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Pre-judging Judges?
By Laura Wattenberg
America elected a new president on Tuesday. Perhaps you heard? Obama's triumph was the world's huge news story, but across the country many thousands more candidates were voted in and out of local offices. My ballot included a plethora of races for positions like Register of Probate and Regional Vocational School District. I'm sure I'm not the only reasonably well-informed voter who sometimes stares down at a list of local candidates and thinks "Uh-oh. Some of these are just random names to me."
An election of random names. Interesting, eh? For all of the attention that's been paid to Barack Hussein Obama's name, the fact is that a presidential candidate becomes so well known by the public that his name alone can't define him. But in local elections, especially elections for large slates of jobs, a typical voter is often asked to chose among a group of people knowing little but their names. If name-based discrimination really exists, could this be a place we'd spot it?
In fact, the Houston Chronicle thinks they might have spotted some. An article in this morning's paper describes a curious electoral pattern in Harris County, Texas. Harris County voters had over a hundred local races to decide, including 32 separate District Judge contests. We can't expect a typical voter in that situation to be genuinely familiar with all of the hundreds of candidates. So all many had to go on was name and party affiliation. Not surprisingly, party affiliation dominated: a wave of straight-party Democratic voting swept most of the 32 District Judge races. Most, but not all. The Chronicle reports speculation that the four Democratic candidates who lost were brought down by their "unusual names." They were:
Ashish Mahendru
Mekisha Murray
Andres Pereira
Goodwille Pierre
Judging by surnames like Murray and Pierre, we can safely assume they're talking about unusual first names. And judging by the first name Andres, we can safely assume that "unusual" is a big, whopping euphemism. (A look at the NameMapper will show you that the familiar Spanish name Andres has ranked among the top-100 names in Texas for years.) So instead of "unusual," let's just be upfront and say "non-white." Meanwhile the winning candidates in those contests were named Sharon, Mark, Patricia and Joseph.
Keep in mind that most of the judicial races were decided by just a few percentage points. With only two factors to judge by, name and party, it's certainly conceivable that names could have influenced just enough voters to sway those races. But before drawing any conclusions we should look at the full body of candidates running for all 32 jobs. I've reviewed the full Harris County judicial election results; here are the names of the winning Democrats:
Jaclanel
Of the 28, I see only three names that would typically be identified as non-white: Dion, Josefina, and Ruben. That totals seven non-white given names out of 32 Democrats, with all four losers selected from those seven. What are the chances that selection would happen randomly? By my calculations, less than one chance in a thousand.
Of course, it's just one set of races in one county. I don't pretend to know whether other issues affected those four candidates. But if I were a scholarly researcher trying to isolate real-world effects of baby names, I'd be mighty tempted to take a broader look at "name-only" contests like these across America.
By Jay (not verified)
Really interesting post. Myself and my husband are both immigrants, me from an "anglosphere" country and him from south asia. He feels quite strongly that any future kids should have a first name from my background, and perhaps even use my surname also, to avoid such nonsense. We shall see when the time comes, of course.
By Mouse (not verified)
Was "Jaclanel" a typo? It seems like a nonstandard name to me. I don't think I'd necessarily call it "non-white," since I've never seen it before, but I don't know that I'd group it with Mike, Al, and Mary.
By GirlRandolph (not verified)
I am so naming my kid 'Goodwille'. That's one awesome name. How can you not win with that name?
By Guest (not verified)
My husband and I voted for someone named Neeraj Nagdim (which I don't think I've spelled properly). But that's only because my husband sounded him out on issues beforehand and we liked his stance. Otherwise, I have to say I'd probably have gone with the way more familiar Frank or Judy, simply because they're more comfortable. Definitely something to be more conscious of.
-- SaraJ
By Elizabeth T.
I'm intrigued that the judicial candidates were identified by party. The judicial races here were non-partisan (at least this time around) and the candidates' names appeared on the back of the ballot. There was no way to know the party affiliation, so I would think the affect of an "unusual" name might be even more pronounced. I'll have to go to the Board of Elections website and check this out.
By Charles Kuffner (not verified)
Was "Jaclanel" a typo?
BTW and FWIW, Mekisha Murray is white. And Goodwille is actually his middle name, but it's what he goes by. Very cool guy.
I happen to be a friend of Ashish Mahendru's, and I hate to consider the implications of this.
By enterbrainment (not verified)
it's pretty typical in the asian american community for kids to have an "american" (i.e. european american) name and a name from their family's country of origin. typically the euro name is official and what they use in school and in the community.
often there will be a personal process of "reclaiming" their asian name when they become adults, as part of claiming a more integral asian american identity.
also asian former english colonies (like hong kong) will often have a custom going back generations of giving children two names as well--one for official colonial use and one for the family and community.
in hong kong, because of the chinese obsession with puns (it's a feature of the language that puns are frequent) there's a tendency to try to make a child's english and chinese names match in both meaning and sound. this explains the prevalence of names like "winston" and "mabel" among immigrants from hong kong.
I looked up the winners of the judicial races in North Carolina. I didn't finish going through the whole list because my pen ran out of ink (and I got bored!), but the results were interesting. I didn't detect any instances of prejudice based on names, but that is mostly because the names were so, well, whitebread. Tons of men named James, John, William, Robert, Mark, and Charles. The women's names were a little more interesting, ranging from Anna Elena to Jewel. What was interesting was how many races the women won, even when they were running against a male incumbent. I think that the League must have been out in force! Here are some of the more interesting matches (a parenthetical I designates the incumbent): (And again, I have no idea to which party these candidates belong, as the party affiliation is not listed on the NC ballots.)
James (I) defeats Jewel
Samuel (I) defeats Kristin
Cheri defeats Doug (I)
Clifton defeats Russell (Rusty)
Arnold defeats Jerry (sounds like they could have played football together in the 50s!)
Teresa defeats Franklin
Alonzo (I) defeats Betsy
Page defeats Glenn
S. Quon (I) defeats Amanda
Anna Elena defeats Mark
Laura (I) defeats Luis
Avery Michelle defeats A. Robinson (I)
Susan (I) defeats Tabatha
Betty defeats Chuck (love that one!)
Polly (I) defeats Barbara
I think it's a little hard to read racism into something like Laura defeating Luis since she was the incumbent and well could have a strong core of supporters. The incumbents automatically get the edge in the judicial races since most people don't pay much attention to them--but they might remember reading a judge's name in the newspaper and choose that candidate because the name sounds familiar.
By Judge Reinhold, FDD, BDL (not verified)
There was a famous case of this in Los Angeles just a few years ago: a longtime respected judge named Dzintra Janavs was defeated by a businesswoman with a law degree, Lynn Olson, and the strong implication in most of the coverage was that the name contrast was a big factor:
http://www.metnews.com/articles/2006/judicialelections120_040606.htm
(Janavs was born in Latvia.)
By Aybee (not verified)
This is the optimist in me hoping that the votes weren't based on race:
It is reasonable to consider, as Laura said, that the voters knew little to nothing about the candidates.
When I go to the track (very infrequently, read: 3 times in my life), since I know absolutely nothing about horse racing and don't read odds, I bet on horses whose names I like the best. Maybe that is all this was? (Think: Judy is running against Jaclanel. Judy is the name of my grandma, and that author I like, I'll vote for her!). Of course, as an NE, if I was voting on this basis my vote would probably go to Jaclanel.
I am also, of course, not equating political candidates with horses, just names with names.
This whole theory goes out the window for the people who voted straight Democrat with those four names excepted. Unfortunately, as Laura's odds suggested, race is probably a motivator here but I thought I'd offer an optimistic possibility.
By Megan W. (not verified)
Well, I will admit that one of my first thoughts when I first heard of Barack Obama was something along the lines of "boy, it must be hard to get elected with a name that is so hard to remember...." (Ok, I was wrong!)
But I have to admit, as a teacher I wonder if I do this type of thing without realizing it. Do I call on John more than Jaclanel? I hope not. I do make an effort not to look at names at all when grading for just that type of reason.
My other election-name question: over lunch my colleagues and I were talking about lines at the polls. In my state, they divide the registered voter list into "A-L" and "M-Z". Each person reported long lines for the top half of the alphabet, and no lines for the bottom. Does this pan out with your experiences?
By J&H's mom (not verified)
There have been a couple cases of this that I recall.
In one, a little known lawyer defeated a well regarded incumbent largely because his name was nearly the same as that of a popular congressman from a nearby district.
As I recall, a number of voters actually said they had confused the two, so there wasn't much question about what had happened.
Of course, this is more a case of familiarity giving one name a boost than prejudice affecting the other.
I've also noticed candidates trying to play off an attribute of their names. For example, our (former) land comissioner was a Southerland, and his signs had the land part of his ln highlighted.
Finally, if I can rant for a teensy second, I have to say that uniformed voting is a Huge pet peeve of mine.
I would never vote in a race if I didn't feel adequately informed about it, and I just think it's really darn lazy not to do a little research or at least read the voter's manual (no offense Laura and others-I was raised as a political junkie, so I probably have unrealistic expectations). End of rant.
New baby report: Helen Fletcher ln.
Mom and grandma are Helens; Mn is for grandpa.
By Paz (not verified)
It doesn't surprise me. There was a study not that long ago which found that people with ethnic sounding first names are much less likely to get called back for an interview then people with more white names. I am currently job searching and using only my first initial on my resume for that reason. Also, when I do give them a full name, I'm dropping the y from my actual full name to make it more mature sounding.
By Yet Another Guest (not verified)
J&H's mom, I was thinking the same thing. I'm not sure how it is in the states, but everywhere I've lived in Canada, if I don't know an issue on part of a ballot, I skip that question.
I'm sure I've said this before, but I really love the name Helen.
By JB
Megan W:
Re: "In my state, they divide the registered voter list into "A-L" and "M-Z". Each person reported long lines for the top half of the alphabet, and no lines for the bottom. Does this pan out with your experiences?"
Yes, I live in a largely red county in New York State; when I was voting the lines were longer for the top of the alphabet.
"I would never vote in a race if I didn't feel adequately informed about it, and I just think it's really darn lazy not to do a little research or at least read the voter's manual (no offense Laura and others-I was raised as a political junkie, so I probably have unrealistic expectations)."
No offense taken! In fact, I do read the voter's manuals, and I don't vote in any race I don't feel adequately informed about. But realistically, when there are literally HUNDREDS of names on a ballot, including dozens of candidates for the the same job (as in the Harris County case), the candidates are bound to blur in the minds of the overwhelming majority of voters...including me.
By RobynT
Megan W: Yes, that happened at my polling place too. They ended up calling of M-Z to come up to the front of the line and the A-Ls were not happy. When I left they were playing with the formula (A-K, L-Z, etc.). My husband and I got in line together though and ultimately I (as a M-Z) only got out a little earlier than he (A-M) did.
By dee
I worked at a local polling place (a LONG day in my county, as there are no shifts -- it's a 6am to 9pm day!). It was so much fun to read and pronounce dozens of names I'd never heard :)
I'd recommend the job of pollworker to NEs and voting enthusiasts the world over.
Oh, and I received a telephone reminder to vote the day before the election from a woman with my name (an uncommon name when I was born, though it's now increasing in popularity among little ones)! This is a name that I've encountered on grown women maybe a half dozen times in my whole life. It was an exciting coincidence for me.
Correcting my previous muddle-headed comment on the A-L, M-Z problem: Based on the U.S. top 1000 surname distribution, the A-L surname group is about 10% bigger. Shifting the L's to the later group makes balance *slightly* more even, with 7% more now in group 2. And of course a given community may be quite different. (The polling place should clearly find the real midpoint and divide there!)
By NB (not verified)
Megan W- I am a poll volunteer, and my job in this election was to be the "bouncer"- that is, monitor the flow of people into the room. We DEFINITELY experienced what you described. Our check in tables were divided by A-C, D-H, I-L, M-R, and S-Z. We were pulling I-L folks out of the back of the line, as there was literally NO wait for most of them most of the morning. However, at two different times, we had significant A-C and D-H back ups. M-R and S-Z generally moved at a constant pace, with no major backups.
As a former (maiden name) K and now a B, I was thinking all morning that I would have been really irked about changing my name if I had had to stand in the A-C line!
And more relevant to the original post: I once captained an ultimate frisbee team in a local league and had to draft my team. We captains knew many of the players, but of course there were plenty of "unknowns" who had to be drafted. My co-captain and I decided to draft a guy named SouSou solely because he had an interesting name, and we got quite lucky. SouSou was a great ultimate player!
Finally, several acquaintances born in the past couple of months include:
Rosalyn Anne
Virginia Kennedy (to be called Kennedy)
Cassidy Anne Miller
Cassidy Ann Miller (what are the odds?? Both live in the area, but I know them from 2 totally separate spheres. . .)
By Harriet
This post is fascinating. I may want to look into some of these name-only contests. One quick favor to ask--how?
By Erika (not verified)
Link is to an article in Fox News regarding babies born on Tuesday named in honor of Obama.
I *tried* to research the judges that were running in my area. But it's nearly impossible to find out anything about them other than where they went to school.
Here, judges do not have political parties listed on the ballot. And they shouldn't, really. Because they should be decided cases based on law and precedent, not on political ideologies.
And you do know something beyond their name, you know if they are the incumbent. Here, all the incumbents were re-elected. I'm guessing that people figure that it's easy to go with the person who has been doing their job than someone who hasn't proven themselves.
I'm genuinely surprised to learn that A-L last names are more common than M-Z. I have a S last name, and it seems like half the population does, too. But that could just be a perceptual error since I am possibly the world's most impatient person. I waited in line about 20 minutes to vote this time around, and it seemed like the other line was moving faster to me.
On topic, I must admit that I did not vote for a quorum court candidate based on the fact that her name was Candy. Candy does not sound professional to me at all. I am usually a pretty informed voter, but I couldn't care less about the quorum court. I'm not even sure what they do. J&H's mom can throw tomatoes now. Candy won without my vote though, she beat a Jim, so not sure the name bias was too terribly widespread. I think poor Jim was a victim of the tsunami.
By Amber S (not verified)
I've often wondered about something similar to this.
I'm an auditor, and sometimes I have to select a certain number of employee records for testing. Usually if I find somone on the employee list with an unusual name or a name that sticks out, they will wind up in my selection pool. I've wondered if other auditors are also more likely to pick these same people too.
I put my theory to the (unscientific!) test this past summer. I was out at a repeat client with another girl I worked with. After she had made the selection of employees, just for fun I compared it with my selection from the prior year. Sure enough, the 2 selections of 25 employees had about 7 overlaps. And this company had a few hundred people to choose from- maybe even 1,000. The overlaps were all people with unusual names or who shared names with celebrities!
By zoerhenne
You all have such interesting thoughts on this subject. You are truly a master Laura.
I used to be an S and am now an A. Our place divides into about 5 groups similar to what NB described. Where I grew up they did it by street name instead of last name.
I can admit to a certain name bias when voting and otherwise (used to be a daycare teacher). I am not registered with a particular party. When teaching, they were a few names we would call out very often during the day as these were the children who were, hmm, I will say "quite active". So upon having kids of my own I would often say "No, Christopher, Nicholas, or whomever because they were the active kids in school".
More on topic, there was a race between a Robert, Tom, and Berlie in a state office here. I was intrigued by the name Berlie so it made me read more about her and then once I knew some of her stands I voted for her. I felt like she deserved a chance as she is Libertarian. Tom ultimately won. Another race Lloyd beat Jose but there was LOTS of ads about that one. I'm sure that not everything that was said was true. Also, Eugene over Lon.
Amber S-about sharing a celebrity name, I just watched a show tonight where a character was named Justine Stefani. I thought that interesting.
By AK (not verified)
I now live in a small town, and I literally walked in with no wait to vote. It was beautiful. In the last election (before I moved), I had to wait over 2 hours.
By Trish
I have an A last name. Our lines were in 3 groups, but I don't remember what the exact groupings were. All I know is that when I walked in, there were 4-5 people in the other 2 lines, and my A line was empty. :D
By Jenny L3igh
NB- 2 Cassidy Ann(e) Millers that really is Ethel Mae in a crazy way! Is Cassidy on the rise?
To the judicial races I agree with someone above (sorry forgot who) that there should definitely not be party affiliations for judges!!! That totally defeats the purpose of being impartial. Realistically everyone has their own opinions, but a judge should be encouraged to set those asides and use their judgement, the law and past decisions only! Grr, anyway sorry for the rant but that drives me nuts.
On the Jewel versus James race mentioned above I probably would have voted for James if I didn't know much about either of them. I don't know whether I'd have realized it either, but Jewel just doesn't sound as serious to me. Ditto on Candy as someone said above. Thus why many of us here I think push for names that have a weighty option just in case...
By Tirzah
People definitely analyze last names too. There is a local judge who ran with her Asian last name and lost. She ran again a couple of years later using her husband's white surname and she won. Sad really. In addition to the racism, the public essentially forced her to take her husband's name!
By Kelly (not verified)
I am one of the voters who made choices in the Harris County contests in Houston on Tuesday, and Laura is right, to some extent. In Harris County, the Republicans have had a stranglehold on the judicial system for years, so it is remarkable that *any* Democratic candidate for judge would be elected at all. Texas is a red state, and unlike major metropolitan areas in other red states, Houston doesn't usually go blue.
As I was making my choices, I did, in fact, think about the names of the candidates and made *some* choices based on name alone. In the case of Mekisha Murray, I literally thought to myself, I don't like that name, and I voted for the other candidate. For most of the other contests, I voted Democratic, unless I had a positive association with the Republican candidate who was running.
For instance, Ashish Mahendru ran an ad right before the election that I really liked, and I wanted to vote for him (he was the Dem candidate) but I know the Republican candidate, Sharon, personally so I voted for her.
And I noticed Goodwille Pierre's name and thought it unusual, but I don't remember if I voted for him or not. Jaclanel was another name that jumped out at me.
I think Houston voters tend to be more traditional (read: conservative Republican) so traditional names would appeal to them. But maybe the trend is for more diversity in local elections, both among those who are running and those who are voting, so who knows how Houston might vote in the future?
By Davin HW (not verified)
Geez, now I have to consider an unusual name's effect on my unborn child's judicial aspirations!? ;)
Thanks to everyone for all the great suggestions on the last thread! After discussion with my wife, I'm back with more thoughts.
First, my name does indeed rhyme with Gavin.
We like girl names that are a little more gender-neutral & not too "girly".
We like names with the "v" in the middle, but especially good ones that start with the "v" are definitely worthwhile. On a related note, does anyone know of a way to use the NameVoyager to search for "contains v" rather than "starts with v"?
Okay, so our current favs are:
Carver,Everett,Reeve,Kelvin,Ever,Even (mostly positive)
and (even more liked by me and/or wife)
Seaver,Taavi(as a NN for unknown full name),Alva,Haver,Van(again, as NN)
Continued (work webfilter causing me to painfully do this on my phone)
Valor(yeah, it could be a lot for a boy to live up to), Ever,Verity,Olive
Thanks again, and please keep the ideas coming if inspiration strikes!
By JRE (not verified)
Elizabeth T -
I lived in NC for years and was good friends with a female attorney who was very active and informed in the judicial elections. According to her, a decidingly female name was helpful in being elected. She called it the "Mom theory" - you hear/see a "Mom-ish" name and tend to think of her being firm, but fair.
Guest-I promise not to throw any kind of vegetables or fruits at you.
In the interests of full disclosure, I have to confess that our ballots are clearly less cluttered than some that others encounter. We also vote as permanent absentees (most of our state is all mail already), so I have lots of time to research. I have been able to find information about judges in a variety of sources-when all else fails I usually go with the endorsements from our local newspaper, as I respect their editorial board.
My main objection, though, was the idea of simply picking a name. I just think if you don't care or don't know, you shouldn't vote.
Davin-I love Taavi, which could be a nn for Tavis, which was suggested before. I also adore Everett, but I wonder if it's too common for your tastes.
I could be sold on Reeve, Kelvin, or Van. The others are just not my taste. I really think your little guy would get so tired of hearing, "Are you Ever going to get here?" and any number of similar, dopey things that I think would be irresistable with both Ever and Even.
I also thought I'd suggest Clive, Grover or Grove, or River. Riv would be a fun nn for River that seems similar to your style.
Of your girls' choices, Verity is one I'm forever suggesting, so I have to root for that one.
You could also do something like Valoria and use Valor as a nn.
Thanks so much for the update!
By C & C's Mom - and now B! (not verified)
I posted this on the last thread, but just in case it was missed:
Don't forget Elvis as an unusual boy's name with a v that doesn't end in n!
I felt witty, so wanted to share it again.
other v names:
girl: Aviva, Geneva, Dove, Waverly, Raven
boy: Hargreave, Hoover, Neville, Oliver, Travis, Xavier
I also know a 30something woman named Tivey.
By sarah smile (not verified)
Valor is a lot for a boy to live up to, but not for a girl?
on topic:
I have heard Barack Obama say in interviews that early on in his political career he was advised that he needed at least 1 common name. Yes to something like Barack SMith or Joe Obama, but definitely not 2 unusual names like Barack Obama!
Another on-topic post.
Several years ago (in NC) I remember voting in a judicial race in which one of the candidates was I. Beverly Lake. In my "new to NC" ignorance, I assumed that was a woman. He is not a woman.
By Rhanda (not verified)
All whitebread names around here... though the town I work in did elect a Kim for mayor that is a man... not unheard of, certainly, but unusual ... over an incumbent David (although there is a lot of backstory there... it wasn't a surprising win.)
I am a little curious about elsewhere -- do "Republican" names show a lot of variance from "Democratic" names?
Oh, Waverly is one of my guilty pleasures.
How did I forget that one?!
Also wanted to add that Alva seems decidedly feminine to me, but you could do Alvin with a less expected nn, like Aldo or Vin.
Or does Alvin still read too Chipmunk to everyone?
I can't really hear Alvin without thinking Allllll- viiiiiiiin!
So yes, to me anyway.
Other -v- names:
Evan -- can be gender-neutral
Hovah -- heard this on the wife of an ex-governor and thought it sounded quite distinguished. I like the silent "h" at the end. :D
Bevan -- knew a girl named this growing up
By Inbal (not verified)
Paz, I have the same problem.
I have a very foreign sounding name (it's Israeli). To make matters worse, I'm a newlywed so I haven't quite found the strength needed to part with my maiden name as of yet, and have added on my husband's long Polish sounding last name at the end of my oh-so-foreign name to begin with.
I actually had someone in the advertising industry (where I'm job hunting) advise me earlier today to lose one of my last names in an attempt to make my name more approachable.
I see the point it in, but on the other hand, it's who I am.
Celebrity birth:
Michelle Monaghan ("Gone Baby Gone," "Eagle Eye") and her husband, baby girl -- Willow Katherine.
If anyone is still interested, I worked the polls at a precinct in Tennessee and the books were divided A-C, D-H, I-L, M-P, R-T and W-Z. We had 4 poll workers, so we looked at the sizes of the books to decide who would get two - A-C was by far the largest book, followed by the D-H book.
Does anyone collect data on last names?
By Alitalia (not verified)
If you like Alva, but find it a bit too feminine for a boy, you could consider my grandfather's middle name, Alvis...
By christinepearl
This is an interesting phenomenon to me as judges do not run for office in my state. The only nonpartisan offices I had to vote for were for school committee and the names were Julie, Maryann, Debora, John and Stacey. The names did not affect my choice as I had met or knew of 4 out of 5. But I have found that the front half of the alphabet tends to have a bit more people. I am now an S but my maiden name started with Ma and in the classrooms where teachers sat us in alphabetical order, I would often be at the end of the middle row.
Davin - I like Van, Carver and Everett & Verity of the names you mentioned.
I also liked the suggestions of Clive and Waverly. I especially like Clive, J & H's mom - i doubt it will ever be really popular but Clive Owen has helped bring it into the light again. It has an understated manliness to it. I grew up on the Chronicles of Narnia and am thus a fan of Clive Staples Lewis.
Which brings me to a digression - has anyone ever met a Digory IRL?
christinepearl-
Clive Cussler is one of my dad's favorite author's.
Davin-I am not a big fan of V's with the exception of Valerie. I gave some options on the previous thread if you didn't see them-Donovan was one of them. I also just thought of another Flavia. I don't know what the origin or meaning is but there is an author/artist by this name.
By Easternbetty (not verified)
I had several judges and a justice on my ballot. I spent hours researching them--er, actually, like Guest, TRYING to. I even asked my lawyer friend to look up opinions from their courts on Lexis Nexis.
My effort was all in vain; there was virtually no information available in either public interet sources or lawyers' sites.
So, I left that part of the ballot blank.
But, in an interesting counterpoint to Laura's post:
We hadseveral local/county commissioner and chairperson positions up for grabs, and we didn't know the identities/policies behind any of the names (all of their websites were meager). My friend, who's of my same (non-Western) background, told me she voted for every name that seemed like it could be either non-Western or minority in origin (we had a Liu and a Spanish-language name on the ballot.) She also voted for clearly female names over the male ones (Sue, etc.)
I don't think that's the best way to elect people (I left it blank), but I wasn't about to lecture. Anyway, to my knowledge, our small southern county (very steeped in Southern tradition and old families of Anglo and Scottish heritage) did not elect any of the women or non-Western-named people, so others must not have been voting like her.
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Netherlands' Jill Roord controls the ball against Brazil's Debinha during a women's soccer match at the 2020 Summer Olympics, Saturday, July 24, 2021, in Miyagi, Japan. (AP Photo/Andre Penner)
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Netherlands' coach Sarina Wiegman watches her team prior to a women's soccer match against Brazil at the 2020 Summer Olympics, Saturday, July 24, 2021, in Miyagi, Japan. (AP Photo/Andre Penner)
Netherlands' players pose for a team photo prior to a women's soccer match against Brazil at the 2020 Summer Olympics, Saturday, July 24, 2021, in Miyagi, Japan. (AP Photo/Andre Penner)
Netherlands' Vivianne Miedema, third from right, celebrates with her teammates after scoring a goal during a women's soccer match against Brazil at the 2020 Summer Olympics, Saturday, July 24, 2021, in Miyagi, Japan. (AP Photo/Andre Penner)
Brazil's Debinha celebrates after scoring a goal against Netherlands during a women's soccer match at the 2020 Summer Olympics, Saturday, July 24, 2021, in Miyagi, Japan. (AP Photo/Andre Penner)
Brazil's Debinha (9) celebrates after scoring a goal against Netherlands during a women's soccer match at the 2020 Summer Olympics, Saturday, July 24, 2021, in Miyagi, Japan. (AP Photo/Andre Penner)
Brazil's players pose for a team photo prior to a women's soccer match against Netherlands at the 2020 Summer Olympics, Saturday, July 24, 2021, in Miyagi, Japan. (AP Photo/Andre Penner)
Netherlands' Vivianne Miedema celebrates after scoring a goal against Brazil during a women's soccer match at the 2020 Summer Olympics, Saturday, July 24, 2021, in Miyagi, Japan. (AP Photo/Andre Penner)
Brazil and Netherlands players battle for a header during a women's soccer match at the 2020 Summer Olympics, Saturday, July 24, 2021, in Miyagi, Japan. (AP Photo/Andre Penner)
Brazil's Marta (10) controls the ball against Netherlands' Jackie Groenen (14) during a women's soccer match at the 2020 Summer Olympics, Saturday, July 24, 2021, in Miyagi, Japan. (AP Photo/Andre Penner)
Netherlands gather during the national anthem prior to a women's soccer match against Brazil at the 2020 Summer Olympics, Saturday, July 24, 2021, in Miyagi, Japan. (AP Photo/Andre Penner)
Brazil's Beatriz (16) controls the ball against Netherlands' Aniek Nouwen (4) during a women's soccer match at the 2020 Summer Olympics, Saturday, July 24, 2021, in Miyagi, Japan. (AP Photo/Andre Penner)
Netherlands' Danielle van de Donk, left, and Brazil's Formiga battle for the ball during a women's soccer match at the 2020 Summer Olympics, Saturday, July 24, 2021, in Miyagi, Japan. (AP Photo/Andre Penner)
Brazil's Rafaelle (4) goes for a header during a women's soccer match against Netherlands at the 2020 Summer Olympics, Saturday, July 24, 2021, in Miyagi, Japan. (AP Photo/Andre Penner)
Brazil's Debinha (9) and Netherlands' Jackie Groenen (14) battle for the ball during a women's soccer match at the 2020 Summer Olympics, Saturday, July 24, 2021, in Miyagi, Japan. (AP Photo/Andre Penner)
Netherlands' Stefanie van der Gragt (3) controls the ball during a women's soccer match against Brazil at the 2020 Summer Olympics, Saturday, July 24, 2021, in Miyagi, Japan. (AP Photo/Andre Penner)
Brazil's coach Pia Sundhage watches his team prior to a women's soccer match against Netherlands at the 2020 Summer Olympics, Saturday, July 24, 2021, in Miyagi, Japan. (AP Photo/Andre Penner)
Netherlands' Vivianne Miedema, left, goes for a header against Brazil's Tamires during a women's soccer match at the 2020 Summer Olympics, Saturday, July 24, 2021, in Miyagi, Japan. (AP Photo/Andre Penner)
Brazil's Marta celebrates after scoring a goal during a women's soccer match against Netherlands at the 2020 Summer Olympics, Saturday, July 24, 2021, in Miyagi, Japan. (AP Photo/Andre Penner)
Netherlands' Vivianne Miedema, left, celebrates with Stefanie van der Gragt after scoring a goal during a women's soccer match against Brazil at the 2020 Summer Olympics, Saturday, July 24, 2021, in Miyagi, Japan. (AP Photo/Andre Penner)
Netherlands' Vivianne Miedema (9) celebrates with her teammates after scoring a goal during a women's soccer match against Brazil at the 2020 Summer Olympics, Saturday, July 24, 2021, in Miyagi, Japan. (AP Photo/Andre Penner)
Brazil's Marta, second from right, celebrates with her teammates after scoring a goal during a women's soccer match against Netherlands at the 2020 Summer Olympics, Saturday, July 24, 2021, in Miyagi, Japan. (AP Photo/Andre Penner)
Brazil's Ludmila, behind Andressa (21), celebrates with her teammates after scoring a goal during a women's soccer match against Netherlands at the 2020 Summer Olympics, Saturday, July 24, 2021, in Miyagi, Japan. (AP Photo/Andre Penner)
Netherlands' Lineth Beerensteyn leaps over Brazil's Tamires during a women's soccer match at the 2020 Summer Olympics, Saturday, July 24, 2021, in Miyagi, Japan. (AP Photo/Andre Penner)
Netherlands' Stefanie van der Gragt (3) collides with Brazil's Debinha (9) during a women's soccer match at the 2020 Summer Olympics, Saturday, July 24, 2021, in Miyagi, Japan. (AP Photo/Andre Penner)
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Brazil's goalkeeper Barbara fails to stop a free kick by by Netherlands' Dominique Janssen during a women's soccer match at the 2020 Summer Olympics, Saturday, July 24, 2021, in Miyagi, Japan. (AP Photo/Andre Penner)
Netherlands' Dominique Janssen celebrates after scoring a goal during a women's soccer match against Brazil at the 2020 Summer Olympics, Saturday, July 24, 2021, in Miyagi, Japan. (AP Photo/Andre Penner)

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Q: If $f(z)$ and $g(z)$ are analytic and their power series expansions agree to second order, can a change of variables to one make them agree exactly? In proving Stirling's approximation in their book Special Functions and Orthogonal Polynomials, the authors make a claim:
Since the functions $u e^{1 - u}$ and $e^{-(u-1)^2}$ agree to second order at $u = 1$, there is an analytic change of variables $u \to s$ such that:
\begin{equation}
ue^{1 - u} = e^{-\frac{1}{2}s^2}
\end{equation}
and: $u'(s) = \sum_{i=0}^\infty a_i s^i$ where $a_0 \neq 0$.
The given functions do not agree to second order, as can easily be checked by Taylor Expansion or direct differentiation. There is a missing factor of one half -- the functions $u e^{1 - u}$ and $e^{-\frac{1}{2}(u-1)^2}$ agree to second order. I still don't see how to get the change of variables. I do recall from complex analysis that when a function's power series starts with a m-th order term then one can change variables, in in the new variables the power series will simply be $w^m$ where $w$ is the new variable, but I fail to connect this to the above statement.

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The international smash hit Blood Brothers opens its new 2018 tour at the Theatre Royal Bath from Tuesday 16th to Saturday 20th January. Written by award-winning playwright Willy Russell (Educating Rita, Shirley Valentine), this iconic musical has triumphed across the globe, scooping up no fewer than four awards for Best Musical in London and receiving seven Tony Award nominations on Broadway.
Critically acclaimed actress and singer Lyn Paul (The New Seekers, Cabaret, Taboo, Footloose – The Musical) returns to the seminal role of Mrs Johnstone, following her first performance back in 1997. Hailed as 'The definitive Mrs Johnstone' (Manchester Evening News), Lyn has since played the lead role on numerous UK tours and also starred as Mrs Johnstone in the West End in 2012.
Blood Brothers tells the captivating and moving story of twin boys separated at birth, only to be reunited by a twist of fate and a mother's haunting secret. The memorable score includes A Bright New Day, Marilyn Monroe, and the emotionally charged hit, Tell Me It's Not True.
When Mrs Johnstone, a young mother, is deserted by her husband and left to provide for seven hungry children, she takes a job as a housekeeper in order to make ends meet. It is not long before her brittle world crashes around her when she discovers herself to be pregnant – this time with twins. In a moment of weakness and desperation, she enters a secret pact with her employer which leads inexorably to the show's shattering climax.
This epic tale of Liverpool life started as a play in 1981 before opening at the Liverpool Playhouse 35 years ago in 1983. It has since completed sell out seasons in the US, Australia, Canada, New Zealand, Japan and ran in London's West End for 24 years, exceeding 10,000 performances, one of only three musicals ever to achieve that milestone.
Rising to fame as a member of the New Seekers, Lyn Paul was the featured vocalist on the group's 1972 Eurovision Song Contest entry, Beg, Steal or Borrow, taking them to second place, and lead vocalist on the 1974 number-one hit You Won't Find Another Fool Like Me. The group's other hits include I'd Like to Teach the World to Sing, which sold over 20 million copies and still remains one of the 100 best-selling singles in the UK. On stage, Lyn's many credits include the UK tours of Cabaret, Boy George's musical Taboo, Footloose – The Musical, as well as her long association with Blood Brothers in the West End and on tour. Lyn's previous performances at Bath's Theatre Royal include performing at a special Gala Evening in 1990 and the pantomime Babes in the Wood with Roy Hudd in 1989.
Sean Jones and Mark Hutchinson reprise their acclaimed roles as Mickey and Eddie having previously played the twins together in the West End and on tour, including at the Theatre Royal Bath most recently in 2013.
Mark Hutchinson won the Drama Desk Award on Broadway for Outstanding Featured Actor in a Musical for his role as Eddie. Sean Jones has also performed in Blood Brothers over many years and is well known for his role as Mickey, having first been cast in the musical in the West End in 1999.
The company performing at the Theatre Royal Bath will also feature Mathew Craig as Narrator, Sarah Jane Buckley as Mrs Lyons, Danielle Corlass as Linda, Danny Taylor as Sammy, Tim Churchill as Mr Lyons, Amy-Jane Ollies as Donna Marie, Andy Owens as Perkins, Alison Crawford as Brenda, Graham Martin as Policeman and Teacher, Josh Capper as Neighbour and Graeme Kinniburgh as Bus Conductor.
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Blood Brothers is directed by Bob Tomson and Bill Kenwright with designs by Andy Walmsley. Lighting design is by Nick Richings, sound design is by Dan Samson and musical direction is by Rich Morris.


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As we all know, monitoring is a huge part of operations and, in my case, DevOps activities. It's one of the elephants, on which any software maintenance rely on, I would say.
Back to the ground, Azure Cloud is a nice platform, but still, it doesn't have "real" monitoring solution. Not for VMs, nor for any other it's resources. You can say - it has OMS and Azure Monitor, but I've encountered so many limitations and issues with it... Well, my point - is to develop your own bicycle monitoring system to match your environments and needs.
Today I'll try to introduce my solution which is: highly avaliable, free and cloud-based.
Monitoring system should be highly available, because it will tell you that your environment is down.
Here is diagram. Notice that I'm using Internal Load Balancer as end-point for VMs. That's because of VNet implementation in Azure - IP address of the Load Balancer should be equal to the Zabbix cluster IP address.
Zabbix cluster will operate in active-passive mode and will based on following packages: pacemaker, corosync, pcsd.
Also note the External Load Balancer - it will route requests from your office network to the Zabbix front end.
And - last, but not least, the database. I'm using Azure Database for MySQL servers as back end. It's quite flexible in terms of performance, and the price is affordable.
Assuming you've set up your VM and other stuff, let's move on to configuration of our servers. Remember, we're deploying CentOS images.
Following script should be run on both servers. This article actually was prepared in the end of 2017, so versions of packages may be changed at the time you're reading this. I suggest you will run script line-by-line to eliminate any problems. Also, I assume there is a bunch of config files related to Apache and Zabbix placed into home directory of your user, so I'll place sample content of such configs in the comments.
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# SELINUX is a security subsystem, which is impossible to use with cluster, hence, disabling it.
### Update all packages prior to initial installation.
# This must be done ONCE AND ONLY after server deployment. All other updates MUST be performed manually - and - granually.
# !!!Need to check if URL for Zabbix repository is correct!!!
# Modify settings of Zabbix frontend to connect to database. Here is the example of it's contents.
#Zabbix Server config file is huge and will vary from one environment to other, so I'll provide just the most important things.
#    ListenIP=0.0.0.0 - this is the default value and should remain as is.
# Modify hosts file for Zabbix Cluster. This will ensure proper name resolution.
# All other cluster configuration must be done only on one cluster nodes.
# Ensure that the whole zabbix group has permission to put .pid and .log files.
# Two strings of code above will configure folder permissions, but they will be overwritten after server's reboot.
# Below we instruct CentOS to configure such permissions every time server starts.
# Note the IPs: 10.1.1.200 - cluster IP address, equal to IP of the Internal Load Balancer, also you will put this IP into your agents.
After you finish here, dont forget to create database, user, assign permissions for him. And import default schema of Zabbix Server database.
Ok, we've run this script on both servers. Now we're to configure cluster.
# Ensure that Zabbix service will prefer "zabbixserver1"
Now you can reboot both servers. Commands below are useful for diagnostics and operations.
These will start\stop all resources in the cluster.
This will display status of the cluster.


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      def initialize(rule)
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      end

    end
  end
end

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Q: Mongoose insertMany function I'm currently working on a data import function for mongodb
It look something like this
Note : the data using for importing is grabbing from an temporary collection in database and massaged before the insertion
var Member = require('MemberModel'); //nodejs Mongoose npm
var arr = [{
    'memberNo': 'M001',
    'name': 'member 1'
}, ...];

Member.insertMany(arr, {ordered:false}, function(err, res){
    arr.forEach(function(item){
        //check exist in res using memberNo
    })
});

Currently, after the insertMany, I'll use looping to check whether the record in the array has been insert to database or not, and last, display which record(s) that failed to be insert deal to validation or something else.
This method is fairly inefficient when dealing with large amount of data.
It there any better way to do this ? or there is some options that i missed out from Mongoose.
Any help to this will be appreciated.


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Accelerating SNARKs with FPGAs: Final Research Results
By Sonya Mann October 22, 2019
In July, the Foundation announced an FPGA acceleration research project. In September, FPGA engineer Ben Devlin wrapped up the engagement by presenting his work at the Taipei Ethereum Meetup. You can watch the talk on YouTube and see the slides on GitHub 🤗 The code and documentation are also available in the GitHub repo.
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He added, "The other avenue for acceleration is that larger-scale institutional partners could use the existing code to speed up shielded verification and proving."
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Our research philosophy is to seek both practicality and boldness in the endeavors that we fund. As always, we appreciate and embrace the transparent, collaborative approach to innovation — the open-source ethos. Zcash wouldn't be possible without it!
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The 1920s Women Who Fought For the Right to Travel Under Their Own Names
Being listed as "and wife" in a joint passport was just not going to fly.
by Sandra Knisely March 27, 2017
See the world, use your own name. belterz/Getty Images
The current U.S. passport includes 13 inspirational quotes from notable Americans. Only one belongs to a woman, the African-American scholar, educator, and activist Anna J. Cooper. On pages 26-27 are words she wrote in 1892: "The cause of freedom is not the cause of a race or a sect, a party or a class—it is the cause of humankind, the very birthright of humanity."
If equality is a journey, then it should come as no surprise that passports have helped American women to cross some of society's most entrenched cultural borders for more than a century.
U.S. passports predate the Declaration of Independence, but the documents were issued on an ad hoc basis until the late 1800s, when the process began to standardize. By then, a single woman was issued a passport in her own name, but a married woman was only listed as an anonymous add-on to her husband's document: "Mr. John Doe and wife."
"Restrictions on travel rarely took the form of government policy or officials actively preventing women traveling abroad. Rather, restrictions came in the form of accepted social ideas," says Craig Robertson, author of Passport in America: History of a Document. "Put simply, it was not acceptable for a married woman to travel outside of the country without her husband; he, of course, could travel without her. More generally, a married woman's public identity was tied to her husband, and passports reflected that in being issued to the husband, with his wife being a literal notation."
Married women were technically required to apply for independent passports if they planned to travel separately from their husbands, though Robertson didn't find examples of those applications existing before WWI.
The lack of a paper trail may be due to the fact that in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, most countries didn't yet require passports in order to enter (Russia and Turkey were notable exceptions). So the absence of a passport wasn't a deal-breaker for women who wanted to travel independently but found the "passport nuisance" too cumbersome or expensive to bother with.
However, Robertson says that while a passport was not necessarily required, it did represent a written request for protection and assistance from the government. "At least from an official perspective, the passport offered a single woman traveling alone the protection that it was assumed a married woman would get from her husband," he says.
Ruth Hale as a university student c. 1900 (she entered college at the age of 13). Hale co-founded the Lucy Stone League to support a woman's right to use her maiden name after marriage. Hollins University/Public Domain
As the passport continued to evolve as an official marker of American citizenship, it attracted the interest of women's rights activists. Shortly after her wedding in 1917, writer Ruth Hale applied for a passport under her maiden name before departing for France to work as a war correspondent. Her request was denied, and when Hale returned to New York a year later, she embarked on what became a lifelong crusade to use her maiden name on legal documents. In 1920, Hale was issued a passport under the name "Mrs. Heywood Broun, otherwise known as Ruth Hale." She returned the document, and though the State Department experimented with various alternative phrasings, Hale never received a passport she found acceptable.
Left: Ruth Hale's passport application; Right, affidavit supporting her case for a passport in her maiden name. National Archives and Records Administration/Public Domain
Instead, the bureaucratic back-and-forth inspired Hale to co-found the Lucy Stone League, a group dedicated to protecting a woman's right to her maiden name. "The Lucy Stone League saw passports as the most important battle of all because passports were the ultimate form of identification," says Susan Henry, author of Anonymous in Their Own Names: Doris Fleischman, Ruth Hale, and Jane Grant. "A married woman who kept her name would truly preserve her independent identity if her passport name was her birth name. Beyond that, the Lucy Stone League assumed that if the State Department recognized a married woman's birth name as her legal name, then all government bodies would have to do the same."
In 1922, a press agent named Doris Fleischman dropped a steamer ticket to Europe along with an ultimatum to her boss, the publicist Edward L. Bernays: "If you're not going to marry me, I'm leaving." Bernays duly proposed, and Fleischman decided to go to Europe anyway. With the help of the "Lucy Stoners," Fleischman applied for a passport under her maiden name, and in April 1923, she received a document issued to "Doris Fleischman Bernays, professionally known as Doris E. Fleischman." She then embarked on a three-month business trip across Europe — without her new husband. (Her adventures included delivering a dozen tins of coffee and a crate of grapefruits to Sigmund Freud in Vienna.)
Doris Fleischman's passport application, noted her to be "professionally known" by her maiden name. Her application, unlike Hale's, was accepted. National Archives and Records Administration/Public Domain
In 1925 the Lucy Stoners encouraged Fleischman to take another crack at the State Department, in order to prod the agency into overturning its rule against issuing passports to married women solely in their maiden names. "Despite arguments about whether a married woman could be known and identified through her maiden name, much of the official concern seemed to be about the 'embarrassment' of the perception it would create, i.e. that although a married man was traveling with his wife, it would appear that he was traveling with a single woman because she did not have his name," says Robertson of the agency's reluctance to capitulate.
This time, Fleischman added a note to her passport application, which read: "Since it is apparent that the purpose of a passport is to establish identity, I assume you will not wish me to travel under a false name." Though other women had recently filed similar suits, Fleischman's application set off a press firestorm, thanks in no small part to her expertise as a publicist. In June, a passport was issued to "Doris E. Fleischman," who promptly set sail for France, this time with her husband in tow.
Doris E. Fleischman, the first American married woman to travel on a maiden name passport, arriving in New York City in 1923 with her husband Edward L. Bernays. Bettman/Getty Images
Fleischman's passport was the first legal document issued by a federal agency to a woman under the name she preferred and the first U.S. passport issued to a married woman that didn't designate her as the "wife of" her husband. However, though other women could request passports with similar wording as Fleischman's, the State Department continued to issue passports referring to most women as "the wife of Mr. John Doe" until the late 1930s.
The decision to drop marital information entirely was unceremoniously announced in a 1937 memo by longtime Passport Division head Ruth Shipley, who later became notorious for denying passports to suspected communists during the Cold War. Shipley's memo was surprisingly straightforward considering the length and public acrimony of the battle over a woman's right to travel under the name of her choice. It read in part: "because our position would be very difficult to defend under any really definite and logical attack, it seems the part of wisdom to make the change."
And with that, women's rights advocates gave American passports their stamp of approval.
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RTF CONFERENCE 2019
The Road Transport Forum held its annual conference at Wairakei in September. The theme this year was 'central focus' and the conference attracted 13 high-profile speakers who presented on a range of topics pertinent to business, the economy, and the industry itself. Over the next couple of issues we'll discuss some of the most noteworthy.
Keynote address – Craig Membrey
As a Beyond Blue ambassador, Australian transport operator Craig Membrey hopes to prevent anyone going through what he experienced eight years ago. After an argument with his son Rowan in July 2010, Craig didn't hear from him for about eight months. He tried contacting him, but Rowan kept pushing him away. "Rowan rang me on the 12th of March 2011 and told me he was in trouble. I still remember the call word for word. I spoke to him for about an hour and a half. He said, 'Dad, I've really stuffed my life up'. He'd been doing drugs, and then he'd been heavily drinking and hanging around with the wrong people and he'd got into trouble with the police." Craig says his son wasn't proud, and couldn't believe his father wasn't yelling at him. He told Rowan he missed him and they made plans to catch up the following week. Unfortunately that never happened. In the early hours of 18 March, police arrived to tell Craig his son had committed suicide by jumping in front of a train just before midnight.
"It wasn't a good thing, and my life changed from that day. I'm a pretty strong person – I have to be, I employ truck drivers and deal with a transport business. You've got to be strong, but I don't think it hit me at that stage." Craig expected about 800 people to attend Rowan's funeral, but more than 2200 turned up. "We were absolutely blown away. How loved was that kid. To see who turned up not just to support Rowan and say goodbye, but to support our family. I was just gobsmacked." Craig was due to attend the Mid-America Truck Show with friends, but after Rowan's death the plans were put on hold. "We weren't going to go and then I decided I had to get my head sorted out, so a few of the boys and I took off the day after the funeral. At the show we saw these trucks done up in memory of the owner's father or grandfather." This struck a chord with Craig. Two days before Rowan died, Craig had bought a 904 Kenworth as a project, and when he got home he decided to turn the truck into a moving – in more ways than one – tribute to his son. Rowan was the first of at least 10 boys who took their own lives within a short space of time. All knew each other. Craig thought the truck could be used to raise awareness of depression, so he approached Beyond Blue, an Australian organisation working to address issues associated with depression, suicide, anxiety and other related mental disorders.
The truck features an airbrushed mural of Rowan, and the Beyond Blue logos, with the words 'Proudly supporting Beyond Blue, the national depression initiative'. The truck was launched at the Castlemaine Truck Show on 25 November 2011 – the day before what would have been Rowan's 18th birthday. Craig says the impact of the truck was amazing, and he had people tell him the truck had saved their life. "You've just got to get across that line. What I share with people is suicide is 100 percent preventable – if you ask for help. We get one life, we're all on this bus and there's no return ticket, and we don't know when our stop is." The police had given Craig Rowan's phone following his death and on it he found evidence of the issues his son had been experiencing. As well, hundreds of text messages were still coming through from his friends. "His friends thought there was 3G in heaven and they were texting Rowan. This is how people deal with their problems nowadays, they don't want to face people, they don't want to face their problems, they just want to text message." Craig said it was not easy for him to stand up in front of people and talk about his son's suicide. "I'm no hero, but I love trucks and it's my life and I never thought this Rowan truck would ever turn into a tool that can help people out. It's been an amazing journey; it's been eight and a half years, and it feels like it was yesterday."
The year to June 2019 suicide rates for New Zealand were the highest since provisional statistics were first recorded for the 2007/08 year. "We need to stop this, and we need people to speak up. It just shouldn't happen. Road accidents can happen, but suicide is 100 percent preventable – 100 percent preventable. You just have to ask and speak up and know there's help out there." Craig himself suffered severe depression about 18 months ago. "I thought I was superman and I think I am sometimes, you have to be to be in our industry to get anywhere in life, but the black dog got me. I knew I wasn't myself and my family was concerned about me, my friends were concerned about me, because I really went quiet, and for me to go quiet…" Craig's wife encouraged him to seek professional help, but he said that it still took months before he could even smile again. "I just want to share with people that when you are down, make sure you've got good family around you. Hopefully we leave here today and share this story and stop this happening because it's not just them taking their life, it's the pain they leave behind. I get concerned when I hear people say 'well, that's an exit in life'. That's not an exit in life, life is beautiful, and you have to look after yourselves."
Phil Twyford, Minister of Transport
Phil Twyford set off with an acknowledgement of the passion with which the forum represents the industry and commended the value of robust debate on transport policy even though both parties didn't always see eye to eye. Recognising keynote speaker Craig Membrey and his journey, Twyford used the opportunity to table the government's $1 billion spend on mental health initiatives, and voiced his concern for the health and wellbeing of people in the road transport industry.
Safety: He underlined safety as a top priority and tabled the contribution of truck implicated accidents in the road toll stats, with additional numbers from Otago University highlighting occupational driving and work-related commuting in the annual toll. "This makes road crashes by far the single largest cause of work-related deaths," he said. "That's why the Road to Zero draft road-safety strategy released by Minister Genter has the theme 'vehicles as a workplace' as a key part." Relevant actions from the strategy included fatigue management, increasing regulatory oversight, and greater coordination and collaboration between government agencies. Other points of note were supporting private-sector initiatives to establish best practice road safety standards in the supply chain, and strengthening the regulatory regime by implementing the outcomes of the NZTA regulatory functions review and reviewing logbook and work-time requirements.
NZTA: "It's no good having good regulations if they're not being enforced," he said, acknowledging the agency had not been performing its regulatory function to an acceptable standard. He said the focus had moved too much toward education and away from enforcement, and attributed that shift to the loss of staff from the heavyvehicle compliance team. "NZTA was failing in its duty to properly check the companies that certify vehicles as safe for the road. When problems with these companies were identified, there was often no follow-up." He reiterated the need for public safety as being paramount and laid the blame for it all at the feet of the previous government, saying the regulatory issues were systemic. Twyford said he hoped to release the Ministry of Transport's review into NZTA in the coming weeks. The review makes for sobering reading. "It's going to take time to rebuild the agency's regulatory role." He noted the disruption caused by the situation and said his expectation was that the ministry and industry should work collaboratively. He said progress was being made resourcing the regulatory role at NZTA. Key appointments include Sir Brian Roche as chair, and Ken Rintoul, who brings firsthand experience as a freight haulage contractor.
Roads: Twyford noted the roads needed to be brought up to scratch also and cited a $1.4 billion spend on median and side barriers, and wider shoulders across 3300km of state highways over the next three years as being the solution. "I know that some people don't think much of these targeted upgrades, but the research shows they save lives. For example, flexible road safety barriers can give a 70 to 80% reduction in road deaths. Shoulder widening can reduce crashes by up to 35%. Wider centrelines can do the same by 20%." Twyford said the highways needed to be properly maintained and acknowledged the NRC's pothole campaign before again blaming the previous government for the state of the network. "We're now getting on with addressing the maintenance backlog. We're spending around $2 billion to operate, maintain and renew over 80,000 kilometres of local roads, on top of the over $2 billion we're spending maintaining our state highways."
Freight and drivers: "Your industry is vital to our economy. Road freight accounts for 91% of all freight moved in New Zealand. Freight movements are projected to increase by more than 50% in the next 25 years, and freight volume is predicted to grow by more than 30% over the next decade." The industry would need 2800 drivers a year for the next decade to meet the forecasted growth and currently it was attracting a little under two-thirds that requirement. He said the ministry was progressing work on an update of the heavy-vehicle driver licensing system and improved training.
Green: Discussions had begun with the forum on the future shape of New Zealand's heavy vehicle fleet. In 2015, Twyford said, road freight accounted for 24% of all transport emissions despite accounting for just 7% of kilometres driven. "I've asked the ministry to investigate ways we can support change in the road transport industry towards a clean, green future. They are currently reviewing the viability of electricity, hydrogen and biofuels for heavy vehicles. Each option needs nationwide infrastructure."
Road pricing: Twyford said as New Zealand moves towards electrifying more of its vehicle fleet, the government couldn't rely on petrol excise and RUC to fund vital transport services and infrastructure. "Other countries are increasingly looking to a GPS-based transport pricing system, where people pay for how much they actually use the road by time and space, rather than how much petrol they use." He said officials were investigating a GPS-based transport pricing system here that would include congestion pricing.
Long term: "We have to ask ourselves what kind of industry we want to have in 10 years? In 30? Will it be one that you recommend to your kids? That's an important question given the average age in the industry is 54. We collectively need to look at issues like improving pay and conditions." He questioned the sustainability of the current practice of importing cheap offshore labour rather than firms delivering secure livelihoods for drivers as well as higher safety standards, which all contribute to attracting the next generation of drivers. He offered the opportunity of a collaborative accord between government and industry along the lines of the one with the construction sector. He finished with a commitment from the government to the industry, tackling the long-term issues together, saying neither could solve them alone.
Cameron Bagrie, MD and chief economist, Bagrie Economics
The hand basin, the bathtub or the toilet: three possible scenarios for the future of the New Zealand economy over the next three years. Which will prevail? According to Cameron Bagrie, that all depends on the steps government takes. However, first a global perspective. "Economic fortunes around the globe are not looking that great. At the moment there has not been not too much of an impact on New Zealand – by and large the county's exports are holding together okay."
While the local economy has not been affected too much so far, Bagrie said the New Zealand economy has slowed for other reasons. Government policy uncertainty is one ("they haven't got their act together," said Bagrie); 'short-termism' across industry sectors (maximising profits in the near term at the expense of customers and staff in the long term) is another. He also iterated that a slowdown is not a downturn. "The economy is still growing, just not quickly. Three years ago growth was around 4%; it's now down to 2.1%. That's a little like driving along the open motorway at 70kph – we are still moving from A to B but the journey is a little frustrating." For more broad-based evidence that things are slowing, Bagrie pointed to a simple economic indicator: the number of cars and trucks being bought. The good news, he said, is New Zealanders are buying vehicles. "The bad news is it's at a slow rate. The number of tractors coming into the country is falling, too," he added.
Employment and investment indicators from business are negative, though... "Domestic price inflation is moving up, growth has been slowing. That's putting pressure on margins, which means firms make less money and invest less. When margins and profitability are under pressure and companies are nervous about government policy, they hold back." What about the transport sector? The glass half full view is that it's not as bad as 97/98 or 07/08. "Glass half empty, margins are coming under pressure. Normally a turn in the transport side is a pretty good harbinger to what's going on across the broader economy," Bagrie said, reiterating that 2.1% is still not too bad.
The fact remains, though, that the New Zealand economy has partied pretty hard and is now stuck with the hangover. "What normally turns New Zealand's economic sidewall is the Reserve Bank getting heavy handed – lower interest rates is a good news story for ensuring the economic party can continue." Bagrie said the Reserve Bank governor, Adrian Orr, is trying to get people to spend rather than save. The Reserve Bank might be cutting interest rates, but credit is tougher to get. "For a long time we've been used to talking about the price of money as opposed to its availability – the new normal is the other way round," he said. Regarding government spending, Bagrie said the good news is that the government's been spending a lot of money, which it has needed to do to address massive social and infrastructure issues. However, he warns there's been some 'accounting fudging' going on. "The government is borrowing through crown entities like the NZ Transport Association and Housing New Zealand, shifting it off the balance sheet to say they still have the magical 20% debt target. We're going to hurt from pushing the borrowing through alternative means. We need to think about what New Zealand needs – we need more infrastructure for which we should borrow because it's a long-term asset." It's a game of borrowing from Peter to pay Paul, Bagrie said. "Technically, national land transport funding is up, $2.5 billion.
But this is being pillaged. A lot of the projects that were in the pipeline are either no longer there or being scaled down. The IMF crapped over New Zealand because of our low productivity growth – one of the big things in productivity growth is the efficiency of the roading network. At the moment pet projects are receiving money at the expense of economically enhancing projects." Naturally, rail entered the debate. "In rail – your competitor – there is a $2.3 billion package to deal with rail links, rolling stock, deposits on ferries, and working capital … I think heavy rail needs around $400 million from the government. I wonder whether the money for the ferries will come out of the National Land Transport Fund?" Given the economics behind rail, Bagrie reckons subsidising it for a commuter section, some bulk container transport, and for the golden triangle, can be justified – but not much more. So, where does all this leave New Zealand? In the shallow hand basin, in the deeper bathtub, or down the toilet?
"We're in the bathtub. The bathtub personifies a niggly environment where we're getting growth but of the grumpy variety – sub par and underperforming. But it's not a downturn, there is a plug in the bath. Growth should sit at around 1.5 to 2.5 percent for the next three or so years," he suggested. "But, we need to be open about the challenges we are going to face. You cannot change the DNA of an economy and expect it to grow at a continuous rate overnight. "We know money has been ripped out of the National Land Transport Fund (with regard to roads) to fund debt projects – but it doesn't matter how much government spends; if we don't have a clear plan we're wasting our time," Bagrie concluded.


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Q: .NET Email Processing Advice I cant seem to find a question that is exactly or close to what im looking for so hence why i am writing  a new one.
I need some advice in regards to building a Windows Service that reads an IMAP Server for emails that have been replied to from an initial email that a system i am building sends out.
I am wondering if there is somewhere in the MIME header that i cant store say for example a RequestID from a database record in there, that i am able to reference, so i can automatically get my service to read through all the emals, and allocate the email to the Request that the email was replied from.
Does anyone have any ideas on how i can do this?
I know it is done out there in the ServiceDesk/HelpDesk Industry, just trying to work out my plan of action to get this to work correctly.
Thanks
Robbie

A: I am not sure about changing the header, but its quite common to place a [GUID-STYLE-ID] in the subject of the email to track threads. I guess one could add this to the body, but it might get confusing if people copy-paste from other emails etc.
Also, I am not sure if email clients will modify and possibly replace the actual email headers?

A: The subject line is by far the most reliable field to use for a correlation ID in e-mail, as it will be included by default in replies by most e-mail clients. GUIDS can be a little non-user friendly (not to mention using up valuable space on the subject line). Because you are in control of the original message, all that matters is that you can generate a unique ID with your outgoing message.
If you have multiple senders, your unique Id can be composed of a sender identifier, the time sent, and /or a sequential id. You must be prepared to handle messages that cannot be correlated to the source through at least a manual process.


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