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Michael Bain
Very nice to talk to! However the school should put him in a classroom with no chalkboard- stresses me out that as he writes on the chalkboard he takes a bite out of it because he claims that it will "neutralize his stomach acid".
Smartest teacher. Hard tests, explains well but he never opened the textbook and I rather learn from text book.
No bain, no gain
Overall a good teacher. Can be funny. He's good at teaching things. He uses the board but also powerpoints and the texbook. He's at least better than mr young who expects you to know everything and is irritating when you try to ask him questions. If he tells you he does not have internet at his house it is a lie he just does not want to deal with you. Only at school ever other day so can be hard to get extra help. He can get spacey or awkward.
Worst teacher I have ever had. He literally doesn't teach and doesn't' care AT ALL about his students. He couldn't care less about people wanting to get a good mark and his tests are really hard.
Doesn't care about his teaching, very hard marker, and hard to understand. Really nice guy though
Very pompous individual. Sometimes he is nice. Sometimes he is mean.
Takes teaching to a new level. He's really patient if you go in for extra help 1 on 1.
Doesn't help in class much, throws stuff at ppl if he thinks they arent paying attention. Not nice at all. Helpfullness should be negative.
Great Teacher. Like one of the guys. Even high fives you when he can, unlike other teachers.
cool guy. he could do at bit more at explaining his lessons though.
He is by far the best teacher at UCC, but he is SO spaced out, and now, because he only teach's on odd days, so extra help is virtually impossible
mr bain's GOOD.. favourite teacher pretty much.. i find that he explains it aLOT better than the other chem teachers like muir and parkes..
strange guy, okay teacher, but assumes that you should know everything, and gets kinda annoyed when you don't, overall not too bad
Nice guy but can be very strange, not particularly a great teacher
pretty good teacher, cool guy, but don't talk to him before he's had his 10 ccs of coffee.
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One thing I've recognized from my time in Black Desert so far is compared to even for a die-hard sand box fan, the introduction is pretty overwhelming. Inform how some folks would run screaming from all of the pop-up windows as well as blinking guides and creepy smoke huge buddy, I really can easily. Games have come far since the days of simply throwing you inside and having you figure it all out on your own, but in some tips I miss in which you touch of the earlier MMOs that had actual people being your tutorial.
And which observation leads us all to this week's Greatly Overthinking question, provided this time?by Das Tal developer Alexander Zacherl: "I'd love to ask people about the best newbie onboarding systems they have experienced in an MMO," they writes. "Early MMOs acquired full-time newbie greeters and later types (such as Darkfall) had one-on-one?mentorships. I'm wondering if people had any good/bad experiences along with those?"
I posed these kind of questions to the Steamer writers!
?Andrew Ross (@dengarsw):?I actually liked Asheron's Call and even Darkfall in terms of a newbie expertise, mainly because it gave sociable reasons to help some others out. AC provided gurus or "Patrons" experience points if it is able to convince a person to swear allegiance to them, and also the easiest way to do that ended up being give items and also advice to beginners. Darkfall was similar somewhat, as it was a little community that had lots of people understood that traveling away new players may kill the game. Also, up and coming clans necessary bodies and occurrence in order to expand, therefore training new players would be a decent way to do in which.
However, if someone is simply aiming to jump into a recreation as if it have been a singleplayer experience, of which system is going to travel a player away. The condition, as least for me, is that most MMOs don'big t get newbie activities correct. On the one hand, nearly all MMOs have very similar devices, and holding back content for several ranges makes the grind just about all to obvious to help genre vets. Conversely, these "everything box" MMOs can easily overwhelm someone new on the genre by spamming them with everything at a time.
One of the things I wonder concerning is if, perhaps, their best to go with a degree agnostic system, having cit increases based on simple to unlock achievement techniques that clearly label how the achievement is definitely unlocked and what is gained via the unlock. I do believe this was the system My spouse and i saw in Albion Online's alpha. It serves as a fantastic way to guide players and then for them to explore his or her options. If needed, it can be combined with quests in which add in tips with the UI or guideline players around town. That could allow for players to obtain the content they want, jump into the game more easily, and maybe even still leave room for societal mentorships for those who want advice on the "feel" of specific aspects of a game.
Brianna Royce (@nbrianna, web site): I'm with Phil — my mind immediately leaped to Asheron's Call. I did fantastic experiences with Ultima Online's counselor program, but I also saw a lot of corruption and burnout with the way the program sort of sat on top of the game, outside of it — participation (or perhaps bragging rights) stayed to be its own reward. Asheron's Call improved with that meta program by tugging the sponsorship associated with newbies?directly?in the game and exceptionally rewarded mentors?together with measurable in-game leadership expertise and mentees with practical experience boosts and a built-in cultural?hierarchy. The monarchy method transcended the 8th grade drama involving MMORPG guilds and made it genuinely easy to hook folks into a mutually beneficial help structure in a way that am much more graceful and also organic than "sign up for my guild, make guild bigger, get perks." This worked on so many levels — as newbie tutorial, as retention glue, as altruism incentive — that I'm constantly astonished no one's carrying out much to copy it.
I will say the next best thing is player-made in the form of Event University, another construction?I wish devs would be capable of integrate without relying on the largesse of the neighborhood.
Justin Olivetti (@Sypster, blog):?Generally I'd prefer an MMO to help back off a bit when it first dumps everyone into a game to allow me get my footing on my own schedule rather than being raced by pop-up windows. Lord with the Rings Online and World of Warcraft both were pretty amenable in this regard. But to tell the truth, I can'capital t think of any Mmorpg that did an admirable job teaching new or maybe different systems while they came along. Lots of short training pop-ups and videos, certain, but nothing which stands out.
Wait, I might need to eat my words here because I need to give WildStar credit for reworking its newbie experience to allow avid gamers to choose from one of three amounts of need when beginning the game. That's an example for other MMOs to follow along with, to be sure.
Larry Everett (@Shaddoe, blog):?I've always disliked training in MMORPGs. For one, how do you encapsulate the complexity of an Mmo in a short, possibly hour-long, tutorial? Secondly, these are notoriously boring.
Although I'meters on a huge lover of these tutorials, In my opinion the ones that do it best are those that seek to wrap you in the story of video game before really concerning the player with the motion of the game. All things are done in broad shots at first. Elder Scrolls Online is probably the best example of this. However, TERA along with The Secret World have an fascinating approach: essentially bringing up the character's levels so that the player carries a goal or expertise in where the progression is headed. But none of such is a?sandbox.
In the case of sandboxes, the only recreation I didn't participate in prior to the launch has been Ultima Online. That basically means that I needed to figure things from my own before a tutorial was even launched in nearly every sand pit MMORPG that I enjoyed. It was a lot of fun in Star Wars Galaxies to attempt to physique everything out with my pals, but we were devoted to that game. Nowadays, there isn't nearly the level of dedication to a single game, so I'm not sure that accommodating learning would really function anymore, although it would work for some people throughout Landmark.
The simple answer for me is that I don'capital t know the answer. However i can tell you that tutorials with a whole number of pop-ups is not the answer because that only makes me personally more frustrated. I do believe I would rather just figure things on my own.
Patron Archebius:?The best beginner onboarding system I have yet seen was a person by the name of Maive of Narsh, inside Guild Wars. After wandering all-around pre-searing for while, I had created a question on some thing or another and asked it in general chitchat. I received a number of responses (maybe it was my personal youthful naivety, but I nonetheless feel like that recreation had a great group), but Maive messaged me secretly and walked us through it, resolved a couple other issues I had, and then agreed to party up and also show me around. Maive spent a couple a long time just hanging out, telling me about some techniques later in the game, along with showing me cool areas around Ascalon.
Many games try to create a brand-new player experience that will get players up to speed, with varying levels of results. EVE has tried a number of different approaches; Star Conflicts Galaxies?added the Musical legacy quest to steer participants through the galaxy. Black Desert features a variety of "helpful" videos which will play throughout your very first few levels. In the event that you're an Mmorpg who's more focused for the solo experience and also streamlined gameplay, then this well put-together introductory mission and a good wiki is probably just as good as being a human tutorial.
But eventually, if you want people to participate in together, your entire expertise hinges on two things – keeping people from giving up immediately in disappointment, and having a good area that will give them visitors to play with, advice to assist them to, and a reason to keep around.
So, in my opinion? The top newbie onboarding system is an activity that encourages group at all levels, returns teaming up around levels, and functions to foster and support player relationships. It'ersus players who really care about the health of the experience and the quality of the practical experience. Wikis will go out of date, greeters as well as mentors might quit or get laid off, but ultimately, we all, as players, are the most effective onboarding experience a company can easily hope for.
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I am pleased to announce the contents of the forthcoming SARGASSO: The Journal of William Hope Hodgson Studies Issue #1! I think we have an outstanding selection of essays, fiction, poetry and art all devoted to WHH. I'm sure you will agree.
"Shadow Out of Hodgson" by John D. Haefele
"A Reassessment of William Hope Hodgson's Poetry" by Phillip A. Ellis
"William Hope Hodgson's Sales Log: The Pleasure and Consequences of Collecting" by Jane Frank
"The 'Wonder Unlimited'–The Tales of Captain Gault" by Mark Valentine
"Always Sea and Sea: The Night Land as Sea-Scape" by Emily Alder
"The Long Apocalypse: The Experimental Eschatologies of H. G. Wells and William Hope Hodgson" by Brett Davidson
"Ab-Reality: The Metaphysical Vision of William Hope Hodgson" by Neal Alan Spurlock
"Things Invisible: Human and Ab-Human in Two of Hodgson's Carnacki Stories" by Leigh Blackmore
"In Memory of Hope" by Phillip A. Ellis
"Beyond the Deaths of Worlds" by Phillip A. Ellis
"A Question of Meaning" by Pierre V. Comtois
"The Blue Egg" by William Meikle
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Allen Koszowki
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The only problem is how to top this? I should probably start working on that now!


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A somewhat random, mini-zeitgeist of interesting activity based on my 2013 spreadsheet. 2007 was the last time I did anything like this.
So, 2013… numbers approximate…
- 173 days where I could commute to work (not sick, on holiday, traveling for work etc)
- 155 of them I did commute on bike at least one way (almost all of them both ways) that's almost 90% of the days (I'm almost surprised its not more…)
- 94 of these on the Volpe, 61 on the 925
- 38 of them were wet at least one way
- I ran 44 times
- I mountain biked a staggering 30 times (which for a father who doesn't get out much and busted himself for two months is pretty good) – thank you Ecuador!
- I boarded 12 times, mostly thanks to taking Lucy to ski lessons and killing time at Alpental
- I swam about half a dozen times
All in all about 246 days of activity – I was aiming for 250 but frankly I'm happy, happy (and had such a lazy/inconvenient December) especially as this accommodated about 8 weeks business travel.
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After the 2011-12 season ended, many people expected the San Jose Sharks to make major changes. After all, Sharks general manager Doug Wilson is the man who brought in nine new faces last summer, including All-Star defenseman Brent Burns and explosive winger Martin Havlat.
Wilson had other plans. So far, San Jose's 2012 offseason has been relatively quiet. No big-name players have departed, Todd McLellan hasn't been fired and the Rick Nash trade that so many anticipated has not happened.
However, Wilson's quiet offseason does not mean it has not been productive. The Sharks have added a quality piece in Brad Stuart, re-worked the team's depth and re-structured the coaching staff.
Of course, it's only July 16, and Wilson and the Sharks have a few more things to do before October.
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Add a Top-Four Defenseman
The Sharks' June 18 signing of Brad Stuart to a three-year, $10.8 million deal solidified the team's blue line.
Not only does Stuart bring the physicality and skill San Jose's defense was lacking, but he properly re-aligns the defensive pairings. Next season, both Dan Boyle and Brent Burns will have a stay-at-home partner (Stuart or Marc-Edouard Vlasic) who won't hold them back offensively.
Hand-Pick a Depth Player
San Jose's July 1 acquisition of Adam Burish isn't going to win them a Stanley Cup, but it's going to improve their bottom six.
The Sharks had a lack of players that skated with an edge last year after letting guys like Scott Nichol and Jamal Mayers walk. Burish brings that gritty attitude back to the fourth line, and fits the team's mold due to his ability to win faceoffs at the wing position.
Bolster Coaching Staff
Not only did San Jose shake up its coaching staffâ"which was necessaryâ"they greatly improved it.
First, they brought in Larry Robinson, part of the Devils' NHL-best coaching staff and the man greatly responsible for New Jersey's NHL-best penalty kill.
They then brought in Capitals assistant Jim Johnson, another defensive-minded man with penalty-kill expertise.
Sign a Top-Six Forward
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When healthy, San Jose had one of the NHL's best top sixes last season. Superstar first-line center Joe Thornton was flanked by two 30-goal scorers who can also defend and win draws in Patrick Marleau and Joe Pavelski.
The second line featured young center Logan Coutureâ"a three-zone force at age 23â"as well as a speedy, creative wing in Martin Havlat and a big, strong, physical power forward in Ryane Clowe.
The problem was that when the top six was not completely healthyâ"which was the case for half the seasonâ"it was rather impotent.
This is because there is an enormous drop-off from San Jose's sixth-best forward (take your pick) to their seventh-best (Tommy Wingels, Michal Handzus, etc.).
For San Jose to have a dominant regular season, they need all six to remain healthy. Martin Havlat's injury last year highlighted this: The Sharks were 25-11-3 with him in the lineup, and 18-18-7 without him.
This is why they need another top-six forward. Injuries happen, and there's no reason to believe that Wingels or Andrew Desjardins or Adam Burish will be a viable top-six stand-in.
Not only would another top-six forward be a great insurance policy; they would upgrade San Jose's bottom-six.
The addition of a top-six winger would force either Ryane Clowe, Joe Pavelski, Martin Havlat or the new player to the third line, turning the third line from offensively impotent to offensively potent. In turn, this would force a third-linerâ"probably Andrew Desjardins or Michal Handzusâ"to the fourth line, thus upgrading that line.
San Jose's options are limited, but Shane Doan, Jason Arnott and even the enigmatic Alex Semin remain available. If the Sharks can't land a legitimate top-six guy, they would still do well to add a new seventh-best forward such as Marco Sturm or Andrei Kostitsyn.
Fix the Penalty Kill
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This may seem like more of a regular-season to-do task, but look no further than last year for evidence as to why it is not.
The Sharks tried to fix their weak penalty kill last offseason by changing up their personnel. Gone were 2010-11 penalty killers Scott Nichol, Niclas Wallin and Kent Huskins, and in came Michal Handzus, Colin White and Brent Burns
The PK, however, stayed the same.Â
The Sharks tried fixing it throughout the season, making tweaks in strategy and trading for penalty-killing specialists Dominic Moore and Daniel Winnik.
Still, no difference.Â
That's why the change needs to happen this offseason. Not through new personnel, but through a well-planned out new approach drawn up by the new coaching staff.
The new approach then must be heavily emphasized and ruthlessly implemented during training camp so that San Jose can start the season strong on the PK, allowing their unit to gain confidence as the season goes on and allowing Doug Wilson to refrain from desperate trades.
Make It Clear That No Job Is Safe
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The Sharks had one of the NHL's better rosters last season, but their effort level was among the league's worst. Together, that made for a slightly above-average team.
Even with Brad Stuart and even with another big forward, an uninspired 2012-13 Sharks team will not be much better than the 2011-12 team.
Making someone afraid of losing their job is one of the best ways of making them improve their effort level.
Ownership made it clear to Doug Wilson and Todd McLellan that their jobs were on the line, so Wilson and McLellan responded by shaking up the coaching staff. It is now on the coaching staff to make the players realize that their jobs are by no means secure.
When training camp opens, the starting goalie job should not belong to Antti Niemi. Thomas Greiss should be given a real chance to win the job, and certainly a chance to win more playing time.
Marc-Edouard Vlasic must be made to believe that Justin Braun could push him for a top-four role. Douglas Murray and Jason Demers must be forced into a desperate competition for the final starting defenseman slot.
Ryane Clowe should be encouraged to bounce back from a down year if he wants to remain in the top six. Patrick Marleau needs to be threatened with a demotion to the second line. Michal Handzus and Adam Burish must know that their veteran status doesn't guarantee them starting lineup spots.
If the Sharks make their training camp and preseason a low-stakes period for working out kinks and getting in shape, the team will suffer.
But if they turn training camp into a high-stakes battle in which roles will be defined, they'll infuse a desperation into the 2012-13 team, one that would have a chance to propel them far.
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Hi all, While trying to test out the trunk version of continuum under apache-tomcat v5.5.20, I deployed the war to tomcat and started tomcat up. The war refused to deploy as below. It looks like the war file contains no log4j config, which is either directly causing the failure, or is hiding the real failure somewhere. Has anyone else seen this problem? INFO: Deploying web application archive continuum-webapp-1.1-beta-3-SNAPSHOT.war log4j:WARN No appenders could be found for logger (org.apache.commons.digester.D igester.sax). log4j:WARN Please initialize the log4j system properly. Sep 6, 2007 3:03:05 PM org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext start SEVERE: Error listenerStart Sep 6, 2007 3:03:05 PM org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext start SEVERE: Context [/continuum-webapp-1.1-beta-3-SNAPSHOT] startup failed due to pr evious errors Regards, Graham --
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Sorting Our Transport
Traffic congestion in Auckland is getting worse. With 800 new cars registered in Auckland each week, we are headed toward gridlock.
Every year Auckland commuters spend 20 working days stuck in traffic. On top of the huge frustration that causes, Auckland's traffic congestion is estimated to cost billions of dollars a year in lost productivity and other costs.
With population growth expected to be close to an additional one million residents over the next 30 years, improved public transport options providing efficient alternatives are needed to stop Auckland grinding to a halt.
Given the population growth, trying to build our way out of congestion with roads alone will not work. It's important that transport networks are available to serve new housing developments across the region in the next decade. As intensification occurs, it needs to be focused on arterial routes, transport hubs and town centres with multiple transport options.
A transport system that works
While some roading networks need to be completed and significant road maintenance costs will be ongoing, reducing congestion on our roads will rely on the provision of a coherent and efficient public transport system. Initiatives such as the northern busway and the upgraded rail system have achieved outcomes exceeding expectations. The key components Council will focus on are:
Improved commuter rail system
Completion of the project is essential and will allow the doubling of heavy rail capacity and improvements in rail travel times. It will significantly benefit commuters from the south and west of Auckland and has the major advantage of taking vehicles off the road.
Improving park and ride facilities in the outer parts of the network and regular feeder transport to rail and buses are vital to maximise the use of rail and will be a priority.
Electric trains, powered by battery, to Pukekohe will be a priority to eliminate transfer at Papakura. Extending battery electric trains to Huapai will be investigated.
A separated busway has been very effective in persuading nearly half of North Shore commuters to the CBD to abandon use of their cars and travel by bus. This saves peak hour travel times and avoids parking fees and difficulties. The northern busway extension further northwards will be a priority. The north-west and south-east are the most car dependent districts of Auckland and deserve to have the choice to use high quality transport systems. A grade separated busway should now be added to the North-Western Motorway.
The AMETI (Auckland Manukau Eastern Transport Initiative) project from Panmure to Pakuranga needs to be undertaken as early as possible, and extended to Botany, and ultimately East Tamaki and Manukau.
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With bus congestion already occurring in areas on the isthmus such as Symonds Street (more than 140 buses per hour in peak periods) and double decker buses likely to be only an interim solution, Auckland needs to bring forward construction of a light rail system, yet presently it is not included in the 10 year plan but it should be. Busways should be convertible to light rail as demand grows over time.
Light rail can carry up to 450 passengers at a time, and is a quick, efficient way of moving people around the city. It is a more sustainable transport mode which minimises emissions and pollution. Its success can be witnessed in countless cities around the world.
Auckland Council must prioritise the development and signing off of a business case for an isthmus light rail system so that the resulting programme can be included in the 2018 LTP.
An initial light rail system should be introduced from the Wynyard Quarter and up Queen Street, Symonds Street and Dominion Road. Further expansion of light rail to East Tāmaki, Botany, Pakuranga and Panmure (down what will initially be a busway), across the harbour to the Shore and following the old tram routes on the isthmus can all be considered for future development as demand grows and resources allow.
Should evidence demonstrate that it is a more cost-effective alternative to heavy rail to the airport, light rail could provide the rapid transit link from the city centre to the airport, to meet the needs of currently over 3 million tourists a year (which is growing rapidly), and growing employment around the airport. It would also provide better access to people in Favona and Mangere Bridge to employment opportunities at the airport and city centre. Any planning of the next harbour crossing needs to include consideration of a light rail option.
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Completion of a walk and cycleway network around Auckland will add another alternative for people to move around the city, for work, recreation or tourism, without using cars.
From over 70 percent of secondary students travelling by bike to school in the 1960s, the figure for 2015 for students cycling to school has fallen to 3 percent.
During school holidays, morning peak hour traffic on the road falls by around 10 percent easing congestion significantly. Providing safe ways for school students to cycle to school will help ease traffic pressure as well as provide healthy exercise. We will encourage government to roll over the current urban cycleway fund.
Cycle hire facilities such as those operating in New York, Paris and London will be piloted through private sector operators and, if successful, will be expanded.
Car Sharing
Having car share opportunities (such as City Hop where cars can be hired by the hour) will encourage people to access cars when necessary without bringing their own into the city. Car sharing through Uber (and through the introduction of autonomous cars when the technology allows that) will provide further alternatives to the wastefulness of most cars having only one occupant during peak hour traffic.
Car sharing facilities in intensive housing developments and apartments will, in due course, become an alternative to families needing to own second cars and having to provide expensive parking spaces.
Electric Vehicles
The Council will work with the Government and the private sector to speed up the replacement of petrol and diesel vehicles with new electric cars. Conversion of company fleets is an effective way of doing this. We will also work with bus operators to progressively convert the bus fleet to electric to reduce pollution.
The Council fleet of some 800 vehicles should be reduced in number and progressively be replaced with electric cars.
The Mayor will lead by example by replacing the current Mayoral car with an electric one. The Council will work to ensure that vehicle charging facilities are available around the city and consider other options to incentivise e-car use.
Ferries offer attractive public transport options for Auckland's coastal areas. We will look at ways to improve frequencies and improve integration with other parts of the public transport system, and expanded services to coastal suburbs not currently serviced.
We need to look at integrating Auckland's ferries into the public transport operating model. This will help to ensure competition where appropriate and bring ferry service contracts within the contracting model which applies elsewhere in Auckland's public transport network.
Alternative Funding
The transport infrastructure we need to develop will be an asset for generations to come and the costs can properly be spread over a long period. With capital amounting to billions of dollars needed to build transport networks, rates are not an adequate or appropriate way to fund transport development. Nor is conventional borrowing to meet the costs feasible given the constraints placed on Council's ability to borrow.
The key to being able to deliver more infrastructure is revenue – having sufficient revenue to, firstly, provide the headspace to be able to raise new debt and, secondly, to service that debt. Alternative funding sources are, therefore, the first step to solving the infrastructure challenges facing Auckland.
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We will also examine provision of public/private partnerships to fund and manage the operation of the infrastructure where it makes sense to do so. PPPs and BOTs (Build-Operate-Transfer) enable new infrastructure to be built earlier than it would otherwise be with the assets transferring into public ownership in the longer term. While the overall financing costs can be higher than simply raising new debt, this can be offset by the economic impact from faster delivery of new infrastructure.
As central Government gets most of the revenue benefit from population growth, from GST and income tax, a fair share of that revenue should be returned to the local government coping with the costs incurred by growth. While central government faces new costs too (ie. building new schools, expanded health services), a new approach to revenue sharing would recognise the disproportionately high costs being imposed on Auckland by its disproportionately high population growth. Over the next 30 years, 50-60 percent of New Zealand's growth is expected to occur in Auckland.
Earlier this year, Treasury advised the government that Auckland needs new alternatives to rates to fund transport. Ministers confirmed that is something the government will consider implementing. Auckland's share of the cost of debt servicing should come from a form of road charging. This is more equitable than rates as costs fall on those who use the new infrastructure. Road charging also acts to influence commuter behaviour.
Initially this could be achieved by a regional petrol tax which is quick to put in place and relatively cheap to administer. Later, a limited GPS based, congestion-related road pricing, such as Singapore is soon to implement, could replace a petrol tax.
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Each month we feature a guest post from a contributor to Poetry's current issue. Tyler Mills's two visual poems from her "Afterimage" series appear in the September 2017 issue. Previous posts in this series can be found on the Editors' Blog.
When I made the visual poems that are part of my Afterimage series, I never imagined that the world would be bracing itself for the possibility of a nuclear strike, with Guam residents being told to "take cover" and not to look at the fireball. Wash your hair with shampoo but not conditioner, as the chemicals will bind radioactive material to your hair.
Guam, caught in the crosshairs of the nuclear missile crisis between the U.S. and North Korea, is just about the same distance from the Marshall Islands as New York is from California.
In a little over ten years, between 1946 and 1958, the U.S. detonated 67 nuclear devices in the Marshall Islands, poisoning residents and literally wiping the island of Elugelab off the face of the earth. And now, once again, Micronesia is facing a nuclear threat—this time, one that all of the detonations were supposed to be preparing "us" (i.e., the continental U.S.) for.
Before I moved to New Mexico, a key player in the history and development of atomic weapons, I began collecting computer punch cards from the Los Alamos Laboratory. I'd order them online, and they'd arrive in my mailbox in Chicago. The thickly packed, standard-sized envelopes with "Los Alamos" as the return address would be taped up at the flap. What IS that? a friend would ask, seeing them on my desk and eyeing the return address.
I had fallen into an obsession with nuclear testing, which began with a fragmented family story. Before his death, my grandfather claimed involvement in the Nagasaki mission and gave my mother a photograph of the atomic cloud in an album. I had been writing poems as a way of working through this mystery and had fallen headfirst into researching the thousand nuclear tests the U.S. conducted in Micronesia, in space, and on its own soil.
As I viewed one declassified nuclear test film after the other, I felt sick with horror each time an atomic cloud blossomed above the glassy Pacific waves of the Marshall Islands, throwing them into chaos, or glowed into a fireball above the pink desert of the Nevada Test Site where military personnel would often stand, back to the camera, and watch.
I'd scrawl transcripts of these test films into the sketchbooks where I had been drafting poems, pausing the video so I could copy the voice word-for-word in my own looped handwriting. I'd order scientific reports of bird migrations through the Nevada Test Site from Interlibrary Loan and read them cover-to-cover, copying out information about bird movement through the regions where fire would still be burning in the brush after a detonation.
Was I like a magpie as I foraged for data, collecting fragments that were becoming too cumbersome for the nest I was building? As I revised the poems that would become my second collection of poems, Hawk Parable, I had to let go of the silver hooks that had caught me and had come with me. Or, at least, I continued to collect this information, but for something else, a new nest, a new project.
As for the computer punch cards, some of which had been punctured with holes and some of which had remained unrecorded? Even as I was working on Hawk Parable, I didn't know what to do with them. But these paper rectangles seemed somehow emblematic of my encounters with information tied to the Manhattan Project and all of its mysteries. A program had once marked some of the cards with data important to the individuals who worked at the Los Alamos labs (like the hours they worked and how much they would be paid) and to the history of human-made radioactive material (like isotope and enrichment numbers). But now I could hold the cards up to the light and look through the perforations. Through the gaps, I could see the tree outside my window unfurling with new leaves. As my fingers touched the holes in the cards, I thought about how removed this information was from anything I could access. The cards had become artifacts.
And what about the smooth cards that hadn't been punched? What potential for meaning existed there?
Shortly before I had ordered the computer punch cards, I had altered a forty-foot player piano roll for "The Piano Roll Project" co-curated by Gail Skudera (my mother) and Kristin Malin and installed in a former textile mill in Maine. The looms in the former textile mill had once been programmed with punched cards, I realized. And the player piano rolls themselves had once been programmed for songs that a piano would play without human touch. The player piano paper itself is fragile, I discovered. It twists and even rips when you stretch it out in ten-feet increments, as I had to as I unrolled it in stretches over the floor of my Chicago apartment.
My Gondola installation in "The Piano Roll Project," Bates Mill Complex, Lewiston, Maine. (All photographs courtesy of Tyler Mills, reproduced with permission.)
As I worked on My Gondola (my piano roll for the installation) and stitched the holes with embroidery floss, outlined them in red pencil, glued lace over the words printed up the sides, I noticed that the paper was not only fragile with age but also with the language that it holds. The holes that marked it rendered the object tenuous—even more tenuous than my project itself had become in my mind. I am not a trained artist and had returned to feeling like I did as a child when I drew for hours and hours next to my artist mother while she sat at her loom and worked.
I thought a lot about those holes in the paper, which were meant to program the hammers inside the piano to strike the strings that would, in the right order and at the right time, emit a melody.
I felt such nostalgia for them, as though each hole stood in for something to say that was now forever lost.
Once I moved to New Mexico, I would slide the computer punch cards I had ordered from their envelopes and fan them out on my desk in the high desert. I began to slowly paint over a few of the cards in watercolor stains, washing the "isotopes" column and the "enrich (%)" column with color. I washed the "employee number," "hours" and "money" columns. I washed "net change." I would let these few cards dry and put them back in their envelopes with the other cards.
It wasn't until I was at an artist residency at Yaddo that I was able to conceive of how the punch cards I had been collecting might tie into the research I had also been collecting for my poems, yet would grow into an entirely new project.
In Saratoga Springs, where Yaddo is located, I had brought photocopies of the 8x10s that a friendly archivist had given me on a snowy January day when I went to the Palace of the Governors Photo Archives in Santa Fe that winter. The 8x10s were prints of the very first photographs taken of a nuclear explosion: the Trinity Test detonated near Alamogordo, New Mexico, on July 16, 1945. These images had been deeply troubling me with their boiling, almost incomprehensible shadows.
The backs of the photos I had examined at the Photo Archives had been scrawled in graphite pencil with the f-stop number of the camera lens used to take the picture. Someone had also labeled them with the number of seconds after the blast that the image recorded. At one point I had written this information down, but I lost it—and lost myself in the popcorn ball clouds. Cotton candy swirls of them that began to appear once, at my studio at Yaddo, I began saturating them with color.
The two visual poems in Poetry, "Afterimage (II)" and "Afterimage (V)," are part of a twelve-work visual sequence that I made there. I worked with pieces and scraps, unsure of how I would reassemble them. Yet all the while, my driving question was this: How could I invite a viewer to think about the visual impression of something so terrible, so deeply imprinted into our collective consciousness that we don't want to see it?
The computer punch cards helped me through this problem, as did my forest studio in upstate New York that summer. The studio had windows on three sides that glowed green with ferns and trees. After living in the high desert of northern New Mexico, I had become acclimated to a palette of browns and pinks, and the green that shimmered in the windows was startling. I could hear rain in the leaves when I opened the windows. The forest floor seemed to move like water tilting green toward the light.
Works in progress, Yaddo, July 2016
My very first day of the residency, I knew I wanted to wash gestural watercolor lines over the surface of some of the computer punch cards I had brought with me—evoking landscapes. I made greenscapes and bluescapes. "Afterimage (V)" contains two of these bluescapes. I wanted to imprint the artifacts that had been implicated in the storage of nuclear materials with nature. Later, I also begin incorporating browns and reds.
Some of the works would include collages of workers digging the earth for nuclear labs in Los Alamos. The workers in hard hats and cowboy hats seem like they could be from any time period, the mid-twentieth century vehicles still surprisingly common in New Mexico where the sun bakes the rain away before they have a chance to rust.
I worked on the individual pieces of the collages for almost four weeks before assembling them into the twelve-work series. I'd look at the clouds, at the punch cards, and I'd lay one over the other to see what visual effect it could have without committing to gluing anything down. I'd play the violin I rented from a shop in Saratoga Springs and look at the materials spread out on the cot in the corner of the studio and spread out over the piano bench near the window. I opened my older notebooks that I had brought with me—pages covered with my obsessive notes about what was said before particular nuclear explosions. My writing began to look like abstract pen and ink drawings to me.
And as I saturated the atomic clouds with color, which began as a way for me to engage my hand and my brain with the shapes inside those boiling, terrible images, the blooms would soak into the notebook paper I had placed underneath to protect the drafting table. When I lifted the page I had been soaking, I saw a kind of afterimage—another kind of reproduction.
Afterimage materials laid out on the bed in my studio (image used with permission)
The Dada photomontages of Hannah Höch, many of which I saw at the Neue Galerie in New York at the "Berlin Metropolis: 1918–1933" exhibition, inspired me. Fascinated once again with her works—as I've always been drawn to Höch's political assemblages—my mind opened up to what I could do with the computer punch cards I had been collecting. Collage, for me, seemed to be the best way that I could think of to draw a viewer in to the highly familiar nuclear blast shapes that have saturated pop culture and apocryphal websites.
At Yaddo, as I prepared and assembled Afterimage, I struggled with this tension: How could I use reproductions of a very familiar shape tied to culturally shared fear, yet at the same time present them with enough newness to invite a reader/viewer to engage fully with the works that contain them?
In addressing this question, I am indebted to the visual artist Doron Langberg (whose work you can explore here). One afternoon, he stopped by my studio for a visit, which was an honor for me, as I was there as a writer and not a visual artist. He asked me open-ended questions about my goals for the images of the nuclear clouds—as representations of a single moment in time. Visually, the stem loads the clouds with the symbolism of the A-bomb. We talked about how, without the stem, they looked like blooms, like jellyfish, like smoke in water.
Depending on the color of the ink—yellow, fuchsia, green, navy—the swirling shapes within the clouds come alive in different ways.
In some places, like the notes that are part of "Afterimage (II)," my handwriting is fairly legible, and the placement of the images around it doesn't obscure the sentences too much from what one could guess about their original context. If you choose to, you can find that "specimens and plant debris falling into the cloth were also placed into the bag containing the stems and leaves" for example. However, the notes in "Afterimage (V)" tend to be more fragmented, which makes reading them more difficult, perhaps even frustrating. I wanted this interplay between revealed and obscured information to be instrumental to the works across the series.
For example, in "Afterimage (V)," on the left side, you can see a partial transcript of one of the declassified nuclear test films I watched over and over and used in a few of the poems in Hawk Parable. This language comes from a film depicting the explosion and aftermath of "Ivy Mike," a massive hydrogen bomb test—the first thermonuclear device ever detonated—the U.S. exploded in the Marshall Islands in 1952. On the right side, you'll see a page from my notebook where I made notes of information from Birds of the Nevada Test Site published in the Brigham Young University Science Bulletin's Biological Series 3.1 in June 1963.
What the viewer can glimpse is information about the house sparrow and meadowlark as the species migrated through the regions near where the U.S. detonated nuclear devices in the sixties. In this visual work, the green atomic cloud swirls in the center, water-like. I was reminded of the color of algae blooms photographed from space. On the page, this cloud kind of looks like a hole to me, something that could suck everything around it inside. The punch cards underneath the atomic cloud are meant to evoke water. As I painted them, I wanted to emphasize the gestural potential of the line and for it to interact with the punch cards underneath—cards meant to record employee hours. Perhaps in articulating a seascape in this context, I could invite a meditation on the labor that went into the nuclear material and device that exploded the "Ivy Mike" bomb. And perhaps my engagement with these disparate materials could invite a reader to look deeply at them, to think about them, and also to let the eye move over the page. It was important for me for these works to be visually pleasing inasmuch as they communicated information. My goal for Afterimage was to create spaces of tension even while the individual works explored visual properties like balance and harmony.
To me, this series is a visual expression of my own journey through archival materials, through data made inaccessible—as the Fortran cards are to me, when I touch the punched holes and wonder at how to read them. These works also represent my journey through my notes about traces of the human touch involved with these tests—such the voices of scientists before the bombs decimated communities in the Marshall Islands and the notes recorded about the wildlife affected by the bombs blasted in the desert. I wanted to capture the destruction and invite a viewer or reader to look and think about this legacy, and in particular, the damage done by the U.S.
How is it possible to begin to comprehend the seemingly infinite (to human scale) lives of the materials we created at the expense of the total human and ecological life it claims? How can I articulate the horrifying spectacle of the "experiment" you can witness when you watch declassified nuclear test films and see the sweat gleaming off the cheeks and foreheads of the military commanders and scientists standing at the rails of aircraft carrier decks? How can I even begin speaking about the visual spectacle that summoned total light and total darkness uncontrolled and rolling off the earth? And how does this image function now, in our imagination, as we find ourselves faced once again with the threat of nuclear disaster? As the residents of Micronesia once again stand on watch?
These works are called Afterimage because I wanted to speak to the after-effect of these tests, the visual echo left in our collective consciousness. As we face many crises—of clean water, of global warming caused by corporate greed, of racism and xenophobia, of nuclear war—my hope is that Afterimage invites an engagement with the past that encourages looking inward and then outward again rather than looking away.
Tyler Mills is the author of Tongue Lyre (Southern Illinois University Press, 2013). She is editor-in-chief of The Account, teaches at New Mexico Highlands University, and lives in Santa Fe.


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- TamsinP
- London, United Kingdom
- A mythical beast - a female wargamer! I got back into wargaming in the summer of 2011 after a very, very long break. My current interests are Ancients, ACW, 30YW and SciFi gaming.
Sunday, 1 April 2018
Sunday Workbench 01 April
Despite taking things easy today, I got quite a bit done, as you can see.
First up, the Mongols. I finished prepping them all and got them stuck onto painting sticks. But then I had to remove a few and restick them on different sticks. I also had to remove two riders from their horses and swap them over.
You will have spotted a few figures in there which have already been primed. That was part of my rearranging.
I'll probably get them all primed on Wednesday.
And then there are the "retinue warriors" for my Sea Peoples. Well, the first batch anyway. I started on these yesterday and got a good way through; today I have got them almost finished. Just the flesh highlights and touch-ups to do.
Mind you, I might go back and redo the contrast panels on the tunic kilts as I made a bit of a boo-boo.That shouldn't be too bad as I'll be able to combine it with the touching up
I should get the painting finished tomorrow before I head out for a big King of the battlefield game at the club. I'll be able to do the Klear/ink step when I get home in the evening, and then can do the varnishing on Tuesday evening. at which point it will be time to start on the second batch.
At some point I'll be ordering a few more packs of figures (more chariots, some archers, some slingers) to allow me to morph the army to Philistines.
Labels: 15mm, Mongols, On the workbench, Sea Peoples, WIP
8 comments:
Armoured Philistines always look fearsome and solid! Keep on painting!ReplyDelete
That's impressive progress in a day; particularly a 'restful day'! Great stuff.ReplyDelete
That is a very clean and organised paint table Tamsin - I'm impressed!ReplyDelete
Excellent brushwork Tamsin.ReplyDelete
Nice work so far! I'm looking forward to the chariots you mentioned. It will be interesting to see how you can get double duty out of your figures. Hope you had a nice Easter!ReplyDelete
Great looking retinue, very colourful.ReplyDelete
@ Herkybird - cheers, will do! :)ReplyDelete
@ James Fisher - thanks! :)
@ Michael - you just can't see the dirt in that pic! :)
@ Ray - cheers! :)
@ Jerry - thanks and I did thanks! :)
@ Dannoc - cheers! They did like their blues :)
Very organised...not like my desk at the moment!ReplyDelete
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H1B visa lottery
This article deals with all you need to know about the H1B visa lottery process. And your odds of getting the visa.
As we predicted the H1B 2018 visa cap for was breached today around 2 p.m. EST. 7th April 2017. If you have not read the previous article about our predictions on when the cap will be reached, how many applications will USCIS receive and when you will get the visa after the H1B visa lottery read it here.
The next question most people have in mind (at least the first timers) is what is the H1B visa lottery? How is the H-1B visa lottery conducted? Continue reading to know all about the process.
What is the H1B visa lottery?
- The H-1B visa lottery is CGRSP, also called a computer generated random selection process. Mainly Indian IT workers coined the term H-1B visa lottery colloquially. It is somewhat true to call it a lottery. I will explain this in later in the article.
Is the H1-B visa lottery truly a random selection process?
- Short answer yes!
- Long answer many people who I have come across believe that there is some bizarre algorithm that goes through the qualifications of each application and selects the application based on market needs. Candidate qualifications etc. This is not true. If you look at the numbers the probability of application, being selected is about 1/3. And these are the numbers that we see. However, let me also tell you this. Big IT companies from India file so many petitions for their employees such that it reduces the overall probability of any particular individual. What really happens here is these companies file 5000 plus applications when they only want 1000 odd people who need to be sent abroad as specialists. If the above mentioned is a major problem then read further. I have seen many illegal staffing firms also known as body shop consulting firms their entire business model depends on accepting any candidate with just the basic qualifications. Boosting their resume with false information, which includes falsified work experience, fake clients etc. To increase the odds there used to be a time they would use the loophole in the law to apply multiple applications for a single candidate. Genuine candidates get caught in this cross fire. Is the selection random YES! Are the odds high due to spamming? YES!
How is the lottery conducted?
There are many steps in the process as listed below.
- USCIS tags all applications with a unique identifier: Also known as petition label or EAC numbering.
- Once the petitions are labelled, they are split into each category or subjective quotas these are as follows.
- United States Master's quota: This is for applicants who have studied in the United States this is 20000 in number.
- The general quota: this is for all other applicants this is 65000 in number. So there are a total of 85000 H-1B visas
- This is assuming that only 20000 masters students apply for H1B. this is obviously not true. USCIS receives more than 20000 petitions from masters students. So they run a computer generated algorithm to select 20000 masters petition.
- The left over master's petition applications are now combined with the general applicants pool.
- We already know that the number of petitions that can be selected is 65000 now. But the number of petitions available to select is (Left over masters petition + all other petitions) which we expect this year to be 247500.
- Since the total number of petitions in the combined pool is much greater than 65,000 petitions (also known as cap limit or quota) , a computer generated random selection process is run on the pool. Which identifies qualifying application.
- Once the identification is made USCIS sends the selected numbers to service centers so that they can start adjudicating.
- Petitions that are not selected receive a rejection letter. They also get back their application packets along with the fee.
- If USCIS figures out that there are duplicate filings for the same individual the fee is not returned.
- USCIS is also at a discretion to file willful violator warning or tag on employers filing multiple petitions. This may result in the employer paying a fine or USCIS may not allow them to file petitions in the future.
Final question that I want to answer is the probability of getting the visa?
Assume you are a masters student. The number of masters application received is said to be 25% of total applications received. (We dont know the exact value because USCIS never releases this number)
So 0.25 * 199000 = 49,750
The first step is masters lottery which is 20,000
20000/49750 = 0.40 or 40%
Now.. assume that you are the same masters student who did not get their petition selected in the master's quota. Your application again will be combined with the general application pool
so now 49750-20000 = 29750 applications are remaining and they will be added back to the rest of the application pool.
This time USCIS received 199000 petitions.
Since we have already calculated the masters quota. We have 199000-20000 = 179000 applications remaining
But the actual cap is 65000 now. However 1/6th of these applications again will be masters students.
so it is remaining (3/5)(65000/180000) approx 62%
So for a masters student the total probability of getting his/her petition selected is close to 62%
If you are in regular quote it is 36 %
I hope this blog helped you understand the process. All the best. The next blog post will focus on results.
If you have not read the previous article about our predictions on when the cap will be reached, how many applications will USCIS receive and when you will get the visa after the H1B lottery read it here.


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