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Author: Farahnaz Bandali
The 2014 changes to the Temporary Foreign Worker Program (TFWP) have created an unprecedented situation for western Canadian employers.
Canada's immigration policies target high-skilled workers and Canadians often avoid work in low-wage jobs. With the redesigned foreign worker program that limits employers' use of low-wage temporary foreign workers, it is unclear how employers will continue to fill these jobs and whether the consequences will ultimately be more or fewer jobs for Canadians.
The impact of the changes could be severe. Without enough workers, businesses could be forced to have shorter hours, service will suffer, workers will be stressed and businesses could shrink. Some may be forced out of business altogether.
Ironically, this policy change will hit the provinces with low unemployment hardest and will only slightly affect provinces with higher unemployment rates where there are more potential workers to fill jobs vacated by foreign workers.
This paper confirms that recent changes to the TFWP will hurt western Canadian employers in particular. Alberta will bear the brunt of the changes; that province will be allowed to bring in fewer temporary foreign workers by 2016 than anywhere else in the country. Alberta relies on temporary foreign workers more than any other province or territory and has had the second lowest unemployment rate. Although the recent drop in oil prices will ease the impact, it is too soon to say by how much. When oil prices rise again, this policy could also impair Alberta's economic recovery.
Saskatchewan will also be hurt. It has the lowest unemployment rate in the country and relies on temporary foreign workers more than most provinces. There are also few options to find replacements for the temporary foreign workers they will not be able to hire, because the province is close to fully employing everyone who is willing to work.
British Columbia also relies heavily on temporary foreign workers, and is expected to have the second-highest reduction in low-wage TFW entrants by 2016. Unlike Alberta, however, it may be able to find other workers. There are more Canadians out of work there than in the other three western provinces, and the jobless ranks are expected to grow as British Columbians return home from Alberta during the downturn in oil prices.
Manitoba relies less on temporary foreign workers than most other regions of the country, with the exception of in a couple of sectors. Manitoba has focused on attracting permanent immigrants, and will lose the fewest low-wage temporary foreign worker entrants of the four western provinces. Other provinces can learn from Manitoba, which has a good system to manage the temporary foreign workers they employ.
Federal changes have made it more difficult, even in cases of genuine need, to access the TFWP. The impact of the changes should be reviewed to ensure that valid policy goals, such as enabling economic growth, can be met. In this case, a flawed but flexible program has been replaced by a flawed and inflexible program. This paper shows that one size does not fit all. In the short term, the loss of foreign workers will leave employers with limited options. Not all unemployed people are willing to take a job that does not interest them or that they are not good at. Over the medium to long term, employers may find ways to adapt by bringing underrepresented populations – such as Aboriginal or disabled people – into the workforce. Governments may need to offer training and support to make this happen.

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The Dangers of Believing in the Existence of Non-Existent Nations: 1
One of my more important insights into systemic large-scale human stupidity is about what people are willing to believe in or, to be more precise, their persistence in belief about stuff that clearly do not exist. The vast majority of suffering throughout history (and the present) can almost always be traced back to belief in their own bullshit- whether it is about gods, prophets, religions, morals, social mores, authority, ideologies etc. One of the contemporary examples of this stupidity concerns people continuing to believe in the existence of nation-states that clearly do not exist. As I will show you, this particular thread of self-delusion is unusually dangerous not only to those affected by belief in it, but also those who act on that belief.
But before we go further, let us try to quickly define what a modern nation-state is and is not. A modern nation-state, such as those that came into being after the industrial revolution (especially after the late 1800s) are entities unlike any that preceded them. Their uniqueness is not a consequence of people being stupider in earlier eras, but rather a consequence of socio-economic and technological changes subsequent to industrialization. Modern nation-states are defined by the protean reach of the state machinery (or bureaucracy) into the day-to-day lives of their ordinary citizens or subjects. To put it another way, "sovereign" governments that cannot support an almost all-pervasive and moderately functional bureaucracy cannot function as modern nation-states.
But why is this definition important? Well.. it comes down to what socio-economic systems they can support and the consequences thereof. For example, the existence of capitalism in any form requires that most people are engaged in wage work. This is not possible unless an invasive and functional bureaucracy can systemically control, pauperize and immiserate the majority of the population. The same is true for state communism and is the reason why nation states such as the USSR were not fundamentally different from the USA. But this feature of the modern nation-state comes at a peculiar cost. People who rule and govern modern nation-states start believing in their own bullshit, especially the part about it being the "only way". They so desperately want to see everyone else in the world doing things the "same way" that they often make, and act on, decisions that have no link to reality. As you will see in the rest of this post, such willful ignorance and stupidity comes at a huge human cost and is ultimately as dangerous to the believers as those initially screwed over by their stupidity.
Consider the following examples of modern nation states that do not really exist even though the rest of the world, especially the west, act as if they do.
Iraq: What can I say.. It began as a country carved out of post-WW1 ottoman concessions to the then victorious allies and suffered multiple rounds of uprisings and low-intensity civil wars even before WW2 started. After WW2, the broken european nations had to relinquish indirect control to local leaders sparking, you guessed it, another round of uprisings and coups which led to Saddam Hussein who was able to keep the lid on things for a couple of decades. After that we had the USA-initiated Gulf War 1 , then a Gulf War 2 which was followed by a decade-long and still running civil war. This part of the world has not experienced anything remotely approaching a semi-functional nation-state since 1991 and YET the most of the world pretends that this nation-state actually exists. They do so even when the "official" elected government has no authority even 30 km north of their capital city, Baghdad. The northern part of this supposedly modern nation-state has been an almost autonomous Kurdish proto-state for over a decade. Then there is the now hard-to-ignore fact that most of the middle of that country is run by an semi-centralized entity that calls itself ISIL or Da'ish. Given that there is little possibility of this situation changing substantially in the near future, shouldn't we just stop believing that Iraq exists. I mean.. what harm can come from acknowledging what has been obvious for the last three decades or more. Perhaps it will be easier to deal with three entities that have some control over the territory they claim than one entity that has no authority over most of the country?
Afghanistan: Seriously.. how can this place be even considered to be a nation-state? For starters- it was carved out by the British and other western powers in the 19th century out of parts of central Asia that were too hard to colonize. It also does not help that most of this place has, since time immemorial, been occupied by numerous related but largely independent tribes engaged in continuous low-intensity conflicts with each other. Sure.. there have had kings and even emperors- but those individuals had little real authority beyond their capital city. To put it another way, most of the people in that region have never experienced anything close to living under a nation-state. I would hasten to add that the boundaries of this nation-state are hard to define because they are arbitrary and often passes through inhospitable terrain. Then there is the issue of Pakistan, its eastern neighbor, who has a lot of socio-economic and military influence in the eastern part of this country. To make matters even more complicated, most of this influence is based on transient and often fragile working arrangements with local tribal leaders. So how is a "country" whose government's writ does not run beyond its own capital city and whose borders are poorly defined and uncontrolled considered a nation-state? Iraq had two decades of despotic centralized rule under Saddam Hussein. I don't believe the nation-state known as Afghanistan had even that..
Yemen: Yet another example of a place that has seen human occupation and civilizations for thousands of years, but which is not a nation-state. Sure.. it, like Iraq and Afghanistan, has nominally been the part of many old empires. But its peculiar geographical characteristics have made it hard to define and has also resulted in a history filled with many small and localized kingdoms and fiefdoms. It does not help that this place has always been politically highly decentralized and geographically rather vague. A look at satellite views of its official borders with neighboring countries is helpful for understanding the later part of the previous sentence. Then there is the whole issue of who has been ruling, or not ruling, that country since WW2. While it started as a nominal arab-style tribal monarchy in the 1920s after a complicated civil war, things went to hell by the 1960s resulting in another much larger civil war and re-partitioning of the country, followed by a reunification which led to a rekindling of the low-intensity civil war which led to another country where the governments writ does not run beyond the capital city. Yet this place is considered by the west to be a nation-state.
In the next part of this short series, I will try to write about similar "nation-states" such as Ukraine and Libya.
What do you think? Comments?
February 21, 2015 at 11:35 pm
Countries like Iraq, Syria, Afghanistan, Libya and many others only exist on paper the populations there dont have any loyalty to the central government. Generally this countries can only keep united by a strong and brutal dictator.
They may not exist in reality but they the existence of them in paper makes it easier to western powers and others to deal with this people.
February 23, 2015 at 4:18 am
The idea of a modern nation state is so that people know who they have to bribe to gain an advantage.
It also implies a certain amount of guaranteed reciprocation.
So it's safe to say that those countries, could not get away for long either in terms of supplying hopium, or getting the ponzi started.
I suspect Daesh will be quite successful, since people will be participating in their themed real life LARP, the "Daesh Dinar Dash".
Since they have their own oil too, they can keep going.
Just the same way FARC has a drug/diamond trade.
Maybe, the circumstance of Daesh becoming a prime target, is because they are currently controlling oil that other people would prefer to control themselves.
February 23, 2015 at 10:42 am
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February 24, 2015 at 9:34 am
Your first three examples are right on. But let's look at why they remain important to the greater scheme of things.
Iraq=Oil. I believe that is plenty of explanation.
Afghanistan: Both the UN and the Pentagon conducted studies which believe that a Trillion-dollar recoverable mineral reserve exists there. As capitalist corporatism must have new and inexpensive (to them) sources of raw materials, especially the rare earth minerals so vital to modern electronnics, these findings merit attempting to "civilize" (read: impose colonization) the "nation" in order to harvest this bounty. It's not been widely reported in the US media, but US troops were defending a Chinese-operated copper mine in a region close to the border with China. The rationale behind this operation must be fascinating, considering the other issues between then US and China.
Yemen: The Southern Doorway to the Suez Canal is vital to the relative stability of global commerce. It would never do to force oil-laden supertankers to have to cruise around the entire African continent to avoid a few poorly-equiped Somali pirates. Yemen must be secure enough for US Special Forces and other covert war operatives to operate against the Somalis and preserve this vital trade route for EU bank profits.
A hundred years ago, colonial nations would ship large portions of their military to impose the conditions necessary for corporatism to function profitably. The 1973 Oil Embargo ended the efficacy of such operations, making them almost as expensive as any realizable gain from the colony. Cost-benefit analysis no longer sees this as a viable option. It's only when a nation's tax payers can be conned or manipulated into funding such operations that the private sector (which will be the only participant realizing any gain) needs.
But there is no room for error in such actions, as the US has discovered the hard way in Iraq and Afghanistan. There isn't enough reserve to recover from mistakes, nor to expand operations to take advantage of newly discovered opportunities. And, eventually, the people taken advantage grow restless and rebellious against such plans, and force an end to them no matter whether the corporate gains are realized or not.
So if corporatist plans for the world are to have any chance of succeeding as planned, they will have to take a lesson from the Classic Pirates of the 16th and 17th Centuries: Everyone in the crew shares in the spoils. The game of "Let's you and him fight for my profit" isn't going to work anymore.
February 27, 2015 at 7:00 am
Advocatus Diaboli,
You almost sound like a conservative.I say this because you recognize that these multi-cultural, multi ethnic(race) and multi religious states are not working and probably would work better if they were natural nations of one culture, one ethnicity(race) and one religion. Our ruling elites don't want that though. You are beginning to discover that humans are essentially hairless crosses between bonobos and chimpanzess and are more intelligent than either but also more self destructive than bonobos and chimpanzees because we humans are more tribal and warlike. Humans have a tendency to fight for their tribe over their economic interests. Even Captain Capitalism, Aaron Clarey, who is a capitalist while you are a socialist mentioned this and knows this. We humans are like bonobos for our sexual nature and like chimpanzees in our warlike nature,
I served in the U.S. Army in both Iraq and Afghanistan though I am no longer in the military. The reason Pakistan has so much control over eastern Afghanistan is that there are Pashtuns on both sides of the border between Afghanistan and Pakistan who cross fairly freely only occasionally being shot up and killed. The majority of Pashtuns live in Pakistan and are 15% of the population and the minority of Pashtuns who live in Afghanistan are 50% of Afghanistan people. The Pashtuns are over represented percentage wise in the Pakistan military. Both Pakistan and Afghanistan are a collection of different ethnicities.
Iraq has Indo-European Muslims living in Asia called the Kurds living in the north who are more racially and linguistically connected to Europeans although culturally very little related to Europeans except for Bosnians and Albanians who are both Muslim like the Kurds, The Kurds are even more related to the Persians of Iran and the Dari and Pashtuns of Afghanistan and the Tajiks of Tajikistan genetically and linguistically. The Persians are mostly Shia Muslims while the Kurds, Dari , Tajiks and Pashtuns are mostly Sunni Muslims. The Iranians with their mostly Persian Shia population help the Shias in Iraq and Afghanistan as much as they can. The Arabs in the middle and south are Semites and are not racially and linguistically related to the Kurds although because of Islam they culturally are to a limited extent.. The middle of Iraq is Sunni Arab Semites for the most part and the south of Iraq is mostly Shia Arab Semites.
February 27, 2015 at 10:49 pm
Isn't Aaron Clarey (CaptainCapitalism) the same guy who doxxed Barbarossa and Stardusk?
I believe they look like they belong in the same tribe, but in the competition for approval by women men do a lot of things to "put down their competition" …
February 28, 2015 at 6:10 am
I do not know who Barbarossa and Stardusk are, and I do not know if Aaron Clarey, Captain Capitalism, doxxed them. I agree with you that sadly, men do a lot of things "to put down their competition" to get women. It explains a lot but not all of why the USA and the rest of the West also is falling apart.


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killall httpd
kill is thorough and all child processes die and
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Traditionally, we might use the
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ps xawf -eo pid,user,cgroups,args
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Top 10 Chicago Blues Artists
Based around the primitive but captivating sounds of an amped-up electric guitar and wailing harmonica, the Chicago blues sound as we now know it was heavily influenced by the early Mississippi bluesmen who migrated north during the politically unstable 40s. So who were the most influential Chicago Blues Artists? We count down some of the biggest figures in blues, many of whom first emerged from the clubs in the black neighbourhoods on Chicago's south side.
Big Bill Broonzy
Famous for oft-covered standards such as 'I Can't Be Satisfied' and 'The Midnight Special', Big Bill Broonzy's hybrid style took in folk music, spirituals and country blues, and foreshadowed the post-war Chicago blues sound.
Junior Wells
Best known for his signature song 'Messin' With The Kid' and much-acclaimed 1965 album Hoodoo Man Blues, Junior Wells had a big hand in pioneering the hard-driving, amplified blues harmonica style synonymous with Chicago blues.
Sonny Boy Williamson
Closely associated with pre-war Chicago blues and the Bluebird label, singer and harmonica wizard Sonny Boy Williamson recorded much-loved standards including 'Stop Breaking Down'.
Otis Rush
Heavy on long bent notes, guitarist Otis Rush's west side Chicago blues style influenced Eric Clapton and Peter Green. His first single, 'I Can't Quit You Baby', was a huge Billboard chart hit.
Little Walter
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Bo Diddley
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Willie Dixon
Writer of omnipresent blues standards such as 'Little Red Rooster' and 'Spoonful', Grammy Award-winner Willie Dixon is synonymous with Chicago blues – and rightly so.
Howlin' Wolf
Born Chester Burnette, Howlin' Wolf's booming voice remains a looming presence on the Chicago blues scene, as do his hits 'Smokestack Lightnin'' and 'Killing Floor'.
Buddy Guy
Once described by Eric Clapton as "the best guitar player alive", Buddy Guy has a titanic catalogue, of which 1991's Grammy Award-winning Damn Right, I've Got The Blues is just the tip of the iceberg.
Muddy Waters
Often known as the "father of modern Chicago Blues", McKinley Morganfield (aka Muddy Waters) recorded numerous blues standards including 'Hoochie Coochie Man' and 'I'm Ready', and his influence on blues and modern-day electric rock'n'roll is virtually unparalleled.
Who are your Chicago Blues favourites? Let us know below!
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Third Degree from Willie Dixon!
Third Degree – Willie Dixon
for me, i've listened to them all. but, the best is that i got to meet a pretty good amount of these people.
muddy waters….hung out in his dressing room between shows.
otis rush….saw him in nyc with my friend, ronnie earl, playing with him.
willie dixon, buddy guy, jr. wells….met them all at a blues show in providence, rhode island.
i've also met james cotton. and, koko taylor used to stay at our house in boston when she would appear in that area.
sometimes i have to pinch myself when i think of meeting these great musicians!!
Muddy Waters: Long Distance Call
James Cotton (who plays harmonica on this video): Rocket 88
JB Hutto: Too Much Alcohol
Johnny Shines: Dynaflo Blues
Magic Sam
I think you forgot "Hound Dog Taylor.
Exactly. What a legend.
Wille, and the Wolf
No Jimmy Reed? I can't believe he is not on this list!
I can't believe Paul Butterfield's not there
No Magic Sam?????? WTF?
exactly!!! he certainly belongs!!!
Muddy Waters
Hound Dog Taylor and the House Rockers! Little Walter a close,and I mean close,second.
lighting hopkins
Texas not Chicago
1. Muddy Waters
2. Howlin' Wolf
3. Mudbone Steven Clark
4. J.B.Hutto
5. Hubert Sumlin
6. Willie Dixon
7. Hound Dog Taylor
8. Magic Sam
9. Memphis Slim
10. Sonny Boy Williamson
no John lee Hooker?
paul butterfield
Muddy Waters – Sugar Sweet
Little Walter – Whatever he did on harmonica and My babe.
Jimmy Rogers – Chicago Bound
Songs could be many others but these do stand out throughout the entire genre. Can you tell I love the woman in my life? 😉
Howlin Wolf is my favorite
What about the mighty Elmore James ?
James emerged from Mississippi in 1952 with "Dust My Broom." He definitely had an influence on the Chicago sound in the mid to late 1950s and beyond, but he was already well established by the time he arrived on the scene in Chicago.
T-Bone Walker? T-BONE WALKER??
T-Bone did not come out of Chicago. This list is of *Blues artists who emerged from the Chicago Blues scene*.
T-Bone had already enjoyed quite a bit of success in Dallas and Los angeles before his stint performing and recording in Chicago in the early 1940s. After the war his recording was once again centered in Los Angeles.
Lefty Diz live at Kingston Mines!
Elmore James with his Broomdusters, the rockin'-est Chicago blues band ever!!
James emerged from Mississippi in 1952 with "Dust My Broom." He definitely had an influence on the Chicago sound in the mid to late 1950s and beyond, but he was already well established by the time he arrived on the scene in Chicago.
My 10 includes
Sonny Boys Williamson II, Magic Sam,, Magic Slim, Hound Dog Taylor, Kokor Taylor
and Jimmy Reed
Eddie Shaw!!!!! The Master Blaster!
Eddie Shaw!!! The Master Blaster!
I believe Etta James belongs on this list, also.
Again, this is a lost of artists who were a part of the Chicago blues scene when they became established. Etta came out of California (both LA and the Bay area) and had already recorded in Memphis at Sun Records, dated B.B. King, and met a promising young singer from Tupelo, MS named Elvis before signing with Chess subsidiary Argo (later renamed Cadet).
I agree Hound Dog Taylor and Magic Sam need to be added. And Luther Allison takes a back seat to no one on this list.
And what about R.L. Burnside?
R.L. Burnside was from North Mississippi and developed his early musical style there. The short time he lived in Chicago in the 1940s he worked in factories and was not a well known performing musician. After about three years when several other family members had been murdered he returned to the north Mississippi/Memphis area. He was "discovered" there, did most of his recording there, and was based out of North Mississippi when he finally gained widespread recognition. So not really a *Chicago* blues artist.
Magic Sam, Jimmy Rogers, Junior Wells, Otis Rush
I'd say Magic Sam is definitely in the top 10. Elmore James was hugely influential and so was J. B. Lenoir.
don;t know why everyone thinks Bo Diddeley is so great.not from chicago i guess,but my fav is albert king.
This is retarded, forgive me for sounding respect less, but this is hands down the most worst list I have ever seen… No mention of the 3 greatest, Jimi for revolusionising the blues genre, Albert and Stevie on the top.


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- From 2013, the minimum corporate income tax is EUR 3,210, applicable to all SOPARFIs whose financial assets (participations, loans to affiliates, securities, cash) exceed 90% of their total balance sheet.
Debt-Equity ratio
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H.Essers Builds Romanian Distribution Center
Belgian logistics services provider H.Essers started construction of a distribution center on a 50,000 sq. m land plot near Bucharest on January 14, the company announced. Total investment in construction of the facility is estimated at about EUR 12.5 mln. The project, due to be completed in October, will have an area of 33,000 sq. m, with an option to be extended to 100,000 sq. m. "H. Essers last year bought land in the Bucharest Industrial Park project, initiated by the Ratiu family through Universal Property. At first, H. Essers wants to build a 30,000 sq. m warehouse on 5.0 ha of land. The company has an option to take over another 20 ha. After the first phase, the company will continue with the second phase," Alexandru Hagea, sales manager at the Universal Property, told Mediafax. Universal Property owns approximately 100 ha of land near A1 Bucharest-Pitesti Highway, in the Bolintin Deal area. The company has sold 73 ha of land to several logistics companies since the beginning of 2005.
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1. Explore the role of situational irony in this short story. Please share three examples.
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Situational irony occurs when the unexpected happens. Situational can relate to the characters' expectations or the readers'. In the case of Vonnegut's "Harrison Bergeron," the situational irony involves the overall irony of the story, a surprising ending, and some unpredictable twists throughout.
The central irony of the story is the handicap system used by the government to ensure that all members of the society are equal. Instead of allowing everyone to have the same advantages so that each can reach his or full potential, the constitutional ammendments in this futuristic society has disadvantaged its members so that no one is better than any one else. No one is smarter or more talented than any other person. Equality is usually interpreted as everyone having the same advantages, not the same disadvantages.
The second irony involves Harrison Bergeron who because he is the brightest and most talented of all is the most handicapped. His gifts make him a prisoner who must wear heavy weights around his neck and an ugly mask to hide his ugliness. Instead of allowing such an intelligent person to rise to the top of the society, Bergeron is punished as if he is a criminal, forced to be weighed down so that he is "crippled, hobbled, and sickened."
Lastly, when Harrison Bergeron escapes his handicaps and begins to dance a beautiful dance with a ballerina who has also shed her handicaps, he is mercilessly shot by Diana Moon Glampers. Instead of their actions being applauded and recognized for their grace and passion, they are killed as if they were criminals committed a horrible crime. And also ironic, is the fact that Bergeron's parents who are watching their son's murder on television are so heavily handicapped that they have no idea what has happened. All they know is that something sad happened on tv.
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|A successful prediction of the record CO2 rise associated with the 2015/2016 El Nino
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|Betts R.A, Jones CD, Knight J.R, Keeling RF, Kennedy J.J, Wiltshire A.J, Andrew R.M, Aragao L
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|atmospheric carbon-dioxide; biosphere; carbon dioxide rise; El Nino; emissions; fires; land-use; Life Sciences & Biomedicine - Other Topics; Mauna Loa; pacific; seasonal forecast; southern-oscillation; terrestrial; warming hiatus
In early 2016, we predicted that the annual rise in carbon dioxide concentration at Mauna Loa would be the largest on record. Our forecast used a statistical relationship between observed and forecast sea surface temperatures in the Nino 3.4 region and the annual CO2 rise. Here, we provide a formal verification of that forecast. The observed rise of 3.4 ppm relative to 2015 was within the forecast range of 3.15 +/- 0.53 ppm, so the prediction was successful. A global terrestrial biosphere model supports the expectation that the El Nino weakened the tropical land carbon sink. We estimate that the El Nino contributed approximately 25% to the record rise in CO2, with 75% due to anthropogenic emissions. The 2015/2016 CO2 rise was greater than that following the previous large El Nino in 1997/1998, because anthropogenic emissions had increased. We had also correctly predicted that 2016 would be the first year with monthly mean CO2 above 400 ppm all year round. We now estimate that atmospheric CO2 at Mauna Loa would have remained above 400 ppm all year round in 2016 even if the El Nino had not occurred, contrary to our previous expectations based on a simple extrapolation of previous trends. This article is part of a discussion meeting issue 'The impact of the 2015/2016 El Nino on the terrestrial tropical carbon cycle: patterns, mechanisms and implications'.
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Darryl and Joan serve as director and office administrator, respectively, for Bible Studies by Mail, Inc. They serve alongside two full-time missionaries, one part-time missionary and more than thirty volunteer workers in this outreach ministry. In 2017 they had over 5,300 people complete two or more Bible lessons in either English or Spanish. Their ministry provides a way for people to receive Bible studies by mail. While many people in North America take advantage of this ministry, from a wide variety of backgrounds including individuals who are incarcerated, Bible Studies by Mail, Inc, is not limiting where they will send Bible Study materials. This means mailing to Sri Lanka, Spain, or other areas around the world. People are discovering God's best for their lives through studying the Bible and surrendering their lives to the Lord Jesus Christ.
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Customer Relationship Management (CRM) systems are not just for sales. If you have a legacy CRM system that does little more than manage the sales process, you aren't getting the value a modern CRM system can provide.
The latest CRM systems like Sage CRM or Acumatica's Customer Management module can help you provide your customers with a superior experience at every point of contact from accounting to sales to service. CRM software solutions are not just for sales anymore.
CRM Software Solutions that Provide Value to All Departments
Although the exact figures will vary according to your company's revenues and expenses, you can estimate the value of an effective CRM software solution by understanding three data points:
- Revenue: How can improving the customer experience increase revenue? Think about opportunities for add-on sales, bigger shopping carts, and repeat visits. All of these lead to increased revenue.
- Operating costs: Consider how much you're spending now to monitor multiple channels manually. If you have separate departments monitoring call center volume, social media interactions, and email inquiries, how much could you save if these were all rolled into one interface?
- Improve efficiencies: Older IT systems and CRM systems tend to cost more and more each year to manage. You may feel like you're constantly patching, tweaking, and retooling what should work easily. New CRM software solutions not only improve the customer experience; they can decrease IT costs by reducing inefficiencies.
Gathering these inputs, figuring out revenues versus expenses, and assessing the overall brand impact that improved customer service may make on your business isn't a quick process. But a thorough examination of these facts may lead you to the conclusion that a new CRM software solution is indeed a valuable asset.
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The more you can integrate the different customer data inputs with your enterprise resource planning (ERP) software, the more holistic view you will have of your individual customers. That can help everyone in your company do a better job exceeding customer expectations.
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Artist of the Issue: Ben Calmas
According to Ben Calmas '18, "something clicked" the first time he looked through a camera lens. At Groton, he has most recently contributed his artwork as Photography Editor for The Circle Voice (CV) and through his work on senior portraits this spring.
Ben took photo classes for all three terms of his fourth form year, starting out in Photo 1, where he says he learned "basic skills and film photography." This year, as a senior, Ben has taken three terms of Photo Workshop. Photo Workshop is a more advanced course where students design their own syllabus based on their interests. Currently, Ben's artistic interests include self-portraits, analog photography of New York City, restoring slides from 1953, cyanotypes, and senior portraits. Ben described his photography as a good distraction from his heavy course load at Groton.
Before coming to Groton, Ben practiced photography recreationally. "I mostly just took pictures of my friends and family," he said. "My sisters and I would take a lot of photos in our backyard." Ben's earliest memories of photography are fresh in his mind: "I remember playing around with old disposable cameras when I was very little. My parents would give them to me after they had sent the film off to be developed and I would play with the dial and go around photographing my siblings. Other than that, my siblings got me really interested when they used me as a subject for their photo assignments."
What motivates Ben to pursue photography is his desire to share his work with others, most consistently showcasing his work with the CV. As the 2017-2018 Photography Editor, Ben assigned all of the article graphic needs to staff members and edited photographs and cartoons in Photoshop before they were put into the newspaper's layout. He says his favorite part of this "was seeing some of the newer photographers get really excited when their photo was published, especially because the photos were getting better throughout the year." In addition to working with the CV, Ben also contributed sports photography to the yearbook.
Most recently, Ben has been working on senior portraits. Senior portraits are an important Groton tradition that commemorates and celebrates the seniors. Ben has been hard at work photographing every member of the 2018 graduating class, alongside fellow photographer Elle Despres '18. Layla McDermott '18 noted that, "He really knew what he was doing. We walked around to find good lighting and the photos turned out really well."
Besides photography, Ben has also pursued his passion for improvisational comedy, or improv, at Groton. "I was at a summer camp at Yale between third and fourth form and one of the classes that I signed up for was Improvisation Comedy," he explained. "Everyone in that class meshed really well and we all still talk in our group text. We had a performance that was very fun to do and it felt entirely natural." After his summer camp, Ben started an Improv Club at Groton so that students who had three terms of sports, like him, could get involved in the theater. Alongside Ben, An Nguyen and Jamie Jiang '18 served as heads for the club. Jamie said, "[Ben] is consistently a good team player. He regularly organizes the meetings, leads us in games, and gets wacky. His barefoot shenanigans are one of the biggest sources of laughter in Improv Club. Ben can seriously take a joke and run with it and he is unafraid to be strange."
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12.18.18Hampton by Hilton Arrives at Frankfurt Airport
11.21.18Berlin Makes Way for Third Hampton by Hilton Property
Berlin has officially welcomed its third Hampton by Hilton property, the global value hotel brand by Hilton (NYSE:HLT).
06.24.18Hilton Expands Presence in Germany with Two Midscale Properties in Munich
The hotels, both managed by Foremost Hospitality GmbH, join three other Hilton Garden Inn properties and eight other Hampton by Hilton properties in Germany.
06.14.18Belgium Welcomes Hampton by Hilton Antwerp Central Station
Linda Hundersmarck, general manager, Hampton by Hilton Antwerp Central Station said, "Antwerp is a lively and historical city and home to Europe's second largest port."
05.23.18First Hampton by Hilton to Open in Spain
Hilton (NYSE: HLT) has signed a franchise agreement with Project HbH Alcobendas SL to open the first Hampton by Hilton hotel in Spain, in the Alcobendas neighbourhood of Madrid, that will be managed by PANORAM HOTEL MANAGEMENT.
05.21.18Hampton by Hilton Blackpool Arrives in Popular Seaside Town
The anticipated opening offers leisure and business travellers alike access to Hilton's renowned hospitality in one of the UK's top seaside destinations.
04.27.18Hampton by Hilton Arrives in Poland's Oswiecim City
Hilton's (NYSE: HLT) Hampton by Hilton brand, the globally recognised value hotel brand, today announced the opening of its newest property in Oswiecim.
02.12.18First Hampton by Hilton Hotel to Open in Vienna
Hilton (NYSE: HLT) and tristar Austria GmbH, a wholly owned subsidiary of tristar GmbH, have signed a franchise agreement to open Hampton by Hilton Vienna Messe.


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ABC House provides services to over 3,800 local people annually, including abuse assessments and medical consultation services to over 600 children each year. Child abuse and neglect occur across all races, nationalities, socioeconomic levels, and religions.
Studies show that abused children who do not receive appropriate support to address the trauma of abuse have a significantly increased risk of further abuse, inability to succeed in school, and long-term health issues including teen pregnancy and substance abuse. In addition, abuse and neglect during childhood have been liked to serious ailments in later life including diabetes, heart disease, and cancer.
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SCARF and SES establish first Multicultural Community Liaison Unit in NSW State Emergency Services
Over the past 12 months, SCARF and the NSW State Emergency Services (SES) have been working together with leaders and connectors from refugee backgrounds, to establish the first Multicultural Community Liaison Unit in the SES.
The aim of this initiative is to enhance SES outreach to newly emerging communities in the Illawarra. Establishing an MCLU comprised of refugee entrants is a practical way to engage with communities otherwise at risk of marginalisation in disaster response.
By creating a volunteer team of multilingual, multicultural Community Liaison Officers, the SES can readily connect with community members from refugee backgrounds in emergency situations (eg. floods, storms, bushfires) to ensure that important messages reach affected individuals and families in meaningful and culturally appropriate ways.
SCARF has supported 12 refugee entrants (originally from Africa, Asia and the Middle East) to register as SES volunteers and engage in training to become Multicultural Community Liaison Officers. All are enjoying the opportunity for knowledge and skills-development with the SES, and the chance to share ideas on effective emergency communications tailored to the needs of their respective communities.
SCARF Executive Officer, Sherryl Reddy, notes:
"Working collaboratively with the SES has been a mutually empowering experience for everyone involved. SCARF and the SES have gained valuable insight into gaps and capabilities in outreach and emergency messaging for newly emerging communities.
SES staff and volunteers have welcomed the opportunity to learn from the knowledge and experience of refugee entrants in disaster prevention and response. Participants from refugee backgrounds are gaining new skills, confidence and a sense of pride in serving their respective communities and the wider Australian community as volunteers in the SES."
This initiative emerged from a UOW research project led by Dr Christine Eriksen and Shefali Juneja, 'Resilient Together: Engaging the Knowledge and Capacities of Refugees for a Disaster Resilient Illawarra' which recently received a high commendation in the Resilient Australia Awards.


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Another Double or jointed fly as I like to call them. I started of with the trailing hook by tying on 5 Olive Chinese neck Hackles. Over those I then added a some green/brown & blue fine tinsel and then 10 long Ostrich hurl feathers. Whip finished and added a dab of head cement. Then attached it to the main hook by way of some old trace wire.
The main body is a combination of longer Olive Chinese neck hackles mixed with some brown microbarb saddles and long Olive ostrich hurl feathers as well as some more mixed thin tinsels.Then I added a pencil thick clump of Brown bucktail around the hook shaft. To finish off the fly I then Dubbing looped some brown Raccoon fur on.whip finished then stuck a couple of small 3D eyes on and bug-bonded it.
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Rachel Channon heads to Germany for controversial Lyme treatment
After years battling an "invisible illness" Rachel Channon has pinned her hopes on a controversial treatment at a clinic in Germany.
The 34-year-old Corrimal woman will be one of hundreds of people from all over the world who have flocked to the St Georg Klinik to undergo hyperthermia as a last-ditch attempt to cure them of Lyme disease.
It will cost around $50,000 for the three-week program that aims to kill the bacteria that causes Lyme by raising patients' body temperatures to almost 42 degrees before hitting them with high-dose antibiotics.
The government recognises there's some form of tick-borne disease in Australia, but not locally acquired Lyme.
"Dr Freidrich Douwes, who pioneered this treatment, was originally using it on cancer patients when he realised that the patients who also had Lyme disease were reporting significant improvements in those symptoms," Mrs Channon said.
"Other Australians who've had the treatment have reported positive results and for me, it's my last hope."
Looking back, Mrs Channon realises she's had symptoms of the tick-borne infection for many years. Yet it's in the last six months that they've become debilitating.
"It all stems back to a tick bite while I was bushwalking at Mount Keira in 1997. I then contracted glandular fever and have since been prone to infections and fatigue and it was put down to some sort of auto-immune disease," she said.
"However it got significantly worse six months ago after another tick bite while I was in Sydney. Now I'm constantly fatigued, I suffer joint swelling, headaches, nose bleeds, vomiting and nausea.
"I also have skin rashes, irritable bowel, reflux, palpitations, night sweats, mood swings - the list goes on."
Mrs Channon has seen countless medical professionals, with one GP finally suggesting she send a blood sample to a US lab for testing. The diagnosis - that she had the chronic bacterial infection - was welcome when it came back in January.
"It was a relief - it explained why I was having so many symptoms, and for so long," she said.
However the relief was short lived once she realised that locally-acquired Lyme disease was not recognised in Australia.
The Department of Health website states that Lyme disease can only be transmitted to humans if bitten by a tick carrying the bacteria, Borrelia burgdorferi. Ticks with these bacteria - it continues - have been identified in parts of the US, Europe and Asia - but not Australia.
"In Australia, this organism has yet to be identified in Australian ticks or any another vector that could transmit disease to humans," it states.
"It is for this reason that the Australian Government does not support the diagnosis of locally acquired Lyme disease in Australia."
For Mrs Channon this means she doesn't get the support - and treatment - she needs.
"The government recognises there's some form of tick-borne disease in Australia, but not locally acquired Lyme," she said.
"That means it's an invisible illness, and I feel invisible.
"It means that sufferers don't get the early intervention that's so crucial to stop it progressing to the chronic stage.
"It also means despite being debilitated from this disease, treatment is not covered by the Australian government or private health insurers or life insurance.
"The whole financial burden falls to us."
Mrs Channon hopes an online fundraiser (www.gofundme.com/rachvslyme) will help cover the cost of the German clinic which she'll travel to in May.
A fundraising trivia night is also being held on March 22 at the Corrimal RSL club. She's also speaking out to raise awareness to help others with the disease.
The Lyme Disease Association of Australia estimates there are well over 2000 medically confirmed cases in Australia and many more undiagnosed cases.
"The longer Lyme disease is ignored in Australia, the more people will become chronically affected and the harder it is to treat," Mrs Channon said.
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11th June 2019, 1:10 pm
Waukee High School Choir: Lady Chapel Lunchtime Concert
Tuesday 11 June – Ely Cathedral, The Gallery, Ely, CB7 4DL
1.10pm – FREE (retiring collection)
As part of their international choir tour, the Waukee High School Choir will perform in the atmospheric surroundings of the Cathedral Lady Chapel. The school has a strong tradition of excellence and more than 325 students participate in the choir on a daily basis. Led by Jeff Knutson (head choir director) and Kathryn Mosiman (associate choir director).
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TV Choice maiden ABCs to hit other TV listings titles
H Bauer's TV Choice is this week expected to report audited figures – its first – of between 600,000 and 700,000, which will make a significant dent in the circulations of other TV listings titles.
The magazine which launched in August last year at 35p triggered a price-cutting war with rival publisher IPC Media.
The effect of the launch hit IPC so badly that it was referred to in the statement accompanying the release of IPC's financial results for the six-month period ending March 31.
The statement made it clear that there had been "an adverse move of &£4.2m in circulation revenues of IPC tx", the subsidiary responsible for the group's TV weekly magazines, and that "this was affected by the launch in August 1999 of a direct competitor to the group's market leader, What's On TV".
IPC's What's On TV circulation of 1,741,157 was down 1.4 per cent year on year, according to the last set of figures from the Audit Bureau of Circulations for the period to December 1999. The launch issue of TV Choice achieved sales of more than 1 million, but it is thought that its circulation has settled below that figure.
But the last set of ABC results released in December also indicated that the title affected the circulation figures for H Bauer's TV Quick, which was down 13.8 per cent year on year to 638,855.