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Dublin Lock-out
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The Dublin Lock-out | |||
Dublin Metropolitan Police break up a union rally on Dublin's Sackville Street, August 1913
Date | 26 August 1913 - 18 January 1914 |
Location | Dublin, UK | ||
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Goals |
Methods | Strikes, Rally's, Walkouts | ||
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Parties to the civil conflict | |||
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2 dead, several hundred injured |
The Dublin Lock-out was a major industrial dispute between approximately 20,000 workers and 300 employers which took place in Ireland's capital city of Dublin. The dispute lasted from 26 August 1913 to 18 January 1914, and is often viewed as the most severe and significant industrial dispute in Irish history. Central to the dispute was the workers' right to unionise.
Dublin slums[edit]
Irish workers lived in terrible conditions in tenements. An estimated four million pledges were taken in pawnbrokers every year. The infant mortality rate amongst the poor was 142 per 1,000 births, which was very high for a European nation. The situation was made considerably worse by the high rate of disease in the slums, which was the result of a lack of health care and cramped living conditions, among other things. The most prevalent disease in the Dublin slums at this time was tuberculosis (TB), which spread through tenements very quickly and caused many deaths amongst the poor. A report published in 1912 claimed that TB-related deaths in Ireland were fifty percent higher than in England or Scotland, and that the vast majority of TB-related deaths in Ireland occurred amongst the poorer classes. This updated the 1903 study by Dr. John Lumsden.
Poverty was perpetuated in Dublin by the lack of occupational opportunities for unskilled workers. Prior to the advent of trade unionism in Ireland, unskilled workers lacked any form of representation. Furthermore, there were many more unskilled labourers in Dublin than there were jobs for them. Thus unskilled workers often had to compete with one another for work on a daily basis, the job generally going to whoever agreed to work for the lowest wages.
Jim Larkin and the formation of the ITGWU[edit]
James Larkin, the main protagonist on the side of the workers in the dispute, had a history within the trade union movement. His first experience with trade unionism in Ireland had been in 1907 when he was sent to Belfast as local leader of the British-based National Union of Dock Labourers (NUDL) after working as a docker in Liverpool. While in Belfast, Larkin organised a strike of dock and transport workers. It was also in Belfast that Larkin developed his tactic of the sympathetic strike, whereby workers who were not directly involved in an industrial dispute with employers would go on strike in support of other workers who were. The Belfast strike was moderately successful and boosted Larkin's standing amongst Irish workers. However, his tactics were highly controversial and as a result Larkin was transferred to Dublin. Unskilled workers in Dublin were very much at the mercy of their employers. Employers who suspected workers of trying to organise could "blacklist" them, practically destroying any chance of future employment. Nevertheless, Larkin set about trying to organise the unskilled workers of Dublin. This was a cause of concern for the NUDL, who were reluctant to engage in a full-scale industrial dispute with Dublin employers. As a result Larkin was suspended from the NUDL in 1908. Larkin then decided to leave the NUDL and set up his own union, the Irish Transport and General Workers' Union (ITGWU).
The ITGWU was the first Irish trade union to cater for both skilled and unskilled workers. In the first few months after its establishment it quickly gained popularity, and soon it had spread to other Irish cities. The ITGWU was used as a vehicle for Larkin's syndicalist views. Larkin believed in the bringing about of a socialist revolution by way of the establishment of trade unions and the calling of general strikes. After initially losing several strikes between 1908 and 1910, the ITGWU became more successful after 1911, winning several strikes involving carters and railway workers. Between 1911 and 1913, membership of the ITGWU rose from 4,000 to 10,000. This trend did not go unnoticed by employers, who soon became alarmed by the rise in popularity of the new trade union.
Larkin had also learned much from the progress and results of the Tonypandy Riots and the 1911 Liverpool general transport strike.
Connolly and the Irish Labour Party[edit]
Another important figure, in the rise of an organised workers' movement in Ireland at this time, was James Connolly, an Edinburgh-born Marxist of Irish descent. Like Larkin, Connolly was a talented orator. He became known for his speeches on the streets of Dublin, in support of socialism and Irish nationalism. In 1896, Connolly established the Irish Socialist Republican Party, and the newspaper The Workers' Republic. In 1910, Connolly became involved with the ITGWU, and was appointed its Belfast organiser in 1911. In 1912, Connolly and Larkin formed the Irish Labour Party, intended to represent workers in the imminent Home Rule Bill debate in Parliament. Home Rule was never implemented, due to the start of World War I. It was suspended for one year, then indefinitely, after the rise of militant nationalism following the 1916 Rising.
William Martin Murphy and the employers[edit]
Foremost, among employers opposed to trade unionism in Ireland, was William Martin Murphy. Murphy was a highly successful businessman born in Castletownbere Co. Cork. In 1913, he was chairman of the Dublin United Tramway Company and owned Clery's department store and the Imperial Hotel. He also controlled the Irish Independent, Evening Herald and Irish Catholic newspapers and was a major shareholder in the B&I Line. Murphy was also a prominent nationalist and a former Home Rule MP in Westminster. Even today his defenders insist he was a charitable man and a good employer, and that his workers received fair wages. Yet conditions in his many enterprises were often poor or worse, with employees given only one day off in ten while being forced to labour up to 17 hours a day. Dublin tramway workers were paid substantially less than their counterparts in Belfast and Liverpool and were subjected to a regime of punitive fines, probationary periods extending for as long as six years, and a culture of company surveillance involving widespread use of informers.[1] Murphy was vehemently opposed to trade unions, which he saw as an attempt to impede on his business. In particular, he was opposed to Larkin, whom he saw as a dangerous revolutionary. In July 1913, Murphy presided over a meeting of 300 employers, during which a collective response to the rise of trade unionism was agreed. Murphy and the employers were determined not to allow the ITGWU to unionise the Dublin workforce. On 15 August, Murphy dismissed forty workers he suspected of ITGWU membership, followed by another 300 over the next week.
Course of the dispute[edit]
The resulting industrial dispute was the most severe in Ireland's history. Employers in Dublin locked out their workers, employing blackleg labour from Britain and elsewhere in Ireland. Dublin's workers, amongst the poorest in the United Kingdom, applied for help and were sent £150,000 by the British Trades Union Congress (TUC) and other sources in Ireland, doled out dutifully by the ITGWU.[2][3] The "Kiddies' Scheme", whereby children of Irish strikers would be temporarily looked after by British trade unionists, was blocked by the Roman Catholic Church, who protested that Catholic children would be subject to Protestant or atheist influences when in Britain. The Church supported the employers during the dispute, condemning Larkin as a socialist revolutionary.[4]
Notably, Guinness, the largest employer and biggest exporter in Dublin, refused to lock out its workforce. It had a policy against sympathetic strikes. While it refused to join Murphy's group, it sent £500 to the employers' fund. In turn, it expected its workers not to strike in sympathy, and six who did were dismissed. 400 of its staff were already ITGWU members, so it had a working relationship with the union. Larkin appealed to have the six reinstated, but without success.[5]
Strikers used mass pickets and intimidation against strike breakers. The Dublin Metropolitan Police in turn baton charged worker's rallies. A DMP attack on a union rally on Sackville Street (now known as O'Connell Street), in August 1913, caused the deaths of two workers, James Nolan and John Byrne. Over 300 more were injured. This was provoked by the illegal appearance of James Larkin to speak out for the workers. The event is known as "Bloody Sunday", as are two subsequent days in 20th century Ireland. Another worker, Alice Brady, was later shot dead by a strike breaker, while bringing home a food parcel from the union office. Michael Byrne, an ITGWU official from Kingstown, died shortly after being tortured in a police cell.[6] In response, Larkin, his deputy James Connolly, and ex-British Army Captain Jack White formed a worker's militia named the Irish Citizen Army, to protect workers' demonstrations.
For seven months, the lock-out affected tens of thousands of Dublin's workers and their families, with Larkin portrayed as the villain by Murphy's three main newspapers, the Irish Independent, the Sunday Independent, and the Evening Herald. Other leaders in the ITGWU at the time were James Connolly and William X. O'Brien, while influential figures such as Patrick Pearse, Countess Markievicz and William Butler Yeats supported the workers, in the generally anti-Larkin media.
End of the Lockout[edit]
The lock-out eventually concluded in early 1914, when calls for a sympathetic strike in Britain from Larkin and Connolly were rejected by the TUC. Most workers, many of whom were on the brink of starvation, went back to work and signed pledges not to join a union. The ITGWU was badly damaged by its defeat in the Lockout, and was further hit by the departure of Larkin to the United States in 1914 and the execution of Connolly for his part in the nationalist Easter Rising in 1916. However, the union was re-built by William O'Brien and Thomas Johnson. By 1919, its membership surpassed that of 1913.
Although the actions of the ITGWU and the smaller UBLU were unsuccessful in achieving substantially better pay and conditions for the workers, they marked a watershed in Irish labour history. The principle of union action and workers' solidarity had been firmly established. No future employer would ever try to "break" a union, in the way that Murphy attempted with the ITGWU. The lock-out itself had been damaging to commercial businesses in Dublin, with many forced to declare bankruptcy.
W.B. Yeats' "September 1913"[edit]
September 1913, one of the most famous of W. B. Yeats' poems, was published in the Irish Times during the lock-out. Although the occasion of the poem was the decision of Dublin Corporation not to build a gallery to house the Hugh Lane collection of paintings (William Martin Murphy being one of the most vocal opponents of the scheme), it has sometimes been viewed by scholars as a commentary on the lock-out.[7]
Brockie, Gerard; Walsh, Raymond (2004), Modern Ireland, Gill & Macmillan, ISBN 0-7171-3516-0
"Dublin Lockout 1913". Patrick Yeates History Ireland Magazine, Vol. 9 No. 2 Summer 2001.
- ^ Rebel City- Larkin, Connolly and the Dublin Labour Movement, by John Newsinger, Merlin Press Ltd 2004
- ^ UCC web source; accessed Nov 2009
- ^ This TUC assistance is worth over €16m in 2014 values, and was never repaid.
- ^ Kostick, C., (1996), "Revolution in Ireland: Popular Militancy 1917 to 1923", p. 18
- ^ Guinness 1886–1939, SR Dennison & Oliver McDonagh (Cork Univ. Press 1998). ISBN 1-85918-175-9 See: Chapter 8, "The employees; work and welfare 1886–1914", and chapter 9, "Industrial Relations 1886–1914".
- ^ http://www.anarkismo.net/article/470
- ^ Marjorie Howes, "Postcolonial Yeats: Culture, Enlightenment, and the Public Sphere", Field Day Review, Volume 2 (2008), p. 67 and footnote
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- The Irish Story archive on the Lockout.Retrieved 2013-07-09
- "History Podcast with Lockout:1913 author Pádraig Yeates". Retrieved 4 April 2013.
- "Brief background to dispute". Retrieved 24 June 2007.
- "Biography of James Connolly". Retrieved 24 June 2007.
- Church opposition to sending children to England
- "Dublin in 1913". Retrieved 12 July 2010.
- "Class War in Dublin". Retrieved 12 July 2010.
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Ignoring the possible stretch between iron doors and appliances, and resisting the urge to suggest moving where iron doors aren't necessary, some metallurgical approaches come to mind. If you want no rust, the iron chemistry has to be enhanced by chromium and nickel. A stainless steel in the 300 series will be best for that purpose. Slabs could be CNC machined to any design one wanted for a price not greater than several SubZero refrigerators. In the controlled rust category, there is a steel designed to rust just enough to self-passivate. Such steel can be seen on highways where brownish-colored lamp poles are mounted. I don't recall what this stuff is named. My understanding is wrought iron resists rusting, perhaps due to slag inclusions, but I'm not sure how such iron could be worked into a door. Perhaps wrought decoration on a laminated white oak door would be strong enough. White oak worked for the USS Constitution. kas |
Hi Kas- I am new to gardenweb so I accidentally posted the iron door question on the appliance section..sorry! I was able to repost in a more appropriate section of the site. I do, however, appreciate the response. I am very surprised that there is so much confusion about wrought iron doors. Somebody asked me if I live in the ghetto to "need" iron doors!!!! Iron doors, like the ones found on on abbyirondoors.com, are absolutely beautiful and found in most high end southern homes. I have seen them on some of the highest end homes in NJ…but my concern is that they are not very prevalent in the northeast. I do know one person who splurged and got these type of doors in my neighborhood.. but he has had condensation issues with it (about two years old). I am actually now leaning towards a low maintenance fiberglass door with decorative iron grills instead…but the look of the those wrought iron doors is just so beautiful! I wish I could find someone in this area who has had them for sometime and used a good company. |
Nina123... I'm with you. I'm searching of Garden Web for more info/opinions but can't find any. Surprised people don't know what you're talking about. Need info asap and I too am considering buying from abbyirondoors.~ |
Hi JuniperSt- Just an FYI- I have a friend who used abbyirondoors, and he would not recommend them. He said they do not return phone calls or emails if there is a problem and he has condensation issues. Tough to find a good company/ reviews... |
Not sure if your still looking. Take a look at Durango Doors in Texas, call the Austin location as they deal with out of state sales. We are considering them for an out of state build and they are quite reasonably priced. I'm still checking with them, but delivery might be a problem, but it's worth checking into. Not sure if anyone using them has had condensation problems. |
- Posted by Geoffrey_B (My Page) on Fri, Sep 5, 14 at 9:27
Ghetto! |
I'm sure the bulk of this thread has moved to another forum, but for the sake of clarity, I wanted to post my response... Ghetto... NOT!!!! Around my part of the country at least, these decorative iron doors are sought after. These are the decorative iron scroll doors with glass and not a solid metal security door. In working with builders a few years ago, they were VERY common and in fact, 'required' to get 'the look' that everyone expected in those very high end, multi-million dollar homes. It became so popular, (and still is), that people in very modest homes were trading them out for plain wood doors and reportably increased the home's value right away. I have not owned them personally but worked in many of those houses and never saw any condensation or rust issues. But maybe it depends on the humidity in the area? Maybe a special coating if humidity is an issue? I did prefer the ones that have the glass door section that opens separately which can let in nice breezes in the Spring and Fall. The interior glass door is hinged as a separate unit from the iron door itself so the iron door stays closed and locked while the interior in-swinging glass door can be opened. So the iron grillwork allows pets, kids or others from entering (or escaping) yet allows the breeze. Pretty cool. The picture below is from one of those high dollar homes that I was talking about in my city. This one is WAY over the top on price, as you can see. Stunning IMO. Just a FYI. Hope it helps for info. And a better visual. (edited for clarity) |
This post was edited by cindallas on Fri, Sep 5, 14 at 16:53
In any circumstance where the temperature of the glass or of the iron becomes lower than the dew point of the humidity of the air, condensation will occur. This could happen due to interior air conditioning, or due to radiational cooling in high humidity air (the same way dew is formed). In any case, I think the dual door approach is a good one, as once the inner glass door is opened, the condensation should rapidly disappear. One would want a bug-free environment. kas |
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Formed | 6 July 1995 |
Preceding Agency | Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) |
Jurisdiction | Civil Aviation Act 1988 Air Services Act 1995 Airspace Act 2007 |
Headquarters | Alan Woods Building, 25 Constitution Avenue, Canberra, ACT, Australia |
Employees | 3991(June 2012) |
Minister responsible | Warren Truss, Minister for Infrastructure and Regional Development |
Agency executives | Sir Angus Houston, AK, AFC, Chairman Margaret Staib, AM, CSC, Chief Executive Officer |
Website | www.airservicesaustralia.com |
Airservices Australia is an Australian Government owned corporation, responsible for providing safe, secure, efficient and environmentally responsible services to the aviation industry (e.g. air traffic control, airways navigation and communication facilities, aeronautical data and airport rescue and fire-fighting services) within the Australian Flight Information Region (FIR). Airservices Australia has international partnerships with ICAO, CANSO and IATA. The agency also maintains a close relationship with the Australian Defence Force through the Future Service Delivery business group, which will see the acquisition of a joint civil-military air traffic management system under the OneSKY Australia Program.
Airservices Australia manages and monitors Australian airspace which covers approximately 11 per cent of the earth's surface. This includes the airspace over continental Australia, territorial waters and also international airspace boundaries over the Pacific and Indian Oceans. Airservices Australia also manages upper-level airspace (above 30,000 ft) under contract to the neighbouring Pacific Island Flight Information Regions of the Solomon Islands and Nauru.
Each year, Airservices Australia provides air navigation services for more than four million domestic and international flights carrying over 90 million passengers. The aviation industry also relies on Airservices Australia for aeronautical data, telecommunications and emergency services. Airservices Australia also provides Aviation Rescue and Fire Fighting services at 22 of the nation's busiest airports where there are more than 350,000 passenger movements a year on air transport flights.[1]
Airservices Australia's headquarters is located in the Alan Woods Building in central Canberra. The building is named in honour of the late Alan Woods, a Chairman of the agency's predecessor organisation, the Civil Aviation Authority.
The agency is self-funded and controlled by a Board of Directors, accountable to the Australian Parliament, through the Minister for Infrastructure and Regional Development, The Honourable Warren Truss MP. The Chair of Airservices Australia Board is Air Chief Marshal Angus Houston AC,AFC (Ret'd). The Chief Executive Officer is Air Vice-Marshal Margaret Staib (Ret'd). The agency maintains approx. 4000 highly skilled aviation professionals, including air traffic controllers, engineering specialists, technicians and support staff working from two major control centres, and 29 air traffic control towers at capital city and regional airports. In 1999, the agency commenced using The Australian Advanced Air Traffic System (TAAATS), a computerised air traffic control system covering all sectors of Australian air space.
Air Traffic Control operations[edit]
Airservices Australia has two air traffic control centres based in Brisbane and Melbourne. Australia has two Flight Information Regions which are managed by these centres. All airspace to the north of the dividing boundary (YBBB) is controlled by Brisbane Centre and all airspace to the south of the boundary (YMMM) is controlled by Melbourne Center. These centers cover the whole of Australia except for the Terminal Control Units and towers at major cities. In addition, Melbourne Centre is responsible for managing traffic handovers from South Africa, Mauritius, Sri Lanka, Maldives, Indonesia and New Zealand. Brisbane Centre manages traffic handovers from neighboring flight information regions including East Timor, Papua New Guinea, Fiji and USA.
Aerodrome controllers are airport tower controllers, airport approach controllers, airport departure controllers and ground controllers.
The Civil Aviation Branch of the Department of Defence was established on 28 March 1921, after Parliament passed the Air Navigation Act 1920 in December 1920. The organisation was reformed as a separate Government Department, the Department of Civil Aviation (DCA), on 14 November 1938 after the enquiry into the 1938 Kyeema Crash. Arthur Brownlow Corbett was appointed Director-General of Civil Aviation in April 1939, serving until his retirement in August 1944. From June 1946 to December 1955 the Director-General was Richard Williams, formerly RAAF Chief of the Air Staff. Donald George Anderson held the position of Director-General from January 1956 until September 1973.
On 30 November 1973 the DCA merged with the Department of Shipping and Transport and became the Department of Transport, Air Transport Group. This group was again reformed as its own Department on 7 May 1982, the Department of Aviation (DOA). Another merger took place on 24 July 1987 when the DOA was absorbed by the Department of Transport and Communications. On 1 July 1988 the Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) was formed to control aviation safety regulation and provide air traffic services.
CAA was split into two separate government organisations in July 1995: Airservices Australia and the Civil Aviation Safety Authority (CASA). Airservices Australia took responsibility for airspace management, aeronautical information, communications, radio navigation aids, airport rescue and fire fighting services, and aviation search and rescue, while CASA assumed control of safety regulations, licensing of pilots and aviation engineers, and certification of aircraft and operators. The role of aviation search and rescue was transferred from Airservices Australia to the Australian Maritime Safety Authority in 1997.
2009 ATC Industrial Dispute[edit]
Airservices Australia entered negotiations with the Air Traffic Control union Civil Air in early 2008 to form a new collective agreement. As negotiations continued, ATC staff shortages were said to contribute to what was the worst year on record for flight delays and cancellations,[2] but had been earlier defended by Airservices CEO Greg Russell as having been caused by a group of "renegade air traffic controllers" who had been responsible for airspace closures in a form of covert industrial action.[3][4]
Despite claims by the union that the problem was caused by a shortage of controllers, the figures provided by Airservices show the average number of controllers has not changed significantly over the previous three years.[3][4]
Complaints by airline Virgin Blue culminated in a demand for $500,000 compensation in October 2008.[5] An attempt by Airservices to define obligatory reasonable overtime for its controllers failed in the AIRC in late December 2008.[6]
Remaining differences in position regarding wages and sick leave resulted in threatened industrial action by late January 2009.[7][8][9] High-level intervention of CEO Greg Russell and ACTU President Sharan Burrow in the negotiations produced an offer which averted industrial action and was endorsed almost unanimously by the Air Traffic Controllers.[10][11]
The collective agreement negotiation saw 83 per cent of staff register their vote, with 95 per cent voting for the agreement. The new agreement led to a pay increase of 4.3 per cent per annum over 3.5 years with changes to sick leave and rostering arrangements.[11]
As of September 2009, Air Traffic Control staffing problems continued to disrupt the ability of Airservices Australia to provide its core function,[12][13] precipitating an unprecedented cancellation of leave for the entire Sydney approach control unit for three months.[14]
In its 2010-13 Workforce Plan,[15] Airservices claimed that as of December 2009 the required number of operational ATC staff were available, reflecting the impact of a significant increase in recruitment and training throughout 2008-09. Airservices further plans to recruit close to 100 ATC trainees annually to 2013 to offset the impact of retirements and resignations.[15]
2010 Alleged Sexual Harassment and Bullying Court Action[edit]
On 28 July 2010 a Federal Court action was brought against Airservices Australia by two air traffic controllers employed by the agency for alleged bullying and sexual harassment within the workplace.[16]
- 1999 - Eagle Award - IATA - "Best Air Navigation Service provider"
- 2005 - Eagle Award - IATA - "Best Air Navigation Service Provider"
- 2010 - Asset Management Award - Asset Management Council (a technical society of Engineers Australia)
- 2011 - Lawrence Hargrave Award - Royal Aeronautical Society (awd. to Greg Dunstone for pioneering ADS-B Initiatives)
- 2011 - National Award (Telecommunication) - AIPA
- 2013 - Annual Report Award - IPAA, ACT Division - Bronze award in Commonwealth Authorities and Companies category (for 2011-12 report).[17]
See also[edit]
- Civil Aviation Safety Authority
- Department of Infrastructure and Transport
- Australian Transport Safety Bureau
- Australian Air Traffic Control
- Civil Air Navigation Services Organisation
- GNSS Augmentation
- ^ Manual of Standards Part 139H - Standards Applicable to the Provision of Aerodrome Rescue and Fire Fighting Services commlaw.gov.au, retrieved 21 April 2013
- ^ "2008 worst year for cancelled or late flights". Theage.com.au. 2009-01-18. Retrieved 2012-04-10.
- ^ a b "Renegade controllers leave pilots flying blind". Theage.com.au. 2008-07-26. Retrieved 2012-04-10.
- ^ a b "Shortage of air traffic controllers spells more drama for Qantas". Abc.net.au. 2008-07-31. Retrieved 2012-04-10.
- ^ "Virgin Blue demands $500,000 for delays". Smh.com.au. Retrieved 2012-04-10.
- ^ "AIRC Determination: Alleged dispute concerning hours of work". Airc.gov.au. Retrieved 2012-04-10.
- ^ "Air traffic controllers flag industrial action". Abc.net.au. 2009-01-22. Retrieved 2012-04-10.
- ^ 5 Minutes 10 Minutes (2012-02-17). "Strike on way after air traffic talks fail". Theaustralian.news.com.au. Retrieved 2012-04-10.
- ^ 5 Minutes 10 Minutes (2012-02-17). "Air traffic controllers' pay row threatens havoc for flights". Theaustralian.news.com.au. Retrieved 2012-04-10.
- ^ "Air traffic controllers agree to deal". Theage.com.au. 2009-05-04. Retrieved 2012-04-10.
- ^ a b "Media Release - Air traffic controllers collective agreement ballot successful". Newsroom.airservicesaustralia.com. Retrieved 2012-04-10.
- ^ "Flights delayed or cancelled in Sydney". News.brisbanetimes.com.au. 2009-09-13. Retrieved 2012-04-10.
- ^ "Sydney's flight schedule 'to return to normal'". Abc.net.au. 2009-09-14. Retrieved 2012-04-10.
- ^ 5 Minutes 10 Minutes (2012-02-17). "Airservices, staff on collision course". Theaustralian.news.com.au. Retrieved 2012-04-10.
- ^ a b "Airservices 2010-13 Workforce Plan" (PDF). Retrieved 2012-04-10.
- ^ "Air controllers claim bullying, discrimination". Theage.com.au. 2010-07-29. Retrieved 2012-04-10.
- ^ "Annual Report Awards". Retrieved 5 June 2013.


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Hello my name is Colin Johnson and I am the creator (and dude in the red shirt) of what I call "THE EMPERORS CABINET". It's not quite finished it still gets some shelves in the bar, mirrors on the inside of the doors, brass trim, and brass guns. There will be some nice in progress shots on my blog at http://www.colinrhino.blogspot.com after 12/03/11
This is fantastic! it could do with some more small shelving inside! Sadly enough being a huge star wars fan on the other hand, this is something I would most definitely have to get!


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Office of the Vice President
For Immediate Release
October 10, 2011
Vice President Biden to Highlight American Jobs Act at Fire Department in Flint,
Washington, D.C. - On Wednesday, October 12th, Vice President Biden will
visit the Flint Fire Department in Flint, Michigan to highlight how the
American Jobs Act would keep cops and firefighters on the job. Through the
American Jobs Act, $5 billion would support the hiring and retention of
public safety personnel. By supporting such jobs, the proposed investments
aim to keep communities safe from crime and able to maintain critical
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As a result of state budget cuts over the past three years, Flint has been
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In 1893, the Federation Fathers made the decision to draw up the constitution for the new Australian nation at the old Corowa Courthouse. The town has one of the country's finest collections of intact Federation-style buildings under the protection of the National Trust.
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The twin towns of Albury and Wodonga straddle the Murray River which flows from the Lake Hume Dam into Lake Mulwala. 600-year-old ghostly river red gums jut from the water while lakes and river provide a picturesque Country NSW setting for water sports and activities. Go fishing and camping along the Murray River or maybe water skiing on the calm waters. Championship golf courses line the river, with excellent facilities and challenging fairways.
Albury-Wodonga has a thriving arts scene, magnificent heritage buildings, beautiful parks and gardens, shopping and dining. There are adventure playgrounds for the kids to enjoy and a good selection of accommodation, from resorts to B&Bs, apartments and hotels.
Woomargama National Park offers great views of the region while Wonga Wetlands is a series of lagoons and billabongs that's home to a variety of wildlife and century-old river red gums. If you enjoy cycling, check out the Culcairn Bike Track; walkers should head to the Wagirra Trail, the Howlong Historic Trail or the Ian Geddes Bushwalk in Holbrook.
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OutServe-SLDN Responds to Delay Tactic by Fort Bragg Spouses Group
(WASHINGTON DC) Amid national controversy surrounding its denial of membership to a same-sex military spouse, the Association of Bragg Officers' Spouses today released a statement indicating it would address the issue at a board meeting next month. In response, Army veteran and OutServe-SLDN Executive Director Allyson Robinson called on the group to address the controversy immediately.
"'Equality can wait' has never been the answer, but that's the message the Association of Bragg Officers' Spouses is sending with its tepid and dismissive statement today. It's certainly not the answer for Ashley Broadway or the families of gay and lesbian service members at Ft. Bragg and on military installations across the country, who like all our men and women in uniform, need support during the holiday season perhaps more than any other time of the year. The group doesn't need a meeting; Ashley clearly qualifies under its existing, approved bylaws. It simply needs to accept Ashley into its membership, and it should do so immediately," Robinson said.
Ashley Broadway detailed her denial of membership in the club in an open letter to its president, Mary Ring, earlier this week. On Tuesday, OutServe-SLDN reached out to the Commanding General at Fort Bragg, LTG Daniel Allyn, to make him aware of discrimination against military families happening in his community and request that he address the situation. The command has yet to respond.
Robinson also called out the Pentagon for its nearly two-year long delay in issuing guidance on benefits and support that can be provided to same-sex military families without coming into conflict with the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA).
"The Pentagon has dragged its feet on this issue for far too long, and it's time for the Secretary to act. Situations like the one at Ft. Bragg could be avoided if commanders were given the guidance they need to address these issues with consistency. All it takes is the stroke of a pen," said Robinson.
OutServe-SLDN, previously known as Servicemembers Legal Defense Network, has sent repeated requests to Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta outlining steps he can take now to extend recognition, benefits, and support to gay and lesbian military families.
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Oscar® Nominee for Best Cinematography, Best Costume Design, Best Music (original score), and Best Production Design
Anna KareninaReviewed by: Charity Bishop Very Offensive
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Romance Drama Adaptation
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November 16, 2012 (limited)
November 21, 2012 (limited—16 theaters) December 7, 2012 (wide—384 theaters) DVD: February 19, 2013 Relevant Issues
no one may build their happiness on another's pain the self-deception of believing that another person is the key to your happiness TRUE LOVE—What is true love and how do you know when you have found it? Answer carnal desire and passion fidelity and purity vs. adultery and fornication Devotion to living righteously is the only justifiable reason for living. Sin has a price. author: Leo Tolstoy woman stuck in a loveless marriage VENGEFUL ANGER—"Vengeance is mine, I will repay" —Romans 12:19; Deuteronomy 32:35. bond between a mother and her children basing one's happiness on success in high society believing in "evil omens" becoming the subject of gossip being snubbed by former friends hypocrisy living a life of lies and falseness bitterness boredom drug abuse/addiction—morphine making decisions based on the visions of a "clairvoyant" Suicide
SUICIDE—What does the Bible say? Answer If a Christian commits suicide, will they go to Heaven? Answer Dying of consumption/cancer
Where did CANCER come from? Answer How did bad things come about? Answer Why does God allow innocent people to suffer? Answer What about the issue of suffering? Doesn't this prove that there is no God and that we are on our own? Answer Does God feel our pain? Answer What kind of world would you create? Answer death
pure love vs. sensual lust Though his own life story was fraught with controversy, Leo Tolstoy also wrote one of the most interesting contrasts between pure love and sensual lust, in the form of Anna Karenina. This most recent adaptation succeeds on a purely visual level, but not entirely on an emotional or spiritual one. When it is discovered by her brother's wife that he has cheated on her with a governess, Anna Karenina (Keira Knightley) is dispatched to their home to convince her not to divorce her husband. Her success in this is undermined when she meets Count Vronsky (Aaron Taylor-Johnson) at the station. He is immediately infatuated with her, and she with him, but Anna's attempts to resist become more difficult once he follows her back to St. Petersburg, much to the distress of her respectable husband (Jude Law). Count Vronsky is meant to be pursuing a marriage with Kitty (Alicia Vikander). In the hope of becoming his wife, she turns down a proposal of marriage from Levin (Domhnall Gleeson). But where one love story begins, another threatens to descend into destruction. On several occasions, morality is addressed through its characters. Karenina quotes Scripture on the subject of "coveting your neighbor's wife," and Levin condemns adulterous love as being impure and ultimately unsatisfying (as is proven true in the extra-marital affair's outcome). But where the themes of the book are much more evident, particularly when it comes to the role God plays in both Karenina and Levin's life, here they are diminished or nonexistent, leaving viewers to read between the lines. The book's purpose is to show us wild, passionate, sexual desire that turns itself inside out and descends into jealousy and contempt, contrasting it with a pure and innocent love that begins with an act of total forgiveness. Sadly, those themes are so downplayed in this version that Levin's shift from an atheist to a man aware of the existence and goodness of God is also absent. What we are left with is an incomplete story that does hit some of the highlights of the moral messages of the book, but not the most important ones. Purely from an artistic perspective, this is a masterful piece of work that approaches the material in a wholly unique way—by setting a stage. It works better than anyone anticipated, blending reality and metaphor with seamless and clever transitions. Some of the most powerful scenes are reminiscent of the director's earlier work—much as he did with Elizabeth and Darcy in "Pride & Prejudice," he isolates Anna and Vronsky on the dance floor, to draw us into their increasing passion for one another. The costuming is also scrumptious and everyone does a phenomenal job of acting, particularly Ms. Knightley in the lead. Whether or not it is worthy of an Oscar®, she reaches deep into the soul of the audience and, perhaps as a first for the character of Anna Karenina, makes us feel deeply sorry for her. Unfortunately, some of the good themes of the film (such as forgiveness and the importance of marital fidelity) are undermined with sensuality, for three times we see active intimacy between couples—twice with Vronsky and Anna (there is no nudity, but lots of passionate kissing and faces in expressions of ecstasy) and once, as a reflection on a train window (this one contains movement). Side nudity is also seen as a couple sleeps entangled in one another's arms. Many references are made to adulterous affairs and unchecked "passion." There is one mild profanity and some violence (a pregnant woman is pushed to the ground, two people are hit by trains—one of them with a grisly aftermath). Tolstoy powerfully shows how "love," if unsupported with trust and fidelity, can be undermined by jealousy, self-loathing, and guilt. One of the most powerful moments is when Anna berates her husband for his forgiveness, for now she must "live with it." Some characters condemn infidelity, others tolerate it, and a few embrace and/or dismiss its deeply sinful nature. It's a shame that for the sake of time constraints, some important events were cut from the film, because it makes it emptier than it should be, particularly for a Christian viewer. Yet, in spite of its flaws, it still contains a powerful and sobering message of the perils of pursuing sin instead of righteousness. Violence: Moderate / Profanity: Minor / Sex/Nudity: Heavy Learn how to make your love the best it can be. Discover biblical answers to questions about sex, marriage, sexual addictions, and more. See list of Relevant Issues—questions-and-answers. Positive
Positive—I was surprisingly pleased with this movie for a number of reasons. The creative direction worked well and, while it started out a bit campy, I was able to enter in and appreciate it. The film portrayed the first intoxicating moments of sexual temptation and the reality of the fleeting pleasures of sin. But, it also showed the excruciating results of giving in to temptation and the downward spiral it can create.
In addition, to this there was an element of grace portrayed in the film that is seldom seen. While I agree that the book offers much richer, and specific Christ-centeredness, the film still contains a powerful portrayal of the cost of giving in to sin. Moral rating: Average / Moviemaking quality: 4½ —Chris D., age 49 (USA) Movie Critics
"…its covert anti-romanticism may limit appeal beyond specialty auds.… Eschewing the classical realism that's characterized most adaptations of Tolstoy's source novel, helmer Joe Wright makes the generally inspired decision to stylize his dark, expressionist take on 'Anna Karenina.' Setting most of the action in a mocked-up theater emphasizes the performance aspects of the characters' behavior, a strategy enhanced by lead thesp Keira Knightley's willingness to let her neurotic Anna appear less sympathetic than in previous incarnations.…" "…Infidelity, Grandly Staged… Mr. Stoppard and Mr. Wright offer 'Anna Karenina' and its heroine to the gods of melodrama, who receive her gladly. But their film, wild and emotional as it is, does not quite hit the deep, resonant note of tragedy that would lift it above the merely (by which I mean the merely very) good. At the end you may be dazzled, touched and a bit tired. But, really, you should feel as if you had been hit by a train." "…The director, who is prone to static filmmaking disguised as 'opulent' and loyal to his reedy, perpetually high-strung leading lady Knightley, has made an 'Anna Karenina' that is excessively delighted with stagecraft and symbolism.… [B-]" "…This is a sumptuous film—extravagantly staged and photographed, perhaps too much so for its own good. There are times when it is not quite clear if we are looking at characters in a story or players on a stage. Productions can sometimes upstage a story, but when the story is as considerable as 'Anna Karenina,' that can be a miscalculation. [2½/4]" "…If there's such a malady as hyperenchantment, this production suffers from it. While I was watching, eyes glazed from the too-muchness of it all…" "…Anna's story, still steeped in high-concept frippery, becomes less engaging as it goes, particularly as Wright massively pares it down to bring the movie to a close at a reasonable hour. The movie's still gorgeous, but Anna's great tragedy, condensed and accelerated and enacted underneath the visible ropes and pullies of the stage, never attains its power. [2½/4]" "…"Anna Karenina" is a weirdly Baz Luhrmann-like film-stage hybrid and part musical-ballet.…" "…Wright… unflinchingly depicts the horrible price Anna must pay for clinging to her relationship with Vronsky. Note that the unflinching part of those depictions involves sexual scenes and brief but grim violence.… Three misuses of God's name.…" Comments from non-viewers
Neutral—I have not seen, nor do I plan to view, this latest incarnation of "Anna Karenina," which is based on the novel of the same name by Count Leo N. Tolstoy. I was planning on seeing it, but the R-rating gave me cause for concern, as did the reason for the rating: sexuality and some violence. I have seen 5 versions of "Anna Karenina," 4 of them adapted for the screen and 1 a television miniseries made in the mid-1970s. All of them were devoid of explicit sexuality and nudity, so I thought that it would be the same with this new version. Plus, it had Joe Wright behind the camera and Keira Knightley as Anna (the two of them had collaborated on "Pride and Prejudice" several years earlier), so I thought it would be a good movie without any sex.
I was wrong. I read the in-depth content description at Plugged-In Online, and I was saddened to uncover that the movie contains not one, not two, but FOUR sex scenes with explicit sexual movement and some male rear nudity. SERIOUSLY?!!! Does a movie based on a novel about adultery have to depict the act in graphic detail? The closest it got ere this film to explicit sex was a brief scene in the 1997 version where Count Vronsky (Sean Bean) kisses Anna (Sophie Marceau) suggestively, the camera closes on Anna's face and then the camera cuts to a scene of them just finished consummating their lust, with no nudity; Anna is covered with a sheet, as is Count Vronsky. So, I painfully made the decision to not view this version. Due to the sex scenes, I do NOT recommend this version. View the two versions with Greta Garbo, the one with Vivien Leigh, the television miniseries made in the mid-1970s or the lavish film made in 1997 starring Sophie Marceau, Sean Bean, James Fox and Alfred Molina. All of these productions are well-made and don't have explicit sex scenes, though there is fleeting nudity of a girl at a party in the film version from 1997. The Bible saith, "Flee fornication. Every sin that a man doeth is without the body: but he that committeth fornication sinneth against his own body. Know ye not that your body is a temple of the Holy Ghost, which is in you, whom ye have of God? And ye are not your own. For ye are bought for a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God's."-The First Epistle Of The Apostle Paul To The Corinthians 6:18-20 —D, age 26 (USA) Sorry, no viewer comments received yet. If you have seen this movie and would like to share your observations and insights with others to be posted here, please contact us! |


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case based reasoning; personal travel assistant; fipaAbstract:
This paper describes a case-based approach to user profiling in a Personal Travel assistant (based on the 1998 FIPA Travel Scenario). The approach is novel in that the user profile is made up of a set of cases capturing previous interactions rather than as a single composite case. This has the advantage that the profile is always up-to-date and also allows for the borrowing of cases from similar users when coverage is poor. Profile data is retrieved from a database in an XML format and loaded into a case-retrieval net in memory. This case-retrieval net is then used to support the two key tasks of requirements elaboration and ranking offers.
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