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Residents choose from a wide variety of traditional electives in the medical subspecialties where they have inpatient and outpatient responsibilities. Our entire competency-based curriculum is web-based and can be accessed at Core Written Curriculum. Residents may elect a variety of traditional electives, such as:
Residents are encouraged to create their own electives that meet their educational needs - whether at Maryland or other sites around the country and the globe. Other innovative electives that are available include:
Women's Health
Under the supervision of general internists and gynecologists, residents learn skills in office gynecology, evaluation and management of breast abnormalities, endocrinologic problems and identification of spouse abuse and domestic violence.
Hospital Medicine and Elective in Critical Care and Procedures
These two electives provide additional training for those interested in a career in hospitalist practice. Residents learn the art of medical consultation and perioperative medical management under the guidance of academic hospitalists. They participate in quality assurance projects and learn about the business aspect of hospital practice. During the critical care and procedure elective, residents gain skills in common procedures, such as central lines, LP's and paracenteses, and work closely with our critical care physicians. In addition, they provide consultation in other ICU's at UMMC, such as the surgical and cardiothoracic intensive care unit.
Occupational Medicine
Under the supervision of specialists in Occupational Medicine, residents may elect a wide variety of activities including evaluation of patients with job related illnesses, working with physicians at health facilities at industrial plants in Baltimore and participating in ongoing research. See the Occupational Health Programs for more information about their programs. In addition, residents interested in a career in Occupational Medicine may link their curriculum at UMMC to the Occupational and Environmental Medicine Residency at Johns Hopkins University.
Geriatric Medicine
Under the supervision of the geriatrics faculty, residents participate in a multidisciplinary clinic evaluation of the elderly, engage in inpatient consultations, and care for patients in the geriatrics inpatient unit and nursing home. At the Baltimore Rehabilitation Education Clinical Center (BRECC), residents work with the elderly in a nursing home and require chronic medical care. Outpatient clinics provide residents with training on the management of frail elderly, osteoporosis and older patients with multiple comorbidities. Residents may also participate in the Division of Gerontology's active research in exercise physiology, obesity, menopause, metabolism and cardiovascular disease prevention.
HIV Service, Transplant Infectious Diseases and International Health
In addition to standard electives in Infectious Diseases, residents may spend time with the Transplant ID service and manage patients undergoing organ transplantation. On the HIV service, residents perform inpatient consultations and care for patients in a series of very active outpatient clinics. Lastly, by designing an elective in International Health through the Division of Geographic Medicine and the Institute of Human Virology, residents may travel to research stations in Haiti, Central and South America, and Africa to engage in clinical and research activities. Through an endowment, funds are available to support travel for residents for international electives.
Transplant Nephrology
As the academic medical center with one of the largest number of renal transplants performed annually in the US, residents have the opportunity for a vast clinical experience on this elective. Residents learn the basics of transplant biology, the evaluation of patients for transplantation, and the prevention and management of post-transplant complications. Residents work on an interdisciplinary team along with transplant nephrologists, infectious disease experts and surgeons.
Residents are encouraged to engage in clinical or basic science research during their training. Through our comprehensive mentoring program, our residents have been very successful in these endeavors presenting their abstracts at national scientific meetings and publishing in peer-reviewed journals.
Residents receive close supervision by their preceptor throughout all phases of the research project, learning the process from hypothesis development to IRB submission through experimentation, data collection and analysis, and formal writing for presentation and publication. At the Resident Research Forum, residents present their work-in-progress to peers and faculty. This conference provides residents with valuable experience in public speaking and also informs other residents of the myriad of research available at Maryland. With these opportunities and through our mentoring program, we produce a compilation of resident research, vignettes, essays and poems in our annual journal. All residents are encouraged to present their research and clinical vignettes at the spring meeting of the Maryland chapter of the American College of Physicians. Over 45 residents presented posters or delivered oral reports at this meeting in May. Our residents consistently win prizes at the regional meeting and have also been sponsored to attend the national ACP meeting to present their work. Several residents each year are supported to present their abstracts at various national meetings. The full listing of abstracts and publications for 2015-2016 can be found here.
With the approval of the American Board of Internal Medicine (ABIM), residents may train in the clinical sciences and clinical or biomedical research through the ABIM Research Pathway. This leads to certification in internal medicine after 2 years of clinical training plus at least 2 years of research in the setting of a subspecialty fellowship. Special requirements apply to each of the subspecialties. Several of our fellowship programs have T-32 grants that allow for a seamless pathway from residency through fellowship to an academic career. Residents accepted into this track are closely mentored by the Director of our Physician Scientist Program in the Department of Medicine.
If you are interested in applying to the ABIM Research Pathway, see our Application Process to complete a Supplemental Application. Also review the ABIM Requirements for this pathway for more information.
The PhD Program for Clinicians provides a rigorous, accelerated curriculum to train medical scientists for careers in basic or translational research in association with the research component of existing accredited residency and fellowship programs. PhD's are awarded through the Graduate Program in Life Sciences. These programs include: Biochemistry, Molecular Medicine, Molecular Microbiology and Immunology, Neuroscience, Physical Therapy and Rehabilitative Science, Epidemiology, Gerontology and Toxicology. See the Ph.D. Program for Clinicians for more information.


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Three-quarters of Australian children in their final year of primary school believe cotton socks derive from animals and 27 per cent are convinced yoghurt grows on trees.
Through a national survey of Year 6 and Year 10 students, leading education authority the Australian Council for Educational Research found yawning gaps in young people's knowledge of basic food origins.
In a hypothetical lunchbox of bread, cheese and a banana, only 45 per cent of surveyed children in Year 6 could identify all three items as sourced from farms.
More than 40 per cent of Year 10 pupils thought cotton came from an animal and more than 25 per cent of their younger peers believed yoghurt came from plants. In Year 10, just 13 per cent of the children identified yoghurt as a plant product.
The Primary Industries Education Foundation, which commissioned the research to be issued today, said the findings were a ''wake-up'' call.
''We're a very urbanised nation,'' foundation chairman Cameron Archer said. ''Food is relatively cheap; everyone takes it for granted and we're quite complacent about our well-being.''
Dr Archer, who is also the principal of Tocal Agricultural College near Maitland, said he was surprised at some of the pupils' ignorance of food sources. He said learning about food should be a source of wonder for young people.
''I was surprised that some of these very, very basic relationships weren't understood,'' he said.
''It's fascinating you can have a big bale of hay one day and then milk to produce a few thousand lattes the next day.''
Dr Archer said it was incumbent upon the agricultural industry to improve young Australians' knowledge of farming and its products, but that a national curriculum provided a good opportunity to increase awareness.
In total, 900 rural and urban students were surveyed from 61 different schools across the states over almost four months to October last year.


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Hi! My name is Laura Fernandez and I am responsible for online marketing and communication at Hotel Curious, and I am your contact person on social networks (Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Pinterest, Foursquare, Google+ ...).
Furthermore, I create content on our blog and find out what is said about the Hotel Curious on the Internet (online reputation and positioning).
I am a fan of technology and four cheese pizza. I was born and I live in Barcelona, a city of which I am deeply in love, I can't help it! I love people, weather, public transport, the beach and gastronomy of Barcelona.
The neighborhood that I like the most is the Gothic Quarter. In my free time I love walking through its narrow streets and small squares and taking pictures of all the hidden corners of this ancient city. Plaza Sant Felip Neri is one of my favourites and the Gothic Bridge of the Wish is a "must" in Barcelona. They say that if you go under it, rise your eyes and find a skull, you can make a wish and it will come true.
What I like the most about Hotel Curious is the team that configures it. We are many people and each one of us works hard for the satisfaction of the guest. We have in mind that the customer is already our guest from the very moment in which he considers our hotel for his stay in Barcelona, so we all take care of every single detail: from the booking moment until the customer is gone.
What would I improve in the hotel? I would put kettles in the rooms and an ice machine in the hall. Many customers have asked us, and we're working on it. For the rest, I really love our hotel. It is perfect for city breaks: ideally located, quiet and great customer service. Oh, and WIFI is for free: that's VERY important!
Indeed, in Barcelona there are thousands of restaurants that I like, but if I have to recommend some nearby, it would be ATTIC, Rita Rouge and Irati. I love eating well! Welcome to Hotel Curious. I am at your disposal.


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I too this shot of a christmassy frangipani while on my morning cycle ride. I am trying to burn calories in advance. I am going to three different family & friend's Christmas celebrations over three days.
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December 26, 2012
As a public school educator, I'm constantly feeling the pressure of the state budget crisis — the only given each year is that the state will ask us to do more with less. Good news is a rarity when it comes to resources. But recently a representative from the California Retired Teacher's Association came to one of our staff meetings, gave us words of encouragement and raffled off two checks for $100! A colleague and I left that staff meeting with $100 to spend on our classrooms. It was like Christmas!
Retired teachers could easily leave the profession in the dust as they ride off into the sunset, but some of them continue to give back, and that's such a blessing to all of us! Thank you to the CRTA; I will put your gift of money and encouragement to good use.
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NBC Sports Network Press Release | Ivy League Release
2012 Schedule
PHILADELPHIA - In a deal announced by the Ivy League and NBC Sports Network on Thursday, the University of Pennsylvania football team will be broadcast on national television three times in 2012. The 15-time Ivy League champions will appear on the network at Dartmouth on Sept. 29, at Yale on Oct. 20 and against Harvard at Franklin Field on Nov. 10. All three games will kick off at noon.
The Quakers have been selected as part of the national network's package each year and six times in total. Penn is 4-2 all-time on VERSUS/NBC Sports Network. Overall, this will mark the sixth straight year the Quakers have at least one national television game and the third time in the last five years they have been seen across the country on at least three occasions.
Last year, the Quakers set a school record with four nationally televised games. The Red and Blue topped Dartmouth on Fox College Sports with a last-minute touchdown in the first night game at Memorial Field. They also went 2-1 on the VERSUS Network, which included a pair of dramatic fourth-quarter comeback wins.
NBC Sports' college football studio team of Liam McHugh, Doug Flutie and Hines Ward will provide pre- and post-game coverage on NBC and/or NBC Sports Network every Saturday of the college football season. Game commentators will be announced closer to the start of the season.
The NBC Sports Network, previously branded as VERSUS, has televised 17 Ivy League football matchups featuring all eight schools over the past four seasons. The eight-game package comes on the heels of the Ivy League and the NBC Sports Group announcing a two-year renewal of their national television rights agreement for football, men's basketball and men's lacrosse games last month.
NBC Sports Network, part of the NBC Sports Group, is the cable television home of the London Olympic Games, NHL, IZOD IndyCar Series, Tour de France, and more.
Penn, which finished 5-5 overall and in second place in the Ivy League at 4-3 in 2011, returns 39 letterwinners, including 17 starters and three All-Ivy honorees. The Quakers will officially begin their 136th season with practice in late August and the first game on Sept. 15 at Lafayette. Penn's first home game is set for a week later, Sept. 22, against cross-city rival Villanova in another edition of the Schuylkill Showdown - which will be followed by the first of three games on the NBC Sports Network.
The remainder of the team's media schedule and game times will be announced later this summer. See below for a complete schedule of the Ivy League on NBC Sports.
2012 Ivy League Football on NBC Sports
Schedule subject to change; all times ET
Sept. 22: Yale at Cornell, 1 pm, NBC Sports Network
Sept. 22: Harvard at Brown, 4:30 pm, NBC Sports Network
Sept. 29: Penn at Dartmouth, Noon, NBC Sports Network
Oct. 13: Brown at Princeton, Noon, NBC Sports Network
Oct. 13: Bucknell at Harvard, 3:30 pm, CBS Sports Network
Oct. 20: Penn at Yale, Noon, NBC Sports Network
Nov. 10: Harvard at Penn, Noon, NBC Sports Network
Nov. 17: Yale at Harvard, Noon, NBC Sports Network


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Forever Plaid is one of the most popular and successful musicals in recent memory. This goofy and charming revue centers on four young, eager male singers killed in a car crash in the 1950s on the way to their first big concert, now miraculously revived for the posthumous chance to fulfill their dreams and perform the show that never was. Featuring Dan Gilmore, Brian Levario, Daniel Lopez and Jeremy Vega, with Bill Patterson, music director and Kevin Johnson, director.
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The BMW i3 is part of the new wave of electric and hybrid cars that are becoming more and more popular in the U.S. The i3 has relatively compact external dimensions, but still has a very usable cabin with surprising amounts of interior space. Standard equipment levels are high and the i3 generally aims to compete in the compact premium segment, offering buyers plenty of luxury features in a car that is perhaps a little smaller than the traditional luxury cars of old.
Of course, the electric drivetrain is what really separates the i3 from its competitors. In standard form, it offers a combination of usable range and remarkably fast charging times. With the optional range extender equipped, the system offers functionality similar to other hybrid cars on the market such as the Chevrolet Volt. The i3 uses a range-extending gasoline engine exclusively as a generator, providing electric power to the rear wheel motors. The i3 base price starts at under $43,000, while versions equipped with a range extender start at around $46,000.
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The BMW i3 gets only minor changes for 2016. A few new colors are available, as is a new special edition, the BMW i3 Shadow Sport. The primary changes for the Shadow Sport edition include stiffer springs and dampers as well as a sunroof, a first for the BMW i3.
A vehicle's warranty can significant impact your maintenance costs after you drive off the dealer's lot, and it's important to understand the different parts. Typically, a new car warranty includes a Basic warranty, which covers everything except the wear items such as brakes and tires; and a Drivetrain warranty, that covers all the parts that make the car move, such as the engine and transmission
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For three years now, the BMW i3, a five-door hatchback, has been the most energy-efficient car sold in the U.S. Its technology is a couple jumps ahead, with a totally electric powertrain and unique carbon-fiber reinforced plastic shell.
An optional setup adds a two-cylinder motorcycle-based engine with a two-gallon fuel tank, which about doubles its approximate 75 miles of range. But the weight of this add-on makes acceleration performance slower and cuts a few miles out of the all-electric range. It's called REx, for Range Extender.
The funky i3 sells well, as many as 1000 cars per month. But if it weren't for the twin-kidney badge on the nose, you'd never know it was a BMW. It's designed to be a city car. Think New York, San Francisco, Boston, as well as Amsterdam, Jakarta, and even Tokyo, in the midst of all the domestic Japanese competition.
In that urban role, the BMW i3 is genius. It made our drive in chaotic rush-hour traffic free of stress; in fact, the i3 was downright soothing. And out on the open road it's fine, just don't expect it to handle and ride like a BMW sedan.
That claim of most energy-efficient comes from the BMW i3's EPA rating of 124 MPGe, or Miles Per Gallon Equivalent, measuring the distance a car can travel on the same amount of energy that's in a gallon of gasoline.
The electric motor pushes the BMW i3 up to speed swiftly and smoothly. The electric motor generates 125 kilowatts (equivalent to 170 horsepower, 184 pound-feet of torque), with a liquid-cooled 22-kilowatt-hour lithium-ion battery mounted in the cargo floor.
The optional booster engine is a 650cc twin making 34 horsepower (25 kilowatts) and 40 pound-feet of torque, driving a generator that charges the battery. The optional package is mounted in the cargo floor next to the battery.
The regenerative braking the BMW i3 generates is exceptional, so strong you don't even have to use the brake pedal to slow down, only to come to a complete stop. Back off the accelerator pedal, and the electric motor resists forward motion by the car, while charging up the battery. We found it easy to get used to. Drivers might like it, and some find it a fun driving game to play.
BMW's home charging station is rated at 7.4 kilowatts, more than any other plug-in car save the Tesla Model S. It can charge the battery from flat to 80 percent in less than 4 hours. An optional Combined Charging System (CCS) uses a quick-charge port, but good luck finding a public charging station that uses that system. There are only a few.
The i3 offers most of the electronic safety features found in luxury cars. Due to its low sales volume, the BMW i3 has not been crash-tested by the government.
The BMW i3 ($43,400) comes with the DC fast-charging station, heated front seats, and satellite radio. The BMW i3 REx includes the two-cylinder engine that doubles the range ($46,250).
BMW uses inventive names for the models. Mega World is the base model. Giga World brings special wheels and upgraded upholstery, Tera World ads more features.
The BMW i3 looks more muscular than other hatchbacks the same size. It has presence, with a wide stance, 19-inch wheels, and upright posture. The mock grille on the snub nose is blacked out and ringed in Frozen Blue, as BMW calls the color, with Frozen Blue trim on the doors that big chunky handles.
Every i3 has a glossy black hood, roof, and rear deck that's not attractive, a jumble of lines and curves and mix of materials. The darkened glass of the rear hatch hides U-shaped taillamps. The body is wider than liftgate, making the i3 look like it has tailfins.
It looks better from the other three angles: side, front, and front corner. There's a deep dip on the side, making the rear windows look taller. The line turns upward to a smaller window in the rear pillar, meeting a dip from the roofline. Meanwhile the narrow tires that come on 19-inch wheels make the i3 look like it wants to be a lowrider when it grows up.
The cabin is modern, calm, minimalist, and expansive in front. It feels like a loft, with as much space inside as a 3 Series sedan, according to BMW. And like a loft, it's cramped in the back, but the front seats are excellent.
Inside, the BMW i3 feels like Scandinavian furnishing, simple and sometimes elegant, with tight textures light or dark, including gray, cream, or earth-tones, with contrasting stitching. Parts of the dash and the interior panels are made of a renewable fiber called kenaf, which is mottled and looks unfinished. There are the inevitable black plastic bits, but they don't stick out.
The i3 Mega World comes with recycled SensaTec upholstery, and the instrument panel is from what BMW calls grain foil. In the Giga World, both upholstery and instrument panel come in active-climate wool and olive-leaf-tanned leather, in earth-tones, trimmed by open-pore eucalyptus. If Tera is to the 12th power of things, it doesn't make it. Tera World is almost the same as Giga World but dark brown.
There's a small information screen behind the steering wheel. The main display screen is 10.2 inches, rising over a useful bin on the dashboard and showing bright and crisp graphics. Its functions are operated by the iDrive knob on the console. In addition to road conditions, you can get other transportation information, for example bus and train schedules, as well as walking routes. Directions on how not to use your $50,000 car.
There isn't too much wind noise at speed, which is the loudest noise you get in an electric car. The motor whines a bit under full acceleration, but the sound is otherwise suppressed.
The BMW i3 is best for zipping around, as the acceleration time from 0 to 35 mph is just 3.5 seconds. Acceleration from a standing start is smooth and quick, as in all electric cars, but not as quick as some. The i3 without the gas engine will go from 0 to 60 mph in 7.0 seconds, while the heavier REx model takes 7.8 seconds. BMW claims a top speed of 93 mph; we got ours up to 83 mph and backed off with the needle still climbing.
The battery juice is gobbled up at higher speeds, so the REx would seem like the call for an i3 that's driven on the freeway. You could drive across country with the REx, without ever having to stop for an electric charge, although it would take about 40 fuel stops.
On the highway, the ride is controlled but firm, probably because of the stiff sidewalls in those 19-inch tires, and it's sensitive to crosswind. Handling around corners is nimble and crisp, and the tight turning radius of 32.3 feet makes i3 a blast in the city. When driven hard, the front tires squeal around sharp turns, while the back end jitters and skips on turns with rough pavement.
Besides the normal mode, there are Eco Pro and Eco Pro+ modes, which increase range by about 12 and 25 percent, says BMW. If you're in one of those modes and floor it, they will be over-ridden, so you're never stuck suddenly needing acceleration and not having it (when merging into fast traffic, for example). You can also change modes and keep up with traffic. Much of the power saving in Eco Pro+ mode comes from a reduction in heating or air conditioning.
Regenerative braking happens as soon as you back off the power pedal, so the car doesn't coast. This can be a problem, because coasting is the key to smooth driving, being a gradual transition of speed. BMW says there is a some gliding programmed into the software, and the display confirms it, but we couldn't feel it. Once, going down the ramp of a parking garage, we backed off and the car came to a complete stop without our touching the brake. When you re-learn how to drive, using just one pedal, you might think it works well.
Smooth and sophisticated, the BMW i3 may be the best electric car you can buy, but it's expensive.
Driving impressions by John Voelcker, Green Car Reports. Words by Sam Moses.
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Jessica Harris, Tanis Matlock, Alexandria Lewis and Mindi Wise were voted "Best Friends" for their yearbook at Fresno's Central High School, West Campus. All four participated in the Advancement Via Individual Determination (AVID) program to prepare for college. But they didn't think they'd end up going to the same school until they all visited UC Merced with their AVID class in September 2004.
"I knew the UC system would be an excellent choice," says Wise, who moved to Merced to share an apartment with Matlock and settle in before the start of the academic year. "And I knew I wanted a small campus in a small town, close to home. UC Merced just felt right from the moment I saw it."
"The scenery, atmosphere and possibilities of what the campus could be were just too much to pass up," says Lewis of her first campus visit. "From that moment on, I had my heart set on going to UC Merced." She commutes to her classes from her family"s home in Fresno.
Campus staff also made a difference, said Harris. "I was very impressed with how friendly the staff was - always willing to go out of their way to help the students. A lot of thought has been put into making us feel right at home and comfortable." Harris is getting comfortable in on-campus housing this fall, meeting new people there while staying close to her best friends from back home.
Harris, Wise and Matlock all plan majors within the School of Social Sciences, Humanities and Arts, aiming to become mental health professionals. Lewis is majoring in Human Biology with the goal of becoming a pediatrician.
All four are looking forward to a variety of activities on campus and plan to be actively involved either in starting or supporting student recreation efforts. "I enjoy water sports, art and photography, and hope we can have some teams and art clubs that students can get involved in," said Matlock. "I hope to meet many new people and enjoy my college experience."
These fantastic four friends from Fresno will surely cement their friendship as they stay active in academic and recreational endeavors at UC Merced.


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The team here at Dark Orbit Ultimate Toolbox deeply appologize for the extended amount of time the bot has been inactive. We have completely started our planning process from scratch and plan to have a working interface alpha out soon. You may be thinking, 'Why do we need another interface beta?'. Well for starters we have decided to move to the WPF presentation system. This means we have alot more flexibility in creating custom buttons and controls and also allows us to implement heaps more eye-candy! What we want you guys to do is send us your feedback, not only on bugs and what does and dosn't work but also about how we could improve the overall design of the interface. Stay tuned for more frequent updates during the christmas break (meaning we get more time from our day jobs and can work more on the bot). We have updated the projects website construction page to display the revised release date of the 25th of December at 10:00am (AEST). We also have a professional web developer working on our new website, forum and blogs and hope to see them up by the 1st of December!... read more
The team here at Dark Orbit Bot are sincerely sorry for the current lack of development of the bot. We have recently been developing a massive toolkit of cheap and easy to use toolkit for the game, going by the name of Ultimate Dark Orbit Toolkit (UDOKit). We will commence development after we have completed this!


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Sleek and elegant, the new iPad is ever so slightly thicker and heavier than the iPad 2, but you can forgive it for the hyper-crisp Retina display, which clocks in more pixels than most HDTVs
iOS 5.1 is a beautifully simple OS and iCloud is a one-click way to keep settings, apps, and media synced across your Apple gadgets
The new iPad packs the best screen available, along with a much-improved five-megapixel camera, quad-core graphics chipset and double the RAM for faster, smoother processing
The new graphics chip and Retina display power incredible visuals that in turn amp up every aspect of multimedia - ebooks, movies, games and most of all, photo viewing and editing
A larger battery than the iPad 2 goes a long way to powering the Retina display without much of a drop in battery life, but the device does charge slower, and not at all if you're using the iPad while it's plugged in
Review by Sunetra Chakravati,3/8/2012 11:23:11 AM
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Incredibly sharp, realistic display super-enhances movies, gaming, web and photos, gorgeous hardware and software design, 200,000 iPad-optimised apps, upgraded camera
Comparatively little on-board storage, especially for a HD-media-oriented device, front-facing camera still only VGA quality
It's not that Apple iProducts aren't good enough – it's that they're not 'better' enough. The new Apple iPad (or iPad 3, or whatever you want to call it) packs a shimmering new high definition display, a couple extra graphics cores for its processor and an updated five-megapixel camera. But it looks exactly like the last iPad – so do existing iPad and iPad 2 owners have enough reason to upgrade? And can the new iPad survive against competition from the Asus Transformer Prime?
On paper, the new iPad upgrades seem puny, but start using it, and it becomes apparent how these incremental improvements have ripple effects. And yes, it is all about that Retina display.
Starting with the screen, it's sheer candy for the eyes. At a staggering 2048x1536 resolution, it squeezes in 3.1 million pixels in its 9.7-inch screen for a 264 ppi density, making for a higher-definition display than any other tablet, any other computer screen, and most HDTVs while we're at it.
Clocking the same screen size of iPads past, it's noticeably sharper and clearer, but you don't get its full impact just turning on the new iPad – its true glory is in the impeccable display of high-resolution photos, HD games and Bluray video.
The other hardware upgrades are the quad-core graphics chipset beefing up the same dual-core A5 processor we saw in the iPad 2, and the five-megapixel rear camera, forced to sit opposite the grimly grainy VGA front-facer.
The memory used for multitasking has been bumped up from 512MB to 1GB. There's a 4G receiver that allows the iPad to access the fastest internet available – but only in the US. Even when the UK gets our 4G upgrade, it'll be on different frequencies, so if you're buying the new iPad for its speedy internet, don't.
Despite its sexy new screen tech and larger processor, the new iPad maintains its ice-cool, slimline profile. It's minutely thicker (0.6mm) and heavier (51g) than its predecessor, but this won't be noticeable unless you've got one in each hand (you muppet).
The aluminium back and glass-fronted display look exactly like the iPad 2, with the same inch-thick bezel in black or white. Because its 9.7-inch screen has a 4:3 sides ratio, it's less unwieldy one-handed than a longer tablet such as the 10.1-inch Asus Transformer Prime.
The touch-screen is as responsive as ever, with quick, smooth swipes, taps and multi-touch gestures. If you use the Smart Cover to fold back as a stand, you'll find the virtual keyboard practically as good as its regular counterpart for typing long messages. The clarity and brightness of the screen does help its visibility in direct sunlight, though there's still a substantial amount of reflection.
You'll interface with the new iPad via iOS 5.1, an incremental upgrade on the excellent 5.0 version that introduced multitasking gestures a la OS X Lion on Apple computers.
Dragging a finger down from the top of the screen brings up a notifications menu where you'll see alerts of messages, social posts, game events and any other app you've OK'd for push notifications. Dragging up four fingers from the base of the screen opens the multitasking bar, which houses all open programs. The system doesn't actually run all of them at the same time but instead uses a last-used algorithm to hold some programs open, and shut others down.When you're in a program, you can use that four-fingered swipe to move from open program to open program, or pinch all fingers together to go to homescreen. It's slick, fast, and lots of fun to play with.Like all iThings before it, the new iPad uses a simple icon interface with a customisable shortcut bar that can hold up to six apps to display in any home screen. Unlike Android tablets, there are no widgets to display live-updating information or to break up the elegant monotony of app after app after app, but this seemingly bland interface is the front end of iCloud, an all-in ecosystem that comprises any other iOS devices you own as well as OS X computers.Launched with the iPhone 4S, iCloud is a huge selling point of iProducts in general, tying together your iPhone, iPad and OS X computer with a single Apple ID. iCloud stores your settings, apps and data online so that you not only access these files from any other device with that Apple ID, but also easily restores these settings from backup - for example, if you've just got a new iPad. iCloud also allows remote lock and wipe, should your iPad get lost or stolen, and you can also track it.
Surprisingly, Siri, the voice activated app for question-answering and phone operating is missing from the new iPad, but there is a full-bodied dictation feature that can be activated by tapping a small mic on the keyboard anywhere there is a text field. Accuracy was about 80% when different accents are involved – which is actually quite impressive, but doesn't outdo good old fashioned typing.
The Safari browser we've seen on Apples past is still great on iPad, with tabs, pinch to zoom features and lots of webpage options: bookmark it, save it to read later, add it to homescreen, email the link, print it or tweet it. It's worth re-mentioning Apple's Twitter integration – you're barely prompted to download the app itself, but if you use Twitter, it's deeply woven into every app so that any link or image you want to share can easily be posted.
As for Flash video or lack thereof, this long-running issue is finally dead in the water, as the masses of people accessing mobile internet on an iOS device has encouraged the rise of standard alternative HTML5. Even Adobe has launched a platform for Flash developers to convert their bits into HTML5, which means there is unlikely to be much video online that you won't be able to access on your iPad.
Email is similarly comprehensive, with a two-column view affording desktop-like comfort. You can add several webmail accounts and sync their calendars too.
It's in certain apps, though, that you begin the feel the awesome power of the new iPad's Retina display. Open up the gallery and pictures look absolutely incredible. The higher the resolution of the original picture, the more you'll see the effect. Pictures we took on a 14-megapixel point-and-shoot had pin-sharp clarity and true colours, and we could zoom way in without seeing individual pixels. You can see how this could have real application in any design studio, whether as a reference monitor or as a client display.
The iPhoto app that launched with the new iPad is an incredible tool to have on tablet as well - for a £2.99 version of a full-blown computer counterpart, you can edit photos for colour, exposure and sharpness, as well add auto effects like frames or filters. Using a finger, you can saturate or desaturate particular areas or colour, run a digit over a line to sharpen or soften it, and operate sliders to adjust light and colour balances.
Though a little basic for professional work, it's an ideal tool for slightly more sophisticated personal touch-ups, and a fun, uniquely tactile way to work with photo editing. Via iPhoto, pictures can be beamed to any other iOS devices within range.
Apple's other two home-user production apps, iMovie and GarageBand, also got levelled up to work with the new iPad's high-res display. Like iPhoto, they are perfectly pitched for amateur creations to get that extra polish without needing to sweat over a professional program.
But say you're not interested in any of these. Will you still 'get' the new display? Yes, if you watch HD video on your tablet. The iPad 2's 1024x768 screen was perfectly adequate but couldn't show off the true extent of high definition video. On a Retina display, such content had similar quality to an HDTV.
Kindle users will also appreciate the new density of the virtually printed word in the Kindle app, definitely at least as good as real life. As for other apps, there are 200,000-and-counting optimised iPad apps on the App Store, most of which will be updated in the coming weeks and months to display in full HD glory on the Retina display.
Finally, the five-megapixel camera and its HD video capabilities. The rear camera takes much better photos than the almost-ridiculous 0.7-megapixel job in the iPad 2, and you can also shoot HD video of decent clarity and colour.
Unfortunately, the front-facing camera is still a fairly low rent VGA, so those FaceTime or Skype calls will need to be in a pretty well-lit room to deliver a bettery-than-grainy resolution. Considering you're more likely to use a tablet for video calling than taking photos, it seems like the wrong lens was upgraded.
Apple is no stranger to hardware glitches, what with the iPhone 4's 'you're holding it wrong' antenna malfunction, and all iPhones in general notoriously patchy at actually being phones. In the new iPad, it's the battery – some users have already reported severe temperatures reached when running high-load programs, while the screen uses so much energy that the iPad can't even charge when it's being used. In our tests, we didn't find the iPad to overheat, but the new and larger charger did, particularly when the iPad was plugged in and running a game or movie. The battery also certainly drains faster than the one in its predecesors.
Then there's the issue of storage, and if you want more, the iPad doesn't seem so competitively priced anymore. The Wi-Fi only 16GB model is £399 – but if you're planning to watch or edit all that glorious HD content, you're going to have to do some militant managing to ensure 16GB can actually fit it all. In comparison, a 32GB Wi-Fi Transformer Prime is £499, and it bundles a keyboard. It's also expandable by another 32GB in microSD card for around £60; to get the same bump on an iPad, you'll have to shell out £100. iCloud storage also costs more than comparable alternatives such as Dropbox.
There's something intimate about using an iPad, and the real-life quality of that retina display enhances it even further. "Well, it's got a new screen" isn't a ringing endorsement of what makes the new iPad great – but actually, that's exactly why you want this tablet. Gaming, movies, web, graphics, and basically everything you would want to do on a tablet burst with colour, clarity and intensity – and when you accomplish that with a new screen, maybe you don't need a faster processor, a better front camera, a whole new interface to do what those other OSes do.
Undeniably, this new iPad hasn't revolutionised anything – but it is also the third-gen version of a device that defined its own market, from the content developed for it to the capabilities that other manufacturers end up aping. It's the most tactile, immediate experience you'll get on any device - still.


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Instauration [Vol.24, No. 1-12, Dec. 1998-Nov. 1999]
Cape Canaveral, Florida: Howard Allen Enterprises, 1999. Magazine. 12 issues, 8.5x11 inches, wraps, illus., some rust to staples, spots on some covers, else very good. Issues average 28p.
Instauration was perhaps the most erudite, yet vehement white supremacist and anti-Semitic journal published in the U.S. Articles were written anonymously and letters to the editor were identified by first 3 zip code digits of the writers. Robertson is the author of The Dispossessed Majority.
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The Homework Revolution
A young girl sits at her desk, reviewing her homework assignments for the evening. English: read three chapters and write a journal response. Math: complete 30 problems, showing all work. Science: do a worksheet, front and back. French: study vocabulary for tomorrow's test. It's going to be a long night.
This describes a typical weeknight for students across the country. Now is the time to start a homework revolution.
Do students in the United States receive too much homework? According to guidelines endorsed by the National Education Association (NEA), a student should be assigned no more than 10 minutes per grade level per night. For example, a first grader should only have 10 minutes of homework, a second grader, 20 minutes, and so on.
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CityScape will host Phoenix Comicon pre-party
June 2, 2016 by in Experience AZ Magazine | Play
Attention all comic-enthusiasts! This year's journey to Comicon is beginning with the "Quest Fest" Pre-Party hosted by CityScape Phoenix. Just two blocks away from the Phoenix Convention Center, CityScape will transform into a comic-lover's dream with the "Quest Fest" 2016 Costume Contest, specials at select tenants, prizes and a screening of The Goonies. Also, during all… Read More →
Phoenix Comicon 2011 Brings In Over 23,000 Attendees
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Call the fire marshal; Phoenix Comicon 2011 was too hot to handle. While the size of the convention exploded at last year's 2010 convention when it was moved to the downtown Phoenix area, this year's convention on the exhibition floor surpassed its maximum capacity of 10,000 people on Saturday — therefore causing the fire marshal… Read More →


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Source: National Bureau of Economic Research
Release: NBER Macrohistory Database
Series Is Presented Here As Two Variables--(1)--Original Data, 1920-1948 (2)--Original Data, 1947-1960. From 1951 On, The Figures Have Been Rounded And No Fractions Of Cents Are Available In The Source. Source: For 1947-1952, Bureau Of Labor Statistics, "Employment, Hours And Earnings, Manufacturing Division, Nondurable Goods Subdivision, Rubber Products (Sic Major Group 30), Releases Ls53-2339 (February, 1953); For 1953-1960, June, 1956 And July, 1958 Releases (Pp. 169-170A Of Summary Tables In Binder), Monthly Labor Review, "Employment And Earnings" (Advance Estimate In Mimeographed Monthly Release).
This NBER data series m08219b appears on the NBER website in Chapter 8 at http://www.nber.org/databases/macrohistory/contents/chapter08.html.
NBER Indicator: m08219b
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National Bureau of Economic Research, Average Hourly Earnings, Rubber Products Manufacturing for United States [M0819BUSM265NNBR], retrieved from FRED, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis; https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/M0819BUSM265NNBR, July 20, 2017.


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Daily Reload: Tool, Iron Maiden + More
– As Tool's Maynard James Keenan celebrates his 49th birthday (April 17), we count down the 10 Best Tool Songs. [Loudwire]
– Iron Maiden drummer Nicko McBrain's wife was arrested for allegedly assaulting him. [Loudwire]
– A new trailer for the Judas Priest 'Epitaph' Blu-Ray / DVD has surfaced. Watch it here: [Loudwire]
– Black Sabbath's Tony Iommi offers a health update and discusses the support Ozzy Osbourne has provided during his lymphoma treatment. [Loudwire]
– Evans Blue exclusively premiere their new lyric video for 'Warrior' here: [Loudwire]
– Forty years ago, the Eagles released their classic 'Desperado' album. [Ultimate Classic Rock]
– Aerosmith's Steven Tyler admits he's missing his 'American Idol' gig. [Ultimate Classic Rock]
– The Hives have been ordered to pay The Cardigans nearly $3 million over an alleged loan arranged by their management. [Diffuser.fm]
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|Function: Loads a PEM encoded certificate chain file CERTIFICATE-CHAIN-FILE and adds the chain to global context. The certificates must be sorted starting with the subject's certificate (actual client or server certificate), followed by intermediate CA certificates if applicable, and ending at the highest level (root) CA. Note: the RELOAD function clears the global context and in particular the loaded certificate chain.
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sixnationsrugby.com > Scotland
However with games against USA, Canada, Argentina and South Africa fast approaching, Horne will be looking to prove his worth to incoming coach Vern Cotter.
He has been handed the perfect platform to do exactly that as he makes his first Glasgow Warriors start of the season against Ulster.
And the centre is hoping to grasp the opportunity and in a bid to make up for lost time.
"I am desperate to get back on the field. I did my anterior cruciate ligament on the summer tour of South Africa and this is just my third game back and my first start," Horne told the Glasgow Evening Times.
"It has been tough being out, especially as the boys have been doing well and getting good results. There has been a real buzz about the club and about training. It has been tough to be sidelined.
"But I have worked really hard to get back to this point and getting back into the side makes it all worthwhile. In the past couple of weeks I have got on towards the end of the game. I have been building along nicely.
"I feel as if I am ready to start a game and make a real positive impact for the team. I couldn't have asked for a better time to come back into things.
"It is the business end of the season and big games are coming thick and fast. But we have got the momentum building nicely and all of the lads are training really hard to be a part of things. I will have to do well to keep my place."
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Sad, sad news in the world of showbiz.
Just as Britney Spears lost her marbles, Jason Donovan his hair and Cheryl Cole her US X Factor job, I'm devastated to report Bert Walliams has lost his, er.. doggie bits.
The 10-month old Border Terrier – beloved son of David and Lara Stone – is recovering at home following a devastating trip to the vets.
Poor Bert has been spayed, cutting short (ouch) the Walliams canine dynasty.
On the plus side, at least the Britain's Got Talent judge will be spared any future scandals involving Amanda Holden's terrier or, God forbid, Paris Hilton's chihuahua.
I'm told: "Lara and David are gutted. They loved the idea of lots of baby Berts but unfortunately with adolescence came aggression.
"He was becoming a bit too vigorous in his play.
"Given Bert's showbusiness lifestyle, this was a problem: they couldn't risk him rubbing against Elton John's leg on the red carpet or trying to bite Ant and Dec backstage at Britain's Got Talent.
"The vet advised getting Bert spayed so he has spent the past few days feeling very sorry for himself, and being nursed around the clock by doting mum, Lara."
In fact, so doting is the supermodel, yesterday she changed her Twitter profile caption from "wife and model" to "Bert's mum, Wife, Model".
Which automatically shoots her up about 3,000 places in my estimation.
So poorly was Bert, on Thursday Lara had to cancel dinner plans with her comedian husband to tend to the emasculated pup.
Instead, David, 41, was forced to dine with three male friends at London's Scott's, while Lara fed Bert homemade cheese biscuits. (Thankfully, not cheese balls.)
But there was some good news for the recuperating pooch.
Radio 1 DJ Fearne Cotton, gave David with two golden bone-encrusted dog bowls for his birthday last week.
I'm told: "Bert loves them; they are the perfect water vessel for the discerning dog."


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Drake is seen cheering and giving his approval when Justin keeps being persistent in his effort to impress Jasmine Villegas.
An official music video for Justin Bieber's new single "Baby" has come in full via VEVO. Featuring Ludacris who lends his vocal on the hook, this video follows the young pop star as he tries to impress his love interest played by Jasmine Villegas.
Justin previously said that the video is inspired by Michael Jackson's "The Way You Make Me Feel". "We're kind of going off of Michael Jackson's 'The Way You make Me Feel' where he's trying to get the girl's attention and following her around," he said.
Though he previously insisted that his fellow Canadian artist Drake would not appear in the video and only came to the set to show his support, the MC indeed is flashed for few seconds in one of the scenes. The rapper is smiling, apparently giving his approval for Justin's persistence in chasing the girl of his dreams.
"Baby" is the lead single from Justin Bieber's March 23 release "My World 2.0". In addition to joining forces with Ludacris, he also teams up with Sean Kingston.
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Hart secured its sixth consecutive top-three finish at the annual Southern Section girls swimming relays Saturday night at Capistrano Valley High.
The Indians produced 190 points, trailing Santa Margarita (216) and Foothill (212), to extend their impressive run that included titles in 2008 and '09. Hart has placed third the past four seasons at the prestigious competition.
The Indians posted third-place finishes in the 4 x 100-yard individual medley in 4 minutes, 6.49 seconds, the 4 x 50 breaststroke in 2:08.56 and 4 x 50 butterfly in 1:46.71.
Hart took fourth in the 4 x 50 backstroke (1:55.08), sixth in the 6 x 50 free (2:32.95) and 200 medley relay (1:54.29), and 10th in the 400 free relay (3:38.33).
Track and Field
Mount Carmel Invitational: Harvard-Westlake freshman Courtney Corrin produced the best wind-legal outdoor long jump mark in the country this year of 19 feet, 9 3/4 inches to not only win the competition, but set the Wolverines' program record in only the second meet of her high school career.
Trojan Invitational: The Birmingham boys team had a good showing at USC, winning the sprint medley relay and getting a pair of third-place finishes in the 4 x 400 relay and the distance medley relay.
The quartet of Koran Pearsall, Emanuel Castro, George Eck-Perez and Luis Solano clocked 3 minutes, 35.91 seconds in the sprint medley relay.
Taft won the the distance medley relay at 10:47.42 and got second-place finishes in the 4 x 100 (42.97) and the 4 x 400 (3:23.07).
The Taft girls won the spring medley relay as it clocked 4:24.92, followed by Birmingham (4:25.31) and Sylmar (4:43.81).
The Toreadors placed second in the 4 x 100 at 51.55, trailing University (51.38), and also finished second in the distance medley relay in 13:30.68.
Eagle Rock won the 4 x 400 relay, edging Taft 4:15.01 to 4:15.76.
Burroughs 1, La Jolla Country Day 0 (8 inn.): Cheyenne Stewart pitched her fourth consecutive shutout for the Indians (9-4) at the Country Day tournament.
Stewart went a stretch of 27 consecutive innings without allowing a run for Burroughs, which pushed across a run in the international tiebreaker in the eighth.
Delaney Nicol bunted Michelle Santiago to third and Kaitlin Okimoto drove in the deciding run with an infield single.
San Fernando 9, San Pedro 8: Clarissa Torres scored the winning run on a single by Tianna Garcia in the bottom of the seventh inning to give the Tigers the win at the Whittier tournament.
Torres was 3 for 3 with a double and three RBIs for San Fernando (10-1).
Audri Alvarez was 2 for 4 with four RBIs for the Tigers.
Royal 8, Katella 0 (6 inn.): Rebecca Duncan pitched a one-hitter, striking eight to lead the Highlanders at the Katella tournament.
Jules Trombley was 2 for 2 with a triple, double and four RBI for Royal (7-1).
Lacee Smollen was 2 for 4 with a triple and double for the Highlanders.
In the first game, Royal defeated Mary Star of the Sea 12-0 in five innings.
Kelyn Fillmore was 2 for 3 with double, three RBIs and two runs scored for the Highlanders.
Jess Vollmer was 2 for 3 with two runs scored and two stolen bases for Royal.
Simi Valley 5, Troy 3 (5 inn.): Rylee Reynolds was 2 for 3 with a triple and two RBIs to leads the Pioneers at the Savannah tournament in Yorba Linda.
Kira Czyrklis and Dani Liermann were both 2 for 3 with an RBI for Simi Valley (6-2).
Simi Valley started the day with a 9-3, four-inning win over Long Beach Poly.
Czyrklis was 2 for 2 with a home run, two RBIs and two runs scored for the Pioneers.
Maddy Ward had seven strikeout in three scoreless innings for Simi Valley.
Heritage Christian 15, Valley Christian 12: Tanner Marcoe was 3 for 3 with a home run, three RBIs and two runs scored to lead the Warriors to a Olympic League victory.
Eric Gordon was 2 for 4 with a double and two RBIs for Heritage Christian (7-4, 1-1), which also got two hits and an RBI from Chasen Shaw.


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Mr SYMON (10:44 AM) —I assure the member for Herbert that this is only the first of my many terms in this place. I rise to speak in strong support of the Appropriation Bill (No. 1) 2010-2011, the Appropriation Bill (No. 2) 2010-2011 and the Appropriation (Parliamentary Departments) Bill (No. 1) 2010-2011. This is a budget that firmly concentrates on responsible economic management by getting the budget back in the black in three years—and that is three years early. The Rudd government will halve the previously forecast peak debt. The measures in this budget will create a stronger and more secure economy for Australia's working families. By delivering the third round of tax cuts as promised in the 2007 election campaign, the Rudd government has ensured that a taxpayer on average earnings receives another $450 a year in their pocket. That is around $9 a week. That may not seem like all that much to those on the other side, but it is a great help to those working people and working families whose entire incomes are consumed by life's necessities, not by life's luxuries. Over the past three years, a working person on $50,000 to $70,000 per annum has been around $1,500 better off due to the delivery in full of our promised tax cuts.
But of course there are other tax cuts within this budget that benefit working people and working families. A tax break of 50 per cent for the first $1,000 of interest on savings is an excellent boost to the millions of people who save a few dollars in the bank for a rainy day but who up until now have been stung every year at tax time with full marginal rate tax on their interest earnings. Our simplified automatic tax deductions, also known as the tick-and-flick tax return, will mean that from 1 July 2012 more than six million Australians will not have the hassle of having to save their receipts in a shoebox for a whole year just to have their accountant at tax time say, 'No, those ones are no good; just give me a few.'
A $500 deduction is available in 2012 and $1,000 in 2013. Importantly, this means that the average taxpayer who chooses to use this system will pay an average of $192 less tax per year in 2013. Furthermore—and I know this quite well; I have seen it firsthand many times—if the taxpayer is employed in a white-collar or retail job, the benefits may be even larger. As anyone who works in those types of industries knows, when it comes to tax time and the claiming of refunds, there is not a lot there to claim. I used to see it firsthand in the construction industry. I worked on the building site, and at tax time I could claim quite a lot in expenses. But a person who worked inside a site shed on the same building site and did an office job could not claim such expenses, even though they worked at the same workplace. So I think this is a very good benefit for people who have a white-collar background, who do not run their own business and who receive wages.
An even greater long-term benefit for working people in this budget is the raising of the super guarantee charge to 12 per cent from the current rate of nine per cent. With incremental rises starting in 2013, the rate will rise from nine per cent and will reach 12 per cent on 1 July 2019. That gives plenty of time for employers, unions and others involved in the industrial process to adjust to these changes. Ninety per cent of Australia's full-time employees—about 8.4 million people—will benefit from this three per cent increase in retirement savings. For workers on lower incomes, the Rudd government will provide a contribution of up to $500 per annum for workers earning up to $37,500. This effectively refunds the tax contributions paid on super guarantee amounts up to that level.
I have been a long-time advocate of superannuation for everyone in Australia who works. This is something that most people accept these days, but that was not always the case. The original legislation, which those on the other side of the House most certainly did not like, started the super guarantee at three per cent. That seems so small these days, but when I started full-time work back in 1982, a long time ago now, most working people did not get super—not a cent. I think it is quite true to say that at that time super was for public servants and chosen company executives. In fact, I worked for four years before I ever received one cent of superannuation. And I was one of the lucky ones: I worked in an industry where super came in earlier than was legislated by parliament. In 1986, I and the many others who worked with me in that industry started receiving super at the rate of $9 per week. That seems small these days. But the rest of the working population at that time were getting nothing, and for many years after that they got nothing. It was not until 1993 that the super guarantee charge kicked in and working people actually got to put away money for their retirement.
The problem with that, and it is a very big one and we are still to face the full implications of it, is that people of my age or people older than I am have only worked with super for part of their working lives. And so when it comes to retirement some very valid questions can be asked: do I have enough to live a comfortable retirement? Is there enough money in the super account? Invariably, if you have not spent your full working life receiving super, the answer is going to be no, there is just not enough there to build upon. One of the measures in this budget will extend the $50,000 superannuation contribution cap to over 50s with super balances below $500,000. That is important because it gives some people the chance to catch up, to hopefully have a bigger nest egg for their retirement. Measures such as these will increase Australia's superannuation savings pool by $85 billion over the next decade. As an example, for an 18-year-old just starting out on a working career on average wages, these changes will mean an extra $200,000 in their super account come retirement.
While I am on super, another improvement to the superannuation system is the extension of the compulsory superannuation guarantee to working people up to the age of 75 instead of the present limit of up to the age of 70. Indeed, it was only last week that I was contacted by a constituent who was very concerned to find out that her last 18 months of employment gave her no super. Her employer had not bothered to tell her that, as she had turned the age of 70, they no longer had to pay compulsory superannuation contributions to her account—and they did not. It was only when she subsequently left employment and checked up with her super that she found she was in that situation.
What might have been a good provision at the time the superannuation guarantee was brought in—that is, the 70 years of age provision—is not so good anymore. Successive governments have encouraged people to work longer. The compulsory retirement age is gone. If we want people to work longer, we need to make sure we encourage them, not discourage them. But the thing that concerns me the most about this subject is if we look at the figures that were not released with the opposition's budget reply speech, but subsequently came to light through last week's National Press Club debacle, we see the disturbing information that all of these changes to super that I have spoken about will be gone. Gone would be the increase in super for working people from nine to 12 per cent, gone would be the extension of the super guarantee for those people who choose to work up to the age of 75, gone would be the concessional contribution cap for the over 50s, and gone would be the super contributions tax rebate for low-income earners. That is what we get if we have an Abbott-led government.
At the 2007 election the Australian Labor Party made a commitment to the people in my electorate of Deakin. We committed to fix the traffic nightmare that the Howard Liberal government had failed to lift a finger to fix for 12 long years—that is, Springvale Road. Well-known to people throughout the eastern suburbs, this railway crossing—a railway crossing with 218 train crossings every a day, intersecting a six-lane road with 50,000 vehicles on it—meant that transport was very difficult around the eastern suburbs. If you wanted to head in a north-south direction, chances are you would try to find a road other than Springvale Road to do it on because you knew there would always be a traffic jam there. It had been that way for many years. Indeed, I have spoken to older people in aged-care homes who have told me of problems with the crossing going back in time to before I was born, to a time before it had boom gates. It has always been busy, and in many cases it has been dangerous. There have been fatalities there and there have been many, many accidents.
Last year's federal budget made the commitment of $76½ million to the project, and the state Labor government came through with $60 million. The project started, the project finished, and that is the best thing. It is good to be able to stand up in this place and talk about what is going to be done; it is even better to be able to follow it through and make sure that it is done. And the Rudd government has done that with Springvale Road. It opened on time and it opened on budget. It is a great result—not just for the people of Nunawading, where it is located, but for everyone who commutes in or around the eastern suburbs of Melbourne.
It is also a great result for commuters who use the station. What was an old, small, drafty, asbestos-ridden station that was built between the 1950s and the 1960s and not very often staffed is now a brand-new structure with security cameras and a proper public address system that is staffed from first train to last. It is an architectural statement as well. It is a great addition to the suburb of Nunawading. The new station has much better access for people with disabilities, unlike the old station, where we had problems with the ramps leading to it and the closeness of the station to the road where the buses parked.
Also, the new station, as I have mentioned before in this place, has lockable facilities for cyclists. It is quite a good system. It is remotely controlled from a control centre. There is a swipe card that allows you to access your bike when you need to. And there is security. As many people who want to use bikes know, if you leave your bike at a railway station just chained up, the chances are that when you get back on the train that evening you may end up walking home. So this is also a great improvement for our local transport.
That project is a beacon for what else can be done in terms of transport in Melbourne. There are so many level crossings that still need to be upgraded. They were built, to be fair, when the traffic load was nothing like what it is in what is now a very large city. These crossings were built when there were still red rattlers running around the place. Although the red rattlers are gone, the level crossings are not. The state government has committed to putting a program in place to start to get rid of these crossings. These are the sorts of infrastructure projects that should have been undertaken continuously right through from the 1960s to now. There is a huge gap and it is going to take a long time to catch up. But, if we do not do anything now, that catch up is never going to happen.
The Rudd government has invested not only in the Springvale Road underpass but also in much smaller local projects. One that springs to my mind is the notorious black spot in Ringwood East, the Dublin Road railway crossing. It is next to the shops. That has been another problem area, not so much for traffic jams but because it is dangerous, and there have been many accidents there. Last year, an amount of $396,000 was put forward to fix this problem. I am very happy to say that that project is now underway. It is not finished yet but works are underway and it will be finished soon. It is one of those projects that needed to be done years ago. It will mean that pedestrians will be safer and that hopefully motorists will be safer. Even the train commuters who have to walk through a lot of this area—a problem caused by boom gates being down and there being a T-intersection right where the railway line is—will be safer.
Talking about infrastructure, there is so much happening in my electorate that is only happening because of funding from the Rudd government that I hardly know where to start. I will start with the new soccer pavilion that is being built at Ringwood's Jubilee Park. Last year the funding was announced and this year I can stand up in this place and say that work is underway. The old pavilion—again, asbestos-ridden—was nearing the point of condemnation by the local council because of its disrepair. It is now gone. Now there is a slab and building starting of what will be a brand-new multipurpose pavilion not just for the use of the soccer club but for the use of all sorts of other clubs, too. There will be a synthetic pitch. There will be lighting so that it can be used at night. There will even be facilities for women to use, something that was not thought of when the original stand was built in 1962. In the same facility, we will have the boxing club, which has been looking for a home in Maroondah for many years. Its last home was also condemned due to access problems. It was in the current Ringwood Central Community Centre. That is a good thing for local sport.
I also mention some of my local businesses that contacted me last year and said that the 50 per cent tax rate for investment was such a great thing. They are saying to me, 'We really like the provisions in this budget—the provisions that allow for instant deductions for the cost of assets up to $5,000 purchased by small businesses, sole traders and partnerships.' For example, a purchase of $5,000 under the system that the government intends to bring in would be a $5,000 tax deduction rather than the $750 tax reduction that it was in the first year. Measures like that are a great support for small businesses, encouraging them hopefully to expand and put on more staff in what are still economically uncertain times internationally.
The Primary Schools for the 21st Century program has been a fantastic program for every school in my electorate. Some buildings are finished, some are partly finished and there are a couple that are due to start. Of the ones that have been finished, the quality of the workmanship, the usefulness of the assets and the appreciation of the schools is fantastic. They are a great result for our local community. They are also so different to each other—some schools have chosen libraries, some have chosen halls, some have chosen refits and some have chosen some very innovative learning centres. In fact, I was at one only a couple of weeks ago that was a learning and discovery centre. It was an open plan learning space, and when I was there the students were learning about cybersafety. That is a fantastic thing to do at school, because far too many people think that it is the job of parents to teach their children about that—and I agree that it should be—but far too many parents do not know much about turning on a computer, let alone how or where their children should be accessing the internet.
It is now 16 months into the program, and I have schools such as St Luke's with its now complete discovery centre. I have schools such as Blackburn Primary, which has a wonderful multipurpose hall and a full-size basketball court. That is a $3 million job and it means that the school, which for so many years has been bursting at the seams, can have an indoor assembly with more than just the children present. This is a school where formerly, if the full complement of 450 children and a sprinkling of parents turned up to an assembly, the parents would have had to stand outside the building and put their heads in the window to see what was going on—there was not enough room. I have been to many assemblies and concerts there where that has happened. We also have schools like Burwood East Primary, which up until now has not even had a hall. In fact, I have been to assemblies there in the rain and in the baking heat. The children are only small and cannot stand that sort of thing very long, but they now have a brand new assembly hall, and that is a great thing for that school.
The National School Pride Program has meant so many benefits to all schools across the electorate because of the number of things they were able to do as a result of it, whether it be doing those maintenance jobs that could never be done because there was not enough money—fixing rotted-out window frames at Mitcham Primary School, for example—or completely redoing an oval with new grass so that it could be used all year round by the students. That happened at many schools, such as Ringwood Secondary, Heathmont East and Laburnum Primary, which put a running track around its oval. The kids are out there in droves using it, and it is really great to see. It is great for a school to give its children the message, 'We want you to get out and exercise.' There are also schools such as Nunawading Christian College, which has got a fantastic new indoor hall and meeting area. That school added onto its existing building—it leveraged off that and made it even better. This budget is good for working people and for working families, and I commend these bills to the House.


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