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October 16, 2006
"Dip and clip" method controls weeds at Lake Tahoe
Trespassers are invading the Lake Tahoe Basin, but a novel approach can stop them in their tracks.
Three perennial weeds are slowly infiltrating one of California's scenic gems. Perennial pepperweed, Dalmation toadflax, and diffuse knapweed are present in the Lake Tahoe Basin. These and other weeds have been planted as ornamentals by those unaware of their invasive nature. Scientists are concerned that invasion by these weeds may result in increased erosion and impacts to lake water quality.
Basin-wide efforts to locate and control weed infestations are under way. With funding from the University of California Exotic/Invasive Pests and Diseases Research Program, Jennifer Erskine-Ogden, postdoctoral researcher from University of California, Davis, Mark Renz, weed scientist from University of Wisconsin-Madison, Sue Donaldson, water quality specialist from University of Nevada-Reno Cooperative Extension, and Bill Frost, natural resource advisor from University of California Cooperative Extension in El Dorado County, are studying low-impact control measures to control these prolific weeds.
Historically, few herbicides have been used to manage weeds at Lake Tahoe because of its environmental sensitivity. Currently, hand pulling is the method used to get rid of the pests, but it's only moderately effective unless it's repeated for several years. Even then, it can cause a lot of soil disturbance near the plant making the plant community more susceptible to further invasion and increasing the potential for erosion and sediment inputs to the lake.
"Invasive weeds reduce recreational values and uses, take over agricultural lands, displace native species, decrease wildlife habitat, and cost millions of dollars for treatment," says Renz. "Our ultimate goal is to provide land managers in the Lake Tahoe Basin with a successful control measure that prevents the continued spread of these invasive perennials and is accepted by the community as an environmentally friendly management option."
Renz and Frost have confirmed the effectiveness of a new environmentally sensitive herbicide delivery system, referred to as "dip and clip," that simultaneously clips weeds and deposits herbicide on the remaining stems. This technique is an expensive management option, but the added safety measure of specific application to weed stems only will make this a viable option for using herbicides in the Lake Tahoe Basin.
"This method offers the Lake Tahoe Basin Weed Coordinating Group a much-needed alternative to traditional weed control methods while ensuring lake water quality is protected," says Donaldson.Renz and Frost have produced a pamphlet, A Precision Method for the Control of Perennial Herbaceous Species in Sensitive Locations, (PDF* 536KB) to explain how to effectively manage perennial weeds in sensitive areas.
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High-resolution image (908KB) "Users should hold their clippers with the flat surface facing downward to maximize the amount of herbicide applied to the cut stem." Photo credit: Courtesy of UC Statewide IPM Program, Sue Donaldson.
High-resolution image (1,016KB) "After donning protective gloves, Jennifer Erskine-Ogden, postdoctoral researcher, University of California, Davis, carefully dips the clipper blades into the herbicide solution. The solution should not drip onto the ground." Photo credit: Courtesy of UC Statewide IPM Program, Sue Donaldson. Photos are for use with this release only. All other uses see Legal Notices.
Stephanie Klunk, Communications Specialist
Jennifer Erskine-Ogden, Postdoctoral Researcher


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Special Minister of State
DATE: 28 March 2008
TITLE: Electoral Reform, Parliament House, Canberra
TOPIC: Electoral Reform
FAULKNER: Well thanks very much for coming along. Today I wanted to announce that the Rudd Government will be introducing legislation in the next parliamentary sitting to fix loopholes in donation disclosure and public funding. Our plan is to introduce legislation in the next session for passage in the next session.
The government will also kick-start a process for a green paper to reform and modernise our electoral processes. The Prime Minister is asking the states and territories to join the Commonwealth in examining electoral issues. In the short-term, the legislation that I've announced will urgently move on five issues.
The first is to set the campaign donation disclosure threshold level at $1,000, reversing the Howard Government's huge increase in the threshold, which as you know took the disclosure limit from $1,500 to $10,000 indexed.
The second measure is to ban donations from overseas or from non-Australian companies. So this will ensure that donations can only be received from a jurisdiction where the AEC can ensure that our laws are enforced.
Thirdly, we are planning to legislate to tie election funding to reported and verified electoral expenditure. In other words, expenditure directly incurred by a candidate or a party in an election. So this will stop any candidate, or any party, making a financial gain from the electoral public funding system.
Fourthly, we are planning to remove the loophole whereby separate divisions of a political party are treated as separate entities. So that enables, of course, would enable large donations from being hidden by paying portions across state or territory branches of the same party.
And finally, we are proposing in this urgent legislation to increase public scrutiny of donations by setting six-monthly disclosure timeframes. These reforms, of course, that I've outlined there are a priority, because I want to ensure that they are in place and so they can be fully effective they must operate by the beginning of the next financial year. That's why legislation will be introduced in the next session for passage during that session.
I also wanted to announce today that the government is going to produce an electoral reform green paper, to be released in two parts. The first looking at disclosure, funding and expenditure issues; that's planned to be released for discussion in July of this year. The second part of the green paper will examine a broader range of options aimed at strengthening a range of other elements of our
electoral laws.
That part of the green paper will be released for discussion in October this year and the plan is, of course, for the green paper to look at issues such as: caps; limitations or bans on donations and
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funding or expenditure; to look at the public funding regime in the broad; to look at the critical issue of the alignment of state, territory and federal electoral laws; and, of course, a range of other issues such as enrolment processes, roll closures, as part of a very comprehensive review of the Commonwealth Electoral Act.
The Australian Electoral Commission, the Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet, and the Department of Finance and Deregulation, have been tasked by the Cabinet to prepare the green paper. The government is very committed to working with state and territory governments on these critically important issues.
The Prime Minister is writing to premiers and chief ministers to seek their cooperation in progressing electoral reforms, asking them to nominate a relevant minister to attend discussions with the Commonwealth, which I will chair, about electoral reforms.
The government, of course, will be asking the Parliament's own Joint Standing Committee on electoral matters to consider the green paper. And I'm hoping that we'll work closely with the Joint Standing Committee on electoral matters as the process of electoral reform moves ahead.
I think it's fair to say that over the past few years there have certainly been a number of retrograde changes to the Commonwealth Electoral Act. And I am very committed, as is the government, to restoring the integrity of our electoral processes; to restoring the integrity of our electoral system in this country.
And I believe the five reforms that I've announced today will make our electoral system more accountable, more open, more transparent, and I'm looking forward to ensuring that these other processes, particularly the green paper process that I've outlined, will also do the one thing that is so critical: that is, to ensure the health of our Australian democracy.
There is a great deal more that we can do, and I would commend these reforms to you; and I'm very happy if I can to answer any questions you might have about them.
JOURNALIST: Senator Faulkner, does the government have any general view about the [indistinct], what is a good mix of public and corporate funding for the electoral process, for the political process?
FAULKNER: Well they are the sorts of issues obviously the first part of the green paper will examine. There's no doubt, when public funding was originally introduced, there was a view that it would limit the number of donations that the political parties would need to receive.
And I think there was also a view that, with political parties and candidates receiving public funding, that there was a consequential need to ensure that the disclosure provisions of the Electoral Act were strong. Well those provisions have been weakened now over a long period of time.
There was a time when I think Australia's Commonwealth Electoral Act was at the cutting edge. If you go back 20 or 25 years, that's certainly the case. It's not the case now. So I believe we are well behind the play. We're not up to speed in relation to, when compared to other Western democracy in relation to our electoral system.
There's a great deal that we have to address. And those sorts of critical issues, Laura, that you raise, are very much going to be front and centre as the, in the first part of the green paper that I've announced.
JOURNALIST: Minister, with regard to the green paper, will it examine the idea of greater transparency with regard to the Labor Party's receipt of affiliation fees from trade unions and the effect of that funding going through to election campaigns?
FAULKNER: Look, there's absolutely nothing off-limits in relation to the green paper. I mean let's be clear, the five reforms that I've announced today for urgent legislative consideration, they will apply equally to trade unions, to companies, to individuals, to any other organisations.
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There's no picking and choosing here in relation to the application of our electoral laws: they apply equally to all organisations and individuals. So of course, in that sense, trade unions are absolutely no different to any other organisation.
JOURNALIST: Senator, there are learned colleagues who might suggest that you're cutting your own throat in the contest against the Coalition?
FAULKNER: Well I would say, not only to my own colleagues but more broadly, that we have a responsibility to restore the health of Australia's democracy. I actually happen to believe it's in the interests of the political process and in the interest of political parties to have strong electoral laws.
I happen to think there's no particular partisan advantage or disadvantage in ensuring that many, many more receipts to political parties are disclosed, that they're disclosed in a more timely fashion, that we don't accept donations from overseas or companies that are not registered or from non-Australian companies.
I don't think it's going to be disadvantageous, the changes in relation to ensuring that we tighten our electoral laws, so the loophole where separate entities, separate divisions or branches of a political party are not treated as separate entities is removed. I actually think these will strengthen the political process, strengthen our political system, and will be to the advantage of political parties. If you have a healthy democracy and you have a good electoral system, I think that actually assists all those who participate in it. And of course in Australia, which is such a strong tradition with its two-party system, it will be advantageous to the major parties as well.
JOURNALIST: Do you think that these changes will stop Pauline Hanson from standing again?
FAULKNER: No, I don't think that these changes will stop any individual Australian standing for any House of Parliament. What these changes do, though, is ensure that any candidate who does nominate for office, and is provided with public funding if they meet the threshold level, any candidate, regardless of who they are, will have to be able to justify expenditure to receive public funding.
In other words, you're not going to be paid taxpayers' money if you haven't actually expended that amount of money on a political campaign. And I actually think that, again, strengthens our political system. It will enhance the integrity of the Commonwealth Electoral Act.
And I want to say this about suggestions that have been made about candidates receiving public funds when expenditure to that level hasn't actually been incurred in an election campaign. That actually does undermine the integrity of our electoral system. And this is something we've known about now for two elections.
It became absolutely obvious to everyone that this was a real issue, a real loophole, in the Commonwealth Electoral Act after the 2004 election and certainly after the 2007 election. And I have said before to some of you, but let me now say it publicly again; we know the loophole exists, it's not good enough just to acknowledge it, it must be fixed, and that's what this legislation will do.
JOURNALIST: What's the mechanism for fixing it there? How hard will it be?
FAULKNER: The mechanism is as an amendment to the Commonwealth Electoral Act which will effectively mean in this area that a candidate will be required to declare their expenditure to the Australian Electoral Commission, that they will be paid public funding on that basis, that any such payment is open to auditing by the AEC.
And if there are found to be any problems with that process, obviously there'll be a recovery process for funds and I will expect that the AEC, as it develops legislation, possibly to be talking to the Attorney-General's Department about possible penalties. But the key thing here is to fix the loophole in the Electoral Act. I don't want to be - I think we're
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much better off ensuring that public funds aren't paid in such a circumstance.
That's the aim of this amendment to the Act. Fix the loophole, fix the problem, ensure that public funds are not paid to a candidate when they haven't actually incurred that same level of expenditure in an election campaign.
JOURNALIST: What advice do you have on the extent to which that's been going on, the number of candidates, the amount of dollars?
FAULKNER: I have received some informal advice on that but this is not a new situation. Let me use, for example, the case of the late Peter Andren, the member for Calare. I'm aware that he received such public funding and it was common knowledge that in that event, he donated those funds to charity, which I thought was a very, very appropriate course of action for him to take, and not surprising, given his strong commitment on these sorts of issues.
But clearly from the Government's point of view, what we want to do is ensure that we have a system in place where taxpayers' funds, public moneys, are not paid to candidates on the basis of them - as public funding when they haven't incurred that level of expenditure.
JOURNALIST: How [indistinct] in the first place? How did it get there? I mean, it's not exactly a major ethical consideration here. If you don't spend it, you don't get it back. How did we get to the position where people were able to harvest at elections?
FAULKNER: Well, the point is, Malcolm, we are there. We are there.
JOURNALIST: Did the previous government do that deliberately to give certain people that…
FAULKNER: I'm not making any such suggestions. All I am saying to you is we have identified for some years now that there is a serious loophole in the Commonwealth Electoral Act where a candidate for public office can be paid public funds, effectively as what is intended to be reimbursement for campaign expenditure when actually that campaign expenditure hasn't incurred. So what I say is how we've got there is obviously through a weakness in the Commonwealth Electoral Act and that loophole, that problem, must be fixed and I do say it hasn't been fixed in the past. It will be fixed if the legislation that I'm announcing today passes the Parliament, which I sincerely hope it does before the first of July this year.
JOURNALIST: Just with your point about reducing the disclosure time transfer from 12 month to six months, under that system, what would be the maximum time between when someone donates and when the public would get to find out about that donation and are you going to require twice yearly reporting or once a year now?
FAULKNER: Yes. We are going to require twice yearly reporting. Let me use an example here, even though there's currently a 12 month disclosure period. I'm sure some of you would be aware of what that means in practice.
We actually have a situation where I could perhaps makes a discloseable donation. Currently that would mean it would be over $10,500 under the Howard Government legislation, to the Labor Party.
If I made that on the second of July this year, 2008, under the current legislation, that means it would be reportable to the Australian Electoral Commission by October of 2009 and it would be made public by February of the subsequent year, 2010. The way my maths works that's about 19 months. So even though it's theoretically a 12 month disclosure period, it is, in fact, 19 months in the case of that donation.
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Now, the plan in relation to the change from reducing the period from 12 months to six months is that would be the reportable period so there'd be twice as many reports for periods half as long.
However, I must be frank with you. There will be a slight lag time and on the best advice I have available to me, that will certainly be no longer than three months by the end of the six month reporting period.
It'll be in the public arena within, definitely within three months and I hope within two months. I mean, I think everyone appreciates there needs a short period of time for parties and candidates to - the political parties mainly in this instance to report and be talking about a few weeks, possibly four weeks, four weeks for the AEC to do all the administrative work.
And then that information should be in the public arena. So it will be a very significant change and I do take account, I do take account of the fact that the current 12 month period can, in effect, be a lot longer than 12 months.
And because of that, trying to ensure the provisions of this new amendment to the Commonwealth Electoral Act mean that that reporting and public announcement of those receipts can be made as quickly as possible.
JOURNALIST: …for an open register that goes all the time rather than report six months now and then six months later. Why not just put it onto a website as it goes along?
FAULKNER: Well, that is certainly - that is certainly an option that in one or two western democracies is the preferred course of action. There's no doubt about that. And that's the sort of issue that we'll see examined in the first part of the Green Paper that I've announced.
But what I'm looking at in relation to these immediate changes to the legislation are important, significant measures that can be moved on immediately to tighten and strengthen our disclosure provisions of the Commonwealth Electoral Act. That's why this process has been announced.
JOURNALIST: Can I just clarify then. In terms of the immediate impact of this, after an election, it shouldn't be any later than about September. Say you had a November election, it shouldn't be later than about August or September the following year that you got the final update on donations in that immediate period before the election. When would we see the first new disclosure under the new regime in the coming financial year?
FAULKNER: If this legislation passes the Parliament, you will see receipts or those moneys received by political parties from January 2008 to the first of July 2008 made public within approximately eight weeks and that is a very, very different situation and a very significantly reduced timeframe on what occurs now.
So the reporting periods, instead of being a full financial year, is half a financial year, periods being from January to June and July to December, which I'm sure you appreciate would be logical and the consequential period and obligations on parties to report within the timeframe I've mentioned approximately four weeks.
For the AEC to complete its administrative work, I think another four weeks or so. So I'm advised by the AEC that they're very confident that this can be done, certainly within a three month period and I believe they're pretty confident it can be done much closer to a two month period, after the end of the reporting period.
You've got to compare this to the situation that applies at the moment where those donations, it's a 12 month reporting period, and you don't see those donations for another eight months.
JOURNALIST: …about the decision to ban donations from overseas and non-Australian companies. Can you talk about more specifically about what's been happening that concerns you that's led you to make that
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FAULKNER: Well, I've been concerned about this for a long time. I've long held the view that overseas donations should be banned. My concern has been that there is no way that the Australian Electoral Commission has the authority, if you like, the jurisdiction, to be able to ensure that such donations can be validated.
I mean, in fact, what can happen with overseas is we can validate a vote, the AEC can do that, but they can't validate a donation. These changes to the electoral laws will mean it'll prevent overseas donors sourcing donations through a local holding or shelf company.
It'll give the AEC the capacity to get behind such donations. In other words, the AEC will be given the power to follow through all paper trails to the source. Again, you've got to compare Australia to so many other countries in the world where it's been longstanding practice for donations, overseas donations, to be banned.
But if nothing else, I think people have to accept the principle in relation to overseas sourced donations, that it is very risky indeed for donations to be allowed to be accepted into our political system where there is no capacity for the AEC to check those donations.
There is no jurisdiction for the AEC to operate at all. So all the auditing process and checking processes they have can't apply. If for no other reason, that is, of sufficient concern, I think, to move on this and move as quickly as we can.
JOURNALIST: …to that extent, Mr Faulkner, that would mean AustChina could not - a company like Aus-China couldn't give money to either political party but it would still leave them open to sponsor travel. Is that your understanding of the rules here?
FAULKNER: Well, I don't know the details about whether AustChina, the company you mention, is an Australian company or not. But if it's not an Australian company, it certainly couldn't donate to an Australian political party or a candidate.
In relation to the issue of sponsored travel that you raise, let me say this, that those matters relate to individual parliamentarians. I assume you're talking about sponsored travel for parliamentarians.
Such travel is subject to full disclosure in both the pecuniary interests register of the House of Representatives and the Senate, assuming that the value of such travel meets the threshold in both cases.
JOURNALIST: …that expenditure, Minister, why didn't you go for - a demand for receipts first up rather than allowing MPs to self-report in the first instance?
FAULKNER: Because this - the approach that has been outlined here is recommended by the Australian Electoral Commission. I must say that I actually happen to share their views that this is the best way of dealing with this issue.
We don't want to - you want a clean, easy to administer foolproof system. The idea here is not to make the provisions of the Electoral Act so burdensome on candidates and parties that you build in unworkability. This is a simple way of doing this. It puts the onus onto the candidate themselves to make a declaration.
And I think you're going to find - I really do think you're going to find - that candidates who nominate for public office, given these circumstances where they're required to make a declaration, where they know there'll be an audit trail behind that, where there'll be a recovery process and, in all likelihood, penalties if a false declaration is made, I think you'll find that it's very likely that you'll get very strong compliance and it will be - it has a real advantage of ease of administration.
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It's certainly the strong view of the AEC that this is the best and simplest way to ensure that we close this loophole in the Commonwealth Electoral Act
JOURNALIST: What would trigger an audit? What sort of thing? What sort of discrepancies?
FAULKNER: Well, that would depend on circumstances. You've probably heard the AEC give evidence in any number of public fora about what triggers action at the moment but it's often just the basis of a complaint, as you know.
The AEC, I know from experience around the Senate Estimates table over very many years, indicating that if people like yourselves write an article that raises concerns or issues, it tends to trigger AEC action. And if people like me tend to say some critical things, that tends to trigger a bit of AEC action, too, and I can't imagine it will be any difference in this circumstance.
JOURNALIST: Senator, just with the fourth of your reforms, where you're talking about removing the loophole with separate divisions of a party being treated as separate entities. How would that work in practice now, the new reporting requirements? Would the Federal Party be required to report the aggregate on all of the donations to each of their state and territory branches?
FAULKNER: Look, where the sum of donations to a related group of parties during a disclosure period exceeds the $1,000 threshold, a donor to a political party must lodge a donor return. Now here, obviously, there's an onus on the donor. It's possible that you could have various branches of a political party not knowing a number of donations had been provided in other branches.
But let me just use an example of the Australian Labor Party - it is only, I can assure you, a theoretical or hypothetical example, but I think it's a good one to use to show you how serious this loophole might be.
At the moment, you'll find that the Australian Labor Party I'm proudly a member of is registered in six states, in two territories, at the national level, as you know, and also Country Labor is registered. So that's 10 separate registrations.
Under the current electoral law - under Mr Howard's electoral law, which has a $10,000 disclosure threshold indexed, as you know, so currently it's $10,500 - you could see to each of those ten entities a $10,000 donation. If my maths is right, that would make $100,000 and not one cent of it would be required to be disclosed.
Now I quickly add, I don't believe this circumstance has occurred, but it gives you an indication of where the problem lies.
JOURNALIST: [Interrupts] Well, will this go down to individual political candidate levels? Because, equally, if I was wanting to donate to your party under your new laws, I could donate nearly $100,000 - or more - by giving each of your individual candidates $999.
FAULKNER: No, you - it goes to registered parties. It effectively goes only to registered parties and it is those parties who - it goes to a related group of parties, is all I can say; in other words, different divisions or branches of the same political party. This amendment is not focused on individual candidates, it is focused on parties.
JOURNALIST: [Indistinct] loopholes
FAULKNER: It is focused on parties.
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JOURNALIST: But if you're not checking what individual candidates are receiving then isn't that a way around your ruling?
FAULKNER: Well, you do have a situation at the moment, there's no doubt, where a person can donate, if they wish, a range of donations to candidates from the same political party. That's why it's critically important to look at this broad range of reforms. That's why it is so important to reduce the disclosure threshold from $10,500 to $1,000. That's why some of these broader issues in relation to the disclosure provisions of the Commonwealth Electoral Act need to be looked at extensively and exhaustively and consultatively through the process of the green paper that I've announced.
JOURNALIST: You've said that the green paper would look at expenditure issues. What sort of expenditure issues do you have in mind? Do you have in mind limitations on how much can be spent on campaigns?
FAULKNER: Well, you'd be aware that a number of people - some in the states and territories, some in coalition political parties, some commentators, even journalists - have raised a range of suggestions about reform to funding, disclosure, expenditure, receipts. Now obviously there is, you know, a critical relationship between receipts to political parties and expenditure, and some people have suggested limitations and bans on funding, and a range of people have also suggested limitations on expenditure, and in a range of other countries you see both of these approaches in practice.
So I don't want to have a situation where we go through a very thorough and exhaustive process with a green paper and don't look at all the options. So I think expenditure is important, as, clearly, are receipts, as is the disclosure and funding regime. There is a relationship between these things. It deserves and warrants proper consideration.
I mean, we do have to give some real thought, as I said before, to the health of our democracy in this country. I think we can do a lot better that we've done over recent years. I think we can improve the integrity of our political system. I think we can improve our electoral processes and we're about doing so.
JOURNALIST: For the electoral roll a number of Labor spokesmen railed against the earlier closure that the Howard Government brought in. Why don't you just put that back out rather than put it under further discussion in the green paper.
FAULKNER: Well, the - it could be done, obviously, but the Labor Party came to government with a very strong commitment in relation to changing those enrolment provisions and, in subsequent legislation, we will be ensuring that those changes are reversed. But there is some time available and I wanted to ensure that this urgent bill deals with funding and disclosure issues - that's what it does.
But I can assure you, in relation to the Howard Government's proposals for early closure of the roll, there is no lack of commitment on my part or the government's part to reverse those changes. We will be proposing legislation to do just that, I can assure you, during the life of the current Parliament.
JOURNALIST: Kevin's Rudd's also talked about four year terms. Is that something the green paper will be analysing?
FAULKNER: Certainly the Prime Minister has talked about that issue and it, again, is something which the Labor Party has a very strong, and now quite longstanding, platform commitment to. But it wouldn't be an issue that would be dealt in relation to these reforms. Let's be clear. These reforms go to provisions of the Commonwealth Electoral Act, so I would see constitutional questions - I don't diminish their significance or importance in saying this at all - but I think we need to be clear that the green paper, in two parts, very much will focus on provisions of
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the Commonwealth Electoral Act.
JOURNALIST: Minister, can I just clarify on that issue of the aggregate donations across the branches. Would the onus be on the party to aggregate those donations and then declare them to the Electoral Commission, or would the onus be on the Electoral Commission to do a sweep of each of the individual returns from the branches and give the public the aggregate total?
FAULKNER: Well, no, there'll be a significant onus on the donors - a significant onus on donors. But the key thing here is to make clear that this is a loophole we intend to close. If this legislation passes to Parliament we will close it and, again, it will enhance the Electoral Act to do so. So I think I've - one last question, Maria, I haven't put my tips in yet. [Laughter]
FAULKNER: Just as well, given my result in the first two rounds. [Laughter]
JOURNALIST: On the overseas donations, does that only apply to companies? It doesn't apply to individuals like Stanley Ho?
FAULKNER: No, it would - it applies to any donations coming from overseas but specifically in relation to companies. It goes - well, it won't actually be limited to donations - I think I should make this point; it will be any category of political expenditure, so that would be to candidates, parties, associated entities, anyone incurring political expenditure and it will go to both companies and individuals. Thanks a lot.
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Album DetailsThe Platinum Collection By Gary Taylor Originally released on 13th November 2000 especially for the Christmas market, this 3 CD set includes all three volumes of the original Greatest Hits albums. The CD only album entered the UK charts at No 63 on 19th November and fell to No 70 the week after. Initially only available until the 31st December the same year, this special package was made to combine Greatest Hits, Greatest Hits II and Greatest Hits III in a triple CD case in one unique package with a 48 page booklet and an outer slipcase. The silver embossed slipcase featuring the latest Queen crest in black, was made in similar style to the 1994 gold slipcase cover for the first two Greatest Hits CDs. For this release all the CDs are reproduced on high quality picture disc format for the first time, with Greatest Hits III presented in a new blue colour cover version. In 2002, with renewed interest in the band and the success of the musical We Will Rock You, the compilation was re released on 13th May and entered the UK charts at No 2, remaining in the top 10 for three months. The album has since gone triple Platinum in the UK, also achieving the No 1 position in Spain, South Africa and Italy, and Platinum award status elsewhere in the world, and has since gone on to become one of their biggest selling albums. Released in September 2002, the album reached No 48 in the USA, going platinum and making it the highest charting compilation album in US history. A specially made TV advert was made to promote the album on TV. In 2005 a box set edition was given away free to attendees of the Official International Queen Fan Club convention, having initially been produced in 2003 to sell on a German TV shopping channel (the idea was halted by Roger), and having spent the last few years in a warehouse. The set comprised 3 individual CDs, a booklet and a VHS video of the first Greatest Flix home video re titled Greatest Video Hits, all presented in a thick long box. In Spain, another box set edition was produced which included a black T shirt with a silver crest on and the triple edition CD inside a silver tin box. By this time the band were recognised by Guinness World Records, and Queen were crowned as the most popular group of all time, having spent more time on the British albums chart than both the Beatles and Elvis Presley. Roger responded to the news by saying: "We were always incredibly ambitious. But we never expected to see a list that read Queen, then the Beatles, then Elvis." For full track listing of each album: Greatest Hits I Greatest Hits II Greatest Hits III
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Platinum Collection
The track list is:
Greatest Hits:
01 Bohemian Rhapsody
02 Another One Bites The Dust
03 Killer Queen
04 Fat Bottomed Girls
05 Bicycle Race
06 You're My Best Friend
07 Don't Stop Me Now
08 Save Me
09 Crazy Little Thing Called Love
10 Somebody To Love
11 Now I'm Here
12 Good Old-Fashioned Lover Boy
13 Play The Game
14 Flash
15 Seven Seas Of Rhye
16 We Will Rock You
17 We Are The Champions
Greatest Hits II:
01 A Kind Of Magic
02 Under Pressure (with David Bowie)
03 Radio Ga Ga
04 I Want It All
05 I Want To Break Free
06 Innuendo
07 It's A Hard Life
08 Breakthru
09 Who Wants To Live Forever
10 Headlong
11 The Miracle
12 I'm Going Slightly Mad
13 The Invisible Man
14 Hammer To Fall
15 Friends Will Be Friends
16 The Show Must Go On
17 One Vision
Greatest Hits III:
01 The Show Must Go On (Queen + Elton John)
02 Under Pressure (Rah Mix - Queen + David Bowie_
03 Barcelona (Freddie Mercury + Montserrat Caballé)
04 Too Much Love Will Kill You
05 Somebody To Love (Queen + George Michael)
06 You Don't Fool Me
07 Heaven For Everyone
08 Las Palabras De Amor (The Words Of Love)
09 Driven By You (Brian May)
10 Living On My Own (Freddie Mercury)
11 Let Me Live
12 The Great Pretender (Freddie Mercury)
13 Princes Of The Universe
14 Another One Bites The Dust (Queen + Wyclef Jean)
15 No-One But You (Only The Good Die Young)
16 These Are The Days Of Our Lives
17 Thank God It's Christmas


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I use NDSolve for a nonlinear differential equation, and I get an InterpolatingFunction, as expected.
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The Italian section shares the mission of the department of Romance Languages and the College of Pro Humanitate. The faculty in Italian is strongly committed to presenting Italy through a broad horizon, within the context of the Mediterranean and in a constant dialogue with the surrounding cultures and literatures. As a consequence, our teaching and scholarship are deeply oriented toward interdisciplinar connections and intersection of the art, literature, history and culture, on campus as well as in Italy, at Wake Forest University "Casa Artom" in Venice, where we continue our mission with a five week summer intensive language study program (ISLI).
The specific mission of the Italian section can be characterized by the message that the 14th century Italian painter Ambrogio Lorenzetti entrusts to the figure of Securitas in his fresco of Good and Bad Government: "Senza paura ogn'uom franco camini, e lavorando semini ciascuno"(May each and everyone who is honest, walk without fear and each and everyone work to sow a seed). Our mission in teaching the language, literature, cinema and culture of Italy, from Medieval to contemporary times, is to contribute to plant a seed that may allow students to become citizens who may walk without fear and saw their own seeds outside the university, seeds that make for a better society here in the United States and abroad. The Italian faculty is thus oriented toward teaching proficiency in the language in all classes, from Italian for beginners to Film studies and Medieval, and Renaissance Literature, and toward developing critical thinking through exposure to the cultural diversity as means to learn more about oneself, one's own identity, and those one may consider the others.
The Italian faculty is committed to an open curriculum with clear outcomes for each of our classes in order to be able to assess at the end of the semester, together with the students, the achievements of the targeted goals. All classes are taught in Italian with the most updated technology. Using a communicative and interactive approach in the classroom, we strive to enable students to speak and write in Italian in an informal environment that highlights the culture of Italy over time, while the co-curricular activities outside of the class are to create a bridge to Italy and foster interdisciplinary exchange: from contemporary and classic Italian films, to Renaissance music, drama and cousine from Italy and the Mediterranean.


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On the Hill: Vail's Chair 4 opens; plenty of powder
December 11, 2012
Vail official report: 6 inches in last 24 hours, 3 inches overnight.
Vail Daily field report: On ungroomed Zot, it felt like a foot or more.
Liftline Status: Gondola One was jam packed this morning, but the maze takes less than 10 minutes to get through.
Weather: Still snowing slightly, but the sun looks like it's ready to poke through the clouds. It's cold again, which is a good thing with all this powdery snow we're enjoying.
Breakdown: Chair 4 is running! We've been waiting all season to get to the top of the mountain, and the good things come to those who wait. Most of the terrain off mountain top is open, including Christmas, Swingsville, Espresso, Cappuccino, Whistle Pig and Zot. A lot of it is ungroomed with plenty of powder to find.
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We are thrilled to be involved in some upcoming screenings of our documentaries!
Film Screening TOMORROW, Wednesday, February 26th, 2014, at 4:00pm,
in Temple University's Geography and Urban Studies Department.
It's on the 3rd Floor of Gladfelter Hall, which is by 11th and Berks, Philadelphia, PA.
This screening is free and open to the public! You just need to bring a photo ID for security purposes.
Thursday, March 20th, 2014, 6:30pm – 8:00pm
CityCoHo Philly Nexus (2401 Walnut street, Philadelphia, PA)
We will be screening our 30-minute Green City, Clean Waters documentary, with a panel discussion to follow. Panelists will include representatives from the Tookany/Tacony-Frankford Watershed Partnership, the Sustainable Business Network's Green Stormwater Infrastructure Partners, and PowerCorps PHL.
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Justin Pearce discusses the political, social and economic challenges facing Angola a decade after the end of its civil war. Pearce, a research associate at SOAS and former journalist and BBC correspondent, has spent time researching the legacy of the country's decades of war and the possibilities for its future as an oil-rich country providing energy to China and the USA. Organised by the Friends of Le Monde Diplomatique.
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'Uncle Joey's' Wedding Turns into Full House Reunion [PHOTOS]
Dave Coulier, better know as Uncle Joey from ABC Television series Full House, married over the weekend, and with cast mates in attendance it was almost a show reunion.
Bob Saget, John Stamos and the show's creator Jeff Franklin were reunited, and Candace Cameron Bure and Andrea Barber left their husbands at home with their children to be each others' date.
Thanks to social media sites we get to share in the reunion fun. Unfortunately Mary Kate and Ashley Olsen who played Michelle were not in attendance for the fun.
Us Weekly reported news of Coulier's engagement in June and he told the magazine then, "Melissa has been my best friend since I met her nine years ago. I feel like the luckiest man on the planet. I get to marry my best friend, and she doesn't mind that I have a really bad gas problem."
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After a spate of deaths, London cyclists are hoping this is the year when they will get the protection they deserve.
Yet while the Mayor's cycling strategy is positive, this paper's investigation of prosecutions of drivers who kill cyclists strikes a sobering note. Our analysis of police data on the 40 cyclists killed between 2010 and 2012 shows just one in 10 drivers involved was jailed, while not one of those convicted of causing death by dangerous driving got a prison sentence. Fourteen cyclists died in the capital last year.
Cases we detail suggest that too often the courts attach an extraordinarily low priority to punishing dangerous drivers. The contrast with cycle-friendly cities elsewhere in Europe is striking: in the Netherlands, for example, drivers are assumed by default to be responsible if they are in collision with a cyclist. Recent inquests have drawn attention to the danger of badly designed junctions and Cycle Superhighways. Last October the coroner at the inquest into the 2011 death of Brian Dorling at the Bow roundabout criticised the blue lanes for giving cyclists a false sense of security; police officers also gave damning testimony. It will not do for the Mayor to criticise such professional judgments, as he has done.
It is important to keep safety in perspective: most cyclists get to work without injury, and it would be unfortunate if the deaths discouraged cycling in the capital. Nevertheless, the courts need to send a much tougher message to drivers who kill cyclists and pedestrians. That, along with proper, segregated space for cyclists, can make our roads safer for cycling in 2014.
Immigrant influx?
The arrival of new Romanian and Bulgarian immigrants this week after the lifting of work restrictions has thus far been an anticlimax. Some coverage of the predicted influx has been wildly overblown. In truth, most of those Romanians and Bulgarians who wanted to work in the UK could already have found ways of doing so. In any case, as Conservative Party chairman Grant Shapps admitted this week, there is no way that the work restrictions could be extended as anti-immigration campaigners demand: the restrictions are being lifted across the EU, and to extend them would provoke a major legal challenge.
What the issue highlights is the continued political salience of immigration. More than 70 Tory backbenchers have signed an amendment to the Immigration Bill that would re-impose the restrictions. Thus a flagship bill intended largely to stem the loss of Conservative voters to Ukip is now effectively stalled by an unplacated Tory Right. There is an alternative: for politicians of all parties to recognise the contribution migrants make, as exemplified by London. We must prevent abuse of the welfare system — but most migrants are here to work anyway. Xenophobic rhetoric that discourages migrants serves only narrow political interests — not those of our economy.
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Today commuters feel the effect of this year's hikes in rail fares. Despite the Chancellor last month capping the average increase in regulated fares at 3.1 per cent, the cost will be ahead of many commuters' salary increases. The increases take some season tickets, such as from some Kent stations, through the £5,000 barrier. The overall direction of fares policy remains the same: to shift the cost of rail travel on to passengers. Indeed, a new study suggests that by 2018 the Government will be making a profit from passengers. That is unfair on long-suffering commuters — and amounts to a tax on London jobs.Reuse content


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May 20, 2012 - By Bruce Tippets, Sports EditorBy Bruce Tippets
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BIG HORN -- Freshman Tristan White scored on the final minute of overtime as Riverton High School knocked off Cheyenne Central 4-3 Saturday morning in dramatic fashion to win the Class 4-A state boys soccer consolation championship match.
White said he didn't have a clue on how much time was left in the high-scoring match played at the Big Horn Equestrian Center. The score came in the 99th minute of soccer.
"It was great to see the ball go into the back of the net, White said.
In the final few minutes, White just kicked the ball into the right place at the right time.
"I was back on the far post," White said. "Zach Zenk sent a cross, and I just put it in. I was so pumped after the goal. It was great to win it for the seniors just because how great they are for all of us, and the motivation they give us."
White has emerged as one of the top forwards for the young RHS squad.
"I guess when it all comes down you give it to your goal scorer," RHS coach Early Cornejo said. "Your goal scorer is going to find the net. He is a special kid, and those kids don't come around very often.
The Central Indians scored two early goals, but the Wolverines responded with two goals to send the match into the two 10-minute overtime periods.
"Overall, I'm just so proud of what these kids have done with the four seniors," Cornejo said. "The rest of them are all new kids. They wouldn't have done it without the seniors."
Cornejo said this is the first time the Wolverines had beaten Central in his five years as the head coach.
"It feels good to beat Central," Cornejo said. "It's always fun to beat a Cheyenne school."
The Wolverines advanced into the consolation championship by beating Rock Springs 1-0 on Friday afternoon.
Rock Springs had won the previous three meetings this season. The Tigers defeated he Wolverines last week at the Class 4-A West regional tournament and twice during the regular season.
"We have been looking for a win like this all season," RHS goalkeeper Logan Ridgway said. "Rock Springs has always been that top team. We went out and put everything out on the field.
"I'm not 100 percent sure why we won," Ridgway added. "This is when it counted the most. Rock Springs is an extremely physical team. They have seven people that are great on the ball."
Sheridan kept RHS scoreless 1-0 on Thursday in the opening round.
Riverton 4, Central 3 OT
Down 2-0 in the first half, the Wolverines started their comeback on a White goal when he headed one in from close range. Lars Becker had the assist.
Two minutes into the second half, RHS deadlocked the score on a goal by Deitrik Becker. "
"It was fun to watch us score four goals," Cornejo said. "It's easy on the eyes."
RHS broke the tie in the first minute on a Shayden Coulsen goal. The Indians answered right back to head into the second overtime knotted at 3-3.
Riverton 1, Rock Springs 0
RHS scored first after White had the assist, and Kade Salisbury netted the goal.
"It was real big to get off to a good start," Salisbury said. "We didn't want to play catch-up with them. It was pretty easy to get up for the game because I didn't want to go home."
The two teams went scoreless the rest of the way, but it wasn't because of a lack of pressure from Riverton's defense and offense.
"We played incredible on defense," Ridgway said.
Michael Jones and Caleb Ogg kept Rock Springs frustrated playing defense in the middle of the field.
Scot Sowards and Lars Becker did the same on the outside.
Ridgway said White and Coulsen provided a huge lift from their offensive positions. In the final 10 minutes of the match, Coulsen was the No. 1 impact player for the Wolverines. On a couple of occasions, Coulsen battled for a score vs. the Rock Springs goalie but came up a little short.
Other trophies
Casper Kelly Walsh upset Sheridan 1-0 for the state 4-A championship. Riverton had beaten and tied Kelly Walsh during the season.
In the third-place match, Green River beat Laramie 1-0. With Riverton's consolation win, all three state trophies went to teams from the West 4-A.
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Local authority spending cuts could affect newspaper sales if the latest decision by Aberdeen council is replicated across Britain.
From Monday onwards, there will be fewer daily papers available for the city's councillors to read in their lounge.
The administration will no longer provide copies of the Daily Record, the Scottish Sun, the Scottish Daily Mail, the Daily Telegraph, the Financial Times and The Times.
Aberdeen's councillors will have to make do with the city's own titles - the Press and Journal and the Evening Express - one from Glasgow, The Herald, and one from Edinburgh, The Scotsman.
Expected savings: about £1,336 a year. (No jokes please about excessive Scottish thrift). Perhaps the good burghers of Aberdeen will buy their own papers, or read at least some of those titles for free online.
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The first semester & second semester of the 2016-2017 school year for transfer students are now closed. Students who are interested in transferring for the 2017-2018 school year can begin the admissions process starting in May. Please follow the directions listed below. We do not accept senior transfers unless he or she has moved into the area. Please contact the Admissions Office at 856-663-2247 ext. 136 with any questions.
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Nexus 1000V OutDiscards
During some network connectivity troubleshooting I discovered that certain Veth interfaces on my VSM are showing regularly occuring OutDiscards.
I was able to diagnose the larger network issues as being related to something else, but now I have returned my attention to trying to determine why certain interfaces are still showing these discards.
It is only happening on select Veth interfaces, and it is very sporadic. One interface gets about 1000 of these per day but they come in bunches of about 100 at a time - so theres roughly 5-10 events happening per day that are causing many drops at once. Other interfaces exhibiting the problem will show anywhere from 10-500 discards per day. About 10 interfaces in total are showing this behavior. The VMs themselves are mostly Windows 2008 R2 but a couple linux virtual appliances are showing small numbers of drops as well.
Reading online I found people give indications that they had these problems with the e1000 type interfaces in VMWare or had driver issues.
All of the most problematic interfaces are in fact VMXNet3 interfaces and I have tried completely uninstalling/reinstalling VMWare tools, deleting and reading the NIC within vCenter, and completely deleting and reinstalling the drivers in Windows without any success at improving the problem.
I did contact TAC at one point but their only suggestion was to get a capture of the traffic as its happening for further analysis. Unfortunately, the 15-30 second window suggested to grab this traffic is just unrealistic. I am not able to sit all day long and run capture after capture on the VEM and hope that I get lucky. Even if I tried I doubt I would be so lucky.
So I was hoping someone on here might have a better suggestion for me of what I could try to alleviate these drops or at least determine what is causing them.
The hardware setup is UCS B230 blades with Palo adapters, Everything on the network is Cisco. Connects up to a 6120 fabric interconnect pair which are vPC'd into our core Nexus 7010 switches. Any other details required to provide assistance please let me know and I'd be happy to provide them.


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Kids singing in a school in Chennai (India) a traditional Carnatic music song on December 2011.
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Gymnasium weight machines using gas resistance as opposed to weights. Various strengths and speeds. XY coincident stereo recording, 96kHz/24-bit
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Block Foundation w/Hundred Seep Holes?
:(:furious::censored:Hello. I bought my home in May of 2008 and have since had numerous small "problems". These problems, (walls cracking away from ceiling, minor plumbing leaks, drywall in corners of home cracking). Basically, the house is sinking in the middle. The soil consists of heavy clay. The house, for all its charm, was built as a money-maker. They cut corners when they could, and used cheap materials. The problem that I'm writing about now is due to the strange holes that I've uncovered drilled every 2-4 inches in the block of my foundation below grade. I have a crawl space, not a basement, and evidently there is a problem with the "clay bowl" effect. There is currently a sump pump in place, but I believe it was installed in the wrong spot for convenience rather than function. The pump is located at the highest point of the crawl space instead of what makes sense to me, in the lowest spot. Two gutters have had to be re-routed away from the house since I moved in, as well as having to add a drainage ditch. I'm re-routing the other 2 gutters next and thinking of installing an additional sump pump at the lowest point where the water is collecting. There is a hill on the side of the house in which I find water standing after heavy rains. I am considering adding an additional french drain there or other measure to help divert the water from that particular hill. Basically this house seems to lack the most fundamental principle. That being to direct the water away from the house. While inspecting the piers for support of the main beam due to the sinking, I noticed that on 3 sides of the foundation, (excluding the wall with the concrete pad for the garage) there are holes of about an 1" - 1 1/2" in diameter drilled every 3" - 4"'s in the block. This is below grade and I just can't fathom what this is. Wouldn't these holes alter the integrity of each block? What do I do to stop the water from coming in? And do I need to fill each of the more than 100 holes? I'm not kidding by the way. The soil seems to be eroding away from the piers supporting the main beam. I've already poured a new support pier to re-jack the house up to it's proper position, but without addressing the water infiltration I doubt it's going to stop the problems. I've never seen any such thing. Should I contact a lawyer? This is blowing my mind. My house is sinking and I'm not sure what action to do first. Can anyone out there explain what I need to do, and in what order? Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!
Need to have an engineer look at this first. Start at the beginning with someone who can back up what they find in case you need to sue. Or at least fix it correctly.
Just curious, did you have a house inspection done before buying???
expect the bldr had the holes drill'd so wtr, penetrating the blocks from outside, would be able to drain,,, more'n likely, they're 5/8" drill'd into ea web & cell,,, ' where ' the sump's located is irrelevant as long's the collection pipe runs downhill to is,,, form follows function so convenience if fair,,, if you can't svce the pump, what good will it be when it fails as all mechanical things often fail,,, prior to installing an addl sump & pump, watch to see if you need it,,, doubt block integrity's been compromis'd as its std practice for bsmt water mgt systems.
' french drain ' would be a swale - always good for directing excess wtr,,, suggest you call a pe w/soils & structural experience IF you can find 1 as they're usually specialties,,, btw, IF there's a home owner's warranty, never saw any claim for bsmt wtr leakage honor'd AFTER year ONE ! ! !
Thanks for all the advice. I'll be getting right on this with an engineer. As to the home inspection. Yes we did have one. The problem is that these holes were buried down under gravel and dirt. Completely obscuring the view. You'd basically have to be looking for these holes to find them. The only reason we did was because of the extensive inspection of our main beam and the way in which the soil is moved away from the foundation. If this was done as a standard way to handle water, I can only say that this was one of the most asinine ways I've ever seen. It's not done the job they've set out to accomplish. To further complicate matters, the crawl space has a very narrow opening and it really is very difficult to get into.
One additional addendum to my post. I also get standing water in the lowest point under the house. That area happens to be the furthest away from access. That's why I was thinking additional sump pump. Thanks.
Good excuse to start that exercise program?
those holes should've been protect'd from dirt blockage by placing a dimpl'd pvc sheet ( miradrain's 1 tradename ) against them,,, maybe it hasn't alleviat'd the problem but the approach was right --- almost ! ! ! IF wtr ran uphill, you'd be golden ! ! ! :laughing:
We also have those holes drilled around our foundation, we aren't sure what they are either and are doing some remodling, someone said they could be from termite repair???? Not sure about that, but can we fill the holes w/ hydraulic concrete or something?
what does your pest company say ? ours seals the bug killer holes w/hydraulic 'cause its easy mtl to use,,, open holes sound like a wall drain system which sealing would defeat.
don't pay attn to ' someone ' - instead find a guy who KNOWS !
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FRANKFURT (Reuters) - Turkey's inclusion of the Kurdish literary community in its cultural program at the world's biggest book fair this week was hailed as a "revolution" by Kurdish writers this weekend.
Turkish literature was the central theme of this year's Frankfurt Book Fair, a week-long event which attracts about 300,000 visitors each year.
The rights of Turkey's ethnic Kurdish minority, which makes up a sixth of its total population, is still a sensitive topic in Turkish politics, with Kurdish autonomy seen as a threat to the modern republic.
But Kurdish writers at the fair said there had been a renaissance in Kurdish literature since Turkey had eased some restrictions on their language and culture in recent years, under pressure from the European Union which it hopes to join.
"The fact that we are even here and can hold this forum is a revolution," Kurdish author Muhsin Kizilkaya said at a seminar on the efforts of author Mehmet Uzun to establish Kurdish as a literary language.
Uzun, who lived for several decades in exile in Sweden and died last year, is seen as the father of modern Kurdish fiction and his work has been translated into more than 20 languages.
A ban on the Kurdish language in Turkey was lifted only in 1991, and Kizilkaya and other writers at the seminar said they still faced censorship and restrictions.
Turkish nationalists fear that encouraging the Kurdish language will undermine national unity and security. Continued...


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When dogs give us kisses, they aren't being romantic. Let's be honest, dogs will lick faces, hands, feet – almost anything they're allowed access to! So why do canines display this behavior? It's deeply ingrained in their instincts.
It all starts in puppy hood when mother dogs lick their puppies during and immediately after birth to clean them and instinctively stimulate them to take their first breaths. As the puppies grow, their mother continues to lick them to keep them clean and stimulate urination and defecation.
As the puppies become more social and mobile, they begin socially grooming each other. This serves as a bonding process between littermates and begins to establish social structure. The pups also lick at their mother's mouth during the weaning process. This behavior traces back to their wolf ancestors. A female wolf would regurgitate semi-digested meat to feed her hungry brood and this licking would stimulate the meal.
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