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The Future of Property in Manchester
Any real estate agent will tell you that there are many factors that come into house prices. Everything from transport links, crime and job opportunities are taken into account and even slight percentage drops can means thousands of pounds in difference when it comes to property. All of these factors build up to create a portrait of an area and the houses in it and Manchester is definitely an abstract painting.
London and its house prices often make the headlines with ridiculously tiny houses being put up for rent for extraordinarily unfair prices. It's supposed to just be a sign of the times, that it's becoming harder and harder for home owners. But Manchester has been making housing headlines for a completely different reason, the plan to turn derelict homes within Manchester into homes for ex-service men and women will likely become a jewel in the Northern skyline. The Veterans Village is a project launched this September in Newton Heath as a part of BBC's project DIY SOS with the host Nick Knowles. The project received a much needed publicity boost when Prince William and Harry were seen at the site helping to break ground, both Princes have been putting their support behind the housing scheme which is getting underway within the next month.
The Veterans Village is just one the pieces to the renaissance that Greater Manchester and the surrounding area have been going through in the past two years. With improving transport links, thanks to the Metrolink and the developments to Manchester Victoria, the National Football Museum and the arrival of the BBC in Salford's Media City.
Manchester has also been garnering international attention with plans for foreign investors to capitalise on the city's burgeoning talent.
Recent plans have been put forth in China by Chancellor George Osborne to strengthen relations between England and China, this includes the recent flight take off from Manchester to China included in this was showcasing a three billion pound Manchester project to Chinese investors this September. Contained within in this is a partnership between council's and the Home and Communities Agency fund more than 10,000 homes within Manchester, attracting more business and opportunities to the area.
Deals are being struck with Manchester City's home ground, Etihad Stadium owners to build over 5,000 homes near stadium within the next decade, the venture which is said to cost one billion pounds will be a joy for every Manchester City fan out there.
Manchester has without doubt, become one of the hottest places to buy property in the country. In a sign of the changing times in Manchester, twenty one homes in both Greater Manchester and Cheshire have been sold from upwards of one million pounds in the past eight months and the prices are set to rise even higher in 2016. The most expensive house sold in Greater Manchester last year was Highbury, a beautiful, six-bedroom detached house on the exclusive Harrop Road in Hale. The house sold in May for an eye-watering £2,125,000 is likely to only increase in value. Five houses in Greater Manchester have been sold for two million or more within 2014, four of which were in Trafford and one in Bury. The evidence suggests to us that football fans are willing to pay a lot of money to live near their beloved teams and players want a short commute to work.
The real estate hot spots are in Hale and Bowden, lavish and well space homed are doing particularly way. But there are is also a great call for houses at the lower end of the spectrum also due to the fact property developers are predicating fast rises for all areas. The Northern Powerhouse is going to be attracting international attention and likely dozens of investors for both housing and infrastructure.
Manchester's property market is inspiring some of its most innovative tech-heads, including a Manchester start-up aptly named 'Knocker'. An incredibly useful app for anyone who's ever passed by a beautiful property or walked down a stunning street and wanted to know the area's house prices. Jon Grant and Sam Easterby Smith are the two south Manchester-based geniuses behind the app which uses your phone to help calculate your position so you can see the house prices in and around you. And you can use the app to arrange viewings which is especially useful for renters trying to find a place quickly.
As changes through many areas of Manchester are making way for opportunities in employment and investment, the spark of engagement will light a fire in housing, renting and land ownership all the way around Greater Manchester, Cheshire and Lancashire that we will all be feeling the effects of for years to come.
By Katie Beech - 22-09-2015


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• Cabinet ministers dodge motion on former BMD leader
• BDP MP want to have Motswaledi honoured
Botswana parliament was on Friday in a state of paralysis as the absence of cabinet ministers brought business to a halt, at a time when MPs were to table and debate private members' motions.
Cabinet ministers started filing out of parliament buildings as soon as the BDP Member of Parliament for Tati West Biggie Butale presented a motion calling for government to name one government facility after the late president of Botswana Movement for Democracy (BMD) Gomolemo Motswaledi.
Motswaledi died in a car accident in which the opposition Umbrella for Democratic Change (UDC) later alleged it was foul play and instituted private investigations on the cause of death. The motion calling on parliament to honour Motswaledi seemed not to have sat well with some cabinet ministers who quietly sneaked out of Parliament chambers while Butale was on the floor.
Minister of Lands and Housing Prince Maele interrupted the presentation seeking clarification about which ministry will be responsible for responding to the motion. Deputy Speaker Kagiso Molatlhegi delegated the motion to the Minister of Infrastructure, Science and Technology to take notes as the motion was directed to his ministry but it was later placed under the Office of the President. At that moment the assistant Minister of Presidential Affairs and Public Administration Philip Makgalemele also walked out of parliament, prompting the deputy speaker to send the BDP chief whip, Fidelis Molao, to call him back. But Makgalemele was nowhere to be found outside parliament and Molao returned empty handed.
Some MPs started raising concerns about the disappearance of cabinet ministers when they had to respond to important issues in their ministries. Butale's motion was deferred to a later date. Reacting to the postponement MP for Gaborone North Haskins Nkaingwa said he wonders why ministers disappeared when Butale was presenting his motion. "I am wondering what is going on. When the name of Motswaledi is mentioned parliament business becomes mixed up," he said, calling on the deputy speaker to allow the debate on the motion to continue.
Gaborone Central MP Phenyo Butale - who was evidently disappointed - told the deputy speaker that cabinet is trying to hold parliament to ransom. He said parliament should not exist at the mercy of the executive. "We need an independent parliament because right now cabinet ministers have paralysed this parliament and I wonder why we are still here because there is nothing we can do because all these motions will be postponed," he said.
Francistown West legislator Ignatius Moswaane also registered his unhappiness over the sudden disappearance of ministers and called on the deputy speaker to allow the debate to continue which was turned down. Other motions which were postponed include the one calling on government to come with a policy to protect the interests of the informal sector which was supposed to be presented by Moswaane.
Deputy speaker Molatlhegi admitted that the absence of ministers had paralysed the parliamentary business and promised MPs that he will meet with the leader of the house, Vice President Mokgweetsi Masisi to discuss the issue.
In an interview later, UDC chief whip Wynter Mmolotsi said that they are not happy with the behaviour of ministers when legislators want to present private motions. "This is an opportunity for Members of parliament to present their motions but if ministers are going to behave like this it is not good," he said.
Mmolotsi said the suggestion to name a public facility in the name of the late Motswaledi could have made the ministers run for cover. "Maybe they were afraid what rraetsho (President Ian Khama) will say if he heard that they responded to the motion without consulting him first," said the Francistown South Member of Parliament.
Botswana Democratic Party (BDP) chief whip Fidelis Molao said that the absence of a few ministers should not tarnish the whole cabinet. "It is not like it is a trend but this is something that happened only today and led to two or three motions postponed therefore we cannot pass judgment on them," said Molao.

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Worra lovely day.
It's nearly Friday, which is the only thing which is important, right?
drank a lot of beer and listened to KONG loudly all evening yesterday
antisocial behavior
didn't need a jacket today, got a bit of a sweat going on now
I had my back door open and a variety of hits playing all evening, antisocially,
including Easy Lover which I think we can all agree is in the top 5 songs ever written.
Phil Collins sure can write a tune to bust a move to
forgot about Kong
they were greatma0sm this'd this
Sitting on a central London rooftop
With wagtails jumping around me. Lovely.
Went to the European graphic novelists night at the BL last night, it was fantastic. Not one for literary nights usually but it was fascinating and smart and funny.
Got in early today as I'm taking an extended lunch break to go see Godzilla at the IMAX.
Then going to a talk at the RGS that hopefully has free booze as per usual.
Then seeing a friend who's visiting from San Fran.
Everything's coming up Milhouse!
I've condensed all if my social things for the next two weeks into this 24 hours
I've just got work from now on :(
The THinly veiled's cousin has been staying with us and she's a photographer for Suicide Girls and so we had loads of nudey ladies around the house! But I was out :(
Did the photographer just
bring the nudey ladies with her or was your house used as the set in an erotic photoshoot?
Also, my sympathies, my thoughts are with you during this difficult time.plasticniki this'd this
House was an erotic photoshoot house
Looking forward to pointing out my lamp or chair in the background of sexy pics
I think my work here is done already tbh
tis a right lovely day.
Not got much planed apart from guitar lesson this evening.
Have a good day all.
Me too
I turned up late
and other stuff
And i have so many meetings today and I don't think I'm gong to go to them, so it's more of an anticipatory bollocking for behaviour I am about to commit.
I didn't turn up for work yesterday
As I was hangover run bed eating 20 quids worth of Pret A Manger.
Have you seen our former employer is proper f*cked?
Went on a bat walk last night, saw 2 common pipistrelles!
We had these little bat frequency gadgets that click whenever the bats use their echolocation. The other people on it were so cute.
Massage day at work today, we were talking about it yesterday and a colleague was saying, 'yeah they go in quite hard it's great' and then I said, 'yeah sometimes I think it's a bit too hard, I'd like it a bit gentle' and then there was this awkward moment...
Today is my Friday
but I'm off to Barnsley tonight, so y'know. I can only be so smug about it.
Looking forward to seeing my folks. It's been a while.
On train to work
With Cope by Manchester Orchestra in my ears. One of my records of the year thus far.
Today is going to suck heinous donkey balls. Got to be up til the wee hours designing an on-the-fly book list/catalogue made up of photos that booksellers are sending back to Dropbox during a book fair in Madrid, ready to present to buyers for the morning. Getting some red bull.ElthamsmateOwen this'd this
to that opening line
great stuff
far, far too nice a day to be in work
My clients are all being a bit needy today, though, so tough shit for me.
Payday tomorrow and off to Glasgow to see my niece, so just need to pull through today and everything's alright with the world.
Did 72 miles on the bike yesterday
Will be out doing a similar distance as soon as the washing has finished. It's nice not being at work.
I'm in such a shit mood
Like on the verge of a minor breakdown.
Wore my gym kit on my walk to work today but got to work and realised I'd forgotten my bra and my knickers. So I am now wearing a stanky sports bra and need to go buy a new bra at lunch so I can't go gym at lunch. Also not showered yet cause was gonna go gym at lunch.
Also bought some porridge that was RANK. Really stringy like it had mozzerella in it.
Oh meow :(
But it's sunny! You probably look fine. Also it's nearly pub crawl time.
ALSO check out this amazing cat which I like to believe is named after me: http://instagram.com/famousniki
got up real early t'other day
remembered a gym tshirt and my trainers but my shorts i knew were in my gym locker.
So trekked all the way to kensington - also remembered my gym card - got to my locker and then remembered that i had a new set of keys for the new house. and the old set were back home with my gym keys on the ring. All of that for nothing.
Went to a coffee shop and ate a massive pastry in sadness :(
had some friends round for board games last night
played a game called Quantum which was great fun. Also played String Railway which was extremely charming.
It's pretty grey here today #welcometoScotland
Two racing-bike clip-in-pedals lycra-wearing jebends
overtook me then crashed into each other this morning. Then brilliantly tried to blame a taxi driver for the fact that they were both idiots.
Top stuff, wish it happened more often.
They get on my wick
Because clippers are always tour-de-france fantasists who want to zoom past everyone, but they're also shit at getting their feet back in the clips so at lights they wobble along slowly, get overtaken, and then aggressively re-overtake everyone. And they're usually wearing lycra.
definitely gonna get them
no lycra though
good for you
PS are you going to live in France forever?
watched star wars episode v last night
it's really good.
last day in a job i dislike
before i'm back out into the world of freelancing. cannae wait. not looking forward to having to hassle people to get paid but at least i'll have my freeeeeedooooooooooooom.
- ethricdouble this'd this
but at least i can do that from home
sat on the sofa in my pants while watching x files and eating cereal
*poached eggs
I wish i was freelance sometimes, but I do like the security of not being plus i'm not in demand enough to be freelance.
I'm in a bad mood about my bike still
and other things.
But I bought a succulent for my flat. It's the first plant for my flat. I feel less alone now. but I am worried I'm going to start talking to it like it's a person.
- ma0sm this'd this
old-fashioned, has faint whiff of impending cat lady
sounds good.
that sounded mean
long time no see. hope you're well.
I really wish i wasn't at work
And next to a pool/by the sea with a pina colada.Slicky, Royter-Hatfood, marilyninthesky, and ElthamsmateOwen this'd this
I've just been looking at the holiday diary
and I think I've found a couple of weeks I oculd potentially take off, so obviously now I am looking at holidays while I should be working. I need some sun.
Going to corsica in August
Everytime I tick off a job
nothing new comes in to replace it. I have about five things left to do here. Lovely stuff.
Almost Friday.
Lawyer-types of DiS:
Just got an email from my university in Japan telling me I need to pay about £300 because a panel of the flooring in my room (maybe 30cm x 7cm) came up. Totally not my fault, but apparently -any- damage to the property is the renters fault in Japan. Can I just ignore it? Do they have any way of enforcing it in the UK / would it be worth it? And if I didn't pay it, would it prevent me from entering Japan again?
Any rough ideas would be useful. I don't have the money, I'm barely managing to keep myself together because Japan and this university destroyed my mental health, and I object in principle to paying for damage that is presumably wear-and-tear.
Then the only issue I might see is if they take it up with your university here
and try to bill you through them. If yours is the same as mine, they won't let you advance a year/graduate if you have outstanding debts.
Ah, hadn't thought of that
Might be easier if I just wait for that to happen though. My UK uni will be infinitely more understanding.
I'd ignore it and see what happens
Even if they do contact your uni you could just say that it's not a debt to them so not relevant to graduating etc?DarwinDude this'd this
OFT has said this is probably against the law
particuarly if it is disputed as in this case. Just make sure you make it clear that you don't accept liability and that you will contest it if it comes to that.
just had some really awful bad news
which i don't want to go into, and has taken the wind out of my sails a bit.
Much love C_B
Hope you're okay.NickDS, Verbal, xylopwn, plasticniki, wewerewerewolvesonce, ethricdouble, Royter-Hatfood, ElthamsmateOwen, foppyish, PickledOeuf, justanothersheeldz, Lo-Pan, and ma0sm this'd this
I think the short honey moon period after my annual leave is over
as there's loads of stuff to get on with now. S'pose it's good to keep busy but I kind of liked being on cruise control.
I've been doing my boss's job as well as mine
because he's been on sabbatical for the past three months. And he's coming back in seven days! I can't wait. So looking forward to my days of listening to the radio while typing and drinking tea, instead of endless meetings.
tired as per
realised that england v italy is when i'm in latvia. Hmmm.
chess tonight which will be looooooong. but working from home tomorrow so that's ok. Looking forward to some bottom of the barrel beer with the internet on saturday.
I have my first and only exam next Tuesday
I have no motivation to do any work for it. Someone help?
do some fucking work, you lazy piece of shit
You disgust me.
good luck!
my (perhaps very obvious) revision tip is: go to the library. Don't do it in your bedroom, you'll fall asleep or timewaste or watch tv. Nothing else to do in the library but work!
I saw Wreckless Eric do Le Beat Group Electronique last night
complete with cardboard box drumkit. It was excellent.
Do any DiSers live in or near Derby?
this saturday? i do but i can't
dad's birthday, la :(
i'm meant to be writing a presentation for a course symposium
instead i just wrote a short story for the first time in fucking years. it's about the glasgow subway and i'm gonna submit it to a zine thing. i think it's quite good but i'm not sure it might actually be shite
I got an extra hour in bed this morn, it was great
I'm in a procrastinating kinda mood today
good night's sleep last night
half day at work then off to cardiff to sit in some beer gardens then play a gig then spend the weekend with my family.
aside from missing the thinly, i'm a content chap.
anyone got any recommendations of something nice to do around paddington if i'm not able to get my early train and have to knock about there for a bit?
So technically not a Friday and now that we all know
not so secret.
Will you be in on ACTUAL FRIDAY or is that a SECRET SATURDAY?
that was mean.
I'm sorry.
That was mean. I'm sorry shucks. I blame the bike people and work people.msmonipenni this'd this
we all do mmp
fucking bike people >:-(msmonipenni this'd this
It's dead sunny and I have an awesome chicken and avocado wrap with a soup for lunch.
Lunch game at a peak.
Putting on a gig at The Old Blue Last after work, bit sleepy though. Six days of work between now and next Friday and then I'm playing some punk rock shows with a mates band and going to Primavera. Dead excited.
- justanothersheeldz, plasticniki, marilyninthesky, foppyish, and NickDS this'd this
- Royter-Hatfood this'd this
yadda yadda
give it a rest kiddo x
- ElthamsmateOwen this'd this
on my way to a wedding
found a business card holder and texted the guy who it belonged to asking of he wanted it sent on. He's like being massively grateful. Looked him up and apparently he's got a really impressive cv and was an army officer and now does loads of business and HR consultancy stuff. Might enclose a copy of my cv in the Jiffy bag...Dans this'd this
- justanothersheeldz, Lo-Pan, PickledOeuf, and xylopwn this'd this


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06 Feb 2019 SSA Brings Festive Melodies to the Istana
Posted at 18:11h in Art & Culture, Feature News 0 Comments
On the second day of the Lunar New Year of February 6, the SSA's Soka New Century Orchestra and the Soka Chorus performed at the Istana Open House in the presence of President Halimah Yacob, bringing much festive cheer to the Istana grounds.
The Soka New Century Orchestra presented a 30-minute music repertoire, while the Soka Chorus presented a medley of 10 Lunar New Year songs.
This is the sixth year that SSA has been invited to share the joy of the arts and culture to the community at the Istana Open House, and both the Symphony Orchestra and the Soka Chorus have previously performed at the Istana Open House.


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So it'll cost $100k but it has already spent $500k. Something wrong with these numbers...
Google can't spare 113 seconds of revenue to compile data on its gender pay gap
After failing in April to shut down reporting of its lawsuit with the United States Department of Labor, Google's told the US court looking into alleged pay discrimination it would be too expensive to find out whether women are underpaid at the advertising behemoth. How much is too expensive? US$100,000, Google told the court …
Monday 29th May 2017 12:49 GMT Anonymous Coward
Monday 29th May 2017 13:24 GMT lglethal
Re: They're probably spending more for their lawyers to argue against it
Your thinking about it the wrong way around.
Their lawyers are arguing against it because they KNOW they arent meeting the equal pay regulations, which they KNOW would open them up to huge discrimination claims from employees, ex-employees, state regulators, federal regulators, etc, etc.
How do they KNOW all this? Because obviously they've already compiled the data, analysed it, and determined "Oh bugger we havent been meeting the requirements after all."
Rather then putting their hand up and saying "Our bad, lets see if we cant even this up for everyone." they've decided to bring in the lawyers. Personally, I hope this does go all the way to the Supreme Court and the Supreme Court kicks Google's ass from here to Timbuktu!
Monday 29th May 2017 14:15 GMT Pete 2
The actuarial solution
And they have probably factored in the cost of the settlement AND the cost of the punitive damages and fines.
After that they calculate the lawyers fees and the odds of winning and take a gambler's decision that the chances of not having to pay (hey, we're GOOGLE, we're too big for your puny fines) are worth the risk.
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Monday 29th May 2017 21:05 GMT Chris G
Re: They're probably spending more for their lawyers to argue against it
"It is maybe the most liberal company in existence. Openly so."
AC you're male and you work at Google, Right?
I have'nt noticed Google being too liberal in its attitude to tax paying.
Also curious to know what the rate is that they are paying Lisa the Lawyer.
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Tuesday 30th May 2017 08:54 GMT Fred Flintstone
Re: They're probably spending more for their lawyers to argue against it
Personally, I hope this does go all the way to the Supreme Court and the Supreme Court kicks Google's ass from here to Timbuktu!
Not going to happen, which is the exact reason why Google want to go that far. The orange guy at the top loves big business, remember? He's not going to allow something as trivial as any law to protect peasants to interfere with profits, and he's already put his man up there.
Monday 29th May 2017 12:51 GMT Dwarf
Monday 29th May 2017 13:07 GMT Anonymous Coward
Monday 29th May 2017 13:19 GMT JimC
Re: Bullshit
Far be it from me to defend Google, who frankly deserve everything they get for their arrogance, but I bet its more complicated than that. Quite a lot more complicated than that. Traditionally there have been all sorts of ways in which pay inequalities have been inadvertently or even deliberately hidden, and there really is a bit more to doing the sums properly than your suggestion.
Tuesday 30th May 2017 11:47 GMT Anonymous Coward
Re: Bullshit
I bet its more complicated than that. Quite a lot more complicated than that.
Then you take a stab at it and draw a baseline that you can then improve upon - that way you can even claim you're laying the foundation for a new, fair evaluation. The only problem that would prevent you from doing that is, of course, if you already know full well that you'll make it rather clear you're in the wrong, so I reckon that is what is really in play here..
Monday 29th May 2017 13:30 GMT P. Lee
Re: Bullshit
Diversity reporting is a no-win scenario.
There are plenty of good reasons why the resulting figure calculated as an average seems to imply something it doesn't.
a) many women like flexible jobs with lower hours because they actually care about their families
b) In general, flexible jobs are in lower-paying job categories
c) women often take a career break to have families, which means they don't climb the corporate ladder to the higher-paying posts
Even if you do the break-down and show you aren't discriminating, someone will summarise it to make you look bad and create a story out of nothing.
Monday 29th May 2017 15:23 GMT Anonymous Coward
Re: Bullshit
I call bull on your your total shit:
a) many women like flexible jobs with lower hours because they actually care about their families
Shite; many of us are eager to climb to corporate ladder and have partners who want to take the burden of looking after the kids. Get your head out the 1950's because it's smelling awful.
b) In general, flexible jobs are in lower-paying job categories
Shite; see above. Flexible post childbirth shouldn't be any different from other sabbaticals.
c) women often take a career break to have families, which means they don't climb the corporate ladder to the higher-paying posts
Shite; See above. Why should be be penalized just for taking 3 months off after childbirth? I've seen many men take similar time off for such things, or for other reasons entirely. Don't see men being penalized for that.
Your post is oh so typical from men who don't have the ability to carry a child. We do, so now you want to punish us for that.
The only day this will all be straightened out is when men can carry children - then we'll suddenly see the rules change because we can't have men suffering, can we?
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Monday 29th May 2017 17:18 GMT Anonymous Coward
I could understand that education or other parts of society could have a training and qualification discrimination. This would mean Google would only be able to staff with a gender discriminating employees.
However, there are ways around this. Perhaps asking if they should go along with the discrimination just because it's easier than training people in house, and employing regardless of gender etc.
Monday 29th May 2017 23:52 GMT Anonymous Coward
Re: Bullshit
a) many women like flexible jobs with lower hours because they actually care about their families
b) In general, flexible jobs are in lower-paying job categories
c) women often take a career break to have families, which means they don't climb the corporate ladder to the higher-paying posts
Wait, did you actually just suggest these are legitimate ways to discriminate?? I think I see the problem!
Tuesday 30th May 2017 12:51 GMT Jeremy Puddleduck
Re: Bullshit
Oh P. Lee, you sound lovely, really lovely. I bet the women are flocking to spend time in your company.
a) I'd take a bet that almost all women care about their families and whether they work or not does not affect that. Men with families to care for mainly go to work - are you...suggesting they don't care for their families? Women go to work for many reasons - because they want to, enjoy work, want to help support their families, the same sort of reasons as men.
b) while I think that is true, it shouldn't be. Why should a part-time job earn less per hour than a full time job when the nature of the job is the same? Part-time employees (and a growing number of these are now men, so you may want to start showing a little more concern about this) are no less committed to the time they spend at work then full-time employees.
c) Women often don't climb the career ladders to the same height as men, whether they take career breaks or not.
Why so defensive about getting a pay analysis done? It can benefit everyone if the stats are more transparent, men and women. Celebrate the opportunity instead of trying to hush us up.
Wednesday 31st May 2017 22:42 GMT Adam 52
Re: Bullshit
"Oh P. Lee, you sound lovely, really lovely. I bet the women are flocking to spend time in your company."
Personal attacks just make your argument look weak.
"Why should a part-time job earn less per hour than a full time job"
Employment entails fixed costs; training, HR, recruitment and per-seat software licences, for example. That makes part-time workers more expensive.
Pay rates, where there are pay scales, assume a level of competency that comes with experience and averaged out over a standard period, for example when you pay a 2nd year worker more than a 1st year. A part-time worker will inevitably be less experienced, everything else being equal, and that will cap total career earnings dramatically.
"Women often don't climb the career ladders to the same height as men"
Any evidence of that? Evidence that doesn't extrapolate over two generations and assume social attitudes remain unchanged for the whole period and excludes external influences.
Thursday 1st June 2017 06:52 GMT Jeremy Puddleduck
Re: Bullshit
"Oh P. Lee, you sound lovely, really lovely. I bet the women are flocking to spend time in your company."
"Personal attacks just make your argument look weak."
Oh Adam, Adam, Adam, something about you makes me thing I don't care what you think of my compliment of P. Lee. He implied women who work don't care about their families. Did you have a little word with him as well? No, strange that, wonder why. Men of course love their families no matter what they do because they are...MEN!
And as for the rest of your rationalisation of why it's okay to pay part-time workers less per hour than full time workers, good luck with that. You're in denial, particularly if you cannot accept women don't climb career ladders to the same height as men. But, still, I'm sure it's lovely in your little (presumably women-free) bubble.
Monday 29th May 2017 23:47 GMT bombastic bob
Re: Bullshit
Find an intern to run "select gender,avg(pay_rate) from employees group by gender"
it may not be that easy of a query, considering how 'gender' is defined these days...
Actually I doubt google would deliberately pay women LESS. It may be MORE, though...
(and this is probably JUST a dept of labor "shakedown")
Tuesday 30th May 2017 06:53 GMT macjules
Monday 29th May 2017 13:08 GMT Lost In Clouds of Data
Monday 29th May 2017 13:21 GMT Steve Davies 3
Of course Google can do it
but they don't want to. Perhaps it might prove a tad embarasing.
Other Tech Companies can do this and do it every year so why can't google? Don't they have the mother of all AI systems that apparently holds all the data in the world on each and every one of us.
Or isn't it the best thing since sliced bread that they claim it to be?
Monday 29th May 2017 19:44 GMT Captain DaFt
Re: Of course Google can do it
"Don't they [Google] have the mother of all AI systems that apparently holds all the data in the world on each and every one of us."
Well they tried to use it, several times, but all the answers came back looking like:
"Walter Pomp, current employee at Google, You can hire Walter Pomp to work at Google by clicking {Here}.
Companies that hired Walter Pomp also hired Matta Kahn, Bob Sherry, Teresa Braks, and more! Click {here]"
Not really that much help.
Monday 29th May 2017 13:33 GMT Anonymous Coward
Monday 29th May 2017 13:41 GMT Paul Crawford
Monday 29th May 2017 14:48 GMT Lost In Clouds of Data
Monday 29th May 2017 14:58 GMT imanidiot
Re: (.) (.)
I'd not be entirely sure it's bullshit. Recent research in the Netherlands has shown that the supposed pay gap in here is nearly non existent in general when compensating for experience, age, hours worked, etc and in certain demographics (mostly young higher educated) women ARE actually getting paid more.
Monday 29th May 2017 17:14 GMT Steve Davies 3
Monday 29th May 2017 22:00 GMT Anonymous Coward
Monday 29th May 2017 23:52 GMT bombastic bob
Monday 29th May 2017 14:14 GMT Anonymous Coward
Monday 29th May 2017 17:53 GMT MD Rackham
Complicated by the fact that those juicy government contracts that Google has contractually obligates them to keep such data. And to make it available to auditors.
I (briefly) consulted for a company that thought those federal contract details were just "boilerplate" and could be ignored. When the feds were done with the audits and started assessing penalties and yanking contracts, the company was shut down as it was suddenly bankrupt. Oops.
(Of course the CEO was a libertarian asshole (but I repeat myself) who didn't think any rules should apply to him.)
Monday 29th May 2017 15:07 GMT Michael H.F. Wilkinson
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Monday 29th May 2017 17:22 GMT Chairman of the Bored
What the hell, I will wade into this morass. Big caveat- I'm an engineer, not an IT guy and what I say applies only to the infinitesimally small sliver if the USA's engineering field I've played in:
(1) At present my perception is that there are more female than male engineering students. Note: I'm talking about the small subset who are US citizens - the only flavor I can hire.
(2) The women tend to interview far better; a lot of the males have some sort of weird video-game-derived socio-alco-psycho-logical strangeness that makes me want to airgap my projects from them.
(3) from (2) our junior staff is actually about evenly matched or slightly biased towards the female side; starting salaries for the women are definitely higher.
(4) At the ten year mark we have few women left. First, we - meaning every org Ive worked in - treats women like crap. Less educational opportunities... Nastier interpersonal interactions... they get screwed in tetms of advancement for at least a year after taking materbity leave... etc.
Two types survive: super stars who would perform well no matter what you do to them, and on the other end of the bell curve sociopathic bitches who are able to rise with extraordinary speed because of worthless male managers who think only with their dicks. Not that the sociopaths ACTUALLY put out, but these guys are really, really stupid
(5) Our female super stars do not mix well with the average dickhead (literal and metaphorical) line and personnel managers. They tend to stay technical and become recognized experts and technical leaders. Sociopathic women in the line management feel threatened by the smarter ones in the tech leadership side and will do VERY nasty things to keep 'em down. Supported of course by our sexually frustrated suits being stroked (by God I hope not physically) by the sociopaths
(6) Our best and brightest women get sick of the crap and leave. Average salaries then, in spite of an initial good trend, definitely look strange. Simple discrimination though does not adequately demonstrate the totality of dysfunction
(7) maternity leave? Theoretically it doesnt hurt your career. In practice? Cant say its ever helped.
What organization - and Id assume Google is similar to mine - really wants introspection into its inner workings?
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Monday 29th May 2017 20:12 GMT Esme
Re: My anecdote
@Bahboh - feminism isn't man-hating. Feminism is about trying to make the world more equal for all. (And for those thinking the usual question, It's called 'feminism' because of where it started, in a world where women were legaly chattels, and is still called that because the world (ie: all of the countries, not just yours or mine), as a whole, still tends to treat women less well than men (and even in the country I live in, women still tend to be paid less well than men for the same jobs, on average,according to overnment figures, whilst we're on the subject of pay).
Boys are behind girls at every stage in education now, where you live? Ok, that's a datum that needs to be worked on, and we - us feminists - are all behind doing something about that, but take a look at history, take a look at large chunks of the world right now and see how many women are being denied an education at all.
Cherry-picking one datum that shows an inequality in how well males and females are doing in favour of women - in the country that you live in - doesn't invalidate feminism, as I am sure you're quite intelligent enough to realise.
And if we're talking about equality, why should it be down to just us women to fix the problem of boys under-achieving? Don't men have a stake in doing that as well, or are you denying all respondibility for the upbringing of young males? Are you being a good role-model for them, demonstrating what the benefits of a good education and socially responsible behaviour are?
I'd also urge those critical of feminism to read up on the subject, find out why it has been such an inspiring idea for so many women. Yep, feminism has had (and still does) its share of extremists and weirdos who don't seem to be in quite the same reality as the rest of us, as does every political movement. And it has its share of the inarticulate who feel frustrated that they can't explain well how they feel about it all and that may resort inadvisedly to just yelling and swearing at those who don;t share their view. But it's just as wrong to tar all feminists with the same brush due to inappropriate or even self-defeating actions of a few as it is to tar the members of any group with the same brush for the aberrant actions of a few.
Thankfully, most men I know are thoughtful types, so no, I am not a man-hater, and nor are the vast majority of feminists, who are, believe it or not, heterosexual. But its irksome that the anti-feminists (of whatever gender) trot out the same old bullshit arguments year on year as if with one simple statement they can render feminism valueless. If you're amongst them, then think on this - if you're so dismissive of something that so many women hold dear, then might you, perhaps, be part of the problem?
Monday 29th May 2017 22:55 GMT TheTick
Re: My anecdote
"Feminism is about trying to make the world more equal for all."
If that truly is your goal (in terms of equal opportunity rather than equal outcome of course) then perhaps it's time to start calling yourselves "Equalists" and practice "Equalism".
One might almost call it "Individual Rights".
Tuesday 30th May 2017 00:02 GMT inmypjs
Tuesday 30th May 2017 00:00 GMT bombastic bob
Re: My anecdote
"Boys are behind girls AT EVERY STAGE OF EDUCATION."
This is a growing trend. Perhaps a significant number of young males don't wanna be "indictronated" into no longer being male, so they find some high-testosterone career instead that doesn't require college...
(i.e. they can't stomach the liberal indoctrination and mysandrony, and are EMBARASSED by the snowflakes, enough to want _OUT_)
I'll get my coat now.
Tuesday 30th May 2017 07:13 GMT Anonymous Coward
Re: My anecdote
Any chance you may be going into any discussion with feminists (or women) with a tiny bit of an attitude that might help provoke the response you describe? I will, however, point out the same old point, repeated by feminists around the world - feminism does not mean man-hating. Why would we focus on something so negative and time-consuming when making our lot, and all people's lots, better? Most men are wonderful, we love them, love spending time with them, sometimes even enjoy working with them.
And explain to me, what are you doing to correct any inequality of boys at school? Writing unpleasant messages on this forum by any chance?
Monday 29th May 2017 18:38 GMT Chairman of the Bored
Maternity leave...
My daughter pointed out that as a dude I lack the experience to say whether the antidiscrimination juju works or not. Then I pointed out to her that I took six weeks of leave to hang out with her and her mum when she came out of the oven. When I returned to work, my office had been chopped into four cubes and invaded by an equal number of people Id never seen before. My few personal effects had gotten chucked into a cardboard box. While I still had a job I was figuratively 'homeless'
My employer at the time is one of the world's largest employers, with a large pentagon-shaped HQ next to the Potomac River.
Monday 29th May 2017 19:07 GMT Bloodbeastterror
"Don't be evil"
Isn't it funny how people can promise the earth, the moon and the stars and then when they get a bit of power manage to forget all that nonsense and get back to egocentric self-serving? I have this nagging feeling that something similar happened in the US recently - can't quite put my finger on it...
Monday 29th May 2017 20:03 GMT Anonymous Coward
Monday 29th May 2017 22:19 GMT scrubber
Google are clearly lying. As they were when they said the WiFi slurp their maps cars were doing was an accident. Or when they said they deleted said data. Or any of the hundreds of illegal or unfair breaches of privacy they have done in the name of better service. Sorry, I meant making another buck. My android phone auto corrected that for me.
Monday 29th May 2017 23:58 GMT Jim Birch
Is there actually a reliable way to measure gender pay gap
If everyone is making widgets doing a gender pay gap analysis is easy. It works well for bus drivers too.
With artists or creative knowledge workers where everyone is doing different things for different money it's a fraught statistical process. Hard, or maybe impossible. Whatever the result, someone will claim it is wrong, maybe even with some justification. More likely, with varying combinations of ideological moral certainty and cluelessness.
Google would crazy to institute this kind of lose-lose project. It would require arcane statistical methods that just about no one would trust. If an analysis showed they were gender neutral, they'd be accused of cooking the books before anyone had read the report. If it turned out they weren't gender fair, that result would be distrusted by others. Then, what are they supposed to do: inflate wages artificially or promote people with lower perceived competence, or what? There's a reasonable to good market for this type of employment. We aren't talking about a sweatshop in rural Pakistan.
Personally, I'd want to see the reliable methodology appropriate to Google's workplace before we bang our dainty fists on tables and demand that they produce a bunch of meaningless numbers. "Everybody knows" doesn't cut it with me.
Tuesday 30th May 2017 01:38 GMT Oengus
Too easy
Give me your payroll data for the year, $500000 and one month. I will run your data through a tool I created to report to the WGEA (Workplace Gender Equality Agency) here which takes into account Part time/full time, Leave without pay/part pay, hire/fire date and other types of payment.
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Tuesday 30th May 2017 10:25 GMT Anonymous Coward
Tuesday 30th May 2017 15:40 GMT Anonymous Coward
Re: It's easy...
that would be funnier if I hadn't seen or run reports with completely irrelevant but technical sounding correlations, misinterpreted social theory, or completely disproven economic ideas used to weight or filter report results.
Upvote because I hope you were being clever, and not one of my Directors in disguise. :)
Tuesday 30th May 2017 12:47 GMT Anonymous Coward
Is it really so bad if men earn more then women?
Against my better judgement and advice, my organisation has sometimes hired the occasional programmeresse - and here's what happens: Where as my developer dudes turn up on time in the same cargo pants, grey-white Ts and sneakers, the lady typists turn up - always late - in something different every day, purchased from those $8-for-a-skirt online purveyors of sweatshop tat. Every day, something frickin' different. They spend around 80% of the day on Instagram looking at photos of their equally vacuous friends and the other 20% gossiping about who said what to who and why. The only things these chicks know is employment law, so you can't even get rid of them for being crap. All you can hope for is pregnancy. And the dudes, they do all the work, until one of them gets busy with a female colleague, and the productivity goes to sh*t. Sorry, but women aren't suited to working, they waste all their money on handbags, clothes and lipstick, they drink coloured crap with umbrellas in, and they know nothing except empty phrases they pick up online, so why should we pay them as much as men? They get all they need from men anyhow.
Tuesday 30th May 2017 13:17 GMT Anonymous Coward
Tuesday 30th May 2017 15:37 GMT Phukov Andigh
funny thing about big data and reporting
is that almost every report finds exactly what the entity requesting the report wanted.
I suspect any reasonable set of queries, assuming all data people are demanding is actually recorded, would show that for any group, they will show "underpaid".
Run it for women and it will "prove" they're underpaid.
Run it for any minority, and I suspect the same rules will provide the same output.
All those poor underpaid Indian DBAs.
Hey, I bet we'd find most exploited H1B's in tech are *male*.
so we'll filter and drill-down until we get the results that "satisfy" the recipient. Filter anyone with advanced degrees, filter anyone on a work visa, filter anyone who's been with the company less than a year. Filter out overtime pay, disciplinary or attendance issues, and anything the Union says is derogatory. Then take an average of pay from the owners of the company down to the kids in the mailroom, split by gender.
Viola! Politically acceptable results Unlocked!
(and that's pretty much how we do the major reporting by which Policy is generated here as well. If the results don't match the Politics, the report is rejected until it does. Any results that prove something politically dangerous, are "extraneous" and removed as to "not clutter" the charts and graphs. Perot would be proud.)
Tuesday 30th May 2017 15:55 GMT Phukov Andigh
So how it works
W.C. Cogswell, a self identified binary man, who owns Cogswell Cogs, makes a million dollars a year.
there are 10 women who make 100K
there are 20 men who make 80K
Average female pay for those 10 women: 100K.
Average male pay for all 21 men in the company: 123K
(rounded for simplicity)
"Oh look! Men make nearly 25% more than women!" or the Jezebel headline: "Women at Cogswell Cogs are forced to work more than an extra whole workday to make as much as men!"
common sense tells you the men are not making more. But averages, well, can tell a different "truth" and be accurate, yet incorrect. So we filter.
but we removed critical information didn't we? removing what we determine to be "outliers" actually drastically changes things. Especially when there are enough "outliers". We often get critical and "drill down" into the female statistic, but unless we do the same for both, well, we are once again borderline cherrypicking.
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I have been so into making games lately. I mean, who doesn't love a game? And what teacher doesn't love an educational game?? (shhh..don't tell the kids!)
I used Kimberly Geswein's super cool new font to make a game!
Who knew you could turn a font into a gameboard?? Her font is called KG Build A Game Font and it is super fun to use! The best part is that the fonts are scalable so you can make them really large and they don't lose their quality.
I may have made my husband play with me last night... He was blue and I was green (yep it comes with playing pieces!). He's pretty good at his nouns, I have to say.
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Not all Bristol hotels are places of accommodation. On the other side of the world they are better known as bars and pubs.
The Bristol Arms Retro Hotel in Sydney's clubland, for example, is a lively nightspot with seven bars on five floors. Converted in 2004, its speciality is hen parties, while July sees winter warm-up nights – wear Hawaiian print or diving mask and snorkel for free 'VIP' entry.
The Bristol Hotel in Williamstown, Melbourne, on the other hand, is a traditional pub. "Like a step back in time," says one satisfied customer "The publican, 'Bear', usually gives you the first drink on the house and any information you require regarding the local area and the pub's history. No pokies, eftpos or computerised sales systems – it really is a unique hotel full of friendly locals and fair dinkum humour that only a visit could explain."
It even has an old-time Ladies' Lounge.
The Hotel Bristol in Wellington, New Zealand, also sounds like a friendly bar. "It's the way a bar should be," says the promo. "The Bristol is the sort of place that has the right feel. It's not too small and it's not too big. It's not too dark and it's not too bright. The food is great but the prices aren't. And you can hear yourself think... except perhaps when a really good live band is playing, or the 'Canes are dicking the Blues, or the day nighter is down to the last over, or just because the place is packed on a normal Friday night (well, maybe it can get a bit noisy)."
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UNWC Recaps Productive Year
Upper Nehalem Watershed Council completes numerous restoration projects in 2018
By Scott Laird
The Upper Nehalem Watershed Council (UNWC) has been an instrumental piece in the regional efforts to protect the health of the Nehalem River watershed.
The Nehalem watershed, from its headwaters on the east side of the Oregon Coast Range, through Vernonia, and all the way to the Pacific Ocean, has been seen as a high priority river basin for restoring habitat as part of the effort to protect and re-establish coho salmon in their native streams in the Pacific Northwest. The UNWC has been instrumental in developing and managing projects as part of those recovery efforts, including the replacement of culverts that act as barriers to migrating fish, working with private landowners to plant trees and restore natural settings along stream banks, and placing large trees, with rootwads attached, in streams to create natural habitat for coho and other native species.
Vernonia's Voice recently sat down with UNWC Executive Director Maggie Peyton to review the work of the UNWC, now in its 22nd year of operation. Peyton discussed projects that have been completed during the last year, talked about current issues and ongoing concerns about the health and water quality in the region, and looked ahead to this upcoming summer season and the Council's plans.
"The habitat in the Nehalem watershed has not been totally degraded and is seen as having a lot of potential," says Peyton. "We're getting to the point where we're starting to connect some of the dots. We've been doing projects all around the region for twenty plus years, but now we're able to do some sub-basin treatments that address multiple factors in an area with road crossings and enhanced habitat."
According to Peyton, 2018 was "very productive" for the UNWC, its Board of Directors, and its numerous partners, with successful projects across a wide spectrum of watershed health and native salmon recovery activities. Nearly $1.3 million in grant funds have been disbursed since 2017 to successfully implement ecosystem infrastructure improvement projects in Columbia, Clatsop, Tillamook, and Washington counties.
"This was our best year for high profile restoration projects," said Peyton. "We did a large culvert replacement project on Apiary Road, a pilot project helping create beaver dams, and we placed a lot of large woody debris structures in streams. We also got quite a bit of recognition for some of our work."
The original UNWC Charter was recognized by the Columbia County Board of Commissioners in July 1996 and by the Clatsop County Local Government Group in August 1997. Since that time UNWC has continued to educate local communities while helping address watershed management issues in coordination and cooperation with key regional stakeholders composed of government agencies, environmental protection groups, local contractors, and private landowners – including the timber industry. The end goal continues to be a balanced ecosystem that supports a healthy watershed while providing for an economic base and viable communities.
Primary funders/partners/donors include the Wild Salmon Center, Oregon Watershed Enhancement Board (OWEB), Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife (ODFW), Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ), National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), Bureau of Land Management (BLM), Oregon Department of Forestry (ODF), National Fish and Wildlife Foundation (NFWF), Columbia County Road Department, Weyerhaeuser Company, and Stimson Lumber Company.
One of the most visible projects this past year partnered with Columbia County Road Department on Oak Ranch Creek and replaced an undersized culvert under Apiary Road with an open bottom reinforced concrete arch allowing unconditional salmon passage. That project, along with two other bridge installation projects that replaced undersized culverts in the Mist/Birkenfeld area on Lane Creek and Calvin Creek, opened up a total of 20 miles of productive aquatic habitat.
"We did 'stream simulation' work on all three of those crossings, which is an additional layer of work that rebuilds the stream beds once the culvert is removed but before the bridge is placed," explains Peyton. "It stabilizes that reach of the stream and protects the bridge abutments."
Two of those projects were in collaboration with Weyerhaeuser, who Peyton says were good partners to work with. "I have to give them a thumbs up – they did a really good job helping write the grant for funding, managing the projects, and keeping us in the loop."
The other high profile project was the installation of what are called Beaver Dam Analogues (BDA) on four different streams that contain wild coho salmon, steelhead, and cutthroat trout populations. This pilot project installed a total of 27 structures (wood poles sunk vertically into the ground about two feet apart across the stream and then interwoven horizontally with willow, maple, or conifer branches) in small stream tributaries on ODF managed public land, including the north Fork of Lousignont Creek south of Highway 26 towards Timber, on Upper Rock Creek and Bear Creek near the rest area on Highway 26, and Buster Creek near Jewell.
These BDAs act as footholds for the beaver to build out into full-fledged dams, providing shallow, cold water pools where coho can find food and cover from predators. These types of off-channel habitats are essential for juvenile coho and other species to survive and grow.
Beavers are considered a "keystone species," an organism whose pond-creating powers help support entire biological communities.
"They're primary inhabitants of our temperate rain forest," says Peyton. "Beaver and coho have evolved together, so when the beavers colonize an area and create those backwater pools, that's where juvenile coho and adults can thrive. We need to get our ecosystem back into balance, and helping re-establish beavers in the region is one way we can do that."
In addition, Peyton says beaver dams can work to slow down stream flows in a particular small area during high water events and act as natural valley water storage areas. "These can help slow the water during heavy rains and help capture sediment, but we're really working against years of history and the way our forests have been managed in the past."
Peyton says the BDA pilot project was a partnership with ODF, NOAA, OWEB, NFWF, and the Wild Salmon Center. She says Rapid Bio Assessments were done prior to the BDA placement, which counts and documents the presence of juvenile fish, so effectiveness can be monitored.
"All the areas where we installed these BDAs show evidence that beaver colonies had been there before, and there is still some kind of a beaver presence," says Peyton. "We have a monitoring protocol so we'll be able to see what works and what doesn't." She notes that one site on Rock Creek has already been naturally improved by the work of local beavers and is now a functional dam.
Another ongoing UNWC project is to help rebuild streams to a more natural setting. This past year the UNWC continued their work, placing 33 Large Woody Debris structures along salmon anchor habitat reaches and enhancing over two miles of streams on Olson Creek, the north fork of Lousignont Creek, Beaver Creek, and at Hyla Woods.
Logs for these projects include the root wads and are strategically placed in creeks and streams to form structures that assist in the creation of naturally forming log jams while interacting with the stream flow to create flood plain connection and sort the gravels that flow through. The log jams jump start the process of restoring a stream's natural state after decades of intensive logging and help spread out fish habitat.
The placement of Large Woody Debris in streams also helps capture and slow the flow of water downstream during high water events, and allows water to soak in and recharge groundwater supplies.
The UNWC undertook a variety of other projects this year, including:
- participated in the process to get a 17 mile portion of the Nehalem River designated as a State Scenic Waterway
- continued riparian reforestation on 30+ acres in partnership with private landowners, the Columbia Soil and Water Conservation District, and the Columbia River Youth Corp crew
- supported riparian reforestation through the Nehalem Native Nursery, managed by the UNWC and located on the Vernonia School District campus with the help of the Vernonia High School Forestry class
- managed about 50 volunteers from the Oregon Zoo who recently spent time working on a riparian restoration project in Vernonia, planting trees and vegetation
- collected water quality samples from 30 select locations in the Nehalem basin for turbidity testing (amount of sediment) during the winter rainy season, and at over 30 sites to record temperatures during summer low-flow season
The temperature samples were disappointing, says Peyton. "Temperatures in the summer are too hot, and often lethal on the main stem of the Nehalem. That seems to be the trend and I don't see that changing anytime soon."
According to Peyton, the temperature problem is multi-facetted. While the UNWC has been able to make a small impact, the problem really starts in the headwaters and is going to take some major changes in the way the state regulates forest management. Peyton says that currently under the Oregon Forest Practices Act the headwaters of streams do not have to be buffered when logged until they become perennial streams (streams that flow with water year round). "As a community and as a state I think we're still trying to accept what it's going to take to cool the Nehalem, and that is to start at the headwaters"
The amount of sediment in streams is also a result of the accumulative effects of forest, farm, residential, and urban land management practices over the last 150 years. "The temperature issues and the sediment is a direct result of the way the land is being managed," says Peyton.
Peyton and the UNWC are currently wrapping up their work on a Nehalem Strategic Plan with the Wild Salmon Center and their multi stakeholder team this winter. "This process lays the foundation for identifying current and future salmon anchor habitat improvement projects in high priority sub-basins and stream reaches throughout the Nehalem watershed," says Peyton. "This process led directly to the BDA pilot project, and hopefully some ongoing funding and future projects."
Peyton says the UNWC continues to improve their base operations, computer networks, outreach activities, and staff development with the support of the UNWC Board of Directors. Their website is back online at UNWC.Nehalem.org. The website is a great place to learn more about current projects and volunteer opportunities.
This summer Peyton says the UNWC will be partnering to install more BDAs in the region. "We've received another round of funding and identified several brand new reaches, plus we have funding left over from the original project that we can use to augment the first 27 we put in," says Peyton. UNWC will also be placing Large Woody Debris structures around the region this summer..
Peyton says they are currently looking for more interested citizens to serve on their Board of Directors.
"We haven't been able to cool the Nehalem River, so that's still a big question," says Peyton. "The level that we're able to work at, compared to the magnitude of what has happened in this watershed over the last 150 years, is just too small, plus now we have these climate changes and our summer draughts are getting longer. We still have a lot of work to do."
This article was originally published in the Vernonia's Voice issue on 3/21/19 and is used here with permission from the author.


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"....with jazz and cocktails" goes the famous Billy Strayhorn tune Lush Life. We might play that tune. Or not. Doesn't matter. Hope you can join us at the long-time Rehoboth eatery for some Straight-ahead Uncompromising Cocktail Music.


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I run an entertainment joint in a busy restaurant in the city and I was researching for a HDMI high speed cable online. I landed on this cable which I ordered and today am so fond of it. The cable is resolution supported up to about 4000x2000 and an ultra wide band width of over 10.2 that enables contents from 1080 HD and 7.1 surround sound of 8 channel audio to work perfectly. I really got excited when I discovered that this cable supports both Dolby True HD and DTS-HD master audio transmission efficiently a feature that is crucial for my entertainment joint. This cable is made of high technology as it had excellent quality copper conductor of 28AWG that facilitates great performance. This is an efficient and reliable cable that supports 3D LCD monitors and normal TV for maximum entertainment.


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A while back in the winter time I had originally posted an "indoor" version of a burger which can be seen here.
Now that the weather is warm and the grill can be fired up, it is time to have some fun and experiment with different variations of burger concepts and toppings. Today I will present two wonderful ideas and as the summer progresses, there will be many more to come.
Before I get into the main jist of things, I'll quickly go through the making of the patties. I am not typically one to add a whole lot fo stuff into the burger itself or jump on the tv craze of "stuffed" burgers. I am somewhat agreeable with chef Bobby Flay in that the burger itself should be simple and that adding additional flavors and elements should be in the roll, toppings, etc.
The patties I created I used 90% ground beef. I take a few strips of uncooked bacon and dice them up into a mush and mix well into the beef. I know a lot of people may utilize seasonings such as onion/garlic salt, but I prefer to finely dice up both vegetables themselves and add them into the mix. I then utilize some sweet paprika and a touch of sage and then make the patties by hand (no tools required).
The first version I attempted was a nice little bit of sweet and spicy. Along with grilling the burgers, I had also cut up slices of fresh pineapple and some orange habaneros and tossed them on the grill as well. In a small skillet I had fried up and then used breadcrumbs to coat and make some crispy onion straws. I had also fried up some bacon which I added some fresh peppercorn for a little kick.
When the burgers were close to being fully done, I tossed some Colby cheese onto the patties and let it melt on top (about 4-5 minutes).
The final product was as follows: Bottom layer of roll, Romaine lettuce, burger with Colby cheese, grilled pineapple, onion straws, bacon, and finally the orange habanero.
And, now on to the second version.
In this instance I decided to go with more natural and "woodsy" flavors as opposed to sweet and spicy combinations.
As in the previous instance, as the burger was almost done I had added on the cheese to melt a little. I chose a nice 3 year aged cheddar to top. After the cheddar, I cut up a fresh avocado and threw on a nice slice of that. I had some dried lobster mushrooms which I had re-hydrated in some water and then sauteed in a little oil. Now with my birthday just happening, one of the gifts I received was the Polyscience Smoking Gun. What better way to test was to cook up a few slices of bacon and then add some applewood smokiness to them? This was all served on a ciabatta roll with some red leaf lettuce and a side of polish pickles and some chips.


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The New Orleans Investment Conference was held this past weekend and our good friend Chris Marcus, Arcadia Economics, was able to travel to the show and secure several great interviews. He was kind enough to arrange an interview for us with long time friend and publisher of LeMetropole Cafe and founding member of GATA, Bill Murphy.
It seems the timing was perfect to sit down with Mr. Murphy with the markets really showing their teeth with their ability to continually bounce back after being hit by the "bad guys". The charts, as we have been reporting for the past several weeks (really two years), look great and with year end buying coming online we should see the strength remain.
With all the court cases proving gold and silver market rigging over the past couple of years it is no wonder the some of the people that denied market rigging are now holding their head a little lower in the presence of Mr. Murphy and his long time GATA partner, Chris Powell. These gentlemen have been fighting the good fight and have documented, for the past 20 years, all the banking and government rigging of the precious metals markets that really began in the late 1960's and was made policy in the early 1970's.
Now, the Department of Justice, under the Trump administration, is now considering filing RICO charges against JP Morgan. If this happens and this case goes to court, the discovery process in a courtroom could uncover a number of very interesting branches of an extremely corrupt bullion banking cabal.
With all the geopolitical, central banking shenanigans and economic issues going on around the world we should see silver and gold moving to the upside over the next year. This is to say nothing of the problems in the mining sector offering a great deal of support to this thesis. If you have no product it makes it difficult to have a market. Demand, outside the U.S. continues to be strong and among the central banks it demand is at record highs. Got physical?


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Carol, Marie and Alan returned to UK and no sooner had they departed than the sun began to shine again. Though frequent rain showers mean that the air is still very humid. The visitors hard work around the house and garden means that I may have a little breathing space and can concentrate on decorating the house.
The elephant ear plants have yet to sprout though with cool night time temperatures that maybe can be expected.
Carol brought me two large bunches of corriander which were a god send given the prices of the piddly little packets they sell around here. Corriander leaf freezes very well if you chop it very finely and place in a plastic bag. Small pieces can be broken off and added to your chosen dish just before serving, really brings the dish to life! As an experiment I cut off the root tips and I will try to grow plants from those. I have also sown some seed too so the comparison between corriander types will be interesting.


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Foodie Friday! The subject today isn't actually food itself but the places in which it's served. You probably how competitive the restaurant space is – just think about how hard it is for you to decide where to go eat when you go out. Which cuisine? How far to go? Is this new place any good? We've all been there.
More often than not these days, people turn to review sites such as Yelp for information.
It's not news to any of us that some of the reviews on Yelp (and other review sites) are fake. Great ones may have been posted by the restaurant, bad ones could come from a competitor. Yelp has an algorithm that is supposed to spot and eliminate those issues to a great extent. The folks at Harvard B-School released a study about it. What they found is interesting but not terribly surprising:
First, roughly 16 percent of restaurant reviews on Yelp are identified as fraudulent, and tend to be more extreme (favorable or unfavorable) than other reviews. Second, a restaurant is more likely to commit review fraud when its reputation is weak, i.e., when it has few reviews, or it has recently received bad reviews. Third, chain restaurants – which benefit less from Yelp – are also less likely to commit review fraud. Fourth, when restaurants face increased competition, they become more likely to leave unfavorable reviews for competitors. Taken in aggregate, these findings highlight the extent of review fraud and suggest that a business's decision to commit review fraud respond to competition and reputation incentives rather than simply the restaurant's ethics.
They looked at 316,415 reviews of 3,625 restaurants so it's not a small study. That said, this doesn't even address an individual who had a nice meal with good service but maybe had a run in with another customer and decides to blame the restaurant with an inaccurate review – I'd call that just as fake as the others.
The NY Attorney General cracked down on businesses that were writing fake reviews. It's a problem for anyone who relies on the internet for research. So don't.
Yes. I wrote that. Instead, use the web to find out about available options and use trusted sites with paid, professional reviewers. Then put down the device and ask a friend or coworker or family member. There's an expression in computing – GIGO – garbage in, garbage out. That's what many review sites are like despite their best efforts (and I mean that they try to weed out fake stuff sincerely). Some of it is the blind leading the rest of us – who knows how educated and daring the palates are of most amateurs? A bunch of it is fraud. The problem is we don't know which is which.
Or maybe we just need not to be afraid to be "wrong" about the choices we make and go and enjoy an evening out with someone?


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Tuesday, November 13, 2007
Dead Wood Splinters
I've told this story before. Maybe you haven't heard it.
As a young child, I walked to early morning mass every day with my grandmother.
As we passed St. Jean Batiste, the Roman Catholic Church established by the French Canadians immigrants she would kiss her thumb and make the sign of the cross as a form of blessing.
When we passed St. Patrick's, the Roman Catholic Church established by the Irish immigrants, she would also bless herself. Clearly, it was a sign of respect – a wee 'arrow prayer' in solidarity with all those who were praying there.
As we rounded the corner to attend mass at St. Elizabeth's Roman Catholic Church which had been established by the Portuguese immigrants, we always ran into "the Protestant Church" at the top of the street.
My grandmother would bless herself several times, in rapid, furious succession, as if warding off the real presence of Evil itself.
I asked her, once, why she did that.
She spit on the ground and then hissed, "Dead wood splinters," going on to explain that these were not part of God's "one, holy, catholic and apostolic church. They are not connected to their original source," she said.
"They broke away. They work harder to justify their existence than to pray to God. And, because of that, they can not sustain their faith. They argue among themselves. They break off from each other. They have no faith. Dead wood splinters."
My grandmother was very big on faithfulness. She didn't believe in divorce, either, which she thought was a result of "intermarriage" - that is, marrying outside of what she called "the Portuguese race."
In my grandmother's world, you were faithful and loyal to your race/ethnicity, your family/tribe, your spouse AND your religion. You stayed "close to your original source" or you risked "drying up" and splintering off.
When my marriage failed, she was a bit more compassionate because I had married someone of German, French Canadian and Iroquois lineage. "What did I tell you?" she asked sadly, as she hugged me.
She never understood my relationship with Ms. Conroy but she was more perplexed and completely devastated when I left the Roman Catholic Church.
But, she loved me, and gave me her 'guitara' which had been a gift from her mother - the only thing, besides a small bag of clothing - which she brought with her from Portugal at age 13.
She had left her six brothers and her father shortly after her mother died. She left to escape the poverty, yes, but mostly the oppression she would have to endure as the only woman and the youngest daughter in a house filled with men.
I understood the gift her beloved guitara to me as a clear message that she understood my need to go on my own.
It also gave me a window on to her passion about faithfulness and loyalty. She had worked very hard and sacrificed for many years to save up the money to bring her brothers to this country. All but two of them eventually made the journey.
I have often reflected on my grandmother's words whenever I consider the need for the so-called orthodox of The Episcopal Church to remain part of the Anglican Communion.
I understand.
As I consider the list provided by Common Cause of the organizations attending the September 25-28 meeting in Pittsburgh, I hear my grandmother's words in a new way.
Here are the splinter groups of the so-called orthodox Episcopalians.
AAC: American Anglican Council
ACiC: Anglican Coalition in Canada
NACDP: Network of Anglican Communion Dioceses and Parishes (also known as the Anglican Communion Network - ACN)
AEC: Anglican Essentials of Canada
AMiA: Anglican Mission in America
ANC Anglican Network in Canada (which may be why the ANC / USA changed to NACDP)
APA: Anglican Province in America
CANA: Convocation of Anglicans in North America
FiFNA: Forward in Faith – North America
REC: Reformed Episcopal Church
Participating guests:
FAC: Federation of Anglican Churches
The deposed bishop of Recife (Brazil)
The bishop of Bolivia (ICON)
The retired bishop of SE Asia and former chairman of the Anglican Consultative Council (ACC), and listed as being affiliated with the AMiA.
There may be others. There may be those yet to break off yet again. These are the ones who reportedly attended the Network meeting in Pittsburgh.
It is an astounding array of organizations which continue to be divided not so much by scriptural interpretation but by the application of scripture – especially with regards to the role and function of women in the councils of power and authority in the institutional church.
Did anyone else chuckle over Moderator Bob Duncan's three-sentence response to the Presiding Bishop's letter of concern and warning?
In one of the three lines total in the letter, he said something about "the faith first delivered to the saints."
That takes a lot of cojones, as we say in North Jersey.
How many of his orthodox brothers would agree that the "faith first delivered" included the ordination of women?
Not too many, I'd wager.
It will be interesting to see what all comes of this. Will there be more splintering? Or, will there be a network of independent churches, all thriving and working to bring the gospel to the ends of the earth?
My grandmother would say that if they work harder to justify their existence than they pray to God, they don't stand a chance. They will argue among themselves. They will break off from each other.
Then, she'd spit on the ground and hiss, "Dead wood splinters."
5 comments:
- Jim said...
And, by no means, is this the set of all splinters. There is PCK (Province of Christ the King) and a lot more.
The disease your grandmother diagnosed is certainly evident. There is another. If the standard is holiness, then any diversity is a basis for division. As the 60's folk song about the John Birch society had it, we only trust we and thee and we are not too sure of thee!
Of course, for the immoderator, there is one nice note, every division seems to produce more mitres and more archbishops. I have not looked lately but at one point there were two mitres, one archly above the other, in a splinter "true Anglican" community of three parishes.
What is 'true Anglican' anyway?
- Tue Nov 13, 10:35:00 AM
- Revd. Neal Terry said...
Will there be more splintering?
Certainly, it is part of human progress and the Holy Roman Catholic church is not devoid of the experience, nor is Islaam, nor Judaism, nor Buddhism...
The manner in which it is conducted and the pain/distress felt by those in the context at the time, is a different matter. To start with the view that it is perfectly OK for others to think and organise differently and accept this as a normal process in human organisations makes it easier to deal with. The battles in the communion at the moment pretend to be about scriptural authority versus a liberal progressive agenda. They are more accurately about organisational power and the trappings that come with it. Strangely, I don't believe that testosterone fuelled displays of 'my faith is bigger than yours', impress God in the slightest. Unity of organisational construct is a false idol and unachievable unless there is first a unity as to the nature of diversity. Our organisations can only be reformed and reshaped once there is a pattern to our thinking on diversity.
- Tue Nov 13, 11:38:00 AM
- DBW said...
So you don't think your dead wood splintering metaphor relates to the Episcopal Church as a whole, or just our current line of schismatics? And what does that make Susan Russell, then, who said on national television that if TEC went along with the Dar es Salam communique, her parish would consider leaving TEC?
And are you now championing the cause of racism?
- Thu Nov 15, 08:31:00 AM
- Elizabeth Kaeton said...
DBW said:
So you don't think your dead wood splintering metaphor relates to the Episcopal Church as a whole, or just our current line of schismatics?
And what does that make Susan Russell, then, who said on national television that if TEC went along with the Dar es Salam communique, her parish would consider leaving TEC?
And are you now championing the cause of racism?
Oh, pulllleeeeesssse! The race card? Are you kidding me? I guess you don't know just how desperate y'all are.
- Thu Nov 15, 09:42:00 AM
- Jim said...
Liberals have left, one or two, three or four. Mostly, lesbians or gays traumatized by the hateful greeting they get in places like Fort Worth leave. My parish lost a really wonderful vestryman who was shocked by the homophobic crud heard at a meeting -- not a gay, but the loving parent of one who would not lash out, but could not stay.
But, the rest of us have sadly bid them well, and gone back to work. We will be here as long as it takes. So that is the general answer -- I wont write about Rev. Susan behind her back (you can find her blog?)
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