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About RUGGMATE
RuggMate is a business unit of Winmate Communications Inc., focused on the vertical market for marine products only.
The main product lines of the RuggMate business unit are:
Marine Bridge System Display
Marine Panel Computer
Electronic Navigation System
and accessories for ship building or ship upgrading as well as harbor management or other sea-side or harsh environments.
RuggMate products are qualified and certified by the very strict testing procedures of the DNV Organization (det norske veritas), one of the view certification institutions which is worldwide acknowledged for Marine grade products.
All RuggMate products are designed and produced in house to assure the best ever quality. The ISO9001 standard applies not only to the production process, but also to the organization as well as to the product development. All marine products are RoHS conform to save our environment. Since January 2008 we are QC080000 certified to keep our quality standards on the highest level.
With various long-term testing, the RuggMate products passed the very harsh salt / mist testing and proved their perfect sealing as well as the right choice of material and coating for withstanding corrosion in the maritime environment.
Our Products are a cost effective solution for your maritime need, if you are looking for a long-term stable product for a reasonable price.
RuggMate has the only DNV certified marine product family designed, developed and produced in Taiwan, according to highest quality standards.
RuggMate - Born to fit the demands of Maritime Applications:
Ship Automation
Why RuggMate?
RuggMate product's have following features for excellent match to the marine using:
- Transflective Panel – for sunlight readability
- HyperDimming – for perfect dim down the LCD for the Night, or dim up in the sun light
- OSD Front Panel – for easy adjust your settings for a perfect picture
- IP65 sealing – to be protected when a storm and strong wind push your boat thru the water
- Multi-Scan Video – to automatically detect your Signal and display the best Picture for you
- High Quality Touch Screen – for easy controlling your Software with a finger tip
- Wide-Voltage-Range Input – to make installation easy and less costly
- Anti-Corrosion Protection – to be your long reliable product for daily use in every weather
- 8" – 23"Various Sizes available – flexible for your needs and spaces on the Bridge
- LCD or with PC – your choice if you only need an LCD or combine it into a cost effective PPC
Winmate was founded in 1994 and became a leading Industrial Solution Provider with excellence in display technology and embedded PC design. Combined with the mechanical design and competence of IP sealed Products, Winmate finally bring out the marine grade products in Summer 2007 and got the DNV certification as approval for the maritime using in November / December 2007.
Since October 2007 Winmate is listed in the Taiwan stock market and praised for the excellent financial management and the outstanding performance in extending the market share.
If you want to know more about Winmate, please visit our homepage: www.winmate.com.tw


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Various engineering functions have to be integrated among themselves and also with the operations to deliver a continuous integration and delivery environment. There are a myriad of tools and patterns evolving in this space. Sometimes, just to find the right combination of tools that work for both engineering and operations is an interesting problem.
Production readiness
Review and strengthen the operational readiness of a deployment from a multitude of perspectives like data management, disaster recovery, instance failure handling, on demand scaling, etc. Perform drills by simulating various failures scenarios to observe the preparedness of the systems, monitoring solutions, diagnostic tools, etc. and undertake the resolution of issues found to ensure a better operational experience of the deployment.
Continuous delivery
Increase the value delivered to your customers using an effective build-measure-learn cycle. Facilitate release management by automating processes that accelerate the deployments into production. Set up mechanisms to capture actionable diagnostics from operational environments and deliver them to developers thus empowering them to reproduce and solve production issues.
Deployment automation
Design and build an all purpose automation infrastructure to manage deployments across various environments like dev, qa, stage or production. A comprehensive infrastructure that is also capable of managing operational tasks like patch rollout, backup and restore, scale up and scale down, etc.
Capacity planning
Estimate deployment capacities based on the anticipated values of different service usage parameters by running end-to-end benchmarking tests. Alternatively, measure the limits to these different service usage parameters for a given capacity of deployment.
Service Availability
(Re)Engineer the availability of a deployment by fine tuning individual components to increase mean time between failures (MTBF). Devise mechanisms that detect failed instances, decreased productivity or decreased cost effectiveness of the deployment and scale accordingly.
Micro benchmarking
Aide in choosing the right technologies using micro benchmarks to assess on how well they fare given your use case. Beyond performance, benchmark other aspects like availability, time and effort to recover from failures, operational costs, etc.
Setup monitoring infrastructure to detect and notify about instance failures in the cloud. Infrastructures that provide various integrations for notifications and dashboards for overall assessment of a deployment.
Security hardening
Setup security firewalls and configure servers for protection against security threats. Automate rolling out of critical security patches across the servers in the deployment.
Reduce cost and time overhead of build-deploy-test cycles both in development and testing phases by using containers. Deploy in local developer machines or container aware cloud environments like AWS or Azure.
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Spaziergang am See an einem Wintertag - walk by the lake on a winter day.
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Winterlandschaft No. 1 | Winter landscape No. 1 (2017)
Photograph by Eva M.B. Askew | ArtyFoto
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Deirdre Gilsenan's beautiful voice graces the world as she tours with the Lord of the Dance Troupe 2 as "Erin the Goddess." Here she meets up with Stephanie Giamundo from the Celtic Cafe to tell us about her experiences with both An·na and Lord of the Dance.
Q: How long have you been singing? What sort of vocal training have you had?
A: I have been singing for as long as I can remember, singing in the local church choir was a great love of mine. It still is. My first formal introduction to music was at the age of nine, when I began learning the piano. I continued learning in secondary school where I also studied music theory for my Leaving Certificate. In 1992, I entered the college of music as a part time student and studied under the vocal trainer Mary Brennan for three years. While there I traveled to Moscow with the Dublin Institute of Technology choir. As part of my studies I played Feurette, a character in the operetta Christopher Columbus and also appeared with Bernadette Greevy, a renowned Irish Mezzo soprano, in the national concert hall. That same year I was accepted into the renowned group An·na, where I gained invaluable experience in the art of performing and fine tuning. I soon became one their lead soprano soloists. These were extremely active and exciting times performing in venues all over Europe. An·na's participation at the BBC Proms in the Royal Albert Hall, London had to have been one of the most special appearances of all. I was one of few chosen to appear on many British and Irish television shows with An·na.
Q: Has your family influenced your musical career?
A: All of my family enjoy music, my father especially loves to sing and whistle, he has a sweet mellow voice, I like to believe I acquired. My mother has a healthy appreciation for music and hums softly out of key. While growing up both of them encouraged all five of us children to sing at local events, such as weddings, funerals, competitions, concerts and family occasions. They supported us by attending these, I believe this had a profoundly positive effect on my attitude towards music. For years, my mother shuttled us to piano, accordion, guitar and fiddle lessons. Matthew, my brother, trained also in the College of Music. He has always been an inspiration to me. Within the last four years he has taken up a full time singing career and is currently one of the three members of the successful group the Celtic Tenors. In short, yes, my family has greatly influenced my musical career, they do not question me because they know what it's like to hunger to sing.
Q: Who have been your main musical influences?
A: Joan Baez has always been someone I deeply admire, the strength and passion of her voice woven with light musical overtones make that unmistakable rich sound. I remember being so excited discovering her at the age of fifteen, and feeling an empathy like never before. In Irish music circles Mary Black was always reliably easy to listen to. Her earlier music was produced so tastefully I still find it hard to resist. The most innovative musician of all though for me has to be Kate Bush. Her wonderfully high voice coupled with exciting instrumentation are her unique trademarks. In classical circles Kiri Tequanawa and Cecilia Bartoli has deeply influenced me.
Q: What styles of singing do you do? Do you have a preference?
A: I was trained to sing choral, classical, oratorial and operatic music while at college. I was raised singing church music and later performed medieval and Celtic music, and more recently developed an interest in jazz. I like singing in most styles. I think oratorio comes more naturally to me because of my base training in church. Medieval music is an entirely different experience, being part of An·na my voice was one in many making a channeled sound. Folk and Jazz songs are and area I'm still developing. I love these styles because I can freely improvise. Each style has something special to offer me and it's impossible to say which my preference is.
Q: How did you get involved with An·na? How did you join?
A: In 1996 John McGlynn was forming a folk group and needed a soprano vocalist, my neighbor Francis, a singer herself, suggested me and so we met. I gave him a rough demo of my voice. While listening to it quite by accident his brother Michael overheard it, the following day I was asked to come to the next An·na rehearsal. From that day on I became a member of An·na and never looked back. Subsequently, John's group Cķida, formed at that time and partook in that also.
Q: How long were you with An·na?
A: I performed exclusively with An·na for a year, then I got the lead singing role in Lord Of The Dance. The opportunity was huge, it was a question of full time work verses part time and it was obvious what I had to do. I was saddened to have to choose between the two. On returning from each leg, I would reunite with An·na by attending rehearsals and doing the odd concert or recording session.
Q: Were you ever featured as a soloist with An·na?
A: Yes. On the album, Behind the Closed Eye, I am the soloist on the atmospheric piece "1901." The Ulster orchestra features heavily in this album. O Viridissima Virga opened many concerts. The verses I performed solo have a Medieval Chant feel. The Green Laurel is a fast dainty song backed by intermittent droning over which I feature. Another song Jerusalem, a polyphonic medley of voice has verses performed by chosen soloists. Ardaigh Cuain that timeless Gaelic piece was always a joy to sing. The Sally Gardens was my special song.
Q: Did you tour with An·na? If so, where?
A: Yes I have toured with An·na within Ireland, Saint Canices Cathedral Kilkenny, the National Concert Hall, and Pepper Canister Church in Dublin. In Northern Ireland, The Guildhall Derry, in London, Glasgow, Norway and Sweden.
Q: What did you enjoy most about being part of An·na?
A: For me the essence of An·na is the graceful harmony and line made by focusing largely on breathing and sound. Of course socially being part of the group was stimulating, meeting every week I developed great friendships there. Also getting the chance to meet and perform with talented musicians such as The Cheiftains, Carlos Nunez, Elvis Costello, Michael Crawford, Iarla O'lionard, Begley and Cooney, Liam O'Flynn and the Celtic group Secret Garden.
Q: Were you a part of An·na when they were with Riverdance?
A: No, I joined immediately after some of the group left to join Riverdance.
Q: When did you leave An·na? What made you decide to leave?
A: It's funny but I never considered myself leaving An·na, I still feel strangely part of the group. Right up until the summer of 1999, I would sing with An·na whenever I got the chance.
Q: How did you get involved with Lord of the Dance?
A: Mary, my vocal coach informed me that Ronan Hardiman was to audition female singers for the show Lord of the Dance, she felt I would have a good chance at getting the role and also it would suit me quite well to travel a little. This would have been my fifth year studying in Dublin, and it was a good time for a break. I was surprised at how many people auditioned. There was an interview first, I sang the three songs, and then I introduced myself to Michael Flatley via video, the rest unfolded on it's own.
Q: How long have you been touring with Lord of the Dance? Which troupe do you perform with?
A: I can barely believe it, it's been two years and eight months since I first joined troop two LOTD.
Q: What do you love most about being a part of Lord of the Dance?
A: The tour of the Americas has taken me all around the continent, it's been a wonderful opportunity to see parts of the world I would never have seen otherwise. Special places like Hawaii, Newfoundland, Prince Edward Island, Mount Saint Helens, The Canadian Rockies, Chile, Brazil and Argentina are etched in my memory forever. I love the opportunity to sing every night it's such a challenge.
Q: How long do you intend to stay with Lord of the Dance?
A: As long as the opportunity presents itself.
Q: Do you plan on coming out with your own solo CD anytime in the future?
A: Yes.
Mķav NĒ
Stephanie Giamundo conducted the interview with Deirdre Gilsenan, created the web design, and edited the graphics and photos found on this feature. Stephanie is the webmistress of her web site, Rua's Realm. At Rua's Realm you can find information about Celtic Corner and Uisce, as well as other information dealing with Celtic Music. Celtic Corner is Stephanie's mailing list that discusses mainly Celtic Music, as well as Celtic culture and literature. Uisce is Stephanie's Celtic band, a band centered mostly around traditional celtic music. You can find mp3s of Uisce's music at Rua's Realm.


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On Mean Street, a report on a Vicky Tripony, the former Penn State administrator who clashed with former football coach Joe Paterno. Plus, a preview of Thanksgiving Day's pivotal NFL games.
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Evan Newmark identity Russian Soviet studies you know I went on to Wall Street and looking out not look at me now a senior review day before Thanksgiving came and saying ... it broke again tied to the audience elected if I don't know if they do but let's let's go back to our do you think this will pay off for Chinese Indians ... no ... no you don't think so you think the Chinese should determine ... where we are high school ... the major issues that I think it's well but the other way you can attend device kids Towanda studied Yelp math science engineering pillars of the main ones that you know the US is trying to get our own kids a study has had on society psychology these days and I agree it there's a very serious problem ... but I don't think coming cracking down on estimate of down is the way to address it I think you one deal for bike uses incentives to study of things and get people tieup will pay for your chance to look for ... a twelve month it would be the result if the US only funded student loans ... if the Blazers in hard sciences like engineering map ... citing what he thing ... out huge ... you to get the outrageous ideas but I was when the outrage itno area ... occupying Congress which ... 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I'm not I'm not going to bomb away with Jerry Seinfeld on the show what is what Kelly rampant this ... now you know cookies in their temporary replacement for regions right ... I did not get a phone call from Kelly ... this is our I can ... tell that to my ... this is the guy right here Calumet in ... Hindi can you believe you know aside from not doing it ... that that the phone and who who uses ... reducing the ... going out to me just comment my produce rising a I think he did the whole show with the economics more politics move government and in the new Mean Street meets Kelly wrap up now what what was your take have you watched it more than once and what was the last two and three ... two and three among the prom is a dynamic fusion commentaries going soft on this ... very old Seinfeld as from TV show was cut to his conduct and very costly his old age yet he ... added that he does segments cooking segments what it what they do on the show while ... it is more his mother Jones he's telling the brief is that it is a family man now OK I may not have a shot at ... the show killing rippled what about the TD Bank commercials ... is is is is read is looking to give up on those also are Ameican Abele are getting too much money the money ... yet again I can get somebody maybe I can shoot up among the half ... on the ... edge of the ... John frame the US giving them ... love hate affair with Kelli Ripper ... coming up next year all the days got of getting things given football preview ... the ... tomorrow ... maybe the best Thanksgiving slate of NFL games ever ... and here to give us a preview ... no no one else there and ... sports blogger ... and also ... the writer for the Deal Journal Shira over day ... by the way and I've promised Shira to win it on the merger podcasts on my hands but the puck is un plug and tell tell people Reed Albergotti the Graetz re Albergotti and I will post an NFL podcast every Tuesday available on the Pichette com slashed sports OK well it's of Mark ounce mark as a cashier knows a lot of football ... I can anyone claim to know ... the tenth of what you know about football and the lights before we get to the Thanksgiving indices talk about ... the Patriots because I know that every publicly ... the victory of the cheese ... what I was a great I had some questions about the Chiefs' heading into the concern about the casting and again and see what the defences vigor them out but if you think they don't get on the Super Bowl right ... they could ... OK let's get that tomorrow's game and a free gig as first to get a green Bay versus Detroit I doubt it said that the real thing a bit of a Midwest in the clash of Midwest and Mr. although on Cincinnati Bengals Kansai Pearlies so when I did mean what would he like why I like Green Bay they're they're undefeated so far this season ... it's super hard times when the NFL the sixteen NL but ... hackers they like to have a good chance by either the headlines for real align yourself with reliability focuses on the off as Matthew Stafford the quarterback and Megatron their star wide receiver but is it that having a really good time in the desert Alan Johnson ... he's known as the Megatron ... but the antisense in Detroit is this that ... is the Sets del stout hearted men except not last week about Lisbon Dublin not against Green Bay adding that I'll wear that you get the truly great at the tree at Detroit's ... Ford field ... Ford field ... yes coming House Miami Dallas the second game segmenting are usually my Miami now looking to the beginning of the year at ... ten thirty am the answer little small Renaissance against Dallas Dallas is looking better yet ... amid the thing about Dallas's that they're in this NFC East which just seems totally wacky I had no idea who's going away and then Philadelphia look good for a lot of it looked terrible the Giants they look good for little while at the heart of the ... US the US the scene rain parody of of of folklore another ... hilarity and footballs and it means that the disease does mean you get a lot of teams run around with three losses for losses CNO heated may qualify to sit down six and four it looks like one tree when which would be looking for ... 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I think for cancer to win this one I mean the big dance the Battle of Greek defences ... the forty Niners defense I think as much as people are talking about them now I think they're under it right now the ball to Baltimore the Ravens usually the Fed ... did he forget problems you know the joke like a family eyeing ... the hot and cold on drew flak now I'm sometimes he seems rate another son to looks really confused I just don't know which are flat and show up ... now ... week twelve of fantasy football of shares making the center guess that means I don't you know ... I don't I'm not a big believer in in ... facilitating all this gambling that goes on the fantasy football to ... lead the outlook PST just ... based on your own family experience ... is you love football what he intended to mark again and again a ... focus on the games and you make excuses knew no one is spend any time the problem doesn't work I'll friends I really I'm not with the family to some family friends ... don't know what the sports fans and non sport every she was going to be in ... so I may have to catch the games later ... now than you think it's polite and except we just talked about the etiquette my guess is a polite to go over to somebody else ... and say ... you know ... I think you know I know I'm only sinew twice the last ten years ... is there a bedroom somewhere that I can go watch the games is at a later impolite I think it's actually pretty rooms and betting on how well you know the people and ... I am not going to do that just in my mother's watching I will not be that were sought on thinking that that may be a very honest when I think I think honesty should be the foundation of a good Thanksgiving and I think that the cunning of Brinson flowers maybe soften the blow unit ... here are the driver and Tuesday new cable TV you ... may even better fee of DirecTV you don't have the need ... to use the initial fall on your house ... I'd yet yet do we need we need ish correction ... in order to it so that there's not ... I'm not too much communications on the eyes of over fifty are what you come over to the Lockyer's of the back office with me you know we can watch ... Shira over day ... don't forget to check out her Qantas finally ... my commentary for the day ... it's on Thanksgiving which for me like many of you is my favorite national holiday ... I can quite figure out why I'm such a soft spot for Thanksgiving ... I probably watched too many whole Mark greetings card Thanksgiving day specials when I was a kid which you know this FALSEST Alger ... but I'm sure all says something to do with coming from a Brooklyn immigrant family with having big Thanksgiving celebrations ... in my childhood and also ... with living much of my adult life overseas ... with Thanksgiving was not celebrated ... strangely a couple of my fondest Thanksgiving memories ... come from my Thanksgiving was ... which I celebrated in Moscow Russia of all places ... most of all I think Thanksgiving is my favorite holiday because we Americans are unlucky people ... and on this day we take the time to consider just how lucky we are ... lucky their parents or grandparents great great grandparents are beyond ... made the same journey that the pilgrims made about three and for many years ago ... and lucky that our parents grandparents great grandparents were there were no never ... were able to make a home for themselves ... just as the Peltonen Stadium is very lame ... Thanksgiving is calling for all Americans ... because all of us are immigrants among way another ... and we of all discovered and built a home for ourselves here ... in America ... now in spite of how messed up our nation is a make no ... mistake we of the very midst of a nation ... living in America is still a very great privilege ... and I for one of the ever thankful ... I'm thankful of course to my family and to my friends thankful to my colleagues here the Wall Street Journal ... thankful in particular the people ... Jr Joann my produces everybody else ... in fact there will make ... the Shelby Street possible ... I'm especially thankful to those of you the viewers to take time out of your day to watch me ... happy Thanksgiving to you ... we won't be around but they'll be a special show on Friday ... Simon Constable in for another great weekend ...


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1988 Oldsmobile 98 Regency Brougham 3800 Series I
Well worth $1200. I will drive it for years to come... maybe until it turns 40
Interior lights and power locks on the same circuit. Dead short there somewhere.
Auto headlights not working.
A/C not working.
Windows are slow and the passenger one only goes down half way without falling off track.
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29 years old and it rides like a dream. Like driving a La-Z-Boy.
Rack and pinion, brake lines, ECU, and full tune up by the previous owner.
Cannot complain. I will drive it until I cannot afford to maintain it in the future.
Would you buy another car from this manufacturer? Yes
Review Date: 6th September, 2017
6th Sep 2017, 16:41
Fix the A/C. It's worth it with only 83,500 miles, you are good for another 100,000. This was the best and most reliable years of the 3800. No plastic intake, plastic coolant bypass elbow, and pathetic belt tensioner design. Not to mention "Dex-crap" coolant.
8th Sep 2017, 05:26
These are great cars, lots of old school luxury touches with amazing reliability and highway fuel economy from the bulletproof 3800 engine. The super plush seating offers comfort that one just does not find in a modern car at any price. I've owned 2 of these platform cars in the Buick variant, a 91 Lesabre and an 89 Park Avenue. Both were older cars with high mileage, but I never hesitated to take them on long multiday highway roadtrips. The highway fuel economy was amazing for an older large car; the exact same or better than other newer cars I've driven, like the 2003 Century, 2004 Accord, etc.. If you are lucky to find a rust free one, don't hesitate to buy it!
10th Sep 2017, 02:47
These were solid cars by 1988. 1985s were trash, taking a few years get decent quality - especially the drivability (lots of random stalling), and the transmissions struggled to make 50,000 miles without a major failure.
The only consistent issue at this point (as you found) out is the power windows.
The regulators are junk, but parts to fix them can still be had. Worked at a Buick dealer in the early-mid 90s, saw lots of LeSabres/Park Avenues with windows stuck/off the track. The motors and switches aren't perfect, but are a bit more reliable.
This was the 1st year for the 3800 V6 - better performance AND better reliability - Win-Win :)
7th Oct 2017, 15:11
Great reviews. Had a couple of the Olds 98s when I was younger. Just brought a Regency Brougham with 117K. In great shape. No rust to speak of. Black with maroon leather interior. Hope to have it for years to come.


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Yesterday I did a bit of a workout-
a pyramid of 1-10-1 tyre flips, burpees and medicine ball slams. Then chased it with 4 and 8 OHS. (one arm)
I didn't really warm down all that well, and I certainly didn't engage in any recovery practice. This morning I was definitely thinking oops.
Spent the day slightly stiff, especially in the adductors, and also in the Lat Dorsi, particularly on the right. Somewhat paradoxically I then wrote a blog for Global Therapies on recovery practices...
This evening was a lovely little run with the Harriers. Still feeling a little stiff I stretched out a little and jogged down to the start point. We headed out to the actual start point in Crowden and went out over the hills. I loosened up considerably as we went up the hill. Did a little bit of interesting route finding up onto the tops and over to rollick stones, and then a brilliant blast across the top. Peaty, heathery, bog-tastic stuff. I nearly lost a shoe a couple of times- even though it was tied on very securely indeed.
The views were spectactular going down the valley into Tintswhistle and beyond.
I was trying to stop myself from going too overboard. There is a race tomorrow over at Kettleshulme, which could be fun. Im also looking at Kinder Trog on Sunday... So it was a bit annoying when I landed on a rock a bit hard in the middle of my foot, and slightly bruised it, but hey-ho, we carried on carrying on.
Part way down the path, Julien decided that it wasn't exciting enough and elected to plunge down the side into the valley and hit a small path at the bottom. The majority of the party didn't follow and went off down the path.
I looked at it, and thought.. well, I'd go down it on a snowboard. Why not? The descent, although not fast, was challenging and very fun- we wern't as fast getting off the hill as the party that carried directly on, but it was excellent practice at steep stuff.
The paths back over and through were rather tame, and it ended with very much a trail feel to the run. just under 12km in the end. A good little leg stretcher.
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Regulatory bodies paid to look like idiots?
All the great social philosophers have held that land must be rented, not sold, if communities aren't to implode. One of them put it into a formula, saying that if we were to capture the social surplus, then labour and profits will receive their full and rightful income—their 'private property'?—undiminished by arbitrary taxation:-
i.e. Production (P) minus land rent (R) leaves wages (W) and profits (I), or P – R = W + I.
We've chosen to do the opposite, that is, to capture publicly-generated land rent privately, capitalising it into land prices. So, not only do our homes literally cost the earth, but our wages and profits become significantly taxed – as though 'earning a living' is some sort of crime.
Paying these taxes is sold to us as our 'social responsibility', and there are even people to be found who insist they are happy to pay higher counter-productive taxes if they can achieve greater government services. Surely, less government intervention would be necessary in a functional economy?
We miscall this system 'capitalism' when, in fact, it is systemic rent-seeking, or 'rentierism', an unproductive economics which, whilst inflating land prices and debt, penalises work and industry. This quite illogical regime, which we've come to accept as 'normal', provides massive unearned profits for those businesses such as finance, insurance and real estate (the 'FIRE' sector), which parasitically extract wealth from the economy whilst leaving labour and capital with enormous deadweight costs of taxation amounting to more than $2.00 for every dollar of tax 'raised'.
To deal with all the corruptions and ills flowing from this terribly pathological economy, Australia has set up a number of doomed-to-fail regulatory bodies such as the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA), the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC), the Australian Prudential Regulatory Authority (APRA), the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) and the Productivity Commission (PC). Reflection discloses the fantastic irony that the perversions rent-seeking sets up effectively tie the aims of these bodies into impossible knots. Their CEOs clearly accept that their salaries are contingent upon them being prepared to be made to look like idiots at every official inquiry.
Think about it.
Maybe all the great social philosophers who said we need to capture the rent of land were correct?
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John Jamieson21-09-2017
Well said Bryan! The only current crop of "economists" who have anything useful to contribute are Joe Stiglitz, Mason Gaffney, Michael Hudson and Fred Harrison but the global media giants make sure they are kept suppressed. The international banking cartel and its highly paid lobbyists make sure that all politicians are brainwashed well ahead of pre-selection by all major political parties in the so-called "free democratic western democracies" into believing the myth that banks are there to assist us, rather than imprison us as slaves to their credit controls. As Mayer Amschel Rothchild put it "let me issue and control a nation's money and I care not who writes the laws". Unfortunately the subject called "Economics" has been turned on its head over the last 100 years to the extent that people are totally ignorant of what all the great social philosophers had to say on the subject of land and natural resources.


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EA Believes Used Games Are Here To Stay
There was a time, around a year or two ago, when a number of publishers saw used games as an aberration that was robbing them of sales. That may not be entirely unfounded but the impact is nowhere near as big as any of them claimed. A big voice on this issue was EA but opinions change and now they're singing a very different tune.
EA CFO CFO Blake Jorgensen said that physical copies of games aren't going anywhere for a long time. This makes sense considering that while next-gen and PC are moving towards a digital library of games rather than a physical one, this is not feasible in a lot of the world given internet speeds in places such as South Africa.
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Jorgensen spoke at length about the necessity of the used games market to the future of the video game industry as a whole at the UBS Global Technology Conference in Sausalito, California.
"I also think that used games are an important part of the industry. People think about the prices of games based on the fact that they can still return that game and they need a physical disc to do that," Jorgensen said. "And so that will probably keep the physical business around for some period of time."
In response to a question on whether physical sales would fade out, Jorgensen pointed to the record industry which thrives both digitally and physically.
"We spend a lot of time looking at the record business and it's surprising, but despite the fact that probably no one in this room has bought a CD lately, there's still a lot of CDs being sold," Jorgensen said. "And so I think there will be a physical business [for games] probably for a long period of time."
Just because physical games will continue on, it does not mean digital revenue can't rise at the same time, Jorgensen argued.
"So you might still buy a physical disc, but you might extend the gameplay on that by 10 or 12 months based on digital extensions to it where all that comes via downloads coming in smaller pieces," he said.
The CFO also acknowledged the constraints preventing the industry from going fully digital.
"The biggest impediment still appears to be bandwidth coming into the house. And while bandwidth speeds have improved dramatically over the last five years, unfortunately, because the processing power of the new boxes is so high, the size of games has increased dramatically. And so all of the benefits that we got from faster bandwidth was probably eaten up by bigger games. "


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Back in the day, as those with a bit of length to the tooth might tell you, gold dust could be found in advertising in general as it was something of a mystery to those paying the bills. Then marketers went to school and eventually figured it out, which seemed to spell the end of going to lunch at 12 and not coming back. Digital and data are where much of the gold dust seems to be these days, as evidenced by the types of acquisitions international holding companies are making and the types of agencies that are growing rapidly. And in New Zealand, where there's a bit of a digital skill shortage, expertise in this field is especially sought after, so indie agency Affinity ID is understandably stoked to have secured the services of Greg Doone, a Kiwi who has worked in the digital industry for over 15 years and has returned home from the UK to take up the role of general manager - discovery and development.
Doone has spent the past six years at Collective London, the UK's highest rated digital agency (as voted by marketing directors, 2011 YouGov) as strategy director and most recently as managing director, where he successfully delivered digital strategies for many multinationals including Honda, ESPN, JCB, Virgin and Callaway Golf, grew the business from seven to 40 employees, and brought onboard high calibre brands such as Electronic Arts, BBC, Mars and Pepsico. Before that, he worked in management consultancy with Accenture in London.
He says he met with five of the big multinationals in this market and had a number of job offers, but decided to go with Affinity ID because he felt as though digital and data were in its DNA rather than being tacked on, and he felt it had the best understanding of how modern tools can be harnessed effectively to benefit of both consumers' and brands', something already evidenced through its impressive work with Progressive's OneCard.
While he says there is a lot of talent in New Zealand and says he was very impressed with the people he met, he felt everyone he spoke to saw digital "in a sense of need"; more like "I've got to be able to deliver this channel", as opposed to Affinity's offering, which "is genuinely shaped for the future".
"It still seems like a lot of the big agencies are trying to play catch-up," he says, and, at best, are maybe doing one or two campaigns a year that are "properly integrated digital campaigns".
Affinity's core belief is about giving communications "relevancy through data". After all, he says being relevant in some way is what makes any above the line campaign successful, but the tools (like, for example, message stacking, which lets brands choose between a number of different messages and push out the most relevant one, or using customer history and buying behaviour to create functional shopper marketing campaigns) allow that to happen at a much more granular level.
"We want to take that, grow that, and make Big Data sexy. That's the next step."
Another reason he chose Affinity ID, which was bought out from multinational ownership by co-founders Angela Day and Geoff Cooper in 2009 and now has around 90 staff across the group, is that it "plays with winners" and has a client list (Progressive, Vodafone, Resene and Microsoft among others) that already understands the power of data to increase engagement levels and create a "genuine one-to-one dialogue".
Growing that client list is part of his role, as is tapping into the "significant growth opportunities in the Australian market" (Affinity ID set up an office in Australia in 2011 and it's grown rapidly since then). And another goal is to try to bring Affinity ID out from the shadows slightly and get people—both here and overseas—paying attention to what's being done in this space in New Zealand.
"I think we're willing to be brave and innovative and I think that's the big advantage New Zealand has," he says. "Part of the problem is that we're humble to a fault. We're always looking for international comparisons, and that's what you do when you're a small, young country. But I think we should be confident enough for the world to look at us."


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Report: No WMD Found In Iraq
Officials declined to specify what findings David Kay might include in his upcoming report but said Wednesday it is not expected to reach any conclusions about Iraq's alleged weapons program.
A CIA official tells CBS News White House Correspondent Peter Maer that the findings from Kay are only "an interim progress report."
U.S. and British officials have not disclosed any discoveries that would validate their prewar assertions that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction ready to use.
Kay, a former U.N. weapons inspector, is the CIA adviser working with teams in Iraq searching for evidence of chemical and biological weapons, programs to make more, and prohibited missiles and nuclear weapons programs.
Some Pentagon officials, speaking on the condition of anonymity, have said that weapons hunters have found what they interpret as evidence of Iraqi preparations to secretly produce chemical and biological weapons.
That evidence is primarily drawn from documents and interviews with Iraqi officials, the officials said. It suggests plans for weapons production that was to take place primarily at "dual-use" manufacturing facilities inside Iraq, the U.S. officials said.
These are buildings with an overt, legitimate purpose, such as making pesticides or pharmaceuticals, but their equipment also can be used to make weapons.
The officials did not know whether searchers had found any evidence that weapons production had actually taken place at these sites.
The BBC reports Kay's interim study will conclude it is "highly unlikely" that weapons were shipped out of Iraq before the war. Early in the weapons hunt, some U.S. officials that Saddam Hussein may have sent his suspected stockpiles to Syria.
Kay is expected to present his findings to CIA Director George J. Tenet and other officials soon.
"Dr. Kay is still receiving information from the field, and this will be just the first progress report, an interim report, and we expect it will reach no firm conclusions, nor will it rule anything in or out," said CIA spokesman Bill Harlow.
He said it has not been determined how much, if any, of Kay's report would be made public. After the interim report is complete, Kay is expected to return to Iraq to continue his investigation.
News, "If there were going to be something that was going to be found it would have been found already."
In August, Kay suggested a breakthrough was close but added that the U.S. government would proceed slowly before going public with any discoveries, to make sure its analysis was sound.
With the cost of the Iraq invasion in lives and dollars increasing, the Bush administration and its top ally, British Prime Minister Tony Blair, have been under pressure to prove their claims that Iraq's weapons of mass destruction posed an imminent threat.
As the weapons hunt has turned up empty, those allegations about Iraq's arsenal have been eroded. Claims about smallpox, unmanned aerial vehicles, and uranium purchases from Niger have been discredited. There is disagreement on whether two trailers found in northern Iraq were mobile biological weapons labs.
U.S. officials suspect that some of the intelligence used to justify the war against Iraq came from defectors who were lying or reporting false information planted by Saddam 's regime, The Los Angeles Times reports. Some former weapons inspectors believe many of the suspicions about Iraq's alleged stockpiles may be because of bad bookkeeping in Baghdad.
Administration officials in recent days had sought to lower expectations that Kay's report would put to rest ongoing questions about whether Iraq had prohibited weapons and programs.
On Fox News Channel on Wednesday, national security adviser Condoleezza Rice said: "David Kay has miles of documents to go through. He has hundreds of people to interview. … He's going to put together the picture."
"I await the report eagerly from Mr. Kay as does the international community," said British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw at the U.N. General Assembly on Wednesday.
In his speech to the United Nations on Tuesday, Mr. Bush insisted Iraq had posed a threat.
"The regime of Saddam Hussein cultivated ties to terror while it built weapons of mass destruction. It used those weapons in acts of mass murder, and refused to account for them when confronted by the world," the president said.
But war opponents and some Democrats are pointing to a remark by Secretary of State Colin Powell in February 2001.
Visiting Egypt, Powell told reporters: "(Saddam Hussein) has not developed any significant capability with respect to weapons of mass destruction. He is unable to project conventional power against his neighbors." Powell also insisted the sanctions regime was working.


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8,600 visitors arrive on cruise ships in two days
The Ministry of Tourism yesterday celebrated what the ministry claimed was the highest number of cruise ship passengers in one day as 6,500 persons arrived on the MSC Fantasia and the Island Princess luxury liners.
The numbers were confirmed by officials at the Port of Port-of-Spain. They said an additional 2,100 crew were expected in Port-of-Spain bringing the total to 8,600 visitors who arrived in Trinidad up to yesterday.
The current Cruise Ship season has been described as an encouraging one for the tourism industry with a 130 per cent increase in visitor arrivals expected.
Officials said following the arrival of the two vessels on Wednesday, tours were dispatched to 12 sites throughout Trinidad with activities to satisfy nature lovers, ecotourism enthusiasts and those who wanted to be immersed in Trinidad's culture.
The Ministry of Tourism also continued the efforts to ensure that visitors received one of the best quayside welcomes in the Caribbean, with steel pan music and traditional Carnival characters present to welcome them.
The ministry proudly claimed Trinidad continued to lead the way in the number of tours taken and disembarkations with the Caribbean Princess which visited on January 21, recording the highest number of pre-booked tours on its entire itinerary.
Sites booked included Asa Wright Nature Centre, Caroni Bird Sanctuary, City Tours, Cocoa Plantations and Maracas Waterfalls.
The Ministry of Tourism, in its development of the industry, declared cruise tourism as critical to the entire process of economic diversification, and an increase in calls such as is being experienced will no doubt redound to the benefit of the destination and the country as a whole.
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Although the Falcon Theatre's West Coast premiere of "Laurel and Hardy" offers insight into the famous screen duo's lives, the devil seems to be in the details. Solid performances and excellent production values are on ample display, but the overall result still feels disjointed and unfocused.
The culprit appears to be playwright Tom McGrath's hodgepodge of a script. Compressing an onscreen partnership that spanned almost 20 years and 100 films into two hours of stage time is no doubt an auspicious undertaking. And yet, knowing what to include or exclude is the true mark of a good biographical piece.
For example, McGrath's first act passages dramatizing the film legends' childhood experiences seem belabored and distracting. Meanwhile, certain events, like the pair's multiple marriages and Hardy's deteriorating health, fly by with dizzying confusion.


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"I was working at a hotel before my job at IAAW. I saw the job ad for the Empower U Facilitator, I had so much so much self-doubt and I was trying to find every reason not to apply. It said facilitator, and I'm not a teacher. I had the job ad up on Facebook and my co-worker Chandan was just like "just apply!" I was already excluding myself because, you know, we're our own worst enemy and our best friend at times. Then, I got a call back so I really need to thank you to him because he encouraged me to apply. If he hadn't seen what I didn't see in myself, I might have still been at the same job.
When I first went back to high school, I had a lot of difficulty in Math, but it was because I didn't finish grade 9. At 17 I went back to school, and I got a job at Safeway. So when I started doing Math at first, it wasn't nice to me because I didn't understand and then I kept at it and kept going, and I did a little bit of accounting and finance, and that's where my passion started. Once I started understanding it, I was in love with it. The first time I went to college was in 2007, and I did accounting and payroll and same thing — I was really good at it, the teacher loved me, I was student of the month, I had a really good grade point average.
Battling with my demons and my trauma, I would go back to addictions, but I was trying hard to push through it.
When I went through something really bad, I met Officer Dan. I was on the streets, and him and his partner, they came walking around the corner and was like what are you doing here? They had so much concern for me, and you don't see that often.
It was a work in progress for me to change. Even still now, it's still just trying to make sure that I'm good, and that I stay good for my children. I really had an ugly childhood so a lot of abuse. I'm trying to make sure that I'm there for my kids, and that they don't have the same story as me and my mom and my sister. Most importantly, I want to be a role model. I have to be mum and dad at the same time. I've had years where they were good, then years that were horrible. I went back to school in 2010, again 2014, and then in 2016 I did my first year of Advanced Business management specializing in Accounting. In the future, I hope to open up my own Aboriginal Payroll company. It's part of my five-year plan.
When I tell people my story, people always tell me to share my story! My specialist said that I have a secret, but I think the secret is different for everybody. For me, the secret is my children. The biggest thing was making sure they have a future.
Life hasn't been very kind, but it's what makes you and if I can do it, I believe that anybody can.
If they have support, it would be best. Just because you don't have anybody, you just have to look at your children and look at their future. Do it for Creator. It's not an easy road, it's very lonely, but in the end, just seeing the smile on your kids' faces… My daughter says "I want to be a mum when I grow up, and I want to wear big earrings just like you". Things like that just remind me why I'm doing it.
It's not easy, and it gets really lonely, but my auntie used to tell me, that you're never alone and Creator is with you.
I do know now that all the things I've been through, I was in the deepest darkest, and I know that I'm here for a reason… even if my reason is just to tell people and to be that example for them, then I always say that you can do it. It's amazing once you get there. It's kind of like childbirth, it's painful, but then you see your baby and the pain is all a memory. It's just that rewarding."
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Julia Chalifoux is this December's woman of IAAW. Julia is from High Prairie Alberta, and originally from the Gift Lake Métis Settlement. Julia wears many hats in life and at IAAW. At work, she acts as the Transition Support Worker, Finance Clerk, Payroll Administrator and the Office Manager. She is also a single mother of six children. This month, we are featuring Julia because of her tenacity to reach her goals and the heart that she puts into her work and family


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The Image Bank is a world-wide image resource organisation. The uk headquarters on Conway Street, Central London, has an extensive library of transparencies and film footage used by advertising, design and corporate clients. A recent acquisition of archive films has created a need to find space for this extensive film library.
The ground and the lower-ground floor of the building are divided at the front by an entrance foyer and a curved central staircase, and at the rear by the courtyard which acts as a lightwell to the lower-ground- floor rooms.
The new scheme fills in the formerly redundant courtyard and unifies the separate ground and lower-ground floor spaces by inserting a new floor at ground level with a glazed umbrella-like roof above; the floor is fitted with glass blocks to transmit light to the lower-ground floor.
The new structure has facilitated several modifications: the research department and the video library have been moved to the lower-ground floor while the ground floor has been replanned to incorporate a video-viewing suite with curved walls - this too designed by the architect.
The new space formed by the courtyard on the ground floor has become a room for meetings and a waiting/hospitality area for clients. Sliding doors open from the existing rooms on to both sides of the courtyard so one can see right through the building. A new circular staircase leads from it to the lower floor. A cantilevered planted trough along the rear wall is filled with bamboo and climbing plants.
The structure within the courtyard had to be independent of the walls - door and window openings on opposite sides of the courtyard do not align so it was not possible to span across the space. Column positions were limited by the circular brick stairwell which projects into the courtyard and by footings to existing walls.
To overcome these problems - in particular to avoid the clash of old and new floors - the structure was conceived as an independent two-storey steel portal frame. It comprises four 150 x 100mm rhs columns which rise from the lower-ground floor; they are placed in the centre of each side of the courtyard and support a rectangular slab at ground floor level placed at the diagonal to the walls. The corners of the slab are cantilevered from the columns.
The cast-in-situ concrete floor slab is fitted with Luxcrete circular glass blocks and supported by 152 x 152mm I-section beams; the corner cantilevers are supported by 150 x 90mm parallel flange channels. The structure is unbraced - moment connections between columns and beams give stability. The triangular strips to each side of the courtyard are filled with steel grilles which let light into the room below.
At the roof the four rhs columns bend to form a pitched portal and are welded at the apex to a central node, formed of a cruciform of 20mm steel spigot plates. (The columns have two bolted connections, one at the apex and one just above the floor slab, which allowed them to be taken into the building in pieces and bolted together on site).
The roof structure - four tapering arms of paired back-to-back 150 x 75mm steel angles - rise from the central node to support a roof of double- glazed rooflights framed with aluminium box-sections. The arms are set at 45degrees from the steel columns below them, so the roof looks poised in space like the rotor blades of a helicopter. The spaces between the glazed roof and the original walls are lined with a solid timber-framed roof deck.
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