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Not only is this book written beautifully, with simple yet poetic prose, but the political aspect is very engaging. Wyndham uses his characters to play differing sides to the scientific/socio-political debate of what life would be like if we lived centuries long rather than 80 years. PLUS, there is an overarching feminist debate that goes well beyond a sought after "forever-young" potion. Brilliantly written! As a botanist, I can only hope that I discover something one day that causes even a little stir in the scientific community.
Try to get your hands on this book!
Here is one review and another one if you want more information.
And on a related note...lichen are amazing! Though they appear to be one organism, they are actually a partnership between a fungi and an algae.This symbiotic relationship can result in some really beautiful and important lichen groups. Check some out here at the British Lichen Society or the Lichens of North America.

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Urgent action to all Trade union & Left organisations
Re: Urgent action Against KRG
Dear Sir or Madam:
The political situation in Iraqi Kurdistan is deteriorating day by day. Kurdistan Regional Government announced in early 2016 that it would cut government employee salaries by 15 to 75 percent, depending on position and salary bracket, as part of austerity measures to deal with the ongoing economic crisis.
Kurdish public servants protested across the Kurdistan Region against KRG austerity measures and salary delays. Salaries and wages have not been paid for months. Electricity, clean water, health care, social services and other public services are far from reach for the masses.
To oppose this and to better their life conditions, people have demonstrated in many cities and towns over the week .The protesters are protesting against cut government employee salaries, payment withholding system and salary delays across the Kurdistan Region calling for the full payment of state salaries.
Instead of meeting their demands, the authorities have been assaulting, beating.injures arrested and detained demonstrates .also journalists have been detained and opened fire on the demonstrators and used tear gas to part and frighten people.
According to the news 20,000 Militia forces were deployed in Erbil and Duhok in an attempt to crush the protests.
The PUK and KDP are the cause of people's hunger, poverty and misery. They act as a despotic authority, and oppress and killed demonstrators on the streets in the past.
We ask you to write a Urgent action calling on the KRG to:
1-Immediate release of the detained activists and protesters.
2. Prosecute those who harassed protesters.
3-Pay all unpaid wages to the workers in Iraqi Kurdistan
4-Do not cut the wages of the workers;
5- The right to found independent workers organisations in Iraqi Kurdistan
6- The right to strike, protest and demonstrate for all workers in Iraqi Kurdistan.
7- Bread, work, wages and freedom for working people in Kurdistan
8- Dissolve the new measures reducing wages in Iraqi Kurdistan
Abroad Organisation
Worker-communist Party of Kurdistan (Iraq)
Please send your protest letter to KRG for them to meet the above demands.
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There was once a time when the mention of an RPG adventure would see players immediately prepare for an all-serious adventure, usually revolving around numerous factions, a war across the land, in-depth management systems and enough lore to outlive the Harry Potter books. Nowadays though, RPGs can come in all shapes and sizes, and having recently caught up with the rather exciting Costume Quest 2 all these years later, I was more than prepared to step into another cutesy and colourful world when Super Cane Magic ZERO arrived.
Super Cane Magic ZERO is a cartoon stylised adventure in which players roam an expansive world littered with story missions, comical characters… and lots and lots of things to throw. Eventually you'll be setting off to save the world though and that is where this hero story begins – after you've crashed into the world first that is.
To kick things off players choose from one of four available characters, each of which have slightly different stats and abilities. As you progress, there are many items that can be found and picked up that can change your stats, such as new gear or consumables that can give a variety of effects on stats. Some are permanent buffs, whilst others are just temporary.
Despite being an RPG game, the majority of the time is spent in combat and searching the world, and after progressing out of the opening area, you are let loose in a sprawling world that holds no hands as you search for your next objective. Of course searching around in any RPG game always has an element of excitement and adventure to it, and here, should you be keeping a close eye on signposts, it generally isn't too difficult to find your next area. However, blink and miss some bits, and there's always a chance you'll be left wandering aimlessly until you come across something else in the world that will side track you from your objective.
In terms of story, Super Cane Magic ZERO is very much like something you'd expect to hear from a child who's just whipped up a story that could only really be fulfilled in a Michael Bay movie. It's extravagant, it's wacky, and it's unique. But it is enjoyable, and should you want something that you can sink your teeth into, then chasing down a world destroying dog is certainly a good way to go.
As for the combat, the usual RPG feel is gone, with combat taking place in real time with the right stick aiming attacks whilst the R and ZR buttons are used for attacking and special abilities. The biggest part of combat however is the throwing. I'm not talking aiming a knife and throwing it like you've seen in all those parkour/combat games over the recent years, I'm talking any item you pick up, and throwing it. Maybe you will even want to throw the enemies themselves, as this is a great way to deal extra damage once you've knocked one down, and by pinging them off into surrounding walls, or enemies, you can even give up with weapons altogether!
Throwing isn't just for combat however, and should you see an item you want to interact with – such as a chest that may harbour hidden treasure – throwing it is a sure fire way to get the goods out.
Now when it comes to games of the RPG variety, we often tend to compare and the closest comparison for Super Cane Magic ZERO would be to call It a hyped-up old school Zelda game. The map is huge and packed with puzzles and paths to find and conquer, enemies litter the world as you progress and often you're left to figure things out on your own. Yet still it somehow manages to retain a unique feel to things. Something which is rarely seen in the expansive RPG genre these days.
The general crux of the game comes down to simply finding and completing puzzles, bashing enemies, looting and exploration; not to mention a fair dollop of dungeon crawling. None of it is really game changing, however it all comes together well enough that the whole experience is memorable, even if the story is a tad long.
Now there are two modes in place. Story mode can be played with up to four players, and Arena mode is a 2-4 player brawl. The latter is pretty much your typical Deathmatch type experience and whilst it isn't quite as exciting as the core Story, it does bring a competitive edge to what is otherwise a solely co-op adventure.
Away from gameplay and if you like retro, then this is a game that will scream retro from the rooftops. With an artistic old-skool feel to the soundtrack and visuals that paint a picture of classics such as Adventure Time, everything here is sure to bring back fond memories of some iconic games and TV programmes. You can also include some easter eggs and little nods to other known media which are hidden away for players to find.
Overall and if you like RPGs, but want something a little different to the usual overly serious tone of things, then Super Cane Magic ZERO on Nintendo Switch will be the one for you. It has humour, eye catching colours and a retro vibe from start to finish. Most importantly though, it brings enjoyable and wacky fun that can be enjoyed solo or with friends and in an adventure that brings so much to look at, playing with those friends is the best way to enjoy this one.
Rating: 4/5
Release date: May 2019
Price: £22.49
Formats: Nintendo Switch (Review)
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Since this is an issue that affected my family, I'm going to try and help build some awareness about breast cancer. In 2008, my beautiful Mother, passed away from metastatic breast cancer. By the time she was diagnosed, the disease had taken hold. Early detection is key to your survival! I can't stress that enough. Most of this information, I posted back in 2008, while my mom was still going through treatment. I decided to repost it as a way of getting back into the subject matter. Warning! Some of the pictures contained in this post are graphic and show how really ugly the disease is and how it affects a woman's breast.
The statistics are out there--and severely startling!!! Every year 200,000 women are diagnosed with breast cancer. Of those 200,000 women over 40,000 women die! Pretty depressing, huh?
Early detection of breast cancer is the key to survival. I know I said that already, but it bears repeating! Monthly self breast examinations and a yearly mammogram can save your life. The National Breast Cancer Foundation states that if a lump is found early and treated, the five year survival rate is 96%.
Those are pretty good odds, wouldn't you say? And speaking from experience of having a loved one who suffered from breast cancer, if my mother would have sought treatment sooner, she might even be alive today.
I found this great link. All you have to do is "click" on this button on the home page and then the sponsors will donate free mammograms to those that can't afford them! What a great deal that is! And so easy! Just a click of your mouse!
Also taken from this link are these facts:
-Every two minutes a woman is diagnosed with breast cancer.
-One woman in eight who lives to age 85 will develop breast cancer during her lifetime.
-Breast cancer is the leading cause of death in women between the ages of 40 and 55.
-Seventy percent of all breast cancers are found through breast self-exams. Not all lumps are detectable by touch. We recommend regular mammograms and monthly breast self-exams.
-Eight out of ten breast lumps are not cancerous. If you find a lump, don't panic-call your doctor for an appointment.
-Mammography is a low-dose X-ray examination that can detect breast cancer up to two years before it is large enough to be felt.
Here is a picture of a woman where the cancer has eaten up the tissue. Not sure what stage or type of breast cancer this is. But see how the tumors go up into her arm pit? She has definite lymph node involvement. This is extremely painful as you can imagine...
Again, here we have a very large tumor growing. This is to the left of the woman's breast, and there is a pretty good chance the lymph nodes are involved here, too.
In later posts, I will detail how to do a proper self breast exam. It is the tiny hardened nodules you need to be looking for signs of when you palpate (feel) your breast.
These two pictures are of "inflammatory" breast cancer. An extremely aggressive form of cancer. It is not characterized by the typical "lump" one looks for while doing a self-breast exam. Rather, it has pigmentation changes. Or, more easily understood, a type of rash.
If you see anything irregular, CALL YOUR DOCTOR IMMEDIATELY!!! What seems urgent to us, is not urgent to doctor's office staff. It does get frustrating when you want to make an appointment for something and you can't get in for weeks at a time. Then, you get in to see your primary doctor and he refers you to a "specialist" and it takes even longer! Time will be of the essance, so please...don't delay!
This is a subject I'll definitely be visiting again. I hope you'll stop by and maybe we'll learn more about this horrible disease together!
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Some construction professionals are scrambling for work, while others are up to their eyebrows without a minute to spare. When is marketing the most crucial?
The answer is (drum roll, please): all the time. When business slows down, marketing funds are usually the first to disappear. There's nothing wrong with cutting the fat, but slashing your marketing budget entirely won't move you forward. Invest in marketing in slow times to jump-start your business.
On the other hand, it's tempting to let marketing slide once you reach a healthy amount of revenue. But companies that keep growing know that marketing fuels the fire of sustained business growth.
Here's how to create a solid construction marketing strategy:
1. Know Who You Are
In business, knowing who you are is just as important as knowing who you aren't.
When cash flow is low, it's tempting to get creative with new streams of revenue. But a "Jack of all trades" approach won't get you far. Accepting business that's a poor fit eats up time and resources, so the additional revenue is hardly worth it.
To gain clarity, ask your happy customers why they like working with you. Notice any common themes? Use that insight to nail down the best customers for you (your target markets), and then develop marketing materials that speak to them.
2. Set Goals
Rock-solid, tangible marketing goals are the difference between a construction business that thrives and one that drifts aimlessly.
In today's competitive landscape, a day-to-day approach to business doesn't cut it. A marketing plan and business strategy go hand-in-hand. But without actionable marketing, business, and revenue goals, your organization is adrift, like a canoe without paddles.
To set sound, achievable goals, follow the time-tested marketing axiom "SMART":
- Specific: Zero in on a specific area, like winning more referral business.
- Measurable: Think less "pie in the sky" and more quantitative. For example: "We will increase referral business by 20% or $50,000 in the next quarter."
- Attainable: Increasing business by 30% in six months would be nice. But do you have the resources needed to get there? Your goals should be attainable given your skill level.
- Realistic: Increasing revenue by a million dollars would be fantastic. But is that even possible? Aim for goals that are ambitious, but realistic.
- Time-Bound: Every goal should come with a deadline. Once you've reached your timeline, check in. Did you meet or exceed your goals?
3. Measure, Test & Refine
Before you implement your marketing strategy, benchmark where you are. Take a snapshot of your revenue, sales, marketing budget and return on investment. Your marketing plan isn't set in stone. Any good strategy is dynamic and adaptable.
Along the way, measure improvements and refine as needed:
- Review your market analysis once annually
- Measure results continuously
- Review your marketing strategy and objectives, and adapt them (if needed) once a year
- Monitor your competitive environment, but don't lose sight of your goals
When in doubt, consider hiring a business or marketing consultant to fine-tune your strategy and help you develop a plan of attack.
Over To You
About The Author
Todd Reed, National Market Manager
As National Market Manager at Graybar, Todd's goal is to find the best products and solutions to help contractors work more efficiently, stay safe on the job, and win more productive and profitable business.
Sources & Credits
Udemy Blog: Marketing Objectives As SMART Goals And Part Of The Marketing Plan
Construction Business Owner: 6 Steps to Develop an Effective Construction Marketing Plan


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Former Pakistani PM, Benazir Bhutto, assassinated
Benazir Bhutto, the first Islamic World female national leader was assassinated today at large gathering of her supporters by a suicide bomber. At least 14 others were also killed in the attack. The number of wounded people was not immediately known, but video of the scene showed ambulances lined up to take many to hospitals.
"All I can say is we're devastated, it's a total shock", said Bhutto's husband in a statement issued from his home in Dubai.
This was not the first time that Bhutto has been targeted by terror attacks. The day she returned to Pakistan after eight years of self-imposed exile, here motorcade was attacked, killing 136 people.
Morever, "This attack came just hours after four supporters of former Pakistan PM Nawaz Sharif died when members of another political party opened fire on them at a rally near the Islamabad airport", CNN.
Thursday's attacks occurred less than two weeks after Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf lifted an emergency declaration he said was necessary to secure Pakistan from terrorists.
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Hat Tip: PZ Myers, Pharyngula.
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Bhutto: A tool of the US, in life and in death.
A two time Prime Minister, twice ousted from office under claims of corruption and massive mis-management. Survived by her three children, one who believed her to be a murderer. 19 year old son likely to continue the general trend of succeeding his mother – even though that is completely undemocratic – as the leader of the Pakistan People Party (The Pee Party) or (The P.P.P). Election is January 8th.
Terrorist Spokesman: "Wasn't us, we wouldn't hit a women"
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A lovely winter main course. Savory and sweet come together, creating the perfect marriage of flavors. Crispy-fried tempeh completes this dish that your family and friend will love.
Makes 3-4 servings
Extra virgin olive oil
8 ounces tempeh, sliced into 2-inch rectangles
2 teaspoons fresh rosemary, leaves removed from stalks
1 teaspoon coriander seeds
2 cloves fresh garlic, peeled, left whole
1 red onion, diced
sea salt
½ cup dry red wine
½ cup unsweetened dried cherries, coarsely chopped
1 ½ cups spring or filtered water
1 teaspoon kuzu or arrowroot, dissolved in small amount cold water
2 tablespoons unsweetened cherry preserves
grated zest of ½ fresh lemon
Place enough oil to cover the bottom of a skillet. Turn heat to high and when the oil is hot, lay the tempeh slices in the hot oil, searing them, turning once to brown both sides. Set aside.
Place rosemary, coriander and garlic in a mortar and pestle and grind into a paste. Set aside.
Place a small amount oil and onion in a deep skillet and turn heat to medium. When the onions begin to sizzle, add a pinch of salt and sauté for 2 minutes. Add wine and rosemary paste and sauté for 2 minutes more. Add dried cherries, water and season to taste with salt. Cover and cook for 7-10 minutes. Add fried tempeh, cover and cook for 3-4 minutes more. Stir in dissolved kuzu and cherry preserves and cook, stirring, until a glaze forms over the dish. Transfer to a serving platter and sprinkle with grated lemon zest.
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On 3 April 1817, a cobbler in Almondsbury in Gloucestershire, England, met an apparently disoriented young woman with exotic clothes, who was speaking a language no one could understand. The cobbler's wife took her to the Overseer of the Poor, who left her in the hands of the local county magistrate, Samuel Worrall, who lived in Knole Park. Worrall and his American-born wife Elizabeth could not understand her either; all they could determine was that she called herself 'Caraboo' and that she was interested in Chinese imagery. They sent her to the local inn, where she identified a drawing of a pineapple with the word 'ananas,' which means pineapple in many Indo-European languages, and insisted on sleeping on the floor. Samuel Worrall declared she was a beggar and should be taken to Bristol and tried for vagrancy.
During her imprisonment, a Portuguese sailor named Manuel Eynesso (or Enes) said he knew the language and translated her story. According to Enes, she was Princess Caraboo from the island of Javasu in the Indian Ocean. She had been captured by pirates and after a long voyage she had jumped overboard in the Bristol Channel and swam ashore.
The Worralls brought Caraboo back to their home. For the next ten weeks, this representative of exotic royalty was a favourite of the local dignitaries. She used a bow and arrow, fenced, swam naked and prayed to a god, whom she termed Alla-Tallah. She acquired exotic clothing and a portrait made of her was reproduced in local newspapers. Her authenticity was attested to by a Dr Wilkinson who identified her language using Edmund Fry's Pantographia and stated that marks on the back of her head were the work of oriental surgeons.
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Eventually the truth came out. A boarding-house keeper, Mrs. Neale, recognised her from the picture in the Bristol Journal and informed her hosts. The would-be princess was actually a cobbler's daughter, Mary Baker (née Willcocks) from Witheridge, Devon. She had been a servant girl in various places all over England but had not found a place to stay. She had invented a fictitious language out of imaginary and gypsy words and created an exotic character. The strange marks on her skin were the scars from a crude cupping operation in a poorhouse hospital in London. The British press had a field day at the expense of the duped rustic middle-class.
Her hosts arranged for her to leave for Philadelphia, and she departed 28 June 1817.
On 13 September 1817, a letter was printed in the Bristol Journal, allegedly from Sir Hudson Lowe, the official in charge of the exiled Emperor Napoleon on St. Helena. It claimed that after the Philadelphia-bound ship bearing the beautiful Caraboo had been driven close to the island by a tempest, the intrepid princess had impulsively cut herself adrift in a small boat, rowed ashore and so fascinated the emperor that he was applying to the Pope for a dispensation to marry her. The story is unverified.
In the USA, she briefly continued her role, appearing on-stage at the Washington Hall, Philadelphia, as 'Princess Caraboo,' but with little success. Her last contact with the Worralls was a letter from New York in November 1817, in which she complained of her notoriety. She appears to have returned to Philadelphia until she finally left America in 1824, returning to England.
In 1824 she returned to Britain and briefly exhibited herself in New Bond Street, London, as 'Princess Caraboo' but her act was no longer very successful. She may have briefly travelled to France and Spain in her guise but soon returned to England. In September 1828, she was living as a widow in Bedminster under the name Mary Burgess (in reality the name of a cousin). There she married a Richard Baker, and gave birth to a daughter the next year. In 1839, she was selling leeches to the Bristol Infirmary Hospital. She died on 24 December 1864 and was buried in the Hebron Road cemetery in Bristol.
The hoax was the basis of the 1994 film Princess Caraboo, written by Michael Austin and John Wells, which added some fictional incidents to the true story.


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Avella, E. and Herrera, A. and Boles, E. (2000) MESOAMERICAN BIOLOGICAL CORRIDORS PROJECT. SELVA MAYA PRIORITY AREA REPORT, PRELIMINARY DRAFT, BELIZE. Technical Report.
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System Change and Zero Tolerance will Ensure Better Compliance
It is commonly agreed that Indians are not a very law abiding people, although the individual Indian is probably as civic minded and interested in doing good as anyone in any other country. Then why do people in India behave the way they do, ie with scant regard for rules and laws? There are many answers that will be offered in answer to this question, and most of them will end up in the dubious and murky domains of culture, habits and social mores.
But, there is a more reliable way of looking at the problem, and that is using the systems approach. In systems theory, there is a maxim: structure determines behaviour. In this view, the structure of a system, and the way decisions are taken as a result of the operation of that system, will determine the way a component part of that system behaves.
If people in India disregard the rules and laws, and try to find short cuts, there must be a reason for them to behave in this way. That can range from recent history of behaviour, the way incentives in the system are structured to reward certain kinds of behaviour, the poor enforcement of the system and so on. The fact that this is the present condition should at least enable us to agree that the system works in such a way as to not only not penalize non-compliance but tacitly reward non-compliance. We can see examples of egregious operation of this perverse system every day, on the streets, in offices, in shops etc. Rarely do we see rule-based behaviour anywhere. In fact, she who follows the proper procedure or rule looks foolish because no one else is doing so. This leads to the absurd situation where the person following the rule becomes the cause of another problem, because all the others around are trying to game the system, and to get their work done somehow. A look at any traffic block and the response of commuters will explain what I mean.
We make light of this trait, and have even coined a word to normalize this kind of behaviour: we call this disregard for rules and processes 'jugaad', which freely translated from Hindi means a resourceful approach to problem-solving. But this definition is incomplete. The word means a resourceful approach to problem-solving unhampered by the need to adhere to any standards or rules or constraints, the only restriction being what you can get away with! In that sense, 'jugaad' is a bit like the curate's egg, and can be likened to Victorian morality, which a wag defined as 'lack of opportunity'!
What are the consequences of this 'Indian' approach to rules and laws? In every day life, this reflects in hundreds of unnecessary and egregious short cuts ranging from 'looping' an electric wire and thereby bypassing the fuse instead of replacing the broken fuse, shoving two ends of a naked wire into an electric socket instead of looking for a proper plug, using any tool that is handy for a task instead of looking for the right tool, tying a broken part instead of replacing it with a new one etc. In all these cases, the intention is probably that these fixes are temporary, but once the job is done, the focus shifts to other urgent matters, and the need to replace the defective part with a proper part is forgotten. Engineers on the shop floor take pride in pointing out such examples of such 'ingenuity' in getting a job done despite a breakage, using whatever material that was at hand. We tend to reward and appreciate such initiative, and value it higher than the systematic approach to preventive maintenance and problem solving that will yield better results.
This attitude leads to such sloppy practices becoming commonplace and normal, with the inevitable consequences on performance. It is therefore not surprising that few Indian products have earned a reputation for quality and reliability. These jury-rigged solutions always perform below standards, and affect not only quality, but also the cost of the system. Despite very low wages, cheap input costs and low-cost components, Indian industry has to struggle with the highest cost of manufacture anywhere in the world. The desire of the Indian businessman to get the problem solved instantly and without consideration of the proper way to do it means that he is constantly looking for shortcuts. That opens the door for pervasive corruption at every stage of the process flow and supply chain. This cannot be rooted out by better policing alone, but will need to be accompanied by a system change.
An excellent example of what a system change can accomplish is the highway transportation system in India. The Indian road transportation system is probably among the most inefficient in the world, with a cost of transportation (in terms of cost per ton kilometer) several times that of the US! Despite the higher quality and more expensive trucks, and the much higher wages of truck drivers, which are the main components of transportation cost, costs in India are much higher than in the US. This is the result of the combination of several factors, including the condition of highways, the number of stops during a journey due to checkposts, bribes to be paid at every checkpost, distance travelled in a day by a truck etc. Simplifying the system, removing the large number of checkposts, improving the highways, improving the quality of the trucks, and having better trained drivers will all help improve these various parameters, which will combine to drive down costs.
How do we then start to improve matters in India, across various domains and sectors, each of which have different issues, and which require different system solutions? We will notice that the common factor to all sectors and domains is the Indian disregard for rules and laws, for the processes prescribed for getting anything done. This is at the root of the problem. This must therefore become the focus of any improvement project, and must be addressed directly. It is true that the Indian road transportation sector has started to show significant improvement in performance and outcomes, despite there being no aggressive campaign against corruption. This has been accomplished by making rules simpler, enforcing these rules strictly and enabling truck owners and businesses to quickly see the advantages of following the rules and regulations.
A similar approach must be taken in all other sectors. In every case, a systems approach must be adopted to identify the system that would work best in terms of clearly measurable outcomes. After that, the system should be put in the public domain in unambiguous and clear and easily understandable language. This should be widely disseminated, and explained through training programmes. At the same time, the enforcement arm of the regulatory body should equip itself with training and the necessary powers to act against non-compliance. There are several examples already in India of what can be accomplished by such an approach. One process that is notorious for corruption in every State, and causes a huge loss of revenue to the government, is the registration of sale transactions. A combination of computerization of processes, fixing deadlines for completion of each task, and accountability for such tasks on specific officials, will help remove the uncertainty and ambiguity, without which corruption will not be able to thrive.
When we got to a bank to withdraw money or carry out another transaction, these tasks are done speedily using the teller system. These days, these tasks are done even without having to go to the bank. Why cannot the tasks like getting a house number, effecting a property sale or transfer, getting a ration card, an income certificate, and all the other quotidian tasks that citizens have to routinely get done, be enabled in such a simple manner? It should only be necessary for the applicant to provide the documentary support needed, which should be clearly specified. Once that is done, the action to issue the certificate or document should follow. The use of digital technology and online platforms now makes these tasks even simpler.
If an entrepreneur wants to set up a business and wants to construct a factory, what he needs to know is the rules and regulations that govern the design, layout and construction of such factories. These should be available in an easy to understand and accessible manner. He should then ensure that his engineers and architect design and plan the factory in compliance with the rules, and should be free to start construction once the application together with supporting documents are submitted. Once the factory is completed, he should notify the concerned department which will then inspect the factory for compliance. If the factory complies, he will be permitted to start operations. If it does not, he will have to correct the defects pointed out in the inspection, and again undergo an inspection. The power to delay is the biggest source of corruption, as the interest clock of the businessman is ticking. The recent example of the tragic suicide of a businessman in Kannur due to delays by the local body is still fresh in public memory. That can be solved by having a deadline clause that will stipulate that the permission will be deemed to have been given unless a decision is taken within a certain specified time.
Therefore, by a series of simple system changes, it is possible for the present poor state of affairs of administrative processes to be significantly improved, with huge benefits to business and industry. But, a necessary condition to ensure that these benefits accrue to the economy and society, is to have a regulatory and governance approach that is based on zero tolerance for even small violations of the rules and laws, by both the businessman and the official. This is crucial: every little transgression should be dealt with when it happens, and with zero tolerance. That will ensure that small transgressions and mistakes are noticed and acted on, and not dismissed as minor and unimportant. What will happen if action is not taken is that these will expand to fill the frame, and will become the biggest sources of corruption. The top person in each department should send down the message that, together with simplification and transparency, no deviation from rules and processes by any official will be tolerated. Similarly, business people will know that not only is it no longer possible to 'fix' a problem by paying some money to an official, but instead that a heavy penalty will have to be incurred.
It is this zero tolerance of small offences and deviations from the rules and laws that enabled William Bratton, the celebrated Chief of Police of New York, to sharply reduce crime in what was once regarded as the crime capital of the USA. He focused on making the streets and public transport systems safe, and on ensuring traffic rules were followed. By cracking down on every little infringement, he made the average New Yorker who had become cynical and had a contempt for the law, regain their respect for the law without which no rule-based society can function. That was the platform on which he then built a culture of compliance, by motivating his police officers to go out and enforce the law. He did not go after just the big fish, which is another strategy some others have adopted, with mixed results. He chose instead to have a policy of zero tolerance on every little infringement.
What we need in this country is a government that not only goes after the big fish, and sees that they do not get away by gaming the system, or abusing the public faith in institutions, or looting public funds by inflating project costs, funding these projects using public money in banks, and then not repaying loans. That must of course be done, and is part of the job of government. But, they should equally importantly, crack down on every little parking offence and traffic violation, so that the citizen is constantly reminded of his responsibility in ensuring that the system works.


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The United States During Reconstruction and the Gilded Age, 1865-1896
By Richard White
Illustrated. 941 pp. Oxford. $35
"The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today," which Mark Twain co-wrote with Charles Dudley Warner, isn't much of a novel but it has two strong features. First, a guileful character: the backwoods beauty Laura Hawkins, who falls in with a corrupt United States senator, connives her way to the top of Washington high society, beats a murder rap after a sensational trial, then suddenly dies of remorse (a fate the authors' wives evidently insisted upon). Second, its excellent title, which remains American historians' standard label for the fourth quarter of the 19th century.
"The Republic for Which It Stands," Richard White's new history of that age, as well as the Reconstruction decade that preceded it, is a capacious and forceful book with a dull title — the inverse of Twain and Warner's satire. Instead of one arresting character, White develops dozens. (Among them are two Henry Adamses, the dyspeptic historian whom you know and a Louisiana ex-slave who courageously fought white terrorists before he encouraged freed men and women to migrate en masse, first to Liberia, then to Kansas.) The Gilded Age will keep its name, but White's book ought to worsen its already dismal reputation for sordidness and rapacity.
White, who teaches at Stanford, is one of the nation's most gifted historians, the author of several important studies of the American West, including a scathing exposé of the giant post-Civil War transcontinental railroads. Like that book, this one, the latest installment in the multivolume Oxford History of the United States, is handsomely written and dense in detail. It is also laced with an irony that sometimes focuses and sometimes plays lightly off White's outrage at the spoliation he finds almost everywhere he looks.
The age was cynical but White's book, allowing for a lapse or two, is not. This is because he is drawn to what he describes (in a phrase borrowed from the book's unsecret hero, the novelist and editor William Dean Howells) as "the common" — the striving middle- and working-class America of shops and neighborhoods, churches and trade unions. These realms, too, were part of the Gilded Age. In mostly unsung ways, they expanded the public good, driven by the promise of a free-labor democracy purged of the oligarchic slavery that died with the Confederacy.
But that promise, White demonstrates, turned out to be treacherous. The ambiguous liberal ideals of contract freedom and self-regulation that helped eradicate slavery became instruments for brute and chaotic corporate power. With the ex-slaves betrayed and the Indians conquered at last, an "uncommon" America emerged, characterized by neither the imperatives of creative destruction nor even simple greed as much as by extravagance, mismanagement and predatory flimflam. Risk-taking and rugged individualism, big business's eternally self-proclaimed virtues, were in extremely short supply at the top; Gilded Age fortunes sprang from government subsidies, insider tips and, above all, the corruption required to get these favors. "Corruption suffused government and the economy," White writes; it was not a distortion of the system but the system's lifeblood.
The book begins with an evocative description of the public mourning and funeral of Abraham Lincoln, whose tragic shade haunts every chapter. Lincoln would be revered as the Union's savior and the Great Emancipator, but his envisaged "new birth of freedom" would soon enough be suppressed. White treats the decade after Appomattox (with a nod to the historian Elliott West) as the Greater Reconstruction, in which the federal government aimed to clear out the Far West as well as tame the defeated South by inculcating the virtues of free labor and economic development. White also suggests that the venality and political feebleness that ensured Reconstruction's overthrow in the South marked the actual commencement of the Gilded Age.
Linking the subjugation of the Indians with the government's treatment (and, finally, abandonment) of the ex-slaves is meant to provoke recognition of the limits of American equality after the Civil War. Yet it leads White to pass too quickly over the fruits of Southern Reconstruction before its downfall in the mid-1870s. Backdating the Gilded Age to 1865 may explain White's odd retrieval of the traditional malicious caricature of Ulysses S. Grant — the president who, with all his flaws and errors, did break the Ku Klux Klan — as an inept, money-struck coddler of corruption.
The narrative improves at the Panic of 1873, a Wall Street disaster that initiated a five-year depression and that temporarily disgraced the Republican Party. The panic hit the railroads especially hard and helped clear the way for new titans of industry, not least the pious oilman John D. Rockefeller, a steward of the Lord who, White notes, "adamantly believed that 'God gave me my money.'" The depression led to drastic wage cuts and stricter work rules, which touched off the great railroad strike of 1877, pitting entire working-class communities against police, state militia and federal troops. Shaken respectables thought the Paris Commune had crossed the Atlantic. The Rev. Henry Ward Beecher admonished the poor to heed God's will and "reap the misfortunes of inferiority."
Misfortune multiplied over the next two decades while well-connected financiers and industrialists reaped staggering fortunes until an even greater depression hit in 1893. White's account of it all is a masterly historical synthesis. American living standards briefly improved, then hit bottom after a long-term decline: In 1880, the average American-born white boy of 10 could expect to live to age 48 and grow to 5 feet 5 inches, considerably less than his Revolutionary-era great-grandfathers. And the figures were worse for blacks. (Immigrants were not included in the measurements.) In the growing big cities — where immigrants, White writes, "were creating the American future" — overcrowding, trash, sewage, human waste, animal waste and decaying carcasses bred contamination and disease. Larcenous local political machines, feeding off the graft of fee-based (which is to say semi-privatized) government, were no help; the party hacks and spoilsmen at the top of national politics produced leaders like President Rutherford B. Hayes, a man, in White's view, "who thought that attracting opposition from nearly every direction meant that he was right."
"Common" America erupted again, in the furious strikes and local political campaigns of 1886, collectively termed the Great Upheaval, and in the labor wars at Andrew Carnegie's Homestead steelworks in 1892 and the railroad car magnate George Pullman's eponymous company town in 1894, all part of a crescendo of unrest unmatched in the industrializing world. White's handling of these set pieces is especially strong, sympathetic to the commoners yet not without wit (as in his appraisal of the anarchist terrorists, "who rarely missed an opportunity to make a bad situation worse"). But the labor struggles are just a big slice of the story. There is almost nothing about the era that White fails to treat with intelligence and style, as he ranges easily from the dissipation of classical liberalism to the Lakota Ghost Dance and Wounded Knee to the antimorality tale of the accused ax-murderer Lizzie Borden.
White's book ends in 1896, with the debacle of the agrarian Populist movement and reconsolidation of a Republican Party that now worshiped the gold standard and protective tariffs. White turns to Howells to make sense of it all, and finds him "surprisingly hopeful," glimpsing an American future that is democratic and egalitarian. But there was also, it needs remembering, the Howells who in 1894 wrote, only in part satirically, that "inequality is as dear to the American heart as liberty itself." Here is the constant American struggle, and Richard White has related a decisive part of its history with stamina and skill.


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Two sides with similar Round 1 story lines will meet in the 'Match of the Round' in the third week of PlayStation®4 NPL Northern NSW.
Match of the Round
Edgeworth Eagles v Adamstown Rosebud
6 pm Saturday 25th March at Jack McLaughlan Oval
Last Meeting: Heritage Cup 2017 Final: Adamstown 1 (3) Edgeworth 1 (2) at Lake Macquarie Regional Football Facility.
Ladder: Edgeworth 7th (1pt), Adamstown 4th (1)
Last Start:
Edgeworth – Drew Magic 1-1 (h)
Adamstown – Drew Jets 4-4 (a)
Bottom Line
Both Edgeworth and Adamstown were required to fight back from a goal down and a man down in their opening round encounters and neither will want to go through that again.
In a re-match of the Northern NSW 2017 Heritage Cup decider, Edgeworth gets their chance to avenge the defeat from just three weeks ago. It was a tight match that afternoon with Paul Bitz the hero for Adamstown in a penalty shootout after a 1-1 fulltime scoreline.
However, that result will mean little come Saturday, with Edgeworth seemingly back in their groove. The Eagles fighting qualities were no more evident than in their opening match against Broadmeadow where after going a man and a goal down they still managed to fight back into the contest and claim a valuable point.
Both Edgeworth and Adamstown missed out on their round two match-ups against Lambton and Hamilton respectively and both will be eager to get back on the pitch and claim some points.
Key: Will the loss of Robbie Turnbull's experience at the back, will it affect a younger Rosebud's outfit?
Newcastle Jets Youth v Maitland Magpies
2.30 pm Saturday 25th March at Cooks Square Park
Last Meeting: Round 13, 2016: Jets Youth 1 Maitland 1 at Cooks Square Park.
Ladder: Jets Youth 5th (1), Maitland 9th (0)
Last Start:
Jets Youth – Drew Rosebud 4-4 (h)
Maitland – Bye
Bottom Line
It's been a long wait for Maitland to finally get their season underway and they will be hoping for some sunny weather over the coming days or it may take even long. A battle against a young and fit Jets Youth side will provide a test for the Magpies in Phil Dando's first match as head coach.
As they did last season the Jets Youth surprised many in their opening round clash with the Rosebud's competing well and claiming a 4-4 draw. Clayton Zane probably would have been a little disappointed to not have taken the three points against a side down to ten men for the final 15 minutes of the contest.
It was the Jets' Achilles heel last year and it was the issue in round one – their defence. They can score goals with ease, but it's keeping tight at the back which has been the issue. Against a Maitland side with a strong defence, the Jets may not get as many chances in front of goal and leaking goals will cost them against the Magpies.
Key: How well can the Jets defend? Against a Maitland side who give away few chances themselves the Jets backline will need to be on song to keep their side in the contest.
Broadmeadow Magic v Valentine Phoenix
7 pm Saturday 25th March at Magic Park
Last Meeting: Round 16, 2016: Broadmeadow 1 Valentine 2 at Johnson Park.
Ladder: Broadmeadow 1st (4) Valentine 3rd (3)
Last Starts:
Broadmeadow – Won Bears 2-0 (h), Drew Eagles 1-1 (a)
Valentine – Won Blues 2-1 (a)
Bottom Line
Broadmeadow will look to quell Valentine's strong recent record against them when they meet at Magic Park on Saturday night.
In 2016, the highly-fancied Magic outfit could only claim one point from a possible six against the Phoenix, with a 3-3 draw in round seven followed by one of the upsets of the season in round 16 where the Phoenix beat Broadmeadow 2-1.
Broadmeadow will need to be on their toes against a Valentine side with plenty of pace and be especially careful of American import Jalon Brown who impressed against Charlestown in the opening round. The Phoenix's counter-attack caused the Blues all sorts of problems that evening and you would expect more of the same against Magic.
Key: Peter Haynes (Magic) and Jalon Brown (Phoenix). Both have been influential for their respective sides this season and their impact will be vital.
Charlestown City Blues v Lake Macquarie City Roosters
2.30 pm Sunday 26th March at Lisle Carr Oval
Last Meeting: Round 17, 2014: Charlestown 2 Lake Macquarie 1 at Lisle Carr Oval.
Ladder: Charlestown 11th (0), Lake Macquarie 6th (1)
Last Start:
Charlestown – Lost Phoenix 1-2 (h)
Lake Macquarie – Drew Bears 2-2 (a)
Bottom Line
Expect plenty of goals in this match-up with the last six matches seeing an average of just over five goals scored. While there have been goals aplenty, Charlestown won five of those six matches but only outscored the Roosters 18-13 so all the matches were tight high-scoring affairs.
Both coaches were disappointed after their opening round showings and would like to turn it around here. While a loss wouldn't be fatal at this early stage neither sides would want a slow start especially with tougher matches to come against the noted 'big sides'.
Charlestown competed well for most of their round one clash with Valentine despite being a man down for the final 35 minutes of the match. The injury to Corey Atkinson just before the break hurt the Blues and the wet weather will give him an extra week to recover from a nasty eye injury.
Key: Desire. Conditions will be tough for football on Sunday afternoon in Charlestown so expect a hard slog.
Weston Bears v Lambton Jaffas
2.30 pm Sunday 26th March at Rockwell Automation Park
Last Meeting: Round 18, 2016: Lambton 4 Weston 1 at Arthur Edden Oval.
Ladder: Weston 8th (1) Lambton 2nd (3)
Last Stars:
Weston – Lost Magic 0-2 (a), Drew Roosters 2-2 (h)
Lambton – Won Olympic 3-2 (a)
Bottom Line
Lambton will be buoyed by their opening round come from behind win against fellow title contenders Hamilton and the wet weather over the weekend would have done little to dampen their spirits.
They face a Weston outfit who competed hard for 90 minutes against Broadmeadow in the only match in round two, but in the end, a red card early in the second half to centre-back Jordan Jackson crippled their chances. With the second meeting in a week against a side expected to finish in the top four will provide another good test for the young Bears and at home they should make like difficult for the Jaffas.
With the likes of Joel Griffiths, Jobe Wheelhouse and Michael Kantarovski, the Jaffas have plenty of Hyundai A-League experience across the park. Combine that with the speed of Luke Remington and Ridge Marpu down the flanks and Weston will have plenty to worry about. As well as Pat Brown – the hero of their opening round win – hasn't even been mentioned.
Key: Weston will need to play for the full 90 minutes. Lapses hurt them against Broadmeadow last weekend and they can't afford them against a lethal Jaffas frontline.
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Wednesday, March 9, 2011
Deal Or No Deal
"Born This Way" isn't played out just yet.
Lady Gaga reportedly was going to release an exclusive special edition of her upcoming album featuring "Born This Way" to Target - but only if they severed ties with the anti-LGBT politicians they support.
However, the only ties severed were between Lady Gaga and Target. A close friend of Gaga told the Advocate that she "didn't see eye to eye on Target's policy of political donations and how they affect the LGBT community."
Kudos to you Ms. Gaga for standing your ground. It's always encouraging to see musicians putting their beliefs before money. Hopefully this will convince Target that supporting anti-LGBT groups is doing more damage than good (duh)... but I won't be holding my breath.
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But in Luke 12:51 Jesus said; "Suppose ye that I am come to give peace on earth?" Jesus answer them "Nay; but rather division."
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After graduating high school the world is open to you and the possibilities to enter any career you can think of. For most entering into medicine is a way to help people and to give back to the community. Finding a specialized education such as a pharmacy school in Salt Lake City will start you down the road to your rewarding career. For those who like many don't like school here are a few tips that you can use to improve your learning process.
Take notes
Taking notes will be your friend. Too often than not we don't take enough notes or don't really review what it is we write. Some people will never review their notes because they are so disorganized that it will take twice as long to decipher what it is you wrote than it is worth doing.
Online research
Doing your own online research is key to understanding the material you need to know. When going to school you will be given a few pages of a book to read and the information is written in such a way only the author understands what in the world they wanted to say. This is where going online can be beneficial.
When starting your online research, use sites like YouTube to find videos on a specific topic. Simply type in what it is you want to learn about and see what comes up. When watching these videos take notes and reference them to what you have learned in class. Also, don't rely on just one video you will want to watch two or three to get different perspectives and tidbits of information.
Type questions into Google
When using Google type in the questions your instructor wants you to answer. Generally, there are other students online who have taken that class or may have encountered that question before. When you get your results read some of these answers, additional questions that they may have had and more. When you are done compile all of this information into a clear and concise format that you understand and can reference for later use.
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Going vertical in Kenya
Increasing land productivity by stacking up plants vertically is not new. Popular in Victorian times with the use of strawberry pots to force indoor, out-of-season strawberries and in modern-day landscaped gardens using a variety of vertical growing systems, vertical gardens for food production offer numerous advantages. Briefly these include:
- Increased production per unit area (up to six fold)
- Efficient on time, labour and water
- Provision of good agricultural nutrition
- Can be accessed by all
- Low land requirement (as low as 3 sq meters).
How we got into vertical garden bags in Kenya is by accident. We were running a company (Real IPM; realipm.com) in Kenya and employed about 100 people in the year 2010. We had a staff canteen and provided lunch. We were concerned about their rather limited diet: many Kenyans just eat ugali (maize meal) and sukuma wiki (kale). As two horticulturists, we thought we could add variety and improve the nutrition of our staff by showing them different things to grow and eat. We had some spare land, and out of this developed the kitchen garden. However, our staff at home often did not have spare land to cultivate and therefore Louise began to develop ideas around the vertical bag garden. With a lot of trial and error a reproducible formula was developed for growing a range of crops in vertical bag gardens. What developed initially as an idea for our staff to take home soon began to generate external interest and people wanted to buy the bags. Some of the key components of the bags' success are as follows.
Bag material should be resistant to UV light. Recycled fertiliser bags will soon disintegrate. A local shade-net manufacturer was contacted, and today they are made of shading netting with a seven-year guarantee. Currently we have three full-time seamstresses (Figure 1) sowing the bags to the various designs we sell.
Getting the nutrition and growing media right. These bags will be producing leafy vegetables for seven to nine months, so getting the growing media right at the beginning is critical. Constructing and filling the bags so they remain stable and upright. This is definitely an art. Bag filling needs training, and an instructional booklet was prepared to show potential vertical bag farmers how to prepare their bags. This featured in an episode of Shamba Chef (Shamba Chef, 2017.
Season 1, Episode 10: Mama Njoki, Limuru.)
Seeing is believing. You can talk the talk, but the belief is when the potential bag farmer sees the productive bag. At our farm, vertical bags are shown in full production at various ages (Figures 2 and 3) all year round. The crops suitable for growing on the sides of the bags are mainly leafy vegetables (eg spinach, kale, amaranth), while in the top of the bag the choice is much more varied. Interestingly, as we are on the equator, all sides of the bag perform very evenly as no side is shaded, unlike locations more distant from the equator.
Financial viability. Whether the potential grower wants one bag or 50 bags, the conversation quickly turns to what it costs, how much water is needed, how much labour is required, and what the returns will be. At the outset we had to have the economics of the vertical bag gardens clearly defined. Our company (Real IPM) is not an NGO or subsidised operation. The manufacture, promotion and selling of vertical bag gardens was a sideline to our main business (production of biological control agents), yet the activity still had to cover its costs. Over time, the bag-selling soon began to function as a small business activity within our main business. Today we sell not only the bags, but also the plantlets, irrigation kits and environmentally friendly products used to control pests and diseases. The demand for these bags surprised even us and, as seen in Figure 4, sales continue to increase. Clearly we have been proactive in creating demand through demonstrations, local TV features and active social media such as Facebook (@RealipmCo). Our customers are very varied, although urban-based customers make up the majority. Clients have
included growers buying 10+ bags to establish their own vegetable-growing businesses, and urban middle-class customers who buy a single, small, pre-planted 'balcony bag' they can put in the boot of their car and eventually place on their veranda.
Louise and Henry Wainwright
The Real IPM Company (K) Ltd
This article first appeared in Ag4Dev, Vol 34, pages 34-35. in 2018.)
Read more about vertical bags on our website.
4 thoughts on "Going vertical in Kenya"
Iam very greatful to you I have my fetch vegetables outside my rent house ,I hope many pple can follow ur advice and buy at least one vertical bag.
Hello, I'm very interested in your growing bags. Please confirm the price in USD, are you also able to ship overseas? I am living in Papua New Guinea, an island in the Pacific Ocean just north of Australia. Thanks
I need 20 large bags your company shipping to south africa


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Here is one of the video's we put together for the Summer Shock Hop we were part of this year at the Flamingo Cantina that benefited Kids in a New Groove. Music in the video is by The Phantomatics with pieces of The Ghost Storys, Turbo 350 , Danger*Cakes and Deadtown. Our events videographer, Justin Saenz, out did himself with the video productions of what he shot that night. The second video is footage with live music by Deadtown. Drop a comment on the site if you dig it! You can also find our photos by Zach Hatchet of the event by clicking HERE. Enjoy the video and see you at the next Racketeer Robot event!
That's right. The Halloween Man himself invited Racketeer Robot to come out and set up a table at the Summer Shock Hop. The event is for a great cause benefiting Kids in the Groove. There will be five hot bands, an even HOTTER pin-up contest, dancing, and creative local vendors (like your boys at RackRobo), all for five bucks!
The event will be @ Flamingo Cantina on Sat. Aug. 27th
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The pair extends strong rally into second straight day, as fading concerns over North Korea / Hurricane Irma's impact drastically reduced safe-haven demand and pound got additionally inflated by upbeat UK inflation numbers.
The cross dented target at 145.70 (daily cloud top) on today's strong acceleration higher and may extend recovery rally on sustained break above the cloud.
The price is currently riding on the wave C (from 141.18 trough) of five-wave cycle from 139.30 (24 Aug low) which could extend towards its Fibo138.2% Expansion at 146.18 and 146.80 (03 Aug lower top) in extension.
Daily studies turned into full bullish setup and are supportive for further advance.
However, overbought conditions suggest corrective action in the near term (no signal yet), as daily cloud is narrowing and will twist next week that may also attract for stronger pullback.
Initial support lies at 114.79 (broken FE 100.0%), followed by session low /55SMA at 143.90 and rising daily Tenkan-sen at 143.45.
Key near-term support lies at 143.25 (daily cloud base/Fibo 38.2% of 139.30/145.71 ascend).
Res: 145.70, 146.18, 146.80, 147.05
Sup: 144.79, 144.19, 143.90, 143.45


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SDPD to LED lightbars!
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SDPD to LED lightbars!
Just spotted a midcity radio car, brand new equipment. Came complete with a new lightbar setup, led lightbar similar to the ones SO uses. More to follow.
Those LED's bars cost about $1300, whereas incandescence cost about $700. However, the benefits may out weight the costs. Depends on the maintenance.nobody33 wrote:I think there are like five six different LED light bars we are testing. K9 has a couple, northeast, midcity, gangs, all have one too. The midcity one is my favorite. I don't like the all white one. I think it's ugly.
All he new cars have at least the LED rear deck lights.
I'd be interested to see how its working out with city shops and the LED traffic signals. The LED units don't "burn" out, however, I'm sure we've all seen them, even as soon as a year after installation.. Spazzing out.. flickering, a quarter of the matrix burned out... On the surface LED sounds like the way to go, however, LED matrix drop in replacements are infinitely more complicated than a single incandescent setup. There are probably a few hundred solder joints in each unit as well as numerous voltage regulation components. There are circuit boards behind the leds. The replacements, while not for burned out leds, could be significant in cost. However, the energy savings might just surpass that. Think about it.. Everywhere in the city at every intersection there were numerous bulbs, maybe a few hundred watts, burning all the time (either red,green or yellow)... that musta been a hell of an SDGE bill. Don't know how it's worked out.. Maybe we should put Mike Aquire on the case to find out! LOL.
Back to bars:
Less getting a jump start at a traffic post if you turned the engine off
The LED bars draw a LOT LESS juice. Less load on the battery and alternator..
Drawbacks, daytime visibility, but they are getting better and better every day... CHP has about the brightness daytime LED setups I've seen.
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I've seen them too. SDSO has fedsig's and the two SDPD I've seen have Code 3 LED's. Both use the same LED bulbs 3W lumileds. I wouldn't worry about the brightness durning the day. LED are IMHO superior to halogens. But sheriffs need to get a better flash pattern.
The led's in the traffic signals are gen 1 and 2 led's, different from the gen 3's in the light bars. Also they have saved the city millions of dollars a year on power at the intersections. Wow!
The led's in the traffic signals are gen 1 and 2 led's, different from the gen 3's in the light bars. Also they have saved the city millions of dollars a year on power at the intersections. Wow!
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Dodge Charger
I only caught a glimpse of it, but I'm pretty sure I saw a SDPD Dodge Charger on Ruffin Road between CMB and Balboa earlier this week. That's the first of those I've seen for SDPD. I'll keep my eyes open for it again.
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Burhanuddin Muhtadi – Unlike the euphoria that surrounded his first electoral victory in 2014, Joko 'Jokowi' Widodo's second term is starting on a sombre mood. Public disillusionment – especially among students – stems from Jokowi's handling of a controversial corruption bill. His second term will likely further erode democratic values as an economic recession looms.
Since his first term, Jokowi has shown greater interest in economic development than democratic reform. The focus is mainly on infrastructure development, human resource development, opening up further investment sectors, and the perennial issue of bureaucratic reform. If his economic ambitions collide with anti-corruption agendas, he tends to prioritise the former. The implications of this narrow understanding of reform could be dire, as democracy and civil rights may be forfeited in the name of political stability and economic development.
The game-changer is the constitutional term limit that prevents Jokowi from running as a presidential candidate again. In his first term, Jokowi still had incentives to demonstrate deference towards the trusted Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK), as segments of voters cared about the issue of corruption during the 2019 election. There is now potential for Jokowi's second term to be more conservative when it comes to maintaining political stability and tolerating dissent.
The entrenched oligarchic forces that have defined Indonesian politics since the New Order era have certainly exploited Jokowi's indifference towards democratic reform and anti-corruption efforts. These oligarchic groups not only have total control over the political parties but are also part of an elite economic class that controls the material resources steering the course of Indonesian politics. They joined forces in passing revisions to the KPK Law – which contain articles on weakening the KPK – to undermine the anti-corruption agenda. They also tried to pass various other revisions to the law in favour of their narrow interests.
This conservatism was the backdrop to demonstrations in Jakarta and various Indonesian cities several weeks before Jokowi's inauguration – the biggest protests since the fall of Suharto. They blindsided Jokowi, who only then realised the degree of controversy surrounding the soon-to-be-enacted bills. Sources of discontent include an article on insulting the president that threatens freedom of opinion (which appears in the revised Criminal Code), and a treason article that suppresses civil society's freedom of expression.
The draft Land Law is also controversial, in that it allows for the conviction of displaced victims of eviction on the grounds that those who resist eviction in the public interest are interfering with development. The Penal Act is no less controversial, making remission for those convicted of corruption easier. But the People's Representative Council (DPR) and the government have postponed ratifying the Bill on the Elimination of Sexual Violence that would protect women. There appears to be no ideological difference between coalition and opposition parties regarding these laws.
All this law reform re-awakened the Indonesian student movement that had been dormant since the 1997-98 reform movement. Students and civil society felt a serious threat to the reform agenda that they had fought for, particularly freedom of expression and measures against corruption. The students have attracted the general public's attention by making the DPR their main target. In the eyes of the public, the DPR is a poor democratic institution, making it easy for students to attract public sympathy.
A national survey conducted in October 2019 by Lembaga Survei Indonesia found that 59.7 per cent of voters knew or followed news about the student protests. The majority supported the student agenda, viewing the revision of the KPK law as an effort by political elites to weaken the agency.
Among the respondents who knew about the revision, 70.9 per cent believed it would weaken the KPK. A huge 76.3 per cent of respondents agreed Jokowi should issue a perppu, or presidential decree, to reverse the changes. But both the governing coalition and the opposition party have warned Jokowi that a perppu could lead to an impeachment process for disrespect towards the parliament as the highest law-making institution.
Jokowi's second term is likely to be marked by an increasingly intimate relationship with oligarchic powers and political cartels that are adept at utilising Jokowi's lack of interest in democracy and combating corruption.
The consolidation of oligarchic forces has become increasingly apparent with lobbying for the People's Consultative Assembly (MPR) to amend the 1945 Constitution by reviving the Suharto-era Guidelines of State Policy (GBHN). Doing so might open a Pandora's box that could include amending the presidential election system that has been a cornerstone of democratic reform. The MPR is currently led by Bambang Soesatyo, who has openly declared his support for containing presidential elections within the MPR as during the Suharto era.
Jokowi's economic reform agenda will not run smoothly without the political support of the oligarchs and political cartels. But if he tries to ignore the demands of the people, widespread public resistance will disrupt political stability and his economic agenda too. The question will be whether Jokowi listens to the calls of the people or falls into the oligarchic trap.
[Burhanuddin Muhtadi is a lecturer in political science at Syarif Hidayatullah State Islamic University, Jakarta, and Executive Director of Indikator Politik Indonesia. This article appears in the most recent edition of East Asia Forum Quarterly, 'Economics and security', Vol. 11 No. 4.]
Source: https://www.eastasiaforum.org/2019/11/17/jokowis-choice-between-political-cartels-and-the-public-interest


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The European Union's 2020 strategic plan may impact tour agencies that do not comply with EU employment regulations. The plan is to increase employment in the EU of those aged 20 to 64. Tour agencies that do not comply may face penalties and their employees may also be expelled for breaking the rules.
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When learning to drive, there are certain things you'll need to know and do:
Apply for your provisional drivers licence online through the DVLA or by picking up an application form at the Post Office (DL1). Along with an application you need to attach 2 passport photos and valid ID (eg. passport) and confirmation of your address for the last 3 months (eg. electricity bill). Total cost is 50 pounds and application should be send to: DVA, County Hall, Coleraine, BT51 3TB or taken to the local DVA office.
Your driving test is made up of 2 elements: theory and practical. You need to pass your Theory Test before you can apply for your practical Driving Test.
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Part 1: Theory Test
The theory element can be taken as soon as you've received your valid provisional licence. It consists of 2 parts: multiple choice and hazard perception.
Multiple choices will test your knowledge of the Highway Code. You'll have 57 minutes to answer 50 questions, with 43 or more needed to pass. Hazard perception involves 14 different video clips, showing scenarios unfolding where you'll be required to spot various hazards. You'll need to achieve a minimum of 44/75 to pass.
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Your practical element will begin with a brief eyesight test, followed by 2 show me/ tell me questions involving your car. You'll then drive for roughly 40 minutes of which 10 minutes will be independent driving, showing that you're able to handle your car proficiently. To pass, you'll need to make no major errors and no more than 15 minor ones.


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Topgolf, a year-round sports venue offering golfers what Corner Alley and Dave & Buster's gives bowlers and gamers, could add a location in Northeast Ohio if a proposed rezoning in Independence wins city approvals.
Caroline Jerome, a Topgolf spokeswoman, said that at this time she can only confirm the Dallas-based company's interest in pursuing what she termed a "Cleveland-area location." No details will be available until later, she said.
However, the agenda for the 5:30 p.m. meeting on Wednesday, Jan. 3, of the Independence Planning Commission shows a request to rezone almost 16 acres on Rockside Woods Boulevard to public use from office and laboratory use.
The site is near the Embassy Suites in Independence. The vacant parcel offers high visibility because it is southeast of the junction of I-480 and I-77 in a suburb often called the center of Cuyahoga County.
The rezoning is sought by Hub Valley Realty, a property ownership group whose tax bills go to Dalad Group, an Independence-based office, retail and apartment developer and owner with substantial land holdings in its home town and other suburbs south of Cleveland.
At Topgolf, players use micro-chipped golf balls to hit a variety of targets on the range. Its just opened Huntsville, Ala., location is a 53,000-square-foot facility with climate-controlled hitting bays, food, beverages, music and private event space.
Independence Mayor Anthony Togliatti said Topgolf has been working on a site in Independence for almost a year. He said its primary users are non-golfers rather than die-hard golfers.
"We believe it will be a great amenity for Independence and the region," Togliatti said in a phone interview on Wednesday, ahead of the planning commission meeting. The mayor, a voting member of the planning commission, said he supports the rezoning.
"I believe this project would be a catalyst for development of other land nearby," Togliatti said. Hub Realty and others own at least another 20 acres of vacant land.
Launched in 2000, Topgolf has 40 locations according to its website. Topgolf lists another 10 as coming soon, though Cleveland is not listed.
The company already has a Cincinnati location and plans operations in Columbus and Pittsburgh, according to its website. The firm even produces its own golf dramas.
Calls to Dalad Group were not returned by 2:55 p.m. on Wednesday.


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Criminal investigations
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Our single aim is to advise clients before they are questioned on both the case being brought against them, their response to it as well as the procedures they are likely to experience. Assistance is offered throughout the interview process itself. This is not simply a time for us to be making notes, but it is our job to pro actively assist any suspect by ensuring the questions put to them are lawful and proper, all appropriate rules are followed by the investigators and the suspect is able to put their defence.
There are many types of investigation and quite a number of public and private bodies that have special powers to undertake them. Investigations can relate to an individual, a professional or a business. They can be in connection with alleged criminal offences or breaches of regulation or professional duties.
The purpose of any investigation is to gather evidence. It is often the case that the investigating authority will have strong suspicions before the individual concerned is questioned. Those strong suspicions may result in the investigators concentrating on gathering evidence against the individual rather than being balanced, fair and open minded. It is therefore one of the most critical parts of any case. Things said or done during the investigation stage into any criminal or regulatory offences cannot be unsaid later and having such comments excluded at any trial can be very difficult.
Our solicitors see many cases that on review of the evidence are very weak and would not be prosecuted other than because of some careless, mistaken or misinterpreted comment made at the investigation stage of the case. It is quite understandable as to why such things can happen. It is a very frightening and stressful experience for most people to face an investigation.


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Atlantic City's Revel Names Schavemaker as SVP-Resort Operations
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Atlantic City's new Revel Resort has named Dirk Schavemaker as senior vice president, resort operations. Schavemaker brings to Revel more than 20 years of experience in the hospitality industry. In his new role he will be responsible for all aspects of resort operations including hotel, food and beverage, facilities, hotel and convention sales and partner operations.
Most recently, he served as executive vice president and chief resort experience officer for Marriott Vacations Worldwide in Orlando. In that position, he was responsible for general management of all resorts within the Marriott Vacation Club portfolio, including 55 Marriott Vacation Club timeshare resorts, three Grande Residence Club by Marriott fractional resorts, and oversight responsibility for 11 Ritz-Carlton Club fractional resorts and strategic goal-setting.
After graduating from The Hotel School at The Hague, Schavemaker joined the Munich Marriott Hotel where he began his hospitality career as director of operations. He then went on to Bremen (Germany) Marriott; Marriott International Corporation in Bethesda, MD; and Marriott Vacation Club International for Europe and Asia based in London, England and Cork, Ireland.
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