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So far in this transfer window, we have witnessed Liverpool doing their business early to secure their targets. Mignolet, Aspas, Alberto and Kolo Toure have all arrived on Merseyside before the transfer window has officially opened. Another rumoured target is Shaktar Donetsk's Armenian midfield man, Henrikh Mkhitaryan.
Obviously, like many others, I knew little on Mkhitaryan. I could recall his name from Shaktar's Champions League campaign, but I could not recall the player himself or his performances. Research needed to be done. Once I had found out how Mkhitaryan plays, it seems a no brainer that Liverpool should bid for him.
Mkhitaryan is a versatile attacker which would satisfy Brendan Rodgers. Much to the manager's delight, Rodgers would be able to experiment his forward options by deploying Mkhitaryan in the multiple positions he is capable of playing.
In order to utilise the Armenian to the best of his ability, he thrives behind the striker. In the 'Number 10' role or in the hole, which ever saying you prefer. Mkhitaryan possesses the ability to create space for the wingers and strikers in his side, thus allowing the wide men to exploit the acres of space they have, or assisting the striker. Such a player would be integral to Liverpool and the aspirations for next season. His creativity in the final third contributed to seven assists.
However, his goal tally last season for a midfielder is majestic. Mkhitaryan racked up an astonishing 25 goals in the Ukrainian League last term. Such an amount would have been an accolade for a striker, so it highlights the devastating effect the Armenian had last term in Ukraine.
Doubters suggest the Ukrainian League is not the most challenging, which may be correct in contrast to their European counterparts, but 25 goals in any division from midfield is a feat. 23 of these goals came from open play, with Mkhitaryan scoring one header and one penalty to round off his total to 25.
Topping the goal-scoring charts, with the nearest tally of 17 from Ideye Brown of Kiev the only threat to his honour.
Yet there is more to Mkhitaryan than his creativity and goal-scoring talents. Mkhitaryan is a gifted player and the ideal candidate for the trequartista role in any side. The midfielder maestro is often lauded for many attributes. His work rate and accurate passing make him a key figure for the Armenian national side and current employers and Ukraine Champions, Shakhtar.
Mkhitaryan can make things happen with the ball at his feet, but his movement off the ball can be just as effective for his side. Darting runs across the 18 yard box, drawing defenders away from their zones allowing space for his team to exploit and work to their advantage.
Plenty of attributes make this Armenian gem an ideal player for any club, but would do the required job at the ambitious Merseyside giants, Liverpool.
Mkhitaryan could help fill the void from want-away striker, Luis Suarez, if he gets his much coveted transfer to Real Madrid. Potentially one of the best attacking options the Reds could have next season, Mkhitaryan could certainly contribute with goals from midfield.
Especially as goal-scoring midfielders are hard to come by nowadays, Liverpool should take full advantage of this opportunity to sign the rising Armenian talent.
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Design Surface Patterns From Scratch
Design Surface Patterns From Scratch
Class Description
Did you know that you can turn your sketches, drawings and doodles into patterns? Join Bonnie Christine for an introduction to creating patterns to use in your very own fabric prints, stationery designs, website backgrounds, cell phone covers, and much, much more.
This course will take you through the process of working with Adobe Illustrator to create digital versions of your artwork. You'll learn tips and tricks for working in Illustrator and how you can use the software to create repeating patterns of your very own drawings. Bonnie will guide you step-by-step through the process of transforming sketches and tracings into vector art which can be used for an endless array of printable and online projects from customized stationery to computer wallpaper. You'll also learn how to assemble your collection of designs into a portfolio you can use to impress potential collectors and buyers.
This course will lay a solid foundation for those new to Illustrator and open up exciting new possibilities for people already familiar with the program. If you are ready to bring your drawings to life in new ways this class is for you.
Lessons1The World of Surface Pattern Design 2Living Your Creative Dream 3Introduction to Illustrator 4Basic Tools: Pen, Text, & Blob 5Color & Function Tools 6More Tools: Rotate, Duplicate, & Replicate 7Custom Color Palettes 8Essential Tools for Pattern Making 9Tools for Sketching Inspiration 10Inspire & Nourish Your Creativity 1Creating Objects from Scanned Sketches 2Tracing & Coloring Sketches 3Tracing & Coloring with the Pen Tool 4Working from a Photograph w/ Live Trace 5Hand Tracing Over Photographs 6Building Pattern Tiles in Illustrator 7Adding Textures to Illustrations 8An Unrefined Look in Illustrator 9Typography & Students Homework 10Legality of Design w/ Annie Tunheim 11Trademark & Licensing w/ Annie Tunheim 1How to Design Repeating Patterns 2Complex Cluster Patterns - Part 1 3Complex Cluster Patterns - Part 2 4Getting Noticed: Portfolios & Trade Shows 5How to Drape on Pattern Mock Ups 6Fun Stuff: Desktop Backgrounds 7Fun Stuff: Gift Cards & Tags 8Fun Stuff: Clip Art & Shipping Labels 9Spoonflower: Stephen Fraser 10Uploading Patterns for Web Printing

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Educational Initiatives in school in Tarapacá and Antofagasta
"The Oasis en el Desierto School in Colonia Agrícola de Pintados was founded in 1998, and SQM has sponsored it since 2007. The school currently has 56 elementary students attending pre-kindergarten through eighth grade. Grades 7 and 8 were added in 2012 thanks to a joint effort".
Tales of the Pampa
The Contest "Tales of the Pampa" which is organized by SQM together with El Mercurio de Antofagasta is a concrete way to rescue, preserve and disseminate the saltpetre legacy through the narrative. This competition seeks to encourage creative writing around a lifestyle, a culture, a part of Chile's history to be maintained and disseminated. As of 2011, 3 books have been published with 18 winning stories from previous versions of this competition, which can be read here below:


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If this is a medical emergency, call 911.
Sickle cell disease is a group of blood conditions passed from parents to children (inherited). In most cases the parents also have the condition.
Healthy red blood cells are round, soft disks — like doughnuts without holes. In sickle cell disease, red blood cells start out normal. But if they are stressed, they become curved, shaped like a sickle. They are hard and sticky and can clog blood vessels. This can cause pain and block blood flow.
Sickle cells don't last as long as normal red blood cells. The body can't make new red blood cells fast enough to replace them. This can cause low levels of red blood cells (anemia). That makes it harder to deliver oxygen around the body. One of the most serious forms of the disease is called sickle cell anemia.
In the United States, most people with sickle cell disease are African-American. But the disease can affect anyone, especially people of Hispanic, southern European, Middle Eastern or Asian Indian backgrounds.
Sickle cell disease is caused by a change (mutation) in a gene that carries directions for making the oxygen-carrying part of red blood cells (hemoglobin). The sickle cell gene is passed down in families.
Experts at our Sickle Cell Program care for children with sickle cell disease, help them control pain and avoid serious complications from the disease. We also help family members understand their chance of passing on the sickle cell gene to their children.
Our goals are to achieve the best possible outcome for your child and to lessen how much the illness affects them. We work with you, your child, your family and your child's primary doctor to get your child the right care and services.
We provide most care at Odessa Brown Children's Clinic (OBCC) in Seattle's Central District. If your child needs a hospital stay, they will get care at Seattle Children's main campus in Seattle's Laurelhurst neighborhood. We also consult with patients, families, doctors and school staff who are too far away to visit us in person.
You can call 206-987-7263 for more information from the sickle cell advanced practice provider at OBCC. Call 206-987-7402 for an appointment.
Our team includes a doctor and nurse practitioner with special training in the needs of children with blood disorders. Dr. M. A. Bender, the clinic director who guides your child's care, is board certified in pediatric hematology. This means he is approved to give the specialized care your child needs and constantly adds to his knowledge about blood disorders.
We offer a full range of treatments for children with sickle cell disease – including medicines such as hydroxyurea (hy-drahk-see-yoo-REE-uh), blood transfusions and stem cell transplants. We help your child control pain and avoid serious complications.
We care for your whole child. We don't just treat their disease. Your child's team includes a nurse and social worker. Seattle Children's genetic counselors help parents and other family members learn about their risk of having the sickle cell gene or passing it on.
Our specialty is treating children's conditions while helping them grow up to be healthy and productive. For the 25th year in a row, Seattle Children's ranks among the nation's best children's hospitals, according to U.S. News & World Report.
Having sickle cell disease can be stressful for the entire family. During visits, we take time to explain your child's condition. We help you fully understand your treatment options and make the choices that are right for your family.
Our social workers help your child and your family through the challenges of this condition. We connect you to community resources and support groups.
We can support you and your child with financial counseling, schooling, housing, transportation, interpreter services and spiritual care. Read about our services for patients and families.
Some children with sickle cell disease have only mild symptoms. For others, symptoms can be severe.
Symptoms of sickle cell disease include:
Blood tests can show whether your child has sickle cell disease.
Newborns in the United States are tested for sickle cell disease right after birth. This helps parents find out if their newborn has sickle cell disease even before they show any symptoms.
If your child was not screened as a newborn, they can get a blood test at any time. This is very important for children who have a higher risk of the disease because they are of African or Hispanic descent or have family members with sickle cell disease.
Knowing your baby has sickle cell disease means they can get support and care before problems begin.
Pregnant women can have a test that checks for sickle cell disease before their baby is born. The test looks for the genes that cause sickle cell disease. It checks either:
If your child has not been diagnosed with sickle cell disease but has symptoms like pain or extreme tiredness, the doctor may do blood tests to check:
If you have a parent, sibling or child with sickle cell trait or sickle cell disease, there's a chance that you or other family members may have the trait, too. Sickle cell trait means having 1 copy of the gene that causes the disease.
If you are concerned about passing the sickle cell gene on in your family, you can get a simple blood test for sickle cell trait.
Whether or not you want this test, you can talk with a doctor to learn more about your risk of having the trait or passing it to your children. This is called genetic counseling.
We offer genetic counseling and testing for sickle cell trait at Seattle Children's main campus.
There are many steps to treating children with sickle cell disease.
Regular check-ups are an important part of keeping healthy. Most children with sickle cell disease visit the doctor every 3 to 12 months, depending on their age and health. Babies and children with certain conditions see a doctor more often.
At clinic visits, we may check your child's:
For children who live outside our area, we consult with families and doctors about check-ups and preventive care.
Children with sickle cell disease do best when they, their families and their schools know about their disease and how to take care of it.
We teach about:
Pain is a common problem for people with sickle cell disease. It happens when sickle cells block the blood flow to an organ or bones.
We work with you to plan how to deal with pain. The plan may include:
If pain can't be controlled at home, your child may need stronger medicine and fluids through a vein, called intravenous (IV). They may need to stay overnight at the hospital to bring pain under control.
In children with sickle cell disease, the spleen does not work correctly or does not work at all. That makes it harder to fight off some germs. Because of this, infections that would be minor in other children can be very severe.
Most young children will need to take the antibiotic penicillin daily to prevent infection. Your child also will need to:
Some children with sickle cell disease have very low levels of red blood cells (severe anemia). This can happen if red blood cells get stuck in the spleen or if the bone marrow stops making red blood cells because of an infection.
Symptoms of severe anemia include:
See a doctor right away. This can be life threatening. Your child may need a transfusion of red blood cells from a healthy donor. Some children need hospital treatment.
If sickle cells clog blood vessels in the lungs, your child won't get enough oxygen. This can cause lung damage.
Your child may have these symptoms:
See a doctor right away. Your child will need to be carefully watched and treated in the hospital with:
Sickle cell disease increases a child's chance of having a stroke.
At yearly check-ups, your doctor will use sound waves (ultrasound) to check your child's blood flow for problems. If the test is abnormal, your doctor may recommend regular blood transfusions to improve blood flow and reduce the chance of having a stroke.
Call 911 if your child has symptoms of stroke:
If your child has had a stroke, their treatment may include:
We regularly check your child's thinking skills. This is called neurocognitive testing. It can show areas where your child may need extra help in school or on the job.
There are many possible reasons for problems with learning or decision-making in children with sickle cell disease. One cause is small strokes, called "silent strokes," that can be seen on an MRI (magnetic resonance imaging) scan of the brain.
Your doctor may recommend a medicine called hydroxyurea (hy-drahk-see-yoo-REE-uh) to reduce or prevent some of the complications of sickle cell disease. Your child may need this medicine if they have had:
Your child takes the medicine daily by mouth.
Transfusing blood means giving red blood cells from a healthy donor. Your child receives the blood through a vein in their arm.
A transfusion helps to:
Doctors give blood transfusions:
Our outpatient infusion unit at Seattle Children's main hospital is staffed by expert nurses and has weekend hours. This helps your child get care without having to spend a night in the hospital.
Some children may be cured of sickle cell disease by a transplant of blood-forming (hematopoietic) stem cells from a healthy donor. Hematopoietic (him-at-oh-poy-EH-tik) stem cells are immature cells that grow into blood cells. This treatment is called a stem cell transplant or bone marrow transplant.
A transplant helps your child's bone marrow make healthy red blood cells that do not become sickle shaped. With healthy red blood cells, a child is no longer at risk for pain, severe anemia, infections or other complications.
If transplant may be an option for your child, we will talk with you about the risks and benefits. We also talk with you about whether transplant fits with your family's values, goals and priorities.
Our Non-Malignant Transplant Program specializes in stem cell transplants for children with blood disorders and other noncancer conditions. Children need powerful drugs or radiation (called conditioning) to prepare their body for the transplant. Our team has created better ways to prepare patients and help them recover. This preparation is called reduced-intensity conditioning.
We perform the transplants here at Seattle Children's, working closely with Fred Hutch, our partner in the Seattle Cancer Care Alliance.
For an appointment, call 206-987-7402. For more information about our services, call 206-987-7263 to reach the OBCC sickle cell advanced practice provider.
We encourage you to coordinate with your pediatrician or family doctor when coming to Seattle Children's.
Providers, call 206-987-7402 to refer a patient.


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I love using lemon in my baking. Hands down its my favourite dessert flavour. That beautiful sharp and zingy lemon taste is too die for. I also love making my own pastry. Crumbly and delicious homemade shortcrust is always miles ahead of shop bought. So I combined the two along with some fresh raspberries, raspberry jam and toasted almonds for these lully little lemon tartlets. The perfect way to round off any meal.
Ive talked in the past about how fab Clippys jam is and having bought some of their raspberry and apple jam, I had the brainwave of spreading some over the base of my tartlets to really add zing and compliment the fresh raspberry poking their little heads out the top. You can of course use any jam/fruit combination you like if you prefer but I find juicy raspberries are the perfect match for the lemon filling. You can also leave the jam and fruit out altogether, the zingy lemon can hold its own in the tarts as well. Perfect for the more fussy diner.
For a final flourish, some roasted almond flakes give a gorgeous nutty crunch to the top of your tartlets and match the ground almonds in the pastry cases. Pistachios would be great too. Remember that experimentation is the key to finding out what works best for you so don't be scared to mix and match ingredients to suit your taste or needs.
Here comes the recipe. This takes a few hours due to having to chill the pastry and set the lemon filling so if you are planning to serve this as part of a meal make sure you get cracking on it first. You can then get on with the rest of your meal during the chilling time. This recipe will make around 6 tarts in 10cm tins.
Lemon and Raspberry Ripple Tartlets
100g Hard Butter (Cut Into Small Cubes)
170g Plain Flour
30g Ground Almonds
50g Golden Caster Sugar
Zest Of 1 Lemon
Half Tsp Vanilla Extract
1 or 2 Egg Yolks
300ml Double Cream
75g Golden Caster Sugar
Zest and Juice Of 1 Lemon
Around 6 Tsp Raspberry Jam
Around 18 Fresh Raspberries
2 Tbsp Flaked Almonds
75g Golden Caster Sugar
Zest and Juice Of 1 Lemon
Around 6 Tsp Raspberry Jam
Around 18 Fresh Raspberries
2 Tbsp Flaked Almonds
- Begin with the pastry, place the butter and flour into a bowl and with cold dry hands rub them together until all the butter is mixed in and it resembles breadcrumbs. Take the time to make sure all the butter is mixed in so your pastry is nice and short when baked.
- Mix in the almonds, sugar and lemon zest and mix until well combined. Add in the vanilla extract and 1 of the egg yolks. Start to work the pastry together with your hand. If the dough is not coming together then add a second egg yolk.
- Once the pastry has come together, roll into a tight ball and wrap in cling film. Leave in the fridge to firm up for at least 30 minutes but if you leave it for any longer keep an eye on it so that it doesn't go too firm and hard to roll out.
- After resting in the fridge, take out your pastry and on a floured surface roll out the pastry to 1/2cm thick. Grease your tartlet tins and cut out circles big enough to fit the tins. Use any leftover pastry to patch up any breakages and then placethe tartlet tins into the fridge again until the pasty was gone firm, should take another 30 minutes or so.
- When the 30 minutes is nearly up, turn your oven on to 200 degrees (180 fan).
- Remove the tart tins from the fridge and tin the pastry cases with baking paper and tip in some baking beans. Place your tartlet tins in the oven on a middle shelf and bake for 10 minutes or until the cases have gone golden brown. Remove form the oven and leave to completely cool.
- Whilst the cases are cooling, place a saucepan on a low heatand add in the cream, sugar and lemon zest and stir constantly until all the sugar has dissolved. When the mixture starts to bubble slightly around the edge of the pan, stop stirring and leave the mixture on the heat for 2 minutes.
- After the two minutes remove the pan from the heat and add in the lemon juice and quickly stir it in. You should notice the mixture thicken slightly with the addition of the lemon juice. Pass the mix through a sieve to remove the lemon zest and leave to one side to cool slightly.
- Take the cool pastry cases and dollop 1 tsp of the jam into each and spread along the pastry bases. Make sure all the base is covered with jam (add a little more in if you need it but don't go overboard).
- Once the lemon mixture has cooled slightly pour it into each of the jammy pastry cases and stick 3 raspberries on the top, pushing them down slightly into the lemon mix.
- In a dry pan on a medium heat, toast the flaked almonds until they are starting to brown. Sprinkle these over the top of each of the tartlets and then place them all in the fridge to set for around 2 hours.
You will know that the tarts are set as they will have a slight wobble in the middle so give them a jiggle just to check before serving them up to your guests.
Remove from the fridge and serve with some single cream or a big dollop of ice cream.
Perfection in a little pastry case!
Oh I definitely think so!
For more lemon based treats check out this gorgeous lemon and ginger meringue pie over on ohlavache.co . Might give it a go myself!
For more lemon based treats check out this gorgeous lemon and ginger meringue pie over on ohlavache.co . Might give it a go myself!


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Freeware Games
Byteria Heroes: The Mother of All Games v.1.5
This platformer takes place in the computer game world of Byteria. A long time ago, the Cervisian Empire ruled over large parts of the continent of Glashelm, but eventually collapsed. Now self-appointed Emperor Dicius I.
Space v.3.3
Space is an exciting space shooter that will keep you entertained. High resolution graphics, dynamic games, bonuses and a lot of enemies; the basic components of this great game.
RC Spider Hunter
RC Spider Hunter is a 3D 3rd Person Shooter Game. Your house is teaming with spiders. You have to send in your remote control car to exterminate them. There are three extra batteries hidden in the house to give you the energy you will need to complete
Boat is a very fun partner-based, bidding card game similar to Rook or Bridge. If you like Rook, Bridge, Spades, or other bidding games, you will love Boat. Each hand, players bid on how many points of the possible 120 they think they can catch. The bid
Follow The Dragon
Follow The Dragon is a very fun game for kids (ages 2 to 8). Deo the Dragon loves to play games, and he has invited you to play his two favorites, Follow The Dragon and Tag The Dragon. This game is a great game for young children and develops strong mouse
Duck Hunt v.2.7
Duck Hunt. The cult classic video game released by Nintendo in 1984 for the NES game console is now recreated for your PC. You can now play another one of your favorite games without using an emulator. Your faithful dog will help you hunt for ducks.
Ebowling v.6.0
Nice bowling game, easy for novices to get the hang of. More-so than similar games, your skill will be the deciding factor, as the direction and speed of the ball are completely tied to the mouse!
Pocket Tanks Deluxe v.1. 3. 2002
Pocket Tanks Deluxe is a war game that doesn't require high tech graphics or complicated stories to make us have a nice time playing it. To start this review I'd like to quote the developer: 'Writing games that are good clean fun...
Gold Pack for Pocket Tanks Deluxe v.1 1
Pocket Tanks is designed to be easy to learn, and fun to master. All the excitement of lobbing projectiles over a mound of dirt without all the complicated details found in most artillery games.
Pteroglider v.1 2
Pteroglider is a fun and innovative incarnation of the classic arcade space shooter genre. It is aimed at players who enjoy dynamic and challenging games, that are easy and fun to play, yet require a fair dose of skill to master.
Jigsaw Fun Colin the Coin Edition Demo v.2.5.116
This jigsaw edition features everything to do with Colin the Coin, the star of the games Coin World and Coin Planets.


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Verizon Wireless continues to slam the Android operating system down the throat of Apple with the introduction of the Samsung Fascinate to its product line. The Fascinate is part of Samsung's new Galaxy S lineup of phones which offers the same core features. What's a bit confusing is the fact that the Galaxy S was a specific model of smartphone itself, but Samsung has shifted gears to allow the name to cover a line of phones.
All Galaxy S phones feature a 1GHz Hummingbird Cortex A8 processor. The processor promises faster upload and download times and access to HD-like media in addition to better graphics. Other Galaxy S phone standards include Android 2.1 (which is expected to be upgraded to Android 2.2 later this year), and a Super AMOLED screen. As you can imagine, it's the screen which truly sets the Galaxy S phones apart.
Firing up the phone the 4-inch Super AMOLED screen is the first thing you notice with its absolutely crystal clear detail and bright, crisp colors which makes it an absolute joy to view photos and watch videos on. The display is capable of 16.7 million colors and offers a resolution of 480×800. Amazingly, as good as the screen is, it is thinner than other traditional displays and also helps to conserve battery life.
The Fascinate comes with 2GB of internal storage, but includes a microSD card slot which is capable of supporting up to 32GB. If you purchase the Fascinate from Verizon it will come with a 16GB microSD card.
The Fascinate's battery life includes 420 minutes of talk time or 312 hours of standby time.
TouchWiz 3.0 UI and Navigation
I found the touch screen and navigation buttons to be very responsive and definitely better than the Motorola Devour I use day-to-day. The TouchWiz UI is also a nice addition with the most commonly used shortcuts for Phone, Contacts, Messaging and Applications conveniently docked at the bottom regardless of what screen you are on. Other perks are the live, animated wallpapers and gadgets including those specifically for managing buddies and your social networks. The Feeds and Updates gadget connects to your Facebook, MySpace and Twitter accounts and a Buddies gadget allows for quick access to your favorite contacts. The UI also includes Swype, an improved typing interface, which improves the ease of typing over other Android phones.
Many of the features offered by TouchWiz can be turned on through the utilization of apps on other phones, but I like how TouchWiz seems to bring it all together into one interface as soon as you turn the phone on. If you're a "power" user though you probably won't like TouchWiz because it's a big skin over the very open Android operating system. The disadvantage of having all the functionality within TouchWiz upfront is that you can't easily turn it off if you don't want it.
Media Playback and Camera
Samsung ensures you make the most out of your video viewing experience with the included DiVX video player. A 5 megapixel camera also promises great pictures and is coupled with anti-shake, auto-focus, touch-to-focus, blink and smile trigger and panorama functions. I really like the touch-to-focus feature because it is so easy to use. Simply put what you want the camera to focus on in the center of the picture, touch the screen and the camera will focus on that object or person. See sample shots below:
Unified Contacts and Calendar
If you're a big user of social networks, like myself, you will like the social integration offered by the Fascinate. Unified contacts include contact information for Twitter, MySpace and Facebook in addition to IM and email accounts. The Unified Calendar combines information from Outlook and Google Calendars with Facebook birthdays. Skype Mobile is also supported on the phone thanks to Verizon's agreement with Skype to support Skype calls over Verizon's cellular voice network.
Bing Is Your Search Default Like It Or Not
One interesting thing I noticed about the phone is that it comes with Bing Maps and Bing Search as the phone's default search engine. That's thanks to Verizon Wireless' agreement with Microsoft which you have to believe Google takes as a stab in the back considering the success Verizon has had with Android. According to Ubergizmo, users won't be able to install the Google Search application easily until the Android 2.2 update is available for the Fascinate, though I did confirm you can download Google Maps now.
The Fascinate comes with Wi-Fi connectivity, which is becoming standard on smartphones these days, with support for 802.11 b/g/n. The phone is also capable of becoming a 3G mobile hotspot so that its cellular data connection can be shared with up to five Wi-Fi enabled devices, but you'll need a corresponding subscription plan to utilize it. The 3G hotspot plans are in addition to any data plan and begin at $20 a month.
Call Quality
Call quality is crisp and clear most of the time, though in a noisy environment the person I was calling stated my voice had a "tinny" quality to it. I also found the speakerphone to be easily heard with plenty of volume to spare.
The Verdict
Up until now Motorola's line of Android phones under the Droid brand haven't had much competition on Verizon. I think that changes with the Samsung Fascinate, but I will be the first to admit it depends on the kind of user you are. If you aren't going to do a bunch of UI customizations on your phone and you're a big consumer of video and photos then I don't see how you pass the Samsung Fascinate up. Especially, when you note that the Fascinate is lighter than the Motorola Droid phones. If you want to do a bunch of customizations to the UI and aren't as concerned with screen quality then the Fascinate is not for you.
Personally, I don't tend to do a lot of changes to a smartphone's UI so I was pretty happy with what the Fascinate offered to me up front. That being said, I still found the phone to not be as intuitive as other options when it came to adding social network accounts, for example. It would be nice if the handset would simply ask for that information up front as soon as you turn it on so that when you go to your home screen for the first time everything is setup and you're not trying to figure out how to setup many of your gadgets.
As much as I like the UI I did find some of the menu pops and screen flips to stutter a bit. If I had to guess it's probably due to all the stuff that's slammed into the TouchWiz UI by default. Removing some gadgets that you don't intend to use will no doubt speed things up a bit so take an inventory of what you will and won't use and make the appropriate removals to improve UI performance.
In regards to the phone's screen–I loved it. The animated wallpaper, photos and videos were great to view on the bright screen. There is a drawback though. The display is easily smudged so the first thing I would do before using the phone is to get a screen protector.
Other than the Samsung Fascinate being lighter, having a better screen and improved interface you have to ask if the smartphone actually stands out from other Android smartphones. The honest answer is no. When it comes right down to it many Android phones are starting to look the same and there are not many which stand out from the crowd. Ultimately it comes down to what you are looking for in a phone, as they all have their strengths.
Personally, the Samsung Fascinate would do me just fine, but considering my measurement is my Motorola Devour which will forever run Android 1.6 I'm easy to please.
This review was conducted with a loaner unit, provided by Verizon Wireless.


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exploring apache log files using hive and hadoop
if you're exploring hive as at technology, and are looking to move beyond "hello, world", here's a little recipe for a simple but satisfying first task using hive and hadoop. we'll work through setting up a clustered installation of hive and hadoop, and then import an apache log file and query it using hive's SQL-like language.
unless you happen to have three physical linux servers at your disposal, you may want to create your base debian linux servers using a virtualization technology such as xen. for a good guide on setting up xen, go here. for the remainder of this tutorial, i'll assume that you have three debian (lenny) servers at your disposal.
let's get started
setting up hadoop
first, we need to set up hadoop. we're going to install hadoop at
/var/hadoop. execute the following commands as root :
# apt-get install sun-java6-jre
# cd /var
# wget http://www.bizdirusa.com/mirrors/apache/hadoop/core/stable/hadoop-0.18.3.tar.gz
# tar -xvf hadoop-0.18.3.tar.gz
# mv hadoop-0.18.3 hadoop
# rm hadoop-0.18.3.tar.gz
vi conf/hadoop-env.sh and set the
JAVA_HOME variable appropriately. additionally, if you want to run hadoop as a different user, change the hadoop directory permissions appropriately. for example :
# chgrp -R cailin.cailin /var/hadoop
repeat this section for all three of your hadoop servers.
configuring hadoop
first, edit
/etc/hosts on all three servers and make sure that they are all aware of each other's existence. for example, my servers are named
haddop2 and
haddop3 and my
/etc/hosts looks like this :
192.168.1.20 haddop1
192.168.1.21 haddop2
192.168.1.22 haddop3
now make sure that you have password-free SSH access between all servers.
finally, on all three servers, modify
/var/hadoop/hadoop-sites.xml to contain the following
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="configuration.xsl"?>
<!-- Put site-specific property overrides in this file. -->
/var/hadoop/conf/slaves to contain
starting up hadoop
in the previous configuration, we specific that
haddop1 was our !NameNode,
haddop2 was our !JobTracker and
haddop3 was both a
DataNode and
on the !NameNode, issue the command to format a new distributed file system (HDFS) and then startup the HDSF.
$ bin/hadoop namenode -format
$ bin/start-dfs.sh
on the JobTracker start up MapReduce :
testing hadoop (optional)
if you're like me, even though our ultimate goal here is hive . . . you can't proceed until you've double checked to make sure that everything works so far. okay, fine, we'll make a short stop to test hadoop. all commands should be executed as your non-root user.
first, make yourself some test data. create a directory in your home directory and put in two or more text files containing a few lines of text each. i created mine at
On your JobTracker node copy some example data into the HDFS with HDFS directory name input-wordcount
bin/hadoop dfs -copyFromLocal /home/cailin/input/wordcount input-wordcount
Now, kick off a job to count the number of instances of each word in your input files. Put the output of the job in an HDFS directory with name
$ bin/hadoop jar hadoop-0.18.4-dev-examples.jar wordcount input-wordcount output-wordcount
Now, copy the input out of HDFS to your local filesystem and take a look
$ bin/hadoop dfs -get output-wordcount /home/cailin/output/wordcount
$ cat /home/cailin/output/wordcount/*
If you want to run the example again, you need to clean up after your first run. Delete the output directory from the HDFS and your local copy too. Also, delete the input HDFS directory.
$ bin/hadoop dfs -rmr output-wordcount
$ rm -r /home/cailin/output/wordcount
$ bin/hadoop dfs -rmr input-wordcount
shutting down hadoop
it's probably best if you shut-down hadoop while we're setting up hive. on NameNode
$ bin/stop-dfs.sh
on the JobTracker
$ bin/stop-mapred.sh
installing hive
on each of the three servers, execute the following as root
# mkdir /var/hive
# cd /tmp
# svn co http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/hadoop/hive/trunk hive
# cd hive
# ant -Dhadoop.version="0.18.3" package
# cd /build/dist
# mv * /var/hive/.
and, if you want to run hive as somebody other than root, through in something like the following :
# sudo chown -R cailin.cailin /var/hive
vi /etc/profile and make it aware of the following three environment variables, changing the value of
JAVA_HOME as appropriate.
export JAVA_HOME=/usr/lib/jvm/java-6-sun
export HADOOP_HOME=/var/hadoop
export HIVE_HOME=/var/hive
logout and login to all three servers to "activate" the changes in
finally, on the NameNode, as your non-root user, execute the following commands to create some necessary directories. (if you get an error indicating that the directory already exists, that's okay.
$ bin/hadoop fs -mkdir /tmp
$ bin/hadoop fs -mkdir /user/hive/warehouse
$ bin/hadoop fs -chmod g+w /tmp
$ bin/hadoop fs -chmod g+w /user/hive/warehouse
testing hive
first, start up hadoop again, following the instructions above.
now, as the non-root user on your JobTracker start up the hive command line interface (cli)
$ cd /var/hive
$ bin/hive
now, in the hive cli, execute the following trivial series of commands, just to make sure everything is in working order
hive> CREATE TABLE pokes (foo INT, bar STRING);
hive> SHOW TABLES;
hive> DROP TABLE pokes;
exploring an apache log file using hive
finally, we're able to get to the point!
first, copy an apache log file to
/tmp/apache.log on the JobTracker
still on your JobTracker in the hive cli, create the table and load in the data
hive> CREATE TABLE apachelog (
ipaddress STRING, identd STRING, user STRING,finishtime STRING,
requestline string, returncode INT, size INT)
ROW FORMAT SERDE 'org.apache.hadoop.hive.serde2.dynamic_type.DynamicSerDe'
'field.delim'=' ',
hive> LOAD DATA LOCAL INPATH '/tmp/apache.log' OVERWRITE INTO TABLE apachelog;
yee hoo! your apache log file is now available to query using the Hive QL. try a few simple queries like :
SELECT * from apachelog WHERE ipaddress = '184.108.40.206';
now, suppose we want to execute a simple task such as determining the biggest apache offender (e.g. the ip address with the most apache requests.) in MySQL we would write something like
SELECT ipaddress, COUNT(1) AS numrequest FROM ipaddress GROUP BY ipaddress ORDER BY numrequest DESC LIMIT 1. the closest approximation to this in HIVE QL is
hive> SELECT ipaddress, COUNT(1) AS numrequest FROM apachelog GROUP BY ipaddress SORT BY numrequest DESC LIMIT 1;
however, this may not give you the answer you were expecting! in hive, the SORT BY command indicates only that the data is sorted within a reducer. so, to enforce a global sort over all data, you would have to set the number of reducers to 1. this may not be realistic for a large data set. to see what happens with more than one reducer, force the number of reducers to 2.
hive> set mapred.reduce.tasks=2;
hive> SELECT ipaddress, COUNT(1) AS numrequest FROM apachelog GROUP BY ipaddress SORT BY numrequest DESC LIMIT 1;
to get the right answer, with greater than one reducer, it is necessary to first create a temporary table and populate it with the number of requests per ip address.
CREATE TABLE ipsummary (ipaddress STRING, numrequest INT);
INSERT OVERWRITE TABLE ipsummary SELECT ipaddress, COUNT(1) FROM apachelog GROUP BY ipaddress;
now, with the use of a Hive QL subquery, we can extract the information we seek, even with > 1 reducer.
SELECT ipsummary.ipaddress, ipsummary.numrequest FROM (SELECT MAX(numrequest) AS themax FROM ipsummary) ipsummarymax JOIN ipsummary ON ipsummarymax.themax = ipsummary.numrequest;
tee hee. that was alot of work. next time, just use google analytics.
This is a great tutorial,
This is a great tutorial, but I want to point out that DynamicSerDe has been deprecated, and that folks have been experiencing problems using the TCTLSeparatedProtocol to process weblogs (see http://osdir.com/ml/hive-user-hadoop-apache/2009-10/msg00062.html).
Please use the RegexSerDe instead.
See HIVE-662 for more information: http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-662


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This is a blog of my rambles about my craft and hobbies. I just love to show you how I make my cards and really appreciate your comments.
Sunday, 30 October 2016
Den's Birthday
Afternoon all
Hope you are having a good weekend and that you are doing all that you wish.
It is Den's Birthday tomorrow so we are off shortly to get a Chinese Takeaway meal
got my list, and probably have enough for tomorrow too.
Made his card yesterday which I will share with you today.
I have just got a new machine which will cut out letters and numbers.
So I used up snippets of paper to make the design.
Added foam pads ( not a usual thing for me) to add dimension to the card.
Mounted onto a Kanban Happy Birthday foiled card.
So pleased to have used up a few snippets of paper from my huge stash of bits.
Never seem to get any lower I have to say.
So hope it is ok but would like to enter it for the following
Will be baking cakes tomorrow for Den so hope I will not burn the cake like I did
yesterday. Got a new seal on the cooker and guess what it cooks hotter now!!
No loss of heat through the door.
Well be back tomorrow. Thank you for popping in and take care.
Crafty hugs
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A fun card for your hubby's birthday. Enjoy your Chinese takeaway. That's what we're having tonight too - a break with my diet. BarbxxReplyDelete
Great card, happy Birthday to your hubby. Hope you enjoyed the ChineseReplyDelete
A super card and great letters too. I hope you enjoyed your Chinese takeaway.ReplyDelete
Sue xx
What a great card Pen! Hope that Den's Birthday goes well - many happy returns to him!ReplyDelete
Di xx
Congratulations to Den on his 60th birthday a fun card he won't be able to forget this birthdayReplyDelete
Hope the baking went well?ReplyDelete
A great 60th birthday card.
Hugs Erika. x
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There are many things I love doing with my children, but building a castle out of Duplos or being "the bad guy" and getting locked in the playroom closet do not top my list. Is that so bad?
*Before you think I am both a princess and a bad mother, here is a list of things I do—and love doing—with my kids: Cooking (Alex knows more about food preparation at four than I did at 24), reading, dancing (preferably to really cheesy top-40 music that has somehow infiltrated our rap/rock house), playing catch (now that Alex can actually throw and catch—prior to that it was not so much fun), swimming, taking walks, running around the backyard, picking food from our garden, playing I spy, planting flowers, collecting shells on the beach, playing the car game (when we're driving, Alex and I will each pick a color and we see who can find the most cars in their chosen color) and someday I know I will love drawing and painting with them, though right now that activity is more trouble than it's worth.
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Who is a refugee? Merriam-Webster Dictionary defines refugee as "one that flees for safety; especially one who flees to a foreign country or power to escape danger or persecution." Therefore, refugees are immigrants who seek asylum either for ethnic or religious reasons or are driven away from their home by natural disasters. Nonetheless, they have become foreigners in a new place.
Anyone who knows Charity Powell knows her heart for the world. Those who don't know her soon learn. A world map in her office pinpoints past mission trips. Strings crisscross to photos with special meaning for each trip. As she points, Charity describes people and needs in each location—11 countries she visited in 11 months during a World Race to share Jesus and encourage believers. Tears fill her eyes as she recalls the man from Thailand who prayed 30 years for a church. She tells of Asian friends in New York City's Jackson Heights. A bottle filled with an olive branch, rocks, a piece of a raft, and an orange heart-shaped piece of a life jacket from Greece's Lesvos beach stands on the table underneath her map.
For a long time, refugees were not on Charity's map. "I knew if I paid attention, I'd end up in Lesvos." However, after helping with a refugee fund-raiser, she acknowledged, "The Lord gave me feet to go."
My favorite grocery store remodeled recently to my frustration. Imagine your first visit to an American grocery store after spending several years in a refugee camp. Add in a language barrier, and a task we take for granted can be overwhelming.
Refugees entering the United States come seeking housing, schools, jobs, and community. Displaced by violence and persecution, most refugees lost belongings and even family members to arrive in crowded camps with limited resources and then wait up to 10 years before resettling in a receiving country. Fear of the unknown often accompanies relocation to the US, increasing stress and often leading to anxiety disorders—including post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)—may surface within a few months of arrival in their new home. Refugees may have suffered a loss of self-esteem and the ability to dream, and many are living in survival mode.
Kelsey Smith has met a lot of refugees, but she remembers 1 boy in particular. "He was 14, fresh off the plane from his country of asylum, spoke almost no English, and no one else in the program spoke his language," said Kelsey, who works with a nonprofit organization that helps refugees begin to build a life in the United States. "He appeared tired, dispirited, and completely uninterested in participating in our activities." She couldn't figure out how to connect with him.
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We focus in our churches on the need for refugees to learn English, and that is important. But in the meantime, how do they find housing, enroll their children in school, and understand how to get insurance or a driver's license? The details of life can be overwhelming for a person who has never had to register his or her child for school or go to the health department for immunizations.
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Antarctica. That was what was printed on the folded-up sheet of paper I pulled from the cup on a small-group retreat once, and we all had a good laugh.
The 7 of us had each drawn a continent to pray for, and that was mine. But as we began to talk about it, we brainstormed who that could be. We talked about the scientists there who might not know Christ. We moved on to people in cold places in other parts of the world—Scandinavia, Siberia, Greenland, and so on. We went in a circle for quite some time, and when it got around to me, I lifted them all up.
That might not have been the most conventional way to pray for the lost around the world, but it's one I haven't forgotten even years later. And I think that tactic, while unusual, accomplished something. It made me remember those people. I still pray for them when Antarctica gets mentioned in conversation or in a movie. I still remember the people in all the cold places of the world.
How can you be a friend and care for someone who misses her family and is concerned for her well-being? How do you respond to a young girl who shows you her good grades and tells you she dreams of becoming a doctor? What do you do when you are served a delicious meal or cup of tea? Instead of reacting the same way for each of these scenarios, you find an appropriate response that indicates you share that person's concern and sadness. You express how proud you are of the child's accomplishments or thank your host for her hospitality. When you respond to refugees, you can also look for ways to show compassion, share in their joy, and show your appreciation.
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The wonderful thing about making your own mincemeat is that it's hugely satisfying but also very easy. This recipe is simple to prepare but it's one for a rainy weekend when you have a little bit more time on your hands, as the mixture needs to stand overnight and then be cooked the next day. The warm, sweet smell of the baking mincemeat will linger and fill your home with a wonderful aroma.
It's best to make this mincemeat at least six weeks before Christmas to allow the flavours to blend, mellow and mature.
I sometimes get a bit over-enthusiastic with the quantity of mincemeat that I make and end up with more than I know we're going to be able to eat. However, a jar of mincemeat makes a pretty gift and it does keep well, so you can still make my delicious Festive Power Bars long after Christmas is over – the bars make an indulgent breakfast.
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- 120g raisins
- 80g sultanas
- 80g currants
- 25g chopped mixed peel
- 25g dried stoned prunes, chopped
- 120g soft dark brown sugar
- 200g (prepared weight) cooking apples, peeled, cored and coarsely grated
- 80g shredded vegetable or beef suet
- finely grated zest and juice of 1 orange
- finely grated zest and juice of 1 lemon
- 25g flaked almonds, chopped
- 25g pecan halves, chopped
- 2 teaspoons ground mixed spice
- 1 teaspoon freshly grated nutmeg
- 50ml brandy
Place all the ingredients, except the brandy, in a mixing bowl and mix together thoroughly. Cover and leave to stand in a cool place overnight to allow the flavours to develop.
The next day, preheat the oven to 120°C/Gas Mark ½. Transfer the mincemeat mixture to a large, deep roasting tin and cover the tin with foil. Bake in the oven for 2 hours – by this time the grated apple will have broken down and the mixture will have become much darker in colour. Remove from the oven and leave the mixture to cool slightly, then stir in the brandy.
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wjtwjt: the link was in my last post it said, to english, just copy it and put it in your bookmarks, drag it.
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Contrary to popular belief, Bali is not just about its beaches. Its water bodies are also equally spectacular. Its rivers have produced a number of beautiful and worth visiting waterfalls. Speaking about waterfall, the first place pops up in most of people's agenda would be the usual touristy Gitgit Waterfall. But there are so many scenic waterfalls around this island, and Aling Aling Waterfall is one of them.
Located in northern Bali, Aling-Aling Waterfall is 11 kilometres from Singaraja with less than 20 minutes' drive, while getting from Denpasar will take up to 3 hours. The official location of the waterfall is in Sambangan Village, Buleleng regency. Arriving from Denpasar requires the use of the main highway towards Singaraja. At the junction towards the entrance of Singaraja, turn left to head to Sukasada terminal. Continue along the path to reach Sambangan Village. Signposts (with waterfall banners) will guide you for the remaining approximately 3 kilometres drive to the parking area of Aling Aling Waterfall. As the waterfall is seldom frequented by tourists, it is advisable to seek the help of locals or hire an experienced driver who knows how to get there.
Aling-Aling Waterfall can be visited by all, but young children and the elderly are advised against participating in the water activities and cliff jumping for their own safety. Those intending to participate in the water activities should bring a change of attire and/or swimsuit. Also, you may need to prepare yourself for a tiring walk down hundreds of stone steps about 400 metres to reach the waterfall.
While the descent down the many steps was tiring, but it was definitely well worth the effort. I was greeted with a magnificent view of the waterfall, 35 metres high falling from a steep cliff and surrounded by lush greenery as well as rice fields. The water emanating from the falls was crystal clear, while at the same time the air was cool and refreshing, with a hint of the scent of the surrounding mountain fog.
However, what probably stands out most about Aling Aling Waterfall is that visitors will notice how the falls are separated into two adjacent cascading falls at the top, with the right falls having a much larger discharge and speed than the one on the left. As a result of the greater velocity and volume of water, the thunderous sound of the right falls crashing into the basin fills your ears, creating an impressive juxtaposition with the surrounding serenity of nature that is amplified by the lack of visitors. Interestingly, for budding photographers or those with good photography skills, the waterfall is also a good photo opportunity precisely because its separation into two separate falls with varying speeds can produce stunning photographs using the correct camera settings.
The fun does not stop with the spectacular view of the fall and its surroundings. Adventure junkies will enjoy the water activities, including jumping off of a cliff at a height of 5, 10 or 15 metres. The adrenaline rush that you will attain from the jump is nothing short of what you had expected. However, for those who are afraid of heights can also opt to slide down a natural water slide created by the natural process of erosion. It promises much fun, and yet is not as unnerving as jumping off a cliff. Other water activities include swimming and bathing in the waterfall basin at the base of the 4-metre-deep waterfall. Don't feel like immersing your entire body in water? Just put your hands in the water and have fun playing and splashing with the fresh and cool water. However, be wary of the slippery rocks surrounding you to prevent any injuries.
If you are not exhausted from the walk and the activities, continue to explore the whole area. Aling Aling Waterfall is only one of the seven waterfalls in the area, with it being the highest. The other waterfalls all within walking distance from Aling Aling are Pucuk, Kembar, Kroya, Canging, Dedari and Cemara Waterfalls. I highly recommend incorporating the visit to Aling Aling with an organised trek as I did, because you get to explore the surrounding area which gives you an insight into quintessential Bali villagers' life. A long trek would take you to all the waterfalls.
During the hike, I was afforded sweeping views of the surrounding landscape of rice fields and cocoa, coffee and clove plantations. Besides, I had the chance to interact with friendly local people and farmers, allowing me to get a glimpse into the traditional lifestyle that they lead. In fact, so beautiful is the place that many call it "the secret garden of Sambangan".
All in all, Aling Aling Waterfall is an oasis of unspoiled nature, one that will take your breath away. Moreover, you will be pleased to note that you are supporting the locals who work hard to maintain the pristine beauty of Sambangan Village with your eco-tourism efforts. A waterfall is, to many people, a spectacular product of the fury of nature. Therefore, schedule your next holiday destination to visit a place that will bring peace to your soul.
Aling Aling Waterfall
Sambangan Village, Buleleng Regency
This article is also published at NOW! Bali Magazine
Bali Online Editor – Bali Writer – Bali Editor


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This sounds so familiar to me. When I worked as a recruiter, I was in the position of forming positive relationships with new employees — because I gave them money and a new job. Fun! Hooray! And when things with HR got complicated or difficult in the new job, as it frequently happens, they would come back to me for help. I had a difficult saying NOT MY JOB.
And this recruiter is having that trouble, too. She wants to say NOT MY JOB but can't.
My advice? Don't say it.
When you build a reputation as a 'problem solver', you become important to an organization. Companies don't fire helpful and relevant people. At least, they don't fire them first. Also, you are improving your own skills and abilities when you say YES and help someone.
I said YES and learned more about Human Resources. When a colleague of mine had a hysterectomy, I was able to step up and say YES to being an interim HR Generalist. That single move helped me more than anything else I did with my career.
So when possible, try to say YES. Although I fully support saying NO when you are too busy and/or when someone else is being lazy. Just remember that NO might not be an option. Sometimes we say NO to responsibilities and actions that are part of our jobs.
For example, I once worked as a Human Resources assistant. I had an HR director ask me to get lunch for the team. I said, "Uh, yeah… uh… you want me to get lunch? Really?"
I was trying to make a statement. I was busy and that didn't feel like part of my job.
She looked at me and said, "Not only do I want you to get lunch but I want you to do it with a smile on your face."
Bam. The message was pretty clear.
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|Draft National Minimum Wage Regulations 1999 (Amendment) Regulations 2002
Geraldine Smith: Is the hon. Gentleman not aware of how the working families tax credit has helped people on low incomes? The many tax changes, along with the national minimum wage, have meant that many people in my constituency who would have remained on benefit have decided to take jobs because the Government have made work pay.
Mr. Hammond: It will be interesting to see the figures, but I shall deal with means-tested benefits in a moment.
Many people on low incomes are earning above the national minimum; no one would suggest that the definition of a person on a low income is one who earns only the national minimum wage. Many people who earn more than that are still on low incomes. Everyone on lower incomes has been hit by Labour's stealth taxes. Labour gives with one hand and takes away with the other. At the same timedealing with the point raised by the hon. LadyLabour has massively extended the dependency culture.
Including most pensioners, nearly 40 per cent. of the population will be receiving means-tested benefits or receipts by 2003. In 1998, that figure was 24 per cent.
Column Number: 11The Government have not done away with the dependency culture; they have reinforced and fostered it. They have increased the benefit trap and thus increased dependency on the state. It is not so much a hand up as a handout. We cannot effectively tackle poverty while increasing taxes that bite hardest on the most vulnerable, which deepens the very benefit traps that keep people from being able to haul themselves out of poverty.
Mr. Michael Connarty (Falkirk, East): The hon. Gentleman has lumped in a number of factors to obscure his main argument. He mentioned pensioners a moment ago. To include pensioners in his analysis is obviously false, because the regulations are about wages. As for the pensioners, the Government have stepped in to rescue them from the poverty created by the destruction of the link between earnings and pensions set up by a previous Labour Government. The Government have addressed that poverty. The hon. Gentleman should discount pensioners from his analysis.
Mr. Hammond: That is an interesting argument, from which I deduce that the hon. Gentleman belongs to the half of the Labour party that does not support the reintroduction of the link between earnings and pensions, not the half that has been urging the Government to reintroduce the link. The simple point is that as well as taxing the least well off more highly, the Government have reinforced the dependency culture. I genuinely believed that in 1997 the Labour party was determined to tackle that, and it has not.
The Government's regulatory impact assessment suggests that the total cost of uprating the national minimum wage will be 0.05 per cent. of the total wage bill. As I said earlier, that figure is irrelevant. It is not the macro-economic effect of the uprating that is relevant but its micro-economic effect on marginal jobs and marginal firms and businesses. I was disappointed to see that the Government's analysis does not tackle the marginal effect of this uprating. Indeed, we should not talk only of this upratingit is very smallbut of upratings in general. Looking beyond today's uprating, I hope that the Government will ensure a proper analysis of the effect of upratings at the margins and their effect on the marginal business and the marginal job. That is how we should look at any future upratings.
I have four issues that I want to raise with the Minister. The first is the regional issue to which my right hon. Friend the Member for Bromley and Chislehurst (Mr. Forth) referred. Whether we like it or not, our economy is not homogeneous. A £4.20 minimum wage will have a minimal effect in London and the south-east, where the labour market operates in such a way that wages are usually substantially above that level. It will have a much greater effect in, for example, Northern Ireland, where living costs are 20 per cent. lower than in the south-east. North-east England is another area where living costs are relatively low. I therefore urge Labour Members not to
Column Number: 12fall into the trap of thinking that a single national minimum wage will help to redress regional economic disparities. If anything, it is likely to reinforce them by ensuring that its economic impact is felt more in some regions than in others in the next economic downturn.
It is hard to see how a single rate across the nation will achieve the central objective of tackling poverty. People who live in high-cost areas will have significantly higher living costs than those who live in low-cost areas. I accept that the differential will be smaller than global statistics suggest for those on the lowest incomes, because their housing costs will be less significant and less variable. None the less, it is indubitably the case that someone living in south-east England who earns £120 a week will have a less good lifestyle than someone on the same wage in Northern Ireland or north-east England, where the overall cost of living is lower.
The Government have a problem as long as they remain wedded to a single national minimum wage. Either they must recognise that it is almost totally irrelevant to people in south-east England, or they must set it at a level that will seriously damage areas that have built their economic structure on their lower cost base. Again, I cite the example of Northern Ireland.
The Government seem determined to refuse to consider the regional effects of the national minimum wage. On 23 June 2000, a former Secretary of State for Trade and Industry set new terms of reference for the Low Pay Commission, but they made no reference to regional issues. The commission is therefore not asked to report to the Government on a region-by-region basis on the impact of measures. There is some focus on sectoral impacts, but none on regional impacts.
The Government are committed to a single national minimum wage, but does the Minister recognise that it has differential regional impacts? Issues such as the impact of the minimum wage, its success or otherwise, and its effect on jobs, employment and business must be considered in a regional context. Will the Minister ensure that the Low Pay Commission is asked specifically to consider the regional context and to report to the Government on the regional impact of the minimum wage? Before approving any future upratings, we want to be absolutely sure that we are not in danger of destroying jobs and investment in low-cost areas.
My second point relates to the black economy. It is tempting to think that very low-paid jobs will disappear when a floor minimum wage is put in place and businesses have to move up the value-adding curve to survive. Indeed, the foreword to the abbreviated edition of the Low Pay Commission's report states:
That would be fine if it worked, but businesses that cannot or will not comply with the national minimum wage and other legislation often move into the black economy. No one would condone that, but I hope that all hon. Members recognise that a substantial black economy operates in this country.
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I have neither the necessary data nor the resources to acquire them, but I strongly suspect that many of the marginal businesses cited during the proceedings of the Standing Committee that considered the National Minimum Wage Bill are still in business. We talked about sweat shops that paid people £1 or £1.20 an hour to sew up clothes, workers in shoe factories on similar piecework rates and outworkers who stuffed envelopes for 60p or 70p an hour. The Minister for Pensions revelled in giving many other examples. I doubt whether those businesses now pay £4.20 an hour and whether they have all gone out of business.
I am prepared to bet that a significant number of those businesses continue to operate in the black economy, not only gaining the unfair competitive advantage of not paying the national minimum wage, but gaining a further advantage by not paying taxes and not complying with regulations. As workers have lost the protection of health and safety and other regimes and have been pushed into the totally unregulated black economy, the Government have not improved the position of those workers through the measure.
Mr. Mole: The hon. Gentleman referred to a significant number of businesses moving into the black economy, yet said that he did not have the research capability to identify what that number might be. Before he places his bet, will he suggest what he believes it to be?
Mr. Hammond: The hon. Gentleman will know that the black economy is by definition extraordinarily difficult to measure. I would not be surprised to find that, as a percentage of the formal economy, our black economy is now larger than that of Italy, which is traditionally cited as a place where a substantial black economy operates.
The hon. Gentleman pre-empted me slightly, as I was going to ask the Minister a second question. Will the Minister ensure the proper evaluation of the effect of the national minimum wage on the black economy as part of the monitoring of its impact, which is the responsibility of the Low Pay Commission? That would allow us to see whether some such marginal enterprises simply evade the issue by moving into[Interruption.] The Minister is chuntering from a sedentary position, but the figures are difficult to record by traditional statistical methodology.
I suggest specific sampling studies in sectors in which we know that wages are low. I am thinking of sectors where the tradition has been to pay by the piece. It would be interesting to have a picture of how many such firms now pay the national minimum wage and how many of them have disappeared. They may have disappeared totally, or gone into the black economy. I would be grateful if the Minister bluntly said something about how the Government ensure that the measure does not have the perverse effect of forcing workers out of the protection offered to them by the formal economy. He has sought to enforce that protection through the national minimum wage, so it would be perverse if it forced workers into an unprotected and unregulated environment.
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The third issue that I want to raise concerns 21-year-olds. Throughout debates on the subject, the Government have sheltered behind the Low Pay Commission and basically adopted what I have termed the ''Not me, guv'' approach. The Minister will be familiar with that idea. The Government say that the LPC considers the matter and makes its recommendation, and that they follow its line. They have certainly done that on the LPC's first three reports, with the single, salient exception of its recommendation that 21-year-olds should enjoy the main rate. The rather bogus economic appraisal to which I referred earlier, insofar as it shows anything at all, does not appear to make any case for leaving 21-year-olds on the development rate. The Government will struggle to show that the data set that they used in that appraisal supports their rejection of the LPC advice on that issue. The Minister has already told the Committee that he will explain the Government's reasons for not accepting the LPC advice on that matter and I look forward to that explanation.
Finally, on the problems of the social care sector, last night in the House we debated care homes, an issue that concerns and affects almost every Member of this House. The Government's economic analysis purports to deal with workers in the social care sector. It says that care sector job numbers have remained static since the introduction of the national minimum wage. That is a frightening statistic, if it is true. We all know that demands on the care sector are rising significantly, that we have an ageing population and that failure to deliver appropriate levels of social care causes bed blocking in our NHS hospitals, which continues to create misery and third-world conditions across the acute hospital sector. If the Government are introducing a measure that, according to their own economic analysis, will leave job numbers in the care sector static, I suggest to the Minister that we need to very concerned about that.
The LPC, in its report, states:
Care home providers throughout the country and their representative organisations can cite countless examples of local authorities that have failed to uprate payments for care homes and nursing homes to reflect the significant increase in the operation costs of those homes caused by the national minimum wage. Wages
Column Number: 15account for roughly 70 per cent. of the cost of operating a nursing or care home and for historical reasons largely related to levels of Government funding, many care workers earn very low wages at the minimum wage level or at a level related by differentials to that level.
This is a serious issue for the care sector and all the Government's fine words about wanting to eliminate poverty pay and do so in a way that will not cost jobs are meaningless if, in a sector where they are effectively paying, they refuse to deal with the issue and allow real damage to be inflicted. It is a question not just of damage to business and job losses, but of damage to our health service through the knock-on effects of the inadequacy of care provision on acute health services.
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Board of Regents, President Greenwood affirm partnership
Will work together on mission to make UH System the first choice in higher educationUniversity of Hawaiʻi
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The Board of Regents and President Greenwood announced that their partnership to achieve ever higher standards of academic excellence throughout the UH system will continue and remains strong. Each acknowledged that the concert fiasco and its aftermath created strains in the University's leadership. President Greenwood apologizes for having sent the letter to the Board of Regents, which she has since withdrawn, and has no plans to bring legal action against the University or the Board. Soul-searching has led the Regents and the President to rededicate themselves to the University's unique role in educating the people of Hawai'i as well as serving as a center for productive and innovative research.
The Regents and the President share a conviction that autonomy and independence in governing its internal affairs are essential if the University is to carry out its mission. They agree that improved communication and transparency within the University's leadership is critical to avoiding future mishaps. The Regents are optimistic that under President Greenwood's leadership the University will correct the management failures highlighted by the Advisory Task Group Report on Operational and Financial Controls Improvement.
Over the past three years the University has improved graduation rates, especially among under-served groups, and created an innovation initiative that focuses on the STEM fields. UH researchers garnered over $450 million in outside support in each of the last two years. A new four-year campus has risen on the Ewa plain to serve West O'ahu. A state-of-the-art Cancer Center, certified by the National Institutes of Health will shortly open in Kaka'ako. The University is the linchpin of an international consortium to mount a billion-dollar thirty-meter telescope on Mauna Kea. The University has become a world leader in the field of indigenous studies. All of these accomplishments occurred while enrollment climbed by 50 percent to 60,000 students and state budgetary support was cut. President Greenwood, a nationally recognized scientist and administrator, has left her mark on all these achievements.
The Regents and President Greenwood will work together to build on this record by offering affordable access, excellence in teaching, internationally recognized research and innovation, and a culture of service to the people of Hawai'i. Our shared goal is to make the University the first choice of the people of Hawai'i to achieve their academic goals and pursue their personal dreams.


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