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Trip Highlights
- Live and work in Australia for up to 12 months
- Earn an average of £15 per hour
- Jet boat round Sydney Harbour
- Learn to surf and sand board in sunny Port Stephens
- Party the night away in Sydney
Trip Summary
Work hard and play even harder Down Under with our Paid Work in Australia programme. Kick off with 8 days of fun in the sun in Sydney and Port Stephens, with jet boating, surf lessons, harbour cruises, big nights out with your group and more. Then find your dream Aussie job with the help of our local team. With tons of vacancies nationwide and salaries ranging from £10 - £15 per hour it's the perfect way to see this amazing country without spending all your hard-earned savings! Best of all, you'll start your trip with a ready-made group of friends – it's a year you'll never forget!
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Our Paid Work in Australia trip is the ideal introduction to living and working Down Under. Before you begin your job search you'll enjoy a week of fun in the sun with your new friends in Sydney, with a night at our bush camp in beautiful Port Stephens. Once week 1 is over you'll have 12 months access to our dedicated Sydney jobs team to help you find work and accommodation.
Week 1: Sydney & Port Stephens
Day 1: Arrive in Sydney. We'll meet you from the airport and transfer you to your hostel in the heart of the city. There are no activities planned for today so check in and chill out.
Day 2: Get to know Sydney. We'll show you round the city today, then take you on a high-adrenaline jet-boat tour of the harbour! Then hit the town for a few drinks. We'll also activate your Aussie bank account today, so your money's sorted.
Day 3: Private Sydney Harbour cruise. Meet the team for lots of info on working and travelling in Oz. Then hop on board our private boat for a party cruise round the harbour, with jaw-dropping views of the Opera House and Harbour Bridge and a BBQ lunch on deck.
Day 4: Bondi to Coogee. Today's all about sun, sand and surf on the legendary Bondi to Coogee coastal walk. Stop to swim, snorkel and play some volleyball before enjoying a proper Aussie barbie and a few brewskis.
Day 5: Port Stephens. Travel to our bush bungalow in gorgeous Port Stephens. We'll take on the vast dunes on a sand board, hike to a viewpoint, enjoy a wine and beer tasting in a local brewery and round off our perfect day with a beach BBQ and some cold beers under the stars.
Day 6: Surf lesson & back to Sydney. This morning we'll head by 4x4 to a secluded beach for a surf lesson. Later, we'll travel back to Sydney in time for another amazing night on the town.
Day 7: Sydney & onward travel planning. Our team will help you plan and book your onward travel. The rest of the day is yours to enjoy as you choose. Catch up on some sleep or explore the city further before another dose of Sydney's belting nightlife.
Day 8: Jobs session. After a comprehensive 'how to find work' seminar this morning, we'll have a chat about the kind of job you're looking for and sign you up on our jobs board. In the evening, get ready for dinner at Australia's highest revolving restaurant!
Day 9: Check out & onward travel. You're ready to begin your new life Down Under! Either check out and continue on to your new accommodation, or stick around at the hostel for a while. Good luck!
Beyond week 1: Living and working in Australia
After your first week is over you can start your job search properly with the help of our Sydney-based jobs team and access to our amazing jobs database. There are vacancies available all over Australia in lots of different fields so you're sure to find something that suits you.
In summary, the job support programme includes:
- Dedicated jobs coordinator
- Exclusive access to our jobs database and app
- Help finding accommodation
- CV review service
- Work and essentials seminar
- Access to training courses
- Aussie bank account, SIM, tax file number and Medicare number
- Mail holding service
- Help with tax back and superannuation
- 2nd year visa help
- Free internet in our office
The most common types of jobs for working holidaymakers are in retail, hospitality, au-pair / nanny roles, construction, farm work and office work, but there are opportunities available in lots of other fields too, especially for skilled workers.
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- 8 nights' accommodation
- 1 breakfast, 4 lunches and 2 dinners
- Group leader
- Assistance from our expert jobs team
- Aussie bank account set up, tax file number, Medicare card, and SIM card
- 12 months job support and advice from local team
- Personal airport pick up on arrival
- All on-trip transport
- Free Wi-Fi
- Welcome meeting
- City orientation
- Jet-boating on Sydney Harbour
- Travel in Oz info session
- Private Sydney Harbour cruise
- Bondi to Coogee coastal walk
- Beach volleyball and snorkelling
- Sand boarding
- Surf lesson
- Farewell dinner
- 24 hour emergency support
- Flights
- Working Holiday Visa (unless selected at the time of booking)
- Travel insurance
- Meals and drinks, unless otherwise stated
- Optional activities and excursions
Your accommodation in Sydney is a lively backpacker's hostel in the heart of the city, close to the harbour and lots of brilliant sights. You'll be sharing a comfortable mixed dorm with 7-9 others. Rooms are bright and modern. You'll have access to shared areas including kitchen, dining area, bathrooms and laundry. You'll also have Wi-Fi and your own locker. Best of all, the hostel has its own lively bar, restaurant and nightclub!
You'll also spend one unforgettable night in a typical Aussie bush bungalow in stunningly beautiful Port Stephens. Just a short work from stunning local beaches, this is an authentic experience and a real highlight of the trip! Rooms are on a mixed dorm basis with a shared bathroom, free Wi-Fi and shared kitchen and dining area.
After your initial eight nights, you can choose to extend your stay at the hostel, or look at getting a house share with other travellers. Our local team will be able to help you arrange this as well as advise you on work, places to visit locally, and travel throughout the rest of the country.
This trip includes 1 breakfast, 4 lunches and 2 dinners. You'll need to buy the rest of your meals, drinks and snacks yourself. This gives you maximum flexibility to eat where and when you like and to really immerse yourself in the foodie culture of Australia.
You should arrange flights to Sydney International Airport (SYD) to arrive on the first day of your programme start date or earlier. You'll be met by one of our team at the airport who will take you to your accommodation in the centre of Sydney. There are no activities on day 1 so you'll have plenty of time to check in and meet your group or just chill out.
Due to Working Holiday Visa (WHV) age restrictions, this trip is only available to 18-30 year olds. British citizens within these ages are eligible for a Working Holiday Visa.
To be eligible for a visa, you'll need to meet the following requirements:
- Hold a passport issued by an eligible country or region
- Be aged 18-30 (inclusive) at the time of applying
- Not be accompanied by dependent children at any time during your stay in Australia
- Meet health, character and financial requirements
- Have not previously entered Australia on a Working Holiday visa (unless applying for a second visa)
- Be outside Australia when you apply and when visa is granted
- Apply within 12 months of intended travel to Australia.
- Have sufficient funds to cover your expected living/trip costs during your stay (approx 5,000 AUD)
- Have funds for a return or onward ticket to depart Australia (or an actual ticket)
- Have health insurance
You can find more information on the Australian Working Holiday Visa here.
For peace of mind, we can include your Working Holiday Visa as part of your Paid Work in Australia package for an additional fee – ask us about this when you call to book. (Please note: If you have a criminal record, you are still able to apply for a Working Holiday Visa, but we will not be able to process your visa for you.)
Do Many People Travel Alone?
Yes, many people on our trips are travelling solo. By doing our trip you'll be travelling with lots of like-minded people – it's a great way to make friends!
Is It Easy To Find Work?
By doing our Paid Work Australia trip, you'll get 12 months' unlimited help and support to find a job in Australia. You'll also receive lifetime access to our jobs app, which connects you to a network of employers all over Australia.
What Sort Of Wages Can I Expect?
National minimum wage is just over £10 an hour. Rates will vary depending on the type of job you have and its location (Darwin is the highest paying area). On average though, you can expect to earn around £10-£15 per hour.
Do I Have To Stay In Sydney?
Not at all! We have job opportunities all over the country. Wherever you decide to go, you'll still have full access to the team's advice.
Do I Have To Stay For The Full 12 Months? / Can I Stay Longer?
There's no minimum stay on the Working Holiday Visa, so you can stay for a short while if you wish. We recommend a minimum of 4 months to make the most out of your experience. If you want to stay longer than 12 months, there is a possibility of extending your visa for a further year, but this depends on job restrictions. You'll need to have undertaken at least 3 months working on a farm or ranch in order to qualify for a visa extension.
What's The Best Way To Access My Money?
We'll open up a local bank account for you. We recommend transferring your money into your new Aussie bank account to avoid paying international banking fees. ATMs are widely available across Australia so it's easy to draw cash out and credit cards are accepted in most places.
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By: Jim Longworth
North Carolina's gerrymandered Congressional boundaries are, to say the least, confusing. For example, if you stand in the middle of NC A&T University's campus, you'll have one foot in the 6th District, and the other foot in the 13th District. And while the Courts and our State General Assembly may alter those boundaries by next year, and while some residents of those districts may disagree with the politics of their respective Representative, the upside is that Mark Walker and Ted Budd, both Republicans, are two of the most honest, congenial, and hard-working politicians I have ever known. High praise indeed from this old liberal Independent who often disagrees with them on public policy initiatives, many of which we discussed last week when both men stopped by the studio to tape a special edition of Triad Today, which will air this Saturday at 7:30 a.m. on abc45, and Sunday at 11 a.m. on MY48. An audio edition will air on WSJS radio, Saturday at 8:30 a.m. During the half-hour program, we covered a wide range of topics, ranging from hate speech to immigration. What follows are some highlights from our conversation.
Jim: When Republican Congressman Steve King made racist remarks, you guys drafted a resolution condemning him, and even stripped him of his committee assignments. But when Democratic Congresswoman Ilhan Omar made anti-Semitic remarks, her name was nowhere to be found on a resolution. Is that why the two of you voted against the final resolution?
Ted: It was nearly unanimous when Republicans spoke against the words of Steve King, but when it came to Omar, the Democrats came up missing. They didn't deal with the committee assignments; they didn't deal with the actual hate speech which she had repeated multiple times.
Mark: I was in the room when we made the decision to remove Steve King from his committees. We expected that the Democrats would offer the same decorum.
Jim: Speaking of resolutions, why not draft one that admonishes President Trump for his divisive rhetoric, which the Southern Poverty Law Center says is responsible for the historic rise in hate groups, and which the New Zealand shooter said inspired him to kill 50 Muslims?
Mark: I have no problem calling out hate and standing up for injustice anytime it happens, but I will push back a little on the Southern Poverty Law Center. Though they did great work in the beginning and should be commended for it, they list people like Ben Carson and the Family Research Council as hate groups, and I think the SPLC needs to be more responsible.
Jim: Nearly every mass shooting over the past 20 years has involved assault-style weapons and large capacity ammo clips. Do you support a ban on those weapons and clips?
Ted: Absolutely not. We have to deal with those who have terrorist intent, and those who have criminal intent. You have to deal with the people and not the device.
Mark: I'm willing to take a second look at anything that comes across our desk, but Republicans stand strong for background checks. Also, last session we worked on the "Fix/Nix" legislation which deals with the national criminal database, to make sure there were no loopholes or gaps.
Jim: I am not a fan of President Trump, but he's right when he says we have a border crisis. In February alone over 75,000 illegal immigrants crossed our Southern border, and that number is expected to grow to one million by year's end.
Ted: This has been a problem that is very bi-partisan. Go back to 2006, 2011, and 2013. $50 billion was appropriated, and Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer were behind the "Secure Fences Act." Now, all of a sudden when Trump is in office, they're absolutely against him. It's become hyper-politicized, and we need to realize this is a national security issue.
Mark: I've looked at these numbers, and there's been a 572 percent increase in illegal immigration since the last administration, and now it's a humanitarian issue because we're seeing immigrant children being abused. Even Doctors Without Borders will tell you that one out of three of these young girls are being assaulted, and one out of six young men.
Jim: How are things different now that you're no longer in the majority?
Mark: It's a little different place, but you know what? It's a privilege and an honor to serve the people of North Carolina, and we're still learning. I'm happy to have the opportunity, and we hope to do the very best job we can.
Jim Longworth is the host of "Triad Today," airing on Saturdays at 7:30 a.m. on ABC45 (cable channel 7) and Sundays at 11 a.m. on WMYV (cable channel 15).


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It is rare for photographs to be published in total isolation from text whether it be hashtags, blogs, captions, cutlines, essays, artist statements, articles, news stories, words inside the frame or in books; the relationship between words and pictures is a subject in its own right which I will return to later but regardless of how text and photographs come together and whether they collaborate in equal or unequal partnerships each medium always changes the nature of the other.
In parallel with working on assignment 2 my focus over the last two weeks has been to look at how various practitioners have approached rural subjects and within that context the construction of photo series. In the pursuit of these topics I rather dismissed the work of the FSA photographers arguing that their work was "highly contextualised to time and place" (here). But, having reviewed John Berger and Jean Mohr's A Fortunate Man (here) and subsequently having dipped into the same authors' equally compelling works A Seventh Man and At The Edge of the World and reading John Berger's assertion that he and Jean Mohr used the "magnificent" Let Us Now Praise Famous Men (1) as their starting point (2) it became an imperative to find a copy of Agee and Walker's landmark publication. At this stage I am more interested in how the photographer in the partnership developed their series of photographs but as, in this instance, the photographer is Walker Evans I want to first look at how he came to collaborate on this project and how it fitted into the context of his wider practice.
Walker Evans
In 1936, James Agee, a young writer working for Fortune Magazine, was given the assignment to report on tenant and sharecropper farmers in the Southern States, he was given the freedom to choose his own photographer and asked Walker Evans, then working for the Resettlement Administration (i), to accompany him.
Walker Evans, despite being a colossus of American photography eludes casual classification. As the first photographer to be invited to exhibit in a solo show at the Museum of Modern Art he has a better claim than most as an art photographer but there is no overt artistry in his work, it is straight and unadorned lacking the gimmickry that he despised, in fact David Campany argues that he was "uneasy with photography as an art and cautious about his image as an artist" (3).
For nearly thirty years from 1934 until 1965 he was associated with Fortune Magazine, first as a contributor and then as a full time staff photographer which suggests we define him as a photojournalist and Campany projects him as a magazine man in a much broader sense in Walker Evans the Magazine Work (3) by describing him as a photographer-writer who insisted on providing the text and directing the layout of his photo stories.
And, eventually, like many other great photographers, he finished his career as a teacher. He is most commonly thought of as a documentarist but he rejected "documentary" as being a "sophisticated and misleading word" arguing that a literal document is useful, for example a "police photograph of a murder scene" whereas art is useless so art can never be a document; he simply described himself as a photographer who used a "documentary style" (4).
However we may wish to describe him Walker Evans was already an accomplished photographer when he accompanied Agee to Alabama in 1936. In Walker Evans (5) David Campany walks us through his career highlighting the repetitive themes that developed and evolved during the early 1930's; they include words inside the frame, informal portraits in the style of August Sander, marginal people, vernacular architecture, the textures of weathering and decay, workers' homes, automobiles, the road and, more broadly, the recording of things that were being swept aside by the relentless march of progress including the architecture and traditions of the common man.
These themes are important in that they all feature in Let Us Now Praise Famous Men and in his other landmark publication American Photographs (6) which accompanied his 1938 Museum of Modern Art exhibition. Walker was at his creative peak in the 1930's and most of his best known photographs date from this time and are included in one or both of these books. Campany presents a strong argument in Magazine Work that he continued to produce remarkable work until, at least, his retirement from publishing in 1964 but putting that aside for a moment I am struck that many of his passions at this early stage of his career are more often the subject matter and concerns of older men; serious photographers in their thirties are typically concerned with social issues but Evans was also highly sensitive to America's ambivalence towards its own history and to the state of small towns and rural areas. He was looking back and attracted by the style and measured approach of Eugène Atget and August Sander, no doubt recognising that photography's ability to record in an honest and factual way exceeded its potential as a high art; as described by Campany he "stood back from the white heat of progress and to the side of the mainstream values of twentieth-century America" (5).
Let Us Now Praise Famous Men
Berger and Mohr collaborate by integrating text and picture; whilst neither specifically illustrate the other, they move through their books in pace with each other . The reader-viewer follows the photo-essay and the text simultaneously, using one to amplify the other; by the end of the experience I visualised two authors of a common mind, expressing a shared vision of a mutual experience. Agee and Evans not only took a completely different route they leave the reader-viewer questioning to what degree they reached a common conclusion regarding their subject. Evans' photographs form the first section of the book with no introductory text, captions or other explanation and are followed by an unillustrated and lengthy story by Agee.
The first edition of Let Us Now Praise Famous Men was published in 1941, five years after Agee and Evans spent three to four weeks with the three families upon which the book is based. This delay was initially caused by Fortune magazine's refusal to publish what was meant to be an article but that had grown into something much larger and subsequently by the authors' struggle to find an interested publisher. Agee had raged about the situation of the tenant farmers but the delayed publication not only resulted in the book missing the moment when its message might have helped bring attention to the Southern rural poor but also coincided with the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbour, the end of the depression and the resultant switch of American public attention to the war. Campany reports that it only sold 199 copies in its first two years of publication and although it went on to sell a further 750 copies after the price had been knocked down to 19 cents, less than the production cost (7).
It was republished in 1960, after the award of a posthumous Pulitzer Prize to James Agee who had died prematurely in 1955, and on this occasion met with critical acclaim. I have not seen the 1941 edition but understand that it is significantly different from the republished and better known 1960 edition. Bruce jackson explains that Evans increased the number of included photographs from thirty-one to sixty-two and significantly broadened their scope to include pictures from his earlier projects for the Resettlement Administration taken outside Alabama (8). He also included an essay of his own which alters the experimental structure of the original publication.
Throughout his career Evans was determined to control both his photography and how it was published; when working for Resettlement Association / Farm Security Administration he clashed with its director, Roy Stryker, on several occasions railing against Stryker's scripted shoot plans whilst Stryker was disappointed with what he saw as Evans' lack of productivity. Monika Berenyi reports that Evans "adopted a passive aggressive stance towards his director's incessant formulaic instructions" (9) remaining fiercely independent. When budget restrictions hit the agency Evans was the first photographer to be dismissed. In the essay included within the Errata edition of American Photographs (6) John Hill describes Evans as having spent "much" of 1938 "planning, editing, sequencing and correcting" the pictures for the book and several writers refer to him locking himself into the Museum of Modern Art, equipped with the tools to rehang his photographs, on the night before the exhibition of the same name. One might assume that his long career with Fortune Magazine was facilitated by the freedom he was given to select his own photographic subjects, write his own text and design his page layouts.
This propensity towards controlling all aspects of his output and the previously discussed changes that he made between the 1941 and 1960 editions of Let Us Now Praise Famous Men raise questions regarding his collaboration with James Agee although his respect and liking for the man comes through in his foreword to the 1960 edition. In an interview in 2011 (10) he stated that this book was "the most conspicuous thing I've done" and emphasises that Agee was not only the leader of the project but that without his people skills the results would have been quite different.
The Photographs
This edition still opens with Evans' photographs, they start immediately after his redesigned cover, no title, copyright page or preface; all that comes after his pictures and before Agee's text. Not only the structure but the balance of this book is radically different to the works of Berger and Mohr. The photographs fill around thirty pages, the written word over three hundred and eighty. However, Agee is keen to make the point that this imbalance should not be misinterpreted and that the photographs and text are "co-equal, mutually independent, and fully collaborative" warning us that if we fail to understand this point it is due to the "impotence" of our eyes. Bruce Jackson (8) recalls that on his first attempt to read the book he assigned it to his "read later" pile after the third or forth insult to the reader and there is no doubt that Agee comes over as prickly, looking for a fight with everyone from the reader to his publishers just in case they had dared to edit his text. The intent here is not to review the book, just the photographs, but I have highlighted Agee's confrontational style which is in great contrast to Evans' description of how he acted with their subjects and, most relevantly, to Evans' photographs.
Agee is angry with his editors for asking him to invade the lives of the tenant farmers to "parade their nakedness, disadvantage and humiliation ……. in the name of honest journalism" (1 – p5) and in the view of Catharina Graf (11) he was conflicted by Evans' invasion of the subjects' privacy. She argues that Agee had expected to remain distanced and objective but to achieve the results they needed the camera had to be intrusive, to enter the subjects' homes in a way the writer could have, would have normally avoided; Agee was dragged too close for comfort by Evans' photographic process. This is an intriguing and perceptive idea because the end result of Agee's writing is subjective, highly personal, angry and self analytical whereas Evans' photographs are restrained, beautifully gentle, straight and objective. Agee wanted to change the world but Evan's was uncomfortable with being labelled as a "social protest artist" and said " (I) never took it upon myself to change the world" (10) describing good photography as having "detachment, lack of sentimentality, originality" (12).
Part of the power of this book lies in the tension between the soap box, albeit sophisticated and complex soap box, writing style of Agee and the honest, sympathetic but detached photography of Evans. Each photograph demands description and discussion but to meet my current objectives of understanding the nature of the series I will try to comment on their collective effect. As previously discussed we know that the sequence is carefully managed by the photographer; he opens with the landlord in his jacket, shirt and tie; if the tenant farmers are victims this is the perpetrator of the crime (ii), the photograph is a homage to August Sander, a direct there quarter portrait that would not look out of place in Face of our Time.
The series now switches between three central themes; farmers and farmers wives, exteriors and interiors of their houses and their children. In varying sequences Evans repeats these major motifs but always rests longer on the children that either their parents or their homes.
Apart from the handsome young man who features on the book's cover the adults are tired, aged beyond their years, careworn and exhausted by hard physical labour and parenthood. In contrast the children are beautiful but passive and wary, we can predict their future and map their progress towards the exhausted hopelessness of their parents.
These are people who have had nearly everything, included their dreams, stolen from them by the system and an economic crisis, they only retain their dignity and Evans, much to his credit, leaves this intact. Suzanne Austgen (14) writes that, according to Agee, Evans allowed mothers to clean up their children before he photographed them and the interiors of the houses are often spotlessly clean, a level of tidiness and cleanliness that speaks of these poor women still taking great pride in the way their humble, shack-like, homes are viewed and photographed by the Northern journalists. The scrubbed faces of the children and the newly tidied and dusted, but starkly simple homes, are more painful to view than any alternative, dirty reality; the inferred juxtaposition between their circumstances and how they wish to be viewed is all too human.
As was clear in American Photographs Evans is the master of this type of photography, it plays to his strengths and his lifelong interests. He can photograph a weathered shack near to collapse but represent it as valued architecture, a home more than a building, a thing to be understood in the context of a rapidly changing economic climate. He can capture the portrait of poverty as could Hine in a manner that generates hard anger rather than soft sympathy. These people were farmers, proud and hard people who stood on their own two feet taking on and dealing with everything the climate, landscape and nature threw at them only to be beaten by the system; they would not have asked for a sympathetic ear, nor would they have wanted to be represented as victims. Evans captures their pride both in their portraits and in their homes, he captures their practical nature, their hard work, their weather beaten faces and their loved children presenting them, not as needy, but as deserving of help.
After we have been introduced to the families Evans explores their journeys into town and contrasts the urban environment with the rural poor. This is a much harder section of the series to read and appears to dart in and out of a number of different subject matters that make less of a coherent whole than the first set of photographs. Main street looks alive and bustling and although the farmers have come to town in a horse drawn cart the street is lined with cars. However, he then switches to run down commercial premises, black men sitting outside a decaying barber's shop, a distressed building in the classical style and a deserted railway station emphasising the impact of the depression on the urban environment.
His ending is unambiguous; a child's grave, the soil still dark from a recent burial. Even here he maintains his dignified approach by photographing the sad little mound from a mourner's viewpoint.
Overall this is a compelling series that was tragically published too late to help the families with whom Agee and Evans developed a bond. Photography is always historic and the viewer is left to fill in the void between the then and now. If their situation radically improved in the economic boom that accompanied the war effort there is the chance that one or two of these small children are still alive and in their eighties looking back on a life that started in poverty in the rural South and ended who knows where? Evans' straight documentary style with his often centrally positioned subjects and a total lack of artiness or pretension allows us to connect to these people.
I am a little haunted by the little boy in his filthy dungarees staring at the camera from inside his rusted and chipped metal cot. His dark eyes and half smile suggest a lively, bright little mind considering the meaning of the strange young man behind his huge camera. Did he grow up to be a farmer like his father? Did he have the chance to grow up at all?
Notes on Text
(i) Formed in 1935 the Resettlement Administration (RA) was the forerunner of the Farm Security Administration (FSA) which was established in 1937. In 1935 Roy E. Stryker became the head of the RA's Historical Section and once the organisation was renominated in 1937 he established the photographic project that endeavoured to document the issues of the farmers they were trying to help. Some of the greatest American documentary photographers worked for Stryker and the FSA including Walker Evans, Dorothea Lange and Russell Lee.
(ii) I feel somewhat guilty that having often read of the tenant farmers and sharecroppers of this era that it is only now that I have understand the economic realities of their existence. These farmers were contracted to handing over half their crop and a quarter of their earnings from their retained half. (13). It seems unlikely that this was a tenable model in the good times and in times of depression verged upon slavery as well as forcing them into bad farming and land management practices.
(1) Agee, James and Evans, Walker (1941) Let Us Now Praise Famous Men (First Mariner Books Edition 2001). Boston: Houghton Miffin Company
(2) Berger, John (1967) Understanding a Photograph. London: Penguin Classics
(3) Campany, David (2014) Walker Evans: The Magazine Work. Göttingen: Steidl
(5) Campany, David (2015) Walker Evans. New York: Aperture
(6) Evans, Walker (1938) American Photographs (Errata Books on Books Second Edition 2011) New York: Errata
(4) Katz, Leslie (1971) I was damn well going to be an artist and I wasn't going to be a businessman (accessed at ASX 29.3.16) – http://www.americansuburbx.com/2011/10/interview-an-interview-with-walker-evans-pt-1-1971.html
(7) Campany, David (2014) Walker Evans (1903 – 1975) (accessed at David Campany 29.3.16) – http://davidcampany.com/walker-evans-1903-1975/
(8) Jackson, Bruce (1999) The Deceptive Anarchy of Let Us Now Praise Famous Men (accessed at Buffalo University 29.3.16) – http://www.acsu.buffalo.edu/~bjackson/LUNPFM.HTML
(9) Berenyi, Monika (2013) Reading Images by Walker Evans in the US Resettlement Administration-Farm Security Administration Archival File, 1935-1938 (accessed at the author's website 5.4.16) – http://monikaberenyi.com/?p=108
(10) ASX (2011) An Interview with Walker Evans: 'The Thing Itself is Such a Secret and so Unapproachable' (1974) (accessed at ASX 29.3.16) – http://www.americansuburbx.com/2011/10/interview-walker-evans-with-students.html
(11) Graf, Catharina Image and Text at Work: 'Let Us Now Praise famous Men' and the Photographic Essay (accessed at Academia 29.3.16) – https://www.academia.edu/3677714/Image_and_Text_at_Work_Let_Us_Now_Praise_Famous_Men_and_the_Photographic_Essay
(12) Cummins, Paul (1971) Walker Evans on What Makes a 'Good Photograph' and Avoiding 'Too Much Pictorialism' (accessed at ASX 29.3.16) – http://www.americansuburbx.com/2014/11/walker-evans-good-photograph.html
(13) Denby, David (2006) A Famous Man (accessed at the New Yorker 29.3.16) – http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2006/01/09/a-famous-man
(14) Austgen, Suzanne. Let Us Now Praise famous Men: Agee and Evans' Great Experiment (accessed at History Hanover 29.3.16) – http://history.hanover.edu/hhr/hhr93_5.html


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When drilling your pilot shot, it's tempting to throw the biggest, baddest bit in your toolshed onto your drill and call it a day. Inexact tooling choices might get the job done eventually—but will hamper productivity and expose your HDD tools to unnecessary wear and tear.
Knowing what to look for before you begin drilling and familiarizing yourself with some of the key differences between bits will help you choose the best tool for the job. Here's what you need to know.
Check the size of your product against the area you're drilling
Knowing the diameter and quantity of the pipe you're installing is the first step in selecting the best bit for the job. Keep this knowledge in mind as you walk the path you're planning to shoot. As you look at the depth and location of various other utility packages, evaluate the thickness of your own product and whether you'll have the ability to weave through existing utilities or will have to circumvent them with sufficient clearance on all sides. Your goal is to drill a hole with the minimum diameter that will enable you to successfully pull product without squeezing or stretching the pipe.
Check the ground conditions
It's impossible to know exactly what type of soil you'll run into during your job, but it is possible to get a pretty good idea before you begin. Inspect the soil in your entry pit and receiving pits. By physically handling the dirt, you'll get a sense of the layers of material that are running through your bore path. Of course, with all HDD jobs, there will be surprises, but having a pretty good idea upfront of the type of material you'll be drilling will help you select the bit that will work best.
Here are the types of bits you should use in each soil type:
Sand – Sand drilling requires a pointed bit with protective carbide buttons that help you snake your way through abrasive conditions. Because there's less surface area to push off, direction changes might take a little longer. However, a bit with a wider front—one like Excalibur—can help mitigate steering issues.
Shale – To penetrate shale, a bit needs to break up the material and successfully move it out of the way, so a bit with sharp teeth performs ideally in these conditions. Look for a bit with removable carbide cutters to get more life out of your HDD tools. A bit like the Eagle Claw SD often ends up being the best bang for your buck. Your initial investment may be much greater than buying a typical aggressive bit, but once you realize you will wear out ten or more of those other bits before needing to rebuild your Eagle Claw SD, the decision becomes obvious.
Clay – If it's a softer clay, you'll usually want a blade that has a wide surface area to help with steering. A harder or compact clay will require a bit with more of a point. Carbides aren't a necessity, but it doesn't hurt to have their extra protection.
Cobble – Drilling cobble is more about moving smaller pieces of material out of the way than it is about boring through a hard rock surface. The general rule when selecting a cobble bit is to look for a tool with dome cutters which will roll off the rocks. Trying to bust through the material will just create unnecessary wear. This is because bits with teeth extending out from their face, or those with more of a point, will tend to hang up on the cobbles or snap off all together.
Hardpan & gravel – In these challenging conditions, you'll need a rounded bit that can chew through the material but has enough surface area to facilitate direction changes without slowing down. Look for blades with a round nose and aggressive front and side cutters. Rock Saw is a perfect example of the type blade that can handle the job.
Rock – For drillable rock, you'll want an aggressive bit with a steep taper that helps with steering. Our appropriately-named Steep Taper Ultra Bit 3 features conical carbide cutters that work relentlessly on the rock to carve out a clean-cut path.
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Red Diamond is an ideal all-around bit that will take on any soil in its path—it's like driving a tank underground. Though Red Diamond can stand up to abrasive material like sand, it's better to save this bit for conditions in which standard blades might struggle. Designed with solid carbide as protective armor on all sides, this steep tapered blade can out-drill and outlast pretty much every other blade on the market. This longevity isn't great for sales, but it is great for drillers.
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Tension headaches: The most common type of headaches in adults.
Tension headaches usually involve contracted (tense) muscles of the scalp and/or neck, often caused by stress and anxiety.
What do they feel like?
Most people feel pressure or tightness in the forehead or the back of the head where the skull meets the neck. Some people feel pain behind the eyes.
How to manage tension headaches.
Many people carry stress in their neck, upper traps and temples (from grinding teeth). Here are some simple ways to prevent and relieve tension headaches.
1. Rollout and Stretch!
To release the tight suboccipital muscles at the base of the head, tape 2 lacrosse or tennis balls together and place it behind your head where the skull meets the neck. Let the weight of your head press into the balls and roll up down along the neck.
Tight upper traps can trigger tension headaches. Too loosen the muscle, sit on your right hand and bring your left ear to shoulder, then rotate the head down and to the left. Hold for 30 seconds then repeat on the Left.
Grinding teeth brings pressure to the temples and muscles on top of the skull. Lightly massage the tense areas/trigger points.
2. Maintain Good Posture!
Poor posture adds strain to the muscles behind the neck. Work on keeping your shoulders back and chin up, and avoid staring down at a handheld device or computer.
3. Hydrate!
Drinking water can also help minimize the strength of the headache.
Tension headaches can get worse throughout the day, so be proactive if you feel one coming on!
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I can't believe that the Diocese of Rockville Centre could claim there isn't a priest shortage on Long Island ["Unbalanced report on 'priest shortage'," Letters, Aug. 8]. If there is no shortage, why did the church have 125 foreign-born priests working on Long Island?
The foreign-born priests, although very nice, cannot be understood by many of the parishioners because of their accents. This is alienating for many Catholics.
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Yamaha Racing Development rider Mitch Levy has dominated round 4 of the Swann Insurance Supersport Championship with hat trick of wins at Sydney Motorsport Park on his Yamaha R6.
The young Sydney privateer scored an impressive win in race 1 by 4.5 seconds after starting from P2 in the 7 lap race. Levy followed up the race 1 victory with a comfortable win in race 2 over fellow Sydneysider Giuseppe Scarcella (Honda CBR600) after championship leader Kyle Buckley (BC Performance ZX6) made an uncharacteristic mistake and jump started relegating him to 3rd position.
Levy rode a controlled final race bringing his Yamaha YRD R6 home just under half a second in front of Scarcella and Buckley to round out a successful day for the team. Levy's hat trick now sees him draw level in the Australasian Supersport Championship with Buckley as they head into round 5 of the 6 round Championship at Queensland Raceway in just over a month time.
Mitch Levy "We came into this round 12 points shy of the championship leader and really needed to make a move if we want to win the championship. I knew all the boys would be fired up this weekend and I needed to be at the top of my game. We were able to get away with a clear win in race 1 and from there it was about managing my pace over the remaining 2 races. The team worked hard in the lead up and all weekend and gave me a fantastic package for Saturday. I cannot thank them enough".
The championship standings after round 4
1. Mitch Levy YRD R6 303 points
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Growing up in the Tin Palace, we collected rainwater from the roof into a 1,000 gallon cistern, and that was all the water we had. In the winter, that was all well and good, because the rain would replentish the cistern as fast as we could empty it–sometimes faster, in fact, and water would pour out of the overflow valve and the top of the tank. Winter for me was a time of long, hot showers, leisurely dish washing, and rampant toilet flushing.
But in April or May, we would have to start conserving, to make the water last until the next rain. Sometimes we didn't make it, and would have to buy water. But most of the time, we did.
The "if it's yellow, let it mellow, if it's brown, flush it down" sign went up on the bathroom door. Dishes were done using a minimum of water–showers were quick and to the point (and not every day, unless you'd gotten particularly dirty). You turned the shower on to wet yourself, turned off the valve at the top, soaped, rinsed, and that was it. If you were washing your hair, that was done in intermittent spurts as well–usually in the summer my hair was bundled up and away, allowed to be greasy all week until I couldn't take it anymore and had to wash it. I never smelled, unlike some hippies, because I took care to keep myself clean, but I didn't have the luxury of staying under the shower water and musing over life, that's for sure. When I stayed at friend's houses, I would leap upon the shower with glee in the morning, reveling in my ability to leave the water on during my whole shower–and people would still comment on how short my showers were.
I was just glad to have running water–on Molybos, water was hauled from the well, laboriously, for all household tasks. America is a strange place, where water gushes forth at the turn of a spigot.
I remember once in high school when I had a particularly miserable day, and all I wanted to do was take a shower and mull things over, but I had taken a shower already in the morning. So I went into the bathroom and stood in the shower, water off, thinking. The tiles were cool on my feet, and I could hear the house settling and groaning around me, the dry grasses crackling in the yard. The cedar boards which lined our shower were cool to the touch, and the nasturtium that grew through the crack next to the "cold" tap was almost all leaves, green and fibrous, brushing against me.
Water was a luxury throughout my youth. I was shocked to see how other people abused water–and when I left for college, I was mortified at the thought of taking multiple showers a day, of washing your hair daily, of leaving water on to run, not fixing leaking toilets. Ornamental gardens were frippery to me–I couldn't imagine wasting water on flowers. I couldn't imagine leaving a glass of water unfinished at a restaurant, of flushing the toilet for every bit of business you did there, of having water fights.
It is with dismay that I read news reports about the "unprecedented rain." It seems like every day the front page of the Chronicle is bemoaning the rain. Truth be told, California has been experiencing a drought of varying intensity since the 1980s. Rainfall hasn't been at normal levels for a very long time, and it disgusts me to read the yuppie whining about rain "spoiling their weekends".
Fuck your weekends, and your precedents too.
The rain is increasing our snowpack, refilling our reservoirs, and renewing the earth. Most of the world views water as a precious resource–Americans are still flushing it down the fucking toilet. It might shock you to know, gentle readers who experience gushing pure water at the touch of a tap, that people live off the contents of a 1,000 gallon cistern for five months, that they drink that water unfiltered. We are all dependent on rainfall for water–some of us face it more immediately. In my eyes, the later the rain falls, and the earlier it starts, the more water to shower in, to drink with, to wash dishes. The more water to fill the river to swim in on a lazy summer day. The more water to irrigate the crops you fill your table with. The more water to nourish fish.
Right now, I live in town, and am connected to city water. Recently there was a series of articles expressing concern about the water storage level in the city reservoir. There was discussion of creating a second reservoir to ensure we didn't run out of water some hot, dry summer. Water is an ever-present need, and for those who choose to be conscious of it, something which is constantly under discussion. We all use it: most of you seem to take it for granted.
Readers from California may remember the drought which crippled the state in the early nineties. Or maybe not. Perhaps your memories fade so quickly that for you water is always there, an easy to attain resource, which requires no more thought than the spin of a tap.
Think outside the narrow box of your personal desires. We live in a world where we rely on collected rainfall–whether trapped in aquifers where are thousands of years old, collected in reservoirs, or directly held in storage tanks and cisterns. Rejoice in the rain. Go out into it, feel the touch of the drops on your skin, and imagine each drop dancing its way into the glass of water you drink later, the long shower you take, the dishwater you use. Take a day to sit at home and read, clean the stove, or watch a movie. Or go out hiking in the rain, let it kiss your skin, and come home fulfilled. Watch the patterns it makes in your slowly overflowing streets–remember the pleasure you took in it when you were a child.
Carry a damn umbrella if you hate the rain so much, but don't wish it away for your own selfish desires to have a sunny day. Other people need it. You need it.


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Imagine you are leading a delegation from the Joseon dynasty, traveling to Beijing to visit the court of the Qing emperor.
On entering China, a border guard inspects your diplomatic passport, while a few hundred meters ahead, a band strikes up the Korean national anthem – a rousing march, heavy on the brass – in honor of the close relations between Korea and China.
David C. Kang, professor of international relations and business at the University of Southern California, points out that most of the symbols we associate today with international relations and statehood – passports, national anthems – are intrinsically tied to the Western concept of the nation state, which arose following the Treaty of Westphalia in 1648, and which was based on the concept that all states, regardless of discrepancies in their political, economic or military power, were equal in their sovereignty.
In a recent interview with "Korea and the World,"1 Professor Kang points out that, no matter how much we take this international system for granted, it is a relatively recent transplant to Asia, resulting from the opening of East Asian civilizations to Western commerce and ideas – backed by military force – in the 19th century. This is reinforced, he quips, by the fact that national anthems in this part of the world do not draw on local musical traditions, but instead sound like European marches written in the 1860s.
Unlike the post-Westphalian interaction between sovereign nation states that arose in Europe, Asia historically enjoyed a system of stable political and economic relations based on every participant (many of which bear little resemblance to nations as we think of them today) knowing its place in a hierarchy with China at the apex.
Professor Kang explains that China's historical role as top dog was earned by virtue of having the most advanced civilization. Although almost all of the participants in the Asian system were, to some degree, tributary vassal states to China, the system was a true hierarchy, with each participant enjoying an implicitly understood status relative to the others based on how closely it emulated Chinese civilization and accomplishments – in many senses, its level of Confucianism.
This system, rather than resulting in China running roughshod over its weaker neighbors as the bully on the block, instead ushered in a Pax Sinica that prevailed through much of the Han, Tang and Ming dynasties – a combined period of almost 1,000 years that ended four years before the Treaty of Westphalia.
So with a re-emergent China, is a return to Pax Sinica likely?
Not really, argues Professor Kang. China is no longer a "vibrant cultural beacon." Communism was effective in dismantling the feudal and Confucian belief systems that underpinned its historical cultural supremacy, but no one really believes in communism anymore.
And nothing has emerged to take its place – "anything to get ahead" is not an attractive basis for the emulative hierarchy that dominated pre-Western relations in Asia.


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What if you were dramatically unprepared for the Level III CFA Program exam and needed to focus on the most important information for the upcoming test. What would you study over the next nine days?
Whatever the reason, many candidates find themselves unprepared at this point whether it be real for a lack of studying or imagined from simple anxiety. While I wouldn't think it's possible to do all your studying in just the next week and a half, there are some sections you can focus on to get the most points and have a chance at passing the exam.
The topic weights for the Level III CFA Program exam doesn't really help like it may for the other two exams. We see that each of the asset classes are worth between 5% and 15%, with the exception of fixed income which is weighted a little more heavily. Beyond these four topics, we're only told that the rest of the exam, between 45% and 55%, is wrapped up into portfolio management.
We do know that the exam is divided into an essay section in the morning and a item-set section in the afternoon. Since the afternoon item-set section isn't really any different than that seen in the Level II CFA Program exam, the best use of your time might be to focus on the morning essay section.
There are a couple of reasons for this. First, there is a lot that goes into the morning section that just knowing the material. You need to be able to write for upward of three hours without getting tired and knowing the format of the exam helps a lot. Some questions can be answered directly under the problem while others are answered in a special template box.
Another reason to focus on the morning section for your last minute studying is that your performance on the essays can really help set the tone for your mood in the afternoon. Don't underestimate the confidence boost from getting max points on the essays, in particular the first couple of portfolio management essay questions.
Fortunately, practicing the morning section is made easier by the Institute. You'll find the last three years' worth of essay questions along with guideline answers on the CFA Institute website. Using these helps to get a sense of what you might see on this year's exam as well as how to approach it. Studying the last few years can also give you a sense of the topics that most frequently show up on the morning section, Level III CFA Program Essay Section?" href="http://www.finquiz.com/blog/2013/05/03/which-topics-usually-show-up-on-the-cfa-level-3-essay-section/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">discussed in a previous post here.
If I had just one week to study for the Level 3 exam, I would focus first on the individual and institutional management questions in the last three years' exams. These will be the first questions you get in the morning.
Remember, there are two primary types of return questions you will get for individual portfolio management, a single-period return calculation or a required return (multi-period) calculation. We've worked both of these in previous posts here on the blog. You also need to know the five portfolio constraints for the IPS and how they relate to the risk tolerance and return objectives.
We've reviewed each study session and several of the previous years' essay questions in our 21-week study program, so you might want to start there as a quick review. If you do decide to just focus on the prior essay questions, you may want to review some material from the topics that do not typically appear in the morning section like: Financial Reporting & Analysis, Corporate Finance, and Quantitative Methods.
'til next time, happy studyin'
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Here's a great article that I thought I would pass on...hope you find it informative! –Kim
Keep Pets Safe from Warm Weather
If April showers bring May flowers, then the combination of the two mean a climbing heat index. While pets are eager to get outside as much as possible in warmer climates, the sunny weather is not without some perils for both cats and dogs.
Who should know better about pets, warm weather, and fun activities than Heidi Ganahl, CEO and founder of Camp Bow Wow USA (or Camp Bow Wow Canada), which boasts 200 nationwide franchises handling 108 camps a season. With each camp keeping about 100 dogs active on a daily basis, Ganahl is the premier expert on taking care of pets during the dog days of summer. So, Zootoo Pet News got her take on what owners can do to keep their pets safe this summer:
Q: In your experience, how have you watched the summer heat impact cats and dogs?
Ganahl: Summers provide lots of opportunities for fun with your dog — camping, hiking, swimming, kayaking and backpacking, to name a few — but also bring a unique set of health hazards and risks pet owners should be aware of including: dehydration, burned pads, parasite infestation, heat stroke, leptospirosis and seasonal allergies.
Q: Some heat-related "symptoms" are obvious — panting, drinking more water — but what are some more hidden behaviors which should indicate to owners that a cat or dog is feeling the effects of warm weather?
Ganahl: The eyes appear sunken and lack moisture. The mouth appears dry; gums and nose are dry.
Q: What is the most important activity a pet should be doing to beat the summer heat?
Ganahl: Keep them cool or out of the sun, and keep them calm and not too active!
Q: Are dogs or cats more prone to feel the effects of heat?
Ganahl: Different issues for each, but here's the scoop on keeping kitties safe: you can help your cat survive extremely hot weather by keeping him indoors in a cool interior room. Rubbing him down with a damp towel will help; so will immersing his feet in a tub of cool water. Wrapping a cold compress under the cat's neck will also help cool him off. He may fight at first, but most likely will appreciate it once he gets used to the idea. Try wrapping a plastic bag of frozen peas in a towel, and placing it in his bed for a cool spot to lie. The peas will rearrange themselves to fit his contours and he'll have a "custom spa" for cooling off.
In addition to Ganahl's advice, there are myriad ways owners should work on keeping their pets safe. Check out Zootoo's compiled list below to ensure your cat and dog have a carefree and fun summer:
Pets need sunscreen. Just like humans, your cat or dog can get extremely sunburned, especially if your pet has light colored hair. Animal sunburns can cause the same problems as those of humans: peeling, redness and even cancer. Skin cancer in pets is much more prevalent than one would assume, so purchasing pet-friendly sunscreen can go a long way in protecting the health of your pet when the heat kicks in. Places that are easy to forget, but prone to burning are: inside the nostrils, tip of nose, around your dog's lips and the inside of ears for dogs with stand-up ears.
Never leave your pet in the car. It may seem like a car trip will cool off your pet, but it will probably do more harm than good if you leave your pet in the car for even a few minutes. The temperature in your car can rise over 100 degrees in a manner of minutes, so if you are bringing the dog in the car, make sure you can take him out on any errands you run when parking the vehicle.
Pets need extra water... but don't let them drink just anything. Just like humans, pets need a lot of water during the summer, but be careful not to leave that water out too long. The heat can breed bacteria, which can sicken your pet if you've left it out in the sun too long. Give your dog extra water during the spring and summer, but be careful to change the water often. If dogs are extra thirsty, pets are bound to drink something they shouldn't drink. Puddles of what looks like water may be on the ground, but these may include antifreeze or other dangerous chemicals, so keep an eye when the dog is panting and looking for something to sip on.
Don't give your pet TOO much exercise. Don't overdo it in the heat. Keep walks to a gentle pace. If your pet is panting a lot or seems exhausted, it's time to stop. There are quick and easy ways for you and your pet to get in shape together this summer, but one of them is not overdoing it — try changing up the routine and jogging intervals with your dog, or walking up and down hills in order to exercise both yourself and your pet.
Inside is better than outside. Even if your pet is in the shade, it can get sick quickly on hot days. As much as Fido wants to go outside, it is usually smarter to keep your pet inside as much as possible. If you have to leave the dog outside on a hot day, make sure to check on him/her regularly. NEVER leave the house on a hot day with the dog outside.
Watch for heatstroke. Dogs can develop heatstroke fairly quickly. Signs of this are excessive panting, staring, anxious expression on the face, warm skin, refusal to obey commands by owner, vomiting, collapse and rapid heartbeat. If you suspect that your pet is suffering from this, lower the animal's body temperature by applying towels soaked in cool water to the hairless areas of the body. Often, the pet will respond after just a few minutes of cooling, only to falter again with his temperature soaring back up or falling to well below what is normal. Take the dog to the vet immediately — don't try to solve this yourself.
Throw away uneaten food. Although you may leave wet cat or dog food food out during the day in winter months, summer months and warm weather lead to increased bacteria growth, so if your pet doesn't eat it immediately, bring the food inside to the cool house, where it can be kept for longer.
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Team DK : BurNIng, iceiceice, Mushi, LaNm, X!! – Their new Line-up!
Dota 2 Professional team, DK just announced their new line-up and shocked the world.
Mushi shared a photo of DK's line up, and DK officially accepted the new line-up.
"After days of speculations, we inform you that we have finalized our roster. Please, welcome Mushi, iceiceice and LaNm in our line-up. They will play alongisde BurNIng and Dai"
Mushi's departure to DK was somehow speculated as he clearly made his statement of departure to China.
Although iceiceice seemed to have no intention of leaving Team Zenith, those who watched his livestream on twitch the day before may not be surprised as he showed unusual behavior of not talking and staying silent during the entire stream. He too did practice offlane – his new position in DK – during the stream, despite of his normal and comfortable position being mid.
Current line up is
BurNIng / Carry
Mushi / Mid
iceiceice / Offlane
LaNm / Support
Dai / Support
iceiceice had mentioned that all-star teams will not work out during one of his livestreams, and he had shown rather negative attitude towards Mushi's departure to China. So did some of the fans.
However, majority are happy to see the formation of ultimate Asian team to beat the Alliance – who showed outstanding results during the TI3.
No information or posts about the future of Team Zenith has been given.
GLHF DK.iceiceice
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How does the computer save Real Numbers?
How does the computer save real numbers?
Lets look at only 2 bytes. (in reality, the computer uses more than 4 bytes to save real numbers.)
The computer uses the following equation to save real numbers
Why use this equation?
setting 'm' as numbers before '.' and setting 'e' as numbers after '.' is inefficient and takes a lot of memory to save real numbers.
However, using the equation, the computer is able to save real numbers efficiently, no matter how complicated they are.
Still, the computer cannot save wide range of real numbers and cannot save them accurately. It simply saves the data closest possible to the value we want to save. This is called float-point error.
Float-point error
#include <studio.h>
int main(void)
int i;
float f=0.0;
for(i=0; i<100; i++)
printf("%f ", f);
return 0;
the following is a good example of float error.
Variable f is declared,
until 'i' becomes 100, 0.1 is added to 'f'
since 'i++' is used, 'f' is added by 0.1 100 times
The output must be 10, however you will see slight difference in the value. For example,


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The Huddersfield-born founder of two mining companies has died at the age of 61.
Brian Gavin was a professional geologist and had 30 years of experience in all phases of mineral exploration.
He lived in the USA and project managed mining explorations in the country as well as in Mexico, Nigeria, Argentina and Romania.
Brian was the co-founder, president and CEO of Franconia Minerals Corporation.
He led the firm from its inception as a private company to a full listing on the Toronto Stock Exchange.
Brian was also the co-founder and vice president of Minera Andes in Argentina from 1994 to 2009.
He was born in Huddersfield and attended Dalton Junior School and then later Huddersfield New College.
Brian attended Kings College in London and gained a BSc honours degree in Geology.
He then went on to gain a master's degree in geology and geophysics from the University of Missouri in the USA.
Outside his working career, Brian absorbed himself in the outdoor American life style and was an accomplished fly fisher.
In later life his passion was cycling and travelled to Europe and California frequently for cycling trips.
On the local road race and cyclo-cross circuit, he was a member of EMDE sports club in Washington state and won several races for his age category.
The recent grand depart of the Tour De France in Yorkshire enticed Brian to return to his home town in July.
He entered in the Huddersfield Criterium cycle race before joining the crowds at Home Moss on race day.
Brian was also a devout Buddhist practitioner and teacher in the Jhana practice.
This is an ancient type of concentration meditation that predates written history as a method to purify the mind.
Shortly before his death, Brian was awarded full teacher status as a Jhana meditation teacher.
He had scheduled teaching engagements throughout the United States.
He suffered a heart attack on October 26 during a cycling event.
Brian later died peacefully with family and friends at his side on October 29 - just two days after his 61st birthday.
He leaves his brother, two adult children, his three ex-wives, and many friends.
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So let's talk about how baseball's offense is down. This is one of the hottest conversations in the sport right now. You know the song. Strikeouts are out of control. The shift is choking the life out of offense. Batting averages are way, way down. Everyone has a solution. Lower the mound. Shrink the strike zone. Ban the shift. Limit the pitchers. And so on.
Let me make a bizarre but fervent counterargument here.
Without the huge strikeout numbers and whatever value the shift provides, offense would be so out of control that the game would be hardly recognizable.
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contaminants, trawl any alibi thus my nickname zip-top, tinsel.
I'm nude in the sense of stripped "t", optioned out,
stove in.
I can open to the point of inversion, to the point of
perversion, without cover or camouflage, without dots
on "i"s, skin on bones.
Disruption is my pigmentation. I withhold
fluids, byproducts, judgments. Nest
of "yes" in trunk of "no."
I am windsock
off the armature, marrow leaked
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nickname target, collateral.
I am sackcloth in the stance
of shiver. I am slug, trot, shifter. I am without
objections, caveats, conceits.
I can self-immolate in a single
breath, pen no rejoinder, thus my nickname
myriad, gunnysack, misericorde.
I am solution to exhaustive experiment,
prop and scale− master and slave, so soluble
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Pupils and their familes step up to the STEM challenge
Pupils and their families showed off their STEM skills at the STEM Family Challenge.
Hosted by the Engineering Development Trust the evening started with information about careers in engineering then things got serious when pupils and families were challenged to build a rollercoaster out of card. There were some impressive, creative designs - congratulations to everyone who took part!
The evening concluded with a talk from Hitachi Rail about local apprenticeship and graduate STEM opportunities.
As one parent said " I wanted to say thanks for organising this great event, we had a very enjoyable and challenging evening."


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The Gary/Chicago International Airport usually has to work hard to get publicity, but now it may be in line to get some it doesn't want—maybe a lot of it.
According to a fascinating piece over the weekend in the Gary-Post Tribune, the airport quietly has become the regional center for the U.S. Immigration & Naturalization Service to deport Mexican citizens who are here illegally.
According to the paper, the feds have been running about 62 flights a year from Gary since 2013, mostly to the Mexican border. The flights have drawn some protests, but a bigger one may be on tap for this evening, when the airport authority's board is due to hold its monthly meeting.
An airport spokesman confirmed that the airport indeed does serve as home base for the charter flights, but suggested it merely is an uninvolved third party in the matter.
The flights are contracted not with the airport but a company that does business with the airfield, the spokesman said. And as a condition for receiving federal aid for a recent $179 million runway expansion and other airport projects, the airport is required not to discriminate against any particular flight, he added.
"The airport authority does not make or enforce immigration law. It runs an airport," the spokesman said, referring me to a clause in standard federal aviation contracts that requires facilities to be made available "for public use on reasonable terms and without unjust discrimination."
But given recent actions by President Donald Trump's administration, including an apparent uptick in raids, the Gary situation is likely to draw more attention. It certainly stands in contrast to the opinion of Mayor Rahm Emanuel, who says Chicago will remain a "sanctuary city" for undocumented immigrants despite threats from Trump to cut off money.
The Gary Airport is owned by the city of Gary.
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Gregory Joe Cox, 65, of Crestwood, Kentucky, peacefully passed away Tuesday, November 26, 2019. He was born on February 3, 1954, in Louisville, Kentucky. He was an Air Force veteran, worked at Naval Ordnance Station Louisville, and was a member of IBEW Local 369. He was an avid history buff and loved to fish and spend time with his family and his dog, Rosie, at his home in Crestwood. He was preceded in death by his parents, James Cox and Georgia Neely, his brother, Michael Hart, and his in-laws Philip and Shirley Perronie, Betty Benjamin, and Jimmy Carr. He is survived by his beloved wife of forty three years, Phyllis, his daughter, Courtney Guthrie (Phillip), his son, Tony, and his grandsons Sam and Owen. He is also survived by his sister, Brenda Wall (Bill), his brother, Steve Cox (Sheila), his sister-in-law Anita Carr, and many nieces and nephews. For those who loved Greg, a celebration of his life will be held at the family home in Crestwood on Sunday, December 8th between 12-4 PM
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