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Tuesday, June 29, 2004
posted by James - 1:22 PM
I'd like to thank Mike at the Cubs Pundit, who I'm currently trailing in his fantasy baseball league by quite a bit * grumble *, for pointing out this article in today's Chicago Tribune.
In the above article, the writer attacks the Cubs' poor baserunning in the last two series, armed with some unclear at best quotes from Cubs Manager Dusty Baker.
I say unclear because it's unclear who Baker gives credit to for the Cubs poor baserunning: Jim Edmonds, Sammy Sosa, Corey Patterson, Willie Mays, the failing state of today's public education...
I honestly can't tell, but I know that, if Baker actually thinks this way, we're going to continue to see these mistakes.
"I used to talk to Willie Mays, and he was telling me a good baserunner really doesn't need a third-base coach if he knows where the outfielders are playing [and] where the shortstop and second baseman are playing on a pitch-by-pitch basis," manager Dusty Baker said.Yeah, Baker is proving himself to be quite the moron with each dumbass quote like this he gives.
What the hell is the player supposed to do? Look over his shoulder as he's running towards third. If he does that, he definitely won't be running fast enough to score on anybody, whether he's Randy Winn or Jim Edmonds.
If it's the baserunner's responsibility to make sure he can score... then Baker has to answer why the hell there's a third-base coach out there at all? To throw baseballs to the crowd at the every half inning? To collect a runner's batting gloves and battle armor?
But at least Baker's done one thing right by this... If they're not going to show third-base Coach Wendell Kim the door, I'd rather have even the Cubs' terrible baserunners making the call than him.
The funny part I took from the article is nowhere in the article does Baker defend Kim's ability to make the send-or-not-send decision.
I hope that's the message Baker is trying to send... stop paying attention to "Waving Wendell" so I don't have to fire my friend.
Monday, June 28, 2004
posted by James - 3:00 PM
OK... my editing prowess failed me while I was writing that post from the "Just as Friendly Confines", so here's what I meant to say if I could be Bill Bavasi for a day.
I remember thinking... if I could wear the Bill Bavasi hat for a day (the first thing I'd do is beat myself over the head a few times for being an idiot and wasting an offseason - effectively ruining said hat) and a guy bearing the resemblance of a White Sox GM offered me hot OF prospect Jeremy Reed for an erratic, overpaid pitcher, who is surplus at best, I'd jump and not think twice.I'm looking forward to tonight's Monday Night Raw. They've had a couple great shows lately and tonight the Main Event features Chris Benoit vs Kane for the World Heavyweight Title.
I should be rooting for Kane, and I probably will be, but I'm also rooting for Triple H to stick his HUGE nose in this match and for Eugene, the most entertaining part of Raw these days, to borrow from his good friend the Rock and Lay Some Smackdown on his ROODY-POO CANDY ASS!!!
It's weird for me to advocate putting a newbie such as Eugene into a high-profile spot on a PPV, but not only is he amazingly entertaining with his current character, but he's proven to be a damn good wrestler to boot.
Everybody out there, get ready to enjoy Just Another Monday Night!
Sunday, June 27, 2004
posted by James - 6:09 PM
So, I'm sitting down at Casey Moran's at the bar, because after the White Sox thrashed the Cubs today the place cleared out and there wasn't a damned thing to do.
However, there were a couple "White Sox fans"* still basking in their series victory, and they were discussing the possibilities for improving their starting pitching after losing "the almighty Scott Schoeneweis."
They threw around names like Freddy Garcia and Randy Johnson, while dangling such prime trade bait as Aaron Rowand. I suggested they look at Ryan Franklin, who they'd have for more than a year at a much lower salary than Garcia, if they didn't want to part with a stud outfielder like Jeremy Reed or Joe Borchard.
One "fan"* said he didn't care, as long as it brought Garcia to the front of their rotation.
I remember thinking... if I could wear the Bill Bavasi hat for a day, and a guy bearing the resemblance of a White Sox GM offered me hot OF prospect Jeremy Reed for an erratic, overpaid pitcher, who is surplus at best, I'd jump and not think twice.
A couple minutes later, I look up at the ticker on the ESPNews channel, and they're reporting the White Sox have acquired Freddy Garcia.
I pointed this out to the "fan"*, and he was pleased at his own prognostical abilities, though neither of us or his friends knew what booty the Mariners hauled in for Garcia.
The internet wasn't any help either, as neither AP, Sportsticker or ESPN had reported the story, and neither of the teams' sites had any info as of yet.
However, the waning innings of the Mariners latest loss to the San Diego Padres was nothing but a running close up of Garcia with a couple shots of SafeCo interspersed.
Mariners broadcaster Rick Rizzs finally provided the details of the trade sending Garcia to the South Side.
Not only did the Mariners get Reed, 23, and a minor-league infielder (Michael Morse), they also pillaged the White Sox' starting catcher, 25-year-old Miguel Olivo, in the trade...
...AND rid themselves of perennially overrated and overpaid catcher Ben Davis, who had been toiling in Triple-A Tacoma.
The reaction at the bar to the trade ranged from...
1. satiated ("Sox GM Ken Williams got his man, no matter what the price.")
2. anger ("Damn. The White Sox just took two out of three and they'll have an even deeper rotation and Houston added the best offensive player available on the market just in time to visit the Friendly Confines for Fourth of July Week. When are my Cubbies going to get off their duffs and get some help for my team?")
3. more anger ("I can't believe Williams gave up Reed AND Olivo. What was he thinking?")
I'd be pleased from the perspective of a Mariners fan, but there had to be money exchanging hands here, right? There's no way the Mariners unload that much salary AND get three high-value players in return.
Regardless, don't the Mariners still owe their fans a huge upgrade in payroll. They never spent the money they got from Kazuhiro Sasaki leaving for Japan before the season started, and now they have whatever they saved on this trade.
The fans are still putting their butts in the seats, if my sojourn to SafeCo Field earlier this month was any indication, so the Mariners need to start putting money back into the team - either for this year or for next.
This team has spare parts that other teams could use (Randy Winn, Shigetoshi Hasegawa, Ryan Franklin, John Olerud...) and superfluous, high-end prospects to trade.
If the White Sox end up failing down the stretch, the Mariners should look dealing with them again for rightfielder Magglio Ordonez, and then signing him to a long-term deal.
I'm sure there are other options out there, but his is the first on my list.
Now on to our Beloveds...
"There are millions of Cubs fans in the world. We are spending our time, money, and what's left of our hearts supporting this team. We deserve better than management that is capable of gutting our hopes with putrid personnel decisions like this year in and year out."I commend Scott, and his site I affectionately call Just West of Wrigleyville South (though I may have the directionals wrong), for bringing the heat and firing at the right location.
It's obvious this team doesn't have a talent problem. It's had a health problem for most of the season, but that's fixing itself (with added bonuses for Angel Guzman and Ryan Dempster).
But after watching the team blow runs on the basepaths, in the field and, to quote Scott one more time, with "putrid personnel decisions", it's obvious this team has a management problem.
Both Jim Hendry and Dusty Baker need to get their heads in the game and start treating this season as a one-of-a-kind chance... and act like they learned from last year, where they also blew a one-of-a-kind chance.
* The quotes are added because they just sounded like they were White Sox fans; they could have just had an interest in the trade, not unlike myself. I was too busy pretending to do actual work to have much of a convo with them.
Monday, June 21, 2004
posted by James - 8:03 PM
I have just one thing to say to the recent birthday boy...
He better KNOW HIS ROLE AND SET HIS TIVO!!!!
That is all.
Sunday, June 20, 2004
posted by James - 7:06 PM
Photo Illustration by Chef Sunshine... aka the Wife Just North of Wrigley Field
My beautiful and talented wife came up with the perfect web expression for one of today's major events... if you must, call it an online birthday card for our very own, Skippy!!!
As you all can see from previous posts, he's enjoying this weekend to the fullest down in Portland. I'm sure he'd tell you the most important part is enjoying it with his father... at the races, on the links, at the bar and celebrating both his birthday and Father's Day!!! Dude! Double Celebration! Suh-weet!
Not only that, but both the Mariners and Cubs won today. That's becoming less and less of a rare occurance. Which I don't really have a problem with (they did whup on the Expos at my appearance at SafeCo Field last week) - though it won't help with the getting rid of Melvin and Bavasi.
Happy Father's Day to fathers everywhere!!!
Saturday, June 19, 2004
posted by James - 11:58 PM
Photo taken 06/19/04 courtesy AP/Jeff Roberson
Excuse me as I conjure my favorite ESPN News Anchor Brian Kenny to describe the end of the most thrilling Cubs game I've experienced from Wrigleyville...
*kinda high-pitched* One Todd will score!
*even more high-pitched* Two Todds will score!!!
I knew having dos Todds on the Cubs roster would come in handy one day.
It's pretty much what I envisioned when Cubs GM (and miracle worker) Jim Hendry added them to the bench last offseason... but they've played so well in their starting roles, it's hard to relegate them to a few PAs per week. Though I can't argue with the results so far.
The above picture is pretty much what Casey Moran's looked like after Todd Walker slid across home plate to give the Cubs the 4-3 victory. It was damn near one 400-person group hug... and then Playboy Playmate Colleen Marie (Miss August '03) showed up.
It was a wild day to put it mildly.
posted by CHRIS - 11:55 PM
Map courtesy Champ Car World Series
Here you can see where my dad and I sit every year on our annual trip to Portland. This section is one of the first to sell out. You can see more of the track from this section than anywhere else on the Portland track. You can see down into the pits as well as all the way into turn seven.
posted by CHRIS - 11:53 PM
Photo taken 06/19/04
This is what happens to drivers who think they can take the first few turns faster than they should. This Toyota Atlantic (Champ Car minor leagues) driver slid off the track and into the sand in between turns one, two and three.
posted by CHRIS - 11:45 PM
Photo taken 06/19/04
This is the only sport where you can go into the pits and watch the team work. You really can almost walk up pit road and watch them work on all of these cars.
It really would be like walking into the locker room of a basketball game and listening to the speech as the coach gives it.
posted by CHRIS - 11:39 PM
Photo taken 06/19/04
On race weekend even I got in on the action, taking second out of six in my race. I moved up 2 spots from the spot I started in. This is a picture of me in the #20 cart just after I had made a pass on the inside in the turn before.
posted by CHRIS - 11:32 PM
Photo taken 6/19/04
Paul Newman has been one of the biggest investors and supporters of open wheel racing for as long as I remember. On Saturday, I got close enough that he almost ran over my dad.
Friday, June 18, 2004
posted by CHRIS - 8:17 PM
First and foremost, I want to extend my deepest sympathy to Utah Jazz Head Coach Jerry Sloan and his family. After a long struggle with breast cancer, his wife of 41 years past away this week. My heart goes out to Coach Sloan.
Now on to something a little more light hearted... This has been a great trip to Portland, so far.
First off, I won the karaoke contest I had entered and won $400. Not bad for a night of singing.
Second, I beat my dad at golf (98 to 104), while getting a great start to my summer tan. I told you I would forget the sunscreen. So, yes I am burnt to a crisp (Ed. note... Crisp. Bacon. LOL!!!)
Third, today was the first day of practice and qualifying for the Champ Car Grand Prix of Portland. Paul Tracy took the pole early in the qualifying session, but youngsters Sebastien Bourdais and Bruno Junqueira took that away from him shortly after being on the track.
Both Junqueira and Bourdais used a small amount of their allotted 15 qualifying laps. Junqueira also wins a bonus point helping him extend his lead in the Championship Points Standings. He now leads him teammate Bourdais by 2 points. This also guarantees Junqueira a spot in the first row for Sunday's race.
The heat and wind provided new challenges for some of the young teams with limited experience at the 1.969 mile long road course. The wind slowed the cars down coming down the back stretch as a headwind came whipping down the back straight away.
The sun also reeked havoc on the fans as a majority I saw were very sun burned (including me).
Well sports fans... that's about all I have for you today. I will write more tomorrow evening after the final qualifying session.
Tuesday, June 15, 2004
posted by CHRIS - 2:49 PM
Hey guy's It's Chris from Just West of SafeCo Field.
As I'm sure everyone has read, I am an avid Champ Car Racing fan. Race #4 brings the Bridgestone Presents the World Series of Champ Car to my neck of the woods, the Great Northwest. I will be in Portland, Oregon for the weekend watching all the action LIVE!!!
As is tradition, my dad and I will be in the stands for two days of qualifying and the race on SUNDAY, SUNDAY, SUNDAY!!! I couldn't think of a better way to spend Father's Day (June 20th, Don't forget!!!) and MY BIRTHDAY (presents and money gladly accepted), than watching the finest drivers in the world doing 185 MPH! Of course I will be updating the website after each day of qualifying, and as soon as I get home on Sunday, I will post pictures of the race, and the winners.
Hopefully, I will also be granted an interview by Mike Nealy, the President of Global Events Group. (They are people in charge of making sure all of the sponsors and investors are represented this weekend. They also handle ticket sales. So if you don't have tickets already click on the link and buy today!).
The Weather Channel calls for highs in the mid 80s and mostly sunny skies all weekend long. That means two things. The track will be fast, and I will get another lovely sunburn.
* Memo to me: buy sunscreen.*
Note: I just said buy sunscreen; I will end up forgetting it and getting burnt anyway.
Before the craziness of race weekend starts, I will also be competing in a karaoke contest at McFadden's in downtown Portland. So if you find yourself in the Portland area on Wed., June 16th at around 11 p.m., stroll in and listen to some of the best karaoke singers in the Great Northwest.
The following day, my dad and I will be visiting Heron Lakes Golf Course to play golf together for the first time in almost 3 years. He hasn't picked up a club in that time, and I have played the course within the last month. This should be an easy win for me.
Well sports fans, work calls. Stay tuned for updates on James' trip to SafeCo Field and an update on the night of wrestling that never was (long story).
Thursday, June 10, 2004
posted by David - 7:38 PM
Time for a Waste of Space...
(NO... I don't have any pictures to share. If I had a scanner, I would show everyone how bad the interior of my house looks. Of course, I'm having it torn apart... So that's O.K.)
Things have been a bit rough for me these past few weeks. I contracted the plague, and suffered mighty. Well, maybe it wasn't quite the plague, but I think that the origin of my illness can be linked to the improper disposal of Rodentus Uglificus (Wharf Rat). There were a couple of them killed at work that were left to rot in a seldom emptied trash can. This is, by chance, next to my muster location, and I may have caught something there-from.
I wound up with pneumonia and have been struggling to get over it for a couple of weeks now... And I feel like I'm making little headway. On the bright side, my medication wasn't very expensive. The best part about being North of Petco Park is that TJ isn't too far south of Padre-land. Bless the south-of-the-border discount healing. Saved me a might bit more than a few duckets.
It's nice to see that the slacker and the goof-off are back to posting. I was wondering what was wrong with them for a while there. The least they could have done for a poor plague victim would have been to entertain me with blog entries. I really like that jersey that the J-man has. 'Course I may be slightly biased on the whole issue.
I'm also looking forward to crashing Crispy's place some time in the future. I just have to get my map out so I can find where his domicile is... I always get lost out in random looking housing land. Too bad I can't do anything of the sort until I go back to Washington... But that won't be for a bit more than a month yet (unless I get extended on my little sojourn down here in Diego.
Well, I'm not quite dead. And for that I am apologetic. For you have had to endure another...
Waste of Space
Monday, June 07, 2004
posted by CHRIS - 8:15 PM
Photo taken 6/7/2004
Oh yeah, and did I mention that I put all of my old Jazz posters on the wall? These are all from games in the late 80's and early 90's (Back when I had season tickets at the Salt Palace).
posted by CHRIS - 8:10 PM
Photo taken 6/7/2004.
This is what will be called "The Den". Soon to be the site of the first WWE pay-per-view in my house since WresltleMania, and the second since James moved to Chicago.
The Den features two satellite TV's, Gamecube, N64, DVD player, VHS... you name it. I even found a green carpet that looks like grass and painted home plate and foul lines. The parquet flooring is reminiscent of the old Boston Garden. Soon, the left wall will be a mural of the view of downtown Seattle from the grass inside SafeCo Field (looking over the left field wall).
James and I will break in The Den Just West of SafeCo Field next Monday as we go for a marathon session of a WWE PPV ("Bad Blood" featuring Triple H vs. HBK in a Hell in the Cell match) followed by Monday Night Raw.
Ohhhh yes... Behold the wonders of TiVo.
Thursday, June 03, 2004
posted by James - 1:05 AM
Photo taken 1/23/2004
Wow... I can't believe how cool that worked. I'm still going to have to tweak with it some, but that was so cool and pretty damn easy too. This is going to be a fun thing to play with in the future!!! The above photo is me in the best Christmas present this guy has ever received, courtesy of our one and only banished in San Diego Washingtonian, David. I can't rightfully express on any level how much I miss him.
Just wait until I post some of the pictures I took at the game I went to today. I sat right behind home plate 20 rows back in the 200 level. Even though this is blasphemous, I couldn't help but be in awe of my fortune to see future Hall of Famer Roger Clemens pitch against current Cubs ace Matt Clement (Yeah, until Prior and Wood show their true dominant forms again he's the ace of this staff).
I've gone to countless AL games over the last 25 years and numerous Red Sox, Blue Jays and Yankees games, but I can't recall ever seeing the Rocket pitch in person until today.
I find it borderline humorous that I had to move to a NL city to see Clemens pitch, when we both have spent the last 20 years of our lives in AL cities.
The whole game I was wishing the Cubs would lay some crooked numbers on the still-undefeated, 41-year-old, but I admit I couldn't keep my eyes (or my camera) off him for most of the game.
And it gets even better because not only did my Uncle Greg join me at a Cubs game for the second time this year (The first was Clement's victory over the Cardinals last week. Clement is now 2-1 in games I've seen him pitch at the Friendly Confines. WE'LL GET 'EM NEXT TIME MATTY!) but my wife attended her first game at Wrigley Field ever.
I had to go to work right after, so maybe I'll get a more detailed report on her experience, but all signs point to a successful baptism in red and blue waters!
Even though the good guys didn't come out on top in this one, I feel blessed in so many ways after going to the game today.
posted by James - 12:40 AM
Photo taken 3/29/04
This was from my brief tenure as an Allstate Arena employee. I got a picture of me on a Zamboni. At the time, I couldn't think of anything in the world cooler than that.
posted by James - 12:32 AM
Photo taken on 4/8/2004
This is my first test of posting pics to my blog... I may or may not keep this feature, but it could be worth it. This is the view from the sidewalk outside my house. It is a painting of the Cubs logo my wife made on an East-facing window in our second-floor apartment.
Wednesday, June 02, 2004
posted by James - 11:58 PM
So, I'm stumbling home in my usual manner up Clark St on my way home from work (man a block seems like forever after a night-time shift) and I spy something in the gutter at the corner of Clark and Waveland... something that definitely warranted further inspection.
I had the "fortune" to discover what appeared to be a Kerry Wood "action figure." That wasn't the intriguing part, because the big red 34 on its back was obvious.
No... what caught my attention was the disheveled nature of the visage of the Cubs' difference maker.
This plastic figure is missing both feet, half his right leg, he doesn't have a glove, and his right arm is completely torn off (or is that up?) and there's nothing above his neck...
Basically this is the Kerry Wood which closely resembles Chuck over at Ivy Chat's vision of the hard-throwin' Texan.
It also could be a good metaphor for the physical health of the entire team, but the mend is on this Friday!!!
Come on down to Casey Moran's at 3660 Clark St. (across the street from Wrigley Field) on Friday for the 2:20 pm start. We'll be celebrating the return and 2004 debut of Mark Prior with "Welcome Back Prior Night." (I guarantee there's a certain TV show theme song you'll hear at least once that night.)
We'll be toasting to the continued health of Mark Prior and speedy recovery of all our currently Befallen Beloveds and success of our reigning National League Central Division Champions.
The party starts at 11:00 a.m. and we'll keep it going before during the "Official Start of the Cubs' season." So, be there for the flowing drinks, tasty food, great music, fun staff, all those humongolous 53" high-definition TVs and the triumphant return of Mark Prior.
See ya there!


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Christmas starts for us in January – before we've even had our staff Christmas party! We sit down to discuss puds, crackers and fizz and reflect on the Christmas gone by and then try and think how we can make the next year even better!
Our starting point is a Christmas menu! Have you ever tried ringing around for the price of a Christmas pudding in January? People laugh at you. We then forget about it for a couple of months, let our ideas mull over and progress and before you know it, it's March and it's Christmas time, when you should really be prepping for Easter.
Once our menu is decided, we then go into talking about what our theme will be. We've had a couple of different Christmas' here at The Tetley, from a 3D light projection onto the front of our building with huge T-Flake (yes, Tetley flakes) floating down the building, to a Christmas themed on our previous exhibition in the Galleries last year based on wagons. This year we went traditional. – no gimmicks – just baubles (no tinsel, we do not like tinsel). So our designer this year came up with a simple yet effective design based around
our T Logo. This process spanned ideas from Christmas jumpers to Tetley baubles, in the end we decided on the simplicity and so ' Christmas T, Oh Christmas T' was born! Using our logo to make a T-Christmas tree.
If you follow us on Twitter, you'll see us during the year, working away, shouting about every step of the process, causing mass offence to Bah Humbugs all year through. That's right, we've been ringing around for crackers in June, we were out hitting the streets in July with flyers, shopping for baubles in August and giving out Gingerbread T-Biscuits in
September. Now it's October, we've got the decorations, we know what the menu is (we've already had our first pre-order through!!!!) AND we already have some days that are fully booked and we are waiting to get the party started. If you fancy having a look at our Christmas menu (designed by Thomas Houghton), then click here.
Not just a Bar & Kitchen
(p.s, if you book before 31 October, your party will receive a FREE glass of Prosecco on arrival)

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Build a Bike… The Specialized Saga. Episode TwoPosted: February 29th, 2008Category: Life as I Know It No Comments
After work I ran home to yank the Ritchey Bar/Stem combo off of my Cannondale and high tailed it over to Dustin's to finish our little project. Obviously we are on a deadline because Mason Lake 1 road race is, gulp, tomorrow and I wanted to give Spanky Van Wyck a day to kick around on it before rolling to the start line.
Hey guess what? Yup, brothers and Sisters, I present to you, D-man's S-works…
There are still some tweaks to wrench on but we will get to those when his bars and stem come in from Mr. Bicycle Mail Order.
So yeah, there you have it. It's a pretty sweet bike. We half assed measured the weight on a bathroom scale at it's a hefty 15.4 pounds WITH the heavy wheels on it and stiff as, well… use your imagination.
OH, Mason Lake Road Race? Just to get the juices flowing, here's a picture from last years ML #2. That's Dustins leg to the right. Damn that was a wet race!!!
Thanks to Amara at Wheelsinfocus.com for the picture!


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SUBJECT/S: Maribyrnong Defence land; Malcolm Turnbull's Budget for millionaires and multinationals.
BILL SHORTEN, LEADER OF THE OPPOSITION: Well I'd like to wish all the mums in Australia a happy Mother's day. I hope the kids brought you in a home-made card and a cup of tea. It's a really great day just to remember the importance of family.
I also just want to address briefly Mr Turnbull's proposals to redevelop the Defence land at Maribyrnong. It's a block of land about 8-10 kilometres from the city, it's in the electorate I represent. It was an ammunition factory from the First World War onwards. It's also a site of great significance to the first Australians and it was one of the first race tracks in Victoria before it became on an arms dump.
The problem is that this land is greatly contaminated. So Mr Morrison and Mr Turnbull want to make heroes of themselves and pretend they are doing something about first home affordability, but what they've done is they've said that people can go and live on contaminated land and they didn't put any money in the Budget, any new money in the Budget that we can see to clean up the land. This is a government who is so desperate to be seen to do something, that everything they do, they rush and they stuff up.
If you plonk 6,000 houses with about 15,000 people in the middle of existing suburbs, you guarantee grid-lock. There is no money for extra public transport, no money to help with the schools and all of the amenities. The Federal Government under Mr Turnbull have decided to bypass the State Government and relevant planning authorities, and they are just going to do a big privatisation of this land for the highest dollar which will force profiteering and the community; no consultation, no adequate cost for clean-up and contamination, no plan for gridlock.
Yet again, Mr Turnbull is trying to pretend he cares about the lives of ordinary Australians. Yet again, he is going to get this one horribly wrong. A bit like the way he is handling the taxes of ordinary Australians by pushing them to be increased.
Happy to take questions.
JOURNALIST: I was just at that announcement, so you are saying that land is contaminated and not safe for anyone?
SHORTEN: Well, if you've been an ammunition facility where they've been making bullets and weapons from 1914-1915, the residence want to be satisfied that the area is going to be cleaned up - that is not a small procedure. I think ultimately, you can decontaminate the land but that will come at a big price. And I just want to see what the Government's plans are, and the Defence Department's plans, to make sure that the best quality work is done.
It may be the Western suburbs of Melbourne; it may be fly-over country for Malcolm Turnbull and Scott Morrison, but it's where a lot of us live. So I want a first class, world-class job on decontamination.
This is a government who are rushing a proposition because they've got no plan to create the Australian dream of first home ownership, and I just don't trust them to do anything right at the moment.
JOURNALIST: You're saying they have bypassed the State Labor Government as well?
SHORTEN: Well, we were told by the Victorian Government Tuesday night that they received a phone call after the Budget announcement saying that they don't want to work with the Victorians, they want to privately develop themselves.
I love this area and I think it is good if we can build some more houses so that people don't have to travel a long way to live in Melbourne. But do it properly. No one up until Tuesday night has seriously suggested 6,000 houses. No one up until Tuesday night has seriously said it shouldn't be a co-operative effort between council, the State Government and the Federal Government. If you plonk 6,000 new houses, what does that mean for the carpark which is Maribyrnong Road?
The Highpoint Shopping Centre which is nearby already means there is massive congestion. If you just put 15,000 extra people into a confined area, it is a recipe for gridlock and congestion, loss of amenity. You see behind me the Maribyrnong River - it's a fantastic river. I want to make sure that there is a green-belt along the Maribyrnong and that it's not over developed. If Mr Morrison and Mr Turnbull are so keen to do deals with property developers, I am worried that we will lose some of the environmental amenities which makes the Maribyrnong one of the hidden treasures of Melbourne.
JOURNALIST: Mr Shorten, just briefly on the Medicare levy increase - the Treasurer said this morning that he has already met in the middle. Presumably met Parliament in the middle by coming up with this 2019 Medicare levy increase. Is Labor's proposal to put it on the top two income brackets negotiable or not?
SHORTEN: Oh, there's poor old Scott Morrison. His Budget is sinking without trace. The fact of the matter here is that this is a government who is making sure that millionaires pay less from 1 July, and that 10 million ordinary Australians pay higher income tax.
The Government doesn't need to increase the tax burden on 10 million Australians. Instead, they can not go ahead with the $65 billion corporate tax cut. Why is it that Mr Morrison wants 10 million Australians to pay $15 billion more but he wants millionaires in this country and the top wealthiest two per cent pay $19 billion less? Mr Morrison is addicted to increasing the cost of living for everyday Australians. And he and Turnbull are the best friend that Australian millionaires have ever had and this Budget confirms it.
Under Mr Turnbull's budget on Tuesday night, millionaires pay less and everyone pays more - and that's not fair.
JOURNALIST: So, Mr Shorten, is that a no? Is it negotiable, please?
SHORTEN: We made clear our position and we hope the government sees sense.
JOURNALIST: If there is no agreement on this, are you prepared to potentially see the NDIS with a shortfall, leaving aside the debate over fully-funding - if there is a shortfall, according to the government, can you live with that?
SHORTEN: Complete rubbish. The issue here is that we wouldn't go ahead with all of the $65 billion worth of cuts. Why is it that Mr Morrison is so unimaginative that the only way he thinks he can look after people with disabilities is by taxing people on $50,000 a year and increasing their income tax.
I've got a really good idea for Mr Morrison and Mr Turnbull - don't give millionaires a tax cut from 1 July. Don't give large banks and large corporations a reduction in what they pay. This is a government who is taking people with disabilities hostage in saying there is only one way to fund it. On Thursday night in my reply, I found over the next 10 years, $128 billion worth of savings and not one cent would come from charging people on $50,000, $60,000 and $70,000 any more in their tax.
Why is it that Mr Morrison and Mr Turnbull's default position is always to go after the workers and look after their top end of town mates?
JOURNALIST: Just briefly on tax, why is it incorrect to say that under your plan that every dollar earnt above $180,000 would be taxed at 49.5 cents in the dollar. Isn't that an accurate summation of Labor's current position?
SHORTEN: We have a marginal rate of taxation, that's right what you said. But I'll tell you what's also accurate, that we've got a choice in this Parliament - do we increase the income tax paid by 10 million Australians or do we retain and renew the Deficit Levy which would see millionaires pay - not get a $16,500 reduction in their tax.
Running the nation and running the Budget is all about choices. I will make no apology for not increasing the income tax burden on 10 million Australians, and therefore not allowing millionaires to pay less after 1 July then they paid for the last three years.
I also have to say, I notice Mr Morrison today had no explanation, unable to guarantee that his new $6 billion bank tax won't be passed on to customers. I think a lot of Australians were startled to hear that for all the fanfare of Mr Turnbull and Mr Morrison's new tax on banks, they could not guarantee that it won't be passed on to customers. And when Mr Morrison was pressed all he had to say was that people can change banks. Listen Scott Morrison, what world do you live in? It's not that easy just to change your bank. Where you've got the four big banks, just telling Australians to change from one bank who has increased the fees and charges on customers to another bank who has increased to fees and charges on customers is not a plan.
If Mr Turnbull and Mr Morrison want to reassure Australians that they're not going to be the people who pay for Mr Turnbull's bank tax, then what we need to do is see the government be stronger on the banks. And the best way you demonstrate being strong on the banks is a royal commission. If the government doesn't want to be beaten down by the banks and see Australians pay more in their fees and charges, they need to stand up to the banks and institute Labor's royal commission.
If the banks can't or won't do as Mr Morrison and Mr Turnbull are promising Australians they will, that to me is a very strong question which should be addressed at a banking royal commission.
JOURNALIST: Just on that in your Budget Reply speech on Thursday you said the Treasurer will have to resign if the banks pass on one cent. Clearly he hasn't been able to do that this morning. Is that enough for you to withdraw support for the tax then?
SHORTEN: I don't believe it should be beyond the wit of man to make the banks pay without slugging ordinary account holders. But clearly this is a government who've rushed the notion of this bank tax. Now we're not being obstructionist here; we want to see them do their best to repair the nation. And we do believe that the banks need to pay their fair share.
But the government cannot guarantee this morning, that Australians won't be paying the $6 billion bank tax which Turnbull and Morrison say they're putting on the banks. I'll tell you another fact which has emerged - bank CEO's because of Mr Turnbull's Budget will pay $171,000 less in tax next year. This is a government who talks tough on banks but acts soft towards banks. Nothing less than a royal commission will convince the banks that they're not the top dog. The excessive economic power of banks needs to be addressed by a royal commission. All Mr Turnbull and Mr Morrison appear to be doing, is demonstrating they have no plan to stop the banks from passing a $6 billion tax onto average customers.
JOURNALIST: Mr Shorten, just finally, on tax again, Paul Keating has told the Financial Review that the 49.5 per cent top marginal rate was quote 'too punitive'. What's your response to his assessment?
SHORTEN: In life, there are things that you'd like to do and there are things that you need to do. Lowering all the marginal tax rates is something that I would like to do eventually. But I need to renew the Deficit levy so that we can actually do Budget repair that is fair. If it comes down to a beauty parade between backing 10 million Australians who earn up to $87,000 - I don't want them paying more income tax just because Mr Morrison wants to find space in his Budget to give millionaires a reduction in what they pay and to give large companies and multinationals a $65 billion present over the next 10 years.
Mr Morrison and Mr Turnbull have got to start backing working people who go to work every day, they haven't had a pay rise, cost of living and energy prices have gone up, everything is going up and the best thing that Turnbull and Morrison can do for people who earn up to $87,000 is increase their taxes? This government is not trying hard enough to look after all Australians. This is a Budget where millionaires pay less, multinationals pay less and 10 million Australians will pay more.
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Footage Of Chinese Factory Workers Making Fake Budweiser Beer Is Deeply Disturbing
If there's a product that someone is willing to buy then you can bet that someone in China is willing to manufacture a cheap, knockoff version of that product and sell it for less. This is the law of the land. Just look at the meteoric rise of fidget spinners across the globe. The lady who came up with the product hasn't seen even a fraction of the earnings from that product because it was quickly jacked by Chinese manufacturers and sold on Amazon for CHEAP. Don't believe me? Just go search 'Fidget Spinner' on Amazon, click on the products, and see where the cheaper ones are shipping from.
But we're not here to talk about fidget spinners, we're here to look at this disturbing footage of Chinese factory workers bottling fake Budweiser beer. The factory itself looks like it's never been cleaned, with dirt and grime visible throughout the video. The workers are using their bare hands to dunk the Budweiser cans into a vat of beer. I can only assume that those Budweiser cans are either fakes or they were picked out of the trash, and the latter is deeply disturbing.
According to Mashable, this factory is located in the city of Dongguan in south China, and it was raided by authorities several weeks ago. What's staggering is how much counterfeit beer they were pumping out: a reported 600,000 crates of fake Budweiser every month…I can't even begin to imagine how many people got sick because of this operation.


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The Scottish Salmon Challenge returned to the Scottish Chefs Conference this week to give the newest generation of culinary talent the chance to show off their skill in preparing, cooking and serving the UK's favourite fish.
Eight catering students were selected from five local colleges to compete against their peers in front of an expert audience including leading Chef, Albert Roux, with the winner's award ultimately going to Craig Trewern from Scotland's Rural College (SRUC).
David Sandison, General Manager of Scottish Salmon Producers' Organisation Shetland said:
"The Scottish Salmon Challenge was launched last year to mark the 10th Anniversary of the Scottish Chefs Conference and recognise the links chefs have with our industry. It is crucial to support the next generation of food producers and culinary specialists, and I'd like to congratulate Craig, as well as the other participants who overcame some real pressure to demonstrate their impressive talents and abilities.
"As an industry, we've found that giving students and young people opportunities to show off the skills they have learned through training and Modern Apprenticeship programmes has helped to build their confidence as they transition from student to professional. We are delighted to extend these opportunities to hospitality students and hope they find it beneficial as they continue with their studies".
Participants in the Scottish Salmon Challenge were students from South Lanarkshire College, Ayrshire College, City of Glasgow College, New College Lanarkshire and SRUC. Each young chef received a copy of Nathan Outlaw's British Seafood recipe book signed by Mr Roux. Winner Craig also received a whole 5kg Scottish salmon provided by The Scottish Salmon Company and professional chef knives from Russums.
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we barely moved. my step sister was hung over...i was tired. we jumped in the water-- we felt wonderful.. and then fell asleep. haha perfect rest day!!!
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Breakfast isn't just a treat, but the most important meal of the day. It impacts our food choices for the entire day, and if eaten regularly, it helps us avoid overeating.
It's essential to recharge our energy stores and break the nocturnal fast. It has been amply demonstrated that eating a good breakfast, rather than limiting it to a quick coffee, improves our level of attention, memory and concentration. Conversely, skipping breakfast leads to the tendency to put on unwanted weight.
The foods we choose must be high-quality, nutritious and filling, in order to help provide the energy we need. Choosing the wrong foods can lead to hormonal imbalances: i.e. a breakfast high in simple sugars (a croissant and cappuccino, for example) can cause a rapid spike in blood sugar. This translates into feeling hungry sooner, even just an hour later.
A quality breakfast must be complete and should include all categories of nutrients. Here are some guidelines:
1 – A good dose of complex carbohydrates, which release energy gradually and therefore leaving you feeling satiated for longer. Better a couple of slices of naturally leavened bread made with rye or farro than the usual industrial cookies or melba toast. In place of cornflakes, which by the way are loaded with sugar, choose muesli, granola, rolled oats or buckwheat, though the latter requires a degree of preparation. Then of course, there's always Ambrosiae porridge!
2 – Never leave proteins out of your breakfast, especially if you've exercised beforehand on an empty stomach, or if you plan to exercise later. A good protein source for a sweet breakfast is plain yogurt or Greek yogurt, making sure you read the label to confirm there are no added sugars. If you prefer a savory breakfast, there are various protein sources, like eggs (soft-boiled, poached or as part of a pancake batter), smoked wild salmon, a few slices of genuine prosciutto crudo, or a little bowl of fresh ricotta cheese with a sprinkle of cocoa or cinnamon.
3 – A small quantity of healthy fats. For example, a handful of nuts (10 almonds or hazelnuts, 3-4 walnuts). Linseeds and chia seeds are also good additions to your breakfast, as are coconut flakes. Nut butters are an excellent choice (peanut, almond, cashew, pistachio), as long as they don't contain added sugars or other fats, so check the label to ensure they're 100% pure.
4 – Little or no simple sugars: shake the habit of sweetening your coffee, tea or milk, and avoid buying commercial cookies and snacks. You can satisfy your sweet tooth with sources that naturally contain sugars: fresh fruit, small portions of dried fruit, organic honey, high-quality fruit preserves.
5 – Hydrate, hydrate, hydrate. Whether still or sparkling, bottled or from the tap, as long as it's water. Even in the form of tea or various types of infusions. Indeed, a great way to start the day is with a blast of antioxidants from a nice cup of green tea.
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App: Learn Sari (Draping)
No longer will you have to tiptoe behind a smug relative to aid and abet draping that sensuous sari. After dressing some of Bollywood's finest in this signature apparel, Kalpana Shah, author of The Whole 9 Yards along with her publishers, Klipart Kreations, has put forth Learn Sari. An app to end all sari woes, it is available on the Apple App Store and the Google Play Store, and has managed to garner a collective sigh of relief from women world over. Not only does it offer illustrations and an extensive photo gallery, but also a volley of videos to make the process a whole lot easier. We let the sari expert do the talking.
The Book to App Challenge
"The world is moving fast and transforming rapidly. The sari, India's traditional garment, has to live up to the expectations of the modern minds and their needs. Sari draping via an app connects with all in terms of portability, mobility and acceptability. The book is more of photographs and text. An app has visual appeal and sound. To cater to the needs of an app, we had to shoot video tutorials exactly as displayed in the book but with sound and subtitles for the app. That was a big challenge."
Style Check
"The 'Basic Style' and 'Corporate Style' are current hot sellers. The former is the best for amateurs and the latter is one of the easiest. 'Square Pallu', too, is fast catching up. I have planned a few more sari draping styles with a focus on current trends. For instance, the 'Dhoti Style'."
"The response has been overwhelming. The app, with a choice of eight styles, each of them explained in videos as well as photographs is actually a Sari-pedia in itself!"
Who wears it best
"Hema Malini does stand out. As does Kirron Kher."
Must be seen in a sari
"Michelle Obama and Oprah Winfrey for sure."
Here to stay
"The sari has been the culture of India for years. This one unstitched garment can be draped in hundreds of styles. It can look gorgeous on any shape or body size. It can be worn in a traditional fashion; or even as a modern garment, like a gown. The sari is here to stay."
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A timeline for Star Wars IV: A new hope
To celebrate the release of Star Wars Episode VII: The Force Awakens, the second timeline we have created using Plotist is for the movie that started it all.
Robert's rebellion: A Game of Thrones visual timeline
We have made no secret of the fact that at Plotist we are huge fans of George R. R. Martin and Game of Thrones.
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Title: Wild For You
Author: J.C. Reed
Genre: Contemporary Romance
Hosted by: Lady Amber's PR
It was supposed to be easy.
Move to Montana and accept a job as the live-in physical therapist of a famous bull rider. But when I arrive, my new patient isn't what I expected at all.
Cash Boyd isn't just sinfully sexy, he's also rude, arrogant, and probably the most stubborn man I've ever met. He claims he doesn't need my help and tries to pay me off to leave. But I'm not one to give up even though the sexy cowboy is a pain in the ass.
A few months…that's as long as it should take to do my job.
The rules are pretty simple.
All I have to do is stay professional even though everything about Cash Boyd is scorching hot. And he doesn't make a secret out of the fact that he wants me where I can never end up…in his bed. I'm determined to keep my distance. But what if my patient has other plans for us?
Author's Note: WILD FOR YOU is a full-length, standalone novel with HEA! If you want to spend a little time away from reality, grab this one up!
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Career options for Environmental Biotechnology graduates
Environmental Biotechnology is a rather applied and specific discipline, which means that the majority of graduates start their career in this area. So most of Environmental Biotechnology graduates work as scientists in one or another branch of Environmental Sciences.
Fuel production is one of the most important branches of Environmental Biotechnology, in which a lot of researchers and technicians are involved. They are manufacturing and testing new types of waste-free fuels that do not harm the planet. Many scientists in this area are also looking for ways to neutralize anthropomorphic disasters and pollution with the help of living beings (mainly bacteria).
But, of course, Environmental Biotechnology graduates are welcome in many other areas. For example, Commercial Agriculture is also one of the possible career fields for Environmental Biotechnology graduates. They can be involved in the production of pesticides and fertilizers, and engage in counseling. Environmental technicians can also work with particular farms.
One of non-obvious career paths for Environmental Biotechnology graduates is crime lab technician. This profession requires excellent knowledge in the field of biology and chemistry. Crime lab technicians help the investigation by finding out the DNA of a criminal by drop of blood or hair.
A lot of graduates in Environmental Biotechnology find a job right after receiving a Bachelor degree, but some of them continue their education and complete a PhD degree in order to start research activity in research or educational institution, or become an independent scholar. They can also receive a higher level degree in other related disciplines, such as Biotechnology, Environmental Chemistry, etc.


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Warwick to receive boost from CLAHRC West Midlands
Funding totalling £30.6million for the Collaboration for Leadership in Applied Health Research and Care West Midlands (CLAHRC West Midlands) has been awarded to an innovative partnership between local health services, universities, and local authorities.
The five-year funding comes from £10million from the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR), boosted by £20.6million from local health and social services.
Its research will focus on four crucial areas of health:
Health for Mothers and Children
Mental Health
Care for Long Term Conditions
The Prevention of Disease
CLAHRC West Midlands will be hosted by University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust (UHB) with the Universities of Birmingham, Warwick and Keele as academic partners.
Professor Peter Winstanley, Dean of Warwick Medical School, said "We see our participation in the CLAHRC as a major opportunity to bring advances in healthcare into practice within the West Midlands"
As a department of the University of Warwick, Warwick Business School will receive £1.25million of the NIHR funding to support a research programme on 'Implementation Science & Organisation Studies' concerned with improving the health of patients with long-term conditions. The programme is to be led by Graeme Currie, Professor of Public Management.
Professor Currie comments, "This is excellent news for all users of the NHS in the West Midlands. The research we carry out at Warwick Business School will enable us to find ways of improving care and planning for patients with long-term conditions, which in turn will not only improve their lives as individuals but help to ensure the NHS makes the best possible use of its expertise, treatment and resources."
The news comes as part of the Department of Health's announcement of the awarding of funds across the country.
Professor Dame Sally C. Davies, Chief Medical Officer and Chief Scientific Advisor at the Department of Health, explained, "Supporting our leading researchers is so important and these NIHR CLAHRCs will link the NHS, universities, and other relevant organisations providing care for patients in what will be ground-breaking work to improve the lives of thousands of patients across the country."
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Learning by Doing, Scale Effects, or Neither? Cardiac Surgeons after Residency
Objective. To examine impacts of operating surgeon scale and cumulative experience on postoperative outcomes for patients treated with coronary artery bypass grafts (CABG) by "new" surgeons. Pooled linear, fixed effects panel, and instrumented regressions were estimated.
Data Sources. The administrative data included comorbidities, procedures, and outcomes for 19,978 adult CABG patients in Florida in 1998–2006, and public data on 57 cardiac surgeons who completed residencies after 1997.
Study Design. Analysis was at the patient level. Controls for risk, hospital scale and scope, and operating surgeon characteristics were made. Patient choice model instruments were constructed. Experience was estimated allowing for "forgetting" effects.
Principal Findings. Panel regressions with surgeon fixed effects showed neither surgeon scale nor cumulative volumes significantly impacted mortality nor consistently impacted morbidity. Estimation of "forgetting" suggests that almost all prior experience is depreciated from one quarter to the next. Instruments were strong, but exogeneity of volume was not rejected.
Conclusions. In postresidency surgeons, no persuasive evidence is found for learning by doing, scale, or selection effects. More research is needed to support the cautious view that, for these "new" cardiac surgeons, patient volume could be redistributed based on realized outcomes without disruption.
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After a successful Creative Artist Salon Night launch, LTV presented its second iteration - highlighting comedy, film, music, talk, scene readings and more. The gathering of East End creatives included bits by Mercedes Ruehl, Inda Eaton, Dan Gasby, Mago & Marsin, Judith Kasen-Windsor, John Sialiano (Goumba Johnny), Bill McCuddy, Christiane Arbesu, Julie Bluestone, and more.
Jean and Martin Shafiroff hosted a St. Patrick's Day cocktail party honoring Stony Brook Southampton Hospital - with Patrick McMullan as their special guest - this past Sunday. In keeping with the Luck of the Irish, guests did NOT have to fight their way through barricaded streets: the parade was the day before. In keeping with the holiday spirit, they were encouraged to wear green. Jean greeted all in an Oscar de la Renta green and gold ball gown.
The Hudson Yards debut brought out several notable names, including Anne Hathaway, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Dylan Sprouse, Andy Cohen, and more.
Southampton's Jean Shafiroff hosted a shopping event at Alice and Olivia in Palm Beach in support of Tri-County Animal Rescue in Palm Beach. A portion of the proceeds was donated to the Rescue's emergency medical fund and both dogs in attendance found their forever home.
Hamptons fixture Lucia Hwong Gordon pulled a glamorous group together at the Brazilian Court Hotel�s Cafe Boulud last Friday to celebrate her weekend in Palm Beach. Gordon has been making the awards circuit this season with her mother, Lisa Lu, who plays the matriarch, Nick�s Grandmother in �Crazy Rich Asians.�
Citizens Committee for New York City hosted its New Yorker for New York Gala at Gotham Hall in Manhattan. The evening honored Ursula Burns with the Osborn Elliott Award for Community Leadership, Richard Ravitch and Kathleen M. Doyle with the New Yorker for New York Award, and Citzens Committee grantees River Fields and Rusty Fields with the Marietta Tree Award for Public Service.
A beloved winter tradition, Harborfrost, took over Sag Harbor as a duo of extreme elements - fire and ice - was showcased in a myriad of mesmerizing ways, including fire juggling, ice sculptures, fireworks, and other exciting happenings.
LTV brought together some of the East End's shining stars who showcased their talents during a special Creative Artists Salon that brought out Joy Behar, Julie Bluestone, Patrick Christiano, David Geiser, Irene Glezoes, Bridget Le Roy, Mago & Marsin, Bobby Priel, Karen Saunders, Aida Turturro, Robert Zimmerman, and more. The evening offered local actors, musicians, comedians, filmmakers and visual artists the opportunity to present their work.
"Greta" star Chloe Grace Moretz was joined by director Neil Jordan, as well as Helena Christensen, Nicole Miller, Anna Sui, and more at a New York screening of the film at Metrograph in Manhattan, followed by an after party at The Back Room. Focus Features hosted the festivities.
Held at the Edison Ballroom in Manhattan, the 71st Annual Writers Guild Awards New York Ceremony brought out Emily Blunt and John Krasinski - who donned matching suits, Julianna Margulies, and many other notable names.


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A blockchain solution that allow language institutions to certificate their students through a standardised and balanced system that guarantee the quality and acknowledgment of the exams provided.
Its four principal goals are:
- Standardize the languages tests and give them the same authority and acknowledgement between all the institutions;
- Assure that all the results and documentation are recorded by transactions using a dedicated blockchain technology, and consequently to guarantee to all the users of the network to access to the resources based on their permissions that are regulated from smart contracts done time by time between them;
- Encrypt and protect all the user data and guarantee that their information like exam results will be stored in the blockchain and be available forever;
- The ability to earn Academic Coins (the monetary system used in MyPerformances) for all the actors of the system, those who create exercises, those that allow to validate them, institutions that will be a certification examination centre for the MyPerformances certification and for deserving students that they will earn academic coins based on their results during the exam sessions.
How does it work?
MyPerformances is made to testing language skills. The core of the system is based on the items. We can sell them, we can buy them and we can use them to compose structured exams. We can split the system in five main parts. The first one is dedicated to the item writers that are experts in language testing that create items. The second one is the item validation phase, the third the items marketplace, the fourth the language exam sessions management and the last one about the results management and the rewarding system.
Phase 1
Item Writer
In MyPerformances teachers, professors, certificated experts, passionates, can produce their own items and, after passing the validation phase, publish them in the marketplace and start to earn academic coins. Based on the effort that are needed to create an item, the item writers can freely choose the cost in academic coins of their own items.
For instance, as the below graphic is showing, items would be possible to be generated from a freelancer, a group of item writers who belong to the same institute or to different ones.
Phase 2
Item Validation
An item could be published on the marketplace if and only if it will pass the validation phase.
This phase is the most delicate and important of the entire system. Items will be presented to students who are attending preparation courses that allow them to be better prepared before taking an international language certificate such as Cambridge ESOL certification. That means that potentially all the preparation centres for international languages certification could become an evaluation centre for items provided by MyPerformances. For instance, Cambridge ESOL has a global network of about 50.000 preparation centres.
The judgment that an item will pass the evaluation phase depends on the comparison between the results obtained evaluating the items provided during the preparation course and the results obtained by the same set of students during the international certification exam. In order to normalize and compare those sets of results MyPerformances will use a detailed algorithm that use and consider the Gaussian Function, Standard and Bivariate Normal Distribution, the central limit theorem, the Chi-Squared Test and the Paired t-Test.
Evaluation Centres that will do that activity will earn the 25% of the value generated by the items (once they will be used). As we can see from the graph evaluation centres activities could not be connected with the first phase and therefore an evaluation centre could just evaluate items provided and generated by other institutions that are for instance just item writers.
Phase 3
As already described, the costs of the items are freely decided by the item writers. Therefore to give the possibility to the exam session managers to compose their specific language exams and choose the items based on their specific needs, MyPerformances will offer a dedicated marketplace where it will be easily to search, view and compose language exams just selecting the desired item. Items will present some details like the author, the types (reading comprehension, listening comprehension, use of the language, oral, written), the level (A1, A2, …), the language (English, German, …) and if they have received endorsements from institutes that and used them. Moreover for each item it will be possible to see the statistics of the use and effectiveness of it.
An item will be endorsed by an institute if and only if that item was useful to determine the results of the test takers. The endorsement is an automatic procedure that is made by MyPerformances after the analysis of the exam session results that are coming from a specific institution. For instance, it could be possible that an item is effective in an Institute and not in another. This is a natural phenomenon that could be happen based on the geolocation where an item is used.
Items that will be endorsed from at least three institutes will be then eligible to become items for the MyPerformances exam certification. To be eligible those items must also have other properties that are outside from the didactic aspect of an item but they are related to the possibility to use them with people with disabilities such as partially sighted or with motor disorders.
In the below graph endorsement is represented by colored cockade. In the example the color is related to the institution that is releasing the endorsement. The black one is related to the endorsement provided by the MyPerformances scientific board.
Phase 4
Exam Session
Like nowadays is happening, institutes will have the possibility to define the composition of the language exams based on their needs without having to be forced to use a default nor static exam structure. For instance, like in the below graph, University B and University D are offering the same exam level (Italian B1) but they are using a different exam structure. They both have three sections (use of language, reading and listening) but they differ on the number of items that are required inside them.
Each time that an item is used, a fraction of the whole item cost will be paid to the item writer from the institute that is using it. As previously said the 25% of that amount will be sent to the institute that has validate the used item. Obviously, if the item was created and evaluated by the same institute that is using it, no costs for the visualization of the item are due. In order to keep the system available, MyPerformances will apply a fee for each exam that will be provided to the test takers. Part of that fee will be used in order to later gratify deserving students. All the fees will be sent to the Academic Bank and from there all the transactions to the students wallets will be made.
The whole cost of an item is splitted based on the minimal amount of times that it will be used. For instance if an item will cost 50 Academic coins and the minimal amount of times to repay that cost is defined at 500, the cost of each single use of the item will be 0,1 Academic Coins. Moreover, an item will be used inside an institute for a limited number of times that depends on the number of students that are enrolled to that institute. Once that the maximum number of visualizations has been reached in an institution, that item is frozen until the a new cycle of students will be activated in that institute. For instance, in a university the cycle could be defined as three-years cycle.
For the Universities, in MyPerformances the visualisation limits are so defined:
|Mega universities
|Big universities
|Middle universities
|Small universities
Institutes that have reduced resources or that want to provide to their students a MyPerformances exam session the structure of the exam will be provided by the system and all the examination processes will be followed to the MyPerformances scientific board. This opportunity will be a win-win solution from both the student and the institute.
From one hand the institution will not be charged to pay because the expenses will be covered by the students and to the other hand students will receive a recognized certificate that will be stored forever into the blockchain and hopefully then even internationally recognised.
Phase 5
Results and Gratifications
In relation to the linguistic competence, and to the learning/acquisition of a second language, four different areas are then identified, strictly connected, depending on whether it is an active or passive competence, and that it concerns the phonic substance or the graphic one of the language.
Based on that a matrix is constructed, which contains the ability to speak (active competence and phonic substance), the ability to understand an oral dialogue (passive competence and phonic substance), the ability to write (active competence and graphic substance), the ability to understand a written text (passive competence and graphic substance). So when a "passive" competence is evaluated, the system simply consider that no production is required, neither phonetic nor graphic.
Therefore for exams where only a passive competence is required, the system will immediately calculate the result of the given exam and store those information in the blockchain. In case that an exam is also composed on active competence sections, those parts will be recorded into the system and evaluated in a later stage. MyPerformances will allow the institutes to manage and evaluate the active parts produced by the test takers during the exam sessions.
All the results that will be stored into the blockchain will be then available for all the nodes (institutions) that will be part of the network based on their specific permissions and agreements (smart contracts) that will be defined between them. The results will be stored forever, the interchange of the information between the nodes will be really easy and the truth of the results will be unique in all the network. This allows institutions to accelerate all the processes that involve the recognition of the exams and the interexchange of the information between them.
MyPerformances is a meritocratic system that after each exam session, will allocate part of the funds that are paid by the institutions and stored into the Academic Bank to the deserving students of that exam session. Therefore after each exam session, students will be immediately able to receive academic coins on their own wallet based on their commitment during the exam session.
MyPerformances technical information
Blockchain can do for business what the internet did for communication. Powering that transformation is Hyperledger, hosted by The Linux Foundation, featuring innovators in finance, banking, IoT, supply chains, manufacturing and technology – including IBM. Hyperledger Fabric is the first project to move to active status within the Linux Foundation's Hyperledger, emerging as the de-facto standard for enterprise blockchain platforms like the IBM Blockchain Platform and others. Through open source and open governance, Hyperledger Fabric features innovative new capabilities hardened for use by businesses so they can usher in a new era of trust, transparency and accountability .
The system core of MyPerformances runs on Hyperledger Fabric, whose goal is to permit to private companies and other bodies to enjoy the benefits of a blockchain maintaining the transactions privates using specific channels where the chaincode (smart contracts) will run. The main reasons that MyPerformances is using the Hyperledger Fabric could be summarize as:
Outline of the Initial Coin Offering (ICO)
Academic coin (ACA) operates and lives within the NEM blockchain platform. NEM operates secure, RESTful APIs that allow developers to build unique, user friendly solutions on top of the platform. To send Academic Coins or make Academic Coins transactions a user will pay a nominal transaction fee in the XEM cryptocurrency. Unlike Ethereum, fees in the NEM blockchain are non-variable, reliable and low cost.
Pulslab Srl launched a token named Academic Coin. Academic Coin has been in testing and prototyping phases for months. Academic Coin is in circulation today. The functioning is exactly the same of any other currencies: when you buy some items in MyPerformances you pay with Academic Coin and, if someone buy your contents, you earn Academic Coin. It's easy to find out that Academic Coin can be an opportunity for students and not only money but a real bursary of the new university concept which allow students to pay university fees, or other stuff.
But why Academic Coin is important? Behind Academic Coin there is something more than a coin. The Academic Coin ecosystem is made by students and for students. Thanks to its primary use in MyPerformances, Academic Coin could be accepted also by major Universities and Colleges, and this mean that you can pay taxes or fees directly in Academic Coin. Students throughout Italy, and hopefully all over the world, will have at their disposal the Academic Coin Wallet, which differs substantially from all other cryptocurrency portfolios because it is a portfolio that concerns their future and their scholastic career.
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