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1. The Committee has considered the instruments set
out in the Annex to this Report and has determined that the special
attention of both Houses does not require to be drawn to any of
2. A memorandum by the Home Office in connection
with the Immigration (Designation of Travel Bans) Order 2000 (S.I. 2000/2724)
is printed in Appendix 1.
3. A memorandum by the Department of Health in connection
with the Specified Risk Material (Amendment) (England) Regulations
2000 (S.I. 2000/2672) is printed in Appendix 2.
4. A memorandum by the Department of Trade and Industry
in connection with the Dual-Use Items (Export Control) Regulations
2000 (S.I. 2000/2620) is printed in Appendix 3.
5. The Committee draws the special attention of both
Houses to these Regulations on the ground that there was a procedural
defect in their laying.
6. These regulations amend the Animals and Animal
Products (Import and Export) (England and Wales) Regulations 2000
the purpose of which is to ensure the effective application in
England and Wales of Commission Decision 2000/528/EC laying down
measures to prevent the spread of classical swine fever.
7. It is in the nature of such protective measures
that they are subject to amendment at short notice, whether to
relax or intensify restrictions which they impose, depending on
the spread of the disease to which they relate.
8. On 12 September 2000 the Commission adopted an
amending Decision which extended the period of application of
its original Decision from 15 September to 15 October 2000. These
Regulations therefore had to be in force by 15 September 2000
at the latest.
9. The Regulations were in fact made on 14 September
2000 and expressed to come into force on the following day. As
they were laid before Parliament on 15 September, the day on which
they came into force, it follows that they came into force before
they were laid (because a statutory instrument comes into force
at the beginning of the relevant day but is laid in the course
of the day, during business hours).
10. In those circumstances the proviso to section
4(1) of the Statutory Instruments Act 1946 required the Ministry
of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food to send a notification to the
Lord Chancellor and the Speaker.
11. The Committee noticed that no such notification
had been received and asked why. The Department in its memorandum
printed in Appendix 4 apologised for overlooking this requirement
in the haste with which the instrument had had to be drafted and
12. The Committee accordingly reports these Regulations
for failure to comply with the procedural requirement of the proviso
to section 4(1) of the 1946 Act acknowledged by the Department.
13. The Committee draws the special attention of
both Houses to this Order on the ground that it is defectively
14. This Order is one of a series by which the Secretary
of State for Health has established Primary Care Trusts for the
purpose of, inter alia, exercising functions in relation
to the provision of general medical services. This particular
Order establishes the area of the Harlow Primary Care Trust, deals
with its membership and makes transitional arrangements for the
period before the Trust becomes operational on 1 April 2001.
15. In common with certain other Orders in this series
this Order contains a definition of a term "establishment
date" which is not otherwise used in the Order. The Committee
asked the Department of Health to explain why it did so.
16. The Department's memorandum printed in Appendix
5 acknowledges, and apologises for, the error which a letter from
the Committee had drawn to its attention in relation to a number
of other Orders on 1 November 2000 and explains that, because
this Order was made on 13 October before that letter was received,
it could not act upon it in this case. It does, however, promise
to take steps to ensure that the same error does not appear in
future such Orders.
17. The Committee accordingly reports article 1(2)
of this Order for defective drafting acknowledged by the Department.
18. The Committee draws the special attention of
both Houses to this Order on the ground that it is defectively
19. This Order brings into force section 16(2) of
the Adoption (Intercountry Aspects) Act 1999. It does so by specifying
"16th of October" as the appointed day for that purpose.
It does not, however, specify any year. The Committee asked the
Department of Health to explain why it did not do so. The Department's
memorandum printed in Appendix 6 argues that it is implicit (presumably
from the date on which the Order was made) that the intended day
is 16 October 2000, as is confirmed by the Explanatory Note.
20. Failure to specify a commencement date unambiguously
may render it impossible to ascertain with certainty the date
on which a provision is to come into force thus rendering the
Order in question ineffective.
21. In this case the Committee accepts that the intended
date can be ascertained with sufficient certainty in the circumstances.
It therefore accepts that the Order works, despite the omission
of any reference in the operative article to the year 2000.
22. This, however, does not justify the failure fully
to specify the appointed day in the Order and the Committee accordingly
reports article 2 of this Order for defective drafting acknowledged
by the Department.
23. The Committee draws the special attention of
both Houses to these Regulations on the grounds that they are
defectively drafted, contain unjustified referential legislation,
and are not drafted in accordance with proper legislative practice.
24. Regulation 1(2) defines "the court"
as having the same meaning as in section 66(1) of the Arbitration
Act 1996. It was not clear to the Committee what that expression
meant in that section, and why (instead of referring the reader
to the Act) the meaning was not set out in full in that regulation.
Section 66(1) refers to enforcement proceedings by the leave of
"the court" without defining this term. However, section
105(1) provides that, in that Act, "the court" means
the High Court or a county court, "subject to the following
provisions" of the section; and subsection (2) empowers the
Lord Chancellor by order to make provision allocating proceedings
under the Act to the High Court or to county courts. In a memorandum
printed in Appendix 7, the Department of Health explain that in
section 66(1) "the court" means the High Court or any
county court, since the effect of the High Court and County Courts
(Allocation of Proceedings) Order 1996 (S.I. 1996/3215) is
that enforcement proceedings under section 66 may be commenced
in the High Court or any county court. The Department acknowledge,
however, that it would have been preferable to have set out the
definition in the Regulations instead of referring to the 1996
Act. In the Committee's view, the definition of "the court"
in regulation 1(2), in addition to being drafted in unnecessarily
referential manner, is also defectively drafted, since it is not
apparent what that expression means in section 66(1) without reference
to the 1996 Order. The Department also concede that, since the
expression is only mentioned in paragraph (8) of regulation 32,
it would have been preferable to place the definition in that
regulation. Accordingly, in this respect the Committee reports
the instrument for failure to comply with proper drafting practice.
Indeed, as the Department accept, regulation 32(8) could appropriately
have referred to a county court (which is defined in regulation
1(2)) instead of "the court", given that a costs order
cannot exceed a total of £500 in relation to an application.
This substitution would of course have removed the need for defining
"the court". The Committee reports the definition of
"the court" in regulation 1(2) as being an unjustified
piece of legislation by reference, and also on the grounds that
it is defectively drafted and is not drafted in accordance with
proper legislative practice.
25. Paragraph (4)(b) of regulation 8 requires the
Secretary of the Tribunal to notify the parties without delay
of the President's decision to refuse leave and to provide them
with a copy of the reasons. The Department accept that this provision
is unnecessary, given that it overlaps with paragraph (5) which
requires the Secretary to notify the parties without delay of
the President's decisions and, if he has refused leave, of his
reasons for doing so. Accordingly, the Committee reports regulation
8(4)(b) for defective drafting, acknowledged by the Department.
26. Regulation 30(2)(a) provides that an application
for review of the Tribunal's decision must be made not later than
ten working days after the date on which the decision was sent
to the parties. It was not clear to the Committee when this period
would begin to run if a copy of the decision was not sent to the
parties on the same day. The Department explain that the intended
effect is that the application by either party must be made not
later than ten working days after the date on which the decision
was sent to the second party. However, in the Committee's view,
the drafting is not effective to achieve this purpose, since a
party will not know whether the decision was sent to both parties
on the same day and will therefore not know for certain when the
period ends. The Department accept, however, that (as suggested
by the Committee) the provision would be improved if it provided
that an application by a party must be made not later than ten
working days after the date in which a copy of the document was
sent to him. The Committee reports regulation 30(2) for defective
27. The Department indicate that they intend to amend
the Regulations at a suitable opportunity to take account of the
points raised by the Committee on regulations 8(4)(b) and 30(2).
Given that the Department accepts that it would be desirable to
improve regulation 32(8) by providing simply that a costs order
may be enforced in any county court (thus obviating the need for
defining "the court" in regulation 1(2)), the Committee
expects that this aspect should also be dealt with at the same
28. The Committee draws the special attention of
both Houses to these Regulations on the ground that they require
29. These Regulations, which for the most part re-enact
1985 Regulations of the same title as subsequently amended, deal
with the inspection of plans and building work. Under the parent
Act (the Building Act 1984) responsibility for carrying out inspections
to ensure compliance with building regulations may be entrusted
to an approved inspector instead of to the local authority.
30. Regulation 4 of these Regulations enable the
Secretary of State to designate a body for the purpose of approving
inspectors. Where there is no designated body, regulation 3(2)
provides for the Secretary of State to carry out this function.
Regulation 6(4) permits, but does not require, a designated body
or the Secretary of State to withdraw an approval in the case
of a person who is convicted of an offence under section 57 of
the Building Act 1984. This section creates offences of knowingly
or recklessly giving notices or certificates under the Act which
contain statements which are false or misleading. The seriousness
of these offences is indicated by the option given to the prosecution
to proceed in the Crown Court where the maximum penalty on conviction
is an unlimited fine or a term of imprisonment for up to two years
(or both).
31. The Committee was surprised that in these circumstances
withdrawal of an inspector's approval was not made mandatory and
asked the Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions
to explain in what circumstances it was contemplated that, not
withstanding the conviction of an inspector, his approval would
not be withdrawn.
32. The Department's memorandum printed in Appendix
8 gives, by way of illustration, three circumstances in which
in its view approval might properly not be withdrawn in the case
of an inspector's conviction.
33. Two concern cases in which the commission of
the offence was due to the act of a subordinate and appropriate
steps have been taken to prevent a repetition of the offence.
The third concerns a case in which the offence is not thought
to be sufficiently serious to warrant withdrawal of approval (because
the statement in question was made recklessly rather than knowingly
or was false in only a limited number of particulars).
34. The Committee, mindful that these are for the
most part consolidating Regulations, accordingly reports them
to the House as requiring elucidation which has been given by
the Department in its memorandum.
35. The Committee draws the special attention of
both Houses to these Regulations on the ground that they are defectively
36. These Regulations prescribe various forms to
be used in connection with the enforcement of fixed penalty offences.
Section 88(2) of the Act under which they are made, the Road Traffic
Offenders Act 1988, requires the Secretary of State to consult
with representative organisations before making them.
37. Because the recital of powers makes no mention
of any such consultations the Committee asked the Home Office
whether they had been undertaken and, if so, why they were not
mentioned in the recital of powers as required by paragraph 2.26
of Statutory Instrument Practice.
38. The Department's memorandum printed in Appendix
9 confirms that it did indeed consult with representative organisations
and accepts that this should have been recited in the preamble
to these Regulations.
39. The Committee accordingly reports the Regulations
for defective drafting of the preamble acknowledged by the Department.
40. The Committee draws the special attention of
both Houses to these Regulations on the ground that they are defectively
41. These Regulations, which reproduce with amendments
similar Regulations made in 1994, prohibit railway undertakings
from operating, or permitting the operation of, a train or station
unless the relevant undertaking has submitted to the Health and
Safety Executive ("the Executive") a safety case acceptable
to the Executive.
42. Regulation 5(2) requires an operator of a train
or station to submit his safety case simultaneously to the Executive
and to the controller of the relevant railway infrastructure.
Where the operator and the infrastructure controller agree to
modify the safety case, regulation 5(4)(a) requires the latter
to send the modified case to the Executive. Regulation 5(7)(c)
then provides that, where the Executive accepts a safety case
which differs from that submitted by the operator under regulation
5(2), or, where paragraph (3)(a) applies, under that paragraph,
the Executive must notify the infrastructure controller of the
changes made. As the reference to paragraph (3)(a) appeared to
make no sense, the Committee asked the Department of the Environment,
Transport and the Regions whether the reference should have been
to paragraph (4)(a). The Department, in its memorandum printed
in Appendix 10, confirms that the reference should have been to
paragraph (4)(a) and undertakes to amend regulation 5(7)(c). The
Committee accordingly reports regulation 5(7)(c) for defective
drafting acknowledged by the Department.
43. Regulation 17(1) and (3) permit the Executive,
or as the case may be the Secretary of State for Defence, to grant
exemptions from the requirements or prohibitions imposed by these
Regulations subject, in both cases, to any Community obligation
of the United Kingdom.
44. As the Committee observed in its Third Report
(Session 1997-98), such a general saving is unnecessary as the
generality of the words conferring the power to grant exemptions
must be regarded as implicitly restricted so as to exclude an
exercise of this power inconsistently with the United Kingdom's
Community obligations.
45. The Committee therefore asked the Department
to explain why this general saving had been included. The Department's
memorandum acknowledges that it was included by reason of oversight,
for which it apologises. The Committee accordingly reports these
Regulations for defective drafting of regulation 17(1) and (3)
acknowledged by the Department.


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I was born in a pool, they made my mother stand
And I spat on that surgeon and his trembling hand
When I felt the light I was worse than bored
I stole the doctor's scalpel and I slit the cord
I was a catholic boy,
Redeemed through pain,
Not through joy
I was two months early they put me under glass
I screamed and cursed their children when the nurses passed
Was convicted of theft when I slipped from the womb
They led me straight from my mother to a cell in the tombs
Repeat refrain
They starved me for weeks, they thought they'd teach me fear
I fed on cellmates' dreams, it gave me fine ideas
When they cut me loose, the time had served me well
I made allies in heaven, I made comrades in hell
I was a catholic child
The blood ran red
The blood ran wild
I make angels dance and drop to their knees
When I enter a church the feet of statues bleed
I understand the fate of all my enemies
Just like christ in the garden of gethsemane
Repeat refrain
I watched the sweetest psalm stolen by the choir
I dreamed of martyrs' bones hanging from a wire
I make a contribution, I get absolution
I make a resolution to purify my soul
Repeat refrain
They can't touch me now
I got every sacrament behind me:
I got baptism,
I got communion,
I got penance,
I got extreme unction
I've got confirmation
'cause I'm a catholic child
The blood ran red
The blood ran wild!
Now I'm a catholic man
I put my tongue to the rail whenever I can.
Lyrics taken from http://www.lyricsmode.com/lyrics/j/jim_carroll/catholic_boy.html


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NEW YORK) — Financiers Ronald Perelman and Carl Ichan met in a superhero-style confrontation Friday when dissident bondholders led by Ichan said they intend to vote a majority of bankrupt Marvel Entertainment's equity to elect a new board of directors Tuesday.
The Official Committee of Bondholders of Marvel Holdings Inc., Marvel Holdings Inc. and Marvel III Holdings Inc. — the bondholder groups — said they told Marvel Entertainment Group Inc., which is controlled by Perelman, they intend to elect a new board for the comic book and trading card company.
Icahn and six other candidates are on the bondholders' slate. Two more directors would be selected by the bondholders.
The bondholders said their review revealed Marvel is in complete disarray and immediate action is needed to save the company.
Marvel said it and its secured creditors intend to oppose the bondholder plan to gain control of the board.
"There will be a hearing (this) afternoon and the secured creditors of Marvel will seek a stay of the court's order allowing bondholders access of the stock," a Marvel source said late Friday.
A temporary restraining order would prevent the bondholders from ousting Marvel's board Tuesday, and would likely delay the implementation of a final reorganization plan by sending both sides back into court.
A prior court ruling allows bondholders to foreclose on 80 million shares of Marvel common stock that was collateral for the bonds.
Marvel contends the bondholder group is fronting for Icahn's interests to "grab control of the company without committing a dollar."
The bondholders said they will continue to guarantee a $365 million capital infusion, subject to the replacement of Marvel's board and confirmation by the bankruptcy court of an acceptable reorganization plan. The bondholders said they intend to use the $365 million to recapitalize Marvel and to restore the company to financial and operational health.
In a letter sent to Marvel Friday, the bondholders' counsel said the decision to replace the board "is driven by the critical and interrelated needs to halt Marvel's deterioration and to promote Marvel's proper reorganization."
The bondholders also charged that Marvel refuses to try to undo the damage of its disastrous licensing program, which they said sacrificed Marvel's long-term growth and opportunity so as to artificially inflate Marvel's earnings per share.
They cited one of Marvel's former officers as telling some members of the committee that his orders were "to get earnings at any cost."
Marvel, in a printed response, said Ichan "now seeks to grab control of the company without committing a dollar."
The bondholders' rescue plan differs greatly from Perelman's, under which Marvel was to buy shares in a separate company, Toy Biz Inc., that it did not already own and merge the profitable toy company into Marvel.
Toy Biz has an exclusive agreement to make toys based on Marvel's superhero characters, including Spider-man, The Incredible Hulk and the X-Men.
In early March, Perelman, in a surprise move, gave up his fight to maintain control over Marvel and agreed to hand the company over to the dissident bondholders led by Icahn.
In February, a Delaware bankruptcy court ruled the bondholders could vote and foreclose on the 80% of Marvel's stock pledged as a security. Ichan and other bondholders had objected to Perelman's plan for the company, which would have diluted their equity in the company while keeping Perelman and his Andrews Group fully in control.
Marvel filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in December amid mounting financial losses and an inability to repay its bank debt.
Perelman bought Marvel in 1988 when it was a relatively small comic book publisher. He expanded it with the purchase of Fleer and SkyBox International trading card companies.


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There are probably a handful of 6-year-old Ralphs out there whose parents are really wondering if they should've named their kid after the man who threw the election, so it's understandable if people want to wait until he's actually president before they name their kid Obama.
In the mean time, of course, $19 is a pretty low-impact way to show your kid's honorary membership in the Obama-nation. Yeah, I just made that up.
Whaddya expect, Obama-rama?
Whama, Obama, Thank you, Mama? Actually, that one might have legs. Let me get my trademark application ready...
Obama '08 onepiece or bib from cafepress [treehouserobot via dt reader rob at gobug]


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The PG-20 system comes with 1 (one) PG-20 unit, a 9-volt battery, intraoral pressure tubes, each with a mating Luer connector, and a manual. The PG-20 system is a handheld, portable device that measures subglottal (lung) pressure and displays this on an analog meter. The PG-20 does not require any software or a computer to use. Because the PG-20 kit contains all the equipment you will need to set it up right out of the box, you needn't buy transducers or any other extra equipment (the pressure transducer is inside the unit). We will soon be uploading a link to our YouTube channel with a video of unboxing of the PG-20 , so stay tuned.
Our website currently features the PG-20; however, we also offer the PG-100. The PG-100 can measure up to 100 cm of water and will be of interest to singers, or singing researchers. Most SLPs will prefer the PG-20, since it covers the range of lung pressure used in speech. Both, the PG-20 and the PG-100 can also be used for static air pressure tests.
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Currently BrowsingOS X
Imagine your files and folders sitting in a Finder window. It's simple, and there's no clutter. The only information you have about them is the name underneath. Of course we both know that there's more to learn about each file. Much more!
Picture that all the "metadata" for a file or folder is engraved on it – unique – just like our finger prints. You'd need a magnifying glass to see it all. Let me introduce you to your magnifying glass: the "Get Info" Pane.
In this article I'll introduce you to it, take you through a tour, and give some helpful hints along the way.
Kids and computers go together like peanut butter and jelly. Or like crayons and white-painted walls… My point is that kids start using computers earlier and earlier, and many of them become very adept and quite precocious at an extremely young age.
There are significant dangers out there: the online world is a new place to be concerned about what your kids are up to, and we've all heard too many stories already of youngsters getting into trouble online. Happily, your Mac comes with a few bits of protection built in, and there are some good applications available to help you extend those controls.
I'm going to talk you through three different ways that you can go about putting in place better online safety precautions: via OS X's built-in Parental Controls, with an external application, and by getting to the heart of how your computer interfaces with the internet, by taking control of your DNS settings.
As a New Year is upon us, it may be a good chance to take stock and give your Mac a spring clean. Although OS X doesn't accumulate a great deal of clutter in day-to-day operation, there are still a number of actions you can take to free up disk space, speed up operation, and ensure that your data is safe in 2010.
Inspired by a recent series of articles published at Minimal Mac (a great blog to subscribe to), this post will take a look at a variety of different steps to clean up your Mac for the New Year.
Grab a duster, throw on an apron, and let's get cleaning…
So you were one of the lucky ones who received (or bought yourself) your first Mac over the holiday period. Congratulations, and welcome to the Mac community! Perhaps, like more and more people, you've made the move from that other operating system – you know, the one that's a little more popular, but also not quite as well-designed, and more prone to security issues.
The one where you're considered a brave person to go online without the full metal jacket of antivirus, antispam, antimalware, and firewall in place. If so, then chances are that you've already started thinking about what you need to do in order to protect your new machine from viruses, trojans, and other kinds of nasties that you may have encountered previously.
Many will tell you not to bother – Macs don't get viruses, right? It's true to say that there are fewer such issues with Macs (after all, smaller market-share means less incentive to antisocial types), but it'd be foolish not to take even the most basic precautions in order to keep your data and your personal information safe.
When I made the switch, I immediately went in search of the kinds of protection I was used to having in place before I would bring my computer anywhere near a network connection of any kind. But friends talked me down, reassured me that I didn't really need the same level of protection for my shiny new MacBook. But they did offer a few little tips, which I will pass on in this article, just to cover the basics…
While you sit in front of your screen for hours on end, perusing tech blogs and pretending not to be addicted to Facbook, are you considering what sort of impact you're having on the environment!? If you're like me, the answer is "Hey pal, it's a computer not a Hummer. Back off." Luckily however, the good folks at Apple have put a lot of time and effort into this problem for us.
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Many Mac users likely haven't even opened this application before, and those that have were probably scared off by all the numbers and confusing words. I certainly was. But if you understand how it works and what it can be used for, Activity Monitor can be a great way of keeping an eye on what's going on inside your computer.
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On April 12, 2012, the police were called to the Bay View Houses in Brooklyn, New York. There was a report of a man removing decorative paving stones from the project. When the police arrived, they observed Mr. Robinson unearthing decorative paving stones. Mr. Robinson started to run to the building where his mother lived just a hundred yards away. Two police officers chased him on foot while a second set of officers in a police car raced in their vehicle to catch him. Despite ordering him to stop, he continued running. As he turned up the walkway, the car sped alongside and veered into his path. As a result, Mr. Robinson collided with the vehicle with sufficient force to dent the side of the car. Eyewitnesses report that the suspect flew up in the air and came down. He was taken away from the scene by ambulance and succumbed to his injuries on April 18, 2012.
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During a recent Occupy Wall Street protest march in New York City, 10 protesters were arrested for a variety of alleged infractions. The four-hour demonstration was labeled as a protest against police brutality in New York, with the arrests occurring as the protesters wound their way through the streets of Manhattan - from the birthplace of the Occupy Wall Street movement, Zuccotti Park, to Union Square Park.
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Three other things are worth noting from the weekend's number crunching. Firstly, the Tories did much better out of the Lib-Dem collapse than Labour. Partly this is because there were far fewer seats for Labour to gain from the Lib-Dems, but also because Labour voters were very unwilling to vote tactically to save a Lib-Dem MP (as some might have done up until 2010). So, ironically, the disdain felt by many Labour voters for the Lib-Dems actually hurt their own party.
Secondly, the dog that didn't bark – turnout. Everyone was expecting a high turnout but it hardly budged from the 65% in 2010. When we see the detailed analysis, my guess is we'll see that the much-vaunted surge in young people voting didn't materialise. I'm not sure where the expectation of a high turnout came from. Perhaps we were taken in by high levels of election activity of social media. We should have realised that people talking about the election on Facebook and Twitter were probably always going to vote.
This election also saw a differential turnout effect – with turnout rising in areas where the Tories were defending a slim majority. We might have hoped this would help Labour; but actually it was Tories turning out en masse to save their Tory MP. Quite simply, the Tory campaign engaged their people much more than Labour engaged theirs. (This should be another warning against an unthinking Labour lurch to the right.)
Finally, there's our old friend the Tory "bonus". We need to face the fact that there is a long-term tendency for the polls to underestimate Tory support by about three percentage points. It doesn't happen in all elections (not in 2010 for example) but it does happen in most – locals and Europeans included. I've no idea if this is "shy Tories", "late swing" or whether it's just, as former Home Secretary Douglas Hurd suggested on Friday afternoon, a sort of natural English tendency to plump for the "safer", establishment option, which for middle-ground voters, seems to be the Tories. Even Hurd said this showed the English to be "odd". Well maybe we are odd but we're not going to change overnight, so during this parliament I will be adding three points to the Tory poll score and knocking a couple off Labour before drawing any conclusions.


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In this activity, students will read a color plot of Earth's absorption of the sun's radiation, and see that solar energy is unevenly distributed across the Earth's surface. The lesson provides detailed procedures, related links and sample graphs,... (View More) follow-up questions, extensions, and teacher notes. Designed for student use, MY NASA DATA LAS samples micro datasets from large scientific data archives, and provides structured investigations engaging students in exploration of real data to answer real world questions. (View Less)
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This paper model of the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope includes three pages of parts that can be cut out and assembled using common household items. It also provides a short description of the scientific instruments on board Fermi, as well as links... (View More) to other resources about its instruments. (View Less)
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Learners will read about missions to asteroids and comets, consider the measurements and math required for the robotic spacecraft to visit these objects, and are invited to finish the story themselves. The provided extension explains how to use a... (View More) K-W-L chart with the story and provides a glossary of terms. (View Less)
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In this activity, students identify habitats in Arizona, define and illustrate a food web in a kinesthetic exercise, and explain the importance of biodiversity in a writing assignment. Required materials include a ball of yarn or string. The... (View More) resource includes two student worksheets, a data sheet, answer keys, and Web links. This is Lesson 1 in the unit on Biodiversity, part of IMAGERS, Interactive Media Adventures for Grade School Education using Remote Sensing. The website provides hands-on activities in the classroom supporting the science content in two interactive media books, The Adventures of Echo the Bat and Amelia the Pigeon. (View Less)
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This is an activity about the Hubble Deep Field image, an observation of one small area of sky that contained no previously-detected objects. The long time exposure of this image allows us to detect some of the most distant objects seen in our... (View More) Universe. Learners will view an image of the Hubble Deep Field and identify how many distant galaxies are visible as well as the types of galaxies they might be. Observations will be taken a step further to infer predominant age of a galaxy and determine if there are any trends in age (color) versus galaxy size or type and, ultimately, if the distant Universe appears relatively uniform. This activity is Astronomy Activity 4 in a larger resource, titled "Space Update." (View Less)
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In this activity, students plot data from GLOBE schools on a map with latitude and longitude lines and draw contours based on the values plotted. The resource includes a student worksheet and data table. Several suggestions for extensions of this... (View More) activity using different types of data sets are included. This learning resource is part of the Atmosphere chapter of the GLOBE Teacher's Guide. GLOBE (Global Learning and Observation to Benefit the Environment) is a worldwide, hands-on, K-12 school-based science education program. (View Less)
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In this introductory activity, students learn about perspective, range and resolution and explain how the optimal viewing zone varies with what it is they want to know. Students view a large object such as a poster, store front, or even a brick wall... (View More) from various distances and observe the difference in the information they can get from each perspective. Supplies required include a large sign or poster, metric ruler or measuring tape, chalk, and a magnifying glass. This activity is part of the Ground Truth Studies Teacher Handbook, which provides more than 20 activities to build student understanding of global change and remote sensing, and includes background chapters for teachers, glossary, and appendices. (View Less)
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NeedPosted: November 14, 2013 Filed under: Community, The Earth, Uncategorized | Tags: Community Self-sufficeincy, Earth, Economic growth, Flagstaff, Golf course, McMansion, mountaintop removal, paradigm change 3 Comments
Is progress and development and 'growth' (economic growth is implied) really what we need on this planet?
From the little I've come to know about life, if we don't value what we have right now, then we won't know how to value the thing we want, once we get it. We all know the course the dominant culture is on is insatiable.
But what do we need?
We need unadulterated food, soil, air, water and love.
We may think we need more golf courses, economic development, low-wage chain stores, and McMansions, a raise, a newer car, etc. (Yeah, I know, in the short-term a raise can be life saving – but I'm talking the Big Picture)
Maybe a community's desire to be self-sufficient is what we really need. A group of people who live in a geographic region who desire to sustain themselves and their neighbors to the best of their ability by their own hands, not the hands of 14 year olds in Bangladesh, or the credit afforded by the Big Banks to amass more trinkets.
If money is a lien against the Earth's resources (raw earth resources as well as human/animal labor), why do we in this country and others, continue to live in such a way that the debt we incur will never, and can never, be paid off? Nothing can bring back the hundreds of mountaintops removed for coal in the oldest mountain range in the U.S., for instance.
In the little high-desert town that I live in, there is a strong push these days to get the "economy" going at a faster pace. A push to build more and make more money, and in this currently reigning paradigm that is what is needed. But it's not a paradigm I subscribe to. What if the people in this town, instead of wanting more new businesses to open to provide more jobs, found ways to turn the needs of those who live here into a business? Creating community kitchens so that those who would like to make a business out of making food for others could do it without having to open a restaurant? One GREAT thing that Flagstaff just did is open a community workshop – THAT'S what I'm talking about!
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The whole perpetual growth paradigm is like we're on a hamster wheel and just can't get off. There is of course a lot in our personal behavior that is keeping the wheel spinning (and accelerating) but it must also be said that capitalism and its corporate puppet masters have been quite brilliant at distributing wealth to the few, while the vast majority of people around the world are fighting for scraps, too busy and too poor to worry about the larger effects of always having to chase after the most immediate need.
That community workshop looks great, it's always hopeful to see people defying the gods of marketing and consumerism and getting back to what really matters — community.
I see you in my memory. We are at a seminar for potential career-creation. The pyramid scheme is explained and we are being invited to participate, as self-employed salespeople, for a company aggressively pushing natural, "earth friendly" products. The oozing meta-message is that these products are going to make life easy, make the earth whole again. You stand, outraged at the paradigm. You proclaim before all attendees (about 60 strangers, in polyester business-suits) "If you people think that MORE PRODUCTS are going to cure the world, you're all FUCKED!" You exit. You are my hero. But, I know that the plight of the earth is felt deeply, in you. Then, as now, you are so clear, passionate and articulate about it. I'm glad that Gaia has you on her side!


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The Bible Book by BookThe Prophet. Haggai was born in Babylon and was one of those who returned from captivity, under Zerrubbabel, according to the decree of Cyrus. He prophesied during the period of the rebuilding of the temple, as recorded in Ezra and he was the first prophet called to prophesy after the Jews returned from the captivity in Babylon. He began his teaching sixteen years after the return of the first band to Jerusalem.
The Conditions Out of Which Grew the Prophecy. Under the decree of Cyrus. King of Persia, Zerrubbabel, a descendant of King David, had led a company of captives back to Jerusalem. They had set up the altar and work on the temple had been begun, but the work had been interrupted by the hostile Samaritans and others and for about fourteen years almost nothing had been done. These years of inactivity had dulled their zeal and they were rapidly becoming reconciled to the situation and by reason of their weakness, compared with the great task before them, they were beginning to despair of seeing their people and beloved city and Temple restored to that glory pictured by former prophets.
The Prophecy. Its purpose was to restore the hope of the people and togive them zeal for the cause of God. This was accomplished by means of four distinct visions, each of which shows their folly in not completing the work, mid promises divine blessing. They hear God say, "I am with you, and will bless you." The result is seen in that they are enabled, in spite of opposition, to finish and dedicate it in about four years.
I. The Appeal to Rebuild the Temple, Ch. 1.
II. The New Temple, 2:1-19.
III. The Messianic Kingdom, 2:10-23.
For Study and Discussion, (1) The rebukes uttered by the prophet. (2) The encouragements he offers. (3) The historical confirmation of the facts of this book found in Ezra. (4) False content and discontent. (5) Basing conclusions upon the comparative strength of the friends and enemies of a proposition, while leaving God out of the count.THE BIBLE BOOK BY BOOK: A MANUAL:
For the Outline Study of the Bible by Books by J.B. TIDELL, A.M., D.D. Professor of Biblical Literature in Baylor University, Waco, Texas
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We Have a Winner!Monday, July 27, 2015
Many thanks to everybody who shared comments on my post the other day about Picture Books to Help Community Building! I love that so many of us share the belief that establishing and nurturing a community of learners is the foundation of a purposeful, effective classroom.
And I'm so very happy to announce a winner of the picture book giveaway!
Belinda of To the Edge, Over the Bridge won her choice of community-building books. She selected Roxaboxen (Alice McLerran, author, Barbara Cooney, illustrator), and it's already on its happy way to her mailbox!
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Coleman & Patterson has been employed to conduct the auction on two Victoria, TX commercial real estate properties. Both properties were damaged in Hurricane Harvey and are in need of repair or re-development. 1903 Sabine was a formal medical use facility with over 11,500 sf of rentable space. 3007 N. Navarro St was formally a 43K sf nursing home...3.48 Acres : AUCTION 8/7/18
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Strategy: Luckily, someone on the Excel team at Microsoft must have worked for your manager once. There is a setting on the Subtotals dialog to move the totals to the top of the section being subtotaled.
As shown in Fig. 692, in the Subtotal dialog, uncheck the box for Summary Below Data.
Result: As shown in Fig. 693, the Grand Total appears at the top of the dataset and the subtotal for each manager appears before records for that manager.
Summary: You can easily add subtotals above each section being subtotaled.
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Kid Cudi Cast in Aaron Paul Movie
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Kid Cudi has been cast in Need for Speed alongside Aaron Paul, Dominic Cooper, and Imogen Poots. According to Deadline, he'll play one of Aaron Paul's pals in the story of a road-race enthusiast seeking revenge after being framed for a murder. No word yet on how the world's cutest Kid Cudi fan feels about things, but we're hoping she approves.


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Published: 2001/05/21
by David Steinberg
Never Anger a Mathematician
I went out last month to see Sound Tribe Sector 9 at the Sit and
Spin. They're a fun band. They try to be a middle ground between an
electronica sound and a straightforward jamming guitar-based
band. While their jams can definitely work and be impressive, they
do all sound like the middle part of a jam. During their show, I
began to long for beginnings and endings. However, this is not a
column about STS9's music, it's a column about their beliefs.
One of Sound Tribe Sector 9's quirks is that they have a philosophy
based around the Mayan calendar. They handed out little fliers
explaining their beliefs. The front had a picture asking,
Which ruler would you use as a standard of measure?"
giving the choice of our traditional month-based calendar
and one with 13 months of 28 days with one day that doesn't appear in
any month (365 = (13*28) + 1). So far so good. This is another
variant of the simplified calendar approach that some people would
prefer. The back, though, doesn't explain the benefits in the usual way
(the big one is that you would always know what day of the month Christmas
and July 4th would be on. The 4th would always be on a Wednesday,
as would the 25th.). Instead of that, they go on a rant about the
spiritual superiority of the Mayan system.
Note to whoever wrote this thing: "I'm your worst nightmare." Not
only do I know math, I have a public forum in which I'm allowed to
talk about both math and jambands. Your entire goal should have been
to keep this out of my hands. Why?
"The Mayan mathematic, based on an elegant and more sophisticated
dot-bar notation system, is vigesimal, not decimal, that is, based on
20's rather than 10's. This gives the Mayan mathematical system a
fractal and exponential flexibility not exhibited by the decimal or
duodecimal (by 12's) system on which the Gregorian calendar is based."
Ah such a treasure trove in only a paragraph:
(1) "Mathematic" does not mean a system of mathematics. It means
someone who is predisposed to learn math.
(2) Note the introduction of words such as "vigesimal" and
"duodecimal" that are never used again in the flier. It's a classic
case of the rule, "Use academic words and people will think you know
what you're talking about."
(3) A fractal is a class of shapes. Period. That's what it
is. Replace it in the sentence with "circle" and it makes equal
sense, "This gives the Mayan mathematical system a circle and
exponential flexibility…"
(4) What is exponential doing in that sentence? The only time
exponents come up when you're talking about your base system is that
the "hundreds" place when you write numbers would be (20)^2 instead of
(10)^2. I don't see how changing one arbitrary rule with another one
gives you any more flexibility.
If they meant that it's exponentially more flexible, well again, that
makes as much sense as saying a 40 letter alphabet is better than a 20
letter alphabet because you can express more ideas in it. It's just a
tradeoff between longer words and a more complicated system to
remember. It's not like there will be a number that can be written in
base 20 but not in base 10.
You know, it's possible to combine mysticism with mathematics. I do
it all the time. However, there's a difference between doing so with
an actual understanding of mathematics (look how these two seemingly
unrelated ideas actually have this strange deep connection; isn't
that neat?) and doing so by writing the word "fractal" at random in
the middle of sentences. (There is a sentence later on that says,
"...the tzolkin gave the Maya the fractal yardstick [1] by which they could construct calendars…")
Postscript: The flier did mention
a web page where you could go for more information. I
decided to check it out to see if it made any more sense. Maybe this
was just a poor summary of a complex idea. As soon as I read, "So
immersed was humanity in the 12:60 timing frequency, that it could not
properly heed the call of the Time Shift, July 26, 1992, Blue Cosmic
Storm. Agents 11 and 22 had decoded the mathematics of
fourth-dimensional time, which support and give form to the Thirteen
Moon calendar, and presented these codes in their entirety as the
Dreamspell tool-kit. However, the human mind had become further
entrenched in its own error, and as a result could not comprehend the
meaning and significance of the Dreamspell,"
http://www.earthascending.com/maya/PV_book_02.html) I gave up on
that goal. That URL should be good for some laughs, I'm sure. As a
free hint to all such writers, let me explain one thing. There is a
difference between disagreeing and not understanding. Sometimes
people will understand your ideas just fine and still manage to think
you are wrong.
[1] Fractal yardstick? I'm not sure it's
possible to come up with a worse metaphor. One of the main concepts
about fractals is that their size is not fixed. The closer you look
at it, the longer their sides are.
For an example, think of the Atlantic coast. A giant would be able to
walk down the coast in a straight line. A normal person would have to
walk around the Chesapeake Bay and all of the other inlets. An ant
would have to crawl around every single bit where the ocean moved in
for an inch.
If you asked "How long is the Atlantic coastline?" the answer is, "It
depends on how big you are." There is no one answer for this. A
"fractal yardstick" is a meaningless term, and another sign that the
writers of this flier had absolutely no idea of what they were talking
David Steinberg got his Masters Degree in mathematics from New Mexico
State University in 1994. He first discovered the power of live music
at the Capitol Centre in 1988 and has never been the same. His Phish
stats website is at
www.ihoz.com/PhishStats.html and he was the stats section editor
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Straight talk and student activities are included in campaigns this week to wake up college students about alcohol.
Use and abuse of alcohol are being discussed at three college campuses during National Collegiate Alcohol Awareness Week. Parties without alcohol also have been included in the activities.
Alcohol is allowed at just one of four colleges in Palm Beach County.
Northwood Institute in West Palm Beach does not allow alcohol on campus, said Mark Nicholas, director of public relations. It is also not permitted at Palm Beach Community College in Lake Worth, said counselor Lois Pasapane.
``We`ve had the same problems as any other college does. We`ve had incidents relating to the destruction of property,`` said Kevin Petrovsky, director of student housing at Northwood. ``It`s something we`re trying to prevent from taking hold.``
Two hundred of the 500 Northwood students live in the newly-built housing there, he said.
Freshman students who are away from home for the first time are experimenting, said Northwood senior Mike Budnik, who is chief resident advisor. ``We`re trying to make them aware of what can happen,`` he said.
``It`s kind of like a game,`` Budnik said. ``They`re testing out the waters.``
Alcohol is restricted at Florida Atlantic University in Boca Raton, said Karl Ijams, dean for student affairs.
The vendor of the cafeteria and Rathskeller are licensed to serve wine and beer, and alcohol can only be served at university social events in other areas if approved before hand, he said.
FAU was an upper division school until 1983, when the first freshmen were admitted, Ijams said. In 1984, the legal drinking age was changed from 18 to 21.
That caused some difficulties, Ijams said. Some of the students had been drinking since they were 14 or 15 years old, and since no drinking was allowed, it cramped their style, he said.


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Open Thread: Talk About What Matters Most to You
Discuss and debate the issues that mean the most to you.
I have a confession: I used to be a pro-life activist. I stumbled into the pro-life movement in 2006 when a friend invited me to attend a pro-life meeting at a social-justice-oriented college.
My freshman year was one of growth and challenge regarding the dignity and value of human life. I learned about the biology of the developing human in utero, the unfathomable cost of capital punishment, the injustices of inaccessible healthcare, and the massive human costs of a broken immigration system. I was brought into the pro-life consciousness with a broad understanding of what it meant to be pro-life. Like so many freshman, I felt as though my window to understanding the world had been opened. It did not take me long to realize that this was my most naïve moment.
In my first sociology class, my class partner (who is openly gay) and I selected the topic of gay rights for our final project. The professor approached me after class to tell me, "I respect you for being willing to work with Jeff on a topic you disagree on."
I was utterly confused, until she explained that she understood I was opposed to gay rights based on an earlier position paper I'd written on abortion. I was livid.
A semester later I participated in a seminar on immigration and border issues. During our culminating trip to the US-Mexico border, our leader remarked to me, "I'm surprised you hang out with the pro-life group, you seem like you care about human rights."
Again, I was confused. I DID care about human rights — that was why I was in a pro-life group and why I was taking a stand on border issues. Occasionally in office hours while talking about non-abortion subjects, professors would say things like "I know your faith tells you that [insert belief about non-abortion issues here]." This was confusing to me. What faith? Never once in a college paper or in office hours did I talk about religion.
In 2008, I got on a bus to Washington D.C. for the March for Life with 50 other college anti-abortion activists. I was fired up and ready to raise awareness. To my surprise, there were no talks on advocating for healthcare or childcare access. Instead, we heard a series of lectures on how chastity was important in promoting a "culture of life." They urged that if we had committed this grave mortal sin that we should repent. I had a hard time understanding how me personally not having sex was directly tied to saving lives.
Throughout college I worked in leadership roles with six major pro-life organizations. Consistently and to my extreme frustration, the other leaders seemed far more interested in promoting chastity than in doing anything that would actually result in fewer abortions.
Through my involvement with other social justice issues, I inquired of several leaders about their history with activism. Two stated that they had begun their careers in the pro-life movement, but at some point realized that "it wasn't where I could have the greatest impact." While applying to graduate schools, a prospective advisor gleaned from my curriculum vita that I had been involved in Students for Life. I learned that he too had previously taken a pro-life stance, but that a professional organization in our field had suggested that he keep his research on this issue silent for political reasons. He stated that his previous pro-life stance had not affected his ability to get a job, and that his current institution "graciously has not brought that up with me."
With that conversation, I went from being annoyed at being misjudged to being scared of risking my professional reputation. After five years of arguing with "pro-life" leaders about why chastity is not a pro-life issue, and defending my pro-life involvement among friends, professors, and human rights activists, I was exhausted. Truthfully, I could not admit my cowardice at being mislabeled as overly religious/anti-gay rights/anti-reproductive health, so I convinced myself that I too could have the greatest impact elsewhere.
It's been several years since my retreat from the pro-life movement. In the wake of the Planned Parenthood undercover videos, I've felt an overwhelming flood of emotions. I am outraged at those who have hijacked the abortion issue as a means to deny women reproductive health services. I am appalled that my tax dollars support an organization that advocates for the grisly abortion practices so callously described in those videos. Far more strongly, I feel embittered that my voice has been implicitly silenced.
I recently felt this acutely when I found myself doing what trendy late 20-somethings do on weekends – game night. During a round of Trivial Pursuit, a male friend casually brought up the Republican debates and remarked, "I just can't get behind male candidates who don't support reproductive health." There was nothing I could say in response. I could not jump in and agree, because that would imply that I am pro-choice.
It would also be inappropriate game night conversation to respond, "I know! I can't believe that those candidates want to de-fund Planned Parenthood, which would reduce women's access to contraception without re-routing those services. However, I do agree with them that we shouldn't give tax dollars to an organization that supports abortion, which is a scientifically unjustifiable practice. By the way, I'm a liberal democrat on all other issues so please don't judge me or assume I only said this because I'm religious."
To demonize an entire organization is to miss the nuances of Planned Parenthood's role in reproductive health. However, I've found little appreciation for nuance on either side of this issue. As such, I would like to direct a "shame on you" to the "pro-life" movement as well as to Planned Parenthood. Shame on you "pro-life" leaders, because you have put your religious beliefs above the well-being of unborn children and their mothers. You have alienated activists such as myself by insisting that we adhere to your narrow version of what it means to be "pro-life." Shame on you to those who advocate for Planned Parenthood while refusing to consider that the issues of reproductive heath care and abortion may not be one and the same. In the wake of calls to de-fund Planned Parenthood, this jeopardizes our access to contraception and health screenings because you cannot consider options for re-routing these services untied to abortion providers. Shame on you for labeling me as a million things I am not because you do not want to hear my voice.
I know that I am not alone in my beliefs or my silence. I know many young, former pro-life activists who have found that taking this stance is unsustainable and incompatible with their professional careers and relationships. I would like to advocate for both women and for humans in-utero, and I don't particularly care whether I do that on the pro-life or pro-reproductive health side. In the meantime, I'm ashamed to confess that I'll be waiting embittered on the sidelines until I'm invited by either team to play.


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30 Oct 2013
Bold commitments, disappointing delivery: Five challenges for Tanzania and the OGP
By Mtega.com
Tanzania has made strong statements about the Open Government Partnership (OGP). It has also promised to deliver. When President Kikwete spoke at the OGP Summit in Brazil in April 2012, he said:
"I promise that we will do our best to live up to the expectations of this partnership to promote transparency and accountability of our government to the people of Tanzania. I wish to reaffirm that our political will to achieve the OGP goals will not falter because open government is at the heart of the contract between state and citizens"But is Tanzania is living up to these bold words? The sceptics out there are not so sure.
Just six months remain on the first two-year Action Plan. And while some progress has been made, overall it has been disappointing. The government has published its own self-assessment report on the OGP website. By my calculations, of the 25 commitments in Tanzania's Action Plan, only two have been fully met – to publish a citizens' budget and to establish an OGP focal person within government. Given that the first of these was already happening before the OGP, and was largely delivered by Policy Forum, this is not great.
But that harsh judgement may not be wholly fair. Though other commitments may have been met only in part, there is significant progress to report. Take a look at the Nifanyeje? website, the new NECTA exam results open data site and the National Audit Office website, or take have a sneak peak at the Ministry of Water's forthcoming Waterpoint Mapping site. They're all part of Tanzania's OGP Action Plan commitments. None of them are perfect, they may not be beautiful and some of them are not finished, but at least they're something.
The sense I have is that there's a struggle going on within government. Some ministers and officials support the open government idea, others couldn't care less. In parts of government where there is more support, where individual politicians or civil servants have been willing to push, there has been quicker progress.
Nevertheless, overall, progress has been slow and disappointing. A lot of work needs to be done if Tanzania is going to prove the OGP sceptics wrong. In particular, as world leaders (and I) gather in London this week for the next OGP Summit, where President Kikwete is expected to speak, here are five questions that Tanzania needs to answer.
1. What will the government do differently next time? Most of Tanzania's commitments in the first OGP Action Plan have not been met. So how will the government make sure it delivers on the next set of commitments? And will someone be held accountable for it?
2. Will the next plan include some more ambitious commitments in key OGP areas? Tanzania's first Action Plan covered a lot of different issues, but lacked ambition in key areas. The commitments on Freedom of Information Law and public officials' asset disclosures were very minimal, for example. How about including commitments to open contracting, freedom of information, asset disclosures and freedom of the press?
3. Will the Tanzanian government be more open about open government? Tanzania's engagement with the OGP has been far from perfect. Aside from the key gaps in the Action Plan and slow pace of delivery, the process has not lived up to the expected standards of transparency and participation, as the government's own progress report admits. The Action Plan is not even available on the OGP website (though it can be found on the Ministry of Water's site), and very little information on progress has been made public.
4. Will the government embrace fully open data standards? Even where Tanzania has fulfilled some parts of the first Action Plan, there are signs that the commitment to "open" is only partial. The Waterpoint mapping website, for example, is designed to make only some of the data public, and the National Audit Office site publishes reports in pdf format rather than machine-readable formats.
5. How does the government reconcile the suspension of Mwananchi, Mtanzania and MwanaHalisi newspapers and the Prime Minister's exhortation in Parliament for the police to "beat" protesters with Tanzania's commitment to open government? Open government means much more than delivering on a list of technical actions. It involves a change of mindset and a different approach to how government works.
The benefits of open government are worth struggling for. And the Open Government Partnership, for all its imperfections, may be one of the best mechanisms to help us achieve greater transparency and accountability. I will be listening carefully to see what President Kikwete and his fellow leaders say this week in relation to these 5 questions, and I encourage you to do the same. And even more importantly, watch carefully what is done. Because, as all good politicians know, actions speak louder than words.
9 Oct 2013
7 Mar 2013
News coverage of the attack on Tanzania Editors' Forum Chairperson, Absalom Kibanda
March 27
Mahakama yamkabidhi polisi mshirika wa Lwakatare
Seditious case facing Kibanda, others postponed
Kesi ya uchochezi dhidi ya kina Kibanda yaahirishwa
Tz Daima:
Lwakatare aibua mambo mapya
Kibanda aundiwa 'zengwe' jipya
KAULI NZITO YA KIBANDA: Kwa JK uzushi, kwa wengine kashfa!
Sunday March 24th
Meza ya magazeti
Is Tanzania becoming a Mafia state?
Kuteswa Kibanda: Tujenge utamaduni wa kuupa uchunguzi, ushahidi nafasi yake
Tz Daima:
Jeshi la Polisi nalo lichunguzwe!
Tunahitaji miujiza
Tunanyamazishana kwa kutesana na kuuana?
Tusizime suala la Kibanda kwa filamu ya Lwakatare
Hatuwezi kuunyamazia unyama huu
Tusipohubiri amani kwa maneno na vitendo tunaikaribisha kimbari
Polisi wamtosa Kibanda
Wataalamu wa teknolojia waichambua video ya Lwakatare
Jamii Forums:
Lwakatare atakiwa kuachia ngazi kukinusuru chama na kuchafuka
Mahakama yamkabidhi polisi mshirika wa Lwakatare
Seditious case facing Kibanda, others postponed
Kesi ya uchochezi dhidi ya kina Kibanda yaahirishwa
Tz Daima:
Lwakatare aibua mambo mapya
Kibanda aundiwa 'zengwe' jipya
KAULI NZITO YA KIBANDA: Kwa JK uzushi, kwa wengine kashfa!
Sunday March 24th
Meza ya magazeti
|Tz newspapers 24/3/2013 - click to enlarge
Is Tanzania becoming a Mafia state?
Kuteswa Kibanda: Tujenge utamaduni wa kuupa uchunguzi, ushahidi nafasi yake
Tz Daima:
Jeshi la Polisi nalo lichunguzwe!
Tunahitaji miujiza
Tunanyamazishana kwa kutesana na kuuana?
Tusizime suala la Kibanda kwa filamu ya Lwakatare
Hatuwezi kuunyamazia unyama huu
Tusipohubiri amani kwa maneno na vitendo tunaikaribisha kimbari
Polisi wamtosa Kibanda
Wataalamu wa teknolojia waichambua video ya Lwakatare
Jamii Forums:
Lwakatare atakiwa kuachia ngazi kukinusuru chama na kuchafuka
28 Feb 2013
Tanzanian journalist harassed, suspected of 'selling state secrets'
(RSF/IFEX) - Reporters Without Borders wrote to Tanzanian minister of home affairs Emmanuel Nchimbi last week to call for an end to the harassment of the journalist Erick Kabendera and his family by representatives of the state.
"Tanzania's ranking in the 2013 Reporters Without Borders press freedom index is 36 places lower than last year," the 18 February letter said. "No journalists had been killed until September 2012, but thereafter two were killed in the space of four months and this has had a big impact on the Tanzanian news environment.
"Harassment by officials of such a respected journalist as Mr. Kabendera can only exacerbate the current sense of helplessness among Tanzanian journalists, especially when everything indicates that it is not random. These intimidation attempts are targeting a talented journalist and seem designed to protect a senior official who was affected by his testimony."
Signed by secretary-general Christophe Deloire, the letter added: "Reporters Without Borders urges you to call the Immigration Department to order so that this disgraceful harassment stops. We also urge you to tell the police that they must do whatever is necessary to guarantee the safety of Mr. Kabendera and his family."
A former employee of the Dar es Salaam-based Guardian newspaper, Kabendera was a 2009 winner of the David Astor Journalism Award for journalists who are "exceptionally promising and with a great potential for excellence in the future."
In December 2012 in London, he testified for the defence in a libel suit that Tanzanian businessman and Guardian owner Reginald Mengi brought against British blogger Sarah Hermitage.
Ever since his return to Tanzania, he has been the target of intimidation attempts. His home has been ransacked three times and Immigration officials have been casting doubt on his nationality without any legal grounds.
His elderly and ailing parents were escorted in an appalling manner to a regional immigration office where they were subjected to an eight-hour interrogation and were asked to sign documents without being allowed to read them.
Although life-long employees of the Tanzanian state, Kabendera's parents obtained limited and unsatisfactory explanations from the officials who interrogated them. The officials said that the investigation was ordered by Immigration Department Commissioner Magnus Paul Ulungi, and that it was a "sensitive" matter that had to be followed "closely." One official added that Kabendera was suspected of selling state secrets to "European powers" but "everything will be all right" if he remains "humble."
After falling 36 places, Tanzania is now ranked 70th out of 179 countries in the latest Reporters Without Borders press freedom index.
19 Feb 2013
This week on Daraja's newspaper…
(who will replace Makinda in Njombe constituency ?)
The following is a round-up of some of the stories that have appeared on this week's Daraja publication, Daraja Letu (Njombe edition)
A primary teacher doing wonders
Beda Mtitu, headmaster of Kibeto Primary School, is also the only teacher there. He has been teaching at the school on his own for seven years now since 2006. Currently the school has 77 pupils and three classrooms. Mtitu is not happy with the situation. He has asked the district to send in more teachers but was told that people must first build more classrooms and houses for teachers which the village has not yet done. The district education officer has also said that school inspectors will be dispatched before they consider sending more teachers there. So, he is the only teacher. But last year eight out of the 11 pupils who sat for the national standard seven exam passed.
No electricity for fear of witchcraft
People in Ludewa village in Ludewa district have refused to have their homes connected to electricity for fear of repercussions from the local witches (wachawi). Everyone is waiting for someone else to take the first step to see what happens. Witchcraft has the village in a grip of fear with people claiming to see the dead walking during the night. Ludewa District Commissioner, Juma Madaha, along with several other officials has been to the village to try and talk some 'sense' into the scared community. However, say the villagers, unless the district commissioner can get rid of the walking dead no one will get electricity into their house. It is believed that witches, in that village usually target the most successful people in the community because of jealous.
Who will step into Makinda's shoes?
The lead story asks who will stand for a seat in parliament through ruling party CCM's ticket in the 2015 general elections following the Speaker of the House and Njombe Kusini's MP Anne Makinda's statement that she will not contest after her current term is over. Makinda who was quoted as said that contrary to popular opinion, MPs do not have any money at all and have to struggle to make ends meet. One, Deo Mwanyika- who hails from Njombe and employed by Africa Barrick Gold, as a Deputy President (Africa), is said to be among those who will stand, if he is nominated by his party CCM, anyway.
To the hospital in a tractor
The health centre in Luana ward is, according to people in Luana, too expensive. It is so expensive that they would rather hire the village tractor to go to the district hospital in Ludewa. People only go to the centre as a last resort because apart from being too expensive, the drugs are also frequently missing and getting a health staff to attend takes hours. Alphonce Haule, the tractor driver says it takes up to two hours to get to Ludewa. Recently, a child has died because his parents did not have enough money to go to the centre or hire the tractor to town. The health centre belongs to a Catholic Church priest in the area. A nurse at the centre says that is the problem because the church just sets its own prices for the drugs. "If we open a government centre then things will be different," she is quoted as saying.
Nineteen kilometres walk to test for malaria
People in Ludende village have to walk up to 19kms just to get a malaria test as their clinic doesn't have the testing kits. Zakaria Mhagama says the health staff diagnose them by asking questions about how they feel. Zakaria and others are scared that they might be treated for the wrong disease and lose their lives. It costs about Tsh 25,000 (USD 16) on a motorcycle to go to one of the nearby health centres in Lugarawa and Milo villages.
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Travelling between Durham City and Queen's Campus, Stockton
PLEASE NOTE: a new X12 timetable will be in operation from Sunday 18th February 2018. This sees the reduction of two services and amendments to two early services on the journey between Middlesbrough and Durham City. A copy of the new timetable is available on the Arriva website.
A free inter-campus bus service, using the Arriva X12 bus service, is available for all students and staff travelling between Durham and Queen's Campus, Stockton. This is a half hourly service during the day time and an hourly service during the evening, Monday to Saturday with an hourly service on Sundays. Students and staff can travel free on the public Arriva X12 service during both term time and vacation periods and must show a valid camus ID card to the driver to gain FREE travel.
Free travel is available between Middlesbrough Bus Station to Harvard Aveune, Stockton and then onto Durham Bus Station - extended from Durham Bus Station to Aykley Heads, adjacent to Keenan House. A printable copy of the current timetable for 2017/18 can be found here. The bus service operates during both term time and vacation periods (please note a slightly reduced service operates during the vacation periods).
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