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I have been going to Sandy for facials for around a year now. When I started my skin was appalling. Very soon after a fabulous course of LED therapy together with some amazing facials, the difference is so incredible. I've also done another course since then of Caci and now each month I maintain the fantastic results with top of sessions. Sandy is wonderful. Her knowledge of the products she uses is extensive and she always gives me a bespoke treatment using a combination of different treatments according to how my skin feels each time. I feel completely relaxed and would never go somewhere else as the level of professionalism and genuine care Sandy gives is like no other.
I've been receiving facials from Sandy for many years now and there's nowhere else I would want to go. She has a fantastic knowledge of the treatments, products and skin care and it's always a pleasure seeing Sandy as she makes you feel completely relaxed and clearly loves what she does. I had the complete Caci course and now have monthly top ups along with the occasional collagen mask, LED and wrinkle comb. I can always see and feel the difference instantly. The treatments transform a droopy looking face, lift and smooth amazingly. I now use some of the Natura Bisse products which are like silk and smell gorgeous. Sandy also does a deeply relaxing hot shell massage. Cannot recommend highly enough.


Music Quiz: Who Died First?
Congratulations to Rich, Tony, and 2loud2old, who all scored full marks in last week's quiz.
This week's quiz is slightly macabre – it requires you to identify which of two notable musicians died first. It covers a bit of ground, taking in some classical along the way.
I scored 12/15 – a healthy, yet very beatable effort. What did you score?
I got 12/15 as well.
I only knew 10. 5 lucky guesses.
I am off to buy a lottery ticket.
Looks like you're the only 100% so far – great work!
14/15 for me this week. My classical music professors from college would be disappointed in my Beethoven vs. Mozart selection. Otherwise it was one correct guess and the rest I knew. A slightly dark topic but still fun to play.
I actually knew that one – I think of Mozart more as 18th century, and Beethoven as 19th.
9/15. Made some silly mistakes. Probably should've been 12. Oh well.
Still better than 50/50 guessing.
Only slightly in this case.
I racked up a considerably less healthy 7 points, almost rounded up to a pass!
Probably good not to be fixated on death.
I regard that as an A.
11/15. Most of them guesses!
10 for me. Oh well, can't be on top every week I guess!
obviously music wasn't loud and old enough this week?
LOL! Thanks. I needed a laugh today.
Celebrity deaths are pretty interesting.


Happy Monday friends! I am coming off such a great spring weekend here in Boston - from anniversary things, to bridal luncheons & a girls catch up - it was such a wonderful time! Here's a little photo diary from the weekend!
In anticipation for our upcoming trip we had to get Sophia's passport photo and I know I'm biased, but you guys - this is probably one of my favorite photos of her ever! We didn't end up using this one, but I just can't get over her blue steel face!
I was invited by Town & Country Magazine and the Bermuda Tourism Board to attend a bridal luncheon at the Four Season Hotel. It was such a lovely time with some really top notch wedding vendors around. I had another excuse to wear my favorite pants from Loft and it made me feel like spring was just around the corner.
That night Gary and I celebrated our 6 year wedding anniversary at Del Frisco's in the Seaport and dinner was amazing! When I made the reservation I mentioned that it was our anniversary and it was really cute that they rose petals on the table for us.
Thankfully we split the steak and scallops or else I would have had to have been wheeled out of there - there was also lobster mac and cheese...so of course I had that!
I got a lot of questions about my top and it was a birthday gift, but I found it online here in red.
Sunday I tried out the weekend brunch at Citrus & Salt with my friends. I had been once before for dinner and really enjoyed brunch more!
I had the avocado eggs Benedict and opted for the soft serve sorbet of the day, which was pink lemonade in a pretzel cone - delicious!
Capped off the weekend with a little stroll with my main girl & listening to a really great episode of How I Built This with the founders of Soul Cycle! Heading into this week feeling really energized & excited for a girls trip at the end of the week! Hope you have a wonderful week ahead friends!
That soft serve is beautiful! Haha! And the whole bridal shower looks amazing too! Love your lavender pants.
Oh my goodness--that passport photo is TOO cute! I have been wanting to try Del Frisco's! Your weekend looks like it was a blast!
Happy Anniversary! Del Frisco's is so good! Love those Loft pants too... I might have to get some. :) And Sophia's picture is adorable with that face!
Happy anniversary! Those Loft pants are so good and you look gorgeous!
I still can't get over that amazing baby passport photo! Happiest anniversary!
Omg that passport picture! How do you stand it?! All the food in this post... looks insanely good. And lady...you look amazing. ROCKING those pants.
I can't believe it's already spring! Looks like a fun weekend!
Little Sophia and her face...hahahha, the CUTEST. That luncheon looked so fab, and I also loved your top for your dinner. What a great weekend, glad you enjoyed it to the fullest!
Oh my that picture of Sophia is adorable. So serious!! What a fun weekend!! The weather was so nice. Happy Monday!!
That passport photo! So adorable! Those scallops look delicious! And pink lemonade sorbet sounds amazing!
OMG, that baby photo is adorable. Soooo serious. She really looks like you.
oh my this was adorable!! Sophia has a mature face, a beautiful mature face, not the face of a baby. Her features are striking and she is gorgeous (like her Mom and Dad!) Happy Anniversary to you and Gary as well!!!!!
Your weekend looked amazing. Love that soft serve so much. I still love that passport photo. My girls have a similar look in theirs.
Happy Anniversary! Mmm all your food looks so good! I can't believe Sophia did so well with her passport photo! She looks really adorable!
What a fun weekend surrounded by so many pretty flowers and the food looks amazing too. I think it's so funny how Driver's License and passport pics can sometimes turn out looking like a mugshot even for a cute-faced baby like Sophia!
Drooling over your food!! And Sophia's blue steel face is precious. You've talked me into the pants. They look amazing on you and I need some "spring" in my step.
So many yummy eats! Happy Anniversary to you two and that picture of her is so adorable!
Looks like the perfect weekend! I love Sophia's passport picture, too funny!
What a beautiful post dear! So many precious photos, especially Sophia's passport!


Opened in 2017, CitySuites is now one of the most desirable places to stay and live in the city. The building is nestled between Manchester's famous shopping boutiques and the major business centres, and the apartments are a home from home for short term business visitors, as well as long term residents and VIPs.
To help create and control the luxury ambience of CitySuites, CP Electronics, the UK's largest supplier of lighting controls, has supplied its D-Mate® room control system to the communal areas of the building, including the reception, gym and pool. Corridors that link the high-end apartments also have standalone energy saving controls installed, using CP's presence detectors.
A key reason that AMEON, the principal building contractors, specified the use of CP's D-Mate® system in CitySuites was for its simple and cost-effective scene setting capability.
Matthew Liffen, Commercial Manager for AMEON, said, "CP Electronics demonstrated an understanding of the luxury feel we were going for with CitySuites immediately with the suggestion of their D-Mate® system. The scene setting plate in the reception allows reception staff to easily control the lighting and mood, while it was simple to commission, adaptable, and helps CitySuites save energy and cost when areas aren't in use.
"Even though CitySuites' main clientele will be executive guests, it is still imperative that costs are kept down wherever possible. With our clever D-Mate® system, we have been able to offer that luxury control and feel. Energy use is kept to a minimum through automatic dimming of lights in communal areas and switching off entirely in corridors," said Nick Booth, Area Sales Manager for CP Electronics.


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Why We Hate Taxes, and Why Some People Want Us To
By Syon Bhanot and Reed Orchinik
Image: Aidan Bartos/Unsplash
Tax season may be behind us, but with the 2020 presidential election on the horizon, the word "tax" looks set to remain central to U.S. political debates in the weeks and months ahead. And for most Americans, there are few words they dread more; nothing unites Americans like their collective dislike of taxation. The funny thing is, this hatred of taxes is particularly acute in the United States—other countries have taxes too, but it seems as though non-Americans don't dislike paying them quite as much. What is it about America that drives this aversion to taxes?
We can find some answers in the behavioral science of taxation.
First of all, it is much easier to hate something you don't fully understand. In the United States, the goods and services that the government provides are not made particularly salient to people, as Cardi B famously made clear last year. It seems as though in the United States, unlike in some other countries, the government appears absent in the lives of its citizens, even when it is not. This happens in two ways. First, research shows that many Americans are simply unaware of their government's role in core federal programs like Social Security and Medicare, to say nothing of its more opaque roles in important activities like encouraging research and innovation, fighting disease, and monitoring food safety. For example, a 2008 Cornell Survey Research Institute poll showed that 57 percent of respondents said they had never participated in a government social program. However, 94 percent of these same respondents reported being the beneficiary of a program provided by the state, with the average participant benefiting from four government programs.
What is it about America that drives this aversion to taxes?
This phenomenon, which political scientist Suzanne Mettler of Cornell University refers to as the "submerged state," is arguably exacerbated by the government's inability (or lack of desire) to broadcast their efforts. Michael Lewis highlights one such example in his recent book, The Fifth Risk. Specifically, when the U.S. Department of Agriculture provided loans to small business owners during the Obama Administration, Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack arranged for the checks to prominently display the funding source—"UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT." However, his decision was met with pushback from many local government officials, particularly those from areas where "government" was a dirty word. Lillian Salerno, the former Deputy Undersecretary of Rural Development, recalls that "in the red southern states the mayor would sometimes say 'Can you not mention that the government gave this?'" Clearly, taking ownership for federal programs, even when beneficial, is a political minefield for the U.S. government.
Second, many of the U.S. government's efforts are hidden from public view by their nature. For example, much of what the government does is actually about preventing bad things from happening, which is something no one ever sees. For example, consider food safety, fighting terrorism, investing in systems to detect natural disasters, and keeping planes from colliding—these are things you only notice when things go terribly wrong. Successful government efforts in these domains are essentially invisible. Disaster prevention does not just happen by itself, and it is not cheap. But it is hard for citizens to see and appreciate this work, so they go on complaining about the government even when it may have just saved their lives.
So if you are like many other Americans, your aversion to taxes may stem in part from a lack of appreciation for what the government actually does for you. Surely, the U.S. government (like any other large organization) has many inefficiencies. However, when so much of what the government does is "submerged" from view, it is no wonder that citizen perceptions lean away from an appreciation of what government does and toward a desire to dismantle it.
The process of actually paying your taxes is comically difficult in the United States. This is not an accident.
That said, even if you do understand and appreciate the role of the government in your life, the process of actually paying your taxes is comically difficult in the United States. This is not an accident. Indeed, while many may be familiar with the idea of a nudge, the complexity of tax filing can be thought of as an example of nudge's evil little brother—a "sludge." That is, filing taxes is a process that is (arguably intentionally) more complicated, confusing, redundant, and annoying than it needs to be. For example, much of the information you provide when filing your taxes is information the federal government already has, from your name and address to your salary (in the comfortable majority of cases). Given that, why can't tax filing be made simpler, by eliminating redundancies and making forms less confusing? Surely that would save all of us time and money.
The reality is that (at least) two politically powerful groups have a vested interest in making tax filing as "sludgy" as possible: tax preparers and anti-tax interest groups intent on lowering taxes. Why? Well, tax preparers clearly benefit from an intentionally complicated tax filing process—it is good for business. In 2003, the IRS cut a deal with tax preparation companies like Intuit (TurboTax) and H&R Block, whereby it agreed to not create their own free filing system if those companies provided a free-filing option for lower-income Americans. Earlier this year the agreement was almost made permanent by Congress after lobbying by these same interest groups. This proposal should worry taxpayers. ProPublica recently uncovered the ways TurboTax and H&R Block actively hid free file options in search results. With only 3 percent of eligible filers taking advantage of the free file option, this might explain the exceptionally low take up rate.
Meanwhile, anti-tax lobbyists (like Grover Norquist) also benefit from the sludges gumming up the tax filing system. Specifically, when taxes are more frustrating, people are more opposed to the general idea of taxation. This drives movements to reduce taxes more and more, achieving the aims of the anti-tax lobbyists, but not necessarily those of the American people at large.
When taxes are more frustrating, people are more opposed to the general idea of taxation. This drives movements to reduce taxes more and more, achieving the aims of the anti-tax lobbyists, but not necessarily those of the American people at large.
In short, social science research tells us that at least part of our tax aversion stems from the opacity of government processes and the pernicious effect of sludges in the way we file taxes in the United States. To make matters worse, there are powerful special interest groups who are keen to keep the system opaque and sludgy.
It does not have to be this way. We could do more as a nation to make clear to citizens what their tax money is used for. Indeed, a better understanding of where tax money goes may help people appreciate what the government does and identify areas of wasteful spending where it exists. And surely simplifying the tax filing process through public policy, including offering easier free filing and autocompletion for simple returns (as proposed by presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren, for example) could represent a huge improvement in our collective quality of life. April 15 need not be Americans' least favorite day of the year—if our leaders can make taxes more transparent and easier to file, it could just be another sunny spring day.
Syon Bhanot
Founding Columnist
Syon Bhanot is an assistant professor of economics at Swarthmore College. His areas of research include pro-social behavior, environmental conservation, development, and personal finance decisions.
Reed Orchinik
Reed Orchinik is a recent graduate of Swarthmore College with a degree in economics . He currently works as a research assistant in economics and finance. His interests include behavioral economics, industrial organization, and econometrics.
Mettler, S. (2011). The submerged state: How invisible government policies undermine American democracy. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press. (Link)
Elliot, J. (2019). TurboTax Deliberately Hid Its Free File Page From Search Engines. ProPublica. (Link)
Elliot, J. (2019). Congress Is About to Ban the Government From Offering Free Online Tax Filing. Thank TurboTax. ProPublica. (Link)
It's Time to Rethink What Counts as a Voter Turnout Strategy
By Maya Alper and Dan Connolly
Work Requirements Are (Socially) Toxic Sludge
By Anthony Barrows

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Q: how to include http,fs modules inside node webkit I am creating a simple node web kit app. I have form with input type, on submitting the form i want to save this browsed file into temp folder. How to do this with node web kit.
A sample code will be more help to my studying.

A: When working with NW you should think in a desktop application workflow, you would not need a server side like creating a http server to receive files, instead you could perform file operations from the 'client' side,
To select the file you could use File dialogs this code explain how to select it and require the fs module to work with it:
<script>
  // requiring the fs module
  var fs = require('fs');
  function chooseFile(name) {
    var chooser = document.querySelector(name);
    chooser.addEventListener("change", function(evt) {
      // this will print the selected file
      console.log(this.value);
      // from here you could use the fs module required above to do whatever you need with the file, read it or write it
    }, false);

    chooser.click();
  }
  chooseFile('#fileDialog');
</script>

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Q: How to Submit Post Requests to Xero API Inside Xero Webhook I have a Webhook on my Xero Account for Invoices. When a new invoice is created I want to access the Xero Api using the data from the Webhook to Send the user the invoice email. I have all the code for this but my issue is that the Webhook expects a response of 200 and when I call the Xero Api code from within the webhook I get an error on Xero saying the response contained a body. This makes sense as I'm submitting and getting data from the Api.
So how can I make my requests to the Xero Api without interfering with the Xero Webhook response?
Webhook Code:
<?php
    ///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
    // WEBHOOK AUTHENTICATION - START
    ///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
    //hook section
    $rawPayload = file_get_contents("php://input");
    // Update your webhooks key here
    $webhookKey = 'myWebhookKey';

    // Compute the payload with HMACSHA256 with base64 encoding
    $computedSignatureKey = base64_encode(
        hash_hmac('sha256', $rawPayload, $webhookKey, true)
    );

    // Signature key from Xero request
    $xeroSignatureKey = $_SERVER['HTTP_X_XERO_SIGNATURE'];

    $isEqual = false;

    if (hash_equals($computedSignatureKey, $xeroSignatureKey)) {
        $isEqual = true;
        http_response_code(200);

        // getting and passing the data to the api functionality
        $data = json_decode($rawPayload);
        xero_api($data);
    } else {
        http_response_code(401);
    }
    ///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
    // WEBHOOK AUTHENTICATION - END
    ///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
?>

Api code:
<?php
///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
// XERO API FUNCITONALITY - START
///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
function xero_api($data) {
    if ($data->events[0]->eventType === 'CREATE') {
        $resourseId = $data->events[0]->resourceId;

        ///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
        // GET XERO CREDENTIALS - START
        ///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
        global $wpdb;

        $xeroKeys = $wpdb->get_row("SELECT * FROM {$wpdb->prefix}xero_keys WHERE ID = 0", ARRAY_A);

        $clientId = $xeroKeys['client_id'];
        $clientSecret = $xeroKeys['client_secret'];
        $refreshToken = $xeroKeys['refresh_token'];
        $tenantId = $xeroKeys['tenant_id'];
        ///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
        // GET XERO CREDENTIALS - END
        ///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////

        ///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
        // GET ACCESS TOKEN AND GENERATE NEW REFRESH TOKEN - START
        ///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
        $args = array(
            'headers' => array(
                'grant_type' => 'refresh_token',
            ),
            'body' => array(
                'grant_type' => 'refresh_token',
                'refresh_token' => $refreshToken,
                'client_id' => $clientId,
                'client_secret' => $clientSecret
            )
        );

        $refreshTokenRes = wp_remote_post('https://identity.xero.com/connect/token?=', $args);
        $refreshTokenBody = json_decode($refreshTokenRes['body']);

        if (isset($refreshTokenBody->refresh_token) && isset($refreshTokenBody->access_token)) {
            $updateTokens = $wpdb->update(
                $wpdb->prefix . 'xero_keys',
                array(
                    'refresh_token' => $refreshTokenBody->refresh_token,
                    'access_token' => $refreshTokenBody->access_token
                ),
                array('ID' => 0),
                array('%s', '%s'),
                array('%d')
            );
        }
        ///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
        // GET ACCESS TOKEN AND GENERATE NEW REFRESH TOKEN - End
        ///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////

        $args = array(
            'headers' => array(
                'xero-tenant-id' => $tenantId,
                'Authorization' => 'Bearer ' . $refreshTokenBody->access_token,
                'Accept' => 'application/json',
                'Content-Type' => 'application/json'
            ),
        );

        $response = wp_remote_post('https://api.xero.com/api.xro/2.0/Invoices/' . $resourseId . '/Email', $args);
    }
}
///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
// XERO API FUNCITONALITY - END
///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
?>

A: The problem is that you need to separate these calls.
As the comment to your question said, you need to first deal with the webhook, then queue the job that will trigger your API. Something like this would do
<?php
    ///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
    // WEBHOOK AUTHENTICATION - START
    ///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
    //hook section
    $rawPayload = file_get_contents("php://input");
    // Update your webhooks key here
    $webhookKey = 'myWebhookKey';

    // Compute the payload with HMACSHA256 with base64 encoding
    $computedSignatureKey = base64_encode(
        hash_hmac('sha256', $rawPayload, $webhookKey, true)
    );

    // Signature key from Xero request
    $xeroSignatureKey = $_SERVER['HTTP_X_XERO_SIGNATURE'];

    $isEqual = false;

    if (hash_equals($computedSignatureKey, $xeroSignatureKey)) {
        $isEqual = true;
        http_response_code(200);

        // getting and passing the data to the api functionality
        $data = json_decode($rawPayload);

        wp_schedule_single_event(
            time() + 10,
            'send_xero_api_call',
            ['data' => $data]
        );
    } else {
        http_response_code(401);
    }
    ///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
    // WEBHOOK AUTHENTICATION - END
    ///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////

Then you need to register a WP Cron
add_action('send_xero_api_call', 'xero_api_cron', 10);

function xero_api_cron($data) {
    if ($data->events[0]->eventType === 'CREATE') {
        $resourseId = $data->events[0]->resourceId;

        ///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
        // GET XERO CREDENTIALS - START
        ///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
        global $wpdb;

        $xeroKeys = $wpdb->get_row("SELECT * FROM {$wpdb->prefix}xero_keys WHERE ID = 0", ARRAY_A);

        $clientId = $xeroKeys['client_id'];
        $clientSecret = $xeroKeys['client_secret'];
        $refreshToken = $xeroKeys['refresh_token'];
        $tenantId = $xeroKeys['tenant_id'];
        ///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
        // GET XERO CREDENTIALS - END
        ///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////

        ///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
        // GET ACCESS TOKEN AND GENERATE NEW REFRESH TOKEN - START
        ///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
        $args = array(
            'headers' => array(
                'grant_type' => 'refresh_token',
            ),
            'body' => array(
                'grant_type' => 'refresh_token',
                'refresh_token' => $refreshToken,
                'client_id' => $clientId,
                'client_secret' => $clientSecret
            )
        );

        $refreshTokenRes = wp_remote_post('https://identity.xero.com/connect/token?=', $args);
        $refreshTokenBody = json_decode($refreshTokenRes['body']);

        if (isset($refreshTokenBody->refresh_token) && isset($refreshTokenBody->access_token)) {
            $updateTokens = $wpdb->update(
                $wpdb->prefix . 'xero_keys',
                array(
                    'refresh_token' => $refreshTokenBody->refresh_token,
                    'access_token' => $refreshTokenBody->access_token
                ),
                array('ID' => 0),
                array('%s', '%s'),
                array('%d')
            );
        }
        ///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
        // GET ACCESS TOKEN AND GENERATE NEW REFRESH TOKEN - End
        ///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////

        $args = array(
            'headers' => array(
                'xero-tenant-id' => $tenantId,
                'Authorization' => 'Bearer ' . $refreshTokenBody->access_token,
                'Accept' => 'application/json',
                'Content-Type' => 'application/json'
            ),
        );

        $response = wp_remote_post('https://api.xero.com/api.xro/2.0/Invoices/' . $resourseId . '/Email', $args);
    }
}

Something to this extent. The $data argument should contain the data you passed (not 100% sure how it looks for you). Also, you'll need to check the throttling by the API, so you might adjust the time of the execution of your job. And make sure you have somewhere stored if your background job finished successfully.
One thing I suggest, since you are storing sensitive info in your DB (access and refresh tokens), is to encrypt them when storing them in the DB, and decrypt when fetching them.
You can check how I implemented background jobs in my plugin
https://github.com/dingo-d/woo-solo-api/tree/develop/src/BackgroundJobs
https://github.com/dingo-d/woo-solo-api/blob/develop/src/Request/SoloApiRequest.php#L428-L438
You can use WP Queue lib from deliciousbrains: https://github.com/deliciousbrains/wp-queue/
It's a wrapper around WP Cron with custom DB tables for handling the queues, which will allow you to check if the jobs executed correctly or not.


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It's the hope that kills you
You start watching a match. You know who's the overwhelming favourite, and you hope for that tiny chance of an upset, but you don't really believe it could happen. And you're OK with that, you've prepared yourself for a loss, and you just want whoever you're cheering for to go out there and not completely embarrass themselves, maybe get a set if they can manage it.
The opponent wins the first set, and it all goes 'according to plan'. "Ah well, maybe some other time". You're calm. Why wouldn't you be? It's the expected result. It's what everybody predicted. There are no surprises today.
Then, something changes. A good game, a break, maybe a set. "Is it possible? Maybe, after all?" Naaah, it never goes that way, you tell yourself. There's no point in hoping, you'll just get disappointed afterwards. "But..." No, there are no 'buts' here.
And the match goes on, and you're still not expecting a win, but against all reason, you're hoping. The longer the match goes, you start hoping more and more, and break points are saved and games are won and you still don't believe it, but maybe you do. Just a bit. Just a lot.
It's too late now, you're way too invested, and you can see the finish line, can imagine what happens when your rooting interest crosses it. "It will be so good! Everybody will talk about it!" You try to calm yourself down, but what's the point?
They take a lead, and you tense up, your emotions are already overflowing, the taste of victory there on your tongue, and if they just take that break point, or keep that tiebreak lead, and maybe serve a couple of aces...
But they don't. And the opponents don't double fault, either. Nor do they hit every ball into the net, as you've already magically seen them do in that not-so-deep corner of your mind. By now you're evoking every superstition you've ever had, you promise to do countless things if only this one result goes your way, you're begging your TV to cooperate, you just want it so much!
So bloody what. The chance is gone, the advantage disappears, and it might not be over yet, but you already feel like it is - but maybe something can still happen? You know it won't, and yet you keep willing that ball to do what you so desperately want, because who knows, right?
Wrong. It's match point already, it's the wrong match point, and they're not done yet, and maybe somehow...?
And then it's really over. You refuse to believe it, but what else can you do? You knew it would happen, everybody had known it would happen, so why does it hurt so much?
In tennis, it's the hope that kills you.
Dedicated to Nicolas Mahut's Roland Garros 2013 doubles final loss.
I liked the twist in the end. Well written.
I'll depart with this quote from "The Matrix Reloaded":
Hope, it is the quintessential human delusion, simultaneously the source of your greatest strength, and your greatest weakness.
Kel 9 June 2013 at 05:19
Loved this, Anna.
Woodys Tupelo 9 June 2013 at 05:22
Yep. I felt exactly the same way. Mahut's emotional response to the loss was hard to watch. Very well written. I liked this very much!
Dana Berger 9 June 2013 at 10:05
I might not be a Djokovic fan, but I completely understand you.
Very well written, loved it!
And... Hopefully next year!
lehit 12 June 2013 at 23:36
It also looks like Rafa / Nole match. Anna I know you're sad that Nole lost but we, Rafa supporters, felt the same in the Australian Open 2012 when Rafa lost in spite of his break lead in the 5th set. Tennis is crual :'(
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Kyle Drabek: I'm Ready For The Majors
In his latest outing on Sunday in Trenton, prized Toronto pitching prospect Kyle Drabek held the Yankees Double A affiliate to 1 run and 3 hits over 6 innings to earn a win. The victory helped lock down a series victory for Drabek's New Hampshire Fisher Cats who overtook the Thunder for first place in the Eastern League's Eastern Division and gave New Hampshire their 65th win of the season, which topped their 2009 total.
It seems to many that Drabek, who was a 1st round draft selection by the Phillies in 2006 and was sent by Philadelphia to Toronto in the Roy Halladay trade last off-season, has nothing left to prove at the Double A level.
The son of former Cy Young Award winner Doug Drabek celebrated the nation's birthday in big time fashion, when he hurled a no-hitter against the New Britain Rock Cats on Independence Day in Manchester.
In his last 6 starts overall for the Fisher Cats, Drabek has a 4-0 record, a 1.89 ERA.
At two levels of the Phillies' system last year, Drabek posted a combined 12-3 record with a 3.19 ERA and 150 strike outs in 158 innings pitched before the Phils chose to trim down his work load and ended his season early.
Word has it around Toronto that the Blue Jays likely have a set innings limit for Drabek's season this year as well, which has led to him being pulled from his two most recent starts after 6 innings with a low pitch count in each game and minimal runs (1 total) allowed. Drabek suspects the Jays are protecting him the same way the Phillies did last season, but no one has addressed it with him directly. "No one's put a limit, yet, on how many innings I'm supposed to have. I know that last year (the Phillies) shut me down a month early because it was my first full season after Tommy John (surgery). So this year, maybe that's in the back of (the Blue Jays') minds, or they just want to keep my innings down to keep me healthy."
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Best books … chosen by Oliver Sacks
Neurologist Oliver Sacks is the author of Awakenings, The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, and Musicophilia, a new book about music and the brain. Below, he names his favorite scientific biographies.
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Madame Curie by Eve Curie (Da Capo, $19). When I was 10, my mother gave me Eve Curie's biography of her mother, and Marie Curie's story became for me the epitome of a life in science: its dedication, its delights, and its frustrations and travails. I still have my original copy— now autographed by the author.
Inward Bound by Abraham Pais (Oxford, $30). This 1988 book about the discoveries of 20th-century physics delights me so much that I keep several copies—a hardback for my library, a paperback for traveling, and an extra copy or two to press on friends. Pais, a physicist himself, was in a unique position to portray the whole landscape of modern physics in its most exciting century.
The Joy of Insight by Victor Weisskopf (out of print). I like all of Weisskopf's books, but this autobiography above all—in particular the chapter called "Mozart and Quantum Mechanics," in which he compares the beauties and joys of music with those of mathematics and science.
The Voyage of the Beagle by Charles Darwin (Penguin, $13). This is an all-time favorite for a Darwin lover. I can read it again and again and always find something new. Also, though the last 30 years have seen a veritable cataract of books about Darwin and Darwiniana, I keep returning to Janet Browne's superb two-volume biography, Charles Darwin: Voyaging and Charles Darwin: The Power of Place.
Personal Narrative of a Journey to the Equinoctial Regions of the New Continent by Alexander von Humboldt (Penguin, $16). Humboldt is another hero of mine: exuberant, impulsive, world-embracing. He was a favorite of Darwin's too—Darwin took this narrative with him on the Beagle, and as he read it, his feeling for Humboldt intensified: "Formerly I admired him," he wrote. "Now I almost adore him."
The Devil's Doctor by Philip Ball (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, $27). I am just starting this magnificent new biography of Paracelsus. Ball, who is almost as much a polymath as his subject, brings out not only the extraordinary intellect and character of the man, but all the intellectual and social and political currents of the 16th century. Even before finishing it, I can tell that this book will take its place among my favorite half-dozen science biographies.
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This article was shortlisted for the "Best Peer Reviewed History Article" in the 2015 Victorian Community History Awards.
Douglas Wilkie, 'Exodus and Panic: Melbourne's reaction to the Bathurst gold discoveries of May 1851', Victorian Historical Journal, vol. 85, no. 2, December 2014, pp. 189-217.
When news of potentially rich goldfields near Bathurst, west of Sydney, reached Melbourne late in May 1851, there was a 'migration of the population to New South Wales and … panic [was] created throughout the whole Colony'. At least, that is what a Victorian Legislative Council Select Committee reported in March 1854.[i] By contrast, in October 1851, just four months after the Bathurst news, Victoria's Lieutenant Governor, Charles La Trobe believed that although the discoveries at Bathurst had 'unsettled the public mind of the labouring classes … few comparatively of the labouring classes' actually left Melbourne for Bathurst.[ii] La Trobe's description of comparatively few leaving Melbourne, does not match the panic and exodus of the Committee's report; yet historians have repeated the report's sentiments and ignored La Trobe's ever since.
This is an extract from the full article which can be downloaded from Unimelb Minerva or Academia.
[i] 'Report of the Select Committee of the Legislative Council on the Claims for the Discovery of Gold in Victoria, together with the Proceeding of Committee, Minutes of Evidence, and Appendix, 10 March 1854', Votes and Proceedings of the Legislative Council during the Session 1853–1854, vol. iii, Melbourne, 1854, pp. 4, 10–12; Hereafter '1854 Select Committee'.
[ii] La Trobe to Grey, 10 October 1851, House of Commons Parliamentary Papers (HCPP), 1852 (1430) (1508).
[iii] Sydney Morning Herald, 29 March 1851, p. 6.
[iv] Argus, 8 April 1851, p. 2.
[v] Argus, 10 April 1851, p. 2.
[vi] Argus, 11 April 1851, p. 2.


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Amnesty International announces winners of national school poetry contest
Former Guantánamo Bay detainee to hand prizes to winners of Amnesty International's You Can't Jail Minds competition tod ay Amnesty International today announced the winners of its prestigious poetry...
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Cambodia: Lake filling must not lead to forced evictions
The filling of Boeung Kak Lake in central Phnom Penh should immediately stop until a proper process that ensures human rights protection is in place, said Amnesty International and the Centre on Housi...
Olympics: China and the International Olympic Committee (IOC) must learn from mistakes and uphold human rights values
As the Beijing Olympics drew to a close, Amnesty International today (24 Aug) accused Chinese authorities of prioritising image over substance as it continued to persecute and punish activists and
Scotland: "Deep Cut" wins 2008 Freedom of Expression Award
"Deep Cut", the story of four young soldiers who died from gunshot wounds at Deepcut Barracks between 1995 and 2002, and of their parents' campaign for an inquiry into the deaths, has won the 2008 Fre...
Scotland: Freedom of Expression Award Shortlist Announced
The shortlist for the 2008 Freedom of Expression Award has been announced. The Freedom of Expression Award is administered by Amnesty International and the Big Issue in Scotland. The Award recognises...
First PSNI use of taser: Amnesty International response.
Patrick Corrigan of Amnesty International's Northern Ireland office stated: "Amnesty recognises that police officers have a duty to protect themselves and others from serious life-threatening incident...
Scotland: New Amnesty research suggests modern-day slave trade extends across Scotland
New research published today (20 August) suggests that people trafficking - the modern-day equivalent of the slave trade - is occurring around Scotland. The "Scotland's Slaves" briefing paper, launche...
Iran: The 20th Anniversary of 1988 'prison massacre'
Twenty years after the then Iranian authorities began a wave of largely secret, summary and mass executions in September 1988, Amnesty International renews its call for those responsible for the "pris...
Sudan: Hundreds unaccounted for and 109 to face sham trials following 10 May attacks
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JOHNSTON � The town�s Municipal Court judge could ask police to find certain scofflaws and haul them before his bench during a special session of night court next month, according to the court�s administrator.
JOHNSTON � The town�s Municipal Court judge could ask police to find certain scofflaws and haul them before his bench during a special session of night court next month, according to the court�s administrator, Richard Delfino.
Judge Michael DiChiro might not take that step, Delfino said Friday, but the necessary preparations are complete more than two months into the court�s push to resolve thousands of open court cases, including some that date from the early 1990s.
The defendants in these cases, mostly involving speeding and other driving offenses, never paid their fines and never showed up for court.
Since August, the court has mailed out notices in an initial effort to contact roughly 500 of these delinquents.
Those who received the notices, and read them, learned that they were expected in court, either on Aug. 20 or Oct. 3. Notices will soon go out to an additional 250 people who will be asked to either pay up or appear at the session scheduled for Nov. 21.
Each of the notices warns that failing to pay outstanding fines without appearing in court as scheduled will lead the judge to issue a civil arrest warrant to be handled by the Johnston Police Department.
At this point, the court is capable of moving forward with such action for a handful of delinquents who were targeted in the initial mailing and are believed to be living in Johnston, Delfino said.
Meanwhile, the court has negotiated the outlines of an agreement with a collection agency, which would pursue people whom the town failed to reach through the mail.
To go forward, the arrangement would need approval from Mayor Joseph M. Polisena.
Delfino said the collection agency�s efforts might be so successful that the town could simply put unresolved cases in the hands of the collection agency and forgo the new system that tries to force payment through mailed notices and court appearances.
Since the town began calling scofflaws into night-court sessions, it has recovered $60,000 of an estimated $750,000 in outstanding fines connected to about 5,000 cases.
Rather than focusing on people whose cases date back to the �90s, the court�s latest push focuses on delinquents who committed offenses during the past two years, Delfino said.
�I think our collection count is going to be much higher this time around,� he said.


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World Oral Health Day 2022: Partnering to improve the oral health of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander adolescents
In a blog for World Oral Health Day, John Skinner and Yvonne Dimitropoulos discuss the development of a program to improve the oral health of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander adolescents in Australia in the IAOHPS study registered at the ISRCTN registry.
John Skinner & Yvonne Dimitropoulos 17 Mar 2022
A newly installed filtered and refrigerated water fountain in remote New South Wales
Good oral health is important for overall general health and wellbeing. Good oral health enables a person to eat, speak and socialize without pain or embarrassment. Common dental diseases include dental caries (tooth decay) and gum disease, which are both largely preventable.
Many Australians enjoy good oral health, but for some populations, including Aboriginal Australians, this is not equally shared. Many Aboriginal people, particularly Aboriginal people living in rural and remote communities across Australia experience higher levels and often more severe levels of dental caries. This gap in oral health is due to a range of factors including limited oral health promotion resources and lack of access to oral health services that meet the cultural and social needs of Aboriginal Australians.
Engaging Aboriginal Australians in the design and delivery of health services and health promotion is crucial to providing effective services.
Engaging Aboriginal Australians in the design and delivery of health services and health promotion is crucial to providing effective services. This is because they consider the local needs, knowledge and culture of the community, which means the services are more likely to be used and effective. This approach, known as co-design, has been effective in improving oral health and education outcomes for Aboriginal Australians.
For example, a co-designed oral health promotion program for Aboriginal children in rural and remote communities in NSW, Australia was able to reduce dental caries among children and improve positive oral hygiene behaviors such as brushing with fluoride toothpaste, drinking water and reducing the consumption of sugar-sweetened beverages.
The program involved daily in-school tooth brushing, regular dental health education by a local Aboriginal dental assistant, regular fluoride varnish applied to teeth and installation of refrigerated and filtered water fountains in schools and the wider community. More information on this program can be found in an article in The Conversation.
The co-design process gives Elders, schools and community members the opportunity to advise on the development of evidence-based strategies that can prevent dental caries and how they can be best be implemented in their community. This meant that the strategies were implemented in ways the community identified as suitable and that they were sustainable and well-received, and in turn improved oral health outcomes.
Children participating in the oral health promotion program in remote New South Wales
The Partnering to Improve the oral health of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander adolescents study (also known as the Indigenous Adolescent Oral Health Partnership [IAOHP] study) will apply the same principles of co-design to develop a holistic oral health promotion program to improve the oral health and social-emotional well-being of Aboriginal adolescents in Queensland, New South Wales and Victoria, Australia. The IAOHP study registration can be found here.
The IAOHP study will involve a peer-led process to co-design a program that aims to encourage the uptake of five strategies that can improve oral health among Aboriginal adolescents aged 10–19 years. These strategies include 1) increasing fluoride treatment, 2) increasing tooth brushing with fluoride toothpaste, 3) increasing consumption of water, 4) improving nutrition and 5) enhancing social and emotional well-being.
As part of the peer-led process, a working group of Aboriginal adolescents from various communities across Queensland, New South Wales and Victoria, Australia will be recruited to learn about co-design and how it can be applied in research to improve health outcomes for Aboriginal people (Phase 1). They will use these skills to run yarning groups* in their communities with their peers to identify how these five strategies can be best implemented in their local community to reach Aboriginal adolescents effectively.
For example, this might include installing refrigerated and filtered water fountains in schools and implementing water-only policies at local schools and community groups to increase consumption of water, or in-school tooth brushing programs to increase tooth brushing with fluoride toothpaste.
The IAHOP study is a new approach to working with Aboriginal adolescents to co-design oral health promotion with and for this group rather than imposing programs that may not be culturally or socially relevant.
The IAOHP study aims to recruit 60 adolescents to participate in the co-designed program from various communities across Queensland, New South Wales and Victoria. A project manager will be assisting the working group to develop and implement these strategies. The strategies will be implemented for a period of 12 months in each community (Phase 2). Phase 3 will involve an evaluation of the IAOHP study to determine the impact of these strategies on the oral health and social and emotional well-being of adolescents who participate in the program.
A primary outcome measure will be changes in oral health status assessed using a caries experience index (dmft/DMFT index), which measures the number of teeth affected by dental caries. Secondary measures will include the satisfaction of participants, self-reported changes in diet and drinking water and sugar-sweetened beverages and changes in quality of life measured using validated questionnaires.
The IAOHP study will begin recruiting the working group in mid-2022 to complete Phase 1 of this study. The IAHOP study is a new approach to working with Aboriginal adolescents to co-design oral health promotion with and for this group rather than imposing programs that may not be culturally or socially relevant.
The IAHOP study aims to develop a 'toolkit' for Australian public oral health services and policymakers to engage with adolescents to co-design evidence-based oral health promotion to improve oral health and general health outcomes for Australian adolescents.
*Yarning groups are similar to focus groups however they use a culturally appropriate method of conversation known as yarning.
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John Skinner & Yvonne Dimitropoulos
John worked in public health for over 30 years and was appointed as the Director of the Centre for Oral Health Strategy NSW, Australia in 2014 and led the development of both Oral Health 2020 and the Aboriginal Oral Health Plan in NSW. John has been working closely with Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Services, Local Health Districts, Universities and professional groups, to develop effective community partnerships to address inequities in Aboriginal health status in NSW. In March 2018 he commenced at The University of Sydney as a Senior Research Fellow with the Poche Centre for Indigenous Health. He is currently the Acting Director of Research at the Poche Centre for Indigenous Health.
Yvonne is an Oral Health Therapist and has experience providing dental services for Aboriginal children in rural and remote communities across NSW, Australia. Yvonne's doctoral research involved collaborating with Aboriginal communities to develop and implement culturally appropriate and sustainable oral health promotion to improve the oral health of Aboriginal children in New South Wales, Australia. Yvonne is a Research Associate at the Poche Centre for Indigenous Health.
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Does the Government Care About the Future?
Still Shot from 'Losing Nemo'. Locals pushed out by the corporations who control the government
I can't believe it's been three years since we fought the fight to pass AB376, outlawing the sale of shark fin products in California. It was an important battle in the war, but the war has just begun. It's still quite easy to find shark fin products sold in restaurants and shops, and I don't just mean in China Town. Some good news has resulted from the passing of the bill in the form of a few shark fin product perpetrators being busted and prosecuted. But as we fight the local fight against those who will sell shark fins until there are no sharks left, we sadly have to worry about the federal government interfering (read here) on behalf of the fishing industry....a fishing industry that is about as sustainable and responsible as dropping nuclear bombs in lakes to catch trout. Don't believe me? Read this report from Oceana exposing fisheries that throw away 65% of what they catch, including all the cute and cuddly things that you actually care about, like dolphins, turtles, otters, whales, etc. Yes, this is in the United States, not Mozambique.
Let's skip over South Africa for the time being (seems to be an uphill battle on a slope covered in mud over there) and go to Australia, another first world country that "cares about the ocean". Their feds are trampled all over existing laws and the opinions of its voters to push an expensive, ineffective, and ecologically disastrous slaughter of sharks. Yes, by the government that simultaneously lists the animals its killing as protected and vulnerable. From a shark's perspective I'd be thinking, "with friends like this, who needs enemies?"
We continue to spill oil although we haven't recovered from the last ones. We pursue drilling in the arctic when it's already proven that the arctic is melting away from use of the very thing we're drilling for. Rain forests are destroyed, proposals to dump sediment onto the Great barrier Reef, natives pushed off their land, poison allowed in approved food, and we worry about offending the cultures of people who's cultures seem to be hell bent on killing every last thing on the planet.
Maybe the government knows something we don't know. Maybe it really is too late. Maybe it's better for them to help their buddies make as much cash as possible on the limited time left on this planet. Maybe they'll be the ones who can afford a flight to an off-planet living facility.
Fending off the Feds (and lobbyists) for the sake of Fins
Remember foot binding? Probably not. That's because it went the way of the dodo, as should other cultural practices that are outdated or should never have existed in the first place. Let's be honest with ourselves, humans come up with some pretty messed up cultural traditions so it doesn't exactly break my heart when certain cultural practices are forcibly brought to an end (read more about my particular take on culture here).
But in all honesty the shark fin battle is about money, not about culture. That's why I almost cheered aloud in the theatre when a female Chinese-American stood up on the senate floor and stated the quote on the left in response to a paid-off lobbyist who claimed the anti-fin ban was a racist attack against the Chinese. You can see this wonderful moment in Phil Waller's new movie Extinction Soup.
California won another battle in the ongoing struggle to get its own shark fin ban going full force. Sadly its the feds that the state has had to deal with. A federal judge on Tuesday upheld California's ban on possession or sale of shark fins, rejecting claims that the law discriminates against the Chinese community - where shark fin soup is a traditional delicacy - or interferes with federal management of ocean fishing.
The law, passed in 2011, took full effect in July, when selling and serving shark fin soup became illegal. It was challenged by Bay Area organizations of Chinese American businesses and by shark fin suppliers, who argued that the legislation targeted the Chinese community and exceeded the state's authority to regulate fishing.
The federal law "is intended to preserve the nation's fishery resources and to promote conservation," purposes consistent with those of the California law, Orrick said in his most significant ruling since Obama appointed him to the bench in May. He said Congress did not intend to "maximize fishing or the sale of fish" and did not require states to "allow the possession or trading of shark fin - even shark fin lawfully landed."
Orrick also said the state law would have more of an effect on the Chinese American community than it would elsewhere, but federal courts require proof of intentional discrimination to overturn a law, and there was no such evidence in this case.
"People of Chinese origin or culture undoubtedly overwhelmingly comprise the market for shark fin," the judge wrote. "However, a law is not unconstitutional simply because it has a racially disparate impact."
The law applies equally throughout the state, Orrick said, and was based on legislative findings that the California shark fin market boosted the market for shark finning, which was contributing to the decline of a species critical to the health of the ocean's ecosystem.
Lawyers for the law's opponents were unavailable for comment. They could appeal the ruling.
Another Attempt to Stop the Illegal Cull...Legally
"Protected Species"? - photo Skyler Thomas
The Australian Greens will move to tap into anti-shark cull sentiment among WA voters, with plans to rush legislation to quash Colin Barnett's drum line policy into Federal Parliament less than a fortnight before the Senate election.
An opinion poll commissioned by the Greens suggests that almost three in five voters want the Federal Government to use its powers to overrule the Premier.
The Greens' Bill would force Labor to take a stance on the cull but even if the Opposition supports it to pass the Senate, the Government would comfortably have the numbers to block it in the House of Representatives.
Federal Environment Minister Greg Hunt has given the WA Government an exemption from the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act to set baited drum lines to catch sharks until April 30, agreeing it was in the national interest.
However, most of the sharks caught have been tiger sharks, rather than the great white shark species blamed for attacks on people off WA.
The Greens will push for a vote on its private members' Save our Sharks Bill this week. This is the final sitting week before the WA Senate vote and Parliament does not resume until May, after this year's cull is meant to finish.
Greens leader Christine Milne, in WA for the party's campaign launch on Saturday, told _The West Australian _Mr Barnett had underestimated the level of public opposition to the shark cull.
The poll commissioned by the Greens found 57 per cent of WA voters thought the Abbott Government should use its powers to halt the cull, with 38 per cent strongly agreeing.
Greens leader Christine Milne says there is overwhelming opposition to the cull, introduced by the WA government with support from the federal government following a spate of attacks.
"We will stand up for the great white shark and the marine ecosystem against Tony Abbott and Colin Barnett," she told reporters.
"There is huge support to say end this cull and never do it again."
Greens marine and WA spokeswoman Rachel Siewert said the federal government facilitated the WA government going ahead with the shark cull through an exemption granted under the Environmental Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act.
Senator Siewert said the private member's bill would retrospectively bar federal Environment Minister Greg Hunt from granting an exemption.
"The federal government should never have used that provision," she said.
Drum Lines Removed by Protesters
Now this is what I call taking action. Kudos to everyone involved and let's see more of it. The following article was copied from WA Today.
Protesters say there have been no repercussions for illegally removing a shark drum line off a Perth beach on the weekend.
A group created what they referred to as a "late entry to Sculpture by the Sea" on Saturday after they removed a shark drum line from the ocean.
Members of the Forest Rescue group, which is against the state's shark mitigation program which involves killing large sharks that come within one kilometre of the coast, posed with the item while dressed as mermaids on Cottesloe beach.
Spokesman for the group Simon Peterffy admitted the group removed the drum line from about one kilometre off Cottesloe Beach, an action that could attract a $20,000 fine.
"That doesn't deter us," he said.
Mr Peterffy said neither the police or fisheries officers questioned the group about the item.
He said representatives of Surf Life Saving WA and Sculpture by the Sea had spoken to the group on the day but did not ask them to leave.
The Department of Premier and Cabinet is yet to respond to questions about the incident. The Fisheries Department refers all media queries related to sharks to the Department of Premier and Cabinet.
Read more: http://www.watoday.com.au/wa-news/no-fines-for-removing-shark-drum-lines-off-cottesloe-beach-20140317-34x1s.html#ixzz2x14u1bjB
Morbid Mondays - Daily Planetary Contribution
Enjoy your commute...especially if you are employed by Colin Barnett's Administration.
Whether you love sharks, hate sharks, or are indifferent, can the niche of the shark...its purpose and contribution to the planet be questioned? Of course that requires one to have a clue what the shark does on a daily routine, which, believe it or not, has nothing to do with eating people. Now, examine your contribution to the planet today, this week, this year...maybe even your lifetime. How has the planet benefitted from your presence?
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If You Could Hear Sharks Thinking
A little bit of humor in this video. This white shark, Mau, returns to Guadalupe looking pretty beaten up from bite marks before having his pride beaten up as well by repeatedly missing "dead targets"
Shot in 2009 by WSV
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Morbid Mondays - Measuring the Value of Life
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If not by Shark, how would you like to go out?
Extinction Soup, Politics, Public Safety, and Fighting the Good Fight
Just want to share a few thoughts from a quick excerpt of an interview with Phil Waller, Director of Extinction Soup, while we were at the San Francisco International Ocean Film Festival.
For those that don't know, Phil and executive producer Stefanie Brendl made a movie documenting the battle to pass a shark fin ban in Hawaii. The film provides gorgeous footage and takes the viewer on an emotional ride as we see the beauty of sharks juxtaposed against the same animals being slaughtered in inhumane fashion. But I found the political battle particularly unnerving as it brought back memories of California's own struggle to pass a shark fin ban only a few years ago. Just like in San Francisco, the fishing industry resorted to hiring lobbyists to declare the ban as racist attack on Chinese culture (If you still want to send him hate mail, the senator in San Francisco was Leland Yee).
"Almost nothing under the moon kills less people than sharks do!" - pw
Politics led our discussion to Western Australia where sharks are being slaughtered in the very waters they are supposed to be protected in. Public Safety, not culture, is the scapegoat for this political agenda, and it was while discussing the concept of trying to make people safe from sharks that Phil stated the glaringly obvious; not only do sharks kill a very small number of people, but they KILL LESS PEOPLE than almost ANYTHING ELSE on this planet. Repeat that in your head a few times. We've all heard the stats about coconuts and vending machines, etc., but I think the concept really sinks in when you try to list things that DON'T kill more people than sharks rather than what DO. How can public safety be a reason to kill sharks when it's not enough of a reason to dispose of the rest of the offenders on the list?
Phil did a great job of being positive, but I'm obviously a bit of a pessimist when it comes to conservation and politics living happily together. But as he said, all we can do is keep trying and spreading the word because ignorance still outweighs knowledge and that can only change by sharing information. So, keep spreading the word and fighting the fight!
And yes, I know I look homeless in this interview. I'll clean up when the film is over.


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What's over the horizon for the RAF Typhoons?
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Over the next three years, the RAF's Typhoon aircraft will develop into very capable multi-role fighter. Today, it is the RAF's premier fighter, tasked to defend British skies. But, by April 2019, when the RAF Tornado retires, the Typhoon will be expected to fulfil its air-to-ground capabilities as well. Alan Warnes reports.
Both the Tornado and the Typhoon are currently involved in Operation Shader, the UK's contribution to bombing Daesh targets in Iraq and Syria out of RAF Akrotiri (Cyprus).
There are five operational Typhoon squadrons, which share responsibilities for Shader and also include three quick-reaction alert (QRA) interception roles at RAF Lossiemouth, Scotland; RAF Coningsby, Lincs; and RAF Stanley, Falkland Islands.
That's quite a tall order for such a small force.
However, the November 2015 strategic defence and security review (SDSR) signalled more growth for the Typhoon force, leading to the establishment of three additional squadrons by the end of 2019. It came after the MoD recognised the RAF didn't have enough squadrons to fulfil its overall mission.
Air Commodore Ian Duguid, the Typhoon force commander said: "We had a compelling case to grow more combat power as quickly as we could but the only way of doing that was effectively halting the withdrawal of all 48 tranche 1 Typhoons and extending their service life. That was confirmed in the SDSR – but we are still planning to take some elements out of service."
As the RAF moves to a single-seat Typhoon force, so the need for two-seat aircraft will diminish. It will have some, but the majority of the two-seaters are tranche 1s, which will be taken out of service.
Another reason for reducing the number of tranche 1s is the 10-year Typhoon total availability enterprise (TyTAN) agreement, announced by BAE Systems at the Farnborough International Airshow, which is worth £2.1 billion over the lifetime of the contract.
"TyTAN includes an element for long-term support, where we need to harvest some of the older tranche 1 aircraft for spares," explained Duguid. "Using the spare parts or 'reducing to produce' as we know it, is a recognised process that the Tornados have been going through for a few years now.
"The tranche 1s will remain in service life until 2035; whereas the modern tranche 2/3s will stay until 2040. We are now working through some higher level planning to determine where the tranche 1s will be based and the additional squadrons' number plates. The aim is to have their capability available by mid-to-late 2019."
Under Project Centurion, the RAF's Typhoon contracted upgrade requirements will be completed by the end of 2018. It will include integration on to tranche 2/3 jets of the Storm Shadow cruise missile, Meteor beyond-visual-range air-to-air missile, and Brimstone 2 weapon.
Those jets will cover the multirole requirements, working with the F-35 Lightning IIs when they arrive in the UK in mid-2018, knitting the RAF's future combat air capability together.
Duguid added: "Currently the only difference between the Typhoons is that tranche 1 are cleared to carry the 1,000lb Enhanced Paveway II precision-guided munition (PGM), whereas tranche 2 carries the 500lb Paveway IV PGM. The latter is a more modern, more versatile bomb, which we are using in the Middle East against Daesh.
"However once Project Centurion is delivered, it will create a difference in capabilities – a more significant difference than that which currently exists between tranche 1 and tranche 2/3 aircraft."
Continuing to operate the older tranche 1s will enable the RAF to cover Red Air (aggressor) and air defence roles. They could also contribute to the new operational training requirement known as air support to defence operational training (ASDOT), which may be outsourced to a civilian contractor by 2019.
Duguid said: "It won't only be the tranche 1 squadrons which will contribute to ASDOT, although potentially they will have a more significant role – they will be part of the frontline squadrons we have. But they will be directed more towards air defence than undertaking a wider multirole capability."
Four II(AC) Squadron Typhoons manned a NATO quick reaction alert station at Amari Air Base in Estonia from May 1 to August 31, 2016. They were responsible for Baltic air policing as part of Operation Azotize, and were launched 21 times to intercept unidentified aircraft, mostly Russian.
The RAF sent eight Typhoons to Nellis AFB, Nevada, for Exercise Red Flag in mid-January, in what is now a regular occurrence.
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