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Molyviatis discussed Balkans and Cyprus issue with his American counterpart during Washington talks Washington, D.C. - The 'excellent state' of Greek-American relations, according to visiting Greek Foreign Minister Petros Molyviatis and US...
An Odyssey for Artist Artemis
New York.- By Vicki J. Yiannias on Monday evening, March 21, another winning reception hosted by the Onassis Cultural Center in the Olympic Towers Atrium inaugurated the newly mounted exhibit titled Odyssey, by the artist Artemis. The reception...
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Molyviatis Talks on FYROM's Name
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Market Hall, MVRDV (2014). Social housing combined with a public market.
architecture must be "realistic," meaning that it must operate within them.
Put another way, architecture's job is to figure out how to contort (I would not say "meet") the needs of society so as to be amenable to these reified constraints.
Yes, people's need for buildings is immediate and pressing and cannot wait for a possible future in which the conditions of building construction may be different. Further, it is possible to create buildings under current conditions with more or less concern for ordinary people, more or less imagination, more or less awareness of the many scales and modes by which buildings shape our environment. That is to say, it is possible to design well or badly, to do it out of concern for people's well-being or for personal gain.
Many architects amplify the prevailing market into a rationale for following the path of least resistance in their practices. If I had a nickel for every time someone has "reminded" me that architects need to make a living- well,I'd have a lot of nickels. I will stipulate that architects need to make a living. But this does not justify adopting the market as rationale for ceasing to think about how we live in larger terms. Our true purpose is to engage in this kind of questioning. We often underestimate the scope our projects offer for doing this.
Winy Maas of MVRDV has posted a video of a presentation he made to urban planners in Glasgow that is inspiring in this regard. You could call it "the architecture of the impossible". The issues his ideas address are very real: global warming, with its consequences for energy and water consumption, urbanization and population growth, mass population migrations, and the cost of infrastructure among others. What is remarkable is not only the imagination of his solutions, but the fact that, under present conditions, they are impossible. Not physically impossible, but politically impossible. In many cases this is because the level of political organization needed to carry out a project does not exist (yet). It makes sense for water-rich Sw itzerland to build a network of reservoirs to supply water to drier parts of Europe (see left), if only the political infrastructure existed to plan and build the accompanying distribution system. Why not cover south-facing mountainsides with photovoltaic panels? Well, again you would need a continent-wide distribution network to make the project economically feasible, not to mention a financial structure to pay for the project. Maas's projects are impossible, but they argue for themselves as solutions to real problems and force us to ask, "Why are these things impossible? What is holding society back from realizing them?" Once there, the projects become arguments for changing the political and economic structures that make them impossible so that they become possible. In other words, the projects themselves become forces for change.
This model for making architecture a force for social change involves two steps. First, architects must address problems that affect people's lives (and no, "new possibilities of inhabitable space" is not such a problem). These problems must be sufficiently pressing to get people to think seriously about solutions they have never considered before, that may at first seem outlandish. Second, architects have to decide which of the conditions that circumscribe their work are actually not carved in stone, but could be changed if the necessary political will existed. Architecture thus works towards social change by demonstrating its benefits.
The scale of Maas's projects in the video are vast- far beyond the scope of most architects' practices (imagine having Switzerland as a commission!). But the model still works. On every project, we need to ask ourselves if we have accepted some constraint as immutable, when in fact it could be eased or removed by altering some human institution. This may not be possible immediately, but once we have demonstrated with a project that making such a change would be beneficial, we can begin to persuade people to make the change.
What we are talking about here is challenging current performance criteria. The all-too-common mindset, abetted by BIM and related developments, is to accept and quantify performance criteria as given, and to maximize a design with respect to those criteria. As I have argued in The Death of Drawing and on this blog, this mindset is fatal to architecture as a cultural and social force. Architects must challenge performativity in any way they can. One way to do this, suggested by Maas's projects, is to turn performativity against itself by asking whether better answers can be found by suspending accepted performance standards.
Among the professionals involved in the building industry, architects have a unique ability- even a duty- to apply a broad range of criteria in making design decisions. This is the essence of the traditional role of architects in building- not only to know about how things are built, but also to question assumptions and conventions of building in light of their larger effects on human life. The philosopher Karsten Harries has called this broad questioning of goals and means of building the ethical function of architecture, and it is precisely what distinguishes architecture from other building design disciplines.
The proliferation of building and design technologies has made technology an area of particular importance for this aspect of architecture. Technology is vital to our society, culture and economy. Unfortunately, it has no built-in guide as to what problems to take on and limited criteria to apply in finding solutions. It's like a precocious child- capable of amazing things but lacking the basic sense not to play in traffic. Like a child, it needs to be allowed to explore while being guided by wisdom and experience. The problems we ask technology to solve, both the goals and the means used to achieve them, need to be chosen according to a broad range of criteria. In the domain of building and design technology, only architects have the training and the professional culture that allow them to do this.
New technologies are created in response to a perceived market. A key criterion is their potential profitability. The "needs" they meet are fungible if not created out of whole cloth. Clever marketing can create desires and transform them into felt needs. There's an enormous market for trucks and SUV's that burn much more fuel than most cars and release correspondingly larger amounts of pollutants. These vehicles can have a legitimate purpose, but they don't owe their gigantic sales volume to the need of a typical family to haul bales of hay or climb glaciers. The first question about any technology should always be about its purpose. Economy is always a consideration, but an ethics of technology requires a broader critical questioning of the end to which it is created.
Apart from effectively fulfilling a purpose, the only criterion technology innately recognizes is performance: functional (accomplishing the assigned purpose as efficiently as possible), and economic (generating profits for its creators). The net result is that technology naturally seeks to achieve maximum effect for minimal cost. Using the market alone to assess performance neglects many impacts of technological methods that we might want to challenge on ethical grounds, such as environmental degradation and labor exploitation. Ethical judgments in fact do sometimes come into play. Opposition to the destruction of embryos has impeded genetic research. Revelations about the scope of the NSA's data gathering have at least placed limits on the use of certain technologies. These examples involve public opinion, but it is also possible for individuals and small groups to assert other criteria in selecting technologies and influencing their development.
The clearest example of this in the building industry is sustainable design. Architects played a major role in establishing sustainability as an accepted design criterion. Given its present widespread acceptance, it's easy to forget how recently and rapidly sustainability achieved this status. Sustainable design can often be defended on the basis of lifecycle cost, but at bottom it is an ethical value. As an ethical principle, sustainability is readily justified on utilitarian grounds ("the greatest good for the greatest number"). Since it mitigates such things as greenhouse gas emissions, deforestation and water pollution that harm every person on the planet, it clearly works to increase our collective well-being. Sustainability also has the virtue of being quantifiable (in some respects). One can calculate kilowatt hours saved, volume of emitted CO2 avoided and so on. Once the basic principle is accepted, this provides a basis for agreement among diverse individuals about what is more or less sustainable. However, not many ethical principles can be as clearly justified or applied.
Modern construction is a highly technical enterprise. With the coming of BIM and other computational tools, building design has also become technology-intensive. In both arenas architects are constantly confronted with decisions about technologies, what to use and how to use it. Amid the rush towards greater efficiency that our world demands and technology promotes, it is difficult but essential for architects to maintain a critical stance towards building and design technologies. Indeed, they are the only building professionals with a mandate to do this in keeping with the ethical function that is the hallmark of their discipline.
Architects face some serious difficulties in questioning technology. One is the paradox of challenging technology on its own turf. As technology becomes more pervasive in building and design, its imperatives of efficiency and enhanced performance become more deeply embedded in the ethos of the building industry. Architects are under great pressure to adopt these values. Who can object to buildings that are cheaper and faster to build while performing the same functions as well or better? Sometimes it's possible to come up with an idea that both asserts non-technological values and succeeds on technology's own terms. In rare cases, an architect may assert other values as a condition of his or her work. In general, however, the value of more efficient, better-performing buildings is so universally accepted that it can't be directly opposed. Asserting other values must involve redefining performance– changing the criteria a technology must satisfy. As the example of sustainable design shows, these new criteria can be ethical, although it helps if they can be couched in performative terms. It also helps if the market and/or regulation adopt these criteria. These change the economics of design decisions, by reducing their cost or making it unavoidable.
The newly technological nature of design media creates another order of difficulty for architects. These complex pieces of software contain both capabilities and limitations that influence how architects approach design problems, often without their being aware of it. They profoundly change the relationship between the architect and his/her work, in terms of both design and building. They require new skills and render some traditional ones obsolete. They create changes in how architects work in design teams that transform their role in the design process. Most importantly, the products of these media have a powerful innate tendency to be understood as simulations by designers- virtual equivalents of the building. This is radically different than the abstraction of drawings, focusing designers' attention on the (simulated) experience of the spaces and construction, at the expense of conceptual relationships. The categorical differences between a digital model and the eventual reality of the building are blurred by the seductive appeal of simulation.
These problems are challenging but not insurmountable. Their solution requires architects to understand how apparently useful and innocent technologies can impose values on a project. This is the first step. The next is to relearn to formulate and explore design ideas using a wide range of criteria, performative and otherwise, taking control of their tools rather than simply following their tendencies. There is a place for performative criteria in developing a design, but only taking the time to explore it fully according to a larger set of values.
Among building professionals, architects traditionally have a unique background that prepares and motivates them to apply diverse criteria to the uses of technology. This professional mandate is being undermined by pressure to adopt the same performative values as the rest of the industry. To maintain their cultural and social relevance, architects must be critically aware of technology and the values it entails. Architects must judge, select and apply technology according to the broadest possible range of criteria to obtain its benefits without falling for its blandishments and the vacuous utopia it promises.


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Guillermo del Toro's Monstrous Hobbit Cameo, A New Doctor Who Alien, And Captain Marvel's Edgy Script
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Morning SpoilersIf there's news about upcoming movies and television you're not supposed to know, you'll find it in here.
Guillermo del Toro talks The Hobbit's majestic monsters. A photo reveals a new Doctor Who alien — or is it a familiar face? Plus, Summer Glau speaks riddles on Dollhouse, and news from Shazam, The Green Hornet, Lost, and Supernatural.
Screenwriter Bill Birch says that while the Captain Marvel movie will have an edge to it — but it won't be Dark Knight gritty, and will probably have a PG-13 rating. He admitted that Dwayne Johnson could be a possibility for Captain Marvel, given Johnson's relationship with director Peter Segal. Birch says he always saw Ryan Reynolds in the role, but that's out now that Reynolds is playing the Green Lantern. [Cinema Blend]
Guillermo del Toro will have a cameo as a background monster in the film. He says he'll have a line or two, then die quickly. He says many of the movie's monsters will be majestic, especially Smaug and the Great Goblin. [/Film]
Tipster Kyle discovered the Green Hornet crew was filming on Wilshire Boulevard in LA, and snagged a photo and got a good look at the set:
It is an Armed Forces Recruiting center. Inside there are a bunch of low cubicles set up and in the back was a podium flanked by various state and organizational flags. They are hanging up a sign in front (picture attached) for the center as well as a shoe store next door. I'm not sure how the shoe store fits into things, but it's there!
[Thanks Kyle!]
X-Men Origins: Magneto
David Goyer says the script for Magneto is "brilliant," but it's unlikely it'll go to production any time soon, especially if Fox wants to make another Wolverine movie. [MTV]
Robert Pattinson says he's heard the final Twilight movie will shoot in Portland, and in his wildest dreams he'd like to see Portland-based director Gus Van Sant at the helm. [MTV]
A new behind the scenes featurette for "Waters of Mars" takes us inside the biodome and shows us one of the water creatures. [Blogtor Who]
And shots from a handful of TV magazines offer a little more insight into the episode. [Blogtor Who]
A poster on the Gallifrey Base forums has a solid theory on how "Waters of Mars" will end. Poster the_silver_shade suspects that the Doctor will rescue Adelaide from her fated death, but in order ensure minimal disruption of the timeline, Adelaide will have to take on a new identity and never see or interact with her daughter or granddaughter again. If so, expect it to be a tearjerker. [Gallifrey Base]
We mentioned yesterday that creatures who may or may not be Silurians appear in the eighth and ninth episodes of the new season. Here's an alleged glimpse of one of those creatures. One message-board poster claims, based on hearsay or inside sources, that the episode takes place 15 years in the future, when global warming has greatly reduced the human population and we're searching for a cure. And a new form of energy involves recycling old mines, which disturbs lizards under the ground — and the lizards start eating corpses. Also, something (possibly a spaceship) blots out the sun. Take this, of course, with a grain of salt. But here's that picture. [Gallifrey Base]
The producers have filled the role of Kendall, previously mentioned as a sharply witty, intellectual beauty who is caught committing corporate espionage. The corporate spy in question will be played by LA Law's Sheila Kelley. [Ausiello]
And the word is that either the bomb did go off at the end of last season or the show will reset with Oceanic Flight 815 landing safely, not both (the explanation is "it's complicated"). But hasn't it already been established that the bomb went off? [E!]
The DocArzt Lost Blog has a virtual tour of Lost's Hawaiian film locations using Google Maps. You can check out the building from which Locke was thrown, where Jin first saw Sun, Hurley's mansion, the spot where Bernard and Rose met, and the Beach Camp. [DocArzt]
Summer Glau's character has an unsurprising tendency to speak in riddles, but she will make one shocking direct statement, and it will bring us closer to the origin story of one of the show's most important characters. [E!]
Anna will come back in an episode next year, and she'll want to kill Sam so he doesn't say yes to Lucifer. She'll travel back in time to kill Mary and John Winchester (sadly, they'll be "young Mary and "young John," so no Jeffrey Dean Morgan), and Sam and Dean will naturally have to go back and stop her. [E!]
In this week's episode, Ahsoka and fellow Padawan Barriss Offee will embark on a mission to destroy Poggle the Lesser's Geonosian droid factory without their masters. Barriss is Luminara Unduli's Padawan, and Luminara is a very by-the-book master. Barriss takes a similarly structured approach to her duties. But as she spends more time with Ahsoka, Barriss will come to trust her instincts more and we'll see more of her vulnerability and curiosity.
Here's a clip of their daring break in:
Morena Baccarin says that the Visitors have emotions, but they're very zen about it and don't get caught up in the drama of things. She also says that the relationship between humans and Vs changes by the fourth episode. [Korbi TV]
Scott Wolf says Chad isn't a shady dude, and that he has a sense of journalistic integrity. He says that Anna is control for the time being, but Chad has a few tricks up his sleeve. [Korbi TV]
Elizabeth Mitchell talks a possible Erica/Anna smackdown. [Korbi TV]
Here's a fresh promo for Thursday's episode, "Playing Cards with Coyote." [Flashforward.pl]
Chuck vs. The Terminator? Robert Patrick, former T-1000 and X-Files FBI agent, will appear in the midseason episode "Chuck Versus the Tic Tac." He'll be playing Col. Keller, a mysterious figure from Casey's past. [Ausiello]
Brandon Routh and Kristen Kreuk will be coming between Chuck and Sarah this season. Kreuk's character Hannah shares a kiss with Chuck, and the pair go at it in the Buy More's Home Theater Room. But she's not what she seems. As for Routh's Shaw, he and Sarah will find themselves in a moment of peril where they confess their love for one another. [E!]
We'll get to see the young HRG in the eighteenth episode. Here's the casting call:
[YOUNG HRG] 20 Male. Caucasian. Free spirit. Hippie turned used car salesman in the late 70s. Newlywed naively invites a stranger into his home and tragedy ensues. We are looking for someone to play the young version of the actor Jack Coleman sptv050769. CO-STAR / POSSIBLE GUEST STAR/
[Spoiler TV]
Peter uses his fancy new healing power on Parkman in the promo for next week's episode, "Brother's Keeper."
And we have the official description for episode twelve, "The Fifth Stage."
Unexpected visitors greet H.R.G.; Samuel's plan starts to come to fruition; struggling to accept the truth, Peter takes extreme measures to get what he wants; Claire's journey leads her to an unexpected destination.
Things will be looking a bit greener in the two-part Justice Society arc in January. Phil Morris' Martian Manhunter will play a role in the first part, "Society," but it's the "Legend" episode where he'll really shine. [Fancast]
Additional reporting by Josh C. Snyder and Charlie Jane Anders.


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Q: ES6 return from internal function I have some code on my back end that I am using to try and verify apple purchase receipts with the library node-iap.
I've got all the receipt to verify but I am struggling with something really simple:
Trying to get the code to return out of the iap.verifyPayment method to carry on with the code execution in the subscribe method and return a success. It just hangs within handleAppleSub and doesn't return.
export const subscribe = (req, res, next) => {
    return User.findOne({
        where: {
            ID: req.params.ID
        }
    })
    .then(
        user =>
            user
                ? req.body.OS == "android"
                    ? handleAndroidSub(user, req.body.receipt)
                    : handleAppleSub(user, req.body.receipt)
                : notFound(res)
    )
    .then(success(res))
    .catch(next);
};

const handleAppleSub = (user, receipt) => {
    var platform = "apple";

    var payment = {
        receipt: receipt.transactionReceipt,
        productId: receipt.productId,
        packageName: "com.app.test",
        secret: appleSecret,
        excludeOldTransactions: true
     };

     return iap.verifyPayment(platform, payment, function(error, response) {

        user.dataValues.SubAppleReceipt = receipt.transactionReceipt;

        return User.update(user.dataValues, {
             where: { ID: user.dataValues.ID }
        }).then(user => {
           return user;
     });
});

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Q: Field is not writeable: CAM_Members__c.Affiliate_State__c My compiler says that this field is not writeable:

Field is not writeable: CAM_Members__c.Affiliate_State__c

I have this class
static testMethod void AffliateTest(){
    SS_Data__c ns = new SS_Data__c();
    SS.Name = 'test SS';
    insert ss;

   Account a = new Account();
   a.name = 'Test Account Affliate';
   a.BillingState = 'WA';
   insert a;

   contact c = new contact();
   c.lastname = 'Test';
   insert c;

   Relationship__c rc  = new Relationship__c();
   rc.Account__c = a.id;
   rc.Contact__c = c.id;
   rc.Start_Date__c = system.today();

   insert rc;

   CAM_Members__c mem = new CAM_Members__c();
   mem.Name = 'test VM';
   mem.SS_Data__c = ss.Id;
   mem.Member_Name__c = '0034000001TTfQW';
   mem.Member_ID__c = '9999';
   mem.Relationship__c = rc.Id;
   insert mem;

    CAM_Members__c insertedRecord = [
    SELECT Affiliate_State__c FROM CAM_Members__c WHERE Id = :mem.Id
    ];
   system.assertEquals(a.BillingState, insertedRecord.Affiliate_State__c, 'WA');

}

The field has this formula:
Relationship__r.Account__r.BillingState

What am I doing wrong? How can I fix it? My Problem now is it has no coverage  try the above Affliate State = WA wherein it should be covered but not working

A: You cannot create or update the value for formula fields. The only way to control their value is to set up the related data in a way that it calculates what you want. In this case, you would need to set the parent Relationship__c and then insert the record:
mem.Relationship__c = rc.Id;
insert mem;

CAM_Members insertedRecord = [
    SELECT Affiliate_State__c FROM CAM_Members__c WHERE Id = :mem.Id
];
system.assertEquals(a1.BillingState, insertedRecord.Affiliate_State__c, '<message_here>');

That said, you shouldn't test the output of your formulas with a unit test. You should use regression testing to verify their behavior. Unit tests on configuration aspects which can be easily changed are very brittle and will harm your org health in the long run.


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Alex Cartel appointed Co-Head of Corporate Finance, Australia
Deutsche Bank is pleased to announce that Alex Cartel has been appointed to the role of Co-Head of Corporate Finance for Deutsche Bank in Australia, alongside Co-Head James Roth.
Anthony Miller, CEO for Australia, said: "Alex brings over 20 years of experience providing strategic advice to major Australian and international corporates, often on their largest and most complex transactions."
Deutsche Bank's Australian Corporate Finance business continues to perform strongly with recent high profile deals including: Unibail-Rodamco's AUD 32bn acquisition of Westfield which was the largest ever M&A transaction in Australia, Northwest Healthcare's AUD 416m strategic investment in Healthscope, Defence Advisor to Santos following the rejected USD 13.4bn takeover offer by Harbour Energy and the AUD 1.3bn sale of Murray Goulburn to Saputo.
On Cartel's appointment, Miller added: "Alex is very highly regarded by the market and his clients and has been a great mentor to our staff. We're delighted to be able to promote someone of his calibre and tenure into this key leadership role."
Cartel joined Deutsche Bank in 2000 as an Associate. He was promoted to Managing Director in 2007 and was appointed Head of Energy, Oil & Gas in 2010 before being promoted to Head of M&A in 2015.
Cartel, who is also a Member of the Takeovers Panel of Australia, will continue to be based in Melbourne.
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what are you doing to get festive?
i'm digging out phil spectors xmas album for xmas day.
lovely stuff. have we got a record player?
i left my one at mums. perfect.
that reminds me - i've still got the Tijuana Xmas record too.
Eurgh, I'm dreading it. I wish the presents would just come to me rather than having to trawl round London for them. Other than that I'm making Christmas mixtapes for friends. All hand painted and festively (not a word) decorated.
and putting presents underneath the tree. Yay.
we played Sufjan Steven's Christmas album and drank mulled wine and decorated it and then realised it occupies about 1/4 of the room and it sort of blocks the TV but YAY CHRISTMAS!
how will you watch home alone now?
In my house, on my own?
what will you do when Home Alone 2: Lost in New York is on?
I'm on shift 2 of the Tea & Cake stand, though I'm going to turn it into Monpot's Mulled Wine World as well.
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This island full of stone sculptures is called Easter Island because when it was discovered by Europeans, an explorer from the Netherlands, on Easter Day in 1722. The island which was taken over by Chile in 1888 is located in the southeast Pacific Ocean, at the southeast end of the Polynesia Triangle.
The fame and status of the World Heritage established on March 22, 1996 arose from the existence of 887 extant stone sculptures known as "Moai", whose creation was attributed to the early Rapa Nui people who inhabited the island around 900 years ago.
Recent research says, the Rapa Nui people (called Easter Island in the local language) place the statues near one of the most important natural resources for humans, namely fresh water. Archeologists study the location of sculptures or moai and the platform on which they stand is known as ahu.
For tourists who want to visit this remote island full of sculptural works, there are regular flights available from Santiago and Tahiti with a flight time of about five hours. (WS.IN/ENG/*)
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How John Adams Became A "Church going Animal"
It took a lifetime of study and reflection for John Adams to come up with his religious credo. In the end, the self-styled church going animal boiled it down to just four words.
He was an elderly ex-president, free of the public spotlight's glare, when he finally confessed the essence of his faith to an old rival.
Church going Animal
John Adams spent his decades of rural retirement exchanging rich letters with friends and devouring key volumes on foreign faiths. A descendant of Puritan immigrants, he saw the world while serving as an American statesman in revolutionary Europe. Between his diplomatic tasks, Adams grew fascinated with comparing different religious beliefs. Frequent travel heightened his interest.
Adams was a lifelong student of church and state. He took notes on sermons, looked up biblical references, and explored aspects of ancient Egyptian religion. Writing to old colleague Dr. Benjamin Rush in the summer of 1811, Adams reflected on the pivotal role of religion in his life.
"It is notorious enough, that I have been a Church going Animal for Seventy Six years, i.e. from the Cradle," he wrote.
John Adams, Church going Animal
A Providential Turn
Like one of his beloved oak trees, Adams's faith had deep roots in New England culture. As a young man, he studied theology at Harvard College and considered becoming a Congregationalist minister. Back in Braintree, his family parish (now the United First Parish Church of Quincy, Unitarian Universalist), was battling through a controversy.
In John Adams' words, the church's new pastor Lemuel Briant was "a jocular and liberal scholar and divine." A teenaged John Adams heard plenty of Briant's radical theology. Shedding older Puritan ways, Briant told his community that practicing a Christian life–rather than repeating dogma–would open up a path to salvation, but only if they chose it.
Briant's sermons sent a ripple. This idea was a fairly new one for worshippers to weigh.
Several local clergy took issue with Briant's message. As the controversy unspooled, the preacher's wife left him, after claiming that he had committed "several scandalous sins."
Scandalous Sins
Church officials launched a full investigation into Briant's moral character. From 1749 to 1753, Adams kept an eye on the pamphlets that supported or criticized Briant's beliefs.
"I may say I was born & bred in the centre of Theological & Ecclesiastical controversy," he recalled. "It broke out like the eruption of a volcano and blazed with portentious aspect for many years."
Though he agreed with Briant's spiritual outlook, Adams was troubled by the way that society had treated the minister. Lemuel Briant made it through the inquiry, but his health was broken, and he died in 1754.
To Adams, the whole debate bred a "Spirit of Dogmatism and Bigotry." He was convinced that pursuing a career in the pulpit would "involve me in endless Altercations and make my Life miserable, without any prospect of doing any good to my fellow Men." Far better, he thought, to study law.
Where John Adams started out as a church-going animal. The United First Parish Church of Quincy, Mass.
Puritan Echoes
By 1765, John Adams had opened his practice and begun a family with wife Abigail. New England's unique religious history ran alongside his commute between Boston and Braintree.
Take the rows of locust trees lining Salem's "Witchcraft Hill," which reminded him of the Puritans' fiery witchcraft trials, and of "that memorable Victory over the Prince of the Power of the Air."
He knew little for certain about his own Puritan ancestors, but John Adams was proud to invoke them and their legacy of dissent. When he sat down to write his Dissertation on the Canon and the Feudal Law that summer, Adams harkened back to family history. He was anxious to show that "ordinary" men and women could overturn tyranny, no matter the conditions they inherited.
"Their greatest concern seems to have been to establish a government of the church more consistent with the scriptures, and a government of the state more agreable to the dignity of humane nature, than any they had seen in Europe: and to transmit such a government down to their posterity, with the means of securing and preserving it, for ever," Adams wrote.
The Cost of Freedom
According to John Adams, harnessing Providence's will with a liberal education had emboldened the Puritans' Great Migration. He applauded their drive to reform the Church of the England, and to seek out new streams of profit in the early American colonies.
Adams had a political lesson for his peers of 1765, too. He drew on the actions of the "vexed" Puritans to ignite the revolutionary imagination of his family and friends. Adams reminded readers that Puritan colonists had laid their faith in American success, opening schools and carving out towns. Their freedom, he wrote, came at great cost.
"Be it remembred, however, that liberty must at all hazards be supported. We have a right to it, derived from our Maker," he wrote. "But if we had not, our fathers have earned, and bought it for us, at the expence of their ease, their estates, their pleasure, and their blood."
A World Within
John Adams spent much of the 1770s and the 1780s on the road, traveling first to the Continental Congress, and then serving as an American minister to Europe. As he moved around the Continent, Adams sought out diverse religious experiences in France, the Netherlands, and England. He recorded foreign rituals and new beliefs, and he grew to appreciate the sensory impact of religion.
While he embraced the idea of religious toleration, Adams did not always find it easy to practice. An early experience at a Catholic mass in Philadelphia left him dazzled by the organ music but choking on incense. The "Grandmother Church" had "Every Thing which can charm and bewitch the simple and ignorant," John told Abigail. "I wonder how Luther ever broke the spell." He remained curious about beliefs beyond his own, acquiring books and writing to clergy.
Adams spent his final years at Peacefield, immersed in reading about foreign faiths and cultures. When he and Thomas Jefferson renewed their correspondence in 1812, religion became a favorite subject. "I have been a diligent Student for many years in Books whose Titles you have never Seen," Adams teased his former rival.
At Jefferson's request, and after a lifetime of seeking, John Adams unveiled his religious credo: "Be Just and Good."
Notes on the author of How John Adams Became A "Church going Animal"
Sara Georgini, a native of Brooklyn, N.Y., earned her doctorate in history at Boston University. She is the series editor for The Papers of John Adams, part of the Adams Papers editorial project based at the Massachusetts Historical Society, and the author of Household Gods: The Religious Lives of the Adams Family (Oxford University Press, 2019). Follow her on Twitter: @sarageorgini. This story was updated in 2022.
Images: John Adams. Portrait, pastel on paper by Benjamin Blyth, ca. 1766. Collection of the Massachusetts Historical Society, and United First Parish Church (Unitarian Universalist), Quincy, Massachusetts.
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John Adams Gets Into Harvard, Barely
As a terrified applicant to Harvard, 15-year-old John Adams showed few signs of becoming a Founding Father, diplomat, statesman and president of the United States.
He left his childhood home in Braintree, Mass., with a heavy heart. His tutor, Joseph Marsh, had promised to go with him on the 15-mile ride to Harvard, where he would take his entrance exams.
But on the day they planned to leave, Marsh took ill and told young John Adams he had to go on his own.
"Terrified at the Thought of introducing myself to such great Men as the President and fellows of a College, I at first resolved to return home," wrote Adams.
He screwed up his courage, though, and rode on to Cambridge, alone. There he received another fright.
To enter Harvard, he had to translate a long passage of English into Latin. At first, though, he saw several words he didn't know in Latin.
"Thinking that I must translate it without a dictionary, I was in a great fright and expected to be turned by, an Event that I dreaded above all things," he wrote. But Mr. Mayhew, his examiner and future teacher, brought him into his study and showed him a dictionary, a book of grammar, pen, paper and ink. He then told John Adams to take his time. Adams did and got into Harvard, with a scholarship, no less.
John Adams at Harvard
The Massachusetts Puritans established Harvard to prepare young men for the ministry and for government.
Colonial engraving, Harvard College
Deacon John Adams wanted his smart eldest son to attend Harvard so he could become a minister. John Adams wanted none of it, thinking the ministry would make his life miserable. Instead, he found his calling at Harvard, though only tentatively.
He studied hard, joined a speaking club and made many friends among Harvard's 100 students. One of his friends, John Wentworth, later served as a Loyalist governor of New Hampshire until patriots sent him to England.
John Wentworth.
The college was tiny back then, with one president, two professors and four tutors. Each class had one tutor who until graduation taught them everything but theology, mathematics and natural philosophy.
That John Adams graduated in the middle of his class had to do with the Puritans' caste system rather than his academic accomplishment. Until 1770, the school ranked students according to their social standing. John Adams would have ranked lower than 15th out of 25 had his mother not belonged to the prominent Boylston family of Brookline. His father, a pious farmer who made shoes in the winter, never owned more than 200 acres.
But Harvard rewarded exceptional students by giving them speaking parts at graduation, regardless of their social rank. John Adams got to speak, which in turn earned him a job as a teacher in Worcester. That, in turn, allowed him to save enough money to study law, which his friends and teachers at Harvard had urged him to do.
In 1674 the Connecticut Rogerenes Test the Limits of Religious Freedom
The Rogerenes were an unusual group of religious dissenters formed in New London, Conn., in the late 1600s. They took their name from their founder, John Rogers, Jr., who came from a well-to-do New London family.
The story most often told about the Rogerenes involves Gurdon Saltonstall, a New London minister who would later serve as governor of Connecticut.
Saltonstall, as minister in New London, was the most common target of the Rogerenes. The sect was discourteous and abusive toward the established church, while simultaneously maintaining a sympathetic following in town.
Gurdon Saltonstall
As the story goes, a man and woman came to visit Saltonstall during his dinner. They announced to him they had married in the Rogerene tradition, outside the church and outside the control of civil authorities. Faced with this deliberate flaunting of authority, what did Saltonstall intend to do about it, they demanded to know?
Saltonstall had a simple answer. Using his powers under the state and church, he declared them legally man and wife and went back to eating.
Historians haven't managed to nail down the details of the story. It's been told many times and with minor changes in the specifics. But it seems to perfectly capture the relationship between the official New London church and its chief critic, John Rogers and his Rogerenes.
Birth of the Rogerenes
Rogers was born in 1648. As a young man, his family began to flirt with the Baptist faith. By 1674, Rogers had staunchly opposed the Congregational Church, and he launched his own career as a minister. His followers, the Rogerenes, had a collection of beliefs culled from other faiths. Like Quakers, they believed in silent worship and prayer. Like Baptists, they believed in adult baptism by immersion and celebrating communion in the evening.
The Rogerenes also believed in Sunday worship, but didn't believe in postponing work for the entire day. And they believed they should not have to pay taxes to support the Congregational Church.
Unlike some other dissenting faiths, however, the Rogerenes went out of their way to provoke the church. Rogers' followers, which included a small group of his family and friends, would march through New London on Sunday, noisily proclaiming that they were working on the Sabbath. They would attend meeting at the church and disrupt the services and argue theology with the minister, Saltonstall.
For their protests, Rogers and his followers were frequently hauled before the courts. They were fined repeatedly and imprisoned. In 1695, Rogers was tried at Hartford for disrupting a Sunday meeting by entering the meeting house with a wheelbarrow. At another time, he placed his hand on his heart and stated: 'This is the humane body of Christ."
His sentence was to stand on a gallows with a noose around his neck for 15 minutes and pay a 5 pound fine. Further, he had to post bond of 50 pounds to guarantee his future good behavior.
Jailbird
No sooner had the trial concluded than the meeting house in New London burned to the ground. Further, someone had desecrated a meeting house in nearby Stonington. Rogers; his aunt, Bathsheba Fox; and his father's servant William Wright were charged with the crimes and convicted. Rogers would spend nearly four years in prison. This was just the beginning of his legal troubles.
Rogers faced punishment for entertaining Quakers in his home and helping a young man escape from prison. He also married his maid when he hadn't lawfully divorced his first wife. The list of offenses grew, as did Rogers' time in prison.
After Saltonstall was elevated to governor in 1708, he had Rogers declared insane. As a result, his jailers removed the windows of Rogers' jail cell — treatment for insanity at the time. But Rogers' friends rioted and had the boards removed.
When another Rogerene went to prison for failing to keep the Sabbath, her supporters removed the doors from the New London jail. All the while the Rogerenes continued baptizing people and getting condemned by the church for it.
In 1721, the Rogerenes occupied the New London Meeting House in protest over having been taxed to pay for it. Saltonstall, however, stayed away. When Saltonstall returned, the group repeated the protest, resulting in fresh charges against them.
Along the way, the Rogerenes had begun embracing a belief in faith healing. When he learned of a 1721 outbreak of smallpox in Boston, Rogers went to the city to visit the sick. Upon his return to Connecticut he developed the disease and died.
The Rogerenes did not die with John Rogers, however. The sect persisted. Saltonstall died in 1724, and the Rogerenes gradually became less of a thorn in the side of the Connecticut government. One group of Rogerenes resettled in New Jersey and started a religious community there. Others took up Quakerism.
The faith was active well into the 1800s. Later Rogerenes were less confrontational in relation to other churches, but they stayed true to their rabble-rousing roots. Rogerenes were among the early opponents of slavery and proponents of women's rights.
Thanks to The Rogerenes; some hitherto unpublished annals belonging to the colonial history of Connecticut by John Rogers Bolles and Anna Bolles Williams. This story last updated in 2022.
Young John Adams Struggles With School, Vexes His Parents
Young John Adams frustrated his pious father and vexed his hot-tempered mother with his dislike of school and love of the outdoors.
Birthplace of the young John Adams
Not until a teacher inspired him did young Adams apply himself to his books.
He was born Oct. 30 (New Style), 1735, in Braintree (now Quincy) in the Province of Massachusetts Bay. He would have two younger brothers, Peter, with whom he was close, and Elihu, who died of disease in the American Revolution.
His great-great-grandfather Henry Adams had come to Massachusetts in 1630 as part of the Great Migration of Puritans from England.
Young John's father, Deacon John Adams, was a pious, well-respected farmer who made shoes in the winter and never owned more than 200 acres of land.
Deacon Adams was 15 years older than and socially inferior to his wife, Susanna Boylston. She belonged to a wealthier Brookline family, grandniece of the doctor who pioneered the treatment of smallpox.
Young John Adams
A young John Adams. Well, youngish.
One week after his birth, John Adams received baptism by the Rev. John Hancock, father of the John Hancock who signed the Declaration of Independence.
His father saw that his oldest son was extremely smart, and decided he would go to Harvard to become a minister.
Young John Adams had no interest in the ministry.
"I thought that the Study of Theology…would involve me in endless Altercations and make my life miserable," he wrote as an adult.
Deacon Adams sent his son to grammar school to learn Latin so he could enter Harvard. Adams remembered his teacher, Joseph Cleverly, as a 'tolerable Schollar and a Gentleman,' but so lazy he didn't teach arithmetic.
As a result, young John Adams got a copy of the 1703 edition of Cocker's Decimal Arithmetick and taught himself.
He sometimes skipped school to hunt and fish. He later wrote,
I spent my time as idle Children do in making and sailing boats and Ships upon the Ponds and Brooks, in making and flying Kites, in driving hoops, playing marbles, playing Quoits, Wrestling, Swimming, Skating, and above all in shooting, to which Diversion I was addicted.
He liked girls — a lot — and spent many evenings in the society of young ladies.
He also loved hunting, so much he brought his gun to school so he could begin shooting game as soon as classes ended. Cleverly scolded him for it. Adams then left the gun at the home of an elderly neighbor near the school. On the way home he killed crows and squirrels.
At the age of 10 he told his father he didn't care for learning and wanted to take up farming. His father took him out of school for a day and put him to work cutting thatch, a dirty, miserable job.
At the end of the day, young John Adams returned home tired and sore.
"Well, John, are you satisfied with being a farmer?" Deacon Adams asked.
"I like it very well, Sir," he replied.
Nevertheless, he went to school the next day.
Finally at 14 he told his father he didn't hate learning, he just didn't like his teacher.
The very next day his father sent him to a private school down the road. Joseph Marsh, a better teacher than Cleverly, ran the school. John Adams abandoned his wayward youth, and he began to study in earnest.
He gave up his interest in sports, and "even … the Society of the Ladies."
In a little over a year, Marsh declared 15-year-old John Adams ready for Harvard. He agreed to take the boy to Cambridge for his entrance examinations. However, on the day they planned to leave, Marsh took sick and told Adams he had to go alone.
Adams' biographer David McCullough described what happened next:
The boy was thunderstruck, terrified; but picturing his father's grief and the disappointment of both father and teacher, he "collected resolution enough to proceed," and on his father's horse rode off down the road alone, suffering "a very melancholy journey."
Harvard not only admitted young John Adams, the school awarded him a partial scholarship.
"I was as light when I came home, as I had been heavy when I went," Adams later wrote.
Photo of John Adams' birthplace: By Daderot at the English language Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=2438038. This story was updated in 2020.
The Franklin Library, Not Quite What the Town Wanted
In 1790, the townspeople of Franklin, Mass., decided they wanted a bell. They got the Franklin Library instead.
The Franklin Library
The library opened its doors to everyone in town, the first public library in the United States. It had another distinction: Benjamin Franklin started it.
In 1778, Franklin broke off from Wrentham, Mass., and planned to incorporate as the town of Exeter. But before official incorporation, someone changed the name to honor Benjamin Franklin. Word had arrived that Franklin gained French support for the American Revolution, key to American victory.
Seven years later, someone — his name unknown today — approached Franklin and reminded him of the honor the town had given him. He suggested Franklin reciprocate by donating a bell for a steeple the town wanted to build on its meeting house.
Franklin commented in a letter to Dr. Richard Price that the 'country people' of Franklin should spare "…themselves the Expense of a Steeple at present, and that they would accept a gift of Books instead of a Bell, Sense being preferable to Sound." He noted the poverty of the town, and commented it no more needed a bell than a toad needed a tail.
Franklin asked Price, then in London, to select proper books for the people of Franklin. Price's selection included history and theology books. (For a list of the books, click here.)
The books, 116 of them, arrived some time before June 22, 1786. Within a year, the townspeople started squabbling over who could use the Franklin Library. The town voted to only allow members of the Congregational Church to use it. But some families lived so far from the church they attended other Congregational churches.
The town resolved the issue at Town Meeting on Nov. 26, 1790:
That the Rev. Nathaniel Emmons be Directed to lend the Books presented to this town by the late Dr. Franklin to the Inhabitants of this town at large, and until the town shall order other ways, they being accountable to him for the use and improvement of said books.
A bookcase held the Franklin Library at the home of Rev. Emmons while he served as minister of the Congregational Church. By the mid-19th century, the town kept the library in a barn. A library association was formed to find a place for the books. They moved around until 1904, when the Ray family donated a building. The library renovated the structure and reopened in 2017.
Horace Mann, a Franklin native and the father of American public education, was enthralled by several books he found in the library.
"Had I the power, I would scatter libraries over the whole land, as the sower sows his wheat field," Mann said.
This story about the Franklin Library was updated in 2022.
The Puritan Divorce Allows Escape From the Chain of Matrimony
When Elizabeth Luxford found out her husband James already had a wife, she went straight to the Court of Assistants in Massachusetts Bay Colony. She then got the first-ever Puritan divorce in December 1639.
A Puritan economic unit
Only the very privileged could obtain a divorce back in England because the Anglican church viewed marriage as indissoluble. Henry VIII was the rare person who could get four marriages dissolved. In England, the only way out of a troubled marriage was a 'bed-and-board' separation.
Not the Puritans. They rejected the Anglican and Catholic view of marriage as a sacrament, thinking it a 'popish invention, with no basis in the Gospels.' They redefined marriage as a civil matter only. If a marriage partner violated the marriage agreement, the injured party could escape the chains of matrimony with a Puritan divorce.
Magistrates often ordered harsh punishments for the guilty party in a divorce, including fines, whipping or time in the stocks. The guilty party could not marry again, though the injured party could.
The Puritan Divorce
In 1620, Plimoth Plantation leaders decided marriage belonged to the courts, not to the church. Therefore, they concluded, the courts could grant a Puritan divorce. As governor, William Bradford said marriage should be 'performed by the magistrate, as being a civil thing.'
The Massachusetts Bay Puritans gave the governor's council, known as the Court of Assistants, the power to decide divorce cases.
That's where Elizabeth Luxford went to ask for the first divorce in Massachusetts Bay, but also in colonial America. She already had a daughter with James Luxford, and she was pregnant with their second child.
A magistrate not only granted the divorce, but seized James Luxford's property and gave it to Elizabeth. Luxford probably left his first wife in England, which wasn't all that unusual. The court would not have given his property to Elizabeth if his first wife lived in Massachusetts, because that would reduce the first wife to poverty.
The magistrate gave a harsh sentence to James Luxford for his Puritan divorce.
He could not come within sight of Elizabeth, and he had to sit in the stock for an hour. He also had to pay court fines of 100 pounds. Finally, the court banished him from Massachusetts.
Elizabeth Luxford, who changed her name back to Albone, was well rid of him. He later was later found guilty of 'forgery, lying, and other foul offences.' The court sentenced him to a whipping, to have his ears cut off and to be –again — banished. He fled to Plimoth Plantation, where he lived in extreme poverty and distress. She remarried and enjoyed the beneficence of the church in Cambridge.
New England Divorces
The guilty party in a Puritan divorce.
The next Puritan divorce didn't happen for another five years, when Anne Clarke's husband deserted her to live with another woman. The grandfather of the great theologian Jonathan Edwards got a divorce.
Massachusetts granted 31 of the 40 petitions for divorce or annulment in the 53 years after 1639, when Elizabeth's Luxford got divorced.
Most divorces resulted from desertion or infidelity. Lovelessness could not be grounds for divorce. If husband and wife didn't love each other, Puritans expected them to stick together as an economic unit.
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A woman had a harder time than a man to get a Puritan divorce for adultery. In 1655, Joan Halsall got a divorce after she charged her husband George with 'abusing himself with Hester Lug.' She also called him 'an uncleane yoake-fellow.' Four years later, George Halsell appealed the divorce to the General Court. The General Court sided with George, voiding the divorce and declaring he could 'have and enjoy' Joan Halsall again.
Connecticut had the most liberal divorce policy in the British empire. The General Assembly ordered that 'no bill of divorce shall be granted to any man or woman lawfully marryed but in case of adultery, fraudulent contract, or willfull desertion for three years with totall negelect of duty, or seven years' providentiall absence being not heard of after due enquiry made and certifyed.'
Rhode Island in 1650 passed a law allowing divorces on the grounds of adultery, and later on the grounds of desertion and impotence. Rhode Island would later emerge as the divorce capital of New England.
In New Haven, the law granted divorce for adultery, desertion or a husband's failure to perform his 'conjugall duty' to his wife.
No Wife-Like Affection
John Vffoote's wife Hannah Beard divorced him for 'insufficiency' (impotence) in 1657. Later he went to court on charges he fornicated with his father's servant, Martha Netleton. Vffoote defended himself by saying Hannah didn't act 'toward him as she ought.' Martha, on the other hand, restored his faith in himself, he said.
Testimony revealed Hannah thought John a 'foole' and felt no 'wife-like affection for him.' John and Martha had to pay a fine for fornicating, but they could marry (and then fornicate).
An African-American in Massachusetts could get a Puritan divorce. In 1768, a free African-American woman named Lucy Purnan asked for a divorce on the grounds of extreme cruelty. Her husband had kidnapped her by force and sold her as a slave. She got the divorce.
With thanks to Divorce: An American Tradition By Glenda Riley. This story about the Puritan divorce was updated in 2022.


Marks & Spencer Singapore has opened a full-scale concept store in VivoCity bringing a vast array of its own-brand fresh foods and beverages to the city, some for the first time.
The 15,500sqft store offers a broader range of fashion, a new food hall and fresh zone similar to the style of larger Marks & Spencer Hong Kong stores, a broader range of wines and the chain's third coffee-to-go cafe in the city.
The foodhall features nearly 3000 products selected from the UK department store's range building on what the retailer describes as a growing demand in Singapore for M&S's convenience food.
Marks & Spencer Singapore has added a range of chilled foods and beverages, including perishables. The new store sells fruits, vegetables, yogurts, a selection of cheeses, fresh milk and ready-made salads and meals. Some products are new-to-market for the brand, including raw meat and pre-packed sandwiches, all air freighted from the UK daily.
The coffee-to-go cafe offers speciality coffee and beverages along with patisserie foods including cakes and fresh pastry. An in-store bakery produces a selection of breads, scones and cookies daily.
Fashion has not been left out in the VivoCity store's revamp. Each fashion label is now clearly segmented, with distinct identities that allow customers to see which label best meets their personal style preferences. The brands are identified by different branding, visual merchandising and props. The VivoCity store will also be the sixth Marks & Spencer Singapore outlet to stock a kidswear range.
"Customers are at the heart of everything we do at Marks & Spencer and we're delighted to be bringing our exciting new shopping experience to customers in Singapore," said Christine Choi, CEO at Marks & Spencer Asia.


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The Pie chart has a transparency of 22.5%.
If I use the same RGB combination when I set the color in the cell, this color is different because it is much darker.
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Is there a way to set transparency? I know it is possible in the charts.
If there is no way to set transparency, how canm I change my RGB code to adapt to a transparency of 22.5%?

A: The answer is you can't set the transparency of a cell in Excel.
This is because the Range.Interior.Color only supports the RGB and not RGBA. A - stands for ALPHA which is used for transparency.
One way around it (which I wouldn't recommend) would be to insert a shape (say a rectangle) over the cell and set its transparency to match the already transparent chart but if you have a lot of data this will definitely slow things down and if your data chages often or you are inserting/removing rows this will just be a real pain in the back bone.
Another idea would be to go online and find 2 sets of colors RGBA and its somehow matching RGB equivalents. I have seen such solutions before but never tried it myself so I can't give you any tips on it.


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Motorists will need to take a detour on State highway 1 at the Deborah rail bridge south of Oamaru this Sunday, 30 March 2014 between 9am and 5pm, so Kiwirail can carry out a routine safety inspection of the Deborah rail bridge.
As part of the on-going construction of the Rangiriri section of the Waikato Expressway, motorists are advised that south-bound traffic will be detoured from State Highway 1(SH1) on to Wayside Road at the Te Kauwhata intersection this Sunday evening (30 March). Traffic will re-join the highway from Te Kauwhata Road, says the NZ Transport Agency.
The NZ Transport Agency is reminding motorists to expect delays if travelling on State Highway 2 (SH2), east of Te Puke as bridge strengthening works on the Kaituna Bridge continues this week and into next week.
The NZ Transport Agency says a temporary stop/go manual traffic operation will be in place later today on the Kaituna Bridge on State Highway 2 (SH2) south of Te Puke. This is required to ensure the safety of workers while critical strengthening works are carried out underneath the bridge deck.
Due to bridge strengthening works on the State Highway 2 (SH2) Kaituna Bridge, south of Te Puke, the NZ Transport Agency is encouraging motorists to use alternate routes through State Highway 29 or State Highway 36. Major delays are expected as temporary stop/go traffic management is in place on the bridge.
Motorists travelling along State Highway 2 (SH2) between Atuaroa Bridge and Te Puke Quarry Road just north of Te Puke Township are advised that road rehabilitation work will be undertaken over 600 metres of road starting Friday, delays of up to 20 minutes, depending on the time of the day, can be expected advises the NZ Transport Agency.
The NZ Transport Agency is advising drivers to allow extra time for their journeys as bridge inspections are being carried out across the Bay of Plenty next week, with some delays expected on highway roads.
15 March - 22 March 2014. The NZ Transport Agency advises of the following closures for motorway improvements.
The NZ Transport Agency says road resurfacing work will start Tuesday (18 March 2014) and continue for approximately a week through the Athenree Gorge between Old Tauranga Road and Athenree Road on State Highway 2.
The NZ Transport Agency is urging motorists travelling around the Waikato and Bay of Plenty region to take care as heavy rain is expected at the weekend.
From tomorrow, Wednesday 12 March, new Give Way markings are going in at Victoria Avenue adjacent to the McDonalds to make easier for trucks to enter the heavy vehicle bypass.


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Digital annex updated
SAE International has released a new version of the J1939DA spreadsheet containing Parameter Group and Suspect Parameter definitions.
The J1939DA spreadsheet provides information that can be sorted and searched (Photo: CiA/Fotolia)
The SAE J1939 committee updates the digital annex periodically. The J1939DA supplements the document series specifying the CAN-based network for use in heavy-duty vehicles. It provides definitions for the physical, the transport, and the application layer. Additional specifications include network management and functional safety protocol, which is still under development.
The digital annex comprises mainly the Parameter Group (PG) definitions or references to documents, in which they are specified in detail. The references to ISO documents have been updated and corrected. PGs are identified uniquely by means of the PG number (PGN). The spreadsheet also contains the Suspect Parameter (SP) definitions including its number (SPN). It also provides information about assigned manufacturer names and global source addresses.
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HK legislator says, open holiday camps for FDWs in cramped shelters
By Daisy CL Mandap
Cheung says holiday camps should be opened up for FDWs if they cannot be given suitable accommodation
Labour Party legislator Fernando Cheung has called on the government to open holiday homes to foreign domestic workers if they cannot be given suitable accommodations while waiting for new employment visas, or are unable to return home because of travel restrictions.
The lawmaker made the call during a press conference on Aug 7 organized by the Asian Migrants Coordinating Body in the wake of two Indonesian domestic workers testing positive for Covid-19 after spending time in cramped shelters run by employment agencies.
As of today, Aug 9, a third Indonesian worker who had been staying in an agency-run shelter in Tuen Wan also tested positive for the coronavirus disease.
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"The Labour Department has a duty to go to these dormitories, set guidelines for them, including basic space requirement per person … and make sure that they are clean and suitable for transitional accommodation," Cheung said.
"If there is a need to vacate some of them, or relocate some of the other migrant domestic workers to other places so as to decrease the crowding in these dormitories, then I would call for the government to open up vacation or holiday camps for such purpose."
Alternatively, he said the migrant workers could be offered motel or hotel packages that would allow them to be housed in "more decent accommodation."
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Cheung also echoed calls by various migrant organizations to conduct mass testing in all dormitories where there are FDWs, not just those run by employment agencies; and for basic protective supplies like masks, be given to them.
Just hours earlier, the government announced it would provide free Covid-19 tests to workers living in the agency dormitories, and also give them masks. But it did not extend the benefit to those staying in agencies run by non-government organizations and churches, or private boarding houses.
Sringatin calls for equality in the campaign to stop the virus spread
Sringatin, an Indonesian spokesperson of AMCB, also called on the government to give equal protection to FDWs in its fight against the pandemic, not just in terms of providing them with protective gear, but in extending the same financial assistance it has given to other residents.
She also called on the government to "stop the discrimination", saying FDWs are unfairly seen as carriers of the virus, so that many are prohibited by their employers from going out on their days off when "we continue to go to the market and other public places."
"The government must admit that there are domestic workers who were infected by the family they work with," Sringatin said.
Even before the third wave of infections hit Hong Kong, 40% of FDWs had already been denied their rest days, said Sringatin, "and now, the number will rise significantly.""
While they welcome the government's announcement of free masks and testing, she said the government must also regulate agency dormitories as these are "mostly crowded, unsafe and unhygienic."
On top of these, she said the basic question of where migrant workers in-between jobs will get the money to pay for temporary accommodations and expensive visa extensions when they are not allowed to take on jobs while waiting for their new work visa to be released.
"How about those domestic helpers who are stranded in Hong Kong and cannot leave because of (lack of) flight and lockdown? Where will they stay and who will take care of them?", she asked.
"We are vulnerable because of unfair, unequal and discriminatory policies of the Hong Kong government," she said.
"We appeal to Hong Kong people not to ride on the paranoia and stop the discrimination.:
Cheung agreed that the government should do more to ensure employers comply with their contractual obligation to provide their helpers with a weekly time off.
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"The government should make an effort to remind employers that it is unlawful to deprive FDWs of their day-off," he said.
Johannie Tong of the Mission for Migrant Workers also took up the call against discrimination, saying the government must "stop putting the blame on migrant workers."
Instead of treating migrant workers unfairly, Tong said the government must adopt only one anti-epidemic policy for everyone in Hong Kong, including migrant workers.
Such policy should include providing free accommodation for all stranded MDWs, and quarantine facilities for those returning or arriving in Hong Kong for the first time; adopting clear guidelines for agency dormitories; and including migrants in the cash handout.
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43 people get $5k penalty tickets as police step up patrols on FDH haunts
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DH who died of heart attack flown home today
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At Stonebridge, we put a lot of focus into our Mini-Sharks Pre-Team program. This program is focused on kids who would like to learn how to swim, but need a little help. Skills will range from kids who are just starting to float on their stomach to kids who can swim halfway down the pool. Our requirement is that your child is comfortable in the water, comfortable putting their head under water, and able to float on their stomach for 5 seconds.
You can come in for an evaluation prior to the season if needed. Children participating in the Mini-Sharks Pre-Team program must be registered for swim team.
Based on the evaluations, the Mini-Sharks will be divided into three different skill level groups to start out. Based on each swimmer's progress throughout the season, they may end up moving between different groups to better fit their needs. The goal at the end of each season is to build confidence and an enjoyment for the sport, get each swimmer further than where they started, and hopefully get them across the pool so that they can graduate to our Swim Team! Most importantly, we want them to have a lot of fun.
For all practices, there will be swim coaches assigned to each group and a Pre-Team Coordinator on-site. Parents/Guardians should ensure they check in with the Pre-Team Coordinator upon arrival.
There will be a Pre-Team meet at the end of the season.
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ATHENS – Prime Minister Antonis Samaras said there won't be early elections before the term of his Administration runs out in two years, rejecting a call by the poll-leading major opposition Coalition of the Radical Left (SYRIZA) which had asked Greek President Karolos Papoulias to call a council of political leaders.
Samaras said that SYRIZA leader Alexis Tsipras was trying to undermine the country's burgeoning recovery from an economic crisis and that a new President to replace Papoulias will be elected by Parliament in February, 2015 although the Premier's coalition government doesn't have the votes yet.
Tsipras is stepping up the pressure on Samaras' government of the Prime Minister's New Democracy Conservatives and its partner the PASOK Socialists who have 155 votes in Parliament, 25 short of the 180 needed to elect a President. Failure to do so would trigger early national elections anyway.
"Mr. Tsipras once again sought early elections, precisely what the Greek people do not want and what international markets fear," Samaras said following a meeting with Papoulias, who earlier had received Tsipras.
"I had the chance to repeat… that there will be no early elections," Samaras said, adding that it was his "deep conviction" that MPs would elect a President when Papoulias' term ends in March, averting snap polls."We have come far, way too far, to throw everything away," Samaras said.
Earlier, Tsipras asked Papoulias to call a meeting of party leaders to decide on a date for early general elections and agree on a new Presidential candidate that could be approved by MPs after the snap polls.
"There needs to be a strong government with a powerful popular mandate," Tsipras said, noting his belief that a new administration could better negotiate with Greece's creditors, the Troika of the European Union-International Monetary Fund-European Central Bank (EU-IMF-ECB).
"The country needs stability to proceed with the democratic process in an orderly manner, with unity and not in conflict, and present to the people two plans namely, continuation of the same policy or negotiation," Tsipras said, the Athens News Agency reported.
He accused the Prime Minister of leading the country to prolonged tension until the election of the new President although it doesn't have the majority in parliament to elect a new President, noting that "this is a destabilizing choice".
Papoulias, for his part, remarked that a "minimum consensus" for economic and political issues was required.
Samaras is looking for an early exit from the memorandum with the Troika, which put up 240 billion euros ($306 billion) in two rescue packages but insisted on, and got, harsh austerity measures in return, driving down the popularity of the ruling parties to the advantage of SYRIZA, which opposed the pay cuts, tax hikes, slashed pensions and worker firings.
Samaras says Greece can forego what's left of the bailout monies, coming from the IMF after the European funds run out this year, and return to the markets while using 11.4 billion euros of the rescue package money destined for bank recapitalization as a buffer and precautionary credit line.
But an unidentified high-ranking EU official said there would be conditions attached to new assistance, precisely what Samaras is trying to avoid.
"A completely clean exit is highly unlikely," the official told reporters. "Whatever options we may be adopting, it will be a contractual relationship between the euro area institutions and the Greek authorities," he said.
Officials are expected to reach a decision on this new relationship at a Eurogroup summit on December 8 though the matter is likely to be addressed at a meeting of Eurozone finance ministers on Nov. 6.
Troika auditors are set to return to Athens once the government has sent them its final positions on pension and labor market reforms.
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