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Dress: Red Plaid Flannel Dress
Purchased From: Port Richmond Super Thrift
Year or Era Purchased: Winter 2010
Price: $3.95
Accessories: black tights, black leg warmers, black and orange snow boots, squirrel necklace, black belt
Hair and Makeup: Pigtails for part of the day, down for the rest, usual makeup with red lipstick for some
Comments/Compliments/Complaints: Michael
Accessories: black tights, black leg warmers, black and orange snow boots, squirrel necklace, black belt
Hair and Makeup: Pigtails for part of the day, down for the rest, usual makeup with red lipstick for some
Comments/Compliments/Complaints: Michael
Fucking hell. I've been on hold with Comcast for one hour and twenty-eight minutes. At this point I'm just doing it out of habit. Ugh.
Sorry for the lame update yesterday. I was exhausted for no good reason really. I woke up at 6AM to take Michael to the train for his DC work jaunt but I went back to sleep for three hours when I came home. Yesterday was a huge disappointment. I found out that I am unable to attend school this semester even though I already attended a class, met with an advisor and bought books. I'm so glad all of the people I spoke with last week clued me in on the fact that I wouldn't be eligible for classes this semester. Oh bother. I was super excited too. When I called to inquire why I couldn't attend this semester and plead my case the first woman I talked to told me the school was "full". I corrected her and told her that wasn't true at all since the class I attended had 11 open slots. She got super pissy with me, told me to hold on and transferred me to a voicemail. Awesome. After I finally spoke to an intelligent, though still mean, woman she informed me the problem was just the time needed to process my application and transcripts. She definitely made it a point to tell me it was my fault about three times. Thanks.
Since I knew school was no longer in my plan for the day I decided to use the extra time to get shit done. I took a trip to the post office, and stopped at the jewelers to get my wedding rings resized since they're a tad small and causing eczema when soap and grossness get trapped under them. I was very proud of my errands. I also worked a really long day and came home and made a super yummy dinner of veggie chicken, pan fried walnuts and kale and truffled mashed potatoes. Yum. Michael and both fell asleep on the couch and after waking I just couldn't bring myself to write a blog.
Today's dress is once again probably a nightgown but I don't care. I love the red plaid. It's quite comfortable. It had belt loops on the sides so I added a black cotton belt from another dress. Turns out it was way colder today than I thought it would be and this nightgown dress is a bit thinner than I thought it was. Oh well. I am so wearing it to bed tonight.
I had a fine day, way less productive than yesterday but fine. I took Michael to work and then stopped at Circle Thrift on the way home. I got some amazing and weird blue snow/moon type boots that I'm super excited to wear. I also got a few dresses and some cute shirts. Lots of my stuff was orange tagged, half off. I love Circle Thrift. I need to yelp them. I came home and did lots of dishes while calling Comcast to complain that one of our boxes wasn't working. We get free cable since Michael works there and in December decided to upgrade a box to dvr/hd. We get charged for this service but it's still discounted. Since we switched the box our bills never changed from $0 like they should have. Someone forgot to update our account, which automatically made it so one our boxes wasn't activated and kept shutting off. Had I never called to get the box (that resides in the kitchen and gets little use) fixed we would never have paid for the dvr/hd box. Blargh. All so I can listen to tv while I cook and do the dishes. I spent the rest of the day doing boring stuff. I worked and went to the gym with a quick stop at the grocery store. I came home and started on dinner and that's when my Comcast debacle began. The brilliant tech that helped me earlier somehow turned off one box while activating another.
Ok so after two hours of being on hold with Comcast I hung up and called back and voila two minutes later I had an operator. ARGH! This makes me want to hurt someone. We finally ate dinner (twice baked potatoes, veggie ribs, leftover kale and broccoli with almonds and lemon butter) and watched the State of the Union address. After dinner we played some Mario and drank a little wine. I got a headache, which I'm sure was my body's way of reminding me not to drink too much. Now I'm off for a shower and bed. I hope I don't dream of stupid Comcast.


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Blaze Almost Extingushed
Sunday 11th December brought the toughest game of the season so far for Essex Blaze. Cardiff had a disappointing day before losing in 5 sets to Richmond and set out to take a victory home with them against the only unbeaten team in Division 1.
Blaze started off poorly losing a run of points and couldn't cope with the strong serve coming from Cardiff. Coach BK brought some calmness across the team and Blaze started to make their way back into the set from some big swings on either side from Kieran Good and Toby French. However, this was not enough and Blaze lost their 2nd set of season 21-25.
Blaze were fired up in the 2nd set to correct everything that was wrong in the 1st. The serve receive started to function properly with libero Mahlon King taking charge, and everything else just fell in place. Our service pressure started to trouble Cardiff, especially with Chester Searle coming from the bench getting an ace. And with this, Blaze took the 2nd set 25-21 and levelled the game.
The 3rd set started slowly with neither team wanting the other to get the advantage. With some big blocks and the middle slowly becoming more of a threat for Essex. Blaze began to pull away from Cardiff and created a big lead. However, complacency set in and it allowed Cardiff to bring themselves back into the game. Fortunately for Blaze, the lead was enough to see out the set 25-22, and take the lead 2-1.
Going into the 4th set, Blaze were confident on securing victory this set. However, Cardiff had other ideas and wanted to take it to 5 sets. Michael Pagalos with some smart swings through the outside kept the score for Blaze ticking over but Cardiff had too much with their middles working well. Unfortunately, Blaze's block just couldn't stop the Cardiff offence and Cardiff levelled the tie 2-2 with a 4th set victory 22-25.
Going into the 1st five set game of the season, and with Blaze's undefeated record under threat, nerves were high. And Blaze made 2 poor mistakes at the start of the set before coach BK called a quick time-out. His calm words had a very good effect over the team and from this time-out, Blaze took the next 5 points. Some big swings from Toby French on the wing with some unforced errors from Cardiff meant at the change of ends, Blaze were in pole position. However, a motivated Cardiff brought themselves back in the game and took the lead 8-10. Some errors from both sides and some clever middle hits from Cardiff gave them an 11-14 lead and 3 match points. Perhaps unfortunately, this is when Blaze decided to play their best volleyball. A perfect pass from Mahlon gave Cameron the perfect opportunity to set middle which allowed Daniel Northfield a big swing and 1 match point saved. An overpass from Cardiff gave the experienced James Bernardi an easy kill to save yet another match point, 12-14. Another poor pass from Cardiff meant a free ball to Blaze Libero Mahlon King, which resulted in Toby French using the Cardiff block to score the point, 13-14. 2 aces in a row from Kieran Good gave match point to Blaze, 15-14. A good shot from the Cardiff outside gave them a lifeline and levelled the game 15-15. Another kill from Toby French gave another match point for Blaze. Finally, a unfortunate tip into the antenna from the Cardiff outside meant the set went to Essex 17-15 and the game 3-2.
This was a great game of volleyball from both sides and we here at Team Essex Volleyball cannot wait for the return fixture in March to play Cardiff again.
MVP: Toby French

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Media Centre | Declarations
Declaration of the COSATU Special National Congress
14 August 2015
The Congress of South African Trade Unions held a historic Special National Congress from the 13th 14th July 2015, at Gallagher Estate, Midrand, attended by 2477 delegates representing more than 1, 9 million members .
This Special National Congress was convened to confront and address the challenges of Unity and Cohesion currently facing the federation. This also included issues on leadership.
This Special National Congress took place following a successful Alliance Summit and the Special National Congress of the SACP which dealt with the challenges confronting our National Democratic Revolution.
We received inspiring messages of support from all our alliance partners including a written message of support sent by the World Federation of Trade Unions (WFTU).
We were inspired by the visit of the CUBAN Five Heroes a few days ago who had been released from the jails of the United States of America because of the pressure mounted by campaigns waged by amongst others COSATU affiliates , the progressive forces of our country and all the freedom loving international fraternal organisations.
We were also inspired by the news of the release on bail of comrade Mario Masuku, the President of PUDEMO and comrade Maxwell Dlamini SWAYOCO Secretary General who had been jailed by the Mswati regime for leading the Swaziland National Democratic struggle towards the establishment of a democratic constitution for a democratic Swaziland. We are calling for the withdrawal of all the charges immediately.
We were however saddened by the news of the passing away of comrade Patrick Baleka, who will be remembered as one of the United Democratic Front leaders who were tried on charges of treason and certain statutory offences in the famous Delmas treason Trial which commenced on 16 October 1985 and ended on 8 December 1988. At the conclusion of the trial, Baleka was acquitted. In January 2001 the Truth and Reconciliation Commission granted him amnesty for high treason. Comrade Baleka was a staunch activist who coordinated international Solidarity campaign demanding the rights of the Saharawi people to self determination as led by the Polisario Front against occupation by Morocco.
We the 2477 delegates representing more than 1, 9 million members hereby declare that contrary to the reported threats of disruptions and intentions of splitting our federation we are committing to stand up and defending our federation.
We are doing so in this Special National Congress and we will do so continuously and into the future through visible activities on the ground!
We condemn the development, production and circulation of a document inside which was not approved by COSATU structures intended to sow divisions in our Special National Congress. We commend our affiliates who stood up and distanced themselves from this alien tendency. This is a foreign culture which we are prepared to fight and defeat starting from the Special National Congress moving forward!
We condemn the mobilisation and use of some sections of the media to undermine our federation .Whilst we value the rights of the media but they have a responsibility to report factually and accurately about the affairs of the federation and not act in a factional manner which seeks to undermine decisions of our constitutional structures and reinforce divisions.
We want to unequivocally declare that we want unity of COSATU. This federation remains a home of all workers and workers will be better organised under the leadership of COSATU. In this regard as delegates to this Special National Congress we call on all the COSATU affiliates who had decided to boycott the CEC to come back and raise their issues inside the organisation and have these subjected to democratic debate and discussions.
We want discipline within the federation and in our affiliates. We want a COSATU that is based on its constitution and founding principles of one Country One Federation, One Union One Industry, Paid Up Membership , Worker Control , worker Solidarity, non racialism and Unity.
We re-affirm without any ambiguity that COSATU belongs to the Congress movement thus to the ANC led liberation movement. We pursue the National Democratic Revolution as a direct route to Socialism.
As delegates coming from across all the sectors of our economy and across the length and breadth of our country we re- affirm the character of COSATU as a militant and radical federation of trade unions, which is class oriented and that COSATU is not a political party.
Our federation must remain occupied with broad social and political issues, as well as the immediate concerns of its members. It must continuously strive to remain a social force for transformation.
COSATUs influence on society must remain based on its organised power, its capacity to mobilise, its socio - economic programme and policies and its participation in political and social alliances.
We are saying that COSATU must remain committed to worker control and democracy, and to maintaining its independence being conscious of the dangers of being co-opted by employers and politicians.
As delegates to this Special National Congress we instruct that COSATU must remain conscious about striking a balance between the immediate concerns of its members to the need for stability and national development without subordinating each to the other.
COSATU must remain a worker controlled federation that is vigilant and which strive to avoid any possibility of being complacent, being bureaucratic and being controlled by technocrats and experts.
We accept that in the discussions regarding the unity and cohesion of the federation, issues related to leadership were discussed but not exhausted.
In this regard we call for honesty, integrity and collective leadership in building genuine unity and cohesion. A more systematic discussion will be taken forward leading to the ordinary National Congress to be held at the end of November this year.
We met a time when there was a heightened against the workers and working class in general at an international and national level.
All the attacks that were directed against the federation leading to the Special National Congress including the use of some section of the media for misinformation and generating perceptions which undermines the federation and its leadership, the use of courts against the federation and its leaders, the production and circulation of an unknown document during the Special Congress cannot be divorced from this offensive.
Representatives of these offensive camouflages with left wing rhetoric and yet their thinking and conduct exposes their fundamental character as being right wing.
Chairman Mao had this to say about this grouping in his instructive work titled Combat liberalism: Liberalism stems from petty-bourgeois selfishness, it places personal interests first and the interests of the revolution second, and this gives rise to ideological, political and organizational liberalism.
People who are liberals look upon the principles of Marxism as abstract dogma. They approve of Marxism, but are not prepared to practice it or to practice it in full; they are not prepared to replace their liberalism by Marxism. These people have their Marxism, but they have their liberalism as wellthey talk Marxism but practice liberalism; they apply Marxism to others but liberalism to themselves. They keep both kinds of goods in stock and find a use for each. This is how the minds of certain people work.
Liberalism is a manifestation of opportunism and conflicts fundamentally with Marxism. It is negative and objectively has the effect of helping the enemy; that is why the enemy welcomes its preservation in our midst. Such being its nature, there should be no place for it in the ranks of the revolution.
We note the concerted offensive against the people of Greece, who have endured sustained attacks on their livelihoods as the IMF, European Union and European Central Bank were forcing the ordinary people of that country to pay for the bailout given to the private companies.
We are in an age of the highest stage of imperialism, characterised by the centralization and concentration of capital and wealth in the hands of a few; the financialisation of the economy due to the systemic and chronic stagnation of the productive sector; the systematic attack on the social functions of the State that has been achieved through struggle of the workers and peoples; the commercialization of all spheres of social life, in a logic of privatizing all that can bring higher returns to capital; the attacks on international law and sovereignty of the States; the centralization of political power and its submission to economic power and to the strategies of militarization of international relations.
Over the past four decades, the Neoliberal regime of accumulation has failed to resolve the systemic crisis of capitalism. It has attempted to restore profitability through the destruction of the welfare state, cuts in real wages, intensification of work periods; deregulation and increase in working hours; deregulation of labour relations; widespread casual labour, particularly among the women and young workers; super-exploitation of migrant workers. Appropriation of labour productivity gains by capital; Increase in the retirement age; Cuts in pensions and retirement benefits; Increase in unemployment rates; Regression of social and labour rights; the denial of the right to bargain collectively and to strike.
This offensive seen at an international level gets translated into our country in different forms and they add to the prevailing colonial and apartheid social conditions in which the triple challenges of unemployment, poverty and inequalities continue to define South African society, 21 years into our democracy.
The right to strike, which we have won through our own struggles and secured as a constitutional right has been challenged by international capitals representatives at the International Labour Organisation (ILO). The Democratic Alliance which is the political representative of this offensive against workers introduced a Bill in Parliament in 2014 which in practice was intended to severely limit this constitutional right. Despite all the challenges that our federation has been facing since our last congress, we were able to launch a fight leading to the Parliament under the leadership of the ANC rejecting this DA Bill.
Our hard won advances secured since the democratic breakthrough continues to face threats from the judiciary which zigzags from making progressive rulings which asserts the new democratic dispensation and making ruling which clearly constitute judicial overreach and undermining the doctrine of the separation of powers. The result of this has been to undermine the majority rule and to impose setbacks on development which favour the majority of South Africans the majority of whom is the working class.
We want the Creation of the structures necessary to foster judicial independence. While accepting the principle of the independence of the judiciary, we however reject efforts to hide behind this principle to block transformation or fair criticism of judgements.
We therefore call for the building of a bench that is demographically representative of the population, appointment of judges who identify with and are dedicated to advancing the socio-economic rights of the working class and who pay allegiance to the new constitutional order.
We want an increase access to justice for all sectors of society, promoting a culture of judicial accountability. We are calling for the reorganisation of the court system to better reflect changes in the countrys provincial and demographic make-up,
We call for an open debate in society on the transformation of the judiciary and the legal profession, transformation of the judiciary must include, but not limited to, achieving racial and gender parity, changing attitudes towards the aspirations and needs of the working class and the poor; progressive gender perspective; change in the language of the courts; access to and the administration of justice, and building a prosperous non-racial non-sexist and democratic South Africa that would not tolerate inequalities inherited from apartheid capitalism.
We will defend our right to collective Bargaining with everything we have! In 2013 the free market foundation launched a constitutional challenge against the right to collective bargaining. As COSATU working with our union SACTWU we oppose the constitutional challenge, launched on 5 March 2013 by the Free Market Foundation (FMF), to the extension of bargaining council agreements to non-parties. We argued that this was nothing less than a war against the entire labour relations regime built since 1994, with the aim of leaving workers defenceless against even more ruthless exploitation by employers than they suffer already and plunged into even deeper poverty.
We are angry that employers continue to seek creative ways of evading compliance with labour legislation. The 2014 Employment Equity report gives testimony to this and it shows that major beneficiaries of employment equity from the Report are not different from the major beneficiaries of apartheid. The report shows that Employment Equity Act has primarily benefited White Women.
In this regard we will develop programmes and campaigns to draw the attention of society to the challenges confronting women inside our organisations and in society generally.
Women continue to be discriminated against both in society and in the workplace, the workplace environment is constantly characterised by gender and economic discrimination, women workers conditions are least protected , economic and maternity protection remains a matter of concern. When women drop out of the labour force to bearing and raising children, they typically suffer consequences in terms of career progression and retirement/social security benefits and loose out more on their years earnings.
We therefore instruct the first CEC should develop a programme of action on gender struggles which will deal with the following:
1. To ensure that the office matter involving the staff member and the former leader is used to popularise COSATUs gender polices. We reject the spreading of conspiracy theory which characterised this matter as political. This was about power relations in the workplace tilted against the women worker. It must be understood in the context of womens struggles in the workplace and power relations in society generally. In this regard the federation should elevate, implement and defend its gender policy and code of conduct regarding sexual harassment in the workplace and in society in general.
2. A discussion document must be developed on gender struggles focusing on the current challenges facing women in society and in the workplace.
3. Fight to reclaim the dignity of work and the rights of women workers and people living with disability
4. Organise more women and map out workplace plans to improve women job security, pay and conditions
5. Campaign for decent work , decent life for women and in particular pay equity, ratification of ILO Conversation 183 on Maternity Protection
6. Heighten the campaigning against discrimination
We also met at a time when despite qualitative advances secured since the 1994 democratic breakthrough, an estimated 50% of South Africans still live in poverty and the unemployment rate stands at more than 37%.
Inequality remains deep, gendered and radicalised. This is linked to the fact that the share of wages in national income has been decreasing, from just below 55% in 1994 to 51% per cent in 2012.
The marginalisation of the working class in the economy has also been evidenced by flexible labour market in the form of actualisation, outsourcing and the use of labour brokers, the commodification of basic needs and the suppression of workers wages below productivity gains.
As workers under the leadership of COSATU we remain resolute in our campaign for a Living wage and the fight for the total ban of Labour Brokers and for a reliable, affordable, safe and accessible public transport. We will continue to call for the scraping of e-tolls.
We are angry against employers who continue to dismiss workers despite the high levels of unemployment in the country. All COSATU affiliates shall develop solidarity activities to support the Communications Workers Union (CWU) in their struggle against MTN employers who are planning to retrench thousands of workers instead of accepting the demand for a living wage. We give MTN employers one week ultimatum to resolve the dispute and to return all dismissed workers.
Give to workers that which belong to workers!
We note that despite interventions by the democratic government which include more that 15 million people receiving social grants, the reality of capitalism in our country has meant that there is chronic high unemployment, low paying jobs, casualisation our people do not have enough money to buy food. People who happen to be employed or who have casual jobs indicated that they are food secure in the first week after their wages are paid but are often food-insecure for the remaining three weeks in the month. Low-paid and irregular work reduces stability of access to food.
As COSATU we have always raised these crisis features of capitalism not because we expect capitalism to be any different, but because we seek to overcome this system with a rational, human system of socialism. Indeed, in the current terrain of the national democratic revolution. We have placed on the table before the nation our New Growth Path which puts forward a comprehensive set of proposals on how the systemic triple crises of; unemployment, poverty and inequalities, can be overcome.
For its part, the South African Communist Party has placed on the table its own comprehensive proposals in its document, Going to the Root, which has been adopted by its recent Special National Congress. These proposals of COSATU and SACP mutually reinforce each other. Indeed the Alliance as a whole shares the perspective of a radical second phase. However, the Alliance must now move to the next stage of agreeing on the actual content of the radical second phase.
We recognise that our 2015 Plan is now coming to an end in this year of our 30th anniversary. We celebrated this years May Day pledging to reposition our federations.
In keeping with the true traditions of our federation, we will now initiate a process of introspection; we will study how affiliates and COSATU structures operate in practice. This must be with the view to subsequently elaborating and enriching the content of our Back to Basics perspective, as discussed by the 11th Congress and the 2013 Organising and Bargaining conference.
The development of a medium-term conjunctural political strategic perspective would then emerge, properly discussed and formulated on the basis of this process.
The federation also recognise the need to develop agreed and binding strategies of dealing with business unionism, which must include developing policies on the investment arms, retirement funds, procurement policies and fund raising.
We will work to develop a conscious response and adaptation mechanism to our present reality of capitalism that is corroding the sole of our trade union movement.
Similarly, we pledge to develop innovative modes and forms of organising workers and demarcation of organisational scopes, mergers and building super-unions in line with COSATUs principle of One union One industry. Thus, we are aiming to embark on a disciplined and well-informed process supported by research, which shall also give us answers as to why decisions on mergers have not been implemented so that we can be able to overcome the barriers.
Based on our understanding that the character of any organization is naturally and inevitably determined by the content of its activity we therefore instruct the first CEC after this Special National Congress to develop programmes and campaigns which will based on existing campaigns focusing on building and defending the unity of our federation through action on the ground.
Our campaigns will include elevating the concerns we have raised some sections of the National Development. We will also be launching a campaign calling introduction of redistributive tax interventions which include progressive tax system, with an introduction of a tax category for the super rich.
We are concerned about attempts which positions Black Economic Empowerment policies in a manner that promotes individual -enrichment as opposed to genuine Collective Broad Based Black Economic Empowerment. We shall have campaigns to openly oppose this anti transformation manoeuvres.
Elements of our campaigns will also include demands for the establishment of a state construction company and that government must convene a construction Summit which will on amongst others address the challenges in the countrys infrastructure development programme and confronting the conduct of construction companies which is driven by profit maximisation logic which imposes limits to the countrys development imperatives.
We are going to the ground! Every shop steward, every organiser and every union leader must be at the workplace listening to workers and practically addressing their issues.
Our organisation building programmes and campaign will also include listening campaign including work place visit, campaign to protect our hard worn labour rights , mobilisation towards the National Day of Action, taking forward our living wage campaign focusing on the National Minimum wage , confronting racism at the workplace, a campaign against labour brokers , reviewing the impact of the Youth Employment Incentives , a campaign for affordable , reliable , accessible , and safe public transport and a campaign to scrap e-tolls , etc. A more comprehensive programme is attached separately.
We emerge from this Special Congress more united, more committed and more determined than ever to achieve our objective of building a strong, militant, non-racial, non-sexist, progressive workers federation. We are deeply conscious of the faith and hopes placed upon us by millions of workers in our country and beyond, we are unapologetic in our resolute pursuit of a better life for all workers, and we remain cognizant of our historical duty to rally workers to the cause of social, economic and political freedom.
Our rallying cry remains the Marxist call that: Workers of the World unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains!
A proposed Programme to be elaborated by Campaigns, organising and Coordinating Committee. It will include the following focus areas:
1. Protection of Centralised Bargaining:
a) Focus on Free Market Foundation (FMF)
Defend the attack on Collective Bargaining
Hold a Picket at the Free Market Foundation Head Office
Mobilise for demonstrations on date of Court Hearings
b) Focus on NUM and Gold Sector Agreement
NUM to provide an update on AMCU challenge on extending collective agreement reached between NUM and the Gold sector by 24th June 2015.
Wage negotiations and strikes support
All affiliates to provide an update on the current wage disputes and strikes.
COSATU to consolidate the above and circulate to all affiliates and provinces and progressive youth structures to ensure maximum solidarity.
2. National Minimum Wage (NMW):
a) Affiliates to report on mandated amount of the National MinimumWage .The Special CEC must enter into a discussion based on existing information .
b) National Day of Action for a National Minimum Wage to be carried out as part of taking forward our agenda on the Decent Work. We will target the International Day for Decent work on the 7th October 2015 for action.
3. Building and defending the federation:
Defending the federation means first and foremost defending its affiliates. This will include undertaking the following activities :
a) To take forward the programme on the recruitment and servicing of members by our affiliates.
b) Mobilisation of resources both human and material to ensure the efficiency and effectiveness of the COSATU Head office.
c) COSATU NOBs to continue having unity discussions with all COSATU unions and structures.
d) Take forward recommendations in the ANC task team report and the Sizwe Ntsaluba Gobodo Report.
e) This will include having the CEC concretising the back to basic campaign which should include holding political schools , a focus on training focusing on trade union work , capacitating shop stewards by affiliates as part preparing them for the battle if ideas and countering misinformation against the federation and their unions .
Focus on the New Labour Legislation:
a) To have advocacy training partnering with the Department of Labour and CCMA on the following issues:-
b) All amendments
c) Labour brokering - ( the unions will dedicate a person responsible for collecting information on our experience regarding the impact of the new labour legislation as part of monitoring compliance ) . This will then allow us to provide feedback to engage government about the validity of our argument against labour brokers.
d) Equal pay for work of equal value to get up to date information from the CCMA
e) Monitoring strategy : Affiliates to give progress on the implementation of the laws in their sectors and on enforcements in the workplaces
4. Socio Economic Transformation:
Focus on Eskom Tariff Increase:
a) The intervention of the state on the situation at ESKOM to make sure that it has enough capacity to generate power for the country based on economic demands.
b) Transformation in ESKOM ( challenges of leadership and management)
c) Oppose any attempt to privatise ESKOM or any part of it.
d) Call for the regulated municipal electricity tariffs.
e) Municipalities must transfer al the electricity money to ESKOM failing which such municipality must lose its electricity selling licence; or develop a system which will protect the ESKOM money from the use by municipalities
f) ESKOM must supply electricity directly to the consumers through creation of enterprises owned by ESKOM.
g) The state to invest on the establishment of clean energy plants and not to leave it to the IPPs.
h) To develop policy proposals regarding nuclear energy and other sources of energy as part of a process to influence debate and policy development process on alternative energy sources.
5. Public Transport:
Focusing on the demand for a reliable, affordable, accessible and safe Public transport System and scrapping of E-tolls:
a) Demand for revitalisation of the rail infrastructure to avoid the current rate of train accidents.
b) Built the capacity of Transnet to be able to carry all the heavy cargo to reduce the number of trucks in the road which contribute to the high accident rate and the dilapidation of the road infrastructure.
c) Continue with the campaign against the privatisation of public roads and the double taxing of citizens for public infrastructure; demand for the total ban of E tolls.
d) Reject the new funding model as proposed by government. Oppose the liking of the e tolls to the license disc renewal
e) Support the fuel levy for the funding of infrastructure improvement
6. Youth Employment Incentives:
a) To raise the issue of 18 months testing period during the Alliance Summit.
b) To get reports from all affiliates on specific sectors as to what has been happening since the implementation of the incentives by Government.
c) Policy unit to develop a one pager flyer on Youth Employment Incentives outlining the following:
Informal Economy Formalisation - ILC Recommendation:
To conduct workshops on international convention recommendations.
These workshops should be decentralised and focal points should be on the following:
Role of SETAs, DOL, SEDAs and DTI
Accessibility to funding and training
Role of NDYA vs. newly established Youth Directorates.
Criterion used to invest in the informal sector
Biasness of the Government towards co-operatives.
Targets groups:
Young workers
Progressive youth alliance
Informal associations /organisations
Rural areas
These workshops will assist in developing an informed programme of action and among others we need to ensure that the funding that comes the DOL to DTI which is workers money, does not fund or promote labour brokering.
7. National Development Plan:
o Take forward engagement in the Alliance - prepare for the Alliance Political Council after the Summit
- Convene Bilateral with the SACP
- Mobilise members on COSATU and SACP concerns
8. National Day of Action / Strike
Focus on the following Demands:
a) Public Transport / E-Tolls
b) National Minimum Wage
c) Youth Employment Incentives
Tasks to be undertaken include:
- Submit section 77 notices to NEDLAC with regard to above demands and call for the national strike in September 2015 when there is no agreement . COCC to develop and provide specific demands in this regard.
- Provinces to continue and intensify the programmes which have been ongoing.
- Develop a budget linked to the programme and Strike.
- Mobilise for National Day of Action.
9. 2016 Local Government Elections
a) Elections committee should continue with its work
b) Develop proposals regarding the municipal boundaries and confront the emerging trend where demarcation is used to maintain apartheid boundaries which re-enforces racism and tribalism.
c) Form COSATU election structures and deploy COSATU comrades into the ANC election structures
d) Work together with the ANC to complete the ward profiles in the all ward
e) Revisit issue raised by communities in the last elections with an intention to give feedback on the progress made.
f) Encourage members of COSATU and the alliance to be part of the BET VD and street coordinators
g) Mobilisation for the election must form part of each and every activity of the federation
h) The tendering system must change. Government must find a way to deal with the tender system. Have quality control mechanisms. Build the capacity of the state to deliver infrastructure and not to rely on the private sector.
10. International Solidarity:
Focus - Swaziland Solidarity
a) Convening a meeting with Swazi civil society, political parties & TUCOSWA.
b) Provincial Task Team to be formed at KZN & Mpumalanga.
c) To re-assess the need for Border Blockades
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The arrival of Zoetrope: All-Story must seem like a great gift to aspiring fiction writers at a time when short fiction is the shrinking child of the magazine world. I remember when more than a dozen major magazines published two or three short stories every issue, and even if you never sold your story to any of them, you could at least fantasize about the possibility. Then magazines died and the possibility diminished seriously. But writing fiction didn't change. There are two kinds of fiction writers: those who write long and those who write short. Those who write long do so because they don't know when to stop, and they tend to turn into novelists. Those who write short, and prefer it, turn into Anton Chekhov or John Cheever or Isaac Babel, if they have genius, and for whom we are as grateful as we are for Tolstoy and Melville, genius marathoners who sometimes wrote short, but who's measuring? Beginners write short, so do people with brief attention spans, and poets. William Faulkner thought genuine writers were driven by demon and fire to write, and if they were fortunate they did it as poets; the less fortunate did it as short-story writers, and the least fortunate had to go back to "the clumsy method of Mark Twain and Dreiser." There are two other types of fiction writers: those who create beginnings, middles, and endings, and those who create only middles, also known as slices of life, or pastramis. There are also two kinds of magazine editors who match with these types, but pastramis are not so popular anymore and neither are the magazines or editors who used to publish them. There is one other kind of fiction writer: the short-story writer whose characters nag the reader after the story is over. What will become of those people? A friend of mine got sick of being asked this question and wrote a second story that became chapter two of his remarkable first novel. Such writers sometimes send these novel fragments off to the few magazines that still publish fiction, but if the editors discover that these fragments are part of a novel, they will explain to the writer that readers do not want to read novel fragments in my magazine, even though readers have been reading novel fragments in magazines for two centuries; just as these same editors used to think readers were panting to read pastramis. Both of these editorial decisions are as much a consequence of fashion trends as the widening and narrowing of neckties; but fashion has nothing to do with literature, or good storytelling, and it's a pity some editors think it does. Finally, there is one other kind of fiction writer: the one who writes sideways. Samuel Beckett often wrote sideways, as did James Joyce. Henry James and Edith Wharton never wrote sideways. I have a very talented friend who wrote twenty-five or so sideways stories and then died. She saw three of her stories published, and was buoyed by this, but hers was largely a career of rejection. Three more of her stories have recently appeared in print, and I have faith that a book of her stories will eventually be published. Faulkner did not jump into the Mississippi when editors rejected his stories. He waited and in time all his rejected stories were published, including some he might not have approved of publishing if he hadn't been dead. I once wrote a story entitled "The Meaning of the Basketball in Her Dreams," and an editor rejected it because he didn't understand the meaning of the basketball. I changed the title and published it elsewhere. But you can see that this business of writing stories is full of pitfalls. There is only one way to leap over pitfalls and to get rid of bothersome editors and to overcome the failure of aspiration when you are a fiction writer. "You do not need to leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and listen. Do not even listen, simply wait. Do not even wait, be quite still and solitary. The world will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked, it has no choice, it will roll in ecstasy at your feet." So suggests Franz Kafka, and who am I to disagree?


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Some Reflections on Fred
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I like this argument, and I think that you are right in supposing that this is what Fred believes. But why was there a need to explore the nobility of hunting in the first place? We know that the people of the Middle Ages loved making hierarchies. It seems to me that "The nobility really like to hawk." "Well... Hawking IS a noble sport." "Ah! Then it is certainly befitting of the nobility!" may have been how this issue came up. This whole "explain something by backtracking and justifying it on its own terms" seems really medieval to me. And, as often as not, the association sticks.ReplyDelete
You are very right: many noblemen like Frederick could well have been as expert in falconry as their hired falconers. But there is a slippage in your discussion from there to the different reasons that Frederick gives for the practice of falconry: the hired falconers did not practice falconry as "the poor" but rather as the trainers for "the noble", which leaves us right back where we started with the "noble" status or not of the hired falconers. One might say that the hired falconers were practicing falconry in order to obtain the necessities of life, but I doubt very much that this is what Frederick meant. He was talking about food, not salaries. That said, yes, it seems difficult to imagine that the "poor" (or "non-noble") did not enjoy the birds' flight and the exercise of training, although Frederick might still insist that only a few understood falconry in its proper sense (goal #4).ReplyDelete
Did medieval falconers understand their birds, as opposed to the practice itself, as noble? Yes, very much so, but did they mean "noble" in the same way that we do? Maybe here is the rub. It is difficult to disentangle nobility as social status from nobility as excellence. Which came first when it came to falconry? I think Gaston Phebus would definitely quarrel with Frederick on the relative nobility of hunting with four-footed animals. For Frederick, the nobility of falcons was paramount for exactly the reasons you give. It would be interesting to know how many of his fellow noblemen agreed. But, just to try to disentangle all of this, yes, for Frederick, the art is noble first and foremost because it is an art of training noble animals, which is therefore why it is suited to the human nobility who otherwise concern themselves with the great affairs of governing.


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The Theory of Everything Disguised as a Handbag
Perhaps I should explain. Here you will find artful renditions of genetic cocktails. Except that the bartender/genetic engineer, rather than mixing ingredients found in a specific recipe, threw all the day's leftover DNA into the blender. Ta da!
Are these unusual objects or what!? Yea I know. Sometimes I get these urges to make weird things. Or is it weird urges to make things? No need to analyze the psychological underpinnings. Whatever you think was the reason is your interpretation, and of course, you're welcome to it!
I sometimes like to think of myself as a sane mad scientist, creating creatures that represent an improbability that otherwise would remain unrealized. I would be a true mad scientist if these were real. As it is, they are just images flittering through my imagination, made on occasion, into art.
I was painting a handbag aka Portable Sculpture the other day, having fun layering colors, giving it that extra bit of "I enjoy being weird" kinda vibe, when suddenly, as if delivered via cosmic spitball to the side of the head, a question occurred to me: "Why am I making this anyway?"
Almost as quickly an answer to this odd enigma entered my conscious awareness, stunning me with its absurd possibility: What if, and this is only a theory of course, a supposition, a possible answer to the ultimate question and nothing more, but what if the reason I was making such a weird construct in the guise of a purse, an accouterments of fashion du jour, was because I was being sent a symbolic message from another dimension of reality!?
If so, perhaps someone or something was trying to send me a clue, in the only way it had of communicating between dimensions -- slipping this odd symbolic construction into my subconscious, which I would then feel compelled to sculpt in a form that could be experienced in the dimension of reality I inhabit, that is, here in 3D.
But what was the message?
The answer seemed obvious (at least at the time), there was no why to it, and that was the point! It was so surreal and nonsensical in order to dismantle, albeit briefly, my sheltered little view of reality; in order that I may know, this answer: The reality that I feel and breathe, the world that I experience as living in, including my foibles, follies and fracas, are really the dream world of my real self -- residing in that other dimension.
The experience of this world of sense and sensation seems real and tangible, seems to have substance and be composed of solid matter. But look a little deeper beneath the beguiling surface, embrace for a moment the nonsensical, and one might just find, life is a confection of quantum possibilities, but not any real thing at all.
And then, the higher dimension that creates the shadow of reality I exist in on this lower dimension, is in itself a lower dimension from a higher dimension above it as well.
In other words, there is really no point in the why of a Debra Gavant handbag. Wearing it will create its own reality!
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James Corden is back with another hilarious episode of his series Carpool Karaoke. For this episode, The Late Late Show comedian invited fellow Brit Harry Styles into his car for a delightful 13 minutes of passionately sung ballads, outfit swapping, and acting skits.
The former One Direction heartthrob has just debuted his first solo, self-titled album that features his hit song "Sign of the Times," which debuted at No. 1 on Billboard and Twitter Top Tracks Chart. Harry Styles is far removed from the musical style his formed group adhered, but proof that a successful solo career is viable.
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San Ignacio Lagoon & the friendly whales of Baja California
Mark Carwardine has accompanied some of our previous Festival of Whales to the whale-filled wilderness of San Ignacio Lagoon in Mexico's Baja California. In this piece from his book "Ultimate Wildlife Encounters", Mark describes the experience beautifully.
San Ignacio Lagoon
The Pacific side of this 'Mexican Galápagos' is best known as the winter home of practically the entire world population of grey whales. Safely sheltered from the pounding surf of the open ocean, thousands of them gather to socialise, mate and calve in a string of magical, mangrove-lined lagoons beside the desert. Once on the verge of extinction, grey whales have bounced back thanks to intensive conservation efforts. Now as many as 21,000 of these inveterate travellers migrate backwards and forwards along the entire length of the western North American coastline, between their feeding grounds in the Arctic and their breeding grounds in Baja. The round-trip distance can be as much as 12,500 miles, making their journey one of the longest migrations of any mammal. They gather in four main breeding lagoons in Baja: Guerrero Negro, Ojo de Liebre (Scammon's Lagoon), Magdalena Bay and San Ignacio. My favourite is San Ignacio, which is home to the world- famous 'friendlies'.
Just a few days in San Ignacio can be thrilling, uplifting and all-round life-changing. The grey whales here literally nudge the sides of the small whale-watching boats (pangas) and lie alongside waiting to be scratched and tickled. It's a breathless and, initially, rather nerve- wracking experience but it's arguably one of the greatest wildlife encounters on earth. It's hard to believe that these very same grey whales once had a reputation for being ferocious. They were hunted ruthlessly in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, until there were almost none left. Yankee whalers entered the Baja lagoons in small wooden rowing boats (roughly the same size as today's whale-watching pangas) and harpooned them. But the whales fought back – chasing the whaling boats, lifting them out of the water like big rubber ducks, ramming them with their heads and dashing them to pieces with their tails. They would 'fight like devils', so the Yankee whalers dubbed them 'devilfish'.
Nowadays, the survivors positively welcome whale-watching tourists into their breeding lagoons. Somehow, they seem to understand that we come in peace and, far from smashing our small boats to smithereens, welcome us with open flippers. They are as trusting and playful as kittens – albeit kittens up to 50-foot long. They seem to have forgiven us for all those years of greed, recklessness and cruelty. They trust us, when we don't really deserve to be trusted. It's a humbling experience.
A trip to San Ignacio is often a blur of leaping, laughing, spouting, stroking, playing and patting. All encounters are from small eight- or ten-seater pangas, operated by local fishermen, which are amazingly stable and perfect for close encounters and photography. And, if you're wondering if it's a good policy to encourage people to touch wild animals, consider this: if you don't scratch and tickle them, the whales simply go and find a boat-load of people who will. There are bottlenose dolphins in San Ignacio, too. I feel sorry for them: elsewhere in the world, they get heaps of attention but, in San Ignacio, they're competing with the friendliest whales in the world.
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A little decorating & nail polish steal
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I wish I was a nail polish junkie, unfortunately I just cant sit still long enough for them to dry. But I also hate my unpolished nails. Ah well, I want some burlap now! I've never been to hobby lobby but my girlfriend keeps telling me I need to go...and now...I think she's right!ReplyDelete
Is Zoya one of the "natural" nail polish brands? I think I've heard of it... I'm a momma of two little ones, never much wear polish, because I'm afraid of it chipping (not just because of aesthetic reasons, but because of how my fingers are sometimes used as teething rings)!ReplyDelete
The mantle decor is gorgeous. I love that pic. It looks really nice. I WISH I had the patience and desire to do my nails!ReplyDelete
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Archive for January, 2009
The Hunter becomes the Hunted
I recently came into a copy of Dave Hitz's new book How to Castrate a Bull. A full review is to come, but I couldn't wait to serve up one delicious bit of irony. Among the book's many unintentionally fascinating artifacts is NetApp's original business plan, dated January 16, 1992. In that plan, NetApp's proposed [...]
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Stamford, Connecticut doctor arrested for sexually explicit Internet chats. New York authorities charge medical specialist for indecency to minors.
December 9, 2008, New York, NY (JusticeNewsFlash.com)–Top informers with JusticeNewsFlash.com alert the arrest and arraignment of a Stamford, Connecticut doctor. Dr. Clifford Berken was arraigned in White Plains City Court before a New York judge last Thursday for allegedly having sexually explicit online conversations with an investigator posing as a 15-year-old boy.
New York authorities revealed to JNF reporters Dr. Berken was charged with one count of first-degree attempt of disseminating indecent material to minors. Legal officials say Berken allegedly had the online conversations from last Tuesday to Thursday. Berken believed the investigator to be a teenage boy and the conversations discussed various sex acts. Dr. Berken is a medical specialist in the division of gastroenterology. He is an attending physician practicing at Greenwich Hospital and operates out of his own practice in Greenwich. Berken is being held until a bail hearing Friday.
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:She was showered with gifts on her birthday
to bathe (oneself) in a shower bath
As verb (used without object)
to rain in a shower
to take a shower bath
As Idioms
send to the showers, Baseball
to replace (a pitcher) during a game, usually because he or she is ineffective: The coach sent him to the showers after he walked three batters in a row
to cause (a pitcher) to be replaced in a game, as by getting many hits off him or her; knock out of the box: Two home runs and a line-drive double sent her to the showers
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The Apple TV 4K was unveiled in September 2017, and it's pretty great, but we're never satisfied with what we've got now. Instead, we're looking ahead to the next version of the Apple TV: the sixth-generation model, which we expect will now appear in 2019 alongside a new video streaming service that Apple is said to be launching.
The Apple TV is Apple's set-top box that combines a digital media player, a games machine and a platform for apps with the ability to stream content from iOS devices and Macs to a TV. Is the Apple TV still the 'hobby' product (as Steve Jobs once described it), is Apple ever going to transform the television indsutry as Steve Jobs told his autobiographer it would?
Alternatively, will Apple decide not to launch another Apple TV, preferring instead to partner with TV manufacturers? News that Samsung and Sony will be supporting iTunes Movies and TV Shows on their new TVs (and Samsung's 2018 TVs via a Firmware update) certainly suggests that Apple may choose to work with TV manufacturers rather than update the Apple TV in the future.
Release date
The fifth-gen Apple TV came out in September 2017. Here's when each of the models came out:
- Apple TV (first gen): Jan 2007
- Apple TV (second gen): Sep 2010
- Apple TV (third gen): Mar 2012
- Apple TV (fourth gen): Oct 2015
- Apple TV (fifth gen, 4K): Sep 2017
Based on past behaviour it seems likely that we'll have to wait until 2019 for the next model.
That tallies with reports that Apple is funding the production of its own collection of TV series that it will start streaming to its customers (possibly for free!) The company has budgeted billions for the TV streaming service and it is expected that something could launch in March 2019. We expect a new Apple TV to launch alongside it.
You can get a 32GB 4th generation Apple TV for £149. This model launched in October 2015.
The newer Apple TV 4K currently sells for £179 (with 32GB of storage) or £199 (64GB). The next generation of Apple TV is likely to be priced at a similar point.
However, Apple could offer a cheaper Apple TV dongle to compete with the Fire Stick and Google Chromecast. The dongle might help the company reach the masses with its new streaming video service set to launch in March 2019.
New features
The new full-fat Apple TV is likely to feature an array of new hardware features, which we outline in the below section.
You can also expect some enhancements to tvOS - the version of iOS that works on the Apple TV. It was introduced with the Apple TV in 2015 and brought with it the Apple TV Store.
AirPod Siri support
It is possible to use Bluetooth headphones with the Apple TV, but there are some limitations as to how many Bluetooth devices can be paired, especially if one of them is an audio accessory. You can at least pair the Apple AirPods, but unfortunately you can't activate Siri on the Apple TV via the AirPods - something we imagine will change in future updates.
(You can pause media with a double-tap at time of writing, but not activate Siri.)
Face recognition
Apple's recent forays into facial recognition tech found fruition in the unlocking method used by the iPhone X. Some, however, suggest the technology could also come to the Apple TV.
A future Apple TV could include face recognition technology so that once your Apple TV 'sees' you it could automatically pull up your specific preferences for music, TV and - should HomeKit be integrated into the Apple TV - your IoT devices such as heating and lighting. This could also allow for seamless user profiles.
While it's an interesting idea, we don't think it'll be a key feature of the sixth-generation Apple TV.
Will Apple make its own game controller?
Apple currently offers the Siri Remote with the Apple TV. There have been calls for Apple to make its own controller for gaming on the Apple TV, especially as some gamers feel that the games available for the Apple TV are hampered by Apple's insistence that games work with the Siri Remote, but it is unlikely that Apple would develop its own controller.
Here's what we're expecting in terms of spec updates.
Bigger hard drive
Given the 4K capabilities in the most recent Apple TV, we felt that an increased storage allocation was likely, but instead it comes in 32GB and 64GB models, the same as on the 4th-gen model.
We expect that Apple will add a 128GB offering at some point, and it is conceivable that a 256GB version could be added. Mind you, we suspect that Apple's customers don't need so much, since they are streaming content and storing content in iCloud.
We've always thought it would be great is if Apple combined the Mac mini with the Apple TV so that you could have a media centre in your living room with all the features of both Mac and Apple TV - except it's more likely to combine the features of an iPad/iPhone since it runs a version of iOS.
The Apple TV 4K needed a faster processor, and sure enough it got an upgrade from the A8 chip, which was launched with the iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus in September 2014 to the A10X Fusion. Another upgrade is a possibility for the sixth model.
What will Apple's new TV content include?
Apple is preparing to launch some TV shows - actual original content - and has made a lot of significant hires in that field. It is also in talks with movie studios about the chance to offer rentals of movies just weeks after they appear in cinemas.
There is more information about Apple's plans to make its own programmes in this article: Apple's TV and movie streaming plans.
Over the past few years the company had been attempting to reach agreements with a number of production companies - it was even rumoured to be considering buying Time Warner - but Apple's talks with production companies broke down, according to Bloomberg.
The company hasn't given up on the idea, and may just let others do the hard work for it. As Apple's head of services Eddy Cue said: "Whether we're providing it or somebody else is, it really doesn't matter to us. What we're trying to do is build the platform that allows anybody to get content to consumers. If a Time Warner [Cable] or a DirecTV wants to offer a bundle themselves, they should do it through Apple TV and iPad and iPhone."
Apple may have changed its tactics in providing access to content to watch on the Apple TV, but we expect it will be overhauling the way it offers content over the next few months. We anticipate a move away from the pay-per-programme and film-rental format of iTunes now that Netflix and other services successfully offer this content to subscribers.
Is TV still important to Apple?
With the iPhone being such a large part of Apple's business, and the Apple Watch potentially being the device that takes it into the future, could the Apple TV fall into oblivion? In the past Apple has let years pass without updating the device - could the same thing happen again? We doubt it.
As we mention above, the original Apple TV was announced in January 2007, shipping in March 2007, making this year its tenth anniversary (we think Apple could be planning a new Apple TV to celebrate this milestone). A lot has changed in the past ten years. Initially Apple referred to the Apple TV as a hobby product, but in recent years it has become a much more significant part of the business.
In fact, TV was an area of great interest to Apple's late co-founder and CEO Steve Jobs, who told his biographer Walter Isaacson: "I'd like to create an integrated television set that is completely easy to use... It will have the simplest interface you could imagine. I finally cracked it." The appearance of this quote in the Steve Jobs biography led to years of speculation that Apple would launch a TV set. Despite those rumours, an Apple TV set never appeared, but Apple remained interested in the area.
Apple CEO Tim Cook said in September 2014: "Think how much your life has changed, and all the things around you that have changed, and yet TV, when you go into the living room to watch TV or wherever it may be, it almost feels like you're rewinding the clock and you've entered a time capsule and you're going backwards. The interface is terrible, I mean it's awful. You watch things when they come on unless you remember to record them."
Apple's first move to reinvent the TV came with the release of the updated Apple TV in 2015, and with it tvOS and the TV App Store. Over the months that have followed Apple has provided some software updates to users, but no new hardware... yet.
That doesn't mean Apple's given up on it: the hire of former Amazon Fire TV chief Timothy D Twerdahl indicates that TV is still an important area for Apple. Twerdahl is the new vice-president in charge of Apple TV. He was previously the head of Amazon's Fire TV unit, and before that held executive positions at both Roku and Netflix, so he has plenty of experience when it comes to streaming TV services.
However, a Bloomberg report claims that Apple has had to make many compromises that mean it is unable to fulfil Steve Jobs' dream of reinventing the television, or CEO Tim Cook's ambition to transform the way we watch TV.
No new Apple TV?
Perhaps the biggest factor affecting Apple's plans in the television space is the fact that modern televisions come with all the software required to play the likes of Netfilx, Now TV, UK on-demand channels, and so on. Owners of televisions purchased in the past few years - in fact any owner of a 4K TV that Apple is targetting with the current Apple TV model - will have all the software required to run the sought after content on their TV.
And now that Samsung has announced that it will start supporting Apple iTunes Movies and TV Shows content on its new TVs, and that 2018 models will gain support in a subsequent firmware update, and Sony indicating that TVs released later in 2019 will also offer Apple content, it certainly seems like Apple is now looking at partnering with TV manufacturers rather than selling its own set-top-box. Read more about TVs that will offer iTunes Movies and TV shows here.
As Twitter COO Anthony Noto said (via a Geekwire story) during a CES panel in January 2018: "Over the next five years, we'll see a melding of distribution devices. Today, you walk into your house and your cell phone attaches to your WiFi instantly. Over the next five years when you walk into your house, your cell phone will automatically connect to the television. There will be no device. There will be no Apple TV, no Chromecast, no Amazon Fire, [no] Microsoft Xbox."
Read next: Best Apple TV game controllers | Best Apple TV games


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Party Tricks of Peaceful Celebrations:Avoid Noise Complaints
Press Release – Armourguard
With the party season in full swing, noise control officers are gearing up for a peak in noise complaints that come from the many Christmas and New Year celebrations that will be held over the coming weeks.20 December 2011
Party Tricks for Peaceful Celebrations: Avoid Noise Complaints
With the party season in full swing, noise control officers are gearing up for a peak in noise complaints that come from the many Christmas and New Year celebrations that will be held over the coming weeks.
ADT Armourguard General Manager, Ian Anderson, said his company provides noise control services to 15 councils around the country.
"Over the summer holiday period many people like to throw Christmas and New Year's Eve parties. However, there are just as many people that look forward to a quiet peaceful break and many others who will still be working.
Ian said people who are planning to throw a festive party can adopt some simple measures to avoid disgruntled neighbours and protect their celebrations from noise complaints.
Top Noise Control Tips for Party Hosts:
Nobody wants to dampen the festive mood or start the New Year off with a noise control notice. The best way to avoid noise complaints is to be aware of what the rules are and to adopt some simple measures. The following tips can help steer party organisers away from noise complaints ensuring a happy holiday season for all.
• Be considerate towards your neighbours. Maintain a reasonably moderate level of music and noise, and reduce volume levels after midnight.
• Inform your neighbours about your party or even invite them to it! They are less likely to complain if they are prepared for the event or are attending.
• Establish a set end time for the party and make sure everyone is aware of it.
• Don't allow guests to stand around in groups outside the venue in residential areas as groups talking often become very loud.
• As it gets later in the evening shut doors and windows and encourage people to move indoors to minimise noise from escaping.
• Consider hiring a professional security officer to provide assistance in dealing with any disruptive behaviour that may contribute to noise levels.
• Keep an eye on your guests and how much they are drinking. Be prepared to take action if things get out of control.
• Wind-up the party by gradually turning down the music.
• At the end of the night, encourage guests to go home quietly and not linger outside the venue or in surrounding streets.
Know The Rules:
The Resource Management Act 1991 is the main control over noise in New Zealand.
Under The Resource Management Act 1991, when a noise control officer attends to a complaint they must decide whether the noise is excessive.
Excessive noise is defined as any noise that is under human control and of such a nature as to unreasonably interfere with the peace, comfort and convenience of any person.
When investigating a complaint, if the attending noise control officer believes the noise is excessive they will issue a direction notice to the person responsible for the source of the noise to reduce the noise to a reasonable level. This may be done verbally or in writing.
This direction must be enforced in most cases for 72 hours. If this is breached and excessive noise continues, a noise control officer accompanied by a Police Officer may take any steps necessary to stop the noise. This usually includes but is not limited to: seizing the source of the noise e.g. a stereo, removing parts from a noise source or locking up the noise source so it can't be used.
Breaching a noise direction can lead to an instant infringement notice fine of $500 or a fine of up to $10,000 after prosecution.
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