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1. Liechtenstein
acceded in 1982 to the European Convention on Human Rights, article
3 of which prohibits torture or inhuman or degrading treatment or
2. Liechtenstein
signed on 26 November 1987 and subsequently ratified the European
Convention for the Prevention of Torture and Inhuman or Degrading
Treatment or Punishment, which entered into force for Liechtenstein
on 1 January 1992.
3. The Parliament
of Liechtenstein gave, on 12 September 1990, authorization of ratification
of the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading
Treatment or Punishment of 10 December 1984 (hereafter referred to
as "the Convention"), which had been signed on 27 June 1985.
Liechtenstein deposited its instrument of ratification on 2 November
1990 and the text of the Convention, which entered into force for
Liechtenstein on 2 December 1990, was published in Liechtenstein on
21 September 1991.
4. Liechtenstein
has subscribed to the principle stated in article 5 of the Universal
Declaration of Human Rights, adopted by the United Nations General
Assembly on 10 December 1948.
5. Liechtenstein
has committed itself to the mechanism of examination by the Committee
established under the provisions of the European Convention against
Torture of the treatment of persons deprived of their liberty by means
of visits, with a view to strengthening, if necessary, the protection
of such persons from torture and from cruel, inhuman or degrading
treatment or punishment.
6. When ratifying
the Convention, Liechtenstein made the relevant declarations in accordance
with articles 21 and 22 of the Convention regarding the competences
of the Committee against Torture to receive claims from States parties,
as well as from individuals under the jurisdiction of Liechtenstein.
7. In the
legal system of Liechtenstein, international law forms an integral
part of national law and is directly applicable, provided it lends
itself to that purpose. Any person can therefore invoke the legal
texts referred to above before the courts and the competent authorities.
8. Any victim
of torture or cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment
has the right to bring proceedings against the perpetrator of such
acts. Complaints containing such allegations can be lodged with the
Government. No such complaints have been lodged during the reporting
9. In order
to expand and deepen the relationship in the field of legal assistance,
Austria and Liechtenstein concluded, on 4 June 1982, a treaty on the
accommodation of prisoners, which entered into force on 1 September
1983. According to this treaty, Austria will give, upon request by
Liechtenstein, legal assistance by executing imprisonment sentences
and preventive measures pronounced by a Liechtenstein court and accommodate
persons who have to be held in custody pursuant to an order by a court
of the Principality of Liechtenstein.
10. The practical
implementation of the Convention in Liechtenstein is not affected
by any difficulties.
11. This
article defines the term "torture" for the purposes of the
Convention and is the first such definition contained in an international
instrument. Since there is no definition of the term "torture"
in either the Constitution of Liechtenstein or in the relevant legislative
texts, the present definition has to be considered valid in Liechtenstein
since the entry into force of the Convention.
12. Protection
against torture and similar acts is guaranteed by the Constitution,
article 33, paragraph 2 of which reads as follows: "Nobody may
be threatened with or subjected to penalties other than those provided
by the laws". This right can be invoked by any individual under
the jurisdiction of Liechtenstein.
13. Torture
and cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment are punishable
under the Penal Code of Liechtenstein by virtue either of reference
to wilful infliction of bodily harm (paras. 83-89) or of provisions
regarding the treatment of prisoners (para. 312). Paragraph 312 of
the Penal Code reads as follows:
14. Other
cases covered by the Convention are dealt with under the provisions
of the Penal Code designed to protect physical integrity, which have
been referred to above.
2 and 3
15. These
provisions are, in accordance with the legal system of Liechtenstein,
directly applicable and therefore do not require any specific legislative
16. This
provision is also directly applicable under Liechtenstein law. Due
to certain difficulties in practice, however, discussions on drafting
a law on the granting of asylum are currently being undertaken.
17. All acts
of torture are offences under the criminal law of Liechtenstein according
to the provisions referred to in paragraph 11. Paragraph 12 of the
Penal Code stipulates the following: "A punishable act is not
only committed by its immediate perpetrator, but also by any person
who induces another person to commit such an act or in any other way
contributes to the commission of the act".
18. Paragraphs
12 and 312 of the Penal Code thus ensure that complicity or participation
in acts of torture is an offence under criminal law.
19. Paragraph
15 of the Penal Code stipulates the following:
20. Paragraphs
15 and 312 of the Penal Code thus ensure that attempts to commit any
acts of torture are an offence under criminal law.
21. Consequently,
attempts to commit torture and any act constituting participation
or complicity in acts of torture are punishable in accordance with
paragraph 312 of the Penal Code.
22. For punishable
acts committed abroad, paragraph 64 of the Penal Code stipulates the
23. Given
the direct applicability of the provisions of the Convention, those
contained in article 5 have to be considered such an obligation. Paragraph
64.1.6 of the Penal Code and article 5 of the Convention together
thus ensure the fulfilment of the provisions contained in article
1 and 2
24. The provisions
contained in these paragraphs did not require specific legislative
measures, since they are directly applicable in Liechtenstein law.
Violations of the prohibition of torture are prosecuted by the competent
judicial authorities in accordance with the provisions of the Penal
Code as well as with those of the Convention and other relevant international
instruments having entered into force for Liechtenstein.
25. With
regard to the period of time during which a person alleged to have
committed an offence referred to in article 4 is to be held in custody,
article 16 of the European Convention on Extradition of 1957, which
entered into force for Liechtenstein on 26 January 1970, is relevant.
Paragraph 3 of this article provides that provisional arrest may be
terminated if, within a period of 18 days after arrest, the requested
party has not received the request for extradition; that period shall
not, in any event, exceed 40 days from the date of arrest.
26. According
to article 135 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, any person held
in temporary custody is authorized to communicate with any person
through writing as well as by receiving visits of such persons, in
a way and to an extent which do not have a negative impact on the
ongoing inquiry. Under any circumstances, a person held in temporary
custody is entitled to communicate in writing with the national courts,
other national authorities or the European Commission of Human Rights.
27. National
legislation does not contain any specific provision regarding the
contact with representatives of the State of which a person held in
custody is a national. It has to be pointed out, however, that this
is covered by article 36, paragraphs 1(b) and (c) and 2, of the Vienna
Convention on Consular Relations of 24 April 1963, which entered into
force for Liechtenstein on 19 March 1967:
28. It should
be added that the provisions of this article also apply to nationals
of States which have not ratified the Vienna Convention on Consular
29. For the
purposes of the Convention, stateless persons are equated with nationals
of the State where they usually reside.
30. The provision
contained in this paragraph is directly applicable and the authorities
conducting an inquiry are therefore bound to act in the manner indicated
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This weekend. Hopefully he won't commit.
Nobody but HB knows for sure. You pretty much know nothing....like Knownothing would like to say.
Why would you commit to Utah when you could commit to ISU, UNI?
"Winning isn't everything, it's the only thing."
I thought he wanted to RS and we didn't want him if he did.
I would bet against this unless, he doesn't redshirt or walks on for a year.
I heard that rumor. Not sure if it's true.
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I heard that rumor. Not sure if it's true.
Will has been quoted twice...saying redshirt and sitting out a year. Two different articles that I saw.
If that is the case I would rather have Thames.
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If that is the case I would rather have Thames.
Exactly, but we already know that answer...So, translation says we pretty much know Clyburn deal too.
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Hello, Today I was parked and a cop decided to give me a ticket for having window tints, although the limit in "Chicago" states 35%. My tints are 35% all around so how can I fight this ticket, since it is within it's legal limits? Violation code is 9-76-220.Thanks.
Hello,Thank you for the information and your question. I think there might be some confusion over what the Chicago Ordinance says and what "Illinois" law says. Illinois law allows for tinting of up to 35%. However, the Chicago ordinance says no tinting at all on certain windows. So, if you were ticketed in Chicago, then that ordinance controls and you would not have a legal basis for a defense. You can see a court case that discusses this specific issue in terms of the legality of the ordinance in light of State law by going to: http://www.state.il.us/court/R23_Orders/AppellateCourt/2012/1stDistrict/1111284_R23.pdfThe language of the ordinance is contained in that court ruling. Please let me know if you need any clarification. I would be glad to try to assist you further if I can.
Okay, so do you know what windows cannot have window tinting?
Chicago cannot enforce violations coded 09-76-220(b) as it pertains to equipment, of which Chicago does not have Home Rule jurisdiction. IL motor vehicle code allows certain combinations of tint including front tint and cannot be overriden by home rule in accordance to the IL Municipal Code (65 ILCS 5/1-2.1-2).
Is this valid? If true, and I can prove I am within my legal limits, I should be okay, right?
Also, that link you provided is not working.
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Aboriginal Spirituality: Past, Present, Future.
Edited by Anne Pattel-Gray. Melbourne: HarperCollinsReligious, 1996. Pp. xiii, 127. No price given.
Martung Upah: Black and White Australians Seeking Partnership. Edited by Anne Pattel-Gray. Melbourne: HarperCollinsReligious, 1996. Pp. 340. No price given.
Much has been written about the indigenous people of Australia. Only in recent times, however, have works been authored by indigenous people themselves. These two books represent the cutting edge of Aboriginal religious scholarship. Both edited by Dr. Anne Pattel-Gray, founding executive secretary of the Aboriginal and Islander Commission of the National Council of Churches in Australia, they present the reader with a broad spectrum of traditional Aboriginal spirituality; the impact of colonization, missionization, and modernity; and contemporary developments in theology, politics, education, and many other areas.
The first book, Aboriginal Spirituality, is divided into two major sections. Almost all the papers contained in part I were first presented in relation to Aboriginal Spirituality: Past, Present, Future-First National Conference on Aboriginal Spirituality and Perceptions of Christianity, which was held in Victor Harbour, South Australia, in August 1990, sponsored by the University of Sydney's Department of Religious Studies (now the School of Studies in Religion). Its chapters include "Concepts of Land and Spirituality," by traditional northeast Arnhem Land leader Galarrwuy Yunupingu; "That Christ Fella," by renowned activist and author Kevin Gilbert; and "Guidelines for SoCalled Western Civilization and Western Christianity," by Charles Harris. The papers contained in part 2 represent just some of the work that has been done on this topic beyond the 1990 national conference and includes chapters such as "The Value of Aboriginal Culture," by Graham A. Paulson; "Mungulk Dhalatj-a Calm Wisdom," by husband-and-wife team Djungadjunga and Dhanggal Yunupingu; and "Aboriginal Myths and Customs: Matrix for Gospel Preaching," by popular Lutheran pastor George Rosendale. …


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Unfortunately, no. Money in a UGMA may only be used by the minor once he reaches the age of majority. The only exception that is if the minor begins higher education before they reach the age of majority. In that instance, it can be used with the consent of the custodian (you).
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BANGLADESH: Attorney General plays key role to deny Adilur's bail granted by High Court
Bangladesh's authorities are trying to block the process of releasing the human rights defender Adilur Rahman Khan, today, October 9, 2013.
A Division Bench of the High Court Division of the Supreme Court of Bangladesh granted six months interim bail to Adilur Rahman Khan yesterday, 8 October 2013. Nearly after two months since the detention started on August 10 the High Court has granted bail following rejection of the bail petitions by the Magistrate's Court once and Cyber Crimes Tribunal twice respectively. The Court passed this order after hearing Adilur's petition, moved by Supreme Court Bar's president Barrister AJ Mohammad Ali, in a Division Bench of the High Court. The Court ordered immediate release of Adilur, as there is no other case against him, asking the order should be served to the prison authorities by special messenger. It also directed the government and the police to explain why Adilur would not be granted regular bail.
Adilur was expected to be released from Kashimpur Central Jail-1 while the process of sending the Court's order was in progress amidst rumours and suspicion that the authorities may re-arrest him in fresh fabricated cases, as there is such culture of re-arresting targeted persons in front of the gates of the prisons immediately after their release.
Today, in the afternoon, in less than 24 hours since the High Court granted bail to Adilur, the Office of the Attorney General has challenged yesterday's bail order before the Bench of the Chamber Judge of the Supreme Court. The Attorney General requested the Chamber Judge's Bench to stay the High Court's order, however, the Court rejected the governmental plea while hearing the matter this afternoon.
The Attorney General's appeal is part of the governmental strategy to prolong Adilur's detention.
The Asian Human Rights Commission is aware that the government has amended the Information and Communications Technology Act, 2006, last week, ensuring that the crimes fall under Sections 54, 56, 57 and 61'cognizable' and 'non-bailable' that were 'non-cognizable' and 'bailable' in the original law, despite the fact that the definitions of the crimes are mostly vague in the legislation. These amendments amount to retrospective legislation.
Constitutionally the Attorney General's role is to appear for the government of Bangladesh. However, the Attorney General's Office has been highly politicised and now it represents the wishes of the ruling regime.
The fate of Adilur is still uncertain. The government has established the 'Cyber Crimes Tribunal' headed by a Sessions Judge. According to the information received, the Cyber Crimes Tribunal judge AKM Shamsul Alam, in the latest hearing, on 25 September, rejected Adilur's bail petition and ordered to execute the warrant of arrest previously issued against Odhikar's Director Mr. ASM Nasiruddin Elan. The Tribunal, which on September 18 took the cognizance of charges of committing crimes under Section 57 of the Information and Communications Technology Act, 2006, and Sections 505 (c) and 505A of the Penal Code, 1860, had set the next date of hearing the case for 21 October. However, tomorrow is the last day of court and it will not resume again until the holidays for the Eid-ul Azha is finished. It seems that the government is trying hard to keep Adilur behind bars so as to strangle the voice of Odhikar before the national elections.
Significantly, a number of prominent lawyers having different political and strategic backgrounds appeared before the Court on behalf of Adilur while the bail petition was moved by former Attorney General Mr. AJ Mohammad Ali, a barrister and president of the Supreme Court Bar Association.
The Asian Human Rights Commission urges the civil society organisations in Bangladesh and the diplomatic community to intervene on behalf of Adilur Rahman Khan to ensure his speedy release. We also call upon the United Nations Human Rights High Commissioner's office and the international community to intervene on his behalf.


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It appears to be a difficult future ahead for one health department in the east.
Jones County Health Officials said Monday at a commissioner meeting that without a primary-care provider available 40 hours a week, the department would likely not generate enough revenue to keep current staff levels.
Grace Clinic which shared staff with and was located at the Health Department in Trenton closed last week leaving self-pay patients who are under insured or uninsured with fewer medical provider options.
So a doctor familiar with the former Grace Clinic and the health care problems in Jones County has stepped in until a more permanent solution can be implemented.
Uninsured or under insured patients can also travel to New Bern and use the Merci Clinic, but Jones County Health Officials say that would be only a short term solution.


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My babys daddy and I are not married. Should I give her his last name?
I have heard that changing the name later on the birth certificate can be very costly.
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Lovebug_3, having his last name or not, no one can adopt that baby unless both signatures of the biological parents are on the form. Not unless she doesn't list his name at all on the birth certificate and the real father does absolutely nothing for the child. And even then it can become a little tricky. pkallen56 : if you are questioning if you should give your baby its fathers name, then maybe the real question that is in your mind, are we going to work out? Maybe you feel that this relationship won't go to the next level and your trying to avoid something.posted 09/07/2012 by a BabyCenter Member
This is a choice that is completely up to you. I don't see anything wrong with giving baby his last name, but you should make sure the future looks bright a head for you guys your baby can always be adopted by you future husband.... something for you to think aboutposted 09/07/2012 by Lovebug_3
It's your choice. But if your not married and are not sure if it's in your future plans, at lease consider hyphenating both your names.posted 09/07/2012 by imShadz
When I was pregnant with my first child at the time her father and I was not married and I gave her his last name.I do not see anything wrong with that.But it's totally up to you!posted 09/06/2012 by mzjazzybaby88
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Twenty-One Ways to Improve Your Photographs
He was young, naïve, just starting. As the saying goes, Out of the mouths of babes He asked, What are the most important things I should do to improve my photographs? It was such a straightforward question and I have been involved in photography so long youd think I would have had a simple and canned answer. I did not. I was nonplussed. I decided Id better think about this seriously if I was to answer in a useful way. Let me get back to you.
And how do you answer such a question? By looking back at my negatives, my prints, my methods, successes, failures and, in short, my personal history in photography. From this scrutiny (a rich source of what not to do) I compiled a list, narrowed it down, found the common threads. At the risk of sounding somewhat undeservedly authoritarian, here are
Twenty-One Ways to Improve Your Artwork
1.) Shoot more than you do; print more than you do; and be a ruthless editor. Im serious. There is a great deal to be gained in sheer volume not that volume itself is any virtue, but practice is. Besides, relentless practice does have a twin sister known as luck. And in photography, unlike golf, a lucky shot when one is just practicing can count as much as a skilled shot when one is serious. Speaking of volume, if you are not throwing out ten finished prints for every one you exhibit youre not being critical enough. If you are not shooting 100 negatives for every one you print, you are not being energetic enough. Motor drives dont count.
2.) If I could do one thing that would improve most photographs more than anything I would simply tape a big dot in the middle of the viewfinder so that you cant see whats in the dead center of the composition. Avoid bulls-eye composition whenever possible. Whenever I see the subject plopped in the dead center of the frame, I know the photographer is confused; they are confused about the purpose of making art. We dont make art to show someone what something looks like. All this requires is eyes (or a lens). Art is supposed to have meaning, emotion, power, or magic. Dont merely show what the subject is; show what it isnt, show what it means, show why it is, how it is, for whom it is, where it is, and/or when it is. Imagine a novel with only descriptions; without plot, motivation, depth, crisis, or crescendo, a novel would be merely a catalog of object descriptors. It is the same with photographs.
3.) Think in two-dimensions. You are not making a picture of something; you are making something and what you are making is two-dimensional. If you cant learn to see flat, use Polaroid materials. If you dont have Polaroid materials make a sketch/drawing of your photograph before you make the exposure. Learn to see edges and shapes instead of details and colors. Squint and look at the world through your eyelashes so the details dissolve. Or, try looking through a lightly frosted piece of plastic. See your composition in terms of its large masses first, and let the film reveal the details. Learn that composition is about shapes and that texture is about details.
4.) The best telephoto lens in the world is your feet. Move closer. Move even closer. Use wider-angled lenses and get closer. The best photographs are almost always ones in which the viewer feels directly involved in the world in the image, and this happens most successfully with direct engagement. Become engaged with your subject material. The easiest way to do so is with wider lenses and physically closer involvement. Of course, not every great picture of the world is made with a wide-angle lens. But, if 30% of your images are made with a wide-angle lens and 70% with a telephoto, reverse this ratio and you will find your photographs improve dramatically.
5.) Photography is part art and part science. It involves the human heart, but is made manifest through optics, chemistry, electronics, and the laws of physics. The science part of photography is composed of an infinite number of variables and is much, much easier to learn if you reduce the number of variables. In the first several years, choose one good film and paper and stick with it. Limit the number of cameras you own, especially early in your career. Learn thoroughly what your materials will do and dont get seduced by the idea that better photographs reside in better equipment. Never forget that all the great photographs in history were made with more primitive camera equipment than you currently own.
6.) Work in projects. Make lots of images and look deeper. Allocate time to rephotographing things youve already photographed. Look at the clues in your images and see the things that your photographs tell you they would have liked to have been. Assume your first photographing session is a warm-up, a sketch pad, a get-acquainted session. Allow the images to unfold as you work the project repeatedly. Learn to be receptive to the inanimate objects around you, because they speak to you as an echo of your subconscious creativity. The same can be said of your photographs. Pretend as though your previous photographs are teachers, not children. Every project, no matter what the project, requires research the kinds of research you do in the library as well as in the field. Read, study, ask questions, look at the work of those whove gone before you, think, ask questions, listen some more, and ask more questions. Write things down. If a project doesnt occupy a serious percentage of a notebook full of notes, you probably havent done enough to think about the project before you pull out the camera. Mull over projects from the very beginning to the very end. What do you need to know? Who knows it? What will it look like in its final state? Where will you need to go? Whos going to care? What are the components? How does this fit? When is the deadline? Is there a budget? How much will it cost? What defines success? What are you willing to sacrifice in order to complete this project?
7.) Reverse engineer your equipment. Every image, every project, is best created with a certain set of tools. Start with the image or the project and figure out which tools will best help you to succeed. If you find you are constantly needing new equipment, review #5 above and be honest about whether or not you are choosing the right projects.
8.) Attend workshops. Read books. Seek out the advice of experienced photographers. There is no virtue in reinventing the wheel other than the intellectual exercise of doing it. If you want to make great photographs, look at great photographs and talk to great photographers. Be someones apprentice for a while. Assign yourself the task of reproducing great photographs as closely as you can. Then, when youve succeeded, throw that film and those prints away and never show them to anyone. Learn from the masters, but dont become them. Dont seek the masters; seek what they sought. This relates to ...
9.) Work through the compulsories. It has truly been said that to see farther than others you should stand on the shoulders of giants. Great photographers and artists before you have made work that survives today as a testament to their creativity. In order for you to carry their torch, you must first trod their path. Dont be discouraged if it takes you years to learn what they already know; it took them years to learn from those who came before them. Study history. Know the conventions, the rules, the clichés, the techniques know the mind of those who have already asked and answered your questions.
10.) Finish it. Dont allow yourself to use negatives or raw data files as a storehouse for potential artwork. There is nothing to be gained by having the potential to be great. To paraphrase the movie cliché: if you finish it, they will come. There is a universal Law of Audience that says if you finish work, the universe cannot stand that it remains unseen. Opportunities will unfold as if by magic. In addition, when you are old, you will be able to look back and see which of your projects were the best ones. This is inevitable. But if your best project is, for example, your 10th project, there is no way you could have gotten there until you completed the first nine. There is no faster way, no more efficient way, to get to your lifes best work than to finish the necessary work you need to do that prepares you for your eventual best work. Finish it, let go of it, move on.
11.) Realize that creativity does not work on a clock. Be prepared for your creative subconscious whenever it is prepared to show itself. Use a memo recorder. Carry paper and pen. Be disciplined about capturing odd thoughts at odd moments when they pop up. Do photography (or at least think photography) every day. Dont be surprised if your best and most creative ideas happen when you least expect them.
12.) Let go of photography and make art. By that I mean recognize the highest purpose of photography as art is to communicate and connect with your fellow human beings. The objective of photography as a fine art pursuit is not to accumulate artifacts that will impress collectors and curators. Ultimately, your real work is to connect your Self to the world. In doing so, you will pass on to the viewer an artifact which connects them to the world and back to you. Ultimately, if your work does not move someone, it does not move anything.
13.) Develop your photographic literacy. Read books, attend exhibitions, subscribe to magazines (particularly ones with photographs that are non-photographic magazines) and develop your own personal mental gallery of images, image-makers, imaging trends, and likes and dislikes. The more you know about other photographers, strange as it sounds, the more youll know about yourself and in particular when it is that you are walking your own creative path and when you are walking someone elses creative path in delusion.
14.) Ignore advice from others if they tell you how to do it their way. Of course, ultimately I suppose this advice also pertains to this list. But, fundamentally, I mean this to apply to photo criticism. There is no more useless critique than when the comment starts out, If it were my picture I would have done... It is not their picture, and how they would have done it is totally non sequitur. The best critics will tell you what it is they see in your photograph and leave it up to you to decide whether or not what they see is a function of their unique vision or your success or failure in making the image you intended.
15.) Live with it for a while before going public. Create a space in your home or your studio where you can thumbtack lots of pictures to the wall. Keep them there, look at them repeatedly, look at them at different times of day, in different light, in different moods, to see how your response to your image changes with time. See both inside and outside the frame of mind you had when you were creating it. The process of doing so will likely lead you to try printing variations, cropping variations, and even entirely new approaches with a given image. This is good and generally shows that the image is speaking to you and that you are listening.
16.) Forget grants and figure out a way to make it happen on your own. Dont let the lack of resources get in your way. Do not let limitations prevent you from doing your art. Do not rely solely on the generosity of others; this is a seductive trap. To do so will mean that your work can only progress when someone else wills it. Ultimately, no one cares about your artwork or your artistic progress more than you. Recognize, as Steven Bender said, that the art life is a benefit you must be willing to pay for.
17.) Think clearly about your objectives. Which is more important to you: earning an income or getting your work distributed? Which do you care about more: making images the public loves or making images that you must? If youre lucky, these are the same, but if theyre not, clearly knowing which is more important to you makes everything else easier. There are no right answers here. There is only confusion when you work at cross-purposes to your objectives.
18.) Photography is not a group activity. Learn to work alone. Learn to work without distractions. Turn off the music. Surround yourself with silence. Each one of us has a muse within us who tries to communicate and advise us on the creative path. There are no exceptions to this. But there is also a universality that all muses tend to whisper. To hear them clearly one must reside in a very still place.
19.) Dont photograph what is photographable. Photograph what interests you, even if it is impossible to photograph. It is almost impossible to make a great photograph of something that doesnt interest you. Passion about the subject matter, about the way it reacts with light, about the way it moves and changes, about the way it makes you feel this is the subject of photography, not the things in the image. There are no boring subjects in the entire universe there are plenty of boring photographs made by bored photographers. Become passionate about something and that passion will, with time and dedication, manifest itself in your images.
20.) Think. Think from your subjects point of view. Think from your audiences point of view. Think about what you are communicating. Think about how this will look in the passage of time. Think about whats on the edges, just inside, just outside the photograph. Think about what you have said. Think about what you havent said. Think about what people will think you have said, and what theyll think you havent said. Most importantly, know when to think and when to suspend thinking on purpose. Art without thought is incomplete. Art with thought is incomplete. Artmaking requires both thinking and non-thinking in order to become more than mere pretty pictures.
21.) Remember, art is not about artwork. Art is about life. To become a better artist, first and foremost become a better person not in the moral sense, but rather in the complete sense. Remember that the greatest artist is not the one with the best technique, but the one with the most human heart.
Thats about it, although I do reserve the right to amend and modify this advice as I grow older. I do so because and this is the real key artmaking is a process, and lessons wait in every moment to be discovered. Im still making art and still learning every day. And I have faith that the most important lessons as well as my most important works of art are yet to be discovered. Come to think of it, that in itself is a lesson worth remembering.
Brooks Jensen
Editor, LensWork Publishing
Copyright 2005, LensWork Publishing. Used with permission. This interview originally appeared in LensWork #58, May 2005. www.lenswork.com
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PEORIA, Ariz. – Ask Lloyd McClendon what life was like with the early 1990s Pittsburgh Pirates, one of the more memorable teams of the era, and the first-year Mariners manager responds with a question of his own.
"Ever see 'One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest?' '' he asks of the 1975 movie set in a psychiatric hospital. "That was our locker room. It was an adventure every day.''
Andy Van Slyke, who along with Barry Bonds and Bobby Bonilla formed the outfield of a team that advanced to three straight National League Championship Series, offers a different showbiz analogy.
"It was more of a Seinfeld environment than it was a major-league clubhouse,'' he said. "You had a lot of strong, different personalities.''
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Reunited two decades later in Seattle, McClendon has now entrusted Van Slyke with bringing stability to the Mariners' outfield defense, which was something of a fun house of its own in 2013.
Among the more significant factors in the Mariners' 71-91 record a year ago was an outfield defense that was considered one of the worst in the majors — to cite one metric, Seattle ranked last in MLB in runs saved by its defense.
Exchanging Raul Ibanez and Michael Morse for younger and more athletic players in the outfield should help.
Van Slyke, though, also comes to Seattle with a lot ideas for improving the Mariners' outfield.
Van Slyke won five Gold Gloves as a center fielder with the Pirates, highlighting a 13-year career. Since retiring after the 1995 season, he has spent time with his family and worked in the media, save for a four-year stint as a coach with the Tigers from 2006-09 when he served under Jim Leyland — his manager with the Pirates — and alongside McClendon.
When McClendon was hired by the Mariners in November, Van Slyke called immediately to say he would like to come aboard and help his former Pirates teammate. The two played together in Pittsburgh from 1990-94.
"I wanted to work for Lloyd because he is smart, competitive and I know that he frees up his coaches to do their job and doesn't want to micromanage everybody, which is great for an employee,'' said Van Slyke, 53.
Van Slyke is also the team's first-base coach and will help with baserunning.
But shoring up the leaky outfield is task one this spring. Van Slyke, though, said he didn't bother much looking at what the team did a year ago.
"I don't care if it was the best team in baseball or the worst team,'' he said. "That's irrelevant to my job. My job is to make each individual player do things they don't think was possible.''
So that's why Van Slyke has the Mariners outfielders alternately diving to the turf or looking far into the sky for baseballs during workouts.
Practicing diving, Van Slyke says, is something not every team embraces.
But he says it has to be practiced as often as possible so that when a player has to dive after a ball in a game it is second nature.
"I want the hard play to become ordinary and the extraordinary to become routine and the impossible possible,'' he said. "You try to make the conditions of practice harder, faster, and almost impossible to accomplish whatever drill you are doing so when the game starts, every other play becomes possible.''
And if players don't want to dive after balls in practice?
"It's irrelevant what they think,'' he said. "It's what I think, and whether they buy into it is up to them.''
Another Van Slyke drill has him turning the team's pitching machines to top speed and then blasting baseballs straight into the air. He estimates the balls travel far above the 275 feet that is the tallest point of the roof at Safeco Field.
"If you can catch a fly ball that has left the vicinity vertically, then you've got a pretty good chance at getting anything under the roof,'' he said.
Van Slyke is also preaching pregame preparation.
"Every ballpark you go into, the speed of the field is going to be different,'' he said. "The grass in California is different than the grass in the Northeast. So you have to be in with your surroundings on a series-by-series basis. You'd be surprised that a lot of major-leaguers never put that into the equation, so they are not cutting balls off the right way, or they get beat on a ball.''
Stefen Romero, hoping to make a major-league roster for the first time, says working with Van Slyke "has really opened up my eyes how to get after it in the outfield."
Romero said Van Slyke's drills, such as catching the balls straight up in the air, "brings a sense of fun back into practice. It's just making practice more enjoyable.''
It has been only a few weeks, and spring training is the time for eternal optimism. But McClendon insists the outfield defense is improving daily.
"I think we all agree our outfield is playing better,'' he said.
Van Slyke, though, says he understands that ultimately there's only so much coaching can do.
"It's not my responsibility to get them better,'' he said. "It's my responsibility to give them the tools to get them better. Let them take it and run with it and let them be responsible for getting better.''
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Palembang PLM (Mahmud Badaruddin II)
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Palembang airport info
The city of Palembang is served by Sultan Mahmud Badaruddin II Airport which has scheduled flights to many cities in Indonesia. This airport also serves other cities around South Sumatra Province. This airport is named after Sultan Mahmud Badaruddin, the last Sultan of Palembang. There are flights by Garuda Indonesia from Palembang to Yogyakarta and Surabaya. Garuda, Wings Air, Lion Air, Batavia Air and Sriwijaya all fly to Jakarta. Merpati flies to Batam daily and then to Medan four times a week. Garuda, Wings, Lion, Merpati, Jatayu and Batavia also have flights to Medan. Batavia Air serves Jambi daily.
Departure tax at Palembang airport
When flying within Indonesia, everyone must pay a departure tax that may vary from airport to airport. At Palembang the departure tax for domestic flights is Rp. 35,000. Make sure you have this amount in Rupiahs as the departure tax must be paid at the airport before you proceed to the departures area.
Transport to and from the airport
Sultan Mahmud Badaruddin II Airport is 12km north of town. Taxis to the airport cost Rp 60,000 to Rp 80,000.
Airports near Palembang
The following airports are very close to Palembang. As prices can differ remarkably you may want to check flights to these airports. Then, in case of finding a good fare, catch a bus, boat or train to your destination city.
- Bandung airport
- Batam airport
- Bengkulu airport
- Jakarta airport
- Jambi airport
- Lampung airport
- Natuna airport
- Padang airport
- Pangkal Pinang airport
- Pekanbaru airport
- Tanjung Pandan airport
- Tanjung Pinang airport
Airlines which serve Palembang airport
|Batam, Jakarta, Yogyakarta,
|Lion air
|Ambon, Batam, Jakarta, Yogyakarta, Medan, Mamuju, Pontianak, Surabaya,
|Batam, Yogyakarta, Padang, Surabaya,
|Jakarta, Yogyakarta, Pangkal Pinang, Surabaya,
Palembang city info
Palembang is the capital city of South Sumatra Province of Indonesia. It was formerly known as the capital city of the ancient Kingdom of Srivijaya. Srivijaya or Sriwijaya was a powerful ancient Malay kingdom on the island of Sumatra, modern day Indonesia, which influenced much of Southeast Asia. Palembang is the oldest city in Indonesia with a lot of history as a capital of a maritime empire. In the period 850 - 1025 AD, Palembang is the richest city in South East Asia from being the center of the trade between East and West. Located on the Musi River banks on the east coast of southern Sumatra island, it has a population of 1,400,000. Palembang is the second-largest city in Sumatra after Medan and the seventh-largest city in Indonesia.
Palembang landmarks include the Ampera bridge and the Musi River which divides the city into two, Seberang Ilir to the north and Seberang Ulu to the south. The Seberang Ilir is the economic and cultural centre and the Seberang Ulu is the political centre. It is sometimes nicknamed "Venice of the east". Palembang has a tropical climate, specifically a tropical rainforest climate with relatively high humidity and sometimes significant winds.
Palembangnese is a member of the Malay family, the people speak Malay as their language but with their own dialect and they called it Bahasa Palembang or Bahasa Musi. Other people that are not native to Palembang but still came from South Sumatra usually blended their language with Bahasa Palembang, such as Bahasa Komering, Lahat, Rawas, etc. There are also people that came from outside South Sumatra. Most of them are Javanese, Chinese, Arab, Indian, Minangkabau, and Sundanese. The major religion in Palembang is Muslim. But many of the inhabitants also practice Christianity, Buddhism, Hinduism, and Konghucu.


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Achieving the full service life of surface combatants is imperative to . . . achieve the Navy's goal . . . In addition to the Navy's aggressive surface ship acquisitions, it is necessary to implement programs aimed at maintaining and upgrading ships throughout the course of their expected service lives. 3
Plans call for reaching or extending the service lives of several classes, but the dock landing ship (LSD) 41/49 Class Mid-Life Modernization Program may be the most extensive and important upgrade that the Navy has undertaken in decades. The program, focused on the eight Whidbey Island - and four Harpers Ferry -class LSDs, comes none too soon: The average age of the 12 LSD 41/49-class ships in the Navy inventory was 19 years in the 2010. Shipbuilding plans envision these ships achieving service lives of 40 years, if not longer. This ambitious program has been one of the service's best-kept secrets, but now it may become the best-practices model for other upgrades.
Expeditionary Workhorses
As is usually the case, these ships have carried out more missions and tasks than was originally intended when they were designed in the late 1970s and 1980s. Combatant commanders have found the class to be ideally suited for a wide range of jobs: support of conflicts in Afghanistan and Iraq; disaster relief and humanitarian assistance; core ships in global fleet stations; and a host of others. As a result, their intense operating tempo has wrung much of the life out of them. Like overworked horses, they have been ridden hard and put away wet.
And the future will not likely be any less expeditionary. Indeed, both expeditionary strike groups (ESGs) and amphibious ready groups (ARGs) will be heavily tasked. As noted in the Navy, Marine Corps, and Coast Guard's Cooperative Strategy for 21st Century Seapower : "The expeditionary character and versatility of maritime forces provide the United States the asymmetric advantage of enlarging or contracting its military footprint in areas where access is denied or limited." 4
Meanwhile, former Commandant of the Marine Corps General James T. Conway directed that the service "return to its expeditionary roots," noting that the Navy-Marine Corps requirement for a 38-ship amphibious force will remain in place for a protracted period. 5 The 2010 "gator fleet" numbered just 31 ships.
Stepped-Up Marine Operations
Even as U.S. combat troops departed Iraq last summer, the surge in Afghanistan was driving a greater involvement of Marine forces. In late August 2010, General Conway cautioned: "Though I certainly believe some American units somewhere in Afghanistan will turn over responsibilities to Afghan security forces in 2011, I do not think they will be Marines. I honestly think it will be a few years before conditions on the ground are such that turnover will be possible for us." 6
Further, all trends point to Navy-Marine Corps expeditionary forces becoming more involved in reacting to worldwide natural disasters such as the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami and 2010 Haiti earthquake and Pakistan floods. Recent experiences underscore the contributions of our amphibious ships to such irregular challenges. 7
• The USS Fort McHenry (LSD-43) was a key component of the ESG/ARG that responded to the December 2004 tsunami, delivering vital relief supplies as part of Operation Unified Assistance.
• The USS Pearl Harbor (LSD-52) provided disaster relief as part of a multinational humanitarian effort to Pakistan in October 2005, following a devastating earthquake.
• The USS Harpers Ferry (LSD-49) provided humanitarian and disaster relief in the Philippines after a massive landslide in February 2006.
• Closer to home, the USS Whidbey Island (LSD-41) and Tortuga (LSD-46) provided vital relief after Hurricane Katrina ravaged the Gulf Coast in August 2005.
• Four LSD-class ships—the USS Ashland (LSD-48), Carter Hall (LSD-50), Fort McHenry , and Gunston Hall (LSD-44)—constituted the sea base supporting Operation Unified Response after the 2010 Haiti earthquake.
• In early fall 2010, the Kearsarge (LHD-3) ARG, including the Carter Hall , deployed for the waters off Pakistan to bring humanitarian supplies to that flood-ravaged country.
LSDs are in high demand for such missions for many reasons, chief among them their ability to carry large quantities of relief material, operate landing craft and helicopters, and provide extensive hotel facilities; and their relatively shallow draft, which allows them to get closer to shore than most other major ships. For the LSD, long the workhorse of our amphibious forces, the new strategic paradigm portends an even greater demand that will push them beyond their traditional roles. This mandates not only extending their service lives, but also providing the right technical upgrades to ensure they can fulfill all the missions and tasks in support of the tri-service maritime strategy.
Rear Admiral James McManamon, NAVSEA Deputy Commander for Surface Warfare (SEA 21), emphasized the importance of programs for this: "You can't get there simply by buying a lot of new ships all the time. . . . Modernization of our current ships, keeping them viable and getting extended service lives out of the hulls is critical to the Navy's future." 8
The first of its class, the Whidbey Island entered service a quarter-century ago. The newest LSD, the Pearl Harbor , is more than a decade old. These ships were designed for 30-year service lives, which has been "administratively extended" to 40. When Navy leaders decided this, they also explicitly embraced the requirement for midlife modernization and upgrade.
The Money
The LSD 41/49 Mid-Life Modernization Program is under the stewardship of PMS 470, a program office in SEA 21 that has direct access to best practices of other upgrade and modernization programs, such as that of Aegis cruisers and destroyers. SEA 21/PMS 470 established the program in response to a Navy staff requirement outlined in the Fiscal Year 2004 program objective memorandum. Funding first appeared in FY 06 and is now firmly in the Navy budget, with approximately $1 billion allocated to the program. This represents a major commitment for the Navy and significant time off line for these ships, despite the high demand for their services. But the results are well worth the investment.
The Navy awarded contracts to begin work in July 2008 on the Gunston Hall at Metro Machine Corporation, Norfolk; and in December 2008 on the Germantown (LSD-42) at General Dynamics/NASSCO, San Diego. Through fall 2010, they and the Whidbey Island had completed their midlife modernizations, and the Fort McHenry and Rushmore (LSD-47) were in the yards.
The other seven ships in the class are scheduled, and the program will be completed in 2014. This disciplined process ensures that the ships will remain capable assets able to meet amphibious mission requirements through 2038.
Ultimately, all 12 LSD-class ships will undergo 12-month availabilities that include major upgrades to the ship-control system, local area network, and machinery-control system, as well as replacement of boilers and evaporators with all-electric systems. This last initiative will erase the need for costly maintenance and support of legacy steam systems fitted with copper piping that have had significant corrosion and leaking issues. 9 The figure shown here illustrates these upgrades.
The program addresses two particularly critical issues for the Navy: total ownership cost and corrosion. For example, by replacing obsolete, circa 1975-80 hull, mechanical, and electrical systems with new computerized controls, this upgrade program reduces workload for highly burdened Sailors and reduces LSD total ownership cost by providing more reliable, higher-efficiency equipment requiring less maintenance.
NAVSEA officials have identified corrosion on ships as an enormously expensive issue, accounting for as much as 25 percent of the Fleet's total maintenance budget and costing well in excess of $2 billion each year. 10 This longstanding challenge has also generated attention outside Navy circles. The Government Accountability Office has published a series of reports highlighting how much money the Navy spends fighting shipboard corrosion, for example, Defense Management: Observations on DOD's Fiscal Year 2010 Budget Request for Corrosion Control GAO-09-732R.
Defense media have widely reported on ship corrosion. 11 In June 2009 NAVSEA Commander Vice Admiral Kevin McCoy identified corrosion as the number-one issue for the Fleet and highlighted NAVSEA's efforts against it, many of which were instantiated in the LSD 41/49 Major Upgrade Program. 12 Ways in which that program addressed those challenges include:
• Replacing corrosion-inducing steam equipment with all-electric systems
• Conducting extensive preservation work on areas of the ship from the superstructure to freeboard to well deck to more than two dozen tanks and voids
• Painting the LSD's two massive propellers with an anti-fouling coating developed by the Naval Research Laboratory
• Using single-coat paint for tanks and voids, which saves manpower and costs while increasing life-cycle effectiveness
The LSD 41/49 Mid-Life Modernization Program continues the Navy's anti-corrosion efforts. They alone will result in substantial cost reductions Navy-wide.
A Model for Best Practices
The design of the program to modernize LSDs is a model for all similar Navy programs. It offers a revealing look at how the service decides exactly what needs to be upgraded and modernized.
The program represents a total team effort by a wide array of stakeholders: NAVSEA, PMS 470, type commanders, amphibious groups, squadrons, port engineers, the planning yard, Navy Surface Warfare Center Carderock, and industry partners. This team initially met in 2002 to finalize the program. First they examined years of Board of Inspection and Survey data in search of areas that had consistently been identified as degrading LSD performance. They devised potential ways to correct each deficiency.
Next the team examined historical casualty-report data, looking specifically at "C3/C4" reports, which represented the most severe degradation in ship capability. (C3 indicates a deficiency in mission-essential equipment; C4 is worse, causing the loss of at least one primary mission. Any equipment malfunction or deficiency that cannot be corrected in 48 hours reduces the unit's ability to perform primary or secondary missions.) In many regards, this was the most important information studied, as it came from the deck plates.
The group then determined a disciplined and repeatable process of requirements, including mapping the Board of Inspection and Survey and casualty-report data against longstanding LSD deficiencies that had been identified by amphibious-warfare operational advisory groups. This information was presented at a series of LSD Mid-Life conferences where all stakeholders—especially LSD commanding officers and chief engineers—were represented. The result was a prioritized list of candidate LSD systems needing upgrading and modernization, which enabled Navy leadership to design an ambitious but affordable program to add years to the life of these ships as well as making them more capable of meeting tomorrow's threats.
A Smart, Hi-Tech Move
"Forward access is less certain than in the recent past," noted Robert O. Work in The U.S. Navy: Charting a Course for Tomorrow's Fleet (Washington, D.C., Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments, 2008). "The insertion of ready-to-fight combat forces from the sea . . . will remain an important capability. The best platforms to support naval maneuver in the contested littorals, or joint WMD elimination operations against coastal powers, remain purpose-built amphibious ships."
The LSD 41/49 Mid-Life Modernization Program is on course to extend the life of these crucial ships, modernize them to meet and defeat tomorrow's threats, and usher in initiatives such as new technology. This is important for a Navy increasingly populated by millennial-age Sailors. The program will make the ships better able to perform their missions while significantly reducing total ownership costs.
It is a cost-effective way for the service to deal with threats in an era of flat or potentially decreasing defense budgets. Chief of Naval Operations Admiral Gary Roughead cautioned in his 2010 "Posture Statement":
Last year, I stated our risk was moderate trending toward significant because of the challenges associated with Fleet capacity, increasing operational requirements, and growing manpower, maintenance, and infrastructure costs. This risk has increased over the last year as trends in each of these areas have continued. We are able to meet the most critical Combatant Commander demands today, but I am increasingly concerned about our ability to meet any additional demands while sustaining the health of the force, conducting essential maintenance and modernization to ensure units reach full service life, and procuring our future Navy so we are prepared to meet the challenges of tomorrow. 13
Ensuring that the LSD ships are fit to fight is an essential element in the Navy's ability to support national strategies––and it meets Secretary Gates' implicit call for both quantity and quality.
1. Ronald O'Rourke, Navy Force Structure and Shipbuilding Plans: Background and Issues for Congress (Washington, D.C., Congressional Research Service, April 2010), p. 3.
2. Quoted in Navy Program Guide 2010 (Washington, D.C.: Office of the Chief of Naval Operations, 2010), p. 4.
3. On Watch (Washington, D.C.: U.S. Naval Sea Systems Command, 2009), p. 22.
4. A Cooperative Strategy for 21 st Century Seapower (Washington, D.C., Department of the Navy, October 2007), p. 6.
5. U.S. Marine Corps Concepts and Programs 2010 (Washington, D.C., Headquarters U.S. Marine Corps, 2010), pp. 1-5, 11-13.
6. European Stars and Stripes , 25 August 2010, p. 3.
7. ADM Gary Roughead, The U.S. Navy's Vision for Countering Irregular Challenges (Washington, D.C.: Office of the Chief of Naval Operations, 2010).
8. Otto Kreisher, "Navy Modernization Program Keeps Aegis Cruisers, Destroyers in the Mix," Seapower , 10 December 2009.
9. SEA 21: The Bridge to the Fleet (Washington, D.C., Naval Sea Systems Command, 2009), p. 10.
10. On Watch 2009, p. 24.
11. Christopher Cavas, "U.S. Navy Finds Glaring Flaws in Surface Ships," Defense News , 20 April 2009.
12. "NAVSEA Commander: Corrosion No. 1 Issue for Fleet," Inside the Navy , 15 June 2009.
13. Statement of CNO ADM Gary Roughead before the House Subcommittee on Defense, Committee on Appropriations, 11 March 2010, p. 3.
Mr. Samimi is Deputy Program Manager, PMS 470B.


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India ranked fifth amongst top ten wind power producers in the world by adding 1,700 MW capacity in 2013, a report said.
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By the end of 2013, China, the US, Brazil, Canada and Germany remained the top countries for total installed renewable power capacity, the report said.
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In terms of annual investment in the wind energy sector and production, China ranked number one followed by Germany, UK, India and Canada.
Worldwide more than 35,000 MW wind power capacity was added taking the total number to 3,18,000 MW in 2013 to which India contributed 1,700 MW.
"The wind industry continued to be challenged by downward pressure on prices, increased competition among turbine manufacturers, decline in key markets among other reasons," it added.
About 40,000 MW of new hydro power capacity was commissioned in 2013 increasing the total global capacity by 4 per cent to approximately 1,000,000 MW.
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Newest addition to the award winning Clipo line, this happy looking hippo lends it's broad back as a building platform for the 20 colorful britle like blocks. They can be stacked or attached to the colorful wheels, as well. Best of all, it's a fun fill and dump toy that you can fill be "feeding" the hippo's open mouth. Toddlers will also love wheeling this Clipo critter around from place to place on it's chunky wheels.
Look also at last year's Platinum winning Clipo Creativity Table with a motorized tabletop for building. There are also smaller sets of Clippo that make nice additions: There are two buckets: Figure Set ($19.99) and Vehicle Bucket ($19.99) and still smaller basic sets ($5.99 to 14.99). 18 months & up.
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Most companies with operations overseas already use desktop computers, video-conferencing equipment and interactive voice-response systems for HR applications. For example, at San Jose, California-based Cisco Systems Inc., a supplier of internetworking systems, one of the recurring challenges for the company's overseas operations was the difficulty in communicating and managing benefits programs. So the company implemented a system that linked employees to their benefits via the company intranet to reach expatriates.
"The desktop PC is globally pervasive, and HR managers need to become even more adept at working with their employees over long distances," says Jim Spoor, president of Denver, Colorado-based Spectrum Human Resources Systems Corp., a provider of HR technology.
Keep far-flung employees connected to home.
Around the world and across international time barriers, human resources executives are reaching out to their employees with the help of the Web's technological capabilities. Of course, it takes a lot more than just an e-mail address to work with employees in separate locations around the world. These days, businesses tend to operate on a globally-integrated basis. Companies are realizing 24-hour productivity, and decisions are being made in real time.
Global technology and use of the Internet allow companies to take HR software applications and address local requirements while still maintaining the information at a corporate level, says Lisa Rowley, senior director of marketing for Redwood Shores, California-based Oracle Corporation, providers of HR software.
The new technology makes it easier for employees to keep in touch with their families and friends. It also enables them to serve themselves through long-distance learning, which frees HR managers to focus on other company challenges. "Human resources managers need to make sure they're meeting employees' expectations and that the new technology provides a value to all users," says Rowley. "They also need to figure out which skills they'll need several years down the road. That's how quickly the technology is changing."
Although the quality of decision making has significantly improved as a result of having access to more information at real-time speed, HR managers need to find new ways of using the technology to maximize the efficiency of both the company and its employees.
The Web comes of age for global employees.
Over the past year, the percentage of U.S. companies using the Web to conduct HR transactions has nearly doubled to 50 percent, rising from 27 percent in 1996-1997, according to "Forging Global Links," a survey by Bethesda, Maryland-based Watson Wyatt of 466 companies employing more than 9 million people worldwide. Just under half (47 percent) of the respondents said they currently make Web technology available to employees in their home country operations, while roughly 42 percent enable employees outside their home country to use the Web for HR transactions.
"When companies look inside their home country and they consider the use of information technology, they tend to look at voice-response systems first," says Steve McCormick, virtual human resources consultant for Watson Wyatt. "Outside the home country, they tend to look to the Web, which is much more suitable for global companies because it doesn't have any barriers. When you can have information in one shared system worldwide, you can have individuals throughout the world log on and add local information to the shared information database."
Overall, the top reasons for implementing Web technology continue to be enhancing employee communications and improving service to employees. The most popular applications are still corporate communications, job postings, and benefits and retirement information and enrollment. According to the Watson Wyatt survey, 73 percent of respondents reported that their employees found the applications were either useful or very useful.
"The challenge is to know how to use the technology for much more than just shared information," adds McCormick. "HR managers need to find new ways to use the technology to enable employees to be more effective in their jobs. They recognize that the platform can be used for collecting and distributing data worldwide, but they're not integrating the technology into the job. They're simply using it as an information platform."
In fact, people are looking at the next technology from an industrial-age perspective—the print world, adds McCormick. "In the print world, we published documents. That's why most companies are using the Web to publish information. But it's still just publishing information. The real innovations will arrive when companies begin to look at how they can run their operations worldwide and how employees can use the platform as a tool in the job process."
Never rely solely on Web technology.
Of course, technology is never the only answer to meeting the challenges of global networking. If you don't have the corporate foundation, managers and employees don't have clarity, says Brian Anderson, vice president and general manager for the San Francisco-office of Personnel Decisions International, a global human resources consulting firm. He says even though technology continues to leap ahead, the communications skills required to compliment the technology still need "the personal touch."
Anderson says it's appropriate to use technology to enhance your communications capabilities, but not as a solution to your communications problems. Don't overuse methods like e-mail and voice mail. Schedule "real" phone conversations and face-to-face meetings to make up for the inherently impersonal nature of information technology. Find a way to use technology to appraise employees' performance. And frequently ask for feedback as to how the long-distance relationship is working, and make changes accordingly.
"It's sometimes harder to ascertain the negative issues when employees work in another country," says Anderson. "Just remember that when you do get a chance for a face-to-face visit, make it meaningful by planning activities where you and your employees can work together."
HR executives need to start thinking about how they'll use the next wave of Web technology to better communicate with employees and to meet corporate goals. Employees in other parts of the world must have appropriate channels of communications and access to available resources, and companies need the foundation to help them get there.
Global Workforce, March 1999, Vol. 4, No. 2, pp. 46-47.


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Ken Loach (Looking for Eric) comedy about a Scottish man with a dark history who vows to change his ways when he's introduced to fatherhood. A visit to a whisky distillery inspires him and his mates to seek a way out of their dead-end lives. "Robbie, a Glasgow boy locked in a family feud, just wants a way out. When he sneaks into the maternity hospital to visit his young girlfriend Leonie and hold his newborn son Luke for the first time, he is overwhelmed. He swears that Luke will not lead the same stricken life he has led. "On community service Robbie meets Rhino, Albert and Mo for whom, like him, work is little more than a distant dream. Little did Robbie imagine that turning to drink might change their lives - not cheap fortified wine, but the best malt whiskies in the world. His newly discovered talent - a fine palate and a delicate 'nose' - leads Robbie and his crew to the strange world of fresh air and open spaces, the Scottish Highlands, and the biggest gamble of their lives." (Cannes Film Festival)
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