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4 Heated Exchanges In the Supreme Court Oral Arguments Over Gay Marriage
ByGabriel Rodriguez
The Supreme Court heard the oral arguments for Hollingworth vs Perry, the case attempting to decide the fate of California's anti-same sex marriage initiative Proposition 8, this Tuesday, March 26. Testimony was full of heated exchanges between the justices and both the prosecution and defendants.
Here are the top points and counterpoints from Tuesday's arguments:
1. Kagan slams on Cooper:
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JUSTICE KAGAN: Well, suppose a State said, Mr. Cooper, suppose a state said that, because we think that the focus of marriage really should be on procreation, we are not going to give marriage licenses anymore to any couple where both people are over the age of 55. Would that be constitutional?
MR. COOPER: No, Your Honor, it would not be constitutional.
JUSTICE KAGAN: Because that's the same state interest, I would think, you know. If you are over the age of 55, you don't help us serve the government's interest in regulating procreation through marriage. So why is that different?
MR. COOPER: Your Honor, even with respect to couples over the age of 55, it is very rare that both couples — both parties to the couple are infertile, and the traditional —
JUSTICE KAGAN: No, really, because if the couple — I can just assure you, if both the woman and the man are over the age of 55, there are not a lot of children coming out of that marriage." (Laughter)
2. Olson slams on Justice Scalia:
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JUSTICE SCALIA: Okay. So I want to know how long it has been unconstitutional in those –
MR. OLSON: I don't — when — it seems to me, Justice Scalia, that —
JUSTICE SCALIA: It seems to me you ought to be able to tell me when. Otherwise, I don't know how to decide the case.
MR. OLSON: I — I submit you've never required that before. When you decided that – that individuals — after having decided that separate but equal schools were permissible, a decision by this Court, when you decided that that was unconstitutional, when did that become unconstitutional?
JUSTICE SCALIA: 50 years ago, it was okay?
MR. OLSON: I — I can't answer that question, and I don't think this Court has ever phrased the question in that way.
JUSTICE SCALIA: I can't either. That's the problem. That's exactly the problem.
3. Olsen gets testy with Chief Justice Roberts:
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CHIEF JUSTICE ROBERTS: Sure. If you tell — if you tell a child that somebody has to be their friend, I suppose you can force the child to say, this is my friend, but it changes the definition of what it means to be a friend. And that's it seems to me what the — what supporters of Proposition 8 are saying here. You're — all you're interested in is the label and you insist on changing the definition of the label.
MR. OLSON: It is like you were to say you can vote, you can travel, but you may not be a citizen. There are certain labels in this country that are very, very critical. You could have said in the Loving case, what — you can't get married, but you can have an interracial union. Everyone would know that that was wrong, that the — marriage has a status, recognition, support, and you — if you read the test, you know —"
4. Olson superslams on Justice Scalia even harder:
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JUSTICE SCALIA: You — you've led me right into a question I was going to ask. The California Supreme Court decides what the law is. That's what we decide, right? We don't prescribe law for the future. We — we decide what the law is. I'm curious, when — when did — when did it become unconstitutional to exclude homosexual couples from marriage? 1791? 1868, when the Fourteenth Amendment was adopted? Sometimes — some time after Baker, where we said it didn't even raise a substantial Federal question? When — when — when did the law become this?
MR. OLSON: When — may I answer this in the form of a rhetorical question? When did it become unconstitutional to prohibit interracial marriages? When did it become unconstitutional to assign children to separate schools.
JUSTICE SCALIA: It's an easy question, I think, for that one. At — at the time that the Equal Protection Clause was adopted. That's absolutely true. But don't give me a question to my question." (Laughter)
It seems that the Supreme Court is not as boring as most people think of it. Look forward to more fascinating oral arguments on Wednesday, March 27, when the Supreme Court takes on United States v. Windsor, a case on the Defense of Marriage Act.
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Each year for the past 18 years, all of us at the Hartford law firm of RisCassi & Davis have teamed up first with Coach Jim Calhoun and now with Coach Kevin Ollie to bring a bit of holiday joy to families in need in Hartford.
The Asylum Hills Boys and Girls Club was our destination this year – December 16, 2017.
And what a great night it was.
Coach Ollie and the players arrived at the club at 6:00 pm and were met in the club gymnasium by a throng of excited children and their families.
After a few brief remarks from Coach Ollie and team members, the children participated in either basketball drills or arts and crafts with the coaches and players. From dribbling demonstrations and dunking contests in the gym to works of art in the creative arts center (yes – some of the players were coloring and making ornaments with the kids) – it was a night of laughter and fun.
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Two days ago I told you that the UN High Commissioner for Refugees office in Sudan is being investigated (by the UN) for possible fraud in the selection process for refugees heading to mostly the US.
There are allegations that bribes are being paid to influence the selection of certain refugees over others.
Now comes news that the program is being shuttered at least temporarily.
And, in case you are wondering, after lobbying from the UAE, Trump did drop Sudan from the travel restriction list, see here.
Where is Homeland Security, is it time to have a look at the 652 Sudanese who got in to the US in calendar year 2017 (Wrapsnet)?
Before I get to the latest news story, you need to know that in this fiscal year ('18) we have admitted 53 refugees of Sudanese ethnicity, but when looking at processing country data, I see we processed 154 'refugees' in from that Khartoum, Sudan office.
If 53 are Sudanese (according to a different data base at Wrapsnet) then the other 101 are which nationalities? Who else are we bringing in through Sudan?
See that we processed in 154 from this Sudan office since October 1, 2017. While you are looking at this data, see that we also resettled 108 from South Africa and I can assure you that zero are white persecuted farmers!
The UN refugee agency said Thursday it is temporarily suspending its programme for the resettlement of refugees from Sudan after allegations of fraud emerged in the scheme.
The UN High Commissioner for Refugees, or UNHCR, said it had launched two investigations in February and March as the allegations of fraud surfaced.
"At present we are still dealing with allegations, based on reports that have come from refugees," the head of the UNHCR in Sudan, Noriko Yoshida said in a statement.
Ha! Yes, they might catch those benefiting by taking bribes, but that does nothing to punish those who paid the bribes and are now living in your town on US welfare!
The UNHCR has appealed for more than $250 million in global aid to fund its overall 2018 operations in Sudan, which hosts about 1.2 million refugees, most from South Sudan, Eritrea and Ethiopia.
"UNHCR in Sudan resettled 600 refugees*** as part of the programme in 2017," a spokesman for the UN agency in Geneva, Babar Baloch, told AFP.
***As we learned at Wrapsnet, the US resettled 652 Sudanese in calendar year 2017 which means that the US must take most of the Sudanese the UN is resettling from this office. Who are they and where are they?
And, by the way, commonsense tells us that this kind of fraud, bribery and corruption is likely going on throughout Africa!
As I have said repeatedly, there is no reason that we (the US) can't choose and process the refugees we want.
We do not need the UN to do the first cut!
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Q: Count the maximum consecutive times a string appears in a column in excel I have a column of data and I want to find the maximum number of times a string appears consecutively in it.
For example:
Adam
Adam
Adam
John
Alice
Alice

The output should be 3 here.

A: You can use a helper column and then resume data with Pivot Tables or formulas:

Sorting for this solution is critical or it won't work!
Formula in column B is:
=IF(A2=A1;B1+1;1)

This will output increasing count if name is the same. If not, it will restart count to 1.
Then you can use this with Pivot Tables or formulas to get max count for each name.
With Pivot Tables is easier, just drag field Name into rows section and Count into values section, but make sure you set it up to max instead of summing up.
Another option would be formula. You can use MAXIFS to get max count for each name. In case you don't have MAXIFS available because your Excel is old like mine, you can use the formula I've used in cell G17:
=SUMPRODUCT(MAX(--($A$2:$A$14=F17)*$B$2:$B$14))

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Het aartsbisdom Cincinnati (Latijn: Archidioecesis Cincinnatensis; Engels: Archdiocese of Cincinnati) is een metropolitaan aartsbisdom van de Rooms-Katholieke Kerk in de Amerikaanse staat Ohio die 19 county's in het zuidwesten van de staat omvat. De zetel van het aartsbisdom is in de stad Cincinnati. De aartsbisschop van Cincinnati is metropoliet van de kerkprovincie Cincinnati, waartoe ook de volgende suffragane bisdommen behoren:
 Bisdom Cleveland
 Bisdom Columbus
 Bisdom Steubenville
 Bisdom Toledo
 Bisdom Youngstown

Geschiedenis
Op 19 juni 1821 richtte paus Pius VII het bisdom Cincinnati op als afsplitsing van het bisdom Bardstown. Het was suffragaan aan het aartsbisdom Baltimore. Op 8 maart 1833 werd een deel van het grondgebied afgestaan voor de oprichting van het bisdom Detroit. Op 23 april 1847 werd opnieuw een deel van het grondgebied afgestaan. Ditmaal voor de oprichting van het bisdom Cleveland. Op 19 juli 1850 werd Cincinnati tot aartsbisdom verheven. Hierna werd nog eenmaal gebied afgestaan voor de oprichting van het Bisdom Columbus.

Bisschoppen
 1821–1832: Edward Dominic Fenwick OP
 1833–1850: John Baptist Purcell (vervolgens aartsbisschop)

Aartsbisschoppen
 1850–1883: John Baptist Purcell
 1883–1904: William Henry Elder
 1904–1925: Henry Moeller
 1925–1950: John Timothy McNicholas OP
 1950–1969: Karl Joseph Alter
 1969–1972: Paul Francis Leibold
 1972–1982: Joseph Bernardin (vervolgens aartsbisschop van Chicago)
 1982–2009: Daniel Edward Pilarczyk
 2009-heden: Dennis Marion Schnurr

Zie ook
Katholieke Kerk in de Verenigde Staten

Externe link
Aartsbisdom Cincinnati op catholic-hierarchy.org

Cincinnati
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DOUBLE TAXATION AGREEMENT WITH GIBRALTAR
January 4, 2013 January 4, 2013 admin International Taxation
DOUBLE TAXATION AGREEMENT – AGREEMENT FOR EXCHANGE OF INFORMATION WITH RESPECT TO TAXES WITH FOREIGN COUNTRIES – GIBRALTAR
NOTIFICATION NO. 28/2013[F.NO.503/11/2009-FTD-I], DATED 1-4-2013
Whereas, an Agreement between the Government of the Republic of India and the Government of Gibraltar for the Exchange of Information with respect to taxes was signed at London on the 1st day of February, 2013(hereinafter referred to as the Agreement): And whereas, the date of entry into force of the Agreement is the 11th day of March, 2013, being the date of later of the notifications of completion of the procedures as required by the respective laws for entry into force of the Agreement, in accordance with the provisions of article 12 of the Agreement; Now, therefore, in exercise of the powers conferred by section 90 of the Income-tax Act, 1961 (43 of 1961), the Central Government hereby directs that all the provisions of the Agreement between the Government of the Republic of India and the Government of Gibraltar for the exchange of information with respect to taxes, as set out in the Annexure hereto, shall be given effect to in the Union of India with effect from date of entry into force i.e the 11th March, 2013.
THE GOVERNMENT OF THE REPUBLIC OF INDIA
THE GOVERNMENT OF GIBRALTAR
THE EXCHANGE OF INFORMATION
WITH RESPECT TO TAXES
Whereas the Government of the Republic of India and the Government of Gibraltar "the Contracting Parties" wish to enhance and facilitate the terms and conditions governing the exchange of information relating to taxes;
Whereas it is acknowledged that Gibraltar under the terms of its Entrustment from the UK has the right to negotiate, conclude, perform and subject to the terms of this agreement terminate a Tax Information Exchange Agreement with India;
Now, Therefore, the Contracting Parties have agreed to conclude the following Agreement which contains obligations on the part of India and Gibraltar only:
OBJECT AND SCOPE OF THE AGREEMENT
The competent authorities of the Contracting Parties shall provide assistance through exchange of information that is foreseeably relevant to the administration and enforcement of the domestic laws of the Contracting Parties concerning taxes covered by this Agreement. Such information shall include information that is foreseeably relevant to the determination, assessment and collection of such taxes, the recovery and enforcement of tax claims, or the investigation or prosecution of tax matters. Information shall be exchanged in accordance with the provisions of this Agreement and shall be treated as confidential in the manner provided in Article 8. The rights and safeguards secured to persons by the laws or administrative practice of the requested Party remain applicable to the extent that they do not unduly prevent or delay effective exchange of information.
Information shall be exchanged in accordance with this Agreement without regard to whether the person to whom the information relates is, or whether the information is held by, a resident of a Contracting Party. However, a Requested Party is not obliged to provide information which is neither held by its authorities nor is in the possession or control of persons who are within its territorial jurisdiction.
TAXES COVERED
1. The taxes which are the subject of this Agreement are:
in India, taxes of every kind and description imposed by the Central Government or the Governments of political sub-divisions or local authorities, irrespective of the manner in which they are levied;
in Gibraltar, taxes of every kind and description, irrespective of the manner in which they are levied .
2. This Agreement shall also apply to any identical taxes imposed after the date of signature of this Agreement in addition to, or in place of, the existing taxes. This Agreement shall also apply to any substantially similar taxes imposed after the date of signature of this Agreement in addition to, or in place of, the existing taxes if the competent authorities of the Contracting Parties so agree. The competent authorities of the Contracting Parties shall notify each other of any substantial changes to the taxation and related information gathering measures which may affect the obligations of that Party pursuant to this Agreement.
1. For the purposes of this Agreement, unless otherwise defined:
the term "India" means the territory of India and includes the territorial sea and airspace above it, as well as any other maritime zone in which India has sovereign rights, other rights and jurisdiction, according to the Indian law and in accordance with international law, including the U.N. Convention on the Law of the Sea;
the term Gibraltar means the territory of Gibraltar;
the term "Contracting Party" means India or Gibraltar as the context requires;
the term "competent authority" means –
in the case of India, the Finance Minister, Government of India, or its authorized representative;
in the case of Gibraltar, the Minister of Finance or his authorised representative;
the term "person" includes an individual, a company, a body of persons and any other entity which is treated as a taxable unit under the taxation laws in force in the respective Contracting Parties;
the term "company" means any body corporate or any entity that is treated as a body corporate for tax purposes;
the term "publicly traded company" means any company whose principal class of shares is listed on a recognised stock exchange provided its listed shares can be readily purchased or sold by the public. Shares can be purchased or sold "by the public" if the purchase or sale of shares is not implicitly or explicitly restricted to a limited group of investors;
the term "principal class of shares" means the class or classes of shares representing a majority of the voting power and value of the company;
the term "recognised stock exchange" means –
in India, the National Stock Exchange, the Bombay Stock Exchange, and any other stock exchange recognised by the Securities and Exchange Board of India; and
any other stock exchange which the competent authorities agree to recognise for the purposes of this Agreement.
the term "collective investment fund or scheme" means any pooled investment vehicle, irrespective of legal form;
the term "public collective investment fund or scheme" means any collective investment fund or scheme provided the units, shares or other interests in the fund or scheme can be readily purchased, sold or redeemed by the public. Units, shares or other interests in the fund or scheme can be readily purchased, sold or redeemed "by the public" if the purchase, sale or redemption is not implicitly or explicitly restricted to a limited group of investors;
the term "tax" means any tax to which this Agreement applies;
the term "requesting Party" means the Contracting Party submitting a request for information to, or having received information from, the requested party;
the term "requested Party" means the Contracting Party which is requested to provide the information or which has provided information;
the term "information gathering measures" means laws and administrative or judicial procedures that enable a Contracting Party to obtain and provide the requested information;
the term "information" means any fact, statement, document or record in whatever form;
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the term "criminal tax matters" means tax matters involving intentional conduct, whether before or after the entry into force of this agreement, which is liable to prosecution under the criminal laws and / or the tax laws of the applicant Party;
the term "criminal laws" means all criminal laws designated as such under domestic law irrespective of whether contained in the tax laws, the criminal code or other statutes.
2. As regards the application of this Agreement at any time by a Contracting Party, any term not defined therein shall, unless the context otherwise requires or the competent authorities agree to a common meaning pursuant to the provisions of Article 11 of this Agreement, have the meaning that it has at that time under the law of that Party, any meaning under the applicable tax laws of that Party prevailing over a meaning given to the term under other laws of that Party.
EXCHANGE OF INFORMATION UPON REQUEST
1. The competent authority of the requested Party shall provide upon request information for the purposes referred to in Article 1. Such information shall be exchanged without regard to whether the requested Party needs such information for its own tax purposes or whether the conduct being investigated would constitute a crime under the laws of the requested Party if such conduct occurred in the requested Party.
2. If the information in the possession of the competent authority of the requested Party is not sufficient to enable it to comply with the request for information, that Party shall use all relevant information gathering measures to provide the requesting Party with the information requested, notwithstanding that the requested Party may not need such information for its own tax purposes.
3. If specifically requested by the competent authority of the requesting Party, the competent authority of the requested Party shall provide information under this Article, to the extent allowable under its domestic laws, in the form of depositions of witnesses and authenticated copies of original records.
4. Each Contracting Party shall ensure that its competent authority, for the purposes specified in Article 1 of this Agreement, has the authority to obtain and provide upon request:
information held by banks, other financial institutions, and any person, including nominees and trustees, acting in an agency or fiduciary capacity;
information regarding the legal and beneficial ownership of companies, partnerships, collective investment funds or schemes, trusts, foundations, "Anstalten" and other persons, including, within the constraints of Article 2, ownership information on all such persons in an ownership chain; in the case of collective investment funds or schemes, information on shares, units and other interests; in the case of trusts, information on settlors, trustees and beneficiaries; in the case of foundations, information on founders, members of the foundation council and beneficiaries; and equivalent information in case of entities that are neither trusts nor foundations.
5. This Agreement does not create an obligation on the Contracting Parties to obtain or provide ownership information with respect to publicly traded companies or public collective investment funds or schemes unless such information can be obtained without giving rise to disproportionate difficulties.
6. The competent authority of the requesting Party shall provide the following information to the competent authority of the requested Party when making a request for information under the Agreement to demonstrate the foreseeable relevance of the information to the request:
the identity of the person under examination or investigation;
the period for which information is requested;
the nature of the information requested and the form in which the requesting Party would prefer to receive it;
the tax purpose for which the information is sought;
grounds for believing that the information requested is present in the requested Party or is in the possession or control of a person within the jurisdiction of the requested Party;
to the extent known, the name and address of any person believed to be in possession or control of the requested information;
a statement that the request is in conformity with the laws and administrative practices of the requesting Party, that if the requested information was within the jurisdiction of the requesting Party then the competent authority of the requesting Party would be able to obtain the information under the laws of the requesting Party or in the normal course of administrative practice and that it is in conformity with this Agreement;
a statement that the requesting Party has pursued all means available in its own territory to obtain the information, except those that would give rise to disproportionate difficulties.
7. The competent authority of the requested Party shall forward the requested information as promptly as possible to the requesting Party. To ensure a prompt response, the competent authority of the requested Party shall:
Confirm receipt of a request in writing to the competent authority of the requesting Party and shall notify the competent authority of the requesting Party of deficiencies in the request, if any, within 60 days of the receipt of the request.
If the competent authority of the requested Party has been unable to obtain and provide the information within 90 days of receipt of the request, including if it encounters obstacles in furnishing the information or it refuses to furnish the information, it shall immediately inform the requesting Party, explaining the reason for its inability, the nature of the obstacles or the reasons for its refusal.
TAX EXAMINATIONS ABROAD
1. At the request of the competent authority of the requesting Party, the requested Party may allow representatives of the competent authority of the requesting Party to enter the territory of the requested Party, to the extent permitted under its domestic laws, to interview individuals and examine records with the prior written consent of the individuals or other persons concerned. The competent authority of the requesting Party shall notify the competent authority of the requested Party of the time and place of the intended meeting with the individuals concerned.
2. At the request of the competent authority of the requesting Party, the requested Party may allow representatives of the competent authority of the requesting Party to be present at the appropriate part of a tax examination in the requested Party, in which case the competent authority of the requested Party conducting the examination shall, as soon as possible, notify the competent authority of the requesting Party about the time and place of the examination, the authority or official designated to carry out the examination and the procedures and conditions required by the requested Party for the conduct of the examination. All decisions with respect to the conduct of the tax examination shall be made by the Party conducting the examination.
POSSIBILITY OF DECLINING A REQUEST FOR INFORMATION
1. The competent authority of the requested Party may decline to assist:
where the request is not made in conformity with this Agreement; or
where the requesting Party has not pursued all means available in its own territory to obtain the information, except where recourse to such means would give rise to disproportionate difficulty; or
where disclosure of the information would be contrary to public policy (ordre public) of the requested Party.
2. This Agreement shall not impose on a Contracting Party the obligation:
to supply information which would disclose any trade, business, industrial, commercial or professional secret or trade process, provided that information described in paragraph 4 of Article 5 shall not be treated as such a secret or trade process merely because it meets the criteria in that paragraph; or
to obtain or provide information, which would reveal confidential communications between a client and an attorney, solicitor or other admitted legal representative where such communications are:
produced for the purposes of seeking or providing legal advice or
produced for the purposes of use in existing or contemplated legal proceedings.
3. A request for information shall not be refused on the ground that the tax claim giving rise to the request is disputed.
4. The requested Party shall not be required to obtain and provide information which the requesting Party would be unable to obtain in similar circumstances under its own laws for the purpose of the administration or enforcement of its own tax laws or in response to a valid request from the requested Party under this Agreement.
5. The requested Party may decline a request for information if the information is requested by the requesting Party to administer or enforce a provision of the tax law of the requesting Party, or any requirement connected therewith, which discriminates against a national of the requested Party as compared with a national of the requesting Party in the same circumstances.
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The Tai Viet script (Tai Dam:  ("Tai script"), Vietnamese: Chữ Thái Việt) (, ) is a Brahmic script used by the Tai Dam people and various other Thai people in Vietnam and Thailand.

History
According to Thai authors, the writing system is probably derived from the old Thai writing of the kingdom of Sukhotai. It has been suggested that the Fakkham script is the source of the Tai Don, Tai Dam and Tai Daeng writing systems found in Jinping (China), northern Laos, and Vietnam.

Differences in phonology of the various local Tai languages, the isolation of communities and the fact that the written language has traditionally been passed down from father to son have led to many local variants. In an attempt to reverse this development and establish a standardized system, Vietnam's various Tai people in the former Northwestern Autonomous Region were approached with a proposal that they should agree on a common standard. Together with Vietnamese researchers, a first proposal called Thống Nhất (or Unified Alphabet) was developed, which was published in 1961 and revised in 1966. A unified and standardized version of the script was developed at a UNESCO-sponsored workshop in 2006, named "chữ Thái Việt Nam" (or Vietnamese Tai script). This standardized version was then approved to be included in Unicode.

From May 2008, the improved Thai script was put into official use.

Description

The script consists of 31 consonants and 14 vowels. Unlike most other abugidas or brahmic scripts, the consonants do not have an inherent vowel, and every vowel must be specified with a vowel marker. Vowels are marked with diacritic vowel markers that can appear above, below or to the left and/or right of the consonant. Some vowels carry an inherent final consonant, such as /-aj/, /-am/, /-an/ and /-əw/.

The script uses Latin script punctuation, and also includes five special characters, one to indicate a person, one for the number "one", one to repeat the previous word, one to mark the beginning of a text and one to mark the end of a text.

Traditionally, the script did not use any spacing between words as they were written in a continuous flow, but spacing has become common since the 1980s.

Consonants
Initial consonant letters have both high and low forms, which are used to indicate tones. The high consonants are used for the syllable final letters -w, -y, -m, -n and -ng. The low consonant letter -k is used for final /k/- and /ʔ/-sounds, while low consonant letters -b and -d are used for final /p/ and /t/.

Vowels

The consonant character's position is marked with a circle: ◌.

 When /ɔ/ has a final,  is used instead.

Some additional vowels are written with a combination of two vowel characters. The following four combinations are used for Tai Dam:

Some sounds are spelled differently in Tai Dón compared to in Tai Dam:

Tones
Traditionally the script used no tone marks and only partially indicated tones with the high/low consonant differentiation. The reader had to guess the tone and thus meaning of a word from context. In the 1970s two tone marks were developed, called mai nueng and mai song. Tone 1 is marked with only a low consonant. Tone 4 is marked with only a high consonant. Tone 2 is marked with the first tone mark and a low consonant form. Tone 5 is marked with the first tone mark and a high consonant form. Tone 3 is marked with the second tone mark and a low consonant form. Tone 6 is marked with the second tone mark and a high consonant form.

Unicode

Proposals to encode Tai Viet script in Unicode go back to 2006.
A Unicode subcommittee reviewed a February 6, 2007 proposal submitted by James Brase of SIL International for what was then called Tay Viet script.
At the ISO/IEC JTC1/SC2/WG2 meeting on April 24, 2007, a revised proposal for the script, now known as Tai Viet, was accepted "as is", with support from TCVN, the Vietnam Quality & Standards Centre.

Tai Viet was added to the Unicode Standard in October, 2009 with the release of version 5.2.

The Unicode block for Tai Viet is U+AA80–U+AADF:

Further reading
Miyake, Marc. 2014. D-ou-b-led letters in Tai Viet.

References

External links
 SIL Tai Heritage Pro Font Download
 Proposal to encode additional Tai Viet characters for the Jinping Dai

Brahmic scripts
Writing systems of Asia


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Who You Callin' a Bitch?
Back in the mid nineties, Queen Latifah released a song called U.N.I.T.Y. It's been a long time since I've listened to it. And it's my guess that Tina Fey has never heard it.
According to Tina's most recent Saturday Night Live weekend update skit, it's okay to call yourself a bitch and to call other people a bitch too. And all women should be proud to be called a bitch because, "Bitches get things done."
In Tina's world, Hillary Clinton is a bitch so therefore she's going to get things done.
Just like Rosa Parks and Betty Shabazz, right? Just like Oprah? Just like my mother? Just like my sister?
Just like me?
Because trust me, I get things done. But I don't believe I need to be a bitch to do so. I don't believe strength and standing up for what's right means I'm a bitch. As Latifah said, "Real bad girls are the silent type."
Emulating the worst aspects of a male-dominated society in order to accomplish something is nothing but getting down in the gutter. We've got plenty of male bitches running things and Lord knows we don't need more of the same.
I don't tolerate people calling me a bitch. To me there's nothing empowering about being called a bitch. And I don't take it as a compliment if it's another woman calling me that. Where I come from, you call a girl a bitch and it's on.
Maybe this is a white women of privilege thing. Maybe they are the ones who find it empowering to be called a bitch. I don't know. You tell me.
And another thing Tina Fey needs to recognize is that bitch will never be the new black. I don't care if she was referring to it in a fashion sense or not. The double entendre is pretty obvious.
Tina Fey can stand around and say, "I'm a bitch and I get things done!" all she wants but I bet she won't have a hard time catching a cab in New York City.
Yeah, I'll bet Tina Fey's never stood on the southbound traffic side of Broadway hoping that cabs will pull over because they're thinking she's not headed uptown.
I've bet Tina's never had a cab driver tell her he doesn't know how to get to the Bronx.
I fully believe sexism is alive and well in the United States, but in the meantime, don't call me a bitch.
Labels: bitches Culture hillary clinton Queen Latifah Tina Fey
Jameil said…
i'm more annoyed by racism than sexism. i have a post floating in my brain right now about that very subject. my friends in college were all very very into throwing the word bitch around all willy nilly. i'm pretty desensitized to it but only with them. anyone else and i get crunk.
Tami said…
Well said, Liz! The Tina Fey skit irked me to no end. It was offensive to me as a woman and as an Obama supporter. Sexism and racism in this presidential cycle has been deplorable, but I am weary of the "more oppressed than thou" narrative that many feminists are floating. And I say that as a womanist/feminist myself.
I (in my dreams because I don't have the time) need to make a list titled: "Bitch" will be the new Black when--and list all the things Black folk deal with like targeted for horrible loans, denied access to equal housing, driving while Black, not getting a job because of your (ethnic) name on your resume and the list goes on and on and on.
Sit down Tina.
Malik Akbar said…
You know what, white women really, really need to stop thinking that because they have ovaries they don't have a race, along with everything that comes with it.
1969 said…
I don't respond to that term either. Something about likening my strengh and feminitity to a female dog rubs me the wrong way. LOL
heartinsanfrancisco said…
I come from a time when "bitch" was a bad thing to call a woman, and it still is.
Tina Fey is a moron. I didn't see the skit but it sounds offensive. SNL hasn't been worth watching since the days of Gilda, Belushi, Morris, Ackroyd, Murray, and the rest of the original cast members.
Open Grove Claudia said…
Well... I'm about as white as they come, and I guess I've had some privileges....
No one calls me a bitch. Period. Nor would I ever call anyone else a bitch. Stupid is never a solution.
Personally? I think Tina needs to eat a loaf of bread, maybe a plate of pasta, some brie would help too. It would calm her quite a bit. But that's my solution for Naomi Campbell and all the other grumpy size 2 women of the world.
It's a carb vs. no-carb world where I live... ;)
Lisa Johnson said…
I'm so glad you wrote about this! I was so disgusted after watching SNL. It seemed like the B-word was being used on just about every skit. But the "B is the new black" comment pushed me over the edge and I just turned the tv off. I've lost a lot of respect for Tina Fey.
Nerd Girl said…
Amen. I haven't watched SNL in years, so I can't speak to this particular sketch, but bitch has never been a term that I found acceptable.
I actually lost friends over this in college, because girls would refer to each other as bitch, and I wasn't having it. Then, or now.
I recently saw a Janet Jackson interview with Perez Hilton and he asked her what her friends call her and she said they affectionately call her bitch. I was so disappointed - I'm not going to buy her cd even though I've loved her forever. She's not in Control anymore if people are calling her out of her name!!!You gotta let them know!!! I'm not a bitch or a ho!!!!
Liz Dwyer said…
Jameil,
If I was Hillary, I'd feel insulted to be called a bitch. Wouldn't it have been funny if she'd jumped out of her chair at the debate and started rapping Latifah's lyrics? LOL! See, our presidential debates are too boring!
But both racism and sexism have really come out with this presidential race. I am tired of hearing pundits say, "Well Barack could vote before Hillary could because he's a man." Um, yeah, except for that pesky thing called Jim Crow, right? Oh and Emmett Till's murder, gosh, black men have had it sooo easy in America. So sick of it!
Tami,
Why do people have to play the "We've suffered more than you," game? Every single day in this campaign just when I think we haven't sunk as low as we can as far as racism and sexism in this campaign, it gets taken to another level. It does all of us a disservice. And don't you sort of wonder if Tina Fey and Bob Johnson are friends these days?
Symphony,
Exactly. I have no doubt she's faced sexism but that's stuff that Tina Fey will never have to experience. She'll never get kicked out of a cab once the driver hears that she's going to Harlem or the Bronx. But I have. And my husband...standing on a corner with my sons in NYC, he couldn't get a cab to stop for him. A white guy had to stop a cab and then the cabbie got mad when the white guy didn't get in! UGH!
Malik,
There's a total lack of acknowledgement of that in Fey's statements. And yet we're all supposed to laugh. Hah hah. It's not funny though. And they need to look at why they don't even have someone on their cast who can play Obama. They had to audition outsiders. Just ridiculous.
I agree. But we have missed the memo that female dogs get more done than the male dogs. More sniffing, digging, running, fetching balls and sticks. LOL!
There's always ten minutes of SNL that are actually funny and then the rest of it is usually pretty dry. I loved Maya Rudolph as Donatella Versace. And the church lady was funny back in the day...and those "Ambiguously Gay Duo" cartoons used to have me in stitches. But I usually forget it's on these days because it gets so boring that it's hard to stay awake. On the other hand, it could solve my insomnia problems if I just make myself watch SNL every night.
I will say it was SO bizarre to hear Hillary Clinton refer to another part of this same SNL skit last night in the debate! It was just surreal. I can't believe we have a woman running for office who basically condones being referred to as a bitch as some sort of empowerment thing. That's CRAZY!
We've all had privileges in some way, haven't we? It's all a matter of whether we acknowledge it or not and whether we think it's ok that we've had those privileges.
I think the eating thing could help a lot of actresses. It's not fair that men can pack on pounds and still get movie roles. Ugh.
Anali,
When I first saw a clip of it, I only saw the "bitches get things done" part of the skit, and then when I saw the whole thing with that comment about it being the new black, I was so angry. And I know people have tried to pass it off as being only a reference to fashion, like pink is the new black or something like that, but I don't think so. I'll just have to be a little too sensitive on that one.
Nerd Girl,
I remember everyone raving over how Waiting to Exhale was such a good book and the first time I read it I couldn't believe how the women called each other bitches in this supposedly endearing manner. I couldn't imagine calling one of my girls that. And still can't.
Cyndee,
What??? That is disappointing. She definitely shouldn't let anybody do that. I just don't get what's affectionate about that. What, do her friends go around and say, "Hey, Bitch! Come give me a hug and thanks for saying a prayer for me!" Totally weird.
Brown English Muffin said…
I don't watch SNL but well said.
It's interesting to think about privilege. There have been times in my life when I didn't have anything to eat. I remember times in my life when I was alone, cold, and terrified. I have also suffered because of the way I look. So, food, warmth, love, clothing all feel like privilege and a real gift.
That's not to mention the sacrifices people before me made to create the amazing California education system. The capacity to vote in a system that at least strives to be fair. And every other privilege that I take for granted because I cannot imagine life without them (flushing toilets? this blog?).
I do know and understand what you mean. I even understand what Malik is saying. I know the truth, and certainty, in the statements.
Haute in LA said…
Don't call me one either! Some say "oh I take ownership of the word and by doing that it negates the normal association of the word and turns into a positive." To each her own. Star Jones can say it means Babe In Total Control of Herself all she wants. HAUTE is not guying into. Like you, I don't stand for any type of disrespect, nor do I have time to try and decipher whether or not the deliverer of a message meant it in a "Bitch I love your strength" kind of way or a condescending "you stupid bitch kind of way."
I'd never call you that, Lady Liz. Neither would I use that word toward my wife, my mother, my grandmother, my sisters, my daughters, or my female friends.
Saying that word is empowering is every bit as stupid as saying that the use of the nigger (or ever more stupidly, nigga) is empowering when used by black people.
B.E.M.
I have even more reason to not watch SNL now. And I really like your blog name!
I know what you mean and many of us are not grateful for the privileges we have. Despite the things I've had to deal with though, I am always aware of the privilege of being lighter skinned in this country. Sure there have been some people who have not liked me because they think I'm a "high-yella heffa" as I was once called, but I know that preferential or better treatment has happened more frequently. I've seen it in action too much to not recognize it's existence. I think the challenge is in rejecting it and making sure that I don't start thinking that I am owed or due something because of my skin color. Good stuff to think about though.
Haute in LA,
Exactly, it doesn't turn it into a positive. I kept hoping Hillary would come out and say, "Hey, I'm not a bitch and I think it demeans all women to call me that just because I'm strong and determined." I guess that isn't going to happen though.
Gunfighter,
That is the same argument and it's really weak. There's nothing empowering about either word.
Lola Gets said…
I decided to watch Mad TVs "Best Of" Saturday night, so I missed this show.
Now, I see that Im the only one with this opinion, but Im going to say it anyways: I recognize that I can be a bitch sometimes. Not all the time. And I dont call myself a bitch, nor do I call any of my female friends bitches either. But I do recognize that there is part of my personality that can be very nasty, snarky, and attitudenal (yeah, I made that word up), and that some folks would label that behavior as bitchy.
This discussion makes me think of that Meredith Brooks song, "Bitch." Take a listen sometime.
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Die Schweizer Parlamentswahlen 1887 fanden am 30. Oktober 1887 statt. Zur Wahl standen 145 Sitze des Nationalrates. Die Wahlen wurden nach dem Majorzwahlrecht vorgenommen, wobei das Land in 49 unterschiedlich grosse Nationalratswahlkreise unterteilt war. Wiederum gelang es den Freisinnigen (bzw. Radikal-Liberalen), ihre Position als klar stärkste Kraft zu behaupten. Insgesamt war der Wahlkampf recht flau und es kam nur zu unwesentlichen Verschiebungen. Das neu gewählte Parlament trat in der 14. Legislaturperiode erstmals am 5. Dezember 1887 zusammen.

Wahlkampf
Die Wahlen von 1887 waren von einer allgemeinen Entspannung geprägt, zum ersten Mal seit 1878 gab es kein dominierendes Wahlkampfthema. Mit dem Abflauen des Kulturkampfes und des Gegensatzes zwischen Zentralisten und Föderalisten wandten sich die politischen Gruppierungen von ideologischen Kämpfen ab und widmeten sich vermehrt materiellen Problemen. Bei Projekten wie der Eisenbahnverstaatlichung, der Gründung einer Nationalbank und der Schaffung einer Kranken- und Unfallversicherung bestand von den Linken bis zu den gemässigten Rechten ein breiter Konsens; Konflikte um die konkrete Umsetzung standen erst bevor. Die Debatte um die Einführung von Schutzzöllen war noch wenig akzentuiert, führte aber immerhin dazu, dass sich der Grütliverein allmählich von den Freisinnigen und der Demokraten abwandte und sich der wachsenden Arbeiterbewegung annäherte.

Während der 13. Legislaturperiode hatte es aufgrund von Vakanzen zehn Ersatzwahlen in acht Wahlkreisen gegeben, dabei kam es nur zu marginalen Sitzverschiebungen. 1887 gab es insgesamt 59 Wahlgänge (einen weniger als drei Jahre zuvor). In 41 von 49 Wahlkreisen waren die Wahlen bereits nach dem ersten Wahlgang entschieden. Sechs von sieben amtierenden Bundesräte traten zu einer in der zweiten Hälfte des 19. Jahrhunderts üblichen Komplimentswahl an; d. h., sie stellten sich als Nationalräte zur Wahl, um sich von den Wählern ihre Legitimation als Mitglieder der Landesregierung bestätigen zu lassen. Dieser Brauch war jedoch in den letzten Jahren zunehmend auf Kritik gestossen. Bundesrat Adolf Deucher verzichtete bewusst auf eine Komplimentswahl, gleichwohl bestätigte ihn die Bundesversammlung problemlos. Die darauf notwendig gewordenen Ergänzungswahlen waren am 26. Februar 1888 abgeschlossen, womit der Nationalrat komplett war.

Als Folge des flauen Wahlkampfs und der in vielen Wahlkreisen schwach ausgeprägten Konkurrenzsituation sank die Wahlbeteiligung im Vergleich zu 1884 um acht Prozentpunkte. Infolge der dort geltenden Wahlpflicht wies der Kanton Schaffhausen mit 95,5 % wie üblich den höchsten Wert auf. Nur die Kantone Aargau und Solothurn verzeichneten ebenfalls Werte von über 80 %. Auf das geringste Interesse stiessen die Wahlen im Kanton Zug, wo nur gerade 18,5 % der Wähler an die Urne gingen. Die Freisinnigen behaupteten sich erneut als klar stärkste Kraft. Am meisten konnten die reformierten Konservativen zulegen, wenn auch nur um drei Sitze.

Ergebnis der Nationalratswahlen

Gesamtergebnis
Von 649'229 volljährigen männlichen Wahlberechtigten nahmen 359'317 an den Wahlen teil, was einer Wahlbeteiligung von 55,3 % entspricht.

Die 145 Sitze im Nationalrat verteilten sich wie folgt:

Hinweis: Eine Zuordnung von Kandidaten zu Parteien und politischen Gruppierungen ist nur bedingt möglich. Der politischen Wirklichkeit des 19. Jahrhunderts entsprechend kann man eher von Parteiströmungen oder -richtungen sprechen, deren Grenzen teilweise fliessend sind. Die verwendeten Parteibezeichnungen sind daher eine ideologische Einschätzung.

Ergebnisse in den Kantonen
Die nachfolgende Tabelle zeigt die Verteilung der errungenen Sitze auf die Kantone.

Ständerat
Die Wahlberechtigten konnten die Mitglieder des Ständerates nur in zehn Kantonen selbst bestimmen: In den Kantonen Graubünden, Solothurn, Thurgau, Zug und Zürich an der Wahlurne, in den Kantonen Appenzell Ausserrhoden, Glarus, Nidwalden, Obwalden und Uri an der Landsgemeinde. In allen anderen Kantonen erfolgte die Wahl indirekt durch die jeweiligen Kantonsparlamente.

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Knight vs. WPSB
One interesting resource for learning about our past is the files of court cases centering on our community. There are large legal databases that will contain the records of your average case but they are expensive and difficult to access. More easily accessed are the records of cases that were appealed to higher courts. In today's article, we are going to look at the circumstances surrounding a case ruled on by the Louisiana Supreme Court in 1927. In some ways, this article is also timely as we are currently in the midst of an election season with key elections involving school funding in Webster, Caddo and Bossier Parish. This case also centered on a school finance issue. Today's Echo is a brief look the case of Knight v Webster Parish School Board.
In 1919, the Webster Parish School Board hired Claiborne Parish native, E. S. Richardson, of the Agricultural Extension Department of Louisiana State University as their new Superintendent, replacing Thomas W. Fuller, who had died. Richardson, who had previously served as Superintendent of School in Bienville Parish was recommended for the job by Dean C. A. Ives of the School of Education at LSU. Ives had been the Principal of Minden High School who oversaw the construction of the 1910 Minden High School building.
When Richardson took over in Webster Parish, there were 39 schools in the parish, 35 of these were 1 to 3 room schools. There were only 4 certified high schools in the parish. In the White schools of Webster Parish there were 100 teachers: 18 held a B. A. degree; 32 others had two years of college and a teaching certificate; 46 had passed an examination and met no formal education requirement; and 9 had not even passed the examination. The only Black school operated by the parish was a small building in Minden. (There were some other Black schools operated by churches.)
Richardson hit the ground running in his new post. His routine included nearly daily visits into the schools, personal evaluations of the teachers, and contact with parents and civic leaders. He began a public relations blitz to support a consolidation campaign, by persuading the rural residents that the educational opportunities for their children would be much greater in a larger school. Richardson's consolidation campaign was a smashing success. By 1925, 10 centralized, state-approved high schools were built. These were located in: Shongaloo, Evergreen, Minden, Dubberly, Heflin, Springhill, Sarepta, Cotton Valley, Doyline, and Sibley. By 1928, each of these schools had new buildings and all except Evergreen's were brick. Twenty-four small schools were abandoned and only seven small schools remained. Richardson contracted with the W. H. Luck Company of Minden to build bodies for 40 "school trucks," or buses, to bring the rural children into the larger schools that offered a broader curriculum.
By 1931, the remaining seven small schools were closed and Richardson had completed implementation of the County Unit system, a uniform parish wide system of purchasing with a centralized warehouse. Books, equipment and supplies were purchased by the parish and standardized in all schools. If a school needed a new desk, or additional books, instead of having to find an outside source, they merely contacted the central warehouse in Minden. A uniform salary schedule for teachers, based on education and experience was adopted. By the time Richardson left Webster Parish in 1936, the White Schools had 127 teachers: 4 held M. A. degrees; 65 held B. A.'s; 30 had 3-years of college; 26 had completed 2-years of college; 1 had 1-year of college; and only 1 teacher had less than 1 year of college training.
Going back now to 1925, the amazing progress taking place in Webster Parish had not gone unnoticed. Richardson was an outstanding promoter of education and his plans. Reading his notebooks that are preserved in the archives at Louisiana Tech, his skill at strategizing is truly amazing. He wrote of detailed efforts to get his plans approved, including such minute details as the seating arrangements at dinner parties wanting to place the proper "influencer" next to those he sought to persuade. He outlined his efforts in going door-to-door in the rural communities speaking individually with parents, persuading them to fully support his plans for consolidation.
Webster Parish Historian John Agan's column appears Tuesdays in the Minden Press-Herald
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After all of our hard work and through our events and fundraisers, we're adopting 2 schools in the Philippines with Volunteer for the Visayans. We are adopting Guintigui-an Elementary School (127 students) and Lapay Elementary school (103 students) for a year. We will be providing the students with educational resources (books, notebooks, pencils, pens..etc) throughout the year. We are also looking forward to provide a projector for the Guintigui-an Elementary School and fund another school, Tugop Elementary School (203 students) in the near future.
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FORT SAN CARLOS DE BARRANCAS
(part of Gulf Islands National Seashore)
Location: Escambia County, U.S. Naval Air Station, Pensacola.
Gulf Islands National Seashore
Ownership and Administration. U.S. Government; Department of Defense.
Fort Barrancas, Florida.
Significance. Fort San Carlos de Barrancas was originally a semicircular fortification of Pensacola brick, built in 1787 during the last Spanish occupation of West Florida. The high bluff on which it was placed, called by the Spaniards "Barrancas de Santo Tomé," was the site of the earlier Fort San Carlos de Austria, which dated from the first permanent Spanish settlement on Pensacola Bay, in 1698. In 1719, a French force destroyed this first fort and nothing remains of it today. From 1763 to 1781, Pensacola was under British control, and its capture by a Spanish expedition in 1781 marked the beginning of the last period of Spanish rule. The new Fort San Carlos was a defense bastion in West Florida; and, with St. Augustine, a foothold in the Southeastern United States.
Spanish collaboration with the British forces during the War of 1812 led Andrew Jackson to move into Pensacola in 1814. The occupying British force retreated rapidly to their warships after blowing up Fort San Carlos. When Jackson withdrew to New Orleans, the Spanish returned and began to rebuild the fort. During the Seminole Indian War, 4 years later, Jackson again attacked Pensacola. In accepting the surrender of the Spanish Governor, in Fort San Carlos, he in effect seized control of West Florida for the United States. He returned as Provisional Governor of the new territory 3 years later.
Fort San Carlos de Barrancas, Florida. In the late 18th century, the Spanish constructed the fort to guard Pensacola, the capital of Spanish West Florida.
As a part of the general tightening of coastal defenses during the years 1833-44, U.S. troops strengthened the defenses at the mouth of Pensacola Bay. They constructed a four-sided brick fortification, Fort Barrancas, immediately in the rear of and connected to Fort San Carlos; and, as part of the defensive complex, built Fort Redoubt about 1,000 yards north of Fort Barrancas. During the Civil War, Forts San Carlos and Barrancas were first in the hands of Florida State troops and then the Union forces.
Present Appearance. In the late 1960's, the forts were in poor condition. [15] Fort Pickens underwent extensive repairs by the National Park Service and was reopened in 1976. Following a $1.2 million, eighteen-month restoration project, Fort Barrancas reopened in 1980.
NHL Designation: 10/09/60


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Yet another "tribal" story in a national newspaper. Based on my reading, the story is based on the seizure of a consignment of ghee packets at a forest checkpost by the department. Clearly this indicates that some of the ghee packets under a government scheme are finding ways into private markets for sale. Several reports abound about such "hand-outs" entering private markets. Often, these instances are cited as reasons for not giving subsidies or hand-outs.
Without going into that larger policy argument, there's a finer point to be made here on how the "tribal" identity gets typecast in news coverage.
But, is it fair from this information to come to an all-encompassing title that paints all tribals in BR Hills with the same brush? In my opinion, journalists should put more effort into stories. For example, what kind of intermediaries are involved in organising such elaborate siphoning away of these food products? Often various intermediaries siphon away such hand-outs. Even, if ALL tribals were doing this, is it not the responsibility of the reporter to go a bit beyond this story and find out why? Is it not fair to at least interview/ask some tribal leaders/individuals for their opinion and reflect in a story? If a few members of a community/caste of people X residing in (say for example) Mandya were to do the same, would you write a story saying "People of Caste X from Mandya selling ghee for booze". I would think not. Then why would you sanction such a story on "tribals".
For a reputed national newspaper of NIE's credibility, I would have expected higher journalistic and editorial standards.
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Stereotyping has become a norm. I would often hear few forest officials complaining that the tribals are responsible for man-animal conflict. It used to painful to listen to these comments. Labelling/ categorising a person/group of people is becoming a norm and with media also publishing such news, the civic responsibility has to be relooked.


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The Harrogate Show was incredibly busy and from the happy smiling faces it seems everybody enjoyed it. Thank you to all our visitors, it is always a pleasure to catch up with our regulars and to meet some new customers.
The Titan loco was well received and we are soon to see one in Deutches Bundebahn livery after it is delivered to a customer in Germany. We also have some BR liveried locos ordered for destinations closer to home. The Flying Scotsman inspired livery was deemed very acceptable and has already been ordered by a new customer. The Low Profile Power Bogie we use in the Titan Loco also attracted a lot of attention and several customer and club projects are now being finalised to incorporate the new bogie.
The BR Mk1 TSO Coach gathered many favourable comments and more than a few orders. The interior detailing was particularly well received and most orders have included the interior option, it seems that most people prefer to keep their coaching stock as near to scale as possible with interior and exterior detailing rather than the ride on option.
We exhibited a working warship bogie with an AC Drive System and spent a lot of time discussing new applications for the AC system. The demonstration model was rarely static and most visitors found it remarkable that we could offer such a large amount of power from such a small package. We were using a pair of small 12 Ah batteries to power the bogie all weekend and this proved to be an excellent way of demonstrating the efficiency of the motors as we did not re-charge them for the 3 days of the show.
You will find details of the new Low Profile Power Bogies listed in Products in the next couple of days and look out for a new AC system and BR Mk1 coach section coming soon.


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