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Subscription-based MMOs that offer you a free way to play the game looks to be a growing trend. The first of the big publishers to offer such an option was EA with its endless free trial of Warhammer Online (WHO). Now it seems Funcom are joining up with an endless trial for Age of Conan.
In the case of WHO you could play for as long as you like with any character you like, but are limited to only reaching level 10 with each. You also can't pick which server to play on and you can't send mail or start auctions. AoC's endless trial is slightly different. You are limited to the starting area of the Island of Tortage, but you can take characters up to level 20 giving you ample time to experience the game. There's also no trading, in-game mail, public chat, or use of the forums allowed.
The unlimited trial requires the download of a special client so this looks as though it won't work for existing installs of players who stopped their subscriptions. Download the client though, and you will be able to play for free. This offer is also limited and will end on January 1st.
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I played Age of Conan earlier this year and after the major content changes. I managed to get a character up to level 28 before my free trial was over and I did quite enjoy it. Seeing as the game is free and characters can be taken to level 20 you will get a good idea of what the game is like. In the end though, it is just another MMO and if you don't like them then you probably won't like AoC either.
Subscription-based MMOs are in for a difficult time in the future. That's not due to the ongoing success of World of Warcraft, but because free to play MMOs are getting better in terms of quality and there are just more of them. You only have to look at a specialists website like MMORPG.com and its game list to see the amount of choice you have.


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Sprawling Atlanta is known for its love of the automobile, but a new streetcar will make it easier to get around the city's downtown sans car.
Construction began four years ago and wraps this year on the 2.7-mile streetcar that connects the Martin Luther King, Jr. Historical District to touristy Centennial Park, close to CNN Center, the Georgia Aquarium, and Coca-Cola headquarters. Officials are now testing the system and recently took it out for a run as excited locals cheered (watch below) The streetcar runs in a loop, costs a buck a ride, and should open in two to three months. Photo and video via Joseph Fuller and Curbed Atlanta.


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Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (Aids) was initially related to HIV-associated wasting syndrome, and its metabolic disturbances to altered body composition. After Highly Active Antiretroviral Therapy (HAART) was started, malnutrition has declined and HIV-associated lipodystrophy syndrome has emerged as an important metabolic disorder. Aids is also characterized by hormonal disturbances, principally in growth hormone/insulin-like growth factor 1 (GH/IGF-1) axis. The use of recombinant human GH (hrGH) was formerly indicated to treat wasting syndrome, in order to increase lean body mass. Even though the use of hrGH in lipodystrophy syndrome has been considered, the decrease in insulin sensitivity is a limitation for its use, which has not been officially approved yet. Diversity in therapeutic regimen is another limitation to its use in Aids patients. The present study has reviewed the main HIV-related endocrine-metabolic disorders as well as the use of hrGH in such conditions.
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Construction is pushing forward on the first Walmart neighborhood grocery in San Diego, and so is litigation on the matter.
Proponents say the project will bring jobs — and grocery options — to a neighborhood that badly needs both. Opponents say a historic building has been irreversibly damaged without proper approval, a process they say may have been compromised by political contributions from the retail giant.
At issue is the renovation of the old Farmer's Market, a collection of iconic buildings east of downtown that date back to 1920 and once served as the heart of the chicken and egg industry in San Diego County.
"It was a cultural place to go during the weekend, after mass. It was a place to interact with your neighbors," said Georgette Gomez, who grew up a block from the bazaar. "Now it's pretty much just a couple of walls being held up by some beams and the tower is gone."
The building had been vacant for two years, and Mayor Jerry Sanders' office says the project will revitalize the area, at the corner of Imperial Avenue and 21st Street.
"This project received no special treatment," mayoral spokesman Darren Pudgil said in a statement. "This is simply the city of San Diego living up to its reputation as one of the most business-friendly cities in America, aimed at creating more jobs for San Diegans."
The Mayor's Office says there was extensive community review before project approval. Still, when bulldozers and construction workers arrived on April 18, some community members were surprised by the breadth of the renovation. One group went to court to halt the demolition.
A judge denied the request for a temporary restraining order April 23, saying the project was unsafe as it stood. The judge allowed the construction — and the litigation — to move forward.
The key legal question is whether Walmart had permission to renovate the exterior of the building. A 2009 permit addendum addressed exterior building improvements to the nearly century-old building.
"Since no development or new construction is proposed or anticipated to the exterior facade of the building, the project would not create a significant adverse impact on a historical resource eligible for local listing," senior planner Anne Jarque wrote in 2009.
Cory Briggs, the attorney who filed two lawsuits, said the project overstepped its approval.
"When you make a substantial change to a project, you have to let the public know," Briggs said. "You're not allowed to use those permits to make substantial changes as an end run around bringing the public into the fold."
Lynda Pfeifer of the city's Development Services Department said in a statement that the litigation prevents her from speaking about the case.
"While the court denied the TROs in both cases, the underlying complaints must still be answered," Pfeifer wrote. "We are waiting for the cases to be consolidated and will then set a briefing and hearing schedule with the court."
Opponents have zeroed in on a pair of political contributions Walmart made to Proposition B, the pension-reform measure backed by Sanders and others.
Campaign filings show the company donated $20,000 to support the measure Aug. 19, the same week owners of the Farmer's Market submitted their construction application. Walmart also donated $25,000 in March, just after the last permits were approved by the city.
Those contributions make up a small part of the $1.5 million raised on behalf of the measure, as reported Friday by the nonprofit news organization Investigative Newsource.
Still, Mickey Kasparian of United Food & Commercial Workers Local No. 135 questions the timing. His union opposes Walmart projects across the nation because the stores, unlike most supermarkets, are not unionized.
"This March donation gets put into play and here we are weeks later changing the entire dynamics of the permit process," Kasparian said. "Innuendos are not facts. But it seems really suspicious that while Walmart had this change of plans in what they were going to do to that building, another donation pops up."
Spokesman Steven Restivo said the donations are part of Walmart's strategy to support community issues that concern its customers. The timing of the contributions had nothing to do with permit applications, he said.
"We respect the process and abide by the same rules and regulations as other businesses that seek approvals within San Diego," Restivo said by email. "In the case of our Imperial Avenue project, all permits were secured separately and independently by the landlord."
Walmart executives tout the 65 jobs and access to affordable fresh foods the community will benefit from once the grocery opens.
"We at Walmart are proud of the strong support we have received from businesses and individuals who recognize the need for more grocery options in this area of the city and see our store as a magnet for future economic growth," senior manager Aaron Rios wrote in April to Councilman David Alvarez. "We look forward to continuing our role as a good corporate neighbor in the city of San Diego for years to come."


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Formed 12,000 years ago by a catastrophic flood, Gadway Sandstone Pavement Barrens Preserve is by far the Conservancy's most interesting and unusual Adirondack preserve.
The area was formed when glacial till was scoured off the flatrock, resulting in the exposure of an expansive rippled "beach" of Potsdam sandstone.
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Gadway Barrens represents an outstanding example of a sandstone pavement barren, a globally rare natural community found in fewer than 20 sites around the world.
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The Nature Conservancy has worked cooperatively with the Miner Institute and the State University of New York at Plattsburgh to conduct scientific research at this unique site.
The trail begins at the register located at the edge of the parking area and is approximately .5 miles long. It is a relatively flat, loop trail that gives visitors a sense of how changes in elevation and soil depth affect species composition of the preserve. The exposed sandstone can heat up to more than 100 degrees Fahrenheit in July and August. A preserve guide is available from the Adirondack Chapter of The Nature Conservancy office and at the trail register.
You may hear songbirds at the preserve, but thin soils prevent most animals from establishing homes here. Jack pine, a fire-dependent species, is the only tree species that can survive in these extreme conditions of poor, thin soil and minimal nutrients. The understory is composed primarily of heath shrubs, such as blueberry and huckleberry, which can withstand flooding as well as drought. You can also find a wide diversity of lichens and mosses.
This 520-acre preserve is located near the Canadian border town of Mooers.
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Many of you are looking forward to Adam Lambert's set with Queen as part of Friday's I Heart Radio festival in Las Vegas. But according to Billboard, Adam won't be the only guest performer joining legendary band on stage.
Nate Ruess and his entire band Fun. ("We Are Young," "Carry On") are scheduled to perform with Adam Lambert and Queen, according to Billboard.
Ruess and Queen, along with frontman Adam Lambert, were spotted rehearsing classics "Somebody to Love" and "Fat Bottomed Girls" on Thursday (Sept 17). It's unclear at this time how many songs they'll perform together. Fun. is also on the bill for Friday night.
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I'm currently testing a BB with cingular and hotmail forwarding to the device works like a charm. Haven't setup multiple accounts yet (corp, yahoo, gmail, etc), but hotmail is no prob.
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The West Fargo boys hockey team continue a middle-of-the-road season with another loss on Tuesday, Dec. 18.
This time, it was an 8-2 loss to the Fargo Davies Eagles.
The Packers were in it after the second intermission, going back and forth with Davies, and were only down by one goal at the beginning of the third period.
However, a five-goal third period for the Eagles ensured another loss for the Packers.
The Packers got a goal from senior forward Derrick LaCoe early in the second period and a power-play goal from senior defenseman Wyatt Fretheim near the end of the second.
Packers' starting goalie Bailey Vareberg had 40 saves in the game.
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HOUSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 14, 2006--FlightAware, the world leader in flight tracking, announced Monday morning that their free flight tracking website, http://flightaware.com, now offers data from over 25,000,000 (twenty-five million) past flights. FlightAware's next-generation flight tracking services allow Internet users to view live flight tracking displays and maps in addition to archived flight history, statistics, routing information, and other functionality that effectively make use of FlightAware's extensive and available archive of United States flight operations.
FlightAware receives and processes over 6,500,000 FAA radar position and flight information messages daily to provide flight tracking information for over 50,000 flights a day over the United States. In addition to specific flight tracking, the FlightAware.com web site features live maps of the entire United States showing every plane in the sky as well as animations showing an entire day of air traffic activity.
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(CBS/WFOR/AP) MIAMI, Fla. - A friend of Rudy Eugene, who declined to give his last name, said the man police say chewed and destroyed 65-year-old Ronald Poppo's face along a busy Miami highway ramp is nothing like the guy he knew since middle school.
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Eugene's friend Bobby told CBS Miami that the last words Eugene said to him on Thursday before an officer shot him after refusing to stop attacking Poppo was that he wanted to be "closer to God."
"His last words to me were that he wanted to get his life right and that he wanted to get closer to God," Bobby told the station. "And he wanted to stop smoking pot. That's it."
Bobby has known Eugene since middle school. More than 15 years later, he say the images of his friend lying naked after chewing the face off a stranger just don't line up with the man he knew.
"I saw the video and that's not Rudy," Bobby said. "Physically, it was Rudy. But mentally, that was not Rudy."
Eugene's friends say he wasn't a drinker or a drug addict. But Miami Police believe the 31-year-old was under the influence of LSD, or possibly a designer drug known as "bath salts."
Bobby doesn't doubt the theory but he doesn't think Eugene was responsible.
"It had to be some sort of drug that somebody must have slipped on him, because Rudy wouldn't so much as pop a Tylenol pill," Bobby said. "If I was there, I guarantee you it wouldn't have happened."
Officials are releasing details of the shooting, citing the ongoing investigation. The Miami-Dade County medical examiner declined to provide any information until after the autopsy is complete. Police have not released details about the autopsy and it could be weeks before the results of toxicology tests are available.
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Three-star athlete Caleb Scepaniak out of Binghampton (N.Y.) Union-Endicott holds four scholarships. The 6-foot-5, 225-pounder has new schools moving in, but is waiting on offers.
"I haven't taken any visits yet this season, but I've visited almost every school I'm talking to. I probably will visit more when the season ends," he said. "I have four offers, Buffalo, Cornell, Fordham and Wagner.
"There are a couple other schools interested, Temple, New Hampshire, Maine, Syracuse and a lot of I-AA schools. I sent them all my midseason highlight tape, they all said they will want my full season highlights once the season is over with."
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A versatile prospect on the field, Scepaniak is playing quarterback and tight end.
"We're 8-1 and going into the quarterfinals," he said. "We won our section on Friday. We've been beating everyone by four or more touchdowns.
"I'm doing well in both positions this year. I'm getting opportunities. I play quarterback in the spread and wildcat and then tight end in our pro-set.
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An increase of more than 10% in overnight purses and the doubling of the purse for the track's premier stakes race was announced Feb. 19 at Hollywood Casino at Penn National Race Course.
"At this time we are extremely pleased to be able to raise overnight purses for horsemen to record levels", said director of racing Rob Marella. "The continued infusion of revenues from our slot operations will allow average daily overnight purses to grow to around $140,000 beginning with the next condition book on March 18".
The weekend of July 31-Aug. 1 will feature the richest two-day purse distribution in track history. The highlight comes Aug. 1, with the 37th running of the $200,000 Pennsylvania Governor's Cup Handicap. The purse for the track's oldest race, run at five furlongs on the grass, is twice as large as last year. Sophomores will get the chance to run one mile over the grass in the $75,000 Capital City Handicap on the same card.
"The timing of the Governor's Cup should make it an attractive race for horses eyeing a berth in the Breeders' Cup Turf Sprint in the fall," Marella said. "We hope to attract the best grass sprinters in the east and midwest, and trainers also have three other rich stakes over the two days for their top horses."
The inaugural running of the six-furlong $75,000 Femme Fatale Handicap for 3-year old fillies and the $100,000 Jennie Wade Handicap will be run July 31. The Jennie Wade is a five-furlong distaff sprint to complement the Governor's Cup.
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Tour de France and Olympic time trial champion Bradley Wiggins will spend the night in hospital with minor rib injuries after a collision with a van near his home in Lancashire.
"A cyclist has been involved in a collision with a white van. The rider was taken to hospital with relatively minor rib injuries, possible fractures," Lancashire Police said.
Police were alerted to the incident in Wrightington at 6pm after reports of a road traffic accident.
Wiggins, 32, often rides the roads near his home where he lives with his wife and two children.
"His family are aware," said police, adding they had spoken with the van's driver.
Wiggins became the first Briton to win the Tour de France in July with Team Sky.
"He is being kept in hospital overnight for observation but the injuries he has sustained are not thought to be serious and he is expected to make a full and speedy recovery," Team Sky said.


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Title: Astronomy in Canada Past, Present and Future
Podcaster: Alexander W. Hobson
Organization: The National Research Council of Canada: http://www.nrc-cnrc.gc.ca/
The Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada: http://www.nserc-crsng.gc.ca/index_eng.asp
Canadian Space Agency: http://www.asc-csa.gc.ca/eng/default.asp
Royal Astronomical Society of Canada: http://www.rasc.ca/
Description: Astronomy in Canada, Past, Present and Future, and dives into the early history of astronomy in Canada from the early indigenous people using astronomy to our modern day teaching and Canadian built astronomical space craft.
Bio: Alexander W. Hobson: I am a 49 year old manager, I work for a radio and television company in Toronto, Ontario, Canada and have a recording studio at home to work from. I am married and have twin 13 year old boys who love the night sky.
I have been interested in astronomy since the age of 10. I own a small telescope and imaging equipment, read astronomy related books, and listen to astronomy podcasts on a regular basis including Astronomy Cast, Slacker Astronomy and of course 365 Days of Astronomy.
Today's Sponsor: This episode of "365 Days of Astronomy" is sponsored by Stephen Winter. Thank you to all the volunteers working on the 365 Days of Astronomy Podcasts.
Welcome to 365 Days of Astronomy and the podcast for April 5th 2009. I am your host for this episode, Alexander Hobson, an amateur astronomy enthusiast from Oakville Ontario Canada, and I'll be talking about Canada's roll in astronomy. Past, present and future.
Today, Canada has taken a leading roll in astronomy, space work, and studies, with dedicated people who participate in, and work on cutting edge research and technology.
We have a great tradition in Astronomy starting with thousands of years of indigenous people of the far North and Southern regions of Canada, using the stars to navigate and for monitoring the passage of time and seasons.
European Astronomy was brought to Canada when explorers were trying to find the North West Passage to India from Europe. They would bring, telescopes, astronomical knowledge, and of course, astronomers to Canada. Among some of these explorers were Jesuit missionaries who would spend many years in the country and introduce Astronomy among other sciences to the early settlers.
Famous explorers like John Cabot, Samuel de Champlain and Jacques Cartier recorded astronomical events for us including Cartier re-finding the mouth of the St Lawrence river during the Persied Meteor shower of 1535.
However, it wasn't until 1618, that the first record of significant astronomical observations were recorded in Canada by Jesuits who sent their reports back to Rome about comets and eclipses.
Then in 1634, Jean Bourdon, the Engineer-in-Chief and Land Surveyor for the New France colony in Quebec, was given the task of studying the astronomy of the area. The function of astronomy during the time of the early settlers was to draw up accurate geographic maps and to tell time precisely. He became a wealthy land owner and was noted officially as the first Canadian to own a telescope, a gift from the Jesuits in 1646, and is the first officially recognized person in Canada to teach astronomy, in his hydrography courses at the College of Quebec in the 1630's.
It's hard to pinpoint the first observatory in Canada, because there are several records of astronomical teaching in Canada as mentioned earlier, in Quebec and also at the Fortress of Louisburg (Loosburg) in Cape Breton, but no official records of an actual observatory can be found, though we do know through records that teachers were using equipment to survey the sky and presumably, they would have set up observatories. It wasn't until 1765, when official records indicate an observatory was built at Castle Frederick, at Falmouth, (Falmith) Nova Scotia.
By the mid 1800's, many more observatories were being established at universities across the country, including some which survive to this day.
So, how did Canada become a modern leader in astronomical teaching and research? Well it started with members of the Royal Astronomical Society which originated as the Astronomical and Physical Society of Toronto. One important leader in the club was Professor Clarence Augustus Chant who established a separate astronomy department at the University of Toronto in 1904.
At roughly the same time, Dr. William F. King, Canada's first Chief Astronomer was also persuading the federal government to establish the Dominion Observatory in Ottawa which became Canada's first centre of astrophysical research and was equipped with a 15 inch refractor. Unfortunately by 1910 they realized to further any research, they would need a bigger scope and a better area of seeing. This prompted one of the astronomers, Dr. John Stanley Plaskett, to rally for a larger telescope at a better location and through his efforts, the Dominion Astrophysical Observatory was opened near Victoria, B.C. with a 1.8 m telescope in 1918. It became one of the largest research instruments anywhere for several decades and Dr. Plaskett's work on our Galaxy rotation brought world-wide recognition.
Meanwhile, Dr. Chant was instrumental in seeing a major observatory established at the University of Toronto. The David Dunlap Observatory opened in 1935 and housed the second-largest telescope in the world at the time, at 1.88 meters with one of the first Pyrex telescope mirrors. Among other firsts, in 1972, Charles Thomas Bolton, one of the observatory's astronomers, used the Dunlap telescope to discover Cygnus X-1, the first black hole ever identified. Spectroscopy and photometry were extensively carried out there, until the sale of the property in 2008.
So, we had observatories spread out across the country from East to West and universities specializing in Astronomy and Astrophysics. This set the stage for future studies, research, observations and exploration.
Let's not forget the other astronomy though, radio astronomy. At end of the Second World War surplus radar equipment became available. In Ottawa, Arthur E. Covington studied solar radio emissions on equipment he put together from this surplus, thus starting radio astronomy in Canada. Later, 2 radio observatories were established in Algonquin Park, Ontario and at The Dominion Radio Astrophysical Observatory in Penticton, B.C. . They were eventually linked to perform the first continent-wide long baseline radio interferometry. One of their significant accomplishments was to measure the size of quasars.
The old Dominion Observatory in Ottawa was eventually closed and government astronomy became the responsibility of the National Research Council, carried out at the new Herzberg Institute of Astrophysics located near Victoria British Columbia, and named for Nobel laureate Dr. Gerhard Herzberg.
With funding cuts in the late 1970's and early 80's, it became too expensive for many institutions to keep up financially with cutting edge technologies, especially large telescopes. Most institutions started to cooperate in shared ventures. There are several international observatories which Canada shares in. Three of these are located on Mauna Kea, in Hawaii. They are the Canada-France-Hawaii observatory, opened in 1979 with it's 3.6 meter telescope. The James Clerk Maxwell Telescope, with an antenna diameter of 15 meters, operating in the sub millimeter wavelength region of the spectrum, and the Gemini North Observatory with it's giant 8 meter mirror.
In Chili, South America, there is the Gemini South telescope at an even larger 8.1 meters and the Cosmic Background imager which is a special-purpose radio telescope designed to study the cosmic microwave background radiation from the early universe.
The Astronomy Technology Research Group in Victoria British Columbia have installed instruments and software for some of these major telescopes around the world, including the Gemini North and South Telescopes, the Canada- France- Hawaii Telescope and the James Clerk Maxwell Telescope. They have also recently helped in the design and manufacturing of very high frequency receivers for the array antennae of the Atacama Large Millimeter Array Radio Telescope Project, and work on the Thirty Meter Telescope Project, both of which will operate in several years time.
Two other international collaborative efforts are the Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics in Toronto, established in 1982 and the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory with its new Snolab at a depth of 2,070 meters below the surface in a mine near Sudbury, Ontario.
Canada has also contributed knowledge and resources to exciting space based studies and craft. One collaborative project includes a space based radio telescope with Russia called Radioastron, which is scheduled to launch near the end of this year.
We have our own microsatellite called, MOST, which studies variable stars from space and we've gone to Mars with the Canadian built meteorological station on the Phoenix lander. We also have plans to send an exclusively Canadian mission to Mars called the Northern Light mission. We've worked on many other space craft, including the Canadarm on the shuttles and space station!
The European Space Agency's Herschel Space Observatory, scheduled to launch this year, will fly with 2 Canadian made instruments, SPIRE a bolometer "camera", and HIFI , a high resolution spectrometer. We will also have the NEOSSat, a small Canadian satellite, scheduled to launch early in 2010, which will find and track near earth objects which approach the Earth from orbits close to the sun.
As part of an international team of astronomers, some of our recent discoveries include capturing the first images of another solar system. Our long-range plans for the future include participation in the Next Generation Space Telescope, the Atacama Large Millimeter Array and the Square Kilometer Array for radio astronomy.
Amateurs have also contributed much to astronomy in Canada and are serious about promoting astronomy while also having fun. Nothing shows this more than the Star parties listed across the country with one of the largest being Starfest presented by the North York Astronomical Association near Mount Forest, Ontario. This event attracts upwards of 1,000 or more people every year.
There are hundreds of Canadian Astronomical websites including local clubs, astronomy information and teaching. We even have our own magazine called Sky News, edited by Terence Dickinson who's 'Night Watch' book, now in it's third printing. It's one of the most recognized guides to amateur astronomy ever written. There are also many other newsletters for professionals and amateurs available on the internet.
For more information about Canadian Astronomy, The National Research Council of Canada has excellent information on their website. Also check out The Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada which supports tens of thousands of students, post doctoral fellows and universities undertaking cutting edge research. For our space programs check out the Canadian Space agency on the net.
It's not all Mounties, maple syrup and igloo's up here in the true North, so the next time you think of Canadian Astronomy, put away your toques eh, and think about our wonderful history, dedicated people and world class facilities involved in cutting edge astronomy.
For Canada and the international year of astronomy podcast, I'm Alexander Hobson wishing you clear skies and great seeing!
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Salary adjustment pool causes strife, but SVSU board approves budget
BENNINGTON >> The Southwest Vermont Supervisory Union Board concluded its budget discussions on Thursday with a heated debate on a salary adjustment pool.
"Philosophically, I don't agree with the adjustment pool," said Bennington representative George Sleeman, on a fund designed to bring salaries and benefits in the SVSU offices up to levels competitive with averages in school districts around the state for people doing similar work. He said the supervisory union should not be expected to adjust salaries upward after hiring simply because they could be making more somewhere else. "I just don't agree with it," he said, "I don't think we should be doing adjustment pools."
Mount Anthony Union representative Leon Johnson pointed out the adjustment pool money is part of a three-year process to standardize job descriptions and salaries within the central office. Sleeman said this was the first time he had ever heard it was a three-year project. Approximately $39,000 is budgeted for the adjustment pool in fiscal 2017, to be shared between several departments including technology and special education.
"The adjustments that we made last year went a long way towards where people should be paid, but it's still far short in many instances," said SVSU Technology Director Frank Barnes.
"I know for a fact that when I was working in Williamstown," said board Chairman Ken Swierad, "there were several teachers that left the district for money, and went somewhere else, and you just hired new people to take their place... You don't get held hostage. The first thing you do is hold open the door and say 'If you to go somewhere else, go ahead.' I think we get held hostage if we use that philosophy."
"I don't think we are following that philosophy," said Superintendent Jim Culkeen, "I don't know of anybody who came to someone and said, 'I'm going to leave if I don't get that money from the adjustment pool.'" He said the adjustments were made by the human resources department and were always backed up with data on average salaries.
"The state average for a technician is $44,076, the average for our technicians is $34,598," said Barnes, becoming visibly frustrated, "Ten thousand dollars less, 25 percent less. Systems administrators, the guys that are keeping all of this stuff running, the state average for those guys is $65,800, and our average is $47,814. This is not right, or fair, and it's not the way to run a business if you want to keep people loyal working Saturdays, working until midnight, and coming in at four in the morning to keep 2,000 more devices running, to keep 20 more software programs going. I'm sorry, I'm hot under the collar, but this is ridiculous. I'm asking for $19,000, which is going to affect the budget, what, .001 percent, maybe?"
"I propose you leave the money in the budget," said Culkeen, trying to allay fears the board would have no control over how this money was spent, "and make the instruction to me and to HR that no money from that adjustment pool is assigned to anybody unless we bring it before the board with a recommendation."
Johnson agreed and made the motion to do just that, which the board approved unanimously.
The final budget as approved represents an increase of roughly 8 percent over last year. Much of that is accounted for by the cost of operating pre-kindergarten services for three-year-olds, as has been mandated by the state, the budget shift of transportation costs from the districts to the SU (a shift which actually saves money) and an increase in the cost of special education.
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Saudi British Bank profits rise 20 percent in first quarter 2002
The Saudi British Bank (SABB) recorded a net profit of 235 million Saudi riyals ($62.7 million) for the first quarter of the financial year 2002, which ended March 31. This represents an increase of 20.1 percent over the same period in 2001, when the bank recorded a SR195.7 million net profit.
The bank reported operating income, excluding investment income, rose 8.1 percent to SR428.2 million ($114.2 million) in the first quarter of 2002 compared with the corresponding period the previous year. Earnings per share increased to SR5.87 ($1.57) compared to SR4.89 ($1.3) for the first quarter of 2001.
Customer deposits increased to SR32.1 billion ($8.6 billion) at March-end 2002, up 6.3 percent on the previous year, while loans and advances to customers increased by 6.1 percent to SR17.3 billion ($4.6 billion).
Total value of investment portfolio stood at SR22.0 billion ($5.9 billion) at 31 March 2002, up SR3.7 billion ($1.0 billion) or 20.2 percent over 31 March 2001. Total assets rose 4.9 percent to SR43.1 billion ($11.5 billion) at 31 March 2002.
SABB was established in 1978 as a Joint Stock Company. The Bank formally commenced operations with the taking over the British Bank of the Middle East in Saudi Arabia. The bank recorded a net profit of 830 million Saudi Riyals ($221 million) in 2001, up from SR87 million ($23 million) in 2000.
The Riyadh-based operates through a network of 81 locations, which includes a branch in London and 13 women branches. SABB is a 40 percent indirectly held associate of HSBC Holdings, one of the world's largest banking and financial organizations. The remainder is held by Saudi investors. — (menareport.com)
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Eilish O'Regan: More of us are getting ill – but our survival chances are rising
CANCER is on the rise but so are its survival rates – providing some consolation to those who may be daunted by the latest predictions about the future scale of the disease.
Diagnosis is no longer a death sentence. More cancers are being detected earlier, boosting the chances of a cure.
And there have been huge advances in treatment, along with the arrival of powerful new drugs.
More targeted treatments are now available to Irish patients and significant funds are being ploughed into research to provide more breakthroughs.
The most common forms of the disease are cancers of the skin, breast, bowel and lung. And although older age is a risk factor for cancer that we can do nothing about, we still have time to tackle the other hazards.
The golden rules will not change – stop smoking, reduce alcohol intake, follow a healthy diet, exercise and take care in the sun.
Every so often, a new survey reminds us of how far we have to travel in tackling these risks. But if we don't, we are gambling on becoming one of those cancer statistics of the future and taking a chance with our health.
For those who do develop the disease, there is the increasing possibility that they may keep it under control for years due to the advanced treatments.
People can buy time by going from therapy to therapy, adding meaningful years to life. If the projected figures materialise, the burden of cancer will have a massive impact on costs for future governments.
Who gets the expensive drug? It may be that some uncomfortable choices will have to be made as resources come under even more strain. This dilemma is spelt out in the report which says that a further challenge is the growing availability and use of ever more sophisticated and expensive targeted therapy.
While the benefit and more widespread use of chemotherapy has contributed to an improvement in survival, the high cost of some therapies, particularly those for advanced disease, will need to be balanced against the benefits to the patient. There will not just be more cancer patients, but they will be older on average.
This older population will have different needs, responses to treatment and susceptibility to side-effects.
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Arizona State University's writers conference, "Desert Nights, Rising Stars," will be held Feb. 23-26, with the early registration discount ending on Oct. 31.
The conference, sponsored by ASU's Virginia G. Piper Center for Creative Writing, offers writers of all levels the chance to hone their craft in the classroom with distinguished writers. It will feature discussion classes, master classes, faculty readings, panel discussions and a question-and-answer session.
Participants can expect an experience that is intimate and affordable, such as the master classes, which will offer six hours of instruction, spread over three days, in groups of no more than 10.
General registration for the conference is $375 ($335 early-registration discount through Oct. 31). Master class tuition is $125 (conference registration required). Additional discounts are available for Piper Friends and other ASU-affiliated groups. For more information and to register, see www.asu.edu/piper or call (480) 965-6018.


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Every day about 26 metric tons of garbage are trucked into the landfill in the city of Iqaluit, Nunavut. The landfill is already well over capacity.
Just down the road, the sewage treatment plant releases effluent into Koojesse Inlet.
Federal officials say that waste poses a danger to people and the environment.
Water tests last year in Frobisher Bay showed elevated levels of ammonia and toxic metals are making their way into the ocean.
Now Aboriginal Affairs and Northern Development Canada won't grant Iqaluit a new water license until the city cleans up its landfill.
"Currently we're polluting our waters at a pretty ... scary rate," says councilor Kenny Bell.
The city's current water license expired in July of 2012.
City council could face fines or even jail time if they don't clean up the mess.
"No one likes to talk about trash," says Bell. "We need to. We're way past due. Just like many projects in the city, we're under the gun."
One way to get rid of solid waste could be incineration, which Bell says has been on the agenda for years.
Incinerator could cost $3.64 million
Jean Lucas is with the company Eco Waste Solutions.
In a presentation to council Tuesday night, she said incineration makes sense.
"Iqaluit is still a small population. It still has a relatively small amount of waste," Lucas said.
"It doesn't make sense to build a huge waste energy plant. It doesn't make sense to have a very complex, experimental system. It makes sense to burn the waste in the cleanest way possible."
Eco Waste Solutions already has 10 facilities in Nunavut and the Northwest Territories.
The company says a top-of-the-line environmentally-friendly incinerator with air pollution control could cost up to $4 million Canadian ($3.64 million U.S.).
Whether or not councilors were sold on the idea, they'll have to come up with a decision soon, or face penalties.
This story is posted on Alaska Dispatch as part of Eye on the Arctic, a collaborative partnership between public and private circumpolar media organizations.


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SIOC Smoke Alarm Alerts Mobile Home Occupants
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Date: August 15, 2014
Fairfax County Fire and Rescue Department units responded to a mobile home fire Friday, August 15, 2014, at approximately 6:40 a.m., in the Woodlawn area of Fairfax County. The mobile home is located 4114 Galen Street.
Firefighters encountered smoke coming from the kitchen of the home upon arrival. Crews quickly conducted an aggressive fire attack and extinguished the fire. The four occupants were alerted by a sounding smoke alarm and all escaped unharmed. Firefighters had installed the smoke alarm earlier as part of the department's Safety In Our Community (SIOC) Program. Red Cross support was offered but declined by the occupants.
Damage was minimal and confined to the kitchen.
According to the Incident Commander, the fire was accidental. Combustibles in the oven caused the fire.
For more information, call Daniel L. Schmidt or Captain I Randal Bittinger,
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text: This is one of the teas I grabbed from Acquired Taste in Edmonton, AB. Huge dried blackberries litter the blend, and I both smell and taste very little sage, but it's in there. It's primarily a juicy, fully flavored blackberry tea, and I'm quite happy with that. Will have to try it iced, and send some off to OMGsrsly and Suziquer to try out.


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|From: Noel Welsh (noelwelsh at gmail.com)
Date: Mon May 24 09:47:02 EDT 2010
On Mon, May 24, 2010 at 2:42 PM, Neil Van Dyke <neil at neilvandyke.org> wrote: > Noel had a great idea with Web-scraping. If someone thinks of some neato > info to extract from a current messy HTML page, it can probably be done in a > few lines using SXPath and HtmlPrag. (I am suggesting this in a lazy manner > now, but I am also willing to code up such Web scraping ideas when I get > time, if nobody codes them first.) I'm assuming the examples should operate sans Planet. If that isn't correct we can do a lot more fun things -- like your idea. N.
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LEAD Public Schools announced today that Ms. Kelly McMullen will be the new resident school director for Brick Church, LEAD's 5-8 college preparatory middle school serving the needs of students in North Nashville in the Whites Creek cluster.
Ms. McMullen will join LEAD on May 1 and take the reins of Brick Church on June 1. Chief Academic Officer Jay Brown will continue to lead the school as interim school director through the end of this school year.
A former assistant principal in New Jersey who moved to Nashville in 2015 as the senior director of K-8 education at the Martha O'Bryan Center, Ms. McMullen comes to LEAD with more than a decade of middle school teaching and leadership experience. As a resident school director, Ms. McMullen will report directly to Ms. Brown with additional support from Head of Schools Ms. LaVoe Mulgrew.
"We are thrilled to welcome Ms. McMullen to the LEAD family as our new school leader at Brick Church," said CEO Chris Reynolds. "She brings a wealth of experience to the school in this leadership role and we know she is excited to work with our students, families and staff members. We believe her energy and passion will be contagious across the school."
McMullen holds a master's degree in Public and Urban Educational Leadership from the Teachers College at Columbia University. She earned her bachelor's degree in biology with a minor in Spanish from Loyola College in Maryland. She is certified as an administrator in Tennessee, New York and New Jersey.
"I believe that every child should have choices and opportunities when it comes to their future and that it is our job as a community to educate and prepare them to pursue the future of their choosing," Ms. McMullen said. "I'm excited to join the Brick Church community, from families to staff, as we raise up and open doors for the next generation."
Prior to moving to Nashville, McMullen served for three years as an assistant principal at Melvin H. Kreps Middle School in East Windsor, N.J. At Kreps, McMullen fostered respectful relationships with parents and families to support student growth, both academically and socio-emotionally. She prioritized communication with families in the form of home phone calls, frequent emails and one-on-one meetings with families.
Also at Kreps Middle School, McMullen established and coordinated the school's first-ever "Back-to-School Night" in Spanish, followed by three years of "Familias Latinas," evening events held to build strong relationships with the school's Latino community.
McMullen began her career in education as a biology teacher at Woodcliff Academy and also taught 8th-grade science at Fred W. Martin Middle School in Jersey City.


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Cincinnati - An evolutionary group has a significantly better chance of surviving for a long time in the geologic record if it first appears right after a mass extinction.
University of Cincinnati geologist Arnold Miller will present his findings Tuesday morning Nov. 6 during the annual meeting of the Geological Society of America in Boston.
Professor Miller used a database of marine fossil genera compiled by J. John Sepkoski to examine longevity trends throughout the Phanerozoic (the last 540 million years). In four separate cases, he found that genera first appearing following mass extinctions survived for longer periods of time, on average, than those that first appeared at other times.
"There was already a sense that organisms originating in the wakes of mass extinctions were generalists with respect to their geographic and environmental distributions," said Miller. "My analysis indicates that these characteristics promoted evolutionary longevity."
Miller said that the trend is apparent no matter what the ultimate cause was of each mass extinction. Genera that were more widespread, might have fared better over the long run because of a kind of "safety in geography." If a catastrophe decimated the individuals living in one region, then a genus could still survive if individuals belonging to the genus also lived in other regions.
To conduct his analysis, Miller divided the Phanerozoic into 156 "bins" or substages. Then, he looked at the average longevity of genera originating in each bin. Significant peaks in mean longevities occurred in the substages following major mass extinctions in Late Permian, Late Triassic, and Late Cretaceous-three of the "big five" extinctions of the Phanerozoic-and following a lesser, but still significant extinction at the end of the Jurassic.
"These are very sharp peaks," noted Miller, who followed up his first analysis with a number of statistical techniques to weed out artifacts in the data set. "I was trying and trying to kill the pattern, but it wouldn't go away."
One enigma in the analysis is that the pattern does not extend back into the Paleozoic, the earliest of the three eras that comprise the Phanerozoic. Although there were fairly high extinction rates during parts of the Cambrian, Ordovician and Devonian, Miller's analysis showed no clear relationship between extinction events and longevity in any of those periods. "To see nothing is quite something," he said, summing up that intriguing finding.
It is possible that, after the Paleozoic, there was a major change in the dynamics of evolution, but Miller noted that any real explanation for the difference between the Paleozoic and post-Paleozoic remains to be determined.
Miller is currently working with a team of geologists worldwide to build an online database that depicts the occurrences of marine genera throughout the Phanerozoic, and which will incorporate data on the geography and paleoenvironment of each occurrence. In the future, he hopes to use these data to assess directly whether the longer-lived genera really were those with wider geographic and environmental distributions. "We really haven't looked definitively at the characteristics of the post-extinction players, but with the databases we're building, we'll be able to."
Miller's work is supported by NASA's Program in Exobiology and NSF's Program in Biocomplexity.


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VATICAN CITY — The gathering of Roman Catholic cardinals to pick a new pope began Tuesday with an oath of secrecy and an inaugural vote that produced no quick winner but gave the prelates their first look at which candidates are garnering the most support.
Black smoke billowed from the chimney atop the Vatican's Sistine Chapel on Tuesday evening less than 2 1/2 hours after the doors were shut to outsiders and the cardinals within prepared to cast ballots for the next leader of the world's 1.2 billion Catholics. The dark fumes signified an inconclusive vote, and a disappointed murmur rose from the crowd of thousands who had assembled in St. Peter's Square in anticipation, despite the threat of rain and hail.
An immediate agreement on a new pontiff was never likely. But the first vote is always important as a measure of the strength of support for particular candidates. It also lets the cardinals chat and caucus informally at dinner and sleep on the result, to decide in the morning whether to stick to their original choice, switch sides or look for dark-horse alternatives.
What happens in the Sistine Chapel is supposed to stay in the Sistine Chapel; even support staffers attending the 115 cardinals have been sworn to silence on pain of excommunication. But attention before Tuesday focused on two contenders, Angelo Scola of Italy and Odilo Pedro Scherer of Brazil, as the strongest candidates going into the conclave.


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Creative ZEN X-Fi MP3 player review | Introduction
Creative Zen X-Fi MP3 Test
C reative Labs Europe, founded in 1993, is famous for its Zen media players and its excellent sound Technologies. Creative keeps on surprising; again with the new Zen X-Fi, the first media player with integrated X-Fi technologies. According to Creative, listening to music on the Zen X-Fi becomes a genuine experience. Whether that is true will become clear from the test. And as if X-Fi isn't already enough, also Wi-Fi is available on the Zen. From the moment the Zen X-Fi MP3 player was placed in the market, it already won several Awards. Read the full LetsGoMobile review for more information.
Creative Zen MP3 player test
Design of the Creative Zen X-Fi
The appearance of the Creative Zen X-Fi MP3 player is almost similar to that of previous Zen models, although the current model is somewhat thicker and has a solid grey back made of plastic. The front of the X-Fi Zen features 12 buttons on the right side and a large 2.5 inch monitor with 16.7 million colors. All of this is nicely surrounded by a shiny silver-colored line. The microSD card slot is found on the topside of the device, and the external speaker on the bottom. On the right side we find, from top to bottom; the 3mm head jack, the USB connector and the reset button. The latter is easier to access than the one on previous Creative media players. Dimensions of the Creative Zen X-Fi MP3 player are: 2.1 x 3.2 x 0.5 inches and its weight counts 70 grams.
Creative Zen X-Fi MP3 player review
Menu of the Creative Zen X-Fi
If you have owned a Creative Zen MP3 player before, you will be familiar with its interface, while it is almost similar to that of previous Zen models. A sleek design, nice and fast to learn. And the best thing is; you can adjust the entire menu to your own taste. Not only theme, background, color intensity and brightness are adjustable, but also what you want to find in your menu. The main menu can be completely configured, ensuring your favorite menu is always available from the main menu. Secondly, you can adjust the submenu, making your own submenus accessible for every category. For example; the main menu consists of a number of items such as photo, video, music and settings. You can click the box to make them invisible. And also a submenu such as music can be changed; currently playing, album, artist etcetera can also be made invisible. In short, it is possible in many ways to adjust the menu and reproduction of it to your own preference.


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- Artist: Katbite
- Format: CD
- Release Date: 8/30/2005
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Katherine Leese was born and raised in New Zealand. Antipodeans are well-known for hanging out in London, which was something she wanted to avoid. A crazy trip halfway round the world added wild experinces to add to her already formidable portfolio of songs. In Holland, where she has spent the past 5 years, she formed the band Katbite, with bass player Dominc Bellekom and drummer Jeroen. Over the past 4 years the band have built up a set of 27 original songs. The strongest of these numbers appear on the band's debut album, Vacation, released in August 2005. The band has secured distribution in Holland and New Zealand for this album, which was created using Pro Tools and Reason in a privately owned studio in the Netherlands. The track Countryside is the first single. The text describes the discovery that Europe is not a land of fairytales anymore, it's a place full of pollution, Britney Spears and mundane jobs. This discovered under the influence of a brutal hangover on a cheap bus ride between Manchester and Amsterdam. Katbite is increasingly active as band, touring New Zealand in early 2005 and extending their circle of gigs around their base, Den Haag, Holland.


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The Joint Committee of Public Accounts and Audit, as
prescribed by its Act, examines all reports of the Auditor-General, and reports
the results of the Committee's deliberations to the Parliament. This report
details the findings of the Committee's examination of two performance audits
selected for further scrutiny from nine audit reports presented to Parliament
by the Auditor‑General between February and May 2012.
The Committee focused its inquiry on government procurement,
an area of public spending which has been of ongoing interest to the Committee.
In 2010–11, Australian Government agencies entered into over
79 000 contracts for property and services valued in excess of $32.6 billion.
Under the financial framework, agencies must ensure each procurement delivers
the best value for money, using public resources in a way that is efficient,
effective, economical and ethical.
Last year the Committee reviewed the Auditor-General's
report on direct source procurement, making a range of recommendations how
value for money procurement could be better supported within government. The
Committee has now looked at two other areas of government procurement:
1. Tender
processes—specifically examining the tender used to procure the Australia
Network broadcasting service; and
2. The establishment and use of procurement panels.
reviewing the ANAO's audit of the administration of the Australia Network
tender process, the high costs of this tender's failure has important lessons across
all agencies that might be applied to future procurements.
A key lesson highlighted by the Auditor-General's report is
that clarity around the decision-making processes for a tender is essential—particularly
for tenders involving multiple ministers or departments. In the case of the
Australia Network, it took almost five months for issues around the approval
process to be resolved. If the decision maker had been documented at the start
of the process, the lengthy delays and associated issues that affected the
tender might have been avoided. On this point, we suggest that public
documentation of tender approval processes could be a way of avoiding similar
problems in the future.
Other key issues discussed in the Auditor-General's report on
the Australia Network tender process concerned the handling of confidential
tender information. The Committee heard that standard practices for handling
and distributing sensitive information were not followed, leading to a wider
distribution of information than was desirable. The Committee believes there
may be benefits from further guidance being provided to staff involved in
future tenders about when and how tender information should be disclosed to
ministers, ministerial staff, and other departmental staff.
While the responsibility for the problems found in the audit
report rests with the parties involved, the Committee considered that lessons
from the Australia Network tender process could be shared more broadly and has
therefore made a range of suggestions for improvement to future training
The Committee also examined the practice of government
agencies using panel arrangements to obtain efficiencies in procurement.
Procurement panels involve agencies conducting an initial procurement process
to establish a panel of suppliers, and then undertaking individual procurements
from the panel on an as-needed basis. The Auditor-General's report found that
while agencies generally had sound practices for initially establishing panels,
the performance was less satisfactory when it came to selecting suppliers from
the panel to undertake work. In particular, the Auditor-General noted that
agencies needed to improve their documentation of value for money assessments.
The Committee was disappointed to learn that many of the issues
that came up in this audit report had previously been identified in internal
audits by agencies, suggesting these findings had not been adequately followed
We were, however, pleased to hear that the Finance Department
is taking a more active role in helping agencies to improve their compliance
with financial management obligations. The Committee also supports the role of
Central Procurement Units within agencies, which can serve as the link with
Finance and take a proactive role in assisting procurers.
Another point made in the Auditor-General's report is that
agencies should be performing evaluations of the use and effectiveness of their
procurement panels at appropriate stages of their lifecycle. The Committee
supports this point, and has asked the audited agencies for an update on how
they are implementing the Auditor-General's recommendation, including the
timelines in which evaluations will be undertaken.
Finally, the Committee examined the cooperative use of
single panels by multiple agencies, a practice known as 'clustering' or
'piggybacking'. These arrangements are becoming increasingly popular as
agencies seek efficiencies in procurement. At one of our hearings we learned
that while clustered panels can lower costs, particularly for small agencies,
care is needed to make sure the services being supplied are actually
appropriate for the needs of each agency. Government also needs to be aware of
the perspective of suppliers, as there is a perception that large, multi-agency
panels may disadvantage small and medium enterprises (SMEs). The number of SMEs
on panels is not currently being monitored by departments, so this is an area
that warrants additional attention in future.
The Committee will continue to keep a close eye on
government procurement activities to ensure that public money is being spent in
a way that ensures value for money and compliance with the government's
financial framework regulations.
Rob Oakeshott MP
Mr Robert Oakeshott MP
Ms Yvette D'Ath MP
Hon Dick Adams MP
Senator Mark Bishop
Mr Jamie Briggs MP
Senator Helen Kroger
Ms Gai Brodtmann MP
Senator Louise Pratt (from 27/06/12)
Mr Darren Cheeseman MP
Senator Nick Sherry (8/02/12
– 1/06/12)
Mr Josh Frydenberg MP
Senator Dean Smith (from 9/05/12)
Ms Deborah O'Neill MP
Senator Matt Thistlethwaite
Ms Laura Smyth MP
Hon Alex Somlyay MP
Mr David Brunoro
Mr James Nelson
Research Officer
Mr Shane Armstrong
Mrs Dorota Cooley
Ms Louise Goss
Australian Broadcasting
Australian Government Solicitor
Australian National Audit Office
Australian Federal Police
Australian News Channel Pty Ltd
Australian Securities and
Investments Commission
Chief Executive Instructions
Commonwealth Procurement
Central Procurement Unit
Department of Broadband,
Communications and the Digital Economy
Department of Foreign Affairs and
FMA Act
Financial Management and
Accountability Act 1997
Request For Tender
Department of the Prime Minister
and Cabinet
Small and medium enterprises
Tender Evaluation Board
That the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, the
Department of Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy, and the
Australian Securities and Investments Commission determine and report to the
Committee how they are implementing ANAO Recommendation 3, including the
timelines for procurement panel evaluations.
That the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade report to the
Committee no later than six months after the tabling of this report on the
specific role its Central Procurement Unit plays in procurement across the
agency, and how the Central Procurement Unit is interacting with departmental officers
who engage in procurement to improve compliance and procurement outcomes.
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Secretly filmed teen girl has two weeks to appeal verdict
The 17-year-old girl who was secretly filmed in a swimming pool changing room by a solicitor says she has just two weeks to lodge an appeal after the case was dismissed.
The teenager told how she only learned of the outcome of the case when it was broadcast on the radio.
The girl, who is now 18, told a BBC Radio Ulster phone-in yesterday that the actions of solicitor Ritchie MacRitchie had wrecked her life. His case was dismissed because the video clips showed her wearing a bikini.
"I lost my place at college because I was off sick - I couldn't leave the house for a few weeks," she said.
"I can't sleep still, I have to take tablets to help me sleep. I can't go out clubbing with my friends, I can't wear the clothing my friends are wearing because I can't bear men looking at me - it's just destroyed my life altogether."
The teenager described how she was dressing with her young niece in a cubicle at the unisex changing room in the Fall Leisure Centre a year ago when she spotted what was going on.
"I was going down to pick my shoe up in the corner and I saw his hand and I shouted out to my boyfriend 'who's in there next door to me?'" she said.
"He shouted 'a man, why?' and I shouted 'well he's videoing me with his phone'. When my boyfriend asked him to come out, he wouldn't come out, so I ran out and I got the staff.
"They all crowded round and got him out and got the phone off him and then they held him until the police came."
The girl said she was given the number of a police officer but was unable to make contact for a number of weeks and eventually gave up.
She was later contacted by a member of the Public Prosecution Service and briefed on what was happening.
"I was on the phone to him last week and he was saying Monday was to set a date - it wasn't anything other than that because they had got all the evidence, got all their witnesses and what they were doing now was setting a date," she said.
"On Tuesday morning I was sitting and I heard the news on the radio. I don't know what way it works, but I am confused at the minute."
The girl said she had tried going back to a swimming pool but couldn't face going in.
"If he gets away with being innocent, he's going to do that again maybe, or other people are just going to keep on doing that," she said.
"I would like the law to be changed so that other people don't have to go through that."
She said she hadn't told friends because she was so embarrassed but has now decided to open up.
"I don't want other people to go through what I've went through. This man - people are meant to go to him for help."
It has emerged that MacRitchie is back at work at P Drinan Solicitors. When contacted, he said he did not want to discuss the case but added: "The fact that I was acquitted speaks for itself."
A committee of Belfast City Councillors last night recommended that Mr MacRitchie be banned from all of the city's parks and leisure centres.
However, the ban can only be enforced following agreement at a meeting of the full council.
"The feeling of people right across the city is somebody has to start a zero tolerance attitude," said Cllr Bob Stoker, chairman of the Parks and Leisure Committee.
Lord Mayor Jim Rodgers said Falls Leisure Centre is the only one to have the new village-style unisex changing areas, which were recommended as best practice by the Institute of Sport and Recreation.
A similar design is planned for the new Grove Wellbeing Centre, he said, adding that the policy needs to be reexamined.
"I have never been totally happy and I voiced my concerns well before the Falls swim centre plans were under way," he said.
The Law Society said it was reviewing the case and the evidence presented. MacRitchie could be taken before the Law Society Disciplinary Committee, charged with bringing the profession into disrepute.
Belfast Telegraph
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KABUL: Britain's Prince Harry, who compared shooting insurgents in Afghanistan to playing video games, "has probably developed a mental problem", the Taliban said on Tuesday.
"There are 49 countries with their powerful military failing in the fight against the mujahideen, and now this prince comes and compares this war with his games, PlayStation or whatever he calls it," Taliban spokesman Zabiullah Mujahid told AFP.
In a recently released interview, Prince Harry had joked that he honed his weapons' pilot skills playing PlayStation and Xbox computer games.
He also revealed that he had killed Afghan insurgents during sorties against the Taliban while on his second tour of duty in Afghanistan where he was a gunner in Apache attack helicopters.
Queen Elizabeth's 28-year-old grandson, third in line to the British throne, will return home later this week after a 20-week posting with Nato forces at the CampBastion military base in the southern province of Helmand.
Asked before he left Afghanistan if he had killed insurgents during his tour, he said: "Yeah, so, lots of people have … Yes, we fire when we have to, take a life to save a life, but essentially we're more of a deterrent than anything else."
He added, "If there's people trying to do bad stuff to our guys, then we'll take them out of the game, I suppose."
The Taliban had said it would do its utmost to kidnap or kill Harry during his tour, and an Afghan insurgent warlord labelled him a drunken "jackal" out to kill innocent Afghans.
His base was attacked on his birthday last September, but it was never clear if he was the target or if the Taliban raid, in which two US marines were killed, was in response to the anti-Islam film, "Innocence of Muslims".
Known in the military as Captain Harry Wales, he was deployed to Afghanistan four months ago, shortly after pictures of him frolicking naked with a nude woman at a hotel in Las Vegas were published around the world.
"I probably let myself down, I let my family down, I let other people down," he said of the Vegas incident. "But it was probably a classic example of me being too much army, and not enough prince."


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As Albert Pujols settled into the batter's box in the first inning Friday, his personalized home run counter above the right-field stands read 599.
This was one of the moments Angels owner Arte Moreno envisioned when he signed Pujols six winters ago. Pujols didn't deliver history in this at-bat — or, on this night, for that matter — but he will soon.
Except you wonder if Moreno read the fine print at the bottom of the contract. There, in invisbile ink, it's stated clearly: History is non-transferable.
Whenever or wherever Pujols launches home run No. 600, the milestone will belong to him and to him alone. The Angels won't have a claim on it. Moments can't be purchased,...