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Summary: Not my usual story - rather experimental so feedback appreciated.
Warnings: Mention of slash pairing.
It was small. An odd shape but most definitely there.
"Is that a... a hickey, Major?" she asked, letting her curiosity get the better of her.
His head shot up, face looking sheepish at the prospect she'd found it out.
"What?!" he nearly squeaked, caught by surprise, hands dropping the papers as he did so. Then choking out, "Where?"
She smiled, vaguely amused by his response, and rolled her eyes.
"On your... neck." she replied, exaggerating the pause between the last two words to tease slightly.
Honestly where else did he expect it to be... that she could see at least.
She watched him formulate an answer - or rather an excuse - licking his lips and avoiding her eyes, his own flitting about as he took a moment to think about it.
For once he couldn't find anything to explain, but then it was pretty obvious - there couldn't be many believable alternate explanations for the love bite.
"I need to go somewhere." he said quickly, blurting it out and collecting the reports they'd been going over together.
She raised an eyebrow at that, knowing full well he had nothing urgent to do.
He looked up at her, an overly casual smile on his face.
"Yes, important... stuff. Rodney needed me, for...uh.. testing. Yeah, testing doodads; can't wait"
And it seemed it couldn't, as he rushed off promptly leaving her standing there.
For a few moments she stayed there pondering what had gone on before she walked into her office, her smile fading, feeling tight and fake - out of place with how she felt inside. There wasn't any reason she should care. None at all. There were even several reasons she shouldn't, Simon for one.
She turned to close her door and lock herself of from the world before she began examining her thoughts. Sitting down she leant her elbows on the table as if bracing herself against the truth.
She cared. She didn't want to. She wished she could just be pleased for John that he'd found someone, but she choked on that. His happiness made her bitter and for that she felt guilty. She wasn't meant to care at all.
Perhaps it would be easier if they weren't friends. Then maybe she could let herself feel envy at the idea that they were together.
But she still couldn't quite believe it had actually happened - John and Teyla. Only they'd obviously gotten on fine last night on their 'date'.
Ever since he had risked his life for them all to defeat the wraith, she had watched them grow closer until Teyla approached her with questions about the relationship customs of Earth. She was obviously taking great care to get it right for John. So she'd told her everything and anything that could help of course, not able to be spiteful about it, and acted like it was the same as any other thing she'd had to explain to the Athosian.
Try as she might it was still there - that she felt more than she should. Flaring up at times, usually unexpectedly. The cool and calm Elizabeth Weir ravaged by this one passion, her mask shattered and her heart torn at what was going on. It was her weakness - one she hadn't seen coming, hadn't even imagined until coming here.
Her thoughts were filled with that beautiful face, the glorious smile lighting up for her as she'd seen before on occasion. Stress often stopped such from occurring in every day dealings and seeing the team go off on missions and knowing something was bound to happen to cause harm tore at her as well. Knowing the nature of this galaxy would likely wipe away any chance of that rare sight, yet it still did from time to time between and despite their troubles. But through it all, it was never for her, apart from in her dreams, and now it would be for someone else. For a friend no less.
There would come a day, maybe not so far away, when she would see them together - eyes dancing with joy. He might grin for once and Teyla Emmagan would smile back honestly at John Sheppard. That precious carefree smile wasted, or so it would feel to her, because it wasn't simply that she wanted what they had.
If only it was that simple to want the comfort they'd found in each other from their burdens, but then life here had created so many if onlys to dream of. This was just another one - a single one that would be trivial compared to all the rest yet was the most important to her. A hope she held onto, wishing for it fervently and yet despising the loss should it ever become true - hiding it all as far within as was possible.
If only she didn't love Teyla. Holding back the tears suddenly seemed too much despite the fact someone would likely see but she held them back a minute longer, rushing from her office to her balcony overlooking the calm seas surrounding Atlantis. There she sought refuge away from the world, a place where no one could see her there as she was; simply Elizabeth, a girl with a broken heart crying to herself as quietly as she could manage.


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A business by a single individual which is not formally organized and for which the individual and the business are indistinguishable in law.
Also known as a proprietorship.
Where an individual starts a business of any kind, and without another person, which would then constitute a partnership, the law treats the business as a sole proprietorship. This characterization results in the complete liability of the individual to the tort, contract and other liabilities of the business.
"John Doe, operating as Doe Painting, a sole proprietorship"
Where a single individual carries on a business, it is necessarily conducted as either a sole proprietorship or a corporation.
A sole proprietorship is the default structure when a single individual starts a business as a partnership requires another individual and a corporation, a charter from the government.
In most jurisdictions, though, as a matter of transparency and consumer protection, a minor form of government registration is usually required, such as a city or other business license, or the registration of the business name. Tax authorities may also require registration and a tax number, as well as distinct financial disclosure in terms of income and expenses of the sole proprietorship, as opposed to such other income irrelevant expenses of the tax payer.
Sole proprietorships often operate under a name distinct from the owner ("Barb's Fish and Chips"), and the owner is often entitled to reserve a distinct name for exclusive use.
In a sole proprietorship, there is no sharing of responsibilities; the individual does it all and can fully bind the business by his/her sole signature. Conversely, and contrary to a corporation but similar to a general partner, the personal assets of the sole proprietorship are exposed to satisfy any tort, contractual or judgment debt of the business.
Most tax authorities prevent the sole proprietor from benefiting from favorable tax treatment as an employee of the business, since the proprietor and the employee are inseparable in law. Further, sole proprietors are not attractive to investors since - absent some contractual arrangement to the contrary - the individual proprietor has exclusive ownership in the assets of the business, and accounts receivable.
Sole proprietorships are common in the fishing and farming industry.


2016, living in Nicaragua. My host-mom and host-sister are two of the most loving people and the best teachers. My friend who recently graduated from UMMS did a global health rotation in Nicaragua, and I hope to do the same.
After graduating from college three years ago, I set out to learn Spanish. This involved living in a Spanish-speaking country, traveling and getting involved with organizations locally. One of my main goals when starting medical school was to not only maintain the progress I had gained, but also improve.
I have found the opportunities to learn, practice and apply a second (or third, or fourth) language are everywhere if you search for them. Since starting medical school four months ago, I have been able to translate at a free clinic for migrant workers, where medical student Spanish-speakers are paired with non-Spanish speaking clinicians. I have worked with Washtenaw Health Initiative to help Spanish-speaking community members enroll in health care coverage. I have also helped orient Spanish-speaking patients at the U-M Student-Run Free Clinic in Livingston County.
These experiences have been some of my favorite experiences thus far in medical school; however, my most educational Spanish language experience has been the student-run medical Spanish elective. This is a class where a small group of medical students meet in the evenings two or three times a month with a Michigan Medicine physician who is either a fluent or native Spanish speaker. The session is entirely in Spanish and usually begins with the physician pretending to be a patient as the students walk through an entire visit, starting with taking a complete history. We then discuss the case in-depth, and possible diagnoses and treatments.
November, 2018. Volunteering for Washtenaw Health Initiative to get the word out about open enrollment for health insurance and connect people to resources.
During a year where our academic material focuses on the details of organ systems, drug mechanisms and anatomy, this course, refreshingly, has an entirely clinical focus. We not only learn Spanish medical vocabulary and phrases, but as a group we walk through creating a differential diagnosis and learn more about how doctors think. It has also been a wonderful opportunity for students among different classes to spend time together.
Whether you are interested in improving on a second language, taking piano lessons (seriously, these are offered to medical students), or perfecting your Disney character impersonations (consider auditioning for The Smoker), just because you are in medical school does not mean you need to put these goals away for four years. In fact, I'm learning it's better if you don't.
In January of 2018, then-M1s James Haggerty-Skeans and I escaped the cold Michigan winter for Austin, Texas as part of a new US Medical School initiative — Choosing Wisely STARS. Having already taken Canada by storm, Dell Medical School spearheaded the US campaign, inviting two M1s from 20 medical schools across the country to discuss the importance of value and resource stewardship in medicine.
After surviving an unnecessarily eventful evening of travel that involved an unexpected detour to Chicago, a pair of lost shoes, and a minor run-in with security who tried to confiscate my tuning forks, James and I were ready to meet our cohort and get to work.
Throughout the following two days we uncovered the history of the Choosing Wisely Campaign, which was initially launched in 2012 by the American Board of Internal Medicine Foundation. Based on a 2010 article in the New England Journal of Medicine by Dr. Howard Brody, the campaign focuses on encouraging medical sub-specialties to identify five tests or treatments from their specific field that are overused and offer limited benefit to the patient. Since the initial nine publications, more than 80 societies have joined the initiative and published their recommendations.
James and I were subsequently tasked with bringing this national campaign to UMMS. Although perhaps more challenging than our other options, we were excited by the idea of systemic curricular change and sought the help of our faculty adviser, Dr. Michael Heung, to lead us in our endeavor. In our quest for space within the curriculum to emphasize this topic, we quickly found an ally in Dr. Jennifer N. Stojan, director of the Doctoring course. Over the past several months, our team has worked to construct an M4 Doctoring Session, which will launch in March of 2019, and will cover US health care expenditures, the impact of cost on patients, and how they will be able to reduce waste in their own practice.
As James and I transition into our lives as newly minted clinical students, we are lucky to have added two M1s to our team as they prepare to fly to Austin for what we hope will be the second of many Choosing Wisely cohorts from UMMS. While resource stewardship was not a passion of mine prior to medical school, I look back on the impact it made throughout my first year and am confident this experience will influence my clinical decision making, patient interactions and research interests both in the remainder of my education and in my future practice.


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How did Aegon conquer westeros with 3 dragons and 1 year but the valyrians took decades to conquer Ghis with hundreds of dragons?
By Tyrosh Lannister,
1 hour ago, Lord Varys said:
The Targaryens never faced such problems, meaning the consensus among the nobility and the smallfolk must have been 'The Targaryens are great and we want them to rule over us!'
I don't think there's enough evidence to claim that the majority of the Nobles, and especially the Smallfolk, were pro-Targaryen to such a degree. We see one man in the Riverlands voice support for Aerys, given that he was likely removed from King's Landing it's unlikely he was aware of Aerys atrocities. There are a few nobles who are very pro-Targaryen but quite a lot of them seem ambivalent. Houses like Darry seemed to be the ones benefitting the most from the Targaryen rule, so no wonder they supported them.
I'm sure that Aegon/Daenerys could gather a lot of support, but I think in most cases that would be because lords believed they would benefit more from having them in charge than whoever was currently on the throne, not because of any special loyalty to the Targaryens per se.
nor did the common people feel oppressed by the Targaryens.
I don't think they felt oppressed by the Targaryens, but I don't think they all loved them either. I don't think the Smallfolk care at all that much, as long as their left in peace. It was just another rung on the feudal ladder.
I believe it would be more accurate to say that the nobles and smallfolk viewed the Targaryen regime as bringing more advantages than disadvantages, or that overthrowing them would be more trouble than it was worth, than that they all generally agreed that the Targaryens were the Gods' Gift to Westeros.
If lots of people were unhappy with their reign then it the smallest rebellion should have quickly turned into a universal uprising casting the Targaryens down. But not even the High Septon could trigger such an upraising. Most lords remained either loyal to the Targaryens or did at least not support the rebels.
The Faith Militant uprising was quite significant but it ended because the Targaryens had Dragons. After the Dragons were gone however...
Aldarion
The fighting forces of Westeros are not very good in comparison. Dany would be able to give them a shortcut to their dead ancestors without having to resort to the use of dragons. She can save the field of fire for the Wights and the Stark led Wildlings in the battle of the Trident.
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4 hours ago, Rondo said:
Location:Numenor under the sea
10 hours ago, Rondo said:
https://fantasyview.wordpress.com/2020/03/11/tactical-overview-the-unsullied/
https://fantasyview.wordpress.com/2020/08/01/tactical-overview-dothraki/
https://fantasyview.wordpress.com/2020/08/11/tactical-overview-golden-company/
https://fantasyview.wordpress.com/2020/08/21/proof-that-westerosi-armies-are-professionals/
https://fantasyview.wordpress.com/2020/10/01/clash-of-empires-dothraki-vs-westeros/
https://fantasyview.wordpress.com/2020/08/16/clash-of-empires-daenerys-vs-westeros-conventional-forces/
https://historyandwar.org/2021/11/18/why-1241-mongol-invasion-of-hungary-failed-part-1-overview-of-the-invasion/
https://historyandwar.org/2021/11/21/why-1241-mongol-invasion-of-hungary-failed-part-2-reasons-for-mongol-withdrawal/
https://historyandwar.org/2021/12/09/mongol-siege-of-klis-fortress/
https://historyandwar.org/2021/12/16/how-mongol-invasion-shaped-hungarys-defense-strategy/
https://historyandwar.org/2021/09/19/sumerian-phalanx/
https://historyandwar.org/2022/08/28/chivalry-in-croatia/
https://acoup.blog/2021/01/08/collections-that-dothraki-horde-part-iv-screamers-and-howlers/
https://acoup.blog/2019/05/05/new-acquisitions-unsullied-kit-review/
https://acoup.blog/2019/05/28/new-acquisitions-not-how-it-was-game-of-thrones-and-the-middle-ages-part-i/
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Most Devious 'Man' In The Seven Kingdoms
Location:Definitely somewhere in King's Landing
21 hours ago, Craving Peaches said:
That is 300 years later and due to the atrocities/general behavior of a king who was known as Aerys the Mad. Robert's Rebellion wasn't an anti-Targaryen movement as such, it affirmed not only the rule of the King on the Iron Throne but you can even view it as a Targaryen civil war similar to the Dance of the Blackfyre Rebellions since Robert Baratheon is effectively a Targaryen through the female line.
In general, the smallfolk continues to view the rule of the Targaryen dynasty as a golden era. Individual kings might suck, but the dynasty is great.
If you want to consider the future then even the nobility were brought up to be in awe about the Targaryens and their semi-divine heritage. They did not grow up in a vacuum and half the Realm stood with Rhaegar at the Trident.
However, our topic here is Aegon conquering Westeros in record time, with minimal bloodshed and no major rebellions following the end of the war. This only makes sense if the conquered peoples were happy being conquered. No other explanation works. If they had been unhappy they would have found ways to rid themselves of Aegon and his sisters and their dragons. There were just three of them them, and then only two.
The only talk about assassination attempts we get is Dornish assassins - no hint that, say, the Lannisters or Starks ever plotted to murder their king and his queens to regain their status as kings, no hint that a bunch of lords banded together Caltrops style to murder Aegon during this or that royal progress.
The fast growth of KL indicates it was much more for many of the smallfolk. It was freedom from the yoke of the lords, almost constant peace, and an end to private feuds among the lords.
Well, obviously, any really ambitious family would have dreamed about becoming Targaryens themselves. To marry into the family and either share in their rule or claim or usurp the Iron Throne. That was real power now, ultimate power, not the little power even the former royal houses as rulers of their relatively small domains (compared to all the Seven Kingdoms sans Dorne).
That is why we see the Hightowers and the Lannisters aiming at this high price from the start rather than, you know, plot regain their petty crowns which would only invite trouble.
But this kind of attitude only works, of course, if they are all more or less fine with a king ruling them all. If the Targaryens had been viewed as oppressors and tyrants the Realm their rule would have quickly collapsed.
The siginificant thing there is that after Dorne showed that defiance against the dragons were possible literally no great house (openly) backed the Faith's crusade against the Targaryens. It were minor houses and the fanatics among the smallfolk.
Once the dragons were gone, Targaryen rule continued as before. We see no signs that they had greater authority with dragons than without dragons ... although this should be the case. Granted, Aegon V's reforms would have likely worked better with dragons than without, but a king like Aegon IV and even Aerys II seemed to have all the absolute power - or even more of it - as Maegor or Jaehaerys I had.
2 hours ago, Lord Varys said:
Are there any quotations to evidence this? The only pro-Targaryen smallfolk quote I am aware of is the old man in the Riverlands.
If you want to consider the future then even the nobility were brought up to be in awe about the Targaryens and their semi-divine heritage.
Are there any quotes for this? In the main series and not F&B? I have not had the books on me for a while.
They did not grow up in a vacuum and half the Realm stood with Rhaegar at the Trident.
I'm not sure about this. The Martells were there, but they had marriage ties and Aerys was keeping Elia hostage (and Lewyn may have been a hostage as well). The Tyrells were not with Rhaegar. In terms of the Great Houses, only two of eight were with the Targaryens. Lannister was neutral and Arryn, Baratheon, Stark, Tully and Greyjoy were all against them.
Well they'd already tried to be rid of them the first time. It didn't work because of the dragons. When Aegon died and Maegor was in charge they tried to get rid of him. It didn't work because dragons.
It's not really freedom from the lords though. All they are doing is switching their local lord for a Targaryen one. They're all still part of the feudal structure, having to be subservient to the king.
If the Targaryens had been viewed as oppressors and tyrants the Realm their rule would have quickly collapsed.
But this is what we see with Maegor. People think he's a tyrant and try to overthrow him, only it doesn't work because Dragons.
It looks like the number of non-Targaryen matches increase and the number of incestuous marriages decrease though...
11 minutes ago, Craving Peaches said:
We also have folks caring about the murder of the Targaryen children. Even the whores in White Harbor talk Targaryens as their rightful rulers as late as ADwD.
I meant that most nobility were born during the reign of Aerys II, growing up viewing the Targaryens as their rightful rulers.
We know Rhaegar had more men than Robert. And most of the regions were split, with Targaryen loyalists being in the Stormlands, the Vale, and the Riverlands.
They didn't try to topple Aegon for 37 years. And afterwards only a bunch of morons and religious fanatics rebelled, no major house of the Realm.
Living in a city means greater freedom compared to country life in a medieval setting. There is little to no feudalism in a city.
They actually kind of toppled him despite the fact that he had dragons, no? Jaehaerys was a boy on a small dragon - he would have been no match for Balerion even with the help of Dreamfyre and Silverwing.
Not really. Only Aegon V tries to abandon the incest policy. The sons of Daeron II lack sisters to marry - if that's the case then other matches are usually made. And we can assume that some of those women were cousins on the Targaryen side (which is confirmed for Aelinor Penrose, the wife of Aerys I).
Just now, Lord Varys said:
Are there quotes? I'd like to look at them but I lack the books just now.
I think caring about the murder of the children is a bit different to being a Targaryen loyalist. Ned cares about it but he's not a Targaryen loyalist. People care about it because it's a heinous crime.
1 minute ago, Lord Varys said:
That's a bit different from being 'in awe of their semi-divine heritage' though.
2 minutes ago, Lord Varys said:
He had more men than Robert, but that doesn't mean half the realm supported him. And the Targaryen loyalists in other regions weren't loyalists for very long, save perhaps House Darry.
44 minutes ago, Lord Varys said:
They didn't try to topple Aegon for 37 years.
Yes, because they tried to stop him when he first came, and it didn't work because of the dragons.
And afterwards only a bunch of morons and religious fanatics rebelled, no major house of the Realm.
Still, it was quite a lot of people, especially smallfolk, who evidently weren't happy with the Targaryen rule.
Well he died under mysterious circumstances, so I don't know if they toppled him or not. Certainly lots of people had switched allegiance to Jaehaerys by then. But they rebelled against him and lost before. They never got the chance to fight him again because he died. And rather then rebelling outright they backed another Targaryen.
The whole thing about the whores and the Targaryens is from Davos' White Harbor chapter. You could also think about Mathis Rowan being pissed about the murder of Elia's children, the Brotherhood without Banners caring about it, the acolytes in Pate's Prologue toasting Daenerys as their rightful queen, etc.
Ned also cares about them because they are royal/noble children. Ned also kind of cares about Mycah, but certainly not enough to go to war over that.
The point is that people universally view the Targaryens as the rightful royal dynasty. Nobody says they lost their claim because a mad king lost a war.
Some of them were beaten, but that doesn't cause them to disappear. I mean, Rhaegar having more men at the Trident despite the fact that four great lords supported Robert's claim is kind of telling. Obviously only a fraction of the levies of the North, Vale, Riverlands, and Stormlands fought on Robert's side at the Trident or else Rhaegar would have been completely outmatched.
If they had valued their independence then they would have continued the war. It is as simple as that. Neither the North nor the West were actually conquered. The Targaryens never even set a foot in those lands during the war.
Only the religious fanatics - and that was not so much because of the Targaryens as such but because of their abominable marriage customs. Had they stopped those, the Faith wouldn't have rebelled.
When Maegor died, he was done to a pitiful retinue of Crownlanders supporting him. Everybody else either declared for Jaehaerys or stayed out of the conflict. That's literal proof there that the largest dragon in the world is of no use to you if people just don't care.
The ability to destroy cities and castles is just that - it cannot force others to actually do your bidding or support you. The Targaryens only prevailed because people wanted to fight and die for the dragons - not because the dragons had the ability to destroy them. After all, they also had Westerosi fight other Westerosi on behalf of the Targaryens.
The Faith would have crushed Maegor if the lords and knights and smallfolk had decided to not support Maegor at all.
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On 10/17/2022 at 9:21 AM, astarkchoice said:
Id say it had much more to do with the fact varyria was slowly rising and ghis established plus magic and anti dragon tactics more commonplace then, each war becomming less competive as valyria grew strong!
Theres 0 evidence ghis was stronger than modern westeros combined , for all the over hype or massively over criticism of the unsullied tyrion probably nails it when he says they are no better or worse than the normal spearmen of westeros just that they womt ever break.
There are plenty of evidence. The size of the cities in the East is evidence of a large population. The 5 Forts and the 3 Pyramids of Meereen tell a story of large cities. Ghis had their awesome legions. Valyria had hundreds of dragons. Aegon only had three. Those legions were the reason why the Valyrians could not easily defeat the Ghis. Westeros do not have armies of comparable quality. The legions were better.

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Jada Pinkett Smith approves of strip clubs
Actress Jada Pinkett Smith doesn't have a problem with strip clubs. The "Collateral" actress, who is married to actor Will Smith, claims she has never been to one before, but doesn't think there i
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Actress Jada Pinkett Smith doesn't have a problem with strip clubs. The "Collateral" actress, who is married to actor Will Smith, claims she has never been to one before, but doesn't think there is anything wrong with adult entertainment, reports femalefirst.co.uk. "I've never been to a male strip club. Adult entertainment, when you think about it, is kind of a dirty word," said the 43-year-old star.
"There's no reason adult entertainment can't be celebratory… it's about exploration. (The movie) rejuvenated my energy and spirit," she added. Smith stars as an MC at a stripper convention in Gregory Jacobs' comedy-drama film "Magic Mike XXL" and credits co-star Channing Tatum for giving her a new perspective on the idea."I got to this convention with hundreds of women and there was a solidarity between us that I had never felt before. We had some fine-ass men to entertain us and make us feel good about ourselves," she said.
Despite having no issues with strippers, Jada doesn't think her children, Jaden, 16, and Willow, 14, will watch the new film."I don't think so. This is where you go, 'Mommy's going to do this red carpet. I think you guys should stay at home.' "
Published Date: July 5, 2015 3:29 AM IST
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Amakusanthura californiensis är en kräftdjursart som först beskrevs av Schultz 1964.  Amakusanthura californiensis ingår i släktet Amakusanthura och familjen Anthuridae. Inga underarter finns listade i Catalogue of Life.

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Q: Difference between Time-Slice, Context-Switch and Thread interference As a beginner in multi-threading, I struggle a little bit with these terms. Can someone help me make a border between them? I am afraid not to learn something wrong at the beginning and I have no one to 'test' me.
Please correct me if I am wrong :)
If two threads run at time on 1 CPU core, they would be context-switched. Context-switching is based on time-slice algorithm, that helps Scheduler to 'decide' which one and how long to keep on core. It doesn't matter if those 2 threads share same variable to the these terms, right?
But then there is thread interference. This term is based only when two threads share same variable?
Am I any close to saying it correct?

A: "context," in a nutshell, is the collection of values that need to be loaded into the Program Counter register, the Stack Pointer register, and other registers of a CPU in order to make it start or resume execution of a thread.
"Scheduler" is the part of the operating system that decides which thread(s) should run on which CPUs and when.
"context switch" is what we call it when the scheduler saves the context of one thread, and installs the context of some other thread on the same CPU, and lets it run.
"Preemption" is what we call it when the OS switches out some thread for some reason that is not a reaction to something that the thread just did.
"time slice" is the period of time that the scheduler grants to each newly (re)started thread before the scheduler will preempt it in order to let some other waiting thread run.
Finally, (I'm guessing) When you read, "Interference," that probably referred to anything that one thread does which, because of some defect in the program, interferes with the function of some other thread. (E.g., by changing the value of some shared variable, at a time when the other thread was depending on the variable to not change.)

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package org.intellij.lang.regexp.surroundWith;

import com.intellij.lang.surroundWith.SurroundDescriptor;
import com.intellij.lang.surroundWith.Surrounder;
import com.intellij.psi.PsiElement;
import com.intellij.psi.PsiFile;
import com.intellij.psi.PsiWhiteSpace;
import com.intellij.psi.util.PsiTreeUtil;
import com.intellij.psi.util.PsiUtilCore;
import org.intellij.lang.regexp.psi.RegExpAtom;
import org.intellij.lang.regexp.psi.RegExpBranch;
import org.intellij.lang.regexp.psi.RegExpElement;
import org.intellij.lang.regexp.psi.RegExpPattern;
import org.jetbrains.annotations.NotNull;
import org.jetbrains.annotations.Nullable;

import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.List;

public class SimpleSurroundDescriptor implements SurroundDescriptor {
  private static final Surrounder[] SURROUNDERS = {
    new GroupSurrounder("Capturing Group (pattern)", "("),
    new GroupSurrounder("Non-Capturing Group (?:pattern)", "(?:"),
    new GroupSurrounder("Atomic Group (?:pattern)", "(?:"),
    new GroupSurrounder("Positive Lookbehind (?<=pattern)", "(?<="),
    new GroupSurrounder("Negative Lookbehind (?<!pattern)", "(?<!"),
    new GroupSurrounder("Positive Lookahead (?=pattern)", "(?="),
    new GroupSurrounder("Negative Lookahead (?!pattern)", "(?!"),
  };

  @Override
  public PsiElement @NotNull [] getElementsToSurround(PsiFile file, int startOffset, int endOffset) {
    // adjust start/end
    PsiElement element1 = file.findElementAt(startOffset);
    PsiElement element2 = file.findElementAt(endOffset - 1);
    if (element1 instanceof PsiWhiteSpace) {
      startOffset = element1.getTextRange().getEndOffset();
    }
    if (element2 instanceof PsiWhiteSpace) {
      endOffset = element2.getTextRange().getStartOffset();
    }

    RegExpElement pattern = findElementAtStrict(file, startOffset, endOffset, RegExpPattern.class);
    if (pattern != null) return new RegExpElement[]{pattern};

    RegExpElement branch = findElementAtStrict(file, startOffset, endOffset, RegExpBranch.class);
    if (branch != null) return new RegExpElement[]{branch};

    List<PsiElement> atoms = new ArrayList<>();
    RegExpAtom atom = PsiTreeUtil.findElementOfClassAtRange(file, startOffset, endOffset, RegExpAtom.class);
    for (; atom != null; atom = PsiTreeUtil.findElementOfClassAtRange(file, startOffset, endOffset, RegExpAtom.class)) {
      atoms.add(atom);
      startOffset = atom.getTextRange().getEndOffset();

      // handle embedded whitespace
      if ((element1 = file.findElementAt(startOffset)) instanceof PsiWhiteSpace) {
        startOffset = element1.getTextRange().getEndOffset();
        atoms.add(element1);
      }
    }

    if (startOffset == endOffset && atoms.size() > 0) {
      PsiElement[] elements = PsiUtilCore.toPsiElementArray(atoms);
      if ((atoms.size() == 1 || PsiTreeUtil.findCommonParent(elements) == elements[0].getParent())) {
        return elements;
      }
    }
    return PsiElement.EMPTY_ARRAY;
  }

  @Override
  public Surrounder @NotNull [] getSurrounders() {
    return SURROUNDERS;
  }

  @Override
  public boolean isExclusive() {
    return false;
  }

  @Nullable
  private static <T extends RegExpElement> T findElementAtStrict(PsiFile file, int startOffset, int endOffset, Class<T> clazz) {
    T element = PsiTreeUtil.findElementOfClassAtRange(file, startOffset, endOffset, clazz);
    if (element == null || element.getTextRange().getEndOffset() < endOffset) return null;
    return element;
  }
}


In this workshop we will examine the theory of longitudinal data analysis and the handling of missing data. Workshop participants will be introduced to these statistical concepts using one of three popular statistical software packages: SPSS, Stata, and R.
This workshop is intended for non-statisticians and statisticians new to the field of longitudinal data analysis. A basic knowledge of linear regression is assumed.


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Das Spectrum Stadium (bis 2017 Bright House Networks Stadium) ist ein College-Football-Stadion in der US-amerikanischen Stadt Orlando im Bundesstaat Florida. Es befindet sich auf dem Campus der University of Central Florida (UCF) und ist Austragungsort der Heimspiele des College-Football-Teams der Universität, den UCF Knights (American Athletic Conference). Zudem war das Stadion kurzzeitig die Heimstätte der Orlando Apollos aus der mittlerweile insolventen Alliance of American Football.

Das Stadion wurde 2007 als Ersatz für den Orlando Citrus Bowl in Downtown Orlando errichtet, wo die UCF Knights seit 1979 ihre Heimspiele ausgetragen hatten.

Geschichte
Anfang 2005 wurde im Auftrag der University of Central Florida eine Machbarkeitsstudie für ein Football-Stadion auf dem Campusgelände durchgeführt. Nachdem diese mit einem positiven Ergebnis abgeschlossen wurde, begann nach einigen Verzögerungen aufgrund von Bedenken von Anwohnern bezüglich fallender Grundstückswerte und Lärmbelästigungen im März 2006 der Bau des zunächst UCF Stadium genannten Stadions.

Nach eineinhalb Jahren Bauzeit wurde das Stadion am 15. September 2007 mit einem Footballspiel zwischen den UCF Knights und den Texas Longhorns eröffnet.

2014 bis 2015 wurde die Anlage für acht Mio. US-Dollar renoviert.

Galerie

Weblinks

 ucfknights.com: The Bounce House auf der offiziellen Website der UCF Knights (englisch)

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Footballstadion in den Vereinigten Staaten
Sportstätte in Florida
Sport (Orlando)
Erbaut in den 2000er Jahren
Fußballstadion in Nordamerika


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This piece represents the opinion of the Bowdoin Orient Editorial Board.
According to an article in this week's edition of the Orient, many seniors are dissatisfied with the resources provided by the Career Planning Center (CPC). In the Orient's biannual approval ratings survey, more than a third of seniors reported disapproving or strongly disapproving of the CPC. In a follow-up survey conducted this week, the number was similar, with 31 percent of seniors expressing dissatisfaction.
We think it's troubling that the class facing the highest career stakes is so frustrated with the CPC. We acknowledge that seniors are also more stressed than other class years as the prospect of finding a post-graduation job looms, which likely contributes to their dissatisfaction, but we don't think this is the sole cause for the widespread discontent.
We believe that the CPC genuinely wants to do the best job it can. In the past few years, it has expanded offerings for international students and launched a campaign to dispel the stress-inducing misconceptions that often come up regarding the career-planning process. Therefore, we feel confident writing about where students feel the CPC falls short and how we think it might improve. We believe they want the best for us, that they're usually doing the best they can, and that this, like so many things at the College, is a question of resources and funding.
One resource that could be improved is the job board. Based on the Orient's preliminary research, joining Handshake, which connects over 700 college career planning centers and job boards, would expand our network and the opportunities available to Bowdoin students and decrease the pressure on CPC counselors.
In addition, in survey responses and interviews, students repeatedly expressed the feeling that the career counselors, often assigned three or more fields to advise on, are not always well-versed in some industries that interest students. For some industries, the counselors are excellent—they know which alumni to contact first, how field-specific interviews are structured and other details that hours of Googling won't turn up. In the areas our counselors know best, they can't be beat.
But it is an awful lot to ask one person to have a deep knowledge of several broad career areas, and student experience suggests that it is, in fact, impossible. The career counselors shouldn't be expected to be jacks of so many trades. Instead, the College should allocate more resources to the CPC and hire more counselors who could provide specialized knowledge in a broader range of fields. We don't have intimate knowledge of the College's budget, but when allocating resources in the future, we ask that it considers increasing CPC funding.
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The most important tool you have at your disposal is your daring and initiative. I was the guest speaker at a Boston alumni function being staged by one of the graduate schools I attended post-Bowdoin. I was giving a talk on my start-up company. Someone in the audience mentioned me and the company to her daughter, a junior double major in biomedical engineering and Russian. I received a 2-page email from the daughter outlining what she was willing to do for us, how much she wanted to receive in pay, and how many stock options in the company she wanted. We were blown away by her email. We hired her right away and then figured out what to do with her. We found something quite challenging and quite suitable for her carrying back to school following the summer. She ended up creating an extremely valuable piece of work that included intellectual property on which we will file for a patent. There was no CPC in the mix. It was 100% the student's daring and initiative. Unfortunately for us she got accepted to and is attending medical school. I wrote her medical school recommendation.
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Wow, what a great way to kick off the pre-Memorial week with moose safaris! Jared took a couple from New Hampshire, visiting Maine for some adventure. We are creating a trip package for them, actually, called the 3 PACK. The 3 PACK consists of Waterfall Hike, Moose Safari and Whitewater Rafting. The Crosson's enjoyed all three with us on their vacation to Maine, so we are calling this our 3 PACK.
Today's tour was a canoe tour and we saw 1 hare, 1 grouse (partridge for us Mainer's) and 1 turkey. Oh, of course we can't forget our bull moose of the evening! It was a small moose, but the group enjoyed seeing him.
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NASHVILLE, TN…Guitarist, Todd Sharp, announces the launch of Todd Sharp Amplifiers, custom-made amplifiers in Nashville, TN. The high-end, hand-wired vacuum tube amps are the first of their kind from Sharp, who has 40+ years performing from studios to stadiums. He has played with numerous artists, including Hall & Oates, Rod Stewart, Fleetwood Mac's Christine McVie, Mick Fleetwood and Bob Welch, Delbert McClinton, Carlene Carter and many more. Through his years of performing experience Sharp had yet to find the perfect amp, so he decided to build one.
"Like any player, I have been enthralled with the many great amps of the past 60 years. I've owned and worked with so many of them as a working guitarist but also as proprietor of Nashville Amplifier Service (amprepair.com). My approach to amplifier design is a little different," Sharp notes. "This is truly creative art to me. There are plenty of Fender, Marshall, Vox and Dumble clones out there. I'm not interested in building another knock off - I'm interested in making amplifiers for the player who wants the best there is. Amps that respond like instruments."
Early admirers of the brand include Vince Gill, John Oates, and Mick Fleetwood, who have all purchased amps. Oates is using the JOAT 20RT on his 2016 national tour with Daryl Hall. Owen Barry, guitarist for Tal Wilkenfeld, will also be using Todd Sharp Amps during their tour opening for The Who this year.
The flagship Todd Sharp Amplifier model is the JOAT 20RT (Jack Of All Tone, 20 Watts, Reverb/Tremolo), which offers a truly original approach to vacuum tube guitar amplification. There is no tone stack (conventional bass, mid, treble controls), nor the loss that comes with a conventional tone stack. As Sharp likes to say, "It's all tone, but you can take some away if you like." The JOAT circuit employs a unique approach to gain and tone architecture utilizing rotary selector switches; ATTITUDE, LOW CUT and HIGH CUT along with a BITE switch. INPUTS 1 and 2 are designed intentionally to receive single coil or dual coil pickups. The REVERB is unlike any other, producing a super smooth sound more akin to a plate than spring reverb. TREMOLO offers an ultra-stable, wide range of speed and intensity - from subtle to full stutter.
Founded in 2016, Todd Sharp Amplifiers are hand-crafted in Nashville, TN. The debut model the JOAT (Jack of all Tone) 20RT head and Model A 2x12" speaker cabinet are now available. From aesthetics to chassis, to mil spec rotary selectors and pots, aircraft grade isolation mounts for the first stage 6AU6 pentode and dual Reverb tank design, custom spec transformers, hand wired with 19 strand Teflon wire, stainless steel hardware, and a painstaking process of selecting each component for optimum performance. The JOAT series amplifier delivers from Fingerboard to Baffleboard.
Todd Sharp is a multi-talented musician, with a versatile career as an award-winning guitarist, singer, songwriter, and founder of Todd Sharp Amplifiers. Sharp joined Hall & Oates on tour as their lead guitar player at the age of 19; followed were gigs with Fleetwood Mac's Christine McVie, Mick Fleetwood and Bob Welch, Rod Stewart, Carlene Carter, David Crosby, Delbert McClinton, Australian icon Jimmy Barnes, and French legend Eddy Mitchell. Sharp has also worked alongside greats Bonnie Raitt, Eric Clapton, Steve Winwood and more. As a solo artist, Sharp released two critically acclaimed records Who Am I andWalking All The Way. Also an accomplished songwriter, Sharp co-wrote the top ten hits, "Got a Hold On Me" with Christine McVie and Juice Newton's "A Little Love." In 1994, Sharp opened Nashville Amplifier Service performing expert repairs, restorations, and modifications for an impressive clientele.


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Q: Timeseries chart in MPAndroidChart To do:
Plot time series line chart using the library, where x-axis time-stamps are not equidistant.
Sample Data:
1467886121:  325
1467886153:  326
1467886185:  325
1467886248:  326
1467886280:  326
1467886311:  326
1467886343:  327
1467886375:  327
1467886406:  327
1467886438:  328
1467886529:  328
1467886561:  327
1467886593:  327
1467886625:  326
1467886659:  327
1467886692:  326
1467886725:  326
Note:
LHS values are UNIX timestamps and RHS values are data points at corresponding timestamps.
The timestamps aren't equidistant and so they should be spaced according to the time difference between the two. Recently, MPAndroidChart introduced this functionality [github: link]
Over here they seem to be adding new values separated by one hour. I want to add values according to the timegap in UNIX timestamps.
How do I go about that?

A: Time series are supported in the latest version of the library, at the time of writing this would be v3.0.0-beta1. Make sure you import that version in your build.gradle file.
It is pretty straightforward to construct your entries, as each entry now consists of a x-value and a corresponding y-value, just like your data (how you retrieve your x- and y-values depends on how your input data is structured):
ArrayList<Entry> entries = new ArrayList<>();
for (int i = 0; i < length; i++) {
    long x = ... // 1467886121, 1467886153, ...
    int y = ...  // 325, 326, ...
    entries.add(new Entry(x, y));
}
LineDataSet dataSet = new LineDataSet(entries, "Time series");
LineData data = new LineData(dataSet);
mLineChart.setData(data);

Since you are creating a time series, you'll probably also want to format the axis labels to be dates, you can find the sample's DayAxisValueFormatter on GitHub. You'll need to adjust this to fit your needs and then add it to your x-axis:
mLineChart.getXAxis().setValueFormatter(new DayAxisValueFormatter(mLineChart));

A: TR4Android's answer is absolutely fine except for the fact the library doesn't support long datatype for the timestamps.
So, I have gone with the following approach:
Sample Data:
1467886121: 325,
1467886153: 326,
1467886185: 325,
1467886248: 326
Taking timestamp_1 to be zero or the base.
The following timestamps become base timestamp(first timestamp) - itself.
So, the data now becomes like so,
Processed Sample Data:
0: 325,
32: 326,
64: 325,
127: 326
This data can now be passed on to the charting library and the drawn graph has its time-series nature preserved.


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Le sport à Boston est actuellement dominé par quatre grandes franchises professionnelles : les Red Sox de Boston qui évoluent en Ligue majeure de baseball depuis 1901, les Bruins de Boston, franchise de la LNH depuis 1924, les Celtics de Boston, sociétaires de la NBA depuis 1946 et les Patriots de la Nouvelle-Angleterre de la NFL depuis 1959. Outre ces quatre grands, les New England Revolution (Major League Soccer), les Cannons de Boston (Major League Lacrosse) et les universitaires d'Harvard Crimson, des Boston College Eagles, les Boston University Terriers et les Huskies de Northeastern évoluent également à Boston.

Histoire

Les principales compétitions sportives se tenant à Boston
Marathon de Boston, marathon en ville (depuis 1897)

Les principales installations sportives de Boston

Stades
South End Grounds, stade de baseball (1871-1914)
Congress Street Grounds, stade de baseball (fin )
Huntington Avenue Grounds, stade de baseball (1900-1911)
Harvard Stadium, stade de football américain universitaire (depuis 1903)
Fenway Park, stade de baseball (depuis 1912)
Braves Field, stade de baseball (1915-1952)
Nickerson Field, stade de baseball et de football américain universitaire (1915-1955)
Alumni Stadium, stade de football américain universitaire (depuis 1957)
Foxboro Stadium, stade de football américain (1971-2002)
Gillette Stadium, stade de football américain (depuis 2002)

Salles
Matthews Arena, salle de basket-ball et patinoire de hockey sur glace universitaire (depuis 1909)
Boston Garden, salle de basket-ball et patinoire de hockey sur glace (1928-1998)
Conte Forum, patinoire de hockey sur glace et salle de basket-ball universitaire (depuis 1988)
TD Garden, salle de basket-ball et patinoire de hockey sur glace (depuis 1995)
Agganis Arena, patinoire de hockey sur glace universitaire (depuis 2005)

Divers
The Country Club, parcours de golf (depuis 1882)
Tennis and Racquet Club, courts de tennis (depuis 1902)
Suffolk Downs, hippodome (depuis 1935)

Les principaux clubs sportifs basés à Boston

Baseball
Boston Braves (anciennement Reds puis Beaneaters ; Aujourd'hui Atlanta Braves), MLB (1871-1952)
 Boston Reds American Association (1891)
Boston Red Sox (anciennement Americans et Somersets, MLB (depuis 1901)
Boston Royal Giants, Negro League (années 1930 et 1940)

Basket-ball
Boston Whirlwinds, American Basketball League (1925-1926)
Boston Trojans, American Basketball League (1934-1935)
Boston Celtics, NBA (depuis 1946)
Boston United Eagles, ABA (depuis 2007)

Basketball féminin
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Crosse
Boston Blazers, National Lacrosse League (1992-1998)
Cannons de Boston, Major League Lacrosse (depuis 2001)

Football
Oneida Football Club (1861-1870)
Boston Wonder Workers, American Soccer League (1924-1930)
Boston Beacons, NASL (1968)
Boston Astros, American Soccer League (1969-1975)
Boston Minutemen, NASL (1974-1976)
Boston Bolts, American Soccer League (1988-1990)
Boston Bulldogs, United Soccer Leagues (1996-2001)
New England Revolution, Major League Soccer (depuis 1996)
Boston Breakers, WUSA (2001-2003), WPS (depuis 2009)

Football américain
Boston Maroons, NFL (1929)
Boston Yanks, NFL (1944-1949)
New England Patriots, AFL puis NFL (depuis 1959)
Boston Breakers, USFL (1983)

Hockey sur glace
Bruins de Boston, LNH (depuis 1924)
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By Wamberal Community Group on May 30, 2013 • ( 1 Comment )
NSW Government Planning Review
Upcoming forums of NSW Government's Planning Review
BPN Speaker Training Session
10.30am-12pm on Saturday 1 June 2013
At the Nature Conservation Council of NSW, 2/5 Wilson St, Newtown (1 block from the Newtown train station)
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Cost: Free but please RSVP by 29 May 2013 to Better Planning Network.
Briefing note and key issues summary
This briefing note outlines proposed changes in the NSW Government's major policy document, A New Planning System for NSW – White Paper (April 2013) (White Paper), and was prepared by EDO NSW. It gives a preliminary EDO NSW perspective on key issues and follows a previous EDO NSW briefing note and submission on the Planning Green Paper (2012).
EDO NSW's comments are based on extensive experience as a professional independent, not for profit community legal centre specialising in public interest environmental law.
The new, narrow definition of 'sustainable development' will be a significant step backwards for environmental and social considerations if enshrined in the new Planning Act. Broad commitments to 'facilitate [economic growth] in an environmentally and socially sustainable manner' (p 5) and the language throughout the White Paper consistently prioritises growth and economic considerations, instead of a truly integrated focus on the legally recognised principles of ecologically sustainable development.
The Community Participation Charter is a welcome inclusion in the Bill; but many of the concrete details to implement the Charter have been left to the development of future Community Participation Plans and guides. The Charter is a much-lauded centrepiece of the White Paper, however, the draft legislation reveals that the Charter will be very difficult, if not impossible to enforce – as Community Participation Plans will not be mandatory, and the community will not be able to challenge plans and some decisions, including legal errors.
The White Paper's strategic planning principles do not deal with improving or maintaining environmental outcomes, assessing cumulative impacts or preparing for climate change. It is unclear whether the previous proposal for 'a clear NSW Planning Policy focused on the achievement of natural resource outcomes' and integration of targets has been abandoned, or divided into other Planning Policies on the environment or agriculture.
The commitment to retain existing environmental protections (that are currently in State Environmental Planning Policies – SEPPs) is supported. However, the White Paper still provides limited concrete detail on how the environment will be protected at the strategic level, at the point of development assessment and decision-making, or by monitoring and reporting indicators.
The proposal to invert the development assessment system – from categorising 23% of development as exempt and complying now, to requiring 80% of development to be code- assessed or exempt and complying within 5 years – will mean significant limitations for neighbours wanting to have their say.
The White Paper and legislation do not mandate accreditation of environmental assessment consultants at this stage, though the proposal has strong community support.
Open standing to bring civil enforcement has been nominally retained. However, contrary to the expressed intention of the White Paper, open standing could be seriously undermined by provisions in the draft legislation. Part 10 of the Planning Bill 2013 appears to severely curtail the public's ability to challenge legal errors of decision makers in the Land and Environment Court – in fundamental areas such as community participation, strategic plans and state significant development approvals. EDO NSW is currently seeking further legal advice on this critical issue.
The imbalance of review and appeal rights and participation between developers and community members will continue to limit community confidence in the system.
A positive development in the White Paper is the proposed criminal enforcement model for the new planning system. This includes a tiered system of criminal offences similar to NSW pollution laws (Protection of the Environment Operations Act 1997), and a range of specific orders available for criminal enforcement (White Paper, pp 146-47).
The NSW Government released its Planning White Paper on 16 April 2013, along with two exposure draft bills (draft legislation) for 10 weeks consultation. The White Paper sets out the Government's vision for a new planning system, to replace the Environmental Planning and Assessment Act 1979 (NSW) (EP&A Act). The White Paper and draft legislation are open for consultation, submissions and online comment until Friday 28 June.
2.1 What will these changes mean for your community?
These reforms are the biggest overhaul of environmental planning in NSW since 1979 – soit's important that as many people as possible give feedback on the proposals. The consultation period is a valuable opportunity to comment on things like:
what development can happen in an area (from houses to mines) and who gets a say
how suburbs, towns and cities are planned (transport, shops, offices, parks, schools)
how our communities manage growth and change, and balance needs and interests
how developers and governments have to consider and protect the environment.
Note: Further information on how you can be prepared, get involved and make a submission on the Planning White Paper is at the end of this web page.
2.2 What happens next?
The most important thing until 28 June is to read information about planning from a range of sources, attend local forums where possible, reflect on what you like and/or don't like about the present planning system and prepare a submission on the issues that are important for you and your community. After this White Paper consultation, the Planning Minister intends to introduce legislation enacting the proposed reforms later in 2013. The new system will only take effect once Parliament has passed the legislation and a start date is proclaimed. The new system will probably begin early in 2014, but some parts will carry over and adapt aspects of the existing system for a time.
3. Overview and Analysis
The White Paper (pp 6-9) adopts six main themes:
Delivery culture – for 'the delivery of positive and pragmatic outcomes', 'a commitment to ongoing education and innovation', and regular performance reporting
Community participation – involving people 'in the preparation of plans and the vision for their local areas', including the 'ground rules for local areas…'
Strategic planning focus – 'a major shift to evidence based, whole of government strategic planning in the development of plans, community and stakeholder engagement and decision making' upfront.
Streamlined development assessment and approval – a new five-track 'performance based system' which 'makes greater use of code complying development and online tools, and removes layers of assessment…'
Provision of infrastructure – 'Planning for infrastructure… at the same time as planning for housing and jobs…'. Includes new 'Growth Infrastructure Plans' and 'simplified' local and regional infrastructure contributions.
Building regulation and certification – 'to ensure better quality of construction and fire protection over the life of buildings.' However, there are no proposals to update the BASIX building sustainability tool, which has not been updated since 2006.
EDO NSW's initial views on key White Paper proposals are outlined below. Their main focus is on two issues – community participation and protection of the environment. Both are critical to public confidence in, and enduring success of, the new planning system.
3.1 Aims and objectives
The White Paper and Part 1 of the Planning Bill 2013 propose that the new planning system will aim to promote economic growth while balancing social and environmental factors.3 The nine objects for the new Act include 'economic growth and environmental and social well being through sustainable development'.4 The Planning Bill also says:
Sustainable development is achieved by the integration of economic, environmental and social considerations, having regard to present and future needs, in decision-making about planning and development. (clause 1.3)
Preliminary analysis of aims and objectives
The new, narrow definition of sustainable development is a significant step backwards for environmental protection. The planning system needs to implement ecologically sustainable development and its principles, not a watered-down concept of integrated decision-making. The imbalance of the new objective is exacerbated by the introduction of additional economic considerations (such as economic viability tests) throughout the White Paper.
It is very concerning that the White Paper and the Planning Bill remove any reference to ecologically sustainable development (ESD). The White Paper only briefly refers to two ESD principles – 'integration' of economic, social, environmental factors, and consideration of 'present and future needs'. At the same time, it removes reference to three fundamental principles that underpin ESD as enshrined in Australian law:
the precautionary principle
biodiversity and ecological integrity as a fundamental consideration
improved valuation, pricing and incentive mechanisms (including the polluter pays principle).
The Planning Bill has numerous objects, and no hierarchy between them, leaving wide discretion for decision makers. ESD should be the overarching object of the planning system and the new Planning Act. ESD principles should also be applied by decision makers under the Act, to ensure this object is given effect in practice.
Note: In brief, the draft objects in the Planning Bill (clause 1.3) relate to: (a) 'economic growth and environmental and social well-being through sustainable development'; (b) community participation; (c) infrastructure; (d) 'timely delivery of business, employment and housing opportunities'; (e) environmental protection (including threatened species, built and cultural heritage); (f) agricultural and water management; (g) health, safety and amenity in building design and performance; (h) 'efficient', 'timely' and 'proportionate' development assessment ; and (i) shared responsibility between governments for planning and 'growth management'.
Note: In brief, the precautionary principle is triggered if there is a risk of serious or irreversible harm to the environment, and there is scientific uncertainty as to whether that harm will occur. In such cases, the precautionary principle requires the developer or proponent to demonstrate its activities are sufficiently safe.
3.2 Community participation
A Community Participation Charter is the centrepiece of the White Paper's approach to community participation, and is set out in Part 2 of the Planning Bill. The Charter set outs seven high level principles contained in the draft legislation (clause 2.1). In brief, these relate to: Partnership; Accessibility; Early involvement; Right to be informed; Proportionality; Inclusiveness; and Transparency.
The emphasis is very much on up front consultation. The White Paper states:
"Once the community has participated in the development of the strategic plan for the area, planning authorities can streamline most development assessment without the need to further consult with communities unless proposals significantly depart from standards in the Local Plan."
The Charter is to be given practical effect via Community Participation Plans. These are to be prepared by each planning authority (the body which makes decisions on strategic plans and development applications) in consultation with the community. The Planning Department will also prepare Community Participation Guidelines to assist planning authorities (such as the Planning Assessment Commission, Regional Planning Panels, Subregional Planning Boards and Local Councils) to develop their Plans. The key legislative requirement relates to proposed minimum exhibition periods.
Preliminary analysis of community participation
A legislative basis for community consultation in the planning system, including a Community Participation Charter, is strongly supported. However, as drafted, the Charter will be difficult if not impossible to enforce.
There are several aspects of the shift to upfront community participation which are problematic – namely:
The specifics of consultation requirements are left to future Community Participation Plans. The Bill indicates that these Plans are not mandatory and cannot be challenged.
There is a real danger of overburdening the community. It is difficult to expect general members of the public to be involved in a series of individual consultation processes on state, regional, sub-regional, local plans and detailed code development – in order to have a say upfront on hypothetical future development. If this approach proceeds, significant additional resourcing, expertise, oversight, and community review and appeal rights will be essential.
This shift has been accompanied by a removal of checks and balances. For example, community rights to be consulted or to object to decisions will be been significantly reduced once strategic planning processes are completed.
3.3 Strategic planning
Overview of strategic planning principles
The White Paper and Part 3 of the Planning Bill propose 10 principles to inform strategic planning outcomes and processes.9 Several principles deal with appropriate governance measures.
In brief, these 10 draft strategic planning principles, to be made in legislation, relate to:
Sustainable development (to promote the State economy and productivity)
Integrated infrastructure
Streamlined development assessment (strategic plans to guide all decisions by planning authorities)
Early community participation opportunities
Government agency collaboration (consent authorities and state agency co-operation)
Top down 'line of sight' (consistency from NSW Planning Policies down to Local Plans)
Accessibility (strategic plans to be standardised, easy to use, available online)
Monitoring and reporting
Evidence based plans, realistic targets, and triple bottom line considerations.
Simple controls, consistency and economic facilitation (facilitate development consistent with agreed outcomes, avoid complexity and onerous controls that affect financial viability).
Note:The White Paper (p 69) gives an 'indicative list' of potential policy topics: housing supply and affordability, employment and economic growth, environment and conservation, agricultural and rural resources, energy and resources, 'hazards' (including bushfire, flooding and coastal hazards), and infrastructure. Unlike the Green Paper (p 35), the White Paper does not refer to a NSW Planning Policy 'focused on the achievement of natural resource management outcomes'.
The White Paper provides further detail on the proposed four-level hierarchy of strategic planning instruments. Each type of plan will have a minimum public exhibition period (28 days), a common structure, and must be consistent with those plans above it. These plans are:
NSW Planning Policies
Regional Growth Plans
Subregional Delivery Plans
Local Plans.
1. NSW planning policies
Eight to 12 of these policies will be developed for key policy areas in time for the planning laws to enter Parliament. They will:
set out objectives and direction to guide land use, development and strategic planning across NSW;
be endorsed through Cabinet and made by the Planning Minister;
be 'certified' as consistent with the new Act's objects and principles;
give effect to strategic aims of existing State Environmental Planning Policies (SEPPs), Strategic Regional Land Use Plans and Section 117 Directions;
be implemented via regional, subregional and local plans.
2. Regional growth plans
These plans outline strategic objectives, policies and actions for regional or metropolitan planning over a 20-year period. They will:
apply to all areas of NSW (with added detail where there is no subregional plan);
deal with vision, spatial planning, housing, employment, environment and natural resources, infrastructure, subregional outcomes, and monitoring and reporting; o incorporate 'relevant aspects' of existing regional plans and strategies;
be led by the Planning Department and a new Chief Executive Officers Group;
involve 'significant' community, state agency and local council collaboration;
be 'underpinned by a detailed evidence base'.
3) Subregional delivery plans
These plans 'provide the delivery framework for Regional Growth Plans'. They will:
identify (and rezone) 'precincts', and areas of State or subregional significance;
set development parameters and building envelopes in nominated subregions;
integrate infrastructure and land use planning via 'Growth Infrastructure Plans';
be prepared by Subregional Planning Boards (Boards) – but be endorsed by whole of government and made by the Planning Minister, 'with advice' from the Boards;
involve 'strong community participation' (to be outlined in the Boards' Community Participation Plans) and state agency collaboration;
be completed within two years of the new legislation commencing;
be underpinned by evidence from 'sectoral strategies' and 'tested with respect to their economic viability' (such as for housing and jobs).
4) Local plans
These plain English plans will replace Local Environmental Plans (LEPs). They will:
be the main legal document that 'delivers the strategic vision for a local government area', consistent with higher-level plans;
include 4 parts: Strategy, Planning Controls, Development Guides, Contributions; o set out zoning in visual planning controls based on fewer zones (from 36 to 13);
set out 'development guides' with more detailed standards to address impacts and intensity (which will use a 'building envelopes' concept rather than numerical standards relating for example to height and floor space etc);
guide development, and facilitate the majority of development to be assessed according to Codes, with some assessment on the merits where development does not meet Code standards;
identify remaining concurrences, and give local effect to parts of existing SEPPs.
Preliminary analysis of strategic planning principles
Strategic planning principles
The 10 strategic principles make no reference to environmental or natural resource management (NRM) outcomes, cumulative impact assessment, climate change preparedness or urban sustainability. Principles 1, 3 and 10 prioritise economic growth considerations at the expense of social and environmental outcomes.
NSW Planning Policies will set critical standards for lower-level strategic plans. However, the White Paper includes no concrete details on the content of these policies (beyond illustrative themes), how competing objectives and conflicts will be prioritised, or how consistency of lower-level plans will be measured and certified.
If the NSW Planning Policies do not adequately protect the environment and foster social outcomes, subsequent strategic plans will be 'locked in' to growth-driven policies rather than a more balanced approach to ESD.
These Policies are not disallowable statutory instruments (ie, subject to parliamentary scrutiny like SEPPs) nor subject to judicial review. This lack of accountability will decrease community confidence in the system.
Regional plans should provide for balanced and ecologically sustainable development that promotes community wellbeing. We welcome the inclusion of 'Environmental and Natural Resources' as a section of Regional Growth Plans (p 75), but detail is limited and the approach is discretionary (for example, they 'may include' environmental targets).
Regional plans are not explicitly required to incorporate aims and targets of environmental policies, including native vegetation targets, biodiversity strategies, greenhouse gas and other pollution limits. Effective strategic planning needs to integrate state Natural Resource Commission targets; regional Catchment Action Plans; and councils' biodiversity and NRM strategies.
EDO NSW is concerned that community members may be unaware of parallel consultations that have already commenced on regional planning documents that will become, or inform, 'Regional Growth Plans' under the new planning system (such as the Draft Metropolitan Strategy for Sydney and the Lower Hunter over the next 20 years – Discussion Paper).
Subregional Delivery Plans should build in urban sustainability, climate change responses, and a triple bottom line focus in the proposed sectoral strategies.
Subregional Planning Boards should exercise their functions to achieve ESD, as the new overarching planning objective.
There is a significant level of State control in shaping these strategies, including appointing Subregional Planning Board members (alongside local council members). With the addition of state growth targets and NSW Planning Policies, the level of local control and community influence over subregional strategic planning remains unclear.
Given the 'line of sight' through cascading levels of strategic plans, the new system needs to minimise the risk of top-down determinism, where local preferences are shoe-horned into pre-set State priorities.
The White Paper's new approach to zoning (ie, fewer, broader zones) and development guides requires further explanation and analysis, particularly the implications for sensitive environmental and heritage assets, and local government areas which do not 'fit the mould'.
Spot rezoning, new developer review rights, and 'strategic compatibility certificates' will also affect Local Plans' effectiveness, and have the potential to undermine strategic planning processes.
3.4 Development assessment
The White Paper and Part 4 of the Planning Bill set out the proposed approach to development assessment. This will be guided by seven key principles, emphasising strategic consistency; a streamlined, risk-based approach to assessment and inter-agency concurrences; and preferring expert-based decision making.
Development applications will be streamed into five assessment tracks, based on the level of risk and impact of a development:
Exempt and Complying tracks are familiar, but are proposed to be expanded. Most complying developments are to be approved in 10 days, with 'minor variations' approved within 25 days.
Code assessment is new and transformative:
mandatory target of 80% code, exempt or complying development in 5 years; o upfront community agreement sought on code types and content;
25-day time limit on code-based assessment and approval by local councils;
no consultation rights on code-compliant development (notification only);
local councils cannot refuse code-compliant development;
flexibility for merit assessment and consultation if code standards exceeded;
only non-compliant aspects to be merit assessed, not the whole development.
Merit assessment is development that is not streamed into any other track, such as:
proposals with 'significant adverse impacts that cannot be code assessed';
proposals that are permissible with consent, but outside a zone's core uses; o proposals that 'may not fully align' with strategic plans or performance criteria.
Local development proposals in this track will be assessed against the following:
consistency with the strategy component of the plan, and the zone objectives; o community submissions;
the likely impacts, including environmental, social and economic impacts;
whether any significant adverse impacts on adjoining/adjacent land are likely;
the public interest ('in particular whether any public benefit outweighs any adverse impact of the development') – which the White Paper says will be 'assessed against sustainable development objectives' (limited to integrating social, environmental and economic objectives) and cumulative impacts.
Impact assessment ('EIS-assessed') will replace designated development, for proposals with high environmental impacts such as mining and waste management. This category 'will always be merit assessed' based on Environmental Impact Statements (EIS).
Prohibited development (this can still be overturned by applying for 'spot rezoning').
In addition to these five tracks:
State Significant and Regionally Significant Development will continue (subject to revised decision criteria and reduced concurrences – see White Paper pp 134, 138);
State Significant Infrastructure may be renamed 'State Infrastructure Development';
Critical State Significant Infrastructure is replaced with 'Public Priority Infrastructure'.
Preliminary analysis of development assessment
The White Paper's assumption that 80% of developments can be code-assessed without any significant or cumulative environmental impact has no evidentiary basis.
Codes must be excluded from areas of high conservation value, environmental sensitivity and cultural heritage significance; and must deal effectively with interfaces.
The combined effect of broader zoning, greater code assessment (including the 80% target, 'mandatory' approvals, and compartmentalised merit assessments), and new review and appeal options for developers, will tip the balance further away from community involvement, environment protection, and local influence in decision-making.
A proposed NSW Planning Policy on Development Assessment (including prescriptions for Code Assessed development) may also limit council and community influence.
Consultants who prepare environmental impact statements are still not required to be objectively accredited.
Despite references in the White Paper, there is no legal requirement in the Planning Bill to consider cumulative impacts or sustainable development in assessment decisions.
3.5 Streamlining environmental referrals and concurrences
The White Paper reduces requirements to obtain inter-agency concurrences and approvals in the new planning system (these are usually imposed to ensure compliance with related laws, which are often for the protection of the environment or cultural heritage). The White Paper outlines a three-stage approach:
a four-month, internal government review of concurrences (due mid-August);
remove or replace unnecessary or straightforward referrals, concurrences, approvals;
establish a 'one stop shop' within the Planning Department for remaining referrals.
Preliminary analysis of streamlining environmental referrals and concurrences
The concurrence review should involve consultation, transparency and clear reasoning.
Concurrence requirements must be reinstated for State Significant projects, and retained for any proposal involving a significant environmental impact or cultural heritage issue.
The White Paper lacks any real detail about how Aboriginal cultural heritage will be protected under the new planning system.
We are concerned that the 'one stop shop' prioritises speed of approval over expertise.
3.6 Merit appeal and decision review rights
The White Paper suggests that appeal and review rights will be largely unchanged. However, as noted, Part 10 of the Bill seeks to significantly restrict the community's ability to bring court proceedings to challenge plans and some decisions, including legal errors.
Objectors will continue to have merit appeal rights against 'impact'/'EIS-assessed' development approvals, to be exercised within 28 days (as currently for 'designated development'). However, appeal rights will continue to be removed for State Significant Development where the Planning Assessment Commission holds a public hearing.
Development proponents will retain recently established review rights against a decision to refuse 'spot rezoning', and will have appeal rights against a Council's failure to approve code-assessed development within 25 days. There will also be a new 'very fast track' for small-scale housing appeals, and an expanded range of appeals will now be streamed into mandatory conciliation-arbitration.
Preliminary analysis of merit appeal and decision review rights
Community confidence in the system will be significantly undermined by the removal of rights to challenge plans and some decisions. The restriction of third party rights is contradictory to the language of the White Paper regarding the importance of transparency, accountability and community consultation.
Developers will have less incentive to get involved in strategic planning if they know they can 'push the envelope' through review and appeals, without corresponding rights for community involvement.
The new planning system should provide an expanded role for the public in conciliations, and more equitable appeal rights for objectors (such as for projects that significantly exceed code-based standards but are approved 'on merit'; and Planning Assessment Commission approvals, whether or not a public hearing is held).
The continued imbalance of appeal rights between developers and community members will continue to undermine community confidence in the proposed system.
3.7 Infrastructure and building regulation
The White Paper and the Planning Bill also detail other reforms in relation to provision of infrastructure (Chapter 7 and Part 5) and building regulation and certification (Chapter 8 and Part 8). EDO NSW welcomes aspects of these reforms such as improved integration of infrastructure and planning, and improvements in building certification and compliance. Our full submission will outline concerns we have on these issues where relevant to the public interest in environmental protection and community participation. For example, we will analyse the level of community consultation on infrastructure planning as compared with other proposed strategic planning processes, the lack of urban sustainability and building efficiency considerations, and comment on the use of 'biodiversity offset' contributions.
4. Next Steps
The NSW Government advises that individuals and groups can make submissions by:
Sending an online submission (including attachments) by Friday 28 June 2013
Using the online feedback tool to comment on specific parts of the White Paper
Posting a submission to New Planning System, GPO Box 39, Sydney NSW 2001.
The NSW Department of Planning and Infrastructure (DOPI) has set up a number of other ways to join the discussion:
Visit the online discussion forums at Have Your Say
Attend one of the few briefings, feedback sessions and meetings being held across NSW
se the Meeting In A Box toolkit to hold your own meeting and provide feedback.
Here are some other ideas from EDO NSW:
use this briefing note, and submission guides from community groups or the DOPI to inform your own submission
attend an EDO NSW White Paper event or visit our website for further resources
start a conversation with friends or a neighbour group about the new planning system
contact your Local Council and ask if they are holding community forums or briefings
comment on draft strategies such as the Draft Metropolitan Strategy for Sydney and the Lower Hunter over the next 20 years Discussion Paper (these will become, or inform, the 'Regional Growth Plans' under the new planning system).
For further information please contact EDO NSW.
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