, with 24 published to date. But Cochrane Bahrain only started publishing in 2004 and with 4 reviews published this year to Israel's 2 I have high hopes for the future.
Why is this important? Cochrane reviews themselves are important because they represent the medical profession's consensus evaluation of what treatments work and what other treatments to avoid. Its authors look at all existing research for each disease and treatment. The output of this international body of clinical scientists improves patient care every day.
Bahrain's performance is important because of what it says about the country's integration with rigorous international scientific work. But its relative performance to that of its wealthier and larger neighbours is what impresses me the most. If you take reviews per capita, Bahrain manages to top even the output of Israel.
I hope that the Bahraini government increases its funding of Cochrane Bahrain, the only such center in the Arab world and one which is becoming a model for other centers around the world.
Using Ajax for Cleaner Software
Published in UK Health Informatics Today Autumn 2008 edition.
Mohammad Al-Ubaydli, MB BChir Cantab
Founder, Patients Know Best – www.patientsknowbest.com
Ajax is a new web programming technology that solves an old conflict between CIOs and clinicians and eases the use of innovative devices in large organizations.
For IT staff, managing a single server with web browser-based clients is much easier than installing client software on every single computer that clinicians use. But for clinicians, web browser client software is too slow and simple: only clients installed locally on a Windows machine provide the responsive and rich user interface needed for consultations with patients.
Traditionally, this conflict was settled in favour of the clinician. Staff from the IT department had the Sisyphean task of installing software onto every computer, and no sooner had they completed one round before the next one began with a newer version of the software. Furthermore, local software stored data locally, requiring strong security protocols on each computer.
The release of Google Maps in 2005 was a watershed event in showing the world what Ajax could do. The technology had been in place since 1999 when Microsoft introduced the XMLHttpRequest programming object for asynchronous communication in Internet Explorer, and soon afterwards Mozilla and Opera followed suit with support in their own web browsers. However, few sites made use of the technology and few users understood its significance. But with Ajax, maps on Google's website loaded quickly and scrolled even more quickly. By contrast, existing map sites had to reload the entire page with each click by the user.
Slowly, mainstream healthcare software developers are integrating this approach into their products. Naturally, it is startups that are first to do so, companies like Tolven Health and Net.Orange. From my conversations with the executives of larger, more entrenched companies, they too are making the switch.
Just as significantly, it is easier to deploy innovative devices because most of them support Ajax in their web browser. Apple's iPhone, for example, was notorious among developers because the first version only accepted Ajax software. The web browsers of most new smartphones also support Ajax.
This means that clinicians can use operating systems other than Microsoft Windows, something that has so far held back deployments in the NHS.
The switch to Ajax does have security implications. On the one hand, Ajax-powered thin client software is more secure than locally installed thick-client software because the data is only stored on one central server for which security can be maximized. But the ubiquity of the web means developers must abandon previously tolerated but inherently insecure practices.
Most significantly, state data must only be stored on the server, not the clients. Examples of state data include the fact that the end user is a doctor or the identification number of the patient they are looking; these must be maintained centrally even if they are temporarily displayed on a local web browser. Programs that do not have this architecture leave themselves open to manipulation at the local computer level. For example, a malicious end user may easily identify and manipulate their state data by editing the local cache file to identify him- or herself as a doctor.
Such vulnerabilities were always possible with old, thick-client computing models. Security through obscurity made this tolerable because each program had its own security model and fragmented market share. By contrast, the web is much more transparent and information about vulnerabilities is shared
quickly and comprehensively.
If you are working with an experienced programmer who is new to Ajax, the risk is that such a programmer would assume that programming in the web environment is the same as working with Windows. A simple explanation of this vulnerability is typically enough to enable a change in programming habits.
Such changes in habits are well worth the effort. The end results are software that is cleaner to deploy and manage as well as increases in the productivity of IT staff –things from which we can all benefit.
HealthCamp UK 2008
Want to know what happens to this balloon at HealthCamp UK 2008?
Read all about it on the Patients Know Best blog page.
BabelMeSH and PICO Linguist in Arabic
For AMIA 2008, Dr. Paul Fontelo and colleagues presented this poster.
BabelMeSH is a multilanguage search for MEDLINE/PubMed. We created a database of Arabic translations of MeSH terms and other medical terms using MySQL and developed a Web interface for searching MEDLINE/PubMed in Arabic. We evaluated the accuracy of BabelMeSH using a list of medical terms from BMJ Clinical Evidence. The accuracy was 58% (machine scoring) and 65% human review.) The result obtained may be explained by variations in expressing medical terms in Arabic.
My name is down as one of the authors but my contribution is minor relative to those of the others, especially Paul's, as he has created and championed BabelMeSH for some time now. At any rate, I highly recommend the Arabic language BabelMeSH.
Now that you can believe in change, what are you going to do?
I witnessed a wonderful thing on Tuesday with the election of Obama. America's brilliance is not presidency, but process. It is America's ability to change. No other nation does this so well and for that it can justly be proud.
Read this passage[1] below from the diary of Henry Seward as he journeyed with his wife through Virginia in 1835 and saw ten black children:
Ten naked little boys, between six and twelve years old, tied together, two and two, by their wrists, were all fastened to a long rope, and followed by a tall man, gaunt white man, who, with his long lash, whipped up the sad and weary little procession, drove it to the horse-trough to drink, and thence to a shed, where they lay down on the ground and sobbed and moaned themselves to sleep.
On November 5th 2008, Virginia was one of the states that voted for Obama as president. America was one of the worst countries in the world when it came to treating with dignity those of African descent. It still has a long way to go. We all do. But on Tuesday its citizens took leadership by giving leadership to an African American.
The USA has an extraordinary infrastructure for change. It is well worth listening to Gavin Newsom discuss how he changed San Francisco law to allow gay marriage. America was one of the least progressive in the West for the rights of homosexuals, but individual states are beginning the change. Hearing Robert Klein talk about how Californians voted to provide $3 billion worth of funding for stem cell research taught me about so many initiatives that were not discussed in the press. America had one of the worst policies for stem cell research, but California's initiative alone meant the USA had world leadership in government funding.
But it is not just that California made progressive choices that I liked. After all, they elected Schwarzenegger, who I hate. Rather, listen to the speakers discuss the opposition they received – strong, vociferous, and passionate – and how they overcame it – with more passion from more people.
Obama captures that passion. "Change we can believe in", he said, and "Yes we can", he chanted. And along with millions of Americans he achieved what millions of non-Americans thought was impossible.
So. What are we non-Americans going to do? Will a European country give her highest office to a citizen of color? Perhaps the UK, as a Bahraini doctor and I were discussing on Tuesday, will elect and British Asian. And will Bahrain do something similar? Or more relevantly, will Arab voters be able to vote outside of their tribe or sect? Will we able to vote for the common good and the higher cause?
More immediately, what can we do today? In the UK, there is a crisis of politics as the rich are too scared to give any money to parties, the middle classes refuse to pay, and the working classes occasionally funnel money through the few remaining unions. The major parties are running on deficits and teetering on bankruptcy. And in Bahrain, most of the non-religious candidates have been overwhelmed and over-run. The results in the UK and Bahrain are not the moral majority at work but the apathetic majority failing to work.
Obama has shown that citizens paying $5 can make a $500 million difference. No matter how bad you think your local party or representative is, look at your options, pick the best, and pay them money so they can work better. Turn up to their meetings. Explain to them what you want and help them explain to others what needs to be done. Yes. We. Can.
[1] I read this quote in the book Team of Rivals: The political genius of Abraham Lincoln. The book describes how, Lincoln, another unlikely lawyer from Illinois became president, running on an anti-slavery platform. It also describes how this brilliant man was so brilliant that he felt confident enough to hire all three of his election rivals (including Henry Seward) into his new cabinet and to use them to steer the nation through difficult times. I wonder who Obama hires.


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Vegetable adai dosas can be made any day for breakfast or dinner in no time. It is a great way to add additional vegetables into your family's diet. You can make these adais with whatever vegetables you have on hand. It is easy to make as it needs no planning ahead but at the same time healthy and tasty too.
I have already shared about the basic adai and multi grain adai. Adding vegetables to the adai batter has been followed by our ancestors for years. Drumstick leaves adai is a popular traditional adai. I decided to make this as a separate post as I wanted to cover about all the possible vegetables and the different ways in which it can be added.
There are mainly three ways of including the vegetables. The first method is to grind the vegetable while making the batter itself. This way no one knows that vegetable is sneaked within the adai. This is perfect for finicky eaters and kids. The second method is to mix in finely chopped or grated vegetables with the batter. This makes the adai very colorful. The third option is to make the adai batter separately and have some chopped vegetables on the side. Once the pan is heated, add some vegetables and then pour the batter. I have shared many pictures below so that you get different ideas. So make it in your most convenient way.
Below is the picture of spinach adai made by grinding palak leaves along with the batter. This method can also be used for vegetables like tomato, mudakattan keerai, bottle gourd, broccoli etc.
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Here are the 11 reasons why Canberra cricket fans should care about the inaugural Women's Big Bash League.
While the national capital was overlooked for a team in the women's Twenty20 tournament, with Cricket Australia having each side aligned with a men's side, the ACT Meteors will be strongly represented when the competition gets underway on Saturday.
Eleven Meteors players have been signed up by WBBL clubs, with another three on standby in case of injury during the six-week tournament.
Naturally, the biggest chunk of those are with our closest neighbours in Sydney.
The Sixers have four Meteors players on their books, with Sara Hungerford, Angela Reakes, Jodie Hicks and Kiwi international Sara McGlashan donning the magenta this season.
Across town, Southern Stars all-rounder Erin Osborne, wicket-keeper Claire Koski and emerging spinner Sam Bates will be representing the Thunder.
Meteors captain Kris Britt and Jenny Taffs have been snapped by the Melbourne Renegades, while explosive opening batter Katie Mack and Lily Bardsley are with the Melbourne Stars.
The Meteors are coming off an impressive season in the Women's National Cricket League where they won three of their six games, including a sensational victory against the eventual champions, South Australia.
Cricket ACT chief executive Cameron French said having so many Meteors players in the WBBL was a reflection of the strength of the program.
"One of the real transitional things that happened this year was that a lot of the girls are relocating to Canberra to train so we've been able to accelerate their development quickly," French said.
"We're developing some excellent cricketers and our system is working effectively.
"The first part is we can develop individualised training programs, so in terms of doing their strength and conditioning, tailored coaching programs, having that real focus on developing them as an individual.
"From a culture perspective, having them all based here and living here allows you to create that team environment whereas in the past they have been travelling down the highway from Sydney."
The Thunder sees Canberra as part of its catchment area, holding clinics for juniors and selecting ACT under-19 representative Mac Wright as a rookie player.
Thunder general manager Nick Cummins said that meant having a close alignment with the Meteors.
"In everything we've been doing since I've been at the Thunder, I've been working to try and make the team more reflective of the area we represent," Cummins said.
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"We always have to make sure we sign players on the basis of the best player first and making sure their regions align.
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However, Cummins said himself and Sixers general manager Dominic Redmond were careful to have an even spread of talent between the two clubs.
They wanted to avoid what has happened in the men's Big Bash League, where the Sixers are among the top sides with the Thunder struggling down the bottom of the table.
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With wind expected to continue and reach peak till the middle of October, a maximum of 3,500 MW per day could be expected in the coming days, he said, adding, Tamil Nadu Generation and Distribution Corporation (TANGEDCO) should use the entire power from windmills, otherwise it would be a waste.
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We have inherited a case where the client has an Aspect enquiry. All bar one point has been agreed but the problem is wifes wages. HM R&C say that because the amount has not been recorded in the cash book we can't prove that it has been paid.
Its a husband and wife under his name as a sole trader but she man's the phones and writes up the books, HM R&C have accepted that she does this work.
However they are still disallowing the expense as we can't prove its been paid, and won't budge, our final option is to go to the commissioners. Which given their unreasonable stance we feel we have no choice. The amount is only £2,600 a year and actually very representative for the work involved. We have argued the amount has been paid from cash drawings but HMRC says we cannot prove this.
Has anyone come across this before and can anyone offer any insight into the best methods to attack HM R&C's case?
Any help will be much appreciated
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Wifes wages I Rev agreed at £3,500
I had a similar problem on a client. The client actually recorded his wifes pay on his computer but the transfer to their personal joint account was one amount. I managed to get the inspector to up from his position of £520 pa (What a Joke!) to £3,500 pa by through everything at him. ie Minimum wage rate, copies of all the typing she did for her husband,listing all the time she spent on each activity etc. I also even mentioned that womans realm might like to hear that a wife is only worth £520 pa if she assists her husband. I couldn't go for the amount I claimed in the accounts (£4,700) as I had no proof she personally got the money, as someone else has stated. The client was pleased with what I had achieved and by the sounds of things it was a result.
Hiding to nothing
For years now, Revenue view has been that they will allow spouse's wages only to the extent that they are reasonable for the services provided and that payment was actually made. The payment condition is laughable because of course there is nothing to prevent the wife handing the money back to the husband (though I guess Revenue may attack that if seen as blatant abuse). Nevertheless, because this has been the approach for some time now, I would be very doubtful of success in front of the Commissioners - is the potential (unlikely) tax saving worth it? I think the answer is to bite the bullet and ensure your client gets it right in the future.
Having said all of the above, you may want to direct the Inspector to EM3911. Although not explicit, this paragraph does suggest that Inspectors are able to allow the deduction where they are satisfied that the expense meets the usual DI criteria (and are satisfied that it was physically paid during the period). In particular, I would ask the Inspector to demonstrate why he is not satisfied that the wife did in fact render services commensurate with the wages claimed.
Isn't a loan creditor in the accounts sufficient proof of payment if no money has changed hands?
If not, ask the inspector why, if he is certain that the wife is working but not allowing a payment, he isn't enforcing the National Minimum Wage as he is required to do so.
If there is work to a non-partner, then there must be a payment for it. The law requires it.
Neil's words seem, at first sight, to conradict each other - how can wages have been paid if no money has changed hands? (A deduction for family wages can be made only when payment is actually made). Does crediting to a creditor account (and accounting for any PAYE/NI that may be due at that time) constitute payment of wages? I know it does where director's loan accounts are concerned, but a sole trader?
Go to the Commissioners
The key to this is - were the wages paid. If they were then you have no problem.
The final arbitors of fact are the GCs. If HMRC will not believe your client when he states that the wages were paid cash from cash drawings then tell him to issue a determination against which you will appeal direct to the Clerk to the GCs requesting a personal hearing asap.
The case will then be reviewed by the Line Manager at HMRC and, if it gets that far, by the Appeals Inspector. It is far more likely that the Inpector you are dealing with will then settle - probably with very bad grace!
Be prepared to go to the GCs on a pro bono basis. It will be excellent experience. Unfortunately, HMRC often seem to gamble on the fact that your client will not pay your fees for going to the GCs, especially on small sums. Telling HMRC that you will be acting on a pro bono basis takes the wind out of their sails on that one.
The question is slightly different from that which people are ad
The question has to be whether there was a contract, and whether the amounts paid[through cash drawings] repesented the sums due under that contract.
Minimum wage, for example, only applies it there was employment.
Could the wife tell you the terms of her employment-hours, pay rates, holiday entitlement etc.?
Does she even know she is paid?
wife signs receipt
I had a similar problem, HMRC were aware all the work that was done, at a reasonable rate - they dropped their stance when I asked if they wanted a signed statement from the wife stating she had received the wages - with the added comments of producing this at the commissioners.
wifes wages
This is not a new area of dispute and I remember it was part of the first investigation with which I was involved thirty years ago. HMRC are rightly sceptical about claims for deductions for payments to wives for obvious reasons. It is normal procedure when there is an investigation to be able to back up claims for deductions like sending HMRC supporting invoices. You also need to pass the wholly and exclusively test, so you need to be able to show that even where a payment has been physically made that it is commercial and what would have been paid to an outside third party for doing the same work. I agree with the other comments mentioning loan creditors but HMRC have always said that they require to see proof of payment. What is the problem with that? You could set up a standing order or if payment is by cash out of the till, have a book that the wife signs when she receives the money. Re a loan creditor if a cheque is issued in settlement, I should expect that to be sufficient, but remember there is legislation which prohibits a deduction for a particular accounting period when wages are paid many months late.
I hope the above is helpful.
Missing point
Everyone seems to be shying away from the real problem which is that any employee's wages will be disallowed if not paid within 9 months of the end of the AP in question, and if paid late will only be allowed in the AP in which payment takes place.
The suggestion that wife signs an affidavit swearing that receipt has been made in cash should suffice, perhaps with the added suggestions about taking it straight to the commissioners etc but... let it be an object lesson - how many other clients do you have where wives' wages are not actually being paid? Its a trivial point but one where the revenue could succeed in most investigation cases of small self-employed clients.
evidence of duties is all that is required
Payroll records might evidence the existence of a wage but typically, no formal payroll records are kept because the wage is below the tax and National Insurance threshold.
A record of wife's wages is recorded in the annual accounts and accountant's workings. This should be sufficient for a deduction as long as the duties can be explained to support the amount paid.
At BIM37735, in reference to Moschi v Kelly [1952] 33TC442, it states "whether the sums have actually been paid or not to the person entitled to the salary does not determine the question whether the payer is entitled to deduct them in his business accounts".


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Dalton State couple has a new couple, a male and female spiny turtle – known as the Heosemys spinosa in scientific communities - which is an endangered species. They live in the Dalton State College Turtle Assurance Colony. The colony is part of the international Turtle Survival Alliance, which is a conservation group formed in response to the disappearance of turtles in Asia where they are sought for food.
Dalton State is now home to four endangered species of turtles where they are monitored, fed and encouraged to breed. The project began in May and is spearheaded by Chris Manis and Dr. John Lugthart.
The work being done at Dalton State could help ensure the survival of several species.
"We're dealing with species on the brink of extinction," Dr. Lugthart said. "It's really cool to have a part in the project."
The turtles are harvested at such a high rate in Asian countries, especially China, the species cannot keep up with the demand. Many species of turtles need several years to reach sexual maturity, and the high harvest rates were not giving the species time to reach that point. Some species don't even mate and lay eggs every year, and they only lay one or two eggs at a time.
"Anywhere in China, these turtles a decade ago, were numerous," Mr. Manis said. "You could find them in markets, pet stores. There are about eight to 10 years between field studies. When they went back to conduct field surveys, they couldn't find these turtles anymore. They were common animals 15 years ago... They're not sustainable anymore."
The project is longterm. The turtles won't be re-released into the wild anytime soon, according to Mr. Manis. "We're keeping these guys going in captivity then we'll release them when it's safe to do so," he said. "We can't even reintroduce them yet if we had enough…. None are safe in China. The rarer the turtle, the more they want them."
Before the turtles can be released into the area, the culture has to change, Mr. Manis said. But first, the turtles have to be saved.
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Setting a mood and environment to encourage breeding isn't necessarily easy. Some breeds, such as the yellow-margined box turtle, have been studied more than others. Mating habits of the yellow-margined box turtle are more well known, and they have been bred successfully in captivity more than some of the other species at the College.
The yellow-margined box turtle is similar to box turtles in this area, but they prefer a more aquatic area. They have done well in captivity over the last several years, Manis said. He expects them to do well at the College.
The turtles reach sexual maturity based on size. For males, it's usually around 6 years old, and for females, around 8 years old. All the yellow-margined box turtles at the College are less than 2 years old, but Manis hopes with regular feedings and a good diet, they'll reach sexual maturity faster than if they were in the wild.
Breeding the box turtles should be relatively easy, Manis said.
"We're trying to figure out the others," he said.
Part of the challenge with the spiny turtles isn't just finding out how to encourage mating, but helping the egg survive so that it can hatch. They don't have a great success rate breeding in captivity, but right now, that's the species' only chance of survival.
Each day Manis, Lugthart and student assistant Brandy Riekert take turns checking on the turtles, feeding them, cleaning out their habitats, and encouraging mating.
"They're notoriously difficult to breed in captivity," said Riekert, a biology student at the college who is expected to graduate in the spring. "We spray water on them to encourage mating."
Less is understood about the spiny turtles and their habits. Breeding is prompted by the change in the season. The spiny turtles prefer a temperate and cooler climate, Manis said. They also breed in a rainier season. So breeding is encouraged by mimicking that seasonal change, hence the showers.
Once mating has been successful, the next challenge is getting an egg to survive during the incubation period – more than 100 days, Manis said.
One egg had been laid, but it didn't develop properly and died, he said. There is one incubating currently, and he said so far, it is developing properly.
The Beal's-eyed turtle, which Manis also has in the lab, is unlike many other species because it prefers to lay its eggs when the temperature is still cooler out. Many species lay eggs when it's warmer.
The Tennessee Aquarium, in Chattanooga, Tenn., has had success breeding the Beal's eyed, Manis said, and one of the turtles from the aquarium's colony is on "breeding loan" to the college.
There is some question as to whether the sex of the turtle is determined by chromosomes or by temperature. With some species males are produced when the eggs are kept at a cooler temperature and females at a warmer temperature. Manis is hoping to have the answer to that question as the research in the colony continues.
Lugthart believes housing the colony on campus will give students and faculty numerous opportunities for research.
"There's a lot of longterm potential," he said. "We can involve students and faculty, and there's potential for more than just caring for and breeding the turtles. It's generating a lot of enthusiasm among students and faculty. They're charismatic."
Emerging personalities
One of the female box turtles perches high on her log, looking at everything around her. She bobs her head up and down and turns to the side to get a better look at everyone who walks by.
So those working in the lab affectionately call her "Gaga" – named for diva pop star Lady Gaga.
"Gaga always loves the spotlight," Riekert said. "She's a proud one. It's so funny how they're so different. One is shy. I really never gave it a whole lot of thought. I'm so surprised they have unique personalities."
Lugthart, who calls himself a "spineless guy" for his interest in invertebrate biology, said he didn't realize the turtles would have distinct personalities either.
"I've never reared turtles before," he said. "It's been fun to get to know more about them. I do what I can to facilitate this project. Caring for an animal is different from my experience."
Riekert said she's glad she is able to work in the lab.
"It has been an education experience," she said. "I'm proud of it. When I started, it was 'I'm going to work in the lab.' Now it's 'my lab.' I've taken a lot of personal ownership."
The birth of the colony
Manis has worked with turtles for many years. So it was natural for him to move toward an assurance colony.
Manis and Lugthart also work together on the Lakeshore Park lake and wetland project in Dalton. The team spends two weeks each summer capturing turtles, collecting data, and releasing them back into the habitat. The project is designed to eventually restore the lake and wetland to its natural state. Learning about the turtles will help further that effort.
"I have an extreme passion for these animals," Manis said. "My obsession hooked Dr. Lugthart."
The project at Lakeshore is about researching what is already there and preserving it. The colony at the College is about species conservation.
But the Lakeshore project fueled interest in the conservation project. Manis said most conservation efforts worldwide go through the Alliance so that's where he turned. The Tennessee Aquarium, where Manis served an internship is also a member of the Alliance and has been a resource for Manis as he begins the colony in Dalton.
Manis began collecting turtles, choosing which species to breed, researching them and setting up the lab with the help of Lugthart and Riekert just as the new Peeples Hall opened on Dalton State's campus.
"It's worked out well with the new building and the new labs, being able to jump right in," Lugthart said.
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Hinder, Lips of an Angel (21,000, +350 percent, 2.665 million)
Miley Cyrus, The Climb (18,000, +30 percent, 2.762 million)
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John Legend, Everybody Knows (13,000, +2,938 percent, 87,000)
Creed, With Arms Wide Open (9,000, +204 percent, 572,000)
John Mayer, Gravity (8,000, +172 percent, 594,000)
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Holtby helps Caps down JetsMar 22, 2013 - 3:47 AM Winnipeg, MB (Sports Network) - Braden Holtby made 20 saves to notch his second consecutive shutout of the Winnipeg Jets in the Washington Capitals' 4-0 triumph at MTS Centre.
Alex Ovechkin aided Holtby's cause by registering a goal and two assists, while Nicklas Backstrom scored once and assisted on Ovechkin's tally in the victory. Troy Brouwer and Marcus Johansson also lit the lamp for Washington, which posted a 3-0 decision in its most recent visit to Winnipeg on Mar. 2 behind a 35-stop effort by Holtby.
The Southeast Division leading Jets lost for just the second time in five games, with Ondrej Pavelec accumulating 21 saves in the setback.
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A 3-on-2 rush late in the game resulted in Backstrom's game-sealing marker, a snap shot that deflected off Jets defenseman Derek Meech and past Pavelec with 1:38 left to play.
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The two teams will square off again tomorrow at the MTS Centre ... Defenseman Mike Green returned to the Washington lineup after missing the team's last 10 contests with a groin injury, while Laich was skating in only his second game this season after missing time with a groin problem of his own ... The Jets activated backup goaltender Al Montoya from injured reserve before the game. He had been sidelined since Mar. 13 with a lower-body injury ... Jets forward Andrew Ladd had a five-game point streak snapped.
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Young woman's life changes when the Juarez drug cartel is faced with the closing of the U.S./Mexican border and marijuana is legalized in the U.S.
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Parental burnout is very real, although the fatigue that often comes with being a parent is not something that people tend to talk about.
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Sovereign of the Seas (clipper)
Sovereign of the Seas
|United States
|Donald McKay of East Boston, MA
|Wrecked in the Strait of Malacca, on voyage from Hamburg to China, 1859.[1]
|General characteristics
|Class and type:
|Extreme clipper
|Tons burthen:
|2421 tons.
|252 ft. (76.8m)
|45.6 ft. (13.9m)
|29.2 ft. (8.9m)
|Has held the record for the fastest speed ever for a sailing ship, 22 knots (41 km/h, 25 mph), since 1854
Sovereign of the Seas, a clipper ship built in 1852, was a sailing vessel notable for setting the 1854 world record for fastest sailing ship—22 knots.
Sovereign of the Seas has held this record for over 100 years.
Notable passages[edit]
Built by Donald McKay of East Boston, Massachusetts, Sovereign of the Seas was the first ship to travel more than 400 nautical miles in 24 hours.[2] On the second leg of her maiden voyage, she made a record passage from Honolulu, Hawaii to New York City in 82 days. She then broke the record to Liverpool, England, making the passage in 13 days 13.5 hours. In 1853 she was chartered by James Baines of the Black Ball Line, Liverpool for the Australia trade.
Fastest speed ever recorded for a sailing ship[edit]
In 1854, Sovereign of the Seas recorded the fastest speed ever for a sailing ship, logging 22 knots (41 km/h, 25 mph).[3]
|Wikimedia Commons has media related to Sovereign of the Seas (ship, 1852).
- Sovereign of the Seas, Springfield Museum Currier and Ives lithograph[4]
- Builder's half hull model of Clipper Ship Sovereign of the Seas
- Painting of clipper ship Sovereign of the Seas, San Francisco Public Library
See also[edit]
- Donald McKay
- List of large sailing vessels—Can be sorted by speed
- Hobart Bosworth—Cabin boy on Sovereign of the Seas who became a famous actor
- ^ Lars Bruzelius. "Sailing Ships: Sovereign of the Seas". Retrieved 2010-02-19.
- ^ "San Francisco Commerce, Past, Present and Future". Overland Monthly and Out West Magazine. April 1888. p. 370. Retrieved 23 December 2016.
- ^ Octavius T. Howe; Frederick G. Matthews (1986). American Clipper Ships 1833-1858. 1. New York. ISBN 0-486-25115-2.
- ^ Nathaniel Currier (1852). "Sailing Ships: Sovereign of the Seas, hand-colored lithograph". Springfield Museums Michele & Donald D'Amour Museum of Fine Arts. Retrieved 2010-02-19.
- Lyon, Jane D (1962). Clipper Ships and Captains. New York: American Heritage Publishing.
- Lars Bruzelius (15 February 2000). "Sovereign of the Seas". Retrieved 2007-11-27.
|This article about a specific civilian ship or boat is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.
- Individual sailing vessels
- Ships built in Boston
- Ships designed by Donald McKay
- Age of Sail merchant ships of the United States
- Victorian-era merchant ships of the United States
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- History of immigration to Australia
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