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The voice of Bob Woodward is well known in Washington and former President Trump's is familiar worldwide. But we listen to both in a new way in Woodward's new audiobook The Trump Tapes.
Woodward has released raw audio of a score of interviews he did with Trump in 2019 and 2020. Trump has responded by saying on Fox News that he will sue Woodward (calling him "very sleazy"), not because the tapes are inaccurate but because Trump says they belong to him and he needs to be compensated for their sale.
The interviews were arranged to inform Woodward's second book on the Trump presidency, Rage, which appeared just before Trump lost his bid for re-election. The president had not cooperated with the reporter's earlier Trump book, Fear, a highly critical study that appeared in 2018.
Initially conducted in the Oval Office, the series continued for months with Trump often making surprise phone calls to Woodward at home or on his cellphone.
In these hours of Trump's recorded voice, we hear him striving to court Woodward's favor, praising him as "a great historian" and "the great Bob Woodward." Yet these interviews veer often into disagreements and even debates.
One topic comes to dominate the discussion: the Covid virus that came to dominate the election year. In February 2020, Trump tells Woodward that everything is fine in America but "now we got a little bit of a setback with the China virus" that will "go away in a couple of months with the heat."
Later, Trump clings to his "got it under control" line tenaciously as Woodward recites all the evidence to the contrary.
We hear Trump repeatedly tell Woodward he was the lone voice urging the U.S. be closed to arrivals from China in early 2020. He says he did this in defiance of a roomful of advisers who rejected this idea.
Woodward comes back with notes from nearly everyone else who had been in that room, all saying that at least four or five others (including Dr. Anthony Fauci, the government's leading epidemiologist) called for that same shutdown at the same meeting. Trump denies this again and again, insisting he was "all alone" and bringing it up regularly as though Woodward had never heard it before.
It's March 19 when Trump says he'll "never get credit for the great stuff" he's doing and adding that he did not want people to know how bad and deadly Covid could be because he did not want to "panic the people."
We hear Woodward's voice asking questions throughout the recordings. He has also recorded a commentary, so we hear him fact-checking and correcting the president.
Trump seems fully aware that Woodward is not just another reporter. He may even have been briefed on the reporter's career built on books about presidents, starting with his first, All the President's Men, which recounted his contribution to the downfall of Richard Nixon nearly half a century ago.
Since then, presidents have sat down with Woodward to get their side of the story across. That has been a required exercise, if only because the longtime Washington Post journalist relentlessly interviews all the other key players in each administration in search of the unvarnished and the unofficial.
But it may have taken Trump aback when Woodward went back to the Covid response critique with such fervor. Woodward's role here shifts from reporter to debater, notably in the April 5, 2020 interview when he shares a list he has compiled of "16 things" he believes Trump needs to do to get on top of the virus. When the call is over, we hear Woodward's wife, the journalist Elsa Walsh, wondering aloud if he should be talking to the president like that.
Listening to these tapes now, the topics are as familiar as Trump's raspy baritone (which grows bellicose at times and verges on a bellow). On substance, Trump dwells on an agenda that ranges from his grievances to his notions of his greatest hits. The grievances feature his "very unfair" treatment by Democrats, RINOs (Republicans in Name Only), the "dishonest media" and the federal establishment — also known as "the Deep State" and "The Swamp."
We also hear an unrepentant Trump bragging about how he kept Congress from sanctioning the Saudi Crown Prince Muhammed bin Salman over the murder of Saudi Jamal Khashoggi, a columnist for The Washington Post who was sharply critical of the prince. "I saved his ass," Trump says, "and it wasn't easy."
Trump's rhetoric remains as it has been since his emergence as a candidate in 2015, delivered drenched in a sense of victimhood that endures even now in his messages on "Truth Social." The main difference is that here his frequent profanities are left intact.
Among the achievements he wants Woodward to emphasize are the judicial appointments he made from a list compiled by the Federalist Society and promoted by Mitch McConnell, who was then the Senate Majority Leader. This number grows with each interview, with Trump eventually claiming it was 280 and Woodward adding a note to say it was, in the end, a still impressive 234.
But Trump also claims credit for a robust pre-Covid economy and a record-setting stock market and the escape from a nuclear war with North Korea he alleges would have been inevitable had his rival, Hillary Clinton, won the Electoral College in 2016.
Trump spends considerable time seeking Woodward's acknowledgement of the "breakthrough" with Kim Jong Un, the youthful and curious dictator of North Korea. Trump can scarcely contain his fascination with the way Kim eliminated his rivals for the dictatorship, including the beheading of an uncle. Trump offers to share Kim's letters (which are classified information) with Woodward but asks him not to say how he got them.
Trump also leans into his resentments over the "Russia hoax" and the FBI's alleged plot to get him, and his first impeachment. (The latter followed his delay of military aid to Ukraine while he was asking that country to launch or announce an investigation of Joe Biden and his son Hunter.)
Perhaps the most repeated of several Trump mantras is "I've done more than any other president in less than three years" (which becomes three-and-a-half years as the interviews and months roll by). That refrain reappears regularly, sometimes several times in a single conversation, demonstrating Trump's career-long reliance on repetition for effect.
It also extends in surprising directions, as when he says: "I've done more for Black people than any president other than the late great Abe," Trump says, alluding to Abraham Lincoln. When Woodward brings up Lyndon Johnson, who signed the Civil Rights Act and the Voting Rights Act and created the Great Society programs, Trump fires back with: "No, I've done more."
Occasionally we hear other voices besides those of the two principals. Woodward interviews Robert O'Brien, who was Trump's National Security Advisor, and O'Brien's deputy Matthew Pottinger. Both confirm that they warned Trump the virus from China would be "the biggest national security threat you face in your presidency."
We also hear briefly from First Lady Melania Trump, and from daughter Ivanka and her husband Jared Kushner. Also audible in the background is Sen. Lindsey Graham, the South Carolina Republican who turns up while Trump is talking to Woodward. Trump calls the senator "Linds."
Questions will surely be asked regarding Woodward's motivation for this audiobook. On one level, he is simply reiterating the case he made a year ago regarding Trump's fitness for office. He observes in his prologue that reading something someone said does not have the force of hearing it in that person's own voice. (That is a case NPR and other audio-based communicators have been making for many years.)
There is no question that hearing Trump has an impact that reading alone cannot match. Woodward in his epilogue speaks of "the real Trump...pounding in my ears in a way that the printed page does not capture."
It is also possible that Woodward is responding here to critics who have faulted his work and that of other Trump chroniclers. At least some reporters who have written books about Trump have been accused of withholding newsworthy nuggets, keeping them secret and fresh for their books. Woodward is showing in his own way how difficult it is to do journalism and historiography at the same time.
He is also asking Trump to be reflective about his place in history and the portents of his presidency. He tries to get Trump to comment on something historian Barbara Tuchman wrote about Europe in 1914, just before the First World War. "On history's clock it was sunset," Tuchman wrote.
Woodward then adds: "Just over a century later, the year 2016 and the election of Trump as president turned out to be another sunset. The old political order was dying and is now dead."
Trump responds by praising his own remarkable "instinct" for perceiving the weakness of both major political parties when he did and exploiting it to get elected himself. Woodward calls this "grabbing history's clock." He says the idea of that has Trump literally bouncing up and down in his chair, saying "yes and I am going to do it again in 2020" — as triumphant as Woodward is worried.
In a Morning Edition interview with NPR's Steve Inskeep airing Monday, Woodward speaks of how "the power of the audio" brings home something disturbing about Trump. "His voice is so consumed with himself and how he feels and his conclusions."
Woodward says Trump "is not comfortable with democracy," adding later that Trump "does not understand democracy." He returns to Trump's assertion that "Everything is mine," an echo of his 2016 convention claim that "Only I can fix it."
"It's so off the tracks, you don't know what to do with it," Woodward says to Inskeep. "It's almost unexplainable. So what do you as a reporter? You just put it all out there and let the people decide."


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Géographie
Čečelice se trouve à  au nord-est du centre de Neratovice, à  au sud-est de Mělník et à  au nord-nord-est de Prague.

La commune est limitée par Liblice et Byšice au nord, par Kropáčova Vrutice, Sudovo Hlavno et Konětopy à l'est, par Dřísy au sud, et par Všestary et Malý Újezd à l'ouest.

Histoire
La première mention écrite de la localité date de 1252.

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I'd Make Sanju Even If I Hadn't Worked With Sanjay
Rajkumar Hirani has dared to make a movie on someone with whom he has had a long association, both personal and professional. Will 'Sanju' glorify his actor-friend, known for his chequered life and career? He tells Outlook.
Giridhar Jha	INTERVIEWS Rajkumar Hirani	| 16 May 2018
Photograph by Apoorva Salkade
Giridhar Jha	May 16, 2018 00:00 IST I'd Make Sanju Even If I Hadn't Worked With Sanjay
They collapsed the boundaries between mainstream entertainers and meaningful cinema much earlier in the day and, released at crucial post-lib junctures, came to almost define a 21st century national cinema—passing muster with the masses and the classes alike. Just four films—Munna Bhai MBBS (2003), Lage Raho Munna Bhai (2006), 3 Idiots (2009) and PK (2014)—make Nagpur-born director Rajkumar Hirani one of the finest filmmakers of his generation. The 55-year-old auteur is now ready with his next, Sanju, a biopic depicting the turbulent life of Bollywood's enfant terrible, Sanjay Dutt. With Ranbir Kapoor in the lead, the film, due for release on June 29, may well be the master filmmaker's litmus test, as he has made a foray into the unfamiliar and dicey terrain of biopics with a movie on the life of somebody he has known professionally and personally for years. In conversation with Giridhar Jha, Hirani spells out the reasons behind making the biopic, dismissing the charge that he has made it to glorify his actor-friend, known for his chequered life and career. Excerpts from the interview:
You have delivered four blockbusters on the trot. With that kind of resume, I presume there should be no reason for butterflies in the belly ahead of the next release.
Far from it, I get butterflies with every release. I remember—Boman Irani still jokes about it—how I had called him a week after the release of 3 Idiots, asking him if the film was really working at the box office, or was it just because of Aamir Khan that people were flocking to the theatres.
So yes, I do get nervous before a release. The only time you do not get nervous is when you are making your first film. At that time, just the joy of making a movie is so high that you do not care; you are happy to have finally made it. It is only later that you want your film to be seen and appreciated by people. So there's some amount of nervousness even now, but I am feeling happy and upbeat that I have made a different kind of movie. I am eagerly waiting for people to react to it.
Making this movie in particular must have been very challenging, if not scary. A biopic is expected to be an objective and dispassionate account of someone's life. And you have dared to make a movie on someone with whom you have had a long association, both personal and professional. Weren't you apprehensive that you might end up making a hagiographic film meant to glorify Sanjay Dutt?
There is no reason for us to make a movie to glorify Sanjay Dutt. We are in a pretty good space, and we can make any film we want to. I could have chosen to make the next edition of the Munna Bhai series instead of Sanju. Even if it were a bad Munna Bhai, people would still go and watch it initially. The only reason I have made this film is that I found it to be a very compelling story. I discovered the many sides of it which people did not know.
When exactly did you realise that Sanjay Dutt's life story had all it takes to make a gripping movie?
'Nahin yaar, go and make whatever you want,' Sanju said when I narrated the script to him and asked if he had any objections.
Well, I had finished shooting PK and was in the process of editing it. Sanju had come out of jail at the time and I had gone to meet him. He was sitting there all alone and we began chatting about his experiences in prison. Soon, he started talking about the entire gun episode (the AK-56 case he was charged with). Though I had worked with him in three movies, I was never among his close friends, like Mahesh Manjrekar and Sanjay Gupta. He was just an actor I had directed, and we had been cordial to each other, but that day, he just opened up and started talking about his life. I had actually gone to meet him to discuss the next Munna Bhai movie, but after listening to his story, it fascinated me to know that someone can actually have a life like his. I called my co-writer, Abhijat Joshi, and told him the crazy stories I was hearing about. After that, we sat with him for hours over the next 25 days, from early evenings to the wee hours, every day. Then I met former Mumbai police commissioner Rakesh Maria, who had been associated with his case, to know his side of the story. I also met Sanju's lawyers, family members, friends and others who were part of his life.
But I had a precondition before making his biopic. I asked Sanju if he would have the courage to see a film on his life, which I would shoot exactly the way I had heard from him. I made it clear that if he would ever ask me to change this line or hide that scene, I would not make it. "Yaar, tere ko jo karna hai, kar (go ahead buddy, do whatever you want to)," came the reply. Once you see the film, you will realise that I have not glorified him at all. The truth is that as a filmmaker, I am greedy for content and his life story has amazing content.
Being Baba
Ranbir Kapoor against the backdrop of his many Sanju avatars
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What precisely fascinated you about his life: his early bout with drug addiction, the gun episode, the subsequent arrest, or for that matter, his intermittent rise, fall and rise in the film industry?
People already know much of these stories. I am going to show the chapters from his life which are not in the public domain—what happened between the father and the son, for example. As writers, we are sketching people all the time when we write fiction. In his case, the character was already there. I was joking with Sanju the other day that he had been writing a script for us for the last 50 years. I would say I turned greedy after listening to his story because somebody was giving us such material. Most biopics are about achievers; this one is about a guy who made bad choices in life.
Was it more challenging than your previous movies?
Yes. When we started on the film, we thought it would be easier since we had so many episodes from Sanju's life that could easily be converted into scenes. But while writing, we realised a movie cannot simply be made with 40 or 50 episodes from somebody's life. Mere anecdotes would not work until they were seamlessly woven into the narrative. With fiction, you can do whatever you want to, but if you are making a film on someone, you have to stick to the truth. You cannot just say that I will change the climax because I do not like it. That is why the structuring of the story turned out to be a bigger challenge than writing itself.
Did Sanjay open up to you because he had implicit trust in you as a filmmaker after all the work you two have done together? He could have gone to any of his close director-friends, the ones who are part of his inner circle.
I'm assuming that he must have had some kind of trust in me, but that trust was definitely not stemming from the fact that we would show him in good light. That was never his fear. There was no precondition from his side. He said his life was an open book. Actually, just Googling him will give you everything—his drug days, the gun episode.
Were you concerned about the consequences of making a biopic on such a popular, contemporary film star, someone who has been romantically linked with well-known actresses in the past? The risk of treading on too many toes...
See, we have touched more on the drugs phase and the gun episode of his life. Other stories are there in the backdrop and we have dealt with them carefully, in order to not hurt anyone. The idea was to make a film on his life and not something sensational.
Has Sanjay Dutt seen his biopic? If yes, what was his reaction like?
Sanju has seen only a few scenes. He was left teary-eyed after watching some parts featuring his father, Sunil Dutt (played by Paresh Rawal). I keep telling him to see the entire film but he says he will see its final print only. I had, of course, narrated the script to him earlier. I wanted him to know what we were making. When I finished the narration, he said his whole life had flashed in front of his eyes in three hours. I asked him if he had any objection to any part. "Nahin yaar," he said, "go and make whatever you want." At times, he would get amused by the fact that someone was actually making a film on his life.
His relationship with his father, I believe, forms an integral part of the narrative.
Two relationships are integral to the story: one, between the father and the son and the other with a friend (played by Vicky Kaushal), who represents a lot of his friends from real life.
Initially, some reports surfaced saying you had offered Sunil Dutt's role to Aamir Khan…
Aamir is a friend. Any script I write, I bounce it to him. When I narrated Sanju to him, he loved it and said, "Main bhi kucch karta hoon (I should also do something in it)." Then I said, do this. But he was already doing the role of an elderly man in Dangal (2016) around the same time.
One question I'm sure you must have been asked many times by now—why Ranbir Kapoor as Sanjay Dutt?
When we began writing the script, we were thinking about who can play Sanju. Then, just by instinct, I felt Ranbir would be the right choice. We needed somebody who could easily fit into the Sanju's shoes during the various phases of his life, right from the time he was shooting for Rocky (1981) to when he came out of the Pune jail. Ranbir himself comes from a film family and is exposed to that sort of life. I never thought of anybody else for this role. But the bigger battle was how Ranbir would look. We spent a lot of time working on that. That is why we shot the film in different phases, giving ample gaps between shoots during which he lost and gained weight to get into the skin of the character. He has done a fabulous job. In fact, Ranbir has far surpassed my expectations. Merely looking like someone is one thing; you can ape somebody but it can look like a caricature. The performance of mimicry artistes is different from that of the real performers, the former can go overboard. But mere looks were not enough. Ranbir's challenge was to look real while still managing to give a glimpse of Sanju, otherwise it would have looked like plastic surgery. Ranbir is so dedicated. If he was required for a 5 am shoot at a lonely place, his make-up man would be there at three. For a whole year, he was available for us all the time. And his dedication is finally showing.
From Munna Bhai MBBS to Sanju, how has Sanjay Dutt evolved as a human being? Did you ever notice him turning bitter or cynical because of the upheavals in his life?
I still remember, we were shooting PK when he was about to go to jail. Only a day's shoot of an important scene with him was left when the judgement came. He had a month to surrender and I kept on postponing the shoot. But it had to be done and we could eventually do it only a few days before he left for prison. I could see that he was completely shattered and depressed. He would wonder whether he could survive the ordeal. He was around 54-55 at the time and he wished that it had happened when he was younger. He had already spent one-and-a-half years in the jail in the past. His depression was reflected in some of the handwritten letters that he wrote to some of us from his prison cell. But gradually, he began to take his sentence in his stride, even joking around, showing his sense of humour. In one of his letters, he wrote, "Raju, I just went to New York and what a lovely time I had with my family there". In the next paragraph, he goes, "Hahaha, you know what I dreamt about last night."
I call him a survivor. I remember his sister Priya (Dutt) telling me once how they never got to stay for long with their brother. First, he went to a boarding school and when he returned after eight-nine years, he was taken to a drug rehab centre. Later, the gun episode got him entangled in legal cases for years. Given these circumstances, I feel he managed to retain his sanity. He not only survived but bounced back. Internally, he is a strong man. While shooting Munna Bhai MBBS, he was supposed to appear in the court every alternate day and also report to the local police station once a week. We used to shoot in the afternoons or evenings those days because of that.
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(Clockwise from top) Munna Bhai MBBS, PK, 3 Idiots, Lage Raho Munna Bhai
Looking back, did you expect your debut movie, Munnabhai MBBS, to be such a success, both critically and commercially?
No, we never thought of that. We were all new and naive at the time. While we were filming Munna Bhai MBBS, we didn't think we were doing some kind of mainstream cinema. I only knew that I was doing a different kind of cinema. More than its commercial success, it fetched us a lot of love and affection from people. I was happy that my family and friends saw it. That joy itself was enough. Never in my life had I thought of anything like this.
You apparently put the third edition of the Munna Bhai series, with Sanjay, on hold to make Sanju? There were also talks of a Munna Bhai Chale America being made in the past…
We wanted to do the third Munna Bhai film and even wrote a lot of it, but we were not able to match the script with the first two. Now, I have found something, though we still have to write it.
These days, a lot of small but content-rich movies are doing well? You have been a pioneer of sorts in this regard. Do you think the taste of Bollywood audiences has finally changed for the better?
Who is an audience? You and I. They are us—some of them are intelligent people, some are dumb. Whenever somebody comes with something good, something that's different from the prevailing trends, we always appreciate it. When Ardh Satya (1984) was made, I was a student. It cannot be called a mainstream film but it blew my mind. Great films have been made in every era. In recent times, the multiplexes have, of course, played a great role in promoting content. My dad had completely stopped going to cinemas in Nagpur because they were in bad shape. But now, people are stepping out to see movies. And today, every film is a different film. We are living in good times.
As a filmmaker, you must have been influenced by a few directors …
Yes, Hrishikesh Mukherjee was a big influence. Then, there were Guru Dutt, Mehboob Khan, K. Asif, Manmohan Desai, and Vijay Anand, whose technique I loved. But Hrishida influenced me the most with his simplicity of story-telling.
This is your fifth film in 15 years. You have not been quite prolific despite your 100 per cent box-office record.
After I finish any film, I move to the next one. It takes about a year to write and another six months are for pre-production and other things. You need a minimum of two-and-a-half months for the shooting of a new film. Then, I also edit my own film. To be honest, I would love to make more movies, but I don't get enough good scripts. Since I write my own scripts, people don't send scripts to me. I would be more than happy to get scripts from outside. Even the ones which are only 50 per cent ready would do as we can work on them.
Munna Bhai MBBS, as we know, was offered to Shahrukh Khan first. During the making of Sanju, did it ever occur to you that this movie was destined to happen? What if Shahrukh had done Munna Bhai?
I never thought of anything like this. See, I got to know Sanju because of Munna Bhai, but as I told you earlier, I was never among his close friends. I knew him as much as the rest of the world did. He never led me into his darkest secrets. Even if I had not done the three films with him, I would still have been fascinated by his story and made a film on his life. Knowing him gave me that opportunity. As I told you, as a filmmaker, I am always greedy for content and can go anywhere for it.
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I started my career working in a retail bank in the north of England. It was in the days when there was one computer in a branch – it was huge! 'Newbies' weren't allowed to touch the 'machine' (as we called it) until they'd worked in the branch for at least 6 months! The first time I used it, I was terrified!
Each day we'd get an internal mail bag containing memos and reports that needed to be worked on. It would be distributed around the office. We instantly knew our workload. This was our 'inbox' for the day.
Looking back – work was predictable to manage (though it felt hard at the time!).
Today we are living in what is called the Information Age. Advances in technology has created a world where we have 24/7 connect-ability and information overload. While this is a positive thing, it's hard to keep up with all the demands that are placed upon us.
Work time haemorrhages into our personal time as we find ourselves at the mercy of other people's urgent and unpredictable demands, expectations and agendas.
It's like getting one of those internal post bags every few minutes!
We react by sacrificing our personal time (evenings, weekends and holidays) in the hope that we can keep up with all the demands. We teach others that it's okay to trespass on our personal time. They climb our fences, erode our boundaries and walk right across our land!
1. Start with Intention – If you know that things aren't working, answer the following questions: What do I want? What don't I want? This is a great place to start. Think about your working time and your personal time. Get clear on what YOU want.
2. Be Selective – The rising tide of information and requests aren't going to stop. You have to learn how to be selective. Get in tune with your intention and values. Focus on your high value brilliant work. Low value stuff can be 1) automated, 2) delegated, or 3) deleted. This could be at work and at home!
3. Re-define Your Boundaries – Make a clear distinction between your working time and personal time. Plan in advance how long you intend to work each day. Sometimes the unexpected happens, but if you don't know when you intend to finish work, it is easier just to carry on. Plan a week ahead what you intend to do. Schedule dates and times for important activities in your planner, e.g. Wednesday – leave work at 6pm. Or Thursday 6.30 -7.15am Go to the gym.
4. Begin Your Day Email Free – If your job isn't email-based leave your computer off for the first hour each day and do something more important! Check your emails at set times during the day, e.g. 10.30am, 12.30pm, and 4.30pm.
5. Discipline – Show up, Switch on, Stop! This will prevent work time haemorrhaging into your personal time. Using a timer set for 60 minutes can help you start and stop activities, so you can make progress and then move on to the next task. It stops you getting distracted and keeps you focused. Try it!
6. Dis-connect – If you've become addicted to your devices it's hard to be fully present for anything else because you are always checking in with your technology. Switch-off your technology and be 100% present for your friends, family and for YOU.
7. Learn to Say No – Be realistic about what you are able to achieve. Sometimes we say 'Yes' when we should be saying 'no' because we already have so much work to do and we're frightened to let other people down. "Give me more to do. Look I can do it all!" So your employers, families and friends increase their demands upon you.
Who's trespassing on your personal time?
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Can You Identify the British Royal by Their Childhood Picture?
Think you're a royals expert? Let's see if you can correctly guess who each of these royal babies and kids are!
Who is this precious baby?
C. Prince Philip is a mere 14 months old in this photo from 1922. Check out these 50 things you never knew about the British royal family.


I will be playing with the Dirty Catfish Brass Band at the Winnipeg Fringe Festival. We will be playing an hour long set at The Cube in the Exchange District. Come check it out while you hang in the beer garden or on a blanket on the grass, It's free!


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Q: Cadence Workflow: Pass host specific objects like database connections, service clients, etc to activity implementation When a cadence worker comes up it initializes certain resources like database connections and client for other services. What is the correct pattern to make these resources accessible from activity implementations?

A: Go
You can pass anything your activity needs via the context to your activity.
Here is how it works:
1) Before you start your worker, set whatever you need as value to a context (below code happen at where you setup your worker):
myThriftClient := ... // create my thrift client
myContext := context.WithValue(context.Background(), "my_thrift_client", myThriftClient)

2) Use the context created in step1 as BackgroundActivityContext of the worker options that you use to start your worker:
workerOptions := cadence.WorkerOptions{
    MetricsScope:          myScope,
    Logger:                myLogger,
    BackgroundActivityContext: myContext,
}
worker := cadence.NewWorker(service, domain, taskList, workerOptions)

3) In your activity code, retrieve your thrift client from the context:
func MyActivity(ctx context.Context) error {
  myThriftClient := ctx.Value("my_thrift_client").(ThriftClient)
  // now you can make thrift calls using myThriftClient
}

Java
Worker.registerActivityImplementations accepts an activity object instance. So any dependencies can be associated with this object before it is registered with the worker.
Worker.Factory factory = new Worker.Factory(DOMAIN);
Worker worker = factory.newWorker(TASK_LIST);
// Initialize activities instance with all its dependencies
MyActivities activities = new MyActivitiesImpl(dbPool, serviceAClient);
worker.registerActivitiesImplementations(activities);
// Start listening to the workflow and activity task lists.
factory.start();

A: In Java we use Suppliers to pass in stateful clients and services like gcs, database ...
so on each activity run based on how we have implemeneted the get method of the Supplier, the requested client/service is provided to the activity without the need to instantiating them beforehand upon activityImpl instantiation.

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Ana Lucía Domínguez  (Bogotá, Kolumbia, 1983. december 2. –) kolumbiai színésznő és modell.

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Ana Lucía Domínguez 1983. december 2-án született. Első szerepét 1993-ban játszotta a Padres e hijos című sorozatban. 2002-ben a Vadmacska című telenovellában Adriana szerepét játszotta. 2003-ban a Pasión de Gavilanesben megkapta Ruth Uribe szerepét. 2010-ben főszerepet kapott a Perro amor című telenovellában Carlos Ponce oldalán.

2008-ban hozzáment Jorge Cárdenashoz.

Filmográfia

Telenovellák
 Las bandidas (2013) - Fabiola Montoya
 La Traicionera (2011-2012) - Martina Figueroa
 Perro amor (2010) - Sofía Santana de Brando
 El Fantasma del Gran Hotel (2009) - Irene Buenaventura
 Valentino, el argentino (2008) - Claudia García
 Mujeres asesinas - Paula, La Bailarina
 Madre Luna - Anabel Saldaña
 El engaño (2007) - Marcela García/Camila Navarro
 Amores cruzados (2006) - María Márquez García
 Decisiones (2005)
 Te voy a enseñar a querer (2004) - Camila Buenrostro
 Pasión de Gavilanes (2003) - Libia Reyes/Ruth Uribe Santos
 Vadmacska (Gata salvaje) (2002) - Adriana Linares
 El Informante en el País de las Mercancías (2001) - Cecilia de Castro
 Se armó la gorda (2000) - Jackeline Monsalve
 Amor discos (2000) - Miryam Isabel Dominguín
 El fiscal (1999) - Francisca 'Frica' Lombana
 Hermosa niña (1998) - Antonia Donoso
 Conjunto cerrado (1996-1998) - Manuela
 De pies a cabeza (1993) - Yadira Chacón
 Padres e hijos (1993)

További információk

Kolumbiai színészek
Kolumbiai nők
1983-ban született személyek
Élő személyek


How do I obtain a mortgage?
Now that you have a better overview of how much your condominium will actually cost and what your mortgage options are, the next step is for you to actually obtain the mortgage.
Financing is where most deals can encounter complications. One of the best strategies to ensure you get the condominium you want is by applying and getting pre-approved for a loan prior to your condominium search.
The broker or lender will review your information and check your credit. Once you choose the property you want to purchase the lending institution will hire an appraiser to value the property and ensure it is worth the price of the loan.
Should you be rejected for your first loan application – don't become overly concerned. There are several situations when a lender finds it to risky to extend a loan. Remember, as there are several types of lending institutions –if one rejects you simply move on to the next. Consult with your Ripco Real Estate agent who will help you find a lender that specializes in granting loans to individuals with special circumstances.
Accumulating More Debt: Some buyers will make large purchases, such as a car or boat, after being approved for a loan and the lender learns about the purchase. As lenders consider new large purchases an obstacle in making mortgage payments, they may cancel the loan. If you're considering making a large purchase around closing time, it is highly recommended that you wait until after the close.
Problems with Credit: There are dozens of credit problems that may cause a lender to reject a loan. The common denominator they all work from is a credit report. Your credit report is a concise record of all of your debts, accounts, and payment habits. If you were late making a credit card payment a couple of years ago, it will probably appear on your credit report. If you defaulted on a loan or filed for bankruptcy, it will definitely appear on your credit report.Because your credit report is so critical to being approved for a loan you should be aware of what is on your report. Before applying for a loan, request a complimentary copy of your report from each of the 3 major credit agencies and review it. If you find information which is inaccurate you can and should contest it directly with the credit reporting agency. If this process is ongoing while you're applying for a loan, explain the situation to your lender and provide your lender with the same documentation you are submitting to the agency.
Employed Less Than Two Years: Lenders by nature are low risk and only want to give mortgage to people they believe can pay the loan back. Lenders require a stable income and prefer someone who has worked at the same company for at least two years – It shows consistency and financial security. Be prepared with an answer if this question comes up. Lenders generally do not object if you changed companies for a higher salary.
Job Loss: If your lender rejected your loan application because you recently lost your job, you'll want to focus on getting a new job before you resubmit your application. At that point, consult with your agent. Depending on the circumstances, you may want to resubmit your loan to a different lender or wait several months until you have found another job. Also, if your spouse's or domestic partner's income is enough to support the mortgage, you may want to have them apply for the loan instead.
Self-Employed: To a lender self-employment falls under the two-year rule, they want to see an established and consistent income level. If you've recently started a home-based business, you may want to wait before you apply for a mortgage. If your income is largely based on commissions, you may encounter some difficulty securing a home loan.
Unapproved Building or New Development: This is a rejection totally beyond your control. Remember, when a lender grants you a loan, they are investing in the property just as you are. The lender wants a secure investment. Lending institutions have a set of guidelines that dictate whether a property is a good investment (i.e. 70% occupancy rate).
How can I get copies of my credit reports?
Your credit report is a vital part of the loan decision process, it is important to make sure it's accurate before you apply for a loan. Contact your bank for more information on obtaining an accurate credit report.


Following on from her '62 dinners from $100 worth of groceries', we teamed up with Kathrine from Busy Happy Kids to see how many kids' lunchboxes she could make by taking advantage of New Zealand's lowest prices at PAK'nSAVE.
Kathrine spent $97.45 and made 50 lunches, that's just $1.95 per lunch!
Check out all of Kathrine's lunchbox ideas here.
1. Heat oil in a large frying pan, add onion and ham and cook until soft and golden.
2. Add the cooked pumpkin and potatoes to the frying pan, and cook until heated though.
3. Grease 2 large muffin pans with a small amount of oil or butter.
4. Spoon the ham, onion and vegetables mixture into the muffin pans.
5. Combine the whisked eggs with the can of creamed corn and pour into the muffin pans on top of the ham and vegetable mixture.
7. Bake in the oven for 15-20 minutes or until golden brown.
**Fritatta can also be cooked as a large meal in an oven proof dish rather than dividing into muffin pans.


This smartly designed and stylishly presented Villa Bebek is superbly located for those seeking a holiday location which is literally just meters from all Seminyak's trendy café's, shopping, nightlife, and restaurants.
The moment you step through the entry you will feel you have entered your own little tropical paradise. You will be greeted by the generous size pool deck with sun lounges, tropical 8m x 4m pool with water feature and lush green garden.
The large downstairs living, dining and kitchen area opens out to the pool and deck. The living space can be closed with bi-fold doors, allowing for your air conditioned comfort. This area is stylishly decorated and includes wicker sofa, full size dining table, 50 inch flat screen TV with cable TV channels, IPod Doc and DVD Player.
The fully fitted granite top kitchen with stainless steel appliances is open to the living area with views out to the pool.
Three good size ensuite bedrooms are located upstairs. The master bedroom features walk-in robe, Jacuzzi bath, flat screen TV and balcony. The guest bedrooms also feature built-in robes, and flat screen TV's.
There is a 2nd level dining gazebo overlooking the pool which captures cooling breezes and is ideal for afternoon drinks or just relaxing.
Located just 100 meters from Jalan Oberoi (Eat Street), you won't have far to go to enjoy all that Seminyak has to offer!


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Q: MS SQL delete specific value where are condition I have three tables. The third one I am inserting changes which are created between tables 1 and 2
My problem is I can not fix the delete statement where I try to delete from column1 'Dog'. Table three should only contain changes to the values over the course of the day.
Table1 ---Yesterday
Column1 Column2    Column3 Column4
Dog       Blue      555      poo
Dog       Brown     666      hoo
Dog       Black     666      hoo
Mouse     Red       888      nic
Cat       Ping      444      pic

Table2 ---Today
Column1 Column2    Column3 Column4
Dog       Colour     555       poo ---Change column2
Dog       Brown      888       hoo ---Change column3
Dog       Black      666       hoo --- No change
Mouse     Red        888       nicoo ---Change column4
Cat       Ping       444       pic --- No change

Table3 ---Changes between days
Column1 Column2 Column3 Column4
Dog       Colour     555       poo ---Change column2
Dog       Brown      888       hoo ---Change column3
Dog       Black      666       hoo --- No change
Mouse     Red        888       nicoo ---Change column4

Table3 ---Expect Output
Mouse     Red        888       nicoo ---Change column4
Dog       Colour     555       poo ---Change column2
Dog       Brown      888       hoo ---Change column3

SELECT       *
FROM         [dbo].[Table3]
WHERE   Column1 = 'Dog' and    (  EXISTS
                             (SELECT     *
                               FROM       [dbo].[Table2]
                               WHERE        ([Table2].Column1 = Column1) AND ([Table2].Column1 = Column1
                                and

    [Table3].[Column1] <> [Table1].[Column1] or
    [Table3].[Column2] <> [Table1].[Column2] or
    [Table3].Column3 <> [Table1].Column3 or
    [Table3].Column4 <> [Table1].Column4 or
    )))

Thanks for helping to find a solution for my delete statement!

A: You can simply achieve this by right join -
create table #Table1 (Column1 varchar(10) ,Column2 varchar(10)    ,Column3 int,Column4 varchar(10))
insert into #Table1
select 'Dog'       ,'Blue',      555      ,'poo'
union all select 'Dog'       ,'Brown',     666      ,'hoo'
union all select 'Dog'       ,'Black',     666      ,'hoo'
union all select 'Mouse'     ,'Red',       888      ,'nic'
union all select 'Cat'       ,'Ping',      444      ,'pic'

create table #Table2 (Column1 varchar(10) ,Column2 varchar(10)    ,Column3 int,Column4 varchar(10))
insert into #Table2
select 'Dog',       'Colour',     555       ,'poo'
union all select 'Dog',       'Brown',      888       ,'hoo'
union all select 'Dog',       'Black',      666       ,'hoo'
union all select 'Mouse',     'Red',        888       ,'nicoo'
union all select 'Cat',       'Ping',       444       ,'pic'

select t2.*
from #Table1 t1
right join #Table2 t2
on t1.Column1 = t2.Column1
and t1.Column2 = t2.Column2
and t1.Column3 = t2.Column3
and t1.Column4 = t2.Column4
where t1.Column1 is null

--OUTPUT
Column1 Column2 Column3 Column4
Dog     Colour  555     poo
Dog     Brown   888     hoo
Mouse   Red     888     nicoo


This once quiet agricultural system has recently become known for the production of Onionhead. This naturally growing drug was declared illegal by Federal authorities in December 3300.
The headquarters of the East India Company are situated in this system. The company bought up shares, real-estate and local businesses following their cessation of operations with Senator Torval. They work towards the legalisation and wholesale distribution of the cash crop Onionhead throughout the galaxy.
This system was visited for the first time on EDSM by Kelgrath on Dec 26, 2014, 5:36:26 PM.
3224 ships passed through Kappa Fornacis space, including 29 ships in the last 7 days.
9 ships passed through Kappa Fornacis space in the last 24 hours.


Now's the Time to Write a Best Seller!
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If you've ever felt like you have a book in you, waiting to get out, or if you have a burning desire to see if you can birth a book out of the blue, this is the show to listen to. Because writing muse Tom Bird will be on the show today to explain how everyone has a book inside of them, if only they access it. Tune in to this special fund drive show and find out how you too can become a published author!


Fall River (and the Metolius) are the best bets for Central Oregon at the moment, with the consistent temperatures of spring water not allowing the rivers to freeze up, and keeping the bugs and fish active.
We are seeing some BWO's in the afternoon, especially around 1 or 2 PM, mixed with some small black midges throughout the day.
We've had incredible success with 6.5x and 7x fluorocarbon tippets with small, heavy nymphs and 2 tone squirmey wormies.


Looking for a new home in Ida Lake Sub? It is a great time to buy real estate in Ida Lake Sub and our site is a great place to begin your search. You can check out Ida Lake Sub schools, market statistics, the latest listings and more. Whether you are a first-time home buyer or you are already familiar with the home buying process, you can be assured that you have the best tools and the perfect agent available to help with your Ida Lake Sub home search.
There are currently 1 Lands for sale in Ida Lake Sub. The average price for Ida Lake Sub properties is $12,000which is 95% lower than all Lands within a 20 mile radius. The highest priced property in Ida Lake Sub is $12,000 while the lowest priced Land is listed at $12,000. Most of the properties available in Ida Lake Sub are Lands . Compared to last month, the average price of real estate in the area has gone up 100%.


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James Heckman
Henry Schultz Distinguished Service Professor in the Department of Economics and the College; Affiliate Professor at Harris Public Policy; Director, Center for Social Program Evaluation
About James Heckman
James J. Heckman is the Henry Schultz Distinguished Service Professor in Economics and the College, an affiliate professor at the University of Chicago Harris School of Public Policy, and the director of the Center for Social Program Evaluation at Harris. Much of his work has focused on the impact of different social programs and the methodologies used to measure those program's effects. Heckman has researched areas such as education, job training programs, minimum wage legislation, women's work and earnings, child care effects, anti-discrimination laws, civil rights and early childhood interventions. Additional research includes the effects of tax policy on schooling and training choices and the formulation and estimation of general equilibrium models.
Heckman is on the editorial board of the Journal of Applied Econometrics. He served as co-editor of the Handbook of Econometrics, Volumes 5 and 6. He has served on the National Academy of Science Panel on the State of Black Americans, the Board of Overseers of the Michigan Panel Survey of Income Dynamics, and the National Academy's Science Panel on Statistical Assessments. He is a fellow of the Econometric Society and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, an elected member of the National Academy of Sciences and a resident member of the American Philosophical Society. He is a fellow of the American Statistical Association, the International Statistical Institute, the Journal of the Econometrics, the Society of Labor Economics, and the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He is also a lifetime member of the Irish Economic Association.
Heckman has received numerous honors, including the John Bates Clark Medal from the American Economic Association in 1983 and the Dennis J. Aigner Award in 2005 and 2007 for the best empirical paper in the Journal of Econometrics. He received the Ulysses medal from University College Dublin in 2005. He received the Mincer Award for Lifetime Achievement from the Society of Labor Economics in 2005. In 2008, he was awarded the Gold Medal of the President of the Italian Republic by the International Scientific Committee of the Pio Manzù Centre. He also received the Distinguished Contributions to Public Policy for Children Award from the Society for Research in Child Development in 2009. He was president of the Midwest Economics Association in 1998 and president of the Western Economic Association from 2006 to 2007. In 2000, Heckman was awarded the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences for his development of theory and methods for analyzing selective samples and the evaluation of public policy.
jheckman@uchicago.edu
The Heckman Equation


The 68th Argentinian women chess championship took place from September 4-11th, 2015, in Club Obras – Palacio de las Aguas Corrientes and Club Argentino – Paraguay 1858.
The event was an 8-round Swiss open tournament with tempo of play 90' + 30".
Argentinian best player IM Carolina Lujan emerged a sole winner with 7/8 points. Lujan drew two games and won six to lift the trophy.
The runner-up, WGM Claudia Amura, finished at 6.5 points, leaving the bronze medalist WIM Ayelen Martinez, half a point behind.


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The Nativity of St. John the Baptist Church () is a Romanian Orthodox church located at 5 Piața Unirii in Focșani, Romania. It is dedicated to the Nativity of Saint John the Baptist.

The church was founded by Grigore I Ghica, Prince of Wallachia, in 1661; the Ghica family would continue to provide support. Originally a monastery church, it is cross-shaped, made of brick and limestone on a stone foundation, in Byzantine style. On the interior, it is 22.40 meters long, 6.50 meters wide and 9.50 meters high. The floor is of stone blocks. The attached porch, of uncertain date, is around 4 meters long.

The monastery was a cultural and religious center, offering theological training and preparing a large number of monks, priests and deacons. In 1849, it possessed 22 books in Greek and 24 in Romanian Cyrillic. Until the 1863 secularization of monastic estates in Romania, it was a metochion of Agia Anastasia Monastery in Thessaloniki.

The monastery had the appearance of a fortress, surrounded by granite walls over 6 meters thick. On the inside, it had buildings with two stories that included 36 living apartments and 10 basements. It also had towers with embrasures, useful for positioning firearms. One of the wealthiest churches in the area, it owned several villages, estates, vineyards in Odobești, forests, stores and houses in Focșani. It acquired these both through donation and seizure without deed of state land. The wealth and power of the Greek monks stirred resentment among the town inhabitants and conflict with the local administration. Around 1850, following numerous petitions to the royal court, Princes Gheorghe Bibescu and Barbu Dimitrie Știrbei finally asserted control over the monks.

Over the years, the church suffered damage from earthquakes, the devastating 1854 fire, pillage by Ottoman troops during the reign of Constantine Mavrocordatos and by Filiki Eteria forces during the Wallachian uprising of 1821. After the 1854 fire, the monastery lost its majestic appearance. In 1871, the ruined walls were auctioned off to a Jewish merchant. Subsequently, of the old complex, the only remaining components are the church and bell tower, which sits in front. Located near a border post, the church witnessed important events surrounding the 1859 union of the Principalities, including the first Te Deum for national unity held on the square in front of the church, a "Hora Unirii" danced by domnitor Alexandru Ion Cuza, and military marches starting with Romanian independence in 1877.

The church is listed as a historic monument by Romania's Ministry of Culture and Religious Affairs, as is the 1839 tower.

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Religious buildings and structures in Focșani
Historic monuments in Vrancea County
Romanian Orthodox churches in Vrancea County
Churches completed in 1661
Former Christian monasteries in Romania


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COMMENTARY: The Real Issues with the Government Shutdown
#NNPA BlackPress Commentary Featured Government NNPA Newswire Op-Ed San Diego Voice
NNPA NEWSWIRE — The American people need to put the pressure on Republican Senators who place more value on standing with the President in his insanity than keeping their Oath of Office — which is a sworn commitment to uphold the Constitution of the United States "So help them God…"
By Dr. John E. Warren, Publisher of the San Diego Voice & Viewpoint
The media and the public have given too much attention to Donald Trump the man and the President and not enough to this system of government we have with built-in checks and balances. Case in point: instead of spending so much time arguing with Trump, why don't the media and the American people focus on the process that allows a solution. Please follow the explanation about to be given about the available process for ending this matter.
Trump is relying upon Mitch McConnell and his pledge not to bring any bill to the floor of the U.S. Senate for a vote unless he knows, in advance, that the President will approve. The U.S. Senate has the ability to gather enough signatures of sitting senators to not only bring the bill to the floor of the Senate, but also to guarantee an override of a Presidential Veto by Trump. Such a bill already passed the U.S. House of Representatives and the U.S. Senate before the Christmas holidays. The problem is that, with the Republicans staying committed to Trump and not the American people who put them in office, the bill would not have survived a Presidential Veto.
If it takes 60 Senators in the Senate to override McConnell and put the measure to a vote and there are only 47 democrats and independents, then a minimum of 13 Republican Senators need to break ranks with McConnell and the President and end the shutdown, even if that's by an override of a Trump Veto.
The American people who are concerned about the shutdown and missed paychecks need to put the pressure on the Republican Senators who place more value on standing with the President in his insanity than keeping their Oath of Office, which is a sworn commitment to uphold the Constitution of the United States "So help them God," and not upholding the President of the United States.
The issue here should not be Democrat or Republican, it should be what's good for this nation during a time of a fabricated crisis with elected officials putting politics over the business of the American people.
America, the focus has to be on the Republican members of the U.S. Senate who feel that they are so safe as to be insulated against public opinion on this issue. Let's call them out one by one.
Secondly, let's put the spotlight on the 25th Amendment the U.S. Constitution which speaks to removing the President when he becomes "unable to fulfill the duties of his office."
We have a government with checks and balances, with separation of powers grounded in the Constitution as our governing document. We cannot and must not allow politics to circumvent our system of government. Let's find those 13 senators, break up the McConnell Block and end this shutdown and get on with the business of government with people getting paid for the work they have been hired to do.
Related Topics:Democratic SenatorsDonald TrumpDr. John E. WarrenGovernment ShutdownMitch mcConnellRepublican SenatorsSan Diego VoiceTrump vetoU.S. ConstitutionU.S. House of Representatives
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The Golf Club is a two-time winner of the PCA for Best Non-Yearly Sports Game (2014, 2017) but with the announcement today that the next edition in the series will release in the July-September quarter of 2018 it'll be losing its eligibility in that category to the probably delight of fans.
Golf games, and unlicensed games or those that don't have significant roster turnover in general, have really struggled in recent years selling themselves to the marketplace without extended layoffs between releases. The Golf Club 2019 will then be seeing the strength of its brand tested in whether the support will continue if any growth will be achieved.
Developer HB Studios revealed some of the features and improvements being worked on for the game. Those include online Skins Matches with virtual currency on the line, a new single player Career Mode, "SpeedTree Technology" for improved visuals, more character customization options, and enhancements to the Course Creator.


I have set up a Telo with a DSL connection and my landline is being ported now. I have a couple of questions regarding home distribution after porting is complete.
1. Do I have to put two line splitters to distribute OOMA dial tone to the other phones through the same line that dry loop DSL signal is coming in, even if I don't have a dial tone from my land line? I searched the forum and OOMA site, but only found out that you need two line splitters if you have HUB or SCOUT, or your land line is alive. I guess my case is not either, since I have a Telo and my land line will be cut out although I'll still receive DSL signal.
2. Do I need to keep DSL filters at the other phones? If a two line splitter is required at each phone, a DSL filter is needed on top of the two line splitter?
1. If you want to feed telo's dial tone to your house wiring, you should not use the same wire that have DSL or still connect to telco network. It's not safe, like running your power generator to power your house without disconnected to the outside power.
You should using line 2 of your house wiring(with a Line1+Line2 splitter) and make sure that it is disconnected at the DEMARC box.
If you plug your DSL+land line into telo WALL port, a filter is needed too.
Any phone using telo's dial tone from Line 2 will not need filter.


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Child Support information for legal professionals
Legal practitioners play an important role in the administration of the Child Support Scheme.
Most parents who separate will come to us about the amount, types and collection of child support. The legal profession also plays an important role in the Child Support Scheme.
As a legal practitioner, parents or non-parent carers may ask you for advice in these matters.
Change of assessment in special circumstances
If parents believe the child support assessment we make is unfair they can ask us to change that assessment.
To be successful, they must be able to establish:
special circumstances under one or more of the 10 change of assessment reasons, and
that it would be fair to both parents, the children and the community to change the assessment
Parents can't have a representative appear for them during the change of assessment process.
If parents disagree with the change of assessment decision they'll need to contact us. We'll usually need to do an administrative review before the parents can go to court.
The initial step is for one or both parents to object to the decision.
Parents can appeal most objection decisions to the Administrative Appeals Tribunal (AAT). Parents can appeal the AAT decision to a court if there has been an error of law. Parents may want to engage lawyers to represent them in this process.
Child support agreements
There are alternatives to assessments made by us. Parents may decide to make an agreement about the amount and form of child support to be paid. There are 2 types of agreements, limited agreements and binding agreements. Parents may want to involve a lawyer in drafting a child support agreement.
You can use the Child Support Agreement form as a guide for drafting the agreement. You can use it to:
record the agreement, and
apply to have the agreement accepted
If parents enter into or want to end a binding agreement they must get legal advice.
A legal practitioner is required to complete a Legal certificate form (CS4137). This is to verify the parents received legal advice before entering into a binding child support agreement. The form should then be annexed to the binding agreement.
For the purposes of Child Support, we won't accept an agreement certified by an overseas lawyer if:
they've not been admitted by the Supreme Court of a state or territory of Australia, or
they've not been admitted by a Federal court, or
they don't hold a current practising certificate
Sometimes we're unable to:
accept an application for child support, or
add a child to an existing assessment
This is because the applicant is unable to satisfy the requirements for presumption that one or both parties are parents of the child named.
The applicant will sometimes need to apply to a court for a declaration of eligibility. They may need to be represented by a lawyer in those proceedings. The court may make a declaration based on parentage testing.
A person required to pay child support can ask a court for a declaration to say they shouldn't pay child support as they're not a parent of the child. The applicant may prefer a lawyer represent them in those proceedings. The court may make a declaration based on parentage testing.
Appeals against decisions
Parents can formally object to most decisions we make. Parents can appeal most objection decisions to the AAT.
For some decisions, there are 2 levels of appeal to the AAT. Parents can request an AAT first review for most objection decisions. If they don't agree with the outcome of the first review, they can request an AAT second review for:
a decision to refuse an application to extend the time to apply for the AAT first review
a care percentage decision
a decision to make, or not make, determination about the date of effect of a care percentage decision
Parents can appeal the AAT review decision to the court if there has been an error of law. The parents may want to engage lawyers to represent them in this process.
The Child Support Guide
The Department of Social Services Child Support Guide outlines the administration of the Child Support Scheme.
Lawyer's Hotline
Legal practitioners can call our hotline for help with handling child support matters, including drafting agreements or court orders. Call 1800 004 351 or 1800 180 272 for international cases.
Page last updated: 10 April 2019


Blind! What of that? Man has five senses; if he loses one, the vital energy on which it fed goes to intensify the other four. He had five arrows in his quiver; well, he has shot one away, and four remain. My dear, an enemy is not disarmed because he's lost one arrow out of five.
The brain is constantly bombarded of sensory signals. For optimal interaction with the world, the brain needs to seamlessly integrate or segregate those inputs depending on the fact that they belong or not to the same event. In the CPP-lab, we try to understand what are the guiding principles behind multisensory integration, with the core hypothesis that the functional goals of brain regions determines how sensory systems links together: same functions, same connections .


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No Man's Sky Is Ready for Release
Development on No Man's Sky is complete
The game is being prepared for release on disc and digital platforms
No Man's Sky's India release date is August 10
Development on space exploration survival game No Man's Sky is complete. The game is ready to be put on disc and be prepared for digital release, more commonly known by the term "gone gold".
The news comes via the Twitter account of Hello Games' founder Sean Murray.
It's happened. No Man's Sky just went gold. I'm so incredibly proud of this tiny team. 4 years of emotions," Murray tweeted.
What this means is, you can expect No Man's Sky to meet its August 10 release date for India, along with its August 9 and August 12 launches in the US and UK respectively.
On the PS4, the game will set you back by Rs. 3,499 digitally and Rs. 3,999 if you're buying a physical copy. The Limited Edition is for $80 (around Rs. 5,371) and considering that other Sony titles like Uncharted 4 aren't seeing special variants hit India, it's safe to say that the No Man's Sky Limited Edition will skip the country as well.
And if the PS4 isn't your gaming machine of choice, there's an elaborate PC version as well. Dubbed the No Man's Sky Explorer's Edition comes with a replica ship, decals, pins, and well, a code for redeeming the game instead of a disc. It's being made and sold by UK boutique creative outfit iam8bit and costs $149.99 (roughly Rs. 10,000).
The standard edition of the game on PC is digital only and available for pre-order on Steam for Rs. 1,799. If you like your games DRM-free, it's on GOG as well albeit for $60 (approximately Rs. 4,030). The minimum system requirements are as follows:
Graphics: Nvidia GTX 480
Storage: 10GB available space
From what we've seen, No Man's Sky has you going where every sci-fi loving fan has gone before – space. This time however you're exploring its depths minus any heavy-handed direction, trying-too-hard-to-be witty sayings, or any of the other tropes we're tired of from slew of sci-fi movies and games we've been treated to. In their place is a gorgeous galaxy that has you exploring planets galore, each of which has its own unique environment and creatures. It's been often delayed but always present at each of Sony's events. Looks like we won't have to wait too long to give it a go.
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Those words sent Elijah running. When Queen Jezebel threatened to kill him, Elijah was so fearful that he pleaded for the Lord to take away his life. How could it be? Elijah had been so strong in faith—did he not challenge the four-hundred-and-fifty false prophets of Baal and slaughter them all on Mt Carmel?
However strong he was, Elijah was, after all, a man. Like him, we are also weak and have our limits. We could be strong one day but fall into a heap the next. God sees our weaknesses and will send help. God sent an angel twice and provided Elijah with bread and water. The second time, the angel urged him to eat and carry on his journey. Likewise, we must carry on this journey of faith, no matter how hard it may be. As we all know, the path to heaven is a narrow and difficult one, while the path to destruction is wide.
As we continue this journey of faith, we may be like Elijah, looking for God in the wrong places. Elijah expected God to reveal Himself in a magnificent natural phenomenon like the wind, earthquake, or fire. But God came in the form of a still small voice (1 Kgs 19:12). When we seek Him with a calm heart, there He will be.
It is easy to develop the "Elijah Syndrome," thinking that we are the only ones who are really serving God and that we are the only ones that are righteous. This is a wrong concept. God replied to Elijah, "Yet I have reserved seven thousand in Israel, all whose knees have not bowed to Baal, and every mouth that has not kissed him" (1 Kgs 19:18). So next time we are feeling lonely when we are serving God, remember that there are other brothers and sisters who are striving for God too. We are certainly not alone… there are thousands more whom the Lord has reserved for Himself.
Do you suffer from the "Elijah Syndrome"? What can you do to help yourself get over it?


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City life exposed: The science of bike sharing
Graham Southorn
Bristol 51° 27' 13.644" N, -2° 35' 30.048" E
Since they first arrived on London's streets in 2010, the distinctive blue-and-silver bikes of the Barclays Cycle Hire scheme have become a familiar sight around the city.
London's 'Boris bikes'
Commonly called 'Boris bikes' after London mayor Boris Johnson, they're not just a popular way of getting around. Along with similar schemes around the world, it's become fertile territory for scientists who are using it to reveal new insights into commuting, tourism, and even our health.
London is just one of 763 cities around the world with cycle sharing schemes, as shown on the Bike-sharing World Map maintained by Russell Meddin. Many of them are relatively new. Yet big schemes in urban areas date back to 1965, when white cycles were left around Amsterdam for anyone to use free of charge.
Later schemes introduced cash deposits, with bikes fastened by locks like those on supermarket trolleys. Yet these early schemes foundered, with bikes often being stolen or vandalised. It would take a picturesque city in France to kick-start the cycle-sharing revolution.
Lyon's Vélo'v
In 2005, distinctive silver-and-red bikes and a handful of technological innovations landed in Lyon. Just as Apple's iPhone was greater than the sum of its individual parts, the Vélo'v scheme cleverly combined technologies like card payments, 'docking stations' connected to the internet and bikes with built-in chips.
Velo'v was a huge success, and its key features were copied by later schemes. Card payments and membership schemes deterred thieves and were also more convenient for users, as were electronic docking stations. By using a website like London's 'Find a docking station', you can easily find a location with bikes available for hire.
To dock or not?
Not all modern cycle sharing schemes have docking stations, though. Users of 'Call a Bike' in German cities like Berlin use a smartphone app to hire a cycle, which they can leave locked up anywhere. But it's the schemes with fixed docking stations that are providing the most useful data, because the limits on the number of possible journeys makes the data possible to analyse.
Berlin's bikes
A single journey from docking station A to docking station B provides the start and end locations, the day of the week, the exact times the user set off and arrived, and the direction of travel. Because the approximate distance is known, you can even make a rough guess at the user's average speed.
Barclays Cycle Hire publishes some of these statistics in quarterly reports. In the summer of 2013, for example, three of the top four most frequently made journeys by members were from Waterloo Station – one to Holborn and the rest to St Paul's. Both destinations are convenient for the City, London's financial heart.
Journeys made by users who make one-off payments, on the other hand, tell a different story. The most frequent journey began at Hyde Park corner and ended at... Hyde Park Corner. In fact, nine of the top 10 journeys started or ended in Hyde Park –a safe and scenic place for tourists to enjoy a ride in the summer sun.
Bikes and bytes
Interesting though the raw data is, it's far more compelling when viewed on a map. Jo Wood, Professor of Visual Analytics at City University, did just that by animating Barclays Cycle Hire's first 16 million journeys. As he showed in a TEDx talk, the map of two years' worth of journeys is a jumbled mess that "looks like brain activity".
[youtube]https://youtu.be/FaRBUnO5PZI[/youtube]
But as Wood stripped away all but the most common journeys, patterns emerged. Hubs formed around the tourists' favourites routes - Hyde Park, Regent's Park and the Isle of Dogs - while routes north from Waterloo and south from King's Cross railway stations reveal commuters on their journeys in and out of the capital.
The data helps in the day to day running of Barclays Cycle Hire, explains its Head of Operations, James Mead. "By understanding the time and the destination of users, we can make sure we've got staff where we need them - which impacts on the hiring and retrieving of bikes, but also on the people who do cleaning or docking station maintenance.
Looking at the data also helps Barclays Cycle Hire work out how best to expand. "We're in the midst of working with the London boroughs to expand docking stations where we need extra capacity, or put ones in nearby if there's not enough space at an existing docking station," reveals Mead.
Keeping balance
But perhaps the most important use of data is for solving the "rebalancing problem". Rebalancing requires transporting bikes in vans from one docking station to another. Users need bikes to be available, but they cannot return them if stations are full. Some routes are bound to be more popular than others, such as those going downhill. In Barcelona, for example, bikes tend to accumulate down at the beach.
Patterns of use
Keeping bikes where they're needed is a never-ending task but science provides a helping hand, explains Mead. "The operations centre uses a system that schedules vans for trips based on how we anticipate a station will get full or empty. So when we get new data, we use it to update the algorithms that are used in scheduling. We still have people doing manual overrides every day, though, because it doesn't always work out exactly as you plan it."
The algorithms are attempts at solving an extremely complex mathematical problem. To get an idea of just how complex, take a look at Instances and formulations for the bike sharing rebalancing problem by the University of Modena's Mauro Dell'Amico. [Warning: you'll need a university degree in maths to understand it.] It's not even possible to come up with an exact solution to the rebalancing problem, although scientists like Dell'Amico are working on making the algorithms more efficient.
While data from journeys can help transport planners in the short-term, it has long-term implications when combined with details about the users themselves. In London, for example, a greater proportion of women make the less popular journeys – these are often routes associated with parks. So if you want to encourage more women to make the commuter runs, for example, it might take changes to road layouts on busy streets.
NYC citibikes
Insights gleaned from other schemes were compiled in January 2014 by UCL's Oliver O'Brien and colleagues in the Journal of Transport Geography. Some of the more interesting come from Lyon's Vélo'v, the granddaddy of high-tech cycling schemes. In Lyon, the average speed is higher before 9am, as commuters hurry into work. But speeds are also fastest on a Wednesday. Why? It could be because it's the most popular stay-at-home day for working mothers, so Wednesday leaves a greater proportion of men pedalling around Lyon.
The healthy option?
When journey data is combined with other statistics, the results can be even more illuminating. Recent research published in The BMJ into the health impact of the London cycling scheme found that the benefits of physical activity outweighed not only the risk of injury but also the exposure to the pollutant PM2.5, the biggest airborne threat to health. The scientists combined anonymised data on users with sets of health statistics and a pollution map of the capital.
The scientists went on to carry out a second analysis, using injury rates for London cyclists as a whole - not just cycle hire users. This time, they found much smaller benefits for women and young people aged 15-29 years old. The discrepancy is partly because cycle hire users are younger than the population, and it's older people who benefit most from exercise. It's partly due to fatal accidents involving female cyclists, who weren't on Boris bikes. In fact the study showed how safe the London scheme has been, according to one of its authors, Dr Anna Goodman. "Our findings suggest that cycle hire users are certainly not at higher risk than other cyclists."
In future, it's likely that even more insights will be gleaned by combining data from cycling schemes with other statistics and maps, and also from more precise information on exactly which streets the cyclists use. Barclays Cycle Hire has ruled out incorporating GPS chips on bikes, due to sensitivities over privacy. But it, along with other schemes, is planning a smartphone app for easy payment. Perhaps, in the future, civic-minded users might consent for their phones to be tracked. In doing so, the safest streets could be identified and the riskiest roads improved for the benefit of all cyclists.
image credits: Sarah-Rose, Pierre-Jean Durieu / Shutterstock.com, Metro Centric, Tom Eversly, Les Haines
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Are you fulfilling your potential? Or is it OK to be "Missing Out"?
The current February 25, 2013, issue of The New Yorker contains a review of UK psychoanalytic-writer Adam Phillips's latest book Missing Out: In Praise of the Unlived Life.
AMHF applauds the discovery of any thoughtful, mainstream writing (and reviewing) on psychoanalysis. Phillips, a facile writer, scholar, and speaker, is the author or editor of some twenty-five books.


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Q: Multiple OR statements with LINQ I'm trying to create a LINQ Statement for the following MYSQL Query:
SELECT * FROM Movies
WHERE
   movies.Actorid = 1
AND
(
   (Movies.Duration >= x1 AND Movies.Duration <= x2) OR
   (Movies.Duration >= y1 AND Movies.Duration <= y2) OR
   (Movies.Duration >= z1 AND Movies.Duration <= z2)
)

whereas the number of variables (x,y,z) is unknown. Actually they are stored in a Dictionary<int, int> and I'm now trying to create this kind of WHERE condition with a loop, but somehow I couldn't achieve it.
My code looks as follows:
//Initialize query
IQueryable<Movie> query = context.Movies;

//Add actor query
query = query.Where(x => x.Actorid = 1);

//Add duration queries
foreach(KeyValuePair<int, int> movieduration in moviedurations){
    query.Where(x => x.Duration >= movieduration.Key && x.Duration <= movieduration.Value);
}

//Execute query
List<Movie> result = query.ToList();

Those conditions are getting connected with a AND condition, but I need an OR condition. So I searched for another solution and found a solution with a custom predict function but somehow, I could't make it work. My try looks like the following:
//Initialize query
IQueryable<Movie> query = context.Movies;

//Add actor query
query = query.Where(x => x.Actorid = 1);

//Define variables
Func<Movie, bool> predicate = movie => false;

//Create predict
foreach(KeyValuePair<int, int> movieduration in moviedurations){
    var predicateCopy = predicate;
    predicate = x => predicateCopy(x) || (x.Duration >= movieduration.Key && x.Duration <= movieduration.Value);
 }

//Add predict to where query
query = query.Where(predicate);

//Execute query
List<Movie> result = query.ToList();

I get the error message:
The type "System.Collections.Generic.IEnumerable<Movie>" cannot be converted into "System.Linq.IQueryable<Movie>".

A: Thanks to @Panagiotis Kanavos comment I found a working solution.
I used the LinqKit's Predicate Builder and rewrote my query as follows:
//Initialize query
IQueryable<Movie> query = context.Movies;

//Add actor query
query = query.Where(x => x.Actorid = 1);

//Define variables
var predicate = PredicateBuilder.New<Movie>();

//Create predict
foreach(KeyValuePair<int, int> movieduration in moviedurations){
    int tempMinMovieduration = movieduration.Key;
    int tempMaxMovieduration = movieduration.Value;
    predicate = predicate.Or(p => p.Duration >= tempMinMovieduration && p.Duration <= tempMaxMovieduration );
}

//Add predict to where query
query = query.AsExpandable().Where(predicate);

//Execute query
List<Movie> result = query.ToList();


Himchan कहा not only him, but all the B.A.P members has a secret प्यार with someone.
When Zelo was in elementary, he wanted to become a सॉकर player.
B.A.P OPENS UP THEIR OFFICIAL 'V' PAGE PRIOR TO THEIR COMEBACK!


Today you have your annual physical at the doctor's office. You wake up and enjoy a hearty breakfast and then head out for your appointment. All looks well and you're sent for the typical tests that accompany your annual physical and then your appointment is done and you're off to work. One week later you get a call from your doctor's office asking you to come in to discuss your physical. You oblige and head in as instructed.
The receptionist calls you in and you sit down on the patient bed. The doctor walks in and closes the door. He flips through his notes, looks at you and slowly mutters the words "I'm afraid I have some bad news." Your heart skips a beat as you hear him mutter some words about results and re-focus long enough to hear the dreaded words "I'm afraid you only have one month to live".
Will You Be Happy or Sad Today? It's Up to You!
Perspective is a major factor in everyone's happiness. Two people can live the exact same scenario yet somehow they will almost always interpret them entirely differently. Let's take a look at a similar scenario described by two different people. Which perspective do you want to frame your mindset with?


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Q: How to convert this code from iOS swift to Android Kotlin I'm trying to convert this Swift code to Kotlin Android and having problems.
Swift code:

public let kCORNER_RADIUS_BUTTON: CGFloat = 4.0

I have converted the CGFloat java class that i found below
/**
 * CGFloat

 * @author [Harald Kuhr](mailto:harald.kuhr@gmail.com)
 * *
 * @author duncan
 */
class CGFloat : Number {

    private val value: Double

    constructor() {
        value = 0.0
    }

    constructor(d: Double) {
        value = d
    }

    override fun toByte(): Byte {
        return value.toByte()
    }

    override fun toChar(): Char {
        return value.toChar()
    }

    override fun toDouble(): Double {
        return value
    }

    override fun toFloat(): Float {
        return value.toFloat()
    }

    override fun toInt(): Int {
        return value.toInt()
    }

    override fun toLong(): Long {
        return value.toLong()
    }

    override fun toShort(): Short {
        return value.toShort()
    }

    override fun hashCode(): Int {
        // From Double.hashCode
        val bits = java.lang.Double.doubleToLongBits(value)
        return (bits xor bits.ushr(32)).toInt()
    }

    override fun equals(other: Any?): Boolean {
        // Modified Double.equals
        return other is CGFloat && java.lang.Double.doubleToLongBits(other.value) == java.lang.Double.doubleToLongBits(value)
    }

    override fun toString(): String {
        return value.toString()
    }

    companion object {
        // Inspired by JNA NativeLong and IntegerType
        val SIZE = Integer.MAX_VALUE
    }

}

In Kotlin code I do this
public val kCORNER_RADIUS_BUTTON: CGFloat = 4.0

but getting error message "the floating-point literal does not conform to the expected type CGFloat"

A: If you must use CGFloat as you have it written, you'll have to construct one directly. You can't just assign a primitive type to it, Kotlin has no facility to understand that.
 val kCORNER_RADIUS_BUTTON: CGFloat = CGFloat(4.0)

However, because your CGFloat class doesn't do anything that Double doesn't already does, I would recommend using that instead. It seems that you have requirements (that I would push back on) to port this exactly, ignoring the conventions of the language you are porting to. In that case, I would just typealias Double to CGFloat.
typelias CGFloat = Double

Then you can use it anywhere you want:
fun doSomething(foo: CGFloat): CGFloat { ... }


I wanted you to know Heather Schaefer did a fabulous job for me last Thursday and Friday when she went that extra mile (again) and scheduled two of my closings in Cherry Creek. She worked with the buyers agents and scheduled both closings and hosed one of my sellers at the DTC office. It is such a relieve to know that she and her team are on top of the details that can easily go overlooked and cause a snafu, one of my sellers was a POA and the other one was a mail out and both buyers wanted to close in Cherry Creek. Of course in the end all was prepared for Val, even the "Closed File Check Sheet" and presto the job was complete.
Thanks to all, it is reassuring to know they are all on my team!


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Westcliff secure promotion after big win in play-off final
Westcliff Rugby Club secure promotion after big win in play-off final
WESTCLIFF will play in National Two South for the first time ever next season after storming to a convincing victory in their promotion play-off.
Westcliff trounced Barnstaple 44-5 in front of a bumper crowd at the Gables on Saturday.
And their director of rugby Rick Compton was thrilled to see his players thrive under pressure.
"The lads played very well and their performance on the biggest stage was really pleasing," said Compton.
"It was mature and composed.
"We brought intensity and discipline that took the game beyond the visitors' grasp.
"There is no doubt that playing these games at home is a big advantage and Barnstaple had a long way to come.
"But it's no guarantee of success and we fully deserve both the result and the reward.
"It's been a long hard season.
"But at the end of it these lads have produced the club's biggest achievement and they should be both lauded and respected for it.
"Of course, we are also now faced with our biggest challenge and I don't think anyone is under any illusions about the size of that challenge.
"But it is one which we will embrace and tackle head on."
Westcliff, who finished second in the London & SE Premier Division, were on the front foot from the first whistle at the weekend.
And they opened the scoring after just 10 minutes with a try from Greg Bannister.
Moments later, Oliver Jones scored another try to extend Westcliff's lead but the hosts were then hit by a yellow card to Ewan Binneman.
During his 10 minute spell in the sin bin the visitors mounted some determined attacks.
But Barnstaple were unable to turn that pressure into points.
And, as the final minutes of the half ticked by, Westcliff flanker Alex Hatton scored two quick tries to put the home side 20-0 in front.
As well as a decent lead, Westcliff had the comfort of the wind at their back for the second half.
And they were quick to take advantage of the favourable conditions with a second try of the afternoon for Bannister after 45 minutes.
That felt like a crucial score, one which if it did not quite make the game safe, established a 25-point lead from which Barnstaple would be hard pushed to recover.
Ten minutes later Jack Jones added a penalty.
And, as the game entered the final quarter Bannister scored his third try to complete his hat-trick and Westcliff were totally in control at 37-0.
The visitors did cross for an unconverted try.
But fly-half Jack Jones rounded off the scoring with a try he also went on to convert.
The lead now was 44-5 and the remaining minutes of the game ebbed away, before the final whistle brought scenes of jubilation and celebration for the National Two South bound home side.
Westcliff: Bannister, O Jones, Reynolds, Smith, Merrick, J Jones, Spivey, Hopkins, Binneman, Scogings, Dartnell, Marsh, Hatton, Maloney Lane.
Replacements: Weston, S Brown, H Morrant


The Tanzania Chamber of Minerals and Energy (TCME) has noted the findings of the first Presidential Committee which investigated the mineral content and composition of copper concentrate in the containers sitting at the port of Dar es Salaam and the Mofed ICD Terminal. The findings were made public on 24th May, 2017 at the State House, Dar es Salaam. As the Chamber, we have a number of concerns on the findings presented by the Chairman of the Committee.
Bulyanhulu Gold Mine Limited, which operates the Bulyanhulu mine and Pangea Minerals Limited, which operates the Buzwagi mine are the only large scale mines in the country exporting metallic mineral concentrate. The two mines are members of TCME. Both mines are owned by Acacia Mining plc, which is listed on the London Stock Exchange and cross-listed on the Dar es Salaam Stock Exchange. The listings subject Acacia to extensive disclosure requirements and regulatory frameworks governing both markets. Their operations undergo annual operational and financial audits at the international and local level. Over the years that they have been operating in the country, none of their audit sampling and analysis undertaken by a range of international and local companies, have returned results in line with the findings of the Presidential Committee. This is a matter of serious concern to the TCME and the overall mining industry in Tanzania.
Whilst the TCME appreciates the efforts of H. E. President John Pombe Magufuli in ensuring that Tanzania gets its rightful share from its mineral resources, we believe that the scale of the discrepancy between the Committee findings and the results declared by our two members is so high such that it warrants an independent review by an internationally accredited laboratory, of the mineral content and composition in the concentrates. Results from the independent review will provide clarity and certainty that will clear the confusion that has so far engulfed the mining industry inside and outside the country.