While much of the uproar surrounding the 2017 Mining Charter has been focused on changes that increase compliance thresholds for ownership, management and control of the holders of mining and prospecting rights as well as the 'once empowered, always empowered' principle, attention should also be paid to the significant impact the charter will have on mining sector service providers.
This is according to Chimae Goncalves, director of Supply Chain Partner, who says: "Despite mining rights holders only reporting compliance of 63% with the procurement requirements under the 2010 Charter in 2016, the latest amendments under the 2017 Charter increase the procurement compliance target by 10% — from 70% to 80% — with mining companies obliged to increase their procurement from black-owned companies from the date that the 2017 Charter takes effect.
Mining rights holders must now ensure that at least 80% of their total spend on services is sourced from South African companies, of which a minimum of 65% of total spend must be sourced from black owned companies with a minimum of 50% + 1 vote being held by black persons, 10% from black owned companies with a minimum of 50% + 1 vote of its share capital being owned and controlled by black women, and 5% from black-owned companies with a minimum of 50% + 1 vote of its share capital being held by youth.
While measures and reporting pose a problem that can be solved with well-implemented technical solutions and focused supplier onboarding, Goncalves says there are other systemic problems which require strategic supplier development.
Goncalves says the 2017 Charter does contain transitional arrangements, which give mining companies three years to align procurement spend with requirements.
Beyond the push for compliance, Goncalves says value-generating procurement solutions are underrated among big businesses in the industry. "Procurement departments often lack resources, technology and leadership, yet they have to deliver such a vital function that is core to everything.
"When it comes to mining, getting ore out of the ground gets all the budget. Production is the focus. However, saving costs is also a key way to make money.
Supply Chain Partner focuses on introducing efficiency within the supply chain side of local companies, with special expertise in implementing the SAP Ariba Suite, including the strategy development, change management and supplier onboarding that goes with the adoption of a new tool.
"SAP Ariba is driving rapid innovations to simplify procurement, fulfilment, and financial supply chain management processes," says Goncalves.
According to Goncalves, giving buyers and suppliers cloud-based tools to manage everything from source to settlement — all in one place — makes a huge difference to the frequently manual processes and multiple excel sheets prevalent in procurement departments that make tracking, reporting and governance challenging.
For example, Contract Management provides one repository for the latest versions of contracts with electronic signatures. "It automates governance of the contract, ensuring the required sign-offs according to the required delegation of authority structure. Parties are also able to negotiate online, providing clear audit trail visibility.
Supplier onboarding, a service which Supply Chain Partner recently implemented at Impala Platinum, is critical, and mines often don't have the capacity to ramp up internal resources for this.
From a supplier's perspective, answering questions in different formats from multiple companies can be challenging. Goncalves would like to see profiles synced with other SAP Ariba companies across the industry, so that suppliers only fill in forms once and maintain accurate information.
"A number of companies in the sector have implemented SAP Ariba — including Impala Platinum, Goldfields, Sibanye Gold and Sasol. There is room to share costs in an effort to more easily move the sector to compliance.
"It takes a lot longer to transform procurement than just implementing a system. Having the right strategy, tools and resources beyond technical implementation is absolutely key from the start," Goncalves says.


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Doing Nothing Is the Best Part of Trover Saves the Universe
By Marshall Honorof 27 March 2019
Characters in Trover Saves the Universe will yammer ad-libbed lines back and forth indefinitely — and the dialogue is hilarious.
I've wanted to play Trover Saves the Universe ever since I first saw it back at E3 2018. But now, I've learned that not playing the game might be a better idea.
That's because when you leave the controller alone, characters in the game will yammer ad-libbed lines back and forth for basically as long as you care to listen — and the dialogue is hilarious.
(Image credit: Squanch Games)
I went hands-on with Trover Saves the Universe at GDC 2019 in San Francisco, and while I'd seen a lot of the content before, I got to hear a lot of it for the first time. That's because while the game will take somewhere between 10 and 15 hours to complete, there's almost twice that much recorded dialogue. If you're a fan of Rick and Morty, you won't be surprised to learn why.
Trover Saves the Universe is the first game from Rick and Morty co-creator Justin Roiland, and we've already discussed how he accidentally created a whole new game genre while trying to make a game that was playable in both VR and traditional setups. Unsurprisingly, the humor in Trover is quite similar to what you'd find in an episode of Rick and Morty: offhand dialogue, over-the-top gross-outs and a lot of profanity. In lesser hands, this kind of comedy would be grating; in Trover, though, it's endearing, thanks to a rapid-fire conversational tone. And if you like the dialogue, there's a lot of it.
I played through an early level of the game — one I'd played before, in a shorter demo, in fact — where I controlled both a chair-bound alien and the contentious, purple, lightsaber-wielding Trover. The game is an agreeable mix of platforming, light combat and exploration, where half of the challenge is finding a way to the next area, and the other half is navigating the obstacles on the way there.
During the half-hour or so I spent with the game, I fought off a bunch of ankle-biting baddies, solved a complicated switch puzzle (by eventually bashing my way through the door), and even made a few plot-altering decisions about how to acquire a doodad to advance the story. We've covered the gameplay before, and everything is still as we left it.
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But what I got to do this time was take some time and listen to the optional dialogue. In an early section, Trover (who sounds just like Morty) was talking with his superior officer (who sounds just like Rick) about why he didn't want to be paired up with me. All I had to do was press a button to set off for the next level, but I decided to sit right where I was for a few minutes. The dialogue simply continued, without repeating, with Trover complaining over and over that he didn't want to go, and his superior reminding him that he had no choice, with plenty of f-bombs thrown in for good measure.
(You can play a "censored" version of the game, which leaves most profanity intact, but bleeps out all instances of the f-word. This is arguably even funnier than hearing everything as-is.)
I talked to the game's developers, who explained that when Roiland gets on a roll, he simply ad-libs and records more and more and more dialogue. (This has apparently been a real challenge for Trover's localization teams, which have to find increasingly clever ways to translate the rambling, expletive-laden lines.) You don't have to sit and listen to most conversations for more than about a minute or so, but if you have some time on your hands, you can hear some surprisingly funny stuff, as the characters around you get more and more exasperated with your inaction.
My favorite encounter with Trover's seemingly endlessly supply of dialogue was when I was trying to solve a difficult switch puzzle. I had just received the ability to levitate my chair, which helped me see more of the map and keep a better eye on Trover himself. In order to open a locked door, I had to flip three sets of switches: one on the ground, one halfway up a tower and one on the top.
When I flipped the first switch, Trover commented that it was a switch puzzle, and that was cool. I popped up one level and found that I had to match a complex pattern of lights in order to flip the switch. Trover kept his cool, and seemed satisfied once I completed it.
It wasn't until I got to the final level, where I had to match multiple rows and columns of lights, where Trover started losing patience. As I tried repeatedly, and failed, to match the lights correctly, Trover started berating the game designers for programming the puzzle in the first place, and yelled at me to come down so he could just bash the door and be done with it. When I kept trying to solve the puzzle, he got more and more insistent, and more and more profane.
I thought Trover would eventually start repeating himself, but I kept at the puzzle for a good two minutes or so, and he continued to spout unique dialogue about why switch puzzles were a waste of time, and how we could just get on with the rest of the level if I let him bash the door, and how the brain-teaser was completely unfair to begin with. I imagine if I had stayed for a few more minutes, I would have heard all-new dialogue.
All of this "hidden" dialogue, over and apart from the main game, is one reason why I think Rick and Morty fans might really love Trover Saves the Universe. Roiland's weird, spontaneous comedy is one of the show's main draws, and there's plenty of it here. (I can't wait to see which deep-cut lines eventually become memes.)
The game will be available on PlayStation 4 on May 31 and PC on June 4, and will cost $30. You can play it with a traditional screen, an HTC Vive, an Oculus Rift or a PSVR, just in case you ever wanted to get up close and personal with a bunch of bizarre, swearing aliens.
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September DVD/Blu-Ray Release Highlights
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This September has some great DVD/Blu-Ray releases some of which are from the 2011 Summer Movie Season such as "X-Men: First Class", "Thor", and "Bridesmaids". Also the latest season of some TV shows make their way onto DVD/Blu-Ray such as "Chuck", "Grey's Anatomy", "Glee", and "Castle".
– Chuck: The Complete Fourth Season
– Everything Must Go
– Fringe: The Complete Third Season
– Hanna
– The Office: Season Seven
– X-Men: First Class
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We left the Westin Grand Hotel Excelsior at noon, and went downtown to catch the best light striking among the ancient ruins and the baroque buildings. A.C. and Angie enjoyed some creative portraits as well as some moments of romance. After the regular shooting, we had a break and some drinks together, and the atmosphere changed in such an interesting way, that I couldn't stop taking photos of them while we were heading back home. The photographic style of the second part reflects the "alcoholic lightness" we experienced in those sweet, fun moments. I hope you enjoy it!
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Planned Parenthood Center of Tucson, Inc., v. Marks (1972)
In the 1972 case Planned Parenthood Center of Tucson, Inc., v. Marks, the Arizona Court of Appeals required the Arizona Superior Court to rehear the case Planned Parenthood Association v. Nelson (1971) and issue a decision on the constitutionality of Arizona's abortion laws. In 1971, the Planned Parenthood Center of Tucson filed the case Planned Parenthood Association v. Nelson asking for the US District Court to rule on the constitutionality of the Arizona Revised Statutes 13-211, 13-212, and 13-213, which made it illegal for anyone to advertise, provide, or receive an abortion.
The Food and Drug Administration's Pregnancy and Lactation Labeling Rule (2014)
In 2014, the United States Food and Drug Administration published the Pregnancy and Lactation Labeling Rule to amend previous guidelines for the prescription of drugs for pregnant and lactating women. The 2014 Pregnancy and Lactation Labeling Rule was intended to increase the safety and efficacy of prescription drugs by making drug labels easier for physicians to understand and utilize.
Assisted Human Reproduction Act (2004)
The Assisted Human Reproduction Act (AHR Act) is a piece of federal legislation passed by the Parliament of Canada. The Act came into force on 29 March 2004. Many sections of the Act were struck down following a 2010 Supreme Court of Canada ruling on its constitutionality. The AHR Act sets a legislative and regulatory framework for the use of reproductive technologies such as in vitro fertilization and related services including surrogacy and gamete donation. The Act also regulates research in Canada involving in vitro embryos.
Subject: Legal, Reproduction, Ethics
Social Implications of Non-Invasive Blood Tests to Determine the Sex of Fetuses
By 2011, researchers in the US had established that non-invasive blood tests can accurately determine the gender of a human fetus as early as seven weeks after fertilization. Experts predicted that this ability may encourage the use of prenatal sex screening tests by women interested to know the gender of their fetuses. As more people begin to use non-invasive blood tests that accurately determine the sex of the fetus at 7 weeks, many ethical questions pertaining to regulation, the consequences of gender-imbalanced societies, and altered meanings of the parent-child relationship.
Subject: Reproduction, Ethics, Legal
Skinner v. Oklahoma (1942)
In 1942, the United States Supreme Court Case of Skinner v. Oklahoma ruled that states could not legally sterilize those inmates of prisons deemed habitual criminals. Skinner v. Oklahoma was about the case of Jack Skinner, an inmate of the Oklahoma State Penitentiary in McAlester, Oklahoma, who was subject to sterilization under the Oklahoma Habitual Criminal Sterilization Act of 1935. The case, decided on 1 June 1942, determined that state laws were unconstitutional if those laws enabled states to forcibly sterilize inmates deemed to be habitual criminals.
Subject: Ethics, Legal
President George W. Bush's Announcement on Stem Cells, 9 August 2001
On 9 August 2001, US President George W. Bush gave an eleven-minute speech from his ranch in Crawford, Texas, on the ethics and fate of federal funding for stem cell research. Bush also announced the creation of a special council to oversee stem cell research. In the speech President Bush acknowledged the importance of issues surrounding stem cell research to many Americans, presented different arguments in favor of and opposing embryonic stem cell research, and explained his decision to limit but not completely eliminate potential federal funding for embryonic stem cell (ESC) research.
Kass v. Kass (1998)
In Maureen Kass v. Steven Kass (1998), the Court of Appeals of New York in Albany, New York, ruled that the state should generally consider IVF consent forms signed by participants in an in vitro fertilization (IVF) program valid, binding, and enforceable in the event of a dispute. The court indicated that decisions regarding the handling of cryopreserved pre-zygotes, often called preembryos, contained within these consent forms should be upheld.
The Baby Doe Rules (1984)
The Baby Doe Rules represent the first attempt by the US government to directly intervene in treatment options for neonates born with congenital defects. The name of the rule comes from the controversial 1982 case of a Bloomington, Indiana infant Baby Doe, a name coined by the media. The Baby Doe Rules mandate that, as a requirement for federal funding, hospitals and physicians must provide maximal care to any impaired infant, unless select exceptions are met. If a physician or parent chooses to withhold full treatment when the exceptions are not met, they are liable for medical neglect.
The Report of the Committee of Inquiry into Human Fertilisation and Embryology (1984), by Mary Warnock and the Committee of Inquiry into Human Fertilisation and Embryology
The Report of the Committee of Inquiry
into Human Fertilisation and Embryology, commonly called the Warnock
Report after the chair of the committee Mary Warnock, is the 1984
publication of a UK governmental inquiry into the social impacts of
infertility treatment and embryological research. The birth of Louise
Brown in 1978 in Oldham, UK, sparked debate about reproductive and
embryological technologies. Brown was conceived through in vitro
fertilization (IVF), a process of fertilization that occurs outside of
Subject: Publications, Legal, Ethics
Roe v. Wade (1973)
In the 1973 case of Roe v. Wade, the US Supreme Court ruled that laws banning abortion violated the US Constitution. The Texas abortion laws, articles 1191–1194, and 1196 of the Texas penal code, made abortion illegal and criminalized those who performed or facilitated the procedure. Prior to Roe v. Wade, most states heavily regulated or banned abortions. The US Supreme Court decision in Roe v. Wade secured women's rights to terminate pregnancies for any reasons within the first trimester of pregnancy.
Litowitz v. Litowitz [Brief] (2002)
Pursuant to an express provision of the embryo disposition contract they both signed, a husband and wife had to petition the court for instructions because they could not reach an agreement about what to do with frozen embryos when they divorced. The trial court awarded the pre-embryos to the husband and the Court of Appeals affirmed this decision. However, the Washington Supreme Court ruled that the pre-embryos should be thawed out and allowed to expire because the dispute had not been resolved within a five year time frame prescribed by the Cryopreservation Agreement.
J.B. v. M.B. [Brief] (2001)
In a dispute over frozen embryos during a divorce case, the court decided the wife's fundamental right to not procreate mandated destruction of the pre-embryos in light of the husband's continuing ability to procreate with a different partner. The court also said embryo disposition agreements used by in vitro fertilization clinics were generally enforceable subject to either spouse's right to change his or her mind prior to use of the pre-embryos.
Litowitz v. Litowitz (2002)
In a dispute over the allocation of cryopreserved preembryos, the Supreme Court of Washington resolved the case of David J. Litowitz v. Becky M. Litowitz (2002) by reaching a decision that neither party wanted. David Litowitz sought to find adoptive parents for two cryopreserved preembryos created during his marriage to Becky Litowitz when the couple was attempting to have children using in vitro fertilization (IVF). Becky sought to implant the preembryos in a surrogate in an effort to parent a child.
J. B. v. M. B. (2001)
In 2001, the Supreme Court of New Jersey decided a dispute between a divorced couple over cryopreserved preembryos created through in vitro fertilization (IVF) during the coupleÕs marriage. The former wife (J.B.) wanted the preembryos destroyed, while her former husband (M.B.) wanted them to be used for future implantation attempts, such as by an infertile couple. In J.B. v. M.B. (2001), the court declined to force J.B. to become a parent against her will, concluding that doing so would violate state public policy.
South Korea's Bioethics and Biosafety Act (2005)
The South Korean government passed the Bioethics and Biosafety Act, known henceforth as the Bioethics Act, in 2003 and it took effect in 2005. South Korea's Ministry of Health and Welfare proposed the law to the South Korean National Assembly to allow the progress of biotechnology and life sciences research in South Korea while protecting human research subjects with practices such as informed consent. The Bioethics Act establishes a National Bioethics Committee in Seoul, South Korea.
Subject: Legal, Ethics
Tucson Woman's Clinic v. Eden (2004)
The case Tucson Woman's Clinic v. Eden (2004) established that some of Arizona's abortion clinic laws violated physicians' and patients' rights to privacy, and it required those laws to be rewritten. The laws required most abortion providers to be licensed with the Arizona Department of Health Services and to submit to all the regulations the Department established for abortion clinics. The regulations allowed the state to search abortion clinics without warrants and to access patient records and ultrasound prints, among other provisions.
Isaacson v. Horne (2013)
In the 2013 case Isaacson v. Horne, the US Court of Appeals in the Ninth Circuit ruled that Arizona House Bill (HB) 2036, which prohibited abortions after twenty weeks of gestation, was unconstitutional. The Arizona State Legislature passed the law in 2012, which was then challenged by three physicians who filed a lawsuit against the state, arguing that the law violated women's constitutionally protected rights to abortions, rights that may only be infringed once fetuses are viable outside of the womb.
Simat Corp v. Arizona Health Care Cost Containment System (2002)
In the 2002 case Simat Corp v. Arizona Health Care Containment System, the Arizona Supreme Court ruled that the Arizona Health Care Containment System must pay for abortions when they are necessary to preserve the health of pregnant women in the system. In the case, the Court ruled that the Arizona Revised Statutes 35-196.02 and the Arizona Health Care Containment System (AHCCCS) policies, which banned public funds from being used for abortions, were unconstitutional. AHCCCS is Arizona's Medicaid insurance system, which enables low-income residents to receive medical care.
Title X Family Planning Program (1970–1977)
The Family Planning Services and Public Research Act of 1970, often called Title X Family Planning Program, is a US federal law that provides federal funding for family planning services to low income or uninsured families. The US federal government passed the law, Public Law 91-572, in 1970 as an amendment to the Public Health Services Act of 1944. The Act created the Office of Population Affairs (OPA) under the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare (here called the Secretary).
Subject: Reproduction, Legal
Sindell v. Abbott Laboratories (1980)
Sindell v. Abbott Laboratories was a 1980 California case that established the doctrine of market share liability for personal injury cases. For such liability, when a drug causes personal injury and the manufacturer of the drug cannot be identified, each producer is responsible for paying the settlement in proportion to the percentage of the market they supplied. Judith Sindell and Maureen Rogers brought the case against the producers of diethylstilbestrol (DES), which their mothers had taken during pregnancy to prevent miscarriage and other complications.
Forbes v. Napolitano (2000)
Forbes v. Napolitano (2000) was a US court case that established that Arizona researchers could use fetal tissues from induced abortions for basic scientific research, for instance, as a source of stem cells. The case challenged the constitutionality of the Arizona Revised Statute (ARS) 36-2303 in the Ninth Circuit US Court of Appeals, a law that banned researchers from using fetal tissues from abortions for any type of medical experimentation or investigation. The Ninth Circuit US Court of Appeals decision in Forbes v.


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Italy says 10 migrants die, 4,800 rescued in ongoing mission
Migrants disembark May 3 in the port of Crotone, southern Italy, from the French military ship Commandant Birot, which rescued 219 migrants as part of a joint rescue operation. (Alfonso Di Vincenzo/AFP/Getty Images)
By Steve Scherer | Reuters
ROME — About 4,800 migrants were plucked from boats off the coast of Libya over the weekend and 10 bodies were recovered, Italy's coast guard and navy said, in what looked to be the biggest rescue operation of its kind this year.
Two weeks after nearly 900 boat people drowned in the worst Mediterranean shipwreck in living memory, the flow of those desperate to reach European shores in search of a better life has accelerated as people smugglers take advantage of calmer seas.
Seven bodies were found on two large rubber boats packed with migrants, the Italian coast guard said, and rescuers plucked from the sea the corpses of three others who had jumped into the water when they saw a merchant ship approaching.
Authorities in Egypt said three people died when a migrant boat attempting to reach Greece sank off its coast. Thirty-one people were rescued.
About 10 Italian vessels, four private boats and a French ship acting on behalf of the European border control agency took part in the rescue off Libya, coordinated by Italy, the country that receives the largest number of Mediterranean migrants.
A handout photo taken from an Italian Coast Guard video shows migrants on a boat during rescue operations in the Mediterranean Sea on May 2. (Italian Coast Guard/European Pressphoto Agency)
The private Migrant Offshore Aid Station, which runs one rescue ship in partnership with the humanitarian organization Doctors Without Borders, said on Twitter that it had saved 369 migrants, mainly from Eritrea, from a single overcrowded wooden boat.
Growing lawlessness and anarchy in Libya — the last point on one of the main transit routes to Europe — is giving free hand to human smugglers, who make the equivalent of $90,000 on average from each boatload of migrants, according to an ongoing investigation by an Italian court.
The official Libyan News Agency said Sunday that authorities in Libya detained 500 migrants in five boats off Tripoli and that 480 migrants — from Sudan, Somalia, Eritrea and Ethiopia — were caught on a farm near the central town of Jufra and 170 more were detained nearby.
Those rescued in the Italian operation were being brought to Italian shores, some already arriving at Lampedusa, Italy's southernmost island, and others at Trapani, Sicily. More were to be brought ashore overnight and Monday.
Shocked by last month's record disaster, leaders of the European Union agreed to triple funding for the E.U. sea patrol mission dubbed Triton, but there is still disagreement on what to do with the people fleeing conflict and poverty in various parts of Africa and the Middle East.
Austrian Chancellor Werner Faymann said in a newspaper interview Sunday that the E.U. should set up a quota system whereby member countries agree to take in more refugees to relieve some of the pressure on Italy, Greece and Malta — the front-line nations in the migrant crisis.
But Austria's proposal is likely to face tough opposition from some member states, including Britain and Hungary.
Rescued migrants sit on a bus after disembarking from an Italian Coast Guard ship in the harbor of Lampedusa, Italy, on May 2. (Mauro Buccarello/Ap )
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban said Friday that E.U. states should be allowed to set their own rules on migrants and that Hungary did not want any of them.
Mild spring weather and calm summer seas are expected to push total arrivals in Italy for 2015 to 200,000, an increase of 30,000 from last year, according to an Interior Ministry projection. Almost 2,000 migrants are estimated to have perished during the crossing so far this year.


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The Education of an Archbishop, by Paul Wilkes, in The New Yorker
Published in two parts, July 15, 1991
ABSTRACT: PROFILE of Rembert George Weakland, 64, Archbishop of Milwaukee. Writer spoke with him last Sept. just after he came back from a monthlong vacation. He visited Siberia, Poland & the Ukraine where he saw a Catholic Church emerging from the oppression of the recently defunct Dommunist regimes. He was eager to resume work in his own archdiocese, where he is the spiritual leader of more than 600,000 Catholics. He is one of a decreasing number of prelates appointed before 1978 when the current Pope, John Paul II, was elected. The newer members of the hierarchy are more comfortable with the doctrinal orthodoxy that John Paul II espouses than with the more open & pastoral spirit of his recent predecessors, one of whom, Pope Paul VI, appointed Weakland archbishop in 1977. He never served as a parish priest. He is a Benedictine monk. Weakland enjoys what he does and has avoided being typecast either as an extreme liberal or conservative. If he is not the most vocal or widely recognized bishop in America he is probably one of the most effective. He was the principal architect of a letter commissioned by the National Conference of Catholic Bishops which called for govt. intervention to reduce economic disparities in the U.S. The letter was approved at the 1986 NCCB. Tells about his early life in Pennsylvania & his career. He found his early days in Milwaukee difficult & confining. After a year in office he signalled that his romance with the new Pope was over. Tells about the good things he did & the enemies he made on the New Right. He thought the role of women should be enlarged but the Vatican disagreed. Tells how he disagrees with the ugly tactics of the pro-life movement, which has been misinterpreted."
and July 22, 1991
ABSTRACT: PROFILE of Rembert George Weakland, Archbishop of Milwaukee. Writer went with him last Nov. to the National Conference of Catholic Bishops which holds it annual meeting every Nov. in Washington. The organization arose from the Second Vatican Council-1962-1965, These conference were to be the means of carrying out Vatican II reforms & were also meant to provide a forum for bishops to present what people in the pews were saying about current Church practice. Many prelates, Weakland among them, consider the conferences an authentic teaching voice. Cardinal Ratzinger, whose view is shared by the Pope thinks the role of the conferences is simply to fine-tune & promulgate policy, not make it. Tells what went on at the 1990 meeting. After it was over Weakland visited El Salvador. He was the senior prelate heading up a 10-person delegation. This is a crucial time in the 10-year-old war between the Salvadoran gov & the F.M.L.N. Negotations between them stalled & both sides resorted to their old violent tactics. Weakland & his delegation hoped to impart to each side the urgent need to resume peace negotiations. Tells about meeting with dignitaries in the capital city of San Salvador and then their trip north to Chalatenango province to see Father Jon de Cortina. Weakland had a meeting in an unnamed village with and F.M.L.N. commandante. It was later learned that 4 hours after they left Chalate the barracks was attacked by F.M.L.N. mortar fire. The attack was followed by a pitched street battle in which 11 civilians were reported killed.


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NEWCASTLE Herald journalist Joanne McCarthy was named the 2013 P&O Cruises Journalist of the Year at the second annual Kennedy Awards for Excellence in NSW Journalism.
McCarthy edged-out Fairfax stable mate Kate McClymont, of the Sydney Morning Herald and the Seven Network's talented Tim Noonan to claim the Gold Spirax trophy.
During a glittering gala to christen the brand new ballroom of the Australian Turf Club's $250 million Royal Randwick grandstand more than 500 high-prolife media identities joined NSW Premier Barry O'Farrell and Les Kennedy's mother Merle, making the trip from Darwin for the first time.
Other special guests included Marcus and Charlie Kennedy, entertainer Steve Clisby, Deputy Premier Andrew Stoner, Racing, Major Events and Hospitality Minister George Souris, Treasurer Mike Baird, Police Minister Michael Gallacher and Health Minister Jillian Skinner.
Police Commissioner Andrew Scipione and Rugby League legend Steve Mortimer OAM also presented major awards, along with Network TEN's Sandra Sully, Channel Seven's Ann Sanders and Nine's Tracy Grimshaw.
Among many highlights of the night, veteran newspaper and television journalist Harry Potter became the first recipient of the Kennedy Life Time Achievement Award, presented by fellow veteran crime reporter Norm Lipson.
The Police Commissioner Andrew Scipione introduced Police Dog Kennedy, named after Les Kennedy, who died in August 2010 after a short battle with cancer.
History -the Sydney Morning Herald's Kate McClymont collects her Kennedy Gold Spirax as the P&O Cruises NSW Journalist of the Year.
Kate McClymont – The Sydney Morning Herald.


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Q: EXC_BAD_ACCESS when synthesizing a 'global' object this is a follow-up question to my last one here: iOS: Initialise object at start of application for all controllers to use .
I have set my application up as follows (ignore the DB Prefix):
DBFactoryClass     // Built a DataManaging Object for later use in the app
DBDataModel        // Is created by the factory, holds all data & access methods
DBViewControllerA  // Will show some of the data that DBDataModel holds
moreViewControllers that will need access to the same DBDataModel Object

i will go step by step through the application, and will then in the end post the error message i get when building.
AppDelegate.h
#import "DBFactoryClass.h"

AppDelegate.m
- (BOOL)...didFinishLaunching...
{
    DBFactoryClass *FACTORY = [[DBFactoryClass alloc ]init ];
    return YES;
}

DBFactoryClass.h
#import <Foundation/Foundation.h>
#import "DBDataModel.h"

@interface DBFactoryClass : NSObject
@property (strong) DBDataModel *DATAMODEL;
@end

DBFactoryClass.m
#import "DBFactoryClass.h"

@implementation DBFactoryClass
@synthesize DATAMODEL;

-(id)init{
    self = [super init];
    [self setDATAMODEL:[[DBDataModel alloc]init ]];
    return self;
}

@end

ViewControllerA.h
#import <UIKit/UIKit.h>
#import "DBDataModel.h"

@class DBDataModel;
@interface todayViewController : UIViewController
@property (strong)DBDataModel *DATAMODEL;
@property (weak, nonatomic) IBOutlet UILabel *testLabel;
@end

ViewControllerA.m
#import "todayViewController.h"

@implementation todayViewController
@synthesize testLabel;
@synthesize DATAMODEL;

- (void)viewDidLoad
{
    todaySpentLabel.text = [[DATAMODEL test]stringValue];
}
@end

DBDataModel.h
#import <Foundation/Foundation.h>

@interface DBDataModel : NSObject
@property (nonatomic, retain) NSNumber* test;
@end

DBDataModel.m
#import "DBDataModel.h"

@implementation DBDataModel
@synthesize test;
-(id)init{
    test = [[NSNumber alloc]initWithInt:4];
    return self;
}
@end

when i build it, i get the following error: EXC_BAD_ACCESS in this line:
@synthesize DATAMODEL;

of DBFactoryClass.m

A: What @synthesize does is to automatically generate implementations of the accessors for a property. EXC_BAD_ACCESS there means that you're accessing garbage when one of the accessors is executed.
That's probably happening here:
[self setDATAMODEL:[[DBDataModel alloc]init ]];

Make sure that DBDataModel's implementation of init actually returns a legitimate object.

A: As far as I can tell, your DBFactoryClass class is never stored anywhere, and therefore released right after the allocation if you use ARC (Since you use the strong keyword I assumed you do).
- (BOOL)...didFinishLaunching... {
  DBFactoryClass *FACTORY = [[DBFactoryClass alloc ]init ];
  // If you use ARC this might be released right afterwards
  return YES;
}

If you want the factory to be a singleton, use something like this
+ (id)sharedInstance {
  static dispatch_once_t once;
  static MyFoo *instance;
  dispatch_once(&once, ^{
    instance = [[self alloc] init];
  });
  return instance;
}

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Goner Message Board / Goner Records / BIG GONER NEWS UPCOMING!
and if you're awaiting news of an order, hold on.
what the..? i dont know a damn thing..? but i hope its a good thing.?
Yeah, I been trying to order too, with no luck--can you not do it with a hotmail address anymore?
Is the BIG NEWS having something to do with that?
Eric - all the best with the store. Retail continues to jump to virtual world and you open a store. So wrong, it must be right!
Seems the cat is out of the bag. Good luck with the store! Are you getting any of the new SSLD singles?
Congrats Eric. Next time I'm in the mid-south I'll be sure to check it out.
Hey whens the grand opening???
hey eric, congrats... man i'm at do.. so if you want to trade records for sushi, holla!
Yea, now you can scratch off your scratchcards while you walk to the Goner Store.
Legba and Goner Store have same address!? what did i miss?
Greg move away. Legba close down. Goner rulz!


It's been since 6 months since I last posted an update, and boy there have been some interesting developments!
I'm participating in Google Summer of Code this year too. I'll be leading the development of PDE X which will form the basis of the next major Processing release. Before starting GSoC, I worked on PDE X during March-April under the Processing Foundation Fellowship. I shall share the details of my GSoC project in a separate post.
A whooping 11 GSoC projects were selected this year under the Processing Foundation. So we can expect some really amazing results by the end of the summer. The Processing team had a big Hangouts meeting in June, where a lot of GSoC goals and tasks were discussed. It was awesome to interact with fellow team members from around the globe!
P.S: I recently wrote a Quora answer on "How to build a good profile for graduate studies.." which you may consider checking out.


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Woolpert New Architectural Design Leader
Woolpert has hired Managing Principal Darryl Henderson to guide the firm's local buildings practice in Virginia, while focusing on architecture and engineering pursuits in targeted regions across the country. An award-winning designer and established leader in the architecture and planning industry, Henderson's project experience extends across higher education, commercial, governmental, hospitality, athletic, and residential design and management.
Henderson is based in Virginia Beach, Va., where Waller, Todd & Sadler Architects was founded in 1956. Woolpert acquired the architecture firm in 2019 due to its excellent reputation for quality design, leadership and customer service. Henderson said this merger was part of the natural evolution of both firms.
"Waller, Todd & Sadler has had a long and illustrious history in Hampton Roads and the surrounding communities," Henderson said. "Their work has positively influenced our communities and has enhanced the built environment with projects that celebrate how people live, work, educate, pray and play. Woolpert's acquisition brought immense bench strength, as well as broader resources and services to help the unified firm extend that influence in Virginia and across the country."
Henderson said his role at Woolpert will be to communicate the firm's values, strengths and capabilities, reinforce its commitment to the Hampton Roads community, and connect Woolpert with opportunities to support local and national clients through the firm's full-service architecture, engineering and geospatial (AEG) design services. He said educating clients about who Woolpert is and sharing how its innovative and integrated services benefit communities are the keys to successful growth.
"Every project is a local project. It's not just about what you do, it's how you do it. It's about the community, and it's about values," Henderson said. "The key to the work we do is trust, both internally and externally. My first responsibility is to share our values, represent those values and deliver on what we promise. Our mission is to do great work with great people for wonderful clients. That can't be a statement on the wall—we have to live it. I don't see that as a challenge, I see that as a responsibility and an opportunity for success. I see that as my job."
Woolpert Buildings Sector Leader Suzette Stoler said Henderson will initially focus on augmenting Woolpert's integrated design presence throughout Virginia and the mid-Atlantic, while supporting national connectivity and collaboration. She said she admires Henderson's motivational leadership, industry experience and positive outlook.
"Darryl is a very solution-oriented person who believes in the goodness of people and the opportunity we each have to grow and improve," Stoler said. "Darryl wants to elevate Woolpert's staff to ensure they achieve the greatest success for themselves and for our clients. He will be successful if we are successful, and that mentality will help us all win. We are thrilled to have Darryl join our firm."
About Woolpert
Woolpert is the premier architecture, engineering, geospatial (AEG) and strategic consulting firm, with a vision to become one of the best companies in the world. We innovate within and across markets to effectively serve public, private and government clients worldwide. Woolpert is an ENR Top 150 Global Design Firm, recently earned its sixth-straight Great Place to Work certification and actively nurtures a culture of growth, inclusion, diversity and respect. Founded in 1911 in Dayton, Ohio, Woolpert has been America's fastest-growing AEG firm since 2015. The firm has more than 1,600 employees and 60 offices on four continents. For more, visit woolpert.com.


Why are the soldiers of allah seeking 'asylum' in Christian Serbia?
Thanks to the NATO bombing of Serbia, instigated by the  Klintoons and executed with Euro-dhimmi complicity,  there are now 3 Islamic narco-jihad statelets  in the middle of EUrabia: Bosnia, Herzegovina and greater Albania. Even Kosovo, part of the Christian heartland of the Serbs, is to be handed over to the soldiers of allah.
Undeterred, the Koranimals seek asylum in Serbia.
Citizens of Banja Koviljaca, a small town 173km west of Belgrade at the border with Bosnia and Herzegovina, held a protest last week demanding asylum seekers leave their town.
The protests started after the authorities suspected that Abdulrashid D, a 25-year-old Afghan man, together with four compatriots raped a tourist from the UK.
What have we done to deserve them? Who inflicted this on us?
Plea … Refugee mother Fartun Adan Abidi with Nimo and Liban. Mrs Abidi, 45, has nine children to organise each morning across four schools and childcare, and is also primary carer for her 85-year-old husband.
Most of the large crowd were furious they had not been consulted about the detention centre.
The best one-liner I have come across in a long time: "The land belongs to those who can defend it"- prick up your ears, Australia!
The land belongs to those who can defend it. Unless Europe grows a pair and implements measures discouraging illegals from entering and severely punishing those who did so, it will cease to exist as Europe.
Cagliari, 11 Oct. (AKI) – The airport in the Sardinian capital, Cagliari, was closed on Monday after illegal immigrants held in a nearby detention centre staged a revolt. They seized control of the centre and dozens managed to escape onto the airport runway.
It would be a good idea to deport the moronic judges and law makers who have allowed this farce to carry on. Starting with Cherie Blair. Once great Britain has totally lost the plot.
One foreign criminal is escaping deportation nearly every day by using human rights laws, shocking figures reveal.
UK Border Agency statistics showed 350 offenders, including a double murderer, were allowed to stay in the UK last year on human rights grounds instead of being sent home. In many cases, dangerous offenders were granted the right to stay despite the courts accepting that they pose a risk to the public.
In his book Son of Hamas, Mosab Hassan Yousef says, "I am the son of a people who have been enslaved by corrupt systems for many centuries" (p. 248). One of those corrupt systems, in his view, is the Israeli government: "I was a prisoner of the Israelis when my eyes were opened to the fact that the Palestinian people were as oppressed by their own leaders as they were by Israel….Delivered from the oppression of Europe, Israel became the oppressor" (pp. 249-250).
Israel is the oppressor of the Palestinians? It sounds as if Mosab Hassan Yousef hasn't modified his old Hamas views all that much — for if the Palestinians would cut out the jihad against Israel, they would immediately find that Israeli "oppression" would end. But he doesn't seem to take that into account.
EMET has just received word directly from Mosab that the Government has officially dismissed its deportation case against Mosab Hassan Yousef at a federal detention center in San Diego.
Yousef says he will be killed if he is deported from the United States to the West Bank. The oldest son of one of Hamas' founders, he was an Israeli spy for a decade, and he abandoned Islam for Christianity, further marking him a traitor.
Mosab has told us that it was thanks to the efforts of EMET that the government decided to dismiss its case and grant him political asylum.
EMET is enormously grateful to all those who played a part in standing with Mosab during this time, and helping the Department of Homeland Security come to understand what a grave error deporting Mosab would have been.
A special thank you is due to Rep. Doug Lamborn (R-CO), who authored a letter to DHS secretary Janet Napolitano, co-sponsored with 21 other Representatives. We wish to thank each and every representative who added their names to this call for sanity and to do right by a man who has stood up to terrorism and hatred, at a great personal cost.
Thanks also to former Ambassador R. James Woolsey, who also wrote a letter on Mosab's behalf, and to all those who called, wrote, or emailed their congressional representatives and the White House on behalf of seeing justice done.
Prime Minister Kevin Rudd said Australia was dealing with global ''push factors'' when it came to asylum-seekers.
AUSTRALIA'S "lenient" asylum policy, easy access to citizenship and generous welfare benefits are the main pull factors attracting Sri Lankan asylum-seekers, says the head of Colombo's anti-human-trafficking operation.
VICTORIAN students are being directed to pro-asylum seeker websites and encouraged to create political campaigns in a new multicultural agenda for state schools.
Teaching little activists/Read it all…..
The 17th asylum seeker boat to arrive in Australian waters this year has been intercepted near Christmas Island off the coast of north-west Australia… Fifty-seven people are on board the boat.
What's the definition of "intercepted"? Surely it means something different to "greeted"?
ROCK'N'ROLL bad boy Gary Angry Anderson believes life experience has taught him "Aussies use their fists" when they fight and that "weapons were introduced by other cultures".
It was touted as a victory over the modern slave trade, a raid vital to restoring order to a lawless camp where people-smuggling gangs exploited human misery.
But days after the destruction of the "Jungle" — the makeshift collection of hovels behind the beach that were home to hundreds of migrants seeking to cross the Channel — the claims of British and French ministers to have smashed the criminal networks are proving hollow.
Not a single trafficker was among the 141 adults and 135 children arrested as the camp was evacuated on Tuesday.
By the end of the week, the gangs had resumed their business of making money out of the Afghans, Iraqis, Iranians, Eritreans and other nationalities desperate to reach Britain.
INDONESIAN authorities are bracing for a huge influx of boat people, anticipating as many as 10,000 asylum-seekers are waiting in Malaysia to transit through the archipelago and on to Australia.
This estimate was backed by a Malaysian group that deals with unauthorised immigrants. An Australian Government source warned of the potential for a similar influx to the thousands who began arriving in Australia from the late 1990s.
It is the 16th boat to arrive in Australian waters this year — during which 867 people have been intercepted by border protection. Arrivals this year are up from the 161 asylum seekers who came by boat last year, but well down on the 5516 people who arrived in 2001.
(N)ew figures reveal the cost of processing the latest influx of boatpeople is about $38,000 an asylum seeker.
An Afghan asylum seeker in Glasgow who fought against Nato-led forces in his homeland has lost his appeal against deportation from the UK.
Dawalat Khan Nasir, 34, was a former commander with the banned Islamist group Herzb-e-Islami Gulbuddin (Hig).
He entered the UK illegally in 2006 and claimed asylum on the grounds he was at risk of persecution in Afghanistan.
Judges at the Court of Session said his past meant he could not be shielded by human rights legislation.
The court heard that Nasir took part in attacks against the Nato-led mission in Afghanistan.