Please welcome Rachel from You've Got This! She's sharing a free printable skip counting math game inspired by her children's love of tide pools!
If you are in my house for more than 30 minutes, you are going to hear something like….
My boys are huge Wild Kratts fans. This week a show came on that they hadn't seen before. Their excitement was high as the Kratt brothers became different animals trying to survive the harsh intertidal zone.
When it was over my boys immediately became hermit crabs, sea stars, and even clung to a pillow as a barnacle. When we hit the library, I was surprised, though I shouldn't have been, to see ocean books filling up our cart.
If my kiddos are interested in sea animals, well then let's run with it and learn some other things in the process.
My oldest, a six year old, has mastered skip counting, and is beginning to understand the relationship of skip counting and multiplication. My middle child, a four year old, has been working on learning to skip count as we sing and dance with a few of our favorite You Tube videos each morning.
I don't want what they have learned to slip away during the summer, so, with their new found excitement over ocean and tide pool animals, I created a game that would combine the two.
This game is quite simple to make and requires very little prep.
1. Print out the game board, fish cards, and nets here.
2. Cut out the nets and fish cards.
3. Grab a die and game markers (use pennies or other small toy), and you are set.
The goal of this math game is for players to collect as many fish as possible while practicing skip counting as they play!
At the end of the game, the player with the most fish wins!
Me: Is four a multiple of two or three?
N: When I count by twos I say four. I don't say four when I count by threes.
Me: How many cards do you need?
Me: Why? Can you tell me with an equation?
My conversation with my four-year old sounded a little different.
Me: Ok C, you get to pick up six fish. Let's count by two and see if we can get to six by counting by twos.
We counted by twos and his eyes lit up when we reached six. I then instructed him to pick up the cards with two fish and count by two every time he picked up a card. He did it and correctly had three cards in his hand.
We made our way around the board and I eased up on the conversation as they began to get more comfortable figuring out what they needed. When both boys reached the end, another opportunity presented itself for learning.
The boys laid out their cards, with the two-fish cards in one row and the three-fish cards in the other. N made an equation to figure out how many fish he had, and for C we once again used skip counting to figure out how many fish he had.
We added up the two totals and then did a quick comparison. N was thrilled to see he had the most, and was therefore the winner. C might have been a little sad, but no worries as he won the next game.
When all is said and done, I'm all for some sea star power if we get to learn multiples in the process!
Want to continue learning about sea creatures. Check out this free BUMP game we also used while they are fascinated with the ocean.
I'm Rachel. A wife, mama of four little ones from ages 2 – 6, former public school teacher turned into a homeschool mom, and blogger at You've Got This. I love blogging about the math I'm doing with my kiddos, and also what I used to do with my 4th and 5th graders. Though I mainly blog about math you can find some phonics and STEM projects there too.


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With Solange Season upon us after the singer's recently announced takeover of Black Planet, fans have more to anticipate after new visuals were dropped. Solange Knowles has an upcoming music project and a teaser clip gives us a bit of insight into what's to come.
With a loving shoutout to fellow Texas stoner Devin The Dude, the teaser clip features a number of fierce Black women looking glorious and regal, while jumping around to home videos of Solange turning up with her girls.
We're not completely sure what's coming, but there's speculation that there could be an all-video album like her sister Beyonce and the Lemonade project. One can hope, right?
Check out the very dope trailer below.


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A Poisonous Affair: America, Iraq, and the Gassing of Halabja
By Joost R. Hiltermann
Cambridge University Press, 2007, 346 pp.
Reviewed by L. Carl Brown
Here is a model of investigative reporting. Hiltermann has tracked down seemingly every available source, weighed conflicting accounts in the record, and provided a dispassionate accounting. His conclusions are that during the Iran-Iraq War, which lasted from 1980 to 1988, Iraq used chemical weapons early and often, whereas Iran essentially did not, if only because it lacked the capacity to do so effectively. Iraq's use of chemical weapons reached a horrible crescendo in early 1988, a few months before the end of the war, with the notorious Anfal campaign against its own Kurdish citizens in and around the town of Halabja, which resulted in the slaughter of likely well over 100,000 people. During these war years, the United States, intent on making sure that Iran did not prevail, moved toward ever more active support of Iraq and refrained from any meaningful condemnation of the Iraqi use of chemical weapons. Hiltermann concludes that the fallout of these developments has been an enhanced readiness among states to stock and prepare to use weapons of mass destruction, an Iran set on never again being without such weapons, and a determination by the Kurds to never again be subject to rule from Baghdad.
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I was looking up the Masi Girl Talk spiel to share with my mom, instead I noticed that there was a recommended video that stood out way more then Mrs. Masi- Chris Krueger, yeah sounds like the son of Freddie Krueger (but he's not). I am sure he got that a lot growing up. Whatever, that's not the point. Honestly it was that video that really inspired this post.
The 70 day challenge works perfectly for me especially right now because in 70 days is the perfect amount of time to do this. Having just turned 29, I feel like my 20's were spent getting out of shape and fat. A healthy, athletic, lean and strong body along with a plan for eating and living, I mean the overall revamp doesn't get better than that!
I spent the past year loosing 30 pounds by just changing my diet. But the thing is, six years spent working full time, stressed and totally not concerned about what I ate or when I ate, I had gotten classified as clinically obese. I am 5ft. 8in.'s and on January 1, 2010 I weighed 198.2 lbs. My doctor had basically told me that I went from being on the "verge" of obesity to classification as "obese" given my age and my body type, along with the genetic make up of my family. My family has a history of high cholesterol, diabetes, heart problems, kidney failures and all the other weight related problems. I am prone to that lifestyle and worse I had created a lifestyle for myself that accelerated my health problems. Something had to change, so I changed my diet, which was the first step toward a healthier lifestyle. Now its time to get to my ideal weight- 157 lbs and a body fat index of 12%. That is what this 70 day challenge is all about.
Moving forward here is just an outline of the parameters I am working in.
Physical activity for at least 1 hour each day- we are not designed to be drones that sit for 24 hours 7 days a week and do minimum amount of labor such as take out the trash or walk to the car and walk around with a shopping cart at the grocery store. Everyday you have to do something physical that is sweat inducing (drenching your shirt with sweat), that is physically challenging and that allows you to put yourself into a zone whether its endurance or strength or agility or speed, whatever.
Tomorrow will be day one, look forward to checking in, and you all can hold me accountable!
Also, on the social media front check me out on twitter at SOCALMOSLEM and if you are on the new hype Klout as well as Pinterest (affadavit).
I just stumbled onto your website and dude, wow. I just want to encourage you. Our details are almost identical. I had maintained a pretty healthily weight in my twenties, but at the end of '09 I got married and started a new business. And packed on 30lbs. I hit 198lbs back in Jan 2010. I did try to clean things up and pushed really hard for a few months and I lost 15lbs but I regained some and have been stuck between 178-185 ever since.
I'm also 5'8 and I'll be turning 30 in July so I'm doubly thinking I have got to get my weight and fitness in line before it gets more difficult as I get older. I just started cleaning my diet back up at the beginning of this month, and the other extremity I took was selling my car and buying a bike.
Right now I'm at 178 with 23.6% body fat and hoping to drop that down to 155lbs and 12% body fat. I started doing strength training 3 days a week and cardio 5 days a week. Oddly my weight has been flat over the last week and a half but my body fat and waist size have dropped as I tone out.
Anyways, hope you will achieve those goals.
Hey Mike, thanks for the encouragement! Yeh, it sounds like we have a set of circumstances that are quite similar! I know how you feel about the weight, i am currently experiencing that as well. I dropped body fat and i waist size but my weight seemed to be stuck at around 175lbs. On Day 10 I actually finally saw a drop of 3 pounds when i checked in for my metrics.


I was asked to share with you some thoughts on how a person knows they have a vocation to the religious life. It is difficult to pin that down because a vocation is first of all a mystery. God does not just Jump out of the sky and tap us on the shoulder or knock us off a horse the way He did with some people in the Bible. Ordinarily God uses very ordinary instrumental means to let us know what He is calling us to, and that is always a mysterious thing. It is very personal to each one of us. I can't give you any absolute rules for this. I guess, in one sense, the wonderful thing is - that God respects our individuality and treats us all as persons. He respects our freedom and he wants us to use our heads and hearts in trying to discern our vocation. Remember that famous line in A Man For All Seasons, where Thomas More says something like "God made the animals to serve Him by instinct blindly but He made man to serve Him wittingly." That is, to use his wits. We have to use our wits to try to discern what God is asking of us.
In the history of the Church, you will consistently find spiritual writers and theologians saying that there are certain natural signs that God uses by which He inclines us, and draws us toward a vocation. The Church has always looked for those signs. If a person has those signs in some degree, then there is a good chance he/she is called. You never know for sure ... but all the way along the line you will be asking yourself if there are several discernable signs present by which you can judge whether you are called or not.


On Tuesday I posted a piece about Steve Bumbry, son of Orioles legend Al Bumbry, and the possibility that he would get drafted. Turns out he did, and the Birds got him.
Bumbry was projected as the No. 146 prospect, but the O's took him with the 356th pick.


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Achieving Human Rights through movements, networks and citizen power
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Funders play a critical role in the increasingly urgent project of strengthening the capacity of global and local citizen movements to actively engage in the design and implementation of international instruments and standards. In particular, the coming three to five years will be a pivotal time for citizen movements for human rights and human dignity throughout the world.
An opinion column by Tanya Dawkins, co-chair of the Coordinating Committee of Social Watch.
A range of international standard-setting and policy-making processes that will determine the future of livelihoods, human rights, climate change and democracy will require proactive monitoring and engagement from citizen groups, movements and civil society at all levels. These include:
The United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development (Rio +20), including the process of developing the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and related talks at the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCC)
Global and national processes related to the United Nations High Level Panel to define a Post-2015 development framework to replace the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs)
The International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD), specifically linking the ICPD Beyond 2014 process to the UN Development Agenda
Beijing Platforms of Action review and implementation and potentially a 5th World Conference on Women, with the development of the post 2015 MDG Framework
The policies and processes of the cluster of powerful economic entities that include the G20, World Trade Organization (WTO), International Monetary Fund (IMF), and the World Bank, among others
Those seeking to advance human rights at the local and national levels who ignore these global processes do so at their peril. At one end of the spectrum, the MDGs, Beijing Platform for Action and Agenda 21 are important global processes that establish norms, principles, and standards that are important though often non-binding. At the other end of the spectrum, institutions of economic governance like the G20, the IMF, and the World Bank have the capacity to set policies and binding conditionalities. Their policies, in turn, determine a national government's ability, in terms of policy and resources, to implement the social, economic, ecological and gender equity priorities of its citizens.
Building Power to Advance Women's Rights
The recently concluded 57th session of the UN Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) -- the global policymaking body for women's rights -- offers a number of relevant insights into how citizen movements can and must influence major global actors and processes. Some states sought to turn back advances on women's rights by decades: the Holy See, Russia, Syria, Egypt, Iran acted in coordination to disallow the mention of a broad range of sexual and reproductive rights and violence against women, human rights defenders and sexual minorities. Were it not for the civil society actors who thronged the hallways outside the negotiations and flocked to sessions during the parallel Non-Governmental Organization CSW Forum, the efforts of some state and non-state actors to undermine gender justice globally would have gone unchallenged.
These fights to preserve and advance human rights are only possible when citizens have the resources and capacity to mobilize locally, nationally, regionally and globally. This capacity to develop relationships, data, and strategy to engage negotiating bodies like the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) and mobilize to prevent efforts to overturn already achieved global consensus is fundamental in today's high stakes environment.
Now that the CSW has produced a global outcome document, these same groups along with their national and local counterparts need the capacity to continue their mobilization and advocacy efforts to ensure that governments are held accountable to the agreements.
If the women's rights movement is to consolidate its gains globally and at the country level, the movement will need the capacity to deepen and expand mobilization to ensure accountability around existing and new commitments.
Globalizing Economic Rights, Democracy and Self-Determination
Another example of the importance of citizen engagement with global standard setting is the debate around global economic and financial frameworks. While global standards related to human rights, gender equity and poverty eradication are often voluntary, the same cannot be said for those global standards that exist to promote global commerce. The globalization of what amounts to the "rights of global commerce" has been enshrined by an unprecedented growth in law, policy and institutions like the G20, the WTO, and the IMF, among others. What distinguishes the economic players from everyone else is a sophisticated global framework of compliance and enforcement mechanisms.
These mechanisms often supercede place‐based interests and domestic law and policy related to food security, livelihoods, housing, women's rights, self‐determination, climate, biodiversity and other basic needs and rights outlined across a range of human rights, environmental and development treaties.
Action directed at transforming the global economic system is particularly urgent right now as we enter a period where the rules of global governance, economy, finance, and development are being re-written on many different fronts. One example of how these economic fora can and do shape the struggle for human rights is the recent G20 announcement that global infrastructure development is going to be a central plank of its global "development" strategy. This commitment to expand mega-projects has major implications for every funder, organizer, analyst, and movement concerned with human rights, livelihoods, climate, women's rights, ecological sustainability and democracy.
Strengthening the capacity of citizen movements to engage these processes in meaningful ways is crucial in a political context in which the rhetoric of economic austerity has drowned out citizen's voices seeking rights-based approaches in both global and domestic policy spheres.
The Arab Spring, Occupy, the Indignados and longstanding movements for workers' rights, climate justice, women's rights, and democracy are struggling to consolidate their movements, find new footing and appropriate sources of support in this increasingly volatile and hostile environment.
Four Key Strategies Funders Can Support
Here are four strategic points of entry for funders to build and strengthen citizen movements to engage in international policy and processes over the next several years. Funders can support efforts to:
1. Build the capacity of civil society organizations to advocate for the implementation of existing and new commitments, e.g. gender justice (outcome agreements of CSW and CEDAW) and follow-up to the Rio +20 Conference, including the alignment of national laws with these global compacts.
2. Create the conditions for established and emerging leadership to forge strategic partnerships to ensure that human rights are institutionalized in structures at all levels. Focus on making inclusion central to key global negotiating fora and plans of action. One example is to support citizen monitoring of UNFCC, Post-2015 and multi-lateral institutions by funding strategic alliances that prioritize the voices and visions of marginalized populations and communities and utilize a human rights lens. This could range from general support funding to funding for skill-building for marginalized communities to participate fully in decision-making at all levels to support for policy development to grassroots convenings to develop solidarity, shared knowledge, and strategies.
3. "Follow the Money" and "Unrig the Rules." Civil society groups are coalescing around the importance of new and sustainable sources of revenue to support a range of human rights, social justice and development priorities. In addition to tax justice campaigns and the Financial Transactions Tax (FTT) on the revenue side, funders can help citizen movements create a multiplier effect by supporting groups working to develop innovations in law and policy that give citizens the tools to monitor and hold corporations, governments and multi-lateral institutions accountable.
4. Learn from the successes and failures of major global initiatives like the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) in order to develop innovative, human rights-centered Post-2015 commitments and strategies for action and accountability.
Funders are often asked to make false choices – women's rights vs. economic development; global vs. local; grassroots organizing vs. policy advocacy, and the list goes on. It does not serve our interests to de-link the climate justice debate strategy from a structural analysis of the global economic drivers of climate change and the disproportionately negative impacts on the poor, women and women's rights. Separating the Post-2015 Framework development or the Arms Trade Treaty negotiations from enforceable commitments to address gender justice undermines the hard fought progress that citizen movements have made.
Funders have the opportunity to act as indispensible partners in laying the groundwork that will determine the sustainability of human rights movements. Strong citizen movements that have the capacity to "connect the dots" across sectors, borders, policy silos and geopolitical divides are key to building power, systems, and structures that advance human rights for the long haul.
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by Tanya Dawkins, Global-Local Links Project & CarEth Foundation and Shalini Nataraj, Global Fund for Women.
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Joe has recently joined ManukaLife and brings 30 years' experience in the pharmaceutical and biotechnology industry, with a focus on commercialisation, marketing and sales. He has been appointed to aggressively drive MaukaLife's presence into international markets, with an intentional focus on Manuka products that focus on the therapeutic and medicinal attributes of Manuka.
Previously, Joe was a CEO of another major Australian Manuka company and also worked as interim CEO for two Australian biotechnology companies, having completed licensing deals across several global territories and raising more than $20m in capital. Joe also helped form the AMHA, the key industry body for the Australian Manuka Honey industry.
Joe's extensive experience also includes five and half years as General Manager of Gilead Sciences, the world's largest biotechnology company, for Australia, New Zealand and Asia. As head of the subsidiary at Gilead, Joe led the growth of the business by almost 900% over his 5-year tenure and gained extensive experience in business development, product licensing and corporate development.
Board positions and corporate experience:
General Manager and Head of Asia for Gilead Sciences – the world's largest biotechnology company
Chairman of Avexa Pharmaceuticals
Non-Executive Director of Bluechiip Technologies
CEO, Immuron
CEO, Pressura Pharmaceuticals Pty Ltd
Board Member of BioNetwork Melbourne
Deputy Chairman of the AMHA
CEO, Berringa Honey
Lecturer at University of Melbourne
Academic qualifications:
University of Melbourne, Masters of Biotechnology
LESTER CHAN
MBA, BME
As CEO of Fund Singapore, an equity-based and debt-based company that specialises in investing in startups, SMEs, publicly listed companies and real estate projects, Lester oversees the management and execution of strategies for the Company.
Prior to this, Lester headed the investment strategies and operations of a private equity and venture capital firm.
DR PATRICK H M LOH
HonDsc, BBM, PBM
Dr Loh is a practising plant scientist and is one of the pioneering bio-entrepreneurs in Singapore who has successfully established the commercial application of biological and molecular techniques to plant and crop improvements in the agro-based industries in the ASEAN region.
Doctoral Research (PhD) in plant virology and tissue culture technology at The Institute of Arable Crops Research, Rothamsted Experimental Station, United Kingdom.
Chartered Horticulturist (C Hort), The Chartered Institute of Horticulture, United Kingdom.
Masters Degree in Business Administration (1992) from the University of Dubuque, Iowa, USA
Honorary Doctorate of Science (HonDSc) Murdoch University, Western Australia in recognition of his exceptional contributions to science, academia and agribusiness in the ASEAN region
Adjunct Professor at the School of Veterinary and Life Sciences, Murdoch University, Western Australia; Singapore Management University's Lee Kong Chian School of Business and Singapore University of Social Sciences School of Science and Technology
Chairman of the Academic Advisory Board of the Singapore Manufacturing Federation Institute of Higher Learning (which is a working partner with Murdoch University, the University of Newcastle, Edith Cowan University and the University of Sheffield (UK).
March 2017 – appointed Chair of the Special Advisory Group at Murdoch University, Singapore
Corporate experience:
Co-founder Director of LINK (THM) Sciences Pte Ltd and Premium Herbs International Pte Ltd
Chairman-Director of Pure Orient Global Holdings Pte Ltd
2007 – 2011 Chief Scientific Officer Eu Yan Sang International Ltd
2008-2010 – President Commissioner/Non-Executive Chairman of IDX-listed PT. Citra Kebun Raya Agi and PT. Royal Oak Development Asia in the Republic of Indonesia
2011-2013 – Chairman of Scientific Advisory Board at SBX-listed Eu Yan Sang International Ltd
2015 – appointed Mentor to the Development Bank of Singapore (DBS) Innovation Group Hotspot for its "start-ups" and the DBS Entrepreneurs
In recognition of his leadership to the Singaporean community, Dr Loh was conferred the Pingkat Bakti Masyarakat (PBM – the Public Service Medal) in 2001 and the Bintang Bakti Masyarakat (BBM – The Public Service Star) in 2006 by His Excellency, the President of the Republic of Singapore.
PAUL CALLANDER
In Jan 2015 Paul Callander Co-founded and became Managing Director at ManukaLife. Paul is responsible for the company's strategy and growth and has twenty-five years' experience in building companies from start-up to large profitable listed entities.
Paul started as a Commercial Pilot and graduated from the Western Australian Aviation Academy with a Senior Commercial Airline Pilots license. He served with several Aircraft operations as a Commercial pilot.
He spent ten years in Silicon Valley with a startup in semiconductor capital equipment manufacturing with Lam Research (NASDAQ – LRCX) where he was Vice President for Asia Pacific operations. Asia became a significant region for LRCX and Paul established offices, joint ventures, manufacturing, and was responsible for all operations in the region. On his departure, LRCX had a market cap of approx. US$1.5Bn
Paul subsequently moved to Singapore and founded a software company Integrated Process and Retrieval Solutions (IPRS) Asia Pacific Pty Ltd. He then merged this with a U.S. Software firm Optika Inc. a provider of electronic business solutions. Paul continued on as part of the executive management team as Vice President of Asia Pacific and listed the company on NASDAQ.
He joined Canadian start-up company Taleo Inc to establish Asia Pacific operations initially in Sydney. Recruited as Managing Director Paul had full responsibilities for all operations throughout the region. Taleo became the global leader in Software as a Service (SaaS) for Talent Management Solutions. He was a part of the executive team when Taleo listed on NASDAQ. Taleo was acquired by Oracle for US$1Bn.
Paul became aware of the current and growing demand for Manuka honey and, together with Tony Woods, embarked on establishing a Manuka honey industry. Their vision extends beyond the production of honey to the establishment of apiary businesses, product manufacturing, plant breeding and intellectual property, research and development etc.
Paul's extensive corporate experience with establishing and growing viable companies, developing strategic partnerships, capital raising, investor relations, manufacturing, joint ventures, and distribution and marketing agreements has been invaluable to the successful foundation and growth of ManukaLife Pty Ltd
Non-Executive Director Zyber Holdings Ltd
Non–Executive Director Fortune Minerals
Managing Director Taleo Asia Pacific
Founding Director Integrated Process and Retrieval Solutions (IPRS) Asia Pacific Pty Ltd Singapore
Vice President Asia Pacific – Lam Research Corporation USA
Pilot qualifications:
Senior Commercial Airline Pilots Licence, Royal Aviation Academy
TONY WOODS
Raised in a mixed farming background in Western Australia Tony has a background in broad acre agriculture as well as experience in the establishment of horticultural enterprises having initiated large scale native flower production with Horticultural Industries Australia as well as commercial "Food Tree" (Chestnut) enterprises. Following university Tony worked on and ran the family farm, established export markets for high quality commercially grown Western Australian wildflowers and became a founding director of HIA before working extensively overseas.
With extensive experience working in and managing teams to obtain positive outcomes Tony has been involved in successful management of businesses domestically and abroad.
Tony was involved in the establishment and management of several technology companies in Asia pacific, the USA, and Europe before returning to Australia and establishing Manukalife Pty Ltd.
Chair, Warren Blackwood Economic Alliance
Board Member, South West Connect: Advisory group to the Australian Federal Government Senate Select Committee on Telecommunications and Technology
Vice President, W.A. Boating Industry Assn.
Board member Western Australian Wine Industry Assn, Blackwood Valley Region
Manager Asia Pacific, SHE Software
Operations Manager, Northern Goldfields, Department of Environment and Conservation Western Australia
Consultant, Western Australian Health Department (SW division)
University of Western Australia, Bachelor of Science in Agriculture
Australian Institute of Export, Diploma Import/Export
RICHARD BRIEDAHL
Richard provides ManukaLife with operational and technical advice as well as introductions to landowners, potential partners and contractors. He has more than 35 years' experience in forest management and research and development in both native forests and plantations (pine and hardwood) in the south-west of Western Australia, SA and Victoria.
Richard has experience in both the private and public sectors and has represented the industry on a range of national boards.
Of particular relevance to ManukaLife is Richard's experience in the following areas:
Director of Broadvale Pty Ltd providing forestry and agricultural consultancy and contracting services to a range of local, interstate and overseas clients
General Manager Plantation Operations for WAPRES (WA Plantation Resources) managing plantation estates (totalling about 40,000 hectares) in WA, SA and Victoria and being integrally involved in acquiring land, developing a generic improvement program, and establishing and maintaining nursery operations capable of producing 10 million seedlings.
Undertaking various roles at WA Chip and Pulp Company (WACAP), responsible for, among other things, R&D and special projects; plantation and nursery establishment and maintenance, and applying (successfully) for a large Commonwealth Grant under the National Afforestation Program
District Manager of CALM (Department of Conservation and Land Management), responsible for all aspects of managing the Department's assets in the Collie District, including timber harvesting and regeneration in State Forests, management of National Parks and Nature Reserves and the establishment and management of softwood (pine) plantations as well as the planting and maintenance of plantations for improving water quality in the Wellington catchment and overseeing mine-site rehabilitation
Research Officer (Karri Silviculture) at the W.A. Forests Department/CALM responsible for reviewing previous work carried out in this field and the planning and implementation of an R&D program aimed at improving the productivity of karri forests, including the implementation of large, fully replicated thinning and fertilising trials, proving the operation's feasibility of commercial thinning young karri regrowth, cloning of karri by cuttings, and improved regeneration techniques.
Academic qualifications and published papers:
Bachelor of Science (Forestry), Australian National University
Breidahl R & Hewett P, "A Review of Silvicultural Research in the Karri (Eucalyptus diversicolor) Forest", CALMScience Vol 2 No 1, pp 51-100 (1995)
Positions held:
Director, Broadvale Pty Ltd
Voting member of the Institute of Foresters of Australia
Board member Southern Tree Breeding Association (Retired)
Board member Co-Operative Research Centre for Temperate Hardwood Forestry (Retired)
Board member Tree Plantations Australia (Retired)
PAUL KORDIC
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Paul has practised for over 35 years as a commercial lawyer.
He was a Partner and Principal of Talbot & Olivier Lawyers between 1985 and 2014 and Managing Partner for 11 years. Paul was a Partner at Jarman McKenna from 2014 to 2016 and in 2016 joined Cullen Macleod as a Principal. He assists many clients in the agri-business and commercial sectors.
Paul is an accredited adviser with Family Business Australia (FBA), a board member of the Australia Israel Chamber of Commerce in Western Australia and Vice President of the Australasian Chapter of the International Wine Law Association. Paul is a Fellow of the Taxation Institute of Australia and a member of the Society of Trust and Estates Practitioners.
Bachelor of Laws, University of Western Australia
Bachelor of Economics, Australian National University
Barrister and Solicitor of the Supreme Court of Western Australia
ALASTAIR WALKER
Alastair provides financial and corporate advice to ManukaLife, overseeing day-to-day accounting functions and assisting management with strategic planning and budgeting.
Alastair has 30 years' experience in accounting as a chief financial officer and company secretary of both private and ASX listed companies.
He has a broad range of experience in Industries including mining, medical, construction, aviation and telecommunications and has been integrally involved in start-up businesses, ASX listings and takeovers.
Bachelor of Business, Curtin University
Fellow of the Society of Practising Accountants.
B Bus SIA ACIS CA M(Tax) FTIA SSA
John is the Managing Partner of JBC Corporate, Chartered Accountants, and practises principally in the area of complex tax matters and corporate services, including due diligence, compliance, financial accounting and reporting. He consults and advises industry groups and organisations throughout Australia, including government and industry groups, taking the role of facilitator and specialist adviser. His other areas of interest include crop insurance, risk management and marketing. John has a keen personal and professional interest in agri-business based industries which, together with his diverse commercial and taxation experience, are invaluable to the enhancement of management and corporate structures.
Graduate Diploma in Applied Finance
Self-managed Superannuation Specialist Adviser and author
Board positions:
Greenlilne Ag Pty Ltd (John Deere Dealership)
Hop Shun Pty Ltd (Chinese investment group holding significant beef assets)
Mobosea Pty Ltd (fully owned Chinese agri-investor with holdings in live cattle)
Emuala Pty Ltd (fully owned Swiss owned rural property investor)
Midwest Development Commission (6-year term retired)
RSM Bird Cameron (Equity Partner retired November 2015)
EDUARD JOHANNES PLANKEN
OAM, FAICD
Eduard is a senior professional with 40 years' experience in food and agriculture – at both a peak industry body level and at producer level. He has extensive and specific experience in the honey industry. Eduard has sound financial management skills, experience of international exporting trade, corporate governance, policy development and risk management with strong professional, government and private sector links. Eduard also has vast international experience dealing with business and government representatives in countries including Japan, China, Brunei, Malaysia, Bangladesh and Dubai.
Certificate in Meat Industry Studies
Certified Fellow of the Australian Institute of Company Directors
Certified Quality Consultant SQF1
Diplomas in Exporting and Sales and Marketing
Deputy Chairman of the Australian Honey Bee Industry Council (and as a member of its finance audit committee)
President of the Honey Packers and Marketers Association of Australia
World President of the International Honey Exporters Organisation (IHEO). IHEO members represent over 85% of the world honey export volume
Board member of the Honey International Packers Association
Board member of B-Qual Australia
Board member of the successful Australian Apimondia 2007 bid committee
Food safety committee leader to the Australian Honey Bee Industry Council
Representative on the BCC Committee to the Western Australian Government (Department of Agriculture)
20 years' experience as a CEO and as a non-executive director serving on a number of Australian and international boards – all agribusiness related – including Wescobee Limited (127 shareholder producers)
Strong involvement in developing and managing Quality Assurance programs under the SQFI program and for industry such as B-Qual, Organic, Eco certified and more recently Sustainable Agriculture. Eduard is a certified SQFI Consultant.
Award of Excellence (2013) for contribution to industry presented by the Australian Honey Bee Industry Council
IHEO Award (2009) for service to the International Honey Exporters Association
Order of Australia Medal (2011) for services to the Apicultural industry
Australian Export Hero Award (2012) for extraordinary contribution to the growth and development of Australian exports presented by the Australian Institute of Export
DR CLAY GOLLEDGE
BSc (Med), MBBS, FRCP, FRCPA, FACTM, FRSTM, FRGS, DTM&H
Dr Golledge is a Physician in Infection Management and a Clinical Microbiologist with 28 years of consultant experience.
He completed his microbiology training at Royal Perth, Sir Charles Gairdner and Fremantle Hospitals and in 1990 embarked on advanced training in Infectious Diseases at the City Hospital and Western General Hospital in Edinburgh. He returned to Perth in 1991 and was a consultant in microbiology and infectious diseases at Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital until the end of 2017. During this time he was instrumental in setting up the inaugural SCGH Infectious Diseases Service and the Hospital In The Home Service.
Dr Golledge has also been in private practice in Infectious Diseases since 1995 and is now the Executive Director of Infections West Pty Ltd, Perth's largest private Infectious Diseases practice and consults from his rooms in West Leederville and also provides consultation and admission service to Hollywood Private Hospital and St John of God Hospital Subiaco.


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"Trading the Stock Market using Google Search Volumes" by Adonay Resom, Joseph Keenan St. Pierre et al.
In this paper, we present a methodology for utilizing Google Search Indices obtained from the Google Trends website as a means for measuring potential investor interest in stocks listed on the Dow Jones Index (Dow 30). We accomplish this task by utilizing a Long Short-Term Memory network that correlates changes in the search volume for a given asset with changes in the actual trade volume for said asset. Additionally, by using these predictions, we formulate a concise trading strategy in the hopes of being able to outperform the market and analyze the results of this new strategy by backtesting across weekly closing price data for the last six months of 2016.


There are few who realize the influence of the little things of life upon the development of character. Nothing with which we have to do is really small. The varied circumstances that we meet day by day are designed to test our faithfulness and to qualify us for greater trusts. By adherence to principle in the transactions of ordinary life, the mind becomes accustomed to hold the claims of duty above those of pleasure and inclination. Minds thus disciplined are not wavering between right and wrong, like the reed trembling in he wind, they are loyal to duty because they have trained themselves to habits of fidelity and truth. By faithfulness in that which is least they acquire strength to be faithful in greater matters.


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"Silent Hill: Downpour" and "HD Collection" Are Both Getting Patched
ByMichael Rougeau
Mike Rougeau is a freelance writer living in Los Angeles, CA. When he's not taking pictures of his dog he's covering video games, technology and entertainment. Follow him on Twitter and Google+ for all the inane ramblings you can handle.
Konami has announced that the two latest Silent Hill releases, Downpour and HD Collection, will be getting simultaneously patched. In the former, framerate and audio sync issues will be addressed, while the latter's autosave problems will hopefully be fixed.
Both games will certainly benefit from some more attention, particularly HD Collection, which disappointed on its release with a plethora of bugs and other issues.
Hopefully these patches will fix things up. They're slated to arrive on 360 and PS3 in the coming weeks, so be sure to keep watch through the night.
Did you experience many issues in these games that you feel should be patched? Tell us in the comments or on Twitter.
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CLARKS SUMMIT — An LGBT activist urged Lackawanna County commissioners Wednesday to pass a county-wide nondiscrimination ordinance mirroring Scranton's, which extended civil rights protections to people regardless of sexual orientation or gender identification.
Carl Halkyer, co-chairman of the NEPA Rainbow Alliance, addressed the board after a series of recent inflammatory Facebook posts by Commissioner Laureen Cummings addressing debates about allowing transgender people to choose male or female bathrooms.
She criticized Republican presidential candidate John Kasich when the Ohio governor said he would not have signed the controversial North Carolina law blocking cities from adopting similar measures.
Ms. Cummings again emphasized Wednesday that her words referenced people who would attempt to abuse the accommodation for the minority group. For example, her Facebook posts included a link to an article about an incident in Seattle when a man who gave no overt indication he identifies as a woman used a women's locker room and undressed in front of girls.
She feared a movement toward gender-neutral bathrooms would create situations like football players and cheerleaders sharing locker rooms, but Mr. Halkyer responded he is not advocating for co-ed bathrooms.
Mr. Halkyer offered to arrange sensitivity training for commissioners and their staff, and to arrange private meetings with transgender constituents.
"We want to do whatever it takes to broaden your understanding of your transgender constituents," he said.
Ms. Cummings said she is willing to have a discussion but felt he should also reach out to state legislators to achieve his broader goals.
Charles Brewer, a Greenfield Twp. resident and member of the county Republican committee, described Ms. Cummings as someone of high ethical standards.
Scranton resident Barbara O'Malley saw it differently.
Democratic Commissioner Jerry Notarianni said after the meeting he would be open to considering a countywide ordinance like Scranton's nondiscrimination law, but he would have to do more research.
Fellow Democrat Patrick O'Malley emphasized the county does not discriminate against transgender people but said a measure like a new ordinance would require further discussion.
Ms. Cummings said an initiative like that should be placed on the ballot in a public referendum.


K&L Filter Wizard® is a filter specification and selection tool provided for the convenience of K&L's customers. Due to manufacturing variations, actual performance is not the same as theoretical response. Please see disclaimers pertaining to Filter Wizard designs.
K&L Microwave designs and manufactures filters with all-pole bandpass, lowpass, highpass, and band-reject responses and elliptic and pole-placed bandpass, lowpass, highpass, and band-reject responses. Available multi-port devices with more complex responses include diplexers, multiplexers, and switched filter banks.
This release of the Filter Wizard selection software treats all-pole and elliptic bandpass responses, all-pole and elliptic lowpass and highpass responses for lumped components, and band-reject responses for cavity products.
K&L Microwave's broad range of product types includes Dielectric Resonators (including KeL-fil® brand filters), Lumped Components (including KeL-com® brand filters), Mini-Max® brand filters, Cavity Filters (combline and interdigital, including Mini-Pack® brand filters), Waveguide Filters, Suspended Substrate/Stripline Filters, Tubular Filters, Coaxial Combline (Base Station type) Filters, Tunable Filters, Diplexers, Multiplexers, and Switched Filter Banks. Please visit K&L's product page for more information.
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Together, the available product types span a wide variety of frequencies and bandwidths.


From humble beginnings, Stodels Garden Centres have developed into a household name in gardening in the Western Cape. From the outset, Stodels Garden Centres focused on providing their customers with excellent service, top quality products and affordable prices. Fifty years later, the trio of service, quality and affordability has built a respected and much loved brand.
Originating from a mail order catalogue and door to door sales, the Stodels brand has grown to its current complement of five award-winning garden centres today. The company was started by Mr Robert Stodel, in August 1962, when he started selling flower bulbs door to door and from the Parade in Cape Town. A mail order bulb catalogue soon followed and within a few years, Stodels Flower Bulbs became the biggest flower bulb retailer in South Africa, posting nearly 600 000 bulb catalogues to Cape households and importing up to 20 million bulbs from Holland every year.


Your scores suggest you're fun, friendly and no doubt have lots of friends. You may need to watch out for peer pressure though. You don't have to do what everyone else is doing – remember you can be your own person and still be a good friend.
Everybody else isn't always acting how you might think they are anyway – a recent survey found that 92% of 11–15s in England had not drunk alcohol at all in the last week*.
Does this sound like you? Make sure you really do know the facts – there's information about drinking in the Units and Guidelines. The Alcohol Clock Game in the Challenge Zone is also a good one to try.
Your scores suggest that you're a quality best friend, capable of having fun but also aware of what to do when things get rocky. Perhaps others accuse you of being too safe and sensible, but you know how to have fun, look after your friends and stay clear of trouble.
You're right not to follow the crowd though, as everybody else isn't always acting how you might think they are anyway. A recent survey found that 92% of 11–15s in England had not drunk alcohol at all in the last week*.
Does this sound like you? Make sure you really do know your stuff by checking out the information on drinking and alcohol in the Units and Guidelines and Body Watch.
Your scores suggest you're naughty but nice, but perhaps have a tendency to drag others into your mad-cap ideas. Being a good friend is about more than having fun. You may need to think a bit more before you do things – then you'll avoid trouble.
As a natural leader, you already know that there's nothing to be gained from following the crowd – everybody else isn't always acting how you might think they are anyway. A recent survey found that 92% of 11–15s in England had not drunk alcohol at all in the last week*.
Does this sound like you? You can make sure you're up to speed with the facts by checking out Body watch to see how alcohol affects the body. The Alcohol Clock Game in the Challenge Zone is also a great one to try.


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In my article, The Death of Pope John Paul II, the Pope of Rome, I wrote: "You will now begin to hear the praises heaped upon his head by so-called 'Christian', 'Evangelical' leaders the world over: men like Billy Graham, for example… and many, many others will all sing his praises, speaking of him as a great Christian man, many even saying he was the greatest Christian man in all the world! They will tell the world that he is now in heaven."
I also wrote of "the tragedy of blind leaders of the blind – so-called 'Protestant' leaders, calling themselves Evangelicals – speaking well of this Antichrist, praising him, and actually holding him up to a world of lost sinners as an example of Christ-likeness and faithfulness to the Gospel!…. The death of this pope will reveal the hearts and motives and real natures of many, many highly-esteemed Protestant ministers! It will show who they really serve and follow: Christ, or the devil! It will bring to light, again, for those with eyes to see, that these men are wolves in sheep's clothing, deceitful workers!"
Well, it did not take long for the "big-name" so-called "Evangelical Protestant" leaders to fall over one another in their scramble to mount a platform and blow a trumpet for the late John Paul II, thereby deceiving Roman Catholics and Protestants alike with their proclamation of a false 'gospel' as they praised the false 'christ' and his soul-damning heresies.
Charismatics and Pentecostals were quick to jump on the bandwagon and sing John Paul's praises. One of the world's most famous (that should be infamous) and influential Charismatics is Benny Hinn. The man is an outright heretic and an extremely dangerous false teacher, but of course this can be said of other "Protestants" quoted here too. This is a man who has often praised the Roman pope and spoken of Romanists as his "brethren in Christ." Well, neither he nor they worship the true Christ, so they are indeed "brethren", although not in the way Hinn thinks. Hinn was there at the Vatican, attending John Paul II's funeral, by invitation. He also participated in a private mass in St Peter's Basilica for members of the Vatican staff who worked closely with the late pope. Makes one wonder about Benny Hinn's own relationship with the Vatican!
In an interview, Hinn made the following comments: "the pope was a man who was guided by a love for the Lord Jesus Christ and whose legacy will be marked by an intense passion for evangelism" (http://www.bennyhinn.org/resources/pope.cfm). A blind leader of the blind indeed! John Paul II's motto was "Totally Yours," referring to Mary, not Christ – and yet Benny Hinn says that he was guided by a love for Christ! Which "christ", Mr Hinn? Certainly not the Christ of God. The "christ" the pope loved was the Roman Catholic "christ" of the mass, the wafer-"christ", and the "christ" of the Roman Catholic crucifix.
After returning from the Vatican, Benny Hinn invited two Roman Catholic priests onto his TV show. And then this wolf in sheep's clothing proceeded to praise the Roman Catholic institution, and thus to lead multitudes astray (Media Spotlight, Volume 28, Number 2, Redmond, Washington).
"…last week I was at the Vatican and I was amazed by what I saw. And I was so moved by what I felt. And sitting in the special memorial service for the pope – and I'm in tears sitting there – I'm just so overwhelmed by what I'm feeling. After the service was over, one of our people was with me, what amazed him is that he felt God's presence…. Why is it that some people have such questions? You know, they almost think like God isn't supposed to be there, you know. Why?"
It's very easy to answer your question, Benny: the Vatican is Satan's seat, and the Bible calls this abominable religious institution "the habitation of devils, and the hold of every foul spirit, and a cage of every unclean and hateful bird" (Rev. 18:2). Now which should we rather believe, Benny? The Word of the living God, or you and your crew who think they "feel God's presence" in that place of darkness and sin?
Benny Hinn, according to God's Word, is a false teacher, a deceiver, and is in fact serving the Papal Antichrist by promoting this religion of darkness with all his might.
Hinn said, also, of the pope: "His life was characterized by enormous warmth, a deep sense of righteousness, and he was one of civilization's great defenders of peace. It was my distinct honor to have met him on two separate occasions…. Archbishop O'Brien introduced me to the pontiff and said, 'This is Benny Hinn, a Pentecostal minister and our friend'".


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The Future Of #Wellness | 2020.02.06
Intelsat SA and other satellite providers would share as much as $14.9 billion under a proposal from federal regulators to compensate them for giving up airwaves in an auction to wireless companies.
The U.S. Federal Communications Commission announced Thursday a plan that would provide $9.7 billion in compensation to Intelsat, SES SA and other companies if they hit deadlines for leaving the airwaves quickly, and another $3.3 billion to $5.2 billion to pay for costs of making the switch.
The satellite companies have proposed giving up part of the airwaves they use to beam TV and radio programs to stations, and to continue serving customers on airwaves they retain. The swath at issue is known as the C-band, and regulators are eager to free it to carry traffic for fast new 5G networks.
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According to Wikipedia, C-band uses 3.7 to 4.2 GHz RF bands for downlinks, and 5.925 to 6.425 GHz for uplinks. Your typical Wi-Fi router operates in the 2.4 Ghz and 5 Ghz range. So, in terms of 5G health effects, things should remain relatively minor while giving 5G wireless providers greater coverage via satellite. Note true, full-powered 5G uses millimeter waves in the 24 GHz to 72 GHz range. This is where the fast speeds live that will allow someone to download an HD movie in a matter of seconds. But some believe exposure to these millimeter waves are very dangerous to both people and the environment. Anyway, this will definitely get the masses excited and buy up 5G phones to radiate themselves with. It will also usher in a new dawn where the "Internet of Things" (IoT) will be able to communicate with its corporate headquarters without needing to piggyback on your home network.
Side note: the FCC plans to do this without congressional approval, as stated in the article, using your tax dollars.
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A saying common during the 1890s Gold Rush urged newcomers to the goldfields to bring "a waterbag, a can opener and a piece of hoopiron to scrape off the dirt with".
The light-hearted saying touched on serious issues: getting sufficient water to drink was a matter of life or death; fresh fruit and vegetables were unattainable, resulting in poor health; and in unsanitary conditions death and disease were rampant.
"Doing a perish" was an all too real hazard of prospecting. "Missing Friends" columns appeared in newspaper appealing for news of friends and relatives. Some were never found, sometimes skeletons were discovered, years later, empty waterbags beside them.
Lives were lost not from thirst alone. A visit to Coolgardie cemetery gives a fascinating insight into epidemics that swept the goldfields and causes of death. Children died from preventable illnesses such as diarrhoea and resulting dehydration.
The 1895 typhoid epidemic resulted from men unknowingly drinking tainted water from Coolgardie's Gorge. Goldfields residents took every opportunity to obtain free water, so when this depression filled after a rain event many drank from it.
Expensive water from condensers was boiled, killing germs. But at the time the connection between lack of sanitation, water pollution and typhoid was not clearly established. Doctors and scientists argued about how typhoid spread, one theory being through breaking virgin soil, another through infected air.
An acting health officer at Coolgardie suggested the source as drainage from faecal deposits around "every little clump of shrub in the hills". In time the association between filth and the quality of the water supply became accepted knowledge.
Ironically the favoured treatment for typhoid was the "cold bath cure". But immersing a patient on a stretcher every four hours into a bath of water was not a real option on remote waterless goldfields.
With scarcely enough water to drink there was no water for growing crops or vegetables, resulting in a diet of "tinned dog" as prospector John Aspinall wrote home to New Zealand in 1895.
Goldfields residents who venture out into the bush may well have come across a "tin circle", a reminder that more than 100 years ago prospectors camped around a fire at that spot, heating up their tinned dog and tossing the empty cans over their shoulders.
Walker Hodgson. Can opener illustration from 1897.
Keeping clean with little water was exacerbated by having to "dryblow" or sieve for gold, a dusty occupation that may well have resulted in a layer of dust so thick it could be scraped off with a metal strip.
Finding a way to clean dishes with scant water was something to write home about. One New Zealand prospector boasted to his family that he'd learned to wash a plate in a teaspoon of water "and make it clean too".
Old photographs show bearded men – with not enough water to drink there was certainly none for shaving. And it wasn't just a matter of keeping oneself clean, but also one's clothes.
Some who struck it lucky didn't bother, being rich enough to be able to afford to throw away dirty clothes and buy new ones. But the ordinary prospector in the Eastern Goldfields relied very much on "the dry process" – instead of washing a dirty shirt, with hard to obtain or expensive water, you hung it on a bush and beat it with a club.
When clouds began to gather such a prospector would run out and hang his clothes over the nearest bush in the hope of rain. And while he was out there with no clothes on, he'd rub soap over his naked body and wait for rain to wash the soap off along with the red dust. Of course, sometimes clouds looked promising but the rain never eventuated.
The story goes that on a Sunday, dusty red men disappeared down the track to the Coolgardie bore armed with buckets, kerosene tins and other containers to hold the brackish water too salty for human consumption. They'd reappear with black, brown, grey or blond heads and beards, only a few genuine red amongst them.
In further articles we'll look in more depth at mining and the water issue as well as sources of scarce freshwater.


Politics is the activities and affairs involved in managing a state or a government (World Web Dictionary). State is the territory where the affairs of politics takes place, while government is the organisation that regulate the activities and affairs of politics.
Leadership is an act of leading people in the right way and doing all that is required to better the welfare of the followers. Leadership roles calls for more sacrifice, as the leader has to make allowance from his personal time and resource in order to satisfy their followers need. For the betterment in welfare of the followers, a leader is supposed to move closer to their followers so that they can feel and experience what their followers are going through. An official elected to the post of government should do all that's needed and ensure that the needs of their people comes first in their agenda; as they are elected to represent the masses interest.
Hence, Political Leadership is the act of leading the affairs and activities of a state or country and the masses.
A business enterprise is an entity established mainly for the motive of generating return (profit). For business to generate profits, it must have studied the consumers (customers) and know what the customers need and then make their products tailored towards fulfilling the customers needs. That is the example of the country's present day politics.
Now that election is here, the political aspirants have begun with their marketing tools to promote themselves to the electorates. Though it's not likable and enjoyable campaigning for a candidate that refused to take care of the Nation medical sector. Instead, he chose to seek medical treatment from abroad. That is an incompetency on the leader aspect. If a leader cannot lead by sample and feel what the masses are facing in the country, I wonder if such candidate is a good choice for the Nation. No credit to the undutiful leaders.
More also, it's more disastrous to support someone that think his wealth is a great tools to win the heart of the electorate masses. Only the lazy ones will fall for that trick of stomach infrastructural techniques. It is no doubt that such person after having acquired much wealth that many of the masses do not posses half of it; still crave for more. He actually want to spread his tentacles of wealth acquisition with power and authority. It's unfortunate that many of the masses still believe that someone who woo other people through wasting wealth can be the best choice to fill the Nation leadership position. We need a managers and resources utilizers in our economy, not the personality that deceive by wasting wealth.
Some people also woke up and think of themselves to be the revolutionary leader the masses want in order to end the messes caused by the old people that keep changing hand, and still landing the country to the state of underdevelopment, while they keep their pocket full of wealth at the expense of the masses that elected them. Those that rose as the agents of better Nation believed themselves to be so, but they refused to work together on common goal. This sign of disunity among them is already a means to know that many (aspiring) leaders of our beloved state are not ready to put good heads together in cooperation.
We hear many youth campaign with promises not different from the ones we are used to. How do we peg the difference in their promises and the old deceivers that sunk the economic wealth for their selfish agendas? No doubt their difference in aim is also a discouraging factor that shows that many of them too crave for their selfish interest and to gain the sweetness of governmental power. The agendas of many of the youths who claimed to be the bringers of positive change is not an apparent one. Many people will only show others the bright side they want them to see when they are dearly in need, but when they get what they crave for, most of them misuse power and authority.
We have those that claimed to be independent electoral committee by their supposed name, but we couldn't find anything like such when the usual rigging practice is put in place by the corrupt practitioners in the government. Instability become the one of the principles of the National government. Many of those that crave for the political power actually think of politics as an easy means of attaining material status and wealth, just by gaining and winning the utmost support of the populace.
With the level of deterioration caused to our economy by our political leaders, I feel sympathetic for these people because, they are actually thinking what is being given to them as the position occupied is their rightful enjoyment post, so they use the national resources the way they feel. Many of them do not reflect that they are there to represent many heads, which will count and be added to their actions. It is not funny, our present leaders do not feel any pity by their conscience to remind them of any indecent act.
What most of our current leaders use politics for is likened to business enterprises where competitors (Sellers) try to win customer's loyalty so that they can be constant consumers of the sellers products. Some competitors offer product while others offer services, the satisfaction the customers derived in the consumption of these competitors will determined if they will go for such sellers the next time they want to consume any product or service.
Unlike business that offer or sell tangible or intangible goods which the customers can still have as the value for their money, politics of our Nation by the politicians is mostly in selling or offering deceitful package to the masses in order to seek their devoted support. With their package one wouldn't know if they are capable or incapable in the roles they wanted to undertake.
Many show apparently the sign of being the good candidate with their well packaged campaign strategies, but heart cannot be opened for the masses to know the real intention of these power seeking candidates. It's unfortunate many that happened to be apparently OK physically may be inherently sick and weak spiritually.
For our Nation to rise, we all need the change of intention. Every citizens and every rightful minded being needs to contribute to the progress of our economy, if we want our Nation to achieve growth and development which will related to reduction in our cost of living and improvement in the citizens standards of living.
We all need to stand up for what is right and forbid any wrong act that mat warrants the deterioration of our beloved country.


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The Compact Disc. What an invention! It's amazing really how a small round piece of plastic and some metallic foil has revolutionised the way we listen to music, play video games and watch movies. It it wasn't for the invention of this shiny media format we might still be using lengths of magnetic tape to do all of the above.
In 1979 electronics companies Philips and Sony got together to come up with a new way of storing audio in a digital form. Prior to this music had come on pressed Vinyl Discs, a format that had been around for decades but was prone to damage and was a bit on the large side.
The biggest difference though between vinyl and compact discs was the way in which the music information was stored. On Vinyl the musical data was stored in an analogue form, which means at any point on the disc the depth of the groove could be made at any depth to produce the varying volumes of a piece of music.
Compact Discs work in a digital manner, meaning that at any point on the disc only two different states are possible, a binary system. Music was therefore stored as a long series of 1's and 0's. By grouping a number of these 1's and 0's together the volume of a sound at any particular instant could be stored. By playing back enough of these volume changes, or samples, fast enough the original piece of music could be reproduced.
In order to squeeze enough information onto a disc it was necessary to turn to lasers in order to both create and read the information. A laser is a highly focussed beam of light, which could be used to burn microscopic grooves into a foil layer on the disc. To read back the disc a lower intensity laser is used, and the way it is reflected off the surface could determine what the stored data was.
By 1982 this technology was available to the public, and over the years that followed most people have gradually replaced their old vinyl singles and albums with compact discs. Films first appeared around this time on Laserdiscs, a similar technology using much larger discs to store the image and sound. These were expensive however, so the cheaper videotape cornered this area of the market. Movies later appeared on CD, as Video CDs, but the image quality wasn't particularly good, especially when capturing fast motions. In the end it wasn't until the invention of the Digital Versatile Disc, or DVD, that this technology finally replaced the old video cassette.
So what next for the compact disc? Well, I think it will be around for a while yet, but with the advent of iPods and digital downloads over the Internet for movies and video games it seems likely that they won't manage to stick around for quite as long as Vinyl. Most recently we have seen the development of new, higher capacity forms such as Blu-Ray and HD-DVD, the latter of which has already been consigned to the techology dustbin. However, I believe most people will not want to replace their existing collections of music and films again, so chances are the players will be around for some time, even if new releases stop coming out on shiny plastic discs in the years to come.
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The thing is newer file formats are essentially presented on the same media – a shiney disc – and all legacy formats can be read by newer players….
CD could be played by VCD (did you have VCD at one stage ?)
CD & VCD by DVD
CD, VCD & DVD by Blu Ray.
Essentially there's no need to upgrade your existing material if you're still happy with it, it'll be playable on new equipment.
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Microsoft's CEO, Satya Nadella, warned that the long workdays that now often extend deep into the night could negatively affect employee well-being.
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella cited Microsoft research showing that about a third of white-collar workers have a "third peak" of productivity late in the evening, based on keyboard activity. This third peak shows how remote work has blurred the line between work and home life, which was already blurred before and after lunch. Speaking at the Wharton Future of Work Conference on Thursday, Nadella said managers need to make clear their expectations so workers are not under pressure to respond to emails late at night.
We tend to think about productivity in terms of collaboration and output metrics, but well-being is a critical component of productivity, he said. "We all know how stressful work can make us," he said. In order to take care of people's welfare, we need to learn soft skills, good old-fashioned management practices. That expectation can be set, that our employees can get an email from the CEO on the weekend and not feel obliged to respond."
Two out of three employees who consider leaving their jobs say their employers have not followed through on pandemic promises to focus on employee mental health, according to a Harris Poll commissioned by online therapy provider Talkspace.
According to Microsoft research, 30% of employees experience peaks in the morning, afternoon, and, to a lesser extent, at around 10 p.m. Microsoft has found workdays have grown by 46 minutes, or 13%, since the pandemic began, with after-hours work growing even faster, increasing by 28%. The data shows how workers have increasingly adopted more asynchronous schedules that don't always align with those of their distant colleagues or managers.
About 50,000 Microsoft employees joined during the pandemic, Nadella said. People, particularly those in the technology sector, are increasingly demanding flexibility in where and when they work.
Nadella dodged the question, saying he learns something new every day.


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Soziedad Alkoholika es el nombre del primer disco del grupo Soziedad Alkoholika lanzado en 1991.

Canciones

Formación
 Juan - voz
 Jimmy - guitarra
 Pedro - guitarra
 Iñaki - bajo
 Roberto - batería

Referencias

Álbumes de 1991
Álbumes de Soziedad Alkoholika
Álbumes en español
Álbumes de crossover thrash

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describe Fastlane do
  describe Fastlane::FastFile do
    describe "gradle" do
      before :each do
        allow(FastlaneCore::FastlaneFolder).to receive(:path).and_return(nil)
      end

      describe "output controls" do
        let(:expected_command) { "#{File.expand_path('README.md').shellescape} tasks -p ." }

        it "prints the command and the command's output by default" do
          expect(Fastlane::Actions).to receive(:sh_control_output).with(expected_command, print_command: true, print_command_output: true).and_call_original

          Fastlane::FastFile.new.parse("lane :build do
            gradle(
              task: 'tasks',
              gradle_path: './README.md'
            )
          end").runner.execute(:build)
        end

        it "suppresses the command text and prints the command's output" do
          expect(Fastlane::Actions).to receive(:sh_control_output).with(expected_command, print_command: false, print_command_output: true).and_call_original

          Fastlane::FastFile.new.parse("lane :build do
            gradle(
              task: 'tasks',
              gradle_path: './README.md',
              print_command: false
            )
          end").runner.execute(:build)
        end

        it "prints the command text and suppresses the command's output" do
          expect(Fastlane::Actions).to receive(:sh_control_output).with(expected_command, print_command: true, print_command_output: false).and_call_original

          Fastlane::FastFile.new.parse("lane :build do
            gradle(
              task: 'tasks',
              gradle_path: './README.md',
              print_command_output: false
            )
          end").runner.execute(:build)
        end

        it "suppresses the command text and suppresses the command's output" do
          expect(Fastlane::Actions).to receive(:sh_control_output).with(expected_command, print_command: false, print_command_output: false).and_call_original

          Fastlane::FastFile.new.parse("lane :build do
            gradle(
              task: 'tasks',
              gradle_path: './README.md',
              print_command: false,
              print_command_output: false
            )
          end").runner.execute(:build)
        end
      end

      it "generates a valid command" do
        result = Fastlane::FastFile.new.parse("lane :build do
          gradle(task: 'assemble', flavor: 'WorldDomination', build_type: 'Release', properties: { 'versionCode' => 200}, gradle_path: './README.md')
        end").runner.execute(:build)

        expect(result).to eq("#{File.expand_path('README.md').shellescape} assembleWorldDominationRelease -p . -PversionCode=200")
      end

      it "correctly escapes the gradle path" do
        tmp_path = Dir.mktmpdir
        gradle_path = "#{tmp_path}/fake gradle/path" # this value is interesting because it contains a space in the path
        allow(File).to receive(:exist?).and_call_original
        allow(File).to receive(:exist?).with(gradle_path).and_return(true)

        result = Fastlane::FastFile.new.parse("lane :build do
          gradle(
            task: 'assemble',
            flavor: 'WorldDomination',
            build_type: 'Release',
            properties: {'versionCode' => 200},
            serial: 'abc123',
            gradle_path: '#{gradle_path}'
          )
        end").runner.execute(:build)

        expect(result).to eq("ANDROID_SERIAL=abc123 #{gradle_path.shellescape} assembleWorldDominationRelease -p . -PversionCode=200")
      end

      it "correctly escapes multiple properties and types" do
        notes_key = 'Release Notes' # this value is interesting because it contains a space in the key
        notes_result = 'World Domination Achieved!' # this value is interesting because it contains multiple spaces
        result = Fastlane::FastFile.new.parse("lane :build do
          gradle(task: 'assemble', flavor: 'WorldDomination', build_type: 'Release', properties: { 'versionCode' => 200, '#{notes_key}' => '#{notes_result}'}, system_properties: { 'org.gradle.daemon' => 'true' } , gradle_path: './README.md')
        end").runner.execute(:build)

        expect(result).to eq("#{File.expand_path('README.md').shellescape} assembleWorldDominationRelease -p . -PversionCode=200 -P#{notes_key.shellescape}=#{notes_result.shellescape} -Dorg.gradle.daemon=true")
      end

      it "correctly uses the serial" do
        result = Fastlane::FastFile.new.parse("lane :build do
          gradle(task: 'assemble', flavor: 'WorldDomination', build_type: 'Release', properties: { 'versionCode' => 200}, serial: 'abc123', gradle_path: './README.md')
        end").runner.execute(:build)

        expect(result).to eq("ANDROID_SERIAL=abc123 #{File.expand_path('README.md').shellescape} assembleWorldDominationRelease -p . -PversionCode=200")
      end

      it "supports multiple flavors" do
        result = Fastlane::FastFile.new.parse("lane :build do
          gradle(task: 'assemble', build_type: 'Release', gradle_path: './README.md')
        end").runner.execute(:build)

        expect(result).to eq("#{File.expand_path('README.md').shellescape} assembleRelease -p .")
      end

      it "supports multiple build types" do
        result = Fastlane::FastFile.new.parse("lane :build do
          gradle(task: 'assemble', flavor: 'WorldDomination', gradle_path: './README.md')
        end").runner.execute(:build)

        expect(result).to eq("#{File.expand_path('README.md').shellescape} assembleWorldDomination -p .")
      end

      it "supports multiple flavors and build types" do
        result = Fastlane::FastFile.new.parse("lane :build do
          gradle(task: 'assemble', gradle_path: './README.md')
        end").runner.execute(:build)

        expect(result).to eq("#{File.expand_path('README.md').shellescape} assemble -p .")
      end

      it "supports the backwards compatible syntax" do
        result = Fastlane::FastFile.new.parse("lane :build do
          gradle(task: 'assembleWorldDominationRelease', gradle_path: './README.md')
        end").runner.execute(:build)

        expect(result).to eq("#{File.expand_path('README.md').shellescape} assembleWorldDominationRelease -p .")
      end
    end
  end
end

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On Tuesday 2 October 2018 the National Fund of the Republic of Austria for Victims of National Socialism presented volume 5 of its series "Erinnerungen. Lebensgeschichten von Opfern des Nationalsozialismus/Lives Remembered. Life Stories of Victims of National Socialism" dealing with "Exile in Australia" at the Australian Embassy in Vienna.
The event proved very popular and the room on the third floor of the Winterthur Building with its stunning view over the Karlsplatz square was well filled. Around 140 guests came to hear about the escape stories of Austrians who had fled the Nazi regime to Australia. The journalist and historian Dr. Barbara Tóth guided the audience through the evening.
The event's host, Ambassador Dr. Brendon Hammer, opened the proceedings. In his words of welcome he emphasised the important role of the Austrian emigrants in Australian society. Between 1938 and the outbreak of World War II alone, around 2,000 Austrian refugees arrived in Australia, where they had huge positive influence on Australian society in the fields of science, culture and medicine.
The President of the Austrian-Australian Society, MP Dr. Reinhold Lopatka appeared on behalf of Mag. Wolfgang Sobotka, the Chairman of the National Fund's Board of Trustees, and thanked the National Fund for its tireless and vital efforts to pass on knowledge about the Nazi period. He also emphasised that is was the responsibility and duty of the members of all political factions in Parliament to carry out this task. For as long as there are still surviving eyewitnesses around an authentic record must be made of their experiences.
The series' Editor, and Scientific Director of the National Fund, Dr. Renate S. Meissner then went on to introduce volume 5. In her presentation she discussed the features that made this volume special, such as the differing natures of the texts, the use of photo albums, stories told from a number of perspectives and the escape routes, timeline and comprehensive glossary. She also introduced a number of family histories that provided an insight into the varied paths of escape and deportation taken by so many people.
In the subsequent discussion between Dr Tóth and the descendants of eyewitnesses, Amber Kehm, Mag. Susanne Altschul, Tania de Jong AM und Dr Yves Laisné, the different coping strategies of each family became apparent. While Ms Altschul's father returned to Austria with his Australian wife soon after the war to help rebuild the country, Ms Kehm's grandmother never wished to set foot in Austria again. Tania de Jong's mother, who arrived in Australia as a young child, had a different approach, establishing a museum with the furniture and artworks of her family and by doing so, bringing a little piece of Vienna to Australia. Tania de Jong travels a lot herself with her work and was keen to stress that, "Home is where the heart is". Her mother's cousin, Dr Yves Laisné, grew up in France – his mother and his aunt saw each other just one last time after the war but remained close throughout their lives.
The charismatic singer Tania de Jong, who inspires people with her music and her keynotes at concerts and congresses around the world, provided musical accompaniment to the evening. She visibly moved the audience with her choice of song and emotional speech and encouraged them to sing along.
Afterwards at the Ambassador's reception, there was the opportunity for animated conversation.
The National Fund would like to thank the Australian Embassy for the fruitful partnership and the Jewish Welcome Service Vienna, which made it possible for us to invite the descendants of the survivors.
Volume 5 "Exile in Australia"


My dad asked if I could make a sleeve to attach the webcam to the telescope lens, something more stable than the blutak he'd done some testing with. This little project gave me a chance to have a go at turning some Delrin stock I had picked up a few months earlier and some more practice boring accurate holes.
Very simple procedure with this one, I just needed to clean up, face and bore two different sized holes on either side of the stock. I took my time with this so I didn't accidentally over-size the holes, this ensured that I ended up with a well fitting sleeve that is snug enough to stay put with just friction.
Delrin is strange stuff to machine. It is very soft which means you can take quite aggressive cuts without bogging the lathe down, and it throws some very strange "chips" depending on the sort of operation you're doing and at which speed you do them.
The only flaw with this sleeve is a slight mismatch in surface finish as I had trouble getting the chuck to hold the piece during a final pass. Delrin is slightly greasy, and I couldn't tighten the chuck very much as it would deform the sleeve into a rounded triangular shape. Dad wasn't worried about the finish so I gave up trying and handed it over. One very happy customer!


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Rape Victim Was Kicked Off UConn Hockey Team For Not Being 'Stable Enough': Lawsuit
Discussion in 'News and Current Events' started by System, Dec 22, 2013.
System Member
HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — A former UConn hockey player who said that she was kicked off the team after reporting that she was raped has joined a federal civil rights lawsuit that alleges the school mishandled allegations of sexual assaults on campus.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/12/20/rape-uconn-hockey-lawsuit_n_4483611.html
System, Dec 22, 2013
The other four women are among seven students and recent graduates who asked the U.S. Department of Education's Office for Civil Rights to conduct a federal investigation of UConn in October. The women allege the school failed to protect them and responded to their sexual assault complaints with deliberate indifference or worse.
The lawsuit alleges discrimination based on gender and retaliation in violation of Title IX, which guarantees equal educational opportunities to students at schools that receive federal funds. It seeks unspecified monetary damages and changes in university policies.
Anonymous, Dec 22, 2013


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