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The Wal-Mart headline you probably missed
Published Tue, Feb 24 201511:53 AM EST
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The world's largest retailer created quite a buzz last week, when it said it would raise the hourly pay for 500,000 employees to $9 an hour in April, followed by an hourly wage increase for current associates to $10 or more in February 2016.
Lost among these headlines, however, was news that could be even more significant for employees, as well as workers across the industry as a whole.
Employee Clara Martinez stocks the shelves at a Walmart store on Feb. 19, 2015, in Miami.
Along with its decision to boost wages, the big-box store said it will offer fixed schedules to some of its associates each week, starting next year. It will also allow employees to sign up for open shifts on a first-come, first-serve basis, and continue to give workers their schedules at least two and a half weeks in advance.
Through these initiatives, experts said Wal-Mart is setting the tone for big changes to retail's employment structure, which could reduce turnover and thereby lower companies' recruiting and training costs. According to Hay Group management consulting firm, scheduling is the No.1 source of dissatisfaction among retail workers.
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"Wal-Mart's an industry mover and people look at what they do," said Charlie DeWitt, vice president of business development for Kronos workforce management firm. "If Wal-Mart says it's good business to invest in your employees, you've got to think that a lot of the rest of the retail industry's going to follow that lead."
Shift of power
Wal-Mart's push toward more flexibility, and more stability, for retail workers directly correlates to the improving labor market, said Ahu Yildirmaz, head of the ADP Research Institute. With the unemployment rate dipping to 5.7 percent in January, and wages that are slowly starting to tick higher, retail employees have more bargaining power than they did during and immediately following the recession, she said.
"Retailers have really understood that it's going to be really hard to compete on base salary," said Maryam Morse, senior principal and retail practice leader at Hay Group. "It's going to be hard to differentiate that way, so what are the things retailers can control?"
Giving employees more control over their schedules, as Wal-Mart is attempting to do by offering fixed schedules, is one option, Morse said.
Still, questions remain as to how the retailer will execute on this promise. Wal-Mart spokesman Kory Lundberg said the company has not yet determined how many workers will qualify for these schedules, though pilot locations are giving longer-term associates first dibs. He added that the number of opportunities for fixed schedules will vary by store and be partly based on volume.
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The big-box store will also continue its practice of giving workers their schedules at least two and a half weeks in advance—which is "very much on the cutting edge," Morse said. Typically, retail workers know their schedules about a week or so in advance, she said.
Read MoreWhy Wal-Mart's pay hike is good news: Analyst
Along with higher wages and its new training program, which Lundberg said is designed to give workers "clearly defined opportunities and choices to develop their career path," Hay predicts Wal-Mart's move will set the tone for the rest of the industry.
"They're hitting on as many of those levers as they can," she said.
Critics not satisfied
Wal-Mart's news, though met with enthusiasm by many, was also doused in heavy criticism by groups such as OUR Walmart. That organization, which campaigns for higher wages at the retailer, said that while it was pleased with to see a pay bump for the Wal-Mart employees, it still isn't enough.
"Especially without a guarantee of getting regular hours, this announcement still falls short of what American workers need to support our families," the organization said in a statement.
That argument is one of the key points raised by Wal-Mart's detractors, who say that pay raises are not sufficient when employees aren't scheduled for enough hours.
A recent study by the Retail Action Project, a group that advocates for workers, found that out of 236 retail employees surveyed, only 40 percent had set minimum hours each week. One-quarter of the respondents said they are scheduled for on-call shifts, and sometimes find out if they're needed only two hours in advance.
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Though it saves money for employers, this practice prevents part-time workers from potentially picking up extra hours at another job. It also makes it challenging for employees to be assured they will receive a steady income.
"Part-time workers need their employers to schedule them for enough hours so that they can earn enough to support themselves," said Janna Pea, spokesperson for the Retail Action Project.
"The bottom line is that even with this long overdue [pay] increase, the women and men who have made Wal-Mart so successful over the years are still struggling to support themselves and their families."
According to Lundberg, fewer than half of Wal-Mart workers are part-time, and none of its workers are on-call. As the largest private employer in the U.S., 1.2 million people work for its Wal-Mart U.S. unit.
Shift away from on-call
Though Kronos' Dewitt said there are still some situations where having on-call workers makes sense, he predicts more retailers will shift away from this practice, regardless of Wal-Mart's initiatives.
"What I suspect is happening in retail … is that retail managers or store managers see the variability in demand, they see the variability in people showing up and they're over-controlling," he said. "They're adding an extra shift when maybe they didn't need to add an extra shift."
His firm conducted six studies across different types of retailers, ranging from big-box stores to fashion specialty shops. In every case except for pharmacy, where a heavy amount of business is driven by prescription pickups, retailers that cut employees or otherwise understaffed their stores lost out on same-store sales growth.
ADP's Yildirmaz added that as the labor market continues to tighten, retail workers will be much less tolerant of unsavory scheduling practices, and instead seek employment elsewhere. As a result, companies that don't compete on these measures stand to face challenges recruiting, and keeping, talent. That, too, will cut down on their bottom line.
"It's not only the hiring costs [businesses face]…. There's a learning curve for the new employees," she said. "You really have to look into how much productivity you're losing."


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The Importance of Maternal-Infant Oral Health
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As the link between maternal and infant oral health becomes more clear, dental hygiene practice must also evolve to reflect this new knowledge.
By Sarah Kay Youny Lee, DDS, MS, FACP and Sarah B. Hoerler, RDH, MS On Dec 19, 2019 0
This course was published in the December 2019 issue and expires December 2022. The authors have no commercial conflicts of interest to disclose. This 2 credit hour self-study activity is electronically mediated.
After reading this course, the participant should be able to:
Explain the relationship of maternal-infant health within the context of oral microbiomes.
Discuss the importance of maternal-infant oral health before, during, and after pregnancy.
Identify how the dental hygienist can support maternal-infant oral health in clinical practice.
The quality of a mother's prenatal oral health has been shown to not only affect fetal growth and development, but also her child's health through infancy, childhood, adolescence, and adulthood.1,2 This mother-infant relationship is complex and dynamic, involving not only genetics and biology but also environmental and social factors. Studies demonstrate that health is determined by the interaction between microbial species within the human body. Microbiomes between a mother and infant are showing associative long-term impacts on the infant's growth and developing health later in life. As this link between maternal and infant oral health evolves, dental hygiene knowledge and practice must also progress to reflect these new developments.
MICROBIOME-BASED UNDERSTANDING
Determinants of health are derived from complex and multidimensional genetic, biological, environmental, and social factors.3 The hereditary and environmental aspects play important and intimately intertwined roles in the development of health.4 Pregnancy and infant growth and development exemplify this process of nature and nurture. In this nature and nurture model, traits are inherited through vertical transmission between mother and infant, whereas horizontal transmission occurs through an individual's environment and learned behaviors.5,6
Just as systemic diseases, such as hypertension and diabetes mellitus, have been linked to adverse birth outcomes, oral diseases can impact pregnancy and fetal health.7,8 Gingivitis and periodontitis, for example, are prevalent forms of disease that have been linked to preterm birth and low birth weight.8,9 These conditions incite extensive inflammatory reactions through mediators, such as lipopolysaccharides and cytokines (Figure 1), that can extend beyond the local periodontium and into the placenta.9 The risk of developing pre-eclampsia, a complication specific to pregnancy that can significantly compromise the health of a mother and fetus, has been shown to increase in mothers with periodontal diseases.10 Although the average gestation period is approximately 40 weeks, the influence of maternal oral health continues after birth because oral health practices and perceptions are environmentally transferred from mother to child.2,3,6,11
FIGURE 1. This image demonstrates a macrophage releasing cytokines, which are inflammation mediators that can extend beyond the local periodontium and into the placenta.
The nature and nurture model of growth and development is also becoming better understood within the context of the human microbiome and health. The human microbiome describes the collection of genomes derived from communities of microbial species—such as bacteria, fungi, and archaea—in various parts of the body that share in complex and dynamic interactions.12,13 Each individual possesses approximately 20,000 genes, but the microbes that inhabit the body outnumber human cells by at least 10-fold.12 The ever-changing interactions between the body and microbes on and within the body determine states of well-being.
The oral cavity consists of its own unique microbiome that reflects these dynamic interactions of microbes that establish health and disease in the individual.14–21 In the oral microbiome, this balancing act is most evident in oral diseases such as gingivitis and dental caries.21 When the microbiological diversity is in symbiotic balance, a state of health is established.20,21 No host immune responses are elicited, nor do alterations of the normal cellular or tissue functions occur. When microbiological diversity is in a dysbiotic state, however, unbalanced interactions between microorganisms result in host immune responses with alterations of normal cellular and tissue functions.20
Pregnancy and birth present the processes that form and establish microbial communities in a new individual.22–24 Prior to birth, the infant's microbiomes are not typically colonized; however, as early as the first 24 hours after birth, the infant's microbiomes show shared species with the mother, which continue to be influenced up to 4 months post-partum.25 The infant's microbiomes can acquire microorganisms through various means (eg, direct transfer of bacteria from the mother and contact with the microbes within the external environment).24 Within the oral cavity, a significant proportion of an infant's oral microbiome is derived from its maternal counterpart.22,24,25
The maternal microbiome has been shown to predicate the types of microbes tolerated by the infant, thereby, the infant's microbiome is reflective of his or her mother's (Figure 2).24 A study investigating mother-to-infant microbial transmission found that while all mothers carried Fusobacterium nucleatum and Campylobacter rectus—two common periodontal pathogens—only the oral microbiomes of children with mothers who were smokers demonstrated the ability for colonization of these microbes.22 Additionally, the infant's exposure to the placental environment of the mother during gestation has been shown to influence the oral microbiome that is acquired, as it shares microorganisms that are found in the mother's microbiome.23,24,26
After gestation, the maternal influence on the infant's emerging oral microbiomes persists. Different types of birth modes influence the infant's oral microbiomes. One study found that Streptococcus mutans were present in infants born via caesarian section approximately 1 year before their vaginally born counterparts.27 The type of feeding that an infant engages can also impact the type of microbes present in the oral cavity. In a study that looked at the oral microbiota of 3-month-old breast-fed infants and formula-fed infants, only those who were breast fed had a species of Lactobacillus that inhibited the colonization of oral Streptococcus.28
Through understanding the development of the infant's oral microbiome and its interrelated nature with the mother's microbiomes, individuals at higher risk for disease can be identified early and more effective preventive and interventional treatments can be developed.24 This capability arises from the knowledge that the interactions between microorganisms and the host (ie, mother or infant) determine the state of health and disease because this interplay is what influences the innate and adaptive immune responses of the host.15,16,21,24,29 When the composition and proportions of microbial species within the mother's oral microbiome favor a dysbiotic state, and those microorganisms are more readily colonized in the infant, then the infant's oral microbiome may be at greater risk for developing disease. Besides genetics, the environmental effect on the oral microbiome, through behaviors like sugar intake and oral hygiene, have been associated with disease-producing effects from the microbiome's microorganisms' interactions and functions.28 Given that the infant's behavioral development has close maternal ties, his or her oral microbiome can be exposed to similar environmental factors.
FIGURE 2. Summary of factors influencing the development of maternal and infant oral microbiomes.
As maternal and infant oral health are linked before, during, and after pregnancy at the microbiological level, providers within the fields of primary care, obstetrics, pediatrics, and oral health share a mutual responsibility in caring for the past, present, and future needs of both mother and infant.7,30,31 Improvement of a mother's oral health before and after pregnancy can lead to meaningful and compounding positive improvements in the ultimate growth and development of an infant as he or she progresses into adulthood.6,32,33 Additionally, poor oral health patterns can persist generationally.2,34
DENTAL CONSIDERATIONS FOR MOTHER AND INFANT
Dental hygienists play a vital role in promoting oral health during conception, pregnancy, and post-partum. Oral health care is safe during the perinatal period and is essential for the health of the developing fetus and mother.35,36 Just as hormonal and physiological changes occur to the body during pregnancy, the oral cavity is impacted as well.37 Pregnancy, in particular, frequently increases the risk of oral health complications. Delaying dental treatment can pose indirect and unnecessary acute risks on the fetus in the event of odontogenic or periodontal infections. After birth, the infant's long-term oral health also relies on continued oral health care. Dental hygiene therapy, appropriate prevention, and disease management can benefit both mother and infant.
Dental hygienists can identify and treat several commonly encountered oral complications that arise during pregnancy. A comprehensive gingival and periodontal oral assessment should be performed to identify any changes to the gingival tissues, as pregnancy gingivitis is one of the most common oral complications during pregnancy, affecting 60% to 75% of all pregnant women.38 It is identified as red, enlarged gingival tissue that bleeds easily and shares the same clinical signs of plaque induced gingivitis. As opposed to being plaque-induced, it is caused from elevated progesterone and estrogen levels in the body.
Granuloma gravidarium, also known as pyogenic granuloma or pregnancy tumor, is another possible pregnancy complication. Although rare, it does present in 0.2% to 9.6% of pregnant women.38,39 Identified as a proliferative red to purple nodular mass extending from the gingival tissue, it typically presents as a single mass that bleeds easily and is most commonly found on the maxillary, anterior interdental papilla.38,39 This type of granuloma usually appears in the second trimester of pregnancy and continues to increase in size until delivery. Although both of these common gingival side effects resolve after birth, dental hygiene intervention through scaling and root planing or dental prophylaxis and oral hygiene instruction may improve these conditions.40
Another possible oral complication during pregnancy is the development of dental caries or changes to the tooth enamel or dentin. These changes may be observed during pregnancy due to the effects of vomiting caused by morning sickness and/or cravings of higher acidic foods and beverages such as sweet treats, citrus fruits, juices, or carbonated beverages.37,38 Dental hygienists can identify vomiting-induced erosion on the lingual surface of the maxillary molars and incisors, whereas changes due to an acidic pH level in the oral cavity have a more generalized effect on all of the dentition. If the mother experiences morning sickness, dental hygienists can instruct the mother to rinse with water following vomiting incidences and avoid brushing for at least an hour to allow the oral cavity pH level to neutralize.
After birth, dental hygienists can continue to care for the mother as well as facilitate care for the infant.11 Anticipatory guidance related to the infant's oral health can be provided by the dental team, especially the dental hygienist, during the perinatal phase.11 This type of counseling includes instruction on when to establish infant oral health care and how to care for the primary and permanent phases of the dentition. The dental hygienist can also participate in risk assessment in relation to dental and periodontal diseases of the infant based on the status of the mother's oral health.
Maternal and infant oral health are intricately linked beyond pregnancy. The establishment and development of oral health occurs at the microbiological level and is now understood to be a dynamic relationship not only between microbes of the oral environment, but also between the microbiomes of the mother and infant. As such, oral health professionals and their clinical practices need to reflect the connected nature between mother and infant. The dental hygienist is a key component to caring for the past, present, and future needs of the mother and infant.
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Shearer DM, Thomson WM, Broadbent JM, Poulton R. Maternal oral health predicts their children's caries experience in adulthood. J Dent Res. 2011;90:672–677.
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The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists. Committee Opinion. Available at: acog.org/Clinical-Guidance-and-Publications/Committee-Opinions/Committee-on-Health-Care-for-Underserved-Women/Oral-Health-Care-During-Pregnancy-and-Through-the-Lifespan?IsMobileSet=false. Accessed November 23, 2019.
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From Dimensions of Dental Hygiene. December 2019;17(11):26–29.
Sarah Kay Youny Lee, DDS, MS, FACP
Sarah Kay Youny Lee, DDS, MS, FACP, is a board-certified maxillofacial prosthodontist in the Department of Dental Specialties, Division of Esthetic and Prosthetic Dentistry and associate program director of the Advanced Education in Graduate Prosthodontics at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester. Her clinical and research interests include oral microbiomes and multidisciplinary oral reconstruction and rehabilitation. Lee can be reached at: [email protected].
Sarah B. Hoerler, RDH, MS
Sarah B. Hoerler, RDH, MS, is a practicing dental hygienist in the Department of Dental Specialties, Division of Periodontics at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, and a community faculty member in the Department of Dental Hygiene at Metropolitan State University in Minneapolis, Minnesota. She has 16 years of clinical experience and has focused her research efforts on the oral healthcare of pregnant women and implant survival and/or pathology in relationship to consistency of dental hygiene therapy. Hoerler can be reached at: [email protected].
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Troopers investigate fatal three-vehicle crash in the town of Antwerp
ANTWERP, NY — State Police is investigating a three-vehicle crash that occurred on State Route 11 in the town of Antwerp.
The investigation has revealed, at approximately 8:26 a.m., a (Fed Ex delivery truck), operated by Stephen T. Kautz,43, Evans Mills, NY, was traveling northbound on State Route 11 in the town of Antwerp when he failed to observe a 2020 Jeep, operated by 58-year-old Tina Marie Stevens stopped in the northbound lane waiting to make a left turn into a driveway and struck the rear of the Jeep causing the vehicle to be pushed into the southbound lane where it was struck by 2020 GMC SUV operated by Sheree L. Cook, 52, Philadelphia, NY. The Jeep then overturns coming to rest on the west shoulder of the roadway, troopers said.
Stephen T. Kautz was transported to Samaritan Medical Center with non-life-threatening injuries.
Tina M. Stevens was transported by ambulance and went into cardiac arrest as they arrived at Samaritan Medical Center. She was subsequently pronounced deceased after life-saving measures were unsuccessful. An autopsy will be performed by the Jefferson County Medical Examiners office to determine the official cause of death.
Sheree L. Cook was transported to Samaritan Medical Center for non-life-threatening injuries.
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Get out your trusty hot glue gun and start gluing the leaves on the felt. You can put them all in the same direction, or do it in a haphazard way.
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And you're done. Easy right? Gemma said she likes how it looks in her hair – so do I! She's such a cute little model.
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2021 Oscars Face Backlash for Snubbing Chadwick Boseman in Best Actor Category
The final moments of the 2021 Oscars ceremony left plenty of viewers confused and even upset.
Breaking with tradition, the Best Picture category was announced as the third-to-last prize of the night on Sunday, April 25, despite having been presented as the final award for many years running. This led some viewers and analysts to speculate that the ceremony's producers were purposely saving Best Actor as the last category, with the assumption that Chadwick Boseman would receive a posthumous win for his role in Ma Rainey's Black Bottom.
However, that's not how the show ending up playing out. After Nomadland was crowned Best Picture and Frances McDormand won Best Actress for her role as Fern in the same film, some viewers were stunned when Anthony Hopkins was named Best Actor for his role in The Father. Because Hopkins was not in attendance, presenter Joaquin Phoenix abruptly ended the ceremony right there.
"anthony was phenomenal," one Twitter user posted. "good for him truly. but how are you gonna 1) speed the absolute f–k out of the in memoriam segment and 2) switch up the order of the awards to make your audience think you're gonna give chadwick some sort of tribute and then just……. not. feels cruel."
This article was originally published by Eonline.com. Read the original article here.
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The Adelaide Oval is home to both South Australian AFL footbal teams, the Power and the Crows, it is also home to world class cricket matches, concerts, soccer and a huge number of other events.
Large shopping mall with everything from Event Cinemas to Bowling to David Jones, Kmart, Woolworths, gourmet cheese mongers, bakers, butchers, fruit stands, watch repairers and so much more.
Yum. The squid is exceptional but so is the coffee and everything else.
The Seacliff Hotel boast some of the best sunset dinners in town. Located next to the sea, this is a popular place for weddings, living music on the weekends, a game of pool or a perfect spot for a drink overlooking the sea.
Brighton Railway Station is a short, level 500-600m walk from the property offering easy access to the city and southern areas.
Port Noarlunga is a great spot from sunrise to sunset no matter the season. Great coffee shops and restaurants to snorkeling and scuba on the reef, fishing off the jetty, surfing along South Port or kayaking, fishing or SUPing on the Onkaparinga and in the waves and more.
The Seacliff Surf Life Saving Club is a great place for a meal and a sunset but they are also Australia's first wheelchair accessible beach. They have an amazing rollout ramp that is deployed in the summer when the tower is open that rolls out to the edge of the water. This is a great way for wheelchairs and strollers to access the beach.
Classic original movie theatre from a bygone era first opened in 1925, offering 2 movies per session.


I just bought it the other night; my brother usually buys them but he wasn't interested in this one so I took the deal.
All it costs is $1 to get this deal. IF you decide to pay the average price however, which right now is at $5.68, you also get SAINTS ROW THE THIRD!!! That's actually the game that I bought this thing for. I paid the average, which at the time was $5.72.
WITH this stuff you also get the Original Soundtracks for Saints Row, Darksiders, and Red Faction, and two Company of Heroes soundtracks whose names don't match up with the games but I can tell you one of them is from the original Company of Heroes.
This deal is going until December 12th at 7:00 PM Eastern / 6:00 PM Central!!!


Today I realized that I am going to Orlando this weekend and that more than half of my clothes is coming with me! I plan on giving my brother a suitcase in Orlando filled with my clothes, shoes, and purses so that he can start taking them back to Panama (I move back to Panama in December).
Bold tights out of nowhere!
Featured on Hypeed's online magazine!
It doesn't get much girlier than this!


My two-year term at St. John's College's Graduate Institute was the most important part of my life. During my recent trip back to Annapolis, I sat down with outgoing president Christopher Nelson to talk about lessons learned during his 26-year tenure, the books that guided him to the college, the ones he returns to, and the ones that gave him the most trouble as an undergrad, what he'll miss and what he hopes to do next, his key advice for his successor, and more! Give it a listen!
Christopher B. Nelson has been president of St. John's College in Annapolis, MD, since June 1991. He is an alumnus of St. John's (B.A. 1970) and a graduate of the University of Utah College of Law (J.D. 1973), where he founded and directed the university's student legal services program. He practiced law in Chicago for 18 years and was chairman of his law firm when he left the practice to take his current position at St. John's College. Christopher Nelson is a national spokesperson for the liberal arts, participating actively in the national conversation about higher education. Frequently a panelist and speaker on state, regional, and national programs, he has addressed issues of institutional autonomy in the face of government regulatory intrusion and changes proposed in the accrediting system. His current focus is making clear the value of liberal education – in providing excellent grounding for career and professional development and, most importantly, for an open-minded pursuit of lifelong learning.
Credits: This episode's music is Nothing's Gonna Bring Me Down by David Baerwald, used with permission of the artist. The conversation was recorded at the office of Christopher Nelson at the Annapolis campus of St. John's College on a pair of Blue enCORE 200 Microphones feeding into a Zoom H5 digital recorder. I recorded the intro and outro on a Blue enCORE 200 Microphone feeding into a Mackie Onyx Blackjack 2×2 USB Recording Interface . Processing was done in Audacity and Logic Pro. B/w photo of President Nelson by me. Photo of Annapolis campus by me.


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Bruce Gilbert: Still tracking for the album with most parts now finished, we will be adding some backing vocals and a few other things in the next couple of weeks, mixing will then get underway.
Mark Edwards: Was visiting from Sweden for a few days so we tracked all remaining vocals and my bass parts. Mark is now back in Sweden so I will be mixing and sending him files of the finished album. The album has been a slow process due to Mark moving to Sweden to take up a new job which slowed recording to a crawl, but the end is now in sight.
Lena Traikovska: I have been recording singing students of Lena Traikovska, they are recording demos so that they can apply for positions, for family and friends, or just to have a record of how they are going generally.
Bruce Gilbert: We are currently working on Bruce's album which has been developing along the way. I have been playing bass and keys on the album, and Les Karski has been adding some guitar. A very interesting album of cross cultures.
MSJ: Have been in recording songs fro the end of year concert, worked a couple of long nights and a day but all finished ready for the show.
Neil Simpson: recorded vocals for a forthcoming album which Neil is putting together at home. We will mix the album in the future.
Dance Central: Edited various backing tracks into a live show production backing track for dance.
Benefit for Chris Wilson, (multi band gig).
The Jook Joint Band plus supports.
Fremantle Foundation: The end of year Impact 100 presentations night where a charity is awarded funding from money raised. My donation is doing the presentation production for free. A worthy cause.
Portuguese Club: Mixed a Fado night with a live band and lots of guest vocalists.
Last week I mixed the live sound for 2 shows by British / Porugese musician Nessi Gomes at the Fibonacci centre in Fremantle. great night and Nessi is a pleasure to work with.
The new single Thunderman has been recorded, Mixed and sent off to the US for mastering by Mark Hallman.
Bruce Gilbert - Over the last few weeks we have been working on an Album project, recording guide tracks and final tracks for various songs.
Urban Cowboy - is back in the studio recording the new single Thunderman. Drums have been tracked and some guitars at this stage.
I thought I would update what I have been doing through December and January.
I recorded cover band Deaf Panda, they wanted a CD for Family and Fans and also a recording for prosperity. There were 11 songs which were recorded live in the studio and we then recorded a few small overdubs to finish it off. This was all done in 2 sessions in December and 2 more in January.
I have been doing my regular Wednesday nights at the Gaslight Club in the basement of the Fly By Night club.
I also mixed 2 great shows for the Fremantle Fenians Festival, a Thursday night at the Martine Museum for Declan O'Rourke and a Friday night for Lucky Oceans & his Gaelic Gumbo Band on the Kidogo Arthouse Lawn, both gigs were sellouts.
I also mixed in the Fly By Night main room last Saturday for the Mike Burns Fundraiser. A who's Who lineup and where in the last set the whole lineup was on stage at the same time!
In December I played 2 gigs with Jim Fisher & the Hamilton Hillbillies, and gig with the Suntones, and 2 Gigs with Empire Blues.
January it was 2 Gigs with Empire Blues (on the same day), and a gig with Bluegum (or Gluebum as we like to call it LOL).
MSJ have been in the studio several times over the last few months recording tracks for live shows.
John came into the studio so we could review the mix of a project he had recorded at home, shortly I will be mastering the album.
Graham Schultz: This project is near completion with only a small adjustment to one track and the mastering.
Mark Edwards: Is returning for a couple of weeks so we are taking the chance to record some more material towards the album.
Dance Central: I edited and prepared the sound tracks for their Dance spectacular.
MSJ Productions: We are recording tonight and in 2 weeks time for the next stage show.
Live Mixing: Still at the Gaslight club each week.
Radio Show: Monday nights 6pm to 9pm Radio Fremantle 107.9fm, only WA music.
My Birthday Bash: What a big night at at Fly By Night Club, here is a short video of some of the highlights / acts on the night, link.
Graham Schultz: The album project has grown a bit since we started with more new songs and some rework of the existing songs, but we are getting near to completion.
Mark Edwards: This project is on hold as Mark is away working overseas, when he returns later in the year we are back to recording.
Carlo Monaco: Carlo recorded an album of opera with me a few years ago, he was back to the studio for me to put together some backing tracks of music so that he could perform some live shows (hard to run around with an orchestra), a bit of editing and some key change work involved.
Live sound: I am still mixing live sound at the Gaslight Club every Wednesday, there are great acts turning up every week, with a lot of bands embracing the more un-plugged acoustic nature of the gig and the fact that there is an audience that listens.
Playing Live: Empire Blues have been a little quiet lately but I have been playing with a few other acts, St Patricks day was a gig to remember as I played with The Rouges, who are a "The Pogues" tribute band. I was standing in for regular bass player Phil Bailey who was away on tour.
Radio Show: Don't forget my weekly radio show every Monday 6pm to 9pm, "The Twilight Zone" I only play local West Australian music, you can listen on line if you are interstate or overseas.
I realised that it's been a while since I posted on the site, so an update of what I am up to.
Graham Schultz: The project is back on track, Graham experienced a failure of his recording gear and has been waiting for the warranty replacement to come through, which it finally has, so we mixed a few more tracks last week.
George Ghasseb: tracked some guides for a CD project, but now his uni studies are in the way so hopefully the project will carry on at a later date.
The Urban Cowboy: We have been working on a new single, but due to everyones commitments and availability the project missed the release deadline, hopefully it can be finished off at a later date.
Mark Edwards: We have started tracking a new album with Mark Edwards, we can't believe it has been 10 years since we recorded the last album!
Me as a sound engineer: As well as the studio work I have been doing some live mixing around the place, mostly every Wednesday at the Gaslight Club (in the Fly Trap), and the Fly by Night Club, see whats on at these venues via the Fly By Night site.
Me as Musician: Been doing some great gigs with Empire Blues, also occasionally standing in on Bass with Lez Karski, and some bush band gigs on upright Bass with Bluegum.
Graham can into the studio to mix a recording he did at home. The project was recorded on a Tascam DP32 and the files exported to a USB stick. I mixed this project on the computer as transferring the files to my MX2424 and mixing in analog would have been more time consuming.
The Mix worked out well, Graham had done a good job of recording and the mix can together quickly.
Update: after listening to the finished song Graham re-recorded the vocals and some guitar and this replaced the old takes in the mix and the song was finished. We then went on to mix a second song.
I don't usually post about my band Empire Blues, but last weekend we played 3 shows at the Blues At Bridgetown festival. Great fun, and received very well by the large crowds. I did suffer a little festival throat by the Sunday show but I just sounded more Bluesy LOL.
Sally was back in the studio recording a new CD this week. As Sally is used to busking we always record the performance completely live and as such we often record the whole album in a 10 hour day. This album has 12 songs and we finished the recording and mixing on the Saturday, I popped back to the studio Sunday and did the mastering, the CD is now ready for production.


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It's the Prices, Stupid.
By Richard Kirsch /New Deal 2.0
Republican plans that shift costs to consumers completely misunderstand the United States' health care system.
Yesterday, Speaker Boehner issued what Robert Bob Borosage of Campaign for America's Future correctly labeled extortion: "Give us trillions in cuts in Medicare and Medicaid or we blow up the economy." Boehner's threat to tie the lifting of the debt ceiling to trillions of cuts in spending would force huge cuts in Medicare and Medicaid.
Actually, there are no health care cost savings in the Ryan-Boehner budget, just cost shifts. The Ryan budget cuts Medicare by shifting more than $6,000 a year to each senior who benefits from it. It shifts Medicaid costs to state taxpayers by cutting federal funding to states for the program.
While the extremes of the Ryan-Boehner budget have been widely decried, the underlying assumption behind their Medicare privatization plan is too often accepted by a broad array of health policy advisers. The Ryan budget assumes that the problem with health costs is that consumers don't pay enough out of pocket for care and that plans are too generous. Unfortunately, that's also been the view of some Democratic health policy advisers. White House officials backed the taxation of higher cost health plans in the Affordable Care Act (ACA), and others like former Clinton OMB Director Alice Rivlin support a less draconian version of Medicare privatization.
But the reason that health care costs so much in the United States is not that we consume too much health care; it's that we pay too much for what we consume.* As Uwe Reinhardt and three other health economists summarized succinctly after comparing the prices we pay and the amount of health care we use in the United States with other developed countries, "It's the prices, stupid."
For example, we make one-third fewer doctor visits a year than people in other countries but we pay an average of $59 for an office visit, compared with $31 in France. Our doctors make a lot more money than their colleagues in other countries. Adjusting pay across countries by purchasing power, U.S. doctors get paid about two times as much as in others. A Congressional Research Service analysis found that specialists in the United States are paid about $50,000 a year more than would be predicted, even considering the higher level of wealth in the United States.
We go to the hospital a lot less, too, and when we're there we don't stay as long. But we pay a lot more. The average hospital stay costs us $3,181, compared with $837 in Canada. We do get a lot more MRIs in the United States, more than twice as much as other countries, and we also pay a lot more for each scan: an average of $1,200 compared to $839 in Germany. And as everyone knows, the price of brand-name prescription drugs is much higher in the United States than other countries.
Why do we pay so much more for the same product? The biggest reason is that other countries understand that health care is a public good, not a commodity. Markets can't control health care prices, since it is health care providers who decide what care is delivered. When providers determine both demand and supply, market economics don't apply.
Even in the United States, with all the political pressure from the doctor, hospital, and drug lobbies, we can see how a public insurance entity does a better job of controlling prices than private insurance. Medicare sets prices and pays $500 for an MRI, less than half the $1,200 U.S. average. Even with its older patients, Medicare pays $2,200 for an average hospital stay, almost 50% less than the U.S. average.
Private insurance companies not only fail to control prices, they add costs. The private insurance companies that Ryan wants to hand Medicare over to are the primary reason that we spend more than four times as much on administrative and insurance costs in the United States as other countries.
Which brings us to another market-driven argument that underlies the Ryan proposal and other conservative nostrums for controlling health care costs: that because Americans have insurance they are not prudent purchasers of health coverage. Again, the international comparison should put this to rest, as in all those other countries with much lower health spending everyone is fully covered. In these countries, the only prudent purchaser is the government, which is responsible for getting lower prices. As it is, the amount that Americans pay out-of-pocket for health care is already a lot more than consumers in other developed countries, even accounting for our higher incomes.
The Obama budget plan begins to address the root causes of high health care costs by increasing the authority of a new public entity designed to control what Medicare pays for health care. The President contrasted his budget approach with that of the Republican budget in his April 13th budget address at George Washington University, saying: "Their plan essentially lowers the government's health care bills by asking seniors and poor families to pay them instead. Our approach lowers the government's health care bills by reducing the cost of health care itself."
The centerpiece of Obama's plan to control Medicare costs is to add additional powers to a new body established under the ACA called the Independent Payment Advisory Board (IPAB). The IBAP will function as a kind of military base closing commission for Medicare. If the growth in Medicare costs exceeds a target amount, then it would institute cost control measures that would go into effect unless Congress intervened. Since cutting eligibility and benefits are not part of the IPAB mandate, cost savings would have to come from the actual drivers of cost: the prices paid for services and the way health care services are delivered.
Obama's budget proposal would strengthen the IPAB's current authority, although the details of how to do that have not yet been specified. As you can imagine, it is already a target of attack from health care providers who are finding a sympathetic ear among both Republicans and Democrats in Congress. It's also a favorite target of the right, which calls it "Obama's death panel."
The battle being fought over Medicare is, like every other economic issue that faces the nation, a matter of power and a test of our democracy. We can control health care costs and improve the quality of care by addressing the root causes: our market-driven health care system pays too much for care and rewards quantity over quality. But changing the way we finance and pay for health care will mean putting the interest of consumers over the power of the industry lobby. For the doctors, hospitals, drug companies, medical device manufacturers and insurance companies, a dollar saved is a dollar lost in revenue.
The firestorm of popular opposition to the Ryan Medicare plan is because he chose to side with industry over seniors. But with Boehner threatening to hold the economy hostage, and a health industry that has enormous lobbying clout, the future of our nation's national health insurance system for seniors and the disabled remains in grave doubt.
Richard Kirsch is a Senior Fellow at the Roosevelt Institute, whose book on the campaign to win reform will be published in 2012. He was National Campaign Manager of Health Care for America Now during the legislative battle to pass reform.
*In 2000 the United States spent considerably more on health care than any other country, whether measured per capita or as a percentage of GDP. At the same time, most measures of aggregate utilization such as physician visits per capita and hospital days per capita were below the OECD median. Since spending is a product of both the goods and services used and their prices, this implies that much higher prices are paid in the United States than in other countries. But U.S. policymakers need to reflect on what Americans are getting for their greater health spending. They could conclude: It's the prices, stupid. ~ HealthAffairs.org


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Steven was California Dreamin' for this March fashion feature.
Shot on location at the Austin Motel.
Texas sizzles in the sunshine, hmmmm?
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Sisterbrother folks are littered throughout the April 2014 DHome Magazine. Lots of great work from our photography and styling departments!


Once again, our alumni have done us incredibly proud. Altogether 26 films by 41 former Talents will screen at the Cannes Film Festival this week. Best of luck to you all!
Showing in Competition are 120 Beats per Minute, starring Yves Heck; Jupiter's Moon, directed by Kornél Mundruczó, produced by Viktória Petrányi and lensed by Marcell Rév; and The Square, edited by Jacob Secher Schulsinger. The Un Certain Regard section will present After the War, directed by Annarita Zambrano and written by Delphine Agut, and The Summit, produced by Matías Mosteirín. The Short Film Competition will include A Drowning Man by director Mahdi Fleifel, Damiana by director Andrés Ramírez Pulido, A Gentle Night, edited by Carlo Francisco Manatad, and The Ceiling, edited by Jussi Rautaniemi.
The Critics' Week will show special screenings of Sicilian Ghost Story, co-directed by Antonio Piazza, and of Bad Bunny, directed by Carlos Conceição and produced by Joana Gusmão and Pedro Fernandes Duarte. Feature films will include La Familia, which was directed by Gustavo Rondón Córdova and presented at our Talent Project Market in 2014; Gabriel and the Mountain, directed by Fellipe Barbosa, produced by Yohann Cornu and written by Kirill Mikhanovsky; and Los Perros, co-produced by Maximilian Leo and Benjamin Domenech. Several shorts will also be competing: Los Desheredados, produced by Valerie Delpierre; Jodilerks Dela Cruz, Employee of the Month, directed by Carlo Francisco Manatad, produced by Armi Rae Cacanindin and edited by Lee Chatametikool; Real Gods Require Blood, produced by Michelle Eastwood; and Tesla: Lumière Mondiale, directed by Matthew Rankin and with costume design by Becca Blackwood.
The Directors' Fortnight will feature five alumni films: A Ciambra by Jonas Carpignano, Cuori Puri by Roberto De Paolis, I Am Not A Witch by Rungano Nyoni (funded by the Berlinale's World Cinema Fund), Mobile Homes by Vladimir de Fontenay, and The Rider, produced by Mollye Asher. The ACID programme will showcase three alumni films: Humidity, starring Slaven Doslo, produced by Natasa Damnjanovic and co-produced by Derk-Jan Warrink; Scaffolding, starring Keren Berger and produced by Gal Greenspan; and the short A Handful of Stones, produced by Mina Djukic and edited by Milena Petrovic and Dragan Petrovic.
Finally, five directors have been selected to present their projects at the Cinéfondation Atelier: Ruxandra Ghitescu with Otto the Barbarian, Firas Khoury with Alam, Pham Ngoc Lan with Cu Li Never Cries, Kamar Ahmad Simon with Day After Tomorrow and Chen-Hsi Wong with City of Small Blessings.
We mourn the loss of legendary German cinematographer Michael Ballhaus, who passed away on April 12, 2017. A frequent collaborator of Rainer Werner Fassbinder and Martin Scorsese, he was perhaps best known for his signature 360-degree tracking shots and received Academy Award nominations for Broadcast News (1987), The Fabulous Baker Boys (1989) and Gangs of New York (2002).
In 1990, Michael Ballhaus served as the president of the Berlinale's International Jury, and in 2016 he received an Honorary Golden Bear. That same year, he gave a talk at Berlinale Talents, which you can revisit here. Read the official festival statement, in which Berlinale Director Dieter Kosslick remembers Ballhaus as "a great artist, a wonderful person and a longtime friend," here.
From April 18-22, the 12th edition of Talents Buenos Aires brought together 66 participants from 10 South American countries to explore "The State of Things" in a series of master classes, case studies, project labs, screenings and networking events.
Held at the Universidad del Cine during the Buenos Aires International Festival of Independent Cinema (BAFICI), programme highlights included master classes by Brazilian documentarian João Moreira Salles and Italian director Nanni Moretti. There were new interactive formats this year, such as individual "One by One" sessions, in which participants presented their work to their fellow Talents, leading to lively discussions about stylistic questions and upcoming projects.
And for the first time, Talent Press participants gathered their film criticism and festival impressions on a new blog, which will be updated throughout the year. Have a look at their work (in Spanish).
Submissions are now open until June 15 for the next edition of Talents Tokyo, to be held from November 20-25, 2017 during the TOKYO FILMeX Film Festival. The initiative is open to directors and producers from East Asian and Southeast Asian countries.
The upcoming edition will once again include the Next Masters Support Program, which is specifically aimed at Talents Tokyo alumni. It provides a Project Development Fund (to support script writing, research, casting and location scouting) as well as an International Promotion Fund (to enable festival participation, subtitling and PR efforts). In addition, a Fellowship Program allows alumni to participate in international project markets (covering airfare and registration fees).
This year, two past Next Masters Support Program winners will show their films in Cannes. Indonesian director Mouly Surya's third feature Marlina the Murderer in Four Acts will have its world premiere at the Directors' Fortnight, while Japanese director Atsuko Hirayanagi's debut feature Oh Lucy! will screen in the Critics' Week. Congratulations!
Find out how to apply for Talents Tokyo here.
In this day and age, a flourishing press is more important than ever. The Talent Press initiative brings together and encourages emerging film journalists at six different festivals around the world. The next opportunity to join is here: Portuguese-speaking film critics can apply for Talent Press Rio by June 11. Applications for the Talent Press section in Berlin open again on July 3.
Talent Press offers annual workshops in Berlin, Buenos Aires, Durban, Guadalajara, Sarajevo and Rio de Janeiro. Participants get the chance to network, receive mentorship from seasoned critics, hone their writing and meet filmmakers from a wide array of disciplines. Their work is published on a dedicated website and on those of our partners, FIPRESCI and the Goethe-Institut. Peruse their latest reports from Buenos Aires, Guadalajara and Berlin here.
As always, thank you for reading. Send us your alumni success stories or your comments and suggestions to talents@berlinale.de. Have a fantastic summer!


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India Losing Patience With Rajapaksa
By R Hariharan –
Col. (retd) R.Hariharan
President Mahinda Rajapaksa is well known for wrongly timing his foreign visits. In the past his India visits were more successful than his European sojourns because they were diplomatically 'tenderized' in advance to avoid any embarrassment to the President. His two-day 'pilgrimage' trip, with an entourage of 70, to Tirupati and Gaya after a stopover at Chennai that ended on February 8, 2013, 'pilgrimate' visit was also probably tenderized in advance. But this time, it completely failed for two reasons.
The first was the unusually strong and well orchestrated protests organized across India against his visit over allegations of war crimes and genocide. For some time now, Rajapaksa's hardening stand on the ethnic issue, coupled with the increasingly authoritarian style of functioning has not endeared him to the minorities. Increasing anti-minority activities of Sinhala chauvinist elements particularly against anti-Muslim activities have added to their nervousness. Collectively these developments offered a wonderful opportunity to anti-Rajapaksa and pro-Eelam lobbies in Dravidian parties of different alphabetical prefixes in India to raise their voices against his visit in high decibel.
The significance of the Communists as well as the as the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) backing the anti-Rajapaksa protests should not be missed. In a belated move, the Congress party also added its bit to this sentiment. Perhaps for the first time, nearly all political parties seem to be realizing the importance of the issue at the national level.
The second was the President's statement ruling out autonomy to Tamils three days before his visit which enabled anti-Rajapaksa protestors to gleefully point out "we told you so." This ill timed statement beefed up the protestors.
Clearly New Delhi was extremely uncomfortable with Rajapaksa's visit particularly after he ruled out granting any political autonomy to Tamils of the North to resolve the political gridlock over devolution of powers in his independence day speech at Trincomalee on February 5. He said, "It is not practical for this country to have different administrations based on ethnicity. The solution is to live together in this country with equal rights for all communities."
This statement ripped off the last vestige of credibility in New Delhi's Sri Lanka policy. Implementation of the 13th amendment in full as promised by him had been the only hope for New Delhi's ruling coalition to save its face so far. It not only to kept its Dravidian partner DMK satisfied, but also saved a bit of Congress leaders' reputation already tarnished in Tamil Nadu. The Congress party was not amused by Rajapaksa's statement; this was evident from the Congress President Ms Sonia Gandhi's January 30, 2013 reply to DMK leader Karunanidhi's letter on the failure of Rajapaksa to live up to his promises. She said: "I share your concern regarding the disturbing developments in Sri Lanka vis-a-vis the Tamils. I shall take up the matter with the Minister of External Affairs (Salman Khurshid)."
So it was not surprising that Manish Tiwari, Union Minister for Information and Broadcasting, made an unusual comment on the anti-Rajapaksa protests on the day of the President ended his visit. He said "We understand the sensitivities which are involved with regard to the issue of Sri Lankan Tamils, especially in Tamil Nadu. We are absolutely in sync with some of the concerns which have been articulated…"
His further noted that India had walked the 'extra mile' at the United Nations Human Rights Commission (backing a resolution against Sri Lanka) and engagement with Colombo "in no way means that we are insensitive or we tend to undermine the concerns, which a section of the population of India, may legitimately have."
Not to be outdone, V Narayanaswamy, Prime Minister's points man and Minister of State in the PMO, did not mince his words on India's likely stand at the forthcoming UNHRC session on the issue of Sri Lanka's accountability. He said:"When the UN brought forward a resolution against Sri Lanka, India voted for it. If UN's recommendations are not honoured by Sri Lanka, India will support any resolution brought by it against the island nation."
President Rajapaksa invariably met with the Indian Prime Minister 'informally' during his non-official visits in the past. Prof GL Peiris, Sri Lanka minister for external affairs, met with Indian Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh when he was in New Delhi to attend the 8th India-Sri Lanka Joint Consultative Commission (JCM) meeting on January 22, 2013.
Sri Lanka needs India's support during the forthcoming session of the UN Human Rights Commission in Geneva in March 2013. It cannot afford to take India's support for granted anymore after it "betrayed" (as some of my Sri Lankan establishment friends termed it) and voted for the U.S. resolution seeking accountability from Sri Lanka. In this context, an informal meeting with the Indian Prime Minister would have been useful to Rajapaksa to put across Sri Lanka's case for support.
So it would be reasonable to assume that Prof Peiris probably tried to arrange such a meeting when he met Dr Manmohan Singh. We do not know whether he did so. But such a meeting never came through because Rajapaksa neither visited New Delhi nor met anyone of importance except Alok Joshi, the chief of the Research and Analysis Wing who called upon him at Tirupati after Rajapaksa's Darshan of Balaji. So either Rajapaksa's visit was intended only as a pilgrimage or New Delhi wanted to send a clear signal to Rajapaksa of its growing disillusionment with him.
Three senior U.S. officials – Deputy Assistant Secretary of State James Moore, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense Vikram Singh, and Deputy Assistant Secretary of State Jane Zimmerman – visiting Colombo last month to assess the progress made by Sri Lanka on implementing the LLRC recommendations. At the end of it they gave notice that a 'procedural resolution' aimed at "pushing Sri Lanka" to address human rights concerns would be submitted at the next UNHRC meeting. This has set the dovecotes of power in Colombo in a tizzy.
If we go by the comments of the American visitors it looks doubtful whether Sri Lanka would be pushed to the wall. They said, "Certainly we have seen progress in infrastructure development, demining, rehabilitation and the release of former combatants. However there are still families who feel that their loved ones are being held somewhere. There is a desire for accountability with regards to extra judicial killings. Therefore there is a need for accelerated implementation."
Last month the visiting British Foreign and Commonwealth Office Minister for South Asia Alistair Burt had also expressed similar assessment of the work in progress in Sri Lanka's post war recovery. He said that he was pleased to see the post-war recovery process in Sri Lanka, though challenges remained.
These comments are almost the same as those made before the last UNHRC meeting when the U.S. sponsored resolution was passed. However, this time around the U.S. and British statements would indicate they would not go beyond what was done at the last UNHRC. So for all practical purposes the U.S. 'procedural resolution' would probably be a tepid one, reiterating all that was said earlier giving Sri Lanka yet another opportunity to save its face by buying time.
Can India accept this situation in an increasingly embarrassing political atmosphere in which it has been placed by President Rajapaksa?
The political logjam building up in Tamil Nadu over New Delhi's passive response in the past is unlikely to allow New Delhi to continue with business as usual as far as Sri Lanka is concerned. So New Delhi will have to take a nuanced approach in handling Rajapaksa.
Under eight years of President Rajapaksa's leadership Sri Lanka is full of 'mores'. It has become more inward looking, more authoritarian, more worried about the dead LTTE rising up again and more paranoid about foreign influence threatening its freedom. On the whole, the country looks less confident of itself and the leader less sure than they were when they went to war against the LTTE.
The reason for this mess is simple. Rajapaksa is one of those political leaders who thrive on conflict situations because they see themselves as the slayer of the dragon on a white horse. A man blessed with uncanny ability for political manoeuvres enjoying nationwide popularity in the wake of his military victory, he could have helped Sri Lanka become a free, happy and peaceful democracy where the majority and minority worked together. But he has chosen to be different. An oligarchy is being positioned to rule the country with key reins of power in the hands of his immediate family. He is supported by a political class that respects only power and not propriety or people.
As a result Sri Lanka has become a land of contradictions. Pious affirmation to the Constitution goes hand in hand with the ditching of constitutional amendments to ensure transparency and integrity. Talks of freeing the people from the tyranny of Tamil Tiger terrorism goes on even as goons intimidate opponents and media staff. Rule of law is quoted even the highest officer of judiciary is impeached through a suspect process. Political horse trading has been replaced by political killings as criminalization politics has gained upper hand.
So subtle back room persuasions adopted by India so far are unlikely make headway anymore. It would be better for India to spell out in unambiguous terms its increasing concerns at the way things are being done in Sri Lanka.
For starters such a statement made at the highest level should include:
Non implementation the 13th amendment in full as promised, although it is still figures in the Constitution. Remind Sri Lanka that it is imperative to do so as it forms part of the Indo-Sri Lanka Agreement which is still in force.
Expression of India's concern at the slow progress made in implementing rehabilitation projects financed by India in war ravaged areas to speed up the process.
Expression of India's serious concern at Sri Lanka's tardy and selective implementation of the LLRC recommendations which could affect India's tradition support to Sri Lanka at UN forums.
Need for adopting non-discriminative trade practices on Indian business to enable the Indo-Sri Lanka Free Trade Agreement to encourage further Indian investments with an assurance to improve facilitation for such a growth at the Indian end.
Kick start the stalled political reconciliation process with Tamils by evolving a game plan with a clear schedule of action. Emphasize India's readiness to assist in this respect.
Then only Rajapaksa would understand that New Delhi has ended its futile exercise of running with horses and hunting with hounds on complex issues affecting India-Sri Lanka relations which are getting out of hand. And the people on both sides of Palk Strait would understand that India means action now and refuses to be a pushover anymore.
Of course, the $64 question is would India do it? Should not the national parties take it up rather than leaving it to Dravidian parties to keep the limelight on this issue?
*Col R Hariharan, a retired Military Intelligence specialist on South Asia, is associated with the Chennai Centre for China Studies and the South Asia Analysis Group. E-Mail: colhari@yahoo.com Blog: www.colhariharan.org
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Dinuk / February 13, 2013
General, please explain why India is insisting on building a Coal Power plant in Trincomalee District on land grabbed from Displaced Tamils – if it is so concerned about human rights of Tamils in Lanka?! No one in Lanka wants this plant which will be an ENVIRONMENTAL and DEVELOPMENT DISASTER in addition to the Human Security disaster it currently is for all the Sampur families who are languishing in IDP camps..
Let us get things straight. The Coal power project in Sampur, has displaced thousands of TAMIL civilians (whose Human Rights India loves to talk about… The Sampur IDPs are the victims TODAY of the GOVERNMENT OF INDIA as much as the Rajapaksa military dictatorship's land grab. The IDPS of Sampur are victims of India's NATIONAL SECURITY INTERESTS which trump all other concerns including Human rights of minorities.
India wants a Coal power plant in Trinco to control the place since China has one in Norrochcolai. The Trinco Coal will be an Environmental pollution DISASTER for Lanka, is NOT in the interest of the PEOPLE of Lanka and is being accepted by Rajapassa in order to get Indian support at the UPR in Geneva.
India is hated by Nepal because it has stolen that country's water and electricity through corrupt dam building project deals with corrupt Nepali politicians so that today Nepal which has more water than any other South Asia country (snow melt from Himalayas) has 15 hour power cuts on a daily basis.. The similar is about to happen in Lanka with the dirty Sampur Coal power project by India.
The Sampur Project in Trincomalee is India's response to China's presence in Hambantota and Sri Lankan citizens are paying for BOTH Rajapakse's and the Indian State's putrid governance interests.. SO please be a little more sophisticated in your analysis General – its wheels within wheels!
Dodo / February 13, 2013
Sampur is very important to India's national security establishment especially as Rajapassa is now talking about taking back the Trinco Oil farm from Indian Oil. Forget about Tamil's human rights and Tamil Nadu's grand standing!
The Indian security establishment (RAW and IB) think that northeast Lanka is their border and they need to have their boots on the ground, (who cares about Tamil IDP?). The Sampur Plant that no one in Lanka wants will be an alibi for the Indian intelligence clowns to run around..!
Serving Colonel / February 13, 2013
What is this uniformed fool (Retd) saying?
Does he know India's voting position? No.
THen shut up!
Native Vedda / February 13, 2013
Serving Colonel
"Does he know India's voting position?"
Indians defined all 64 positions in Kamasudra. The retired Colonel should know one or two.
K.A. Sumanasekera / February 13, 2013
The old Colonel seems more pissed off for Rajapaksa not accommodating his Motherland's Economic wish list, than the LTTErs lead by Vaiko Nedu Seeman front.
The Colonel reckons Narayanswamy will bring the Whip out to smack Rajapaksa again in Geneva .
How frightening?.
Narayanaswamies seem to have forced Dr Singh to follow the Pillai line after three years of her hard slog.
Would this be enough to put the skids under post Nanthikdal new Lanka?.
If one Vignamoorthy , a TNA MP also participating in the in the President's progress meet on the Jaffna Development, is true, even the one time LTTE supporters seem to finally acknowledge that there is life after Prabakaran.
And that matters more to the inhabitants.
Raja / February 14, 2013
what is this fool trying to say He is more of an idoit than Hariharan. Colonel Could not stomach the truth of the startegic mistake of his goevrnment and his personl wish of defeating LTTE by war commitiing war crimes and crimes againmst humanity. This fool licking MaRa's back will realize when MaRa kicks him as he has done to Previous CJ, Fowzie and teh like
Senguttuvan / February 13, 2013
The well-read Colonel has written many splendid and considered articles on the Lankan scene. This must remain one of his best. If the Rajapakses have savvy men around them to advise them, they must take careful note of this fine study. If Hariharan is right "New Delhi wanted to send a clear signal of its disillusionment with him" – and I think so – then Rajapakse might be smarter in making suitable and prompt adjustments than the naïve night-school student Premadasa – who fooled himself he has got the better of the wily Delhiwallahs.
At best UNHRC/Geneve in the coming weeks may give the Rajapakses one more chance but that may more be to prevent a further wholesal slaughter in this part of the world – not because Rajapakse has in any way reformed.
"Perhaps, for the first time. nearly all (Indian) political parties seem to be realising the importance of the issue at National level" is a gloved warning the Lankan regime should not ignore. The CPI, BJP, Congress just about is the entire Indian political structure and one is well advised not to take them for granted.
MR's astonishing and inexplicable about-turn in the Trinco Feb 04 speech may also mean he is losing to the hardliners within in an obvious below-the-surface power struggle that is on. Clearly GR has the more vocal and influential hawks – JHU, PNM, the political Buddhist clergy – with him. Years ago GR has already declared his thoughts "there will be no further concessions. Tamils have got all what they possible can" The top in the army, the Sinhala chauvinists and the anti-minority cabal would love to hear the strains of this belligerent language. Looks like this line of thought will hold sway in the coming months.
K.A. Sumanasekera
"even the one time LTTE supporters seem to finally acknowledge that there is life after Prabakaran."
The Tamil people were made to fee there was no life without VP.
Now the same people are being made to feel there is no life without MR.
This is Sri Lankan Gangnam style.
jagan sriram / February 13, 2013
gen.hariharan yet another wonderful article by you.i have taken even more keen interest after you wrote an article how you became a general rather than a journalist.while i broadly concur with your views mahinda rajapakshe himself has contributed to the hardenitng of public opinion in tamilnadu.secondly correct stand taken by jayalalitha has also helped the srilankan tamil cause or else i dont think rajapakshe would have taken a even more chauvinistic stand than now.what tamils worldwide now need to do is to put pressure on developed countries like america,france,briton and countries like india which have influence over srilanka to implement 13th amendment which is the only solution for the ethnic problem in srilanka.last but not least we should not forget that it is not only north but also east which has to be integrated because nowadays we are hearing more about northern province rather than east which also is traditional homeland of srilankan tamils.i do hope that sanity prevails over sinhalese and they accomodate the feelings and sentiments of tamils.
Silva / February 13, 2013
Hariharan's wish list also contains India's economics dreams and therefore exploitory motives over Sri Lanka which make India's concern a crocodile tear-Sampur against Hambantota, Indian Rail Road Projects against Chinese Highway Projects etc. are all morbid manifestations of India's exploitory demands over Sri Lanka. The decent thing for India to do is to press the trying to break free despot Rajapaksha Regime to implement the 13A, restoration of democracy and law and order in the country including conduct of free and fair elections. Any efforts by India along the lines of regime change would also be welcome by the majority of the people in the country. Any encroachment with ulterior motives of consumerism instead of upholding democratic values would be viewed as inimical.
Piranha / February 13, 2013
Manmohan Singh is more dead than alive as far as Sri Lanka is concerned. Rajapaksa is able to do and say whatever he wants regardless of his promises to India on many issues – either relating to the SL tamils, Indian fishermen or the Sampoor power plant. Rajapaksa knows Singh is a pushover. Sing's apologetic letter to Rajapaksa after the first UNHRC vote showed what a weak coward Singh is. Allowing Rajapaks to set foot in India after the humiliating way the Indian government has been treated by Rajapaksa was shameful to the Indians.
Bedrock Barney / February 14, 2013
Why is India losing patience with Sri Lanka? It should lose patience with Pakistan who recently beheaded an Indian soldier.
Bedrock Barney
" It should lose patience with Pakistan who recently beheaded an Indian soldier."
Tit for tat, India hanged Kashmiri Muslim on flimsy charges.
However, India is very patient with its own, rapists, corrupt politicians,…………
Agnos / February 14, 2013
Where are S.M. Krishna and Sushma Swaraj hiding, after falling for Rajapaksa's false assurances during their visit to SL?
And if Rajapaksa is such a liar now, why do Indians and other foreigners still think he did not lie brazenly when he committed the most atrocious war crimes in Sri Lanka, or when he mentioned the number of civilians murdered under his command. History will one day hold many Indians, including yourself, guilty of complicity in the war crimes; when it was obvious, you and others by your obtuseness failed to make the obvious call about the bestial nature of the GoSL during the war.
Moreover, as even a sycophant of the Rajapaksa regime, Dayan Jayatilleka, has argued, how can Tamil people and the TNA put their faith in internal war crimes investigations and parliamentary select committees(PSC) under this regime when it was such a farcical PSC investigation that impeached the CJ?
When it comes to understanding politics, most Indians I have talked to in the US, who are accomplished in their careers, nonetheless seem very dense. India cannot hope to be a member of the UN security council when its Prime Minister and thought leaders act like zombies.
Dr.Rajasingham Narendran / February 14, 2013
The RAW chief has met the president at the Thirupathi guest house where he was staying for thirty minutes. It is believed he delivered a message. What was the message? I hope it was a message from Lord Venketeswara , and not one from Manmohan Singh! MR's prayers may have been probably answered.
Dr. Rajasingham Narendran
Indian / February 14, 2013
Sri Lanka is probably the most unfortunate country on planet despite having beautiful land and nice people!
Mahinda Rajapaksa had a great chance to be a statesman and revise his country's fortune. In fact, he had promised to act in way that would have made him a great statesman. But he wasted away that opportunity.
Indian support was based on his promise. It is conditional. If he doesn't keep his words, he will have to live with India's adversity, not support. India had supported Prabhakaran the same way until the later changed his commitment to support Rajiv Gandhi-Jaywardene agreement.
Having tied himself in knots, there is nothing much is left for Mahinda Rajapakshe to do other than just pray at Buddgaya and Thirupathy and wait for the divine intervention.
Indian says:
"Sri Lanka is probably the most unfortunate country on planet despite having beautiful land and nice people"
Sri Lanka is another unfortunate country on planet because its people are irredeemably stupid. By the way could you stop being patronising.
"Mahinda Rajapaksa had a great chance to be a statesman and revise his country's fortune.
No chance, he neither has the heart nor the wisdom. He is a Sinhala/Buddhist so were his predecessors.
"In fact, he had promised to act in way that would have made him a great statesman."
And you would like us to believe India trusted him.
He believes and many in this forum agree with him that he is the divinity.
Naga / February 15, 2013
Colonel Hariharan is still living in an era when New Delhi was easily able to twist the hands of SL Presidents and Prime Ministers.
New Delhi may succumb to Tamil Nadu pressure and issue a statement like the one Hariharan wants in order to appease some Tamil Nadu politicians. That may not be of much help to the SL Tamils. India's support to the proposed US resolution at the UNHRC will not be any help to the cause of the SL Tamils either.
The prudent thing for New Delhi to do now is to make use of the opportunity opened up by the forthcoming UNHRC session to quietly talk to MR and convince him to fully implement the 13th amendment with suitable changes in the spirit of the Indo Sri Lanka Accord of 1987. MR can be asked to do it unilaterally or through the proposed Parliamentary Select Committee.
Real Peace / February 15, 2013
Thanks you Col Hariharan, I can see even your tone is changing now towards this brutal regime. Mahinda-the-murderer will only understand the gunboat diplomacy….! India should earnestly launch it with the full backing of the main actors on the international stage…!! I can't wait to see this…..!!!
"Colonel Hariharan is still living in an era when New Delhi was easily able to twist the hands of SL Presidents and Prime Ministers"
When people are divided among themselves, state and its rulers are estranged/alienated from its people, mad monks are free to abuse, and destroy its own congregation and other religious symbols, advocate violence,………………..no wonder Indians and other powers poke their nose in Sri Lankan politics.
Create a contented society underpinned by principles of unity in diversity, you can avoid strangers bearing gifts or waving stick. Internal cohesiveness keeps the foreigners away.
The Sri Lankan constitution should be redrafted in such a way it reflects and recognises the diversity of its people, particularly my people.
I am sorry when your Sinhala brethren do not even recognise this fundamental urgent requirement. They are full of themselves so are the Tamils.
r.kovian / February 15, 2013
Dear native vedda,
I like your punches…keep it up.
monkey / February 16, 2013
There certainly will not be any more 'political solutions'. There is already a provincial council system in place to resolve this issue since 1987.
Besides Sri Lanka cannot afford to give over 28% of its land area and over 66% of its coastline to less that 12% of northern tamils at the expense of over 88% of the rest of the population. The coastline and the EEZ is critical for the existence and security of any island nation. Sri Lanka cannot afford to handover over 66% of its coastline and EEZ to less than 12% of its population and not gravely compromise its existence. Sri Lankans are stupid but we are not unbelievably stupid. It cannot happen under any circumstances, not under any circumstances.
Will India hand over 28% of its land and over 66% of its conastline to less than 12% of its population at the expense of over 88%? I think not. India is stupid but not that stupid.
Will the northern sri lanka tamils if they were the majority, hand over 28% of the land area and over 66% of its coastline to less than 12% sinhalese if the boot was in the other foot? I think not. They will laugh at us. It would be a joke.
So there will not be any more 'political solutions'. There is already a provincial council system in place to resolve this issue since 1987.
About eelam or separate state why not grant a separate state in Canada, after all Canada is a very large country. I think it is the best solution. The population of Canada is only 35 million (Sri Lanka 21 million) but it is a huge country, huge.
What about Australia perhaps population only 22 million (same as Sri Lanka) but a huge country. Surely eelam could be granted here.
How about Norway (population 5 million) but a huge country. Or how about Sweden (population only 9.5 million) but a huge country.
I think the TNA should demand that eelam be given in Canada, Australia, Norway or Sweden since these are huge countries with very little people. I think this is the best solution.
We don't want the west's prescriptions for sri lanka. The west what is their solution for the world today? To bomb a country (especially the oil rich countries) to smithereens and grab that countries resources. That is their solution for the world. Sri Lanka want to have nothing to do with these war criminal west and their behaviour. The west is who should be sanctioned at the UNHCR for setting dangerous precedents and for war crimes.
India I hope a civilised country should have nothing to do with the west and their criminal behaviours. It is well known that Sri Lanka is being witch hunted by the west for no reason whatsoever. What ever they are accusing sri lanka of they themselves have committed a thousand times over.
Sinha Bahau / February 26, 2013
Monkey, Why not the Sinhalese go to Canada, Austrailia or ASSam which incidentally may be their real homeland since they think they are Aryans although most can only pass as Kalu aryans.
Tamils who are part of the south Indian cultural zone are naturally adapted to be in the southern portion of India including sri lanka and have always been here.
Reader who goes as Monkey may note last week Indian billionaire Mukesh Ambani was given pride of place in Fareed Zakaria's popular CNN show – GPS. To Zakaria's question as to why MA is bullish on the US economy for this and next year, the answer was because Obama has decided to reduce oil imports and make do with their own ample stocks – including new technological innovations. In the coming months this decision plus the Canadian opening new supply lines into the USA are expected to have a marked impact manipulated by the greedy. So you may not have to lose sleep on this "dirty West" for sometime.


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Pagination in Scribus is quite different from word processors. It's a bit more difficult, but at the same time more flexible.
This in an introduction to automatic pagination in Scribus 1.3.x series.
Inserting Page Numbers
Inserting page numbers in Scribus 1.3x is almost identical with 1.2x, except that the default shortcut has changed to Ctrl+Alt+Shift+P. If you're afraid to break your fingers, you can assign a new shortcut in the preferences dialog.
As of Scribus 1.3.4, you no longer need multiple page number characters to represent longer numbers. Simply insert one and the page number will be placed in the text frame. Of course, if the number of pages you have is large, you will have to accommodate for the extra digits on page 10 or 100 when creating the frame.
Changing the numbering scheme
Scribus 1.3x shows a lot of improvements with respect to page numbering schemes, and it's no longer necessary to edit *.sla files in a text editor.
To change the numbering scheme, you open the Document setup dialog. In Sections you can now create numbering sections for your document (see Screenshot). Let's assume you have an introduction on the first three pages that you want to be numbered with capital letters, and your text starts at page 5 with 1. Page 4 will not have a number at all. The first section is already there. You can enter a name for it in the "Name" column. In the "From" column enter "1" and in "To" enter "3". Choose "A, B, C" as a style, and the "Start" value is "1". To add new sections, simply add a new row by clicking "Add". For page 4 the values are: From = 4, To = 4, Style (doesn't matter here), Start (doesn't matter here). It's important that you uncheck "Shown" in the second column. For the main text, the values are: From = 5, To = (insert the number of pages you need), Style = 1, 2, 3, and Start = 1. That's all, your document will be paginated as desired.
Automatic creation of page numbers for each page
You can work exactly as described for 1.2x, except that page templates are now (more correctly) called master pages (Edit > Master Pages).
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Welcome back! In this video, we'll practice the pattern to be something in Tagalog.
Mabait siya. – He or she is kind.
Mabait si John. – John is kind.
Mabait ang mga babae. – The women are kind. The word mga makes it plural, so there's more than one woman here.
Mabait iyon. – That person, far from you and me, is kind. Iyon could actually also refer to a thing, not just a person. It depends on the situation.
Now let's do the same with turista.
Turista siya. – He or she is a tourist.
Turista si John. – John is a tourist.
Turista ang mga babae. – The women are tourists.
Turista iyon. – That person (over there) is a tourist.
And now with natutulog, which is a verb. It means is sleeping or was sleeping and the action is still ongoing in the situation.
Natutulog siya. – He or she is sleeping.
You can probably see the general pattern now.
In the next video we'll see how you say there is something in Tagalog.