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One thing that's weird is that they're seems to be, other than in the fourth book during the Quidditch World Cup, no mention of wizards/witches or schools outside of Europe. I think there was a mention of African witches, and I know there was something about the Salem Witch's Institute, but it seems weird that J.K. Rowling never mentioned anything about wizards or witches that weren't European. I would think that people of other nationalities would have more appearances than they did in the HP books. Any thoughts on the matter? NeebsLucas11 04:32, December 16, 2009 (UTC)Gabey :)
- Well, since the series is told from Harry's point of view, there's no need to mention other nationalities, except where they play a part in the story. Harry never even travels outside of England, much less Europe, so introducing non-European nationalities, like the Americans, is unncessary. --Cubs Fan (Talk to me) 06:15, December 16, 2009 (UTC)
Yah I understand that much, so it makes sense that there would be not very many talk about international wizards, but you'd think there would be a few people who weren't European. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by NeebsLucas11 (talk • contribs).
- Dean Thomas and Kingsley Shacklebolt are black, Cho Chang is asian, and Parvati and Padma Patil are hindi. - 22.214.171.124 14:47, December 16, 2009 (UTC)
- They all are British. -- Seth Cooper owl post! 17:37, December 16, 2009 (UTC)
yah exactly. In Harry Potter there are people of different ethnicity, but not any people who are directly from a different area in the world like the Americas, Africa or Asia.


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Naruto Shippuden Episode 291Welcome back everyone, today it is time for the latest Naruto Shippuden Anime! This week the episode is entitled "POWER - Episode #2" and can be downloaded directly from Bittorrent by clicking here: 480p (SD) and 720p (HD) and 1080p (Full HD). But, if you prefer direct downloading the episode (for free and fast!), you can check out our Naruto Anime Downloads page! If you don't want to download but watching the episode online instead or with your iPad, you can check out the Naruto Shippuden Episode 291 episode online. Enjoy!!
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Vic30189@ 2012-12-06 04:28 pm#43
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Ranificent@ 2012-12-06 01:14 pm#42
[spoiler]new ep. is out http://www.anime44.com/[spoiler]
rauljuan@ 2012-12-05 06:31 am#41
normally I hate filers as well.. but there seems to be something with this. I like it thus far.
Not really a spoiler... just something to notice..
I was wondering about the snakes in Naruto's dream, when he is in front of the 9 tails.
xsadprincess93x@ 2012-12-04 08:05 pm#40
aww, babe Naruto-kun..I feel like something bad is going to happen to him TT^TT'"...*sniff*
donnic@ 2012-12-03 10:56 pm#39
does anyone know a good place where i can down load episodes i am trying to get episode 7 of naruto shipuuden anyone know?
LolChidori@ 2012-12-03 02:37 am#38
..I thought Naruto had no balls(?)
emmakp@ 2012-12-02 08:32 pm#37
when will the main story be resumed?
narutodarkfox@ 2012-12-01 04:08 pm#36
looks cool
Tsujan9484@ 2012-12-01 11:23 am#35
Like I said last week, the story sure seems interesting and touching....and it really is....I am really loving this filler arc
Narukarin16@ 2012-12-01 12:40 am#34
Wow with so much hateful comments am not going to watch it. Tanxs guy, u just save 21 mins of my day.
Kage Jake@ 2012-11-30 09:51 pm#33
filler episodes up until the end of december i belive. taking a break from naruto for sometime.
gaarachan64@ 2012-11-30 09:11 pm#32
is kishimoto in charge of these? they dont seem like his style....
Omkar007@ 2012-11-30 05:13 pm#31
I wonder why some people hated this episode !!!
I loved this episode, it had wonderful animation & story.
MasterMedicNin@ 2012-11-30 03:09 pm#30
1)Animation (good animation at least) takes away more time than people would like, hoewever patience will bring better results. Hopefully similar to the quality in "Power"
2)The Manga is at risk of being outrun by the Anime! We fit 3-4 chapters into one episode and at this rate if we continued we would be caught up within a month! thats only 4-5 more manga chapters!
3)This is COMPLETELY relevant to the current WAR. This explains how Kabuto attained his vast ability to control so many bodies with Edo Tensei. Kishimoto is not one to leave out details like this so easily.
**Hidan is probably still ALIVE**
Kabuto used his regenerative snakes to create a clone of Hidan that he can control through Edo Tensei
He could also be dead as he needed to consistantly use sacrifices to keep his immortality pact with Jashin. after not complying with the pact he lost his immortality.
Appreciate the fact that hes still writing and animating freely for you ingrates or ignorants then maybe you might just ENJOY it more.
Tsunade5th@ 2012-11-30 10:05 am#29
I agree with you :D LOL
but I think, Naruto penis is little :D LOL
Billabo@ 2012-11-30 05:56 am#28
When they said "No wonder you're a legendary hero!" I thought they were talking about his penis at first! lol!
Tsunade5th@ 2012-11-30 04:40 am#27
this episode is full of naked scene :D
and I liked it :D LOL
I think Naruto butt is really nice nyahahaha :D
Oyka1@ 2012-11-30 04:28 am#26
Jesus, folks with bad memories. Hidan did not have a casket, he was formed in the water with those snakes. And there was even the hint about break-in's at 'graveyards' and in the 'forest' of Konoha.
Hint hint: you know the forest owned by Shikaru's family that had Hidan's (still living) body buried in it.
I'm actually enjoying this filler, as it gives insight into the perfecting of the Edo technique, and probably his training as a Dragon sage. Who knows, he might be communicating with the some kind of big boss Dragon right now in that scroll.
feedingspree@ 2012-11-30 03:45 am#25
naruto fillers are so boring to watch unlike one piece fillers.
Naruto fan 2012@ 2012-11-30 02:40 am#24
Lol wow does anyone know what fillers are? I guess not if you guys pay close attention the "Power" episodes that they are showing think of them as flashbacks it is still a part of the story all it is showing is how kabuto got his powers and got so strong, and also showing how he was able to obtain all those dead body's that he got for his reanimation jutsu I know most of you wanna know where in the world did he find Uchia Madara's corps.Btw fillers are just random episodes that has nothing to do with the original story line example like the "Road To Sakura" episode that is a perfect example of a filler just a random episode to pass sometime for the real one.
ArthosDart@ 2012-11-29 10:40 pm#23
OMG, kabuto is Tom Riddle from Harry Potter secret chamber !!!
itootchi@ 2012-11-29 10:35 pm#22
Naruto has a really nice butt....just sayin
TORNIDO@ 2012-11-29 08:27 pm#21
oooooooooooh i hate this episod
ebenizzy@ 2012-11-29 08:22 pm#20
i haven't seen the animation yet so i wont bother.. these comments prove its a waste of time
zinescience@ 2012-11-29 08:01 pm#19
this filler is crap
Kyuubibomb@ 2012-11-29 06:35 pm#18
the only people who don't like this filler arc is because they can't wrap there tiny little minds on what is going on and can't accept that one episode it was the war and the next episode it's something different. just accept what's going on. it's like a movie.
AfroSamurai@ 2012-11-29 06:05 pm#17
I think im one of the few people that doesn't hate these episodes. Personally i thought that the recent war episodes weren't that great. The fight scenes were boring and the animation just seemed off
transroboball@ 2012-11-29 05:35 pm#16
I'm very disappointed at this bull shit.
Shalaam@ 2012-11-29 04:08 pm#15
bullshiiet : /
copyninKakashi@ 2012-11-29 02:55 pm#14
Very good animated
sasukeisgayy@ 2012-11-29 02:46 pm#13
i know its just fillers and all but they go so off point about everything its just so STUPID
omarsen@ 2012-11-29 02:36 pm#12
R.I.P Naruto Shippuden
lukasenko@ 2012-11-29 02:02 pm#11
i just hope that this shitty effort will get paid when the real naruto will start
Obito994@ 2012-11-29 01:58 pm#10
crap -.-
CrystalBall@ 2012-11-29 01:24 pm#9
I stilI cant get if its something functional to the main plot or it is completely on another level...
Uchiha Usman@ 2012-11-29 12:50 pm#8
it was cool :D
LoL @ naruto getting kicked in the balls
and srsly that book needs to get destroyed!!!
seeing yamato without his headband was nice
..i srsly hope kakashi, shikamaru and gai get there quickly - Tsunade is sending good back up :D
kladarakun@ 2012-11-29 12:49 pm#7
But not at all, i liked it ^^ Naruto got punched on the balls
SEEDLESS@ 2012-11-29 12:48 pm#6
kladarakun@ 2012-11-29 12:47 pm#5
SURYA@ 2012-11-29 12:34 pm#4
how many more POWER - Episodes
Merita@ 2012-11-29 12:24 pm#3
Naruto got kicked on the ballz
Itachi2111@ 2012-11-29 12:22 pm#2
just another of those stupid fillers! :\
Tsujan9484@ 2012-11-29 12:21 pm#1
cool :D

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For her first science project, Grade 2 student Emily Clark chose to experiment with one of her favourite things — bubbles.
"They are fun to play with," Clark said with a big smile on her face.
The young École Harrison student said she mixed up eight bubble solutions to see which worked best. In the end, she found that her homemade solution — made with pink food colouring, dish soap, corn syrup and hot water — worked the best.
Clark's project was just one of hundreds unveiled at yesterday's Western Manitoba Science Fair inside the Keystone Centre's Manitoba Room.
This year, the fair saw its biggest turnout yet with 672 students with 456 projects from 26 schools participating from across southwestern Manitoba.
Pat Bowslaugh, who has been a part of the annual fair's organizing committee for more than 30 years, said she "couldn't be happier" with this year's turnout.
"They're taking advantage of an opportunity with minimal cost and a huge amount of learning," she said, adding it took the help of many volunteers to make this year's fair a success.
While the first half of the day was set aside for students to set up their projects and for judges to make their final decisions, parents and community members were invited to check out all of the projects in the afternoon.
Clark's mother, Cheryl Mauthe, said seeing her daughter work on her project was "very exciting."
"I liked seeing how excited she is about all of it," adding this year's projects were "literally from one extreme to the next."
"I'm blown away by some of the skill of these youngsters."
With students from grades 1 to 12 participating, Grade 9 École La Source in Shilo student Max Werner-Fisher chose a relatively new topic to help him stand out.
Werner-Fisher's project on hydraulic fracturing, a technique used to help extract fluids such as oil or gas, is starting to gain momentum in North Dakota, Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba.
"It's getting popular, even though not many people know about it," he said. "I wanted to know what these effects had on vegetation, so I made up my own blend of the solution they use ... and I tested it on plants for 45 days and as a result, all the plants died."
His fresh idea ultimately won the young scientist yesterday's top award. Werner-Fisher's project, entitled Fracturer notre futur, won best in fair. The top two runner-ups were fellow École La Source students Aiden Simard and Christopher Vauzelle. All three winners will now go on to the Canada Wide Science Fair being held in Windsor, Ont., in May.
The Western Manitoba Science Fair began in 1969 and has since become one of the largest regional science fairs in Canada.
Local donors and sponsors also provided the fair with special awards this year, including cash awards, books and trophies.
But Werner-Fisher said his favourite part of the annual event is seeing his friends from other schools.
"It's fun," he said. "There's a lot of great projects here, a lot of great ideas, it's fantastic."
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The purpose of this article is to educate nurses about end-of-life issues. After reading this article, you should be able to:
1. Discuss the meaning of dying with dignity.
2. List ways to provide support to the dying individual as well as to their loved ones and caregivers.
3. Describe how to help caregivers safely provide pain management for those at the end of life.
I can choose to die with dignity accompanied by compassionate support and palliative medical care. Why? Because my kidneys have failed. I am on dialysis. I can end my dialysis and check into a hospice whenever I choose, sooner or later slipping into the blissful fog that comes with death from kidney failure. I am not praying for a miracle. I am accepting my death as a part of my life, a final act of giving myself to the cycle of life. In choosing how I can die, I have felt a renewed vigor in living.
- Hilding Lindquist1
When Mr. Linquist decides he wants no more dialysis or another patient's illness can no longer be treated, nursing care continues but with a change in focus. Whether at home or in a hospital or other facility, the person at the end of life as well as his loved ones and caregivers need help with medical, psychological and spiritual concerns. People at the end of life have a right to die with dignity, experience adequate pain control, and be given support that extends to their loved ones and caregivers.
Medicalization of Death
The World Health Organization states "palliative care (care that focuses on relieving and preventing the suffering of patients) . affirms life and regards dying as a normal process . [and] neither hastens nor postpones death."2 The intent is to provide everyone with the right to die with dignity and the right to receive appropriate care during the dying process.
Many religions promote the concept each person needs to accept death (their own as well as others) as a part of life. This does not imply a person can intentionally take one's own life and/or help others to do so.3 However, it does emphasize individuals have a responsibility to participate in preparation for their own death.
Paulina Taboada, MD, writes that the groundbreaking work of Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, MD, suggests everyone has an opportunity to come to terms with their own death, their choice leading to what has been described as either a "good" or a "bad" death.3,4 Thus, death is not merely something that happens to us (a passive event), but that by our free will we can choose an attitude of acceptance (good death) or a negative stance like rebellion (bad death) when faced with imminent death. The "medicalization of death," viewing death as a clinical event, is often in opposition to acceptance of death.3
Throughout history, death has been understood as the end of earthly life and for some people the entrance into eternal life. In the not-so-distant past, people died at home in the presence of their family and perhaps clergy. The "medicalization of death" started during the 18th century when a physician was called to the home of a dying person to help relieve pain so the person could die comfortably. Over time, the physician replaced the clergy at the bedside, and the dying moved from home to a hospital or other institution. With that, death was no longer seen so much as a spiritual transition but as a medical condition, the person not considered dead until pronounced dead by a physician.5
The "medicalization of death" sets up a situation where it is hard to determine when there is no longer any treatment available to sustain life. Healthcare consumers rely on medical treatment and the knowledge of healthcare professionals to prolong life. Health professionals may over-treat to avoid any perception of undertreatment. Additionally, some health professionals view death as defeat and have difficulty accepting a patient's death. These factors lead to a difficult situation where it is hard to know when there is no longer any treatment available and palliative care should be started.3,5,6
Nurses have long known and research has supported overtreatment may actually prolong dying and with it pain and suffering for both the patient and their loved ones.6 Nurses also know death has deep cultural and religious meaning that shapes how it is understood and determines what is considered appropriate behavior, both for the dying person and loved ones, as well as for the caring personnel.
Role of Nurses
What can nurses do to help promote death with dignity for their patients and their loved ones? First, nurses need to accept death as part of life and become sensitive to the moral and religious dimensions that shape their own attitudes toward life and death. Nurses, especially those working with patients with terminal conditions, need to face the challenge of helping the dying master their own death.
The hospice and palliative care movements have started the change. Nurses need to add momentum to the change: advocate for their patients, become members of ethics committees and bring up sensitive issues for discussion among colleagues.
Here are some general suggestions to help patients maintain their dignity and sense of personal control at the end of life.7
• Keep the person company. Talk, watch movies, read or just be present
• Allow for the expression of fears and concerns about dying.
• Be willing to reminisce with the person about his life. Learn his story.
• Include the patient in discussions about issues that concern him.
• Provide reassurance all advance directives will be honored.
• Respect the person's need for privacy.
Learn more: The National Cancer Institute has many articles about end-of-life concerns. Access them at http://www.cancer.gov/.
For Families & Loved Ones
Loved ones and family caregivers need support, too. Certain things occur as death approaches. Explaining how to handle them is helpful. Here are some suggestions to share with family members and loved ones.7
• When the person is drowsy and withdrawn: Plan visits at times when their loved one is most alert. Speak directly to the person and talk as if he can hear. Always let him know when you are there and when you will return. Recall the person may be aware and able to hear, but unable to respond. Remind them not to shake their loved one if he does not respond.
• If confusion, visions of people and places that are not present, or pulling at bed linens or clothing occurs: It is OK to orient the person to time, place and the people who are with him. However, avoid causing distress. It is OK to go with the flow of the person's conversation, taking the conversation wherever he does.
• If the person is restless: Explain restraint is not helpful. Be calm and reassuring.
• If the person refuses food and fluids and complains of loss of appetite: Never force people to eat or drink. Allow choices. Check ability to swallow; thicker fluids may be easier to swallow than thinner ones. Always keep his mouth and lips moist.
• If the person experiences noisy, slowed, shallow or irregular breathing: Make the person more comfortable by turning him on his side, and placing pillows beneath his head and behind his back. Remind all visitors that, although labored breathing may be distressing to them, the gurgling and rattling sounds are not causing discomfort to their loved one. Oxygen and cool mist humidifiers may make him more comfortable.
Review with the dying person's loved ones what to expect as death nears: loss of bladder or bowel control, darkened urine, skin cool to the touch, involuntary movements, changes in heart rate, and loss of reflexes in the legs and arms. Work with the family members to provide comfort.
Learn more: Caring Connections: National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization has more information about how to help patients and their loved ones. Access them at http://www.caringinfo.org/.
Pain Control
According to the American Pain Foundation's Pain Care Bill of Rights, all patients have a right to have their report of pain taken seriously, be treated with dignity and respect, and have their pain thoroughly assessed and promptly treated.8
There is consensus opioid analgesics may be needed to treat moderate-to-severe pain at the end of life. According to the Controlled Substances Act, opioids "have a useful and legitimate medical purpose and are necessary to maintain the health and general welfare of the American people."9 All healthcare professionals have a responsibility to understand opioid analgesic benefits and risks. Uncontrolled pain adversely affects almost every aspect of a person's life.10
Many people now choose to stay at home when death is near. Teach family members and caregivers how to safely use opioids while caring for their dying loved one at home. Offer these suggestions:
• Keep opioids in a safe place. Secure them the same way as other valuables in the home, like jewelry or cash. Take all opioids out of the medicine cabinet and hide them in a place only the caregiver knows about. Safe places to lock up opioids include a locked medicine storage box, fire safe or gun safe, a cut-proof bag designed for travel safety or a "vacation vault."
• Be aware of drug interactions. Mixing opioids with other non-prescribed analgesics or psychotherapeutic medications, or with alcohol or illicit drugs, may cause drug-drug interactions or toxicity.
• Benzodiazepines enhance the respiratory depressant effects of opioids. Avoid combining benzodiazepines with opioids, especially just prior to sleep. When a sleep aid is indicated, use alternative treatments like an anticonvulsant or a low dose of a tricyclic antidepressant.
• Methadone's half-life ranges from 5 to 150 hours, although its analgesic effect usually lasts only 6-8 hours. This unusual pharmacokinetic profile can contribute to an unpredictable accumulation of methadone during the first few weeks of its use. Start methadone at a very low dose and increase slowly.
• There is a high prevalence of sleep apnea in people on long-term opioid therapy. Respiratory infections or asthma attacks increase the danger. Reduce the opioid dose during upper respiratory infections or asthmatic episodes. Instruct caregivers to consult with their care providers before adjusting doses and to always report any signs of emerging pain or withdrawal symptoms immediately.
• Always use opioids as directed. Make sure the caregiver knows how to use extended-release opioid products or patches.
When planning for comprehensive pain management, it is wise to include alternative pain management techniques such as application of heat and cold, aromatherapy, acupuncture, massage and transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation, relaxation and breathing exercises, and the use of diversion such as music and movies.
Learn more: To learn more about opioids and using them safely, go to http://www.painfoundation.org/ and search "Opioids Are a Treatment Option."
Dying With Dignity
Mr. Linquist has a profound message for us all. His writing shows how he has chosen to become an active participant in his dying - a person dying with dignity - a person dying a "good" death.
Nurses can help their patients at the end of life experience a pain-free, dignified and comfortable death surrounded by their loved ones. Doing this enriches their lives and the lives of their family members. Doing this also enriches the life of the nurse, for by helping others we also help ourselves.
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Mrs CROSIO (6:17 PM) —At the outset, I congratulate all those members of parliament who have contributed today to the 40th Parliament by making their first speeches. I congratulate them all most sincerely, but particularly I would like to put on the record my congratulations to the Speaker of the House, to the Deputy Speaker and to you, Mr Jenkins, on your elections to that high office.
In this debate on the address-in-reply, I would like to bring to the attention of the 40th Parliament of Australia some of the issues and problems which I believe parliament must urgently address. First, I would like to place on the record, as I have stated, the input from all those new members of parliament and what great representatives they will be of the Australian people. It is a great honour and a special privilege to be elected to the federal parliament, and I am sure that those, like me, who have been re-elected understand and appreciate what this honour means.
Since parliament last sat, we have experienced yet another harsh Australian summer. As this new year unfolded, we were overcome with admiration for our volunteer bushfire fighters who, while many other people were enjoying the luxuries of a typical Australian summer, spent many days defending other people's property and protecting lives while raging bushfires threatened homes. I would personally like to thank all the Australian volunteer firefighters, and I join the Prime Minister and the Leader of the Opposition in the motion today when we congratulated them on their tireless work and unshakeable commitment in helping their fellow Australians when they were in need.
It was a fitting but unfortunate reminder of the year which had just past—the International Year of Volunteers—to see not only the volunteer bushfire fighters but also their helpers who supplied the food and refreshment to the firefighters and the neighbours and friends who helped the victims whose properties had been destroyed all working to help each other. Let us not only as members of parliament but as Australians take heart from this experience and build on it to ensure that good deeds and acts of generosity towards our fellow Australians continue to be encouraged.
February 12 saw the 40th federal parliament sworn in. This sitting year has one of the lowest number of parliamentary sittings that I can remember. The elected federal government determines when parliament sits and the pattern of parliamentary sittings for the forthcoming year. Today we are in parliament for the first time in 139 days. It is an insult to the Australian people who voted in a general election on 10 November 2001 that the parliamentary sitting timetable has only 33 sitting days until August and 19 sitting weeks for the entire 12 months. The public have a right to hear the government state on the public record the truth about current issues such as the full extent of Australia's commitment in helping to rebuild Afghanistan and to assist the refugees; how the government plans to solve the current detainee crisis; and how much of the Australian taxpayers' money is being spent on the detaining and processing of asylum seekers on Pacific islands, because, as we saw before the November election, what the Howard government found to be their fix-all solution to the problem of asylum seekers involved them being processed on Pacific Islands such as Nauru and Papua New Guinea without any specific costs being provided.
The Howard government have struck a new deal with Papua New Guinea to make available around 800 extra places for the processing of asylum seekers and they have also recently made two new arrangements with Nauru to take another maximum of 1,200 asylum seekers. Despite our Minister for Foreign Affairs claiming that this new deal with Papua New Guinea means that the so-called Pacific solution has been consolidated, the Howard government have not at any time detailed the true cost of the exercise. The Australian public has a right to know, first and foremost in this parliament, what the full cost of the so-called Pacific solution is. During the election campaign, the government made it no secret that the government would determine who will come into this country and they owe it to the electorate to disclose the full costings of their main election policy as a first priority of this parliament.
According to information obtained by the ABC, the Prime Minister claims that a budget of $400 to $500 million for the Pacific solution was approved by cabinet in September. That is when Nauru first agreed to house and process asylum seekers. However, when the Prime Minister was confronted with this information—only a month later, I might add, and on air—he could not confirm what the cost was. All the comment he gave Neil Mitchell on 3AW was `it's expensive'. I would like to put into Hansard the transcript:
Is it correct that it was costing $600,000 a day to keep the Manoora there?
I'd have to check the exact figures but it's not cheap.
Do you know what the overall cost of the ...
No, I don't, it's expensive.
This just goes to show some of the complacency and arrogance that we can expect from this next term of this government. What kind of a leader of a country admits about his major policy of an election campaign and during it that he did not know what it was costing but `it's expensive'? The Australian government are responsible for the total cost of housing, feeding and clothing detainees. They are responsible for the Australians who staff the facilities and they are responsible for the help they receive from the defence forces.
But the precise financial and other obligations undertaken by Australia remain secret. The comment `I don't know, but it's expensive' cannot suffice. Surely, the Howard government knows the total cost of offshore detention. The Australian taxpayers are entitled to know how much is being spent on this government program. The Howard government argues the so-called Pacific solution is an effective program, but it is up to the Australian taxpayers to judge this claim and they can only judge that claim when the full costs are disclosed. If the Howard government will not come clean on this matter, I can guarantee them that in this House and in the Senate estimates committee process Labor will pursue them for full disclosure.
This government need to be held accountable and it is the role of opposition to hold them to account. The people in my electorate need to know what is happening in regard to the erosion of health and education services in the western and south-western suburbs of Sydney and the parliament is a forum where these issues should be raised and brought to the attention of the government. Allocating only 33 sitting days until August sends a clear message to the Australian people, and the people within my electorate, that this government are reluctant to be held accountable for their policies.
I can relay to this House that, while the Howard government may have a new term— and I congratulate them—the voters in the electorate of Prospect overwhelmingly voted against the Howard government. They voted for the Australian Labor Party and I am honoured to be elected once again to represent the people of my electorate of Prospect. The people of Prospect voted for the Labor Party for a reason, and that is because they know first-hand the reality of living under a Howard government.
For the entire term of this government, the issues which I believe are most important to the people in my electorate have been cut out completely, starved of funds or just plain ignored. Recently, the Western Sydney Regional Organisation of Councils—or WSROC, as it is referred to—published a study entitled Who cares about Western Sydney? which reported on what the people of Western Sydney are most concerned about in their region. Crime, community safety, unemployment and drugs and alcohol abuse were very high on the list but better funding for health services, more available child care and better access to high-quality education facilities were also a main priority.
The six years of a Howard government that have now passed provided no plan for this government to address the problems of the people in Western Sydney. Let me just state some of the concerns of my constituents to the House. A major report that was released towards the end of last year comparing the effect of child-care cuts between western and northern Sydney has shown that the Howard government's devastating attack on child-care services had the greatest impact on families in the Fairfield-Liverpool area.
In 1996, when the Howard government first came to office, $850 million was cut from the federal government's child-care budget. Already, in the Prospect electorate, we have seen two child-care centres close: one in Villawood North, which, although it is not now in my electorate due to the redistribution, is still in the south-west region; and the other in Greenfield Park, which most certainly still remains in my electorate. This has occurred while, to my knowledge, there have been no closures in Liberal Party heartland areas such as Sydney's lower North Shore.
Recent research has shown that the parent gap fees have increased by at least $20 to $30 per week and many child-care centres in my electorate remain strapped for cash, have been refused federal funding for upgrading of important facilities and some are still in danger of closing. This government had made several changes to welfare payments but, despite this, the fact remains that child care was still 16 per cent more expensive in 2001 than it was when the Howard government came to office. Working mothers and families need to have a reliable system of child care so they can better balance their work and family commitments. We clearly have a long way to go before affordable and quality child care is available to families who need it. That is something I believe should be addressed in this term of the Howard government; however, I am not optimistic.
The WSROC report that I mentioned earlier reported that, according to those people living in Western Sydney, the federal government's top priority is to decrease unemployment and create jobs. I can tell them that in my electorate the unemployment rate has been—for the entire term of the Howard government—unacceptably high. I believe the most effective way to bring the unemployment rate down is to create suitable economic conditions for businesses and also to provide the education and training opportunities for job seekers so they can acquire the skills needed to secure employment. However, in August 2001 it was reported that the Howard government slashed the number of research training places at the University of Western Sydney by almost half—almost 50 per cent. This decision has seriously limited the learning opportunities of the people in the electorate of Prospect and, thus, their opportunities to find employment.
Figures from the government show that research training places at the University of Western Sydney have been reduced from 687 places in 2000 to 346 places in 2001, and this is a change of almost 50 per cent. I am still waiting for the current figures. Further analysis shows that one in every eight research training places at Australian universities will be abolished. This means there will be fewer research training places for students wanting to undertake study in the new economy industries such as information technology, biotechnology and environmental science. The University of Western Sydney once stood as a symbol of hope and promise for our people in Western Sydney so that they could have access to a quality education system. It is now in danger of becoming yet another education casualty of this government.
The government's attitude to education is no more clearly seen than in the May 2001 budget, which showed the Howard government's complete neglect of its funding responsibilities for public schools, universities and TAFE colleges. In 1996, the government cut funding for TAFE employment and training programs by $240 million but have only now in the budget past decided to fund TAFE and employment opportunities back to their pre-1996 levels. However, the point is that the Howard government must increase funding to the education sector and must continue to increase funding for training programs year after year. You cannot cut back and then five years later go back to a pre-1996 funding level. Training programs are vital for job seekers to obtain the skills and the training needed to find stable and lasting employment in today's competitive labour market.
Other than jobs, education and child care in Western Sydney, the WSROC report mentioned that health issues should also be a priority for this Howard government, and these include the provision of affordable aged care beds. There can be no doubt that the Howard government has continually failed in its duty to ensure that frail, older Australians are provided with proper and affordable care. Australian Bureau of Statistics 2001 figures show that the Howard government will fall 398 beds short of its own target for the number of aged care beds needed in south-western Sydney.
My electorate of Prospect has a very high population of elderly Australians who have lived and worked in south-western Sydney and paid tax most of their lives, and they want to stay in south-western Sydney, but they are now looking with their families and relatives at where else they can go because they cannot find an aged care bed. Our elderly deserve nothing less than affordable, readily available and quality care in nursing homes—and the Howard government must start to ensure that this is achieved. Due to the federal government's failure to reach its own targets in 2001, many elderly Australians in my electorate are being denied access to aged care services they need and deserve.
The federal government's responsibility to provide health services goes far beyond the confines of aged care. Since gaining office six years ago, the government has systematically set about making more and more health services unaffordable. As a result, people in areas like my electorate suffer—especially our low income earners and our pensioners. In 1996, the Howard government abolished the Commonwealth dental health scheme, which provided assistance to many people who could ill afford the high cost of essential dental work. Many people in my electorate who used to rely on that federal government program for dental assistance can no longer afford dental health services. Approximately 500,000 Australians remain on the government's waiting list for urgent dental treatment, but our Prime Minister, Mr Howard, says his government has done enough in the area of dental health.
Besides the lack of essential funding for health services, educational facilities and job opportunities, the Howard government has made comments in the media that in this term it will look at and reform workplace relations—and today we have already seen the introduction of the Workplace Relations Amendment (Fair Dismissal) Bill 2002. Let me remind the minister who introduced that bill today that fewer than 0.3 per cent of small businesses are involved in any one year in a federal unfair dismissal case. What happened to a fair go for all Australians, especially if they are coming about to lose their job? We only have to cast our minds back to the images of the Patricks dispute, when workers were sacked from working on wharves that were productive, because they belonged to a union, to know what this so-called reform means. Workers all over Australia can look forward to a continual decreasing of their job security, to a continuation of schoolyard style union busting activities and to still no means to protect 100 per cent of their entitlements in case of insolvency.
One thing that the Australian people have learnt from the last term of this parliament is that, despite the government having the means to do so, there is currently no legislation which secures 100 per cent of workers' entitlements in the case of employer insolvency. Over four years ago, I introduced a private member's bill—as I have done every year since, and I will reintroduce it next Monday—to protect workers' entitlements in the case of employer insolvency through an employer paid levy of close to 0.1 per cent of payroll cost. I plan, as I said, to reintroduce that bill every year until 100 per cent of Australian workers' entitlements are protected.
The Howard government has presided over some of Australia's largest corporate collapses, with workers having no guarantee that their entitlements will be paid. It is inevitable that during this term there will be more corporate collapses and insolvencies, and workers who have lost their jobs will be left waiting to be paid. I refer all members of the parliament, if they feel that I am being unjust or unkind in talking about workers' insolvency, to page 11 of the speech given yesterday by the Governor-General. It is stated:
In the first weeks of parliament, the government will introduce bills to ban compulsory union fees, ensure secret ballots before strikes, prevent one-size-fits-all industry bargaining and establish fair dismissal procedures.
I am sure, as elected members of parliament, you can all read; I will not continue. There are 14 lines of the Governor-General's speech given to union bashing and to what the government is going to do to workers of Australia. I remind the members on the government side of the House who are showing great delight and mirth that there are two lines in the speech delivered yesterday dedicated to aged care. In other words, in 14 lines we can deny the workers of Australia their rightful opportunities to have jobs, but we can say to the elderly in Australia, `We think so much of you that we will give you two lines of mention.' Those two lines being:
In its third term, the government will give particular attention to addressing the challenges of an ageing population ...
The people are not going to accept that. Gone are the days when you can tell a few and expect the majority to comply. The people of Australia are more educated than that and are going to demand a lot more in this third term of the Howard government.
Members of the government need to hang their heads in shame for what has not been spent on the people compared with the money that has been squandered by this government in endeavouring to continue wedge politics in its third term. This is not acceptable by any standard, nor will the voters of the future continue to accept it. We need a little bit of truth in accountancy. But, more importantly, as members of this parliament, we need to provide an era in which we can debate the issues, not an era in which we have only 19 sitting weeks so that this arrogant government can hide itself in shame and not be held accountable in this, the people's House. The people should have their representatives in this place debating important issues on which Australia and Australians want answers.
The DEPUTY SPEAKER (Hon. IR Causley)—Order! Before I call Mr Ciobo, I remind honourable members that this is his first speech. I therefore ask that the usual courtesies be extended to him.


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to want people to stop shortening my name? (first world issues!)(107 Posts)
I have a very traditional, slightly long name. Without specifically mentioning it, it's the name of a former British queen who wore black a lot.
So why, without me asking, do people feel the need to shorten it? It drives me mad. For the record, I have no problem with other people who choose to use said name. However, when I was at primary school (oh yes, it goes back that far) there was a girl who was actually called the short form and she was an absolute cow. Since then, I've really hated being called it.
What's worse, is now it's people in a business context doing it. I would never shorten someone's name unless there was an 'oh, please call me xxx' or they signed their emails that way.
AIBU to be irrationally irritated by this?
OP your name is my middle name, and I suspect if my names had been arranged differently, I'd have the same problem as I really like the full version.
My first name is much shorter and can only be shortened to something very colloquial. I don't mind when good friends do it occasionally, but it really gets my back up when strangers do it.
My DCs have traditional names. Generally people can handle "John" but our friend was trying his luck with "Johnnie". We thwarted his game by mauling his son's name and singing a song about it in a George, to Georgie Porgie kind of way. Our "joke" was far more annoying and the point was quickly made.
When we were naming "Benjamin" we accepted that he will probably end up being a "Ben". We love his full name and will use it until he's old enough to express an opinion.
When I meet a new class, I always ask as I take the register- Sarah-Jane or Sarah, Thomas or Tom. I do it where there is a common, established short version. It gives the pupils the confidence to tell me what they prefer. I have sometimes said that I would prefer not to call them x as it's too informal e.g. "Iz" short for Isabelle. I once had a pupil who didn't respond to his name at all just Dingle- he and his friends must have been soap fans!
I like the longer version of my name but I also like the shortened one too. BUT it depends heavily on who is calling me by the shortened version. All my family call by my shortened name as do my close friends (but not my DH for some reason). If somebody is being over familiar and just assuming they can do it, I bristle. You can't say anthong then though, without saying "I just don't like you as much as I like others".
I have a longish very unusual name which can have a very common (well for those of us born in the 70s!) shortening. My mum trained me very early on to object to that shortening and so I've never used it. I did in my teens try and invent all sorts of nicknames because I thought it was a sign of being popular, but from university onwards have always used my full name. On the whole people have very rarely tried to shorten it, although occasionally I get asked if I use a short form.
I did once have a teacher who tried to call me by the common shortening and was really surprised when I didn't respond, but it's just not my name so it doesn't ring the 'this person is talking to me' bell
My family use a different short form and I've never really had the heart to stop them, although it does feel really strange when I meet someone through my family and they call me that name. I do find it slightly surprising that only one of my siblings has noticed I never use the name (it's been 20 odd years!)
Most people, call me by an abbr. of my name. It has the same amount of letters so not really an abbr. but not my actual name.
I don't mind, as long as the aren't calling me fuckface, or halfpint or fatso or some kind of derogatory term.
My Dad used to go mad if anybody called me anything but the name he lovingly chose for me, & it makes me smile if somebody calls me by my given name now, as it reminds me of him
Here in Australia it is very much a "mateship" thing to shorten a name. My name doesn't really shorten so in high school my friends found a way to make my name longer so they could shorten it to a nickname. I didn't mind & I'm lucky that I don't get too upset about a wrong name. My married surname is always said wrong & as a foster carer I have been called Mrs..........(insert surname of every child ever in our care) when ever I take a child to an appointment
I totally understand. I have a name that cannot be shortened. It just can't. My mother specifically picked lovely names for all off us because she hated her shortened nickname.
A wife of a friend has decided to call me by a nickname that sounds like a French poodle. I have told her that I don't like it. Nothing, still carries on. She's really nice, I understand she's doing it out of affection. I still may kill her.
I always reply how people sign themselves off. Or if no sign off (bit rude) then the name in the email address e.g. email@example.com if he signed himself Andy he'd get Andy back, otherwise Andrew. My email is the shortened version of my name because I prefer it
and passionately dislike my full name But equally you are perfectly entitled to expect people to use your full name if that's what you call yourself. It's your name; you get to decide! There's a woman at work called Elizabeth who is only Elizabeth. I watched a colleague call her Liz. The face that launched 1000 cats' bums!
YANBU. That would really irk me.
My parents deliberately chose names for us that couldn't be shortened
You are not unreasonable! One of my sisters is called 'Ginny' and has had people insist on calling her 'Virginia'. It's actually short for 'Ginevra' which she fucking hates and would not wish to tell people. She gets really pissed off with having to tell people 'Don't call me Virginia - it's not my name!'.
My dd is called Elizabeth, but has always been known as Lizzy, which I love. She is named after a Lizzy who was very special to me. However, I HATE It being shortened to Liz. She's only 3, but I'm going to train her to say "Lizzy not Liz" to anyone who tries to shorten it.
YANBU. my name has two shortened versions, one I hate but is most popular, the other I love. No matter how many times I introduce myself as one, I end up as the other. Glad I gave my DC names that cannot easily be shortened.
I have a 4 syllable name and it drives me crazy when people shorten it to a name I don't use so yanbu.
It's more common for my name to be shortened to the first two syllables but in Scotland it's reasonably common to shorten it to a version of the last two syllables (I live in England now). I don't mind being called long name or end short name but I think it's rude to immediately shorten a name when you've just met someone. I also don't want to be known as 3 different names and didn't have much choice as to which shortened version my parents chose.
I'd actually rather be known as the long name but it seems about 30 years too late and I think it would seem a bit pretentious. My short name is a bit naff but it's mine - and even though I know this I still get a bit prickly when people tell me it's a horrid name and I should use the long version or a different short. What is wrong with people that they think saying this to someone's face is ok?
My name is only two syllables. I have always hated it being shortened. I live in Cardiff but my friends from elsewhere in Wales really struggle with the idea that shortening it isn't ok. Welsh people - they'll add syllables where they shouldn't be at any available opportunity and yet are damn determined you'll have a nickname is what I've learnt
Why don't you just say "We are not amused" with a grim look on your face?
Yanbu! It's very rude for people to automatically assume that it's ok to shorten your name, especially when you have deliberately introduced yourself with the long name.
OP - as an aside, I love the third shortening of your name! We had your name on our list for dd and if we had used it, we would definitely have used that shortening. The main reason that we didn't use it as we aren't keen at all on the two more common shortenings.
My name is like Catherine. I get called Catherine when I'm in trouble, Cathy day to day (including my work email address!) and Cath by those I like and trust. I'm not aware of shortening people's names by default, but the only person I can think of that does actually use their full name is my little cousin (eg Thomas, not Tom) I was 15 when he was born, and he was introduced as "Thomas. Not Tom, Thomas". He's still Thomas 12 years later! Or have a name like my mums, which in its only possible abbreviation sounds like a delicate, ladylike sneeze!
I have a name that can be shortened, along the lines of Melissa/Mel. I prefer the long version, can't even sign my name off the shortened version, it just doesn't look right.
I don't mind people calling me the shortened version if they know me and I hate it when people who are in a professional level or who I've just met call me it straight away.
It's rude to assume someone wants to use the shortened version if they've used the full version to introduce themselves.
I hate name shortening. Out of my whole family (which is about as big as 3 football teams) there is only one person who shortens their name.
Calling someone Matt if they say their name is Mathew i think is actually changing that persons name completely.
I agree Yoni
YANBU! I get the opposite - I have a shorter version of a potentially longer name and for the last thirty-odd years, I've been addressed by the longer version, particularly by people in positions of authority. Honestly, you'd think they'd have the courtesy to respect that I know my own name and consequently introduce myself as such!
Anyway, another one here who feels your pain.
I'm sorry but it does amuse the hell out of me when people say "My DC is called Samuel but no-one may call him Sam because I don't like it."
Yep, good luck with that. You are in for many, many years of seething.
It doesn't bother me but I would never do it to others as I know some people can't stand it, it does suggest an intimacy that isnt always there.some people do seem do get disproportionately upset about it though
YABU. Get over yourself, queenie. I don't give a toss what people call me (as long as it's not rude!).
I have this with my name. It's a long name, which has a reasonably common two syllable shortening. I don't mind people using that, but it's when they use a one syllable shortening that bothers me. My best friend uses it and it's fine, but that's because it's my best friend!
I too have a name like that and I am for ever telling people that it's [MY NAME] not [SOMEONE ELSE'S NAME WHICH IS A FEW LETTERS OUT OF MINE]. It makes me very that people think they're being friendly. They're not - they're being rude and I automatically mark them down in my personal tally of how nice a person they are.
Though last week I was on a telecon with a shorter version and there was someone getting a bit confused as to who was which and I cut him a tiny bit of slack.
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March of Progress
The March of Progress, or simply March of Progress, is a scientific illustration presenting 25 million years of human evolution. It depicts 15 human evolutionary forebears lined up as if marching in a parade from left to right. The image has frequently been copied, modified, and parodied, and has been the subject of controversy.
The illustration was commissioned by Time-Life Books for the Early Man volume (1965) of its popular Life Nature Library.[1] This book, authored by anthropologist F. Clark Howell (1925–2007) and the Time-Life editors, included a foldout section of text and images (pages 41–45) entitled "The Road to Homo Sapiens", prominently featuring the sequence of figures drawn by natural history painter and muralist Rudolph Zallinger (1919–1995). The first two sentences of the caption to the illustration read (with emphasis added), "What were the stages of man's long march from apelike ancestors to sapiens? Beginning at right and progressing across four more pages are milestones of primate and human evolution as scientists know them today, pieced together from the fragmentary fossil evidence." Although the context indicates that it was not the authors' or illustrator's intent to imply a linear ancestor-descendant parade, as the popularity of the image grew and achieved iconic status, the name "March of Progress" became attached to it.
Paleoanthropologists have noted that early human evolution did not progress in any linear, sequential fashion nor did it move along a "road" toward any predetermined "ideal form"; they have faulted the image with being misleading in implying these things. With regard to the picture's notoriety, Howell remarked: "The artist didn't intend to reduce the evolution of man to a linear sequence, but it was read that way by viewers. ... The graphic overwhelmed the text. It was so powerful and emotional".[2]
Original intent[edit]
Contrary to appearances and some complaints, the original 1965 text of "The Road to Homo Sapiens" reveals an understanding of the fact that a linear presentation of a sequence of primate species, all of which are in the direct line of human ancestors, would not be a correct interpretation. For example, the fourth of Zallinger's figures (Oreopithecus) is said to be "a likely side branch on man's family tree". Only the next figure (Ramapithecus) is described as "now thought by some experts to be the oldest of man's ancestors in a direct line" (something no longer considered likely). This implies that none of the first four primates are to be considered actual human ancestors. Likewise, the seventh figure (Paranthropus) is said to be "an evolutionary dead end". In addition, the colored stripes across the top of the figure that indicate the age and duration of the various lineages clearly imply that there is no evidence of direct continuity between extinct and extant lineages, and also that multiple lineages of the figured hominids occurred contemporaneously at several points in the history of the group.
Original sequence of species[edit]
The 15 primate figures in Zallinger's image are, from left to right, as follows (the datings follow the original graphic and may no longer reflect current scientific opinion):
- Pliopithecus, 22–12 million year old "ancestor of the gibbon line"
- Proconsul, 21–9 million year old primate which may or may not have qualified as an ape
- Dryopithecus, 15–8 million year old fossil ape, the first such found (1856) and probable ancestor of modern apes
- Oreopithecus, 15–8 million years old
- Ramapithecus, 13–8 million year old ape and possible ancestor of modern orangutans (now considered a female Sivapithecus)
- Australopithecus, 2–3 million years old; then considered the earliest "certain hominid"
- Paranthropus, 1.8–0.8 million years old
- Advanced Australopithecus, 1.8–0.7 million year old
- Homo erectus, 700,000–400,000 years old, then the earliest known member of the Homo genus
- Early Homo sapiens, 300,000–200,000 years old; from Swanscombe, Steinheim and Montmaurin, then considered probably the earliest H. sapiens
- Solo Man, 100,000–50,000 years old; described as an extinct Asian "race" of H. sapiens (now considered a sub-species of H. erectus)
- Rhodesian Man, 50,000–30,000 years old; described as an extinct African "race" of H. sapiens (now considered either H. rhodesiensis or H. heidelbergensis and dated much earlier)
- Neanderthal Man, 100,000–40,000 years old
- Cro-Magnon Man, 40,000–5,000 years old
- Modern Man, 40,000 years to present
- Evolutionary biologist Stephen Jay Gould (1941–2002) condemned the iconology of the image over several pages of his 1989 book Wonderful Life. In a chapter entitled "The Iconography of an Expectation", Gould asserted that
The march of progress is the canonical representation of evolution – the one picture immediately grasped and viscerally understood by all.... The straitjacket of linear advance goes beyond iconography to the definition of evolution: the word itself becomes a synonym for progress.... [But] life is a copiously branching bush, continually pruned by the grim reaper of extinction, not a ladder of predictable progress.[3]
- Gould reproduces several advertisements and political cartoons incorporating the March of Progress to convey one message or another. He even presents a "personally embarrassing" example: one of the four foreign editions of his books (over the design of which he had no control) which used the "march of human progress" as a jacket illustration. Gould never actually mentions Zallinger or the Time-Life Early Man volume in his critique, giving only vague clues as to the origin of the concept.
- Intelligent design advocate Jonathan Wells wrote in Icons of Evolution: Science or Myth? (2002) that "Although it is widely used to show that we are just animals, and that our very existence is a mere accident, the ultimate icon goes far beyond the evidence."[4] The book takes its title from the illustration and its imitations.
Parodies and adaptations[edit]
- A 1966 advertisement for Greg Noll Surfboards' "Da Cat" model (based on the popularity of Malibu surfer Miki Dora) appropriated the Zallinger image to parody the evolution of surfing personas.
- The logo for the Leakey Foundation features a small silhouette of the March of Progress image.[5]
- The National Museums of Kenya in Nairobi have long utilized a logo based on the Zallinger image.
- The cover of the 1972 Doors album Full Circle references the March of Progress.
- The cover of the 1985 Supertramp album Brother Where You Bound resembles the March of Progress.
- On the cover of the soundtrack CD for the 1992 movie Encino Man, an ape evolves into a skateboarder.[6]
- The 3 March 1994 issue of Time magazine includes a graphic, "Humanity's Long March", referencing Zallinger's image with a more complicated graphic underneath.
- A 1998 issue of Rolling Stone features an image of actor Ben Stiller evolving from a hairy ape into a naked actor.
- A graphic in the December 2005 issue of The Economist depicts hominids progressing up a flight of stairs to transform into a woman in a black dress holding a glass of champagne.
An illustration, with the caption "Evolution," showing two sequences of four images, each illustrating a gradual transformation of an animal into a human, appeared in the 1889 edition[7] of Mark Twain's A Connecticut Yankee In King Arthur's Court:
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- ^ Howell, F. Clark and the Editors of TIME-LIFE Books (1965), Early Man, New York: TIME-LIFE Books, pp. 41–45.
- ^ Barringer, David (2006) "Raining on Evolution's Parade"; I.D. Magazine, March/April 2006.
- ^ Gould, Stephen Jay (1989), Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History, New York City: W.W. Norton & Company, pp 30-36.
- ^ Wells, Jonathan (2000). Icons of Evolution: Science or Myth?. Washington, DC: Regnery Publishing, Inc. p. 211.
- ^ Barringer (2006), Op. cit.
- ^ Barringer (2006), Op. cit.
- ^ Project Gutenberg text, search for second appearance of the word "crusher." Title page image shows "New York: Charles L. Webster & Company. 1889.


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Taxpayers will lose out if Royal Bank of Scotland is unable to pay bonuses, its chief executive, Stephen Hester, claimed todayas he lamented the intense public scrutiny faced by the bailed-out bank.
As the bank's shares fell 12% to 46.99p, Hester defended the bank's need to pay bonuses after losing more of its best staff. "We must pay competitively because we must have good people and every taxpayer in the country should care about us having good people because without that we won't have the outcome that everyone needs," Hester said.
An increase in profits from £1bn to £5bn in the investment banking arm prompted speculation that RBS bankers were on track for big bonuses by the end of the year. Investment banking dominated the interim profits, which showed a £15m statutory profit, although Hester focused on the "poor" net attributable loss to shareholders of £1.1m.
Hester, whose £9m pay deal delivers if the shares reach 70p in three years, said the bank had suffered a "damaging but not yet destructive" exodus of staff. He said some guaranteed bonuses were being paid, but that they complied with the demand by the Financial Services Authority of being for no longer than 12 months.
There would be no cash bonuses and any payments made in complex bond packages would be subject to clawback. Barely eight months into a five-year turnaround plan, he insists the taxpayer will get its £20bn share investment back at a profit so UK Financial Investments, which owns the taxpayers' 70% stake, would need to sell out above 50.5p. For every penny the shares fall below that level, the taxpayer loses £400m.
Hester also expressed frustration about the scrutiny over bonuses and other business practices, such as corporate hospitality at Wimbledon.
"We sometimes feel as if commentators variously want us to go back to over-lending, to operating on a not-for-profit basis, to never entertain a client, to offer employment conditions that deter the best and the brightest. Oh yes, and at the same time to pull off a recovery enabling taxpayers to recoup the support given. Thankfully, our serious engagement with the government, central banks, regulators, customers and other political parties is generally more balanced and insightful," he said.
RBS rounded off the interim reporting season on a more cautious note than rivals, particularly Lloyds Banking Group, which said its bad debts had peaked at £13.4bn. He was not prepared to make the same pledge for the £7.5bn charges at RBS, which took the total written off by the UK's banks in the first half to £35bn.
"The green shoots are short in duration and you need to be cautious about over-interpreting them too quickly," he said.
The bank is having difficulty meeting its commitment to lend £16bn to businesses and warned that the EU might force it to scale back its business bank, which has a 30% market share, in return for participating in the government's asset protection scheme. The bank had turned away 30,000 business applicants which, at 15%, is the same rate as last year.
Parachuted in when Sir Fred Goodwin was ousted during the bailout, Hester has split the bank in two. The core business – where operating profits were £6.2bn, up 33% – contains the high street bank, insurance operations and investment banking; a non-core business contains troubled operations and those earmarked for disposal, where the loss widened to £9.6bn. American banker Bruce Van Saun becomes finance director.
Hester is on three-year pay deal but pledging a five-year turnaround. Asked how long he intends to stay, he said: "My analysis of the statistics for people in my job is you normally get fired so I'm assuming that will happen to me one day, so the longer away from now the better."


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- GRAND THEFT AUTO: San Andreas -
- PC version 1.01 -
- Further FAQs -
- 5th August 2005 -
Q: Why does the "Heat Haze" effect look weird on my ATI graphics card?
A: The Heat Haze effect has been noticed to be corrupt when using ATI 4.x series drivers - this seems cured on 5.x series ATI drivers.
Q: Why does running GRAND THEFT AUTO: San Andreas on my laptop not offer me widescreen screen modes, when the screen on my laptop is a widescreen display?
A: Some laptop widescreen displays are not a standard aspect ratio. GRAND THEFT AUTO: San Andreas only supports 4:3 and 16:9 aspect ratios, and those closely related to them. You may also find some resolutions are not offered as usable at all by GRAND THEFT AUTO : San Andreas because they deviate too much from 4:3 or 16:9 aspect ratios.
Q: Why do the buildings in the world take time to catch up with me when I drive in a fast vehicle in a built up area?
A: Most likely you have disabled the Frame Limiter, or your Hard Drive is not supplying world data at a fast enough rate. Re-enabling the Frame Limiter will help this.
Q: Why am I having difficulty setting up 2 control pads at the same time?
A: GRAND THEFT AUTO: San Andreas can only support one external device.
Q: I cannot complete donuts in the first "Driving School" test.
A: The key setup you are using may not allow the reporting of the 3 necessary keys at the same time, you may have to re-define keys to allow this to be detected correctly.
Q: Why do I get missing and flashing textures in 16 bit graphics modes?
A: GRAND THEFT AUTO: San Andreas was developed specifically for 32 bit screen modes. Although playing in 16 bit modes are supported, this will result in a much poorer experience and the game may not play as intended.
Q: Why do I only hear advertisements when listening to the User Track Player?
A: Check that any shortcuts in the "My Documents\GTA San Andreas User Files\User Tracks" are valid and that they have been scanned using the Scan User Tracks function in the User Track Options menu submenu of the Audio Setup menu. If trying to playback MP3, M4A or WMA tracks you may need to install Windows Media Player, QuickTime or a third party codec pack.
Q: Why does GRAND THEFT AUTO: San Andreas take a long time to start up if I have lots of music files or shortcuts in my User Tracks folder?
A: This occurs when Automatic Media Scan is set to ON in the User Track Options. Turning off the Automatic Media Scan will make loading faster and, in sequential mode, will stop the User Track Player from returning to the first track after the game loads.
Q: Why does GRAND THEFT AUTO: San Andreas always start on the same track when in sequential mode?
A: This occurs when Automatic Media Scan is set to ON in the User Track Options menu. Turning off the Automatic Media Scan will stop the User Track Player from returning to the first track after the game loads.
Q: I don't have a soundcard in my PC (or I don't have the drivers for my soundcard installed) - Can I run GRAND THEFT AUTO: San Andreas on my PC?
A: GRAND THEFT AUTO: San Andreas requires a soundcard to be present, and will refuse to run without one.
Q: Should I install the Radio Stations to Hard Drive whilst installing GRAND THEFT AUTO: San Andreas?
A: Most computers will benefit from playing the Radio Stations from Hard Drive. Exceptions to this would be computers with poor Hard Drive performance - these will benefit from playing the Radio Stations from DVD.
Q: When I installed GRAND THEFT AUTO: San Andreas I selected the full install option to play the Radio Stations from my Hard Drive. Do I still need the GRAND THEFT AUTO: San Andreas DVD in my DVD-ROM drive to play?
A: Yes. You must have the GRAND THEFT AUTO: San Andreas DVD in your DVD-ROM drive at all times.
Q: I don't want to upgrade my finely honed DirectX 8.1 system to DirectX 9; can I still play GRAND THEFT AUTO: San Andreas without DirectX 9?
A: GRAND THEFT AUTO: San Andreas must have DirectX9 installed.
Q: Do GeForce 4MX cards run GRAND THEFT AUTO: San Andreas?
A: Though they are technically poorer than the minimum spec quoted for the game (GeForce 3), the game does run with these, though they are very slow and as a result not recommended.
Q: The minimum graphic card spec is quoted as a 64 meg GeForce 3 or better. Does this mean my 32 meg video card won't work?
A: We don't specifically lock out cards that have less memory than 64 megabytes BUT they are not recommended as they are only able to run in the 640*480 resolution and will be un-acceptably slow.
Q: When I attempt to launch GRAND THEFT AUTO: San Andreas my computer reboots?
A: Disabling the AUTO REBOOT option from System Properties > Advanced > Startup and Recovery will allow the generated Windows blue screen error to be viewed. Mostly these blue screens will probably show hardware problems or driver problems.
A: Try lowering the Sound Acceleration setting from Full to Standard.
Q: Can I use HDTV modes?
A: With patch 1.01 we have added support for the following HDTV modes :- 720p + 1080i. Please note this support depends upon setting these modes correctly via your video drivers AND the selected display correctly supporting these modes.
Q: Will overclocking my graphics card make a difference to GRAND THEFT AUTO: San Andreas?
A: GRAND THEFT AUTO: San Andreas can and does stress different parts of a GPU to "normal" PC games. We have noticed machines which will overheat while running GRAND THEFT AUTO: San Andreas that do not overheat with other games. As a consequence we do not recommend overclocking with this title. Often results of overheating in GRAND THEFT AUTO: San Andreas can be seen as 3d models having spikes caused by vertices becoming corrupted, reboots and VPU recovery errors on ATI video cards.
Q: My Nforce motherboard based computer (with a Realtek based on-board sound chip) keeps re-booting and / or crashing with a blue screen?
A: We have had reports of old Nvidia drivers doing this. Try updating the Nvidia sound drivers, or changing to Realtek authored drivers to cure this problem.
Q: GRAND THEFT AUTO: San Andreas does not start when I launch it, it just returns to the desktop?
A: You may have a corrupt settings file. Try deleting you GTA_SA.SET file.
A: You need to have administrative priviliges to run GRAND THEFT AUTO: San Andreas.
A: If you are using WindowBlinds, you will need to add a manual exclusion for GRAND THEFT AUTO: San Andreas so WindowBlinds applies no skinning.
A: It may be that your DVD-ROM device requires a firmware update. Check if the manufacturers have updated the firmware and if so is it documented to cure security incompatabilities.
A: Your DVD-ROM could be incompatible with the security system we use. Browse to the directory that you installed GRAND THEFT AUTO: San Andreas into, and right click on the gta-sa.exe file and select ANALYSIS. This will create a file in the root of drive C: Send this analysis file to us ONLY if requested.
A: You could be running a virtual-drive type program. Please close any software such as this before launching GRAND THEFT AUTO: San Andreas
A: You may have Sonic DLA or Windows XP's inbuilt CD writing enabled. Try disabling these and re-launching GRAND THEFT AUTO: San Andreas.
Q: I have a joypad connected, however I don't see any joypad buttons listed when I go into the Controller setup screens?
A: The first time you go to the controller setup screen, if you do not have a joypad connected, then the game sets itself up to not use a joypad. If you subsequently go back to these screens with a joypad connected you should reset the controls to default and you will find the default joypad controls have been applied.
Q: When I start GRAND THEFT AUTO: San Andreas there is a black screen with some music playing behind it before I get to the intro scene with CJ in the Airport?
A: These are the Rockstar logo movies and the game intro movie playing back with no video being output. We have found that this is a symptom of using older Nvidia video drivers - we observed this with 67.02, and found it cured when we upgraded to 71.89.
Q: Roads in the mid distance have a very noticeable black shadowed look that clears up as I get closer.
A: Try making sure you are not forcing Bi-Linear or Tri-Linear filtering to ON in your video drivers. Set MipMapping in GRAND THEFT AUTO: San Andreas Display Options to OFF. Use Anistropic Filtering for the best look in game (you will need to force this ON in your video drivers control panel). Increasing the screen resolution will also push this distance further out.
Q: When I Install GRAND THEFT AUTO: San Andreas I get the message "The file C:\Program Files\Rockstar Games\GTA San Andreas\audio\SFX\SPC_GA doesn't match the file in the setup's .cab file" ?
A: Could be a faulty DVD disk. Try installing on a different DVD-ROM or different computer to confirm this. If you cannot install on other computers or devices then try returning the disk.
A: Could be a faulty DVD-ROM drive. Try installing on a different DVD-ROM or different computer to confirm this.
A: Could be lack of free space to unpack the sound effect file on drive C:
A: Could be lack of swap space to unpack the sound effect file.
A: Try copying the entire DVD contents to a hard drive and try installation from there.
A: Could be faulty RAM.
A: (Advanced) This file is the largest file distributed with GRAND THEFT AUTO: San Andreas, being just over 1 gigabyte in size. Problems with this file could be indicative of a lack of free space to unpack the file or faulty memory or a badly setup swap file (try setting the size of your swap file to 2 * current ram size) or combinations of all three.
Q: I use UltraMon?
A: Make sure you update to version 2.6.
Q: Logitech Setpoint gives a buffer over-run error when I push the middle mouse (wheel) button?
A: Update to latest available version (version 2.40) and make sure you have game detection set to on, otherwise some buttons will not function as expected.
Q: I cannot aim using the right mouse button and / or when I get in the car and drive the camera constantly rotates around the car?
A: Make sure that you do not have another analogue device attached which also provides mouse emulation. Examples of this would be analogue joysticks, remote controls etc.
Q: I start the game in the highest resolution that the game offers to me. When I get into game I find some of the screen is not drawn, and the part that is drawn suffers from heavy ghosting / double images?
A: This will be the game using a scrollable resolution. When you set your desktop to this same resolution you will find that pushing your mouse pointer to the edges of the screen will cause it to scroll to allow you to see the full extent of the desktop. You will find that by installing the correct monitor INF file that you can properly enable supported resolutions for your graphics card.
Q: On the mission Fender Ketchup, the game will not progress past the opening cutscene where the garage door opens and shuts too quickly. I have the frame limiter switched off on my
A: If you find a cutscene not progressing like this, enabling the frame limiter will allow the timing in the cutscene to work correctly and allow you to progress past this point.
Q: I input some cheats to GRAND THEFT AUTO: San Andreas and then saved over the top of the one save file I have been using. Now when I load up this save it crashes instantly and / or acts weird.
A: Saving while cheats are enabled is not supported. Do not save after inputing cheats to the game.
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Traffic on the CityLink tollway is growing at a rate of 6 per cent a year, 2 per cent above the rate of economic growth, and is expected to continue at that level for the next two to three years, Transurban managing director Kim Edwards said yesterday.
Speaking after the annual meeting, Mr Edwards said the company had expected traffic growth to have eased back to levels of economic growth by now, but this had not occurred.
"Vehicle trips in Melbourne are growing at 2 to 3 per cent a year," he said. "As the adjoining road network becomes increasingly clogged, we get a disproportionate share of traffic."
Mr Edwards said he did not know how long that dynamic would last.
With growth at 6 per cent and toll increases at 4.5 per cent, revenue was growing at 10.5 per cent at present, he said. Chairman Laurie Cox said distributions were expected to total 35 ¢ in 2005 and 39 ¢ in 2006.
The Tax Office's decision to seek leave to appeal to the High Court to prevent Transurban claiming tax deductions on an annual $96.5 million concession fee paid to the State Government would, if successful, lead to higher tax bills for Transurban unit holders, Mr Cox said.
The deductions on the concession fees, paid for through the issue of interest-free promises to pay rather than cash, are passed on to unit holders. If the ATO were to mount a successful appeal, distributions would become partly taxable in the hands of unit holders from the end of 2005. If the ATO were unsuccessful, distributions would continue to be tax deferred till 2012, he said.
Mr Cox said construction was going well on the Westlink M7 in Sydney. An 8.1 per cent stake in Hills Motorway, bought for $96 million in April, was now worth $120 million on the stockmarket, he said.
The Federal Government's recent decision to allow an extension of tax benefits associated with infrastructure bonds would benefit Transurban by $122.5 million in the next three years, he said.
Mr Edwards said the company was looking for new roadway opportunities in the US and Britain. The US was a good prospective market, with few toll roads and lots of traffic problems. Transurban would enter offshore roads in joint ventures and put in very little cash.
Transurban securities were unchanged at $6.33 yesterday.
The reporter owns Transurban securities.


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Tipoff time is set for 8 p.m. CST for the SEC rematch. On January 23 in Nashville the Commodores defeated the Tigers 73-61. In that contest the home team hit 24-30 free throws while Auburn was 8-9 at the foul line.
Vandy has won three of its last four games, including a 63-62 win over Georgia on Wednesday night. Kevin Bright's shot in the final second was the margin of victory for the Commodores in a game in which they trailed by as many as 17 points.
With home games remaining vs. Vandy and Tennessee and the regular season finale on the road at Mississippi State, Barbee said the goal for his team is to build positive momentum for the SEC Tournament and avoid playing on the first day of the five-day event. The bottom four teams in the standings will play the opening day of the tournament in Nashville.
"We want to try to find our identity again so we can go into the conference tournament feeling good about ourselves because anything can happen there," Barbee said.
The Tigers go into Saturday night's game with a 9-19 overall record. They are 3-12 in league play. Mississippi State is in last place in the SEC with two wins while South Carolina has three league victories. Vandy and Texas A&M are 6-9 in the league.
Barbee said he has told his team, "Let's make sure we aren't playing on Wednesday. We still have that opportunity with two home games left."
The first round games in Nashville will match the No. 11 and No. 14 seeds along with the No. 12 and No. 13 seeds. The winners will advance to meet the sixth and fifth seeds on the second day of play at Bridgestone Arena.
Talking about his team's morale after losing again, falling at Alabama 61-43 on Tuesday night, Barbee said, "It is still pretty good. I like the way the guys competed at Alabama. I thought they fought. Alabama shot under 40 percent, one of our goals, so I thought we guarded well enough to be in the game. We just didn't score well enough. We just missed too many easy opportunities we had available."
The coach said after looking at the game tape the Tigers made just two of 18 shots that were layups or taken right next to basket.
The Tigers finished the game shooting 30 percent overall and made just 2-15 threes. "I thought we took one bad three," Barbee said. "You have got to make plays, you have got to make shots."
In the first game vs. Vandy the Tigers got 14 points apiece from Rob Chubb and Frankie Sullivan while Brian Greene scored 11. Chubb was Auburn's top rebounder with eight.
Kedren Johnson, a 6-4 junior guard, led the Commodores with 15 points vs. the Tigers. For the season he is the team's top scorer at 13.8 points per contest. Vandy's only other player scoring in double figures is 6-9 junior forward Rod Odom at 10.3 per game.
The rematch will be televised on ESPN2.
ADT: Junior Asauhn Dixon-Tatum, a seven-foot center, said he is doing everything he can to add weight and strength. He started the season at 230 pounds, dropped to 225, but is back up to 230.
Asauhn Dixon-Tatum is shown in action vs. Kentucky.
The first-year Auburn player said the weight loss wasn't due to a lack of eating. "I will go home and eat until I can't eat no more and have tears running down my face not knowing if I can take another bite," he said.
The center is averaging 3.8 points and 3.2 rebounds per game.
Former Tigers: Auburn's 1962-63 team, which finished 18-4 overall and 10-4 in the SEC, will be honored on Saturday night. That team finished second in the league. Layton Johns led the Tigers that year with his averages of 15 points and 12.5 rebounds per game while earning first team All-SEC honors. John Blackwell, who averaged 13.9 points per game and 4.1 rebounds, was a third team All-SEC pick that season.
Price Is Not Right: Freshman guard Jordan Price tied the SEC record with 11 consecutive makes on three-point shots in December. However, since returning from a foot injury he has struggled and is averaging making a three-pointer just once every two games.
Jordan Price is shown in action early in the season.
"When he got hurt it really set him back in his conditioning," Barbee said. "He gained some extra weight while he was out and he has had trouble getting it off and that is why his game is so sluggish. He doesn't have the pop back in his step. He doesn't have the confidence level because of that and now everything is a struggle."
Price is averaging 5.3 points per game in a reserve role. "He had gotten in the best shape he has been in his whole life," Barbee noted, pointing out that was a big focus for Price in preseason drills.
Barbee On Vandy: "They are a persistent team and they have been that way," the Auburn coach said. "Even though they are a middle of the pack team in our league right now, they are a team that has been persistent in every game.
"Look at their last game, the Georgia game, when they were down 17 in the first half and came back to win the game. They stay persistent. They get really good guard play, obviously with Johnson leading the pack, and their big guys do a good job of spreading the floor and making you guard ball screens to try to create mismatches so they can get shots on that three-point line. That is where they get the majority of their offense from."


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Rhythmic coils of patinaed iron form a drum-shaped table, topped with a gleaming disc of embossed brass.
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If you settle a debt for a certain amount of money, the amount you don't have to pay is "forgiven." Using a really simple example, if you have a $10,000 debt, and you settle it for $5,000, the creditor has forgiven the remaining $5,000.
Creditors are known to file IRS Form 1099-C on that forgiven debt. As I've mentioned here when discussing debt settlement, that forgiven amount can be considered income. Tax liability on that amount is something to be considered in determining the affordability of a debt settlement.
If debts are discharged in bankruptcy, is that considered income? No.
But if that's the case, why am I hearing from reliable sources that debtors all over the country are receiving IRS Form 1099-Cs from former creditors? What's going on? And what can YOU do about it?
It's wise that you not ignore it. Talk to your tax professional about filing Form 982. I have seen that it can take up to a few years for the IRS to determine that you under reported your income because you did not include income from a 1099-C. This form will report the essential facts to the IRS which will show that you are not responsible for the taxes on this "income."
If you filed bankruptcy and received a Form 1099-C from a creditor, speak to your bankruptcy attorney. If you did not have a bankruptcy attorney – or if you want a second opinion from another bankruptcy attorney – find lawyer near you by going over here, to the National Association of Consumer Bankruptcy Attorneys.
I cannot put my finger on it yet, but something about this smells wrong. I'm not sure it's a violation of the discharge injunction, but I do know that debtors will find it unsettling – even moreso if they receive inquiry from the IRS next year, or the year after requesting an explanation as to what might be perceived as under-reported income.
Since it's tax time, it's important that I at least sound the alarm that something may not be right with creditors issuing IRS form 1099-Cs. If you're in chapter 13 or if you have received a discharge, make sure you're not getting a 1099-C that you do not deserve, and if you do be proactive to avoid problems down the road.
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