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Dear Heather,
I have a house that I�d like to rent out long-term (three years). Do you do rentals as well as sales? What should I do to get my house rent-ready, and how much does it cost to put it with an agency for rent?
House for Rent
Dear House for Rent,
Funnily enough, at Coldwell Banker Bermuda Realty, some of us are now able to do rentals as well as sales. I am one of them.
Unlike sales, where people can buy properties �as is�, with the view to fixing them up, rentals are quite the opposite. I have outlined a few things you should attend to before putting your house on the rental market.
1, Cover the basics
Before tackling the aesthetics, you�ll want to make sure your property meets the basic requirements of a quality household.
You should have the following:
� Phone/internet connection
� Air conditioning
� Security: changing locks between tenancies is recommended. Always have a spare sets of keys for yourself and your managing agent (including window locks, garage and swipe cards).
� Ample water supply
� Smoke detectors and a fire extinguisher
You�ll also want to check whether there is any aspect of your property that fails to meet current regulations or safety guidelines for example stairs, railings, balconies, etc.
2. Surpass the standard clean
Anything less than sparkling clean can be off-putting to a new tenant.
It also sets the precedent for the standard of cleanliness expected when your tenants vacate; they are only obliged to leave it in the same condition as when it was rented.
Your best move is to invest in professional cleaning, so your property looks spotless, smells fresh and removes any signs of previous inhabitants. (This is particularly important if the previous tenants had pets).
Give it an extensive detailed clean that includes:
� Professionally steam cleaning or dry-cleaning carpets
� Repolishing floorboards and tiled flooring
� Cleaning windows and screens
� A detailed cleaning of all interiors and appliances
� Cleaning lights and ceiling fans
� Cleaning exteriors � power wash them if needed
� Touch up paint
�Mow the lawn, pull weeds, trim hedges
� Empty and clean all trash and recycling bins
3, If it�s broken, fix it
It�s not uncommon on a property for things to get neglected and for the inhabitants to get used to living with them that way.
Now is the time to get them sorted so your property is in mint condition.
Inspect every fixture, from the letterbox to the back fence and everything in between, and check if it needs replacing or repairing.
Look out for problem areas such as:
� Mouldy bathroom grouting
� Leaking washers or taps
� Broken tiles and chipped paint
� Broken light fittings and burnt-out light bulbs
� Broken door and window latches
� Smoke detectors overdue for service
� Cooling systems requiring service
� Faulty swimming pool filters and/or equipment
� Dirty fireplaces
� Faulty or damaged appliances
� Faulty fences, gates or security systems
Attention given to a minor repair today can potentially save you spending dollars to fix a bigger problem down the road.
4, Tidy up all outdoor areas
The first thing people notice when they visit a house or apartment is the outside.
Is the front door dirty? Is the lawn overgrown? Are there cobwebs hanging from the eaves? You�ll want to create a great first impression for all your visitors.
Pay particular attention to:
� Weeding garden beds and pruning hedges
� Trimming back vines and overhanging trees
� Mowing lawns and reviving dead patches
� Cleaning front entrance and external light fittings
� Cleaning the garage door and garage flooring
� Removing cobwebs from eaves
� Cleaning windows and glass doors
� Sweeping and power washing driveways, pathways and paved areas
� Removing stains from driveway
� Removing all garbage and garden refuse
5, Add value with improvements
Updating the interior of a home instantly lifts its mood and appeal to tenants.
Walls should be freshly painted in a pale, neutral colour; pull out and patch over holes from all the nails and hooks that have been put in place over the years.
Tile and light fittings are also an affordable way to transform spaces; adding extra creature comforts like reverse cycle air conditioning can also potentially increase property value.
6. Organise services and utilities
Before a tenant moves in, don�t forget to check final readings for gas, telephone, electricity and water.
If you have an alarm connected to a security service, remember to cancel your account or transfer it over to the tenant�s details if required.
Likewise, pool, garden or grounds maintenance contractors may need updating or cancelling, depending on the lease agreement.
7, Furniture
Remember that whatever you leave in your house, you are responsible for if it stops working or breaks. It is not recommended to leave things such as TVs, or even small appliances. Most people have their own furniture and would prefer to arrange the interior to their own liking, plus the second-hand market in Bermuda is amazing as we are such a transient society.
However, we do find that the city rentals do better with clean, modern furniture in place.
8, Cost of an agent
To have an agency list, market and find a suitable tenant for your property costs just the first month�s rent.
However, if you are elderly, busy or going overseas and won�t be able to deal with any problems that come up, then a full service management can be put in place and that will cost 7.5 per cent of the rent per month.
You will be responsible for keeping money in an account with your management company to pay for things like routine maintenance, landscaping and pool cleaning/care.
� Heather Chilvers is among Coldwell Banker Bermuda Realty�s leading sales representatives. She has been working in real estate for nearly 30 years. Contact her at email@example.com or 332-1793. All questions will be treated in confidence. Look for Ask Heather Real Estate on Facebook
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Looking for a 2" eyepiece, that take full advantage of the telescope and camera, with a large diameter lens, long focal point and eye relief for hopefully around $100, for all around Astro/Terrestrial viewing first and second trying to get into digiscoping.
Telescope: 80mm aperture and 600mm focal length. (Celestron C-80ED APO Refractor) F/7.5
Epieces, that I have:
William Optics 1.25 " 45 Deg. Erecting Prism
Orion 2x 3-Element Barlow, 2" Shorty-Plus
Antares 1.25" W70 Series Widefield Eyepiece - 8.6mm
The Orion 2" diagonal & adapter
The scope comes with a Plossls 25mm EP and a
1.25" 45 degree erect image diagonal (Diagonal no good for astro use)
Camera: Lens 37mm dia. and is equivalent to a 35 - 420mm focal length lens. (Panasonic DMC-FZ30)
F2.8 to F3.7 with Leica 37mm Dia. solid lens Dc Vario-Elmarit 1:28-3.7 / 7.4-88.8 ASPH.
Lenses I have been looking at, to name a few:
WS 70 & 80 Degree 2" Oculars 70 Degree field [size=32] mm $89.95 ea (University Optic)
Antares 2" W70 Series Widefield Eyepiece - 34mm Our Price: $99.00
WS 30mm 80 degree field 2" Oculars Wide field? $69.95
Willian Optic = SWAN 40 = $118.00 SWAN 33 = $118.00
Orion Telescopes = 32mm and 38mm Q70 2" Wide-Field Eyepiece $99.95
30mm or 42mm GSO Superview 2" EP $63 and $65.
Or any other suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
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I think if you check the panasonic section of this board, you can get some good advice.
I would suggest to do so, I did and found lots of worthwile information. About digiscoping as well.
There is a comparision of two eypieces with an william Optics APO, the (cut and pasted out of an German Astro Suppliers Webshop, with whom I have shaken hands with ;-)
[align=center] Art. Nr. Kurzbeschreibung VK Euro Superview 75 2" Okular mit 75mm Brennweite und
M52 Gewindeanschluà 156,-[/align]came out first. I think you call it "Swan", because of the drawing on its container.
I would suggest you get this one.
You need a converter from the 52mm threads on the lense to the 55mm of the Cam.
I could dig up a German source via E-Bay, you need a 55-52 converter (first is size of lense-thread, second is filter thread),
but your friendly Astro or Photo-Shop will be helpfull.
Good luck, and tell me your Results!
Ahh...you can chek for "ankh" in the dp-review forum for panasonic. Gence would probably tell you the same, but just go and ask the helpfull folk at the Panasonic section of this site...
I am lusting after a Maksutov Cassegrain-but at the Moment, the one proposed by my Astro Supplier is not available with 2" eypieces...
Please tell me about your resualts, and don`t forget the friendly Panasonic folk on this board and dpreview. They will be interested as well.
|Aug 8, 2008, 12:55 PM
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Sorry, you will not be able to digiscope with a FZ camera, the optical system is far too large. Check out my Aug 7 post to TScott. Gene Smith
Update Aug. 12
Well, SORRY again. I do see that people are digiscoping with the FZs. See later post concerning the use of 2 inch eye-pieces for digiscoping with the Pan FZ cameras. Gene
|Aug 9, 2008, 9:56 AM
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I am not sure, but this link shows that a bit of digiscoping is possible:
I wouldn't exactly say I can sense any kind of Problem in those pictures taken with a FZ.
|Aug 10, 2008, 5:35 PM
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Ahed and Michael:
Sorry Ahed, in my first reply I missed consideration of your question about a 2 inch eyepiece. I do have a 2 inch Celestron E-Lux 32mm eyepiece and I found that it DOES fill the frame of my Lumix DZ 7 and DZ30cameras with about 1.5X zoom. The eyelens measures about 1.4 inches in diameter. Had not tried it before now.
Well, seeing is believing. Apparently a person can digiscope with a Lumix DZ camera. I am not registered with dpReview and cannot as yet contact the poster. Am working on it. I do have a Lumix DZ7 and a DZ50, both fine cameras. My favorite digiscope eyepieces are an Orion Expanse 20mm and an Orion Epic 12.5 mm. The first has an eye-lens of almost an inch and the second measures an inch in dia. I cannot fill over about half the frame of these two cameras in digiscope mode without going to about 4X zoom, which I do not like to do.
A person contacted me that has a very fine Canon G9 and asked about digiscoping. Doing some Googling I found a comment that yes it works fine if a 50mm large diameter camera lens is used for the eyepiece! Also a standard 1 1/4 inch Celestron 24mm eyepiece is mentioned as satisfactory. Anyone have information on the Canon G9 or G7 for digiscoping? I will visit a camera store with my Expanse eye piece in hand to examine the compatibility. You can hold an eyepiece in front of the camera lens to observe if it fills the viewing frame, you do not need the scope.
A large diameter eye lens and long eye relief seem to be the keys to extending the range of cameras for digiscoping. I am a fabricated scope person and am not familiar with expensive manufactured scopesmany birders buy, but I am sure typical eye lenses are far less than an inch in diameter. Of course high magnification is typically important, and that is lost with a long focal length eyepiece.
So, thanks for your post and I am interested in identification of better eyepieces and additional cameras for digiscoping. Be back when I can get additional information.
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|Aug 12, 2008, 9:25 AM
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The dpreviews are quite interesting, and thanks for pointing them out. As I read the digiscoping threads for the Panasonic FZ cameras have the following comments:
1. Digiscoping is possible with the Lumix FZ cameras when coupled with the larger eye-lenses and eye-relief of 2 inch eyepieces. However, the best results obtained seemed to be with a 75 mm. eyepiece. The resulting power would be only 1/6 th that of a 1 1/4 Orion Epic II 12.5mm, that is known to work well with a Canon A720 camera in digiscope mode, for example. This 8 meg camera is available for less than $200.
2. I saw some claims that Image Stabilization gave benefit. Common practice and advice is to turn it off for digiscoping. A camera senses internal zoom and allows motion sensors to make optimum image corrections. A camera has no input from external zoom levels.
3. Some high camera zoom levels are show in these posts. Normally for quality, zoom is kept as low as possible, just enough to fill the frame, or 2X maximum.
CONCLUSIONS: There may be different conclusions for different people. For me, I would choose not to be limited by the fewer number of 2 inch eyepieces available and the apparent lower power associated with them. I do not believe there would be any quality improvement in going to the larger Lumix FZ system. For a common subject comparison see my moon shot, http://forums.steves-digicams.com/fo....php?id=124837 which was made with a Canon A550, a 7 meg. camera.
In a prior post I had questioned if a Canon G-9 was compatible with 1 1/4 inch eye pieces. I stopped into a camera store and checked. Yes, the G-9 fills the frame quite nicely with an Orion Epic II 12.5 mm eye-piece with about 1.5X zoom or less.
I see no need to go to a 2 inch eye-piece for this camera.
|Aug 27, 2008, 1:10 PM
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Hi Gene9!
I do admit that your picture is very impresive, and having to lug around all that heavy, big (and when using a scope essentially useless) Leica Glass of a Panasonic probably is not necessary-the telescope and its mount is heavy enough, anyway;-)
When the scope does all the magnifying and gathering of extra light, there is not a lot the camera built in lense is supposed to do (which is why most people use a SLR without its lense ;-). Maybe except to not distort ;-) too much.
However, I would not want to have an additional camera lying around (we'll come to that later) when I would not use it-feels so "wasted" most of the time. So I would like to use the one camera I mainly use as well.
Your point concerning the big entrance pupil of Panasonics (notably the FZ30 and FZ50 should be worst at the moment), is a good one.
The number of Scopes that do have problems with 2" is bigger than one should suspect. The Orions (US) Maksutov come to mind.
Which, incidentially, is the one I am lusting after. But without a suitable 2" Kit its a no go for a Panasonic.
(now we come back to a second camera)
My Father broke his small Canon, and I lent him my "just in case" LZ5 (The one camera thats lying in the car all the time, "just in case" something that absolutley hast to be taken pictures off happens ;-), so maybe I can go out and buy a replacemt with a smaller diameter...as the Orion scope "only" has a T-2 connector (which means 42mm diameter). Additionally Lumix are very bad with low light (They do tend to shine with lots of light, thou). So a low-light camera like one of the smaller fujis might be a good companion to my FZ30.
The stabilisation is a controversial Issue-when using a Nikon 1.7 Extender to my FZ30 I did take moonshots with and without stabilisation. I have to admit that the phase of the moon was more importtant to the clearness of the picture than image stabilisation-if the moon was full, I could reduce the exposure times so much, my fixed, non astronomical mounted tripod was a non-Issue, whereas the exposures longer than 1/5 of a second were blurry most of the time, as the moon "moved" too much during this time. So maybe stabilisation of the picture via a sturdy astronomic mount and good motors is more of an issue then. And the remote shutter release ;-)
As usual, we see, the impossible has been done, but might not be the least costly or most feasible solution.
But taking a picture of the moon with a 820mm focal length from an unstabilised tripod on a wobbly balcony can be done-and is fun, too.
And maybe I'll up chances next time and use a real scope to see if I still can get away with it. Not very rational, but still lots of fun ;-)
Adendum: Before I bought the FZ30 I cheked the G9 as well. Great camera, no doubt. A good compromise. But concerning the power-if you use a lower power eyepiece and use just abit of power from the camera lenses, the vignetting should disappear and the magnification go up, shouldn't it? This is what I would deducce from my experiments with various add on lenses. Besides, the 55mm thread of the FZ 30 is a bonus then-you can get 1,7 , 1,5, 0,8 add-on lenses without the need of additional step up or down rings like with the A85 of Canon. So, as always, there is the dark side (better with a scope at night, easier to adopt there), and a light side (you have to put this ugly plastic extender on it to use add on lenses during the day) for the A85 and its like.
You are completly right in your conclusion-there is no wrong, there are only different choices to be right at the most important issues. And that utterly depends on the usage and the discretion of the user ;-)
Keep those moon pics coming and please explain how to take them-
except the bit with which camera to use, I think I've got that point already ;-)
|Sep 3, 2008, 8:40 PM
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After you expressed interest in the Orion Mak I started looking also. I have a Celestron Omni 127 SCT OTA coming this week. The optics are the same as in the well respected C-5. I also have a two inch adapter ordered that screws directly onto the back. There is an adapter made for the Orion Mak that converts to a SCT thread also so the same adapter can be used on the Mak. Another reason I am getting the SCT instead of the Mak is that the SCT is F-10 and Mak is F-12. F-10 would be better for digiscoping. I have a Konus of a couple of years ago that I was never happy with.
Some people say I can and others say I cannot successfully use a two inch eyepiece on this scope. When I get it I will attach my Celestron 32mm 2 inch eyepiece, hold up my FZ-7 Lumix and see how it works. I am not sure the limited field of view has anything to do with "stuffing the image into your larger camera". I will let you know how it works. Of course I plan to use my A-720 with the two inch tube attached to fit directly into the 2 inch back. Ok, for now,
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|Sep 7, 2008, 7:22 PM
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I have received and examined my new Omni 127 SCT. I am happy with the quality of the optics. The moon looked sharp at 200X.
I was not able to digiscope with the unit with my Canon A-720, nor with the FZ-7. The lens systems were just too large for the FOV. My older 7 meg. Canon A-550 worked fine however. Hand held digiscope shots were fairly sharp. Gene Smith
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Thanks Gene!
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As 2018 drew to a close and we turned to 2019, The Globe and Mail newspaper argued that Canada needed more people making reasonable decisions, decisions and interpretations that would stand up to the scrutiny of 'a reasonable person'.
As members of the Saint Mary community, we all aspire to be reasonable people, even as we all suspect at times that we live in an unreasonable world.
Some people would seem to think complex public policy issues can be resolved on Twitter – with a simple thumbs up or thumbs down.
Others would have us believe that clicking "Like' on a Facebook post will trim greenhouse gas emissions or solve the global refugee crisis.
The Globe and Mail newspaper suggests reasonable people need to make reasonable decisions for the betterment of Canadian society in 2019.
Reasonable decisions about energy policy, and international relations, and trade. Reasonable decisions – even about congressional budgets, extradition treaties, and climate change.
This idea – that reasonable people acting in good faith will do the 'right thing' – is at the heart of our legal system and is a bulwark of liberal democracy.
As the Globe puts it, Canada needs leaders who weigh both sides of an argument, who ask tough questions instead of accepting conventional wisdom, who are skeptics not cynics.
To quote the Globe:
"The challenge for the reasonable person, and reasonable politics, is that the not-so-reasonable way has many appeals. It's easier to reflexively hit "like" or "dislike" than to reflect. It's easier to pass judgment than to reserve judgment, and to instantly condemn rather than patiently consider. It's easier to accept settled answers rather than to raise an unsettling question. It's easier to be cynical than skeptical."
Remember the importance distinction between the two – a skeptic searches for truth.
A cynic, as Oscar Wilde said, is someone "who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing."
All of you graduating here today are skeptics, not cynics.
As such, you are part of Canada's next generation of reasonable people.
Through your studies in Business, Science and the Arts, you have developed the skills, attitudes, curiosities and thoughtfulness required to consider evidence, question it, interrogate it, and produce reasoned analysis.
Saint Mary's has helped train your mind as a reasonable person. It has also taught you about diversity, about respect, about thriving in a community that looks and feels and thinks and acts globally.
Perhaps you have studied the evolution of labour relations in early 19th century industrial Britain – and have developed a reasoned understanding of the history of labour and capital.
Your future work may be to understand and address the world's growing prosperity gap.
Perhaps you have studied experimental chemistry and developed tests that provide systematic solutions for pharmaceutical processes.
Maybe your career will be to develop medicines that prolong life and enhance its quality.
Perhaps you have analyzed a financial balance sheet in terms of accepted accounting principles.
Your next job may be adding new indices to supplement standard accounting practices – like the quality of life for employees – that show up on a new kind of balance sheet.
Perhaps you have synthesized perspectives from moral philosophy in order to develop a new understanding of tolerance of difference in our society.
At Saint Mary's, we know these endeavours require the application of reason, the questioning of assumptions in your method, and the weighing up of evidence to draw meaningful conclusions.
Here's the other thing I need to say. As President of a growing university with a deep sense of community, I have had the privilege of meeting many of you personally over the last years and months.
Every day I witness first hand your energy, your curiosity, your compassion, your capacity for growth, and your immense potential.
I am excited that you are now bringing your skills to society at large.
As a Santamarians, you carry the responsibility of influencing business, science, engineering, technology, arts, culture, economics, society, global understanding and politics.
And influencing them for the better.
Because of your importance to the future of Nova Scotia, Canada and the planet, I urge you to go forward from today and deploy that distinctive Santamarian reason in the wider world.
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John 16:12-15
Jesus said to the disciples, "I still have many things to say to you, but you cannot bear them now. When the Spirit of truth comes, he will guide you into all the truth; for he will not speak on his own, but will speak whatever he hears, and he will declare to you the things that are to come. He will glorify me, because he will take what is mine and declare it to you. All that the Father has is mine. For this reason I said that he will take what is mine and declare it to you."
Not long ago, I passed a very pleasant hour with a new parishioner, drinking coffee and talking about the nature of God. We each did our best to articulate for ourselves and convey to the other concepts that no words can really describe. But try we did, and in our feeble searching, occasionally stumbled across ways of thinking of the Divine that felt rather fresh and occasionally brought smiles of recognition to our faces.
You may remember a few years ago when the Presbyterian Church created a minor stir when they determined that the Father Son and Holy Spirit could officially now be addressed as : "Mother, Child and Womb" --"Rock, Redeemer, Friend" — "Lover, Beloved, Love" — "Creator, Savior, Sanctifier" or "King of Glory, Prince of Peace, Spirit of Love."
Let me read to you again the comforting words of Paul's letter to the Romans "…but we also boast in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces endurance, and endurance produces character, and character produces hope, and hope does not disappoint us, because God's love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit that has been given to us."
Such sustaining language, so full of hope, but so reliant on strength of character, when all of us know that character frequently fails us and suffering sometimes… just makes us suffer. Sometimes I think the Apostle Paul expects a little too much from us. Hemingway once observed that "the world breaks everyone" and that "some grow strong in the broken places." If you've lived long enough, you are broken. And some breaks just never seem to heal.
Now what does all this have to do with the Trinity? Just this: God promises to be with us, in our brokenness. Trinitarian language sometimes helps us understand just how it is that God is with us. God the Father, God the Son, God the Holy Spirit.
Ways of describing God, that don't take away the suffering, but provide us with the assurance that we are not alone. It's knowledge that can enable us to endure the brokenness.
Maybe the question isn't why we think of God in three's, the triune God, but why we think of God at all. The three's, in no way exhaust the number of ways in which God can be conceived. God continues to reveal Godself in patterns and process and potentialities that we have yet to imagine.
I occasionally encounter people who, probably because of my collar, reluctantly tell me they don't believe in God. My usual response is something lie, "Tell me about the God you don't believe in." After their description of the omnipresent, omnipotent, and omniscient figure that they can't accept, I usually assure them that I don't believe in that God either. Maybe their language is placing limits on the God that might want to believe in them.
Listen again to the reading from Proverbs: "Does not wisdom call, and does not understanding raise her voice? On the heights, beside the way, at the crossroads she takes her stand; …she cries out, "To you, O people, I call, and my cry is to all that live." The voice of Wisdom, Sophia as she is called in Greek, the Holy Spirit as we have learned to understand her in Christianity. The voice of Wisdom abides with us still. Maybe our cry isn't for a God who reigns over us, but a God who is simply with us.
The variety of ways in which we conceive of God, if we allow them, will continue to unfold. God is not static. We worship a dynamic God, changing with us, continuing to love us, revealing herself to us, in new, interesting, and sometimes thrilling ways.
God has devised a multitude of ways to invite us home, and to allow the love with which we're showered to spill over, to be given anew. During all of the years that we spend in the desert, God is inviting us into relationship, in 3 ways, in 3 thousand ways, in an infinite number of expressions of God's love.
Not long ago I heard country music singer, Toby Keith, who grew up in the area around Moore, Oklahoma, talk about putting on a benefit concert for the townspeople and say that he didn't want to downplay the disaster, but that the people of the area are ''resilient'' and will rebound. That is the sort of language we hear whenever there is a natural disaster. We heard it in the descriptions of people who live in New Orleans and along the Jersey Shore. And we heard it from folks who lived along the flooding Missouri river a couple of weeks ago. And it is true. People are resilient. They do come back. In the midst of disaster we always hear tales of courage and grief and shock, but underlying it all we learn of a people's resilience.
Andrew Zolli talks about a field of psychological study called hardiness research. He says that people who are hardy believe certain things about the world. " …, if you see yourself as having agency within that world, and if you see successes and failures as being placed in your path to teach you things, you are more likely to be psychologically hardy and therefore more resilient in the face of trauma."
Suffering as we heard from St. Paul today is a part of life. Yet, even in our suffering we are surrounded by an outpouring of God's love. But we often remain blind to that love. The pain, the loss, the disappointments we have all faced do not always evolve in the way that St. Paul describes the progression. We don't always stumble from suffering to endurance, walk from endurance to character, or stride from character to hope. But Paul is right about this: God's love has been poured into our hearts. Yet, often because the image we have of God has grown inadequate, we need to imagine new ways in which we can realize that God is with us. A single, narrow conception of the Trinitarian God may not be enough.
We may need another way of imagining God. Like the Trinitarian God described St. John Damascene as "Sun, Light and Ray" or maybe in terms of the Creator, Redeemer, Sustainer; or "Mother, Beloved Child, and Life-Giving Womb" - language that points to a God that can be discovered in all manner of relationships.
Jesus said to the disciples, "I still have many things to say to you, but you cannot bear them now. When the Spirit of truth comes, he will guide you into all the truth…" The Spirit of truth unfolds slowly over time. Jesus' disciples, living in first century Palestine, would not have understood that slavery was wrong, that women weren't subservient to men, or that same sex relationships were as blessed by God as any other. As our understanding of the expansive nature of God's love also expands, may we be guided by the Spirit of truth. In the name the Holy Trinity as described by St. Augustine, "The Lover, the Beloved, and the Love between them." Amen.


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Maybe Democratic candidate Michael Arcuri is running strong in this Republican House district because he pledges to expand health coverage, balance the budget and raise the minimum wage.
Or maybe it's his piercing Italian eyes and runner's physique.
"He is pretty good-looking," observed Paula Ferrin with admiration, as the 47-year-old district attorney worked the crowd at a local senior center.
"What we want is brains, honey," scolded her friend Rose Oliver.
"True," Ferrin answered, "but handsome doesn't hurt."
The research is unambiguous that Ferrin is right: Attractive politicians have an edge over not-so-attractive ones. The phenomenon is resonating especially this year. By a combination of luck and design, Democrats seem to be fielding an uncommonly high number of uncommonly good-looking candidates.
The beauty gap between the parties, some on Capitol Hill muse, could even be a factor in who controls Congress after Election Day.
Democratic operatives do not publicly say that they went out of their way this year to recruit candidates with a high hotness quotient. Privately, however, they acknowledge that, as they focused on finding the most dynamic politicians to challenge vulnerable Republicans, it did not escape their notice that some of the most attractive prospects were indeed often quite attractive.
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While in Ghotki, the Premier assured the Maher brothers that the Pakistan People's Party (PPP) would not be allowed to rig a by-election and that he would issue directives to the authorities concerned to ensure that.
A complaint against the visit was registered by Abdul Bari Pitafi, a candidate from the constituency, according to the letter issued by the ECP.
The candidate pointed out that Premier's visit to Ghotki was in violation with the ECP code of conduct as the schedule for the by-election has already been notified.
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Amana Colonies Urban Conservation and Water Quality Education Project, (current collaboration with Vireo), Amana, Iowa.
Pearson Park, Wapello County Conservation (collaboration with Vireo), Ottumwa, Iowa
Camp Tongawood STE(A)M Center (current collaboration with Helix Architecture + Design), Tonganoxie, Kansas
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Ernie Miller Park and Nature Center Master Plan (collaboration with Vireo), Olathe, Kansas
Camp Prairie Schooner Aquatic Center (current collaboration with Helix Architecture + Design and Vireo), Kansas City, Missouri
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Salvation Army Camp Keystone, Keystone, Florida
Wonderland Camp and Conference Center, Camp Lake, Wisconsin
Winding River Camp and Equestrian Center, Dearborn, Missouri
Des Moines Y Camp, Site Planning - Dining Lodge Outdoor Terrace, Boone, Iowa
Iowa 4-H Center, Madrid, Iowa
Des Moines Y Camp Site Inventory and Analysis, Boone, Iowa
Camp Sacajawea, Boone, Iowa
Randi Jo Munch Memorial Park, Audubon, Iowa
Big Sioux Recreational Area, Hawarden, Iowa
Lake View Camp & Conference Center, Pella, Iowa
Iowa 4-H Center, Madrid, Iowa
Park River Bible Camp, Park River, North Dakota
Ridge Haven Conference & Retreat Center, Brevard, North Carolina
Camp Bethel, Fincastle, Virginia
Hawarden Community Plan, Hawarden, Iowa
Girl Scouts Sky High Ranch, Woodland Park, Colorado
Camp Dickenson, Fries, Virginia
Manitou Campgrounds, Cassopolis, Michigan
Sanford Campgrounds, Sanford, Michigan
Conference Point Center, Lake Geneva, Wisconsin
High Hill Christian Camp & Retreat Center, High Hill, Missouri
The Warwick Conference Center, Warwick, New York
Girl Scout Camp, Tuscaloosa, Alabama
Salvation Army Wonderland Camp & Conference Center, Camp Lake, Wisconsin
Camp Bennett, Brookville, Maryland
Moon Beach Camp, St. Germain, Wisconsin
An-Se-Ox Program Center, Oxford, Connecticut
Carlson Program Center, Bristol, Connecticut
Laurel Program Center, Lebanon, Connecticut
Meribrite Program Center, Berlin, Connecticut
Murray Program Center, East Haven, Connecticut
Pattagansett Program Center, East Lyme, Connecticut
Yankee Trails Program Center, Tolland and Ellington, Connecticut
Camp Mary Elizabeth, Spartanburg, South Carolina
Camp Green Eyrie, Harvard, Massachusetts
Neyati Leadership Campus, Harvard, Massachusetts
Laurelwood Outdoor Center, Harvard, Massachusetts
Woodland Christian Camp, Temple, Georgia
Salvation Army Hidden Lake Camp, Lexington, Mississippi
Camp Mintahama, Joplin, Missouri
Salvation Army Camp Paradise Valley, Land Between the Lakes, Tennessee
Camp Northward, Falmouth, Kentucky
Kamp Kaleo, Kaleo, Nebraska
Camp Meriwether, Luthersville, Georgia
Salvation Army, Army Lake Camp, East Troy, Wisconsin
Salvation Army Camp Hoblitzelle, Midlothian, Texas
YMCA Camp Ralph S. Mason, Hardwick, New Jersey
Presbyterian Camp on Okoboji, Milford, Iowa
Camp Sumatanga, Gallant, Alabama
Timber Ridge Adventure Center, Olathe, Kansas
South Mountain Retreat and Conference Center, Casar, North Carolina
Camp MoVal, Union, Missouri
The Caspe Terrace, Adel, Iowa
Salvation Army Camp Keystone, Keystone, Florida
Salvation Army Camp Mihaska, Bourbon, Missouri
Pilgrim Heights Retreat Center, Montour, Iowa
Salvation Army Camp Walter Johnson, Denton, North Carolina
Camps Lawrence and Nokomis, Bear Island, Lake Winnipesaukee, New Hampshire
Outreach Projects (with Iowa State University)
Price Creek Watershed Master Plan, Amana, Iowa
Amana Colonies Visitor Center, Amana, Iowa
Connecting Jefferson Parks and Schools, Jefferson, Iowa
Mortensen Mounds Monarch Waystation, Ames Iowa
Community Design Studio, Jefferson, Iowa
Community Design Studio, Lyon County, Iowa
Oakridge Research and Education Prairie Master Plan, Ames, Iowa
Community Design Studio, Clarinda, Red Oak and Shenandoah, Iowa
Outdoor Classroom Master Plan, Pilgrim Heights Retreat Center, Montour, Iowa
Campus Landscape Master Plan, St. Edmond Catholic School, Fort Dodge, Iowa
Elwood Commons, Iowa State University
Urban Revitalization in Cedar Rapids, Iowa


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by Scott Denne
The coordinated efforts of strategic and financial acquirers took purchases of application software vendors to a new height last year. Now, it's the efforts of the latter alone that are pushing software deals back toward a record as sponsors place hefty valuations on such companies.
According to 451 Research's M&A KnowledgeBase, $23bn of software assets have traded hands through the first quarter of the year, putting 2019 on pace to match 2018's record haul ($93bn). As we discussed in 451 Research's Tech M&A Outlook 2019, the reentry of strategic buyers played an equal role in driving last year's total. This year, private equity (PE) buyers have contributed the lion's share of investment through the first quarter, having spent more than $17bn on such transactions, our data shows.
PE shops are acquiring application software providers at a slightly higher clip, having bought 117 of them in the first quarter, compared with 108 in the same period of 2018. More importantly, those firms are paying an unprecedented premium through the start of the year. According to the M&A KnowledgeBase, software vendors selling to buyout shops are trading hands at a median 5.5x trailing revenue, a full turn higher than last year and extending a streak of soaring prices for software companies in sponsor-led deals.
That rise in software valuations largely follows the rise in public stocks (which usually corresponds with an increase in tech M&A valuations, as my colleague Brenon Daly pointed out last week). Looking at the three largest sponsor acquisitions of application software providers this year, two of the targets – Ultimate Software and Solium – sold above their all-time-high share price. The third, Ellie Mae, was a few percentage points below its peak, but still sold at roughly 50% higher than where it finished 2018. With the S&P 500 up 15% this year, prices for software deals don't look ready to settle.


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Blog Posts
Knowing the truth of our origins is important. Our future is bound up in our past, and whether we a short or a long future depends upon our getting to a correct view of our past and how we came to be where we are today. I explore the issues and defend creation in my blog posts that follow.
Creation Resources
Following are some of my favorite sites offering evidence and defending the truth of creation as described in the Book of Genesis:
Letters to My Son
When my son began high-school, I wrote a series of letters to encourage and strengthen him:
Letters two through four debunk the origin myths falsely presented as facts in his high-school textbook. The first warns of what he is likely to confront as he enters an atheistic school system for the first time.
Affirming Creation
Friday, August 15 saw the kickoff of my denomination's International Conference on the Bible and Science. Adventist educators from around the world came together in St. George, Utah to study and affirm creation as described in Genesis.
The Adventist Review reported on the event with a series of posts that every member should read:
- Wilson: No Room for Evolutionists in Adventist Schools
- God's Authoritative Voice
- Grand Canyon offers Adventist Teachers a Lesson on Creation
- Teachers Urged to Think Outside the Evolutionary Box
- Neanderthals the Result of Biological Engineering?
- Adventist Schools Called to Become Global Scientific Leaders
- Wilson Urges All Adventists to Reaffirm Stance on Creation
- Blessed Is That Teacher
- 'God's Final Message and Your Role'
- Adventists Asked to Follow Example of First Recycler, God
Links to these posts are also available from the Review's Affirming Creation page.
Because you can never have too many badges. Here are some organizations that I support either monetarily or with my time.
Big Bang Talking Points
Learn inflationary cosmology from the guy who invented it. Ars Technica. October 30, 2014.
"Inflation is the only way we have of explaining how the Big Bang could possibly produce the Universe that we find ourselves in today." "Unfortunately, that result hasn't held up well under more intense scrutiny." "There may still be evidence of cosmic inflation, but it will be hard to spot." So...no evidence for inflation has been found, yet Big Bangers still believe. Cosmic Inflation is a faith-based belief. The Big Bang rests on inflation, so the Big Bang is also a faith-based belief.
Universe Shouldn't Be Here, According to Higgs Physics. LiveScience. June 23, 2014.
Big Bang math not working out too well? We probably shouldn't be here? Not to worry. "Of course, there must be something missing from these calculations." LiveScience staff writer Tia Ghose shows in these words how the Big Bang is in fact a faith-based position. She also points out that "the theory of cosmic inflation is still speculative." Inflation is needed for the Big Bang to work, but inflation is "speculative", illustrating once again how Big Bang cosmologists use faith-based reasoning to build their theory. (Read the underlying paper, Electroweak Vacuum Stability in Light of BICEP2, in the journal Physical Review Letters).
Big Bang blunder bursts the multiverse bubble. The Journal Nature. June 3, 2014.
Points out that "...the inflationary paradigm is so flexible that it is immune to experimental and observational tests. ... Hence, the paradigm of inflation is unfalsifiable." And hence the paradigm is religion, and not science as is so often claimed. This article also debunks the gravitational waves that were so widely acclaimed as "proof" of the Big Bang just a few months ago in March.
Universe is Not Expanding After All, Controversial Study Suggests. Sci-News.com. May 23, 2014. Yet another failure of the Big Bang theory. Sure, I'd imagine it's a controversial finding. This could be an issue of what is observed versus what is inferred. Still, it's interesting.
The Sun Wasn't Warm Enough for Life When Life Began. Motherboard. October 5, 2013.
Recaps a paper published in the journal Science that puts paid to yet another attempt to dodge around the Faint Young Sun Paradox. The primordial oceans called for by my son's high-school science textbook could not have existed for life to form in them, because not enough sunlight would have reached Earth to support liquid water. Sorry long agers! Your primordial soup would have been frozen.
Facts and the Interpretation Thereof
Gliese 581g: A Black Eye for Believers in Habitable Earth-like Exoplanets. Evolution News and Views. July 11, 2014. Provides a good example of why it's important to look beyond the interpretation to what was actually observed versus what the media reports. NASA fabricated an enticing image. A University of California astronomer put the odds of life at 100%. Yet the planet was later found not to exist.
Taiwan's 'vanishing canyon' erasing quake record. BBC News, Science & Environment. August 18, 2014. My blog post shows how this BBC News article confirms the concept behind historical science is very real, and points out the addiction of long-agers to their millions of years even when those years are not needed nor warranted.
Dinosaur Talking Points
'Dreadnought' dinosaur yields big bone haul. BBC News, Science & Environment. September 4, 2014. This news item is interesting for its mentioning that: "The Patagonian rocks from which it [Dreadnoughtus] was pulled suggest that the young animal's life was cut short in a catastrophic flood." This finding is consistent with the history recorded in Genesis. There is the main flood event that we read about. There are also catastrophic regional floods such as from the ice dam holding back Lake Missoula that gave way during the post-flood ice age.
Choice Videos
My favorite is the Lucy video. Watch the Nova clip and see the lie of evolution laid bare at the point of a saw blade. Also excellent is Charles Jackson's exposition of problems in the Big Bang theory. Watch that one if you can spare an hour.
Also good are presentations from the 2014 Seattle Creation Conference, and from prior-year conferences.
Lucy! The Scientific Approach
This video is too funny. Evidence for evolution not adding up? Just take a power saw to it.
Big Bang Cosmology is Fake
An excellent presentation by Dr. Charles Jackson given at an Origin Summit held at Michigan State University.
The Central Dogma
One of the best videos I've seen on how molecular machines interact inside the human cell.
Header image: The Creation by Lawrence W. Ladd, ca 1880. Watercolor on paper. Smithsonian American Art Museum. Gift of Bates and Isabel Lowry. 1986.70.12.


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WEST Auckland Town made a perfect start to the season when they went nap at home to Penrith.
Only one goal separated the sides at half-time, Nathan Wilson's free-kick headed home by Mark Stephenson, but two goals in nine second-half minutes set West on their way to a comfortable victory.
Adam Nichols lobbed goalkeeper James Holland before Stuart Banks fired in a rebound. Banks made it four after good work by Wilson and although Jake Routledge reduced the Cumbrians' deficit, West were quickly back at the other end.
Wilson's penalty was saved by Holland, who could not prevent Mattie Moffat from adding a fifth goal a minute from the end.
WEST AUCKLAND TOWN: Bell, Pattinson, Gibson, Berj (Duggan), Parker, Stephenson, Ross (Jardine), Wilson, Moffat, Banks, Nichols. Man of Match: Berj.
PENRITH: Holland, Jackson, Clasper, Gray, Thornton, Neary (Clark), Ainsworth, Davidson (Routledge), Robinson, Roberts, Elliott. Man of Match: Clasper.


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Islington Council are currently recruiting for a Cyclical Testing Officer to work within its cyclical testing and compliance team. With an increasing workload and plans to bring an element of the works in house to improve response times, it is an exciting time for a forward thinking, conscientious engineer to join this small but developing team.
The future success of this project is reliant on the people that strive to allow the service to function efficiently, with a focus on customer care and excellence in all areas of the service delivery.
Reporting into the Cyclical Testing Supervising Inspector, you will be primarily responsible for testing and monitoring the caretaker's lodges on a monthly basis, and overseeing the weekly water flushing regime across a variety of council owned properties. Your duties will also include assisting the cyclical testing supervising inspector in their duties to control and monitor a number of contractors currently engaged in delivering over 3000 programmed tests per year. You will ensure that all identified remedial and reactive works are raised and subsequently completed to a high standard, in good time, with a clear focus on customer care and value for money. You will effectively assist the cyclical testing manager in the further development and business processes associated with the cyclical testing team.
You will ideally have supervisory experience, a sound technical knowledge of cyclical testing delivery, and the ability to manage your own time and workloads. You will be comfortable in a fast paced, challenging role, which at times will be public facing. As an inspector representing the cyclical testing team, you will be required to encourage and support the Council personnel and volunteers to deliver and maintain the cyclical testing tasks expected of them.
Additional training will include skills around customer services, equalities, safeguarding etc. Your work will be a driving influence in delivering and maintaining a high level of compliance in Islington properties.
Islington Council is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults, and expects all staff, and volunteers to share this commitment.
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We will be attending summer camp at Camp Cris Dobbins during the week of June 8th.
For the full details about camp, take a look at the Cris Dobbins Leader's Guide.
For a list of equipment to bring, please see the 2014 camping equipment list , which comes from pages 11-12 of the Cris Dobbins Leader's Guide. Please note the required equipment list in particular. It looks like our evacuation experience last year has had an impact. The boys and adults are required to have a day pack with them with their essentials in case of another evacuation. The equipment list provides for more details.


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downtown Des Moines skyline," Fencl says.
Among the area's group-friendly sports
venues that host off-site events are Principal Park, home of the Iowa Cubs, which
offers space for groups of all sizes and
specialized scoreboard messages; and Ricochet, a BYOB game lounge where groups
can play friendly rounds of ping pong,
foosball, darts and more.
Group-friendly golf courses in Central
Iowa include the Ames-based Coldwater
Golf Links, which accommodates everything from small corporate tournaments
to large fundraising events, and the
Marshalltown-based Harvester Golf Club,
which also facilitates group tournaments of
varying sizes.
In Cedar Rapids, groups are welcome to
hit the links at Elmcrest Country Club,
the course where pro Zach Johnson, 2015
British Open and 2007 Masters champion,Groups meeting here also give greatscores for off-site events at BloomsburyFarm, where a giant corn maze, ziplines,hayrack rides and pumpkin patches areamong the fun experiences.
"Enjoy a hog roast and other delicious
Iowa farm dishes, and music and dancing
in one of the barns," says Jennifer Pickar,
director of communications and marketing
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➜ A new 330-room Hilton hotel ( www.hilton.com), which will connect to the Iowa Events Center, is scheduled to open by spring
➜ An additional 300 hotel rooms will be added to downtown Des
Moines by the end of 2016. New hotels include Holiday Inn
Express & Suites Des Moines Downtown ( www.ihg.com), an AC
Hotel ( www.achotels.marriott.com) and Staybridge Suites–Des
Moines ( www.ihg.com).
➜ In March, Hampton Inn and Suites North ( www.hilton.com)
reopened after a renovation project, including a remodeled lobby
and guest rooms.
➜ Holiday Inn Express Cedar Rapids ( www.collinsroadhotel.com) in
May unveiled a renovation, including a complete rebuild of all of
its 83 guest rooms.
➜ At press time, Residence Inn Cedar Rapids South ( www.marriott.
com) was on track to open last month with 95 suites and 460
square feet of meeting space.
➜ The 102-room Homewood Suites by Hilton (www.davenport.
homewoodsuites.com) opened in Davenport in March.
➜ The 104-room Holiday Inn & Suites ( www.ihg.com) opened in
Davenport last year. The property has nearly 5,300 square feet of
meeting and prefunction space.
➜ The 115-room Hilton Garden Inn Bettendorf/Quad Cities (www.
bettendorfquadcities.hgi.com) opened in April 2015 with 2,400
square feet of meeting space.
➜ At press time, Rhythm City Casino Resort (www.rhythmcity
casino.com) was on track to move this month from downtown
Davenport to a new facility at the corner of interstates 80 and 74.
➜ Earlier this year, Radisson Hotel & Conference Center
Coralville-Iowa City ( www.radisson.com) unveiled extensive renovations, including updates to its guest rooms, meeting spaces
and restaurant.
➜ Iowa City-based Hilton Garden Inn ( www.hilton.com), which
will have meeting space and a rooftop restaurant and bar
with an outdoor patio, is scheduled for completion in summer
➜ There are plans for two hotels at the Iowa River Landing (www.
iowariverlanding.com), a mixed-use development in Coralville.
A Drury Hotel is scheduled for completion in summer 2018
and a Staybridge Suites property is estimated to open the
following spring.
➜ Waterloo's newest hotel property, the 81-room Fairfield Inn &
Suites Waterloo Cedar Falls ( www.marriott.com), opened last year
with 1,800 square feet of meeting space.
➜ Sioux City Convention Center ( www.siouxcityconventioncenter.
com) completed a renovation in January, including 50,000
square feet of newly updated exhibit space.
➜ Phase II of Tom Hanafan River's Edge Park ( www.council-bluffs-ia.gov), featuring the River's Edge Pavilion, broke ground
earlier this year. The pavilion will provide a small meeting/event
space for up to 60 people, complete with a catering kitchen
and presentation capabilities. The facility's rooftop deck will
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Political parties are a distraction from the issues. Rather than argue about a party like one might root for a sports team, we ought to vote for politicians who most closely resemble our own values on the issues most important to each individual. Many Mainers recognize that both major parties often ultimately have similar funders, lobbyists and special interests influencing their decisions. Allowing unenrolled voters to vote in the primaries forces all politicians, regardless of their party, to be more transparent about their stance on the issues and puts the responsibility onto the voter to be informed in their decisions.
As a voter, I don't want to decide between red and blue; I want to discuss the issues and vote in primaries based on the merit of the candidates. Don't hide behind your party line when the voting records of so many make it clear this is little more than an arbitrary distinction.
I am disappointed that L.D. 211 was not voted through because all Mainers deserve the opportunity to have their voices and their votes heard, regardless of their party, or lack thereof.
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ObjectObject of the act:
To provide for certain benefits to employees in case of sickness, maternity and injury during employment and to make provision for certain other matters in relation thereto.
ApplicabilityApplicability of the Act: All factories Shops employing 20 or more persons. Such other Govt. specified establishments.
the activities like: cotton ginning, cotton or jute pressing, decoration of ground nuts, manufacturing coffee, indigo, lac, rubber, sugar, or tea or any manufacturing process incidental to or connected with any of the afore said activities, and including factories engaged for a period not exceeding seven months in a year in blending, packing or repackaging tea or coffee, or in such other processes as may be specified by the central govt.
ACT AUTHORISATION1. To Promote and measure for health andwelfare of INSURED EMPLOYEES (IE) employment for disabled / injured2. Intervene for the rehabilitation and re3. To appoint inspectors for purposed of the act 4. To determine the amount of contribution and
relevant verification
Standing committeeempowered to1. Shall administer the affair of the
corporation2. Shall submit the consideration and
Benefit, purpose of grants and related matter 2. Have power and duties of INVESTIGATION on Empanelled Medical practitioner, its treatment and attendance 3. Perform other duties
Inspectors- DutiesPowers Duties 1. Inquiring
contribution 2. Ascertaining Provision of the Act has been complied 3. Other authorized / specified duties by the corporation. Powers 1. To collect require and relevant information of employer / contractor or both 2. To enter org / contractor premises at reasonable time and examined relevant account books and relevant documents, payment of wages etc. 3. To examine employer, contractor, his agent / servant or IE in factory / office 4. To make copies of extracts from any registrar, account books and other books of maintenance of org.
deposit his own as well as employees contribution in respect of all employees including the contract labour, into the E.S.I. Account. Non-availability of funds cannot be a ground for non-payment of contributions under the act. There is no provision to waive the contribution, damages and interestThe employer is required to contribute at the rate
of 4.75% of the wages paid/ payable in respect of every wage period. The employees are also required to contribute at the rate of 1.75% of their wages except when the average daily wages in a
establishments registered with the E.S.I. Corporation within 15 days after the Act becoming applicable to it, and obtain the employers Code Number. The regional officer will allot a code number to the employer, which must be quoted in all documents and correspondence.
The purpose of the Employee State Insurance Act is to provide benefits as detailed in the Act particularly in section 46, to the insured persons or their dependants. The following benefits are provided under section 46. Sickness benefit Maternity benefit Disablement benefit Dependents benefit Medical benefit Funeral expenses
1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6.
Sickness benefit Every insured employee is entitled to the cash
benefit for the period of sickness certified by a duly appointed medical practitioner if the contributions in respect of him were payable for not less than 78 days in the corresponding contribution period. made to an insured person which is payable for maximum numbers of 91 days in any two consecutive benefit periods. The benefit is not paid for the first two days of sickness which is treated as the waiting period. like T.B., leprosy, mental, heart etc. and who have been continuous employment for two years are
Maternity benefitA periodical cash benefit is payable to an insured
woman employee, in cash of confinement, miscarriage, medical termination of pregnancy, premature birth of a child or sickness arising from pregnancy etc.
rate or Rs.20, whichever is higher for all days on which she does not work during the prescribed period.
Disablement benefitIt is payable to an employee who is injured in the course
of his employment and is permanently or temporarily disabled or contacts any occupational disease.
less than 3days(excluding the day of accident) shall be entitled to periodical payment as may be prescribed by the central govt.
payable for any day on which the employee works, remains on lease, holiday or strike in respect of which he receives wages.
Dependents benefitIf any employee dies during any period for which
he is entitled to a cash benefit, the amount of such benefit shall be payable up to & including the day of his death.The amount of benefit shall be paid to the nominee
or, where there is no nomination, to the heir or legal representative of the deceased employee.
Medical benefitAn insured person or a member of his family whose
condition requires medical treatment and attendance entitled to receive medical benefit.
paid to an insured person or his wife if confinement occurs at a place where necessary medical facilities under E.S.i.C. schemes are not available.
Funeral ExpensesIf an insured employee dies, the eldest
serving member of his family is entitled to reimbursement of such expenditure subject to maximum of Rs.2500 (W.E.F. December,2000)The claim for the funeral expenses should be
submitted with prescribed document and form within three months of the death of the insured employee.
any false statement or false representation, shall be punishable with imprisonment up to Rs.2000 or with both if any person fails to pay any contribution which under to this act he is liable to pay, he shall be punishable with imprisonment up to three years.
contraventions like dismisses, discharges, reduces or otherwise punishes an employee, shall be punishable with imprisonment up to one year or with fine up to Rs.4000 or with both
the amount of contribution then corporation may recover from the employer by way of penalty.
for employer- if employer is not able to make this order within period then employer shall be punishable with imprisonment in respect thereof U/S.85 and shall also be liable to pay fine up to Rs.1000 for everyday.
notification in the Official Gazette. Exemptions shall always be subj. to the conditions imposed by the Govt. Exemptions shall always be in order only if the employees in any such factory/establishment are already in receipt of benefits substantially similar or superior to the benefits provided under this act.
establishment or any person or class of person by App.Govt. Any exemption granted shall be notified by the notification in the Official Gazette. Any exemption granted under the sec.87,88,90 or 91 in respect of any person or class of person may be enforced either prospectively or retrospectively the date of its enforcement has to be specified (sec.91-A)