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We have now launched the IFS Deaton Review, a comprehensive five-year study of inequalities in society funded by the Nuffield Foundation. The review will be led by Nobel Prize-winning economist Sir Angus Deaton and a panel comprised of world-leading experts in economics, sociology, demography, philosophy, political science and epidemiology. The project will draw on a range of diverse perspectives to understand inequalities in income, wealth, health, social mobility, political participation and more. As well as deepening our understanding of inequalities in the twentieth-first century, the ...
The prestigious National Academy of Sciences in the US has elected IFS's Richard Blundell as one of only six European 'foreign member associates'. He is the only economist foreign member associate this year, and there is only one other in the UK in total. Members are elected in recognition of their distinguished and continuing achievements in original research.
Richard is director of the ESRC Centre for Public Policy at IFS.
The Royal Economic Society has appointed IFS Research Director Professor Rachel Griffith as its new President for 2019/20. Rachel is Professor of Economics at the University of Manchester, Research Director of the IFS and Co-Director of the Centre for the Microeconomic Analysis of Public Policy (CPP).
She is the Society's first female President in over 35 years and becomes only the second woman to hold the post in the Society's 129-year history.The Society also named Professor Carol Propper (Imperial College London) as President-Elect for 2019/20. They will join the ranks of other ...
IFS researcher and co-director of the ESRC Centre for Public Policy (CPP) at IFS, Imran Rasul, has been awarded the prestigious Yrjö Jahnsson prize for his work on the role of social relationships in economics. Imran, who is also a professor at University College London, receives the 2019 award jointly with Oriana Bandiera (London School of Economics).
The award was previously given to Richard Blundell, now director of CPP, in 1995. This was for his work in microeconometrics and the analysis of labour supply, welfare reform and consumer behaviour. The award is selected by the European ...
Paul Johnson has given evidence to the Commons Treasury Committee during their Spring Statement session on Wednesday 3 April 2019.
MPs asked how much 'fiscal headroom' the Chancellor might have for increasing spending given the improvements to borrowing forecasts at the Spring Statement. They asked whether the Chancellor was still aiming for budget balance, and how to improve sharing of data and analysis around fiscal events.
Watch the session on Parliament Live. Catch up on all of our Spring Statement 2019 analysis....
April 2019
A recent study from ELSA published in The Lancet Public Health, has found an association between perceived age discrimination and poor health.
The study used data from over 7,000 people aged 50 or older, who took part in a face-to-face interview and returned a self-completion questionnaire containing questions around age discrimination.
Perceived age discrimination was reported by 1,943 participants (25%). These participants were more likely to report fair or poor health. They were also more likely to have coronary heart disease, chronic lung disease, arthritis, limiting ...
When confronting an economic model with data, one usually encounters a situation where some important variables, such as tastes and productivity that appear in the model in nonadditive, nonseparable ways, are unobserved. Rather than transforming the model into one where the unobservables enter in separable ways, the nonseparable approach considers identification and estimation of the original model. The original model satisfies the economic restrictions of the model, which aid in identification and estimation. These restrictions are often lost in separable transformations.
This ...
This two-day course run by the Department of Epidemiology and Public Health at UCL aims to provide a good understanding of a range of techniques for longitudinal data analysis and hands on experience of the analysis of longitudinal studies.
It includes a mixture of theoretical sessions and practical sessions (using STATA) to illustrate concepts. Practical sessions will use data from the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing (ELSA).
Find out more and book your place.
The IFS is launching a major new £2.5 million study of inequality in the UK, funded by the Nuffield Foundation and chaired by Nobel Laureate Professor Sir Angus Deaton.
CPP directors, Orazio Attanasio, James Banks and Richard Blundell are on the panel for the review, along with a range of experts from the UK and overseas.
January 2019
An ELSA analysis has shown that people who rate their life as being more meaningful also have stronger personal relationships, broader social engagement, less loneliness, greater prosperity, better mental and physical health, less chronic pain, less disability, greater upper body strength, faster walking speed, less obesity and smaller waistlines.
The study also showed that higher worthwhile ratings were associated with more favourable biomarker profiles, healthier lifestyles, more time spent taking part in social activities and exercising, and less time spent alone or ...
The AEA, in conjunction with 59 associations in related disciplines known as the Allied Social Science Associations (ASSA), holds a three-day meeting each January to present papers on general economics topics. This January, several IFS economists presented their work.
IFS Research Fellow, Phillipe Aghion, presented work on 'The Innovation Premium to Soft Skills in low-skilled occupations'.
IFS Research Director Orazio Attanasio gave the European Economic Association Lecture on 'Consumption Insurance in Networks with Asymmetric Information'.
CPP co-Director Eric French presented on ...
The Department for International Development (DFID) has renewed funding for the Centre for Tax Analysis in Developing Countries (TAXDEV) until November 2022. TAXDEV is based at the Institute for Fiscal Studies and aims to contribute to more effective tax and social protection policy-making in low- and middle-income countries.
The second phase of TAXDEV will be delivered jointly by the IFS and the Overseas Development Institute (ODI), who have a long track record of building the capability of governments to develop, implement and evaluate tax and spending policies.
TAXDEV provides applied ...
On Wednesday 19 December, IFS Associate Director David Phillips gave evidence to the Finance and Constitution Committee of the Scottish Parliament on the Scottish Government's taxation proposals. The session was reported live here.
The Second AASLE Conference brought together researchers from around the world and was hosted by Seoul National University in Seoul, South Korea from 13-15 December 2018. CPP director, Richard Blundell, gave the keynote address about household behviour and the dynamics of inequality.
On 12 December, IFS research economist Tom Waters gave evidence to the Commons Work and Pensions Committee on the two child limit in tax credits and Universal Credit. The committee session is available to watch online here.
A masterclass given by Charles Manski (Northwestern) sponsored by CeMMAP and the Economics Research Initiative at Duke University, March 28-29 2019
This masterclass will focus on evidence-based decision making for patient care under uncertainty, in which clinicians face only limited ability to predict patients' future illness and treatment response. To deal with this inherent uncertainty, partial identification analysis can be applied to make credible predictions for patient ...
IFS Research Fellows Gabriella Conti and Martin Weidner have been awarded Consolidator Grants by the European Research Council (ERC). The ERC bestows the Consolidator Grants to outstanding researchers who have a promising scientific track record, and between 7-12 years of experience after the completion of their doctorates.
The ERC grants have been awarded to 291 top scientists across Europe. Funding for these researchers, part of the Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme, is worth in total €573 million and will give them a chance to build up their teams and have far-reaching ...
On 28 November, IFS Research Director Orazio Attanasio gave a lecture as part a series convened by the Centre of Excellence for Development Impact and Learning (CEDIL) and the Centre for Evaluation, addressing methods and innovation in primary studies. The lecture was entitled, 'Contextualised structural modelling for policy impact' and focused on Early Childhood interventions. You can find out more and watch a video of the lecture on the CEDIL website.
IFS Research Director Orazio Attanasio has given the 2018/19 Richard Ely Distinguished Lecture Series at Johns Hopkins Department of Economics:
Lecture 1: November 12, 2018; 3:30 pm – 5:00 pm;
The process of human development over the early years: what we know and what we don't
Lecture 2: November 13, 2018; 3:30 pm – 5:00 pm;
Modeling parental behavior
Lecture 3: November 15, 2018; 3:30 pm – 5:00 pm;
Human capital policies: what can be done and at what scale
The department has funded The Richard Ely Distinguished Lecture Series since 1998. For a two-week period once a ...
Isaiah Andrews (Harvard)
Xu Cheng (Penn)
Tim Christensen (NYU)
Frank Kleibergen (Amsterdam)
Luca Gambetti (Collegio Carlo Alberto)
Patrik Guggenberger (Penn State)
Adam McCloskey (Colorado)
Anna Mikusheva (MIT)
Alexey Onatskiy (Cambridge)
Mikkel ...
Today the Social Security Advisory Committee, of which IFS Deputy Director Carl Emmerson is a member, released their report on the draft Universal Credit (Managed Migration) Regulations 2018. The report, and the government's response to its recommendations can be found here.
This year's Gorman Lectures will be delivered by Claudia Goldin (Harvard) on May 20/21, 5.30-7pm, at UCL.
There will be a Conference during both days (co-sponsored by CREAM and IFS) themed around Claudia's work and co-organised by Uta Schoenberg, Monica Costa Dias and Claudia Olivetti.
Established in 2001, the Gorman Lectures are given in honour of the influential economist William Moore "Terence" Gorman. The annual series features a different leading economist each year and has included: Eric Maskin, Dan McFadden, James Heckman, Avinash Dixit, Robert M. Townsend, Ken ......
On Tuesday, October 30th, Professor Sir Richard Blundell, CBE FBA, will deliver a Levine Family Lecture on "Household Behaviour and the Dynamics of Inequality" at University of California, Davis. The lecture will be held from 4:00 to 5:30pm in the Buehler Alumni Center, Alpha Gamma Rho. Levine Lectures are free and open to the public at large.
Created by the Jay (BA Economics '84) and Tammy Levine Family Foundation, the Levine Family Fund supports activities that further the academic and research mission of the Economics Department, including funding for visiting speakers, undergraduate ...
The launch conference brought together researchers, policy makers and other stakeholders to discuss the latest findings from the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing.
Presentations from the conference and report code are available to download from the Training resources page.
If you would like a hard copy of the report, or any other information related to the launch, please contact the ELSA Team.
⇒Download the ELSA Wave 8 Report.
⇒Download the ...
Recent evidence indicates that dementia rates have decreased in the last few decades in the United Kingdom and other parts of Western Europe, with the greatest declines apparent in those with higher educational attainment relative to more basic educational attainment.
However, less clear is the extent to which other socioeconomic markers such as wealth, income, and area deprivation contribute to dementia risk. ELSA data were used to investigate the associations between markers of socioeconomic status (wealth quintiles and the index of multiple deprivation) and dementia incidence. To ...
IFS Deputy Director Carl Emmerson gave evidence to the Work and Pensions Select Committee today as part of their inquiry into the benefit cap.
Since 2013 the government has placed a cap on the amount that some working-age families can receive in benefits. In May 2018 60,000 households saw their benefits reduced by the cap. The Government's objectives for the cap are "improving work incentives, promoting fairness between those on out of work benefits and taxpayers and delivering savings". The Work and Pensions Select Committee wants to understand how well the benefit cap is achieving ...
Richard Blundell, Director of the Centre for the Microeconomic Analysis of Public Policy at the IFS, has given the keynote speech at the Copenhagen Business School's launch of their Business in Society Platform on Inequality. His address was on 'The dynamics of income and earnings inequality' and was followed by a discussion.
The Inequality Platform is running from 2018 to 2023 and aims to address the causes and consequences of inequality from a Danish, European, and global level. The Inequality Platform brings together researchers from four CBS departments – DBP, ECON, INT, and ...
Ration shops allow households to purchase limited quantities of certain goods at subsidised prices, and are used by governments in a numbre of low and middle income countries. In a new IFS working paper, Lucie Gadenne shows theoretically that such systems can be better for household welfare than a universal cash transfer scheme if the goods in question are consumed in relatively large quantities by the poor and if the market prices for them are volatile.
Using data from India, where ration shops are prevalent, she shows that this may be true for three of the four goods sold through the ...
In the UK, the IFS plays a leading role in informing the public debate and scrutinising government and opposition tax and spending policy decisions and proposals. David Phillips, an Associate Director at the IFS who works in both the TAXDEV centre and on devolved and local government, explained this role to a delegation of Tajiki parliamentarians and auditors tasked with scrutinising tax and spending in Tajikistan. He talked about the various types of work the IFS does, from immediate commentary to major programme evaluation to fundamental economic research, how it disseminates this to a ...
On 26 September, IFS Associate Director David Phillips was in the hot seat at the Health Show UK 2018 to talk about social care funding. He was quizzed by Victoria Macdonald, Channel 4 News's health and social care correspondent, and health and social care professionals about:
- What has happened to social care funding in recent years, and why this may pose a problem;
- What factors may affect the funding needed for social care in the future;
- The options and issues for raising more revenues from people receiving care, or via taxation or compulsory insurance;
- And the tensions between ...
IFS Research Economist, Laura ven der Erve, spoke at the fourth annual Women in Economics conference, held in Cambridge at Gonville and Caius College.
The speakers at the event were:
On 13 September, IFS Associate Director Robert Joyce gave evidence to the Scottish Parliament Social Security Committee on social security and in-work poverty.
The Committee also took evidence from David Finch, Senior Research Fellow, Resolution Foundation; Russell Gunson, Director, Institute for Public Policy Research Scotland;Deborah Hay, Scotland Policy Officer, Joseph Rowntree Foundation; Polly Jones, Project Manager, A Menu for Change Project, Oxfam Scotland.
From the 9-10 November 2018, the Centre for Econometrics at Northwestern University is hosting a conference on Incomplete Models co-sponsored by the Centre for Microdata Methods and Practice (CeMMAP) at University College London.
Speakers include:
This week, Ghana's Ministry of Finance has organised and run a training workshop for civil servants from the Ministry and the Revenue Authority on GHATAX, the microsimulation model built by the IFS's TAXDEV team for Ghana. The model, built in conjunction with Ministry staff, allows analysts to examine the revenue and distributional impacts of tax and transfer policies and policy reforms, and is designed to provide additional information to the policymaking process. Understanding the impact of policies on households with different characteristics (e.g. high, middle and low incomes) is key ...
It is with great sadness that the Institute for Fiscal Studies notes the death of Sir James Mirrlees (1936-2018). He has been a figure of enormous importance both for the magnitude of his influence on the field of public policy analysis in general and more particularly for his role in the Institute's recent activities.
His work on the optimum design of tax systems has had incalculable influence on economics. The challenge of finding a balance between the objective of reducing inequality and the need to maintain work incentives is at the core of analysis of direct taxation. He found a ...
This week, the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) announced a £65 million investment in health and social care policy research. Over five years, 13 NIHR Policy Research Units will inform decision-making by government and arms-length bodies, and IFS researchers will play a critical role.
In January 2019, the NIHR Policy Research Unit in Health and Social Care Workforce will begin its work, based in King's College London. Dr Elaine Kelly, who joins as co-director, and George Stoye will use administrative data to examine recruitment and retention in health and social care.
The ...
IFS Director Paul Johnson has been awarded an honorary doctorate from University College London. The degree was presented on 3rd June at the morning graduation ceremony for Social and Historical Sciences postgraduate students at the Royal Festival Hall.
IFS Director Paul Johnson and CPP Director Richard Blundell before the ceremony.
The Centre for Microdata Methods and Practice and Department of Economics at Duke University are pleased to co-sponsor a two-day lecture series to be delivered by Professor Charles F. Manski of Northwestern University. These lectures will focus on evidence-based decision making for patient care under uncertainty, in which clinicians face only limited ability to predict patients' future illness and treatment response.
To deal with this inherent uncertainty, partial identification analysis can be applied to make credible predictions for patient outcomes. This analysis motivates the use of ...
IFS Research fellow Dr Abi Adams has been awarded the 2018 ESRC Outstanding Impact in Public Policy award. The award was given for her research on employment tribunal fees which contributed to the unanimous Supreme Court finding in July 2017 that the fee system for employment tribunal claimants was unlawful.
Her article on the adverse incentives of the fees, co-written with Dr Jeremias Prassl, was highlighted as a contribution to the Supreme Court verdict in a House of Commons Research briefing note. This successful case has inspired great interest in considering what evidence to draw on ...
An article by IFS authors was the most downloaded in the journal Economica for 2017. The article, 'Two Decades of Income Inequality in Britain: The Role of Wages, Household Earnings & Redistribution', by Chris Belfield, Richard Blundell, Jonthan Cribb, Andrew Hood, and Robert Joyce was published in Economica in January 2017. In the paper, the authors study earnings and income inequality in Britain over the past two decades, including the period of relatively 'inclusive' growth from 1997 to 2004, and the Great Recession.
Find the full article here or download the summary....
We will begin with a presentation of standard models of comparative advantage that have been used to explain the pattern of trade (who trades what with whom) and the normative effects of trade (who gains and who loses when trade becomes easier to do) both between and within nations. This will span the perfectly competitive models of Ricardo and Heckscher-Ohlin (including their modern versions such as that due to Eaton and Kortum), as well as the monopolistically competitive models of Krugman and Melitz.
We will then turn to the recent empirical literature that aims to connect these models ...
IFS director, Paul Johnson, has been awarded a CBE (Commander of the Order of the British Empire), for services to the social sciences and economics, in the Queen's birthday honours list 2018.
On the 5 June, IFS senior researcher Kate Smith presented at a meeting of the All Party Parliamentary Group for Social Science and Policy. The meeting looked at the likely effect of the sugar tax on public health and children's health in particular. The government recently extended its campaign against the childhood obesity epidemic by telling the food industry to cut 20 per cent of calories from their products within six years. The action by Public Health England comes on top of its drive to reduce consumption of sugary foods and sweet drinks.
Kate Smith is part of a team at the IFS ...
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Richard Blundell writes:
"For the last 25 years the ESRC Centre for the Microeconomic Analysis of Public Policy (CPP) has provided core long term research funding for IFS. With centre funding IFS has brought rigorous evidence-based research to the analysis of public policy, allowing us to respond swiftly, authoritatively and independently to the changing public policy debate. It has created a unique environment for building new generations of economists who have gone on to take leading roles in academia, in public policy, and in the media. The new Research Institute status will enable ...
Helen Miller, director of the tax research programme at the IFS, has been awarded the prestigious Tax Personality of the Year award for 2018. The 2018 awards were on Thursday 17th May at the Hilton Park Lane where over 500 tax professionals celebrated the winners.
Confirmed speakers:
Enghin Atalay (UW Madison)
Matthew Backus (Columbia)
Pierre Dubois (Toulouse)
Alon Eizenberg (Jerusalem)
Matthew Grennan (Penn)
Gautam Gowrisankaran (Arizona)
Robin Lee (Harvard)
Peter Newberry (Penn State)
Howard Smith (Oxford)
Introduction to conference by Mike Walker (Chief Economic Adviser, Competition and Markets Authority, ......
IFS Associate director Rowena Crawford is presenting today at 'Re-assessing the Generational Contract', an all-day conference organised by the Resolution Foundation, Imperial College Business School and the Economic and Social Research Council. Presentations given will address issues surrounding intergenerational inequality, from why the rapid generation-on-generation incomes gains of the 20th century have ended, to how the market and state should respond to ageing populations. Rowena's talk will focus on "Inheritances and inequality in the UK".
As in many high income countries, developing countries often exempt or apply reduced rates of VAT to food and other goods and services in an effort to limit the impacts of VAT on poorer households' cost of living. But with richer households often consuming far more of these goods in absolute terms, and developing countries expanding their cash transfer and social protection schemes, are there better ways to support poorer households?
In a new video, Ross Warwick, a research economist at the IFS, talks about ongoing research being carried out alongside Commitment to Equity Institute ...
Rachel Griffith, Research Director at IFS, is the 1st holder of the newly established ECORES chair. She will give 4 lectures, looking at what different types of policies, aimed at reducing obesity, might achieve in terms of reducing long-run inequalities in health, social and economic outcomes. Lecture topics:
Full details & registration can be found here: http://feb.kuleuven.be/Economics/...


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Tuesday, March 29, 2011
Filipino Tag Game 2nd Edition.
I got this idea from itsjudyslife. Everyone who is Filipino or even if you're not should do it just replace it with your ethnicity (:
Labels: Filipino Tag Game, itsjudyslife
3 comments:
- kristinleigh said...
Hi!! Aw I wanna do this tag. That's about the only part I know in "Nandito Ako" as well, still my fave tagalog song to sing on the magic mic though.....next to Barbie Girl lol. You say "Auntie" almost exactly like me and my cousins do, haha. Cute blog, girl!
- March 31, 2011 at 10:20 PM
- MAE said...
Thanks Kristin! You should do the tag! I had a lot of fun doing it, even though the singing part was embarrassing lol. And I love your blog! I had to follow <3
- March 31, 2011 at 10:37 PM
Aww Great tag!!! LOL, and yes Asian parents are strict to a certain point!
- April 1, 2011 at 10:30 AM
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Lone Wolf Gunpowder Gin - 50cl - 57% ABV
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Lone Wolf as a distillery set its stall out as being different from the offset. They make their spirits from grain to glass, ensure that they are distinct in their character and produce them on a scale that will make them affordable to all. The scale they are working at incidentally, makes them one of the largest distilleries in the UK, and one of the bigger establishments to have launched in the since Adnam's made its comparable move to extend from brewing into distilling. When one considers it all in context, however, Lone Wolf is not as large as it might at first appear.
In order to produce the spirit to use as a base one has to be on the larger scale of the spectrum, so while they will dwarf some of the smaller names with just a fraction of their apparatus or distillery footprint, when compared like for like with others who distil as well as rectify, Lone Wolf shares much of the same stature. The hard to ignore factor that most are blown away by is that it sits in one of the UK's largest craft breweries whose warehouses, while irrelevant to the making of their gin, give the impression of being in a production facility the size of Jack Daniels.


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When the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples presented its final report to Canada's House of Commons in November 1996, following five years of extensive and thorough consultations with both Native and non-Native constituencies, many believed that a new era of cooperation and respect was blossoming. Contents of the report revealed the Commission's honest and comprehensive understanding of the distinct histories of Canada's original self-governing peoples. It also moved to elevate the country's political discourse away from its paternalistic past toward a respectful future, one in which the Canadian government and its First Nations within worked "people to people" and "nation to nation."
The four Aboriginal and three non-Aboriginal commissioners delivered a document that was credible and worthy of its honorable intent. Its effort entailed some 178 days of public hearings, 96 direct community consultations, the commissioning of numerous research studies and the review of multiple past inquiries and reports. Even beyond the strength of its findings of First Nations' priorities, including 440 recommendations, the report carried with it the raw power of persistent truths too long suppressed and denied, expressed in clear and unambiguous language.
"The main policy direction, pursued for more than 150 years, first by colonial then by Canadian governments, has been wrong," stated the Royal Commission. "To bring about this fundamental change, Canadians need to understand that Aboriginal peoples are nations. That is, they are political and cultural groups with values and lifeways distinct from those of other Canadians."
The Commission addressed the consequences of Canada's Indian policies, such as the dispossession of Indian lands, the negation of governing powers and the loss of tribal self-respect. The report stated, "There can be no peace or harmony unless there is justice." Then Minister of Indian Affairs and Northern Development Ronald A. Irwin remarked, "The report should be viewed as a valuable tool for Aboriginal leaders, federal, provincial and municipal governments and educators ? all Canadians will be interested."
What a difference five and a half years can make. One can only wonder how so many good lessons were so quickly forgotten.
On June 14 the current Indian Affairs Minister Robert Nault presented to the House of Commons the anticipated First Nations Governance Act, Bill C-61, which although lauded by federal government officials, has met with immediate and vehement opposition from many tribal leaders across Canada, including Assembly of First Nations National Chief Matthew Coon Come, former National Chief Ovide Mercredi and Chief Roberta Jamieson, representing Six Nations of the Grand River, Canada's most populous Aboriginal territory. Whereas during the Royal Commission process, when the dialogue seemed somewhat aligned in purpose and acknowledgement of basic facts, the discourse surrounding the First Nations Governance Act reveals Canada's two vastly different worlds, growing ever farther apart.
"This legislation … puts the power to handle community governance affairs where it belongs, in the hands of First Nations people themselves," said Minister Nault. "The governance initiative is not intended to replace existing treaties or self-government and treaty negotiations, but to provide First Nations communities with tools that would allow them to build self-sustaining communities."
Government communiqu?s praise the new act as empowering Aboriginal peoples through the right to vote on governance codes, the right to appeal election matters, to have access to information, and to provide Indian bands with clear legal authority to enter into contracts, to sue and be sued by having the same legal capacity and rights as a "natural person." This, it is stated, will provide First Nations with the provisions needed for effective and accountable governance and economic development. It has been mentioned repeatedly in public communications that the act will not adversely affect Aboriginal treaty rights.
The swift response by First Nations' leadership resulted in a protest rally in Ottawa the same day the legislation was tabled. For his part, standing on the steps of Parliament Hill, AFN Chief Coon Come promptly tore a copy of the Governance Act in two and tossed the pieces to the side. Calling the bill "Indian Act, Part II," he addressed several of the core problems that the tribes have with the First Nations Governance Act. "I believe that we as First Nations have a right, a right to self-determination, to determine our own political institutions, to establish our own political societies without the imposition of a foreign legislation called the Indian Act," he said. "Starting on the Indian Act, building upon a racist act, is totally unacceptable."
Mercredi criticized Canada for attempting to apply conditions upon First Nations that do not exist for its own governing institutions. "They're making it a legal requirement for our governments to give our financial statements to anybody in Canada who wants a copy of it, a requirement that they don't have for their governments ? municipal, provincial or national," he said.
Six Nations Chief Jamieson echoed Coon Come's refrain that the legislation amounted to nothing more than "Indian Act II" and described it as a reprise of colonialism. "I think it's as remarkable for what's in it, as for what's not in it," she said. "Some of the things that are gross omissions are any recognition of our rights in the constitution. You know since the time of treaties our people have been recognized as nations and then with the passage of the Indian Act there was much more of a colonial approach. Then we worked and worked ? and our ancestors worked ? through the century and in '82 we were successful in getting our rights recognized in Canada's modern constitution. That was a major victory. And now the minister would have us believe that that didn't happen."
This fear of atavism packaged as new Indian policy has these Native leaders alarmed and feeling more than just a little insulted. And it isn't difficult to understand why. The struggle of the more than 600 First Nations within Canada to achieve an honorable footing based on mutual recognition and respect has been daunting. It has been a long time since nation-to-nation co-operation based on mutual trade and shared political interest was the norm. In the early days international relations were widely formalized in treaties and ostensibly recognized in the Royal Proclamation of 1763 ? where the Crown reserved the exclusive right to negotiate land issues with the Indians because of "great Frauds and Abuses" by colonists. In Canada, the Proclamation forms the basis for understanding the historic and legal nature of the Indian treaty-making process and of the existence of Aboriginal land title. It portrays Indian nations as autonomous political entities, having their own governments empowered with their own decision-making authorities that were not to be "molested" or "disturbed" on their lands.
However, this early and more equitable reality gave way to policies of domination and assimilation. In 1857 the Province of Canada passed an act to "Encourage the Gradual Civilization of the Indian Tribes." It declared all Indians "of good character" to be non-Indians, who, while invited to join Canadian society, were encouraged to bring their portion of tribal lands with them. Later, the Constitution Act of 1867, negotiated without Aboriginal participation, unilaterally assigned "Indians, and Lands reserved for the Indians" to the authority of the newly formed Canadian government.
These and other laws were codified in the Indian Acts of 1876, 1880, 1884, 1985 and now the First Nations Governance Act of 2002, an instrument that primarily continues the modification of the original paternalistic legislation. Added to this 126 years of disappointment was a relatively recent attempt, in 1969, to terminate Indian treaties, repeal the Indian Act and abolish the Department of Indian Affairs and Northern Development as a means of eliminating Canada's trust responsibilities to its First Nations. This "Statement of the Government of Canada on Indian Policy" became known as the infamous "White Paper." It was a strategy designed by none other than Canada's Prime Minister Jean Chretien, who was then serving as the Minister of Indian Affairs under Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau. Recognizing it for what it was, the final solution to Canada's "Indian problem," Native peoples all across Canada rose in opposition and it was withdrawn in 1971.
Still today, with all-embracing and oppressive oversight, Canada's Indian Act comprehensively shapes, directs and determines the basic "local governance" powers and cost accounting functions of those 600-plus band councils. It has never really been seen by tribal leadership as a desired framework, but its replacement or modification at this stage must meet the highest standards and expectations of an educated and increasingly astute Aboriginal leadership seeking its restored sovereignty. And the First Nations Governance Act leaves much to be desired.
For example, although it has been mentioned repeatedly by government officials that the act will not adversely affect Aboriginal treaty rights, nowhere in the proposed act is there a non-derogation clause. It is feared that Jean Chretien may yet be able to accomplish what his White Paper failed to do without an unequivocal statement protecting treaty rights. Native leaders also remind Canadians of their own Constitution Act of 1982. In Part II, Rights of the Aboriginal Peoples of Canada, Section 35 (1) states "The existing aboriginal and treaty rights of the aboriginal peoples of Canada are hereby recognized and affirmed."
"We think in Section 35 … that, de facto, included sovereignty," said Chief Jamieson. "That included the right to govern our own people. And so now, more than ever, I think our case is a stronger one in modern law. That is why we must oppose this because to accept it is really to take a giant step backwards."
One of those giant steps backward may well be Canada's intention to give First Nations the same legal standing as a "natural person." Although argued as a cause for economic development, so that tribes can enter into joint ventures with corporations or attract much needed investment capital from banks and venture capitalists, the change may also have the effect of eradicating tribal sovereign immunity ? the so-called legal "uncertainties" about which Minister Nault complains.
"Frankly, any of the things that he has in the bill, we do today, yesterday, on a daily basis here at Six Nations," said Jamieson. "He's giving us nothing new. The list of jurisdiction he puts out in the bill is less than that of a municipal government."
Jamieson is right. We encourage all Native peoples to read carefully Canada's Indian Act and the newly mutated First Nations Governance Act to understand how limited are the law-making powers assigned to Indian band councils. In every instance where the tribe is given a "local" law-making power, over such "major issues" as public nuisance, public works, waste management and the prohibition of alcohol, such laws remain subordinate to the Indian Act or any other act of Parliament. There exists no opportunity for government-to-government negotiation to resolve conflicting laws or interests. It has the virtual effect of making every First Nations law, even those over "local" fish, wildlife and natural resources, meaningless.
Further, as Jamieson explained, the implementation of the Act is to be done by the Governor in Council. That simply means the Prime Minister's Cabinet sitting on its own, behind closed doors, can pass motions to impose further things on Canada's Aboriginal communities. One doesn't even need an act of Parliament to significantly alter or eliminate Aboriginal rights.
The Act is also hailed by government officials as an interim step on the desired path toward self-government. However, tribal officials may want to take a harder look at that as well. The First Nations Governance Act omits four First Nations from inclusion because they either have or are negotiating final agreements on self-government. But at least three of the four, the Nisga'a Nation, the Sechelt Indian Band, and the Yukon First Nations, have all made concessions to federal and provincial taxation. This hardly constitutes an adequate expression of sovereignty.
We support the efforts by the Assembly of First Nations and the many tribes within Canada that are gearing up for yet another huge struggle in opposition to Canada's paternalistic legislative legacy. Legal challenges, based on several strategies are moving forward. These include Canada's offense of its own constitution in Section 35 (1), and offense of its own Charter of Rights and Freedoms, Section 25. The Charter stipulates that it "not be construed so as to abrogate or derogate from any aboriginal, treaty or other rights or freedoms that pertain to the aboriginal peoples of Canada including (a) any rights or freedoms that have been recognized by the Royal Proclamation of October 7, 1763."
That process, now moving ahead, will require the strong, collective strength of tribal leadership, backed by an informed citizenry, to either terminate the act or make the changes necessary to mitigate its potential harm and to keep Canada moving toward a more equitable relationship with its First Nations within. In addition to legal strategies, the door now opens to appeals to the Standing Committee on Aboriginal Affairs, the governmental body with the authority to recommend amendments to the bill.
From Six Nations, Chief Jamieson is emphatic in her opposition. "I won't work under this Act, I can tell you that," she said. Let us all hope that the good Chief is not out of a job anytime soon.


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The former King Edward VI School pupil, now 23, spent some time living and working in Africa and will share his experiences.
And the event has been arranged to raise funds for a project overseas.
Mr Court will take you on a journey through Uganda, Ethiopia and Botswana, telling tales about the people, the history and the wildlife, and ending the evening by introducing the work of the beneficiary charity, East African Playgrounds, whose child-centred approach is doing great things to help the people of Uganda.
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Happier Things....
So, while my family is going through yet another tough situation, I'm kind of removed from it. I'll go down to Waco tomorrow, but I've stayed home in the meantime. While I want to be down there to help my cousins with whatever, and just hug my Uncle Don, and hug my Mema & aunts and mom....I know how people are: they think pregnant people need to be taken care of. I don't want to be a burden to them, or the one who can't keep up with what needs to be done, so I'm going down tomorrow....and the funeral is Friday.
So...in the meantime, it's odd to pair my day to day life with the knowledge of what the rest of my family is having to handle.
....so, with all of this sadness stuff going on, I'm going to pause and post about some happier things.
Right now....these things make me happy and cheer me up:
Baby Girl's bow/hair accessory holder in her closet. OMG, just looking at this makes me happy. It's two sided, and there are more on the other side....and I still feel like she doesn't have enough hair accessories. Isn't that nuts!?
Although this is a very unattractive pose for us, I don't care. It makes me happy to lay with my son and have him fall asleep on me. Napping on the couch with him is just wonderful....and soon it may be different with a new baby here. I don't know how much time we have left (little sister or not), to just snuggle and nap on the couch. I don't know when he'll grow out of even wanting to snuggle his Mommy!
It makes me happy to look over and see my son and husband playing the same game on two different iPads, and laughing and loving it. I love this. FYI: the game is called Hay Day, and they're farmers.
These little kid snacks: these make me happy. They are so yummy. Small, but yummy. I can suck down two and they are just wonderful! Gage gets through about 1/2 of one, and then passes it over to me. I'm so lucky! {He does that with regular bananas too: he'll eat about half of it, and he's done.}
...and these are my guilty pleasure right now....They are not super great when paired with the crazy heartburn I have all.the.time.....but, they are soooo good!
Let's look at a few things that aren't making me super happy these days:
Last Saturday was the last day I could wear my wedding ring. It hurt soooooo bad to finally get it off that fat, swollen finger!
The fact that my belly prevents me from reaching the disposal switch in the kitchen---that's not making me happy these days. the counter comes together at a corner, and the switch is on the far wall in the corner. I now use a spatula to turn on the disposal when I need it!
Pitting edema. Two words that do not make me happy. Even worse, is looking at my own pitting edema.... (Step one: push into the swollen part with your finger. Step two: pull the finger away and look at the dimple. Step three: wait for it to go away.... Oh, wait....it's still there. Gross.)
So....there are some happy things & some not-so-happy things.
I'm 32 weeks now. I'll update about that at some point.
I've got to update about last weekend's Easter Egg Hunt.
....but I've got to prepare to head down to the funeral, so I've got some housework to finish, and errands to run, and I've got to be ready to host Hubby's birthday party on Saturday night when I return from Waco....I've got a lot to tend to.
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The New York City based Joan Mitchell Foundation commissioned a studio building for a visiting artists' residency program in New Orleans soon after Hurricane Katrina. The artists' studio building is situated on the interior of the block and is the only new construction within a larger campus of historic structures owned by the foundation. The building is configured in an L-shape to frame a large communal green space for the campus. Storm water retention is incorporated into the overall design with a sloped lawn, bioswales and retention pond. A primary bioswale planted with native vegetation slips under an entry bridge as it approaches a lower horizontal foreground mass whose façade is treated with vertical louvers in response to Louisiana's harsh western sun. Rising behind this louvered garden façade are light monitors for eight studio volumes that catch north light while responding to the scale, geometry, material and rhythm of neighboring houses. The studio building anticipates a LEED Gold rating.
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text: Osgoode student who overcame many obstacles diesAugust 15, 2011|Written By Heather Gardiner Wendy Babcock speaks out at a demonstration in Toronto for safe, affordable housing. Wendy Babcock was a pillar for marginalized people in her community. Despite her struggles in life, including an abusive childhood and becoming a sex worker at age 15, she went on to attend Osgoode Hall Law School.She died last week at age 32, but her legacy will live on, says MaryKay MacVicar, a supervisor at Street Health in Toronto who worked with Babcock. "She had such a devotion to the people in this community that she worked with. And these folks really struggle with really complex health and social issues."As a harm reduction worker at Street Health, Babcock helped people turn their lives around. And as a former sex worker, Babcock became an advocate for sex workers' rights and used her experience to educate women and provide them with support.Among her many accomplishments, MacVicar says Babcock did outreach work on the streets; ran a women's drop-in centre in partnership with the Regent Park Community Health Centre; helped start the Safer Stroll Project, a peer-based program that aims to create a safer environment for women in the sex trade; educated other social service organizations about the stigma frequently experienced by sex workers; and worked with the Toronto Police Service's sex crimes unit.Babcock also testified in the court challenge to Canada's prostitution laws put forward by Alan Young, an Osgoode professor and lawyer.MacVicar says she encouraged Babcock to go to law school because she was "a powerful advocate." She believes Babcock wanted to become a lawyer so she could advocate for marginalized people."I think of the one brilliant legacies that she's given us is the opportunity for so many of those people to be able to see themselves differently because of her example," says MacVicar. "She inspired people to get into peer work, to think about themselves in a different light, and recognize possibilities."Marty Thompson, a former crack cocaine addict, attended recovery meetings that Babcock and others led at Street Health. He says Babcock inspired him to go to college. "I was 47 years old and I didn't know what to do with my life. Wendy was one of those people who said, 'Marty, you can do it.'"Thompson continues: "These people like Wendy, these people are those grassroots, frontline people who have been there and did it. . . . Wendy was a person who believed in me more than I was believing in myself. . . . She was an encouragement to everybody."The Toronto Star reported that Babcock was found dead in her apartment on Aug. 9. A police spokesperson told the Star that foul play wasn't suspected and that she had struggled with mental-health issues.


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Even though women are making sluggish gains in the commercial world, according to a recent survey from Pew, only 10 percent or so of the top executive jobs at American companies are held by women. For several years, it was supposed that this was factual since women just were not right for the work done by executives. More recent research, though, has shown that companies led by women intensely outperform those led by men.
Here are some tips to know how women could raise their chances of success in the world of business:
Find your passion
Being a woman executive is tough, thus making certain that you unconditionally love what you are doing is going to help you prosper. Each entrepreneur gets to the point when they would rather lock themselves into a very minor closet than look at their product, business plan, or social media account one more time, but the more you love what you are doing, the longer it will take for you to get there, and the sooner you recover.
You're going to be spending more than 40 hours a week of your life, possibly for a very long time, to get your product or company the visibility it deserves. Make sure you are going to enjoy the process and the reward.
Find a mentor
Mentors are a boundless tool for all businesspersons, but for women, they are unquestionably vital. Multiply marginalized women in specific will benefit from having the guidance and feedback of someone who has pretty literally done what they are trying to do and faced the challenges they face. Women may need to look beyond afield than men to find a solid mentor; they may need to connect with women through the internet and social media, creating groups and networks that can expand past the boundaries of a particular city or community.
This can aid women pool and share their knowledge, working together to create a sturdier foundation to rise together.
Find your funding
Women historically struggle to access traditional funding through banks. Some loan programs are directly working to change that by offering loans specifically to marginalized women, but those programs can be highly competitive. If you are trying to get your first business off the ground, you still may not be able to access those funds.
Crowd-funding, however, is one method of raising business capital where women tend to excel. If you are going to try and crowdfund your business, make sure and do your research: find the right platform, know how to build a social media following, and get the word out.
It is significant to be professional in the workplace. Women should comprehend decent decision-making practices and be clear on how to have good, assertive conversations. They should also understand that what is considered assertive for a male coworker may be considered aggressive for them. But instead of softening their own presentation to try and compensate, they should speak up when other women are being treated unfairly, working to change the culture of the corporation.
Support other women
It leads to the biggest and most important point of how women can get ahead in the business world: by supporting other women in the business world. This means standing up when women are mistreated, believing other women who speak out about discrimination and harassment, and going public with stories of unfair treatment.
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ICT helping to curb corruption in PNG, people urged to report cases
The Finance Department is stepping up on corruption using Information and Communication Technology.
It has already brought to court seven cases with a verdict handed down on two of these cases.
Over 200 others are still being investigated.
First Assistant Finance Secretary, Tess Wingi told NBC News hundreds of complaints are received from the public on the use of public funds, through its Phone Against Corruption Initiative.
Wingi says the initiative has greatly helped to track down on funds dispatched from Finance Department to various government agencies, provinces and districts.
"Since this idea was started in 2014 we received 540 complaints, to be exact, in total.
"Then we segregated. Which information for what department?
"Most complaints were mainly from the districts.
"People from departments in the districts and provinces are sending those complaints to us. We then forward it on the departments or agencies concerned, saying there are complaints there, so send an audit team in to look at it.
"Then from there they can refer it to police or sometimes take on administrative measures like disciplinary process."
The ICT program, is confined to Finance, but will later be used by other Government departments and agencies.
People are encouraged to text the Finance hotline 1-6-3-2-1, if they are suspicious of public funds being mismanaged.....read more ICT News on >> PNG Technology News


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Mobee has shown off its Magic Feet wireless charging station at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas.
The Magic Feet device is capable of charging the Apple Magic Mouse and either the Apple Wireless Keyboard or Magic Trackpad.
When you place your Magic Mouse, Wireless Keyboard or Magic Trackpad by the Magic Feet device it recharges the supplied battery packs in the peripheral devices.
It uses inductive charging technology and to fully charge a device from empty takes six hours. Once charged it will run for up to 10 days and it can charge three devices at once.
It is designed to sit on the foot of the iMac and also houses a powered four-port USB hub, which can be used to charge devices that aren't compatible with inductive charging technology.
It will cost £134.99 including VAT when it launches in early March.
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WELD COUNTY, Colo. (CBS4)– An oil well leak has been capped and crews have been cleaning up the green substance that has been oozing from the well north of Windsor but people living nearby are concerned about the impact to their water supply.
PDC Energy out of Denver operates the oil well and rig. They said a bolt sheared off Monday morning causing the release of what's called "flow-back fluid," and oil-water hydraulic fluid that surfaces after fracking.
PDC said the incident was not fracking related, no gas escaped and the public was never in danger.
"We've got an environmental team, we have booms on location absorbing it, we've got a recovery hatch that fluid is flowing into," said PDC Energy Senior VP of Operations Bart Brookman.
But people who live nearby aren't buying the explanation.
"The actual incident had nothing to do with a fracking operation but they said what was coming up and I know was coming up was fracking fluid," said resident Ken Hall.
"Just wondering how it impacts the air quality and if it's going to contaminate the water, the soil," said neighbor Angela Varra.
For more than 30 hours Hall watched green fracking fluid spew from this oil well near his Weld County home. He calls oil drilling a double-edged sword.
"This is part of the risk of fracking I guess. We need the energy we need the jobs so it's part of what we do I guess." said Hall.
After a scary incident in their own backyard neighbors said when it comes to fracking, public safety should always be the top priority.
"We just hope that the best decisions are being made and doing what's necessary to keep it safe." said another neighbor.


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This capsule collection is our first attempt to use local expertise coupled with Italian imported fabrics and Luke's trademark technical touches.
The limited edition range introduces beautiful melton Baker Boy jackets, long length laser cut trench coats, high twist Italian Boucle coats and country wool plaid blazers.
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The MADE IN LONDON collection can be found online at www.luke1977.com and in selected Luke stores from Thursday 27th October 2016.


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Organisational structure
The Mercia Technologies Board has established an Audit Committee, a Remuneration Committee and a Nominations Committee - each with their own formally delegated duties.
Audit Committee
The Audit Committee is responsible for monitoring the integrity of the Company's financial statements, reviewing significant financial reporting issues, reviewing the effectiveness of the Company's internal control and risk management systems and overseeing the relationship with its external auditors (including advising on their appointment, agreeing the scope of the audit and reviewing the audit findings). The Audit Committee will continue to monitor the need for an internal audit function.
The Audit Committee comprises its Chair Jonathan Pell, Susan Searle, Ian Metcalfe, Ray Chamberlain and Caroline Plumb. Executive Directors attend by invitation. The Audit Committee will meet at least three times a year at appropriate times in the reporting and audit cycle and otherwise as required. It has unrestricted access to the Group's external auditor.
Remuneration Committee
The Remuneration Committee is responsible for determining and agreeing with the Board the framework for the remuneration of the Executive Directors and other designated senior executives and, within the terms of the agreed framework, determining the total individual remuneration packages of such persons including, where appropriate, bonuses, incentive payments, share options or other long term incentive plans. The remuneration of Non-executive Directors will be a matter for the Chair and the Executive Directors. No Director will be involved in any decision as to his or her own remuneration. The Remuneration Committee will also be responsible for issuing awards of shares and options to purchase Ordinary Shares under the Company's proposed share incentive plans.
The Remuneration Committee comprises Ian Metcalfe as Chair, Susan Searle, Ray Chamberlain, Jonathan Pell and Caroline Plumb. The Remuneration Committee will meet at least twice a year and otherwise as required.
Nominations Committee
The Nominations Committee is responsible for identifying and nominating members of the Board, recommending Directors to be appointed to each committee of the Board and the Chair of each such committee. The Nominations Committee will also arrange for evaluation of the Board. TThe Nominations Committee comprises Susan Searle as Chair, Ian Metcalfe, Ray Chamberlain, Jonathan Pell and Caroline Plumb. The Nominations Committee will meet at least twice a year and otherwise as required.


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My share of gold to have this room be about five degrees cooler or about five square feet larger. If that we the case though, I wouldn't be sitting here in my underwear trying to figure out exactly where all the time has gone and why I have become convinced that growing up will most certainly be the death of me. This room is a crash site and my professor emailed me in the middle of my long overdue intoxicated questioning of my entire existence as I lay staring at the ceiling in my roommate's girlfriends apartment just wondering where the papers I was supposed to do two months ago are. I haven't the heart to tell him that they haven't been written yet.
But me? Well shucks, I must have been the topic of conversation of at least one cab ride to somewhere else last night as me being in a night club is interesting at the very least. I told the waitress that I was in love with her and she laughed as is the natural reaction of women to me. What can I say? I guess I'm just a funny guy.
Watching the rain fall in Manhattan and the people and people and people and people and nothing can even scare them away because they are in all the majesty and each and every single one of those people carries something in their heart that makes them tick and strive for something or at the very least feel remorse and sadness for not being able to strive anymore. I think it was my birthday in my dream last night. Strange thing to say right? I don't really even like my birthday all that much but I do enjoy other people's birthdays. Cheers Ronan. Cheer Jerry. Cheers 37.
I'm going to stop now which usually ends up being a curse because for me to sit down and write these days has become a chore and I hate myself for that but it is and will be changing. So I'll return but first I need to spend more time thinking about things and life and whatnot.
And here I am and although you cannot see me just close your eyes and trust that I'm actually here. Good, now stop and wonder whether anyone like me could ever actually exist and realize that's insane and there is no way that I could actually be real. It'd be too mad and would upset the balance of things and we can have that, can we? I believe that is the biggest part of my… problem? I guess we can call it that, but the issue is that I've spent so much time thinking thing I don't want to think about aren't real and that I am the only real thing that there ever was.
This theory, in the words of Einstein, is bullshit. I am nothing but an illusion. The goal from here is to become less and less connected with reality as each day passes until I can become something better. It's my only choice as I don't know what will become of me or my mind or my heart if I continue to play by the rules that are put in place here before me and you and us. They were made not only to be broken but ultimately destroyed to the point where nothing at all remains of them. I will be completely imaginary by the time I die, at least I hope that I will.
Now I could stay here and say more and look for more to say but there is too much that needs to be undone. I need all other things to fall away so I can just be and once that happens, these things will start to make some more sense, or better yet less sense.


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Based on feedback from James Simonsen and Tony Gentile, I have made the following spec update: 1. Removed "id" attribute and getResourceTimingsById method from Resource Timing. As per James' remarks, the "id" attribute doesn't always make sense for some resources, like CSS or plugin subresources. Further, "id" is a snapshot at a given time, which may change and may not be unique. In an effort to not confuse users, this attribute and its associated method have been removed from the spec, http://dvcs.w3.org/hg/webperf/raw-file/tip/specs/ResourceTiming/Overview.html.. I have not yet made this spec update due to timing, but I am ok with making this change: 2. Remove all measure methods from User Timing. In an effort to keep the interface simple, we can remove all measure methods (measure(), getMeasures(), clearMeasures()). Though, these methods do provide a convenient way to measure the time between two marks and was endorsed by Steve Souders as a good practice, this work can be implemented by a web developer or an external library. I have not made the following updates for the reasons listed below: 1. Removing "type" attribute and getResourceTimingsByType method from Resource Timing. The "type" attribute and getResourceTimingsByType method provide users with a simple way to roughly sort their resource timing data by the initiator types. As some initiators, like XHR and Script, can load additional resources, it is useful and practical for web developers to sort their resources by the type of initiator. The initiator type will not change over time. The "type" attribute doesn't suffer from the problems of the "id" attribute and has specific value to web developers. 2. Requiring Resource Timing to be explicitly enabled by web developers. We have evaluated and closed on this concern in the past on the mailing threads and calls. Our joint analysis, http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-web-perf/2010Dec/0024.html, had shown that the impact of keeping Resource Timing enabled is negligible. The average number of resources per page is 42 and the 90th percentile is 145. The benefit of having Resource Timing enabled by default will mean that web pages using analytics libraries will have to make no explicit change to use Resource Timing. Otherwise, all analytic library users will have to explicitly update their pages to enable Resource Timing and this will hurt adoption of this API. Further, for sites that do not wish to gather or use this data, we already have the ability to disable Resource Timing data gathering by using setResourceTimingBufferSize method to reduce the buffer size to 0. Thanks, Jatinder Jatinder Mann | Internet ExplorerReceived on Wednesday, 4 May 2011 19:00:37 UTC
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WASHINGTON, June 7, 2013CLEO: 2013, the Conference on Lasers and Electro Optics, brings together the world's foremost scientists and engineers working in the field of laser science. From June 9-14, in San Jose, more than 1,800 technical presentations, with content stemming from fundamental laser science to photonic applications and products will be presented in such fields as ultrafast lasers, energy-efficient optics, quantum electronics, biotechnology and more.
Hot topics in the field will be presented to the media in a special press lunch event Tuesday, June 11 from 12 1 p.m. in the San Jose Convention Center, Room 230A. The press program boasts a line-up of three leading scientists who will present seminal research on clinical diagnosis of infection using optical techniques for counting individual viruses; time cloaking for improved optical communications; and advanced cold diode laser designs for ultra-high power laser applications.
Iain McKinnie, business development senior manager at Lockheed Martin Advanced Technology Center and CLEO: 2013 program co-chair, will moderate the lunch program. McKinnie's distinguished career focuses on new technology concepts in diode-pumped waveguide, fiber and bulk solid-state lasers, laser radar, guidestar lasers, OPOs and Raman lasers.
This year's program offers a new round-robin format that will allow reporters to hear each speaker present key points of his research in a small group setting and engage in one-on-one discussions before moving on to the next researcher and topic. Topics include:
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Exactech Selects Medical Metrics as Imaging Core Lab for Cartilage Repair Study
HOUSTON–(EON: Enhanced Online News)–Medical Metrics Inc, (MMI), an experienced provider of medical imaging core lab services for global clinical trials, has been selected by Exactech, Inc. to conduct an independent evaluation of medical images from theBiPhasic Cartilage Repair Implant (BiCRI) IDE Clinical Trial approved by the Taiwan FDA. This prospective, randomized study will be conducted in Taiwan to evaluate a novel cartilage repair treatment. The biphasic implant is a two-phase scaffold that is intended to promote integration with subchondral bone and regeneration of hyaline-like cartilage. During the study, MMI will provide comprehensive analysis and management of MR images.
"Sponsors benefit from our broad experience in OA clinical trials and unique clinical and scientific expertise. We are proud to have been selected by Exactech as the imaging core lab for this important pivotal trial."
MMI developed the imaging sequences and assessment panels necessary to evaluate treatment outcomes, including extent of lesion repair, bone-implant integration, and overall device integrity. Matt Christensen, Exactech's Director of Clinical Affairs, said "We chose Medical Metrics for their extensive expertise in musculoskeletal imaging and cartilage repair. MMI is a valuable resource for clinical input on study design, and their commitment to customer services is impressive."
Exactech's BiCRI IDE trial supports the company's corporate objective to enter the cartilage repair market and commercialize the new technology in multiple global markets. MMI has supported osteoarthritis (OA) trials of treatments for cartilage repair and replacement since 2000. Nick Wharton, MMI's SVP of Technical Services, commented, "Sponsors benefit from our broad experience in OA clinical trials and unique clinical and scientific expertise. We are proud to have been selected by Exactech as the imaging core lab for this important pivotal trial."
About Medical Metrics
Medical Metrics, Inc. (MMI) is an ISO 9001:2008 certified provider of independent imaging core lab services for clinical trials of medical devices, drugs, and biologics. For more than 10 years, MMI has partnered with clinical trial sponsors to conduct comprehensive imaging evaluations of treatments for musculoskeletal, cardiovascular, and neurological disorders. Trials range from pre-clinical and early-phase clinical testing to pivotal studies and post-approval surveillance. With an ISO-certified quality management system, 510(k)-cleared image management platform, and core group of radiology and cardiology thought leaders, MMI is uniquely positioned to deliver high-quality image management and review services for global clinical trials. For more information, please visitwww.medicalmetrics.com.
About Exactech
Based in Gainesville, Fla., Exactech develops and markets orthopaedic implant devices, related surgical instruments and biologic materials and services to hospitals and physicians. The company manufactures many of its orthopaedic devices at its Gainesville facility. Exactech's orthopaedic products are used in the restoration of bones and joints that have deteriorated as a result of injury or diseases such as arthritis. Exactech markets its products in the United States, in addition to more than 30 markets in Europe, Latin America, Asia and the Pacific. Additional information about Exactech, Inc. can be found at http://www.exac.com.
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Pickerings Gin is the first gin to be produced in Edinburgh since for over 150 years. Distilled at Summerhall on the site of the former Royal Dick Vet the recipe is based on a Bombay Gin recipe dated 1947 that was discovered by founders Matt Gammell and Marcus Pickering. The gin, that is produced in small batched in a small still named "Gert", uses nine botanicals including juniper, coriander, cardamom and fennel. On the nose it's clean with notes of pine and lemon. On the palate there's lots of aromatics with flavours of cinammon and liquorice complemented by a nice nuttyiness and a soft, slightly sweet finish. Great stuff !
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