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HPDO: 2 days until expiry
We met with Queensland Health again on Wednesday. We discussed a range of things including access to further training for oral health therapists, progression, staff mental health and safe work environments. You can see some notes of discussions here.
Once again QH wanted further information and research to consider our claims. They wanted to know how providing training for oral health members would benefit QH and provide better services.
At our delegates committee meeting yesterday we have resolved to send all the information QH has requested by early next week to continue to demonstrate that we are ready, willing and able to settle these issues. But QH really needs to get us some answers too.
Our agreement expires on Sunday and negotiations just aren't progressing as quickly as we would like.
By now we hoped to have discussed all of the important issues, however there is still a lot of important issues and claims to talk about.
Next week, we will be telling QH that they need to provide an offer sooner rather than later. We want to see in-principle agreement reached by 16 November. An offer 2 to 3 days before the 16th just isn't good enough. We need time to consider the offer and make a decision that Together members like us are happy with.
Given it is likely that QH won't have the offer in time, delegates recommend that to put the spotlight on our agreement we should start to consider our industrial options. That means we need to start voting on industrial action options for down the track. It's a very simple process but takes a long time to process, that's why we are suggesting getting our ballots going early. HPs and DOs in Oral Health have already started this process statewide.
P.S. Alex was in the media this week talking about strengthening the rights of temporary staff in the health service particularly in the context of health boards running over budget. It's worth having a read of this in the context of our claims about job security. It matters to all of us!


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A parents' guide to select new movies:
Rating: PG-13 for intense sequences of action violence and brief strong language
What it's about: Somebody is trying to hunt down and kill retired CIA assassins.
The Kid Attractor Factor: Bruce Willis, John Malkovich and lots of silliness in between shooting sprees
Good lessons/bad lessons: Flirt with the wrong guy by phone or e-mail, and you could end up kidnapped.
Violence: Shootouts and brawls
Language: Profanity, some of it "strong"
Sex: Flirting, mostly
Drugs and alcohol: None
Parents' advisory: The violence and subject matter make this a PG-13 in which the "13" should be taken seriously.
'My Soul to Take'
Rating: R for strong bloody violence, and pervasive language including sexual references
What it's about: A murderer might have returned to his hometown to kill seven kids born the night he supposedly was killed.
The Kid Attractor Factor: A killer loose among foul-mouthed, oversexed high schoolers, in 3-D
Good lessons/bad lessons: Walking home from school can be as dangerous as driving home — for teenagers
Violence: The blood flows as throats are cut and bodies are gutted.
Language: Lots of profanity; pretty raw
Sex: These teens are all talk, no action. Lots of talk, though
Drugs and alcohol: None
Parents' advisory: The violence rules this out for younger viewers; OK for ages 16 and older.

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Allegany College of Maryland is warning students and their parents about a private company's letter urging them to pay money for financial aid information that is available free of charge.
The college financial aid office has fielded calls from students asking if they should comply with a letter from College Financial Advisory notifying that it is time to apply for all available 2010-11 financial aid programs.
The letter states that financial aid assistance is available to students regardless of academic performance or family income and that this free money can pay for books, computers and transportation in addition to tuition, room and board.
Both claims should raise suspicion, according to college financial aid officials.
Students are instructed by CFA to fill out the company's Student Aid Profile Form in order to proceed with its student aid program and to remit a $59 processing form by Wednesday.


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- Kit includes Canon EOS Rebel DSLR Camera Body T6 Body – Canon 18-55mm EF-S f/3.5-5.6 IS II Autofocus Lens – Canon Zoom EF 75-300mm f/4-5.6 III Autofocus Lens
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For God is not unjust. He will not forget how hard you have worked for him and how you have shown your love to him by caring for other believers, as you still do. (Hebrews 6:10) (NLT).
This passage of Scripture provides wonderful insight into the character of God, profound instruction about one of the many ways in which we demonstrate our love for Him, and great encouragement concerning the service we perform in His Name.
First of all, Paul reminds us of our Lord's matchless mercy and boundless grace: He does not forget our faithfulness, but remembers our sins no more! Our Heavenly Father blots out our transgressions, consigning to oblivion even our darkest of sins, but remembers and rewards even the smallest act of kindness we show His children: "I—yes, I alone—will blot out your sins for my own sake and will never think of them again. . . . Truly I tell you, anyone who gives you a cup of water in my name because you belong to the Messiah will certainly not lose their reward." (Isaiah 43:25 (NLT); Mark 9:41 (NIV)).
In 1 Corinthians 13, Paul provides a comprehensive definition of love, in terms of its fundamental nature -- viz., love is patient, love is kind, love does not envy, etc. (1 Corinthians 13:4-7). In Hebrews 6:10, however, Paul gives us a very helpful and practical example of how to love God -- by caring for our fellow believers. Put differently, we love God by loving each other! Every act of kindness we show another believer is an act of kindness to the Lord! Every act of service we perform for another believer is an act of service to the Lord! When we demonstrate our love for each other, we demonstrate our love for the Lord.
Finally, Paul encourages us to persevere in serving God, by caring for one another, because God will not forget a single act of love and service we perform in His Name. He is a just God who rewards the hard work we do for Him and the care we show His children. Not a single sacrifice of love for the Lord and His saints is done in vain! One day, our faith, love, and hard work will be rewarded with an inheritance that far exceeds anything our minds can conceive. And this hope serves "as an anchor for the soul, firm and secure." (Hebrews 6:19).


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June 25, 2009 15:09 ET
ST-JOSEPH-DE-COLERAINE, QUEBEC--(Marketwire - June 25, 2009) - The Honourable Christian Paradis, Minister of Public Works and Government Services and member of Parliament for Megantic-L'Erable, on behalf of Canada's Environment Minister, the Honourable Jim Prentice, announced today up to $779,817 in funding from the EcoAction Community Funding Program for 23 projects in the province of Quebec. The total value of these projects is $2,682,625.
"The Government of Canada is committed to addressing the environmental priorities of Canadians," said Minister Prentice. "We are proud to support community groups across the country willing to take concrete action through on-the-ground environmental projects in order to preserve and enhance the quality of Canada's natural heritage."
In the Megantic region, Environment Canada has contributed $82,167 to the Action Belles Rives Grand Lac Saint-Francois project, which aims to renaturalize 300 shoreline properties. This riparian strip will improve the lake's health and is effective in preventing blue algae. To maximize the project's impact, the participating shoreline residents will have to be committed to the revegetation of their properties, to using phosphate-free dishwashing soap, and not using pesticides or fertilizers on their lawns.
"The EcoAction community funding program is a concrete example of how the Government of Canada is helping communities and their citizens enjoy cleaner air, water and land," said Minister Paradis. "And we are supporting projects under this program because we believe on the ground activities like these can and will make a difference."
Each year, Environment Canada funds various groups which help to deliver real results for Canadians and our environment. Environment Canada's EcoAction Community Funding Program provides financial support to locally-based, not-for-profit organizations to undertake community-level projects that have positive, measurable results for the environment. The program assists these organizations in initiating projects that result in cleaner air, reductions in greenhouse gas emissions, cleaner water, and the conservation of nature at the local community level.
"Protecting a lake's water quality includes renaturalization of its shores, but more importantly, a will to take action at every level," said Roger Lamothe, president of L'Association des riverains du Grand Lac Saint-Francois. "Residents, municipalities, farmers and industries must see what they can to ensure water quality and should remember that each action counts."
More information about the EcoAction Community Funding Program is available on Environment Canada's website at the following address: www.ec.gc.ca/ecoaction.
Environment Canada's EcoAction Community Funding Program supports community-based projects that have measurable, positive impact on the environment. Funded projects engage Canadians in their communities to take action to protect our air, climate, water and nature.
The program provides funding to successful applicants for projects that protect, rehabilitate or enhance the natural environment, and/or build the capacity of communities to sustain these activities into the future. Funding support can be requested for projects that have an action focus, a community capacity building focus, or a combination of both objectives. Hundreds of EcoAction projects are currently underway or have been completed across Canada over the years.
Applicants must ensure that at least 50 per cent of the total value of their project comes from sources other than the federal government. This leveraging can take the form of either financial or in-kind resources such as volunteered labour, products, or services. Partner funding and other support broaden the scope of projects, improve on-the-ground results, and strengthen the public and private collaboration that is essential to involving all Canadians.
Some of the funded activities include projects aimed at reducing individual greenhouse gas emissions by getting people to carpool or ride the bus; improving water quality by reducing the amount of pesticides or household hazardous substances entering streams and lakes; working to reduce air emissions that contribute to air pollution; and restoring and protecting natural habitat. These are a few of the ways that Canadians are improving the environment in their communities with the help of the EcoAction Community Funding Program.
More information about the EcoAction Community Funding Program is available on Environment Canada's website at the following address: www.ec.gc.ca/ecoaction.
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Southee: Kiwis ready for one more big push in ICC Cricket World Cup final
MELBOURNE, Australia (AP):
Fast bowler Tim Southee says that after reaching the Cricket World Cup final for the first time and with their most well-rounded limited-overs team ever assembled, New Zealand are ready for "one more big push" to beat Australia and to write a new chapter in their history.
Southee said New Zealand had allowed themselves a day to celebrate the dramatic semi-final win over South Africa, which carried them into Sunday's (tonight Jamaica time) final in Melbourne and had now "parked" the memory of that match.
Playing in a World Cup final, particularly against Australia in Australia, was his "dream come true".
"As a kid growing up you either wanted to be an All Black or a Black Cap and this is as good as it gets," he said. "I'm sure the guys are very excited to fulfill a childhood dream."
Time of our lives
Southee said New Zealand captain, Brendon McCullum, "speaks a lot about it being the time of our lives and the last couple of months we wouldn't replace for anything. We never wanted it to end. We've made it last as long as we possibly can and one more big push and the guys will remember it forever."
Southee spoke of a sporting rivalry with Australia in which New Zealand were always "the little brother". He was asked directly at a news conference yesterday whether the final was about winning the respect of a fierce sporting rival whose attitude to New Zealand cricket has always contained a note of condescension.
Southee allowed that there had been cause in the past for Australia to view New Zealand in that manner.
"In times gone by, we haven't played to our potential or been as consistent as we should have been," he said. "In the last two years, we've slowly, slowly gained a bit more respect because of the brand of cricket we're playing.
"We respect Australia. They're a quality side and they're not No. 1 in the world for no reason.
"It's an awesome opportunity," he said. "It's going to be a great game of cricket. Obviously both teams are playing exceptionally well at the moment and both are playing a great brand of cricket so it should be an exciting game and a great game to watch."


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Tomahawk, WI 09/17/2014 (Basicsmedia) – Alibaba Group Holding Ltd (NYSE:BABA) is set to carry out the biggest IPO in history while still struggling with the niggling problem of counterfeit goods on its online store, according to CNBC's Eunice Yoon. Fakes have flourished on Alibaba platforms and expected to raise concerns with regulators in the U.S.
"Alibaba is a big player in e-commerce, but many brands complain it's also a titan in China's counterfeit trade," said Mrs. Yoon.
One trader selling CNBC's counterfeit stickers on Taobao is' quoted as saying that he has never received warnings about his illegal trade practices. The remarks essentially arouse questions as to whether Alibaba is' committed at eradicating the vice. Alibaba Group Holding Ltd (NYSE:BABA) runs a completely different business model when compared to other giants online stores such as Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMZN) and eBay Inc. (NASDAQ:EBAY).
Alibaba does not own any of the merchandise sold on its platform thus making it extremely difficult for it to control the counterfeit vice. The giant Chinese online company relies on commissions from the sale of goods on its platform. Cracking on this counterfeit products has thus not been a top priority for the company as it would result in reduced earnings.
Operating in the U.S. is expected to be the biggest test for the company at the back of laws that govern the sale of counterfeit products. Alibaba Group Holding Ltd (NYSE:BABA) has already indicated it's willingness to do away with merchants selling counterfeit brands on its network.
"[…] in its recent SEC filing the firm said it is taking down counterfeits and making it easier for brands to report infringements. Now that Alibaba is listing in New York, the question is, will Alibaba Group Holding Ltd (NYSE:BABA) feel investor pressure? To truly stop the fakes, "said Mrs. Yoon.
Alibaba Group Holding Ltd (NYSE:BABA) is reported to have signed a series of anti-piracy agreements as it pushes-on with its drive to eliminate fakes from it's platforms. The giant online store has already removed over 114 million fake products from it's platform heading into the IPO.


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Do you know the Khajuraho temples do not contain sexual or erotic art inside the temple or near the deities; however, some external carvings bear erotic art. Also, some of the temples that have two layers of walls have small erotic carvings on the outside of the inner wall. There are many interpretations of the erotic carvings. They portray that, for seeing the deity, one must leave his or her sexual desires outside the temple. They also show that divinity, such as the deities of the temples, is pure like the atman, which is not affected by sexual desires and other characteristics of the physical body. It has been suggested that these suggest tantric sexual practices. Meanwhile, the external curvature and carvings of the temples depict humans, human bodies, and the changes that occur in human bodies, as well as facts of life. Some 10% of the carvings contain sexual themes; those reportedly do not show deities, they show sexual activities between people. The rest depict the everyday life of the common Indian of the time when the carvings were made, and of various activities of other beings. For example, those depictions show women putting on makeup, musicians, potters, farmers, and other folks. Those mundane scenes are all at some distance from the temple deities. A common misconception is that, since the old structures with carvings in Khajuraho are temples, the carvings depict sex between deities.
Between 950 and 1050, the Chandela monarchs built these temples when the Tantric tradition may have been accepted . Adherents of Tantrism teach that gratification of earthly desires is a step towards accomplishing Nirvana. In olden days, before the Mughal conquests, when boys lived in hermitages, following brahmacharitva until they became men, they could learn about the world and prepare themselves to become householders through examining these sculptures and the worldly desires they depicted.


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haha, i just received an N78 for changing display, the keypad.. Laugh or cry, very hard to choose, its really the worst ever, totally ridiculous. N78 must have been conceived when drunk and constructed during hangover. And den i mean really drunk and the worlds biggest hangover, too many empty bottles of Koskenkorva or Finlandia in Nokias engineering department that day. I hope there was whores also, must have been quite a party =)
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i love this phone.. I have had it for about 2 years. Its simply superb. Just that the keypad design isnt that good but its fine once u get used to it. One of the best phone from nokia.
one of the best phones by nokia,i like the key pad,im comfortable with it,the phone looks better than any other nseries phone,and is feature loaded n faster
I had one for more than a year. I got used to the lame keypad (I'm still prefer the one of my old 5310 XpressMusic) but there were some other issues that I had to deal with.
The Battery cover is fragile at best. The worst thing about this is that the WiFi antenna is in the battery cover, so when it broke and hardly remained on it's place, I lost all WiFi signal.
GPS never worked as good as I wanted. Nokia Maps was terribly slow, at best.
Syncing with my Mac was easy and effortless by bluetooth it was quite nice.
Nokia Messaging Service worked extremely well, but it consumed too much internal memory.
After a year it started to fail drastically... become slower until it didn't even accept my SIM card.
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worst pece ever made by nokia its all bullshit the keypad , i have fade up of this phone the circuit is totaly un reparable of camera even care center dont knw 2 repair bloody dumb pieace
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phone ig great but yhe keypad sucks.
I have had my Nokia N78 for almost 2 years. It restarts sometimes just randomly when messages are open. Or if some apps are open. I used to have a problem with the phone keeping on kicking me out of the settings&I had 2try 3 or 4 times to get back into it. Now since I've deleted somethings on my microsd card. It no longer has this issue. I have firmware ver 30.14. I wonder if I redo the firmware whether it will fix these issues?Thanks
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An Examination of the State of Science Education in Four Elementary Schools with a Majority of Native American Students
Date of Award
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Master of Science (MS)
Science & Mathematics Teaching Center
Dr. Ginger Paige, chair
Second Advisor
Dr. Ana Houseal
Third Advisor
Dr. Kate Muir Welsh
Fourth Advisor
Courtney Carlson
National trends show there has been a decrease in the amount of time science is taught in elementary schools in the last two decades. This study investigates the extent to which elementary schools in Native American communities face similar issues regarding science education. The purpose of this study was to examine the state of science education in four elementary schools in which the majority of students are Native American, with a primary focus on districts in the Intermountain West. Educators and administrators were interviewed to obtain descriptive data to examine the state of science education: identifying what is being taught in terms of science curriculum, and challenges teachers face. The research found that in the four districts interviewed science is being taught less than two hours a week, and often is not incorporated into the school day at all. The primary challenges teachers face are funding and support, which is reflected in a lack of science education supplies and coordinated curriculum. Without sufficient funding to purchase science materials and supplies, teachers struggle to incorporate science into the curriculum. Teachers are creating curriculum independently, and struggle with creating activities that are culturally relevant and age appropriate to Native American students. To address these challenges, this study identified the need to develop a science curriculum for K-5, which incorporates Native knowledge, to develop students' critical thinking skills.
Submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Masters in Science in Natural Science Education in the Science and Mathematics Teaching Center at the University of Wyoming.
Recommended Citation
Mann, Lara, "An Examination of the State of Science Education in Four Elementary Schools with a Majority of Native American Students" (2014). SMTC Plan B Papers. 24.


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So I'm just digging into some cool shit...right about where I want to be. It's late though. I need to let it go tonight. I'm returning raw API data. This is just from the jQuery getJSON method. That's not actually invoking HTTP. I want to get deeper than that. I want to make an API call.
I'm going to leave this here for tonight and call it quits. I'll have time over the weekend to work more on it!
Today's Log and Notes:
- People don't actually understand AJAX or API's much. They're just copying and pasting shit from Stackoverflow
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Submitting a contract is simple. Complete this form and submit to Smart Title along with the Purchase & Sale Agreement, Compensation Agreement, AfBA Disclosure (if applicable), and Property Condition Disclosure or Property Exemption Notification. Email everything to one of our Team Members or email@example.com. You may also fax your documents to 615-393-6223, or drop off at one of our office locations.
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If you are receiving proceeds from the sale or refinance of your property, there are two ways that Smart Title can submit your funds.
- Wire Transfer (typically around $25). For your convenience, we recommend that you have your proceeds wired into your checking or savings account. If you choose this option, please fill out Wire Authorization Form and email it to your Settlement Officer.
Bank hold on funds: None
- Check (no additional charge). You may pick up your check at one of our office locations after the closing. We cannot deposit your check for you; however, we will send it to you by FedEx Express Priority Overnight shipment for an additional fee of $25.
Bank hold on funds: typically 5-10 business days (please call your bank for info)
Due to the Tennessee Good Funds Act, banking regulations & split closings, it may take up to 24 hours after the closing for the title company assigned to manage escrow to disburse funds.
If you opt for a wire transfer, then it may take an additional 4 business hours for funds to reach your bank. Please check your bank's policy regarding funds availability and fees.
Note: If you are buying a home and plan to apply the proceeds from the sale of your current home towards the down payment, then we strongly recommend you have Smart Title wire transfer your sale proceeds to the Title Company processing your purchase. Please coordinate this with your Settlement Officer as early in the process as possible.
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Concerns about ICANN-VeriSign settlement
Dear Dr. Cerf: The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) Board is poised to make a historic decision on a proposed agreement to settle pending litigation with VeriSign and to extend VeriSign's contract as the registry operator for the .com domain. We are writing to voice our deep concern about this proposal. Even if this is, indeed, VeriSign's "last and best offer," it must not be ICANN's. ICANN's staff recently revised the proposed ICANN-VeriSign settlement and .com registry agreements. Unfortunately, the changes do not go to the heart of the matter. We focus here on the need to change the following, damaging provisions: 1. Pricing: The proposed revisions provide VeriSign with the unprecedented capability to increase prices by 7 percent annually in four of the next six years without cost-justification. 2. Perpetual management rights: The proposed revisions would modify the renewal clauses so that the contract is essentially non-cancellable and ICANN's right to rebid is taken away. The proposed agreement still harms the Internet community by allowing unjustified price increases in most future years at a time when fees for com should be decreasing, not rising. Even VeriSign last year agreed to drop fees by more than 40 percent for .net to win an extension of that registry agreement. The revised proposal changes the "presumptive renewal" provision to deny any competition when the contract ends in 2012, locking in VeriSign as the .com registry operator, without the counterbalance of a competitive bid process. This is particularly troubling because VeriSign, as the authorized registry operator for the .net and .com domain names, controls 85 percent of the U.S. market, as .com alone accounts for 75 percent of domain names registered by U.S. registrants. The guarantee of an unregulated monopoly runs counter to the reasons behind why ICANN was created, the policies of the anti-trust laws of the United States, and the competition policies of many nations worldwide. At the United Nations' World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) last year, arguments were made that the hands-off, market-based approach to ICANN administration is working. The current ICANN management structure upheld at WSIS must not be called into question in the future by ceding control of the .com registry operation to one U.S. operator essentially forever, and without competition or regulation. This letter highlights areas that deserve immediate attention. Other key concerns on which you will be hearing from us include a need for public accountability and third party verification of the $200 million investments in the .com infrastructure required of VeriSign under the current contract, and a requirement that VeriSign follow ICANN's consensus policy for introducing new registry services, such as selling traffic data relating to .com domain names. We urge you and your fellow Board members to sign a final agreement that preserves competition and promotes market-based pricing. What is before you for consideration achieves neither result. Thank you for your diligent efforts on these critical issues. Respectfully
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This is the weekly thread to discuss what you have done recently and are working on this week.
Please be descriptive and don't hesitate to champion your accomplishments or ask for help, advice or other guidance.
Just released a stockfish (chess engine) fork that's scriptable using Lua. The point is to try to give a more "human" feel to the sort of errors committed when trying to damper the skill level, as the errors committed by the builtin skill level implementation are pretty silly. Some brushing is needed before showing off in chess forums and whatnot, but already does its work
AI seem terrible to learn against, for that reason.
What I really want is an AI game partner that I can have a retrospective with after the game is finished - "I messed up here; this was a bad move".
As-is there's no good way to learn what worked.
With some engines, you can at least get a rough idea from the numeric score that the engine outputs, which is the same overall prediction it uses to pick moves. I often play Chess on lichess.org and enjoy looking through the graph afterward.
It's not the same as conversing with a human about it, and not all games are equally amenable to that sort of thing. But it's something.
I've seen Rammstein in show yesterday, I intend to spend part of the week recovering. Spent the whole week-end at the Festival d'Été de Québec, went to see Les Hotesses d'Hilaire (frankly awesome band, they sing in French), Gojira (also awesome, they ARE French, but they sing in English) and Rammstein. Way to celebrate hitting the big 30 in 9 days.
For work, I'm starting a sprint of bugfixing and tweaking stuff; there was supposed to be a kickoff of some sort for a new project last week, and we were supposed to start building that thing. But ya. Bugfixing instead. Beyond thrilled. :P
I'm also making some headway on restructuring some old code so that it is cleaner to inspect, fix, and extend in my personal projects; this should lead to some fun on my api generator and break me out of some dead ends.
Hey, speaking of music, do you like Radio-Radio? I saw them at the jazz fest and it was one of the best shows ever. I love that band.
Yup! Never saw them live, haven't got the chance yet. Would love to though. Misteur Valaire is also something to behold if they show up near you!
You missed them, looks like they were at that festival you just went to! I'll keep an eye for Misteur Valaire, thanks for the recommendation!
I'm finally back to Rust coding and picked up my work on a CouchDB client again.
I'm in dire search for a catchy name.
You can call it lasers because couches remind me of being lazy. And in good Rust spirit it has the letters 'r' and 's' in the name.
I'll put that into the pool, I decided to buy laze.rs - I just couldn't pass on the opportunity :).
I gave my paper on Friday and it went amazingly well. The best public speaking I have ever done. I have invitations to contribute a book chapter and a journal article on the back of it. I credit Matt Might's guide to giving talks — in particular his breathing and rehearsal tips — with my success, but also the friendliness and welcomingness of everyone at the conference. It's amazing how friendly and non-hostile attendees are at conferences outside of the computing world.
I was going to spend this week in the same city as the conference but I found out that library I wanted to visit is closed due to flood damage. So a friend invited me to come and stay with them in Boston. My plane leaves this evening.
The BMW lives once more, clutch slave cylinder replaced (& fuel filter whilst I had it in the air). Not convinced it's solved the intermittent engagement of the clutch, but it was the last thing to try before getting a mechanic to open up the bell housing & replace the clutch whilst in there. (aka, £££).
Steelcon was amazing, and coming up next month there's BSides Manchster which I'm also excited about (& have ticket for now). Small conferences on stuff I understand a bit about but don't actively deal with everyday are fun. (War stories are always fun regardless of understanding too.)
This week is going to mostly be helping a friend & family move 250+ miles north in the UK, which looks like it'll coincide with a heatwave (fuck you, UK weather). Finally got NAT working on my SmartOS webserver too, so starting to move things across from VMs to there as well. And have a hankering to get the RPi hooked up out the window for time lapses again. We'll see.
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Care to share any details about your language+implementation? Statically typed or dynamically typed? VM or AoT compiled?
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Have you looked at the Sparrow language before? It offers a very complete set of metaprogramming features http://firstname.lastname@example.com
Sounds fun, when do you think you might share it with the world? I'm always interested in new language designs.
Maybe debug Chromium crashes on FreeBSD. Get back to UT2004 level creating. Learn how to use Blender properly…
Finally got some dental work done last week for the first time in 5 years. Feels good. I recommend people holding off out there to go "get 'er done". I felt like an idiot not going sooner!
I spent last weekend in Prague (what a wonderful city) and will be spending the majority of this week (Wednesday -> Sunday) in Manchester for graduation and in Dublin for a post-graduation celebration ;) Since I have had so many social events recently, I've not got many technically interesting things planned since I need to focus on 'normal work' right now.
Vacation! Second real vacation in three years, and the first was only four days off. I'm getting better at this work-life balance thing.
I've moved my Clojure in Action, 2nd Ed. book from the bookshelf to my desk. So my goal this week is to go beyond "Hello, world".
This week, I'll be continuing my two-month-long job hunt. I've fortunately got two offers already that I'm standing on, but I'm really holding out for a third company to get back to me.
In the meantime though, I will be continuing work on two other projects:
1) Documentation for an "infrastructure-less" (sans Wifi router, sans cell tower) Internet of Things network stack, which I'd actually really love some extra eyeballs on if anyone is keen on reading some technical documentation!
2) A 2D platformer game (about a mime!) and small game engine for it built on top of the LOVE engine, for which I'm actually still in need of a game artist who can animate better than me (basically anyone is better than me).
Still iterating on go-chart. Need to figure out how to compress x-axis values to hide big gaps in data (useful for plotting response times etc.)
Outside of the dayjob, finally back to hacking on neuralobjects.com stuff a bit. I finally finished some work I was doing on having the provisioning process for clusters update a db record in stages throughout the process, and added a service that we can call to get the current "percent provisioning complete" for a given cluster. Now I need to wire that into the UI so that the "manage clusters" page shows a progress bar for "still provisioning" clusters, along with the percentage complete. Related to that will be adding the ability to send an email or an XMPP message or something at the end of the process.
Added energy pickups to my game, some new sound effects using bxfr.net next step to replace all placeholder graphics with images i can actually use in a release


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When dueling Elvis postage stamps caused a national feeding frenzy last spring, Dan Shedrick, CEO of the River Group, decided that the time was right for a new set of Elvis trading cards. "In America you've got apple pie, you've got baseball, and you've got Elvis," Shedrick sums up. He intends to market the cards in 250,000 retail outlets and pump $3.5 million into ads for a projected gross of more than $100 million.
The Presley estate has sanctioned Shedrick to produce a collection of 660 cards to be released in increments of 220 (the first set came out this month, the second is due in January 1993, and the third in March). Each pack contains 12 cards and retails for $1.49. Included in the new collection: Elvis' early years, the Vegas days, his cars, his movies, and moments from his personal life. About the only details not included are the King's abductions by aliens, his doctor's prescription pad, and his cholesterol count.


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[First Published on the soberistas website]
There's been a lot of coverage in the news lately about the dramatic increase in hospitalisations amongst baby boomers, due to their disastrous drinking habits – a trend that is counter to all other groups in society, we're told. The cause of this spike is something to do with the boomers' adolescent experiences of alcohol back in the 60s and 70s.
I think I (just) qualify as a baby boomer, being born in 1964. I can certainly identify with the point made in a recent article by a lady baby boomer who said that when she went to University in the 70s her family warned her about the perils of "pot", not alcohol. She was told to stick to cider, presumably on the basis that cider would bring her no harm, while marijuana would very likely lead to heroin addiction. There was clearly a lot of naivety around in the 70s. My parents, who were not generally unworldly, truly believed that drugs would have you "hooked" (their favoured term) in an instant. They also believed that alcoholics were very different sorts of people to anyone else. Alcoholics in their view would drink white spirit or mouth wash if they couldn't get hold of alcohol. I remember dad saying that an alcoholic would drink boot polish if alcohol weren't available. It had a lasting impression on me.
For us, as a family, alcohol was always seen as a special treat. When it appeared, it was in hushed excitement – usually at a birthday. I think this was because it was expensive and sophisticated, not dangerous or deviant. We children were allowed sips to start with, and later small quantities of our own. It was part of growing up, and I for one, waited patiently for the day when I could drink unrestricted, like an adult.
In wider society, alcohol was associated with ceremonies of all kinds, including religious ones (the "blood" of Christ), and its place in 1970s culture went absolutely unchallenged. If anyone drank too much, that was no doubt due to their own weakness, not society's – and very much their own business.
In the 70s people were less inclined to point the finger at other people's habits anyway. I remember the big fuss made about the infringement to personal liberty brought about by motorcyclists' compulsory wearing of safety helmets. The Liberal Party was dead against it. So, you can imagine what people would have made of interfering with other people's drinking habits. It was no one else's business but yours when you had a drink. The idea of printing the Government Health Inspector's recommended number of weekly units on the side of a bottle of beer, wine, or spirits would have sparked riots.
I don't think the 70s attitude was particularly laissez-faire or bohemian either. Pubs were closed for most of the day and alcohol wasn't available in anything like the number of places it is now (though oddly I remember there being a station-bar on the platform at Sloane Square Underground, and at Baker Street!).
It's just that alcohol was no worse than many other things that were taken for granted as part of life's rich tapestry – obesity, unsaturated fat, sugar, tobacco, lack of exercise, food-additives, pollution, amongst others.
I am sure that my own eventual psychological dependence on alcohol emerged from a desire to get hold of it as soon as I was old enough to do so. My subsequent problems of over-reliance have in part been down to this. Once it was established as my principle source of relaxation and entertainment, I couldn't see a way of enjoying life without it. I was terrified of alcohol being denied me, especially at social occasions.
On and on it went like this for 36 years until 3 and a half years ago I realised I had had enough of it and wanted something new and different. How long that desire for change would last, I had no idea, but here I am, 3.5 years later, feeling as confident in sobriety as ever. More so in fact. I feel as excited as a child most days, at some point. There is still a novelty in being free from the burden of worry about alcohol (drinking too much of it; not having enough of it, spending too much money on it, hiding it…) There is also the joy of discovering new things about myself; the things I like doing and not doing; where my priorities lie in relation to family, work-life-balance, free time, holidays. Alcohol clouded my judgement of these things, usually because it was more important to me than anything else, even if I wasn't prepared to admit it at the time.
Today I am empowered, in control and overjoyed. Alcohol never allowed me to feel any of those things for longer than a few hours, after which their opposites took over. Round and round I went on the same cycle. It was a waste of time and money, and it took me 36 years to realise it. But as soon as the penny dropped, everything clicked into place and I haven't looked back.
I think what my journey conveys is the ease with which a determined drinker, like me, can change. My story is not one of crash and burn. Far from it. I believe I could have carried on drinking for another 20 years at least. My message is: if a "successful" and committed drinker like me can change his mind, so can other big drinkers.
You just need to reach a point when you say "I don't want this anymore". You might have gone to hell and back in order to be able to say those words, or you might have sat on the bus to work one day, and it just pop into your head. There are many circumstances – all of them different – in which the desire for change emerges. But desire is the essential thing. And it can happen to anyone, at anytime! If it happens to you, I urge you to go with it; nurture it. You may never look back!


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Michael Foster
Canberra Times
"… This velvet voice sings of a wonderful time and style of jazz that will have people of such persuasion drifting down the lane signposted "Memory" recalling mostly sweet and gentle times, wrapped (and rapt) in lovely phrasing, clear diction and beautiful instrumental sounds. Jensen is backed on the session, by musicians described magnanimously by Dale Barlow, himself an Australian great, as "some of the finest established musicians in Sydney" – including the Canberra-educated Nick McBride, now one of Australia's busiest drummers. On piano and keyboards is Michael Bartolemei, who also collaborated with Jensen and bassist David Stratton in arranging her original tunes Reality (track five of 12) and The Best Thing in Your Life. Steve Brien plays guitars, Casey Greene flute and soprano saxophone; and Graham Jesse alto and tenor saxes. Jensen plays piano and sings solo in Time After Time with the same delicacy and simpatico shown by all throughout the session. Excuse me while I spin it again, and there'll be no mention of another significant contribution to Australian music from New Zealand, admittedly by way of the United States, Europe and other points."


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Clay Buchholz has done some of his best work over the course of his career at the Rogers Centre, which provides the Boston Red Sox a major edge over the Toronto Blue Jays Wednesday.
Big Papi Gets His Groove Back
Boston has a great opportunity to win its sixth game in its last seven contests, as designated hitter David Ortiz is 4 for 10 with three home runs in this series—giving him 36 career roundtrippers at this ballpark.
The Red Sox will also lean heavily on the play of switch-hitting outfielder Daniel Nava, who is batting .410 this month, which has helped the team produce a winning 9-8 record in July.
Over the last two-plus seasons, the franchise is 41-29 on the road with a money line of -100 to -125, with the UNDER going 35-33-2 in that situation.
Take a Look at the American League's Starting Pitchers with Top Betting Value!
Trying to Regain Traction
Toronto has captured three of five games since the 2014 All-Star break, including a 7-3 victory over Boston as +106 home underdogs Tuesday, but it has still produced the second-worst record in baseball at 14-25 in its last 39 affairs.
The Blue Jays are always dangerous when leadoff hitter Jose Reyes gets things going offensively, which can't be ignored when looking over the MLB betting lines, as he's 5 for 14 in his career against tonight's opposing starter.
MLB handicappers will find that the club is 6-8 at home with a betting total of 8 to 8.5, with the OVER cashing 10 times in those opportunities.
Red Sox starting pitcher Clay Buchholz (5-5, 5.46 ERA) has won back-to-back trips to the mound, including a 5-4 home victory over the Kansas City Royals last time out, as he gave up four runs and 10 hits over six frames.
The right-hander is 3-2 with a 4.81 ERA in eight road appearances, with opposing hitters batting .276 against him (.325 at home).
In 20 career games (19 starts) versus the Blue Jays, Buchholz has tallied a 10-6 record and 2.71 ERA, including an 8-2 mark and 1.72 ERA in 11 appearances at this ballpark.
Blue Jays starting pitcher R.A. Dickey (7-10, 3.95 ERA) has dropped six of his last seven efforts, including a 5-1 home defeat to the Texas Rangers last time out, as he surrendered five runs and six hits over seven frames.
The right-hander is 5-3 with a 4.11 ERA in 11 home games—serving up 13 home runs in 70 combined innings.
In 12 lifetime appearances (six starts) versus the Red Sox, Dickey has compiled a 3-3 record and 4.85 ERA, including a 7-1 victory at this venue on April 27.
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I'm going to recommend that readers back the Red Sox as one of their MLB predictions, as they've proven victorious in Buchholz' last nine road starts in this American League East rivalry.
MLB Pick: Boston Red Sox


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Woman, IPC's traditional women's weekly, has had a £3.2m makeover to keep up with the '10 years younger'
generation, eager to merge traditional family focused values with a little self indulgence.
Publisher Oswin Grady said the move was "to improve our circulation trends"
after research found that mothers picked up reading trends from daughters rather than their own mothers and "women are leading much more selffocused, self-indulgent lifestyles than ever before".
He said: "Quite simply, everybody wants to be 10 years younger. Now, more than ever, mothers and daughters are dressed almost identically. That change made us think that Woman had a real opportunity to redefine what it means to be a modern, variety packed mainstream women's weekly."
Research commissioned by IPC editorial director Mike Soutar and creative director Andy Cowles found the typical Woman reader to be a 35 plus, middle Englander who was house proud, technologically savvy, with internet and satellite access.
Grady added: "There's a tension between this family-focused woman we've always thought of as the classic sector reader and the other side of her, which is this letting off steam, escapist woman who is down at Primark and New Look, snapping' up the cheap but fashionable accessories that make her feel good about herself. That's been a key point in the development of the magazine."
Grady denied that the old look Woman was too old-fashioned a title, but the competitive market necessitated "moving forward constantly, otherwise you'd be trampled on".
The company said the revamp was sparked by a change in the women's market, as youthful real-life and celebrity titles have driven the sector's growth.
In the past five years, three quarters of a million under 24s have entered the women's weekly sector and titles from Pick Me Up to Love It! have concentrated on creating a youthful outlook.
The more mature women's weeklies have suffered sales drops and Woman, which is 70 next year, was down 13.5 per cent in February's ABCs, to 456,524 copies a week.
Editor Jackie Hatton, formerly deputy editor of Woman's Own, took up the post following the departure of Sarah Edwards in January. Former Reveal editor Edwards quit Woman after just four months in the post, following disagreements over the future of the title. She had left Reveal to find a role at a more family-focused magazine.
Hatton said that the changes wouldn't alienate traditional Woman readers. "Our readers are quite modern, aspirational, forward thinking and quite hi-tech and we'd be silly not to recognise that and embrace the changes they're quite happy to make in their own lives and replicate that in the magazine.
"Anyone who shops as much as they do is into trends and change and I don't think any of the core readers will find change frightening.
"They will embrace it, because it's retained the best of the old and given them an awful lot of value on top of that too."
Woman will retain its real-life emphasis with more celebrity, fashion and beauty, health and home, and have improved paper stock and an additional 16 pages.
It will be promoted with TV advertising, sampling in sister publications and initial price promotions. The first issue goes on sale on 23 May.


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David Moskovitz is Chief Executive of Accenture Federal Services. He oversees every aspect of the federal business, including setting strategic direction, positioning the business in the market, managing client relationships and developing talent. Previously he served as global managing director for Growth & Strategy for Health & Public Service and as managing director of Accenture's US State & Local Government practice. He also led Accenture's Health & Public Service practice for New York City.
Moskovitz has more than 30 years of experience leading large-scale government technology and transformation projects. Prior to joining Accenture in 1994, he worked for 12 years as a City of New York Deputy Commissioner where he was responsible for a 3,000-person division managing New York City's government infrastructure.
Moskovitz is a member of the Executive Advisory Council of ACT-IAC, an organization designed to foster great partnership between government and industry. He also serves as the chairman of the board of Trustees for The Center for Employment Opportunities, a non-profit organization dedicated to providing immediate, effective and comprehensive employment services to men and women returning home from prison. He earned a bachelor's degree from Washington University, St. Louis and a Public Policy Certificate from Claremont Graduate School. He was a Coro Fellow in public affairs and served as an adjunct professor at the Robert F. Wagner School for Public Service at New York University.


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We are very grateful for the way you took care of us at Ambleside Lodge when we were there. We felt like kings each morning at the breakfast table and also we felt as friends of the house. If we come back to the region, there will only be one address for us. Ambleside Lodge. We hope to come back very often. We stayed at other B&B's afterwards, but nobody met your standards and skills. Congratulations with a very big C.
Pascal, Hilde and Willy from Belgium.
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|Dinosaur Collection
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Genres: Kids & Family, Special Interests, Television, Documentary
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American Theatre Company presents
THE MAMET REPERTORY: "OLEANNA" and "SPEED-THE-PLOW"
At 1909 W. Byron Street
Written by David Mamet
Directed by Rick Snyder
"OLEANNA" Thru October 30th
"SPEED-THE-PLOW" Thru October 31st
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Running Times: "OLEANNA" is sixty minutes. "SPEED-THE-PLOW" is eighty minutes. No intermissions.
Reviewed by Katy Walsh
'You asked me to come. I don't understand.' Common language and a transformational theme Cox-nect a college professor to a movie producer. American Theatre Company presents THE MAMET REPERTORY: "OLEANNA" and "SPEED-THE-PLOW." Two plays written by David Mamet. Chicago-based actor Darrell W. Cox teams up with his KILLER JOE director Rick Snyder to provide emotional drama at Mamet proportions! "OLEANNA" is about a tenure-bound college professor confronted by a disgruntled student. The lesson to be learned spirals out-of-control with escalating intensity. "SPEED-THE-PLOW" has a movie deal being threatened by conscience. A diehard executive is pitted against his smarmy film pal and an ethical temp. In Mamet tradition, the band-aid is ripped off, pulling hair and exposing flesh.
'I think that the ideas contained in this work express the author's feelings in a way that he intended based on his results.' A student's book review says nothing. She challenges her grade on the paper anyway. The professor lectures her in a private tutorial. In between telephone calls from his wife and realtor, the tenure-bound professor monologues his philosophy on the relevance of grades in general, academia as warehousing the young and hazing as ritual annoyances. The professor fails to connect with the student. In retaliation, she uses 'the system' to attack his tenure, his book and his dignity.
Under Rick Snyder's direction, Cox masterfully declines from pompous professor to victim as Nicole Lowrance rises from helpless student to attacker. Defeatism is the heart-wrenching disconnections. Failure of the characters to empathize drives the intensity to a startling conclusion. Cox engages in all aspects of his persona. Either as the arrogant blowhole or pending unemployed, Cox flaunts his human frailty with an authentic presence. I think the ideas contained in this work express Mamet's feelings in a way that he intended based on Cox's results.
'He likes his coffee like he likes his movies with nothing in it!' Bobby Gould is a high ranking film executive. Charlie Fox wants to be a Hollywood player. Charlie brings Bobby a prison movie deal with star power. Karen is the temporary secretary that Bobby wants to screw. Under the pretense of briefing him on a radiation script, Bobby has Karen come to his house. Karen convinces him to champion radiation over prison. They have sex. Who seduced who? The next day Bobby struggles with his conscience to do the right thing verses doing the usual thing. Both fighting for a piece of him, Charlie and Karen add to his soulful turmoil.
Lance Baker (Charlie) and Cox are hysterical in the-behind-scenes play about movie negotiations. Mamet's irreverent and politically in-correct dialogue is delivered with surly deliciousness. Baker and Cox's conversation is pure boys'-club-meet-up-in-the-locker-room sans the towel snapping. Their doubletalk is temporarily interrupted with Lowrence's fresh perspective on the industry standard. Lowrence's earnest script pitch is the catalyst to a Cox conversion and reconversion. Cox goes 360 taking every angle to its true intersection.
Although the MAMET REPERTORY has "OLEANNA" and "SPEED-THE-PLOW" featured individually on opposite nights, opening night was a double play. Watching the Cox conversion during each show was as intriguing as observing his makeover from show to show. Darrell W. Cox showcases all the anger and underlying humor a Mamet-palooza promises. With Snyder's slant and ensemble support, the MAMET REPERTORY is Cox-ed for success!
Always up for a Mamet-fest, Tom describes "OLEANNA" with 'riveting word war' and "SPEED-THE-PLOW" with 'City of Devils.'
Initially, I didn't understand a 45 minute break in-between shows on opening night. It seemed unnecessary. After experiencing "OLEANNA", I needed a 45 minute respite and a glass of wine. Tom and I wandered down to the Brownstone Tavern, 3937 N. Lincoln. The server and manager were very friendly and attentive. They easily met our required timeframe for the pending curtain. After a glass of wine and the Merkt burger, the band-aid was back on the affected area. With the temporary solution in place, I headed back for the next round in the Mamet-fest.


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Chicken-Tortellini Soup
Oxmoor House
Substitute this version with cheese tortellini for ordinairy chicken noodle soup. It's just as easy and equally soothing.
How to Make It
Combine all ingredients in a stockpot; bring to a boil over medium heat. Reduce heat, cover and simmer until tortellini is tender. Discard bay leaf.


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UK Conservative MPs at the 2017 party conference in Manchester last week reiterated their commitment to ensuring justice for the Tamils in Sri Lanka and recognition of the genocide Tamils faced.
Speaking at a side event organised by the British Tamil Conservatives (BTC), MPs called on the international community to do more to ensure the Sri Lankan government fulfilled the commitments made in UN resolution 30/1.
Robert Halfon
"We need to be very strong in making sure the Sri Lankan government meet their commitments," Robert Halfon, the Chairperson of the Education Select Committee and MP for Harlow said.
"We need to be strong in supporting autonomy for the Tamil people. They have a right to self-determination, and most importantly we need to sure that we do everything we can to remind the world of what went on and recognise that the Tamil people faced a genocide."
"I believe in reconciliation and justice, I believe in human rights, I believe in autonomy for the Tamils. Above all I believe in the recognition of the genocide that the Tamils face."
"It is unacceptable what you had to go through, it is unacceptable that in February this year, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights said Sri Lanka's fulfilment of transitional justice mechanisms had been worryingly slow."
"The structures set up and the measures taken during the period under review were inadequate to ensure real progress. This is not good enough. The Tamils have suffered enough."
Jackie Doyle-Price
Echoing his call for recognition of the genocide faced, the Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Health and MP for Thurrock, Jackie Doyle-Price said, "make no mistake we are determined to make sure that this issue does not die."
"We must not forget that what happened in Sri Lanka was a genocide and we will continue to fight on your behalf."
Paul Scully, the MP for Sutton and Cheam and the head of the All Party Parliamentary Group for Tamils (APPGT) highlighted the importance of addressing not just the past, but the ongoing issues the Tamils faced.
Describing the current situation as "dire" and "desperate", Mr Scully stressed, "we can talk about the past, we can talk about 2009 and the genocide that happened there and the atrocities that happened there, and it is absolutely important that we do get reconciliation and justice for our Tamils both here and still living in Sri Lanka, but we also need to tackle the ongoing situation as well and make sure the Sri Lankan government fulfils resolution 30/1 which they cosponsored at the UN HRC."
"The Special Rapporteur went to Sri Lanka earlier this year and he found that as well as arbitrary detentions under the Prevention of Terrorism Act – which needs to be changed [and] be modernised desperately – he also found and described endemic and systemic use of torture."
Theresa Villiers
Adding her voice to calls on the Sri Lankan government to implement UN resolution 30/1, the former Secretary of State for Northern Ireland and the MP for Chipping Barnet, Theresa Villiers stressed the importance of implementation.
"If implemented it would see a hybrid court established to bring to justice those responsible for the brutalities and terrible crimes that took place during the war particularly in its closing stages, but of course, unless it's implemented it's worthless," Ms Villiers said.
"In March we saw the Sri Lankan government be given a further two years for implementation. Now the international community really has to step up to do more to hold the Sri Lankan government to account on the obligations that they themselves took on when they co-sponsored the resolution 30/1. It is high time they started to make more progress."
"The credibility of the UN Human Rights Council is on the line here. They made a real difference in securing the resolution 30/1 but now they need to make sure that it is delivered. The UN should press the government of Sri Lanka to deliver on its obligations."
"That's an essential next step to continue to make real progress to deliver justice and political equality to the Tamil people. So that time bound action plan is a commitment that we need from the government of Sri Lanka and that is what the international community should be pushing for."
Andrew Rosindell the MP for Romford highlighted the need for justice.
"Sri Lankan government must be held to account and must be made to follow through on the obligations that they have, because justice has to be done."
Thanking the Tamils for their support, the MP for Richmond Park, Zac Goldsmith said he would be "forever grateful". He stressed, "our job is to make sure we apply as much as pressure as possible on government to apply pressure on Sri Lanka to make sure the UN resolution 30/1 is adhered to."
Lord Ahmed
The UK FCO Minister for Human Rights, Lord Ahmed reiterated the British government's commitment to ensuring the Tamil people's rights in Sri Lanka.
"I join you today as the Minister of State at the Foreign Office responsible for human rights, and nothing can be closer to the issue of human rights than the challenges and indeed the tragedy we have seen unfurling in Sri Lanka for so many years," Lord Ahmed said.
"I was recently in Geneva at the Human Rights Council, where the issues across the world came to the fore. I hope in the coming months to be visiting Sri Lanka to raise some of the challenges and remaining issues which are important."
"If we take a step back Sri Lanka is an incredible country, it has great people, it is has a great vision and should have great hope."
"We want to play our part as the British government in ensuring that the true recognition of the Tamil community within the community that is Sri Lanka is not forgotten. Great sacrifices have been made. Great lives have been lost and they should never be in vain."
"So as the Minister for Human Rights I can assure you all of our government's continued support in ensuring that we will continue to build and develop the Tamils' rights and the Tamil community's rights within Sri Lanka to ensure that they take their rightful place in that beautiful island that we all love so much," Lord Ahmed added.
Sajid Javid
Chris Grayling
Reaffirming the FCO minister's comments Chris Grayling, the Secretary of State for Transport said, "My commitment to you tonight is that we will all continue to do everything we can to encourage Sri Lanka in the right direction, to encourage a lasting peace in Sri Lanka and to encourage fairness for the Tamil community in Sri Lanka."
"We know there is a lot of work to do. I know that Tariq [Ahmed] and Boris [Johnson] and the Foreign Office team will do everything they can to try and support and encourage Sri Lanka in the right direction."
Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, Sajid Javid recognised the contribution of the Tamil community to British life.
"I wanted to recognise what a great contribution – more than 200,000 British Tamils – have made to this great country of ours in every walk of life, whether its culture, our sports, our businesses, our political life. I see many people of Tamil origin serving in our councils."
A number of MPs as well as the event's host, Conservative parliamentary spokesperson for Carshalton and Wallington, Matthew Maxwell Scott praised the work of the British Tamil Conservatives.
Thanking the BTC, the Conservative Party chairman and MP for Derbyshire Dales, Patrick McLoughlin said, "you are very much part of the Conservative family."
"I don't think there is a diaspora group or 'friends of' group that is allied and affiliated to the Conservative party that works harder than British Tamil Conservatives," Paul Scully MP said.
"You're the reason why I'm here," Jackie Doyle-Price added.
Minister Chris Grayling said, "the British Tamil Conservatives have been such a tower of strength to our party in recent years. I, and my colleagues in cabinet and indeed all of us at Westminister are hugely grateful to all of you at the British Tamil Conservatives."
Patrick McLoughlin


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Inside Out
Growing up can be a bumpy road, and it's no exception for Riley, who is uprooted from her Midwest life when her father starts a new job in San Francisco. Like all of us, Riley is guided by her emotions – Joy, Fear, Anger, Disgust and Sadness. The emotions live in Headquarters, the control center inside Riley's mind, where they help advise her through everyday life. As Riley and her emotions struggle to adjust to a new life in San Francisco, turmoil ensues in Headquarters. Although Joy, Riley's main and most important emotion, tries to keep things positive, the emotions conflict on how best to navigate a new city, house and school. Not final artwork stated Inside Out is terrifically funny and smart: a high-concept animated family comedy from Pixar whose playful abstractions appear to have been cultured in an impossibly sophisticated laboratory. – The Guardian Having tackled toys that talk, robots who fall in love and a rat that can cook, Pixar turns to the emotional inner-life of an 11-year-old girl in the studio's 15th film. And, once again, they've created an animated masterpiece, one of those rare movies that will speak to kids and adults alike. – Mirror UK


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Manufacturing job cuts accelerate
Falls in UK manufacturing output and new orders in December led to the most severe cut in employment since data was first collected in January 1992.
The seasonally adjusted CIPS/Markit Purchasing Managers' Index – which provides a single-figure barometer of the health of the manufacturing sector – posted 34.9 in December, little-changed from November's record-low of 34.5 and well below the neutral 50.0 mark.
Based on the average reading for the PMI, the whole-year performance of the UK manufacturing sector during 2008 was the weakest since the survey began in 1992. This was also the case for trends in output, new orders and employment.
Companies are reporting a broad-based collapse in global demand. Although December's downturn in total order books was predominantly centred on the domestic market, overseas demand was also substantially lower. Part of the reduction was linked to the precarious states of the UK, the US and the European automotive sectors.
Levels of employment, purchasing and inventories all fell during December as a result of the tough market conditions. Rates of reduction in staffing and input buying were the highest in the survey history, while both pre- and post-production inventories were reduced further.
December data pointed to reductions in output charges and input prices. The main factors driving down purchasing costs were lower oil, metals, transportation and energy prices, which some companies passed on to clients. Where an increase in input costs was recorded, this generally reflected higher import prices resulting from the weak sterling exchange rate.
In a further sign that supply-side pressures are easing, average vendor performance improved for the third month running in December.
Roy Ayliffe, director of professional practice at the Chartered Institute of Purchasing & Supply, said: "There was little to celebrate at the end of 2008. As the sector performed at near to its worst in the PMI's 17-year history, there were murmurs of a recession similar to that seen in the early 1990s.
"While businesses of all sizes suffered a sharp drop in levels of output, it was the smaller firms which experienced the fastest rate of contraction. Consequently, companies were forced to axe staff at a record rate.
"What's more, it's clear the UK is not in isolation. Even the weakening pound did little to encourage overseas activity as the economic crisis continues to make its mark across the globe."
Rob Dobson, senior economist at Markit Economics said: "The second half of 2008 has been a nightmare for UK manufacturers, and December PMI data confirm that the sector will enter the New Year on its weakest footing since at least the early-90s recession. Production, new orders and employment are still dropping at, or near to, survey-record rates as the ongoing crises in the autos, construction, financial and retail markets are all draining demand. Export orders fell at a series-record rate, as manufacturers were unable to benefit from the drop in sterling during a global market downturn."


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GREENWOOD, Ind. – For the second consecutive week, three Franklin College student-athletes have been named Heartland Collegiate Athletic Conference (HCAC) players of the week.
Sophomore running back Jacob Earl, sophomore women's soccer goalkeeper Lexi Short and sophomore men's golfer Jackson Williams all collected their first weekly conference awards after three impressive performances last week.
Making his first career start last Saturday against Earlham, Earl finished with 123 yards on just 13 carries with four touchdowns in Franklin's 56-26 win over the Quakers. The speedy back out of Tangier, Ind. also grabbed a pair of passes out of the backfield, totaling 42 yards.
For the year, Earl leads the Grizzlies with has amassed 315 yards on 53 carries and has six touchdowns on the ground while hauling in 10 passes for 119 yards.
Avon, Ind.-native Short captured her first career HCAC Defensive Player of the Week honor after back-stopping the Grizzlies to back-to-back shutouts of Hanover and Bluffton last week. Short was instrumental in helping Franklin end a nine-game losing streak at Hanover, turning aside all three shots she faced in the Grizzlies' 1-0 win over the HCAC pre-season co-favorites.
Saturday against Bluffton, Short denied all three Beaver shots on goal as Franklin cruised to a 7-0 win. Short carries a 0.76 goals against average and a .896 save percentage into play this week.
Williams earned his second career tournament win over the weekend, finishing at the top of a 59-player field at the Mt. St. Joseph Stateline Shootout. The Greenwood, Ind.-native carded a two-round 175 (70-75) before besting Berea's Kevin Kim in a playoff to win medalist honors in Franklin's final event of the fall.
Williams' round one 70 was the lowest round by any player over the weekend as he claimed his first event title since Oct. 2, 2016 at the Wabash Invitational.


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Recess (1997)
1 mistake in Mama's Girl
Starring: Ashley Johnson, Jason Davis, Pamela Adlon, Rickey D'Shon Collins
Mama's Girl - S2-E14
Continuity mistake: Before Spinelli calls out "Mama." Mrs. Grotke is stepping into the mud with her right foot. After she says it, she's stepping in with her left foot.
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