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The second edition of Dubai's Government Games, an initiative launched by His Highness Sheikh Hamdan
The second edition of Dubai's Government Games, an initiative launched by His Highness Sheikh Hamdan
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I know I am American, but it seems like Food is everywhere around me. Our society is fitting around food. Say you want to go out with your old friends for a nice chat, try coffee or a restaurant or FOOD. Say you want an amazing evening with a date. FOOD. Say your bored and have nothing to do. FOOD. (for a lot of people) The point is that FOOD is everywhere.
I know food is a major part of life, but who decided it was literally going to be part of everything. Besides having it consume most of my life, I work at a restaurant making guess what FOOD I know that sounds stupid, but honestly, when is enough really enough? Food is good and has many benefits, well, everyone has to eat, but our country wonders why food is consuming our lives. With a nation where almost one out of every two people is overweight, where is our country headed? I am honestly scared to think about what is going to happen in the future. Will it be 29/30 overweight? I don't know, but the point is something needs to be done. Also, not everyone is as fortunate as me and can afford healthy food and a gym.
What about all the poor people in society? Are they supposed to continue to eat unhealthy, harming their bodies? Well I think this is ridiculous and something needs to be done to stop the food OBSESSION in America. Honestly, if our country is trying to make Americans healthy, why does a fried chicken sandwich from McDonald's cost only a dollar, but a grilled chicken sandwich (the healthier option) cost way more? I try to promote a healthy America and will small steps, we can all help, but honestly. When is it ever going to be enough? ….When our children can't even walk up the stairs without being out of breath? It's just FOOD!

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This was agreed to, without a word of dissent from anyone. The old women used to come and get down at Bishop Taylor's feet, and say:
"Oh! Daddy, you be fine. You be fine too much."
Mr. Pratt had told them a year before the Bishop came, that he was coming; and so they watched with eager hope; and when they saw the Bishop and Mr. Pratt, the old women would get down and take hold of the Bishop's feet, and then they would turn to Pratt, and say;
"Oh! Daddy, you mouth no lie this time. You mouth no lie. You got true mouth."
One town we went to, we had not been there two hours before they brought us two goats, as a present. Oh, how glad they were. My heart ached when I saw their kindness, and I wept. Poor things!
We came down the river. There was not a word. When Bishop Taylor's missionaries arrived at Cape Palmas, Mr. Pratt was a week in getting their things taken down to the mouth of the Cavalla river from Cape Palmas; then the natives from their stations were to come down in their canoes, and take the things up to the stations.
After he got the things all down, then he took the missionaries themselves. When they got down to Cavalla, as they were going up the river, nine in number, three men with their families, they were stopped by the natives, at one of the Episcopal Mission stations, and not allowed to proceed up the river. They had told the natives that it meant war; that these white missionaries were only coming to take the country away from them. That was the pretext.
In their contention and spirit they threw over a large box of tools in the river, that I think they never got; and if it had not been that the women were with them, they would have had a more serious time than they had. They were terribly hostile. They drove the natives back that had come down.
Strange to say, these people that live on the river, many of them, don't want the natives in the interior to be enlightened. So Bishop Taylor's parties were turned back, and did not get back for a week. Oh! it was terrible. Poor things, how much they suffered. Finally they all came back to Cape Palmas, and it was weeks before they got to their stations.
Mr. Pratt had to send them overland, and had to pay four dollars a load for carriers; and during that time, many of them had the fever, and some of them died.
The day that they came back across the bar, the bar was rough, and it rained, and most of them got soaking wet, which they should not have done, and that was the cause of so much of their fever and sickness so early. Two families that stopped for a week with Mr. Gibson, a member of the Episcopal Church, Mr. Pratt had to pay ninety-nine dollars for; one man had a wife and two children, and the other a wife and three children, all small children.
At the place where Miss McNeil and Miss Whitfield, and Miss Bowers stayed for a week, they were more reasonable; they only charged forty dollars. And where Miss Wallace and Miss Meeker stayed for a week, they charged, I think it was thirty-five dollars.
Oh! I never went through such a siege in all my life. Bishop Taylor was not there; but I was there through it all, and haven't borrowed a word. This was pioneer work. It is not so, now, I think, for Miss McNeil has nice headquarters at Cape Palmas, and there are several of the missionaries there, so that those who go now have a home till they can go up the river. It was very different at that time; and there's more to follow.
So one can see why the Liberians should feel that establishing schools among the natives by Bishop Taylor, was going to bring them the same trouble. But now since he has got the schools opened, and teachers for the Liberians, as well as natives, they will think differently, and, I trust, feel differently.
During the eight years I spent in Liberia, there were four emigrations to the republic. Three went to Brewerville, and the fourth to Cape Calmas. I went to the receptacle where they were quartered when they first landed, and saw them all, and talked with them; and then visited them at their stations after they were settled.
Some had gone to Cape Mount, and after they had been there a year, I visited several of the families there. I visited others at Brewerville, and at Mount Tubman, Cape Palmas, and at Philadelphia, about three miles from Mount Tubman. I never saw greater suffering and need in my life than there was among these poor new-comers. The only comfortable thing (and that was uncomfortable) was the warm climate; they didn't need much fire,
At Philadelphia was a very pretty settlement, and it was thickly and well settled at one time; good land all round about, some very good houses, and things were going on pretty well. Mr. Allen Yancy, and his brother, who was killed in the Cape Palmas war, were the leading men who founded that settlement; and at one time it flourished; but was broken up at the time of the Gredebo war, and has never since been what it was before.
When people in Africa are routed by war, they do not settle down quickly to their old homesteads. Poor things! War is not elevating in any country; its effect, morally and socially, and religiously, is not helpful. I think, with the exception of about four out of forty odd, there could not have been found a more helpless and ignorant set of men, women and children, than these emigrants that came while I was there. There were several young men and boys, and girls, ranging in age, I suppose, from ten to eighteen years.
I was down with fever when they arrived, so didn't go to see them for three days. It was quite a little distance from where I was, to the receptacle where they were quartered until they would get their land given them. I had heard a great deal from one and another, for the people called to see them, of course, and talked with them, so as to cheer them, and make them feel at home as much as possible; and when I went, I took a lot of papers, and tracts, and cards, for the children; and, to my surprise, as I went from room to room, and in the hall, as I met young people, and asked them to have a tract or paper, they would say, "I can't read:" so also, the fathers, mothers, brothers, sisters.
There were two old men among them that were preachers. I went into one room, and the old man was sitting on a stool, with the Bible on an old trunk reading aloud, evidently for me to hear; so I went up and stood by him and listened.
"Well, Pa," I said, in a familiar way, "you seem to be enjoying yourself reading the good book."
He looked up, kind of dignified, as though I had broken the charm that was upon him; then went on reading again.
"Sit down," a woman said,
"I have called to see you," I said, "you have had many calls, I suppose, but I have not been here before."
The old man read on. But of all the murdering of the king's English you ever heard, that old man was guilty of it. "Dat's my husband. He's a preacher," said the old lady, with a smile of comfort. "I can't read myself, but I likes to hear him when he reads."
Then I said to the old man, "Pa, how long have you been preaching?"
"I has been preaching de Gospel near 'bout forty years," said he, looking up.
"Yes," I said, "so long? Well, I just came in to see you a little while. I would like to sing a little song for you, and pray; then I must go."
So I began to sing, and a number of others came in; and I prayed, and went on to the next point.
After I had spent about two hours this way, I went home, crying all the way; knowing the need, as I did, both of the Liberians and the natives, I knew that this lot of people could not help any of them, but would certainly need help themselves; for I saw they knew but little about how to manage at home; and now what would they do in this strange country among strangers.
Of course, they would meet kindness; that goes so far; but that would not feed them, or clothe them; and those that were able to work, and willing, could not get the work to do, perhaps, the kind that they would do in this country; for men and women in this country can turn their hand to most anything, and there is almost everything to turn their hand to; but there, there is no driving, and trucking, and farming, like there is here; and making roads and building bridges, and harvesting, and hod carrying, nothing like there is in this country, that they had been used to; and the most of the work that is done there, is done by the natives, and native wages are paid, in trade--cloth, tobacco, fish, or rice. And there is not a black man at Cape Palmas, I mean a Liberian man, (without it is Bishop Ferguson, he might), who could have hired six of these new emigrants, and paid them fifty cents a day in good money, not Liberian currency, but good, American money, and fed them three meals a day for six months.
This may seem strange; but I don't fear the slightest contradiction from any real upright, honest, man or woman.
Now here were these poor men with their families. The Colonization Society gives them what they call "rations," for six


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COMMENTS•Comment on "Trouble with the Lorentz Law of Force: Incompatibility with Special Relativity and Momentum Conservation"Daniel A. T. VanzellaPublished 20 February 2013 (2 pages)089401•Comment on "Trouble with the Lorentz Law of Force: Incompatibility with Special Relativity and Momentum Conservation"Stephen M. BarnettPublished 20 February 2013 (1 page)089402•Comment on "Trouble with the Lorentz Law of Force: Incompatibility with Special Relativity and Momentum Conservation"Pablo L. SaldanhaPublished 20 February 2013 (2 pages)089403•Comment on "Trouble with the Lorentz Law of Force: Incompatibility with Special Relativity and Momentum Conservation"Mohammad KhorramiPublished 20 February 2013 (1 page)089404•Mansuripur Replies:Masud MansuripurPublished 20 February 2013 (1 page)089405 Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 080503 (2013) [5 pages]Entanglement and Particle Identity: A Unifying ApproachAbstractReferencesNo Citing ArticlesDownload: PDF (111 kB) Export: BibTeX or EndNote (RIS)A. P. Balachandran1,2,*, T. R. Govindarajan1,3,†, Amilcar R. de Queiroz4,‡, and A. F. Reyes-Lega5,§
1Institute of Mathematical Sciences, CIT Campus, Taramani, Chennai 600113, India2Physics Department, Syracuse University, Syracuse, New York 13244-1130, USA3Chennai Mathematical Institute, H1, SIPCOT IT Park, Kelambakkam, Siruseri 603103, India4Instituto de Fisica, Universidade de Brasilia, Caixa Postal 04455, 70919-970 Brasilia, Distrito Federal, Brazil5Departamento de Física, Universidad de los Andes, Apartado Aéreo 4976 Bogotá, Distrito Capital, ColombiaReceived 22 June 2012; revised 8 November 2012; published 22 February 2013It has been known for some years that entanglement entropy obtained from partial trace does not provide the correct entanglement measure when applied to systems of identical particles. Several criteria have been proposed that have the drawback of being different according to whether one is dealing with fermions, bosons, or distinguishable particles. In this Letter, we give a precise and mathematically natural answer to this problem. Our approach is based on the use of the more general idea of the restriction of states to subalgebras. It leads to a novel approach to entanglement, which is suitable to be used in general quantum systems and especially in systems of identical particles. This settles some recent controversy regarding entanglement for identical particles. The prospects for applications of our criteria are wide ranging, from spin chains in condensed matter to entropy of black holes.© 2013 American Physical SocietyURL:http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevLett.110.080503DOI:10.1103/PhysRevLett.110.080503PACS:03.67.Mn, 02.30.Tb, 03.65.Ud, firstname.lastname@example.com†firstname.lastname@example.com‡email@example.com§firstname.lastname@example.com Systems of identical particles.—In the case of identicalparticles, the Hilbert space of the system is no longer of thetensor product form. Therefore, the treatment of subsystemsusing partial trace becomes problematic. In contrast,in our approach, all that is needed to describe a subsystemis the specification of a subalgebra that corresponds to thesubsystem. Then, the restriction of the original state to thesubalgebra provides a physically motivated generalizationof the concept of partial trace, the latter not being sensibleanymore. Applying the GNS construction to the restrictedstate, we can study the entropy emerging from the restrictionand use it as a generalized measure of entanglement. Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 080501 (2013) [4 pages]Fundamental Bound on the Reliability of Quantum Information TransmissionAbstractReferencesNo Citing ArticlesSupplemental MaterialDownload: PDF (111 kB) Export: BibTeX or EndNote (RIS)Naresh Sharma* and Naqueeb Ahmad Warsi†
Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR), Mumbai 400005, IndiaReceived 17 August 2012; published 20 February 2013Information theory tells us that if the rate of sending information across a noisy channel were above the capacity of that channel, then the transmission would necessarily be unreliable. For classical information sent over classical or quantum channels, one could, under certain conditions, make a stronger statement that the reliability of the transmission shall decay exponentially to zero with the number of channel uses, and the proof of this statement typically relies on a certain fundamental bound on the reliability of the transmission. Such a statement or the bound has never been given for sending quantum information. We give this bound and then use it to give the first example where the reliability of sending quantum information at rates above the capacity decays exponentially to zero. We also show that our framework can be used for proving generalized bounds on the reliability.© 2013 American Physical SocietyURL:http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevLett.110.080501DOI:10.1103/PhysRevLett.110.080501PACS:email@example.com†firstname.lastname@example.com Feb 22, 2013, at 10:39 AM, JACK SARFATTI <firstname.lastname@example.com> wrote:O Brave New World ;-)We argue that generic nonrelativistic quantum field theories with a holographic description are dual to Hořava gravity. We construct explicit examples of this duality embedded in string theory by starting with relativistic dual pairs and taking a nonrelativistic scaling limit.<HologramPhysRevLett.110.081601.pdf>


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Society has come to exercise some form control over the outcome of effects of geologic conditions upon public health and safety, through Regulations developed by government agencies to meet the intent of so-called protective Legislation. It stands to reason that literally any public facility constructed in or on the land, should have the maximum feasible involvement of geologic talent, in order that fatal flaws do not go overlooked as the most important of all design-related inputs to public-protection design and mitigation.
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Beaches in East Sussex
Our Nearest Beaches in East Sussex
So you've decided to look for a beach in the beautiful county of East Sussex, a superb place to visit at any time of the year, it has the great weather desired by every and any beach lover as well as some of the most gorgeously sandy beaches in the country.
Beaches in East Sussex will provide you with an unbridled seaside experience, having a variety of activities to choose from you can narrow down your search for that perfect beach that suits you down to the ground. With the diverse amount of beaches available it's fair to assume you'll never get stuck for somewhere to visit.
With some highly popular coastal resorts the beaches aren't the only things that will attract you to East Sussex. Subdue your curiosity for great adventure by taking a step into the world of superb beach front restaurants and clear waters, a place that you can sit back and relax. As most of the towns in East Sussex have fabulous beaches, staying nearby won't be too much of a problem and you won't have to travel too far inland to find a suitably secluded place to stay.
The beaches in East Sussex are mostly the classic sandy beach but given a bit of time you can find the cliffy and rocky beaches which are great for walking and exploring, just remember to use our helpful search features to make sure you get the best possible results for your beach criteria.
Activities at beaches in East Sussex
You can't go too far wrong with a visit to St. Leonards Beach, a lovely beach with golden sands stretching its way along the coast as far as you can see. The clear blue waters make this a very attractive beach to visit and will give many happy memories, also bordering the town of St. Leonards so you'll never be stuck for things to do. St Leonards Beach is also very accommodating for various activities such as surfing or body boarding, so bring any gear you wish and enjoy a great day out at a great beach.
If you travel further west along the coastline you can discover some fantastic beaches in East Sussex as you'll arrive at a superb little beach called Birling Gap Beach, this place is quite far from any population density and as such brings a calming atmosphere and serenity to the table. Paying this beach a visit is quite simply a treat and you'll be presented with a whole range of activities to choose from, with walking and boating being very popular.
Some of the nearest beaches in East Sussex
Like with any other county in the country East Sussex has its unique style of beaches, there is enough choice to not be too hesitant about visiting a certain beach as there is always another one that is close by or similar. Use our searching features to best find the beaches in East Sussex that suit you the most.
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So….got your attention with the UFO stories? lol
Here's a pic from that trip in Guilin….
In this episode I discuss how I learned to clear psychic influences during my time with John-Roger. I talk about his approach and some of the philosophy behind working with it. I start out by sharing some stories about UFOs.
I mention a J-R Moments of Peace in the episode which I have put below for you to watch.


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Instructional Core
Posted by admin in Leadership, Teaching/Learning on June 26, 2010
Richard Elmore, in this video clip and with the associated graphic, defines the best measure of how we should judge innovation and change in an organization. The data that we collect must come from the core if we are to determine with any degree of certainty that these changes have been implemented and whether or not they are sustainable.
High stakes testing does not accomplish this. Many have now written about test scores and continue to miss the point. The scores do not inform instruction and lack the "granularity" needed to affect real change. Teachers do not change based on either initiative nor incentive based reward. They change, in Daniel Pink's words, because they want to master their craft, because they have always been an autonomous lot, and because they have a special purpose that stands them apart from other professions – nurturing the progeny of others. The talents that will change schools are those with unyielding drive that infects these other dimensions powerfully and without hesitation, as in Geoffrey Canada's work in Harlem. These efforts will often come from the teachers themselves when they are effectively empowered to be leaders in their own organizations.
But, ultimately, systemic change will only happen when we keep our "eye on the ball" and that means the instructional core.
New Horizons 2010
Posted by admin in Teaching/Learning, Technology on May 2, 2010
Under a grant from HP, the New Media Consortium and the Consortium for School Networking (CoSN) has released the latest New Horizon Report for K-12 education. Not surprisingly, the two critical trends to take center stage are Cloud Computing and Collaborative Environments.
The critical issues surrounding the trends that this collaboration brings to the forefront is the degree to which we have failed to link student achievement to the technology that we are adopting and, further, the degree to which schools have been forced to miss the boat on one initiative after another due to lack of financial resources or insufficient political resolve. The Horizon Report lists five critical trends that are not disappearing any time soon:
- Technology is increasingly a means for empowering students, a method for communication and socializing, and a ubiquitous, transparent part of their lives.
- Technology continues to profoundly affect the way we work, collaborate, communicate, and succeed.
- The perceived value of innovation and creativity is increasing.
- There is increasing interest in just-in-time, alternate, or non-formal avenues of education, such as online learning, mentoring, and independent study.
- The way we think of learning environments is changing.
With new devices (e.g. iPad), and new technologies descending upon us on a daily basis, we need to consider how to best approach the challenges that we now face since our prior efforts have been so stilted and restrained. While we see pockets of excellence throughout the world, the systemic and sustainable changes to educational systems still evade us.
I understand why. While we all recognize the import of technology on daily life, we continue to be circumspect because the research proving its efficacy lacks so far behind the intervention that new technologies have already replaced those originally reviewed. Our system of reflection and review is insufficient in its capacity to truly address the actual effects of these trends.
A recent presentation by adjunct professors at Pacific Lutheran University is a perfect example. Their research on purported unintended consequences of technology heaped upon young unsuspecting children was, in most cases, 10 years old. Can anyone remember what kind of computers we were using 10 years ago? Can you remember which devices didn't exist a decade ago?
In Visible Learning: A Synthesis of Over 800 Meta-Analyses Relating to Achievement by John Hattie (2009), computer assisted instruction was considered using 81 meta-analyses that included 4,875 studies involving 3.9 million subjects. The effect size was approximately d=0.37, something just more than developmental effects – in other words an effect that was about equivalent to just normal growth and development. Despite my argument above, there was little change in effect size when broken down by year of study which Hattie believes counters the belief in increasing effect with increased sophistication. Like many, the only correlation was between the use of computers and increased student engagement. Hattie concludes that there is no necessary relation between having computers, using computers, and learning outcomes.
But, hold the phone – Hattie throws us a bone when he does further analysis of the data and proposes that the following conditions must be met.
Computers are used effectively…
- when there is a diversity of teaching strategies
- when there is a pre-training in the use of computers as a teaching and learning tool (min. of 10 hours)
- when there are multiple opportunities for learning (e.g. deliberative practice, increasing time on task, etc.)
- when the student, not teacher, is in "control" of learning
- when peer learning is optimized
- when feedback is optimized
These two pieces of literature coupled with our own sound judgment form a new approach to prudent thinking on deployment of technology resources. A formula based approach of developing infrastructure, providing training, and prudently purchasing equipment may lead to a best practices scenario for technology's next horizon.
Student learning and the new era of professional development…
Posted by admin in Leadership, Teaching/Learning on October 12, 2009
I've been impressed with my re-introduction to educational reform in Washington through my Superintendent Leadership Seminar (first in a year long series). The concept here is personalizing student learning and this is far beyond earlier concepts of differentiation or individualization. Personalizing has more to do with the involvement of the student in understanding the process of their learning through learning targets and meaningful, relevant learning episodes.
In this professional development series, there are 6 elements of positive impact on student learning:
- Student learning is structured for understanding
- Student learning experiences are designed to engage and support all students in learning
- Student assessment is used to direct learning
- Students participate in maintaining effective environments for learning
- Students prepare to live and work in a multi-cultural world
- Teachers develop the art and science of a professional educator and are active in the profession to positively impact student learning.
No rocket science here. Just foundational look at the continued development of best practice.
Early Learning – Fighting Fade Out
Posted by admin in Leadership, Teaching/Learning on October 2, 2009
One of the things on every educational leaders "to-do" list should be addressing early learning. Similar to what Jeffrey Canada has taught us in the Harlem projects (see previous post), this project in South Shore School District is addressing this challenge. Consistent with this is a need to look at Birth to 3 programs that address the community and daycare component in addressing the key to the future of education – a comprehensive plan for kids from womb to 3rd Grade. This is all fully researched and connected to the latest work on brain research. Leaders must address this challenge as critical to sustainable change that has not yet been achieved.
Quick idea…
Posted by admin in Farside, Leadership on September 4, 2009
Another version of the same old mantra –
If I know something, I can repeat it.
If I understand something, I can discuss it.
If I truly grasp something, I can create on my own.
Thus, students must be able to articulate their learning (not just products) in order to assess whether they truly grasp a topic or just understand it.
Students reflecting on learning…
Posted by admin in Leadership, Teaching/Learning, Technology on September 1, 2009
This is a piece from Dr. Marilyn Simpson's work on learning targets and students articulating their learning.
Learning Targets from a leadership perspective…
Posted by admin in Leadership, Teaching/Learning on August 23, 2009
Learning targets for students and what leaders look for in classrooms:
Consistent with our understanding of building to higher levels of meaningful processing, there is a connection that is developed between criteria and resources to achieve the incremental targets established by the criteria. For this reason, a student is guided to articulate their journey as well as their destination.
Washington State has done some exceptional work in linking pre- and prof- certification that forces close consideration of students understanding of learning targets. Written from student perspectives to achieve personalization of instructional processes.
Washington State OSPI Professional Growth Needs Assessment worksheets and core documents.
Download and look closely at the "green book." Powerful work.


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Farming as a profession
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Six months ago while attending a small agriculture related workshop I was asked what would I change about agriculture in India if I could change anything. My response was that I would change everything from what is grown, who grows it, how it is sold — almost every aspect of agriculture. But one of the biggest changes I would like to see is "farming as a profession".
The simple act of putting the word "profession" next to "farming" forces us to invert on its head our typical view of farming, as an activity undertaken by mostly uneducated, unskilled, poor people in rural areas.
Seeing farming as a profession helps us envision an alternate future where farming is undertaken in a more scientific manner, where farmers select which crops to grow based on the ecological conditions of their land (terrain, soil type, water, weather, etc.) as well as the potential net income from the crop. A world where farmers are aware of the optimum inputs (water, fertilizer, pesticides, etc.) required for their crops.
Professions demand a drive towards excellence through continuous learning and improvement and farming wouldn't be an exception. Farmers would need knowledge, skills, tools and techniques to excel at farming.
People working in the Indian agriculture industry typically mention various issues that need attention; issues such as need for more R&D on seeds, seed banks, access to weather and market information, irrigation, better infrastructure, inefficient and non-transparent markets, etc. But hardly anyone talks about the issue of farming skills and knowledge, which is the biggest component of making farming into a profession.
According to a 2010 paper on information needs of Indian farmers by the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI):
Considering the large number of marginal and small holder farmers, particularly in rain-fed regions, a major need is to build the capacity of farmers to demand and access information to increase their productivity, profitability, and incomes. The information must be reliable and timely. For example, technologies need to be suited to the farmers' capacity to take risk, which tends to be low in rain-fed regions, and integrated with available and timely services that support the relevant technology.
The same study mentions that for small farmers, the biggest sources of info are other farmers, input dealers and radio. For large farmers, the biggest sources of information are TV, other farmers and input dealers. Roughly 40% of small farmers and 55% of large farmers claim they get some agri-related information from at least one source.
There are many organizations (government, private and civic sector) which are trying to address information needs of farmers. Most of these efforts are stand-alone and do not address the problem in an integrated manner. A private sector service may provide market price information, Digital Green videos may provide info on cultivation techniques while government agencies may offer information on seed varieties.
I wonder if there are any service providers who offer an integrated solution through multiple partnerships with government agencies, private and civic sector organizations.
- Richa Govil
(Richa shares her thoughts on rural businesses at 'Stirring the Pyramid')
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When Canadians own foreign stocks, taxes on the dividends are often withheld by the foreign country. This can apply with U.S. stocks as well. This is a complex area. The amount of taxes silently withheld and whether you can effectively recover them depends on the country and the type of account you have.
Yesterday, I said I wanted to know the foreign withholding tax drag on the new Vanguard Canada ETFs. Justin Bender has done the analysis. He has a pdf with the foreign withholding tax details for RRSP and TFSA accounts, as well as an article discussing other aspects of Vanguard's new ETFs.
In a personal note, Justin goes on to explain "The withholding tax drag in a taxable account is only about 0.01% to 0.02% for the three ETFs." Thanks, Justin.
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Foreign Withholding Taxes on New Vanguard ETFs
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I've heard about this before and thought that I was mistaken so I'm going to ask this time, are there some ETFs (Canadian/USA/Other) that can ONLY be held in an RRSP or TFSA?
I'm looking to purchase an ETF in a non-registered account. I want it to; not hold any/many US and Canadian stocks/indexes, be non-hedged, in a Developed market and with a reasonable MER. I have yet to find one. Any ideas?
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VANCOUVER - A B.C. man who admitted running down two dirt bikers who'd sprayed his van with rocks has been told he can't take back his guilty plea.
Sterling Wiebe pleaded guilty to dangerous driving causing bodily harm after the crash on a gravel road near Enderby, B.C., in July of 2007.
Two young men on dirt bikes had driven past Wiebe's van on the road before turning around to head back, and when they tried to pass the van, Wiebe pulled into their path.
Both dirt bikers were struck, and one suffered serious injuries, including broken bones and permanent nerve damage after he was sent flying over the van's hood into a ditch.
Wiebe told police he pulled in front of the riders to get them to stop or slow down after they sprayed rocks on his vehicle on their first past, but he later pleaded guilty and was banned from driving for 18 months and fined 600 dollars.
He filed an appeal seeking to reverse his guilty plea, but the B.C. Court of Appeal has rejected his request, ruling there was no sign his plea was uncertain or involuntary and there was more than enough evidence to prove the charge of dangerous driving.


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Project Series 9: Ashley Thorner
For the last five years, Los Angeles-based artist Ashley Thorner has worked with plastics-vinyl, latex, liquid plastic, etc. In this exhibition she brought together for the first time the large-scale Beware of the Blob and four "chandelier" sculptures, Pink Love Lotus, Blue Love Lotus, Synthetic Green, and Neon Pink. With this work, Thorner furthers her explorations into plastics- glistening surfaces, appealingly artificial colors, and globular shapes.
Thorner uses nontraditional media in a body of work that explores popular culture and consumerism; reflects an interest in pop art, kitsch, and minimalism; and addresses the dualities of control and disorder, artifice and reality. Eva Hesse's process-oriented, "anti-form" sculptures, and Claus Oldenburg's playful alterations of the scale of manufactured objects, have influenced Thorner's development as an artist.
Thorner's work is influenced equally by such pop-culture sources as science-fiction cartoons and 1950s monster movies like The Blob, and by more philosophical approaches to life seen in the contemporary Japanese art of "Chindogu" and William Burroughs' "The Discipline of DE (Do Easy)." "Chindogu" are inventions to make life easier, but that have a tendency to fail-completely, but heroically and beautifully. Burroughs' concept of "Do Easy" comes from a chapter in his novel Exterminator! that explores a way of "doing" things in the world in the most relaxed yet most efficient manner possible. Thorner connects these ideas formally and conceptually by creating minimalist forms with excessive materials (vinyl, glitter, candy, latex, cow gut, and liquid plastic used to make fishing worms); by means of an intensely laborious technique (for example, using the head of a pin to place thousands of tiny dots on her chandeliers); and through shifts in scale from the miniature to the gigantic. At once gentle and subversive, humorous and obsessive, attractive and repulsive, her sculptures explore femininity, the body, sensuality, and popular culture.
Ashley Thorner's exhibition was the ninth in Montgomery Gallery's Project Series, an ongoing program of small exhibitions that brings to the Pomona College campus art that is experimental and that introduces new forms, techniques, or concepts. During each exhibition, participating artists work with faculty and students in relevant disciplines.
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Essay by Doug Harvey
Encountering the work of Ashley Thorner is a curiously dislocating art experience. What appears to be an offering of brightly colored, child-friendly gewgaws reveals a dark undercurrent of Freudian creepiness, which, on more prolonged contemplation is reabsorbed into an enlarged, more psychologically balanced and substantial version of that happy first impression. Inklings of a hidden agenda of post-feminist sarcasm and rage reconfigure into a nonjudgmental reconciliation of divisive gender symbologies. And forms that are immediately reminiscent of both 1960s minimalism and contemporary Los Angeles abstraction (each noted for despising, in its own way, the hard-wired narrativising impulse of the art viewer), unfold a wealth of critical sidebars and associative story lines.
Much can be deduced, for example, from the genderific psychological implications of giant soft pastel blobs that threaten to engulf, of oversized, glassy-pointed syrup cones jutting from the floor, of quasi-minimalist "flesh"-colored vinyl Dorian Gray butts wrinkling over time, and of softly translucent globes formed from the literal viscera of a beef-beast. But Thorner's blobs are not three-dimensional articulations of a priori blabbity-blah, but rather manipulations on a more slippery primary symbolic level. The exuberance and friendliness of the artist's hybridized monstrosities thwarts their translation into mere finger pointing or apologia. The crocheted (dead) Angora Worm Bags, so comically tender, yet so grisly and detached, mock male and female archetypes equally, while flaunting embarrassment to embrace both.
Formally, the marriage of degraded materials-either socially frivolous, non-archival, or both-with high-modern sculptural tropes is a constant in Thorner's work. Here again, the vocabularies of schools of thought generally held to be in opposition are improbably merged into a rich and complex patois. Donald Judd on estrogen. In the recent work, slightly wonky tetrahedral sacks, meticulously sewn from clear vinyl and beaded on the inner face with an intricate scarification of condensate-like gel, are strung together with rubber tubing and suspended in chandelier constellations of vaguely medical tentlets. The severely formal spatial matrix of Lichtenstein's Ben-Day cubism is softly folded into an organic, Bucky-Fulleresque tetrahedronal architecture. Fuller's "minimum prime divisor of omni-directional universe" is melted into a more provisional architectural unit: a feather-caked, stained-glass igloo jutting like an ovarian cyst from the proper tundra of a Robert Ryman surface, metastasizing joyously and chaotically out of the seemingly sterile ashes of modern art.
The intricate dotting of the inner faces of these yielding molecular model kits simultaneously conjures the dew on the inside of a rose petal and the condensation in the IV bag of a dying beloved. The care in the execution of each cluster of soggy pyramids is amplified in the deflated macramé symmetry of its limp chandelierism, tattooing its own sacred geometrical aspirations with a fractal grunge that conjures millennia of folk-art and decorative craft practices, but without shame. The Insider/Outsider confusion of Kusama is inverted, the trauma cauterized with laughter instead of angst; the primal scene as enacted by Groucho Marxists.
It's funny I should think of the Marx brothers, because something about Ashley Thorner's work keeps reminding me of vaudeville. Or, more specifically, of burlesque. The feathers, the beading and plastics, the decoration, and the humor and sexiness-are all factors. But mainly, it's this work's similar ability, by an act of theatrical sleight of hand, to absorb and recontextualize an essentially patriarchal and misogynistic culture so that the very same symbols used to articulate that-aesthetic, if you will-come to signify its exact opposite.
There is, moreover, a sci-fi glint to Thorner's humanism. Like a futuristic anime of an Old West saloon hall: symbols of feminine allure as interpreted by aliens from the planet MOMA. But where in The Thing, or Invasion of the Body Snatchers, the alien's vegetative Otherness leaves an unbreachable gap between its own hive-mind pragmatism and foolish human emotions, thereby guaranteeing alien triumph, Thorner's aliens seem to be going native. Finding their self-consciousness inversely proportional to their newfound flamboyance, whole unsuspected vistas of sensory engagement are suddenly opened unto them. And they dig it.
Ashley Thorner makes visionary, oracular art as though the revolution was over and feminism won; why not enjoy ourselves? By employing the power of bawdy, humorous sensuality to subtend all neurotic critiques, moralism or material purism, Thorner posits a larger, more generous and accommodating structure to reality, one to invite the high-strung cold-war monsters in, to enclose them, massage them, and loosen them up; rendering them at least semipermeable, and open to negotiation. And to show them a good time.
Doug Harvey is art critic for LA Weekly, contributing editor and columnist for Art issues., and a multimedia artist.


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To Ireland we travel today but not by plane. Today we travel by tunnels subterranean and built within the murky bottom waters of the Atlantic ocean. Our soundtrack for reaching the homeland of Ruairi O'Baoighill is his latest release, The Faceless One thanks to the kindness of Ireland's Cursed Monk Records.
The Faceless One is a 6 track CD and digital release.
Ethereal ghost-scapes and drone funnels fuel the recording which is not simply appropriate for a soundtrack for a horror movie. In cases such as this, it's not about the viewer's vantage point. The Faceless One is but a journey that invites the listener to be witness to the weaving in and out of ghostly voices and visions in a perpetual darkened tunnel. As is the case in track 1, "Invocation," ghostly voices seem to arrive and disappear out of the drone, appropriately so. The drone guides our journey while shafts and wisps of brief sound shards come at left and right, forward and backward. Ambient passages reminds of deep, murky waters and often not sound waves but waves of funnel clouds and perpetual descents.
One of the strengths in this release is the artist knowing when to pull the mix into the background and the forefront, then using the left and right channels. This simulates the feeling of a journey as much as possible. Much of the mix is done so that the sounds seem to come from within the center and then drift to the left and right. (You must play this through the earphones to truly experience this properly. The occasional bell, as in track 2, "Veil," reminds us of the moments of contemplation. Tracks like "Veil" present a slow inward psychological journey with the reverberated drums growing more distant as the focal point of our journey draws closer. Finally we arrive just in time for the ritual atop the Cliffs of Moher as the sky quickly turns to overcast and the ocean crest gains strength.
Ruairi O'Baoighill's music is commonly referred to as ritual/ambient. But it's not a ritual to view. It's one that invites the listener to be a part of. It should be interesting to see where he leads us to next.
- Invocation
- Veil
- Incantation
- Procession
- Transcendence
- Ritual
The Faceless One is available now; CD ltd. to 100 copies as well as a digital download.
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With an MA in Biomedical Communication from UT Southwestern and tremendous experience in the medical illustration/animation scene, James Archer is particularly sought after for his artistic style and approach to work. His 3D medical illustrations captivate the viewer with their diffuse lighting, organic hues, intimate depth of field, and overall softness that make anatomy and science look almost poetic.
I had the opportunity to work with James on a medical animation project recently and for someone with such a high standard of detail and execution, he's an extremely laid back guy. He's also impressively nonchalant about his incredible talent. I caught up with James after our project to uncover more about his background, technique, and cool personality.
SA: Tell us a bit about your background and what pulled you into medical illustration.
JA: I grew up in North Georgia in a town called Lilburn. As a child I loved to draw, an activity that would occupy much of my time. As I grew older I developed the ability to create highly detailed, photo-realistic drawings. I would sometimes setup a still life on the kitchen table or my bedroom floor and sit there for hours recording every detail with pencil and paper. Looking back it seemed more like an obsessive-compulsive behavior than a truly artistic endeavor. I now find that there is a strong association between art and obsession.
SA: Medical illustrators tend to come from an educational background that balances science with formal art training. You received a degree in biology and art history. Why did you choose art history and not a more specific studio art degree? How has a background in art history informed your work?
JA: My decision to major in Art History was one of convenience. After graduating from high school, I was accepted at Emory University on a four-year scholarship. While Emory does not offer a BFA, receiving the scholarship was a blessing. At the time I had no money and could not possibly attend another school without student aid. Attending Emory and majoring in Art History and Biology was the logical choice.
I find that the study of Art History provides context, a sense of place and time. It provides a set of values for which to judge works. And most importantly, it provides a sense of community, a feeling of belonging.
SA: Did you specialize in 3D illustration/animation at UT Southwestern? What motivated you to go in the direction of animation as opposed to traditional medical illustration?
JA: I certainly placed a greater emphasis on 3D illustration assignments compared to traditional illustration assignments. I believe that my interest in 3D illustration and animation was nothing more than an attempt to satisfy a long held obsession to visually recreate the world around me in near photographic form. The creation of synthetic imagery is relatively straightforward with today's software. The real challenge lies in creating imagery that is emotive.
SA: You worked for quite a few top medical education companies and organizations early in your career such as WebMD, Nucleus Medical Art, and National Library of Medicine. What experiences did you gain from these organizations and when did you decide to start your own business?
JA: Working for Nucleus and WebMD represented a turning point for me. Even though I was given some amazing opportunities at each of those companies, I discovered that I had absolutely no interest in creating purely didactic materials. Instead, I wanted to find ways of reaching people on an emotional level. If your objective is to produce positive health outcomes in a given population then your campaign must include an appeal to emotion.
Working for the National Library of Medicine proved to be the genesis for Anatomy Blue. My primary responsibilities included research and development in 3D animation and production standards for broadcast and video. While working for NLM, I was completely immersed in 3D software and rendering technology. It was during that time that I began to develop lighting and texturing techniques that would later come to define the Anatomy Blue style.
SA: Flipping through the Medical Illustration Sourcebook, your style always stands out to me for its soft colors, beautiful lighting, and intimate depth of field. You bring such an artistic touch to 3D medical illustration that is unrivaled in my opinion. Can you tell us a bit about how your style evolved into what it is today?
JA: My style is more akin to punctuated equilibrium than gradualism. Aspergillus and Virus were created nearly a decade apart but they look as if they are from the same time period.
There are a number of themes that I'm gradually refining over time, themes like obsession, realism, context and emotion. The image, Virus contains only two elements, a background and a virus, yet there is an implied story, a subtext that is supported by a heightened sense of realism, context in the absence of information. While this may all seem conjectural, I think that the purposeful consideration of these themes have helped me to create work that is unique and engaging.
SA: The name Anatomy Blue comes off as a bit mysterious, soft and melancholic, somewhat reflective of your style. Is there a story behind Anatomy Blue?
JA: I love your analysis, by the way! On its surface, Anatomy Blue is an analog of medical illustration. I agree; the name does embody a certain mystique. Coming from a medical illustrator who is obsessed with [the band] No Depression, a name like Anatomy Blue makes perfect sense.
SA: What is a typical day for James Archer like? What are the challenges of balancing family life and a self-run business?
JA: My greatest challenge is squeezing every second out of every day. I sometimes find myself obsessing over ways to optimize even the most menial of tasks. I'm sure it drives my wife crazy.
First and foremost, I am dedicated to my wife and two children. I would sacrifice my business obligations if I thought they were compromising my family life or values. That being said, balancing family life and work is not easy. The key is to set boundaries. If that means not picking-up a client call while your child is excitedly showing you their latest artistic creation, then you just let the phone ring.
SA: How is the market for medical animation doing in the US right now? As a solo medical animator, do you find it difficult to compete with the bigger shops in the US and around the world?
JA: I can't say that I've seriously targeted the animation market. I'm certain that some clients will feel a sense of security knowing that their job is being handled by a small team as opposed to a solo medical animator. However, it is a segment of the market that I'm eyeing more and more each day.
SA: Apart from the ubiquitous use of skulls, what is your take on the growing trend of anatomy and art in pop culture? Does a particular artist that effectively uses anatomy in their work inspire you?
JA: The use of anatomy in art and popular cult raises more questions than answers for me. I suspect that anatomical art may help to demystify fears and ease anxieties related to human anatomy. For others, anatomical art may be a source of anxiety. Either way, I'm fascinated.
I have always found inspiration in works by James Jean. Flip, Homeopathic, and Chemistry are just a few of my favorites. His command of the human form is amazing. He designed a set of three skate decks that depict the expulsion of Adam and Eve from Eden. The tree of knowledge of good and evil is depicted as a fully dissected circulatory system. Every time I look at it I want to take up skateboarding.
SA: Thank you James!
View more of James' incredible work at anatomyblue.com!
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Gucci's recent collaboration with Fiat to promote the new Fiat 500 is an excellent example of how the world of technology and the world of art & design can merge to create something innovative and beautiful!
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Can I Borrow a Dollar: Another Kickstarter Think Piece
Kalvin Martinez / Sep 23rd, 2013 No Comments
[adsense250itp]Huzzah, it is another Kickstarter think piece! You can almost feel the zeitgeist getting ground up into fine powder to do rails off an iPhone 5S while bemoaning the violence of Grand Theft Auto V and Miley Cyrus' twerking. Kickstarter has been around for a while, but only in the last year or so has it gained a huge amount of visibility. While the service has existed since 2009 as a means for creative projects to become material, outside of traditional financing methods. It perhaps needed the social media sea change to occur before it became a powerful tool to make ideas reality (theoretically, as funded projects have no compulsion to deliver an actual product). All of the site's top ten most funded projects achieved their phenomenal success in the last year and change. Of those top ten projects, 5 of them are video games (or video game related) with only one of them being an actual product that everyone can purchase. The other 4 are in various states of development with ship date in the ether (because video games, man).
The most high profile and highly criticized of these hugely funded Kickstarter projects is the Ouya. What started as a compelling story of some scrappy upstarts wanting to make a console promising some interesting concepts ended up as a piece of hardware that under delivered with a controller that missed its Super Car target. There was the whole weird additional funding outside of Kickstarter to bring the console to retail (a terrible idea) that kind of betrayed the spirit of what the crowd funding aimed to accomplish. Raising questions of what use the service has, outside of showing consumer interest (and ostensibly free funding for inferior to the retail goods). Not only was the visualized dream, sort of a nightmare, but every bit of publicity around the console has been extremely off putting. From the Ouya Bus outside this years E3 to their half baked (and possibly corrupt) Free the Games Fund project; nothing has gone quite right for the system.
The problem from its inception was that devoid of the nice story and intention, the console never quite seemed to have a clarity of purpose or customer base. It seemingly appealed to those who wanted to be part of something (chasing that zeitgeist high) and people who wanted to collect outsider tech (put that Ouya in that closet next to the Jaguar, N-Gage and 3DO). It had plenty of potential for Indie developers. Yet Sony and Nintendo, who offered better platforms and more aggressive tactics to attract smart and innovative creators to their consoles, stole the Ouya's Indie focus thunder (rendering its main appeal null). Credit where credit due though, they delivered to their backers and brought their product to market (even if no one particularly cared). The Ouya is a particular example of where the allure and dangers of Kickstarter can be plainly seen. A cool story can compensate for a product that perhaps should not exist (but it is fun to be a part of history even if it is investing in the Hindenburg).
Video games are not an exact science. Develop can go horribly wrong (and many times it does), but that usually is kept from the public (or not with highly publicized failures like Aliens: Colonial Marines) or covered up by huge publishers absorbing the financial burden or scraping the project. With Kickstarter there is a bit more transparency or scrutiny because there is the reasonable expectation on the part of backers for the game to ship (without issue, like, say needing more funding because the developer hit a snag in development). That is not how it works though, unfortunately. It is no one's fault or a horrible mismanagement of resources (typically), but **** can hit the fan.
Double Fine Adventure famously raised 734% more funds than it projected allowing the team to make a bigger game than expected. During its development, the game has gotten larger in scope prompting various additional means of funding. In the Double Fine Humble Bundle, people who contributed $35 or more, in addition to the humble bundle games offered, got a second chance to get a copy of Broken Age (nee Double Fine Adventure) and backer access to the project. While not an outright second kickstarter, it did allow the developers to receive some additional funds off a game still in development. Recently, Double Fine announced that Broken Age would miss its expected ship date due to the expanding size of the game. Not only that, it would be split into two parts. The first part will now ship in Jan 2014 as an Early Access game to allow Double Fine to raise additional funds to complete the full scope of the project (with the second part shipping sometime later in 2014). The benefit of Double Fine is they have been transparent about all of these snags. The developer has openly communicated the issues to backers and those anticipating the game. However Broken Age turns out, quality wise, remains to be seen, but it serves as a check for zealous would-be backers for video games that they should always be aware of the vagaries of video game development. **** is tough, so make sure you trust those you back to deliver a product (eventually).
Most of the other big games from Kickstarter are at various states of shipping to backers (and being retail). Project Eternity from Obsidian Entertainment still has a good bit of time before its Q2/Apr 2014 expected ship date. Wasteland 2 from inExile Entertainment might not quite make its estimated Oct 2013 ship date, but there is still active communication to backers, so it likely is not smoldering (they have released video demos to backers/the public). InExile's other project, Torment: Tides of Numenera is likely a bit further away. The benefit of these high profile games is that they seem to be doing right by backers and communicating openly. So, hopefully, games materialize sometime down the road. That is not to say all these over-funded games are way off, Shadowrun Returns exists and can be purchased now (go on Steam, it is there for your hard earned American dollars). And Godus from the boy king, Peter Molyneux is currently available for Early Access on Steam.
Kickstarter is a great service. It gives creative types a way to create without having to compromise their vision. Without a corporate entity funding the endeavor, they can deal directly with their fans/customers. It also gives consumers the ability to vote with their dollars in a meaningful way. It gives video game fans the opportunity to tell creators exactly what they want because they are kicking them a couple of shekels to help make it. It gives exceedingly cool games like A Hat in Time, Brad Muir's MASSIVE CHALICE and Hyper Light Drifter a chance to exist where they otherwise might not. It has given Keiji Inafune an opportunity to give fans the Mega Man they deserve and that he wants to make (CAPCOM be damned). There are the odd instances of Sony advertising games for their consoles on their official blog that have upcoming kickstarters (Sony should probably fund these games directly). Yet people should have a healthy skepticism when backing something. It is easy to get caught up in a compelling story or an interesting concept making it possible to avoid the reality/capability of the people behind the story/concept to deliver fully on the product. Or to forget that when funding a video game that video game development is actually a hugely difficult and complex undertaking that typically can go haywire at any time. Then there is the whole when can people start talking about a proposed game as fact? It is going to be an interesting future. Now if only I can get someone to kickstart my reality show where I am there not to make friends.
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Queenslander member of the Society, Murray Bird has released a book on the early history of football in that state.
Bird's place in football history can never be erased – he was the first Queenslander to umpire at AFL level and officiated in 43 games from 1990-94. Yet his contribution to the local football scene goes far, far deeper than that or his 177 local games, including four grand finals.
His working life with what started out as the QAFL, became the QSFL and is now AFLQ, had five different chapters. And each was underpinned by a passion for football that is shared by many in Queensland but topped by none.
He was a development officer for four years, an umpiring development officer for 12 months, junior programs co-ordinator for four years, umpiring manager for four years and football operations manager for four years.
Now Murray has taken on a football historian's cap and centred his research on Queensland footy and what a job he has done.
Years of research has produced a wonderful book on our game in the northern state and makes fascinating reading. Here is a short introduction to the period:
Tom Wills, Geelong and Queensland football
In 1866, over a decade before South Australia finally adopted what was then called the Victorian Rules, Queenslanders were playing the Australian game. Prior to the late 1870s Australian Rules football was played in only two colonies, Victoria and Queensland.
All of the schools adopted the game and by the early 1880s the sport had spread throughout Queensland, and was played in places as far flung as Thargomindah, Normanton, Cairns, Cunnamulla and Townsville.
Australian Rules was 'the game of the colony' and Queenslanders were enamored with the skill and finesse of a sport that was gradually diverging from its rugby roots during the 1870s.
Some of the founders of football in Queensland were from the famous Geelong Football Club, where the great Tom Wills had played a leading role in the development of the sport.
Wills' good friends and football teammates at Geelong, George Glencross-Smith and Thomas Board, were at the helm of the Brisbane Football Club when it formed in 1866.
Wills travelled to Central Queensland in 1862 in an ill-fated odyssey to set up a pastoral property with his father, Horatio. His father and 18 others were brutally murdered by a hostile aboriginal tribe in reprisal for atrocities committed by previous colonists. Wills was absent from the property collecting supplies, returning to the scene of the massacre only hours after it had occurred.
His brothers Horace and Cedric were soon summoned to Queensland to assist with the property as the distraught Wills eventually returned to his luminous cricket and football careers in Victoria. Horace and Cedric Wills were both useful players for Geelong in the early 1860s. When they visited Brisbane they would play Australian Rules football with their Geelong mates.
Another Brisbane Football Club founder, Charles Wallen, played for Scotch College in the school matches of 1858 that were the precursor to codification of Australian Rules. The Hart brothers, Fred, Studholme and Graham, were also members of the Brisbane Football Club in its early years. They played for the Albert Park club in some of the first games of Australian Rules before they travelled to Queensland.
Victorians kicked off Australian Rules in Queensland and they were the driving force for football in its first decade.
By 1869 the grammar schools of Brisbane and Ipswich had adopted the code and by the mid-1870s they were beginning to provide graduates to the football clubs of southeast Queensland. In the early 1880s some of these young men were venturing to regional Queensland as accountants, schoolteachers, civil servants and lawyers. When they arrived in places like Maryborough, Gympie, Toowoomba, Warwick, Mackay and Charters Towers they commenced Australian Rules football clubs.
By 1884 there were over 50 Australian Rules clubs throughout Queensland, and only two rugby clubs in the township of Rockhampton.
Two of the strongest clubs were Ipswich (The Athenians) and Brisbane (Red Invincibles). The teams were, by the early 1880s, filled with the old boys of the Brisbane and Ipswich Grammar Schools. Victorian influence on the code had waned and it was local Queenslanders who were playing and administering the code.
Crowds would flock to the Queen's Park in the Brisbane Botanical Gardens to see the Athenians and Red Invincibles fight out matches that were almost always close and often violent. There was no love lost between Queensland's two biggest towns.
All of this was to change after a bitter battle of the codes erupted in 1884. This battle was to shape the course of Australian sporting history for the next 130 years.
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I have mentioned tax reform in two columns so far, and it seems time to dig deeper into the topic. Long before the election, Paul Ryan started to develop a comprehensive proposal for tax reform. The last major tax reform package was passed in the Reagan administration, though each succeeding President has pushed taxes up (D) or down (R). Ryan's proposal, taken up by his successor as chief tax writer in the House, Chairman Brady, would reduce personal and corporate income tax rates and fundamentally change how taxes on business are calculated and who pays them.
There are a number of reasons why this kind of tax reform is needed. Burdensome and badly designed taxation is a major contributor to the slow recovery from the recession. Since 2008 investment has fallen from its average of 4.4% of GDP between 1960 and 2008 to 2.8% of GDP last year. The United States taxes business income twice, once in the corporate income tax and then again when what is left shows up in personal investment income. This puts US taxes on investment higher than in all but four of our major economic competitors, and only two out of 173 countries have higher corporate taxes than in the U.S.
These high tax rates not only slow economic growth, in the long run they are self-defeating. We have seen this clearly as large companies move their headquarters overseas, are purchased by foreign companies, or merge with foreign companies in order to move their income to countries where taxes are lower. This not only moves jobs overseas, but erodes the base from which corporates taxes are collected.
Not only that, but when U.S. companies move overseas, they often find that their new host countries refund their taxes on the goods they manufacture overseas and sell back to the United States. Companies that remain in the USA are at a double disadvantage. They have to pay US taxes on goods they export and then find that their goods are taxed again when they arrive in the foreign country.
The Brady-Ryan plan fixes these problems. By reducing the corporate tax rate from 39.6% to 20%, it moves the US down from imposing the world's highest taxes on business to the middle of the pack. To remove the remaining biases against manufacturing in the USA, businesses will no longer be able to deduct the cost of goods they import from their taxable income, and at the same time businesses will no longer pay any taxes on income from the goods they export. This "Border Adjustment" will give US manufacturers the same advantages in global competition that most of our competitors already give to manufacturers in their territory.
To further simplify the tax code, depreciation and all the special tax breaks that go with it will be eliminated. Investments will just be another expense to be deducted from income in the year they are incurred. Also, businesses will no longer be able to deduct interest payments. The purpose of this change is to eliminate the bias in favor of borrowing rather than going to the stock market to raise funds for investment, which has enriched banks and made many businesses much more vulnerable to bankruptcy than they would be with less debt to service.
Incentives for individuals to invest will also be increased, by exempting 50% of income from capital gains, dividends and interest income from personal income tax. Thus while businesses will not be able to deduct interest or dividends, double taxation of investment income will be greatly reduced by the combination of lower tax rates at the corporate level and exemption of 50% of investment income to individuals.
Personal income tax rates will be reduced and simplified for all incomes. Taxes will go to zero for many taxpayers now paying a 10% rate on some of their income. Going up the ladder, instead of the current 7 tax brackets there will be just three. The maximum rate in the lowest bracket will be 12% instead of the current 15%, in the next the maximum rate will be 25% instead of 28%, and the highest rate will be 33% instead of 39.6%. The obnoxious AMT that is reaching further into the middle class will be repealed.
Of particular interest to the retirees, farmers and small businesses on the Eastern Shore, the Plan will repeal the Death Tax completely and limit to 25% the maximum tax rate on small businesses that "pass through" income and expenses to their owners.
All of this will be good for the economy and good for consumers. The Tax Foundation, an independent research institution, estimates that after 10 years GDP will be 9.1% larger than it would be with the current system and that an additional 1.7 million jobs will be created. Naturally, this added growth also increases tax revenue.
The problem is how to get a major tax reform package like this passed. It would be very nice to have bipartisan agreement that we do not need to settle for lower economic growth and that tax reform is necessary – not sufficient, but still necessary – to get back to historical levels of economic performance. It would not even take much bipartisan agreement – just 8 of the 10 Democratic senators running for re-election in states that President Trump won in a landslide would be enough to overcome the roadblock of 60 votes.
However, the plan is constructed to make that unnecessary. Under the current budget process – which still exists even as the deficit balloons – a Budget Resolution is passed each year setting out overall spending and revenue targets in some detail. After the Budget Resolution is passed and Congress acts on authorizing expenditures, there is a second step to bring those actions back in line with the Budget Resolution. This "Budget Reconciliation Bill" is privileged with limited debate and requires only a majority vote for passage. It is possible to add the entire tax reform plan to the Reconciliation Bill, as long as it is "revenue neutral" – that is, any loss in revenue from one provision is balanced by an increase in revenue from another.
So far so good. This is where the devil is in the details of arguments over who benefits. Democrats describe the Plan as another example of "trickle-down" economics and claim that it short-changes or harms middle- and lower-income taxpayers. Businesses obviously favor all the provisions that reduce their taxes, but they unite with Democrats in decrying the "Border Adjustment" provisions. Companies like Walmart that import most of the goods that they sell do not like the choice of buying more expensive substitutes made in the USA or seeing their taxes go up substantially. Others worry that either of those choices will raise prices paid by consumers.
The easy solution to some of these objections would be to lower rates further in the two lowest brackets or eliminate the Border Adjustment. This is where the need to stay revenue neutral in order to avoid a 60-vote hurdle comes back to bite us. The Border Adjustment provides about $1 Trillion of revenue over 10 years and meaningful rate reductions are impossible without it.
Fortunately, it is quite likely that some of the impact of the Border Adjustment will be borne by the countries from which we import and to which we export. The argument for this very desirable outcome is that the value of the dollar will automatically adjust to get rid of any upward pressure on consumer prices.
The basis of this argument is the clearly correct observation that unless the value of the dollar goes up, the border adjustment will create a very large incentive to increase exports and a very large incentive to reduce imports. If this happened, the U.S. trade deficit would decline drastically. This is where a counter-intuitive but well-established hypothesis comes into play.
Most economists are convinced that the trade deficit has little or nothing to do with wages and taxes in the US versus China, India, Mexico or Europe. Instead, it is the magnitude of government borrowing that determines the size of the trade deficit. And in accounting terms, this is absolutely correct. If the United States is borrowing from other countries every year, that means that we are consuming more than we produce and are running up debts to pay for it. When the government spends more than it takes in, and everyone else spends all they earn and possibly a little more, we have to import more than we export in order to balance the accounts.
Remembering that the Border Adjustment is part of a Plan that is revenue neutral, it will not change the government deficit and therefore the trade deficit cannot change. This means that the dollar must appreciate by just enough to negate any incentive for more exports or less imports. If this happens, Walmart will find that the dollars it saves on buying imports will be just what it needs to pay its additional taxes due to the Border Adjustment. If that happens, there is nothing to drive consumer prices up and everyone is happy.
I doubt that everything will be quite that simple. Many European countries adopted very similar border adjustments when they adopted their Value Added Taxes, or VATs. Those countries did experience a brief period of inflation, in which some but not all of the higher taxes on imports were passed on to consumers. This produced no major disruptions or long-term problems. I think we are likely to have the same experience, as the dollar will increase but not enough to fully offset any pressure on prices. As long as wages keep up and the Federal Reserve responds appropriately, it is my opinion that the long run benefits of tax reform will outweigh these transition costs for just about everyone.
David Montgomery was formerly Senior Vice President of NERA Economic Consulting. He also served as assistant director of the US Congressional Budget Office and deputy assistant secretary for policy in the US Department of Energy. He taught economics at the California Institute of Technology and Stanford University and was a senior fellow at Resources for the Future.


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POPAYÁN, Colombia—The presence of Las Cafeteras, the national team from Colombia, in its first Women's World Cup likely will pass with little comment here. (Colombia faces the United States in a first-round Group C match in Sinsheim, Germany on Saturday.)
Colombia's second match, after a 1-0 loss to Sweden, is against the United States on Saturday, but the streets will not close. Corner-shop proprietors will not string cables from their second-floor apartments to attract patrons for improvised theater viewing. This would be the norm for matches that fire provincial or nationalistic passion, such as the Colombian league final June 18 between Atlético Nacional of Medellín and La Equidad of Bogotá.
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Global Flexible Plastic Packaging Market projected to rise at a CAGR of 6.7% during the forecast period 2017-2022
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Flexible plastic packaging makes use of thin and stretchable plastics that preserve and maintain the properties of products and are puncture and wear resistant. The global flexible plastic packaging market has witnessed a robust growth path due to several aspects impacting it. The rise in population especially middle class, growing demand for flexible plastic packaging from the food and beverage industry and pharmaceutical industry, and rising preference of convenient packaging and handling are few of the aspects fuelling the growth of the flexible plastic packaging market. Moreover, this growth can be attributed to the rising adoption of plastic flexible packaging owing to various benefits it offers, such as, light weight, easy to store, carry and reseal, inexpensive, supports the shelf life of the products, creates appeal, enables visibility of the products within, easy to transport, can be used to package a wide variety of products, indicates and maintains freshness, gives sufficient room for innovations and designing, and delivers effective product to package ratio. These factors are expected to contribute in pushing the growth of the flexible plastic packaging in the years to come. However, unstable prices of raw material can pose restraints to the growth of the global market for flexible plastic packaging.
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