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New London, police union still banging heads
New London - Police union officials say negotiations on a host of labor-related complaints before the state Board of Labor Relations fell apart last week because the city refused to honor previous agreements.
The city, meanwhile, accused the union again of trying to mislead the public by releasing half-truths about what is going on behind closed doors.
The two sides met Thursday in an attempt to hash out some of the municipal prohibited practices complaints filed against the city, according to AFSCME Council 15 attorney Eric Brown.
Brown said the city refused to honor an agreement reached with the union in 2012 that allows officers to be granted leave and be paid while attending union business.
"Without (the agreement), disagreements cannot get resolved," Brown said. "There is clearly an anti-union animus coming directly from the Chief's office. Of the 20 unions I deal with � I've never dealt with a police department as toxic as New London is right now."
But city attorney Brian Estep, in response to a press release issued by the AFSCME Local 15, said the agreement with the union was that the officers would be paid union business leave if the meeting took place during the employee's shift.
"The union now wants to change the agreement from one regarding release from duty to one that requires payment to an officer when he is not on duty," Estep said in a statement.
In the case of Thursday's meeting, union Vice President Michael Strecker was granted leave and union President Todd Lynch was told he was due to report to his regular work shift that started at 3 p.m., after the meeting.
The issues to be discussed at the meeting included a union complaint that the city has refused to release documents related to the recent firing of Officer David McElroy over information the police administration allege he released to the media about an ongoing investigation into a rape case. Police have since said the rape did not occur as first reported.
The union plans to take McElroy's case to grievance arbitration, and Brown said the city has stymied their attempts to prepare for the case by refusing to release documents related to an internal investigation. The arbitration meeting was scheduled for April 8 before the state Board of Mediation and Arbitration.
Other issues to be discussed included the city's attempt to eliminate the police K-9 program and chief's use of sick and compensatory time, Brown said.
Estep expressed frustration at the union's comments about ongoing complaints, saying answers to questions would be answered during mediation and not through press releases.
The latest issues arise even as the two sides expressed optimism and agreed last month to use an independent arbitrator to handle dozens of unresolved grievances filed by the union. Contract negotiations are also ongoing.
Lynch said there was no way the union could participate in non-binding mediation, at a cost of $2,500 to members, "knowing the city is incapable of complying with agreements it previously reached with us."
Lynch cited the city's ongoing appeal of a state Board of Mediation and Arbitration order to rehire Officer Thomas Northup. Mayor Daryl Justin Finizio fired Northup in 2011 for shooting an unarmed man who had crashed a stolen ice truck during a chase.
Finizio on Friday said the union appeared "to be looking for excuses not to negotiate in good faith," and "hell bent on confrontation" when the city and police union worked together in the past. The continued use of press releases by union leadership has led to continued politicization of the process, he said, and the department as a whole suffers as a result.
"They're trying to fish for an excuse to get out of the process," Finizio said.
Finizio said up until the Northup decision, he has abided by all of the labor board decisions. In the Northup case, he said the city has a legal right to appeal to the court because it involves an officer's misuse of deadly force.
"There's a broader principle at stake here," he said.
Lynch continued his criticism.
"The chief has destroyed this department and the city attorney continues to increase his billable hours by not settling these issues. So much for the mayor's statement that New London is a pro-union town," he said.
Brown said failure to settle pending grievances will ultimately lead to more litigation.
Estep countered that the outside mediator might have helped worked through some of the grievances.
"The union now wants to end that process for the simplest of reasons, greed," Estep said.
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Tuesday, August 18, 2009
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I didn't like last week's SMBC Theater, The Mustache, but yesterday's Equation was pretty good. It is certainly getting better since the first few. That's nice to see. Zach still looks like a massive, massive stoner though.
And I'm still keeping up with Homestuck over at MSPaint Adventures. It's starting to grow on me. I don't think it's that funny, but the story is starting to get interesting, and the lengths he goes to flesh out his universe (see, for example, the prints he is selling that explain the shirts his characters wear.) is astounding.. I think a big advantage this story has over Problem Sleuth is that the characters talk. It makes them much more interesting, particuarly since (so far) we've only seen them talk one on one, never 3 or all 4 together. And I'll be honest: The first few times I played the newest minigame, I thought the joke was that it was impossible to get any points. Then I randomly got a few points, and was like "oh...there is more to this, I see..." Now my high score is 306,984! BITCHES.
In xkcd news...
when is that fucking book going to come out?
94 comments:
I'm really surprised how many people are defending Internet advertisements and saying that it's morally wrong to block them.ReplyDelete
IDK, it's not like avoiding advertisements is immoral in any other form, so whatever.
I can't figure out that game...I can only get about 2k by mashing buttons. :(ReplyDelete
when you get all moralistic about it you become a dick. it is a matter of practicality. if you make it so nobody ever sees internet advertising, ad-supported websites will no longer make any money, and some content will stop being free. a lot of websites have some income, supplemental or otherwise, from ads--it has long been the way a lot of services maintain their free nature.ReplyDelete
indeed, it's how a lot of services even off the internet keep their costs down. public transit features ads prominently. sports teams get corporate sponsors who put up their ads. roads have billboards. and so on. they remain profitable because everyone sees them. web ads are easy to turn off, and so ad companies have been forced to become even more eye-catching and annoying in order to increase the number of hits they get from the few users who don't have an ad blocker turned on. essentially, ad block software as it stands encourages badvertising, which, in turn, encourages people to keep using ad block software. it is quite the dilemma.
Man, I totally just spent seven hours or something yesterday and the day before that reading the entirety of Problem Sleuth. Awesome.ReplyDelete
And yeah, I really like Homestuck, as well -- I just read through the pages that are already up on it. I really like the way the chracters talk, too. It's kind of nifty how their personalities are sort of reflected in their writing styles.
The "twelve layers of irony" stuff is pretty great, too.
- AnonymousAugust 18, 2009 at 12:38 PM
I think all of Zach's shorts should be about the same length as the Equation one. (i.e., relatively short) They just work better that way. [also, i thought the cutaway before the punch was well done]ReplyDelete
My God, if all people changed the channel whenever commercials came on, all TV would become pay-per-view!ReplyDelete
Ah sod mon, when did this become "advertisingsucks"? Answer: never.ReplyDelete
I liked equation too. The black censor bar was a bit jarring, though; personally I would just have put "screwed" or "did" so it wasn't needed. As it is it's a bit fourth-wall-breaky.
mal: you are aware that precisely because online advertising is no longer profitable, the NYT is almost definitely moving to a paid subscription model, right?ReplyDelete
how long have you been a complete dumbass?
Is there a reason this whole adblock debate had to move over to this thread? Is it REALLY of such critical importance that it couldn't stay in the relevant comic thread? Don't get me wrong, you guys are cute and all when you start whipping it out to see whose is largest, but I'm just sayin'.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousAugust 18, 2009 at 2:19 PM
My God, if all people changed the channel whenever commercials came on, all TV would become pay-per-view!ReplyDelete
This used to be too inconvenient to do, but what with DVR's, this is dead-simple. Like using ad-block. Guess what! Ads only got more intrusive and pay-per-view is on the rise.
But hey, keep blocking those mildly annoying ads.
I think the comparison with TV is apt, and I'm guilty of being inconsistent. With DVR's I feel fine fast forwarding through commercials, but I don't with downloading torrents of the same show. But really I think internet advertising is inevitably doomed - there's just too much supply.ReplyDelete
Whoah guys, people are COMPLICATED.
ooh ooh ooh guiz i remembered somethingReplyDelete
all the news international online ones are going pay-per-view like the london times the london sun and stuff
i feel so clever now
- Person #1August 18, 2009 at 2:50 PM
i liked both. They are indeed gradually getting better. I really liked the part where he shoved off the TV. And in the moustache, I liked how the one guy said "That's kind of offensive"ReplyDelete
Getting there. And if you keep up with the news on smbc itself, you will see that zach agrees that they are getting better and that the first ones weren't that good
Rob: I will give you $100 when NYT goes pay-for-content if you give me $10 for every month in between now and then.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousAugust 18, 2009 at 4:50 PM
I got 222,000ish points on my 3rd try. I could never replicate this.ReplyDelete
The SMBC things have lots of potential, and I like how they're turning out good so far.
every single time I got any points at all was just by hitting left and right back and forth very fast. Up and down have yet to help me acquire points. I can't tell if you want to go as fast as possible with L and R or if a very fast but regular rhythm is better. it feels a little random.ReplyDelete
this game is pissing me off i can't make it go wtfReplyDelete
xkcd drinking game: Go through comics. Take a sip whenever Randy mentions DRM. Double if it's negative.ReplyDelete
try pressing left, up, and down in cyclesReplyDelete
captcha: pregals. Randall Munroe's prey.
lol who even cares about the NYTReplyDelete
New XKCD: at first I assumed he was talking about paper books. Then he mentioned DRM, so I guess he bought them for Kindle or something. But then in the alt-text he's talking about shelf-space. THANKS FOR CONFUSING ME RANDALL!ReplyDelete
Positive news: the girl said "eh" instead of the annoyingly overused "meh".
I, too, find "meh" to be overused.ReplyDelete
I hadn't noticed that, Fred: at first I was kind of puzzled by the mentioning of DRM on a conversation about books, but then I noticed she explicitly refers to "Kindle collections". But the incoherence of mentioning "shelf space", yeah, I hadn't spotted that. But that's a very minor quibble, isn't it?ReplyDelete
The comic was... well, it wasn't offensive. It wasn't bad. But then, it wasn't *anything*. I think the mix up between "existential" talk and "technical" talk is a sort of clever idea, but there's no real commentary on that. The "universe that cares" line just left me "... huh?". That "joke" seems to be as pointless as building Kindle collections...
Perhaps, on surface, it's kind of funny; something to chuckle at. But not anything more than that, no.
- Person #1August 19, 2009 at 6:41 AM
the joke was really tired. Like in a sitcomReplyDelete
right guys?
I will not shut up about this until somebody agrees with me
But he reads Pratchett, and therefore we can forgive him everything.ReplyDelete
(I still think that Jesus & Mo is the best comic on the internet.)
The weird this was that I hadn't even seen the explicit mention of "Kindle" in that first panel. When I first read it, I thought she said "single collection", which struck me as odd but I expected it to be explained in the rest of the comic. But then I got so confused by the DRM/shelf space thing that I forgot about it.ReplyDelete
Anyway, yeah, it's minor, but it threw me off. It would've helped if some effort was put into the art to at least make it look -somewhat- like a kindle and not a generic white rectangle that could be a kindle, a book, a lunch box, a piece of paper or whatever.
And while it's minor, the reason I mentioned it is because it was still the strongest emotion this comic gave me.
When comics leave me feeling as bland as this, I went to the forums for some "I read Pratchett too! GOOMH!", but there was surprisingly little of that, either. There was this one person who had only just started reading his/her first Discworld book, and was practically apologizing for not having read any yet. As if it's a requirement for some geek cred, or something. Poor thing.
By the way: http://echochamber.me/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=44034&start=40#p1740574ReplyDelete
Most pretentious commenter this week? Also using the word 'grok' in a non-ironic manner warrants a beating, in my opinion.
Oh my god, that post is priceless! The hammy self-important rhetoric, the spaces in the ellipsis, worst of all the comparison of Randy to *Caesar*! Shakespeare I can get, but Caesar? Since when is Randall building empires? Dear lord.ReplyDelete
Anyway, the comic, urgh. It didn't make sense, it didn't attempt to make sense, I don't think it even carried any pretense of making sense. There's usually a sort of double standard for fiction in that it has to be more interesting than ordinary real life to be interesting, but this is more boring than most of my boring days. And hell, my life is quite dull to begin with.
But hey, I still smiled. While thinking about Discworld.
I thought the DRM reference was going to be another awkwardly inserted name drop, but then he turned it into the lynchpin for the crappy punchline.ReplyDelete
he's evolving.
- AnonymousAugust 19, 2009 at 9:32 AM
"(I still think that Jesus & Mo is the best comic on the internet.)"ReplyDelete
No it isn't.
- AnonymousAugust 19, 2009 at 9:33 AM
Not even close.ReplyDelete
It is infact, one of the worst.
What do you think of Goodbye Yellow Brick Road? I'm considering getting it, and since the ultimate arbiter of all opinion is evidently in today, it'd be good to know.ReplyDelete
Haha, he doesn't even use grok correctly. I mean, it's a douchey word, sure, but you should at least use it correctly. (My roommate, sadly, is one of the douchey people who uses it all the time. He also uses 'orders of magnitude' all the time when describing things which are bigger than other things, or, bizarrely, anything which is different from other things due to a size difference. (Cue your mom jokes.))ReplyDelete
Okay, I agree with you Person #1. For the love of gawd just shut up!ReplyDelete
"Big Bang Theory" is giving Randall a run for his money in the awkwardly-shoehorned-geek-stereotypes genre. Maybe that's where his talents truly belong?ReplyDelete
Yeah, the correct use is "grok it" ~ "understand it". "I grok at their accomplishments" makes no sense at all.ReplyDelete
(And Jesus and Mo, while not the best comic ever, often is quite insightful)
- Person #1August 19, 2009 at 11:52 AM
this is bad
they will probably remember us, but they will no longer be able to tell what we are talking about!
- Person #1August 19, 2009 at 11:53 AM
Justin, you have to mean it!ReplyDelete
I always thought that "grok" was more like "bellyfeel". "Grok at" is still rubbish.ReplyDelete
I always thought "grok" was the noise a choking frog makes.ReplyDelete
pronunciation: GRAWK
"grok" is the noise a pseudointellectual douchebag makes when he wants to earn geek-cred.ReplyDelete
I'm adblocking the washington post from now on.
Haha, some berk actually replied:ReplyDelete
"Key 19th century Oregon event not mentioned:
Oregon was nearly depopulated when the news of the Calif. gold discovery hit - ahead of the CA gold rush from the east. All the men and most of the women and kids all left to get the gold in CA. Newspapers and other businesses closed because they had no staff.
Parenthetically: You have to give those hardy folks lots of credit. First they crossed the Rockies and Cascades to get to Oregon, and then decamped again to cross the very mountainous south of OR/north of CA border. No roads, no railroads.
Of course, they had to reverse course again and return to OR when the gold rush wound down. Then they turned on the trees and created the lumber for the creation of the CA economy.
This is our 150th anniversary (and we don't look a day older than 145)."
- AnonymousAugust 19, 2009 at 3:21 PM
http://twitter.com/WHM_IQ224 Our friend Monty is quite the fan of groking.ReplyDelete
re: washingtonpost bullshitReplyDelete
I did enjoy this reply:
What's the connection between this cartoon and the game the Oregon Trail (something by the way that my generation didn't play in school). Are all of your readers going to pick up the sarcasm? Is such a sequence actually a possibility in the game? Sorry if I am slow here but some people are going to take away from this that in real history Oregon was overrun by a half a million murderous hillbillies. I doubt that the people of either Oregon or Missouri would be amused here.
I am all for snark and sarcasm, if it has a god damn point. This doesn't seem to make the cut.
Posted by: BruceWebb | August 19, 2009 1:30 PM | Report abuse
perhaps we can ask Mr. Bruce to guest-post.
"I am all for snark and sarcasm, if it has a god damn point."ReplyDelete
Jesus, if he gets that riled up over one of the tamest xkcd's ever, he would really hate that 11th grade one.
Yay for bruce!
Alas, this is not the first time Ezra Klein has mentioned xkcd (see here) or even the first time he has reposted a comic (see here).ReplyDelete
Having seen Mr. Klein in person, I can attest that he is extremely bright but, and I bet he would admit this, a total asshole. So that makes me feel better.
God, he picks the worst ones, too. That sexism one isn't even a mediocre xkcd, it's terrible.ReplyDelete
Boy, I'm glad today wasn't my day. I hadn't heard of Kindle, so I assumed she meant "kindling", as in "stuff you burn", which dramatically changes the meaning of the entire strip.ReplyDelete
I sure would have looked dumb.
that is amazing.
Yeah, and I just also spent the past five hours or so on mspaintadventures.com. This blog enriches my life so much.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousAugust 19, 2009 at 10:18 PM
@Matt: I thought the same thing at first as well, lolReplyDelete
Matt - I actually would have really enjoyed that post.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousAugust 20, 2009 at 3:03 AM
The alt text was a reference to Pratchett's Alzheimers, and how many more books he can write before his mind gives up, wasn't it? I thought it was pretty macabre and a bit disturbing myself.ReplyDelete
I told my friend that the only way I would date a nerd again (I'm a white hat hacker by profession and recently single, so apparently I'm fair game) is if he didn't like xkcd. He seemed pretty nonplussed by this, which gives me the impression that xkcd worship isn't as prevalent as it used to be. If I had made that kind of statement in college I would have been stoned to death.ReplyDelete
The alt text was a reference to Pratchett's Alzheimers, and how many more books he can write before his mind gives up, wasn't it? I thought it was pretty macabre and a bit disturbing myself.ReplyDelete
On my first read, I thought he just meant "How much Pratchett is too much?"
That interpretation... jeeeeze.
- AnonymousAugust 20, 2009 at 11:39 AM
Yeah, that interpretation makes Randall seem like a jerk. I hope that's not what he meant... :|ReplyDelete
I think Randy changed the alt text from explicitly referencing that Pratchett is dying to something about existential crisis. Am I imagining it, does anyone remember the original alt text?ReplyDelete
I think it was originally something like "a good way to pass the time is wondering how much shelf space to save etc etc"ReplyDelete
So yes, I think he changed it.
- AnonymousAugust 20, 2009 at 1:11 PM
An important fact: Knowing how to make a webcomic does not mean you know how to make video skits. The lighting's okay, but the audio kinda sucks, and the comedic timing is a little bit lacking. Also, continuity errors and general amateurishness. That being said, it's better than about 99% of what's on YouTube which, unfortunately, isn't saying too much.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousAugust 20, 2009 at 1:24 PM
Title Text: You know what really helps an existential crisis? Wondering how much shelf space to leave for a Terry Pratchett collection. <-- Pretty sure this is the original.ReplyDelete
See, I am 99% sure the original alt (read: title text if you are a snob) text included the exact wording "Pratchett is dying" and that really threw me off, now I can't find it anymore.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousAugust 20, 2009 at 1:41 PM
Maybe you're thinking of the pretentious xkcd forums commenter?ReplyDelete
"Pratchett is dying. Someday even the names Shakespeare, Caesar, and Khufu (. . . dare I say it? even "Munroe") will be spoken for the last time. The universe doesn't care.
But I do. I know those names. I grok in wonder at their accomplishments. I mourn the loss, even as I rejoice at having seen them. Sandcastles they may be, but such magnificent ones!"
Ahh thanks, that is probably it.ReplyDelete
- Dumb postsAugust 20, 2009 at 1:47 PM
"Another example of xkcd coincidentally reflecting the lives of its readers."ReplyDelete
"You are thinking inductive. Most people won't recall having existential crises before 15. That doesn't mean no one does. Specially in a geek forum.
I had my first when I was 4. Something I saw on TV about the Vietnam War. When I was 15 I was feeling vertigo near anywhere I might jump from... my survival instincts kicking in to prevent me. As they kept doing for the last 20 years."
man what the hellReplyDelete
Haha, much as I dislike laughing at stupid people, the original writers of the 1.41 one and the 1.47 are twats.ReplyDelete
(that is the people who originally wrote them on the forum, not here. no letters.)
Man I had the biggest existential crisis just the other day.ReplyDelete
haha. I have to admire the kid for having read the Wikipedia article on Kierkegaard or whatever and then decided that that existentialism was basically just a fancy term for the fear of heightsReplyDelete
no i think he's making it more like "being quasi-suicidal makes me an existentialist"ReplyDelete
he is referencing this:ReplyDelete
and apparently not really understanding it at all
- AnonymousAugust 20, 2009 at 3:42 PM
I could be wrong, but I'm 99% sure that last person thought "Wow, life is scary, I wonder what it's like to be dead" a couple of times, and then called that an existentialist crisis. Also the whole "survival instincts saved me from jumping to my death" thing is more likely than not a complete fabrication to come across as quirky and interesting.ReplyDelete
"Hey, I have a fear of heights, but everyone has a fear of heights, so that doesn't make me interesting. And I know I am interesting, so I bet it's not really a fear of heights but actually survival instincts preventing me from killing myself because I thought about death once and now I'm a closet-suicidal."
- AnonymousAugust 20, 2009 at 3:44 PM
Note the cavalier attitude towards the whole thing, by the way. "Eh, I have deep psychological issues and I'm quasi-suicidal, but yu know, you live with it. Ain't I brave and interesting?"ReplyDelete
"Specially in a geek forum."ReplyDelete
Yes, those aspie brains are firing at lightning speed! When they're not laughing at epic failz they are totally blowing their own minds.
Here's a question:
Can a forumite have a thought so big even he cannot comprehend it?
Aside from some rather minor nitpicking about the dates (Newtwon did later claim to have invented calculus in 1666, but he didn't claim in 1666 to have invented it; he didn't actually publish the dang thing until the mid-90s, nearly a decade after Leibniz's first publication featuring calculus showed up), I thought this was a fairly harmless and marginally entertaining joke. Perhaps I have a certain weakness for Caruso-isms.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousAugust 20, 2009 at 9:22 PM
Newton was angry and never published anything lol. Also, I liked the pun, and he didn't explain it afterwards!ReplyDelete
what is with the fucking sunglassesReplyDelete
- Different RobAugust 20, 2009 at 9:43 PM
The sunglasses and the Alt-text are a reference to CSI:Miami. At the beginning of every episode, David Caruso usually makes a bad pun about the case while putting on his sunglasses. Immediately afterward, the show's theme starts with the "YEEEEEAAAAHHHH!" (I believe the song is Won't Get Fooled Again for Miami, right? I don't watch the show. I just know the joke.)ReplyDelete
can all four of the robs ride off into battle together plzReplyDelete
Newton and Liebniz totally sounds like a comedy double act from the 1950s. Liebniz would be all "hey, Newton, I made us a cake!" and then Newton would go "you fool! you used gunpowder instead of flour!" and then Liebniz would make an "oops!" face to camera before it panned to an outside shot of the house blowing up.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousAugust 20, 2009 at 11:03 PM
Wow, now Randall's stealing jokes from the posters that math department professors have at my Uni.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousAugust 20, 2009 at 11:07 PM
"Wow, now Randall's stealing jokes from the posters that math department professors have at my Uni."ReplyDelete
I'm pretty sure it's a ref to CSI: Miami, BUT that reference itself has become sort of a meme, so it could just be a reference to the reference.
In other words, the comic was okay. Not hilarious, but decent
- AnonymousAugust 20, 2009 at 11:27 PM
How is it that someone with an IQ of 224 can't get the order of names in his name correct?ReplyDelete
Willy Monty Hughes IQ 224 -> WMH_IQ224 not WHM_IQ224.
Great, just what we needed. Another internet meme. Haven't seen one of those in a while.ReplyDelete
I thought today's was okay. I didn't know it was a CSI referene and I didn't know CSI references are a meme, so all I got out of it was a pun, and I'm kind of a sucker for bad puns. I didn't think it was great, primarily because I don't give a fuck about calculus, but it wasn't bad.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousAugust 21, 2009 at 12:18 AM
this one was actually pretty good, although i fully expect whoever does it to just stretch "INTERNET MEME RANDALL YOU HACK" over a couple of paragraphs anyway.ReplyDelete
I got the CSI thing but what the hell does it have to do with anythingReplyDelete
- AnonymousAugust 21, 2009 at 2:50 AM
"Willy Monty Hughes IQ 224 -> WMH_IQ224 not WHM_IQ224."ReplyDelete
"Today, a random moron "informed" me that I had made a typographical error during the creation of this particular twitter account. Part 1/2.
5:19 PM Jul 30th from web"
"This is not the case. "WHM" was never intended as an acronym of my true name. The true symbolism of these three assorted letters... Part 2/3
5:21 PM Jul 30th from web "
"...Should be obvious to anyone possessing a single semi-functioning neurone. Must I explain myself to you? Plebians! Part 3/3
5:22 PM Jul 30th from web "
I will clarify my previous statement: I am not opposed to the pun used in this comic. In fact, it is quite an enjoyable pun. A comic based around said pun would be a good thing, and this xkcd in fact almost pulls it off quite well.ReplyDelete
What I am opposed to is that he took a good pun and decided to shoehorn in the CSI meme for absolutely no reason, thereby lowering the joke to one made by /b/tards everywhere.
- AnonymousAugust 21, 2009 at 4:58 AM
so your problem is not that the joke or the execution is bad, but the fact that it contains a reference to culture you don't like and is therefore somehow arbitrarily of less value than it would be if it didn't.ReplyDelete
Although I'm not quite sure what you're referring to as 'culture' here.


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|Finland was a province and then a grand duchy under Sweden from the 12th to the 19th centuries, and an autonomous grand duchy of Russia after 1809. It gained complete independence in 1917. During World War II, Finland successfully defended its independence through cooperation with Germany and resisted subsequent invasions by the Soviet Union - albeit with some loss of territory. In the subsequent half century, Finland transformed from a farm/forest economy to a diversified modern industrial economy; per capita income is among the highest in Western Europe. A member of the EU since 1995, Finland was the only Nordic state to join the euro single currency at its initiation in January 1999. In the 21st century, the key features of Finland's modern welfare state are high quality education, promotion of equality, and a national social welfare system - currently challenged by an aging population and the fluctuations of an export-driven economy.
Long boundary with Russia; Helsinki is northernmost national capital on European continent; population concentrated on small southwestern coastal plain
|Northern Europe, bordering the Baltic Sea, Gulf of Bothnia, and Gulf of Finland, between Sweden and Russia
|Geographic coordinates:
| total: 338,145 sq km
land: 303,815 sq km
water: 34,330 sq km
Size comparison: slightly more than two times the size of Georgia; slightly smaller than Montana
|Land Boundaries:
|total: 2,563 km border countries (3): Norway 709 km, Sweden 545 km, Russia 1,309 km
|1,250 km
|Maritime claims:
| territorial sea: 12 nm (in the Gulf of Finland - 3 nm)
contiguous zone: 24 nm exclusive fishing zone: 12 nm; extends to continental shelf boundary with Sweden, Estonia, and Russia
continental shelf: 200 m depth or to the depth of exploitation
|cold temperate; potentially subarctic but comparatively mild because of moderating influence of the North Atlantic Current, Baltic Sea, and more than 60,000 lakes
|mostly low, flat to rolling plains interspersed with lakes and low hills
|Elevation extremes:
|Natural resources:
|timber, iron ore, copper, lead, zinc, chromite, nickel, gold, silver, limestone
|Land use:
| agricultural land: 7.5% arable land 7.4%; permanent crops 0%; permanent pasture 0.1% forest: 72.9%
other: 19.6% (2011 est.)
|Irrigated land:
|690 sq km (2012)
|Natural hazards:
|Current Environment Issues:
|air pollution from manufacturing and power plants contributing to acid rain; water pollution from industrial wastes, agricultural chemicals; habitat loss threatens wildlife populations
|International Environment Agreements:
| party to: Air Pollution, Air Pollution-Nitrogen Oxides, Air Pollution-Persistent Organic Pollutants, Air Pollution-Sulfur 85, Air Pollution-Sulfur 94, Air Pollution-Volatile Organic Compounds, Antarctic-Environmental Protocol, Antarctic-Marine Living Resources, Antarctic Treaty, Biodiversity, Climate Change, Climate Change-Kyoto Protocol, Desertification, Endangered Species, Environmental Modification, Hazardous Wastes, Law of the Sea, Marine Dumping, Marine Life Conservation, Ozone Layer Protection, Ship Pollution, Tropical Timber 83, Tropical Timber 94, Wetlands, Whaling
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| noun: Finn(s)
adjective: Finnish
|Ethnic groups:
|Finn 93.4%, Swede 5.6%, Russian 0.5%, Estonian 0.3%, Roma 0.1%, Sami 0.1% (2006)
|Finnish (official) 89%, Swedish (official) 5.3%, Russian 1.3%, other 4.4% (2014 est.)
|Lutheran 73.8%, Orthodox 1.1%, other or none 25.1% (2014 est.)
|5,498,211 (July 2016 est.)
|Age structure:
| 0-14 years: 16.42% (male 461,432/female 441,244)
15-24 years: 11.6% (male 325,919/female 312,045)
25-54 years: 37.9% (male 1,063,494/female 1,020,194)
55-64 years: 13.42% (male 362,788/female 374,985)
65 years and over: 20.66% (male 492,143/female 643,967) (2016 est.)
|Dependency ratios:
| total dependency ratio: 58.3%
youth dependency ratio: 25.9%
elderly dependency ratio: 32.4%
potential support ratio: 3.1% (2015 est.)
|Median age:
| total: 42.4 years
male: 40.8 years
female: 44.3 years (2016 est.)
|Population growth rate:
|0.38% (2016 est.)
|Birth rate:
|10.7 births/1,000 population (2016 est.)
|Death rate:
|9.9 deaths/1,000 population (2016 est.)
|Net migration rate:
|3 migrant(s)/1,000 population (2016 est.)
| urban population: 84.2% of total population (2015)
rate of urbanization: 0.5% annual rate of change (2010-15 est.)
|Major urban areas - population:
|HELSINKI (capital) 1.18 million (2015)
|Sex ratio:
| at birth: 1.05 male(s)/female
0-14 years: 1.05 male(s)/female
15-24 years: 1.04 male(s)/female
25-54 years: 1.04 male(s)/female
55-64 years: 0.97 male(s)/female
65 years and over: 0.76 male(s)/female
total population: 0.97 male(s)/female (2016 est.)
|Mother's mean age at first birth:
|28.5 (2012 est.)
|Maternal mortality rate:
|3 deaths/100,000 live births (2015 est.)
|Infant mortality rate:
| total: 2.5 deaths/1,000 live births male: 2.7 deaths/1,000 live births
female: 2.4 deaths/1,000 live births (2016 est.)
|Life expectancy at birth:
| total population: 80.9 years male: 77.9 years
female: 84 years (2016 est.)
|Total fertility rate:
|1.75 children born/woman (2016 est.)
|Health expenditures:
|9.7% of GDP (2014)
|Physicians density:
|2.91 physicians/1,000 population (2009)
|Hospital bed density:
|5.5 beds/1,000 population (2011)
|Drinking water source:
| improved:
urban: 100% of population
rural: 100% of population
total: 100% of population
urban: 0% of population
rural: 0% of population
total: 0% of population (2015 est.)
|Sanitation facility access:
| improved:
urban: 99.4% of population
rural: 88% of population
total: 97.6% of population
urban: 0.6% of population
rural: 12% of population
total: 2.4% of population (2015 est.)
|HIV/AIDS - adult prevalence rate:
|HIV/AIDS - people living with HIV/AIDS:
|HIV/AIDS - deaths:
|Obesity - adult prevalence rate:
|22.8% (2014)
|Education expenditures:
|7.2% of GDP (2013)
|School life expectancy (primary to tertiary education):
| total: 19 years male: 18 years
female: 20 years (2014)
|Unemployment, youth ages 15-24:
| total: 20.5% male: 22.8%
female: 18.4% (2014 est.)
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|Country name:
| conventional long form: Republic of Finland
conventional short form: Finland
local long form: Suomen tasavalta/Republiken Finland
local short form: Suomi/Finland
etymology: name may derive from the ancient Fenni peoples who are first described as living in northeastern Europe in the first centuries A.D.
|Government type:
|parliamentary republic
| name: Helsinki
geographic coordinates: 60 10 N, 24 56 E
time difference: UTC+2 (7 hours ahead of Washington, DC, during Standard Time)
daylight saving time: +1hr, begins last Sunday in March; ends last Sunday in October
|Administrative divisions:
|19 regions (maakunnat, singular - maakunta (Finnish); landskapen, singular - landskapet (Swedish)); Aland (Swedish), Ahvenanmaa (Finnish); Etela-Karjala (Finnish), Sodra Karelen (Swedish) [South Karelia]; Etela-Pohjanmaa (Finnish), Sodra Osterbotten (Swedish) [South Ostrobothnia]; Etela-Savo (Finnish), Sodra Savolax (Swedish) [South Savo]; Kanta-Hame (Finnish), Egentliga Tavastland (Swedish); Kainuu (Finnish), Kajanaland (Swedish); Keski-Pohjanmaa (Finnish), Mellersta Osterbotten (Swedish) [Central Ostrobothnia]; Keski-Suomi (Finnish), Mellersta Finland (Swedish) [Central Finland]; Kymenlaakso (Finnish), Kymmenedalen (Swedish); Lappi (Finnish), Lappland (Swedish); Paijat-Hame (Finnish), Paijanne-Tavastland (Swedish); Pirkanmaa (Finnish), Birkaland (Swedish) [Tampere]; Pohjanmaa (Finnish), Osterbotten (Swedish) [Ostrobothnia]; Pohjois-Karjala (Finnish), Norra Karelen (Swedish) [North Karelia]; Pohjois-Pohjanmaa (Finnish), Norra Osterbotten (Swedish) [North Ostrobothnia]; Pohjois-Savo (Finnish), Norra Savolax (Swedish) [North Savo]; Satakunta (Finnish and Swedish); Uusimaa (Finnish), Nyland (Swedish) [Newland]; Varsinais-Suomi (Finnish), Egentliga Finland (Swedish) [Southwest Finland]
|6 December 1917 (from Russia)
|National holiday:
|Independence Day, 6 December (1917)
|history: previous 1906, 1919; latest drafted 17 June 1997, approved by Parliament 11 June 1999, entered into force 1 March 2000 amendments: proposed by Parliament; passage normally requires simple majority vote in two readings in the first parliamentary session and at least two-thirds majority vote in a single reading by the newly elected Parliament; proposals declared "urgent" by five-sixths of Parliament members can be passed by at least two-thirds majority vote in the first parliamentary session only; amended several times, last in 2012 (2016)
|Legal system:
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|18 years of age; universal
|Executive branch:
| chief of state: President Sauli NIINISTO (since 1 March 2012)
head of government: Prime Minister Juha SIPILA (since 28 May 2015)
cabinet: Council of State or Valtioneuvosto appointed by the president, responsible to Parliament elections/appointments: president directly elected by absolute majority popular vote in 2 rounds if needed for a 6-year term (eligible for a second term); election last held on 5 February 2012 (next to be held in February 2018); prime minister appointed by Parliament in 2015
election results: percent of vote in first round - Sauli NIINISTO (Kok) 37%, Pekka HAAVISTO (Vihr) 18.8%, Paavo VAYRYNEN (Kesk) 17.5%, Timo SOINI (TF) 9.4%, Paavo LIPPONEN (SDP) 6.7%, Paavo ARHINMAKI (Vas) 5.5%, Eva BIAUDET (SFP) 2.7%, Sari ESSAYAH (KD) 2.5%; Sauli NIINISTO elected president in second round held on 5 February 2012 - NIINISTO 62.6%, HAAVISTO 37.4%; Juha SIPILA appointed prime minister
|Legislative branch:
| description: unicameral Parliament or Eduskunta (200 seats; 199 members directly elected in single- and multi-seat constituencies by proportional representation vote and 1 member in the province of Aland directly elected by simple majority vote; members serve 4-year terms)
elections: last held on 19 April 2015 (next to be held by April 2019)
election results: percent of vote by party - Kesk 21.1%, PS 17.6%, Kok 18.2%, SDP 16.5%, Vihr 8.5%, Vas 7.1%, SFP 4.9%, KD 3.5%, other 2.6%; seats by party - Kesk 49, PS 38, Kok 37, SDP 34, Vihr 15, Vas 12, SFP 9, KD 5, other 1 (Aland Coalition)
|Judicial branch:
| highest court(s): Supreme Court or Korkein Oikeus (consists of the court president and 18 judges); Supreme Administrative Court (consists of 21 judges including the court president and organized into 3 chambers); note - Finland has a dual judicial system - courts with civil and criminal jurisdiction, and administrative courts with jurisdiction for litigation between individuals and administrative organs of the state and communities judge selection and term of office: Supreme Court and Supreme Administrative Court judges appointed by the president of the republic; judges serve until mandatory retirement at age 65
subordinate courts: 6 Courts of Appeal; 8 regional administrative courts; 27 district courts; special courts for issues relating to markets, labor, insurance, impeachment, land, tenancy, and water rights
|Political parties and leaders:
|Center Party or Kesk [Juha SIPILA] Christian Democrats or KD [Sari ESSAYAH] Finns Party or PS [Timo SOINI] Green League or Vihr [Ville NIINISTO] Left Alliance or Vas [Paavo ARHINMAKI] National Coalition Party or Kok [Petteri ORPO] Social Democratic Party or SDP [Antti RINNE] Swedish People's Party or SFP [Carl HAGLUND]
|Political pressure groups and leaders:
|International organization participation:
|ADB (nonregional member), AfDB (nonregional member), Arctic Council, Australia Group, BIS, CBSS, CD, CE, CERN, EAPC, EBRD, ECB, EIB, EITI (implementing country), EMU, ESA, EU, FAO, FATF, G-9, IADB, IAEA, IBRD, ICAO, ICC (national committees), ICCt, ICRM, IDA, IEA, IFAD, IFC, IFRCS, IHO, ILO, IMF, IMO, IMSO, Interpol, IOC, IOM, IPU, ISO, ITSO, ITU, ITUC (NGOs), MIGA, MINUSMA, NC, NEA, NIB, NSG, OAS (observer), OECD, OPCW, OSCE, Pacific Alliance (observer), Paris Club, PCA, PFP, Schengen Convention, UN, UNCTAD, UNESCO, UNHCR, UNIDO, UNIFIL, UNMIL, UNMOGIP, UNRWA, UNTSO, UPU, WCO, WFTU (NGOs), WHO, WIPO, WMO, WTO, ZC
|National symbol(s):
|lion; national colors: blue, white
|National anthem:
| name: "Maamme" (Our Land)
lyrics/music: Johan Ludvig RUNEBERG/Fredrik PACIUS
note: in use since 1848; although never officially adopted by law, the anthem has been popular since it was first sung by a student group in 1848; Estonia's anthem uses the same melody as that of Finland
|Diplomatic representation in the US:
| chief of mission: Ambassador Kirsti KAUPPI (since 17 September 2015)
chancery: 3301 Massachusetts Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20008
telephone: [1] (202) 298-5800
consulate(s) general: Los Angeles, New York
|Diplomatic representation from the US:
| chief of mission: Ambassador Charles C. ADAMS, Jr. (since 3 August 2015)
embassy: Itainen Puistotie 14B, 00140 Helsinki
mailing address: APO AE 09723
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Finland has a highly industrialized, largely free-market economy with per capita GDP almost as high as that of Austria, Belgium, the Netherlands, or Sweden. Trade is important, with exports accounting for over one-third of GDP in recent years. Finland is historically competitive in manufacturing - principally the wood, metals, engineering, telecommunications, and electronics industries. Finland excels in export of technology for mobile phones as well as promotion of startups in the information and communications technology, gaming, cleantech, and biotechnology sectors. Except for timber and several minerals, Finland depends on imports of raw materials, energy, and some components for manufactured goods. Because of the cold climate, agricultural development is limited to maintaining self-sufficiency in basic products. Forestry, an important export industry, provides a secondary occupation for the rural population. Finland had been one of the best performing economies within the EU before 2009 and its banks and financial markets avoided the worst of global financial crisis. However, the world slowdown hit exports and domestic demand hard in that year, causing Finland's economy to contract from 2012-14. The recession affected general government finances and the debt ratio. Finland's main challenges will be reducing high labor costs and boosting demand for its exports. In the long term, Finland must address a rapidly aging population and decreasing productivity in traditional industries that threaten competitiveness, fiscal sustainability, and economic growth. The depreciating ruble and Russia's general economic slowdown will dampen exports to Russia.
|GDP (purchasing power parity):
| GDP (purchasing power parity): $230 billion (2016 est.) $227.9 billion (2015 est.) $227.4 billion (2014 est.)
note: data are in 2016 dollars
|GDP (official exchange rate):
|GDP (official exchange rate): $239.2 billion (2015 est.)
|GDP - real growth rate:
|0.9% (2016 est.) 0.2% (2015 est.) -0.7% (2014 est.)
|GDP - per capita (PPP):
| GDP - per capita (PPP): $41,800 (2016 est.) $41,600 (2015 est.) $41,700 (2014 est.)
note: data are in 2016 dollars
|Gross national saving:
|21.5% of GDP (2016 est.) 20.9% of GDP (2015 est.) 19.9% of GDP (2014 est.)
|GDP - composition, by end use:
| household consumption: 55.1%
government consumption: 24.2%
investment in fixed capital: 20.2%
investment in inventories: -0.1%
exports of goods and services: 35.4%
imports of goods and services: -34.8% (2016 est.)
|GDP - composition, by sector of origin:
| household consumption: 55.1%
government consumption: 24.2%
investment in fixed capital: 20.2%
investment in inventories: -0.1%
exports of goods and services: 35.4%
imports of goods and services: -34.8% (2016 est.)
|Agriculture - products:
|barley, wheat, sugar beets, potatoes; dairy cattle; fish
|metals and metal products, electronics, machinery and scientific instruments, shipbuilding, pulp and paper, foodstuffs, chemicals, textiles, clothing
|Industrial production growth rate:
|0.8% (2016 est.)
|Labor force:
|2.675 million (2016 est.)
|Labor force - by occupation:
| agriculture and forestry: 4.4%
industry: 15.5% construction: 7.1% commerce: 21.3% finance, insurance, and business
services: 13.3% transport and communications: 9.9% public services: 28.5% (2011)
|Unemployment rate:
|9.1% (2016 est.) 9.3% (2015 est.)
|Population below poverty line:
|Household income or consumption by percentage share:
| lowest 10%: 3.6%
highest 10%: 24.7% (2007)
|Distribution of family income - Gini index:
|26.8 (2008) 25.6 (1991)
| revenues: $127.6 billion
expenditures: $132.7 billion note: Central Government Budget (2016 est.)
|Taxes and other revenues:
|53.4% of GDP (2016 est.)
|Public debt:
| 64.9% of GDP (2016 est.) 62.5% of GDP (2015 est.)
note: data cover general government debt and include debt instruments issued (or owned) by government entities other than the treasury; the data include treasury debt held by foreign entities; the data include debt issued by subnational entities, as well as int
|Fiscal year:
|calendar year
|Inflation rate (consumer prices):
|Inflation rate (consumer prices): 0.4% (2016 est.) -0.2% (2015 est.)
|Current account balance:
|$199 million (2016 est.) $316 million (2015 est.)
|$57.1 billion (2016 est.) $61.29 billion (2015 est.)
|Exports - commodities:
|electrical and optical equipment, machinery, transport equipment, paper and pulp, chemicals, basic metals; timber
|Exports - partners:
|Germany 13.9%, Sweden 10.1%, US 7%, Netherlands 6.6%, Russia 5.9%, UK 5.2%, China 4.7% (2015)
|$53.5 billion (2016 est.) $58.5 billion (2015 est.)
|Imports - commodities:
|foodstuffs, petroleum and petroleum products, chemicals, transport equipment, iron and steel, machinery, computers, electronic industry products, textile yarn and fabrics, grains
|Imports - partners:
|Germany 17%, Sweden 16%, Russia 11%, Netherlands 9.1%, Denmark 4.1% (2015)
|Reserves of foreign exchange and gold:
|$10.5 billion (31 December 2016 est.) $10.02 billion (31 December 2015 est.)
|Debt - external:
|$544.7 billion (31 March 2016 est.) $524.7 billion (31 March 2015 est.)
|Stock of direct foreign investment - at home:
|$153.5 billion (31 December 2016 est.) $135.9 billion (31 December 2015 est.)
|Stock of direct foreign investment - abroad:
|$140.6 billion (31 December 2016 est.) $141.1 billion (31 December 2015 est.)
|Market value of publicly traded shares:
|$158.7 billion (31 December 2012 est.) $143.1 billion (31 December 2011 est.) $118.2 billion (31 December 2010 est.)
|Exchange rates:
|euros (EUR) per US dollar - 0.9214 (2016 est.) 0.885 (2015 est.) 0.885 (2014 est.) 0.7634 (2013 est.) 0.78 (2012 est.)
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|Electricity - production:
|66 billion kWh (2014 est.)
|Electricity - consumption:
|81 billion kWh (2014 est.)
|Electricity - exports:
|3.7 billion kWh (2014 est.)
|Electricity - imports:
|22 billion kWh (2014 est.)
|Electricity - installed generating capacity:
|16 million kW (2014 est.)
|Electricity - from fossil fuels:
|51.6% of total installed capacity (2012 est.)
|Electricity - from nuclear fuels:
|16.2% of total installed capacity (2012 est.)
|Electricity - from hydroelectric plants:
|18.9% of total installed capacity (2012 est.)
|Electricity - from other renewable sources:
|13.3% of total installed capacity (2012 est.)
|Crude oil - production:
|0 bbl/day (2015 est.)
|Crude oil - exports:
|0 bbl/day (2015 est.)
|Crude oil - imports:
|226,100 bbl/day (2015 est.)
|Crude oil - proved reserves:
|0 bbl (1 January 2016 es)
|Refined petroleum products - production:
|257,700 bbl/day (2015 est.)
|Refined petroleum products - consumption:
|192,300 bbl/day (2015 est.)
|Refined petroleum products - exports:
|134,900 bbl/day (2015 est.)
|Refined petroleum products - imports:
|109,500 bbl/day (2015 est.)
|Natural gas - production:
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|Natural gas - consumption:
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|Natural gas - exports:
|0 cu m (2014 est.)
|Natural gas - imports:
|3.063 billion cu m (2014 est.)
|Natural gas - proved reserves:
|0 cu m (1 January 2014 es)
|Carbon dioxide emissions from consumption of energy:
|48 million Mt (2013 est.)
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|Cellular Phones in use:
|total: 7.399 million subscriptions per 100 inhabitants: 135 (July 2015 est.)
|Telephone system:
| general assessment: modern system with excellent service
domestic: digital fiber-optic, fixed-line network and an extensive mobile-cellular network provide domestic needs
international: country code - 358; submarine cables provide links to Estonia and Sweden; satellite earth stations - access to Intelsat transmission service via a Swedish satellite earth station, 1 Inmarsat (Atlantic and Indian Ocean regions); note - Finland shares the I (2015)
|Broadcast media:
|a mix of publicly operated TV stations and privately owned TV stations; in 2008, the 2 publicly owned TV stations expanded services and the largest private TV station has introduced several special-interest pay-TV channels; cable and satellite multi-chann (2008)
|Internet country code:
|.fi; note - Aland Islands assigned .ax
|Internet users:
|total: 5.074 million percent of population: 92.6% (July 2015 est.)
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|148 (2013)
|Airports (paved runways):
| total 74
over 3,047 m: 3
2,438 to 3,047 m: 26
1,524 to 2,437 m: 10
914 to 1,523 m: 21
under 914 m: 14 (2013)
|Airports (unpaved runways):
| total 74
914 to 1,523 m: 3
under 914 m: 71 (2013)
|gas 1,689 km (2010)
| total 5,919 km
broad gauge: 5,919 km 1.524-m gauge (3,067 km electrified) (2014)
| total 454,000 km
highways: 78,000 km (50,000 paved, including 700 km of expressways; 28,000 unpaved) urban roads: 26,000 km private and forest roads: 350,000 km (2012)
|8,000 km (includes Saimaa Canal system of 3,577 km; southern part leased from Russia; water transport used frequently in the summer and widely replaced with sledges on the ice in winter; there are 187,888 lakes in Finland that cover 31,500 km); Finland also maintains 8,200 km of coastal fairways (2013)
|Merchant marine:
| total 97
by type: bulk carrier 2, cargo 25, carrier 1, chemical tanker 6, container 3, passenger 5, passenger/cargo 16, petroleum tanker 5, roll on/roll off 31, vehicle carrier 3
foreign-owned: 5 (Cyprus 1, Estonia 2, Iceland 1, Sweden 1)
registered in other countries: 47 (Bahamas 8, Germany 3, Gibraltar 2, Malta 3, Netherlands 13, Panama 2, Sweden 16) (2010)
|Ports and terminals:
|major seaport(s): Helsinki, Kotka, Naantali, Porvoo, Raahe, Rauma
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|Military branches:
|Finnish Defense Forces (FDF): Army (Puolustusvoimat), Navy (Merivoimat; includes Coastal Defense Forces), Air Force (Ilmavoimat) (2013)
|Military service age and obligation:
|18 years of age for male voluntary and compulsory - and female voluntary - national military and nonmilitary service; service obligation 6-12 months; military obligation to age 60 (2012)
|Military expenditures:
|1.37% of GDP (2016 est.) 1.29% of GDP (2015) 1.3% of GDP (2014) 1.41% of GDP (2013) 1.47% of GDP (2012) 1.42% of GDP (2011)
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|Transnational Issues
|Disputes - International:
|various groups in Finland advocate restoration of Karelia and other areas ceded to the former Soviet Union, but the Finnish Government asserts no territorial demands
|Refugees and internally displaced persons:
stateless persons: 2,427 (2015)
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|MLBPA Press Release
Five Type A players will be treated as Type B players. The clubs will not have to offer arbitration to the new Type B players to receive compensation. Those players are:
Matt Capps
Francisco Cordero
Octavio Dotel
Ramon Hernandez
Darren Oliver
A club that signs one of the following six Type A players shall not forfeit a regular Draft choice to the player's former Club. If the Player's former club offers the player arbitration, and the player declines the offer, the former club shall receive: (a) a Draft choice in the same round and immediately prior to the draft choice that the signing club otherwise would have forfeited, and (b) a compensation round selection. Those six Type A players are:
Heath Bell
Michael Cuddyer
Kelly Johnson
Ryan Madson
Francisco Rodriguez
Josh Willingham
All other Type A players must be offered arbitration by midnight on Nov. 23 in order to preserve the club's right to arbitration. Under their contract terms Carlos Beltran and Takashi Saito cannot be offered arbitration.


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transmitted infections occurring every year in the US, it is clear that STDs
remain a widespread health threat in this country," noted Sandy Sommer, RN Director
of Clinical Services for the Henry County Health Department.
"With an estimated 20 million new sexually
transmitted infections occurring every year in the US, it is clear that STDs
remain a widespread health threat in this country," noted Sandy Sommer, RN Director
of Clinical Services for the Henry County Health Department.
Sommer adds, "In addition, STD infections cost the American healthcare
system nearly $16 billion in direct medical costs alone. And it's America's
youth that is shouldering the substantial burden of these infections. The
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) estimates that half of all
new STDs in the country occur among young men and women aged 15 to 24."
Sommer notes,"With all these disturbing statistics it is obvious that
STD Awareness Month is an opportune time to remind area residents that the
Health Department offers confidential:
~ STD Testing for Males and Females
~ Treatment of STDs
~ Contraceptive Supplies
~ Preventative immunizations against such STDs as Hepatitis B and HPV
~ Counseling, Education, and Referral
~ Expedited Partner Treatment
Testing and knowledge of infection are vital to reducing the incidence
and spread of STDs. Because many infections have no symptoms, those at risk
need to get tested and find out if they are infected.
There are many actions you can take to protect yourself and others from
* Abstinence - The most reliable way to avoid infection with an STD are
to abstain from sex or to be in a long-term mutually monogamous relationship
with an uninfected partner.
* Correct and consistent use of condoms - Consistent use of latex
condoms reduces the risk of HIV and other STDs. (Supplies are available
through the Health Departments Kewanee and Colona offices.)
* Screening - Getting tested and treated for STDs can protect you from
serious health consequences caused by STDs. (STD Testing available at the
Health Department.)
* Immunizations - Receiving recommended Hepatitis B and HPV
immunizations can almost completely prevent infections covered by the
Adds Sommer, "Though the subject of STDs may not be a comfortable
healthcare issue to discuss, we want people to remember the Health
Department is a source of confidential testing, treatment, and education.
And we are literally just a phone call away. People should know we offer
the tools and services people need to stay healthy."
The clinic accepts medicaid payments and private pay. A sliding fee
scale, based on the client's income, has been established to assist
low-income families to obtain services. In addition, grant funds are
available for those who meet certain eligibility requirements.
For more information or to schedule an appointment call the Health
Department at (309) 852-5272 or visit our website at
www.henrystarkhealth.com. You may also find us on Facebook at Henry and
Stark County Health Departments.