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Harbin Engineering University (HEU) sits at the scenic Songhua River in the ice city of Harbin in North China. Subordinate to the Commission of Science, Technology and Industry for National Defense, HEU is a national key university of glorious history and fine traditions. It is among the first batch of "211 Project" universities that are entitled to enjoy first priority from the state in construction and development and also one of the universities that have Graduate School. Moreover, HEU is an important base for talent cultivation and scientific research in the fields of ship industry, ocean exploration and nuclear application.
The predecessor of HEU is PLA Military Engineering Institute established in 1953 (abbr. HME). In 1970, in the former location, Harbin Ship Engineering Institute was founded by the entire crew of naval engineering department and some other cadre teachers of every other department, and it was renamed Harbin Engineering University in 1994. HEU was selected as a national key university by the State Council in 1978, authorized by the State Council to award master and doctoral degrees in the first batch in 1982, selected as one of the first few "211 Project" universities to receive preferential support from the state in 1996, and authorized by the Ministry of Education to have Graduate School in 2002. Currently, HEU is subordinate to the Commission of Science, Technology and Industry for National Defense and being constructed with priority by the Commission together with Heilongjiang Provincial People's Government.
The floor area of HEU is 1.22 million square meters with a building area of 735 thousand square meters. The architecture of HEU embodies an imposingly exquisite combination of Chinese and Western elements, featuring flying eaves and jade tiles. The university comprises 15 colleges: college of shipbuilding engineering, college of civil engineering, college of power and energy engineering, college of nuclear science and technology, college of automation, college of underwater acoustic engineering, college of computer science and technology, college of mechanical electrical engineering, college of information and communication engineering, school of economics and management, college of material science and chemical engineering, college of science, college of humanities and social science, college of international cooperative education, college of further education. And there are 2 departments and 1 center: foreign language department, department of physical military training, engineering training center. There are over 40 research institutes: Chuanda Engineering Technology Designing Institute, Underwater Engineering Technology Research Center, Nuclear Power Emulation Research Center, to name a few. There are various special and basic laboratories, 126 in total, including 2 national key laboratories, 1 national electric electronic teaching base, 1 national electric electronic experimental teaching exemplar, 11 provincial or ministerial key laboratories.
In the course of over half a century, HEU has formed a well-structured discipline system that is characterized by a reasonable coordinated development of major disciplines in the fields of ship industry, ocean exploration and nuclear application together with related disciplines of other fields. Now there are 50 specialties for undergraduates (3 haven't enrolled students yet), 93 specialties for Master candidates, 25 specialties for Doctoral candidates, 9 post-doctoral mobile stations, and 1 post-doctoral research station. The specialties cover 7 discipline groups and 37 first-class disciplines. There are 3 national key disciplines - underwater acoustic engineering, design and manufacture of ships and marine structures, navigation, guidance and control; 7 national defense key disciplines - nuclear science and engineering, marine engine engineering, solid mechanics, etc.; 24 provincial and ministerial key disciplines - marine hydrodynamics, special auxiliary device system, signal and information Processing, etc.. In addition, naval architecture and ocean engineering, thermal energy and power engineering, nuclear engineering and nuclear technology have been entitled national defense key specialties, and automation as well as 7 other specialties Heilongjiang provincial key specialties.
Since 1999, HEU has been honored national, provincial, ministerial commendation and awards 520 items in total, 215 national ones, 305 provincial and ministerial ones, in the aspects of management of party and administrative affairs, teaching and education, scientific research, etc..
In recent years, HEU has made substantial progress in the aspects of CPC construction, moral and political work, teaching reform, scientific research, cultivation of talents and basic construction, etc., and has enjoyed numerous commendation and awards from the superior. These mention-worthy fruits, the result of collaborative efforts by all the students and faculty members under the leadership of the university party committee, are not only a demonstration of firm approval from the superior departments as well as all walks of life in society but also a spur for HEU to further accelerate reform and development, constantly promote leap-forward development, and struggle to establish a distinctive high-level research university.


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Motown Records, a Division of UMG Recordings, Inc.
This song was side B on the ABC 45. This is the Young Folks from The Jackson 5 second album ABC from 1970.
Track 12 from the Jackson 5's second album in 1970.
Original Motown HOT Mono Mix. MOTOWN Records 45 rpm, 1970. Lyrics below. I recommend listening to the "interesting" stereo mix of The Young Folks (easily ...
This was when Young Folk use to stand for something.


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In 2027, everyone is implanted with a chip – the Memorize-chip. It records everything you see, a new system to fight crime. One unit controls the system. The SSU – Special Surveillance Unit.
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Yoani Sanchez: State Security Blocks The Gate, I'm No Longer Allowed to Attend Concerts
We were going to spend my husband Reinaldo's birthday listening to the songs of Pedro Luis Ferrar at a concert titled "Velorio" at the Museum of Decorative Arts in Vedado. But it happened that the culture police didn't let us enter, using their bodies like a barricade between the door and the seating area. They accused us of wanting to organize a supposed provocation there even though, for us, they and the official television cameras they'd called to film us provoked the major commotion. I believe these anxious boys of State Security are watching a lot of Saturday movies, since our plan was rather familiar–we even took our son–and consisted of listening to the songs of the well-known musician and then dropping in at a friend's house.
At the Museum entry a real repudiation meeting* was waiting for us, all it lacked to be complete was the eggs and the blows. A man who didn't identify himself–continuing the style of not showing one's face–yelled at me that I wanted "to destroy Cuban culture" and that that space was "only for the people." It seems that what happened at Tania Bruguera's performance has rubbed the nerves raw among the bureaucrats who saw the spectacle. They fear we've returned to seize the microphones, as if it weren't better to put a loudspeaker on every corner for everyone who wants to say something. I must point out that many of those who witnessed this abuse of institutional power avoided greeting us, in view of the huge operation surrounding the place. Nevertheless others, whose names I withhold to protect them, showed solidarity and weren't afraid of being seen with us.
We stay outside the railings and in the patio a strange audience full of retirees and men with military haircuts seemed not to know the songs of Pedro Luis to be able to hum along. Some friends, among them Claudia, came to show solidarity with our forced "exile" and we stayed outside until the last chord was played. When all the musical instruments were in their cases and the troubadour came out he was surprised by what had happened and said he would speak to the vice-minister about it. We didn't want to disabuse him of the idea, but I don't think this high-ranking official could do anything to prevent the actions of a repressive body which is superior to him and of which he's perhaps even a part.
Since I know they read my blog–all those who prevented me from going inside the railing seemed to know me–I want to tell them that they are not going to force me to withdraw into my house. I do not think I'll stop going to concerts, clubs, cultural or humorous events. I'm a cultured person, even though they want to reserve such an appellation for a group of ideologically-screened chosen ones. They will have to stand guard in the doors of every theater, club and music room. I could show up at any of them. Who knows if I might climb to the dais and take the microphone?
Yoani's blog, Generation Y, can be read here in English translation.
My husband, Reinaldo Escobar, has also written about these events and I am appending his blog post here.
Brute Force
By Reinaldo Escobar, from his blog, Desde Aqui
If you have already read Yoani's post it is not necessary to repeat the details of what happened during Pedro Luis Ferrer's last concert in the patio of the Museum of Decorative Arts. I am just writing these lines to warn those of you who aren't aware of the intolerance gaining ground every day in the political life of my country.
With so many terrible things to make public, it doesn't make much sense to use this space to "denounce" the minimal violation we were victims of when they wouldn't let us enter. We know they want to isolate the Generation Y blogger, with so many Cubans identifying with and supporting her it feels like her radioactivity has reached very high levels. They can't stand her, it worries them that a discordant voice can be heard and they are willing to use everything at their disposal to destroy her.
What is serious is not what they did but the audacity with which they acted, in the full light of day in front of witnesses. Yet they still don't have the courage to identify themselves with their real names, even though the whole world knows which institution they answer to. At one point, when I looked into the eyes of the head of the operation, I knew that people like this are capable of anything. Hopefully I'm wrong, but I have the suspicion that these are men who one day could fire on their own people.
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Repudiation meetings. Canada's Immigration and Refugee Board describes these activities as follows: Acts of repudiation (actos de repudio) are another form of harassment that dissidents in Cuba may face. Amnesty International describes these as "meetings or demonstrations organized by government officials or mass organizations supporting the government at which the person or persons concerned are subjected to criticism and abuse, sometimes physical, because of their so-called `counter-revolutionary' views or activities". The civilian groups that carry out the acts of repudiation are commonly referred to as Rapid Response Brigades and are thought to be initiated by authorities.
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~Tessa & Melvin~June 29, 2012
Every summer I fall back in love with photographing outside on a gorgeous summer evening. Jackson Hole winters can get long and as much as I love to shoot in my studio nothing compares to the golden evening backlight. Add a little breeze, a gorgeous girl and a well behaved horse and it turns to magic. My beautiful friend Tessa honored me by asking if I would photograph her and of course I said yes. Our friend Jim Walter was kind enough to let us use his house on fall Creek Road and the one and only Melvin (his beautiful pony). Melvin is as his name implies…quite a character as well as an excellent rope horse and all around good mount and it turns out he is quite the model as well. Tessa and Melvin got along exceptionally and it made for a fantastic photo shoot!


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Most twenty-somethings that I know don't keep track of their finances very well, if at all. Since I made the decision to move out of my parents house — HOORAY (sorry mom & dad), I've taken the time to sit down and create a budget for my expenses. It took about an hour and today I'm sharing how I created my budget, along with my simple budget worksheet (free!).
My mom has always balanced my checking account each month, filed my taxes, and handled both her and my dad's finances. She is a rockstar when it comes to this stuff so I've been talking to her about getting a handle on my banking and adulting in general. I really hope that one day I can keep a household together the way she can. My point in telling you this, is that I'm new to the budgeting world, too. But ,I've found this easy way to create a budget where you only have to manage a few areas, and let the worksheet do the rest.
Setting up your budget doesn't have to be hard.
There's really no need to complicate it. I created my spreadsheet and added all of my numbers within an hour and one cup of coffee.
A key aspect of setting up your budget, is to find a way to track it that works for you. I made a very simple excel spreadsheet to do the math for me. I've linked a blank version of my spreadsheet down below for you to use if you're interested. It's free to download and has the formulas already set up. You can fill in your numbers and modify it without trying to figure out how to make the math work. And don't worry. I'll walk you through it, so you understand my methods and calculations.
I also calculate my budget on a monthly basis because that is the general breakdown of my bills, and I think most of you will find the same applies to you. Some people prefer to manage their finances weekly, but that is too tedious for me.
The first item you need to know is your income after taxes.
If you work on a salary, then this step is super easy. Just look at your pay stub and enter the number that was on your physical check or deposited straight into your account because they're probably all the same.
If you get paid based on an hourly rate, then this gets a little trickier. If you would like to make it easier, you can use Online Income Calculator. This website will calculate it for you. I checked it against my manual math where I looked up my pay stubs for last month and it was only different by a few dollars.
So, I'm scheduled to work 35 hours each week at my job, but I usually clock about 40 each week. So I used the calculator and did the math with 35. If I work more and make more, then I'll have a little left-over at the end of the month, which is wayyyyy better than over calculating and coming up short on bills.
Once you calculate your income after taxes, just type it in the appropriate cell and press enter.
After you know your income, you need to calculate your fixed expenses.
I choose to itemize mine by monthly expenses that will be withdrawn from my account or bills that I know I will need to pay. This was a little tricky for me because I debated on where electricity and water should go because they are monthly bills, but fluctuate from month to month. I opted to put them in the next category. This category should have your rent/mortgage, Netflix, car payment, subscriptions of any kind, etc. It needs to have ALL of your recurring expenses in it. I put my student loans in this section because I want to pay a certain amount each month towards paying them off, but some months I may pay more, if I can.
Add extra lines in if you need to or take out ones I have included, that you may not need. After you enter these, from month to month you shouldn't have to worry about re-entering these– they can just carry over. Also, don't get in the mindset that because the items in this category are fixed amounts that they can't be cut from your budget. Beauty Box subscriptions, Netflix, etc., can definitely be taken off if it really comes down to needing that last $10-20.
Next you need to note your Variable Expenses.
The hard part of budgeting these is that the amounts change from month to month. This is where you can add an additional column and have one for 'Budget' and one for 'Actual'. The budget column will be what you project you will spend. You can then fill in the actual amounts spent at the end of the month. I kept mine simple for this post. I try to keep these numbers as low as possible. Obviously life happens, and some things are unpredictable, but if you're on top of your money game, then you shouldn't ever find yourself in an unstable position financially.
So what's left?
Do some simple subtraction and you should have an amount left over (hopefully a pretty good one!). But if you're not like me and want to account for every penny, you can add some lines in your variable expenses (or fixed if you have a continued pattern of extra money), and put it in savings or your retirement accounts, or even pay down your student loans. I think this is similar to Dave Ramsey's zero balance budget (I doubt that's the right name). Obviously, I haven't researched this well. I like the idea of accounting for every penny I made during the month, but on an income that varies from week to week, it's not easy, so I will have a remaining balance (if this is a negative number, you have bigger problems my friend).
You final product should look something like this:
** I'd like to emphasize that I just made up some of these numbers, so if it seems like a crappy or unbalanced budget, you're probably right.
But there's more on your spreadsheet, Kristin.
You're right, there is. (Sorry I didn't include it in these photos!) I've placed a section at the bottom for all of my accounts, and for budgeting for extras. You can adjust this as necessary, but I like to see the amounts in each of my account in one place. Additionally, on my personal copy of this, I have a sheet setup for each month of the year. You just have to copy and paste to set this up for yourself.
Maybe you want to start budgeting now for Christmas or for a vacation. Add it to the spreadsheet in the variable/fixed expenses and then add a 'Balance' Line at the bottom for it so you can see how much you've added to it each month.
I created the percentage column to track which items or categories most of my money goes to. Obviously rent or a mortgage is a big piece of anyone's monthly spending, but the percentage column is a great way to keep a check on frivolous spending on your personal vice. Mine tends to be makeup (shocker!).
So my message is this:
If you're trying to save money, those pesky trips to Target must stop my friends. We all chant the "I just need toilet paper and tampons" mantra. And we all come back with dollar seasonal goodies, a new bikini, a new jacket, jewelry, baking supplies, and some odd and in housewares. Time and time again we fail because we never look at the actual numbers. Using a budget tracking sheet like this can help you see where you struggle in staying on budget and where you excel (hehe math pun cause my download is in excel). I've been using mine since January and it has made a huge difference in my spending. I'm more aware of the money I'm just swiping away with my credit card and have brought my control in quite a bit.
If you're interested, I'm also putting together a post about how I manage my yearly information for taxes and another for ways to stick to your budget. Keep your eyes peeled! 🙂 I will link them here once I post them!
Do you keep track of your finances? I'd love to hear your methods and what works for you! Also, if you have any questions about the spreadsheet, just drop a comment below or send me a private email to email@example.com.


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Mesa Community College Athletics follows the guidelines governed by the National Junior College Athletic Association.
For your convenience, all nine eligibility forms can be downloaded and printed below.
Freshman Students Check Sheet (6/21/2018)
Returning Students Check Sheet (6/21/2018)
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Eligibility Affidavit & Time Accountability Form (6/21/2018)
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Vandeach wrote:Is reading of theg mae isn't that bad what would be wrong of giving him a Response of 80/81?
jmg721 wrote:Vandeach wrote:Is reading of theg mae isn't that bad what would be wrong of giving him a Response of 80/81?
He is still young. And I tend to have a slightly different scale for under 21 players. IMO a value of 81/82 is pretty elite for a player that young. IMO there are only a few stats that I rate a bit lower with age. Generally Res, Ment, TW. I'm sure others will disagree. But players this young genreally haven't shown enough to warrent higher values in these catagories. Obvious a 20 yr old Gatusso would be another story
I think he should be in the 78-80 range for response. Also, I suggest holding off on decreasing any physical stats untill he has a chance to re-gain his form after injury
Caelumamittendum wrote:I know we are not supposed to judge on just a few games, but Bale really hasn't shown his pre-injury speed after his injury. He has become physically stronger, but also a bit slower.
Caelumamittendum wrote:Agreed. His speeds seems to be coming back. I agree on raising DS, but not TS or ACC though.
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From our Artistic Director and President, Bari Hochwald
I believe in the power of theatre to lift the artist and the audience to a fuller experience of their humanity, transporting them deeply into their capacity for empathy, compassion and creativity. This can occur most particularly through creating experiences which awaken all participants to their place in the world, both locally and globally, and which give them an opportunity to learn, expand and take action.
My artistic interests lay in combining my training and experience as an American actor, where emotional truth and expression are primary, and as a theatre artist exposed to eastern European and Asian influences which express a conscious physicality and presentation to the theatrical event. My goal is to offer a journey to an audience which celebrates the expansive potential of human beings by connecting to them both on an emotional and visual level.
As a creative producer, when I approach a project, I seek all the possible connections (meaning communities) that can be layered into the event, even if that event is singularly the production and presentation of a play. It is the cultural reverberations found within it that are the central focus of the work. As director my focus is on the power of the particular story we are exploring and how to take that story and bring it to visual form through a process of complete and engaged development with all artists involved in the collaboration. We begin by listening to it. First hearing what it has to say. Then feeling what it has to tell us. Then we explore how that storytelling will manifest into gesture, space, sound and light; visual metaphors and meanings; the use of time and language (particularly when working on bilingual projects). I work with the intent that the experience for the audience carries beyond the last moment of the final scene and that the images, as with a painting, dwell in their memory with emotional meaning.
In creating The Global Theatre Project in 2010, I have formed a container in which both my personal artistic goals, which are tied deeply to community engagement and socially relevant issues, as well as the work and artistry of others who are interested in international connections, multi-lingual exploration and community building can be nurtured, challenged and shared. The basis for this work was formed in Florence, Italy during my time as co-founder and Producing Artistic Director of Florence International Theatre Company. The Global Theatre Project is a response to the lessons learned during those five years as an artist, an educator and an American.
The Global Theatre Project itself is a creative expression for me which constantly seeks to engage other human beings and other institutions in cultural collaboration. Having lived and worked abroad was an enormous awakening and has re-focused the course of my life's work toward what I sensed as a child: that we are all connected. We have the capacity to remember this at any moment if we observe life passionately and joyously. I have found it takes the passion of a child's inquiry and courage. That is the aspiration of all my efforts. I seek to open the eyes of the artists, students and audiences I engage with and, hand-in-hand, face aspects of our world which we can admit to, acknowledge and, when necessary, move on from by connecting to each other through celebration, creativity and community.


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SOUTHAM St James 8, 15-1-25 in E (GF)
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|0930-1000 & 1800-1830
|Tuesday 1930-2100
|Other Information
|Church Website
Set in the middle of a busy town, recently made quieter as it has been "by-passed", St James is just off the market place and has a spire. A nice church that is worth a look at prior to ringing. The bells are rung from the ground floor and go reasonably well.
The church stands on a mound towards the east of a large churchyard. It is entered via timber lych-gate of 1938, with an avenue of lime-trees to the north porch, and also by a gate on the south. It consists of a chancel, nave, north and south aisles, north aisle to chancel, west tower, north and south porches and a vestry. The present church dates from the 14th century; in the 15th century a spire was added to the tower, the aisles nearly doubled in width, the chancel rebuilt, and early in the 16th century the aisle roofs were lowered to enable a clearstory to be added. In 1889 an aisle was added on the north side of the chancel, together with a vestry, which is entered from it, the south porch and the north wall of the north aisle were rebuilt. A great deal of restoration has been carried out opver time, including the spire, the upper part of which appears to have been rebuilt with a light-coloured sandstone.
Until 1863 there were five bells here, the existing three tenors and a treble of 1596 and second, it being a Watts of Leicester bell of 1613. The trebles were recast and a further treble added by Mears and Co and the frame was altered to take six bells.
The existing metal H-frame dates from 1913 when the bells were first rehung as a six in an eight bell frame (dedicated on 19 April 1913). The trebles were added soon afterwards and dedicated on 17 May 1913. This work was carried out by Taylors of Lougborough. A peal of minor in three methods was rung between these points of time and one of Stedman Triples on the day of the second dedication. The canons were removed from the bells and they were one eight turned. Bells 1, 4, 6 & 7 hang in the upper frame and the others in the lower frame.
All were rehung on ball bearings by Mears & Stainbank, 1954. Minor work to improve the handling of the bells was carried out in 2002.
The tenor has been stated in some places as being in the key of F. It is actually just nearer E, being E+47c. The two trebles were cast with flat tops and the canons of the others have been removed.
There is some parking in the market place or try by the north wall of the churchyard. Enter via the north door.
Details of the Bells
1 John Taylor & Co, Loughborough 1913 4-0-23 26.50" 1358.0Hz (E+51c)
2 John Taylor & Co, Loughborough 1913 4-2-07 27.625" 1280.0Hz (D#+49c)
3 George Mears & Co, London 1863 4-3-15 30.125" 1136.0Hz (C#+42c)
4 George Mears & Co, London 1863 5-2-20 31.625" 1017.0Hz (B+50c)
5 George Mears & Co, London 1863 6-3-19 32.25" 904.0Hz (A+47c)
6 Hugh Watts II, Leicester 1615 8-1-15 36.875" 850.0Hz (G#+40c)
7 John Martin, Worcester 1650 9-3-14 39.50" 758.0Hz (F#+42c)
8 Henry Bagley I, Chacombe 1676 15-1-25 44.50" 677.5Hz (E+47c)
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|The Church, Looking West
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|The Way up to the Bells.
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I've been in the speech recognition business for 15 years, and have watched as thousands of physicians have utilized Dragon Medical, and have adopted it to their personal medical practice. Each one has his or her own speech patterns, and as Dragon makes mistakes they individually correct each mistake, making it much less likely that the same mistake will occur again… in their office and on their computers.
Similarly, I've been a practicing physician for 25 years, and have watched as each medical office that bills for its medical services scrupulously scrubs the data returning from dozens of payors, and corrects their fee schedules, their algorithms and billing methodologies depending upon the payments as indicated by the EOBs received from each of the varied payment sources.
Each of these phenomena have a lot in common, most critical of which is that in each instance, very similar activities are being replicated across tens of thousands of offices around the country. This leads to a significant amount of potential inefficiency, and as an Orthopedic Surgeon, efficiency is top priority.
There are not many alternatives to this workflow when it relates to speech recognition software such as Dragon Medical, in part because each individual physician has, by definition, unique characteristics in speech patterns, in dictation and in language usage. There are, however, clear alternatives when it comes to medical billing, as the individual unique genetically induced differences are absent in this field.
Any individual outsourced billing company that is billing for more than one office is capable of, and in fact should be utilizing the knowledge from each and every EOB that it receives to improve the services it provides to every single office for which it is billing.
In this fashion, there is a tremendous advantage in utilizing the services of an outsourced billing company that is providing billing services for thousands of physicians. You will not need to pay your staff to learn something new each time there is a change in a fee schedule, a change in a payment parameter or any other rules change, because there is a very high probability that this knowledge will already be available to the outsourced billing company you have chosen. In this fashion it is exceedingly likely that you will be able to collect a meaningfully higher percentage of your billing, freeing up your office staff to concentrate on patient care, and making the few percent of collections that are being charged a true bargain.


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Game 22 - Red Sox
Rays 13, Red Sox 0
Record: 14-8
It's been brought to my attention, once again, that my mother reads MLC (as does a Philly fan friend of hers, for what it's worth). That fact will necessarily constrict my choice of descriptive language for at least the few weeks it takes me to forget it.
Golly, but Josh Beckett sure looked dreadful last night. Ebby Calvin, we thought you were long gone. Not that it mattered, as Matt Garza dominated the Sox lineup, taking a perfect game into the 7th inning before Jacoby Ellsbury's weak single snapped the streak of outs. C'est la vie, I suppose - chalk up one of the 35 and move on.
Mom taught me not to say anything if I couldn't find something nice to say. About Boston, the nicest thing I've got is that last night's Celtics/Bulls was indescribably good. Just like 4 of the other 5 games in the series. I'm no NBA historian, but it would be hard for me to believe that any other first round series in league history matches this one for competitive intensity and drama.
The Red Sox? Meh. FIDO (I'd explain what that means, but, you know.)


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To save money, US Army officials order just 50 percent of the ALQ-156 flare-launching systems needed for the Illinois-Iowa National Guard fleet of Chinook helicopters. The flare-launching systems allow helicopters to evade heat-seeking missiles. "A conscious decision was made not to buy as many as we need," Lt. Gen. Roger C. Schultz, director of the Army National Guard, later explains to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. "It's a decision that has some level of risk with it." [St. Louis Post-Dispatch, 12/27/2003]
Entity Tags: Roger C. Schultz
Timeline Tags: Treatment of US troops
Category Tags: Equipment
Major Clifford E. Day at the Air Command and Staff College in Alabama concludes in a paper that the US military's reliance on soft-skinned Humvees during the operation in Mogadishu, Somalia "needlessly put… troops in harms way without the proper equipment to successfully complete the mission." [Day, 3/1997 ; MSNBC, 4/15/2003]
Entity Tags: Clifford E. Day
Category Tags: Equipment, Veterans Affairs
The Illinois-Iowa National Guard is deployed to Iraq. The unit is sent with 14 of its Chinook helicopters. However only two of them are outfitted with aircraft survivability equipment. The remaining helicopters will operate in Iraq unprotected. [St. Louis Post-Dispatch, 12/27/2003]
Entity Tags: Illinois-Iowa National Guard
The US military sends 12,000 soft-skinned Humvees, some with canvas-skinned doors, to Iraq along with hundreds of transport vehicles which are equally unprepared for deployment in combat zones. [MSNBC, 4/15/2003; Washington Post, 12/26/2003; Daily Press, 9/26/2004]
Timeline Tags: Treatment of US troops, Iraq under US Occupation
Category Tags: Equipment, Combat Actions and Events
US military units in the Gulf, as well as those in the US preparing for deployment, contract local welders and steel fabricators to retrofit their light-armored vehicles with makeshift armor known as "Hillbilly" or "Haji" armor. [MSNBC, 4/15/2003; Washington Post, 12/26/2003; Daily Press, 9/26/2004]
US National Guard units deployed to Iraq are less well-equipped than their counterparts in the Army. Helicopters lack aircraft survivability equipment which allows the helicopters to evade enemy fire. [St. Louis Post-Dispatch, 12/27/2003] Guardsmen complain of shortages of body armor, night vision goggles, ammunition, radar, uniforms, boots, cold weather gear, and two-way radios. Some guardsmen say that the equipment shortage are at times so severe that if they were operating according to Army rules the lack of equipment would have amounted to an "automatic mission-abort criteria." [St. Louis Post-Dispatch, 12/27/2003; CBS News, 10/31/2004]
Entity Tags: National Guard
Roughly 44,000 US troops deployed to Iraq are provided with Vietnam-era Flak jackets instead of the modern Interceptor vests developed during the late 90s and in use since 2001. Flak Jackets do not protect troops from most of the ammunition types being used in Iraq. By contrast, the Interceptor vest—made of layered sheets of Kevlar with pockets in front and back for boron carbide ceramic plates—can stop high-velocity machine-gun bullets, shrapnel and other ordnance. They are also significantly lighter, giving troops more maneuverability when they need to respond quickly to threatening circumstances. Even in cases where troops are provided with the modern vests, they often lack the essential ceramic plates. [New York Daily News, 9/30/2003; Los Angeles Times, 10/2/2003; Associated Press, 10/13/2003; Washington Post, 12/4/2003] Worried for the safety of their sons and daughters in Iraq, parents begin purchasing Interceptor vests and ceramic plates from body armor companies in the US and shipping them directly to their children's units. Sometimes only the plates are available so soldiers improvise by taping the plates they have received from home to their Flak Jackets with duct tape—a practice that plate manufacturers say is unsafe. [Los Angeles Times, 10/2/2003]
Category Tags: Equipment, Veterans Affairs, Combat Actions and Events
US serviceman Mike Quinn is fatally shot at a traffic control point in Fallujah, Iraq, during an ambush. According to his friend, Staff Sgt. Dave Harris, he was killed because he was not wearing his body armor. He had apparently given his vest to a young soldier who had not been provided with one of his own. [European and Pacific Stars and Stripes, 8/31/2003]
Entity Tags: Dave Harris, Mike Quinn
The US Army's official guidance on the issue of "hardening" soft-skinned Humvees and other lightly-armored vehicles includes a recommendation for soldiers to put sandbags on the floorboards to reduce the impact of explosions. Since the summer, the soldiers' preferred solution to the problem of unprotected vehicles has been to hire local contractors to add steel to the bodies of their vehicles (see March 2003 and After). [MSNBC, 4/15/2003]
Entity Tags: US Department of the Army
Acting Secretary of the Army Les Brownlee claims that the Army has ordered as many "up-armored" vehicles as its contractors can produce, but says that they will not be ready until mid-2005. But Brian T. Hart, whose 20-year-old son was killed in a soft-skinned Humvee (see October 2003), investigates the secretary's claim and learns that the armor manufacturers are not at full production. He takes this information to Senator Edward M. Kennedy (D-MA) who then helps him pressure the Army to speed up production and move the date that they will be available up to January. [Boston Globe, 3/8/2004]
Entity Tags: Edward M. ("Ted") Kennedy, Les Brownlee, Brian T. Hart
Army Pfc. John D. Hart telephones his parents in Bedford, Massachusetts and complains that he feels unsafe patrolling in his company's unprotected soft-skinned Humvees which do not have bulletproof shielding or even metal doors. A week later, the 20-year-old paratrooper and another soldier, David R. Bernstein, are killed when their vehicle is hit with small-arms fire and rocket-propelled grenades in Taza outside the northern city of Kirkuk. The driver of the vehicle, Specialist Joshua Sams, will later explain to the Boston Globe that Bernstein had bled to death after being struck by a bullet that ripped through the Humvee. [MSNBC, 4/15/2003; Boston Globe, 10/20/2003; Boston Globe, 3/8/2004]
Specialist Eric McKinley from the Oregon National Guard is killed when his unarmored Humvee hits an Improvised Explosive Device (IED) outside of Baghdad. Also in the vehicle is fellow guardsman Staff Sergeant Sean Davis, who suffers shrapnel wounds and burns. The Humvee had been fitted with plywood, sandbags, and armor salvaged from old Iraqi tanks. McKinley was supposed to have been discharged from the Oregon National Guard a few months before, but he was kept in Iraq because of the Army's "stop-loss" policy (see June 2, 2004). [CBS News, 10/31/2004] Davis will later discuss the incident with a reporter (see Late October 2004).
Entity Tags: Oregon National Guard, Sean Davis, Eric McKinley
Category Tags: Equipment, Stop-Loss Program, Combat Actions and Events
More than 18 months after the US began its ground invasion of Iraq, US troops are still waiting for the Army to retrofit their supply trucks. [Daily Press, 9/26/2004; CBS News, 10/31/2004]
Oregon National Guardsman Sean Davis tells CBS's 60 Minutes that his unit was not provided with enough ammunition when they were deployed to Iraq and that the guardsmen lacked night vision goggles and two-way radios. He explains they used walkie-talkies that they or their families purchased on their own. "And anybody can pick up those signals, you know," he notes. [CBS News, 10/31/2004]
Entity Tags: Sean Davis
A retired Army general tells authors Lou Dubose and Jake Bernstein: "The Army is broken. It will take decades to fix." A Pentagon veteran of the Gulf War who declines to allow his name to be used, he says of that period: "It was different then. The staffs were apolitical. And the military was taken care of. If we made a mistake, we did no irreparable harm. [Vice President] Cheney now seems oblivious to what the military needs. That's because he trusts [Defense Secretary] Rumsfeld.… So we have an army that is broken. The DOD [Defense Department] is broken. And the process is broken. Rumsfeld has left us with the smallest army since before 1941. First time in the history of the country that we haven't surged up the Army in time of war. We have never not surged up the Army in time of war. So we redeploy, and redeploy, and redeploy, and break down the Army.… They're not surging up, and they're burning through equipment in Iraq. [Cheney and Rumsfeld have done] irreparable harm" to the Army. Larry Wilkerson, the former chief of staff to former Secretary of State Colin Powell, agrees: "They have gone through so much equipment in Iraq," he tells Dubose and Bernstein. He says the true test the military will face will not be on the battlefield, but in Washington. "The first challenge is going to be the reconstruction bill that will confront the next president. I mean bringing the ground forces, and to a certain extent the Air Force, back to levels pre-Iraq. They have burned up Abrams tanks, Chinook helicopters, all very expensive hardware, at a rate which is astronomical." Wilkerson believes the Army will also find it very difficult to find large numbers of new recruits to replenish the ranks. [Dubose and Bernstein, 2006, pp. 221-222]
Entity Tags: Lou Dubose, Donald Rumsfeld, Jake Bernstein, Lawrence Wilkerson, US Department of the Army, Richard ("Dick") Cheney, US Department of Defense
Dakota Meyer, an inactive reserve Marine sergeant (see May 2010), goes to work for AUSGAR Technologies in June 2010 and stays there until March 2011, at which time he goes to work for BAE Systems OASYS, LLC (see March 2011). His work at AUSGAR largely consists of training troops to locate improvised explosive devices (IEDs) with thermal imaging and optical equipment, tools that are most often used by snipers. [District Court of Bexar County, TX, 11/28/2011; Wall Street Journal, 11/29/2011]
Entity Tags: Dakota Meyer, BAE Systems, AUSGAR Technologies, Inc.
Dakota Meyer, an inactive reserve Marine sergeant (see May 2010), leaves employment at AUSGAR Technologies (see June 2010 - March 2011) and goes to work for BAE Systems OASYS, LLC. [District Court of Bexar County, TX, 11/28/2011]
Entity Tags: Dakota Meyer, AUSGAR Technologies, Inc., BAE Systems
Inactive reserve Marine sergeant and employee of BAE Systems Dakota Meyer (see March 2011) learns from his supervisor Bobbie McCreight that BAE plans to sell advanced thermal optics scopes, PAS-13s, to Pakistan. Meyer will send McCreight an email detailing his objections on April 29, 2011 (see April 29, 2011). [District Court of Bexar County, TX, 11/28/2011]
Entity Tags: Pakistan, Bobbie McCreight, Dakota Meyer, BAE Systems
Timeline Tags: US International Relations, War in Afghanistan
Inactive reserve Marine sergeant and employee of BAE Systems Dakota Meyer (see March 2011), having learned from Bobbie McCreight that BAE plans to sell advanced thermal optics scopes—PAS-13s—to Pakistan (see April 2011), sends McCreight an email detailing his objections. In the email, Meyer states that BAE is planning to sell the better equipment to Pakistan while US troops are supplied with less effective equipment. He further states that the Pakistani military has been known to shoot at US soldiers and therefore it puts US soldiers at risk to sell Pakistan the better equipment. Meyer writes: "The reason I came on with BAE OASYS was to use the knowledge I had gained from the experiences I had while serving in combat operations to improve gear and make items to save the lives of US troops. This is where I could see me still 'doing my part' for the guys who are in the same situation I was in 18 months ago. I feel that by selling this to Pakistan we are doing nothing but the exact opposite. We are simply taking the best gear, the best technology on the market to date and giving it to guys that are known to stab us in the back.… These are the same people who are killing our guys.… I think that one of the most disturbing facts to the whole thing is that we are still going forth with the PAS-13 optic and issuing these outdated sub-par optics to our own US troops when we have better optics we can put in their hands right now but we are willing to sell it to Pakistan. This is very disturbing to me as an American and as a United States Marine." [District Court of Bexar County, TX, 11/28/2011]
Entity Tags: Pakistan, BAE Systems, Dakota Meyer, Bobbie McCreight
Inactive Marine sergeant and employee of BAE Systems Dakota Meyer (see March 2011) decides to resign from his job with BAE over the company's intent to sell PAS-13 thermal optical scopes to Pakistan (see April 2011 and April 29, 2011). Meyer attempts to find a position with his previous employer, AUSGAR Technologies, Inc. (see June 2010 - March 2011), before resigning. He does find an open position and will later give two weeks' notice to BAE (see May 31, 2011), but be told that his rehire has been blocked by the Pentagon (see June 1, 2011). [District Court of Bexar County, TX, 11/28/2011; Wall Street Journal, 11/29/2011]
Entity Tags: Dakota Meyer, BAE Systems, Pakistan, Pentagon, AUSGAR Technologies, Inc.
Inactive Marine sergeant and employee of BAE Systems Dakota Meyer (see March 2011) gives two weeks' notice over the defense contractor's intent to sell PAS-13 thermal optical scopes to Pakistan (see April 2011 and April 29, 2011). Meyer has previously found a position at AUSGAR Technologies, where he used to work (see June 2010 - March 2011 and Before May 31, 2011). He will later be told that his rehire has been blocked by the Pentagon (see June 1, 2011). [District Court of Bexar County, TX, 11/28/2011; Wall Street Journal, 11/29/2011]
After inactive Reserve Marine Sergeant Dakota Meyer resigned from his job at BAE Systems over BAE's intended sale of PAS-13 thermal optical scopes to Pakistan (see May 31, 2011) and is slotted to get a position with his former employer AUSGAR Technolgies (see Before May 31, 2011), he receives an email from an employee of AUSGAR stating that his re-hire has been blocked by Pentagon program manager Robert Higginson. [Wall Street Journal, 11/29/2011]
Entity Tags: BAE Systems, AUSGAR Technologies, Inc., Pentagon, Robert Higginson, Pakistan, Dakota Meyer
After being informed that his rehire at AUSGAR Technologies has been blocked by program manager Robert Higginson at the Pentagon (see June 1, 2011), former Marine Sergeant Dakota Meyer files a defamation lawsuit against BAE Systems, his former employer, and his supervisor at BAE, Bobby McCreight. [Wall Street Journal, 11/29/2011]
Entity Tags: Robert Higginson, AUSGAR Technologies, Inc., Bobbie McCreight, Pentagon, Dakota Meyer, BAE Systems
Court papers are filed in Medal of Honor recipient Sergeant Dakota Meyer's (see September 15, 2011) defamation of character lawsuit in the district court of Bexar County (San Antonio), Texas (see After June 1, 2011). The suit is against Meyer's former employer BAE Systems (a British-owned defense contractor that has contracts with the US government) and supervisor Bobbie McCreight. Meyer's legal team writes in the court documents that the defamation came after Meyer expressed concern over BAE's intent to sell PAS-13s (advanced optic scopes) to Pakistan (see April 2011 and April 29, 2011). The court filing also alleges that BAE prevented his hiring by another defense contractor, AUSGAR Technologies (see Before May 31, 2011 and May 31, 2011), by telling Pentagon program manager Robert Higginson on the phone that Meyer was mentally unstable and had a drinking problem. The phone conversation is said to have occurred at some point in the last 10 days of May 2011, according to the filing. [District Court of Bexar County, TX, 11/28/2011; BBC, 11/30/2011; Agence France-Presse, 11/30/2011; Washington Business Journal, 11/30/2011]
Entity Tags: Robert Higginson, AUSGAR Technologies, Inc., BAE Systems, Bobbie McCreight, Dakota Meyer, Pentagon
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This level of interactivity is akin to play, researchers said, suggesting that the technology might have a potential role in childhood developmental assessment.
The findings are based on 82 questionnaires on touchscreen access and use, completed by the parents of children aged between 12 months and 3 years.
Parents were asked how long their child used touchscreens each day, and whether they were able to unlock the screen, swipe through pages or images, and recognize and interact with specific features such as app icons for games.
The parents were also asked if they had downloaded any games or apps specifically for their child's use. The age of their toddlers ranged from 20 to 30 months, and just over half (57%) were boys.
Most of the parents (82%) said they owned a touchscreen device such as a smartphone or tablet, researchers wrote in the study published in the Archives of Disease in Childhood.
Of these, most (87%) gave their child the device to play with for an average of 15 minutes a day, and nearly two-thirds (62%) said they had downloaded apps for their child to use.
Nine out of 10 (91%) parents who owned a touchscreen device said their child was able to swipe; half (50%) said their child was able to unlock the screen, and nearly two thirds (64%) felt their child actively searched for touchscreen features.
The average age of the toddlers with the ability to perform these three skills was 24 months, while the average age for identifying and using specific touchscreen features was 25 months -- almost three out of four (72%) parents felt their child was able to do this.
Overall, one in three of the toddlers could perform all four skills by the average of 29 months, and children as young as 12 months regularly used touchscreens.
"Interactive touchscreen applications offer a level of engagement not previously experienced with other forms of media and are more akin to traditional play," researchers said.
"This opens up the potential application of these devices for both assessment of development and early intervention in high risk children," they said.


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A Little Rusty
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Love it! Now my brain is in over drive! Thanks for the post! =)ReplyDeleteReplies
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The monkey was my favorite going in, but I think the tin star shaped brooch ended up in the lead:)Delete
The Flower! Sherri, you are brilliant, the things I can see you do with this. And the kaki cord. Wow!ReplyDeleteReplies
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Chinese Travelers on the Rise
Boosted by fewer restrictions on foreign travel and an appreciating currency, travel from China to the U.S. is growing at a rapid pace.
The International Trade Administration recently projected that up to 7.3 million Chinese citizens will have traveled to the United States by 2021, and according to China Business Review, 26 percent of those travelers come in groups larger than five. That's good domestic news, as Chinese travelers spend more than any other nationality on travel—nearly $129 billion in 2013, up 26 percent from 2012. To ensure the United States remains an attractive destination, the U.S. government has indefinitely extended short-term Chinese tourist and business visas from 1 year to 10.
Daniel Meesak, head of PR and marketing for the China Outbound Tourism Research Institute, says that timeshare resorts can attract this market by catering to their interests. These could include simple amenities, such as offering Chinese television programs, as well as educating resort staff about Chinese culture and training them to be fluent in simple words or phrases in Mandarin. Chinese luxury travelers in particular are seeking adventure-based trips in distant and diverse locations, according to a report by the Hurun Research Institute, and Meesak says these travelers try to fit as many destinations as possible into their itineraries.
While resorts near popular landmarks may have an advantage, remote properties with diverse activities can also stand out. "There's more potential for Chinese customers to stay at resorts near attractions and national parks as long as they offer a wide variety of activities and experiences," Meesak says. "Beautiful surroundings alone don't cut it." By understanding the needs of Chinese travelers, and supplementing enticing regional attractions with a robust roster of onsite activities, resorts can differentiate themselves for this growing source market.
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in the Petition of
Judicial Review of decisions of the British Broadcasting Corporation to exclude the petitioners from participation in a political debate
Petitioners: Bovey, Q.C.; D Hamilton; Anderson Strathern LLP
Respondents: Moynihan, Q.C.; Carmichael, Q.C.; Brodies LLP
28 April 2010
[1] This is a petition for Judicial Review of a decision by the respondents dated 21 December 2009. The petitioners are a political party, the Scottish National Party and a number of its named representatives. The only respondents are the BBC.
[2] The petition came before me on 27 April 2010 on a motion for First Orders and for interim interdict. The focus of the petition is encapsulated in the latter which is in the following terms:
"For interdict ad interim against the respondents broadcasting in Scotland on or before 6 May 2010, by any means, a debate scheduled to be broadcast on 29 April 2010 between the leaders of The Labour Party, the Conservative Party and the Liberal democrats that does not feature on equal terms with the said persons a representative of the petitioners."
The Parties
[3] The petitioners are a political party and five named representatives. They have 7 MP's at Westminster. Within the devolution settlement, they form the minority government in Scotland and the second petitioner is, as their leader, the First Minister of Scotland. They are standing candidates in less than one tenth of the seats in the Westminster Parliament that are contestable across the United Kingdom.
[4] The respondents are the British Broadcasting Corporation, a body corporate founded by Royal Charter (6/1) within which exists the BBC Trust and the Executive Board of the BBC. The current charter is dated October 2006 and came into force on the expiry of the previous charter, on 1 January 2007.
[5] A Framework Agreement dated July 2006, prepared with the 2006 Charter in mind, also came into force on 1 January 2007. Paragraph 44(1) of that agreement provides:
"The BBC must do all it can to ensure that controversial subjects are treated with due accuracy and impartiality in all relevant output."
[6] In that regard, paragraph 44(5) provides for the drawing up by the Trust of a code giving guidance the rules of which are to take account of the need for due impartiality to be preserved as respects major matters such as news.
[7] Chapter 4 of the respondents' "Editorial Guidelines" (6/3) includes the following statements:
"In practice our commitment to impartiality means:
· We seek to provide a properly balanced service .........We take particular care when dealing with political or industrial controversy or major matters relating to current public policy
· .............
· We must ensure we avoid bias or an imbalance of views on controversial subjects
Impartiality must be adequate and appropriate to our output. Our approach to achieving it will therefore vary according to the nature of the subject, the type of output, the likely audience expectation and the extent to which the content and approach is signposting.
Impartiality is described in the Agreement as 'due impartiality'. It requires us to be fair and open minded when examining the evidence and weighing all the material facts, as well as being objective and even handed in our approach to a subject. It does not require the representation of every argument or facet of every view on every occasion or an equal division of time for each view.
In achieving impartiality a series of programmes on the same service may be considered as a whole.
Network output must reflect the political parties in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland...
.....we must ensure that:
· News judgments continue to drive editorial decision making in news based programmes
· News judgments at election time are made within a framework of democratic debate which ensures that due weight is given to hearing the views and examining and challenging the policies of all parties. Significant minor parties should also receive some network coverage during the campaign."
[8] The respondents issued "Election Guidelines" (6/4) which apply to the forthcoming General Election. The provisions of paragraphs 3 and 4 of those guidelines include:
"3.1 Coverage of the Parties
To achieve due impartiality, each bulletin, programme or programme strand as well as online and interactive services, for each election, must ensure that the parties are covered proportionately over an appropriate period, normally across a week. This means taking into account levels of past and current electoral support.
Due impartiality must be achieved within these categories:
· clips
· interviews/discussions of up to 10 minutes
· longer form programmes
Previous electoral support in equivalent elections is the starting point for making judgments about the proportionate levels of coverage between parties.
3.2 Impartiality in Programmes
Daily news magazine programmes (in the nations, regions and UK wide) should normally achieve proportional and appropriate coverage within the course of each week of the campaign."
[9] A separate document of the respondents headed
includes the following guidance:
"The relative amount of coverage give to political parties in each electoral area (from the UK as a whole to individual constituencies) should reflect levels of past and/or current electoral support. In considering this, the following factors should be given due weight:
· performance at the last equivalent election ( i.e. the 2005 General Election) in terms of representation and share of the vote
· performance in subsequent elections where relevant
· other relevant evidence of current electoral support
· the number of candidates a party fields in the election
1. Party Coverage for broadcasts across the UK:
In Scotland ......the SNP ...gained substantial electoral support at the last General Election. UK wide programmes must ensure that, on issues where they have distinctive policies, the SNP...are given appropriate levels of coverage in items to which the GB-wide parties contribute."
[10] Accordingly, it is clearly demonstrated that the respondents have given careful consideration to the means by which impartiality is to be maintained and judged how they consider that objective can best be achieved. In terms of the respondents' documentation, there is a clear commitment to due impartiality and a recognition of the fact that elections raise particular challenges in that regard. In addressing the task of allocating coverage to the different political parties in an election the respondents have regard to their duty of impartiality by determining what is proportionate and appropriate in that regard, setting out in the above guidelines the factors that are to be taken into account when so doing so. Those factors include taking account of past and current electoral support and that they are impartiality does not require representation of every argument or facet of every view or an equal division of time for each viewpoint.
[11] 6 May 2010 is the date of the next General Election. On 21 December 2009, a press release (6/6) was issued advising that the Labour Party, the Conservative Party and the Liberal Democrat Party had agreed to a proposal made by the respondents, ITV and Sky to hold and broadcast a series of three live Prime Ministerial debates during the election campaign. It was agreed that the three programmes would be broadcast in peak time, that ITV would produce the first debate, that Sky would produce the second debate and that the BBC would produce the third debate. It was also agreed that BBC and Sky would make their programmes available to other broadcasters simultaneously and ITV would make their programme available to other broadcasters immediately after transmission.
[12] Key principles were agreed (6/7) which included that there would be three live TV debates during the election campaign, one in each full week of the campaign and that the three party leaders of the Labour, Conservative and Liberal Democrat parties would appear in each debate programme.
[13] The petitioners' Chief Executive wrote to the respondents by letter dated 22 December 2009 (6/9) expressing the view that the format announced on 21 December would not comply with the BBC's editorial guidelines in that parity of coverage would not be given to recognised major parties in the nations of the UK (by implication, would not give parity of coverage to the petitioners).
[14] Correspondence between the respondents and petitioners ensued. In a letter to the respondents dated 4 February 2010 (6/11), the second petitioner, expressed the following views:
"My primary position is that any attempt to broadcast such a debate in Scotland without the participation in the debate of the SNP will not satisfy the requirements of 'due accuracy and impartiality' under the terms of the 2006 Charter and Agreement. Moreover, as the proposal is currently constituted it seems inevitable that viewers in Scotland will be presented with a misleading impression of the issues debated in so far as they relate to Scotland."
"As presently proposed, the programme would offend against any claim to be 'impartial' by excluding from the debate the views of the SNP - the party which forms the Scottish Government - on issues which are entirely, or partially the responsibility of the Scottish Government and Scottish Parliament."
[15] The respondents' Chief Adviser, Politics, responded to that letter on 2 March (6/12). He refuted the suggestion that the due impartiality would not be achieved and sought to give reassurance that the views of parties other than the three whose leaders would be included in the debate, including the petitioners, would be appropriately reflected. He explained the respondents' plans in that regard, to which I will return.
[16] On 1 March 2010, the format for the debate broadcasts had been agreed (6/8). The petitioners were provided with a copy of the document containing the format.
[17] By letter dated 12 March 2010 (7/9), Mr Salmond wrote to Sir Michael Lyons, the Chairman of the BBC Trust to "formalise our complaint that the BBC Executive has through its actions brought into question the impartiality of the BBC in advance of the General Election." He referred again to the petitioners' view that the programme for the debates would disenfranchise the people of Scotland and would mislead them. In accordance with the appropriate procedure, that complaint was passed to the Director General of the respondents. He responded to it by letter dated 29 March 2010 (6/13) in which he rejected it and gave reasons for doing so. In particular, he stated (at p.4-5):
"For the reasons set out in Ric Bailey's letter of March 2nd, I consider that the BBC can properly broadcast Prime Ministerial debates between the leaders of the three largest UK- wide parties. This is because they are standing sufficient candidates to aspire to win a majority in the House of Commons and have demonstrated levels of past and current electoral support across the UK that are different in scale to other such parties.
Electoral support - in terms of the votes case and the levels of representation in Parliament - is an accepted yardstick for making such judgments, as is the number of candidates standing. The Labour and Conservative parties hold more than 550 Westminster seats between them; the Liberal Democrats hold more than 60 seats and polled in excess of 20 per cent of the vote. All three parties stand candidates throughout the UK.
The SNP currently holds seven seats at Westminster and is standing candidates in less than one tenth of the constituencies of the UK. Plaid Cymru stands fewer candidates and holds three seats at Westminster. In that context, we are confident that our proposals will be judged to be both proportionate and appropriate, as well as being entirely within our editorial discretion."
[18] That letter advised the petitioners of their right to appeal to the BBC Trust if dissatisfied with the Director General's response. The petitioners appealed. On 21 April 2010, the Trust determined (6/15) that the appeal was not well founded and rejected it. In particular, it was satisfied that the Director General had not erred in law or misunderstood or misapplied the relevant guidance nor had he taken a decision which was inconsistent with the respondents' obligation of impartiality. The Trust's decision was intimated to the petitioners on 22 April.
[19] Meanwhile, the first debate had taken place. It was produced by Sky and broadcast on the evening of 15 April 2010. It covered the first group of the debate themes which were, put broadly, domestic affairs. The second debate, the ITV debate, took place on the evening of 22 April 2010. It covered the second group of debate themes which involved international affairs.
[20] The leaders of the Labour, Conservative and Liberal Democrat parties were the participants in those debates. The petitioners aver:
"The impact of the previous two debates on the media coverage of the General Election campaign as a whole, has been demonstrably the single largest factor in the current UK General Election campaign in terms of impact on the media profile , approval ratings of party leaders and overall voting intention ..."(article 13) and
"The inclusion of the leader of the Liberal Democrats in the previous two debates has greatly increased the coverage of that party in the media....." (article 14) and
"The inclusion of the leader of the Liberal Democrats in the previous two debates has greatly improved the fortunes of that party in the opinion polls..." (article 15).
[21] In oral submissions, Mr Bovey QC, for the petitioners, explained that they became aware after the first debate of the favourable effect of the debate on the Liberal Democrats; that was evidently a matter of concern.
[22] The third debate, the respondents' debate, is due to take place on the evening of 29 April 2010. It is due to cover the third group of debate themes and involves the consideration of economic affairs. It is due to be broadcast by Sky simultaneously. It will also be broadcast on radio. It will be accessible online i.e. via the internet. The petitioners seek to stop it going ahead other than on the conditions set out in their motion, namely that it "features" "on equal terms" with the three leaders who participated in the first two debates, "a representative of the petitioners."
Coverage for the Petitioners
[23] The respondents' plans for broadcasting on the same channel as the third debate include there being an announcement by the moderator of the debate, about halfway through, that there will be an "opt out" available during the 10 o'clock news, to see and hear an interview with a representative of the petitioners. They include that the second petitioner has been invited onto the panel of the BBC1 programme "Question Time" which will be broadcast after the 10 o'clock news, that is, starting less than an hour after the close of the debate. There will also be contributions to allow coverage of the petitioners on other channels such as the BBC2 "Newsnight" programme, where 15 minutes will be available to the petitioners. Further, the respondents have arranged for a Scottish leaders debate to take place on BBC 1 on Sunday 2 May at 9pm.
Broadcasting in Scotland/England and Wales
[24] I was advised by Mr Moynihan QC, who appeared for the respondents, that it was not, as a matter of practicality, possible to prevent all broadcasting of the programme in Scotland unless the programme was cancelled or certain transmitters situated in the Borders , the North of England and Northern Ireland , were 'switched off'. He made reference in particular to the Caldbeck, Chatton, and Limavady transmitters. Although Freeview and Cable services could be split so as to separate Scotland, there would be overspill transmission.
[25] As to satellite television, viewers in Scotland have access to the 900 series of channels via which they can access the English variants of BBC programmes.
As to radio, there could be a seepage problem from the Droitwich transmitter in respect of longwave transmission.
[26] It would not be able to go ahead in England and Wales without resulting in some broadcasting in Scotland. Some Scottish viewers received television from transmitters in the north of England, the Borders of Scotland had now transferred to a digital service from which Scotland could not be split off, radio broadcasts could not be split, and Sky could not split its broadcasting so as to cut out Scotland. The programme would also still be able to be accessed online if it went ahead because although a process called geoblocking was possible, that would not be able to be effected in the time available..
Submissions for the Petitioner
[27] Mr Bovey made five submissions:
1. the exclusion of the petitioners' representative from the debates was inherently unfair. As to the identity of that representative, he said that the second petitioner was their "preferred representative" but they would "accept" another person who would (unlike the second petitioner) be a candidate in the General Election, if necessary. In support of this submission he relied particularly on the novelty of the election debates. Their nature was such, he said, that no compensation could possibly be effective.
2. the criteria used to justify the exclusion of the petitioners were unreasonable and unnecessarily discriminatory. He submitted that the criteria failed to take account of the nature of devolution and that the criteria had been designed so as to exclude parties such as the petitioners.
3. the exclusion of the petitioners conflicted with the respondents' own election guidance. Here, Mr Bovey referred to the petitioners having distinct policies; with reference to the third debate he submitted that they had their own economic policies as referred to in the second petitioner's letter of 4 February. No reasonable programmer could have thought, he said, that there was compliance with the statement in the respondents' General Election Guidance that where they have distinctive policies, the petitioners are to be given appropriate levels of coverage. As he went through various passages from the respondents' documentation, his approach was, it seemed to interpret the duty of impartiality as requiring the petitioners to be given equality of coverage with the three parties represented at the first two debates. He laid emphasis on the obligation relating to longer form programmes contained in paragraph 3.1 of the Election Guidelines (6/4) and the import of his submission appeared to be that that meant that unless the respondents allowed the petitioners to participate with those three parties' leaders at the forthcoming debate, the respondents would be in breach of that guideline.
4. the respondents' assessment of what he referred to as "compensatory material", by which I understood him to be referring to the actual and planned coverage of the petitioners by the respondents was flawed. There needed, he said, to be balanced coverage on each channel and it was not right to take account of what was going to be available other than on BBC 1.
5. the balancing coverage was, in any event, inadequate. This was, in particular, a reference to the proposed debate amongst the four Scottish leaders. It would be limited in its balancing effect because of the presence of the other three parties.
[28] Under balance of convenience, Mr Bovey focused on the issue of delay, in response to questioning and anticipating, no doubt, a challenge in that regard. The petitioners' position was that it was not until after the first debate that they had evidence of its impact and they had to exhaust their avenue of appeal with the respondents prior to raising the petition. It was also, however, apparent that the petitioners had become more concerned about their position after the first debate took place and its impact appeared to be so positive for other political parties. He also made submissions to the effect that practical blockage of transmission to Scotland was possible. The petitioners would take no issue with any seepage from Droitwich and "switching off" transmissions would not result in black screens. It was not known how many English and Northern Irish residents would be affected. As to Sky, his position was that the respondents should refrain from supplying the broadcast feed. He did not accept that they might be in breach of contract by doing so which was surprising given the implication from the press release of 21 December that the television broadcasters had reached agreement between themselves inter alia about feeding the broadcasts to each other. Mr Bovey submitted that in the case of Houston v BBC the court had pronounced interim interdict notwithstanding the fact that there would have been overspill broadcasting outwith the jurisdiction.
[29] As to the relevant law, Mr Bovey referred to Cream Holdings Ltd & Ors v Banerjee and another [2005] 1 AC 253 for the appropriate test which was, he said, a flexible one and may, according to circumstances, not require to be as high as that of probable ultimate success. He also referred to Article 10 ECHR and to Castello v Spain a judgment of the ECJ (Chamber) dated 23 April 1992 to stress the importance of the respondents as a public service broadcaster, fulfilling their duty of impartiality.
Submissions for the Respondents
[30] Mr Moynihan QC made two principal submissions in response. The first was that the petitioners' approach to impartiality was erroneous; it was a matter of what was proportionate and appropriate not a matter of affording equality of coverage. The respondents' approach was proportionate and was constantly monitored by them. He referred to certain obiter dicta of Lord Ross in the case of Wilson v IBA 1979 SC 351.
[31] The second submission was that their submissions did not relevantly support an attack on the decision of 21 December 2009; the petition did not seek to impugn the decision of the Director General of 29 March 2010 nor did it seek to attack the Trust's decision on appeal.
[32] Separately, Mr Moynihan referred to other factors which made it inappropriate to grant the discretionary remedy sought. To do so would not be a wise exercise of discretion: Kelson School Board v Hunter (1874) 2R 228. The ambit of the interdict sought was not at all clear: Murdoch v Murdoch (1973) SLT (N) 13. There were practical problems as to broadcasting, to which I have referred above, which were liable to mean that the debate would not be able to go ahead in England and Wales. There had been significant delay by the petitioners which was highly relevant. The result of any interdict would be to stop the third part of a three part process to take place, something which he likened to leaving matters so that two rounds of a boxing match had taken place but the spectators were prevented from viewing the third round. To grant interdict would not accord with the promotion of good administration: King v East Ayrshire Council 1998 SC 182. Then, so far as Article 10 ECHR was concerned, it was important to bear in mind the pre-eminent constitutional importance of that right, the pre-eminent importance of the ability to impart information, as discussed in Cassells and that section 12(1) of the Human Rights Act applied.
[33] In all the circumstances, the motion for interim interdict should, he submitted, be refused.
Discussion and Decision
[34] Put shortly, the petitioners' case is that unless they are allowed to participate in the third debate that is due to take place tomorrow, the respondents will be failing in their duty of impartiality. Only if they are given the same voice in that debate as the three parties whose leaders participated in the first two debates will the requisite impartiality be achieved. Furthermore, according to their argument, in refusing them such a voice, the respondents are failing to follow their own guidelines as to impartiality at elections.
[35] It is not for appropriate for me, at this stage, to reach a final view on this matter. I do, however, require to form a view as to the prospects of the petitioners' argument succeeding. I do not consider it likely that it will succeed. Mr Moynihan's criticism of the petitioners' approach to the concept of impartiality in this context seems justified. It cannot be a simple matter of giving each and every political party equal coverage. Nor can it be a simple matter of taking one point in time during the election period and examining the coverage on a single channel at that stage. The respondents do not approach matters on that basis; the petitioners, essentially, and insofar as the petitioners approached matters on the basis that they do, but I cannot accept that that is correct. The respondents y explain in their guidance documentation what their approach is, taking account of apparently relevant matters which appear properly relevant such as prior electoral support, all subject to overriding considerations of what is proportional and appropriate over the relevant period , thus leaving themselves with what, on the face of it, seems to be a sensible measure of discretion. Different considerations may well arise when it comes to what amounts to appropriate coverage in a referendum, as was discussed in the case of Wilson. It is, however, also of note that Lord Ross, as he then was, referred with approval to a system of allocating broadcast time similar to that used by the respondents, in Wilson, at p.359:
"They aver that the allocation of party political broadcasts is reached based in principle upon the votes cast for each political party in the last General Election. That may be all right when voting in Parliamentary and local government elections is concerned...".
[36] Those comments were, I recognise, obiter but they nonetheless, for present purposes, carry weight.
[37] The question that then arises is whether, on the available information, there is a prima facie case that the respondents have failed to have regard to their own guidance and determined on coverage that is not proportionate or appropriate bearing in mind their duty of impartiality. I cannot conclude that such a case is made out. The information before me shows that Tthey have planned coverage of the petitioners' campaign , in particular , at the present time, which appears to be of some substance and cannot be said to be lacking in impartiality.
[38] Turning then to the question of whether it would be appropriate to grant the discretionary remedy sought, it is important to bear in mind that this this a petition for judicial review. The petitioners are not, in this process, entitled to interim interdict as of right; nor indeed, even if they can ultimately show that the decision of 21 December 2009 was flawed, will they necessarily be entitled to have it reduced, the jurisdiction to reduce administrative decisions being inherently discretionary: London & Clydeside Estates Ltd v Aberdeen District Council 1980 SC (HL)1. It is relevant to consider whether they have delayed in seeking this remedy: King v East Ayrshire Council. It is relevant to consider whether or not it would promote good administration to grant the order that they seek at this stage.
[39] As to delay, as the above background narrative demonstrates, the petitioners were not only aware of the decision of 21 December within some 24 hours of it being made but by 4 February, they had formed and articulated their view that the respondents would, in following the proposed debate schedule, be in breach of their duty of impartiality. That is a charge which is repeated by the petitioners in the ensuing correspondence and complaint and which is supported by quite detailed argument. I am not persuaded by the petitioners' response to being criticised for having delayed. That response was to the effect that it was only when they had evidence of the damage done by the first debate that they could take action and prior to that they could only speculate. That, however, ignores that it is of the essence of most applications for interim interdict that they are sought in advance of damage, on the basis of some speculation that damage will occur if interdict is not granted. The reality may well be that the petitioners have been taken by surprise by the nature of the apparent impact of the debates thus far but that is beside the point. Their complaint, which is one of partiality, has been their complaint all along since they first became aware of the decision last December. Nor do I accept that the utilisation of the respondents' appeal process is of any relevance where the decision which the petitioners seek to bring under review in this petition is not the one which was made the subject of appeal. The petition seeks reduction of the decision of 21 December. It was not made subject to any appeal process. There is no satisfactory explanation advanced as to why the petitioners did not take action prior to the first debate.
[40] Delay is particularly significant in this case because whether one compares the debates to three rounds of a boxing competition, a three course meal, a play in three acts or any similar convenient analogy, the planned event that is the series leadership election debates is now two thirds of the way through and has, thus far, taken place according to plan. The order that the petitioners seek would, whatever happens, result in wholesale disruption of that plan. It would deprive the public, possibly the whole of the UK public, who are anticipating being able to complete their viewing and consideration of the whole series of debates tomorrow, of the opportunity to do so. It would, on the face of matters, leave them with an incomplete picture. That would hardly accord with proper, well ordered administration.
[41] I turn then to section 12(1) and (3) of the Human Rights Act. It provides:
"(1) This section applies if a court is considering whether to grant any relief which , if granted , might affect the exercise of the Convention right to freedom of expression.
(3) No such relief is to be granted so as to restrain publication before trial unless the court is satisfied that the applicant is likely to establish that publication should not be allowed."
[42] I am readily satisfied that if I grant interim interdict that "might" affect the exercise of the important right to freedom of expression. I did not understand Mr Bovey to suggest otherwise. Further, as will be evident from the above discussion, I am not satisfied that the petitioners are likely to be ultimately successful in establishing that the broadcast of the third debate ought not to be allowed on the impartiality grounds advanced in their petition.
[43] I turn finally to the terms of the order sought. As is often said, it is not appropriate to grant interdict unless the terms of the order are so precise and clear that the person interdicted "is left in no doubt what he is forbidden to do." (Murdoch p.13). The order sought seeks to restrict the broadcast to one which "features" a "representative" of the petitioners "on equal terms" with the three party leaders who are due to appear at the debate. None of those expressions are further explained and all give rise to serious doubt as to what is envisaged. Does the "representative" require to be a Westminster MP? Does that person require to be a candidate in the election? Is it envisaged that the debate will be a four way debate or will some other "featuring" of that representative suffice? What is meant by "equal terms"? Who is to be the judge of that? Does this place a new burden on the moderator of the debate? In short, it seems to me that the order sought lacks the requisite precision and clarity and would leave the respondents in real and reasonable doubt as to what they could or could not do if they went ahead with the debate.
[44] In all these circumstances, I am not satisfied that it is appropriate to grant the order sought and I will pronounce an interlocutor refusing the petitioners' motion.