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Tuesday (15-05) – Go shorty…
… It's your birthday! My birthday that is. The 25th of my life to be exact.
There is no party but definitely some birthday love. Daan is very sweet, decorates my tent and has some presents for me, imported all the way from Holland. Noeline and Tjaart come around for a cheeky afternoon drink. They also bring a present: fresh spinach ravioli from the lodge. Always a good present, even better when you're seriously running out of tasty food in camp. All day I'm showered with sweet birthday messages and calls from family and friends.
In the evening Daan and I make pizza and brownies and eat so much that we almost roll back to camp, although the bottle of wine we drink might have something to do with that too.
Friday and the rest of the week - FRIENDS
They are here!! Literally scrambling out of the car after the long journey. For months we have been talking about this, while they were still busy travelling Tanzania, Malawi, Mozambique, Zimbabwe and (since 2 days ago) Zambia. Yesterday they arrived in Mongu and today Daan picked them up.
One of them is my long-time friend Amber, whom I met in highschool at only 13 years old and remained partner in crime throughout the highschool years. Despite going our separate ways and not seeing each other daily afterwards, the bond has remained strong and what's even more special: Daan and I visited her in Zanzibar in January and now she is visiting us. She has brought along her 2 travelbuddies Lisanne and Judith, 2 awesome girls whom I have met a few times.
After unpacking, settling in, dinner and a beer or two, they announce a secret mission which results in them giving me a lovely belated birthday present; a selfmade game (after a game they like to play but couldn't find readymade) and a cake with candles, it's awesome. We sit around for a little longer, while sharing the cake with one fork and then go to bed for an early night.
We go out in the field pretty much every morning and see cool things daily (as one can expect in Liuwa). The first morning we find some hyenas on a kill, a following morning we find the lions on a zebra kill. We do a den visit and it turns out that a car surrounded by hyenas big and small is all that is needed to convince them that hyenas are the cutest (cubs) and coolest animals ever. Every day brings along more hyenas and all the big and small animals and displays of nature Liuwa has to offer and to top it all off, we follow a cheetah on the last day.
The evenings are filled with sundowners, dinners, laughter, long conversations and games. Sometimes it's just the 5 of us, sometimes the entire team joins in. On the last evening we have a braai on the plains.
On Friday, exactly a week after arrival, Daan and I bring them back to Mongu where they board the bus to Lusaka the next day and I discover once more that goodbyes are the f**king worst.
It's difficult to describe how nice it was to have friends, and especially these friends, around. There have been laughs, endless conversations, fairytales, many questions, answers, games and they helped out with fieldwork too. For me it was special to show people I know from the Netherlands and a long-time friend what we do and what life is like in Liuwa. Also, the past few weeks have been difficult sometimes and to have them around was like a breath of fresh air.
It's fair to say that not only myself but the entire team loved having them here. The only problem is that we now miss them and their bubbliness again.
More photos will follow, if internet cooperates ;)
Everbody has a talent
Thursday – Cheetah
Out in the field, a few hours after leaving camp, I stop the bike and climb up on the saddle to scan a wildebeest herd. Routinely I scan and then (without actually hoping to find any) I scan for cheetah as well. My eyes shoot down to the receiver as it gives a loud beep on one of the cheetah.
I look in the direction of the loudest beep and immediately see the gracious shape of a cheetah sticking out of the tall grass, looking around for prey with her front-paws perched on an anthill.
It's LCH-180! And she's hunting! Excited about my unexpected meeting, I start to follow her on her hunt.
Around 13.00 it gets really hot but that only seems to bother me. LCH-180 has chased a few oribis so far but she's not been able to get close enough. Obviously motherhood (we think she's having cubs) has made her hungry because she continues to hunt during the heat of the day without even so much as a 5-minute rest break. While I'm getting hungry too and fried by the sun, Miss 180 continues her hunt with endless patience and determination.
Around 15.00 I get distracted for 2 seconds, looking at some birds flying up far away, but when I look back to find 180 I see her speeding up behind an oribi! I watch intensely as the oribi runs and runs and she chases and chases. When they go into the tall grass I see a little cloud of dust rise up and I throw my hands up. YES! After an excellent chase of an estimated 250m, I find LCH-180 again, this time choking an adult female oribi.
She needs 15 minutes to recover from the long and fast chase and I can't help but looking at her in awe. LCH-180 is the coolest cheetah of all and the one I've spent most time with. She's very patient, waits for the right opportunity and when she's really hungry, she will always kill, even if it takes her all day. Now that she's killed, she can eat and then go back to her cubs, ensuring their survival, and that's just awesome.
It takes her 1.5 hours to eat almost the entire oribi and after she's done she lays herself down with a belly as round as a basketball. Soon she will go back to her babies. But it's 16.30, and that's my time to go back to camp and find some food too.
Friday – Everyone has a talent
I once wrote about the pole I got as a belated birthday present, to climb in and stuff. Well, although there are some challenges sometimes, such as the weather, sand and insects, I train a lot and teach myself new tricks and I feel good about that. But then I look at Instagram videos and I realise that I will never be as good as the girls (and guys) on there. They are always stronger, more gracious and more flexible than me.
But I won't let that get me down. Because I'm discovering all kinds of new talents while climbing in my bushpole. Did you know, for example, that yours truly can hit 3 mosquitoes AT A TIME? While DANGLING on a pole? UPSIDE DOWN?
Now go on and find an Instagrammer who can do that!
Sunday - Cookie day
Not to make you jealous or anything, but Daan gave us the day off today and I used it to make speculaas and peanutbutter cookies.
Happy Mother's Day!
May 07th, 2018
Tuesday – Oribi hunt
I'm in the clan area of Mutata and because of the insanely tall grass (FYI: it tickles my armpits. Now that's tall) it's difficult to find any middle-sized, spotted, carnivorous creatures.
The tide turns when I stop for my coffee break and a familiar shape moving over some short grass catches my eye. I kickstart the bike, ride to the hyena and when I get closer I see not one, not two, but six! I look around to see four more of which one is undoubtedly one of my favourites: little Mercury! I haven't seen her in four months and she has grown!
After photographing all of them, I happily resume my coffee-break while I watch them and they watch me.
When I move on, I find another hyena in the tall grass and while filling in a datasheet I hear a weird screeching cry coming from not too far away. My friend hears it too and points its ears. I watch the hyena intensely, I know it will do something, I just don't know what. The wait is not long, within 2 seconds the hyena dashes off and runs to the sound. Datasheets, binoculars, cameras and backpack fly everywhere as I try to pack away everything as fast as I can. Some swearing and stashing later I start the bike and start following the hyena at a speed that is too high for comfort in this &^%*$ grass. We get back to the exact place where I had previously left the ten hyenas and now I can see three of them fighting over something. Then one takes a sprint with something in its mouth. Still not having all my fieldgear back in place I frantically grab around me until I find my binoculars. I can see the hyena has it by the spine, four legs sticking out and head dangling down, probably paralysed already… It's an adult oribi.
This is odd, I've never seen hyenas hunt oribi. It's not that they don't try, but usually oribis are too fast and jumpy for hyenas to catch. Another odd fact: kill time is 09:22, it doesn't happen very often that hyenas hunt during daylight.
The exact chain of events that lead to me witnessing an oribi being devoured by three hyenas I cannot give you. I have no idea what happened there and how they managed to catch it. All I know is that in 5 minutes flat nothing remains of the oribi except some contents of its rumen and some flat grass… And that my location is probably the only place in Liuwa where hyenas are seen without a problem.
Wednesday – Needles
It's the season just after the rainseason, when the grass is at its tallest and life is everywhere.
When not a day goes by without your peaceful state of mind being interrupted.
When the problem is bad when you stay in camp, but 1000 times worse when you're out in the field.
When at completely unexpected and random moments, it will turn you into a spastic of the highest class.
When not one part of your body, not one piece of clothing, not one tool or equipment is safe.
They will get everywhere. You will still find them months later. They will make you screech like a girl. At random moments you will feel the sting of their sharp end, like a needle piercing your skin.
It's the grass-seed-season.
Friday – A time to remember
It's memorial-day in the Netherlands. A day dedicated to remembering the people that have fought in WW2 and have suffered and/or given their life for our freedom. Every year on this date, at 20.00 hrs, the entire country is in a 2-minute silence. Although there is some discussion around the tradition, I think it's a good one. Freedom is such a huge privilege. We have to realise how fortunate we are and remember the thousands and thousands of people that we have to thank for this ultimate gift.
So every year, whatever happens and wherever I am in the world, on the 4th of May, at 20.00 NL time, I will take 2 minutes to sit down in silence and realise how damn lucky I am to be free. Sitting on the Liuwa sand, gazing up at the stars, my endless train of thoughts is stopped and replaced by an endless gratitude to all of those that have fought to free my home-country and give my grandparents (and therewith, eventually, me) back their freedom, to be who they are and become who they wanted to become.
And the beautiful thing is, after I have sat there for 2 minutes in silence (which usually becomes 5 minutes because I never know when the 2 minutes are over), I feel extremely grateful and happy.
Because there is no better way to be, than to be in freedom.


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by munchman
Talk about a predicament!
On the one hand, Yer Friendly Neighborhood munchola has to confess here and now that he absolutely lurves Bill Murray. Many's the night, in fact, that I've YouTubed myself to sleep listening to My Hero spend a magnificent 59 seconds doing his inimitable rendition of the STAR WARS theme. Nobody does it like Billy Baby, not even Ella Fitzgerald.
On the other hand, I Netflixed A VERY MURRAY CHRISTMAS the other night, and, well, let me put it this way: Why the hell was the fantastically unfunny – and D-E-A-D Robert Mitchum running around the Carlyle Hotel pretending to be the Murrayman in a Christmas special so unspecial that it made director Sofia Coppola's snoozily inept LOST IN TRANSLATION (which starred the real Bill Murray) look like (no, not an Oscar winner – never!) a Golden Globe nominee?
Here's my tally:
- Maya Rudolph can really fucking sing!
- So can Miley Cyrus, who at her tender age, whatever the fuck it is, has blossomed into the one thing her father could never be – a consumate pro.
- David Johansen lives and does a wonderful Tom Waits!
- Paul Shaffer is a much better piano player than his David Letterman personality would ever have led me to believe.
- Bob Mitchum's corpse's terrible impersonation of My Beloved Bill.
- The script, by Mitchum (I presume because it's so damn dead), the gloriously connected and ingloriously untalented Ms. Coppola, and Mitch Glazer, who wrote the okay-because-it-starred-the-Real-Bill SCROOGED and who was married to the extremely cool Wendie Malick for a couple days, reminded me so much of THE EMPEROR'S NEW CLOTHES that I kept screaming, over and over, "There's nothing there!"
- Everything else but the music, which would have actually been kind of good if it wasn't all, you know, that overtired Christmas stuff.
Goddammit, you know what the conclusion's gonna be: Stay away from this thing and the people who made it cuz the only thing they could possibly have been thinking of was was how much contempt they had for Netflix. Or Bill Murray fans. Or, I dunno, everyone.
The grinch who calls himself munchman is TVWriter™'s official, authorized scapegoat. Now, just between us, aren't you glad we have the lovely Diana Vaccarelli doing most of our reviews these days? Don't you wish she'd done this one?


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While you were sleeping, John Isner became the second American to advance to the third round of the French Open.
The 32-year-old from North Carolina defeated Italian Paolo Lorenzi in straight sets on Thursday at Roland Garros to join Steve Johnson in the third round.
NESN.com's Rachel Holt recaps everything that happened while you were sleeping, presented by Bedgear.
Thumbnail photo via Susan Mullane/USA TODAY Sports Images


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text: On Tue, Oct 19, 2004 at 01:36:18PM +0000, Paul Vixie wrote: > > > ... the first thing is, some nets who want the internet to work this > > > way have to implement BCP38 in their own corner of the internet. > > > then they have to start de-peering with nets who don't do it, and > > > offer a better rate to customers who do it than to those who don't. > > > then they have to de-peer with anyone who doesn't require their > > > peers and customers to do it. then they have to refuse as customers > > > anyone who won't do it. ... > > > > As it was "in the old days": first clean up your own act and then > > start pointing at others that they're doing "it" wrong. > > > > It's a mentality I see very rarely amongst the larger ISP's who've > > been part of that 'I' in their name since the very early beginning. > > i'm pretty depressed at the lack of self regulation among the techiefolk. > responses to BCP38 of the form "but my customer has a good reason to spoof" > or "but my equipment can't do wire speed SAV" or "but BCP38 will not solve > all DDoS problems single-handedly" are small minded, provincial, and wrong. > ... it's just "but if man was meant to fly he'd have wings" all over again. I've been a strong advocate of getting uRPF enabled on our customer links. So much so, that we've found interesting limitations of some of the routers out there. While, I'd like to enable SAV on all our links, it's just not possible. Some major routing vendors have not re-released their time-to-market hardware with versions that can still do full port density and line-rate, while others have re-spun their hardware in order to support new features at the same densities/costs. These are just a few of the challenges that providers face.. The more I see these days though is non-spoofed attacks, that are semi-sophisticated in nature. *BUT* this doesn't mean that you people that aren't u-rpfing your non-multihomed T1/DSL customers should just ignore the need for u-rpf. It will save you a lot of grief in your networks operationally. No more tracking spoofed DoS attacks from your customers. No forwarding packets with these bogus sources across your expensive links. This will only help you and your customers operate a "clean" network. My employers network isn't perfect, nor do I suspect many peoples are, but SAV filtering/u-rpf is important enough that everyone should be doing it. Just picking on one router, I see many billions of packets dropped over it's 25 day uptime: RPF Failures: Packets: 34889152, Bytes: 12838806927 RPF Failures: Packets: 4200, Bytes: 449923 RPF Failures: Packets: 3066337401, Bytes: 122772518288 RPF Failures: Packets: 30954487, Bytes: 3272647457 RPF Failures: Packets: 4707582841, Bytes: 227001949225 RPF Failures: Packets: 11291931, Bytes: 643099278 RPF Failures: Packets: 291592413, Bytes: 20642951232 RPF Failures: Packets: 380355, Bytes: 22616137 RPF Failures: Packets: 607543, Bytes: 31687907 RPF Failures: Packets: 0, Bytes: 0 RPF Failures: Packets: 91, Bytes: 6978 RPF Failures: Packets: 0, Bytes: 0 RPF Failures: Packets: 0, Bytes: 0 RPF Failures: Packets: 2, Bytes: 80 RPF Failures: Packets: 13904, Bytes: 1093686 this means the junk isn't reaching root servers, peers, or our customers. mitigating the need to carry this traffic when it is of (virtually) no use. - Jared (working to make the packets on my corner of the network a little less messy) -- Jared Mauch | pgp key available via finger from jared at puck.nether.net clue++; | http://puck.nether.net/~jared/ My statements are only mine.


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SHANGHAI (Reuters) - Chinese fintech company Ant Financial Services [ANTFIN.UL] and U.S. asset management firm The Vanguard Group have established a joint venture to provide retail investment advisory services in China, the companies said in a statement on Saturday.
The announcement, which comes more than six months after the joint venture appeared in an online national registry, said the company would provide customized services for investors based on individual risk preferences, time horizons and investment objectives.
The service will accept minimum investments of 800 yuan ($113.65) and will be accessible through Ant Financial's Alipay app, the statement said.
Vanguard, which has more than $5 trillion in assets under management, launched a wholly foreign-owned enterprise (WFOE) in China in May 2017.
Ant Financial, an affiliate of Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba Group Holding Ltd
The company, launched as a third-party payment provider, held 1.13 trillion yuan in net assets as of the end of 2018.
(Reporting by Andrew Galbraith; Editing by Michael Perry)


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Hey everyone! Your neighborhood lost here — today, I'm excited to tell you about RPG's newest staff team, The Ambassadors!
The Ambassador's Torch
What we do
The Ambassadors are responsible for ensuring RPG's new members are welcomed with warmth & kindness, and for helping both beginners and veterans alike learn the worldbuilding and storytelling tools that we've created over the years. Thanks to the efforts of our first few team members, we've already begun to show a major impact on the community climate — let's take a look at a few of our initiatives!
1. The Welcome Forum
Ambassadors are tasked first and foremost with providing rapid responses to new members brave enough to introduce themselves in the Welcome Forum, where many earn their first INK by baring a few personal details about them
as writers & role-players. We will leave no post unanswered!
2. Community Enrichment
From the Forums to the Shoutbox, the Ambassadors are active members you can always find lurking somewhere sitewide. Everyone has something to contribute — the Ambassadors are here to acknowledge contributions and assist with further engagement and participation. If you feel a little lost in the crowd,or just want someone to talk to, reach out to an ambassador. We're here to make sure nobody is left behind!
3. Building Universes
You've likely noticed that each Universe is unique, and that Universe creation can overwhelm with the seemingly limitless options for expression. Ambassadors are experts in their own rights on Universe creation. If you need assistance with building out your universe using the various tools, reach out to an Ambassador. We're here to help you succeed!
Need Help?
Feel free to contact anyone on the Ambassador team directly, or open up a thread in the Help forum and we'll clammor to respond within a few hours. While we don't always have the answers, we know everyone who does!
Joining the Ambassador Team
Ambassadors are those who rise above and stand out as leaders in our community. By reading our onboarding guide, you can understand our goals more deeply and begin to emulate them in your behavior around the site. In doing so, one day you just might find yourself officially carrying the torch in recognition of your contributions and leadership!
Feel like someone is setting a shining, consistent example of Ambassador-like behavior? You can nominate them by messaging me, @lostamongtrees, as an anonymous nomination, or as a reply in this thread if you want to shout it from the hilltops.
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Students are invited to attend an entrepreneurship camp June 10-14, 2019 at Hills Bank in Marion. Participating campers will learn about branding from a panel of experts, meet local entrepreneurs and take field trips to their businesses. Students will also build teams with fellow campers and work to solve a real-world problem, create a product and poster to showcase their solution to a problem, master the art of the elevator pitch, sell their products, gather real-time customer feedback, and enjoy a final graduation expo.
Students entering grades 5-8 attending Vernon Middle School or Marion Home School in Fall 2019 are eligible for a $50 scholarship provided by the Marion Independent School Foundation & Alumni Association courtesy of the C.B. & Lula Vernon Memorial Fund.
For more information on the camp and to register for the camp hosted by the Jacobson Institute of the University of Iowa, click here. The registrationd deadline is May 24th.


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During the fall semester, I was involved with an online course (MOODLE for Teachers), where about 140 students from around the world were exploring instructional design and collaborative learning options using the MOODLE course management system (CMS). The course facilitators use WiZiQ to provide synchronized sessions for the (mostly) asynchronous course. While WiZiQ works well and has tools (whiteboard, chat "talkback", video and audio, and the ability to pre-load presentations (powerpoint) to view and walk through during sessions, operating sessions (whether because of tools, operators, or the number of participants interacting) seem always to involve frustration and uncertainty when systems malfunction.
In the weeks ahead, I hope to compare the use of WiZiQ, Skype, and the free tools from Elluminate (at LearnCentral) to see whether any of these differ in quality. WiZiQ and Skype are free for academic use, while Elluminate charges for use of tools in sessions larger than 3-4 people.
In the past, I have used Skype for sessions where I was about 600 km from a single class session where my video was being projected on-screen and my audio was coming over a speaker system. There was a noticeable time lag that made Q & A sessions a bit hard, but for presentations of any length, it worked very well. Skype also allows the sharing of my desktop for visual demonstrations.
As I said, I have participated in WiZiQ sessions (live for three sessions and I have viewed recordings of 4 others), but I hope to be extending my own use of these tools during January.
I also hope to begin using LearnCentral (Elluminate) for some small group sessions with clients I'm coaching academically this year. The (few) webinar sessions using the (full-priced) Elluminate tools were of superior quality, with more flexibility of screen arrangement, more consistent audio and video, and less time lag.
My project for January will be to try to explore these three applications more fully and to move closer to a decision which tools to use.
I would appreciate any comments readers might have in regard to these applications or any others that are readily available for global academic work.


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C-Change Christmas Party 2017
The C-Change Christmas Party this year will take place on Thursday 21st of December from 7pm – 10pm at the Clyde Community Hall in Ibrox.
– DJ – Buffet – Raffle – Bar – ALL WELCOME!
Tickets are £5 each.
Advance booking is essential to avoid disappointment as spaces are limited. Please click here to register your place.
Tickets can be paid for at the C-Change Base or on the door on the night.
Keep an eye on our facebook page for all the latest on our Christmas Party: facebook.com/cchangescotland


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Hi Mrs Hill's class just thought I'd share my exciting news with you. I sent your poems to my friend Pie Corbett and this is what he said:
Dear Karen – it makes it all worthwhile – creativity rules. Great stuff – I'm as chuffed as a chuffed person!!
atb Pie
So you see your poetry is absolutely fabulous. Well done to you and your wonderfully creative teacher Mrs Hill.
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Feingold: National GOP is a mess
MADISON, Wis. — U.S. Senate hopeful Russ Feingold says the national Republican Party is a mess.
Feingold, a Democrat, made the remarks during a question-and-answer session with reporters following a short speech Monday at the Wisconsin State Council of Machinists spring conference at a Madison hotel.
Asked about disarray in the Republican Party after Nebraska Sen. Ben Sasse said he won't vote for GOP presidential front-runner Donald Trump, Feingold said the party has been trying to appeal to one-issue voters. That approach might win an election or two but ultimately creates a mess. He says that's what Republicans face now.
He says the GOP used to be about economic development. Now, he says, it's about everything else.
A spokesman for Feingold's opponent, incumbent Republican Ron Johnson, didn't immediately respond to an email.


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US bans transactions with Venezuela's digital currency2018-03-20 17:29 by Daniela
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President Donald Trump issued an executive order Monday banning any transactions within the United States involving any digital currency issued by, for, or on behalf of the Government of Venezuela. The order applies to U.S. citizens as well as anyone within the United States, and includes cryptocurrency issued on or after January 9. The US has for the first time banned a cryptocurrency.
Venezuela launched its oil-backed cryptocurrency - Petro - in February to help pull the country out of a continuing economic crisis. President Maduro said each Petro token will be backed by one barrel of the state's national petroleum. Maduro also said roughly 100 million tokens would be issued — estimated to be worth around $6 billion.
Oil-rich Venezuela has descended into poverty, hyperinflation and chaos under corruption and economic mismanagement. Mr. Maduro, a protege of the late anti-U.S. populist leader Hugo Chavez, says he is trying to deal with sharp levels of economic inequality that have long plagued the country.
In a statement released this evening, Maduro says he, "energetically rejects and condemn the new unilateral sanction of the Donald Trump regime against the Venezuelan people and our financial and economic system." Maduro's communique says that these sanctions violate the United Nations charter agreement, Venezuela's sovereignty and represent a "new imperial aggression imperial and intensify the ... economic ... attack on Venezuela."
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Just a quick note to express my excitement over our Saturday evening service. Our outdoor chapel is a lovely spot, one which I go to often for prayer (as did my predecessor). The entrance/exit to the chapel opens up on a yard between the church parking lot and the parsonage. The neat thing is that we are just a matter of yards away from the very busy Gill Hall Road, which has almost non-stop traffic. We are just a few miles away from Century III Mall and the busy-ness of PA Rt. 51, yet, here, amidst the green beauty of God's creation, we are apart from the technological noise of 21st century life. It's a great little place for which I thank God and those who have made the chapel into what it is.
Tonight, Kate will be playing her fiddle as I play guitar, leading God's people in hymns both old and new. I'm excited about what God is doing here, and thrilled that I am honored to be a part of it! God is good!


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* Chinese Premier Li Keqiang told Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on Fridayto stay out of the South China Sea dispute.
* At a conference in the Mongolian capital Ulaanbaatar, Li told Abe that China's stance on the
South China Sea was completely in line with international law, state
news agency Xinhua reported
* "Japan is not a state directly involved in the South China Sea issue,
and thus should exercise caution in its own words and deeds, and stop
hyping up and interfering", Li said, according to Xinhua.
* "The situation of the South China Sea is the concern of the
international community. The tribunal award of 12 July is final and
legally binding on the parties to the dispute," Kawamura told reporters.
* China claims most of the South China Sea, through which more than $5
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SITWELL, Francis (?1776-1813), of Barmoor Castle, Northumb.
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Family and Education
b. ?1776, 2nd s. of Francis Hurt (afterwards Sitwell) of Renishaw Hall, Eckington, Derbys. by Mary, da. of Rev. Richard Warneford of York; bro. of Sitwell Sitwell*. m. 21 Sept. 1795, Ann, da. of Ilay Campbell† of Succoth, Argyll, 2s. 3da. suc. fa. at Barmoor 1793.
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Maj. Loyal Berwick vols. 1803.
Sitwell's father, Francis Hurt, inherited the immense wealth of his kinsmen the Sitwells in 1776, and in 1793 he himself was set up as a Northumbrian country gentleman, under the terms of the will of his father's cousin Samuel Phipps (d.1791). In 1806 he was described as having 'lately addicted himself to agricultural pursuits' and established a cattle show. He entered the House in 1803 at a re-election for the open borough of Berwick, brought forward by Thomas Hall*, whose return at the general election of 1802 had been declared void.
Sitwell did not oppose Addington's ministry, but was classed as Pittite in the government lists of September 1804 and July 1805 and voted against Whitbread's motion of censure on Melville, 8 Apr. 1805. He opposed the Grenville ministry on Spencer Stanhope's motion critical of Ellenborough's seat in the cabinet, 3 Mar. 1806, but took no part in the division on the repeal of the Additional Force Act, 30 Apr. Sitwell made no reported speech and did not contest Berwick in 1806. He offered instead, as a Pittite, for Haddington Burghs, on the strength of Lord Elcho's interest at Lauder, but did not go to the poll. He died 18 Feb. 1813, in his 37th year.
J. Wilson, Biog. Index (1806), 495; Newcastle Chron. 23 Apr. 1803; Gent. Mag. (1813), i. 291.


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McLaran Returns To Alma Mater To Take Over XC Program – Brevard NC
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Can there be another sport as demanding of the individual as cross country?
While the term warrior is much over-used in the sports world, there is no doubt that, if you are to succeed as a distance runner, you have to be just that, a gritty, committed warrior.
Your battle has nothing to do with a team, a game, defending a goal or scoring points. Rather, your battle is against the clock, the elements and your own endurance.
Tenacity has to be the name of your game, and yours is often a lonely battlefield.
At Brevard College, a small band of cross country runners are mid-way through the...
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Speech by the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Rt Hon George Osborne MP, at the City of London RMB launch event
Speech by the Chancellor of the Exchequer.
I am delighted to be here today to celebrate London as a centre for international Renminbi (RMB) business.
This is a significant moment.
This morning, we saw the launch of the first RMB bond outside of Chinese sovereign territories.
And it happened here in London.
This builds on the progress London has already made toward becoming the western hub for RMB.
By the end of last year, the volume of RMB deposits in London had already reached 109bn RMB - equivalent to around 11bn pounds, of which 35bn RMB - around 3.5bn pounds - are customer deposits.
The annual trading volume in offshore RMB bonds had reached 28 billion RMB - around 3 billion pounds.
And London already represents 26% of the global offshore RMB spot forex market - the majority is based in Hong Kong.
This is a market which grew by over 80% last year.
Let me be clear - London is not in competition with Hong Kong, it is a complement - providing a Western hub for RMB business.
These developments are the culmination of a team effort by global banks with operations in London and Hong Kong, strongly supported by the UK, mainland Chinese and Hong Kong Authorities.
A year ago, when Vice Premier Wang Qishan met with me and my team here in London for the Economic and Financial Dialogue, the British and Chinese Governments set out a joint communique welcoming private sector interest in developing the offshore RMB market in London.
The Hong Kong Authorities' announced at the end of the year their intention to extend the operating hours of the Hong Kong RMB payments system, making it easier for RMB transactions to be settled in London.
I want to commend the Hong Kong authorities on their pioneering work in developing the international RMB market.
In January, at the Asia Financial Forum, Norman Chan, the Chief Executive of the Hong Kong Monetary Authority, and I announced the launch of the London-Hong Kong private-sector forum, to be facilitated by HM Treasury and the Hong Kong Monetary Authority.
The growth of its exciting new RMB business is a natural development for this great city of London.
London has a long history of global financial inventiveness - from founding the first organised market for insurance for trading around the world hundreds of years ago, to the development of the Eurodollar markets through the 1960s, 70s and 80s, and global foreign equities trading in more recent times.
RMB trading is the next step along a 400 year road.
And it is natural that when Chinese banks look westwards, they choose London as the hub for RMB in the West, given London's pre-eminence as a financial centre, and its expertise in areas such as foreign exchange and bond issuance.
It's an important reminder to us in the UK that - while, of course, there are vital questions we need to answer about how we protect taxpayers from banks that are too big to fail, and that we need to ensure the British economy has other strings to its bow as well as financial services - we should have the confidence to look not only at the problems, but also celebrate our successes.
London is the world's pre-eminent financial centre, and it's actually becoming more successful.
Only last month, London retained its position at top of the Global Financial Centres competitiveness Index.
In fact, we were the only one of the top five financial centres which had increased its competitiveness since the previous year.
Here in London, we are currently undertaking Europe's largest infrastructure project - Crossrail - which will provide even better transport links to the City.
We've taken the difficult but right decision to make our tax system more competitive - cutting corporation tax rates to 24% from this month to among the lowest in the developed world.
And we're taking the controversial but necessary decision to reduce the top rate of income tax from next year.
Today's event emphasises that we are not prepared to let anyone steal a march on us in terms of new products and new markets.
We are the natural home in the West for those who want to invest in the Chinese economic success story.
The increasing international use of RMB is an important development for China and for the World Economy.
The growth of the Chinese economy has been quite remarkable.
We all know the statistics.
China has experienced growth of around 10% a year for the last 30 years.
In a generation, China's middle class is forecast to be over three times the size of that of the whole of Western Europe combined.
And it is the strength of Asia's economy which means that despite turbulent times for the world economy, global growth in this decade and the next will be higher than the past 30 years.
But this growth has so far not been matched by the increase in the international use of its currency, so it is clear that the substantial expansion of RMB will be one of the major developments in global markets in the coming decades.
Extension of the market to the Western time zone is a crucial part of its expansion.
It is the ambition of the British Government to make London a Western hub for the sector - with all the benefits that this will bring to our own economy.
And what's so special about today is that not only does it mark the launch of the first RMB bond outside of outside mainland China and Hong Kong.
Today, we also mark the official launch of the City of London initiative on London as a centre for RMB business.
I want to thank Stuart Fraser, and the City of London Corporation Steering Committee and Expert Advisory Group for their hard work and leadership in getting to this point today.
The involvement of companies like Bank of China, Barclays, Deutsche Bank, HSBC and Standard Chartered will provide the depth of experience on technical, infrastructure and regulatory issues that are needed to develop the market.
Its first output - the Bourse Consult's report into London's capabilities as an offshore RMB centre - is a demonstration of this expertise, providing a clear direction for the market's future development.
It's taken a lot of hard work from people in this room.
But today is not the end of the process; it's the beginning.
I hope that other major European banks and corporate will follow today's lead, and that we will see Chinese institutions and corporations issuing RMB bonds in the London market in the very near future.
In the coming decades, it is China that will act as one of the great powerhouses of the world economy.
By acting as a bridge between East and West, we can secure London's position as the leading financial centre in the years to come - securing growth and prosperity for Britain.
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Taking a political stance on benefits
The presidential debates are finally over and elections are just a couple of weeks away. Will Hillary Clinton win the peoples' vote and continue the reign of the Democratic Party for another four years, or will Donald Trump break the liberal streak and usher in new conservative policies into the Oval Office?
From healthcare transparency to paid family leave, the International Foundation of Employee Benefit Plans' "2016 Election: Employee Benefit Issues" survey report examines campaign issues greatly impacting U.S. workplaces.
"Several important employee benefit issues have emerged as key issues during this year's election," says Julie Stich, CEBS, associate vice president of content at IFEBP. "Our survey results show employers support a varied mix of benefit issues being debated."
Of the issues surrounding healthcare, employers showed their support for:
- More healthcare provider price transparency at 96%.
- Tax-favored status employer-provided health coverage for employers at 87%.
- Small business health plans, or association health plans, that allow small businesses and other groups to join together to offer benefits to their workers and members, which polled at 85%.
- Increased access to mental healthcare at 84%.
- Tax-favored status of employer-provided health coverage for workers at 82%.
Joe Ellis, senior vice president at CBIZ Benefits & Insurance Services, notes the following points as it pertains to the survey and his own observations about benefits issues important to employers with the impending election on the horizon.
"If an employee is going to see a provider, surgeon, etc., they would like to know how much it's going to cost," Ellis says. "That is a very difficult thing to find out because the price depends on who you are and the insurance coverage you have.
Ellis added that medical will usually reimburse at the lowest level and private insurance carriers will reimburse the provider at all different prices because it's what they negotiate individually with that provider.
"Provider A will reimburse at one level [and] insurance company B will reimburse the provider at a different level," Ellis says. "The trouble is that people are demanding price transparency, yet it's virtually impossible to get price transparency for any particular service."
Other benefit-related topics that employers support are:
- Tax-favored status of employer-provided retirement savings for workers at 91%.
- Tax-favored status of employer-provided retirement savings for employers at 88%.
- Tax exclusion for child-care expenses at 75%.
- Tax credits for businesses that hire apprentices at 64%.
- Consolidation of different types of retirement savings vehicles at 60%.
- Living wage or increased minimum wage at 59%.
- Mandated paid family leave at 54%.
"The world of benefits is constantly changing [and] regardless of the election's outcome, employee benefits will evolve," Stich says. "To protect the financial future and health of their employees, employers will need to understand and accommodate changes to benefits."
Ellis says that tax-favored status is the second most important issue to employers because, when employers pay for an employee's healthcare, they don't get the amount of money included in their income.
"Employers want to retain the tax-favored status and they are worried that the federal government is going to take this away," Ellis says. "Since both presidential candidates seem to favor the removal of the Cadillac Tax from the ACA, I think the tax-favored status will always remain a key issue to employers, but I don't see it as being a major issue that is going to be affected by this election."
The survey responses consisted of 486 HR and benefit professionals representing all sectors: public employers, corporate or single employers and multiemployer plans. The organizations represent a wide base of U.S. employers from nearly 20 different industries and range in size from fewer than 50 to more than 10,000 employees.


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Key points:
- Young children in Sheffield, UK, average 2 hours/day of media use
- Family scaffold kids' emergent digital literacy
- Growing independence among even younger children - 64% of 3-5 year-olds can use a mouse, 37% can turn on a computer by themselves and 56% have used a computer by themselves.
- Place of the child in the family (older siblings) very important to children's use - how they are introduced, when, etc.
- Key features identified in commercial vw's for children: customizable avatars, avatar homes, games which earn in-world currency, free chat and safe-chat servers, moderators, links to out-world toys and texts and tie-in products.
- On this latter point - highlights the importance of online/offline linkages as the products themselves move to mobile technologies. Highlights the importance of market-based hierarchies.
- Her own data derived from a very specific case - "primary school serving a primarily white, working class community in an area of socio-economic deprivation" - 175 kids aged 5 to 11 surveyed, three 11 year olds selected for a series of interviews and online sessions (taped and observed). Much of the more detailed data about Club Penguin and Barbie Girls came from these 3 respondents.
- 52% of the kids surveyed used virtual worlds on a regular basis. Average of 2 visits per week.
- Most popular CP and BC
- Gender patterns in terms of preferences and choices of virtual worlds - none of the boys surveyed reported going to Barbie Girls.
Jackie's most recent work focuses in on Club Penguin - a vw that was particularly popular among their subject group at the time of the study. Jackie did a great job of summarizing the contents of the site, identifying the carry-over that occurs between traditional playground behaviours and in-world activities, opportunities for literacy (of various kinds), the importance and emphasis that is placed on commercial relations (disparities between paying and non-paying members.
She also looked at Barbie Girls (oh no! just like my thesis!!), and the lack of diversity in terms of gender (female only) and ethnicity (depictions of which are limited to skin-tone, and only a few options are possible) of the avatars, and the enormous linkages made between commercial content/branding of Barbie texts and the game - emphasis on shopping, emphasis on V.I.P. memberships and emphasis on Barbie products.
Key Points about these case studies:
- Marsh identifies evidence of the subjectivities of consumption that are constructed in these sites - many examples of children describing themselves in consumer terms & enjoying consumption play (shopping, browsing catalogues, trying on items). But also frustration about purchases of pre-fabricated goods that offer little flexibility or affordances. Key complaint that wigs and hats couldn't be combined on Club Penguin, frustration that the Puffles run away if not taken care of.
- Online/offline networks - children played with siblings, relatives and classmates, often in pre-arranged sessions. Also played with unknown others.
- The children interviewed expressed using a range of criteria for accepting in-world friends (if the avatar name was "weird" or "normal" - if the player's igloo was "posh" or "plain"). This latter point shows the integration of social and economic capital in children's negotiation of social relations in-world.
- Classmates who played together online and offline tended to have larger friend networks (around 9 vs. 7).
- Genres of play: fantasy play, games with rules, "rough and tumble" play (snowball fights, other play that uses avatar movement for contact), socio-dramatic play. In this last category, Marsh noticed a lot of adult-themes, going to the disco, having parties, pretending they're getting "drunk". Ritualized play - playing at flirting, trying to tip the iceberg in CP.
- Various instances and types of digital literacy - reading the CP Times every day, reading postcards from other players, keeping up with the game lore (reading the books in the reading room, reading the instructions), using CP as an instant messaging service (definitely a chat room). Reading, comprehension, following instructions, etc.
- She went over 6 different types of literacy identified in CP - she has a paper coming out shortly that describes and explores these, so I won't bother reproducing them here (but I will link to the article once it's available). Suffice to say that many of the forms of literacy identified revolved around social relations and identity construction/expression.
- Among the kids surveyed, Marsh found that many used/viewed Club Penguin-based machinima on Youtube
- For example, David Cook's "Time of My Life" - created by a young girl Ineuit2, a self-described 13 year old girl who runs a Club Penguin fan site). Kids use other forums to discuss and coordinate these - for instance, a player advertised for extras for his upcoming CP machinima on a Shaun The Sheep discussion forum, much to the dismay of Shaunthesheep purists.
- Frames that these vw's introduce - the implications for education (as well as some implications that certainly carry over to policy and ethical decisions), including the need for recognition of online activities outside of school, firewall considerations, critical digital literacy - esp. as children are now co-authoring new forms of multi-modal texts (which I'm very interested in myself).
Jackie's talk was followed by a response by Heather Horst, who is a member of the Digital Media and Learning Research Hub, and has done work on kids' digital culture - including Neopets. Among other things, Heather highlighted 3 themes she wanted to raise for further discussion:
A great talk all around - very enjoyable and comprehensive. I'm very much looking forward to the discussion that will ensue, as well as tomorrow's workshop.
- The first, a series of questions involving time and temporal dimensions of virtual worlds - the transience that many kids' express in terms of the worlds, new media use, and their lives/life changes, schedules, age, etc.
- The second, space and geographies of play - particularly as this is influenced by the various affordances of the devices/worlds, etc., involved. What guides children's movement between the various genres, sites, technologies, platforms and usages they engage in. For example, getting around design limitations or parental restrictions by moving on to a different device.
- The third, the issue of agency and change - as children age, develop forms of literacy, etc. What's the relationship/role of the low barriers to entry that are usually contained within sites like CP, or within popular culture/commercial culture more generally. How do these worlds contribute to children's agency and dignity - opportunities/challenges, barriers, etc. Are the worlds subject to workarounds, resistance, remixing, do kids actively attempt to change the worlds?
Sources of interest: kzero.co.uk: Virtual Worlds Universe Reports, which lists user populations for a large number of virtual worlds for kids, plotted by age. Very cool data and data visualizations.


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Rape is a super loaded word. People are sometimes worried about using it, either because they know the person who forced them to have sex, or they aren't sure that what happened was "technically" rape.
The truth of it is, if a person says "no", or "I'm not sure", or nothing because they are drunk or on any kind of drug, or anything other than a sober "yes", it is rape.
There are lots of situations in which it seems like there is some gray area, especially at parties when both people are drinking or taking drugs. But you can always go back to that basic question: was there a sober "yes" on both sides? Otherwise, wait!
Besides the fact that it might be considered rape, sex under the influence of anything is going to put you at a higher risk for forgetting condoms, risking STIs, or having an unplanned pregnancy.
Rape doesn't just happen at drunken parties, either. Here are some stats from a blog on teenagerie.com:
- 73% of sexual assaults are committed by a non-stranger
- 38% of rapists are friends or acquaintances of the victim
- 28% are intimate partners of the victim
- 7% are relatives of the victim
- 6 in 10 rapes occur in the home of the victim, or in the home of a friend or relative of the victim.
Basically, we all need to keep it real, respect boundaries, and realize that only a sober "Yes" means yes.


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Newsletter 14th May, 2019
May 13, 2019
All-loving God, we give you thanks and praise for mothers young and old.
We pray for young mothers, who give life and tend to our every need;
May they be blessed with patience and tenderness to care for their families
and themselves with great joy.
We pray for our own mothers who have nurtured and cared for us
May they continue to guide us in strong and gentle ways.
We pray for women who are not mothers but still love and shape us
with motherly care and compassion.
We remember mothers, grandmothers, and great-grandmothers
who are no longer with us
but who live forever in our memory and nourish us with their love.
We ask you to bless all Mothers.
May they feel the joys of motherhood every day.
We thank you for the gift of Motherhood.
May our mothers face each new day with faith and hope in your abiding love.
Mother's Day Mass and Morning Tea
We celebrated a beautiful Mother's Day Mass last Thursday with so many mothers and grandmothers joining us. We enjoyed seeing photos of lots of our Mums and their children, along with some staff photos as well. There were displays of writing and artwork and some recognisable portraits of Mothers!
A very enjoyable morning tea was held, raffle tickets were sold and some amazing prizes were given out. Special thanks to our P&F and Year 1 Mums for their organisation of these activities.
Prizes winners:
|Donated by….
|Won by….
|Load of firewood
|Gibbs family
|Jocelyn and Selina Oversby PP (Michelle)
|Box of 6 Mother's Day Cupcakes
|Dardanup Delights
|Jordan and Siobhan Duane 4 & 6 (Yvette)
|Fishers on Beach Road voucher $30
|Fishers on Beach Road
|Zara Steers K (Pia)
|Ferguson Falls Café voucher $40
|Ferguson Falls Cafe
|Miguel Ortuzar K (Jhunevah)
|Churros for 2
|San Churro Eaton Fair
|Jazmyn Kennedy PP (Keryn)
|St Aidan Winery voucher $50
|Pegasus Equine Dentistry
|Patrick and Archie Melville PP & 3 (Penny)
|Pamper Hamper
|Year 1 families
|Erik Hynes 1 (Silje)
|Olivia Treasure Photography 'Mummy and Me' Mini Photo session plus 10 Images
|Olivia Treasure Photography
|Riley and Georgie Baker 1 and 2 (Leah)
|Entertainment Book
|Entertainment Book
|Blake and Cody Ecclestone 4 & 6 (Candice)
|Funkee Monkee $50 voucher
|Entertainment Book
|Freya and Henry Denton 1 & 3 (Gemma)
It is with extreme sadness that we offer our heartfelt sympathy to Nina, Drew and Anya on the passing of their beloved husband and father, Kent, after a short illness. Please be assured of our love and prayers and ongoing support.
Welcome to the world Holly Gardiner, little sister to Ava (Kindergarten) and daughter of Jess and Joel.
Welcome, also, to Mary Gray, baby sister to Sam (Pre-primary) and daughter of Lee-anne and Eoin. Kindy class 2024!
Riley from our Pre Kindy class is now a big brother to Edie and Max. Congratulations to Sam and Peter on the safe arrival of your twins'
First Holy Communion
This special celebration for some of our Year 4 students will be held this coming weekend, on Saturday 18 May during the 6.00pm Mass and Sunday 19 May during the 9.00am Mass. Please keep these students and their families in your prayers as they take this important step in their faith journey.
NAPLAN (National Assessment Program, Literacy and Numeracy) assessments started today and continue on Wednesday and Thursday this week and Monday next week for our Year 3 and Year 5 students. This is just one of the many assessments used throughout the year to evaluate student progress. Please see the classroom teacher to discuss your child's academic progress if you have any queries. Results will be sent home sometime in Term 3.
Here are six tips to help your child get through NAPLAN as stress-free as possible:
- Make sure they get enough sleep
Making sure your child gets enough sleep is vital to make sure they're feeling their best on testing day. Try to make sure they go to bed on time during the weeks of NAPLAN.
- Take the pressure off
A bit of stress is normal before any test, however, the National Assessment Program recommends helping your child prepare for NAPLAN by reassuring them that NAPLAN tests are just one part of their school program, and reminding them on the day to simply try their best is vital.
- Let them know it's not pass or fail
NAPLAN is not a pass-or-fail type test. Individual student performance is shown on a national achievement scale for each test. Each test scale has 10 bands and all year levels are reported on the same scale. Six bands are reported for each year level for each test. One of these bands represents the national minimum standard for students at each year level. A result at the national minimum standard indicates that the student demonstrated the basic literacy and numeracy skills needed to participate fully in that year level. The performance of individual students can be compared to the average performance of all students in Australia.
- Give them a good breakfast
Breakfast before learning is ideal every day for students but a nutritious meal before a morning test like NAPLAN will give students doing the test the best start to the day.
- Make sure they know what NAPLAN is
NAPLAN assesses literacy and numeracy skills that students have already been learning through the school curriculum. Teachers will ensure students are familiar with the test formats and will provide appropriate support and guidance but asking your child if they have any questions can be a big help. If you have any questions about your child's preparation for NAPLAN, you should make time to speak with their teacher.
- Don't emphasise the result
Try not to place too much pressure on what result your child receives and remind them that they have done their best.
Source: nap.edu.au/naplan
School Board
The next Board meeting will be held on Tuesday 21 May at 5.30pm in the staff room.
P&F Update
Thank you to the volunteers who helped out on Friday night and Saturday for the recent Dardanup Art Spectacular. Our P&F worked alongside the P&C from Dardanup Primary School, providing and serving food and drinks and helping with art sales. The morning tea after the Mother's Day Mass was provided by the P&F, and the very successful raffle was organised by the P&F, utilising Class Reps and parents from Year 1. Next P&F meeting is on Tuesday 4 June at 6.30pm.
Kindergarten 2020
Interviews for new families are currently being held. If you are an existing parent with a child entering Kindy next year, and you would like an interview, please contact the office to make an appointment with the Principal.
Football Clinics
Last Wednesday was the first of four clinics made possible by grants received through Sporting Schools. Skill development is the focus of the first sessions.
Casuals for Catholic Care Day
Our Bishop has requested that schools have a day where students are able to wear casual clothes for a gold coin donation in order to support Catholic Care. Their motto is "People Helping People". It provides funding for people willing to assist those in need across the general community throughout the Bunbury Diocese, irrespective of their religious affiliation or non-affiliation. So far, these needs have included initiatives related to family crises, the special needs of the elderly, seafarers, drug victims, and women facing crisis pregnancy. Donations received by Catholic Care are used exclusively within the geographical boundaries of the Bunbury Diocese. Thank you to our families for supporting this charity.
Supporting Spelling at Home – Parent Meeting Wednesday 22 May 6.30pm
Please note this date to come along to our school hall to learn about ways to support your child at home with their spelling. Information will be provided about how the spelling program at school supports students in their spelling learning. Learn more.
Winter Carnival
This will be held on Friday 7 June in Donnybrook with students from Years 4-6 competing against other schools in football, netball and soccer. A note will be sent home soon requesting volunteer parents to help with coaching and umpiring. If you are able to assist, please fill in the note and send it back to school with your child.
Have a wonderful week
May God bless you
Mrs Angela Hegney
School Events
May 14, 2019
- Latest Term 2 Calendar is available
- Class Webpages
- ANZAC School Service
- Year 1 Prayer Assembly
- Mother's Day Mass and Morning Tea
- Shared Family Meal for first Holy Communion


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The Speaker of the Queensland Parliament, Fiona Simpson, officially opened proceedings of the Sunshine Coast Youth Parliament this morning and then chaired its first and closing sessions.


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By Sara Loo
Populism is popular.
There is no doubt about this. Populist candidates and parties have similarly pervaded established and unstable democracies. From Viktor Orbán to Donald Trump; from Matteo Salvini to Jair Bolsonaro, we see a trend of voting into office leaders whose campaigns are framed in nationalist terms but who ironically undermine the very definition of a nation, be it an ethnically-based one or an invention based on new ideas. For if a nation requires some form of common will— a "daily plebiscite" in Renan's words— then the very existence of sub-national identities that challenge these state-constructed nations foreclose the possibility of a nation-state.
The primordial understanding of the nation is best encapsulated by Hungary's Viktor Orbán, who has championed a "Hungarian identity" based on ethnicity, effectively excluding non-Hungarian citizens who reside on Hungarian soil. Yet, even for Orbán, to say that the "national" Hungarian identity is the defining identity of any Hungarian, encapsulating the idea of being a cultural Christian, is to diminish other identities such as minority religions and genders, which have persisted despite crackdowns by Orban. On the other hand, the constructivist understanding is illustrated by what Francis Fukuyama calls "creedal national identity". In his new book Identity: The Demand for Dignity and the Politics of Resentment, Fukuyama suggests that rather than biology, some states base their identity on a creed— for France, this creed is liberty, equality and fraternity; for the US, the rule of law and equality. Yet again, it would be a grave mistake to believe that these common values have the capacity to permanently bind multicultural societies together and overcome sub-national allegiances.
As it turns out, populist candidates and parties (now presidents and members of parliament) who frame their causes as nationalist are merely imposing one vision of identity— not necessarily a national one in the sense of the nation-state, because many groups whom they purport to include are excluded from and opposed to this vision, but necessarily framed as beneficial for the nation-state. For example, Bolsonaro's campaign attempted to portray Brazil as a nation and that people had to unite themselves to "make Brazil great again" despite the fact that Brazil has a diverse population of different beliefs and about 200 spoken languages. More notably, the very leaders who purport a "nationalist" message are also the most polarising forces. While defining an identity against the other has always been central to nationalism, if a nation in today's context is closely associated with demarcations of a state's boundaries, then divides should emerge on the inter-state level. Yet, the starkest divides are seen along identity lines on the intra-state level. This points to a pressing need to re-evaluate the relationship between nationalism and populism. This is especially pertinent given the loose employment of the term "nationalist", appearing in almost every press article about Trump's or Bolsonaro's "make X great again" slogan. This has created a perception that national identities are central to politics today. At this point, it would be worth remembering Benedict Andersen's third paradox of nationalism— its philosophical poverty despite its political power.
If nationalism is so philosophically poor, and if it is but one of many visions, it would be worth examining the broader phenomenon to which it belongs— identities. What exactly is identity politics?
Originating in the 1970s, Barbara Smith and her colleagues in the Combahee River Collective coined the term as an analysis for the interlocking oppressions of race, gender, class and sexuality. Its original conception half a century ago never meant to be divisive. In fact, as liberal democracy gained traction, the rhetoric of pro-civil rights was expressly framed in the language of national unity and equal opportunity. Dr Martin Luther King Jr proclaimed that "all men— yes, black man as well as white man— would be guaranteed the unalienable rights of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness", pointing us to the idea of identity politics being "group-blind". This was affirmed by John Rawls' veil of ignorance which by no means played up the differences between race or class, by virtue of ignorance.
Yet the dream of liberal democracy in the form of complete equality of rights has been shattered by the transformation of identity politics. Too often quoted, Fukuyama's "the end of history" and its associated triumph of liberal democracy have undoubtedly given way to groups staking claims for themselves in the political scene. Fukuyama himself recognises the challenge posed to liberal democracy in his aforementioned new book on identities. Nevertheless, attempts to defend his original thesis is still evident— in a recent interview with the Economist, Fukuyama was quick to suggest that "independence movements like those in Scotland, Quebec, and Catalonia may lead to the separation of a region and its emergence of a separate sovereign state, but the successor states will likely be liberal democracies protecting individual rights." Of course, the different nature of identities is recognised and more often than not, sub-national identities do not seek to establish a state, but merely stake a claim in politics.
The transformation in identity politics over the past few decades is a radical one. Ethnic, religious and gender groups take pride in being a minority and believe they are entitled to rights not regardless of, but precisely because of their identities. Group-blindness which used to be lauded as progressive is now condemned as racism, for doing so puts a veil over the multifaceted history of oppression and struggle to gain equal footing minorities never managed to. Yet, this remains ironic not just because identity politics was meant to be group-blind, not group-focused, but also because this obsession with highlighting distinct identities has fragmented the left and developed a culture of blaming anyone from the "majority" and engendered hypersensitivity to individuals who belong to the same ethnicity, gender or religion as traditional oppressors. Worse still, the emergence of a multitude of minority identities within the Left competing for political attention has not just fragmented it, but pushed the right to define a counter-minority "nationalist" identity, which has seen more successes in recent years. No longer is identity politics about universal and equal recognition, but a mutated or even perverse form of its original conception; one that celebrates the endless creation of new marginalised groups. What originated as LGB has evolved to something as complex as LGBTQQIAAP, not because these subgroups did not exist before, but because of the need to compete to the victorious bottom, for our culture of victimhood today celebrates weakness, not strength, and derives dignity from regained self-esteem.
Consequently, anyone who once belonged to the "oppressor" group by virtue of ethnicity, gender or religion is now a target of reverse discrimination by the minority. A hint at group-blindness risks being labelled racist while the simple act of wearing a national costume of a minority can generate rage for appropriating culture. The rise of the far right and leaders who frame concerns in "nationalist" agendas thus has to be understood in this context of regaining a lost majority identity; a sense of displacement, of being a "stranger in their own land". For many traditionally left-voting average citizens, this sense of betrayal by the state contributes to resentment against minorities who seem to be receiving advantages precisely because they are minorities. All of a sudden, the majority loses its relative economic position and hence identity and status. In 2012 for instance, a study found that over 50% of white Americans believed that "Whites have replaced Blacks as the 'primary victims of discrimination'." In order to place the blame somewhere, immigrants often bear the brunt of being responsible for threatening cultural identity. This serves as refuge for the traditional majority who no longer feels secure about its position and believes its majority status is under threat. A recent article in the economist for instance empirically found a positive correlation between white consciousness and support for Trump, concluding that identity politics are stronger on the right than the left and that the Republican Party is increasingly unified around whiteness. The traditional lack of attention to this factor once again highlights a need to shift our focus from loosely defined nationalism to a broader conception of identity politics.
I would not commit the same mistake as press articles which have generalised populist right-wing politics as "nationalist" by reducing the rise of the populist right to fragmented identity politics of the left. Economic grievances, a genuine belief in ethnic-supremacy and personal negative experiences with migrants are all valid in adding fuel to the fire. Yet, if we were to remain within the frame of "nationalist" analysis, we will be only fooling ourselves into believing that the potent force of nationalism is itself a cause for the rise of the populist right. Given its philosophical poverty, we have to look beyond the concept and explore the larger phenomenon of identity politics, its transformation over the years and the relations between the left and the right. From its original conception of being group-blind to one that celebrates marginalised groups, the left (if we can still speak of it as one) has undeniably engendered the radicalisation of the other end of the political spectrum. In its own "race to the bottom", the Left has failed to organise and contain identity politics. What traditionally started from the Left has seen a stronger surge in the Right; a dangerous force that is doomed to stay.
- https://www.theguardian.com/inequality/2018/mar/01/amy-chua-tiger-mom-writer-book-political-tribes
- https://www.theguardian.com/society/2018/mar/01/how-americas-identity-politics-went-from-inclusion-to-division
- https://www.economist.com/united-states/2018/11/01/identity-politics-are-stronger-on-the-right-than-the-left
- https://www.economist.com/open-future/2018/09/30/can-liberal-democracies-survive-identity-politics
- https://www.newstatesman.com/john-gray-identity-politics-contemporary-francis-fukuyama-lies-bind-kwame-anthony-appiah-review
- https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/oct/29/brazil-election-far-right-democracy-social-media
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Imjg0beD-nA
- https://barbarasmithaintgonna.com/about-barbaras-work/


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ST. CHARLES – St. Charles aldermen are leaning in favor of allowing the retail sale of marijuana now that recreational marijuana use and possession will be legal starting Jan. 1, 2020.
At the City Council's Aug. 19 Government Operations Committee meeting, aldermen voted 6-3 to direct city staff to begin the zoning process for two recreational sales facilities, one on the east side of St. Charles and one on the west side.
The city's zoning ordinance would have to be changed to allow the retail sale of marijuana.
The city's Plan Commission will now hold a public hearing on the issue. As part of the committee's recommendation, recreation marijuana dispensaries would be allowed as a special use in districts zoned for community businesses and regional businesses and that no more than two dispensaries could be located in the city – one on the east side and one on the west side of the Fox River.
In addition, businesses must have operated a licensed medical marijuana dispensary for at least two years. On-premise consumption lounges and production and distribution facilities would not be permitted as part of the committee's recommendation.
"It's here whether we like it or not," 1st Ward Alderman Dan Stellato said, in voting in favor of the recommendation. "We can control it with zoning regulations."
Second Ward Alderman Rita Anne Payleitner, who voted against the recommendation said she thought the City Council should "take a pause." She accused state legislators of rushing through the legislation, thinking only of the tax revenues it would generate.
"If we move forward, I would hope that we are more thoughtful in our decision process," she said.
First Ward Alderman Ronald Silkaitis and Second Ward Alderman Arthur Lemke also voted against the recommendation.
Zen Leaf, a medical marijuana dispensary, currently operates at 3714 Illinois Ave. in St. Charles. Speaking on behalf of Zen Leaf, Anthony Marsico told aldermen that it contemplates selling recreational marijuana as well.
"State law allows an additional dispensary that will be only recreational," he said. "They are allowing us to have dual use out of the same location."
Marsico told aldermen that if St. Charles decided not to allow the retail sale of recreational marijuana, the company might move its medical medical dispensary out of the city.
"There are going to be other municipalities that opt in," he said.
Beginning Jan. 1, the law will allow Illinois residents 21 and older to possess up to 30 grams of marijuana per Illinois resident. Residents also will be able to possess 5 grams of cannabis concentrate and up to 500 milligrams of THC – the main psychoactive compound in marijuana that gives the high sensation – contained in a cannabis-infused product. Nonresidents can possess half those amounts.
Registered medical marijuana patients will be allowed to grow up to five cannabis plants in their home and possess more than 30 grams of cannabis if it is grown and secured in their residence under certain conditions.


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