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Stranger Things: Netflix and the challenge of tax in the digital world
Netflix is making hundreds of millions in revenue from Australian consumers but the money is being booked by a Netherlands-based company, raising questions about how multinational corporations classify revenue locally and highlighting the challenges of taxation in the global digital economy.
Netflix customers in Australia are not billed by a local entity, despite a local company appearing on their bills, and are instead paying Netflix International BV, a private company based in Amsterdam, Netherlands, which is a subsidiary of the US-listed Netflix Inc.
Netflix Australia Pty Ltd booked revenue of just $6.5 million in 2017, a service fee paid by Netflix International BV for acting as a collection agent on subscriber revenue, according to the first local filings made public last week.
Netflix Australia Pty Ltd declared profits of $257,959 for the year to December 31, 2017, and an income tax expense of $175,516.
Because Netflix International BV is not an Australian company it does not appear on the Australian Tax Office's annual disclosure list, and the Netflix Australia (the Australian collection agent) does not meet the $100 million threshold to make the list.
Nine, publisher of the The Australian Financial Review, owns subscription video on-demand service Stan, a local rival to Netflix.
There is no suggestion Netflix is doing anything against the law and the company is not believed to be under investigation by the ATO, but it does call into question the effectiveness of the government's Multinational Anti-Avoidance Legislation (MAAL), which came into effect on January 1, 2016, and the Diverted Profits Tax (DPT), which came into effect on July 1, 2017.
The laws are aimed at clawing back revenue earned by multinationals such as Netflix, Facebook and Google from Australian consumers and businesses. The MAAL and DPT apply to significant global entities (SGE) with global turnover of more than $1 billion.
"All our financial practices are compliant with local and international tax laws," a Netflix spokesman said.
MAAL saw total income from Google reported in Australia increase to $1.5 billion in 2016-17, up from $501.8 million in 2015-16, while Facebook moved from not making the ATO's disclosure list, reporting under $100 million in revenue in 2015-16, to $331.2 million in 2016-17.
However, Google and Facebook both have significant Australian operations. Netflix will reportedly open its first Australian office later this year, but has not had a physical presence to date. Netflix's registered address with the Australian Securities and Investment Commission is with a law firm and there is no physical address for the company.
MAAL and the DPT aren't considered by experts to have been the most effective regimes, but they're getting some tax in from multinational digital giants who have for years used structures such as the Double Dutch-Irish Sandwich to protect large chunks of international profits from taxation.
Macquarie University associate professor Dr Catriona Lavermicocca said the Australian government has introduced some measures, but multinational taxation is an international problem.
"The framework for the allocation of profits between countries based on assets and their location is giving rise to anomalies," she said.
"The public probably expect that Netflix pays a lot of tax in Australia as they are so successful but that is not the case. At least the reforms that imposed GST, which is based on supply of intangibles in Australia ensures, that GST is collected on Netflix subscriptions."
Governments across the globe are grappling with tax rights over digital transactions where in many cases the company does not have a physical presence and what sort of contribution should be made.
A major US Supreme Court tax ruling in June last year found online sellers had a physical presence in US states even if only through cookies left on computers or apps on mobile phones. The decision overturned two previous judgments, signalling a groundbreaking change in how the judiciary looks at tax.
In Chicago, the city applied a 9 per cent "amusement" tax on streaming services, such as Netflix, Amazon Prime and Spotify, created in 2015, which has faced lawsuits from groups representing streaming platforms customers and has moved up to an appeal stage.
While these actions have no effect on Australian law, the delivery of products and taxation in the digital economy is a major talking point globally and there is a groundswell from governments across the world to implement a new regime.
The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) and G20 are in the midst of working through a Base Erosion and Profit Shifting (BEPS) action plan, where 125 countries are collaborating to provide a long-term solution to the challenges of tax in the digital economy with a final report due in 2020.
Dr Niv Tadmore, partner at Jones Day, commenting generally on international tax, said there is an unprecedented global push to reform the international system and there is likely to be alignment on principles.
"Yet alignment on uniformity and details will be a different story, as this is where country-specific interests come into play, and tax is very much about the detail," he said.
"It is a little like taking the broader family for dinner where they all agree on the restaurant but then they all need to sit down and agree on the one set menu, without dietary adjustments. There will be real challenges there."
Peter Wells, a professor in the Accounting Discipline Group at the University of Technology Sydney, said companies such as Google and Facebook are now recognising more revenue in Australia, but it was clear changes were necessary to make sure Netflix paid tax on its revenues derived in Australia.
"Despite the passage of the Multinational Anti-Avoidance Legislation it appears Netflix is still using the same basic structure to recognise revenues offshore and hence avoid Australian tax. Clearly legislative reform is needed," he said.
The revenue switch to Netflix International BV is a similar strategy the company has implemented in other countries, such as the UK, where Netflix's local accounts are "under examination" by HM Revenue & Customs after declaring pre-tax profits of €1.2 million from its more than 8 million UK subscribers.
It is unclear just how much revenue Netflix International BV receives from Australian consumers as the streaming giant does not disclose Australian subscriber numbers.
AMPD Research, a subsidiary of Media Partners Asia, believes Netflix has 5.3 million subscribers in Australia following a recent consumer survey. Roy Morgan estimated there were 11.3 million Australians using Netflix, distinct from subscribers, in the three months to February 2019.
Netflix charges on three tiers; $9.99 for basic, $13.99 for standard and $17.99 for premium each month. Based on AMPD research, Netflix International BV could now be making revenue of in the range of $600 million to more than $1 billion a year from Australian consumers.
Based on the three tiers, taking an estimated $13 average revenue per user, Netflix would be making more than $800 million in revenue in Australia with 5.3 million subscribers.
Netflix's subscriber base at any point will include some non-paying members on free trials and members who have not signed up directly, say via a telecommunications company like Telstra, Optus or Vodafone, where it receives a low subscription fee.
Dr Lavermicocca said the argument being made is subscription revenue is earned by a non-resident and is non-Australian sourced income.
"Really the issue here is the need for the international community to progress their discussions around how the distribution of taxing rights between countries needs to change post the digital revolution," she said.
"I note that there is the plan to open an office at the end of this year and there is the question as to what that more substantial office will do and what it will derive as opposed to the owner of the intellectual property [Netflix International BV]. Still the problem is the model of income attribution between countries by new and innovative businesses is outdated."
Last week, the first ever financial accounts for Netflix Australia Pty Ltd were made public after the Financial Review began its inquiries with the ATO and ASIC.
Netflix pays Australian GST after new laws were put in place in 2017 applying it to digital products. The company said Netflix International BV is the entity responsible for filing and paying GST, hence why it does not appear in Netflix Australia Pty Ltd's report.
Following the introduction of the so-called 'Netflix tax', the streaming giant increased prices by between 11.1 per cent and 20 per cent, depending on product tier.
Responding to the Financial Review, Netflix said "Australian consumers are billed by Netflix International BV and not Netflix Australia Pty Ltd, as shown on their payment invoices.
"Netflix Australia Pty Ltd is a payment collection agent on behalf of Netflix International BV. We are not on the ATO list because our revenue for Netflix Australia does not exceed $100m. Our filing last year with the ATO is a standard tax filing."
Netflix confirmed to the Financial Review that Netflix International BV is billing Australian consumers a total of more than $100 million, but that money is not recognised in Australia.
For example, as at December 31, 2017, Netflix Australia Pty Ltd held $15.1 million of payments collected on behalf of Netflix International BV, but had not yet transferred them and did not recognise them in Australia.
"Netflix Australia Pty Ltd records revenue attributable to various back office services performed in Australia for NIBV [Netflix International BV], which includes payment processing and content delivery support services," the company said.
According to Netflix Australia's financial accounts, it was paid $6.5 million by Netflix International BV in 2017 for those services, up from $3.3 million in 2016.
The ATO declined to comment on individual taxpayers, stating it cannot disclose or comment on information about specific entities' income and tax paid.
"However with the establishment of a Tax Avoidance Taskforce, the ATO is better equipped than ever before to fulfil its commitment to further increasing the level of compliance of public groups and multinational corporations," the ATO said.
"Our taxation system has also been strengthened through the introduction of new laws including the Multinational Anti-Avoidance Law [MAAL]. The MAAL will apply where multinationals make sales to Australian customers with support from their Australian operations, but bill that revenue from offshore."
The ATO said as a direct response to MAAL, 44 multinationals have brought or are bringing Australian sales back onshore.
"This is a permanent improvement as more than $7 billion in sales annually is expected to be returned to the Australian tax base and significant additional goods and services tax [GST] is being paid," it said.
"The ATO has assisted taxpayers to transition to compliant arrangements but continues to take firm action against taxpayers who operate in Australia and bill offshore."
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Summary: The Left has used its immense strength to crush the alt-Right, while the Right smiles (contemptuous of the alt-Right's populism). So far the pogrom has had nothing but success. But these victories breed a new generation of stronger foes as Darwin's Ratchet works its magic. The Left's arrogance and the alt-Right's populism might have large and unimaginable consequences for America. This is a follow-up to The Left crushes the Right. The counter-revolution will be ugly.
"The world is changed, I can feel it in the water, I can feel it in the earth, I can smell it in the air."
— Said by Treebeard, leader of the Ents, in The Two Towers – part II of Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings.
The easy way to make your enemies more powerful
"What does not kill him, makes him stronger."
— Friedrich Nietzsche in Ecce Homo: How One Becomes What One Is (1888).
One of the great mysteries of history is how effective oppositions arise to challenge powerful regimes. How do insurgents survive, let alone grow, when facing an overwhelming powerful establishment? One reason is that efforts to suppress insurgents put Darwin's Ratchet into action.
It's an old and well-known mechanism in biology, first developed by Herman Muller ("Muller's Rachet", see the articles below). In 2003 I said this would make victory impossible for us in Iraq and Afghanistan. Darwin's Ratchet results when a powerful group culls the pack of insurgents, eliminating the slow and stupid – allowing more fit insurgents to rise in authority. This creates a rising sine wave of revolutionary activity: success by the establishment, a pause in opposition – victory! – followed by another wave of insurgent activity, but larger and more effective. Which the establishment oppresses, again leaving only the fittest. Repeat.
We personally experience Darwin's ratchet when we take antibiotics in too-low doses or for too short a time, creating a colony of drug-resistant bacteria. When done by a society we breed "superbugs", as Nathan Taylor explains in "What are the risks of a global pandemic?"
"We can think of resistance to disease as an arms race. As a population gets exposed to more and more diseases, a darwinian ratchet effect occurs, and only those with stronger immune systems survive."
The literature of biology and medicine has many articles about Darwin's ratchet, ranging from complex ("The Ratchet Effect as a Fundamental Principle in Evolution and Cognition" by Alexander Riegler in Cybernetics and Systems, 2001) to the incomprehensible. The concept has spread to other fields, as in The Cerebral Code: Thinking a Thought in the Mosaics of the Mind (1996) by neurophysiologist William H. Calvin.
"We know that the Darwinian Ratchet can create advanced capabilities in stages – it's a process that gradually creates quality – and gets around the usual presumption that fancy things require an even fancier designer."
Biologist Richard Dawkins explains the Ratchet's effects:
"As the generations unfold, ratcheting takes the cumulative improbability up to levels that – in the absence of the ratcheting – would exceed all sensible credence. …{This is the} battle that we biologists face in our struggle to convince the public and their elected representatives {of} the power of Darwin's ratchet …to propel lineages up the gentle slopes of Mount Improbable."
Some scientists have extended the concept to humanity as a whole, as Ruth DeFries did in The Big Ratchet: How Humanity Thrives in the Face of Natural Crisis (2014): "In every cycle, new obstacles emerge. And in every cycle, millennium after millennium, humanity as a whole has muddled through."
The Darwinian Ratchet at work in war
"Never engage the same enemy for too long … or he will adapt to your tactics."
— Falsely attributed to Clausewitz but still insightful. From Lions for Lambs (2007).
My first posts about the Iraq War in Sept 2003 and Oct 2003 discussed the ratchet (perhaps its first mention in military theory). We killed countless insurgents but alienated the local population – creating more insurgents (well-understand flawed tactics which we still repeated). I showed that this produced another and even worse effect: we culled the pack of insurgents. We eliminated the slow and stupid while clearing space for more fit insurgents to rise in authority. Hence the by now familiar pattern: successes by the security forces, a pause in their activity (during which we declare victory), followed by another wave of activity – but larger and more effective. To which we reply with more killing. Repeat.
We locked ourselves into a "Red Queen's race" in which we must run ever faster just to stay abreast of our enemies in the Long War. Since they learn faster and try harder (it's their land), we fell behind. This accounts for our inexplicable (to us) failures in Afghanistan and Iraq. In 2006, after 5 years of war, some awareness of this the ratchet appeared in official reports, such as the 2006 National Intelligence Estimate "Trends in Global Terrorism: Implications for the United States". It said…
"We assess that the Iraq jihad is shaping a new generation of terrorist leaders and operatives …The Iraq conflict has become the "cause célèbre" for jihadists, breeding a deep resentment of US involvement in the Muslim world and cultivating supporters for the global jihadist movement."
By 2008 the best among the COINistas spoke about the ratchet, such as David Kilcullen in his presentation "Dinosaurs versus Mammals: Insurgent and Counterinsurgent Adaptation in Iraq" (RAND Insurgency Board, 8 May 2008). Like all of Kilcullen's serious work, it is a brilliant and subtle presentation that deserves close attention. (Red emphasis added in these excerpts.)
An unforgiving environment that punishes error, leading to Darwinian pressure on both sides…
Slide 16: Hypothesis: counterinsurgents adapt slowly, insurgents evolve quickly?
Slide 17: Hypothesis: mechanisms for insurgent evolution: General evolutionary effect, Leadership evolution (destruction-replenishment cycle), Bell Curve effect.
Slide 52: Conclusions: In a counterinsurgency, insurgent groups and security forces appear to engage in time- and resource-competitive processes of adaptation, driven by the Darwinian pressure imposed by a complex, hostile "conflict ecosystem" that operates on the edge of chaos. Counterinsurgents appear mainly to adapt, insurgents to evolve – but insurgent groups whose network and organizational structure is tighter may behave in a more purposeful adaptive manner (e.g. JAM).
By 2009 some academics were writing about it, such as "Darwinian selection in asymmetric warfare: the natural advantage of insurgents and terrorists" by Dominic Johnson (Reader, Dept of Politics & International Relations, U of Edinburgh; bio here) in the Journal of the Washington Academy of Sciences, Fall 2009.
"Models of human conflict tend to focus on military power, predicting that – all else equal – the stronger side will prevail. This overlooks a key insight from the evolutionary dynamics of competing populations: the process of adaptation by natural selection. Darwinian selection weeds out poor performers and propagates good performers, thus leading to a cumulative increase in effective adaptations over time. The logic of selection applies not only to biological organisms but to any competing entities, whether strategies, technologies, or machines – as long as three conditions are in place: variation, selection, and replication.
"Applied to asymmetric warfare, Darwinian selection predicts that, counter-intuitively, stronger sides may suffer a disadvantage across all three conditions:
- Variation – weaker sides are often composed of a larger diversity of combatants, representing a larger trait-pool and a potentially higher rate of "mutation" (innovation).
- Selection – stronger sides apply a greater selection pressure on weaker sides than the other way around, resulting in faster adaptation by the weaker side.
- Replication – weaker sides are exposed to combat for longer (fighting on the same home territory for years at a time), promoting experience and learning, while stronger sides rotate soldiers on short combat tours to different regions.
"In recent years, many civilian and military leaders have noted that US counterinsurgency and counterterrorism forces are adapting too slowly to match the insurgents in Iraq, the Taliban in Afghanistan, or Al Qaeda worldwide. A Darwinian approach suggests that this is exactly what we might predict: Weaker sides adapt faster and more effectively. Understanding the causes and consequences of Darwinian selection offers insights on ways to thwart enemy adaptation and improve our own."
A concept has become mainstream when Stratfor mentions it, as they did in "Pakistan: The South Waziristan Migration" (14 October 2009).
"All this experience in designing and manufacturing IEDs in Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan means that the jihadist bombmakers of today are more highly skilled than ever, and they have been sharing their experience with foreign students at training camps in places like South Waziristan. Furthermore, the U.S. presence in Iraq and Afghanistan has provided a great laboratory in which jihadists can perfect their terrorist tradecraft.
"A form of "tactical Darwinism" has occurred in Iraq and Afghanistan as coalition firepower has weeded out most of the inept jihadist operatives. Only the strong and cunning have survived, leaving a core of hardened, competent militants. These survivors have created new tactics and have learned to manufacture new types of highly effective IEDs — technology that has already shown up in places like Algeria and Somalia. They have been permitted to impart the knowledge they have gained to another generation of young aspiring militants through training camps in places like South Waziristan.
"As these foreign militants scatter to the four winds, they will be taking their skills with them. Judging from past waves of jihadist fighters, they will probably be found participating in future plots in many different parts of the world. And also judging from past cases, they will likely not participate in these plots alone."
A stronger sign of mainstream acceptance is its appearance in the writings of military professionals, such as "Insurgent career planning or insurgency darwinism", J. J. Malevich (Lt Colonel, Canadian Army; COIN Branch Chief), USA and USMC Counterinsurgency Center Blog, 4 March 2010 — No longer online.
"In our war in Afghanistan we seem to be doing a lot of leadership targeting by UAV. But, are we doing leadership targeting because it is a worthwhile war winner or because we can? I think is it more the latter than the former. There is no doubt that the capture/kill of an insurgent leader deals a blow to the insurgency and creates an IO opportunity for the home team. But, how much of an effect remains to be seen. Obviously we've been going after insurgent leaders for a while and what has happened? The insurgency got stronger. In fact, some had mused that the amateurs were cleaned out and the professionals took over.
"When I think of leadership targeting I am reminded of the Jominni inspired doctrine "shock and awe theory." In our doctrine, we constantly try to recreate those for 42 days of the battle of France in 1940 where the Germans got inside the OODA loop of the French Command, overwhelmed it and defeated it. Although targeting leadership can be useful in the heat of battle where HQs need to make rapid decisions and direct troops and fires to the critical point of the battle, I don't think it applies to insurgency situations.
"Leadership in an insurgency is a slower, less controlled event. Taking out a leader will not have an immediate tangible effect on the battlefield as insurgents are not normally sitting around waiting for orders. What I think it does cause is collateral damage while at the same time giving the younger more aggressive insurgent leadership an opportunity to come to the fore. I think we do it because we can. It reminds me of the British Bomber offensive in WW II between 1940 and 1941. The British could not come to grips with Nazis after the fall of France, but they could bomb targets in Germany and that made them feel good regardless of the effect.
"Does leadership targeting fall into an overall strategic plan or is it just something we are doing because we can?"
Eventually, even journalists learned about the ratchet, although in an unsystematic way. For example, The Economist explains how our military technology has forced the jihadist to become more sophisticated technologically in "Bombs away" (4 March 2010).
"For America's Central Intelligence Agency, the glory days of its "Darwin" patrols in Iraq were short-lived. Following the defeat of Saddam Hussein in 2003, the American-led forces faced clever homemade bombs triggered with the remote controls used to open garage doors. So CIA agents drove around transmitting garage-opening signals to blow up any bombmakers who happened to be nearby. This "survival of the fittest" culling, which gave the scheme its nickname, quickly became less effective when the bombers came up with new and better detonators. "We had to keep going back to the drawing board," says a former senior CIA official.
"And still the battle continues, with each new bombing advance met by a new countermeasure. As insurgents and terrorists have improved their handiwork, improvised explosive devices (IEDs) have become their most lethal weapons. In Iraq, IEDs are responsible for two-thirds of coalition deaths. In Afghanistan such attacks have roughly tripled in the past two years."
US Generals usually talk to us only in terms of winning, but after 14 years of failure a note of realism occasionally slips in. As in this interview by Breaking Defense with Michael Flynn (Lt. General, US Army), retiring chief of the Defense Intelligence Agency, on 7 August 2014. He describes the ratchet, but not by name.
"These various groups have learned from fighting the U.S. military for a decade, and they have created adaptive organizations as a means to survive. They write about and share 'Lessons Learned' all the time. That was something Bin Laden taught them before he died. These proliferating Islamic terrorist groups have also for years been developing connective tissue to each other and back to al-Qaeda senior leadership in Pakistan's tribal regions. Some of those connections are pretty strong. We're not talking bits and pieces or nascent connections.
"… when Bin Laden was killed there was a general sense that maybe this threat would go away. We all had those hopes, including me. But I also remembered my many years in Afghanistan and Iraq [fighting insurgents] … We kept decapitating the leadership of these groups, and more leaders would just appear from the ranks to take their place. That's when I realized that decapitation alone was a failed strategy."
Andrew Cockburn's "The Mystique of High-Value Targeting: Why Obama's Hopes of Decapitating the Islamic State Won't Work" shows the Darwinian ratchet at work in a non-trinitarian conflict other than war: the DEA's 1992 "Kingpin Strategy".
"The explanation, so the analysts concluded, was that dead leaders were invariably and immediately replaced, and almost always by someone (often a relative ready for revenge) younger, more aggressive, and eager to prove himself. The same held true on a wider scale. Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the Iraqi al Qaeda leader widely cited as the source of all our troubles in Iraq, was duly targeted and killed in 2006, only to be succeeded by Abu Ayyub al-Masri, who turned out to be an even more deadly opponent. He too was duly killed, and instead we got Abu Bakr al Baghdadi, who created the Islamic State, now lord of six million people and an area the size of Great Britain."
Darwin's ratchet at home …
See the establishment's pogroms against the alt-Right.
"I've killed them by the tens of thousands, scoured their countryside at will, pried their allies away, and humiliated them day after day. I have burned their crops and looted their wealth. I've sent a whole generation of their generals into the afterworld …Have I changed nothing? They are stronger now than before. They are more than before. They fight more sensibly than before. They win when they used to lose."
— Hannibal speaking about Rome in David Anthony Durham's novel Pride of Carthage (2005).
The Left-Right spectrum is a one-dimensional abstraction to describe political conflicts. It works well, but the meanings of Left and Right vary among societies and change over time. It is happening now in America at an accelerating rate. The Left moves further Left (e.g., reparations, abortions and sex-changes for teens without parental permission, racism, open borders). America's elites either applaud (e.g., the titans running the news and social media corps) or remain silent.
The vital forces on the Right have abandoned conservatives' quest for respectability (the focus on the 1%'s need for tax cuts, deregulation, and crushing unions). They return to the Right's long-time themes, such as the defense of traditional social norms (e.g., in gender roles and marriage), racism, antisemitism, and hatred of banks and corporate oligarchs. The push-back has been severe, as described in The Left crushes the Right. Alt-right organizations are broken (e.g., the Proud Boys), their leaders deplatformed (e.g., WordPress closes Chateau Heartiste, Reddit quarantines "The Red Pill.", Instagram deplatforms Roosh), and payment processors defund them.
So far the Left has known little but success as its pogroms spread from universities across America. I predict that they have destroyed the first generation of the alt-Right, but a second generation will arise from its ruins that is both smarter and more virulent.
Are these things good or bad? Please consult a priest or philosopher for answers to such questions. Here we only discuss what was, what is, and what might be. My guess is that this struggle between America's Left and Right, while the majority watch TV, puts us on the road to Weimerica. Future generations will not forgive our apathy and folly.
An insurgent's theme song
What doesn't kill you makes you stronger,
Stand a little taller, …
What doesn't kill you makes a fighter.
— Kelly Clarkson's "Stronger". See her video.
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See Herman Mueller's seminal articles about the ratchet: "Some genetic aspects of sex" (1932, open copy) and – more explicitly – "The relation of recombination to mutational advance" (1964, open copy).
If you liked this post, like us on Facebook and follow us on Twitter. See all posts about the right-wing, the alt-right, and especially these about the revolution…
- On Martin Luther King Jr. Day, let the GOP remember its great betrayal.
- 2016 revealed the true nature of America's left & right. It's bad news.
- Our Right & Left have lost their way. Saul Alinsky points to a better politics.
- About a cause of America's rising tide of hatred. We can still stop it.
- The photo that made Nathan Damigo leader of the alt-Right.
- Left and Right use race as a way to divide America.
- DEFCON 2: both Left and Right have turned against us.
- Red Robin recruits for the alt-Right (unintentionally).
- A morality tale of a 13-year-old boy joining the alt-right!
- The middle in American politics has died. Now extremists rule.
Learning about the alt-Right
The Left's sexism and racism are respectable, featured in the major news media. The Left works to suppress the expression of the Right's equivalent (my fav: running an interview with Vox Day sparked regime change plus an abject apology at a comics website). Theodore Robert Beale (born 1968, Wikipedia), AKA Vox Day, is an American writer, editor, video game designer, blogger, and alt-right activist. Here is a summary of his views: "The #MilRight is inevitable."
"The answer isn't white supremacy because white supremacy simply isn't true. Whites are not superior, but whites are the only tribe willing and able to maintain Western civilization because they are the only tribe that truly values it. The answer for those who support Western civilization, regardless of sex, color, or religion, is to embrace white tribalism, white separatism, and especially white Christian masculine rule."
See two of his books.
- SJWs Always Lie: Taking Down the Thought Police.
- SJWs Always Double Down: Anticipating the Thought Police – about "The Laws of Social Justice."

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Fifteen days – three to five star accommodation.
This South Africa Cultural tour includes :
- Soweto,
- Sterkfontein World Heritage Site,
- Pretoria,
- Durban's townships,
- Hulhluwe-Umfolosi game reserve,
- St Lucia World Heritage Site,
- Kosi Bay,
- Tembe Elephant Reserve,
- iPhiva,
- Sani Pass,
- Lesotho,
- Cape Town,
- Robben Island,
- Table Mountain and the Winelands.
Parts of this tour can be upgraded to 5 star lodging.
Day 1.
Arrive at Johannesburg airport – freshen up at the airport courtesy lounge- depart for tour of Soweto with lunch at Wandies.
Soweto (originally an acronym for South Western Townships) developed from a geographical location into an international symbol of victory over oppression. Overnight Johannesburg.
Day 2.
Depart for Sterkfontein caves where the ape-man fossils that have been found gave rise to the suggestion that Africa is the "cradle of mankind".
The significance of the Sterkfontein discoveries and the importance of the area in tracing the evolution of man has been recognised by UNESCO in declaring this a World Heritage Site.
Travel to Pretoria to visit the Union Buildings. Transfer to Johannesburg airport for flight to Durban. Overnight Durban.
Day 3.
Morning tour of the Townships of Durban, formally hotbeds of political dissension and conflict where many of the great leaders of the struggle against apartheid were born, worked or died.
To-day the Townships, home to some 2,5 million people, exude a vibrant, friendly atmosphere.
After lunch travel north to Hluhluwe-Umfolosi game reserve passing through widely contrasting agricultural lands from traditional subsistence farming to the vast commercial sugar and timber plantations.
This region is redolent with the culture and history of the Zulu nation whose dominant position as the largest population group in the country arose from the military conquests and diplomacy of King Shaka in the early 19th century.
A proud and dignified people, famous as fearsome warriors, they hold strong beliefs which are still widely practiced to-day. Overnight at Hilltop camp.
Day 4.
Game viewing activities in the Hluhluwe-Umfolosi game reserve.
This typical bushveld country is home to the Big 5 and many other species. It is the oldest reserve in Africa and, amongst other notable conservation successes, is where the white rhino was saved from the brink of extinction.
Here is a glimpse of the heartbeat of the old Africa where the mighty beasts reign supreme.
Full day game viewing with a picnic lunch in the reserve.
Optional early morning or late afternoon activities : guided walks or open vehicle game drives. Overnight Hilltop Camp.
Day 5.
Morning game viewing on the way to the St Lucia Wetland Park.
The Park which contains five different eco-systems was recently declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site. This is a unique conservation area, a wetland of international significance and of national pride.
The day includes a boat cruise, a walk in the St Lucia Reserve and a picnic at Cape Vidal.
Optional late afternoon guided walk or open vehicle night drive. Overnight at Hilltop Camp.
Day 6.
Optional early morning game drive or guided walk.
After breakfast transfer to Kosi Bay in Maputaland, the north-eastern region of KwaZulu Natal.
This area is inhabited by an interesting mix of Thonga, Zulu and Swazi people and despite facing the onset of change still offers the visitor a unique opportunity of experiencing how the people have interacted with their natural environment for hundreds of years.
After lunch learn about the making of palm wine, an important local industry. Sundowners at Lake Shengeza. Overnight Kosi Forest Lodge.
Day 7.
Early morning canoeing to the Raffia forest.
After breakfast at the lodge, boat trip to see the fascinating method the Thonga have used for 600 years to catch fish by means of an intricate system of traps made from reeds and baskets.
Short walk to a pristine beach experience. Optional activity, snorkeling among the superb coral reefs.
Overnight Kosi Forest Lodge.
Day 8.
Transfer to Thembe Elephant Reserve home of the Province's largest elephant herd.
After lunch, game drive in an open vehicle.
The fully grown adults are physically the biggest in South Africa and make for spectacular viewing in the mosaic of sand forest, woodland, grassland and swampland.
Overnight Thembe Lodge.
Day 9.
Early morning game drive.
After breakfast depart for Thembalethu Craft Village and iLala Weavers which was established 20 years ago with the objective of revitalising and enhancing the traditional handicrafts of the Zulu women which were in danger of being lost forever.
To-day iLala Weavers helps over two thousand Zulus to attain self sufficiency by providing them with an outlet for their superb basketwork and beadwork.
After lunch transfer to iPhiva, a fascinating example of community focused tourism development with accommodation in floating chalets.
After a sundowner cruise and dinner, visit the local kraal (village) to enjoy the evening with a family, watching their traditional dancing and learning about their lifestyles and customs. Overnight iPhiva.
Day 10.
Depart for Penwarn, an exclusive country retreat in the Drakensberg mountains.
Known by the Zulus as the "Barrier of Spears" the Drakensberg mountains, formed 150 million years ago, rise to over 3000 meters.
Almost the entire area is a protected park and is one of the scenic showpieces of Southern Africa with spectacular natural beauty, and true tranquility.
Afternoon guided tour to hear about the San (Bushmen), the hunter-gatherers who lived in the area for about 7000 years until the 1800″s.
They left behind paintings, daubed with exquisite skill on the walls of caves and overhangs, which give us an insight into their lives, their rituals and beliefs. Overnight Penwarn.
Day 11.
Depart on the spectacular 4×4 vehicle excursion to the top of Sani Pass and into the Kingdom of Lesotho (known as the Roof of Africa).
Visit a village to see how these hardy people live. Lunch at the highest pub in Africa before the breathtaking decent. Optional late afternoon activities: Birding walk, trout or bass fishing. Overnight Penwarn.
Day 12.
Morning transfer to Durban. The afternoon is spent learning about the Indian population.
From the time of the arrival of the first Indian indentured labourers in the 1860's the Indian population of KwaZulu Natal has grown to what is reputed to be the largest outside India.
They have retained much of their rich cultural heritage as can be seen in the beautiful mosques, colourful temples, vibrant festivals, classical dances and exotic foods.
Dinner is at a shabeen during the evening tour of the lively townships surrounding Durban. As African urban settlements began to grow around the city, the shabeen became the place where people came to relax, meet friends and have a drink.
Here you will have the chance to listen to music and to talk to the locals. Overnight Durban
Day 13.
Early breakfast and transfer to the airport for flight to Cape Town.
Afternoon orientation tour of the City including the colourful Bo-Kaap or Malay Quarter, traditional home of the Cape Malays who have maintained their Muslim identity and made significant contributions to the South African language and cuisine.
Ferry trip to Robben Island for a tour of the prison where Nelson Mandela was held. Dinner at Africa Café which offers a mouth-watering array of African dishes. Overnight Cape Town.
Day 14.
Weather permitting, early departure for cable car ride to the top of Table Mountain for breakfast while enjoying one of the world's most memorable views.
A tour of the Winelands includes visits to some of the progressive farms where the workers, with the support of the owners have started to produce their own wines with the evocative labels such as "Freedom Road" and "New Beginnings".
Picnic lunch at one of the farms and a visit to Stellenbosch, in the heart of the Winelands. Dinner at a seafood restaurant in Hout Bay to watch the sun set across the ocean.
Day 15.
Transfer to Cape Town airport for return flight.


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Disney on Broadway actors Michael James Scott, Ashley Brown, Kissy Simmons and Josh Strickland are set to perform. The concerts will feature fan-favorite tunes from The Lion King, Frozen, Beauty and the Beast, Aladdin and more.
"For 16 months, New Yorkers have been eager to start going to the theatre again," said Thomas Schumacher, President and Producer of Disney Theatrical Productions, in a statement. "The Lion King and Aladdin return to Broadway in September, but these four concerts allow us to welcome fans back to Broadway even sooner and give us a chance to raise much-needed funds to support the heroic work being done by the remarkable staff at The Actors Fund. We cannot wait to return to the exhilaration of musical theatre. For the first time in forever, we actually can."
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In a matched subjects designs, researchers attempt to emulate some of the strengths of within subjects designs and between subjects designs.
A matched subject design uses separate experimental groups for each particular treatment, but relies upon matching every subject in one group with an equivalent in another. The idea behind this is that it reduces the chances of an influential variable skewing the results by negating it.
Matched subjects designs are often used in education, giving researchers a useful way to compare treatments without having to use huge and randomized groups.
For example, a study to compare two new methods for teaching reading uses a matched subject research program. The researchers want to compare two methods, the current method and a modern method. They select two groups of children and match pairs of children across the two groups according to ability, using the results of their last reading comprehension test. If the researchers wanted to test another method, they would have to find three comparable children to compare between the three groups.
It is also possible to match for more than one variable. For example, a study to test whether a daily exercise routine improved the cardio-vascular health in the inhabitants of a nursing home could match subjects for age and gender. It may also be possible to match smokers and ex-smokers.
Obviously, given the complexity of humans and the sheer number of factors that can influence behavior, this is exceptionally difficult for every factor, without huge groups and making the project unnecessarily complex, especially if you are testing multiple treatments.
The overall goal of a matched subjects design is to emulate the conditions of a within subjects design, whilst avoiding the temporal effects that can influence results.
A within subjects design tests the same people whereas a matched subjects design comes as close as possible to that and even uses the same statistical methods to analyze the results. This eliminates the possibility of differences between individuals affecting the results. The matched subjects design also utilizes the strength of the between subjects design, in that every subject is tested only once, eliminating the possibility of temporal factors, known as order effects, affecting the results.
Whilst the design is an excellent compromise between reducing order effects and smoothing out variation between individuals, it is certainly not perfect. Even with careful matching of the pairs, there will always be some variation. In the nursing home example, there are far too many factors influencing cardio-vascular fitness that the researchers can only hope to match the most influential variables, which is an approximation.
In addition, the researcher might be incorrect in their assumptions about which variables are the most important and miss a major confounding variable. Even the single variable may have been measured incorrectly; in the educational example, one of the children may have had a really bad day, been ill or suffered from nerves, giving her a much lower score than her reading comprehension would indicate.
Despite these disadvantages, matched subjects designs are useful, allowing researchers to perform streamlined and focused research programs whilst maintaining a good degree of validity.
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Side by side Motorola's Droid Razr M has come up now.
Is this intentional or accidental? Both the product events took place on the same day, the flame is getting bigger and bigger. Lumia's range is somewhat bigger but DROID RAZR HD is a hot phone too. This hype of Nokia is because the marketing strategy is appreciative on the other hand we cannot forget one more product by Motorola Droid Razr M 4G LTE.
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Sometimes I think about why I think so much as to feel that I need somewhere to share my thoughts. In my mind, I think the thoughts worthy enough of others' contemplation and this is a strange thing, in my mind at least, because I have no real gauge to help me determine whether or not this be true. The solution to hesitancy to share for fear of the irrelevance of what I have to say is to share anyway. I do not have thousands of followers, hardly ever are there twenty who read the posts on this site and I do, at times, think myself, as a commentator, as a thinker, irrelevant. I think I should just stop putting it out there to be ignored but I keep on posting and that is, I know, a good thing if for no other reason than to keep me from going mad for having no outlet for what this mind of mine constantly has to spin out.
So I write for therapy but the cure remains illusive, maybe because I do not know what the problem I am trying to solve actually is. Or maybe I do and it is that problem that I have been working on for a lifetime and cannot find a way to ignore even now as I close in on seventy. Maybe I should pat myself on the back for it, rub my brow is a loving as satisfied way for sustaining a focus on something vital and impossible, the impossibility of it never allowed to interfere with the sense of necessity that drives thought on and on and on despite regular bouts of wrestling with that sense of futility, windmills.
I get from reading history that any one person knowing of the place of self in the broader history of the universe understands that he or she is but little except unto oneself and makes the oneself part of the equation sufficient reason for continuing to breath. But in every era, during every era there are some who somehow find a way to gain more attention than others and how they do that, why it is that their rise is supported by those they rise before, has something to do with the nature of the era and the values of those populating an era.
So, in the era or, maybe, eras for which I have been present, there have been telling trends in who achieves recognition, who gains the attention of the society and in the society and I go back and forth between believing that my era/eras have given more prominence than have others to individuals whose prominence resides in their unworthiness, that prominence, for it having been confirmed, showing dysfunction in the society rather than its good health.
Recently, I have been playing with Twitter, reading massive numbers of tweetings from people I know to be stars in the eyes of those being twittered and some are of an odd type, not the kind of celebrities that are the ones of the popular culture–entertainment stars of the actor, sports hero, music scene type–but of the political realm and not of the old type political star, like a Kennedy, for example, but of the commentator type–Chris Hayes, Megan Kelly, Joy Reid, Joan Walsh, Wolf Blitzer, Anderson Cooper sort, people who appear on television enough to have become known to millions as opposed to the rest of us who are known to but a few. Deborah Messing, Ted Nugent, Bono, Katy Perry, a who other class.
And these people, because they are recognizable become the legitimate experts on all things on which their positions at news stations allow them to have a say about. I think that they are truly arbiters of present day truths and journalists only in so far as they may report a bit of news on occasion when they are forced by some aspect of reality to leave their expert persona to show that they know as much or as little about the things they discuss as the rest of us, at least those of us who do what is necessary to stay informed and think about the information we find.
Yes, sour grapes of a sort, not because these folk have somehow worked their way into positions through which their voices are amplified beyond the decibel range allowed those who are not members of their rather elite club. And the magnitude of the gap between the potency of their presence and the rest of us is of concern to me, not because they do speak wisely but because whether wise or not they have the kind of say that can influence others, lots of others, an advantage clearly shown in the numbers on feeds such as Twitter or Facebook of people reading what they have to say.
Sour grapes because they get hundreds of times the response I get but sour because the reason they get those hits is because of their celebrity and only in part because they say things that are wise. In fact, looking at some of the responses to what they have to say, I would say that it is often the fact of celebrity that is reason for a response and less often a response provoked by the particularly profound and useful nature of what they have to say.
Okay, so I am not pleased with the fact that I am not being heard as well as I wish to be and, of course, there is something about ego gratification in the mix that I need to consider, that I do consider regularly, wondering about myself and my ideas as to whether those ideas are worthy of more attention or whether it is ego and ego alone that allows me to think them good enough to be read more widely.
I will continue to grapple with issues of me as they relate for reasons for writing and reasons for wanting to be read by more than a few. I will continue to write even if no one reads what I have written because I have to write. I have no other way of talking to myself about what I mean and, therefore, about who I am as the person I am. It is celebrity with which I am having problems and whether it is about what I am not or who they are or one more so than the other or not, I do not know but cannot help myself from thinking about.


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According to the Music Venue Trust around a third of the UK's small gig spaces have closed in the past decade, with the number of small music venues in the UK falling from around 700 to 450 with further estimates showing that a fifth of London's grassroots music venues could be forced to close due to business rates increasing. With rising rents in London meaning many venues are struggling to survive we asked those who know, from performers to venue owners, how can music venues survive? Is there a way to save them from this trend of rising rent and austerity? Or is the investment in London leading to new and exciting opportunities for more venues to open and branch out in to other exciting areas? We found out.


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- Water Type:Drilled Well
- Access:Road access
- Driveway:Visitor Parking
- Parking Space Total:20
- Structure Style:House
- Building Age:2020
- Bedrooms:3+1
- Bathrooms:3
- Floor Space:3337
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Although often overlooked, invertebrates comprise tens of thousands of wildlife species at Pinnacles. Their lack of bones, teeth, fur, and feathers may make them seem primitive, but don't be fooled. In many cases their life histories are just as complex as those of larger animals, and often much more bizarre. And they are usually much easier to find and observe than larger wildlife.
An inventory of bees conducted in the late 1990's found nearly 400 species of bees at Pinnacles. This is the highest known bee diversity per unit area of any place on earth. The diversity of butterflies here is not nearly as high (68 species), but in the right time and place it is possible to see thousands of individual butterflies in a single day. A moth inventory is currently in progress, with the number of moth species expected to be around 1,000. Samples are still being analyzed from an inventory of aquatic macroinvertebrates, but 40 species of dragonflies and damselflies are known to inhabit Pinnacles' waters. Most other invertebrate groups remain largely unstudied.
Two invertebrates found at Pinnacles are endemic to our area, being found elsewhere rarely or not at all. The Pinnacles shieldback katydid (Idiostatus kathleenae ) is about 2 cm long, wingless, and dark gray in color. It is active at night, feeding on the flowers of California buckwheat and other plants. The Pinnacles riffle beetle (Optioservus canus ) is a tiny (2 mm) brown beetle that lives in fast-flowing sections of Chalone Creek.
The most common way to study invertebrates is to capture and kill them. While this method may be appropriate under many circumstances, a visit to Pinnacles is not one of them. In order to protect the wildlife at Pinnacles, collecting is prohibited without a scientific collecting permit issued by the park. A great tool for getting a good look at invertebrates going about their lives is a pair of close-focus binoculars. With 8X binoculars, from eight feet away you will have a view as if you were only one foot away! That's plenty close for watching a bee gather pollen, a butterfly sip nectar, or a tarantula wasp sting and drag off a tarantula.


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CHILDREN'S HOME and SCHOOL
Magu District, Mwanza Region, Tanzania. E. Africa
We are a small team of Christians working together to help the most
vulnerable children and people in a rural area of Tanzania. East Africa. We
are involved in providing financial support and volunteers to visit both long
and short term to share in the work both here and in Tanzania.
As of May 2014 caring for a total of 128 children
Contact: Graham Pountain
Tel 01254 879694
This Photo was taken mid April and shows two of the classrooms built up to roof level. As I was leaving
the window and door frames were being fixed and the latest report says all 4 classrooms and staffroom are
ready for the roof. Interestingly the secondary school children want us to make it a Secondary School and
the workers want it to be a Teacher Training College but of course we are starting with a Primary School.
The photo below shows a new small
accommodation block which is being built for our
teachers who will live on site. Jesca, Emma and
Minza will be the first teachers to live there. It has
four bedrooms and a small lounge.
Topics of Interest
Jan-Feb news
Monthly meetings
Gifts Policy
Past news
Meet the children
Past News-History (11 ys)
Financial reports UK (10yrs)
Spending in Tanzania (11yrs)
Supporting Bethany
Sponsoring children
Buy from our shop
Past Visitors
Powerpoint Presentation
Childcare Seminar verification
Bethany Summer Saunter
went ahead as planned on Sunday 15th June with
78 walkers raising approx £2,500. Many thanks to all our walkers and sponsors.
Market Stall:
Tuesday Friends from Ernest Street, Baptist Chapel held a
Market stall on Monday the 16 June and raised over £500. Many thanks for all
the donations of goods and to all those who manned the stall.
Other News:
The first of our Bethany girls to be married has her wedding on the
12th July at Bethany. Joyce Malale is to marry Baraka Selemani. Marriage
certificates in Tanzania are very very important as they give the women some
rights denied to them if they just live together. In our next update we will have
more details and photos.
Reunion Weekend:
This years annual Reunion weekend will be on the
weekend of the 12-13th July when all our ex-Bethany children return to Bethany
to celebrate the achievements of the past year and look forward to the new. This
year will be very special as they will also be celebrating the wedding of Joyce to
Baraka. Photos and details will follow on our next update.
Summer Trips:
All seven Bethany girls leave the UK on the 27th June,
Graham and Sheila on the 29th June with Linda and Andrea on the 23rd July.
Sharon, Alison and Warren will follow on. They will all be busy teaching various
subjects and be taking all the teaching resources with them.
New Girls at Blackburn College:
Once again we are grateful to Blackburn
College for accepting 3 new Bethany girls on the 2 year level 3 Btec course on
'Children's care, learning and development'. They are Nkamba, Elizabeth and
Photos from the last trip April 2014:
Children and Food
Children with model steam engine
(18 pics),
Children working
(20 pics),
Children at play
(43 pics),
School building progress
(20 pics),
Accommodation Block progress
(15 pics)
Children Studying
(15 pics),
Children in groups
(13 pics)
19,000+ Photos in 530 Albums from May 2007 to Present
125 Youtube videos from August 2007 to present
Update May 2014 page 1
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for printing
Update May 2014 page 2
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for printing
Greetings from Bethany, This is our temporary web page due to the fact the
old computer failed and at the moment I am unable to update the old pages.
However, the old Bethany main index page is
The Bethany Project (often referred to as the Bethany Family) is registered in Tanzania as an NGO no. 8059. It is administered by the The Bethany Project (Tanzania) UK
(Reg. Charity no 517995), Reg. Address: 2 Aspen Fold, Oswaldtwistle, Accrington, Lancashire. BB5 4PH. Tel 01254 879694. email: firstname.lastname@example.com
Trustees: Graham Pountain, David Borland, Heather Jeffrey, Isabel Jones, Paul Pountain
Jesca and Emma visit Radio Lancashire studios
to talk about their stay in the UK and their hopes
for the future. Click on the YOUTUBE video to
hear what they had to say.
The Farewell Party:
About 160 people came to Jesca's and Emma's Farewell party. Plenty of food was
available and the evening included video of Bethany in Tanzania, a short history of
Bethany and then Jesca and Emma did a sketch of what it was like to live in England
followed by a talk on what they intended to do when they returned. People gave
generously to the work they intend to do and they raised approx £1,260. Many
thanks to all those who came and also for the food many of them brought.
Jesca and Emma have promised to keep people informed of the work they will start
by updating their website whenever they get the opportunity.
Latest News
- Friday June 27th 2014
Friday morning 2.45 am the 7 girls arrive at Manchester airport with their 14 x 23
kilo bags full of resources for teaching the children at Bethany. They should
arrive in Nairobi around midnight and then at 6am on Saturday they start their
12 hour bus journey from Nairobi Kenya to Bethany Tanzania hoping to arrive
before nightfall.


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Wenwen Wang
Following an examination of National Planning Regulations and informal growth process, the project proposes a critique of national planning regulation on the provision of large-scale transport infrastructure and its relationship with urban fabric. A current oversupply of highway network based on for a car centred approach, combined with the use of mega blocks, is generating the perfect mix for a disjointed urban fabric and the erasure of the existing local fabric of urban villages. The result is a combination of gated communities separated from the rest of the city by fences or motorways, fuelling a growing inequality in Chinese society.
The project proposes, as an alternative, an extended network of transport corridors around which emergent informal growth processes, diversity and complexity of public activities and strong linkages and responses to the surroundings can develop. Departing from the 'super-block' model – regarding mixed land-use and density accumulations – as an urban condenser, the projects seeks to push infrastructure to be the neutral ground to be appropriated in unexpected ways.
Based on the primary structure, it proposes a public transportation system in order to enhance public circulation between urbanised areas and rural villages. Public spaces and semi-public spaces are provided along the public transportation system. Instead of only focusing on the internal organisation block, the proposal seeks to 'thicken' the infrastructural lines, turning them into an actual spatial proposal linked to public works and shared urban spaces.


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Established In : 1964Affiliated To : National Institute of TechnologyWebsite : www.nitrkl.ac.in/Address :
Pin - 769008.
NIT (National Institute of Technology) in Rourkela is a public engineering institute that was set up in the year 1964. It is considered as one of the 30 National Institutes of Technology in India and is recognized as an Institute of National Importance.
The institute offers courses leading to the degree of B.Tech in Bio-Technology, Bio-Medical, Ceramic, Civil, Chemical, Computer Science and Engineering, Electrical, Electronics and Communication, Electronics and Instrumentation, Industrial Design, Mechanical, Materials and Metallurgical, Mining. The institute also offers Post Graduate courses in Engineering & Science leading to the degree of M.Tech in various disciplines. Recently, dual degree courses on various disciplines have been introduced.
NIT Rourkela Admission 2019-20:-
Admission to all B.Tech courses are made through Joint Entrance Examination (JEE(Main)). The counseling for this is done by Joint Seat Allocation Authority (JoSAA).
Click here for more details.
NIT (National Institute of Technology) is located in Rourkela in Orissa. Rourkela is small town in Orissa, which lies in the Howrah-Mumbai rail route. The institute features well maintained campus that has high-quality science labs, books and computer library, Conference halls and contemporary class rooms. There is a STD booth and ATM facilities for the students within the premises of college. Medical facilities are also provided to the students and teachers in case of emergencies. It also offers separate hostel facility for boys and girls.
NIT (National Institute of Technology) Rourkela Courses offered
Exams Accepted:
Pin - 769008.
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Debbie Berman, co-editor of the world-famous Black Panther film, sat down with Cinemablend last week to explain the reason behind the film's costly re-shoot.
"One of the things that caught my attention was right at the end of the film, is where the Dora Milaje are surrounded by the Border Tribe," said Berman – referring to a scene where the all-women group of bodyguards find themselves surrounded and seemingly defeated.
"In the original construction of the film, they were saved by the Jabari Warriors but all those warriors were male," continued Berman. "So, I said to Ryan [Coogler], having these amazing women saved by the men right at the end of the film undercuts so much of the work we've done and building them up throughout the entire feature. Is there any way to not do that?"
According to Berman, Marvel schedules additional shooting into their schedule from the beginning, "because they realize that once it's translated from script into images, you're still discovering the story."
"This was something that was very important to me. And Ryan came up with the brilliant idea to change some of the Jabari Warriors to females. So they were no longer saved by men at the end just by Jabari men," said Berman.
Berman was already responsible for editing almost 500 hours of film, but she knew it was important to push for this change and encourage further shooting.
The reshoot required creating a female Jabari Warrior character, designing their costume, and then returning to the set for the reshoot.
"And we went and shot some old footage of that and the very first person to break through and save the Dora Milaje is this amazing fierce Jabari female character. It might just be a small moment in the film, but for me as a woman and what it meant to the story of the film and the story of the woman of the film was very important," said Berman.
It's clear that we need more badass women like Berman in the film industry to ensure that women are represented equally in number and strength to male characters.
Currently, Berman is editing the upcoming film, Captain Marvel, which tells the story of one of the most powerful woman superheroes yet to be seen on the big screen.
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Dan Neal of the Equality State Policy Center posted this notice of a virtual town hall meeting scheduled for Oct. 18, 2012, regarding public pensions:
Pension coalition reaches out via compressed video
Public can join discussion at 6 community colleges, UW
Meeting set Thursday, Oct. 18 at 7 p.m.
Continuing its effort to educate the public and public employees about Wyoming's Public Pension system and its key role in both better government and the state's economy, the Coalition for a Healthy Retirement System has planned a virtual town hall meeting Oct. 18.
Wyoming Retirement System Director Thom Williams will outline the basic aspects of the system and how its health can be maintained over the long-term. Williams will be joined at Laramie County Community College, the origination site for the compressed video "broadcast," by several other speakers, including a Cheyenne fire fighter.
The public can attend at the following locations:
- Cheyenne – Laramie County Community College, Education & Enrichment Center Room 132
- Casper – Casper College, Goodstein Library Room 102 (Seating limited)
- Laramie – University of Wyoming, College of Education Room 2
- Powell – Northwest College, Moyer Building Room 108
- Riverton – Central Wyoming College, Intertribal Building Room 125
- Rock Springs – Western Wyoming Community College, Annex Room A102
- Torrington – Eastern Wyoming College, Tebbet Building Room 270
Two town hall meetings in November
The coalition conducted a live town hall meeting Aug. 14 in Sheridan. Two other live town hall meetings are scheduled, including one Nov. 8 in Cheyenne at the DOT auditorium, and in Casper on Nov. 28 at the Nichols Auditorium on the Casper College campus.


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Prescription Pad is like the holy book for medical practitioners that contains a comprehensive information of all major and minor details of the drug. With more than 70,000 brands of Indian pharmaceuticals, the software also has a growing database of British and American drugs. All the information is organised in a manner, where you can fetch any detail within a fraction of a moment.
Be it searching a particular drug for the disease, reviewing its complete details, finding out all available substitutes, understanding its safety features or checking the complete monograph, Prescription Pad has justifiably accommodated every piece of information.
Generic drugs work exactly the same as brand-name medicines. However, they are more economical compared to their branded counterparts. The practice of generic drug prescribing is now being encouraged in many countries of the world, including India so that medical amenities should reach to a maximum of people. Prescription Pad further popularised prescribing generic medicines electronically.
With more than 3,000 names in the database, doctors can now prescribe generic drugs to their patients. With Prescription Pad, the names of such drugs can be directly printed on the final prescription just by selecting the appropriate option in the software interface itself.
Drug safety is an important consideration for medical and healthcare practitioners that enables them to restrict or limit their prescribing of the drug at issue. Specific diseases, even demand a very thoughtful deliberation while advising a prescription. Prescription Pad takes care of Disease Specific Drug Safety Information by showing accurate, clear, reliable, and useful drug safety information right on individual disease level.
This helps in doing away with issues such as disease-specific drug interactions, irrational drug use, medication errors, drug overdoses, polypharmacy. This way Prescription Pad helps doctors in making the most informed treatment choices specific to the disease.
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After a thoughtful observation and the suggestive investigation list, you can add more or delete any specific investigation from the final prescription rolled out to the patient. This is how Prescription Pad enables a more professional and targeted approach to understanding the cause of the issue.
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Doctors can note each and every aspect of the family medical history of the patients so that the present disease condition can be entirely understood and future recommendations can be made accordingly. This will help both in common medical conditions such as hypertensions and more severe issues like diabetes, cancer or any genetically transmitted disease.
In case a patient is suffering from two or more diseases simultaneously, the treatment procedure becomes clumsy. The doctor has to take a lot of aspects in to consideration. The effect of one medication may adversely impact the condition of other disease. Prescription Pad has taken care of this by advising the best treatment protocol in case a patient is simultaneously suffering from two or more diseases.
The software prompts about the disease highlights with information specific to category, type, special highlights, treatment alert in special situations, treatment alert for disease in combination and more as soon as a similar condition is observed.
Pregnancy and child birth are two most critical phenomena. Here the doctor is not dealing with a single medical condition at a time. With time, many complications and associated risks arise that may pose issue in normal pregnancy and child birth.
Prescription Pad takes a holistic approach in updating the doctors about the regular as well as specific observations and points to consider during the entire course of the pregnancy. All the small and big aspects of pregnancy have been addressed with their interrelation with diseases like diabetes mellitus, hypertension, hypothyroidism, which normally may occur.
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