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Gujarat lignite mining in Bhavnagar causing 'dreadful' disaster: Activists protest
In a letter, the Gujarat-based environment group Paryavaran Suraksha Samiti has asked the state chief secretary, with copies to CEO,Gujarat State Disaster Management Authority, and concerned officials of the state environment and industries and mines department, demanding immediate halt to lignite mining activities in Bhavnagar district in order to stop "further irreversible damage to the environment and the villagers."
Signed by Rohit Prajapati and Krishnakant, the letter states, the authorities are adopting "non-serious, casual, and unscientific approach and attitude" towards the manner in which mining is being carried out in a seismic zone.
We are writing this letter to urgently reiterate the serious and disaster in motion at the village Badi-Hoidad mining site of district Bhavnagar since November 16, 2020 so that you can take appropriate immediate interim, short-term, and long-term action to avoid further irreversible damage to the environment and the villagers.
First, an overview:
It is shocking and surprising that the concerned authorities are not taking serious note of the disaster to the Disaster at Badi-Hoidad Lignite Mining Site, Bhavnagar District, Gujarat, on Monday, 16.11.2020, that could have multiple serious consequences.
Universally accepted 'Precautionary Principle' for any such work is not followed. If this Principle was followed, adequate measures, checks, and balances would have been in place to avoid such a disaster and reduce its impacts. (See: http://www.legalserviceindia.com/legal/article-3931-precautionary-principle.html)
There is no STP at workers camp site. It is the violation of Order, dated Febrary 22, 2017, of the Supreme Court in Writ Petition (Civil) No. 375 of 2012 (Paryavaran Suraksha Samiti & Anrs V/s Union of India & Ors), National Green Tribunal, Principal Bench, Delhi, Order, dated August 3, 2018, August 28, 2019 in Original Application No. 593 of 2017, (Paryavaran Suraksha Samiti & Anrs V/s Union of India & Ors), and National Green Tribunal, Principal Bench, Delhi, Order, dated 06.12.2019, in Original Application No. 673 of 2018.
Exemplary action must be taken against the officials who did not duly report the disastrous incident and against GPCL for the violations of the Environment Clearance and Consent under the Environment (Protection) Act, 1986.
Again, requesting to direct the company to stop all mining activities and activities of the thermal power plant next to the mining till the detailed and accurate investigation report is submitted to the concerned authorities.
Rohit Prajapati
It is utterly shocking and surprising that even after our detailed letter, dated November 25, 2020, with required basic information available at that point in time with our team, followed by site visit led by the Assistant Collector Bhavnagar, Pushp Lata, with the team members, Mamlatdar, Regional Officer of Gujarat Pollution Control Board (GPCB), Officers of the industries and mining department, Officers of the Gujarat Power Corporation Limited (GPCL) with us, no action has been taken to direct the GPCL to immediately stop the mining activities till the Expert Committee submits its interim report. It is utter surprising that even fencing of the disaster affected area has not been done by the GPCL despite verbal direction was given by the Assistant Collector Ms. Pushp Lata, during her team visit on November 25, 2020 between 12.15 pm to 3.45 p.m.
As per our information, the Expert Committee, with their geologist, hydrologist and other experts' member, is not expected to visit the area before December 2, 2020. We do not know how much time the Expert Committee will take to submit its prima-facie report for immediate action as well as for interim and final reports.
Are we waiting for a major disaster in the short or the long run by ignoring the 'Precautionary Principle' which directs to take measures proactively to thwart a disaster? Are the incidents of December 2019 and now recently dated November 16, 2020 not enough to act upon? We feel very sorry to state that non-serious, casual, and unscientific approach and attitude of the concerned authorities and the company will be fully responsible for the short-term and long-term consequences of the December 2019 and November 16, 2020 disasters.
The 'Precautionary Principle' is often used by the authorities and experts to avoid the risks of serious and irreversible damage to nature, the environment, and the villagers (project affected parties -- PAPs) living nearby in such cases. The principle has become an underlying reasoning for a large and increasing number of international treaties and declarations in the fields of sustainable development, environmental protection, health, and safety. We expect that you will not disagree with the facts that mining activities in fault line areas have resulted in number of human-induced earthquakes worldwide.
We again put on record the following information from our side for your immediate consideration and action.
On Monday, November 16, 2020 on Monday, around 9.00 am when Jaywant Singh Gohil of Hoidad village; Naranbhai Jambucha, Himatbhai Kantaria of Surka village; Narendrasinh Gohil of Badi village; Kanaksinh Gohil, Vasudevsinh Gohil, Pravinsinh Gohil from Khadsaliya village, etc. while on their way to wish their friends best wishes for the new year, suddenly witnessed a huge raising of the farm land up to 30-40 feet in the village of Hoidad, Taluka Ghogha, District Bhavnagar, on survey No. 49/1, 49/2, 47, 48, 23 (Gauchar Land), etc.
The villagers did not know exactly what time when the land rising had happened. The villagers were shocked to see this ongoing dreadful disaster. The width of this elevated land is about 300 meters and it is about 700 meters long and today it has been seen spreading further into the farmland by few meters. Even a large mound of topsoil dumped by the GPCL was found to be descending into the ground and its descent into the ground is still going on. The contractors of Gujarat Power Corporation Limited have been doing mining in this area since 2018.
According to the villagers and the executive of the GPCL, a similar tragedy -- disaster took place in December 2019 at survey No. 119/1 near the farm of Italia Vitthalbhai Lovejibhai in Thordi village. Here, the ground is elevated across a length of more than 100 meters, which can be seen even today. The company officials also acknowledged the disaster in presence of the Assistant Collector as if it was a small, non-serious incidence.
The video of this serious disaster at village Badi-Hoidad has been viral on social media since Tuesday, November 17, 2020. Bharat Jambucha, a well-known activist working for the last many years on the issue of water recharging and organic farming of Paniyali village, of Bhavnagar district, informed us over the phone.
We, with the representatives of the affected villagers, were able to visit the area on November 24, 2020 and also meet the Additional Collector of Bhavnagar Mr. Umesh Vyas. We appreciate that he immediately called the concerned officers of the mining department, Mamlatdar, and the Regional Officer of Gujarat Pollution Control Board, Bhavnagar and instructed them to visit the site, submit their report and do needful on the ground.
Bhavnagar district officials talk with villagers, environmentalists
On November 25, 2020 Assistant Collector Pushpa Lata, Taluka Mamlatdar of Ghogha AR Gadhvi, Regional Officer of GPCB AG Oza, officer of mining department Gunjanbhai Sharma, officer of the GPCL, Devendra Khot, Rohit Prajapati of PSS, and Bharat Jambucha working on water and organic farming of Bhavnagar district visited (1) Village Badi - Hoidad disaster site, survey Nos 49/1, 49/2, 47, 48, 23 (gauchar land) (2) Badi-Hoidad mining cross roads, (3) Badi mining site, and (4) Thordi village disaster sites, of December 2019 at survey No. 119/1 Italia Vitthalbhai Lovejibhai's farmland.
Jyotiben Jethwa, Talati of Hoidad village was also present during the visit. Narendrasinh Gohil, Kanaksinh Gohil, Vasudevsinh Gohil, Himatbhai Kantaria, Rekhaben Jambucha, Varshaben Lukhi, Ramaben Kantaria, Shobhaben Jambucha, Pravinsinh Gohil, Mahavirsinh Gohil, Hanubha Gohil, Dharmendrasinh Gohil and other activists of "Badi Padva 12 Gam Khedut Sangharsh Samiti', and villagers of Badi, Surka, Padva, Hoidad, Rampar, Hordi, Tagdi, Alapar, Bhadbhidiya, Khadsaliya, Thalsar, and Hathab were also present and expressed their concerns about the long pending problem because of the mining.
The villagers have made it clear that they have been facing many other serious issues like land acquisition, damage to farmland, damage to agriculture, air and ground water pollution resulting in ongoing impacts on their health and livelihood options for years. In the context of the present disaster, they verbally elaborated in detail their problems and concerns to the team led by the Assistant Collector.
As far as compliance of the condition mentioned in the Environment Clearance of the GPCL is concerned, Gujarat Pollution Control Board has failed in their duties to verify, scrutinize, and monitor the implementation of the Compliance Report submitted by the GPCL every six months. For example, we are only citing the Sewage Treatment Plant (STP) at workers camp site which was expected as per EC condition, Supreme Court in Writ Petition (Civil) No. 375 of 2012 (Paryavaran Suraksha Samiti & Anrs V/s Union of India & Ors), and National Green Tribunal, Principal Bench, Delhi, Order, dated 06.12.2019, in Original Application No. 673 of 2018, but is not constructed. This is admittedly contempt of the Supreme Court Order.
Given the above facts, we demand:
Immediately halt all the mining activities till the reason for this unusual occurrence is ascertained in the region. This entire region falls in an active seismic fault line zone where the Earthquake of 2 Richter Scale, near Bhavnagar was registered at 4.00 - 4.02 AM on Wednesday, November 25, 2020.
Immediately inform and make the concerned villagers of the seismic activity and what are the official preparedness plans owing to mining activity in the region. This must be done both by the power and mining company officials and the concerned government agencies. There are more than 12 villages with around 33,000 population, barely 18 kms away from Bhavnagar city.
Conduct a detailed investigation into the incident due to the negligence of erring officials.
Take strict action against the GPCL officials for their negligence and failure to inform the district and appropriate government agencies of these two disasters.
Take exemplary action against the officials who did not duly report the disastrous incident despite it being in the news that went viral locally in social media, since 17.11.2020. Why did the senior district officials remained unaware and uninformed for such a grave and criminal negligence?
Initiate action against GPCL for the violations of the Environment Clearance and Consent granted by the GPCB under the Environment (Protection) Act, 1986.
Take action against the GPCL for the contempt of the Order, dated February 22, 2017, of the Supreme Court in Writ Petition (Civil) No. 375 of 2012 (Paryavaran Suraksha Samiti & Anrs V/s Union of India & Ors).
Fence off the affected area and bar entry with public warning notices to the effect that it is a disaster-prone zone.
Conduct the following surveys under independent expert guidance to find the causes for the disaster and also assess the possibility of sea water ingress due to raising of farmland: (a) GPR - Ground Penetrating Radar – to ascertain neotectonics activities in the area to get an idea of activity due to mining activities in the area beneath land surface, and (b) Resistivity, Profiling Survey, and Seismological Surveys to recognise and demarcate faults in the area and to ascertain tectonic activity and the impact of unusual geological phenomenon.
Conduct all other relevant and detail geological and hydrological studies of the area.
Prepare detailed status report for the water quantity and quality of the wells, borewells, lakes, ponds, streams, wetlands, and Malesari and Ramdasia river for the whole area to assess the adverse impacts of the ongoing mining activities, December 2019 and recent November 16, 2020 ongoing disaster. The GPCB must prepare and make this report public at the earliest possible.
Clarify and explain publicly why such a disaster was not thought of in the Environment Impact Assessments (EIA) Report and Environment Management Plant (EMP).
Scrutinize the non-serious and factually incorrect compliance report from 2018 onwards, uploaded on the GPCL website by the GPCB by conducting thorough site visit with us and the affected villagers.
Establish an empowered committee of experts to devise, guide, help execute, and monitor a comprehensive restoration plan of the raised land areas so that the villagers can begin to use their land for their regular livelihood activities and natural assets are enhanced.
We expect your prompt and positive response in the interest of life, livelihoods, and environment in the affected areas. If you fail in your duties, you will, as authority and as individuals, will be collectively liable for present conditions and future consequences.
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The excitement of learning has been lost in our schools. It's time to end the intellectual poverty of the national curriculum
Secondary school is rather like a funnel. The pupil enters at the wide end and is presented with a timetable containing a lot of subjects but as the years proceed, the number of subjects decreases. At GCSE, depending on the school, it has come down to between five and ten, in the sixth form only three or at most four are studied to A Level. Eventually, the pupil is squeezed out of the narrowest point accompanied by one or perhaps two subjects to be studied at university.
For "academic" pupils, at least, the funnel analogy still holds good. My daily timetable in c. 1956 looked something like this:
First Period: RI or Scripture — first because God comes first.
Period 2: Maths — early in the day when the brain was supposedly sharpest.
Period 3: English.
These were the same every day and for Periods 4 and 5 Geography, History, French, Spanish, Latin, Physics, Chemistry and Biology alternated. In the afternoons came the less-regarded Music, Art, Domestic Science — and Sports. This might be recognised in general outline by a pupil today, though God no longer takes pride of place, virtually no state school offers Latin and there are some new subjects, principally IT and PSHE, aka sex lessons.
The principal difference is that schools then were not dictated to by government, let alone political correctness, in the way they are now. And it is in relation to those things, as well as to the attitudes and prejudices of the teaching unions and examination boards, as well as to the general dumbed-down social ethos, that things in schools after the age of 11 have gone badly wrong, so that we have betrayed several generations of young people.
The unacademic pupil, whose practical talents and potential were once recognised and catered for both in secondary modern school and via apprenticeships, is forced, resentful and struggling, into the same funnel to emerge at a low-grade university doing media studies or tourism, until they drop out or leave ill-equipped for employment other than the sort which could have been learned in a week "on the job" — if at all. That is one sort of betrayal. But what about the more academic pupil: bright, interested, motivated, who should not only be heading for a high-flying career earning a good salary, but has the potential and desire to become a well-rounded individual with a broad general knowledge, the ability both to study one or two things in depth and an interest in many wider aspects of culture and society? Yes, they still exist, emerging overwhelmingly from the independent sector, simply because with the demise of most grammar schools, the door has been slammed shut on bright but poor pupils.
What has happened?
Many things, and addressing the intellectual poverty of the secondary school curriculum does not change social attitudes — primarily poverty of aspiration. Once, a decent education was the only route for working-class children to a "good job with prospects". Parents encouraged their children to work hard at school for this reason alone and there was also a general respect for learning and the learned, which died gradually from the 1960s onwards. Too many parents have no ambitions or aspiration for themselves or their children. That schools have dumbed down at the same time, discipline has weakened and respect for teachers vanished altogether has compounded the felony. Yet ask most parents, even the feckless ones, "Would you like your child to become a High Court barrister or consultant brain surgeon?" and few would answer "No." The general lack of respect for learning also means that the bright ambitious child in many a state school is both held back in mixed-ability classes, where everything is brought down to the lowest common denominator for the benefit of the least able pupil, and bullied mercilessly for wanting to study and having aspirations. Well, even Billy Bunter and his mates sneered at "swots" but it is more widespread and pernicious now. Teachers do not stamp hard on this form of bullying, usually because it is simply not recognised as such.
Perhaps low expectations on the part of some parents, their offspring and even teachers are unsurprising. But when the entire system has lowered its expectations and watered down the curriculum in line with that, that is shocking indeed and it is time to protest. Because not giving young people the opportunity to be stretched intellectually, to broaden their horizons and enrich themselves as far as possible is the worst betrayal of all.
What is to be done? Attitudes need to be changed. But these ships have a very wide turning circle and the watering-down and thinning out of the curriculum has gone on for so long that nothing will change overnight. But a start could be made.
So let us make a start and address the problem of modern digital versus traditional analogue. I am talking about joined-up education. Information and skills have been put before knowledge. The acquisition of knowledge simply for its own sake has become despised not merely by those who bully "swots" because they don't know any better, but by governments and those in authority who certainly should. Of course children need to acquire basic skills. Knowledge must be applied, essays written, projects completed, jobs done. But the sheer excitement of learning has been lost. Digital learning means that children are given information in unrelated gobbets. They read a couple of chapters of a book, learn about the rain forests or the Holocaust and other fashionable topics, flit about tasting world religions. Even examination questions are in multiple choice box-ticking format and short sentence answers required, rather than formally constructed essays. But the more digitally one tries to read and learn and respond, the more fragmented becomes the brain and one's learning. The analogue in this context is not just something almost obsolete: it is an essential way of acquiring knowledge.
We need joined-up academic subjects. Yes, it is important to study certain historical periods in depth but not to uproot them from their contexts. The Roman occupation, the Renaissance, the two World Wars, can be properly understood only in terms of the whole great flow of our island's history, otherwise they become islands themselves. The line of history can be shown clearly on a well-designed and attractive chart, just as the shape of the British Isles can be on a map. There is a lot to be said for visual aids.
It is always most saddening to see one's own subject being downgraded and to learn that many, perhaps most, first-year English undergraduates passed their exam without having read a single whole book, so that when confronted with the requirement to read an entire Victorian novel of 800 pages they turn white with shock. Yes, separate sections have to be analysed for exam purposes, but what beats reading the whole? Why would those reading English not want to read the whole-many wholes?
The problem lies back in the funnel. The end is the narrow segment leading to the exam, but during that progress we have lost sight of the whole joy and purpose of education. Knowledge, expanding our intellectual horizons, helps to make us full, rounded human beings able to explore both breadth and depth. Learning is a joy for its own sake. We were put here to learn. That charming cliché "life's rich tapestry" expresses a great truth. The more we know and understand, the more enriching our experience of that tapestry.
I cannot comment on the maths and science curriculum, but it is worrying that these rigorous subjects may also be watered down if only because engineers must rely on accurate mathematical calculations or innumerable things will collapse, killing us all.
But although I am not a classicist I am delighted I was obliged to study Latin to A level. It seems strange that it has been banished from the timetable as "irrelevant" because if nothing else it is good mental exercise, a satisfying puzzle, and the popularity of brain exercises and sudoku surely indicates the desire to challenge the mind in an enjoyable yet rigorous way. Yet whereas most puzzles are like knots — untie them and you lose interest — classical languages lead to some of the greatest literature, magnificent civilisations, fascinating history and wise philosophy. If ever there was a great world to conquer metaphorically, it is the classical one. Bring that back and you challenge the young mind in the most exciting ways.
Bright young people who aim for academia know when they are being short-changed and they find it frustrating. I wish they would complain and loudly because it would have a far greater impact than when their elders do it for them. Of course, they do not know what they should learn nor should they choose their own curriculum, but the best of them know that when adults talk about not giving them knowledge which is not "relevant", they are being patronised. Just as teenage patois changes weekly, what is deemed relevant to themselves by one generation of pupils will be dismissed by the next. It is wrong to pretend that they know best and it does them no service.
The debate continues about whether it is useful to learn things by rote. The young brain absorbs and what it absorbs remains for good. Not only times tables, chemical formulae and foreign language verbs are easily learned by heart, but whole long poems and pages of prose. After the age of 20, the ability to learn by heart and retain that learning decreases markedly. It pays to do it when it comes easily. But rote learning has its dangers and the ability to parrot answers does not necessarily imply any understanding of them, as my head full of chemical formulae testifies. This is an area where things have improved. But the pleasure of having a mental store of poetry is considerable and can see one through many a tedious journey in later life. Great verse is enriching, even ennobling, and if some of it seems useless to us when young, it may well become increasingly relevant as we age. To open up the treasure chest of great poetry going back many centuries to the young is to give a pearl without price and it need not be at the expense of the modern, though it should exclude the merely trendy. For my English Honours degree I had to study English literature from the Anglo-Saxons to 1880, but everything written thereafter was regarded as optional so it was possible to get a starred A without having read a word of it.
That was ridiculous and the school curriculum must include poetry by Ted Hughes and Seamus Heaney, the great contemporary writers — but not only theirs. Dryden and Byron may be hard going but Chaucer, Donne, Henry Vaughan, Coleridge and Tennyson need not be. (Chaucer is not difficult once the basics of the language have been grasped and untying that knot is great fun.)
There is more to great poetry than any of this, but answering the question "Why?" is never easy. It seems like a cop-out to say, "I just know" but that is almost what Marilynne Robinson does say in one of the best replies to "Why?" I have ever read. In her recent novel Home, Glory, a former teacher, remembers her pupils asking, "Why do we have to read poetry? Why Il Penseroso?" and her reply is, "Read it and you'll know why. If you still don't know, read it again. And again. People have always made poetry. Trust that it will matter to you…It is like a voice heard from another room, singing for the pleasure of the song, and then you know it too, and through you it moves by accident and necessity down generations."
That is true of other things too, things which do not have immediate "use", true of myths and legends for example, from our own country and from round the world. If young people do not hear and learn poetry, myths, legends and ancient stories or read great fiction or see great plays they are being betrayed, short-changed and impoverished but they do not know it, they must take it on trust, as previous generations did. Not all of them will understand. But that is no excuse for not trying.
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The Universal Waite Tarot is a traditional Rider set of cards that is a near duplicate of the famous Rider-Waite version of Tarot. This deck uses softer color tones and tints instead of the flat, bland, and plainer colorings of the Rider-Waite.
Mary Hanson-Roberts, artist of the Hanson-Roberts Tarot, recolorized the traditional version of Tarot at the request of U.S. Games Systems. Her lovely color enhancements reveal great detail for the figures and symbols in the cards. The coloring for this deck is softer and has a more soothing energy which makes the cards appear brighter and generally more attractive overall.
I definitely recommend this deck to beginners since it was born from the original Rider-Waite deck. The Rider Waite version of cards remains the most influential deck even among hundreds of selections to choose from for a Tarot deck.
The original artwork in the Rider-Waite was done by Pamela Coleman Smith. Mary Hanson-Robert's rendition brings out the details of the original work in a very pleasing way. The clearer features of this Universal Waite deck are certainly lovely improvements which can be especially useful to the beginning reader. The new delicate shading compared to the starker coloring of the original version encourages focus and can improve readings at any level of experience.
Those who have shied away from the Rider Waite Tarot -- due to artwork that lacks appeal -- might like to take a new look through the Universal Waite cards! The re-coloring of the deck breathes new life into the most well-known traditional Tarot deck.


As the Federal Reserve continues to indicate higher US base rates in the short to medium term there have been concerns that the US house prices could go into reverse. At this moment in time there are mixed signals with some suggesting a continued rise while others seem to indicate a slowdown. If we take a step back and look at the US housing market from a distance, there are a number of reasons why house prices will not fall too far in the short to medium term.
At this moment in time there are 200,000 new jobs per month which will have a positive impact upon household incomes and wage inflation. This is something which is set to continue for the foreseeable future and if Donald Trump is good to his word we could see significant growth in the US economy for some time to come. While there are some who have been priced out of the US housing market, the addition of potentially 200,000 new house buyers a month will more than make up for this.
As we are starting to see in many countries around the world, while some indicators suggest that the housing market is falling back, a lack of supply should keep prices fairly steady. It is difficult to understand why there is such a lack of supply across the world, it may be that potential buyers feel there is further upside or are they concerned about tighter mortgage regulations? Either way, it is highly unlikely we will get a flurry of new stock in the short to medium term so this will offer a degree of support to prices.
Despite the fact that US base rates began to rise back in December 2015, with a further interest rate rise expected towards the end of 2017, this has had relatively little impact upon mortgage rates. We may not be seeing the eye-catching offers of the last 12 months but the core mortgage rates have not moved anywhere near as much as people had expected when base rates started to rise. This can only help homebuyers as household incomes continue to increase giving investors more dollars in their pockets.
One interesting factor which is not really covered in much detail is the equivalent mortgage rate rise required before renting becomes the more sensible option. A number of experts have worked out the national breakeven rate and suggest that mortgage rates would need to rise to around 8% to make the cost of buying property the same as the cost of renting. With rates nowhere near this level this should offer more short to medium term support to the US housing market.
These are just four of a number of factors which should support the US house prices in the short to medium term. The doom and gloom merchants would have you believe that US house prices are hovering on the edge of a precipice when in reality this is not the case. We may see some short-term consolidation, demand may weaken a little but there are still more positive factors supporting the US housing market than there are negative ones dragging it down.


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In recent years we have focused a lot on the use of electronics for graphics and image processing for other applications. The computing power of graphics processing units (GPUs) is huge, making highly computer-intensive simulations and artificial intelligence tasks possible. The market for GPUs is immense, including computer games and virtual reality applications in the entertainment industry. This has made these mini-supercomputers very affordable.
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One of the most memorable projects we completed is an array we built in the artists' restaurant at Pukkelpop in 2012: an almost 360-degree projection screen showing live images from a virtual reality camera on the festival's main stage. Performers such as Björk used this virtual environment to soak up the atmosphere on stage before their show - it was superb. In addition, the images were also broadcast live for three days during the festival via a web viewer that we developed, allowing people who had stayed at home to experience the festival as if they had been there. This project made us go viral for quite some time.
From Pukkelpop to the operating theatre
Today we are still building 360-degree cameras, but the application domains have changed. It is noticeable that other industries are gradually trying to tap into the potential of VR. For example, together with dLiveMed, a start-up from Genk, we have built a platform to offer documented surgical techniques on the internet. We set up our 360-degree cameras in the operating theatre, so that we can view and follow operations from every angle. This way of filming is very positive for both doctors and patients: there are no camera people in the operating theatre, the cameras are easy to disinfect, and the surgeon does not have to give instructions to the camera crew and can concentrate fully on the operation.
EDM creates video images and the start-up then assembles these onto a timeline. Sketches, 3D scans and notes are added, and the finished product is then made available on an online platform. Working with colleagues from NSS and our spin-off Androme, we also helped create this platform. The platform means that the images can be used much more flexibly at conferences. Just like with a football match, users can replay actions and view them from different angles.
Opportunities and challenges
The application possibilities of Visual Computing are virtually unlimited. The technologies we develop and research are relevant to any sector or discipline. As a researcher, I continue to find it fascinating to use the knowledge we build up here in very concrete ways in projects with clear social and economic added value.
EDM is of course an academic research institute. It goes without saying that we focus on basic research and publications. We also attend top conferences. These things are extremely important. By excelling academically, we have also been able to enter into productive partnerships with global players such as the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT Boston), the Max-Planck Institute (Germany) and the National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT Japan). Yet academic excellence alone is not enough for us.
How can we adapt our skills and expertise even better to the needs of our society? How can we ensure that academic research output flows through to industry, where it can also deliver economic added value? We constantly ask ourselves these questions at EDM. We have had an excellent network for European and regional collaborative R&D projects for many years, and working with local and international businesses is second nature to us. EDM is about much more than just publications. We want to make a difference with our expertise that extends far beyond the confines of the university.
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text: Snoop Dogg will make a cameo on the ABC soap opera, "One Life to Live.". The Snoop episodes will air May 8 and May 9, and feature his re-mixed version of the show's theme song. He will also act in scenes. Snoop Dogg is set to perform two songs (Sensual Seduction" and "Life of Da Party") from his new album, "Ego Trippin'," at the Ultra Violet club in the town of Llanview.


I just had my day in court trying to defend my wife against a speeding ticket ... of course no luck in court (found guilty), but the Officer testified (under oath of course) that there were speed limit signs posted every 900m along that section of the road (four lanes plus center turn lane, municipal area, 50km/h zone, no community safety zone, etc). This fact was not in his notes, and I must admit I wasn't prepared for it, so didn't challenge him on the point. RRO Reg 615 requires speed limit signs every 900m on a street with the typical 50km/h limit where the road is more than 1,500m in total length (as was the case there), so he was obviously trying to convince the Justice that everything was kosher with the stop.
- is the lack of minimum adequate signage (in line with what he testified in court) as required under RRO Reg 615 to the Highway Traffic Act a basis to have the case thrown out, and can I introduce this evidence on appeal, given that he brought it up in the initial hearing?
I did some other checking in our city (Barrie, for anyone else who has been recently caught), and EVERY street that I checked didn't have the required minimum signage. On one street (Anne Street South heading north), there was a stretch of 3,400 meters without a single speed limit sign. This is clearly a pervasive problem in Barrie - does anyone see a potential for a class action lawsuit against the City by drivers that have been caught up in this web over the years?
Under section 128 of the HTA there are several statuary maximum speeds that don't require the posting of any signs.
(2) Where the maximum rate of speed for a highway in a built-up area more than 1,500 metres in length is that prescribed by subsection 128 (1) of the Act, speed limit signs shall be erected on the highway not more than 900 metres apart. R.R.O. 1990, Reg. 615, s. 2 (2).
(3) Where the maximum rate of speed for a highway in a built-up area 1,500 metres or less in length is that prescribed by subsection 128 (1) of the Act, speed limit signs shall be erected on the highway not more than 300 metres apart. R.R.O. 1990, Reg. 615, s. 2 (3).
128 (1) a,b,c are "normative", as it were, vs. "prescriptive".
It would be nice if our laws and regulations could be easily understood by us mere mortals, but that's a story for another day.
So a City NEVER needs to post a speed limit if it is a 50 zone? Unbelievable.
It still doesn't explain why the Officer perjured himself by claiming there were speed limit signs every 900m, when in fact there was only one sign over a 3km stretch.
Thanks for the clearer explanation.
You're right; it still doesn't explain why the officer would testify that there were signs. If you really want to pursue that angle, you have the right to request an investigation. It won't change your verdict.
mikemish wrote: So a City NEVER needs to post a speed limit if it is a 50 zone? Unbelievable.
It's not really unbelievable, it actually makes a lot of sense in terms of cost savings, etc.


Social or Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) investing is getting more attention from large institutional investors in five parts of the world than it did only five years ago.
The trend towards a greater acceptance of ESG investing comes from two separate studies, one conducted by RBC Global Asset Management and another from Callan Associates.
According to a new survey of global investors in the U.S., Asia, Europe, Canada and the UK, conducted by RBC, about 43% of institutional investors use some degree of ESG factors when making their investing decisions. This is an increase from 22% in 2013. The survey also found that ESG investing is expanding into fixed income instruments in addition to equities.
ESG is an investment strategy that incorporates such practices as socially responsible investing (SRI, including divestment), sustainable, responsible, impact investing, non-discriminatory, environmental protections and non-intrusive business practices into daily business operations from publicly-traded companies worldwide. An ESG investment manager then analyses these practices in every company it may invest in to see how and to what degree they comply with the ESG screens it constructs.
The ESG trend is popular among younger investors and wealthy investors who look at the society-changing power of their wealth. About 45% of U.S. households are interested in ESG investing, according to a report from Callan. The Callan report also found that 64% of endowments use some form of ESG in their investing strategies, an increase of 29% from 2013.
24% of institutions questioned said they believe an ESG-integrated portfolio would perform better than a non-ESG portfolio, a five-fold percentage increase from last year's survey.
About 18% of U.S. respondents still said they believe the ESG-integrated portfolio would perform worse, but that negative sentiment is down from 26% in the 2017 survey.
39% responded ESG analysis generates alpha (market outperformance), compared to17% who responded last year.
In 2017, only 28% said they thought ESG portfolios could reduce risk compared to 54% this year.
ESG also plays a role in fiduciary responsibilities. Over 50% of respondents said they use some form of ESG factors when making investment decisions, which is 50% higher from last year.
The complete RBC Global Asset Management Survey can be found here.
For more about ESG and social investing, look at these articles on this site.


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Words are singularly the most powerful force available to humanity.
Conversation isn't about proving a point; true conversation is about going on a journey with the people you are speaking with.


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Princess Palatine Benedicta Henrietta (Benedicta Henrietta Philippina; 14 March 1652 – 12 August 1730) was Duchess of Brunswick-Lüneburg, or of Hanover, by her marriage to Duke John Frederick. She was the third and youngest daughter of Prince Palatine Edward and the political hostess Anna Gonzaga.

Life
Born in Paris to the landless Prince Palatine Edward, Bénédicte Henriette'''s paternal grandparents were Frederick V, Elector Palatine and Elizabeth Stuart, the Winter Queen. Her maternal grandparents were Charles I, Duke of Mantua and Montferrat and his French wife Catherine de Mayenne, daughter of Charles de Lorraine-Guise, Duke of Mayenne. She was the youngest of three daughters.

Bénédicte was reared by Louise de La Fayette, a courtier-turned-nun known as Sister Louise-Angélique.

Duchess of Brunswick-Lüneburg
She was married at the age of sixteen to a distant cousin, John Frederick, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg, who was the same age as her father, and childless. They were married on 30 November 1668. The union, which had been arranged by the French diplomatist Gourville, produced four daughters, only two of whom lived to mature adulthood.

John Frederick died in 1679 without a male heir, and the duchy of Brunswick was inherited by his Protestant younger brother, Ernest Augustus, the husband of Benedicta Henrietta's paternal aunt, Sophia of Hanover, and father of George I of Great Britain. After her husband's death, Benedicta returned to her native France and resided there with her sister, the princess of Condé.

She corresponded with Gottfried Leibniz.

Benedicta died the age of 78, at Asnieres, her late sister's residence near Paris, on 12 August 1730.

Issue
Anna Sophie of Brunswick-Lüneburg (10 February 1670 – 24 March 1672), died in childhood;
Charlotte Felizitas of Brunswick-Lüneburg (8 March 1671 – 29 September 1710), married Rinaldo d'Este, Duke of Modena and had issue;
Henriette Maria of Brunswick-Lüneburg (9 March 1672 – 4 September 1687), died unmarried;
Wilhelmine Amalia of Brunswick-Lüneburg (21 April 1673 – 10 April 1742), married Joseph I, Holy Roman Emperor and had issue.

Ancestry

References

Sources
Bougaud, Emile. St. Chantal and the Foundation of the Visitation. Vol. 2. New York: Benziger Brothers, 1895. Google Books''. Web.

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Big Dude, This is one of our favorites. Well at least to the next one.
OOPS won a half-case of wine in the raffle, which I'm supposed to pick up at the Stockton ABC office by Thursday, aargh!
Aaron, Congratulations on the wine. That is a stretch to drive back to Stockton during the week for you. We won some bbq sauce and hot sauce several years back and had to drive back also.


The major analyses of the negative inversion (NI) constructions in the Minimalist/Principles-and-Parameters theory claim that the initial negative expression occupies [Spec,FocP]. In this paper, I argue that there is a body of data which are problematic for the Minimalist/Principles-and-Parameters analyses but that HPSG can provide a fairly straightforward account of the facts. The use of hierarchically organised network of clausal types allows us to accommodate not just the construction-specific properties of NI sentences but also the regularities that they share with other constructions with subject-auxiliary inversion.


SAUSALITO, CA--(Marketwire - March 3, 2011) - HumanConcepts, a leading provider of workforce decision support solutions, today announced that its OrgPlus Enterprise 4.0 solution has achieved Oracle Validated Integration with Oracle's PeopleSoft Enterprise Human Capital Management (HCM) 9.1. OrgPlus Enterprise enables PeopleSoft HCM customers to take control of organizational change, build a baseline workforce understanding, model options, and connect HR and financial goals.
OrgPlus Enterprise augments an organization's PeopleSoft HCM investment by providing organizational visualization and modeling solutions including organizational charting, interactive modeling and succession planning. The solution helps managers and HR professionals to easily access and share organizational information and metrics. In addition, the collaborative planning capabilities facilitate workforce restructuring activities via an intuitive drag and drop interface.
Built-in connectivity simplifies human resources data updates from PeopleSoft HCM. OrgPlus Enterprise supports both supervisor and position management configurations.
Integration directly into PeopleSoft Human Resources HCM provides users with context sensitive organizational charts from applications such as Oracle's PeopleSoft Self-Service Work Requests and Oracle Workforce Administration Integration Pack for PeopleSoft Human Resources.
The standard installation of OrgPlus Enterprise provides instant value through six predefined charts that provide key human resources data and metrics such as headcount, performance, and span of control.
Row level security inheritance from PeopleSoft HCM ensures that users can only access information in OrgPlus Enterprise that they are authorized to see.
"The Oracle Validated Integration applies a rigorous technical review and test process," said Kevin O'Brien, senior director, ISV and SaaS Strategy, Oracle. "Achieving Oracle Validated Integration through Oracle PartnerNetwork gives our customers confidence that the integration between HumanConcepts' OrgPlus Enterprise and Oracle's PeopleSoft Enterprise Human Capital Management 9.1 has been validated and that the products work together as designed. This reduces risk and improves the implementation cycles for our joint customers."
"When organizations are growing, merging or restructuring, it is essential to understand the current structure and be able to plan and model the future state," said Martin Sacks, president and CEO, HumanConcepts. "Managers using Oracle's PeopleSoft Enterprise HCM 9.1 with OrgPlus Enterprise have the ability to access employee metrics, analytics, and other information such as compensation, skills, diversity or tenure, to make informed decisions."
HumanConcepts is a Platinum level member in Oracle PartnerNetwork.
Oracle Validated Integration through Oracle PartnerNetwork gives customers confidence that integrations between Oracle Applications (and Oracle Enterprise Manager) and complementary partner capabilities have been validated and the products work together as designed. This can help reduce risk, improve system implementation cycles, and provide for smoother upgrades and simpler maintenance. Oracle Validated Integration applies a rigorous technical process to review the integrations of third-party software to Oracle Applications products, including productized repeatable integrations from system integrators. Oracle provides access to Oracle Applications software, tools, technical resources and training to assist partners in developing integrations based on Oracle standards and best practices. Partners who have successfully validated their integrations are authorized to use the "Oracle Validated Integration" logo. For more information, please visit Oracle.com at http://www.oracle.com/us/partnerships/solutions/index.html.
HumanConcepts enables enterprises to better manage organizational change of all types, including growth, rightsizing and reorganization. Using solutions from HumanConcepts, customers can achieve organization agility, more easily understand how they are organized, plan for the future, and transition the workforce to its optimal state. Used by many of the world's largest organizations, HumanConcepts solutions provide immediate return on investment by enabling companies to reorganize faster, manage financial targets, stay in compliance, and reduce both cost and risk. The company's products are certified by leading ERP and talent vendors such as Oracle, SAP, PeopleSoft and Lawson. HumanConcepts is based in Sausalito, California, with offices in the United Kingdom, Germany and Singapore. For more information, visit www.humanconcepts.com.


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using System;
using System.Linq;
using System.Text.RegularExpressions;
using Resources;

namespace crisicheckinweb.Infrastructure
{
    public class PasswordComplexity
    {
        public static bool IsValid(string password, out string errorMessage)
        {
            return IsValid(password, null, out errorMessage);
        }

        public static bool IsValid(string password, string userName, out string errorMessage)
        {
            // Check for password length
            if (!Regex.IsMatch(password, @"^[^\s]{6,20}$"))
            {
                errorMessage = DefaultErrorMessages.InvalidPasswordFormat;
                return false;
            }

            // Check for equality to username
            if (userName != null && String.Compare(password, userName, StringComparison.InvariantCultureIgnoreCase) == 0)
            {
                errorMessage = DefaultErrorMessages.InvalidPasswordEqualToUserName;
                return false;
            }

            // Check for common words
            var commonWords = new[] { "password", "pass", "ht" };
            if (commonWords.Any(w => password.IndexOf(w, StringComparison.InvariantCultureIgnoreCase) >= 0))
            {
                errorMessage = DefaultErrorMessages.InvalidPasswordGenericUsed;
                return false;
            }

            // By the current rules the password is safe enough to be used.
            errorMessage = null;
            return true;
        }
    }
}

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MoneyConsumerDont Waste Your Money
Labor Day sales expected to be better than ever this year
Last year's shortages have become this year's overstock sales
Looking for a good deal? This weekend brings some of the biggest sales between the summer, and Black Friday in November.
At Ace Hardware, workers are getting ready for a big Labor Day weekend, as they are at many other stores.
Grills and patio accessories are among the items on markdown, as they are at Home Depot and Lowe's.
Shannon Phoenix is ready to do some shopping.
"I'll be out, most likely because it is going to be my birthday, so I am sure I am going to buy myself something nice," she said.
A look at why sales are expected to be bigger than usual
In a normal year, you'll find the largest Labor Day markdowns on summer clearance. But, retail experts say this year, stores are so overstocked with items they ordered during the pandemic. And you should find more deals than usual.
Once stimulus checks ran out, and gas prices soared, shoppers tightened their purse strings, and at the same time, stores finally got all their orders delivered.
It's almost the opposite of last year when so many items were in short supply.
Smart shopping expert Trae Bodge of TrueTrae.com says that means great markdowns on "your large appliances, your mattresses, and furniture," she said.
You will also find deep discounts on clothing, she says, more so than in most years.
"Fall clothing is coming in later than expected," Trae said. "Retailers will be looking to clear their merchandise as quickly as possible, and that means sales," she said.
Retailers lighting up their websites with big end-of-summer deals include:
So whether you're shopping for clothing, electronics, or something to spruce up your home, Vanderbilt University Marketing professor Kelly Goldsmith says this weekend is the time to buy.
"We are going to be seeing the extra inventory they have, and the role that it plays in pricing for a good long while," she said. "Specifically, we're gonna see it until they sell those goods."
So take advantage of the Labor Day savings for some great late summer deals.
Or do some early holiday or birthday shopping, as Shannon Phoenix is hoping,
"Hopefully, someone sees this and buys me some presents for my birthday," she said, tongue in cheek.
And you don't need to wait till Saturday to shop: Many stores have already begun their Labor Day sales, so you don't waste your money.
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A Call to the Security Community: The W3C's DRM Extension Must Be Investigated
By Cory Doctorow
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The World Wide Web Consortium has published a "Candidate Recommendation" for Encrypted Media Extensions, a pathway to DRM for streaming video.
A large community of security researchers and public interest groups have been alarmed by the security implications of baking DRM into the HTML5 standard. That's because DRM -- unlike all the other technology that the W3C has ever standardized — enjoys unique legal protection under a tangle of international laws, like the US Digital Millennium Copyright Act, Canada's Bill C-11, and EU laws that implement Article 6 of the EUCD.
Under these laws, companies can threaten legal action against researchers who circumvent DRM, even if they does so for lawful purposes, like disclosing security vulnerabilities. Last summer, a who's-who America's most esteemed security researchers filed comments with the US Copyright Office warning the agency that they routinely discovered vulnerabilities in systems from medical implants to voting machines to cars, but were advised not to disclose those discoveries because of the risk of legal reprisals under Section 1201 of the DMCA.
Browsers are among the most common technologies in the world, with literally billions of daily users. Any impediment to reporting vulnerabilities in these technologies has grave implications. Worse: HTML5 is designed to provide the kind of rich interaction that we see in apps, in order to challenge apps' dominance as control systems for networked devices. That means browsers are now intended to serve as front-ends for pacemakers and cars and home security systems. Now more than ever, we can't afford any structural impediments to identification and disclosure of browser defects.
There is a way to reconcile the demands of browser vendors and movie studios with the security of the web: last year, we proposed an extension to the existing W3C policy on patents, which says that members are forbidden from enforcing their patent rights to shut down implementations of W3C standards. Under our proposal, this policy would also apply to legal threats under laws like the DMCA. Members would agree upon a mutually acceptable, binding covenant that forbade them from using the DMCA and its global analogs to attack security researchers who revealed defects in browsers and new entrants into the browser market.
So far, the W3C has rejected this proposal, despite broad support from security and privacy professionals around the world, and despite new evidence of the need to investigate technical flaws in the EME specification. In June, security researchers in Israel and Germany revealed a showstopper bug in Chrome's implementation and promised to look at Firefox, Safari and Edge next.
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We will keep working to persuade the W3C to adopt our sensible proposal. In the meantime, we urge the security research community to subject all EME implementations to the closest possible scrutiny. The black hats who are already doing this are not bound by fear of the DMCA, and they are delighted to have an attack surface that white hats are not allowed to investigate in detail.
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CE Sabadell FC är en spansk fotbollsklubb i Sabadell. Klubben grundades 1903 och spelar i Segunda División, spanska andradivisionen. Hemmamatcherna spelas på Estadi de la Nova Creu Alta.

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Staying Ahead of the Compliance Curve – Heading Off Risks in Short Term Assignments
By Ryan Chargois
When it comes to assignment planning, the thought, "If only we had known in advance," probably comes up more often than anyone would like. It can seem as if all the effort that goes into tracking and reporting on short-term assignees and global business travelers is trying to address the fact that often companies simply don't know in advance.
Business needs arise and require immediate attention, and if an employee can get on a plane within 24 hours without waiting for a visa, the pressure to get that person to the airport can be incredibly high. "When a big project comes up, or something goes down or gets broken and the business needs help, the most important thing to the manager is to get someone there fast, especially if it's a customer situation," says Liane Grametbauer, GMS, program manager for global mobility and immigration with National Instruments Corporation (NI) in Austin, Texas. As a result, even companies with strong policies and engaged global mobility professionals continue to face challenges to ensuring legal compliance.
Unfortunately, the cost of missing something can be high, both for the employee and the organization. Employees who try to enter a country without the correct immigration status, or who are found to be working illegally after entry, can be fined, denied entry, or deported. The sending employer and its local affiliate—or even worse, a client hosting the employee—can face fines, reputational damage, and loss of immigration sponsorship privileges.
Legal penalties are not the entire story; the impact to operations can also be extreme. Short-term assignees are often traveling to meet critical business needs, and a delay or work stoppage due to a last-minute immigration violation can result in contractual default or other penalties. Other costs can arise from tax noncompliance, particularly when an employee has unintentionally spent more time in a country than she is allowed.
These costs and penalties are becoming more of an issue as immigration enforcement efforts around the world increase in response to economic protectionism and security concerns. Noncompliant employees are being "caught" more often. According to Grametbauer, "For more than a year we've even seen higher scrutiny at the U.S. border for employees who are coming into the country for meetings lasting longer than a couple of weeks. For employees entering for longer than a month, border officers are starting to request additional documentation about what exactly they are doing, so we are proactively providing detailed letters for trips that we don't consider assignments."
To manage these risks, managers need to know when to get global mobility involved, and nothing can replace recursive education. "An education campaign needs to be 'rinse and repeat,' because the laws change," says Sheryll Young, GMS-T, global mobility adviser with Amec Foster Wheeler in Ontario. "Last year, for example, we had the Tier 2 Skills Transfer visa available to us in the U.K., and now, only six months later, it's not an applicable strategy. Everything changes quickly in immigration, and as global mobility professionals we have to stay current to be best positioned to educate the business, when needed, with current information."
Grametbauer agrees: "It is really hard to identify and get in front of the right people, especially in a large organization. If someone isn't in immigration all day long, they may not remember everything they need to." When global mobility does get in front of the right people, that time has to count, and there may be specific compliance risks with certain types of employees that they need to know about. This article discusses a few.
Prevalent particularly in the energy and oilfield services sectors, rotators look very little like the long-term expats on which most immigration systems are based. They are sent into a location for repeated, successive stays to work for short periods. Immigrants are needed because of their specific expertise, but they do not take a position with a host organization's staff. And they definitely do not take up residence in the host country.
To a certain degree, rotators present a simpler problem than other types of short-term assignments: They are clearly working. Few countries would consider a rotating oilfield worker to be a legitimate business visitor, so that worker will typically require work authorization. But from every other perspective, these are difficult assignments to manage.
Accurate reporting on rotators can be elusive. Though steps are taken to carefully track their days in-country, they may not show up in the host country's HR systems. This makes local reporting on foreign workers, and local tax filings, difficult. When the rotator's employer does not have offices in the country where work is performed, there may be no local HR or global mobility staff looking out for the employee at all. At a minimum, rotators need to be correctly identified as such in their home-country HR system, and plans need to be made for immigration and tax counsel to take care of any local reporting requirements.
It can also be difficult to determine what immigration status is appropriate. A rotator's deployments can be seen as a series of successive short-term assignments. Individually, a single trip may be handled with a short-term work visa in countries that have that option. But rotators are usually put on a rotating schedule over a series of months, so that the overall or aggregate time spent in the host country means that the employee will need a long-term work permit. Unfortunately, there is often a disconnect between the requirements of a long-term permit and the realities of a rotator's assignment.
Many countries impose local content or training commitments on sponsors of foreign nationals; obligations are important politically and economically to the host government. In those cases, it can be difficult to explain and substantiate the continued benefit to the local workforce made by a rotator, who is in the country only for two or three weeks at a time on a periodic basis.
The disconnect is also seen in the complexity of arranging local registration and extension procedures. Local registration at an immigration office will often conflict with a project or rig schedule, where the employee's time in-country is intensely maximized for economic output and does not allow for time spent off-site. Extension applications frequently require that an individual be present in the country for some period during the adjudication of a work permit or visa extension, which may be longer than the employee's scheduled rotation. The rotation schedule may need to be altered to accommodate these procedures.
Professional services consultants are some of the savviest global travelers. They are adept at thinking on their feet, can talk through just about any situation, and often have a long history of problem-free international travel. That history of success in "getting past" immigration control is often the most difficult obstacle for employers to overcome in their compliance efforts—an employee who has never had a problem will assume his track record will continue, and will not be motivated to reach out to global mobility.
The other major obstacle to managing a consultant's immigration status is that a consultant's work can be difficult to distinguish from a business trip. Consultants are transferred to work in a new office— they are not hired by the company to which they are providing consulting services. Their on-site consulting work often consists of attending various meetings in conference rooms with various stakeholders, and their engagement may be only for a short period. This all contributes to the impression that they are "just" business visitors. However, the fact that they are providing professional services and potentially doing work that a local worker might otherwise do will almost always trump these factors and trigger the need for a work permit.
From an immigration standpoint, the most difficult type of consulting engagement occurs when the consulting company does not have offices in a host country. For example, a project manager sends a consultant to spend three months working at a client site in a country where the consulting company doesn't have a local presence. These engagements often require special planning.
While some countries, such as France and Australia, will permit a company with no local presence to file a work permit application, most do not. If they don't, one possible solution is for the client's local offices to provide support, and in some cases that may involve the client applying for a work permit. This is a substantial request to make of a client; by filing, the client is disclosing the presence of the foreign national to the government, and otherwise putting its reputation and resources on the line for the visiting consultant. If the client does not expect to provide that support in advance, they may be unwilling to do so.
MAINTENANCE, INSTALLATION, AND EMERGENCY REPAIRS
In many countries, including the U.S., the U.K., and Canada, some maintenance, installation, service, and configuration work can legitimately be performed in visitor status. This work is exempted from a work permit requirement in order to facilitate international trade, so long as the requirements for visitor status are otherwise met.
Similarly, it is not uncommon for a foreign national to be permitted to enter a country to perform emergency repair services in visitor status—especially when there is a threat to the environment or people's lives are at stake. However, it is just as common for activity of this type to run afoul of visitor rules and to require some type of work authorization.
This type of work is often very short-term, comes up with very little notice or planning, and involves a need to fix a specific problem or finish a loosely defined project—thereby carrying no specific end date. As a result, the need for such work may not be routed by managers to global mobility because it is not understood as an international assignment. "Unfortunately, it can take one or two compliance failures for the risks to sink in and global mobility to be contacted," says Young.
In addition to the overstay and tax noncompliance issues that result from untracked international trips, the greatest risk with this type of work is that the employee will perform the work without proper authorization. Even when a country does allow this type of work in visitor status, it is often under a narrow exception that has to be carefully documented and disclosed upon entry. The nationality of the selling and purchasing companies may need to meet certain requirements, or the service may need to be required in a contract of sale, a copy of which must be provided. If the traveler can't show that he meets the requirements of the exception upon arrival, he may be denied entry. And if there is no applicable exception, a work permit is required. Given the variation across jurisdictions, it is useful to review the requirements in an organization's target countries and to make sure managers know what they are.
SHORT-TERM LOCAL ASSIGNMENTS
An often overlooked compliance pitfall is the short-term local (i.e., noninternational) assignment given to a foreign national who is working in a country on a temporary work permit. For example, a temporary foreign worker in the U.S. may need to be sent from headquarters to work short-term at another office or client site. Depending on how the employee was hired, she may or may not come under the purview of global mobility. In the U.S., a student on an F-1 visa who was fortunate enough to be selected under the H-1B lottery and is now working on an H-1B visa may be treated as a local hire and would not fall under a temporary assignment agreement.
In the U.S., all H-1B workers, including those who are transferred from another international office, are tied to some degree to the place of work indicated in the Labor Condition Application (LCA) that was filed with the U.S. Department of Labor. While some very short-term placements are permitted, other changes of work site outside of the geographic area listed in the original LCA generally require that an amended H-1B petition be filed before the placement can begin.
Similarly, in Canada, changes in worksite may require the filing of a new work permit application or a new Offer of Employment on the Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) Employer Portal before the assignment may begin. Many countries, in fact, tie work authorization to the specific position described in the work permit application.
As a result, it is important to monitor compliance with the conditions placed on any work permit. This may involve tracking the approved location and ensuring that all responsible managers are aware of that and any other limitations, or doing periodic checks to ensure that the conditions of the permit are being met. In addition to the types of employees mentioned above, international trainees, employees working to establish a new office, executives, salespeople, and other specific categories of employees often engage in international work on a short-term basis. While it is important to identify these employees and track the days they are spending on assignment, it is also necessary to review the immigration solution used for each and ensure that all of the compliance challenges are being met.
Ryan Chargois, partner, is with U.S. and global immigration law firm Foster LLP. Chargois can be reached at +1 512 852 4126 or rchargois@fosterglobal.com.
http://mobility.worldwideerc.org/i/802110-april-2017/48


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Need, hope grows as Out of the Cold digs in to help the homeless
Last year, there were 13,009 overnight stays in Out of the Cold programs from November to April. iStock photo
By Michael Swan, The Catholic Register
In 2006, after 20 years of stellar work with the Out of the Cold program to shelter the homeless, its co-founder was not impressed.
"It's not a compliment that Out of the Cold is growing so much," said Sr. Sue Moran as she was presented with the Order of Canada. "There has to be homes for these people. There has to be an economy that is sensitive to the poor and jobs available."
It's 12 years later — and almost two years since Sr. Sue passed away — and still Out of the Cold is growing as it faces yet another long winter.
The good news is that the program has become the first step on a pathway from life on the street to a permanent home in the community. Partnered with municipal governments and government-funded agencies, Out of the Cold now provides professional help to those guests who are seeking permanent housing. Early pilot projects have proved successful. And despite the growing numbers of homeless, the program continues to be a reliable network of church basements, synagogues and mosques which each welcome the homeless for one night per week, taking turns so that seven faith communities together can offer a full week of accommodation.
But as social workers begin to find success getting people out of the church basement and into an apartment, the volunteers who blazed the trail in some venues are beginning to tire
"By the end of the year last year, our churches and our volunteers after 22 years — they're getting a little bit tired," said St. Catharines, Ont., Out of the Cold chair Susan Venditti. "They looked at what they could do safely. They could continue to do the meals. They really wanted a different arrangement for the overnights."
Open this year since Nov. 1, the St. Catharines Out of the Cold program is already at maximum capacity.
"I'm not anticipating that we will be able to meet the need through this whole winter," Venditti said.
"We have found, over the last couple of years anyway, that the volunteers, the leadership at the churches, have gotten tired," said Rehana Sumar, executive director of the Mosaic Interfaith Out of the Cold in York Region, just north of Toronto. "Our (volunteer) numbers for overnight and especially the morning have almost completely disappeared. We're struggling at all of our sites to find people who can do the breakfast in the morning. There's definitely some fatigue amongst the volunteers and some of the churches — definitely."
But volunteer fatigue isn't universal. One of the original Out of the Cold programs at St. Patrick's Church in downtown Toronto had no problem lining up over 80 volunteers ready to welcome, feed and watch over the homeless once a week starting Nov. 18.
Some of the hope fuelling volunteer enthusiasm at St. Pat's has to do with city-funded client intervention workers who are there through the dinner hour into the evening each night Out of the Cold is open. The city and federal government-funded workers are able to refer willing St. Pat's guests on to services that can find housing and the kinds of supports — from housework to banking to addiction and mental health counselling — that will increase chances for some of Toronto's most marginal and hard-to-house citizens staying housed.
Last year the social service agency Dixon Hall and the city piloted an intensive "housing first" program at Out of the Cold in Toronto's east end. The pilot met with real success. In Beach United Church and St. Aidan's Anglican's Out of the Cold program, 12 of 24 participants were permanently housed.
Client intervention workers outside the pilot program were able to house 35 per cent of the Out of the Cold guests who were willing to work with them — 30 of 86 individuals. The "housing first" principle is based on research led by Toronto's St. Michael's Hospital, which established that getting people off the street and into their own home first was the best way of tackling the other issues, from employment to mental health, that might have made people homeless in the first place.
Success in putting the "housing first" model to work gives St. Pat's volunteer and Out of the Cold director Julia Polenyi a degree of cautious optimism.
"It's a more complex issue than was originally thought," Polenyi told The Catholic Register. "But they're not being abandoned."
St. Pat's has capacity for 250 guests and they fill up almost every night. Once at capacity, guests are referred on to other Out of the Cold venues and to city shelters.
There's good news on the city shelter side of the equation, too.
Toronto's system of 63 shelters with about 7,000 beds housing refugees, abused women and their children, migrant labourers and street people has added 145 new respite beds to bring the total in that part of the shelter program to 590.
The city has purchased three pre-fabricated buildings which will eventually offer 24-hour respite from the cold. The first of them is scheduled to be up and operating in the parking lot of Lamport Stadium on Dec. 15. The pre-fab sites will cost about $2.5 million to buy and install. About $3 million has been set aside for food, security and other operating costs.
Last year, Toronto's Out of the Cold system city-wide operated at 95 per cent capacity — five per cent above the city's recommended occupancy rate for a safe and sane system, but down significantly from 101.5 per cent in the 2016-17 season. There were 13,009 overnight stays in Out of the Cold programs from November to April. However, it was a long winter with 31 extreme cold weather alerts and some sites extended their season into May.
In St. Catharines, Out of the Cold welcomed its guests to 7,864 overnight stays last winter — a 108-per-cent increase over the previous year.
Venditti reports city and regional government are shouldering more of the burden, with 15 new temporary, winter-season beds in Niagara Falls and 15 more permanent beds now up and running in St. Catharines.
The local politicians have also found money to help the social service agency Start Me Up Niagara provide overnight staff to Out of the Cold, as well as providing space to Out of the Cold in a city-owned building for three nights of every week. The other four nights are hosted by churches. Start Me Up has trained former Out of the Cold guests to be those overnight staffers.
"Because they actually get the story," explained Venditti, who is also the director of Start Me Up Niagara.
In Richmond Hill and Markham the Mosaic Interfaith Out of the Cold has 14 faith communities providing space over the course of the winter, including the just-added Richmond Hill Presbyterian Church.
The paid staffers of Mosaic Interfaith Out of the Cold partner agencies have been trained to deal with overdoses and they carry Naloxone kits.
"The substances that are on the street now are very different from what they used to be 20 years ago," said Sumar. "They are more chemical. You know they have the fentanyl. You have all these very dangerous, chemical drugs out there."
In St. Catharines, the paid staff at Out of the Cold sites also carry Naloxone kits.
"Talk to them (volunteers) about Naloxone training and injections — this is beyond what our volunteers signed up for," said Venditti.
Without a crystal ball at her disposal, Polenyi isn't going to try to predict what's in store for this winter at Out of the Cold. The one thing she's sure of is that the program is needed. "It would be great if there were no need for us," she said. "But that's obviously not the case."
St. Patrick's pastor Fr. Santo Arrigo told The Catholic Register the parish would continue Out of the Cold regardless of the city government's response to homelessness.
"We will continue Out of the Cold because it's needed," he said.
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Who performed the song "Everlong" to close out David Letterman's last show on television?
1. Who performed the song "Everlong" to close out David Letterman's last show on television?
It should come as no surprise that David Letterman's favorite band, Foo Fighters, closed out his last episode with their hit, "Everlong."The tuxedo-clad band tore the roof off the Ed …
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Jeffrey R. Staab/CBS Foo Fighters had the honor of closing out David Letterman's final Late Show broadcast on Wednesday night.. Dave Grohl and company performed "Everlong," as highlights of Letterman's 33 years in late night were shown.. Letterman noted that "Everlong" holds great meaning for him. The Foo Fighters played it on Late Show when the host returned following heart surgery in 2000.
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The Foo Fighters, and particularly their song, "Everlong," have been meaningful to Mr. Letterman since his 2000 return to the show after having quintuple-bypass heart surgery. The band returned on Wednesday night to perform the song as a last frenetic clips package presented memorable moments from throughout the host's career.
https://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/05/21/highlights-from-david-lettermans-last-late-show/
David Letterman has been a huge fan of the Foo Fighters since they first played on the show back in 1995, and he's said many times that he's obsessed with their song "Everlong" — Paul Shaffer …
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Musical guests Foo Fighters perform with special guest Rick Nielsen on the Late Show with David Letterman, Thursday Oct. 16, 2014. The band will appear on David Letterman's final late-night show.
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When David Letterman returned to the Late Show from open-heart surgery in 2000, he requested that his favorite band swing by to play his favorite song. The Foo Fighters, despite being out on tour, dropped everything to come perform Everlong. That's when you know you've made it. So there was only one way to close out Letterman's final show …
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David Letterman closed out his 33 years as a late-night host on Wednesday with a star-studded finale that ended with his favorite band the Foo Fighters playing "Everlong," the song that welcomed …
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So Foo Fighters ended up playing "Everlong" over a montage of clips from Letterman's late-night career to close out that final The Late Show with David Letterman. Enjoy the song, enjoy the …
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On May 20, 2015, David Letterman selected Grohl and the Foo Fighters to play "Everlong" as the last musical guest on the final episode of Late Show with David Letterman. Letterman stated that he considered "Everlong" to be his favorite song and that he and the band were "joined at the hip" ever since the band canceled tour dates to play his first show back from heart bypass surgery at his request.
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"The Late Show with David Letterman" has kept the details of its host's last episode under wraps. However, one surprise from the highly anticipated sendoff leaked Wednesday morning – Foo …
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