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The new U.S.-UK draft resolution endorses Iraq's interim government as "sovereign" and credentials the U.S.-dominated occupation forces as a UN-mandated "multinational force." It is designed to provide international legitimacy for the continuation of the U.S. occupation and control of Iraq, while stating that "the occupation will end" by June 30, 2004.
• In fact, Iraq remains an occupied country and will continue to be occupied on and after June 30th. The new Security Council resolution does nothing to change the reality of 138,000 U.S. and 20,000+ "coalition" troops occupying the country and U.S. economic and political forces maintaining control of Iraq's economic and political life.
• The interim government recognized by the UN, like the Governing Council before it, is a creature of the United States, not the United Nations. By giving a UN "bluewash" imprimatur, the Security Council has undermined the credibility and legitimacy of the United Nations as a whole. It will be difficult to reclaim that credibility after such abject submission to U.S. power.
• The resolution states that the "sovereign Interim Government of Iraq" will assume "full responsibility and authority by 30 June 2004." But in the same article it adds (new in the final draft) the restriction that it will have authority "while refraining from taking any actions affecting Iraq's destiny beyond the limited interim period until an elected Transitional Government of Iraq assumes office" - which, according to article 4(a), will only happen "by 31 December 2005."
• There had been a sharp dispute between the U.S. and several Council members regarding whether the Iraqi military or government would have any control over operations by the U.S. occupation forces. France, China and Algeria wanted Iraq to be able to block major military missions. But Washington rejected that out of hand.
Secretary of State Colin Powell said, "You can't use the word «veto»". There could be a situation where we have to act and there may be a disagreement and we have to act to protect ourselves or to accomplish a mission. In the final resolution (Article 10), the U.S.-controlled multinational force is given "the authority to take all necessary measures" in carrying out the military occupation.
• The resolution "welcomes" the letters from Colin Powell and interim Iraqi Prime Minister Ayad Allawi annexed to the resolution, describing the letters as establishing a "security partnership" between the interim government and the "multinational force." Allawi's letter speaks only of "coordination," "partnership," and "consultation" between the interim government and the multinational force. Powell's letter, on the other hand, states categorically that "the contributing states have responsibility for exercising jurisdiction over their personnel." That means that the U.S. will deploy their troops to carry out whatever operations are ordered by the Pentagon, whether or not the Iraqi government agrees.
• The final resolution does reflect U.S. agreement to demands from France, Germany and China regarding how the UN mandate for the "Multinational Force" could be ended. While the resolution states in Article 12 only that the mandate will be "reviewed" after one year or if the Government of Iraq requests such a review, and would only expire "upon the completion of the political process" which might mean January 1, 2006, the Council "declares that it will terminate this mandate earlier if requested by the Government of Iraq." Unlike some of the earlier references in the resolution, however, Article 12 (and some others) does not refer specifically to the "Interim Government of Iraq" (which is to take power on June 30th) but rather only to the "Government of Iraq."
That more limited designation may portend a U.S. intention to challenge the "Interim" government's rights if it exercised them, claiming that the reference is only to the later "Transitional Government" instead. But it is more likely that the "concession" to Iraq's government reflects U.S. confidence that that government will remain accountable to the needs of the U.S. occupation forces. In any event, in the context of a Security Council "review," an affirmative Council vote to cancel the mandate would be required, which the U.S. could veto, giving Washington continuing control over maintaining its occupation of Iraq.
• The resolution "reaffirms its intention to revisit the mandates" of the two UN arms monitoring teams (UNMOVIC and IAEA) that had been carrying out the WMD and nuclear inspections in Iraq. But UNMOVIC has been excluded from Iraq since the U.S. invasion and occupation began when the Pentagon's own inspection teams took over, and the new resolution says nothing about allowing UNMOVIC to return to Iraq.
• Article 27 of the new resolution, deliberately written in a particularly opaque manner by referring only to provisions of numbered paragraphs in earlier resolutions, makes a clear move to continue the privileges granted to oil companies by the U.S. occupation forces. Specifically, it continues last year's grant of immunity to all oil-related companies involved with Iraq (meaning Iraqi oil cannot be seized in a court suit), while cancelling that privilege for all contracts signed after June 30th when Iraq's "interim government" takes over oil authority from the U.S.
• While details are emerging only very slowly, it is likely that the U.S., committed to obtaining a UN figleaf before the G-8 summit, engaged in heavier than normal bribes and threats against Council members. All that is known so far is that German officials openly briefed journalists a week or so ago regarding their intention in the fall of this year to re-raise their longstanding campaign for a permanent Security Council seat.
The officials stated that they have support from four of the five permanent members, all except the U.S., as well as the necessary 2/3 vote of the General Assembly. It is virtually certain that they would not have gone public with such a high-profile announcement without a back-channel U.S. guarantee of support. While there is no new evidence yet, it is likely that France and perhaps Russia were promised renewed access to Iraqi oil contracts in return for their Council votes supporting the U.S.-UK resolution.
• It is likely to become more difficult to challenge the legitimacy of the new UN resolution and its authorization particularly of the U.S. occupation forces. That is because the "interim prime minister" of Iraq, Ayyad Allawi, in his letter to the Council, specifically requests "a new resolution on the Multinational Force (MNF) mandate to contribute to maintaining security in Iraq, including through the tasks and arrangements set out in the letter from Secretary of State Colin Powell to the President of the United Nations Security Council."
But only international pressure on governments around the world will make it possible to begin to undermine the UN bluewashing of the U.S. occupation. If global civil society is to be able to reclaim the UN as part of our global mobilization against war and occupation, challenging the legitimacy of the Council resolution will be a necessary step.
With a few more Iraqi and now United Nations faces supporting it, the U.S. occupation remains.


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VATICAN CITY (CNS) — As the Catholic Church in Chile continues to deal with the fallout of clerical sexual abuse and its cover-up, the Chilean government passed a law removing the statute of limitations on sex abuse crimes against children.
The new law, which passed the Chilean Congress July 6, ensures that there will be no time limit in prosecuting cases "regarding the kidnapping or abduction of a minor, as well as the torture, unlawful coercion or cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment and all that occurs during an act of rape, carnal access to a minor, statutory rape or other sexual offenses."
The law also allows victims to take civil action against people or institutions that aided in covering up sex abuse crimes.
"From now on, time will no longer be an accomplice of the abusers, nor an ally of impunity," said Chilean President Sebastian Pinero as he signed the legislation July 11. "From now on, the responsibility of those who abuse our children will be irrevocable, just as the pain they caused our children is irrevocable."
The legislation comes as investigators continue to look into cases involving the abuse of minors and vulnerable adults in the Catholic Church. Reuters news agency reported Chilean government officials said they were currently investigating more than 150 cases of sexual abuse or cover-up in the church.
Among those currently being investigated for possible cover-up are senior members of the clergy, including the last two archbishops of Santiago: Cardinals Francisco Javier Errazuriz Ossa and Ricardo Ezzati.
In March, Pope Francis accepted Cardinal Ezzati's resignation and named Bishop Celestino Aos Braco of Copiapo as apostolic administrator of the archdiocese.
Although the new law is not retroactive, advocates say it is a major step forward and expressed hope that lawmakers can revise the law in the future for survivors who have been unable to seek justice due to prior limitations.
In an interview with Chilean radio station Diario UChile July 7, Jose Andres Murillo, one of several survivors of abuse by ex-priest Fernando Karadima, said making the law retroactive would be good for survivors and prevent abusers from committing further crimes.
Nevertheless, he said, "it is important to recognize that we're creating legislation and actually catching up with what the International Convention on the Rights of the Child requires of us, and in that sense, I think it's good news."
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Bayview residents are blessed with an abundance of free, warm sunshine! Putting it to good use by planting food gardens, flowers, and trees is a nice way to share beauty with your neighbors. Another way is to maximize public utility by providing beautiful parks and recreation areas.
If you have more than 6' of concrete between your home and the street, Markos Major might be able to help you transform your front streetscape into one of the beautiful sidewalk gardens you've seen popping up all over Bayview. With a grant from the SFPUC (andministered by Markos' group, Climate Action Now), there is virtually no cost or hoops to jump through as the homeowner. However, You will need to help with the garden installation and maybe sign up some neighbors (they like to do 5+ at a time).
Street trees have tremendous benefits for cities, and particularly issues we face in Bayview (urban trees help to increase property values, remove air pollution, reduce building energy use, improve water quality, reduce noise, etc). Don't just take our word for it, though, see this report by the USDA Forest Service on San Francisco's urban forest. See also, San Francisco's Urban Forest Plan. Friends of the Urban Forest has a number of free and reduced-cost programs to help Bayview residents add/replace street trees and sidewalk planters. They're a great group to work with.
We've all seen it. It's an eyesore and inappropriate at best and a health hazard at worst, but did you know we can all contribute to its eradication? All you need to do is call 311. If it's someone else's waste, they'll dispatch DPW to come pick it up (generally within a few hours, but it could take a day or so). There's also an SF311 app available for iOS and Android.
If you're looking for a way to get rid of your large own item waste, every NorCal Waste customer is entitled to two free large item pickups per year and you can get rid of up to 10 items in each pickup. Things like furniture, large appliances, and even construction waste are all okay. Again, all you need to do is call 311 (from within San Francisco).


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1410.0 - Data by Region, 2013-18
ARCHIVED ISSUE Released at 11:30 AM (CANBERRA TIME) 17/01/2020
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For more information, see the Statistical Geography page of the ABS website, Australian Statistical Geography Standard, Volume 1 - Main Structure and Greater Capital City Statistical Areas and Australian Statistical Geography Standard, Volume 3 - Non-ABS Structures.
Data is sourced from a wide variety of collections, both ABS and non-ABS. When analysing these statistics, care needs to be taken as time periods, definitions, methodologies, scope and coverage can differ across collections.
Collection method
Data presented in this product are sourced from administrative datasets, the Census of Population and Housing, and various ABS surveys.
Updated data series
Previous releases are available via the 'Past & Future Releases' tab of this product. Care should be taken in comparing data within previous and current releases of Data by Region as:
Updates to this latest release are summarised in the following table.
How the data is processed
For further information on the accuracy of data items see Concepts, sources and methods.
Geographical correspondences
The use of geographical correspondences enables data to be converted from one type of geographical region to another. Correspondences are usually provided as conversion factors based on relative population distributions and/or land area shares.
The application of correspondences allows:
In applying the correspondences it is assumed that the particular characteristics of any data item are uniformly distributed across the region. Therefore, data produced by correspondences may not truly reflect the distribution of the characteristics of the population.
In some cases, where the same region is split across two or more new regions and there are no other contributing regions, distinct numerical estimates will be derived but rates or averages will be identical for each new region (as these will be equivalent to the original rate or average of the contributing regions).
Some official postcodes (such as Post Office boxes, etc.) do not correspond to residential areas but may still have been reported under the current home address field in certain administrative data series. Data for these and other 'invalid' postcodes - such as those due to incorrect reporting or processing errors - are included in state and territory totals or for Australia where the state or territory was not known.
In addition to these limitations please note:
While care was taken in producing the correspondences the ABS cannot guarantee the accuracy of data produced by correspondences. ASGS correspondences can be found on the Statistical Geography page of the ABS website.
How the data is released
Data by Region can be accessed as:
Data can be found across the following categories:
There is a standard set of data for each region type, depending on the availability of statistics for particular geographies.
Confidentialisation of data
Some data values have been randomly adjusted or suppressed to avoid the release of confidential data. In some cases small cells have been randomly altered to zero. Care should be taken when interpreting cells with small numbers or zeros.
Data item list
For further information on data items see the List of data items.
Concepts, sources and methods
While information on the data and concepts are included below and in the accompanying glossary, users should note that the information listed here is not exhaustive, more detailed information about the data can be obtained by referring to the relevant data source listed for each dataset.
Income data comparisons
Care should be taken in comparing income data from different sources. Some of the differences between the personal income data sourced from the Australian Taxation Office (ATO) and income data sourced from the Census of Population and Housing are highlighted in the table below:
Agricultural commodities
Agricultural commodities Data is estimates obtained from the Agricultural Census. Data from both 2011 and 2016 Censuses are presented. The scope of the 2016 Agricultural Census was all businesses undertaking agricultural activity recorded on the ABS Business Register above a minimum size cut off of $40,000. For the 2011 Agricultural Census, the cut-off was $5,000; 2011 data in Data by Region was re-derived using the $40,000 threshold. The measure of size was based on the ABS' Estimated Value of Agricultural Operations or, if this was not available, a derived value based on Business Activity Statement turnover.
Variability and standard error
Since not all of the businesses that were selected provided data, there are estimated data components. The estimates are subject to sampling variability; that is, they may differ from the figures that would have been produced if all businesses had provided data.
One measure of the likely difference is given by the standard error which indicates the extent to which an estimate might vary by chance because only a sample was taken or had responded. There are about two chances in three that a 'sample' estimate will differ by less than one standard error from the figure that would have been obtained if all businesses had responded, and about nineteen chances in twenty that the difference will be less than two standard error. In agricultural data, sampling variability of the estimates is measured by the relative standard error (RSE) which is obtained by expressing the standard error as a percentage of the estimate to which it refers.
In Data by Region, agriculture data with an RSE greater than 50% are not presented.
For further information see Agricultural Commodities, Australia.
Births and deaths
Data is sourced from the Births, Australia and Deaths, Australia publications.
Building approvals
Data for building approvals are compiled from:
Coverage is:
For further information see Building Approvals, Australia.
Census data
See below for information on selected Census items included in this product. For information on other Census items please see the Glossary, the Census of Population and Housing home page and the Census Dictionary.
Australian citizenship
Records whether a person has Australian citizenship and was born overseas.
Commuting to work
Commuting distance provides a measurement of the distance travelled between a person's Mesh Block of Place of Usual Residence and Mesh Block of Place of Work. An assumption in the calculation of this data is that a person has followed the shortest path with no stops when commuting to work.
Component data for Commuting to Work (i.e. distance by age and sex, and by industry) is only available at ASGS levels, and not at LGA level. LGA regions will only display whole Average and Median Commuting distance.
Detailed information on the how commuting distances were calculated can be found on the Understanding the Census and Census Data page.
Dwelling structure
Structure type of private dwellings. Other Dwellings include caravan, cabin or houseboat, improvised home, tent, sleepers out, and house or flat attached to a shop or office etc.
Equivalised total household income
The 'modified OECD' equivalence scale is used. Equivalised total household income can be viewed as an indicator of the economic resources available to a standardised household.
Classified in terms of the relationships that exist between a single family reference person and each other member of that family.
Different types of families are distinguished (in the following order of preference) based on the presence or absence of:
The family type is derived from people enumerated in the household who usually reside there and who share a familial relationship. Partners and dependent children usually present but temporarily absent are also included in this derivation. Boarders and other non-family members are excluded.
Field of study
Describes the field of study of a person's highest completed non-school qualification for persons aged 15 years and over who stated that they had completed a qualification.
Highest year of school completed
Highest level of primary or secondary schooling completed for people aged 15 years and over. Data is coded using the Australian Standard Classification of Education (ASCED), 2001.
Population rates are presented as a rate per 10,000 of the total population. That is, the number of homeless persons per 10,000 persons based on their place of enumeration in the Census, excluding people at sea or in migratory or offshore regions and overseas visitors.
Caution should be taken when interpreting data for smaller regions (i.e. regions with fewer than 10,000 persons).
The homelessness rate includes persons:
Further details can be found in the publication Census of Population and Housing: Estimating Homelessness (cat no. 2049.0).
Industry of employment
Applicable to all employed people aged 15 years and over.
Industry is coded using the Australian and New Zealand Standard Industrial Classification (ANZSIC), 2006. The industry code assigned is based on the main job held during the week prior to Census night.
Labour force
Two occupation questions are used in the Census. The first of these asks for occupation title, while the second asks for the main tasks usually performed by the person in their occupation. Collecting both occupation title and task information ensures more accurate coding of occupations for employed people aged 15 years and over.
Occupations are coded using the Australian and New Zealand Standard Classification of Occupations (ANZSCO). The Occupation code assigned is based on the main job held during the week prior to Census Night.
Non-school qualifications
Describes the level of a person's highest completed non-school qualification (e.g. bachelor degree, diploma) for persons aged 15 years and over.
The full classification for levels of education and fields of study, together with an explanation of the conceptual basis of the classification, can be found in the publication Australian Standard Classification of Education (ASCED), 2001.
Occupation of employed persons
Applicable to persons aged 15 years and over. Two occupation questions are used in the Census. The first of these asks for occupation title, while the second asks for the main tasks usually performed by the person in their occupation. Collecting both occupation title and task information ensures more accurate coding of occupations.
Overseas born
Country of birth is the basis for determining if a person was born overseas. The Standard Australian Classification of Countries (SACC) was used to classify responses for birthplace of individuals. People are classified as Overseas-born on the Census of Population and Housing if it was stated:
For the 2016 Census, the definition of Australia includes the states and territories and the other territories of Christmas Island, Cocos (Keeling) Islands, Jervis Bay Territory and Norfolk Island. In 2011 and previous Censuses, Norfolk Island was not included in the definition of geographic Australia.
Religious affiliation
The Australian Standard Classification of Religious Groups (ASCRG), 2016 was used to classify responses for a person's religious affiliation. Answering this Census question is optional.
Rent and mortgage payments
Includes site fees if the dwelling is a caravan, or manufactured home in a caravan park, or a manufactured home estate.
Social marital status & registered marital status
Applicable to persons aged 15 years and over. If registered marital status is not stated it is imputed.
All persons aged 15 years and over, who are usually resident and present in the household on Census night and who are not in a couple relationship are identified as 'Not married'.
Socio Economic Indexes of Areas (SEIFA)
SEIFA is an ABS product that ranks areas in Australia according to relative socio-economic advantage and disadvantage. The indexes are based on information from the five-yearly Census of Population and Housing.
SEIFA 2016 consists of four indexes which are a summary of a different subset of Census variables and focuses on a different aspect of socio-economic advantage and disadvantage.
Deciles divide a distribution into ten equal groups. In the case of SEIFA, the State deciles data compares the region with all the other regions in that State or Territory. The Australian deciles data compare every region across Australia. The distribution of scores is divided into ten equal groups with the:
For further information see Census of Population and Housing: Socio-Economic Indexes for Areas (SEIFA), Australia.
Speaks language other than English
These data identify the language spoken at home for people who were born overseas, and are coded using the Australian Standard Classification of Languages (ASCL). Only one language is coded for each person.
Tenure type
Applicable to classifiable occupied private dwellings i.e. excludes non-classifiable households such as visitors only.
'Rented' includes rent-free, 'Owned with a mortgage' includes being purchased under shared equity scheme and 'Other tenure type' includes being occupied under a life tenure scheme.
Year of arrival in Australia
Applicable to those born overseas who will be in Australia for more than one year. The year 2016 refers to the period from 1st January 2016 to 9th August 2016 only.
The data shown exclude persons who did not state their country of birth and persons born in Australia (includes Other Territories).
Youth engagement in work or study
Relates to persons aged 15-19 years and whether the person was working or attending a school or any other educational institution.
Data for 'Other - Fully engaged' includes:
Count of businesses, entries and exits
Counts of businesses are based on snapshots of actively trading businesses as at 30 June in each reference year and are sourced from the Australian Bureau of Statistics Business Register (ABSBR).
The population includes businesses that are:
Businesses which have not submitted a Business Activity Statement (BAS) and/or have reported zero dollar amounts over five consecutive quarters (or three consecutive years for annual BAS remitters) have been excluded.
The data published have been confidentialised so as not to reveal the identity of any businesses. The confidentiality process randomly adjusts data in such a way that the sum of components will not always be equal to total counts.
For further information see Counts of Australian Businesses, including Entries and Exits.
Early childhood - enrolment and attendance in preschool programs
Statistics on children aged 4 or 5 years who as at 1 July in the collection year were enrolled and attending preschool programs across Australia.
Data is soured from the National Early Childhood Education and Care Collection. The Collection is derived from administrative data provided by state and territory and Australian government departments and the Catholic Education Office of the Archdiocese of Canberra and Goulburn.
For the purposes of the collection, a preschool program is defined as a structured, play based learning program, delivered by a degree qualified teacher, aimed primarily at children in the year or two before they commence full-time schooling. This is irrespective of the type of institution that provides it or whether it is government funded or privately provided.
To be considered as enrolled, the child must have attended the preschool program for at least one hour during the reference period, or be absent due to illness or extended holiday leave and expected to return.
Care needs to be taken when interpreting Queensland child counts as there may be some duplication of children across different provider types. This is due to the inclusion of child aggregate data from some service providers.
Where the finer regional details of enrolments are not stated or unknown, these are included in the State/Territory totals but not shown separately elsewhere.
Further information on these statistics can be found in Preschool Education, Australia and Microdata: Preschool Education, Australia.
Estimated resident population
Estimated resident population as at 30 June is based on Census counts by place of usual residence (excluding short-term overseas visitors in Australia) with an allowance for Census net undercount to which are added the estimated number of Australian residents temporarily overseas at the time of the Census.
For further information see Regional Population Growth, Australia.
Gifts/donations reported by taxpayers
These Data is sourced from the Australian Taxation Office (ATO) and relate to gifts or donations reported by taxpayers for the financial year.
Gross capital gains
These Data is sourced from the Australian Taxation Office (ATO). Capital gains cover the sale of assets such as:
Capital gains are not part of the existing ABS investment income, other income or total income framework, but are presented here as supplementary information of interest. Additional information on this topic is available from Capital Gains and Exemptions.
Gross value of agricultural production
The value of agricultural production estimates are derived by the multiplication of price and quantity of individual agricultural commodities. Remaining commodity data (livestock disposals and livestock products excluding eggs) are obtained from other ABS collections with some information from non-ABS sources.
Price information refers to the average unit value of a given commodity realised in the market place. More specifically, price information for livestock slaughtering and wool is obtained from ABS collections. Price information for other commodities is obtained from non-ABS sources, including marketing authorities and industry sources.
The estimates of gross value are subject to sampling error. (See above or a discussion of sampling error in Agriculture data). In Data by Region, agriculture data with a relative standard error (RSE) greater than 50% are not presented.
Further information on value of agricultural production can be obtained in the ABS publication Value of Agricultural Commodities Produced, Australia.
The health Data is modelled estimates based on random effects logistic regression models fitted to data from the 2011-12 and 2014-15 National Health Survey (NHS), 2011 Australian Census of Population and Housing, 2012 and 2015 Estimated Resident Population (ERP), and aggregated administrative data such as from the Department of Social Services.
This data presents the modelled count and percentage of persons living in private dwellings, with the following health characteristics.
These modelled estimates were originally produced as a consultancy for the Public Health Information Development Unit (PHIDU), applying ABS methods and quality standards.
Data has been produced for Statistical Area Level 3 regions.
Higher Education Loan Program (HELP) repayments
These Data is sourced from the Australian Taxation Office and are a count of taxpayers who have made repayments on their HELP debt in the financial year.
For the compulsory HELP repayments to be made, taxpayers must be earning above the minimum repayment income threshold. Further information on repayment income thresholds for other years, and repayment rates can be found on the ATO website.
Internal and overseas migration
Internal migration is.the movement of people between and within Australia's states and territories and is estimated using administrative data. The main source of data used to do this is Medicare change of address information provided to the ABS by the Department of Human Services. The Medicare data used is coded directly to the ASGS and aggregated to the SA2 and LGA levels. Interstate moves are constrained to published estimates of interstate migration.
Overseas migration including arrivals and departures are prepared by breaking down state/territory level net overseas migration (NOM) arrivals and departures into sub-state areas, using information from the most recent Census. For the purposes of NOM, a person is regarded as a usual resident if they have been (or expect to be) residing in Australia for a period of 12 months or more. This 12-month period does not have to be continuous and is measured over a 16-month period. It includes all people, regardless of nationality, citizenship or legal status, who usually live in Australia, with the exception of foreign diplomatic personnel and their families.
For further information see Regional Population Growth, Australia.
Jobs in Australia
Data is for all persons who either submitted an individual tax return or individuals who had a payment summary issued by an employer for the financial year.
Conceptually, payment summary data should include most employee-employer job relationships. For a person who is an employee of several employers, each relationship is listed as a separate job.
Number of employee jobs refer to jobs for which the occupant received remuneration in wages, salary, payment in kind, or piece rates. This excludes self-employment jobs held by owner managers of unincorporated enterprises.
The sum of the individual components will not necessarily add up to the total number of employee jobs as the total includes jobs where the industry was unknown or missing.
Regions with small numbers should be interpreted with caution as random adjustment has been applied to this data.
For further information see Jobs in Australia.
Land area
Based upon the boundaries in the Australian Statistical Geography Standard 2016 and 2018 Local Government Areas. The area of these regions were calculated on the Albers Projection using ABS standard Geographic Information Systems software using the digital boundaries of the regions.
Median household net worth
Household net worth has been produced from findings of the 2015-16 Survey of Income and Housing (SIH). SIH collected detailed information about the income, wealth and household characteristics of persons aged 15 years and over in private dwellings throughout Australia (excluding very remote areas).
Net worth, often referred to as wealth, is the value of a household's assets less the value of its liabilities. Due to the nature of surveys, data for all levels of geography is not available. For further information see Household Income and Wealth, Australia 2015-16
Motor vehicle census
The Motor vehicle census includes all vehicles registered with a state, territory or other government motor vehicle registry for unrestricted use on public roads as at 31 January, with the following exceptions:
Includes vehicles registered at the date of the census, or had registration expire less than one month before that date. Motor vehicle census data is presented by region of owner, and based on the postcode of the owner.
The Australia total includes records that could not be allocated to a state or territory. Therefore aggregating state and territory totals will not equal the Australia total.
The sum of the individual components of vehicles will not necessarily add up to total registered motor vehicles as the total includes vehicles where the year of manufacture was not stated or invalid.
A geographic correspondence has been used in order to present the post code data on ASGS boundaries. Aggregating lower levels of the ASGS (SA2, SA3, LGA, etc.) within a state will not equal the state totals, due to the nature of corresponding data from postcodes. See Geographical correspondences for further information.
Further information can be found in Motor Vehicle Census, Australia.
Patent and trademark applicants
The numbers of patents and trademarks relate to applicants. They are a yearly aggregate of applicants at 31 December for the reference year. ABS has suppressed data for regions in certain circumstances to prevent the identification of individuals.
The patent and trademark applicants data is collected by IP Australia. Data produced by IP Australia can be sourced at data.gov.au. The SA3 level data have been created and published by the Office of the Chief Economist, based on postcode (of applicant) data provided by IP Australia. ABS has aggregated the SA3 data to create details for the SA4, GCCSA, state, territory and Australia geographic levels. As such, the SA4, GCCSA, state or territory and Australia totals of applicants are not official aggregates provided by IP Australia or the Office of the Chief Economist.
Personal income
Personal income tax data is supplied by the ATO to the ABS under the Taxation Administration Act 1953, which requires that such data is only used for the purpose of administering the Census and Statistics Act 1905. Any discussion of data limitations or weaknesses is in the context of using the data for statistical purposes, and is not related to the ability of the data to support the ATO's core operational requirements. Legislative requirements to ensure privacy and secrecy of this data have been adhered to. In accordance with the Census and Statistics Act 1905, results have been confidentialised to ensure that they are not likely to enable identification of a particular person or organisation.
The data is collated by the ATO from individual tax returns and employer payment summaries that have been lodged with lodgements captured for a 16 month period after each financial year. The data Includes employee, own unincorporated business, investment, superannuation and annuities, other income (excluding Government pensions and allowances) - and total income from these component sources. See glossary for how these items have been defined or Personal Income in Australia for more information on these income types and the line items from the tax form used to calculate them.
For the purposes of providing statistical measures for the entire population, the ATO database has some limits to its coverage. Persons who receive an income below certain levels are not necessarily required to lodge a tax return, and some income can be exempt and therefore does not need to be reported in tax returns. As a result, Government pensions, benefits or allowances are excluded from the other income or total income. The ATO data should be regarded as an indicative but not complete picture of all individual income earned in Australia.
The Gini coefficients shown in this publication are subject to under-coverage for certain income groups and are calculated from gross personal income rather than equivalised disposable income. They can be regarded as indicative but not definitive and are not directly comparable to apparently similar ABS information at state/territory level, as per Household Income and Wealth, Australia.
Non-lodgers have being included in the Employee income data. The ABS defines non-lodgers as individuals that have a payment summary issued by an employer but have not lodged an income tax return within the 16 month period after each financial year. Note that as the sources of income other than employee income cannot be captured for the non-lodger population, they have been excluded from the estimates of total income.
The total number of individuals in receipt of income from at least one source should not be confused with the sum of the individuals in each income category, since people can have more than one source of income in any given year.
Net income from a specific source may be positive or negative. For example, an individual may have positive income from employee income but have negative net investment income. The number of individuals for each income source includes all persons with either positive or negative net income from that source.
In this publication, main source of earners is presented as a proportion of the population in that region. If a region is particularly reliant on one source, it may be susceptible to policy or economic changes that affect that income type - hence the inclusion. Where persons receive exactly the same amount across multiple sources of income, they have been excluded from the derivation of this indicator. Persons with nil total income have also been excluded. The non-lodger population has also been excluded from this calculation as the sources of income other than employee income cannot be captured.
Further information on these statistics can be found in Personal Income in Australia.
Personal insolvencies
Counts of business-related and non-business-related personal insolvencies by region are provided for reference year ended 30 June.
Data is provided by the Australian Financial Security Authority (AFSA) from their extensive personal insolvency collection. Unless an individual declares their situation to be directly related to a proprietary interest in a business, all other insolvencies (even those for which details are not stated) are classified as Non-business related.
A confidentialisation process has been applied to these data. Official statistics and more information can be found on the AFSA website.
Private health
Private health Data is sourced from the Australian Taxation Office (ATO) and relate to taxpayers who report having private health insurance within the financial year.
A full estimate of how many adults in Australia have private health insurance can be obtained from the ABS National Health Survey - see Health Service Usage and Health Related Actions, Australia.
Protected land areas
Refers to areas of land dedicated to the protection and maintenance of biodiversity. Sourced from the Collaborative Australian Protected Areas Database (CAPAD), Commonwealth of Australia, maintained and updated by the Department of the Environment and Energy.
The Department has especially converted CAPAD data (for Reported, Gazetted Areas) into ABS Statistical Geographies - such as Statistical Area Level 2 (SA2) and Local Government Areas (LGA) - to match the geographic preferences of the ABS Data by Region dataset. Where there is no Gazetted Area for a record, the GIS (Geographic Information System) Area (based on current spatial data and an Albers Equal Area Projection for Australia) has been sourced to enable geographic conversions.
The process of splitting CAPAD into geographic regions can generate many small areas. Slivers of land - with an area less than 1 hectare and which are less than 2 per cent of the unsplit protected area - have been removed. Therefore there is a small difference between area totals for States when compared with LGA or SA2 regions. Also, the numbers of Protected Land Areas (PLAs) should be considered as indicative only.
Data is presented for:
Other data, for example relating to PLA types, land governance arrangements and marine regions, are readily available from the Department of the Environment. For more information please refer to Department of Environment and Energy CAPAD.
Residential property prices
Data refers to median price and transfer counts of established houses and attached dwellings for year ended 30 June of each reference year.
Data are not presented prior to 2017 for regions where the geographical boundary changed from ASGS 2011 to ASGS 2016.
All Australian residential property sales Data is now supplied to the ABS by CoreLogic RP Data. This dataset is a combination of residential property sales data obtained from State and Territory Land Titles Office or Valuers General Offices in each capital city (collectively referred to as VGs) and real estate agents data provided to CoreLogic RP Data. The ABS applies classifications to the dataset provided by CoreLogic RP Data to create the residential property sales dataset, from which these statistics are produced. Caution should be taken when interpreting data for regions where there are a small number of transfers.
Dwellings in scope include:
For further information see Residential Property Price Indexes: Eight Capital Cities.
Selected government pensions and allowances
All government pensions and allowances refer to a point in time (i.e. the number of persons who received payment as at the pay period closest to 30 June each year) and therefore do not represent all the customers in receipt of payments during the entire financial year. Unless otherwise specified, data is sourced from the Department of Social Services Demographic Data available on data.gov.au.
Where a person could not be allocated to a region within a state or territory, they have been included in the totals for the states and territories. Where a person could not be allocated to a state or territory, they have been included in the total for Australia.
For privacy reasons, all administrative data from non-ABS sources has been confidentialised before being supplied to the ABS. The cells suppressed or altered through confidentialisation within Data by Region may differ to other publications that contain this data.
Some payments are described in further detail below, for other items see the Glossary. More information about specific payments can be accessed from the Department of Social Services and the Department of Veterans' Affairs, or from data.gov.au.
Age Pension
Age Pension age depends on the individual's date of birth. please see Age Requirements for more information.
The majority of Age Pensions are paid by Centrelink. Age pensioners who also receive a Disability Pension from the Department of Veterans' Affairs (DVA) have the choice of having their Age Pension paid by either the DVA or Centrelink and there are two separate data items, Age Pension and Age Pension (DVA). The Centrelink Age Pension Data is provided by DSS and include overseas pension recipients in the Australian total.
Disability Support Pension
Designed to give people an adequate means of support if they are unable to work for at least 15 hours per week at or above the relevant minimum wage, independent of a program or support. Includes overseas pension recipients and persons whose address could not be coded to a specific region in the total for Australia.
Family Tax Benefit
Around 75% of all families with at least one dependent child aged under 16 years are eligible to receive Family Tax Benefit.
Family Tax Benefit Part A can be paid to a parent, guardian or an approved care organisation to help with the costs of raising children. There are eligibility requirements involving the age and educational status of the child, residency and income.
Family Tax Benefit Part B is an extra payment for single parents and families with one main income to help with the costs of raising children. Part B is limited to families where the primary earner has an adjusted taxable income of $100,000 or less per financial year (from June 2015, previously was $150,000 or less). There are also additional eligibility requirements.
Approximately three-quarters of FTB customers receive both Part A and Part B. Data presented in regard to Family Tax Benefit refer only to fortnightly instalment customers paid directly by Centrelink. The information excludes an additional 10% (approximately) who are paid by a lump sum which is claimable at the end of a financial year. The Family Tax Benefit data for the latest year are preliminary only. Users should refrain from making direct comparisons with data from earlier years in past issues of Data by Region (formerly known as the National Regional Profile).
Solar installations
Small-scale solar panel installations and solar water heater installations data have been sourced from the Clean Energy Regulator (CER) and are presented as an accumulative total from 2001. The Clean Energy Regulator administers the Small-Scale Renewable Energy Scheme (SRES) as part of the federal governments Renewable Energy Target (RET). The SRES is governed by the Renewable Energy (Electricity) Act 2000 and the Renewable Energy (Electricity) Regulations 2001.
Includes new, upgraded and replacement installations, and includes stand-alone (off-grid) installations. The data only represent installations that have passed the CERs auditing process and relevant standards, and have had Small-scale Technology Certificates (STCs) validly created under the SRES. The data do not include installations that have resulted in failed STC creation, or are pending STC creation.
Installations under the SRES may include residential and commercial systems, and include installations of no more than 100 kilowatts in panel array capacity.
CER data is based on the postcode of the installation, and a geographic correspondence has been applied by ABS to create data on ASGS and LGA boundaries. See the Geographical correspondences for further information.
The Australian total of small-scale solar panel installations and solar water heater installations has been taken directly from CER source data, whereas all other geographical boundaries have been converted from postcode data. Therefore aggregations of the regional data may not exactly match the Australian total.
Tourist accommodation
The number of tourist accommodation establishments are derived from the quarterly Survey of Tourist Accommodation (STA). The STA is a mail-out collection that completely enumerates all in-scope accommodation establishments within Australia.
The in-scope establishments presented in this profile include:
Further information can be found in Tourist Accommodation, Australia.
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Lifeguard Lessons – Lifesaving instructor teaches advance swimmer on lifesaving course in Singapore.
WHat is Shallow Water searching means ?
To recover the casualty that the places is unknown in shallow water condition where rescuers can stand.
How does it being conducted ?
3 scope assigned – Coordinator – Searchers – Onlooker
2 way to search – Parallel Search – Circular Search
The person in charge of giving instruction.
The person search side by side with the coordinator.
Person stand on land ready to call for ambulance and oversee the search.
Coordinator and searchers form a straight line elbow to elbow, hand to hand sliding through the shallow water using feet sense of touch to locate the casualty in unclear water.


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She wasn't pleased to sniff this.
The secret life of cats. Funny cats in human world. Around the pumpkin world of cats. Fun cats, thoughts, pictures, photos and talks. Cats comics.
Friday, 29 April 2016
Thursday, 28 April 2016
Cat Search Bird
Wednesday, 27 April 2016
Cat Call bird
Tuesday, 26 April 2016
Cat on the Way
Monday, 25 April 2016
Orange Lady - Orange Cat
A lady in orange is taming and feeding an orange cat. How beautiful is that! And I think they got me, should speed a step after this photo :)
Sunday, 24 April 2016
Bored Cat
Saturday, 23 April 2016
Cats Meet and Greet
Friday, 22 April 2016
Morning Cat
This cat is inhabiting the lands near the Bureau of Employment. I'm glad I met it in this boring quest :)
Thursday, 21 April 2016
Cats and Bars
This is the cat inhabiting the lands near the snack bar. She comes to hunt food from all sides, sometimes from above.
Wednesday, 20 April 2016
Cats Prrrr
Tuesday, 19 April 2016
Cats Plotting
Monday, 18 April 2016
Cats Taking Photo
Sunday, 17 April 2016
Threatening Cat
Saturday, 16 April 2016
Cat Wish to Fly
I she could fly, she could reach not only the 6th floor, where the food comes from, but we could run out of birds too :)
Friday, 15 April 2016
Cat's Story
Thursday, 14 April 2016
Cat Facing Dog
The cat Tigra and the dog Roko are actually friends, they just play the game. This is Igor Dolvich replica from JA 2, when he is facing a lot of rivals.
Tuesday, 12 April 2016
Cat's School
Monday, 11 April 2016
Cat in Green
This cat inhabits the lands near the town hall of Ruse City. Photo by Nikolai Tzolev.
Sunday, 10 April 2016
Cats Tactic
Saturday, 9 April 2016
Cat Knowing
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- Document all aspects of a painting, including details of the artist, title of the work, photographs, sketches and condition report.
- Maintain temperatures and relative humidity levels in the ranges 15 -25 °C and 45 - 55 % respectively with maximum fluctuations of 4 °C and 5 % in any 24 hour period.
- Restrict light levels to 50 lux and UV levels of 30 µW/lumen (1500 µW/m2) for watercolours and paintings based on dyes and lakes. Maintain light levels at 200 lux and UV levels at 75 µW/lumen (15,000 µW/m2) for oil, tempera and acrylic paintings.
- Do not touch front or back surfaces with bare hands.
- Be extremely careful when handling paintings, use appropriate systems for hanging them and obtain conservation framing advice for large and heavy works.


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The 2020 election is a year away and the state's campaign finance websites are broken.
See The Money – a website that presents data visually – has never worked properly, and the state's campaign-finance database has had its own set of problems since the 2018 election, and the Secretary of State's Office is now approaching a crucial deadline. Come January, candidates from throughout the state will be filing their first financial reports for the 2020 campaign cycle and the public will want to follow the money.
See The Money was a pet project of former Secretary of State Michele Reagan, and now Secretary of State Katie Hobbs is in charge of managing and marketing it, and more immediately, trying to fix it.
"It doesn't work, and we want it to work," Hobbs said. Her staff has spent the past year focused on improving the reporting side, making sure the information going into the system through Beacon, the new reporting portal, works with the website's framework and accurately displays that information in a simple and intuitive way.
Hobbs said by election time, things will change.
"Our obligation is to house campaign finance reports and the goal of my administration is transparency to the public and that's the biggest reason for campaign finance reporting," Hobbs said. She said it's crucial for the public to have access to that information, but what limits them, is their role in all of this – her office is a filing agency, not an enforcement agency.
"People think we dig through campaign finance reports and find problems – we don't," Hobbs said. "The reason complaints are made and campaign finance reports are found is because the public looks at those reports and they report problems to us. We rely on that."
But Hobbs said it needs to be a "functional tool" for that to happen, and it's not there yet. Complaints come mostly from campaign staff, lobbyists, or anyone else involved in politics.
They say it doesn't display data in a way that is easy to understand. Overlooked campaign finance reporting loopholes and flaws have led to misleading or confusing figures, confusing and infuriating even to the most seasoned political operative. If they can't understand it, they say, how is the public, who was initially the target demographic, supposed to?
One of them, Arizona Advocacy Network Deputy Director Morgan Dick, said she and her colleagues can't remember the last time they used the website because they've had so many issues with it. Most of Dick's job deals with digging through campaign finance reports, which can be tedious.
The idea and initial promise of See The Money was a godsend, she said, and it would have made her job easier. It was a great idea, Dick said, but it just wasn't executed right.
"We often saw things were not congruent with what the campaign finance report said," Dick said. "These data charts that you can export, they just didn't accurately display the kind of spending we were seeing in the campaign finance side of the reporting."
It's so unreliable that Dick and her coworkers have to use third party sites like Follow The Money, hosted by the National Institute on Money in State Politics, which she said is generally more accurate but still has its issues. With the way things are now, it's almost always easier, and more accurate, to go to the original documents, copy and paste them into a spreadsheet and do their own analysis, Dick said.
For a long time, because of issues with transferring what's reported, it's been garbage in, garbage out. Those issues have been chipped away through years and hundreds of thousands of dollars.
"When you had the old campaign-finance system and See The Money was put in place, they didn't necessarily talk to each other the right way," Hobbs said.
She said there hasn't been any statutory changes in what or how this information is reported, rather the way that the information is transferred and presented has.
What remains is an accessibility issue: people completely new to the system often don't know what they're looking at or what to look for. Now the office is working to better display the information and ensure that what's being displayed is as accurate as they can assure it is.
Once that's fully fixed and the website is made more accessible, it will be useful, Hobbs said, but it will never live up to the original vision. What was originally proposed was a place for every campaign finance report in the entire state, including local jurisdictions.
However, that dream never materialized because Hobbs nor her staff can compel other jurisdictions to participate and, Hobbs said, there's no political will in the Legislature to do that. Even if there was interest, the system isn't equipped to deliver.
If that did happen, Hobbs and others feared people would be charged to use that system. Change has been slow and hard to accomplish, Hobbs said, because her administration was a victim of circumstance – she walked into a project
The website was one of Reagan's 2014 campaign promises: making it easier for people to see where candidates get their campaign money. Over $1 million has been spent to build the site and make it accessible for most people, but it still has issues.
Five years later, the website is still being tweaked.
Under Reagan, the office spent hundreds of thousands of dollars on the project, hiring a contractor that didn't finish and forcing it in-house in 2016. Reagan, her staff and the contractors she employed hailed the website as a success with minor issues.
Together, Reagan and Hobbs have spent more than $1 million on the project.
One of the original developers for See The Money, Al Kawazi, said the larger problem has always been how the data is received. Kawazi said he and the other developers did their job.
"The problem is that the data is only as good as the data that's coming in," Kawazi said. "So if somebody puts in data that is wrong or they misallocated funds where they should have gone to as an expense, they put it as income, or whatever the reason may be – you can easily see that in the visualizations."
Another problem, Kawazi said, was categorizing names and grouping contributions from the same person or not for people with similar names. Sometimes, when filing, mistakes can happen; someone misspells their name, changes a number in their address or even puts down their second home and not their primary address. Whatever the case, Kawazi said inconsistencies in data make it more difficult for developers or their algorithms to reasonably group entries from people or organizations and to assume they are identical.
Kawazi and company were experimenting with machine learning, a form of artificial intelligence, and beginning to aggregate people by jobs, addresses and other information they gave. Compiling that accurately became hard at times because some people clearly, intentionally misreported their name or address consistently, knowing the information would be public and fearing people would send them letters or show up at their house, Kawazi said.
Kawazi said that flaws aside, the state has one of the most organized systems for presenting this data, but the problem remains that the data is dirty.
When Reagan first was elected, she had hoped to complete the website during or before June 2016, but she ended up being late, over budget and needed more money.
To help foot the $462,000 bill to develop a new campaign finance website to replace the other project that failed to launch, Reagan asked the Citizen's Clean Election Commission to pay $200,000, and $50,000 each year for maintenance.
Director of the Citizens Clean Elections Commission Tom Collins said he's not sure where exactly that money spent was put toward, if it was worth it and he's not confident that it's "up to snuff." Collins often hears complaints from members of the public about the site and about how information can be misreported often enough to warrant double checking the original documents, confusion over the definition of a particular vendor, not distinguishing between different types of transactions and just a general lack of explanation for what exactly people are looking at.
At the end of the day, it's not reliable, Collins said, adding that it doesn't achieve the goals that the commission considered when it decided to make the service agreement. Collins understands that website development is hard work and said he isn't criticizing Hobbs personally, rather he wants to make sure this project lives up to its full potential.
"If See The Money does not provide voters information they can use, grab on-the-go and use, without having to double check the campaign finance database, what did our $200,000 buy in the first place?" Collins said.


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Now Justice Karnan 'Sentences' CJI, Seven Other SC Judges To Five Years Jail
KOLKATA : Giving a fresh twist to his three and a half month stand-off with the Supreme Court, Calcutta High Court Justice C.S. Karnan on Monday "sentenced" Chief Justice of India Jagdish Singh Khehar and seven other apex court judges to five year rigorous imprisonment.
Justice Karnan, who is facing contempt charges for degrading the judiciary and making allegations of corruption against several Supreme Court judges, held the eight judges guilty of harassing a "Dalit Judge" (him), with a "common intention".
The 12-page "order" said the accused have "committed" an offence "punishable under the SC/ST Atrocities Act of 1989 and amended Act of 2015".
However, the Supreme Court has already restrained Justice Karnan from discharging any judicial and administrative functions and directed all authorities and tribunals not to take cognisance of any "purported" order passed by him.
The other judges named in the "order" are Justice Dipak Misra, Justice J. Chelameswar, Justice Ranjan Gogoi, Justice Madan B Lokur, Justice Pinaki Chandra Ghose, Justice Kurian Joseph and Justice R. Banumathi.
While seven of the judges were members of the bench that initiated suo motu contempt proceedings against Justice Karnan, Justice Banumathi along with the Chief Justice Khehar had restrained him from discharging any judicial and administrative functions.
Justice Karnan also imposed fines of Rs 1 lakh on three counts under three-sub-sections of section 3 of the SC/ST Atrocities Act on all the eight judges.
The sentences would run concurrently, he said, and asked Delhi's Commissioner of Police to execute the order.
SC judges have to pay the amount, within a week of receiving the order, to the National Commission, Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribes.
In case they fail to pay, they would undergo further six months imprisonment.
Justice Karnan also ordered Justice Banumathi to pay him a Rs 2 crore compensation, and directed the Supreme Court Registrar General to recover the amount from her and remit it to his account.
He also refereed to his April 13 order asking the judges (except Justice Banumathi against whom he had not passed any order that day) to pay Rs 14 crore to him as compensation and decreed that the order stood "declared and suitable for execution" as it has not been challenged.
He directed the Supreme Court Registrar General to recover the amount from the salary of the seven judges and remit it to his account.
"If the accused are aggrieved by this order, they are at liberty to approach parliament.
"Until such time the accused 1-8 shall not hold office and not be permitted to deal in any cases on the file of the Supreme Court besides any administrative orders," Karnan said, pronouncing the order from the 'make-shift court' at his residence Rosedale Tower in New Town in Kolkata's North Eastern fringes.
Karnan directed the union and state governments not to avail the services of the eight judges "since they are functioning out of law for their personal gain".
He also ordered the government to pay him Rs 2.85 lakh in relief and directed the "District Magistrate of Kolkata" to make necessary administrative arrangements to provide the relief in cash or kind.
In January, Karnan wrote to Prime Minister Narendra Modi naming 20 "corrupt judges", and seeking probe against them to curb "high corruption" in the Indian judiciary.
The Supreme Court then issued him a contempt notice, an unprecedented step against a sitting judge. After he failed to appear, it on March 10, in another first time move, issued a bailable warrant against him.
But the judge escalated the row by ordering a Central Bureau of Investigation probe against the seven judges.
Karnan appeared before the seven-judge bench on March 31, but renewed the confrontation on April 13, passing a "judicial order" against them for "violating" the SC/ST Act and also asked them to appear before him.
Later, he directed the Air Control Authority in New Delhi not to allow the CJI and other six judges to travel abroad.
The Supreme Court asked him to undergo a medical test on May 4, but Karnan not only refused to comply, but also hit back by directing Delhi Police to conduct a psychiatric test of the seven judges.


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The twins' conservation design included a very noticeable change to the look of the popular theme park.
"We are working with them about getting one of their biggest lakes in the park drained and fill it with a desert landscape," said Alex.
Between draining a lake and posting reminders all around the park, Todd and Alex had to impress those at the corporate level.
"The great thing about Alex and Todd, it wasn't just about the idea. It was about the idea, putting it together, doing the research, talking to the people, doing the interviews and putting together an all-encompassing plan," said Jay Thomas, park president of Six Flags Magic Mountain and Hurricane Harbor.
A theme park is a large area, but Todd and Alex want to take it on an even bigger scale.
"We're looking at the possibilities of opening this up to a generic company version that other companies can take and say, 'we can use those tools to educate our employees.' So, it opens up a new window of educating the entire Santa Clarita Valley," said Alex.
At a time when water conservation is a concern, Todd and Alex Davis are two Cool Kids who are leading the way to a solution.


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|Bannantine, John
Submitted to: Clinical and Vaccine Immunology
Publication Type: Peer Reviewed Journal
Publication Acceptance Date: 8/20/2006
Publication Date: 9/13/2006
Citation: Berger, S., Hinz, D., Bannantine, J.P., Griffin, J.F. 2006. Isolation of High-Affinity Single-Chain Antibodies against Mycobacterium avium subsp. paratuberculosis Surface Proteins from Sheep with Johne's Disease. Clinical and Vaccine Immunology.13(9):1022-1029.
Interpretive Summary: In this study we basically took 3 sheep that clearly had signs of Johne's disease and cloned all of the antibodies these sheep produced. This was done by taking the spleen, blood and bone marrow at necropsy and extracting the RNA from these tissues. We then made DNA copies of these RNAs and cloned them. This represented all of the antibodies produced in these diseased sheep. The next step was to identify which of these antibodies would bind tightly to Mycobacterium avium subspecies paratuberculosis (MAP), the bacteria that causes Johne's disease. Through a screening process, two such antibodies were identified. Their strong binding to MAP has enabled them to be used as reagents to separate the bacteria from complex environments, such as milk or feces. The true novelty is obtaining these antibodies from a diseased host, making the antibodies biologically relevant and not just synthetically created. These results are discussed in terms of the potential use of single chain phage display monoclonal antibodies as novel diagnostic reagents.
Technical Abstract: Johne's disease, due to infection with Mycobacterium avium subsp. paratuberculosis, causes significant economic losses to the livestock farming industry. Improved investigative and diagnostic tools - necessary to understand disease processes and to identify sub-clinical infection - are much sought after. Here, we describe the production of single chain antibodies with defined specificity for M. avium subsp. paratuberculosis surface proteins. Single-chain antibodies (scFv) were generated from sheep with Johne's disease by cloning heavy-chain and lambda light-chain variable regions, and expressing these in fusion with gene III of filamentous phages. Two scFv clones (designated SurfS1.2 and SurfS2.2) were shown to be immunoreactive against M. avium subsp. paratuberculosis surface targets by flow cytometry, and immunoblotting identified specificity for a 34 kDa proteinase-susceptible determinant. Both antibodies were cross-reactive against M. avium subsp. avium but non-reactive against M. bovis or M. phlei cells, and were shown capable of enriching M. avium subsp. paratuberculosis cells by a factor of approximately 10**6-fold when employed in magnetic bead separation of mixed Mycobacterium spp. cultures. Further, magnetic bead separation using SurfS1.2 and SurfS2.2 was capable of isolating as few as 10**3 M. avium subsp. paratuberculosis cells from ovine fecal samples, indicating the diagnostic potential of these reagents. Finally, inclusion of SurfS1.2 or SurfS2.2 in in vitro broth culture with M. avium subsp. paratuberculosis indicated that surface binding activity did not impede bacterial growth, although colony clumping was prevented. These results are discussed in terms of the potential use of single chain phage display monoclonal antibodies as novel diagnostic reagents.


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Maryland Loses Chance at Federal Funding for Untested Rape Kits
For the third year in a row, Maryland was not awarded any assistance from a federal funding program that would help process a large backlog of untested rape kits in the state. According to The Baltimore Sun, the Baltimore County Police Department applied for the federal grant the first two years and was denied both times, without any explanation as to why the denial was issued.
This time around, the police department even had several Maryland legislators write a letter supporting the application to help test these old rape kits, some of which have been sitting for decades.
The U.S. Justice Department announced $34 million in grants this month, but no Maryland jurisdiction was among those who were allocated any financial resources. This year's summary of denial seems to allege the grant application was incomplete and the police department needs to provide more details, like goals and objectives.
Thousands of Untested Rape Kits in Maryland
You might be wondering if this is a big issue in Maryland? The answer is yes. In 2017, the State Attorney General's Office released an audit report showing there are at least 3,700 untested kits in Maryland. More than 90% of these untested rape kits were in the custody of 13 of the 102 responding agencies. The agencies that have the most untested kits are:
- Montgomery County Police Department
- Baltimore City Police Department
- Howard County Police Department
- Ann Arundel County Police Department
- Baltimore County Police Department
- Frederick Police Department
- Harford County Sheriff's Office
- Prince George's County Police Department
- Carroll County Sherriff's Office
- Calvert County Sheriff's Office
- Salisbury Police Department
Why Some Rape Kits are Not Tested
You might be wondering why all rape kits are not tested; however, there is no law on the books that requires Maryland law enforcement departments to test or track rape kits. After the initial survey in 2015 showed this massive black log of untested kits, the Office of the Attorney General sent a follow-up survey. They reached out to agencies who had more than 50 untested kits to determine why some departments declined to test certain kits. Reasons for not testing included:
- Identity of suspect known
- Allegations unfounded
- Victim signed no prosecution form/refused to prosecute
- Suspect admitted to consensual sex
- State's Attorney declined to prosecute
- Case held for post-conviction
- Case occurred in another jurisdiction
- Suspect pled guilty
- False report
- Anonymous/Jane Doe kit
- Missing records
- Analysis not needed for prosecution per State's Attorney
Why Rape Kits Matter
For victims, it may be perceived as a slap in the face that they went through the time to report the matter to the police and spent hours undergoing an uncomfortable exam. In cases in which the suspect pleads guilty, that rape kit can be important for other matters as well. Rapists are often guilty of other crimes, anything from a misdemeanor burglary to a felony armed robbery. Having their DNA in the system can be critical to helping solve other unsolved crimes.
When to Call a Maryland Attorney
If you are the victim of a rape, there may be additional civil recourse available to you. Or, you may need assistance from a Maryland family law attorney in order to get a protective order in some cases. Please contact the Law Office of Robert R. Castro at 301-705-5137 today to schedule a consultation.


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Ensuring That What Happened Before Does Not Happen Again
On January 24, 2019, Naomi Azrieli, chair and CEO of the Azrieli Foundation, and Julius Berman, president of the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany (known as the Claims Conference), both of whom are members of the Board of Trustees of Yeshiva University, jointly announced the release of a comprehensive Holocaust Knowledge and Awareness Survey of adults in Canada. This follows a similar survey done in 2018 for the United States.
Both studies found a stunning ignorance of basic historical facts and a lack of detailed knowledge of the Holocaust. In the press release announcing the study, Berman noted that "as the UN International Holocaust Remembrance Day approaches, we are reminded of how important education is if we are to ensure that the atrocities of the Holocaust will never happen again." (Click here to read an interview done with Julius Berman.)
International Holocaust Remembrance Day (IHRD) was established by the United Nations as a day for member states to honor the Jewish victims of the Holocaust and millions of other victims of Nazism. In many respects, Yeshiva University honors the mission of the IHRD year-round with events and programs aimed at both preserving the stories of survivors and promoting a wider awareness of the Holocaust.
For instance, the Student Holocaust Education Movement (SHEM) holds an annual commemoration honoring Holocaust survivors and victims in the storied Lamport Auditorium on the Wilf Campus. Last year's event presented the stories of Bernard and Henry Schanzer, twin brothers whose family survived through the kindness of "righteous gentiles" in France who hid and protected them. Tali Naor '18S, then-president of SHEM, said, "All of us sitting here in this room are living proof that the Nazis were wrong. We, the Jewish people, cannot be destroyed. Tonight, we will honor those who perished, those who survived, and those who dedicated their lives to telling their stories and ensuring that the memories of the Holocaust are never forgotten."
SHEM also sponsors an annual Kristallnacht lecture in November, featuring speakers who detail their experience of the horrendous events of November 9-10, 1938, and engage in conversation with the people in attendance. In 2018, Norbert Strauss spoke about "My Life Under the Nazis: 1933-1941." Yosef Sklar '19YC, one of the co-presidents of SHEM, noted that "it is these personal, face-to-face encounters with Holocaust survivors like Mr. Strauss that is invaluable and that we hope to continue to organize for as long as we can." (Previous Kristallnacht lectures featured Rabbi Meir Fulda z"l, the beloved teacher who passed away this past July.)
2018 saw the 80th anniversary of Kristallnacht, and several YU instructors wrote stirring essays on the topic. Mordecai Paldiel, the former director of the Department of the Righteous Among the Nations at Yad Vashem as well as an author and teacher, observed that "we know all too well that anti-Semitism remains a dangerous force in our world and in our free nation. Let the anniversary of Kristallnacht be a reminder to the civilized world and younger generations to act against evil regimes who flout the elementary rules of civilized conduct before they cause untold damage and hurt millions of innocent people."
Tova Rosenberg, creator of the acclaimed "Names, Not Numbers©" Intergenerational Holocaust Oral History Film Project, added that "this future will not be a bright one unless our children are properly educated, . . .unless they know how to prevent prejudice, hatred, intolerance and injustice. The first step is to mandate Holocaust and genocide education. . . to ensure a brighter future." (Click here for more information about Names, Not Numbers.)
Prof. Richard H. Weisberg, founder of the Program on Holocaust and Human Rights at the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, noted that education about Kristallnacht and the Holocaust that followed must confront "the social influences—historical, religious and contemporary—that motivate an individual or a nation to want to destroy the Jewish 'other.'" A crucial component of the Program is the Benjamin B. Ferencz Human Rights and Atrocity Prevention Clinic, named after the legendary prosecutor at the Nuremberg trials. In 2017, Ferencz was honored upon the 70th anniversary of the opening of the Einsatzgruppen case at those trials for his work and philanthropy toward building a more peaceful and humane world.
Yeshiva University also uses the arts to promote learning about the Holocaust. Dr. Karen Shawn, associate professor of Jewish education at the Azrieli Graduate School of Jewish Education and Administration, is the editor of PRISM: An Interdisciplinary Journal for Holocaust Educators, published by Azrieli with support from the Rothman Foundation. In a wide-ranging interview with her last year, she stated strongly that Holocaust education "is one of the most important learning experiences we can offer [because] we all live in the shadow of the Holocaust, and trying to understand it and its ramifications is imperative if we are to try to understand and help to heal the world in which we live."
In the past year, the Yeshiva University Museum has mounted two exhibitions that address Holocaust memory and memorialization: Lost & Found: A Family Photo Album and Kindertransport–Rescuing Children on the Brink of War.
Lost & Found displays the contents of a photo album smuggled out of the Kovno ghetto in 1943 and preserved by a non-Jewish family until 2016, when the album was returned to the original family (which included Dr. Jacob Wisse, director of the Museum and the great-nephew of Annushka Warshawska, the woman who smuggled photos out of the ghetto). Anna was deported with her two teenage daughters to a death camp in Estonia soon after, and the recovery of the album "fulfills one of Anna's last acts," said Dr. Wisse, "which was to preserve these images—and the memory of the people that appear in them—for future generations."
Kindertransport tells about the amazing rescue effort put into place shortly after Kristallnacht to send Jewish children out of Germany to safety in countries who had agreed to take in the young refugees. Lou Bravmann, a member of the Board of Trustees for the University and the Board of Overseers of the Museum, spoke recently about his experience as one of the Kinder shuttled out of his hometown of Würzburg, Germany, in 1939 to spend 2½ years in the small Swedish farming village of Tjoernarp, eventually reuniting with his sister (who had been in England) and his parents in the United States.
"It's important for younger people to know about the Holocaust," said Bravmann. "It's part of Jewish history; it should be part of German history and European history as well, part of world history. The younger generation should know what can happen to other younger people like themselves."
Lucy Lang, a trustee of the YU Museum and another Kinder sent to safety from her native Vienna, Austria, spoke about how important it is for people to understand the sacrifices parents made when they sent their children away, "not knowing whether they would ever see us again," especially when, as it turned out, the great majority of the children sent away never had the chance to reunite with their families. "We all have to appreciate our parents and feel good that we have our children with us and that we can take care of them."
Responses by visitors to Kindertransport demonstrate the overwhelming importance of exhibitions like this in keeping the memory of this dangerous time alive and vibrant. According to Ilona Moradof, associate director of administration and special projects at the Museum and curator of the exhibition, and Ilana Benson, director of museum education, the event has drawn a diverse audience, among them Kinder and their families, school and synagogue groups, locals and tourists, and Jews and non-Jews.
"For the Kinder and their families," said Moradof, "the exhibition is deeply personal. Many recall the courage and strength of the parents who made the unimaginably difficult decision to send their children away to save the children's lives, and they mention the gratitude for the individuals who took care of them. What I hear most often from visitors," Moradof added, "is how much many of the themes that are explored in the exhibit seem familiar to them and are still relevant in current debates taking place worldwide around refugees and immigration."
Benson also noted that "many of the messages left by visitors in the exhibition's guestbook stress the lessons learned from the Kindertransport." Sandra (Leven) Fishman, daughter of Kind Gerd Leven, wrote in the guest book that "if it wasn't for the generosity of the people of England, I would not be here today." Another visitor noted that "my mother was a Kindertransport child. She now has a great-grandson." One visitor noted that "we need to learn from our history and stand for those in need." Other messages emphasized the same point: "Continue to tell the stories and spread peace and tolerance"; "May we all accept each other and continue to love all"; "Let the Kindertransport and its triumphs and tragedies be a lesson to all, Jewish and non-Jewish that is all of our responsibility to protect all human lives and to recognize our own roles in the systems that cause this sort of oppression."
This brief survey only covers a small number of the many ways Yeshiva University is committed educationally and spiritually to preserving the memory of the Holocaust and working to ensure that it is not forgotten and does not happen again.
(Related Post: Five YU Educators Reflect on the State of Holocaust Education)


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HELLO & WELCOME to my virtual reality, so who is Amanda Millie?
Amanda Millie is a lifestyle blogger, model and actress living and working in London, UK. Her blog is an array of her passions and inspirations from everyday life.
I find it so weird when people write about themselves in the third person. I mean….you write and manage your own blog, but your "about me" is in the third person?? Anyway, rant over!
I could easily sit here give you a perfectly polished, professionally written bio that puts me in high regard.
I can choose to tell you about the REAL ME. Lets start again, shall we???
My name is Amanda, and I am avid lover of life. I know that sounds "woo woo", but seriously I am:-) I am a self confessed multi-passionate adventurer, who chooses to live life in full technicolor. It's not always sunshine and roses, but hey…what's life if you can't have a few rainy days?
I have a huge passion for eating well (real food that not only nourishes but tastes pretty awesome too) and working out. I believe that being "healthy" is not only physical but mental as well. I am crazy about travel and will always say yes to any opportunity that allows me to see the world.
I am a mommy to the most beautiful 5 year old boy, who certainly keeps me on my toes and helps me stay young. It's a crazy ride this parenting thing, and I am loving every single minute of it.
I love creativity and art, I have been blessed by being able to pursue my passion for modelling and acting. My greatest lesson in life so far has been to be fearless, this life is yours to create and to NEVER STOP LEARNING!
If you share my love for life or any of the interests I've stated, then you're definitely in the right place.
I want to share……
I want to inspire……
I want to connect…..
With YOU!!!
My life is an ever flowing work in progress, never perfect but I am always striving to learn and grow. Perfectly imperfect (I know, I know, another cliche;-)).
I will only, and I mean ONLY ever publish posts about stuff that I am genuinely into. I will always aim to be authentic and open with all that I share, that includes any reviews, recommendations or 'MUST HAVE' items.
I'll probably always be a bit of a goofball who doesn't take life too seriously, and I hope you will join me and strive to 'Love the life you're living'! Still want to know more about me? Gosh you are a nosey one aren't you? 😉 Check out 20 Random Things About Me and get some more insight.
Much Love, Amanda xoxo


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Embassy Suites by Hilton Austin Downtown South CongressStar Rating
Austin, Texas
Our 3.5-Star classification designates those properties where guests experience an ideal mix of comfortable accommodations and modern amenities. Most of these hotels feature a variety of services, and offer distinguished style and comfort. Half star indicates that the hotel/resort meets all criteria of the designated rating and exceeds in certain areas.
Embassy Suites by Hilton Austin Downtown South Congress is located in the heart of Austin and offers convenient access to many attractions. Beautifully furnished suites feature private bedrooms, separate living areas, mini-refrigerators and microwaves. Enjoy soothing sounds of the waterfalls while relaxing in the whirlpool or cool off with a swim in the indoor swimming pool. Enjoy complimentary made-to-order breakfast and after a long day of entertainment grab a drink and snack at the complimentary evening reception.
300 South Congress Avenue
Austin, TX, USA 78704
Located near Sixth Street and the Warehouse District, this hotel is approximately 7 miles Austin-Bergstrom International Airport.
Hotel Amenities
- Breakfast Included
- Business Center
- Elevator(s)
- Gym/Fitness Center
- Laundry Service
- Luggage Storage
- Meeting Facilities
- Multilingual Staff
- Safety Deposit Box
Hotel Activities
- Swimming Pool
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- Air Conditioning
- Coffee/Tea Maker
- Desk Chair
- Lowered Door Peephole
- Microwave
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- Sofabed
- Telephone
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- Wet Bar
Hotel Dining
Complimentary cooked-to- order breakfast; complimentary evening reception; @SOCO Bar + Bites - Southwestern cuisine in the Atrium.
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OneDrive Could Reward iPhone and Android Users With More Space
Users of Microsoft's upcoming OneDrive cloud storage service could get rewarded with more online storage for things as simple as inviting friends to join them on the service and using the Camera Roll back up utility on iPhone and devices running Google's Android operating system.
News about OneDrive, the renamed and refreshed version of Microsoft's current SkyDrive online storage utility, surfaced this past weekend. According to a report from LiveSide, a sort of storage earnings system will be included when Microsoft decides to formally rebrand SkyDrive to OneDrive sometime soon.
A screenshot shared with the outlet indicates that Microsoft will give users who back up their devices to OneDrive an extra 3GB of storage. Users who sync OneDrive with their PC or Mac will also receive a bit more storage. Finally, anyone who successfully invites another user to OneDrive can receive up to 5GB of storage free or about 500MB for each person they invite. The entire scheme seems fairly reminiscent of the storage bonuses DropBox hands out to users who refer new members.
Today, Microsoft periodically hands out more storage to users. For example, a promotion back in January gifted Windows Phone users an extra 20GB of online storage for backing up photos, music and almost anything else. Allegedly, any storage earned through this rewards system will be permanent. Should users simply wish to buy more storage it's likely that they'll still be able to do so, after all SkyDrive has included the option for users to purchase more storage in yearly increments for some time. All SkyDrive users receive 7GB of storage free when they sign up.
Read: Microsoft Renames SkyDrive to OneDrive
The release of such a rewards system on iOS and Android for OneDrive should bolster Microsoft's profile with mobile users. Instead of waiting for Windows Phone to gain in sales, Microsoft is betting that it can make its services available to Android and iOS users and convince them to use Microsoft's other products. In the short-term that means that offers like the Bing Rewards feature the company announced last month are available on other's platforms and not its own. However, in the long-term this builds trust with consumers and, presumably, gives users experience with Microsoft products that they might not have interacted with at all had Microsoft restricted them to Windows Phone.
There's still no word on when Microsoft plans to formally replace SkyDrive with OneDrive. Currently, OneDrive is only listed on Microsoft's website as "coming soon." SkyDrive apps for iOS and Android are already available.
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The Schengen agreement – more than a European contract
Even 30 years after the first treaty was signed, the term "Schengen" is still a symbol for the freedom of movement and the abolishment of borders in Europe. Inaugurated in 2010, the European Museum is dedicated to the history and significance of the Schengen agreement. Our exhibition – spread over 200m2 – retraces the development from a Europe of borders towards a more unified Europe with a common citizenship in a clear and interactive manner. The abolishment of systematic border controls within the Schengen zone has been the first step in applying the four fundamental freedoms established with the Treaty of Rome in 1957.
During our opening hours, visiting the museum without guide is free. For organizational reasons, we ask bigger groups to give us notice beforehand. This is to make sure that the museum is accessible at the desired time.
Every day: 10 am – 6 pm (november – mars: open until 5 pm)
Free admission
In exceptional cases the museum is closed to the public for a short time due to children's programmes.
Guided tours are independent of opening hours.


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I mean you played movies when you wanted
sex. Abstinence in the temporary form
of Tarantino bloodbaths we had seen
before. After you led me by the hand
straight to the dark basement, I met the epileptic dog
you were paid too much to watch over summer
vacation. Work was easy then—rich white boy
house-sitting turned couch-sitting on red leather,
smooth enough for gawky limbs to slide
across the basement distance. Near the film's middle,
you pulled me to your lap and kissed to keep me
quiet. Speak, I want to hear about the time
I couldn't tell the difference from your bruises
and the dog's again. Once, you were in New York
and said the city reminded you of me—
today I found a welt on my arm
and thought of you and your girlfriend—
she's happy she makes you happy,
according to her Twitter, everything is
better. Worse things have happened:
the same fingers made warm inside yours
also trembled to type the lie I found someone else too
then tried to write a poem with nails
to rake down your skinny thighs like a dog or a boy
who will never say sorry, but are really only fingers
that can't stop the poem from ending
with the shame of somehow I still miss you.
—from Rattle #51, Spring 2016
Tribute to Feminist Poets
Kelsey Hagarman: "When I was twelve, my sister and I went on a walk around our neighborhood. A man followed us. Every time I looked into the glass windows of storefronts, his reflection trailed ours. We ran and didn't stop until we locked our front door. Besides the fear, I remember the wonder that I wasn't even wearing makeup. As a feminist, I write against gender expectations, to make sense of memories, for myself and any reader who wants to understand the fear and self-loathing of girlhood."


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(TMZ) -- Uber Bae is dealing with A LOT of collateral damage after her revenge tweet storm went viral -- including a threat of a lawsuit and a visit from cops ... so she says.
UB's real name is Bre -- she won't give up her last name -- and she says her ex-bf's mom is watching her every move ... threatening to sue Bre if she says his name or posts pics of him.
In case you missed the epic tale -- Bre tweeted Monday about her nightmare Uber shift. She picked up a girl at the airport who was heading to a bf's house, and when Bre realized it was actually HER guy's crib ... she busted him for cheating.
Bre eventually left the messy scene, but took the other woman's bags. That bit her in the ass with cops.
She says she's gotten some potentially lucrative offers out of the story -- which no one's been able to confirm, btw -- but more than anything, Uber Bae's learned going viral ain't always a good thing.
Shoulda consulted with Zola before tweeting.
Read more: http://kmel.iheart.com/onair/the-sana-g-morning-show-44220/uber-bae-was-out-for-revenge-15698746/?cmp=managed_social#ixzz4cvEyQmb9