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Water Your Christmas Trees
Good News for Rural Home Owners
Oyster River Fire Rescue has successfully passed the Superior Tanker Shuttle Service. This means that ORFR can supply enough water to have some areas without fire hydrants qualify as having a fire hydrant within 300m of their house. Fire Chief Bruce Green says "Now that this achievement is in place, residential property owners in the Black Creek Oyster Bay Fire Protection Area should know that they can contact their insurance provider to discuss if their property qualifies for any benefit on their premium of the fire portion of their residential policy."
Click on the image of to download a full size copy to provide to your insurance broker.
CampfiresCampfires are allowed in our fire protection area. A campfire is defined as a fire no bigger than 50cm in diameter.
Backyard Burning
Fires Under 2 Meters Diameter. Permits are NOT required from 1 November 2018 to 31 March 2019.
Fires Over 2 Metres Diameter. Call the firehall (250-337-8121) or the Duty Officer (250-830-7155) during business hours to arrange to pick up a permit.
It is NOT permissible to burn garbage at any time.
Don't Be the Cause of a Wildfire
Interface fires often start as small accidental ignitions. FireSmart standards are
aimed at helping interface residents to prevent interface fires. Follow
this link to download the current BC FireSmart manual.
Chimneys. Chimneys should be constructed to meet current British Columbia building code requirements and should have approved spark arrestors.
Burn Barrels. Burn barrels should be located well away from buildings and other combustible items. Burn barrels should have proper ventilation, screens and should never be left burning unattended. For safer disposal, take your debris to a landfill site.
Power Lines and Propane Tanks. Vegetation should be cleared well back from power lines, propane tanks, and other fuel supplies.
Emergency Access. FireSmart building sites have adequate access for emergency vehicles, with an on-site emergency water supply such as a pool, pond, or tank.
Shovels and Rakes. Every home should have shovels, rakes, axes, garden hoses, sprinklers, and roof ladders to assist in suppressing wildfires.
Bylaw UpdatesComox Valley Regional District bylaws relating to fire protection have recently been amended.
Review the amended bylaws by following these links:
- Black Creek Oyster Bay Fire Protection LSA Bylaw No. 1964, 1998
- Black Creek Oyster Bay Fire Service Administration Bylaw 293, 2014
- Black Creek Oyster Bay Fire Protection Service Regulations Bylaw No. 357, 2014
Use Naloxone to Save a Life
Naloxone is a life-saving drug that temporarily reverses the effects of an opioid overdose. Within 1 to 5 minutes, naloxone can reverse slowed breathing. Naloxone should be given to an unresponsive person, particularly if they are breathing slowly or not at all.
If you suspect an overdose, call 911 right away and follow the SAVE ME protocol while waiting for first responders, and administer naloxone if available.
Where to Obtain a Naloxone Kit
BC has a Take Home Naloxone program in place to reduce the harm and deaths associated with opioid overdoses. The program provides training in overdose prevention, recognition, and first aid response.
You are eligible to receive FREE a naloxone kit if you:
- have a history of using substances particularly heroin , cocaine, crack cocaine and crystal methamphetamine,
- are likely to witness and respond to an overdose (not including health care professionals or clinics for staff use on patients), and/or
- are First Nations' and living in BC. The FNHA's First Nations Health Benefits plan will cover the cost.
If you are not eligible for the free kit, you can purchase naloxone and related supplies, as well as overdose prevention and response training.
Click here to find a pharmacy near where you can obtain this life-saving kit.
Smoke Alarm Recall
Kidde Recalls Dual Sensor Smoke Alarm Due to Potential Safety Risk
Visit http://healthycanadians.gc.ca/recall-alert-rappel-avis/hc-sc/2018/66226r-eng.php for details.
Remember, only WORKING smoke alarms can save you.
Fire Extinguisher Recall
If you have a plastic push button or plastic handled fire extinguisher in your home, read this:
Recently, there was a worldwide recall of over 40 million fire extinguishers, and although the manufacturer is Kidde, they were sold under numerous brands. So, if you have a fire extinguisher with a plastic push button or plastic handled, go to the following site to see if it is one of those recalled. If it is, Kidde will provide you with a free replacement.
For details go to: http://healthycanadians.gc.ca/recall-alert-rappel-avis/hc-sc/2017/65014r-eng.php.
Oyster River Fire Rescue and Mt. Washington Resort Community
The Comox Valley Regional District (CVRD) board has approved the Oyster River Fire Rescue department as the fire protection service provider for the Mount Washington resort community.
For details go to https://www.comoxvalleyrd.ca/sites/default/files/uploads/bylaws/bylaw_433_mtwashington_fire_services_est_consolidated.pdf
Expiry Dates: Children's Car Seats or Booster Seats
All children's car seats and booster seats sold in Canada have an expiry or useful life date on them.
To find out more, click here.
Personal Emergency Preparedness
ORFR and the Comox Valley Emergency Program (CVEP) offer Personal Emergency Preparedness (PEP) training free of charge to local residents.
Sessions are held at the Oyster River Fire Hall on a regular basis. Please watch this space for future dates and times.
To register and place your name on a wait list, please call ORFR at 250-337-8121.
Help Us Help You—Use Reflective Address Signs
Firefighters and First Responders can find your residence only if your
address number is well marked. Reflective address signs can make a difference
that might save lives.
Visit www.911reflectivesign.ca/ to learn more and order yours today.
Your Fire Department
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ORFR Celebrates 40 Years of Service to the Community
Click on the picture to watch the video.
2016: The Year in Video
Click on the picture to watch the video.
ORFR Annual Banquet (2016)
Oyster River Volunteer Fire Rescue held its 2016 Annual Banquet on Saturday, 21 January 2017 to celebrate the successes of 2016 and to honour members who have completed various levels of training or excelled as firefighters.
Chief Bruce Green noted that Firefighter Douglas Taylor, who was not in attendance, had earned his 25 Year, Provincial Long Service Medal.
Strathcona Regional District Area D Director, Brenda Leigh, presented
Firefighter Level 2 certificates to Julia Blake, Amanda Voeltz, Chris
Chambers, Brian Hiebert, Jason Gagne, Heidi Fuerste, Jeff Caring, Neil
McCredie, Chris Hounsell, and Roger Horobetz.
Len Apedaile and Alana Alix, not present at the Annual Dinner, also received Firefighter Level 2 certificates.
Back Row: Julia Blake, Amanda Voeltz, Brenda Leigh, Chris Chambers, Brian Hiebert, Jason Gagne, Heidi Fuerste
Front Row: Jeff Caring, Neil McCredie, Chris Hounsell, Roger Horobetz
Edwin Grieve, Area C Director, Comox Valley Regional District, presented Captains Karl Neufeld and Ron Schulz and Firefighter Dave Carmichael with their Fire Officer 1 certificates.
Dena and Karl Neufeld, Coleen and Dave Carmichael, Mary-Ellen and Ron Schulz, Edwin Grieve
Firefighter Heidi Fuerste was presented the Rookie of the Year award by Deputy Chief Chris Murray.
Heidi Fuerste, Chris Hounsell (Heidi's husband)
Firefighter Julia Blake was recognized with the Bill Carnie Memorial Firefighter of the Year Trophy presented by Fire Chief Bruce Green and Brittany Caring on behalf of her grandmother, Mrs. Rose Carnie.
Brittany Caring, Peter Goebel (Julia's husband), Julia Blake, Bruce Green
Christmas Food Hamper
Special thanks to our friends and neighbours who contributed to our annual Hamper Drive held on Saturday, 3 December. This year ORFR and Discovery Foods donated over $900 and many boxes of food to Chad and Tanya Hooker of the Bread of Life Food Bank, a ministry of Living Waters Fellowship. All contributions will be used to support families in the local area.
Tanya and Chad Hooker, Nicole Emery
ORFR's New Rescue Engine
The new engine with an artist's rendering of the ORVFRA markings.
Fire Underwriters SurveyTM (FUS) is a national organization that provides data on public fire protection for fire insurance statistical work and underwriting purposes of approximately 85 percent of the private sector property insurers in Canada. FUS representatives conduct detailed field surveys of the fire risks and fire defenses maintained in built up incorporated and unincorporated communities of all types to establish a Public Fire Protection ClassificationTM for each fire protection area. The surveys measures the ability of a community's fire department to prevent and control structure fires by evaluating the adequacy, reliability, strength, and efficiency of the fire department and comparing the level of protection against the level of fire risk associated with typical dwellings and commercial establishments. The fire insurance grading system bases fire potential on the physical structure and makeup of a community's buildings. The information subsequently provided to insurers is a key factor used in the development of property insurance rates paid by residents in the community—higher the FUS ratings generally result in lower insurance premiums.
It is important, therefore, that fire departments strive to equip and train to meet the highest standard achievable based on a combination of cost effectiveness and the most beneficial combination of insurance and tax rates. In order to maximize firefighter capabilities and minimize their risk of injuries, fire departments must train their members to accepted standards and provide equipment and apparatus that enhances safety.
A key factor in attaining or maintaining an acceptable rating from the FUS is the requirement to operate only equipment and apparatus that is within specified age parameters. Rated engines are generally limited 20 years of age regardless of their hours of use or mileage driven. One of the two engines used by Oyster River Fire Rescue is a 1993 Volvo.
The Comox Valley Regional District (CVRD) and the Oyster River Volunteer Fire Rescue Association (ORVFRA) have been working together over the years to establish a program whereby equipment is brought into service in a manner that achieves FUS replacement criteria while balancing capital expenditures over time.
In 2011, the CVRD and ORVFRA began the process for replacing the 1993 Volvo with a new engine. The design phase for the new engine, undertaken by a group of ORVFRA firefighters and CVRD staff, focussed on replacing two department vehicles—a 1993 Volvo engine and a 2003 Ford F350 rescue truck—with a new rescue engine. Their combined roles of would then be carried out by one new vehicle saving licensing, insurance, maintenance, and depreciation cost while providing a more versatile apparatus. The Volvo engine will be sold and the rescue truck assigned to the duty officer. The current duty officer truck, a 2004 Tahoe, will replace the fire chief's 1998 leased Jeep which will be returned to the lessor. The current 2000 International pumper will remain in service.
In August of 2012, the CVRD issued a Request for Proposal Four suitable bids were received and reviewed under the direction of the CVRD with technical input from members of the ORVFRA. After a preconstruction meeting, the order for the new engine was placed with Rocky Mountain Phoenix of Red Deer, Alberta (http://www.rockymountainphoenix.com/) in November 2012.
Although the majority of construction was completed in the US, Rocky Mountain Phoenix has maintained overall responsibility for the contract and final detailing and testing of the new engine.
The new engine arrived at the Oyster River Fire Hall early in February 2014.
Follow this link to view a high-level comparison of the new vehicle and those it replaced.
Become a Volunteer Firefighter
Applications for prospective volunteers are available at the Fire Hall every Wednesday evening between 18:30 and 20:30.


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Even in a free-agent class that has been universally classified as being weak overall, it hasn't stopped NHL teams from throwing around big money when the door opened Friday at 9 a.m. And Brad Richards hasn't even signed yet.
Richards, the prize catch in this year's market, is still making his decision as suitors are literally coming to his door to make presentation. But the bigger story is the amount given to those who haven't even made an All-Star team or the second-tier and third-tier support players that are getting a larger slice of the pie.
Consider that James Wisniewski, whom the Ducks wouldn't sign for $4 million per season, got $5.5 million annually over six years with Columbus. Or Scottie Upshall, who cracked 20 goals for the first time last season, got four years and $14 million.
It might be one reason why Ducks GM Bob Murray hasn't made a move yet. Or that he doesn't have the financial wherewithal on hand to make that big move.
Here is a list of unrestricted free agents that have signed contracts on Friday. Ducks Blog will try to update this as frequently as possible.
Boston — Benoit Pouliot, LW, one year, $1.1 million.
Buffalo — Ville Leino, LW, six years, $27 million; Cody McCormick, LW, three years, $3.6 million.
Carolina — Tim Brent, C, two years, $1.5 million; Alexei Ponikarovsky, LW, one year, $1.5 million; Brian Boucher, G, two years, $1.9 million; Jiri Tlusty, C, one year, $525,000.
Chicago — Jamal Mayers, RW, one year, $550,000; Andrew Brunette, LW, one year, $2 million; Dan Carcillo, LW, one year, $775,000.
Colorado — Jan Hejda, D, four years, $13 million; Jean-Sebastien Giguere, G, two years, $2.5 million; Chuck Kobasew, RW, $2.5 million.
Columbus — James Wisniewski, D, six years, $33 million; Curtis Sanford, G, one year, $600,000.
Dallas — Michael Ryder, RW, two years, $7 million; Radek Dvorak, RW, one year, $1.5 million; Adam Pardy, D, two years, $4 million; Vernon Fidller, LW, three years, $5.4 million; Sheldon Souray, D, one year, $1.65 million.
Detroit — Drew Miller, LW, two years, $1.65 million; Mike Commodore, D, one year, $1 million; Patrick Eaves, RW, three years, $3.6 million.
Edmonton — Ben Eager, LW, three years, $3.3 million; Eric Belanger, C, three years, $5.25 million; Cam Barker, D, one year, $2.25 million; Darcy Hordichuk, LW, one year, $800,000.
Florida — Jose Theodore, G, two years, $3 million; Marcel Goc, C, three years, $5.1 million; Ed Jovanovski, D, four years, $16.5 million; Scottie Upshall, RW, four years, $14 million; Tomas Fleischmann, LW, four years, $18 million.
Minnesota — Josh Harding, G, one year, $750,000.
Montreal — Erik Cole, RW, four years, $18 million; Peter Budaj, G, two years, $2.3 million.
N.Y. Islanders — Marty Reasoner, C, two years, $2.7 million.
N.Y. Rangers — Mike Rupp, RW, three years, $4.5 million.
Ottawa — Alex Auld, G, one year, $1 million.
Philadelphia — Jaromir Jagr, RW, one year, $3.3 million; Andreas Lilja, D, terms TBA; Maxime Talbot, C, five years, $9 million.
Phoenix — Boyd Gordon, C, two years, $2.65 million; Raffi Torres, LW, two years, $3.5 million; Mike Smith, G, two years, $4 million; Radim Vrbata, RW, three years, $9 million.
Pittsburgh — Tyler Kennedy, RW, two years, $4 million; Steve Sullivan, LW, one year, $1.5 million.
St. Louis — Brian Elliott, G, two years, $1.2 million; Matt D'Agostini, RW, two years, $2.3 million.
San Jose — Jim Vandermeer, D, one year, $1 million; Michal Handzus, C, two years, $5 million.
Tampa Bay — Mathieu Garon, G, two years, $2.6 million.
Vancouver — Sami Salo, D, one year, $2 million; Chris Higgins, LW, two years, $3.8 million; Marco Sturm, LW, one year, $2.25 million; Andrew Ebbett, C, $525,000; Mark Mancari, RW, one year, $525,000.
Washington — Joel Ward, RW, four years, $12 million; Roman Hamrlik, D, two years, $7 million; Jeff Halpern, C, one year, $825,000.
Winnipeg — Derek Meech, D, one year, $700,000; Tanner Glass, LW, one year, $750,000.

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Wednesday, 14 March 2012
Art/ Yayoi Kusama
36 comments:
I heard about this exhibition I so badly want to go! Aw bless I'm sorry about your sunnies! But it's a great excuse to go shopping for a new pair! Or two, you know in case you break the new ones! xxxReplyDelete
Amazing photos! Very inspiring. And damn, I love your sunglasses!ReplyDelete
HEY! que hermosas fotos! ame las fotos de las luces! y... ame tu outfit! lindos lentes!ReplyDelete
The exhibition sure looks inspiring! Too bad for you sunglasses, they were amazing! I love your color combo too! :)ReplyDelete
wow, really cool art, wish i could visit!ReplyDelete
and sorry about the sunglasses, ive never sat on mine but im always losing them, its very annoying! x
I'd really like to see this exhibition. Massive shame that I live in the North! Sorry to hear about the sunglasses. I've sat on so many prized possessions that I could fill a small house with their shattered remnants!ReplyDelete
Emily Wears Things
Me encantaron las fotos de la exhibición. Me encantaron los colores y la textura, es impresionante el arte. Ojala pudiera verla en persona :/ReplyDelete
Pobre lentes D: bueno....pasaron a una mejor vida XD creo..
oh that exhibit looks like psychedelic inspiration of alternate world fun! glad you shared the photos. :) sorry you sat on your sunnies. so like my life. is it ok that i laughed?ReplyDelete
sorry to hear about your sunnies! don't worry, it happens :) I can't count how many times i have done the same in the past. Now I am extra careful with them! So jealous you got to go to the Yayoi Kusama exhibition. Been meaning to go for ages and tomorrow I will be in london but won't have time to go. Bummer. Thanks for posting this up, I will definitely try my best to go now before it ends xxReplyDelete
This exhibition seems to be SO interesting, I've been interested in Japan for such a long time that each time I hear about some artist from there I would look, but I must say that I've never heard of this woman. Her process of creation is quite interesting AND disturbing at the same time but the result is totally impressive ! I wish I could be in London right now to be able to see this exhibition :'(.ReplyDelete
Thank you very much for your comment on the outfit post :). I absolutely wanted a contrast :). I actually pay attention to shoes when I first see someone, you know it is just like the unexpected element lol. When you see the shoes of someone you can tell if he is easy going, neat, classy, funky, funny, you are absolutely right it can tells a lot about someone's personality !
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Wow, these are fantastic! And nothing cheers up like polka dots! xxxReplyDelete
My God, I wish I was there!! And, the sunnies tragedy, it happens to all of us. :) I broke two sunglasses (or maybe three including my boyfriend's). lol. Anyway, I'm your new style stalker now. Really can't wait for your new post.ReplyDelete
Hugs and kiss kiss,
wow. just wow. you always go to wonderful exhibitions! wish i could have been there.ReplyDelete
aww dont feel bad about the broken glasses. now you can buy some new ones! x
So inspiring photos! Really like them! ;)ReplyDelete
The exhibition looks amazing! I really need to make the most of living in London and go to more exhibitions! Mushrooms?? HAHA!!ReplyDelete
I love your sunnies!! Shame you sat on them , you're so funny!! I'd take your bum over a pair of sunnies any day though :) xx
Well it looks very psychedelic, I want to go Tate Modern again so might just check these installations out. I don't see any big bottoms on this blog ;) xxReplyDelete
WOW! I really like to go, this cain of art is really interestin!ReplyDelete
When I was in London i also get to the Tate for this exhivition and it was sooo amazing!! This is the kind of art that let you feel what you want to feel and doesn't impose you something, a difine meaning. And it's my favorite kind of art!!ReplyDelete
I looooove her works so much!!!I'm going to go to her exhibition in April:)ReplyDelete
and great glasses!
Thank you for the taster, I'm off to London at the end of this month to see it too!ReplyDelete
(and I love that song, btw)
that's just awesome! I love how it's psychedelic.ReplyDelete
I really enjoy this kind of art post!
and R.I.P. for your glasses, they're cool!
+ thank you very much <3
beautiful. and I love your outfit too.ReplyDelete
Me encanta el look!!!ReplyDelete
Tiene pinta de ser interesante la exposicion, de estas que no te dejan indiferente por lo 'raras' que llegan a ser...además viniendo de una mujer que ha estado viviendo en un psiquiatrico jaja pues este año quiero irme a vivir a Londres!! y empezar el año que viene diseño de moda alli, pero no creo que vaya antes de junio para ver la exposición...ReplyDelete
Por cierto, son de H&M, ahora que veo se me ha olvidado poner de dónde es cada item, voy a ello ahora...y me encanta el peinado que llevas!!!!! y las gafas que lamentablemente ya no puedes volver a ponerte...
Un besito!!
Que guay!! Pinta bien la verdad!!ReplyDelete
La última foto es lo más
Un besín
I absolutely LOVE mixed media in art. Thanks for sharing, her work is so inspiring.ReplyDelete
wow the exhibition took my breath away!! so envious that you managed to go~ReplyDelete
btw victoria, i nominated you for a blog award! it's kind of like a blog meme so you can check it out if you want to (: http://beyondjackie.blogspot.com/2012/03/17-and-invincible-today-getting-to-know.html
Thank you so much Jackie :)Delete
Bjork on acid!!ReplyDelete
Love this postReplyDelete
How I wish I could go! :)
Kusama's one of my favourites. She just recently formed a large part of my research for my reflective art journal :) xxReplyDelete
wow. beautiful beautiful. eccentric.ReplyDelete
I'm going to London in two weeks so I'll definitely check out the exhibition!!
que padre se ve que estuvo la exhibición!! me encanta el dinamismo de todos tus post!!! y esos lentes te quedan padrisimo!! me encanto tu look como siempre!!ReplyDelete
gosh i adore your sunnies!!where did you got them?ReplyDelete
Seen this exhibition! Very inspiring and intriguing at the same time.ReplyDelete


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July 07, 2013 14:37 ET
THUNDER BAY, ONTARIO--(Marketwired - July 7, 2013) - QRS Capital Corp. ("QRS" or the "Company") (TSX VENTURE:QRS) is pleased to announce that it has closed the second tranche of its private placement previously announced on April 11, 2013 (the "Private Placement"). The Company has raised $445,000 through the issuance of 4,450,000 Units (the "Units") at a price of $0.10 per Unit.
Each Unit consists of one common share and one half of one common share purchase warrant (each whole warrant, a "Warrant"). Each such Warrant will entitle the holder to purchase one common share of the Company at a price of $0.20 per common share for a period of 60 months from the closing date of the Private Placement.
The closing of the second tranche brings the total raise to $685,000, of which Directors and Management of QRS have subscribed for an aggregate of $175,000 issued pursuant to the Private Placement.
Securities issued under the Offering will be subject to a four month hold period which will expire four months and one day from the date of closing date of the Private Placement. The Private Placement is subject to final acceptance by the TSX Venture Exchange and other customary conditions for a transaction of this nature.
On January 24th 2013, the Company announced that it had obtained an unsecured loans from two arm's length parties in the aggregate amount of US$500,000. The Company is pleased to announce that it has repaid $250,000 of these loans.
About QRS Capital Corp.
QRS is a Canadian publicly-listed mineral exploration and development company. QRS' flagship Aurum property, a surface copper oxide project, is located 12km from Teck Resources Ltd.'s El Relincho project. Management looks to leverage its exploration and development expertise to bring additional resources and value to shareholders. The Company is committed to upholding the highest environmental and social standards while focusing on delivering the financial growth its shareholders expect.
John Seaman, Chairman & CEO
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It will ahow you the path .. You have to walk it (or run in this case)
Yes, I've improved upper body pretty much! When I've started using this app I was able to do max 10 pushups in a row: after a month here my personal record was already 20 and I see the difference also looking in the mirror. It's not like the app gave me superpowers though, it just made it more fun :) I've found so many new excersises, started stretching more and wisely and met nice people ^^ It helps a lot :)


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Gov. Tom Corbett's administration has joined talks on transportation funding proposals and is showing interest in legislation that would increase a tax paid by gas-station owners to pump more money into highway and bridge construction and repair, a top state senator told The Associated Press on Friday.
HARRISBURG (AP) — Gov. Tom Corbett's administration has joined talks on transportation funding proposals and is showing interest in legislation that would increase a tax paid by gas-station owners to pump more money into highway and bridge construction and repair, a top state senator told The Associated Press on Friday.
Senate Transportation Committee Chairman John Rafferty, R-Montgomery, said he hopes to introduce a bill in January that will include input from key Republicans and Democrats in the House and Senate, as well as the governor.
Talks with Corbett aides began in the last two weeks, Rafferty said.
"They've shown interest in some of the language that I've proposed to them in lifting the oil company franchise tax," Rafferty said. "They haven't nodded their head in agreement, but they're very interested what I've proposed."
Corbett, who took a campaign pledge not to raise taxes, has been under pressure from lawmakers since last year to come forward with a transportation funding plan to address a multibillion-dollar backlog of highway and bridge repairs that are a source of rising safety concerns.
The per-gallon tax is applied up to an average wholesale price of $1.25, and lifting the statutory cap could produce well over $1 billion a year.
Another cornerstone of Rafferty's legislation would involve offering incentives to encourage private-sector investors to underwrite for-profit transportation projects, such as tolled highway lanes. Borrowing against the higher expected tax collections from lifting the cap to speed up construction could be a part of his plan, as well, Rafferty said.
A spokesman for the Republican governor confirmed Friday that the governor's aides have participated in the talks. The spokesman, Kevin Harley, also pointed to comments by the governor Thursday that he hopes to make an administration plan public by early February, when he is scheduled to issue a budget proposal for the 2013-14 fiscal year.
"Whatever we do, we're going to be working closely with Sen. Rafferty," Harley said.
Corbett told reporters Thursday that he is considering the idea, which was also recommended last year by his hand-picked commission to study ways to boost transportation funding.
Senate Minority Leader Jay Costa, D-Allegheny, said Friday that Democrats could support a transportation funding bill that includes lifting the cap on the oil company franchise tax, as long as they have meaningful input on the legislation and their concerns over funding for mass transit and railroads are addressed along with highways and bridges.
Lifting the cap on the oil company franchise tax has been discussed for years, but lawmakers have shied away from it because of arguments that it is a tax increase that would be passed down to consumers at the pump. Still, leaders of Pennsylvania's business advocacy groups — among Corbett's biggest backers — support the idea of raising taxes or fees to improve roads and bridges.
Rafferty said he is exploring a legal way to prevent fuel distributors from passing down the cost of the tax to consumers at the pump.
Lifting the cap in stages over a five-year period would provide almost $1.4 billion in additional revenue in the fifth year, the commission said last year. The Pennsylvania Department of Transportation is currently on track to spend $5.3 billion this fiscal year on highways, bridges and mass transit, the agency said. The total includes federal money.


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Will all the interest and focus on the middle east right now and the so called peace process, is there anything in Bible prophecy to indicate that Israel will be living as a neighbor with the Palestinians? Do you think there is a possibility they may get a state?
There never was a Palestinian people as such in ancient times. Some try to connect them to the ancient people of Edom and others say they're a remnant of the Philistines but there isn't a solid case for either.
The word Palestine originated with the Romans after they conquered Israel. It came into its current use as a name for the refugees created by the Arab world's opposition to the rebirth of Israel in 1948. The fact is that God gave all the land from northern Lebanon to the Sinai and from the Mediterranean to the Jordan River to Israel. He never made any provision for them to share it and in fact told them never to give any of it to any one for any reason because it isn't theirs to give (Lev. 25:23). If the so-called Palestinians get a state in the "West Bank" or Gaza, it will place Israel in direct disobedience to God and will only be temporary.


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Since Facebook or any social networking site, is a covert medium of communication, people tend to be more aggressive in their assertions. A person involved in a relationship finds it easier to vent his or her emotions through this medium. Not only do they find it easier, but they are out with their meanest self on Facebook. Since they are not required to confront their partner in person, it becomes easier to air your emotions.
Such show of emotion is avoidable to say the least as just because you can make your private life public, does not mean it is the right thing to do. If you do so, your private relationship would turn into a bothersome drama which does not reflect well on both of you. In some extreme cases, a change in relationship status or status updates on the profile has led to suicides. This is because when such changes are made on the site, hundreds of people notice it immediately, which is not the case when breaking up in front of a few people or alone.
Hence, it is advisable to prevent such drama on Facebook. The following steps can be taken to avoid such a situation.
You should immediately block or unfriend your ex on your Facebook profile. No use prying around in his or her profile. Unless you block their profile, it is not the easiest to be tempted to have a look. Moreover, the status updates would always haunt and irritate you.
Facebook can actually turn out to be a good medium for expressing your problem. But that applies only if you are balanced enough to vent your emotions with common sense. Do not post anything on the wall and use the chat instead. If you find your partner misusing the site and posting mean remarks on your wall, unfriend him or her immediately.
This might be one of the best advices for Facebook addicts. Get away from it before you are tempted to do anything stupid. If you are one of those who cannot resist using the freedom the site gives without common sense, it is better to take a leave. Leave a status update stating that you will be off Facebook for some days, and do exactly that. Spend the time thus saved on face to face interaction with your intimate friends, rather than pointless social interactions on Facebook.
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I can just imagine it all – lovely to see some familiar faces in CSM and Zanjon!
I cannot believe how time passes so quickly..
..as I've just entered my 3rd week here in Santiago del Estero! It must be due my being continually on demand from many sources that I don't seem to find a few minutes to loiter about and relax. But I'm happy at what is taking place in a number of areas which could impact on the aims and work of The Esperanza Trust (Argentina).
The weekend on which the JUnTOS Campaign was held was in so many different ways a great success and top of the list was that some 300, if not more people, of different ages committed their lives to God which means that there is now a high priority for churches from all areas of the province who were represented at this event have the very important follow-up task of seeking to help and encourage these new Christians in their faith. In addition to the preaching and teaching over that weekend there were many practical outreaches and this is where The Esperanza Trust could play a very important part. For example, there have been talks about carrying out additional optical tests on folk in rural areas and providing, where needed, spectacles. One of the Specialists Opticians from Buenos Aires who was involved in the ophthalmological consultancy is happy to make a return visit to Santiago del Estero to carry out further tests on people. Watch this space!!!!
In other news, I had the great pleasure of extensive talks about Christian outreaches through charities operating in the province of Cordoba and elsewhere in the country and as a result I might be able to act as a go-between at one such interest looking to establish a Christian outreach in Cuba.
This past week I had the privilege of visiting the state school, "Juan Domingo Peron" invited by María Matos who is a Senior Licensed Teacher in that school as well as having many administrative duties. The school has morning and afternoon sessions with different children and I attended the latter and apart from being given a warm welcome when all children were gathered before classes began I was able to talk and encourage the 11 to 13 year old pupils in María's class. I then spoke to each one individually to enquire what they would like to become on completing their education whatever that level may be and was utterly surprised with the responses they gave me. The vast majority of those attending this school are from poor backgrounds and yet there were those who wanted to be lawyers, nurses, architects, chiropodists, mechanics, to name a few careers and so I then gave them another short talk to congratulate them all on their dreams and to encourgae them to work at their studies because it is so important for their individual developments.
During my time here so far I have made visits to the childrens' work at the "Canal San Martin" project where our charity already has an input in helping to finance a multi-purpose hall and dining centre. Meetings currently take place in the open air irrespective of the weather conditions. This is an area of great poverty and there are many children living here although the attendance was just over 20 the day I visited. Obviously, it is also hoped that an outreach work will be extended in due time to people of all ages. I have also made a couple of visits to the Colegio Alfredo Furniss, here in the Capital, where we sponsor some 32 children in their education and to the childrens' outreach in Zanjon. Yesterday Sunday, I went to Cuyoj in the morning, in the afternoon to Zanjon and at night to the evening service in the main church here in the Capital.
My diary is fast filling up with invites to other projects or potential ones as well as invitations to homes for dinner. People here are very generous irrespective of their economic situations and if I don't take care I will return home weighing more than what I was when I left on 20th September!! I have always stated that, in my eyes and heart Santiago del Estero, though it may have some lovely and interesting places, what really makes this place so special is the welcoming and friendly nature of its people!! I wish I had some video footage or photos of how I am made to feel here, you would be amazed to see the contents with huge hugs and kisses both from males as well as females and their welcoming words are always special and so moving!!!! I'm also truly grateful to Jorge Salum, our official representative here who really looks after me, provides me with a place to sleep, is a good cook, plus an excellent person to have collaborating with the Trust, based here in Santiago del Estero where our work is centred.
Hopefully, I will add another few lines prior to me leaving here in some 10 days time. With my prayerful good wishes to everyone who takes the time and trouble to read this Blog report.


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Introduction to the Bank of Baroda Car Loan in the UAE
Bank of Baroda UAE offers car loans to purchase both used cars and new cars. The bank offers car loans at attractive rates of interest. With minimal documentation and paperwork, you can apply for a car loan with Bank of Baroda UAE and bring home your dream car. Car loans offered by the bank are a part of its Retail Banking services.
You're probably eligible for Bank of Baroda Car Loan if you are
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Earn more than the minimum income required
Your Bank of Baroda Car Loan amount eligibility is based on these factors
Loan capped is AED 500,000 for new cars and AED 50,000 for used cars of the Ex-Showroom price of Car value
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Choose longer tenure loan up to 48 months for new cars, up to 36 months for used cars
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Features of Bank of Baroda UAE Car Loan
The Bank of Baroda UAE Car Loan comes with the following attractive features:
- Enjoy competitive and lower rates of interest. The bank charges 3% at flat rate and 6.00% at reducing balance rate for car loans. However, these interest rates are subject to change.
- Enjoy flexible repayment period which is 48 months for new cars and 36 months for used cars.
- Enjoy fast processing and quick disbursal.
- Minimal documentation.
- Car loan is offered to both salaried and non-salaried individuals.
Benefits of Bank of Baroda UAE Car Loan
You can enjoy the following benefits:
- The bank offers car loans for both used and brand new cars.
- For new cars, Bank of Baroda offers up to 80%, and for used cars it offers up to 70% of the car value.
- Get car finance up to a maximum amount of AED 500,000 for new cars and AED 50,000 for used cars.
Eligibility Criteria for Bank of Baroda UAE Car Loan
In order to apply for a car loan with Bank of Baroda UAE, You need to fulfil the eligibility conditions set the bank. However, both salaried and self-employed individuals can apply for car loans with Bank of Baroda UAE.
Documents Required for Bank of Baroda UAE Car Loan
The bank requires the following documents to process your car loan application:
For salaried employees:
- A filled in loan application form.
- Latest bank statements of last six months. The Bank of Baroda customers need not submit this.
- Proof of identity.
- Copy of passport
- Latest salary slips.
- Vehicle invoice.
- Driving license (should contain the UAE address).
- Vehicle valuation report (applicable for used cars).
- An undertaking from the borrower allowing bank to receive terminal benefits.
- An undertaking from your employer to pay salary and terminal benefits to bank at the end of the loan tenure.
For self-employed individuals, businessmen, company and firm:
- Copy of passport.
- Copy of the latest balance sheet form your company.
- Latest bank account statements for last three months. This is not applicable for Bank of Baroda customers.
- Copy of professional or trade license.
- Invoice of vehicle
- Copy of UAE driving License.
- Copy of Power of Attorney.
- Valuation report (applicable for used cars).
- Copy of partnership contract (if relevant).
Charges and Fees Applicable to Car Loans from Bank of Baroda
- A processing fee equivalent to 1% of the amount you wish to borrow will be charged before the loan is sanctioned
- Prepayment fees equivalent to 1% of the amount you borrow, or a minimum of AED 250, will be have to paid in case the customer wishes to close the loan before the expiry of the loan tenure.
The personal data form is the first application that must be filled in if you wish to avail a personal loan from Bank of Baroda. The first section of the form will require you to enter details such as your name, your father's name, your passport number, the date on which the passport was issued, the validity of the passport, the place at which it was issued, your VISA issue date, its validity, your driving license number, its validity, your nationality, marital status, full residential address, telephone number (residence and/or mobile number), and email.
The second section of the form will require you to fill in your occupation details such as occupation, the name of your current employer, the address of your organisation, company or firm, your work telephone number, the number of employees working in your company, the line of work carried out by the firm or company, your designation, the duration for which you have been with the current employer, works permit number, its validity, trade license number, its validity, monthly income, deductions on monthly income, loans from your employer (if any), outstanding loans from employers (if any), name and location of your previous employer.
The third section of the form will require you to fill in your bank details, starting with the kind of account you hold – S/B account with BoB or Personal account or NRE account or Business account. For any of the accounts you may hold, you will have to fill in details such as the account number, the branch of the bank, the time period for which the account has been maintained. Other details that will have to be entered in this section include the average monthly balance of your business account (if any), the yearly credit turnover business account (if any), the type of loans you have previously availed, the principal amount, the outstanding amount, the date on which the loan was availed, the date on which it was repaid, and the bank from which it was taken.
The bank will also require references if you wish to avail your loan at a quicker rate and at an attractive interest rate. Two names along with their contact numbers and your relationship with them must be disclosed in the form along with their signatures.Bank of Baroda Application Form
The application form is just as easy to fill up as the personal data form. All you have to enter is your name, the kind of loan you wish to avail, the purpose for taking out a loan, the total cost of the loan, the repayment period, your signature, the name of a guarantor (if any), and a signature of the guarantor. A checklist of documents to be submitted is present in the form, and customers are expected to tick against the documents they can furnish for the verification of eligibility.
Car loans offered by Bank of Baroda UAE come with a host of attractive features and benefits. Not only the bank offers attractive rates of interest, it also charges very nominal prepayment fees and charges. The most important advantage is that you can apply for a car loan with Bank of Baroda UAE online, instead of physically visiting its branch. Headquartered in Vadodara, Bank of Baroda is one of the leading banks in India. The bank has a strong international presence with its huge network of branches spread over the world. The bank has its presence in countries like the UAE, Hong Kong, London, New York and Singapore etc. Bank of Baroda UAE offers a wide range of financial products and services to its retail and corporate customers which include NRI Services, Retail Banking, SME Loans, Corporate Finance and different deposit accounts.Products and Services Offered in United Arab Emirates
Can I prepay my car loan taken from Bank of Baroda UAE?
Yes, you can prepay your car loan with Bank of Baroda UAE by paying a prepayment charge of 1%.
I am an existing customer of Bank of Baroda UAE. Do I need to submit my lasts bank account statements to apply for a car loan?
No, you don't have to submit your latest bank account statements while applying for a car loan.
Does the Bank of Baroda charge processing fees on car loans?
Yes, the Bank of Baroda charges a processing fee of 1% on car loans.
If I want to purchase a used car, will Bank of Baroda UAE grant me a car loan?
Yes, the bank provides car loan for used cars as well.
How much finance does Bank of Baroda offer for new car loans?
The bank offers up to 80% of the car value as car loan.
I am not a salaried employee. Will I be eligible to get a car loan from Bank of Baroda UAE?
Yes, you are eligible to get a car loan from Bank of Baroda UAE. The bank offers car loans for both salaried and self-employed individuals.
What is the maximum amount Bank of Baroda UAE offers for used cars?
The maximum amount offered for used cars is AED 50,000.
Which are the best car loans of 2016 in the UAE?
All the top banks in the UAE offer car loans with lots of attractive features and a wide range of benefits. But out of so many, which car loans have made it to the top list?
I want to buy a car on loan, but I don't have money for down-payment. Do the banks in the UAE provide 100% finance for the car?
You are in luck, if you live in the UAE! There are many financial institutions in the UAE which finance 100% of the loan amount, thus saving you from paying any down payment.
Are Expatriates in the UAE eligible for car loans?
Yes, even expats in the UAE can buy the car of their dreams with a car loan. All the leading banks in the UAE offer car loans for the expats. Although, expats need to provide a little more information about themselves in comparison to an Emirati, but still it is an easy business.
Can NRIs in the UAE apply for a car loan in India?
The banks in the UAE offer NRIs staying there to apply for a car loan, especially designed for them, in India for their family or for their personal use. The car loans are modified to make it easier for the NRIs to avail the loans.
Car loan for buying a commercial vehicle in the UAE
Yes, you can. The banks in the UAE provide car loans even for buying commercial vehicle(s). Even these offer a wide range of benefits like high range of financing, flexibility of down-payments and longer tenures.
Islamic Car Financing in the UAE
Car Ijarah is another term for Islamic Car Financing in the UAE. It differs a lot from the conventional banking mode and is based on the Sharia principles of the Islamic law. Interest of fee for loans is prohibited in Islamic finance and the same applies for Islamic car finance or Car Ijarah.


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Neoliberalism and the Control of Teachers, Students, and Learning:
The Rise of Standards, Standardization, and AccountabilityDavid Hursh
1. Since the reign of Reagan, education in the U.S. has been increasingly transformed to meet the competitive needs of corporations within globalized markets. Beginning with A Nation at Risk and proceeding through the national educational summits convened by IBM CEO Louis Gerstner at IBM headquarters, proliferating standardized tests and cries for educational accountability, education is being reshaped to support the now dominant neo-liberal economic policies promoted by government and corporations. In this paper I will develop a Marxist and Foucauldian analysis of the effects of neo-liberal economic policies on education and the lives of teachers and students.
2. In the first part I will focus on the rise of neo-liberal economics and instrumental rationality, the decline of the public good and public debate, and the redefinition of the individual as the competitive, instrumentally rational individual who can compete in the marketplace (Peters, 1994). As Marx prophesied over one hundred and fifty years ago, under capitalism individuals become valued only in terms of their contributions to the economy as producers and consumers, or, as Marx and Engels wrote, [what follows is stylistically awkward, given the preceding clause] that what would be "left remaining no other nexus between man and man than naked self-interest, than callous 'cash payment' and 'egotistical calculation.'" All would be reduced to "paid wage laborers" (Marx and Engels, 1952, p. 24).
3. I will then shift to examining the consequences for education in terms of how schooling is regulated and controlled, how students, teachers and schools are evaluated, and what kinds of knowledge and thinking are valued. In particular, I will argue that while conservative politicians have professed that the State should intervene less in the lives of individuals, that, in fact, the opposite has occurred. The State now intervenes from a distance by employing expertise through "technical methods such as accounting and auditing" (Barry, et al, p. 11). Educational policy makers (principally composed of corporate and governmental leaders) reflect this in demands for standards, testing, and accountability.
4. State Education Departments in 49 states have developed standards in the subject areas and a majority of states have implemented high-stakes standardized tests that students are required to pass for promotion from a particular grade or from high school. The imposition of standards and tests has enabled State Education Departments and school district administrators to surveil and assess whether teachers and students have "met" the standards. Consequently, in an effort to raise tests scores teachers are coerced to "teach toward the test" resulting in simplified and degraded teaching and learning.
The rise of neo-liberalism, the decline of personal rights, and the attack on the public good
5. As I (Hursh, 2000) and others (Parenti, 1999; Hursh and Ross, 2000) have described elsewhere, the rise of neo-liberalism was partly a corporate and political response to the hard fought struggles for an extension of personal and labor rights beginning after World War II and ending with the election of President Reagan. During that time African Americans and other people of color fought for the right to vote, equal education, and welfare rights. Women struggled for equal rights in the workplace and home. College students fought for free speech and the right to be treated as adults. Workers fought for workplace protection and higher wages.
6. In response, corporations and governments in the U.S. and other industrialized countries have developed policies aimed at reducing personal rights and the power of workers, and promoting economic growth and corporate profits. Neo-liberal economic policies mark a shift away from Keynesian economic policies and concerns for general social welfare. Instead, neo-liberal policies emphasize "the deregulation of the economy, trade liberalization, the dismantling of the public sector [such as education, health, and social welfare], and [especially in the U.S.] the predominance of the financial sector of the economy over production and commerce" (Vilas, 1996). The U.S. dominated World Bank and International Monetary Fund has required national governments to develop economic policies that emphasize economic growth and property rights over social welfare and personal rights. Schools are not evaluated for whether students become liberally educated citizens but whether they become economically productive workers.
7. Neo-liberal economic policy discourse has become so dominant in the public sphere that it has silenced the voices of those calling for alternative social conceptions emphasizing the quality of life measured not in material goods but the environment, culture, health, and welfare (see, for example, Dying for Growth: Poverty, Inequality, and Healthof the Poor (2000) and Poverty, Inequality, and Health (2000) for analysis of the relationship between the neo-liberal policies of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund and the collapse of the global public health system). Consequently, many have acquiesced to the notion that we live in a globalized society in which neo-liberal economic policy is inevitable.
A whole set of presuppositions is being imposed as self-evident: it is taken for granted that maximum growth, and therefore productivity and competitiveness, are the ultimate and sole goal of human actions; or that economic forces cannot be resisted. Or again--a presupposition which is the basis of all the presuppositions of economics--a radical separation is made between the economic and the social, which is left to one side, abandoned to sociologists, as a kind of reject. (Bourdieu, 1998, p. 31)
In order to resist the hegemony of neo-liberal discourses and practices, Bourdieu implores that we undertake a qualitative and quantitative analysis of both the material effects and the discourses of neo-liberal policies, analyses that will require the insights of Marx and Foucault. He suggests that "there are a certain number of empirical observations that can be brought forth to counter it," (p. 31) such as "[w]hat will this or that policy cost in the long term in lost jobs, suffering, sickness, alcoholism, drug addiction, domestic violence, etc., all things which cost a great deal, in money, but also in misery?" (p. 41) Bourdieu, in The Weight of the World (1999), has undertaken just such an analysis in which he depicts, much like Sebastiao Salgado's photographs of workers and immigrants, the misery caused by neo-liberal policies on most of the world's parents, children, workers, and students.
8. Numerous critics, including Harvey, in Spaces of Hope (2000) have summarized quantitative data on the effects of neo-liberal policies. Harvey, using statistics provided by the United Nations and the Federal Reserve Bank, shows that economic inequality has increased in the U.S. and the world. Harvey further points out that the material conditions of workers--deplorable working conditions and pay providing only the minimal conditions for survival--"conditions that sparked the moral outrage that suffuses the Manifesto have not gone away" (Harvey, 2000, p. 44).
9. But, as stated above, we need not only examine the material conditions but "the production and circulation of this [neo-liberal] discourse" (Boudieu, 1998, p. 31). As Bourdieu states:
Everywhere we hear it said, all day long--and this is what gives the dominant discourse its strength--that there is nothing to put forward in opposition to the neo-liberal view, that is has succeeded in presented itself as self-evident, that there is no alternative. If it is taken for granted in this way, this is a result of a whole labor of symbolic inculcation in which journalists and ordinary citizens participate passively and, above all, a certain number of intellectuals participate actively. (Bourdieu, 1998, p. 29)
Neo-liberalism: The Relevance of Marx and Engels
10. While the discourse of globalization and neo-liberal economic policy is new, the expansion of the economy around the globe and the commodification of the worker is not. Over one hundred and fifty years ago Marx and Engels commented on just such developments in The Manifesto of the Communist Party. As Harvey states:
[w]hat we now call 'globalization' has been around in some form or another for a very long time--at least as far back as 1492 if not before. The phenomenon and its political-economic consequences have likewise been the subject of commentary, not least by Marx and Engels who, in The Manifesto of the Communist Party, published an impassioned as well as thorough analysis of it. (Harvey, 2000, p. 21)
While much of the Manifesto has become outdated or reflects an inadequate understanding of the world beyond Europe and the U.S., much remains relevant. For example, Marx and Engels accurately describe current globalization as follows:
The need for a constantly expanding market chases the bourgeoisie over the whole surface of the globe. It must settle everywhere, establish connexions everywhere. The bourgeoisie has through its exploitation of the world market given a cosmopolitan character to production and consumption in every country. . . . All old established industries have been destroyed or are daily being destroyed. They are dislodged by new industries, whose introduction becomes a life or death question for all civilized nations, by industries that no longer work up indigenous raw material, but raw material drawn from the remotest zones; industries whose products are consumed, not only at home, but in every quarter of the globe. In place of the old wants, satisfied by the production of the country, we find new wants, requiring for their satisfaction the products of distant lands and climes. In place of the old local and national seclusion and self-sufficiency, we have intercourse in every direction, universal interdependence of nations. (Marx and Engels, 1952, pp. 46-7)
The impact of global capital on the worker, whether "the physician, the lawyer, the priest, the poet, the man of science," is accurately presaged by Marx and Engels. "It has resolved personal worth into exchange value, and in place of the numberless indefeasible chartered freedoms, has set up that single unconscionable freedom--Free Trade" (Marx and Engels, p. 44). It is clear that for Marx and Engels, "workers" refer to everyone other than corporate owners or capitalists, and all are degraded. Further, this is exactly, as Peters describes, the plight of the individual under neo-liberalism: the individual is free, free to compete in the market place (Peters, 1994, p. 66).
11. Not only, write Marx and Engels, are workers reduced to commodities to be exchanged, but such processes create laborers alienated from their own creative capacities. "Laborers," writes Harvey, "are necessarily alienated because their creative capacities are appropriated as the commodity labor power by capitalists." Laborers continually face "skilling, deskilling, and reskilling of the powers of labor in accord with technological requirements" and the "acculturation to routinization of tasks" (Harvey, 2000, p. 103).
12. In terms of education this results in focusing on producing efficient workers who are able to adapt and develop new skills and work toward the goals of ownership. As Harvey notes, "[o]n the one hand capital requires educated and flexible laborers, but on the other hand it refuses the idea that laborers should think for themselves. While education of the laborer appears important it cannot be the kind of education that permits free thinking" (Harvey, 2000, p. 103).
Education, and the rise of standards, testing, and accountability
13. The hegemony of globalized neo-liberal economic policies has contributed to redefining education in terms of its contribution to the economy. As Blackmore states: "Education has, in most instances, been reshaped to become the arm of national economic policy, defined both as the problem (in failing to provide a multi-skilled flexible workforce) and the solution (by upgrading skills and creating a source of national export earnings" (Blackmore, 2000, 134). As one economist affiliated with Argentina's Ministry of Economics stated: "What we try to measure is how well the training provided by each school fits the needs of production and the labor market" (Puiggros, 2000, p. 84).
14. Corporate leaders and their allies in government have always endeavored to shape education to fit the needs of business. In the early 1900s, "productivity expert" Frederic Winslow Taylor promoted scientific efficiency as a way of increasing worker productivity. Curriculum theorists and education policy makers as a way of improving educational productivity quickly adopted Taylor's principles and techniques. David Snedden of Massachusetts, a powerful state commissioner in the early part of the century, argued that schools should aid the economy to function as efficiently as possible by sorting and training students for their "probable destinies" in the workforce. The education efficiency movement emphasized hierarchical decision making with experts conceptualizing educational goals, curriculum, and pedagogy to be carried out by teachers. Schools have been seen, writes historian Fones-Wolf, as a "means of socializing workers for the factory, and as a way of promoting social and political stability" (Fones-Wolf, 1994, p. 190).
15. However, under post-Fordist neo-liberal economics, the collaboration between corporations, government and education have become stronger. For example, in 1995, Undersecretary of Education, Marshall Smith, called for schools to meet the "ever changing challenges of international competition and the changing workplace." In the spring of 1996, the nation's governors held a first educational summit in the headquarters of corporate giant IBM. A working paper, developed under the direction of IBM's CEO Louis Gerstner, stated:
We believe that efforts to set clear, common, and community-based academic standards for students in a given school district or state is a necessary step in any effort to improve student performance. We are convinced that technology, if applied thoughtfully and well-integrated into the curriculum, can be used to boost student performance and ensure a competitive edge in the workforce. (Education Week, 1996)
Governmental and privately funded groups, such as the National Center for Education and the Economy, focus their reform efforts on developing students' knowledge, skills and attitudes to be productive workers.
16. The second educational summit in the fall of 1999, again held at IBM headquarters and directed by Gerstner, called for reforms that would explicitly transform schools to meet corporate expectations. This summit called for "every state [to] adopt standards backed-up by standardized tests [and] to set up a system of 'rewards and consequences' for teachers, students, and schools based on those tests" (Miner, 1999/2000, p. 3). Similarly, the National Alliance of Business, in Standards Mean Business, clearly lays out the agenda of standards, assessment and accountability: "A standards-driven reform agenda should include content and performance standards, alignment of school processes with the standards, assessments that measure student achievement against world-class levels of excellence, information about student and school performance, and accountability for results" (n.d. p. 4., italics added).
17. Consequently, states are developing subject area standards and then aligning the standards with statewide standardized tests (although inadequately so that the tests rarely assess students on the standards). Increasingly, standardized test scores are being used by school districts to determine whether students should be promoted to the next grade or from high school. Further, some states, such as Florida and New York, are using test scores to rank schools and districts with the purpose of "rewarding" those teachers and schools with high scores and "punishing" those with low. To date, all but one of the states have followed the route of developing standards and implemented standardized tests.
18. The effort to impose standards, assessments, and accountability has been devastating for teachers and students. McNeil, in Contradictions of School Reform: Educational Costs of Standardized Testing, concludes: "Standardization reduces the quality and quantity of what is taught and learned in schools." Further, "over the long term, standardization creates inequities, widening the gap between the quality of education for poor and minority youth and that of more privileged student" (McNeil, 2000, p. 3, italics in original). Her research revealed the emergence of
phony curricula, reluctantly presented by teachers in class to conform to the forms of knowledge their students would encounter on centralized tests. The practice of teaching under these reforms shifted away from intellectual activity towards dispensing packaged fragments of information sent from an upper level of bureaucracy. And the role of students as contributors to classroom discourse, as thinkers, as people who brought their personal stories and life experiences into the classroom, was silenced or severely circumscribed by the need for the class to 'cover' a generic curriculum at a pace established by the district and the state for all the schools. (McNeil, 2000, p. 4)
Governmental intrusion on the lives of teachers and students though accounting and auditing
19. Over the last decade the state has intruded into the lives of teachers and students to a degree unprecedented in history. Teachers are increasingly directed by district and school administrators to focus on raising test scores rather than teaching for understanding. In the Rochester (NY) City School District, high school teachers report that they are pressured to teach toward the test. Sixth grade math teachers receive from the central administration lessons with practice problems that are to be used three out of every five school days as preparation for the standardized math test. Elementary teachers report that they devote more than a month to test preparation for the English Language Arts exam by eliminating all subjects other than language arts. In Massachusetts the test scores of students are posted in the hallway outside teachers' doors. Nationwide, teachers are being deskilled as they implement curriculum developed by others.
20. Consequently, the question becomes: How is it that social conservatives, who have traditionally ostensibly called for the State to intrude less into the life of the individual, "getting government off people's back," have increased governmental control over teachers and students? In order to answer this conundrum, the analysis of Barry, Osborne, and Rose, in their introduction to Foucault and Political Reason: Liberalism, Neo-Liberalism, and Rationalities of Government (1996) superbly describes the changing role and tactics of governmental (i.e. State Departments of Education) and quasi-governmental organizations (i.e. The National Education Summit). Barry et al. write:
Paradoxically, neo-liberalism, alongside its critique of the deadening consequences of the 'intrusion' of the state' into the life of the individual, has none the less provoked the invention and/or deployment of a whole array of organizational forms and technical methods in order to extend the field in which a certain kind of economic freedom might be practiced in the form of personal autonomy, enterprise, and choice. (Barry, et al., p. 10)
State Departments of Education increasingly intrude into the lives of teachers and teacher educators. They undertake their regulation through, writes Barry et al., "technical methods such as accountings and auditing" (Barry et al., p. 11). Regulation occurs through technical means of standards, testing, and measuring that "tie techniques of conduct into specific relations with the concerns of government" and that "reconnect, in a productive way, studies of the exercise of power at the 'molecular level' [in schools] with strategies to program power at a molar level" (Barry et al., p. 13). Further, as reflected in state departments of education implementation of standards and standardized tests:
Public authorities seek to employ forms of expertise in order to govern society at a distance, without recourse to any direct forms of repression or intervention. Neo-liberalism, in these terms, involves less a retreat from governmental 'intervention' than a re-inscription of the techniques and forms of expertise required for the exercise of government. (Barry et al., p. 14)
Governmental and quasi-governmental organizations seek to govern without specifying exactly what must be done, but by presenting the requirements or standards as rational and non-controversial, and providing a limited range in which it must be implemented. This makes it possible for social actors, such as teachers, to have a false sense of choice and freedom. As Rose writes, the 'formal political institutions" govern from a distance and "conceive of these actors as subjects of responsibility, autonomy, and choice, and seek to act upon them through shaping and utilizing their freedom" (Rose, 1995, pp. 53- 4).
21. The neo-liberal states, through the use of standards, assessments, and accountability, aims to restrict educators to particular kinds of thinking, thinking that conceptualizes education in terms of producing individuals who are economically productive. Education is no longer valued for its role in developing political, ethical, and aesthetic citizens. Instead, the goal has become promoting knowledge that contributes to economic productivity and producing students who are compliant and productive. Blackmore summarizes that "educational policy has shifted emphasis from input and process to outcomes, from the liberal to the vocational, from education's intrinsic to its instrumental value, and from qualitative to quantitative measures of success" (2000, p. 34).
22. Neo-liberalism, and the move to hold teachers and students accountable through standardized tests, needs to be critiqued and resisted. Bourdieu, in Acts of Resistance: Against the Tyranny of the Market (1998), encourages us to resist the logic of neo-liberalism.
Everywhere we hear it said, all day long--and this is what gives the dominant discourse its strength--that there is nothing to put forward in opposition to the neo-liberal views, that it has succeeded in presenting itself as self-evident, that there is not alternative. If it is taken for granted in this way, this is a result of a whole labor of symbolic inculcation in which journalists and ordinary citizens participate passively and, above all, a certain number of intellectuals participate actively. (Bourdieu, 1998, p. 29)
Bourdieu reminds us that there is an alternative to the logic of neo-liberalism and that we must reassert the possibility of a world and an educational system that focuses on more than economic efficiency.
Barry, A; Osborne, T. and Rose, N. (1996) Foucault and Political Reason: Liberalism, Neo-liberalism, and Rationalities of Government (Chicago: University of Chicago Press).
Bourdieu, P. (1998) Acts of Resistance: Against the Tyranny of the Market (New York: The New Press).
Bourdieu, P. (1999) The Weight of the World: Social Suffering in Contemporary Society. Stanford: Stanford University Press.
Education Week, (Feb. 14, 1996) p. 17.
Fones-Wolf, E. (1994) Selling Free Enterprise: The Business Assault on Labor and Liberalism 1945-1960. Urbana: University of Illinois.
Harvey, D. (2000) Spaces of Hope. Berkeley: University of California Press.
Hursh, D. (2000) "Social Studies within the Neo-Liberal State: The Commodification of Knowledge and the End of Imagination." Theory and Research in Social Education.
Hursh, D. and Ross, E. W. (2000) Democratic Social Studies: Social Studies for Social Change. New York: Falmer Press.
Marx, K. and Engels, F. (1952 ed.) Manifesto of the Communist Party. Moscow.
McNeil, L. (2000) Contradictions of School Reform: Educational Costs of Standardized Testing. New York: Routledge.
Mills, R. (2000, May 12) Meeting with author.
Miner, B. (1999/2000, Winter) "Testing: Full Speed Ahead." Rethinking Schools, 14(2), 3, 8-10.
Parenti, C. (1999) "Atlas Finally Shrugged: Us Against Them in the Me Decade." The Baffler, 13, 108-120.
Patten, G. (October, 1999) Presentation to the New York Association of Colleges of Teacher Education Conference. Albany, N.Y.
Peters, M. (1994) "Individualism and Community: Education and the Politics of Difference." Discourse, 14(2).
Puiggros, A. (1999) Neoliberalism and Education in Latin America. Boulder, Co.: Westview.
Rose, N. (1996) "Governing 'Advanced' Liberal Democracies," in Barry, A, Osborne, T. and Rose, N. (Eds.) Foucault and Political Reason: Liberalism, Neo-liberalism, and Rationalities of Government (Chicago: University of Chicago Press).
Smith, N. (n.d.) Standards Mean Business. National Alliance of Business.
"State Plans System for Grading Schools." (2000, February 10) Albany Union
Vilas, C. (1996) "Neoliberal Social Policy: Managing Poverty (Somehow)." NACLA Report on the America, 29(2), pp. 16-21.
Contents copyright © 2001 by David Hursh.
Format copyright © 2001 by Cultural Logic, ISSN 1097-3087, Volume 4, Number 1, Fall, 2000.
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You were so careful, but sometimes that's still not enough. You've been hit in a car crash, and now the paperwork begins.
The exact process may vary depending on your insurance provider and what province you're in, but there are some basic steps you should follow to help everything go as smoothly as possible.
"The first thing anyone involved in a crash needs to do is take stock," says Pete Karageorgos, director of consumer and industry relations for the Insurance Bureau of Canada (IBC). "Your insurance company is going to be asking you specific questions."
Record as much information as you can at the crash scene. Write down the other person's license plate immediately, in case that driver takes off. If the police are not called, you'll have to exchange information with the other driver, including name, address, phone number, vehicle make and model, along with your insurance company and policy number.
Use your phone to take pictures, providing it's safe to do so. "You want photos showing the damage, any road signs, and road conditions," Karageorgos says. "Someone might say they didn't see the stop sign because it was obstructed, so take photos of that viewpoint showing they couldn't see it because of a tree. Take anything that will help explain what happened."
Note the time of the crash, the weather, the directions the vehicles were travelling, and the number of passengers in the other vehicle—yes, insurance companies sometimes get more injury claims than there were people actually involved. If there are witnesses, get their names and contact information too.
If your car needs to be towed, you've met your next hurdle. "Tow trucks can be a problem," Karageorgos says. "Most insurance companies have 24-hour call centres and some have the ability to send a tow truck and take it to a shop the company knows."
If this isn't possible, your next step is to get a trustworthy company to the scene. Don't just accept the services of any drivers that show up and "know a place to go." They may pad your towing bill and get a kickback from a particular bodyshop. If the police show up, they may have a towing company contracted to them that you can use. Call the auto club if you're a member, or your car's roadside assistance. Let them know it's a crash, and be aware that you may have to pay for the tow.
Your vehicle should only be towed to a bodyshop recommended by your insurer, or to one that you know and trust. This could include a shop at the dealership where you bought the car. If you don't know anyone, have the car taken to your home, and wait for instructions from your insurer.
Call your insurance broker or company as soon as possible. Your policy will specify how long you have to notify them that you'll be making a claim. If you wait too long, your claim could potentially be rejected. It's usually a good idea to call the other driver's insurance company and let them know what happened, in case that person didn't notify his or her insurer.
In some instances, such as with certain types of crashes for drivers covered by the Insurance Corporation of British Columbia for example, you may be able to start the claim process online.
"Your company will assign a claim rep, who will ask about the facts of the crash, and confirm that coverage you have," Karageorgos says. "There has to be an appraisal done, and they will typically coordinate that. If the car is at a preferred shop for that insurance company, someone at the shop may write the estimate and send it in. Otherwise, they may have to send someone to the shop to write the appraisal."
The appraisal not only assesses the extent and cost of the damage, but compares it to the value of the vehicle. If it's going to cost more to fix it than the car's worth, it will be considered a total loss. While many people think a "write-off" only happens with major damage, a relatively minor fender-bender that deploys the airbags could be enough to do it on an older vehicle.
Crash damage can potentially affect the resale value of a vehicle, and if yours is leased, you may want to contact the dealership and speak with them about it.
Many insurance companies used to require you to get three estimates before work could commence, but usually that's no longer the case. "The estimate is written by someone who is the insurance company's employee or has a relationship with them, and they're comfortable with the estimate," Karageorgos says.
Even so, you should stay on top of the repair process. There may be delays, especially if the weather turns bad and the shop fills up, or if parts are on backorder. If you've been provided with a rental car in the meantime, there may be a cap on how much the insurance company will cover, and you don't want any nasty surprises if the repair goes past that.
Payment for the repair will depend on the insurer and the shop, and whether you owe a deductible. The insurance provider will sometimes cut a cheque co-payable to you and the shop, so make sure you're satisfied with the work before you sign over the payment to the shop.
Karageorgos also recommends that you check your policy when it comes due. "Don't just look at the price," he says. "Call your agent or broker and make sure you have the right coverage, and be aware of your deductible. Review it on an annual basis."


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Pacers-Bobcats Preview
Though it has not been entirely easy, the Indiana Pacers are
making the most of a favorable stretch in their schedule.
The visiting Pacers look to match a season high with a fourth
straight victory while trying to continue their recent dominance
over the lowly Charlotte Bobcats, as the teams meet for the second
time in four days Wednesday night.
Indiana (20-12) has managed to turn things around after
suffering through a season-high five-game losing streak. The Pacers
snapped that skid with a 93-88 win over New Jersey, then rolled to
a 108-73 victory at home over Charlotte on Sunday. Things were a
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field but needed to outscore the Hornets 17-8 in the extra period
to earn the victory.
"We were able to exist and hang on," said All-Star center Roy
Hibbert, who had a career-high 30 points and 13 rebounds.
The Pacers have a good chance to continue their run of success
while trying for a ninth consecutive victory over the Bobcats
(4-27), who have lost 17 of 18 and own the worst record in the NBA.
Indiana led 24-12 after one quarter and held Charlotte to 37.3
percent shooting for the game during Sunday's victory. The Pacers
also scored 30 points off 19 turnovers.
Charlotte's 73 points were the fewest allowed by Indiana since
an 86-73 win over the Los Angeles Clippers on Nov. 25, 2010.
"We came out ready to play and stuck with our game plan the
whole game, for 48 minutes," said Pacers forward David West, who
had 14 points in that contest. "We knew that they were capable, so
when we jumped on them, we wanted to stay on them."
Hibbert, who finished with 18 points and 14 rebounds Sunday, has
averaged 17.7 and 11.3 boards in his last six games against the
Charlotte, which has lost by an average margin of 12.5 points
during its eight-game skid to Indiana, has had some down time to
move on from Sunday's defeat that came two days after it snapped a
16-game skid with a 98-91 win at Toronto.
"We just have to put this behind us and continue to grow," coach
Paul Silas said. "Anytime a team wins the way they did, they'll
think that they can come back and do the same thing. So hopefully
we will come with more effort and energy. We must because we can't
continue to play like this."
Derrick Brown had 16 points and rookie Kemba Walker added 15 on
Sunday for the Bobcats, who average an NBA-low 86.5 points.
Despite Charlotte's struggles this season, Walker continues to
progress while averaging 17.1 points and 4.4 assists in the last
eight games.
Two of Charlotte's four victories have come at home, where they
have lost six straight since a 112-100 win over Golden State on
Jan. 14. The Bobcats last victory over Indiana came in Charlotte,
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"Ronin is a movie where things are not what they appear to be. The whole film is about not knowing what Sam really is, because what he seems to be is not what he really is. A lot of things are left unsaid in the film." - John Frankenheimer
"The story of Ronin unfolds within a somewhat disenchanted atmosphere and dark, subtle undercurrents. One is never certain where Sam comes from or what his real motives are."
ROBERT DE NIRO (Sam) launched his prolific motion picture career in Brian De Palma's The Wedding Party in 1969. By 1973, De Niro had twice won the New York Film Critics' Award for Best Supporting Actor in recognition of his critically acclaimed performances in Bang the Drum Slowly and Martin Scorsese's Mean Streets.
In 1974, De Niro received the Academy Award
for Best Supporting Actor for his portrayal of the young
Vito Corleone in Francis Ford Coppola's The Godfather, Part II. In 1980, he won his second Oscar, this time as Best Actor, for his extraordinary portrayal of Jake La Motta in Scorsese's Raging Bull.
De Niro has earned Academy Award nominations for his work in four additional films: Scorsese's Taxi Driver, Michael Cimino's The Deer Hunter, Penny Marshall's Awakenings and Scorsese's remake of Cape Fear. De Niro's distinguished body of work also includes performances in The Last Tycoon, 1900, True Confessions, Falling in Love, Once Upon a Time in America, Brazil, The Mission, The Untouchables, Angel Heart, Midnight Run, Jackknife, Stanley and Iris, We're No Angels, Backdraft, This Boy's Life, Mad Dog and Glory, A Bronx Tale, Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, Heat, Sleepers, The Fan, Marvin's Room, Copland and four more films directed by Martin Scorsese: The King of Comedy, New York, New York, GoodFellas and Casino.
De Niro's most recent film credits include Alfonso Cuaron's Great Expectations, Barry Levinson's Wag the Dog and Quentin Tarantino's Jackie Brown. He recently completed Warmer Bros.' Analyze This, for director Harold Ramis.
De Niro opened his own production company, Tribeca Productions, with his partner Jane Rosenthal in 1988. Through Tribeca (which is housed in his Tribeca Film Center, a downtown film facility in Manhattan, which he founded simultaneously), he develops a wide variety of projects on which in serves in a combination of capacities, including producer, director and actor.
De Niro made his feature film directorial debut in 1993 with A Bronx Tale. Other Tribeca features include Thunderheart, Cape Fear, Mistress, Night and the City, The Night We Never Met, Faithful, Panther, Marvin's Room, Wag the Dog and the upcoming movie adaptation of the hit Broadway musical "Rent."
Tribeca Television was launched in 1992 with the critically acclaimed series "Tribeca," on which De Niro served as executive producer. Most recently, Tribeca produced a miniseries based on the life of mobster Sammy The Bull Gravano, which aired in 1998, earning impressive ratings as well as critical praise.
De Niro, who has produced films through his Tribeca Productions in addition to his extensive experience as an actor, says: "I found this crew to be one of the best I ever worked with. There was a good feeling, a great harmony on the set."
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Uniform Edition of Mark Twain's Works V. XV (1896)
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V.XV- The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. The Original Books Collection. Samuel Langhorne Clemens (November 30, 1835 – April 21, 1910), better known by his pen name Mark Twain, was an American author and humorist. He is most noted for his novels, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876), and its sequel, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885), the latter often called "the Great American Novel."


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text: Main Content Section 213.51 friendly link Printer Friendly THE UNIFORM CONDEMNATION PROCEDURES ACT (EXCERPT)Act 87 of 1980213.51 Definitions. Sec. 1. As used in this act: (a) "Acquire" or "take" means to secure transfer of ownership of property to an agency by involuntary expropriation. (b) "Acquisition" or "taking" means the transfer of ownership of property to an agency by involuntary expropriation. (c) "Agency" means a public agency or private agency. (d) "Appraisal" means an expert opinion of the value of property taken or damaged, or other expert opinion pertaining to the amount of just compensation. (e) "Constructive taking" or "de facto taking" means conduct, other than regularly established judicial proceedings, sufficient to constitute a taking of property within the meaning of section 2 of article X of the state constitution of 1963. (f) "Owner" means a person, fiduciary, partnership, association, corporation, or a governmental unit or agency having an estate, title, or interest, including beneficial, possessory, and security interest, in a property sought to be condemned. (g) "Parcel" means an identifiable unit of land, whether physically contiguous or not, having substantially common beneficial ownership, all or part of which is being acquired, and treated as separate for valuation purposes. (h) "Private agency" means a person, partnership, association, corporation, or entity, other than a public agency, authorized by law to condemn property. (i) "Property" means land, buildings, structures, tenements, hereditaments, easements, tangible and intangible property, and property rights whether real, personal, or mixed, including fluid mineral and gas rights. (j) "Public agency" means a governmental unit, officer, or subdivision authorized by law to condemn property. History: 1980, Act 87, Imd. Eff. Apr. 8, 1980 ;-- Am. 1996, Act 474, Imd. Eff. Dec. 26, 1996 © 2017 Legislative Council, State of Michigan