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Opening Remarks, by Angel Gurría, OECD Secretary-General
Guadalajara, 17-18 May, 2012
Secretaria Vélez, Ministers, Executive Director Ducci, Ladies and Gentlemen:
It is a great pleasure for me to share with you our assessment of the current economic situation in the G20 countries, to highlight the urgent need to address some key labour market challenges, especially those facing our young people, but also to look forward at new sources of quality jobs, especially those associated with the transition to green growth.
The short-term economic and employment outlook
The prospects for the global economy are a little brighter than they were at the time of your last meeting. However, the situation remains fragile.
Stronger economic growth in the United States during the second half of 2011 and policy interventions in the euro area in response to its deepening economic crisis have reduced the threat of a sharp global slowdown. But downside risks still prevail.
Going forward, the recovery will likely resume in the major advanced economies, but with further decoupling between North America where growth prospects continue to firm and Europe where the short-term outlook remains weak and uncertain given the continuing instability in the eurozone. In the emerging economies, after a brief slowdown, signs suggest that a cyclical upswing is now getting underway.
The most recent improvements in the economic outlook give some hope that labour market conditions could start improving again soon – and have already done so in a number of G20 countries but the timing and strength of a future generalised recovery in employment remain highly uncertain and contingent on a durable solution to the woes in the eurozone being fixed quickly.
A continuation of weak growth in employment in many G20 countries, in turn, will make it impossible to close the jobs gap (i.e. the number of additional jobs that would be required to restore the employment-population ratio to its value in end-2007) which is about 21.3 million persons accumulated since the onset of the global financial crisis. The jobs gap is particularly large in South Africa, Spain and the United States. The latest OECD projections to be released next week suggest that these gaps could persist through 2013.
The threat of high unemployment becoming entrenched
One of the most worrying features of the present situation is the steep rise in the number of people who have been unemployed for a year or more in several countries. Long-term unemployment has tripled in the US affecting one in three unemployed. In Spain, more than 40 per cent of the almost 5.5 million unemployed have been out of work for more than a year. Among the major OECD economies, only in Germany has the incidence of long-term unemployment fallen.
In addition to lowering potential output growth via the resulting loss of human capital, there are also substantial social costs related to long-term unemployment, as it is associated with an increased risk of poverty, ill health and school failure for the children of the affected individuals. If we add this to the very fragile conditions in many families in emerging economies, which operate in an informal context, the picture is not encouraging.
Large jobs gap, persistently high unemployment and high informality in some countries underlie the urgency of kick-starting job creation and improving the quality of jobs in many G20 countries:
- Hiring subsidies can be a cost-effective way to boost job creation in the short-run if they are paid to companies that expand their workforces.
- Also, a shift towards greater investment in training, linked to local labour market needs and aimed at countering skill obsolescence, would help to maintain an effective labour supply.
- At the same time, income support to the unemployed, including the long term unemployed, should be maintained to curb the risk of poverty, but it is essential to condition it on effective job search to minimise the risk of benefit dependency. In many emerging countries, efforts are needed to reduce the risk of vulnerable families sliding into extreme poverty and exclusion. To this end, a key challenge is to expand the coverage of basic social protection programmes, although careful programme design is required in order to improve their cost-effectiveness and to avoid harming work incentives.
Giving youth a better start
Youth are a key asset to society. Equipping them with the required skills and giving them decent work opportunities to become well-integrated into the labour market not only contributes to their own well-being but also to the productive potential of the economy, social cohesion and overall progress.
Therefore, I welcome the first results of the intense work of the G20 Task Force on youth employment; it has provided a unique platform for your experts to share good practices and identify key policy recommendations that you will review later today. We stand ready, in close collaboration with the ILO and other relevant international organizations, to further support the work of the Task Force on this and other key policy issues that you will identify.
While the challenge of giving youth a better start is common to all G20 countries, the difficulties countries face in achieving this vary. Young people have been hard hit by the global economic crisis; in most countries they have borne a disproportionate share of job losses and many of them are facing significant barriers to finding worthwhile employment in the current recovery phase. The youth unemployment rate is above 20% in as many as 8 G20 countries and many youth have given up looking for work and are at high risk of exclusion.
Improving the labour market situation of youth requires actions on different fronts. Action needs to be directed at tackling the steep rise in youth joblessness that took place during the crisis. Labour market programmes, including effective counselling, job-search assistance and temporary hiring subsidies for low skilled youth, can make a real difference in facilitating the transition to productive and rewarding jobs for young jobseekers.
Policies must also be put in place to give all youth a better start in the labour market. Investment in human capital is a key factor in facilitating transitions from school to work and putting youth on promising career tracks. Unfortunately, several G20 countries face challenges concerning educational attainment, participation in good-quality vocational education and, in some cases, access to schooling.
To address these issues, the following policies have proven effective in a number of countries:
• In many countries, completion of high school (i.e. usually between the age of 15 and 18) is becoming a key policy goal to ensure a smooth transition to work, for participation in life-long learning and for career progression. In countries where enrolment in education through lower secondary education is almost universal, the focus has been on improving retention in upper secondary education, in some cases by raising the age of compulsory participation in learning and ensuring that it leads to the acquisition of a valued qualification.
• In some countries where educational enrolment is low, particularly among children from disadvantaged socio-economic backgrounds, school attendance has been added as a condition to the receipt of cash transfers by families through so-called Conditional Cash Transfer schemes. In a number of emerging economies, these schemes have proven successful at improving school enrolment and attendance as well as child nutrition and health.
• High-quality vocational education pathways in upper secondary education can help engage youth with learning, improve graduation rates and ensure smooth transitions from school to work. Dual schooling systems combining class-based learning with work-based apprenticeships can play a decisive role here. Germany is a shining example among G20 countries in this regard.
• High-quality career guidance can help youth make better informed decisions about their future. The combination of work and study can also help youth acquire some of the skills required in the labour market before they leave the education system.
These policy measures should be seen as part of a comprehensive approach to make sure that: i) youth acquire the skills that the market needs; ii) they are able to deploy these skills in the most effective manner; and iii) the necessary skill investments are financed in a sustainable and equitable way. In this context, I am glad to report to you that next week we will launch the OECD Skills Strategy that provides this comprehensive approach to skills development and effective skills use.
Unleashing the potential for Green Jobs
Finally, we must harness the job potentials of a transition to green growth.
The transition to green growth has significant jobs-creating potential. The joint ILO-OECD paper on sustainable development and green growth maps this potential. But we also highlight that this transition also entails new risks for workers and their families.
Thus, it is highly important that labour market and skill policies assure a just transition by maximising the new opportunities for workers, especially those most in need of better employment opportunities, while minimising unavoidable adjustment costs and assuring that they are shared in an equitable manner.
Four areas where policy actions may be particularly important are identified in our joint report as follows:
• Meeting the emerging job-skill requirements of a greening economy;
• Helping workers to move from declining firms and sectors to growing firms and sectors while providing income security;
• Assuring worker rights in growing green sectors, while seizing opportunities to promote social inclusion;
• Strengthening labour market information systems and social dialogue so as to promote a deeper shared understanding of how best to green the labour market.
Green growth policies can also improve welfare through distributional impacts. Most of the environmentally-harmful subsidy measures are indeed poorly targeted to address poverty– IEA estimates that only 8% of global fossil fuel subsidies reach the poor (the bottom 20%) - making them an expensive tool. Retargeting the subsidies to more directly support poor households can increase equity.
New legislation in Indonesia aims to achieve this objective by redirecting fuels and electricity subsidies to health, education and infrastructure in poor areas. Another example of a green growth policy that is having positive distributional impacts is the Bolsa Floresta (forest allowance) initiative in Brazil, which rewards traditional communities in the Amazonas for their commitment to stop deforestation.
Protecting the most vulnerable households from the possible adverse distributional effects of green growth is essential to ensure it is inclusive and contributes to sustainable development and poverty reduction in the longer term. It is also likely to increase political support for the reforms.
Secretaria Vélez, Ministers:
We are nearing 3 years into the recovery from the Great Recession. More than ever promoting the creation of sufficient quality jobs for the many unemployed and under-employed, including many youth, is the key policy priority for all G20 countries. This requires a whole-of-government approach that puts the social dimension of the crisis at the core of our actions.
On the occasion of the third gathering of G20 Labour Ministers, I would like to encourage you Ministers to be ambitious and aim, as one visible outcome of this Ministerial, for a concrete commitment to ensure that jobs and youth become a stable feature of the G20 agenda. It is also important to create close links between the G20 Labour and Finance tracks and I hope that the report on "Boosting Employment and Job Creation under the G20 Framework", jointly prepared by the OECD and the ILO in collaboration with the IMF and the World Bank, will be an important first step in fostering this joint effort to design, promote and implement better labour policies for better lives.
The OECD stands ready to assist the G20 Labour and Employment Ministers in any way we can in this endeavour.
Thank you.
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I have 3 instruments:
1) Real Relationship Inventory (RRI-C) which is a 24-item measure designed to assess two dimensions of the therapeutic relationship: realism and genuineness. The internal consistency for the RRI-C as measured by Chronbach's alpha was .90 for the Realism subscale, and .91 for the Genuineness subscale.
2) Working Alliance Inventory – Short Form (WAI-S) to assess the nature of the relationship between the therapist and the client from the client's perspective. The WAI-S is a 12-item inventory that explores the three specific components of the overall dimension: Task, Bond, and Goal. The internal consistency as measured by Chronbach's alpha is .93 on the overall alliance dimension.
3) Counselor Rating Form - Short (CRF-S), a 12-item measure with each item composed of an adjective describing counselor characteristics across three dimensions with each dimension rated on a 7-point Likert scale. The three dimensions are expertness, attractiveness, and trustworthiness; internal consistency reliability coefficients for the three dimensions are .90, .91, and .87, respectively.
My question is: Does the summed raw scores on the total scale or sub-scale for each of the instrument described above can be treated as latent variables? In other words, are summed raw scores similar to latent variables in this context.
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posted on Wednesday, September 07, 2011 - 5:00 pm
If you sum enough items that you know are reliable and unidimensional, working with your summed score is going to be close to working with a latent variable. But you don't know about the dimensionality until you have done factor analysis. Cronbach's alpha is known to not be of sufficient help in this. You may want to post your question on a more general discussion board like SEMNET.
Nidhi Kohli
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Thank you very much for your quick response. Your explanation makes sense to me.
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Property taxes have soared during Mayor R.T. Rybak's 12 years in office, even leading to an all-out taxpayer revolt over double-digit jumps in their bills.
Some of the most prominent candidates running to replace Rybak, however, have been largely subdued about the hefty increases. Some of them have been in office during those tax hikes and would risk criticizing their own decisions, or those of a largely popular mayor.
The mayoral candidates "don't see property taxes as a big problem … they aren't going to call [Rybak] out on the property tax increases he did because they don't want to have to be accountable for saying that when they raise property taxes," said Kris Broberg, a property manager who protested the tax hikes several years ago.
Instead, candidates have focused on other issues, including closing the achievement gap, expanding public transportation, and growing jobs and population.
With the exception of a flat levy in 2012, every Rybak budget to this point has raised property taxes, and the city collects nearly double the amount of property taxes that it did when the mayor took office.
The potential impact of property taxes on the race was somewhat blunted when Rybak in August proposed a 1 percent decrease in the amount of property taxes collected to support the budget. Spurred partly by an increase in state aid, it was the first reduction since at least the mid-1990s.
Some candidates themselves have seen substantial increases in their property taxes. Former Hennepin County Commissioner Mark Andrew has the highest taxes of any of the leading candidates, at $12,529 for his home near Lake Harriet.
"They've come down — they were higher," said Andrew, whose most recent campaign brochures focus on greening the city and boosting education.
Jobs, education and economic development have captured more attention this election, he said, adding that doesn't mean the property tax issue is unimportant. "Some of the property tax increase was inevitable, and so I think people are looking forward," he said.
During Andrew's own time on the County Board in the 1980s and '90s, county taxes saw double-digit increases for at least several years. But he says that now, property taxes must be the revenue of last resort, not first. Andrew and other candidates have talked about the need to find more private dollars to stretch government funding.
Taxpayer revolt
Minneapolis saw an outcry several years ago when taxes soared. Residents protested at City Hall and lambasted the mayor and council members for what they viewed as poor fiscal management. Some had tears in their eyes as they said they could no longer afford to pay their taxes.
Carol Becker, a member of the Board of Estimate and Taxation, said that changes in the way business and rental properties were taxed pushed the burden more on homeowners, who went from paying 35 percent of the property taxes in 1998 to 55 percent today. The recession further shifted the weight onto that group.
"It would be simple [for a mayoral candidate] to say, 'I'm going to reduce taxes,' but to actually do that would be really hard because there's no fat left," Becker said.
The Rybak administration has said that cuts in state aid, large pension obligations and the need to pay down outstanding debt drove the tax increases. This year, the city received a 20 percent increase in state aid and set aside $7 million in unspent funds from 2012 to help ease the tax burden. Minneapolis also has trimmed its payroll for years.
Becker said that projects like the proposed $200 million Nicollet-Central streetcar line — championed this year by mayoral candidates Don Samuels and Betsy Hodges, both council members — don't help because they would take away money that could be going to reduce property taxes.
Candidates have put more emphasis on expanding the tax base by adding more residents and development to the city. They are talking about luring more people in by easing business regulations, building dense housing along transit corridors, and closing the achievement gap between white and minority children.
But people already leave Minneapolis or stay in the suburbs because of the property taxes, according to Broberg. He described that as a conflict with the goal of increasing the population.
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No one in the field of mayoral candidates has played a larger role in city finances than Hodges, who chairs the budget committee, and a south Minneapolis home she now owns with her husband has seen the sharpest property tax increase — 30 percent in five years — among the top candidates. Met Council Member Gary Cunningham had already owned the home for decades when he and Hodges married in 2011, after the increase had occurred. ("It has caused no marital fights … he understands," said Hodges.)
They live separately because they represent different districts, and Hodges rents another home 3 miles away in Linden Hills.
The second-term council member said she is proud of the way she, Rybak, and other colleagues addressed the "significant fiscal messes" left over from the '90s. She pushed a pension reform effort that saved millions of dollars and frequently mentions it on the campaign trail. Despite the uproar over property taxes several years ago, she said she doesn't hear much about the issue from voters as she campaigns.
Some candidates have raised the issue. Park Board Commissioner Bob Fine has proposed to lower property taxes in the city by 5 percent, though he has not put forth a detailed plan to do so, speaking generally about how he would audit departments to find efficiencies. Cam Winton, as an independent with no elected or appointed experience, has been more comfortable than many of his opponents questioning City Hall spending and has emphasized cutting "red tape" to stimulate economic growth. Audit committee member Stephanie Woodruff, who experienced foreclosure and now rents, is pushing checkbook-level spending disclosures online.
On the North Side, where housing values have stayed low in the wake of foreclosures, a lack of investment and concerns about crime, Samuels pays just $2,082 in property taxes. He said he wants to pay more.
"I can, and I think that's what a healthy community would be doing," he said. "You should not have to create blight and violence and poor academic outcomes in order to achieve affordability."
While candidates were preparing to "fight the tax battle" earlier in the campaign, he said, the focus has consistently stayed on crime and education, concerns that were also reflected in a poll conducted for the Star Tribune last month. Samuels said that concerns about schools and crime cause would-be residents of the North Side to look elsewhere, but he wants to lower taxes by steering the city's planned population growth to north Minneapolis.
And as for Rybak's own property taxes in southwest Minneapolis? They rose 24 percent to $8,247 in the last five years — on par or higher than the fluctuations in taxes for most of the top candidates running to replace him.


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In a prior post I explained how Cooper uses OneNote as a tool for Design Meetings. In this post I'm going to presume you're a designer and eager to get a quick primer to the tool. Then I'll share some best practices we've developed at Cooper.
A quick primer: Five tools
OneNote is a rich program, meant for a number of different scenarios. Here I'm only going to introduce the most basic concepts you need to get going on using OneNote as a quick design sketching tool.
1. The infinite canvas
You write on a canvas that is for all practical purposes, infinite. You can simply use the touch screen to slide to empty paper. That canvas can have a grid-paper like background, or it can be white. For most of the time I leave that grid on, to help keep lines straight and aesthetically pleasing.
2. Drawing tools
There are drawing tools, for straight lines, squares, perfect circles, etc., but they're too "fussy" for this purpose. We want speed, so I discourage their use. Instead, designers get familiar with the pen tools, which let you select between ball-point pen, felt-tip pens, and highlighters. It's also important to get to know the color and line-weight selectors, but I'd say once you know those things, you're good to go.
3. Selection tools
To modify your sketches, you need to become fast with selection tools. There is a selection tool, but if you have a stylus with a button, when you're in the pen tool you can just hold that button down and select stuff. It's much, much faster and a great habit to get into for speed. The math for selection is pretty complicated, and I've never seen it be super fast even on the most powerful slates we have in the office, but with a little practice and a lot of patience you can master this.
4. Contextual menu
This button-down mode is where you can also summon a contextual menu for copying, pasting, and scaling drawings, which is much faster in pen mode than looking around for the tool buttons.
5. Snag-It
Often if we're working within a framework, we'll want to define changes across similar backgrounds. You can just cut-and-paste lines for that, but eventually it'll start to slow down the page and make selecting particular lines difficult. Instead, we often screen grab the background drawing, and copy and paste that to draw on top of.
Additionally, OneNote doesn't have a great built-in way to create a solid white rectangle for pop-up windows and menus, etc., so having a graphic allows us to easily occlude stuff that's "underneath." To make these graphics, having a super-simple, stylus-aware tool lets us do that, and Snag-It fits the bill nicely for us.
Getting to know these five basic tools in OneNote will get you a long way to becoming a proficient OneNote user.
Best practices for your drawings
Though each designer has his or her own style and each sketch has its own needs, some best practices have evolved by watching what works. Firstly this style is about the principles that guide the drawings.
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- Always contextualize drawings in maps or under questions
- Connect drawings with arrows so it's clear how they're related
- Draw important persona thoughts or moments
- Document the team's thinking in the margins
- Don't erase anything, just cross it out (to capture what was rejected and why)
Secondly it's about sticking to a color code so it's easy to visually scan a page with your eyes for particular kinds of content.
- We use black lines for most of what's on a screen.
- Gray lines are for less-important things on the screen, like "text goes here"
- Blue lines are for user input
- The gray highlighter is useful for all sorts of things, like delineating menus or showing floating palettes and windows
- The yellow highlighter is useful for showing a highlighted state
- Red is reserved for "meta-content", that is, anything that isn't on the screen or in the world: designer thoughts, persona thoughts, arrows that connect drawings, and cross-outs.
- Green lines are for client comments during review
And finally it's about aesthetics that make them pleasant enough to be considered part of our professional work.
- Straight-enough lines: They don't need to be perfect, but work at getting them straighter than curvier
- Avoid open corners: It's better to have lines cross than to weigh down the eye with the opening
- Large linesto define the outside of the screen
- Thin linesto describe things on the screen
- Thick red lines to connect screens, starting at the point of interaction
OneNote is a complex tool, and there's much more to it than these five tools and sticking to a style, but this should get you started if you're eager to start using it for wireframe and framework drawings today. For the last in this short series, I'm going to discuss the ways we use OneNote in research, in presentations, and some unfortunate things you have to overcome in order to make it work really smoothly for interaction design.


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South Carolina Senator Lindsey Graham is demanding that the Constitution be discarded and the suspect be treated as an enemy combatant despite the fact he is American citizen. Graham said Tsarnaev should not be afforded the protection of the Fifth Amendment and suggested he be tortured to extract information.
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Journalists reporting on renewed conflict in the east were repeatedly censored and intimidated by local officials, the national government, and rebel forces. Fighting resumed in the east after President Joseph Kabila said his government would try to arrest Bosco Ntaganda, a former warlord wanted by the International Criminal Court on war crime charges. In response, Ntaganda joined with army mutineers to form a rebel group that took control of key towns in North Kivu province. The state-run media regulatory agency barred all broadcasters from airing programs discussing the conflict; several radio stations were suspended indefinitely after interviewing the mutineers. At least three journalists fled into hiding after being threatened in reprisal for their reporting on the conflict. Tensions between DRC and neighboring Rwanda also grew after the publication in June of a leaked U.N. report that blamed Kigali for providing military assistance to the rebels. The same month, Communications Minister Lambert Mende accused a Kinshasa newspaper of tribalism and indefinitely suspended the publication in connection with an editorial critical of Congolese of Rwandan ancestry. Although danger was severe in the east, CPJ also documented numerous instances in which officials in Bas Congo detained and intimidated critical journalists.
The greatest number of attacks on the press occurred in the capital region, Bas Congo, according to CPJ research through December 7, 2012. CPJ documented instances of official censorship, arbitrary detention, imprisonment, intimidation, and other forms of harassment.
Anti-press attacks increased significantly in 2012 in North Kivu province with journalists in the crossfire between government forces and Ntaganda-allied rebels. CPJ documented 24 instances of harassment, intimidation, and censorship through December 31, 2012, up from just five reports in 2011.
The media regulatory agency barred talk shows and call-in programs from airing commentary on the conflict in the east. At least five radio stations were forced off the air for broadcasting critical commentaries, according to CPJ research.
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Radio Lisanga Télévision:
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Radio Soleil:
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|Suspended for three months after airing phone interviews in May with a militia leader and a mutineer. The show's presenter, Pili Pili Kasaï, is imprisoned for 13 days.
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Radio Lisanga Télévision, a private broadcaster supportive of veteran opposition leader Etienne Tshisekedi, has been censored and attacked numerous times since 2011, according to CPJ research. RLTV operates two stations in DRC, one in Kinshasa and one in the central city of Mbuji-Mayi.
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RLTV loses its broadcast signal while covering an anti-government march. Communication Minister Mende bans RLTV across the country and tells CPJ the station incited protesters against the government.
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The new animated film also features the vocals of Ty Burrell as a beluga whale named Bailey; Willem Dafoe as Gill, a moorish idol; Diane Keaton as Dory's mother, Jenny; Eugene Levy as Charlie, Dory's father; Vicki Lewis as Deb (and her sister, "Flo," Deb's reflection), a four-striped damselfish; Kaitlin Olson as Destiny, Dory's sister, a whale shark; and Ed O'Neill as Hank, an octopus. Idris Elba and Dominic West also star.
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In the summer 1931, Honolulu's tropical tranquility was shattered when a young Navy wife made a drastic allegation of rape against five nonwhite islanders. What unfolded in the following days and weeks was a racially-charged murder case that would make headlines across the nation, enrage Hawai'i's native population, and galvanize the island's law enforcers and the nation's social elite.
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Looking for information about Isabella Jane Gillis Chapman my great grandmother
I have some information on my great grandmaother from my great grandfather, Hugh Monckton's Diary. My great grandmother was born in London in May 1849 named above in a parish regsiter from St Johns parish Church Hoxton Middlesex baptismal record dated 1851 listing both parents as deceased. She appears to have been taken care of under poor law union rules (workhouse probably) but then came to Australia sometime in the 1850s. I know that she lived at the house of Thomas Burr in Castelmaine Victoria. From the Burr records on this website it apears that Isabella Gillis married Thomas Burr in 1857 in Castlemaine. I think that Isabella Gillis must have been my great grandmother's aunt since she has the same names in her name although she was the daughter of Janay Chapman Isabella Gillis was her sister and maybe came out from England with her or came separately and then sent for her. Isabella Burr then has a death record in the register in 1863. I am trying to find any passenger records of the passage of either my great grandmother or her aunt coming to Victoria Australia in the 1850s or 1860s but so far no luck. Can anyone help with any conections or where I could find any further information.
on 2012-10-23 06:53:24
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Recreation Director Bucky Lohbusch won his job back Monday night, laying out his argument to the Board of Selectmen in front of a room of his supporters.
Recreation Director Bucky Lohbusch won his job back Monday night, laying out his argument to the Board of Selectmen in front of a room of his supporters.
The Board voted 2 to 1 to reinstate Lohbusch after hearing him refute the reasons for his firing by First Selectman Austin Tanner last month. Tanner fired Lohbusch on Aug. 26, effective Sept. 15. Selectmen Bob Kelleher and Drew Dionne voted to give Lohbusch back his job. Tanner voted against it.
"It's been a long couple of weeks — month really," Lohbusch said. "I look at it as a learning experience. I love the town of Brooklyn and this will not change that."
Tanner said he accepts the decision and wants to put an emphasis on moving forward with Lohbusch. He said he believes they can forge a better working relationship.
"It's been a contentious working relationship for years," Tanner said. "I think maybe this brought it to a head and can be a positive thing for us to move forward."
Lohbusch had the option to take his appeal into executive session or to have it heard publicly. He chose an open hearing. Tanner also had the opportunity to state his reasons for the firing. Tanner has said Lohbusch did not ensure adequate park maintenance, failed to use new facilities at Riverside Park and failed develop new programs.
The town's labor attorney Peter A. Janus moderated the appeal.
Lohbusch said he had a year's worth of backup materials to fuel his 25 minute presentation to the board. He said he debated whether to have the hearing closed.
"I figured it would only help myself and the community," Lohbusch said. "I had nothing to hide."
Recreation Commission Chairman Mike Gaudreau also spoke on Lohbusch's behalf. Gaudreau said he was "pleasantly surprised" by the outcome. He said the final vote was not along party lines and he commended the selectmen for leaving politics out of the issue.
Gaudreau said Lohbusch and Tanner will have to move forward and find a way to work together.
"We are going to address some issues and do our best to work together," Gaudreau said. "(Tanner) is the first selectman and he deserves the respect and the honor of the office. I've always said that."
Lohbusch said he respects the office of first selectman. But, he will also always look to put safety and the best interests of Brooklyn and the recreation department first.
"I've told all three selectmen I'm not going to change," Lohbusch said. "I have to do what's right for Brooklyn."
Tanner said he has already spoken to Lohbusch about having weekly meetings together to ensure better communication.
Tanner, Lohbusch and Gaudreau all agree there has been long-term friction between the recreation department and the selectmen stemming from a lack of communication. Gaudreau believes the issue started with the Recreation Commission's desire to make the administrative assistant a full-time position. That increase in the hours for the position, which is held by Lohbusch's wife, Joanne, was approved by the Board of Finance and the town as part of the annual budget two years ago.
But Tanner would not approve the hours. The Board of Selectmen has agreed it does not think the position should be full-time, but would prefer an additional person be hired.
Gaudreau said the recreation commission, and not Lohbusch, has chosen not to add a staff member.
He said the selectmen's proposal to oust recreation from its offices in favor of the northeast probate court and Lohbusch's stand against it only created more friction.
"I hope Mr. Tanner sees that people just want to have a say," Gaudreau said. " We don't want them to leave recreation alone. We don't want him or anyone to hide in a corner and say recreation is untouchable. We want to work together. We've always wanted to work together."


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Even though she was already a superhero in my eyes, Kate Winslet has made it officially okay to walk around this Earth with a cape on for the rest of her life.
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Now I have to hand it to Jennifer. This is her third baby! That means this is her third time being pregnant. I always make the mistake of watching those shows on birthing children and they scare the living daylights out of me. I always think to myself, "you don't come back from that." Discovery Health channel likes to make every woman on Earth paranoid and televise shows like, "I Didn't Know I was Pregnant." I am about three episodes away from starting a petition to stop this show from ruining lives! No woman wants to sit there and think, "Am I pregnant right now?" Holy crow!
Okay, done with that tirade. The 3rd mini Affleck is expected to arrive in January or February. The Affleck's are said to be "thrilled" to be expecting their third child. I wonder if they will finally get a Ben Jr. or stick with the lady gender. I really think this world could use a mini Ben Affleck…Suri Cruise will one day be looking for a husband.
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My favorite part of this tale is when Lindsay was at Kim Kardashian's wedding and the band played this exact song! It was reported that many of Kim's guests got up and danced, but Lindsay remained a Debbie Downer and stayed seated…boo you whore.
In an attempt to smooth things over, Pitbull has invited Lindsay to this Sunday's VMAs, where he will be performing "Give Me Everything." According to MTV.com, Pitbull states, "But either [way], I said, 'You know what? Performing it at the VMAs, would like to invite her out,' " he continued. "And anybody who knows my reputation [knows I] don't do no publicity stunts. I'm not really about none of that. … So I said it, I meant it, and if she takes it, great. If she doesn't, cool. But she will have her tickets at will call."
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TwitchyDoc wrote:Joyce, there is nothing we can do for you. Only professional counselling/medication maybe - you were just cleared by the EMG, which would detect signs of the disease before they manifest clinically.
As for your PM - UMN would be clearly seen during the clinical exam.
Let this go, you are wasting your life. Now there is nothing that could reassure you more.
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