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Premiere Date: 12/23/2012; 2 minutes
An advance look at an orchestra that goes off the beaten path, specifically at the UCLA Hammer Museum, which invited wild Up, a 24-member, experimental classical/contemporary orchestra, for a six-month residency. The behind-the-scenes series premieres January 7 on UCTV Prime, a YouTube original channel. (#24299)
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I Think Im Fat
Personal Stories, Advice, and Support 936 People
today I woke up at 12and I thought to myselfI'm hungry. i ordered dominos and i didint feel and diffrent. i felt lile i wasted good money for no reason.
Do you want to get fatterand how fat do you want to become?
I am but I'm not, and I'm notbut I am. I don't know, let's just say I don't know anymore.
wedgieshurtalot 18-21, F 3 Responses 2 Dec 23, 2014
Bruh. Im fat asf . ...................
bitchhtripinnXD 16-17, F 1 Response 2 Oct 29, 2014
jjjullliaaa 16-17, F 5 Responses 2 Nov 18, 2014
We all do. It's psychologicaland human nature. I can't stand when people get mad or become sarcastic and try to argue with me about it. I can't help thinking and feeling this way. It's not my choice
xxXxSkyxXxx 22-25, F 0 Jul 28, 2014
no. theres nothing else to say.i am a fat piece of ****. well i am fat, a girl, 12 years old. thats all. a stupid little fat girl.
anaslittlebabygirl 16-17, F 2 Responses 1 Jan 3, 2015
People Who Are Skinny And Think They Are Fat....I know this is probably a growing trend with eating disorders on the rise but honestly I can not stand people like this. I have struggled with my weight my whole life and to hear someone who is 110 pounds soaking wet say they are fat makes me ill. It makes it harder for me to...
BlantonsAngel 22-25, F 3 Responses 1 Feb 12, 2012
Hey guys I have been posting asking how to getmore chubby which I still want to do but lately my bro has been saying I'm pretty fat what do you guys think?
TJB97 18-21, M 2 Responses 1 Jul 15, 2014
I gain weight all the time .I wish I could just stay how I like
Alylovespuppies 18-21, F 4 Dec 24, 2014
laneybrooklyn 13-15, F 2 Responses 2 Nov 10, 2014
And so does my Dr. and my familyand my ex-girlfriends.
Jungybrungen 26-30, M 1 Response 1 Jun 24, 2014
Is it ok it my daughter wears tight clothesLike this How do I know if a 14 year old girl is obese chubby or skinny
amifat21 16-17, F 5 Responses 3 Jul 28, 2014
I imagine myself at the beachand not caring about the way I look because I know I'm fit and look great. I want to go swimming and play beach volleyball without feeling FAT. I'm obsessed with the way my imperfect stomach and legs look right now. I'm trying to go to the gym, I'm trying to eat healthy but it...
Likmesilly 26-30, F 2 Responses 1 Apr 23, 2015
I Always Feel Like I AmI always feel like I am nothing but some fat stupid fat *****. I hate my body. that is why I avoid food, until someone says sometyhing to me, and they make me eat something, I feel like I am so fat, and ugly, my feelings of fatness, makes me feel so much more uglier. I hate it...
xSilentlySufferingx 18-21, F 3 Responses 1 Jun 2, 2010
I think I'm fat. Because like my big boobsand big booty seems like I look fat but I guess I'm not. it's so confusing.
Kayla0504 16-17, F 2 Responses 2 Jan 14, 2016
Rainbowbaby 16-17, F 1 Response 3 Jan 31, 2015
I don't think I'm fat...I know I am. Aren't I? I'm just a huge blob
XxBellabixtch49xX 16-17, F 5 Responses 3 May 6, 2014
Hate People That Say I'm Not FatThe other day i was really tired and was hanging out with my girlfriends, and there was pizza on the table and i didn't take any because i want to loose weight. My girlfriends all looked at me and said that i wasn't fat. Did this happen to you too? I just hate it, like they have...
hatingfood 18-21 1 Response 2 Oct 28, 2012
I Miss The Old Mei was 19 when i got pregnant with my son. i used my pregnancy as an excuse to eat. before my pregnancy i struggled with food, but managed to keep my body ideal. i gained 90 pounds during my pregnancy, and its a lot harder than i thought to lose it all. i am currently 21 years old...
imisstheoldme1 18-21 2 Responses 1 Nov 5, 2012
I mean I'm not skinnybut hey I got meat on my bones cx
Heyitszak31 18-21, M 1 Response 4 Dec 22, 2014
I Feel FatWhen I get dressed and look in a mirror I see a fat butt and a fat belly. I want to get rid of them but my family is aganist dieting! Please help me! What should I do?
Wombatbobby 13-15 2 Responses 1 Nov 15, 2009
I'm so depressed I gained 10 lbs Over the past6 months :'(. I way 110 lbs D: I workout and lift daily, and I don't over eat? :'(
myusername22 18-21, F 11 Responses 1 Dec 12, 2013
13 And FatHi. I'm 13 and fat. I'm 5'5 and weigh 150 pounds. I just noticed it today when I looked in the mirror. Boys make fun of me and call me ugly and I'm the only one who hasn't had a boy like me. I look weird too because half my eyebrow is slashed but that's another story. Anyways...
Pursuitofhappiness16 16-17, F 5 Responses 3 Oct 29, 2013
I hate looking in the mirrorand never feeling skinny enough.
tibber4lyfe 18-21, F 1 Response 1 Aug 26, 2014
I just felt I had to post somethingas I find it distressing how so many beautiful people think the are fat due to societies fads and foibles! Firstly being skinny is dangerous and terribly unhealthy. A regular healthy diet and decent exercise 3-4 times a week will have you at your healthy weight!!! Please read...
wildb1ll 26-30, M 2 Responses 3 Jun 25, 2014
today is the day starting today i am going totry to lose so much weight i want too be at least 110
tamaraiwannaknow 18-21, F 2 Jan 1, 2015
I'm starving my selfbecause it's the only way I manage to lose weight . I can eat healthy and exercise every day and never lose a pound . But if I don't eat for a week I drop 10 ...
kstu1 22-25, F 1 Response 3 Apr 19, 2014
I'm not sure, my friend mentionedthat he thought I'd put on a bit of weight, when we checked I'd gone from 75 kg to 80 kg, at 175 cm tall. What do people think?
westie45 26-30, M 1 Response 1 Jan 8, 2015
I think I'm a little chunky.I workout a lot and I eat well, I just can't lose my belly. Let me know what y'all think
JeepGirl4 18-21, F 5 Responses 3 Sep 24, 2014
I honestly can't believethat anyone could see me and think I am the least bit attractive because of how fat I am.
josiemills43 18-21, F 1 Response 0 Oct 15, 2014
chianamaree 16-17, F 2 May 26, 2014
I have now gained 5 pounds in 4 days....whyyyy?!
ShadowWolf01 18-21, F 1 Response 0 Dec 24, 2014
Ugh I'm so insecure right now.It's disheartening. Am I fat? Honestly?
Submissivebabe 18-21, F 19 Responses 8 Jan 22, 2015
I am only gonna eat healthy foodand if there ain't any in the house I'm not gonna eat anything
i stll think im fat #fml haeven in this pic i look fat
tadcrazy22 18-21, M 1 Response 2 Jun 24, 2014
I Truly Am Fati weigh about 275 at the age of 13 im im fat don't say im not i hate it when all these skinny girls think their fat try being me i get made fun of when i trip and almost fall kids say phew we almost had an earthquake i hurts i fake being sick so i can come home and eat my...
luv2bfree 13-15, F 2 Responses 1 Oct 30, 2012
I'm the fattest person I know...god I really want to be really skinny like everyone else I know but I can't get rid of my thighs and I just don't know:(
JusttThatGirl 18-21, F 4 Responses 2 Jun 17, 2014

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ESD cheerleader, defensive tackle Armand Fernandez-Pierre getting looks from major BCS programs
If there were doubts that Armand Fernandez-Pierre the cheerleader could readapt to football, they were dispelled during the first drill on the first day of August practice.
Fernandez-Pierre, wearing only shorts, T-shirt and helmet, lined up with four teammates across from a 2,000-pound blocking sled. Three coaches stood atop the sled.
When the whistle blew, Fernandez-Pierre shot forward, snapping off the sled dummy. His teammates cheered.
"After we fixed the sled, Armand was lined up on the far right," Sanders said. "The whistle blew, and he basically was pushing the sled around in circles, the coaches hanging on for dear life.
"That's when we knew we had something special."
After ESD's two preseason scrimmages, Miami, North Carolina, UCLA and several other schools asked for video of Fernandez-Pierre and began keeping tabs on him.
One week into the season, he's making national news. He sees his sudden celebrity as a positive.
"To me, it's a bit of a miracle," he said. "Because I'm not supposed to be walking, let alone being allowed to do the things I enjoy, like dancing and doing cheer and theater and choir and things like that.
"I'm glad that people find what I do as an encouragement for them to always know that they can do what they want to do."


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Production is a topic that's often glossed over. We'd all be left with an empty wardrobe without it, but it doesn't enter the conversation unless we're talking vagaries about local manufacture or horrific disasters. We spoke with Pete Macdonald, who works with several independent designers (his contract means he can't name them), to find out about what production really consists of. Take a leap to see our conversation.
We wanted to know more about production. At times it feels like working in production is like being a goalkeeper in that you don't hear about it until something goes wrong.
It's definitely not the sexy part. If we're talking about being a dream, then this is the reality. It's a very human side, the bit where your accountants are involved, your producers are involved. It's down to making the right commitments at the right time. It's down to understanding how you need to be supplied. It's about understanding your risks. It's about managing all those things. It's a very difficult thing to do in conduction with the dream, the creative side. It's very difficult because those two things are often clashing. I think design is about keeping your options open whereas production is about whittling your options down and making decisions. A to B.
What are some of the main issues in production?
Things always go wrong in production. When you're producing fabric, something could go wrong with the finishing or something could go wrong with the raw material. If your fabric needs re-finishing, it's gonna impact on the schedule and it's all about managing that. It's very rare that you order your fabric, it comes right the first time, then goes to the factory, gets cut and gets made.
So it's factoring in all those checkpoints.
And then factoring in a bit of fat. If something should take four weeks and something goes wrong you allow a bit of time before your cutting, you just reverse engineer. You start with your end product and work backwards from there and if you understand the process and each segment of the process is supplied and the risks and how to minimise those risks. With clothes, it's delivery and if you're late with the delivery then that's bad news.
We've heard a good few delivery horror stories.
Massive horror stories. Sometimes it's just down to an individual in a factory who's overworked, tired and messes up the order. They order the wrong yarn, something very human. And then once that's been done and that comes out, you go, "My god, what's this?" Then you have to work backwards.
I remember Eytys who's first order sunk in a convoy disaster.
Doesn't shock me. We've had a FedEx trucks catching fire. I've had stuff which has been pinched from a warehouse. Everything. Stuff delivered to the wrong address.
Fallibility happens.
Yes, definitely. I think this industry is littered with stuff like that. I think Paul Smith said that he learned early on to not put his order forms in the checking luggage. He went to a sales trip to Japan, his form went in his checking luggage and his suitcase was lost, so he lost all his orders and couldn't remember any of them. If you read up on the really experienced guys you will see universal problems.
What sort of companies do you produce for?
We produce small designers. Well, what I mean is designers with small runs. Independent designers or bigger companies who have a product range they don't wanna handle.
You've said before you used to do mostly big companies but now you do mainly smaller ones. What brought on this change?
I think it's empathy with the smaller designers. With clothing companies, all the risk is front-loaded. You're putting a lot of time into something that you don't know is gonna sell. You're taking all the responsibility of the purchasing, the branding, the showroom, the platform, the trade shows. And you don't know what you're gonna get out of it. And the moment you finish, you have to start again. You're chasing your buyers. Working in production, inevitably we get involved in sales strategy because your production is determined by how you need to be supplied, which is determined by how you're selling. And then you're getting into payment terms, cash flow and the costs and what product is it, is it constantly changing… Ultimately, it's in production but it's in sales strategy, logistics, running a business, because it's all part of the same business.
What do you think are the biggest misconceptions about production?
Assuming [that] the production manager or whatever can see into your mind. Even your care label you need to design — It's really tough if you're an independent designer because big companies have departments for this.
How much does government regulation affect how factories work?
Those kind of regulations are enforced by really big groups. If you're gonna work with Arcadia, Zara, there are various standards that they insist upon. For instance, are the clothes put through a metal detector before they leave the factory? Because if there's a pin in it and a child's wearing the garment then there's going to be trouble. You have a whole range of different factories from cowboys to laboratories.
European regulation is very stringent. What you can achieve in Europe is completely different to what you can achieve in China, India, Bangladesh. A factory in Bangladesh has free range to use any product they want to achieve the results. If you're talking vintage washes and that sort of thing, there's substances you can't use in the EU because they're very harmful. To be responsible is expensive. You have to treat people fairly, you have to pay them fairly. You have to ensure it's a safe environment. We don't work with India or Bangladesh at all. We mainly work with Portugal. But you can find factories in Portugal that disregard all regulation.
But yes, regulation does affect how factories work. It changes the culture. If you know that, if you're used to standards being enforced, you're much better at delivering standards. So the conversation is different. It's much less likely that stages are skipped.
Do you think the current factory conversation is quite binary?
I think it's unfair. The East is a big place. You can get amazing quality there. I really don't think East and West is a quality issue anymore. I think it's a supply issue.


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Free for Haul Friday, Volume #148
Welcome to Free For Haul Friday!
- Haul: Burberry Trench Eyeshadow
- Weekend plans: Fix my computer 🙁 Try and get it running again so I can blog.
- Do you like to DIY?: On a few things, but usually, I am in the mindset to let the experts do what they're best at!
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Xcel Energy set to drain electricity bills
Thu, 22 Mar 2012 16:30:18 GMT —
Good news! Electricity bills will soon be lowered, according to power company Xcel Energy.
Xcel said it has gained approval from the Public Utility Commission of Texas (PUCT) to lower typical Texas residential bills of 1,000 kilowatt-hours by $3.53. That averages to 3.7 percent.
The lower costs are set to begin April 1 but savings will be noticed even more when the summer rates take affect. According to Xcel, a typical residential bill of 1,000 kilowatt-hours will be cut by $4.81 or 4.5 percent.
"Our customers are benefitting from the lower cost of natural gas and from significant investments we have made, and are making, throughout our system," said Riley Hill, president and CEO of Southwestern Public Service Company, an Xcel Energy company.
A winter savings of $1.78 was originally sought by Xcel Energy when it first filed for a new fuel-cost factor back in January. As the price of natural gas continues to fall, Xcel said it was able to revise its projected fuel costs downward.
"These significant up-front investments are critical to hold down costs over time," Hill said. "Included are environmental controls, efficient power plants, an upgraded distribution system and new high-voltage transmission lines to tap additional supplies of low-cost power outside our area."
Nearly 40 percent of the energy used in Texas by Xcel Energy customers comes from natural gas-fueled power plants. The lower bills, Xcel said, are a result of the decreases in natural gas used to fuel local power plants.
In 2008 Xcel said it started to buy power from the Hobbs Generating Station near Hobbs, N.M. That station is 40 percent more efficient than the older natural gas-fueled plants. Xcel also opened a more efficient natural gas-fueled generating unit near Lubbock last year.
Additionally, the increase in demand for electricity, according to Xcel, is being partially offset by natural gas generators' efficiency.


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Encouraged by international prices of bullion, AngloGold Ashanti is to invest between $1.6 billion to $2.2billion annually in 2012 and 2013 to jack up gold production to 5.5 million ounces a year by 2014-15 against current output of 4.5million ounces, according to Mike Cutifani, Chief Executive of the Company.
The Ghana Stock Exchange – listed gold miner has two mines in Ghana and is investing global total of $1.6 billion this year .Output will increase from current levels of 4.4 million to 4.5 million ounces a year to 5.5 million ounces a year by 2014-15, CEO Mark Cutifani said in Brazil.'
According to industry watchers, 'this will definitely benefit its Ghanaian operations, especially the Obuasi underground mine which is currently undergoing critical transformation'.
AngloGold Ashanti has two mines in Ghana, namely Obuasi and Iduapriem and produced last year about 517,000 ounces of gold, employing 9000 Ghanaians. The company is investing in increasing output in Brazil, Australia, Congo, Guinea and Colombia, among other countries, he said.
AngloGold Ashanti continues to seek new development opportunities in Brazil, where geology is good and the company feels it is able to connect better with local communities than in some other countries, Cutifani said.
'We'd like to expand our Serra Grande project in Brazil,' he said. The company's current production costs in Brazil are a 'very competitive' $600/oz, but when cash production costs are put together with exploration and capital costs this makes a total production cost in Brazil of $900 to $1,000/oz, the CEO said.
Gold should trade internationally between $1,600 and $2,200 in the next 12 months, Cutifani said. '$1,600 is the minimum producers need to get a return on their investments,' he said.


text: >On Wed, 12 Dec 2001, Michael Phipps wrote: >> The question is more of priority and preference. > >I know I've been very silent lately (a project and a deadline to go with >it at work has kept me from anything but reading here), but now I'm >starting to gear up again. I understand that! :-) Those silly paying jobs keep getting in the way of my real work. :-) >This singleuser vs multiuser topic confirms my feelings that there's are >some deeper ideological differences here. Coming from a UNIX background I >can't imagine an OS which doesn't always assume there's multiple users and >they are protected from each other. >Now, BeOS doesn't enforce this, but it seems that the data structures are in >place, so it would not be impossible to make BeOS multiuser. I, too, come from a Unix background. I use my NT box at work to telnet into Slowlaris and use vim and makefiles all day long. :-) BeOS not only does not enforce multi-user, but pretty much specifically excludes it in many ways. Take my previous example - clone_area(). This is a *huge* no-no in a secure system. There are many such cases where security is a huge issue. Accelerants are another. These are not implementation details or bugs, but *design* issues. BeOS was not designed to be a secure box that prevents intentional tampering. It makes accidental cross-app failures hard to create. It does a very nice job of being super stable. But a user who is malicious can easily exploit knows issues in the OS to "break in". Impossible? No. In software, nearly everything is possible. Is everything a good idea, though, is another question? >I think however, that since we are rewriting the OS, it would be a mistake not >to prepare for a true multiuser OS from the start. Not that it should be fully >implemented and functional from R1, but we have to want and aim towards a true >multiuser OS. No one has given me a really good reason as to why, though. Not that I am the ultimate arbiter of such things, but (and when people asked Be for this, I asked the same thing), why? If I want a box people can telnet into, FreeBSD is a much better choice. Unless we wanted something like Windows Terminal Server (which has some very serious possibilities), then I fail to see why someone might want this. >The ability to have processes (oh,sorry... teams :) ) running with different >privileges is essential to have a secure system. Security is becoming more and more important for home users. .. and no, It's not just about keeping all your ports closed. Security holes in email clients and browsers can also compromise a system and - if we only have a single root-user - not be prevented from opening the ports which were supposed to be closed. Ah. But there is the thing. A system that has a multi-user FS (BeFS already is) and decent login and home directory management would cure what I think you are indicating as a problem. >We need a multiuser kernel and a multiuser FS. > >Peter > > >


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Know the Laws: Oregon
UPDATED July 3, 2015
A Family Abuse Prevention Act restraining order ("FAPA" order) is a civil order that provides protection from harm by a family or household member.
This section defines domestic abuse for the purposes of getting a Family Abuse Prevention Act restraining order, commonly referred to as a "FAPA" order.
Domestic abuse is when a family or household member:
A restraining order can order the abuser to:
When you go to the court to file for a restraining order, the judge might give you a temporary restraining order. A temporary restraining order is a court order designed to provide you and your family members with immediate protection from the abuser. You may receive a temporary restraining order as soon as you file your petition, without the abuser present in court.
The temporary restraining order is legal as soon as the court grants it. However, it cannot be enforced until the abuser has been served with notice of the order. A sheriff or another qualified person will serve the abuser with a copy of the order.
After the respondent (the abuser) receives the temporary restraining order, s/he has 30 days to ask for a hearing. If the abuser asks for a hearing, it must be held within 21 days of that request. If the abuser contests (fights) the temporary order, then you will have a court hearing to determine if the temporary restraining order will continue.
Once issued, your (permanent) restraining order is in effect for one year unless:
You can file a petition in the county where you live, or in the county where the abuser lives.*
You are eligible to file for a Family Abuse Prevention Act restraining order if you have experienced domestic abuse within the last 180 days* by a family or household member, which is defined as:
In Oregon, you may apply for a Family Abuse Prevention Act restraining order against a current or former same-sex partner as long as the relationship meets the requirements listed in Am I eligible to file for a Family Abuse Prevention Act restraining order? You must also be the victim of an act of domestic abuse, which is explained here What is the legal definition of domestic abuse in Oregon?
Maybe. If you are under 18 years old, you cannot file on your own for a Family Abuse Prevention Act restraining order unless the abuser is over 18 and:
When you file a Family Abuse Prevention Act restraining order, an "exceptional circumstances" hearing will be scheduled if the judge determines that there are issues affecting the custody of your child(ren). The judge will order that this hearing be held within 14 days. At this hearing, the judge will ask both you and the respondent to appear and provide additional information about the circumstances of your children and your contact with them. For example, the judge may order such a hearing if you are not the usual and primary caretaker of the children or if your request for custody conflicts with a previous order of the court in another matter.*
There is no fee to file for a Family Abuse Prevention Act restraining order* and you do not need an attorney to get one. However, an attorney is recommended if the abuser contests the restraining order or hires an attorney. You can find legal referrals on our OR Finding a Lawyer page.
* O.R.S. § 107.718(8)(c)
Go to the circuit court in the county where the abuse occurred, where you live, or where the abuser lives. Find the civil court clerk and ask for a petition to apply for a restraining order. The form you will need is called "Petition for Restraining Order to Prevent Abuse (Family Abuse Prevention Act)."
You can find links to petitions online by going to OR Download Court Forms.
Note: You, the person filing the complaint, are the "petitioner." The person against whom you are filing against (the abuser) is the "respondent."
When you go to the courthouse, remember to bring some form of identification. It is also helpful to bring identifying information about the abuser if you have it such as:
Read the petition carefully and ask the clerk questions if you don't understand something. You must provide complete and truthful information.
Write about the most recent incidents of violence, using descriptive language (slapping, hitting, grabbing, choking, threatening, etc.) that fits your situation. Be specific. Include details and dates, if possible. If there is space for it on the petition, you could also include details about the history of abuse so that the judge can understand the bigger picture, not just the most recent incident.
An advocate from a domestic violence organization may be able to help you fill out the form. See OR State and Local Programs to find the location of an organization near you.
Do not sign the petition until you have shown it to a clerk; the form may need to be notarized or signed in the presence of court personnel.
After you finish filling out your petition, take it to the court clerk. The clerk will forward it to a judge. The judge may wish to ask you questions as s/he reviews your petition. The judge will decide whether s/he thinks the abuser is a real threat to you and/or your children's physical safety, and whether or not to issue the temporary restraining order.
If the judge issues you a temporary restraining order, the clerk of the court must deliver a copy of the petition and temporary restraining order to the county sheriff so that the abuser (respondent) can be served. You should also request two free copies of the petition and order for your own records. Make sure to keep a copy of the order with you at all times.
A restraining order (temporary or permanent) is legal as soon as the court grants it. However, it cannot be enforced until the abuser has been served with it.
The county sheriff is responsible for serving the abuser (respondent). You may have the order served by another private party or an officer of the peace. If you choose this option, the person who serves it may have to fill out an affidavit of service that you will have to bring back to court with you – ask the clerk about this if you choose to not have the sheriff serve the papers. You cannot serve the abuser the papers yourself.
There is no cost to file a petition, to have the sheriff serve the papers, or to have a court hearing about the restraining order.
When the abuser receives his/her copy of the restraining order papers and knows about your petition, s/he has 30 days to ask for a hearing, which must be held within 21 days of that request. The court will let you know if there is a hearing scheduled.
You will only have a hearing if the abuser requests one. If the abuser requests a hearing, it is extremely important that you attend that hearing. If the abuser shows up and you do not, the judge may dismiss (drop) your temporary restraining order. If the temporary restraining order is dismissed, you lose the protections that you got in the order, such as child custody and mandatory arrest. Also, if you do not show up at the hearing it may be harder for you to be granted an order in the future.
The judge will want to hear from you and from any witnesses that you may have who witnessed the abuse or your injuries. You will need to be specific -- describe when and where the abuse took place, what happened, how (and with what) you were injured, (e.g., explain to the judge if you were hit with a fist, an elbow, an open palm, a heavy object, on the floor or against a door or furniture, etc.), whether the police were called, and if you were treated by a doctor or medical professional. If you have any pictures of your injuries, medical reports, or police reports, bring them to court with you. See Preparing Your Case page for ways you can show the judge that you were abused.
If the abuser shows up to the hearing with a lawyer, you may ask the court to postpone the hearing to a later date (also called a continuance) to give you some time to get a lawyer to represent you. Even if the abuser doesn't have a lawyer, you may wish to bring one with you to the hearing to help present your case to the judge. See OR Finding a Lawyer for contact information of lawyers in your area. If the abuser does not show up for the hearing, the judge may still grant you a restraining order for up to one year, or the judge may order a new hearing date.
Maybe. A judge can give you a temporary restraining order without a full court hearing and without the abuser present. However, the abuser has the right to request a hearing, within 30 days of being served with the paperwork notifying him/her of the temporary restraining order, for a chance to tell his/her side of the story. If the abuser does request a court hearing, a hearing will normally be set for some time during the following 21 days. You must attend that hearing. If you do not go to the hearing, a judge may take away your temporary restraining order. You may have to face the abuser at that hearing.
If the abuser does not request a court hearing, your temporary restraining order can last for up to one year.
You may have additional court hearings if you want to change or extend your restraining order, or if the abuser violates the restraining order. The abuser may come to those hearings. See How do I change or renew (extend) the permanent restraining order?.
Here are some things that you may want to consider doing. Please evaluate each one in the context of your specific situation to see if you think that it is appropriate for you:
If the abuser violates the restraining order, you can immediately call 911. Make sure that the officers make a report so there will be a record of the violation. Write down the officer's name, badge number, and report number. Make sure a police report is filled out, even if no arrest is made. If you have legal documentation of all violations of the order, it may help you have the order extended or modified. According to the law, a peace officer must arrest the abuser and take him/her into custody (without a warrant) when the peace officer has probable cause to believe that a restraining order exists, was properly served and was violated.*
If the police are called and the abuser is arrested, a court hearing may be set to have him/her found in "contempt of court" for violating the restraining order, or criminal charges can be filed. At the hearing, if the abuser is found in contempt of court, the maximum punishment could be a fine and/or up to six months in jail. Your local district attorney is required to represent your interests at the contempt hearing if you cannot afford to hire your own attorney.**
The restraining order can play an important role in protecting yourself, but it is important to create a safety plan or go to a local support center for additional help in keeping yourself as safe as possible. For additional help, please see our Staying Safe and OR State and Local Programs pages.
** Oregon State Bar website
You can go back to the court where you originally filed the Family Abuse Prevention Act restraining order and request an extension. There does not have to be a further act of abuse in order to get it renewed.* A judge may renew (extend) the restraining order if s/he finds that you are reasonably afraid of further acts of abuse by the abuser (respondent) if the order is not renewed.** If your child was included in the order, and now your child has reached the age of 18, s/he can get the order extended for himself/herself if s/he is reasonably afraid of further acts of abuse by the abuser (respondent) if the order is not renewed.** Even if the original petitioner/parent does not want the order renewed for himself/herself, the child (who is now 18) can still get the renewed order for himself/herself (s/he does not have to file a new petition).*** In order for the court to renew your restraining order, you must request the renewal before your current order ends.
If the judge decides to grant the renewal, the abuser will be notified of the renewal. The abuser then has the right to request a hearing to fight the renewal. If the abuser requests a hearing, the judge will schedule the hearing within 21 days.**** If this happens, you might find it helpful to have an attorney. Go to our OR Finding a Lawyer page for legal referrals.
Your order is good wherever you go in Oregon. Additionally, the federal law provides what is called "Full Faith and Credit," which means that once you have a criminal or civil protection order, it follows you wherever you go, including U.S. Territories and tribal lands. Different states have different rules for enforcing out-of-state protection orders. To find out more information about your new state's policies, go to Know the Laws and choose your state from the drop-down menu on the left side of the screen. Under the Restraining Order section, you will find information about "Enforcing an Out-of-State Order."
You may want to have your address changed officially by the court. However, if your new address is confidential from the abuser, be sure to ask the clerk how to keep the new address confidential from the abuser if s/he checks the court records for any reason. Check with a local domestic violence organization for more help.
If you are moving to a new state, you may want to call the National Center on Protection Orders and Full Faith & Credit (1-800-903-0111 x 2) for information on enforcing your in your new state. They might be able to tell you if the new state requires you to register the order with that state and other useful information. However, before registering the order, you should make sure that the new state will not notify the abuser that you are living there if this will be unsafe for you.
Keep in mind that if your order includes an order about custody or visitation of a minor child, you may have to give notice to and seek permission from the court and/or the abuser of your move, depending on what your order says and the laws in your state. Please speak to an attorney for more information. You can find legal referrals on our OR Finding a Lawyer page.
If you want to drop your restraining order, you need to go back to the court that issued your order and fill out dismissal papers. You may have to talk to the judge and tell him/her why you want to drop the restraining order. Different judges have different ways of handling these requests. Some judges will ask you lots of questions, but other judges will just sign the dismissal order without asking you anything. In some counties, the judge will tell you to go to a class with other domestic violence victims before the judge agrees to drop the order.
In some cases, the judge will try to help you figure out whether there is a way to modify (change) your order so that it can still give you some protection from abuse, but so that you can have the contact you want with the abuser.
If you have dropped your restraining order (or let it run out) and you are abused again, you can always go back to court for a new restraining order if you meet the requirements. Talking to a domestic violence advocate might help you decide which option is best for you. See our OR State and Local Programs page for referrals to local domestic violence organizations.


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Bloggers blogging and journalists journalisming and related issues is once again a matter of currency with a long and thoughtful post by Sbling Coturnix at A Blog Around the Clock about "The Shock Value of Science Blogs." (In which, I guess, Bora does not see my blog as shocking enough to mention … thus proving that Sblings are not as insular and cliquey as we are often accuses of being. Well, we are cliquey, but that is more of an internal matter. But I digress) …
Anyway, Bora brings up a number of excellent points about the nature of communication in science as "…evolved towards a very precise and very universal state that makes scientist-to-scientist communication flawless…" a state of modern communication which ultimately demands alternative ways of communicating. Blogging, of course, is one of those ways, as is modified formal communication in the form of on line Open Access journals such as PLoS and PLoS ONE with their novel fora and inter-linking technologies.
Go read Coturnix's post. I just want to add a few observations.
There are two levels of stylistic, motivational, and even ethical distinction that I want to make. One is at the level of scientist vs. journalist, the other at the level of what many people think of as scientists vs. the rest of us who are also scientists.
People are often confusing and conflating journalism with blogging, and in my experience in particular, journalism with science blogging. This is offensive and absurd, of course. It is offensive to journalists because this conflation assumes that one can become a journalist just by saying one is a journalist. Never mind journalism school, never mind knowing a single thing about journalism. It is absurd because of the vast gulf between the two fields. Let me give you an example.
Suppose I decide to address some issue regarding science, like the recent papers on approaches to elephant conservation in Africa. So I read a few things, I talk to two or three experts in the area, and I write something up. Now, when I'm done, I realize that there is a section in my write up that is a little ambiguous. I did not ask exactly the right questions of those with whom I spoke to be sure of certain details. I spoke with three different experts, and I have the time and capacities (based on time zones, communication modalities, etc. etc.) to speak to one and only one of these experts. Fortunately, the expert I have the ability to speak to is the one who would best clear up my question. All I would need to do is the following:
Call expert X on the phone, read her the paragraph in question, and ask her opinion on if it is worded properly.
Given this scenario, which of the following is correct:
a) Do not call the expert. Make the best I can of the information I have, even if this will result in a final write up that is itself a bit ambiguous.
b) Do no call the expert. If there is a bit of ambiguity in the writeup, divert the reader's attention away from it by pointing out something else involved in this issue that really isn't that important but can be made to seem important, like that some of the research mentioned in the paper may lead to a cure for some disease.
c) Don't contact the expert but explicitly state in the writeup that there is some ambiguity in what I'm saying due to the fact that I did not really have enough time to straighten out some of the facts and conjectures.
d) Contact the expert to get her take on the working of the key paragraph, and re-word as necessary.
The answer to this question is, clearly, "a" as a first choice and "b" as an acceptable but not ideal choice if you are a journalist, and "d" as a first choice and "c" as an acceptable but not ideal choice if you are a scientist.
(Do you understand why? No? Then you are not a journalist and scientist. If you picked a or b and think you are a scientist, than maybe you should consider a career as a journalist! If you picked c or d, have a job as a scientist, you have a science blog, and you think this makes you into a journalist, then you need to address this….)
The difference between "a" and "d" is one of ethics. The ethical thing to do in each case is different. It is unethical for a journalist to re-check with one of the individuals interviewed (or any number fewer than all of the individuals interviewed) about the 'facts' or wording of the material to be published. In contrast, it is unethical for a scientists to not pursue an ambiguity when one knows about it. The scientists can certainly stop pursuing unkowns, or points of uncertainty but the scientists is obligated to note this in most cases (answer "c"). The journalist may feel a certain obligation to interest level in the writing for some greater good (like selling newspapers or keeping a job) and thus lean towards choice "b" rather than the ideal choice, "a."
Within science, we also see contrasts and conflicts.
As you know, I often review peer reviewed scientific papers, mainly in the life sciences, on this blog. You'll notice that I also treat papers in anthropology, in particular human evolution, human paleoanthropology, and archaeology. But what you have not seen much of is archaeology outside of the human origins area. This is not because I don't find this interesting, or am not trained in that area. Rather, this is because it is hard to do. I have a paper by a colleague, Tom Huffman, sitting on my desktop right now waiting for my attention, to turn it into a BPRR post, but it is proving to be quite difficult because of the nature of the research Tom reports and the way it is written up.
This is not because Tom did a bad job. No, he did a great job. It is rather because this area of archaeology … as is the case with a number of areas of science … is in fact NOT treated in the literature as Coturnix has suggested for science in general. It is not the case that these research results are written up in the standard scientific form or that they even follow a coherent form within the subfields.
This distinctiveness is true in a lot of other ways as well. Here, I encountered the following example of wild naivety:
No one obtains a loan for a PhD program in science. They are always funded.
Wow. Elsewhere (but I'm not going to bother to run this down and cite it) I've seen similarly dumb statements about science that can only be seen as based on the belief that all science is done in a lab, as though there were no field scientists. Within the academy, this is often a problem. All PhD students are held to the same standard of time for completion of the degree by certain agencies and evaluators of such programs, despite the fact that non-bench field science often takes an additional year or two to complete. Imagine if the typical PhD student in a lab science had to learn … at a very high level of competence …. two or three poorly documented unwritten languages before collecting any data.
I'm not particularly bothered by the fact that some of my fellow scientists forget that not all science is done in a wet lab. Well, it bothers me a little, but not much. After all, what we field scientists lose from being left behind in that discussion we gain, in spades, in the social benefits of being the most interesting people at cocktail parties.
What is troubling are the broader impacts of this sort of thinking. The comment I cite above from The Intersection is part of a discussion of funding science. If you look around on scienceblogs, you'll see lots of excellent discussion (here, especially) about women, minorities, and the most maligned class of all, graduate students, in science. But most if not all of that discussion is about wet lab bench science. In my area, the same sorts of attrition against women occur as elsewhere, but to a much much lesser extent probably because we have been enlightened longer in relation to these issues. Or, perhaps, because women (and to some extent minorities) somehow have ended up, goodness knows how, in the field that is not well funded, and is in fact forgotten about even by our fellow scientists when they talk about funding.
Recently, I contacted a person I know in politics to ask for verification or refutation of a very interesting rumor I had heard, and to see generally how she was doing. The response I got was friendly and informative of a number of things, but when it came to the question I had asked, she, as an insider in a particular organization, said (and I paraphrase): "I cannot give you the answer to that question. Our policy is 'blogger = journalist.' … You're a blogger!"
Ouch. If I want to get through the secret back door of an event, or whatever, blogger does not equal journalist! We don't get press passes! But if I want to learn something interesting, it does! Of course, I understand her perspective, and I responded with what amounted to a respectful early version of the post you are now reading (bloggers are not journalists, unless they happen to be journalists!).
By the way, there are, in my opinion, a lot of excellent science journalists out there, but for science reporting in general, I think the interested, informed reader is going to get a lot more out of the bloggers than the average science reporting.
This post is not going cure cancer or save the baby furries. Have a nice day.


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Here is a duet with my friend John Skelton of Hank's version of Jessica.(Top Gear theme) Originally written by Dickie Betts and played by the Allman Brothers. I've been wanting to video this one for a long time but it needed a second guitar part. John agreed to learn the harmony and this is the end result. Check out John's channel (User name Loxsilian) he has only just started adding video's - more will follow soon. The BT came from Casting a Shadow. The Tabs for the lead are available from Steve Gibb here - www.bbigmusic.com Sorry I haven't Tabbed the second guitar part. Used the Quadraverb Q2 patch 0-32. Hope you like our version of Jessica. Thanks for watching. www.philmcgarrick.co.uk
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Hurricane Mountain
Hiking Date: May 1st, 2010: With Spring in the middle of its season, I wanted to try a new hike rather then go to my usual close to home hikes I have a tendency to re-hike over and over again. This time I choose Hurricane Mountain mostly because I read a blog entry during the Winter about it and it peaked my curiosity. Not to mention I also heard that the Adirondack Park Agency recommended taking down the fire tower and I wanted to see it before it happened.
Elevation: 3,694ft
Vertical Ascent: Approx. 1,982ft
Trip Length: 2.6 Miles (1 way)
The Hike: My day started off at 5:00am with about 1.5 hour drive up past Keene Valley to the trail head. The trail head is located between Keene Valley and Elizabeth Town on Route 9N. After signing in with the log book, the hike immediately starts climbing in elevation. I was on little sleep and had done a lot of leg work the previous day so my legs were not happy going up hill at the start of the climb but at least it go me prepared for what was ahead.
The trail eventually levels off when you come to Spruce Hill Brook (I'm not positive if this is the name of the brook). Even though its a brook, it looks more like a pond as it looks like a beaver got a hold of the wetland area and built a couple of damns. The trail goes right over it but thanks to the great people who maintain the trails, their is a foot bridge that goes right over it. Unfortunately this is also where the mud started but hiking with the Adirondacks you get used to it.
After the wetland area, there is a steady incline the rest of the way to top. One thing that I noticed and really enjoyed was the type of forest that I was in. I don't know the name of the type of forest but their is not a lot of trees around so you see the tops of the surrounding mountains and the forest does not feel so constrained. At the higher elevations I actually ran into about 4 inches of snow on the ground. I had been seeing snow all the way up the mountain but it has always been off to the side, but now it was covering the trail and mixing with the mud which made for some tricky leg work at some points. And by tricky leg work I mean my legs flawing all around to make sure I didn't fall on my butt.
Most of the way up I could see the top which is actually something I did not like as it made my progress seem slow. But in about 2 hours from when I first started hiking, I reached the trail junction to the top. From here it was only about 0.1 miles to the top which scooted up a rock face to an open top. Their is nothing like arriving at the top of a mountain that has a 360 degree view of the surrounding area.
The top of Hurricane is amazing. Great views of the surrounding area make the 2+ hour hike up the mountain well worth all the sore muscles. To the East is Lake Champlain, to the South is Giant and Rocky, and to the Northwest is Whiteface Mountain. Not to mention getting to check out the fire tower. Unfortunately the tower is closed and the first 3 stories of the stairs have been removed. It definitely has seen better days and I understand why the APA recommended taking it down. Its a shame that a piece of Adirondack history needs to be taken down but the condition that it is in, it's probably wise before something bad happens to it and possibly injure someone in the process.
I spent quite a bit of time at the top, taking pictures and just enjoying it all. Their is something about being on top of a mountain in the early morning that gives a sense of peace about everything in the world. No matter what troubles or drama may be going on in your life, you can step away from it and just enjoy the moment. I find that being up their early in the morning brings a little bit of extra peace as its kind of like the calm before the storm. Before the day gets busy with the business of life, their is a moment to just breath and take it all in.
The way down was actually a little bit dangerous as the snow covered up the mud and when you think you were stepping on just a piece of snow, it hid a mud slide that caused me to do some tricky foot work to keep my foot hold. I actually did end up falling once which I wasn't to proud of. Luckily I didn't have any more incidents on the way down and made it back to the car in one piece and injury free.
Conclusion: Hurricane Mountain is a great mountain to climb. Beautiful views at the top make this hike a must for anybody who enjoys hiking in the Adirondacks. I would not recommend it if you haven't hiked a lot and are not in relatively okay shape. It is demanding on the legs and lungs just like some of the high peaks. Its part of the Fire Tower Challenge which makes is a check mark for anybody doing that but even if your not, I still highly recommend this mountain be put on your list of mountains to climb. I'm sure I will be climbing this mountain again sometime in the future.
Photos: I went a little bit picture crazy with this one but they are worth it. Their are some landscape photos toward the bottom.


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Employment: Are we there yet?
With the latest job figures showing huge fluctuations in how New Zealand's regions are coping with unemployment, the Sunday Star-Times dug into the numbers to see if John Key's claims of falling unemployment stack up.
Scroll over your region to see how it stacks up on the unemployment ladder
There were unusually long queues outside Auckland City Mission last month as people travelled from far and wide to get extra help making ends meet.
Many of them were beneficiaries whose meagre resources wouldn't stretch to any kind of Christmas cheer. But City Missioner Diane Robertson was quoted as saying that there were new clients coming through the door - households reliant on two incomes who had their income halved by redundancy, or people losing the part-time job that was keeping them off the bread line.
"These are families we haven't seen before," she said.
Her observation chimed with official figures. The Household Labour Force Survey for the three months to September showed a surprise increase in Auckland unemployment from 7.3 to 8.6 per cent, reversing the improving trend of the previous six months. The ANZ Regional Trends survey in November put Auckland's unemployment rate even higher at 9.1 per cent. You have to go back to the mid-1990s to find higher jobless figures in our biggest city.
But in other parts of the country, unemployment is less than 5 per cent (Taranaki and Nelson) and Christchurch is already looking at less than 3 per cent.
A number of factors are at play: immigration, internal migration to Auckland, the strength of the primary sector, and the power of oil and gas to deliver both jobs and an economic uptick.
But it's what's happening in Auckland that is having the largest influence on national figures.
Auckland, by a long way the country's biggest concentration of economic resources, has had the wind taken out of its city of sails. And since Auckland accounts for almost a third of NZ's labour force, the city's lurch has been echoed in national figures, up 0.5 per cent to 7.3 per cent, a 13-year high.
Underneath the big numbers there is a crawling mass of data to sift through for signs of what's to blame, but Auckland Council chief economist Geoff Cooper has an inkling.
"What I'm thinking about a lot is looking at it in terms of education and skills levels. Auckland has some of highest discrepancies in deprivation - a lot of very rich but a lot of very poor people as well. If you look at unemployment rates by education type, you start teasing out some of the reasons why Auckland might have a higher unemployment rate, particularly during recessionary times."
(If it seems odd to be talking about recessionary times three years after the recession apparently ended, depending which figures you use, it's worth remembering this is the slowest recovery in 80 years.)
Statistics New Zealand figures show 10.3 per cent of people with no qualifications were unemployed in September. The rate falls to 8.5 per cent for those with a school qualification and 4.8 per cent for those with post-school qualifications.
You can see the same issue reflected in relative demand for skilled and unskilled labour.
According to respondents in the Quarterly Survey of Business Opinion, run by the Institute of Economic Research, businesses were finding it harder to find skilled staff in the September quarter, but easier to find unskilled staff.
Meanwhile vacancies for skilled jobs rose in October, particularly in Auckland, according to data compiled by the Ministry of Business, Innovation & Employment. Cooper could be on the right track.
Council figures show Auckland's unemployment burden is heaviest in the south and west of the city, where most of the lower-skilled jobs are.
You can't pinpoint particular causes, but it won't have helped that several significant factory employers announced lay-offs during 2012 - Nuplex, Fisher & Paykel Appliances, Rakon, Flotech, Norman Ellison Carpets, Criterion Manufacturing.
The latest Quarterly Survey of Business Opinion for the December quarter shows businesses are more optimistic about the general economy, saying economic activity was at its highest level since mid-2007. The bounce was mainly in Auckland and Canterbury and the pick-up has not yet flowed into jobs, although the Government's Half Year Economic and Fiscal Update last month said unemployment in March this year would be 6.9 per cent, up from its forecast last May of 5.7 per cent.
The outlook improves from there, but much more slowly than previously thought.
According to the Reserve Bank, two issues may be adding to the current difficulty and both relate to how well the economy matches jobseekers with job vacancies.
One can be traced to New Zealand's huge churn of migrants. Although there is generally a small net inflow of migrants to New Zealand, a great many people pass each other at the airport - in the year to November more than 80,000 left for the long-term and a similar number arrived.
In a report published last month, the bank said that although the net figure was fairly flat, "what is striking is the shift since 2010 towards a substantial net outflow of those aged between 35 and 54 (the group with the highest labour force participation rate and the lowest unemployment rate). By contrast, there has still been a net inflow of those aged between 15 and 34".
Swapping more experienced workers for less experienced could be contributing to the shortage of skilled labour, the bank hypothesised.
The second factor involves the Canterbury earthquakes, which caused huge disruption in the labour market in the region. As a result, said the bank, "there has been a change in the pattern of employment - for example, a marked decline in retail and hospitality employment while demand for construction workers and, for example, geotechnical engineers has increased".
So, while Canterbury's unemployment rate was a mere 5.2 per cent, there were also 20,000 fewer people in the labour force compared with two years earlier.
Canterbury's unemployment rate is expected to buck the trend and continue to decline this year as the city's rebuild gathers pace.
The rebuild will need 10,000 to 15,000 extra workers, and demand for workers is expected to peak in late 2014, according to the Canterbury Employment and Skills Board's draft construction sector workforce plan released last month.
It's likely the bulk of this extra demand would be met by people already in New Zealand. But certain occupations - carpenters, painters, plasterers, bricklayers and stonemasons - will require "essential" immigration.
"Even if more immigrants are brought in, which is a likelihood, I think they will be filling jobs that are largely unable to be filled by locals," UBS New Zealand senior economist Robin Clements said.
"Eventually the pressure will be such that all levels of the labour market will be finding it difficult to find staff to fill the vacancies which will inevitably mean that more people will come off the unemployment ranks to fill those jobs."
Canterbury Employers Chamber of Commerce chief executive Peter Townsend expected the rebuild to "soak up" some of the region's unemployed but said there would always be a "residual unemployment figure" and he could not remember it ever dropping below 3 per cent.
However the scale of the rebuild meant that it was important to bring in workers as they were needed.
"You can't just turn on a tap when it comes to human resource capacity in the region, it requires a six to nine month lead time," Townsend said.
"It's not dial-a-tradesman, it's how we build that capacity in our economy."
The effect that building has on employment is apparent in other regions. In Manawatu, large construction projects and Defence Force changes look to be the strong points.
The wider region has planned projects worth tens of millions of dollars, including the $200 million upgrade of Fonterra's Pahiatua factory, half an hour east of Palmerston North and the $75m to improve Massey University's veterinary school. The Defence Force also has a $15m project on the cards for its air force base at Ohakea.
The unemployment rate for the Manawatu-Whanganui region rose to 8.6 per cent in November, but Palmerston North City Council economic policy adviser Peter Crawford said a 54 per cent rise in new car registrations last year - compared with 21 per cent nationally - was an early indicator of renewed confidence, particularly in the rural/farming sector.
Building consents, while steady in Palmerston North, were rising strongly in the wider district, especially Feilding, which has good quality, affordable land and is close to Palmerston North.
Nelson's relatively low jobless figures (4.5 per cent) were looking for a further boost from a $10.6 million development at Summerset retirement village in Stoke, expected to take up to 150 workers and about 14 months to build, and a $9.2m integrated health centre which includes a rest home being built in Takaka, Golden Bay.
Nelson's unemployment rate has traditionally been better than the rest of the country because of its industry spread; predominantly in the primary sector with fruit, fishing, farming and forestry. The region is the most dependent in the country on the primary sector and although the high exchange rate continues to hit exporters, Nelson Regional Economic Development Agency chief executive Bill Findlater noted that did not greatly affect employment.
"If the exchange rate is up you've still got to harvest your product. It's not like manufacturing where, if sales are down, you put off people. You can't do that when you're dealing with primary products."
Taranaki is another region riveted to the primary industry, notably food production, with more than one in five people working in either agriculture, which accounts for approximately 13 per cent of all employment, or food product manufacturing, which adds another 8.4 per cent.
Off this solid farming platform, a resurgent oil and gas industry has made Taranaki the boom province of the country.
At 4.9 per cent, unemployment sits well below the national average and is unlikely to be hit by seasonal fluctuations.
The booming energy sector has resulted in employers offering the highest average salaries in New Zealand, according to the job-finding website Seek. Venture Taranaki, the region's economic development agency, said not only was unemployment low, but the region's labour force had increased as has labour force participation.
VT's marketing manager Vicki Fairley said the economic benefits of the oil and gas boom flowed right through the economy.
"Taranaki remains the sweet spot of the country. It is not only about the major oil and gas companies, supply chain spin-offs in the region are significant, especially for those experienced in the engineering and specialist services who are commissioned by the major companies to assist with a range of activities such as surveying, design, technical support and/or construction.
"These economic benefits flow through the region to industries such as housing, and hospitality in the local bars and cafes."
VT's latest survey showed a record 30 per cent of businesses expected employee growth and a growing number of Taranaki businesses (27 per cent) anticipate challenges in finding skilled staff.
It's no surprise then, that other regions want to get in on the energy boom.
Hastings mayor Lawrence Yule said Hawke's Bay wasn't "booming and growing in terms of jobs". Instead, a lot of industries were trying to improve efficiency at the cost of new jobs.
He said improving employment would come down to attracting
new industries into the region -like oil and gas exploration.
"We've been complacent for too long on the basis of what we grow on our soil. We do continually need to look for new things that can supplement both the tourism part and primary production part of our economy."
Even within rural areas, where primary industries are booming, there can be holes.
In Southland, the dairy boom and other food production projects were offset by job losses at the Tiwai Point aluminium smelter.
Venture Southland enterprise and strategic projects group manager Steve Canny said economic variability meant there was a cautious approach toward employment but he was seeing signs of new investments in the region and there was likely to be, just as in Auckland and Canterbury, skills shortages. It's a similar story in Waikato, where rural and manufacturing industries collide in a two-paced regional economy.
Drake International Hamilton branch manager Chris Haigh said her company did not have enough jobs for all inquiries in the unskilled labour market.
And, "even though they say there's a lot of people out there, it's still challenging to find skilled labour in various areas, especially in engineering. "
Despite a gap between supply and demand for unskilled workers and the difficulty in finding skilled workers, Employers and Manufacturers Association chief executive Kim Campbell was looking forward to 2013 with "cautious optimism".
"What we're seeing is, even though some rural areas are pretty gloomy - and despite the very difficult problems that the strong dollar is presenting - there is actually a surprising amount of confidence and we're seeing quite a lot of employment growth in certain pockets," he said, noting agricultural and innovation sectors.
"Overall we're looking forward to the year coming up as probably better than last year - and last year by no means was a disaster."
For Auckland Council chief economist Geoff Cooper, the success of the year ahead will be measured by how busy the City Mission gets over future Christmases. That depends on how well the city handles policy.
"In the short term you're looking at how to help businesses take on staff and invest more easily," he says. "But in the long term from a council perspective we're thinking about how to lift the overall competitiveness of firms - that's things like providing good infrastruture, good transport, that over the long term are going to help us compete with the Sydneys and Melbournes."
Reporting team: Tim Hunter, Jenna Lynch, Ryan Evans, Seamus Boyer, Tamlyn Stewart
Public sector cuts are driving the bump in Wellington's unemployment rate, experts say. Unemployment in the Wellington region jumped to 7.6 per cent in November. Streamlining of the public sector had been a fairly constant theme over the past few years, but Wellington Employers' Chamber of Commerce president Richard Stone said there was a mood of "cautious optimism" that the blood-letting was about to end. "Many businesses have had to make some tough calls that I think has positioned them pretty well for taking advantage of opportunities they hope will occur this year. "[Public sector cuts] will always happen, but I think we're beyond the point where it's going to happen in such a wholesale way." The Wellington region's technology and creative industries were looking in good shape, he said. "My prediction would be that [unemployment] will trend downwards but it won't trend down quickly." Wellington-based Council of Trade Unions economist Bill Rosenberg said the public sector cuts have had a morale-sapping effect on the Wellington region, and that had hurt confidence within the wider business sector. "There have been reports quite regularly of restaurants finding it pretty hard going and furniture shops finding it tough, that kind of thing. "You hear about quite low-level jobs with 70 or 80 applicants for them, so people are quite concerned about their prospects. Some have made plans – mortgages and that sort of thing – based on having a secure job." Rosenberg disagreed the Government had finished taking the razor to its ministries, saying Wellington could be in for more pain this year. It could also be hurt by local government's march towards some form of amalgamated super-council over the next few years, he said. "The [Wellington] city council has just employed a new chief executive [Kevin Lavery] who comes from a background of cutting expenditure in the UK, and the council is obviously another big employer.
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Judge in Ohio Tells Counties To Preserve 2004 Ballots
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A judge ordered Ohio's county elections boards on Thursday to preserve ballots from the 2004 presidential election, a move activists hope will help prove accusations of fraud.
Federal law requires the counties to keep the ballots for 22 months after the election, which was this week.
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