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BT 2025 Switch Off: How Will It Impact You and Your Business?
In 2025, BT will conduct major changes to its services, permanently switching off important communications networks. Discover precisely what is going on, why it is happening and what you can do to stop it causing problems for your business.
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What Is Happening With the BT 2025 Switch Off?
National telecoms provider BT has announced they will shut off their ISDN and PSTN services.
The move brings to an end the use of analogue phone lines and moves communications technology into an entirely online space.
BT will no longer offer businesses the ability to acquire ISDN and PSTN after 2020, with the total switch off occurring in 2025.
How Does It Impact Business Communication?
The move comes as part of cost-saving efforts by BT.
Over 2 million UK businesses will be affected by the switch off. Primarily, these will be small companies. The biggest impact will be felt by those with heavy use of fax machines or landline telephones.
Businesses will need to look for alternative methods of data transmission to maintain communication coverage.
BT is pushing customers towards its VoIP solutions, enabling them to keep their old technology that currently operates over ISDN and PSTN.
eFax suggests that instead of just updating transmission methods to VoIP, businesses should consider improving their entire system by ditching legacy fax machine technology and moving to cloud faxing solutions.
By removing fax machines, rather than maintaining their old systems on new data transmission networks, businesses can take advantage of upgraded technology for enhanced growth and development.
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What Is ISDN?
ISDN, or Integrated Service Digital Network, is the first iteration of high-speed internet. It was the evolution of dial-up, yet had similarities to its predecessor in that it utilised hard-wire phone line connections to enable communication. ISDN first appeared in the 90s and revolutionised internet connectivity. Many credit the technology as being the ground-work for modern, faster internet solutions. The service enables businesses to send data, such as voice calls or images, through their phone lines using the internet.
What Is PSTN?
The Public Switch Phone Network, abbreviated to PSTN, is what you might refer to as the classic analogue telephone system — the system that enables landline connectivity.
This centuries-old technology was introduced during the 1800s and allows for information to be transmitted through a network of copper wires. Businesses have been using PSTN as their primary method of transmitting phone calls and fax documentation for many years. For millions of operations, PSTN is the foundation of communication.
What Is the BT 2025 Switch Off?
The BT 2025 switch off was announced last year. The national provider of telecommunications stated that they would no longer be providing the service to businesses in the UK. BT plans to switch off all functionality for analogue phone lines, which means they will cease to operate. Following the announcement, BT also stated they would no longer sell ISDN or PSTN services after 2020 in preparation for the move.
After the switch off, there will be no maintenance or recovery of phone lines, and any data sent will no longer be carried through ISDN and PSTNs. You could opt to switch to another supplier to maintain your current system, but with BT being the largest provider, we will likely see others follow their example soon.
For businesses currently using ISDN and PSTN systems, the idea of the BT 2025 switch off might be a bit frustrating. Given that the company is offering you opportunities to maintain your systems, they are effectively forcing you into a change.
The current copper wire system has seen adaptations and improvements since its inception in the 1800s, however, it is still effectively a service that relies on technology devised centuries ago. The result for BT is the costs of maintaining the system are incredibly high and rising. This also means prices go up for the end-user. ISDN and PSTN services are simply not optimised for modern business. There are plenty of other methods of data transmission available that are cheaper, faster and more reliable.
It is the combination of factors at play here that has led to the BT 2025 switch off. The company wants to move businesses over to its more cost-effective products.
The BT 2025 switch-off will impact all businesses currently operating ISDN or PSTN.
The switch-off will affect a large volume of small businesses, as these organisations are less reliant on more advanced and diverse communication platforms than larger companies, meaning they haven't needed to upgrade their systems.
42% of SMEs still use analogue lines to transmit data. That's around 2.4 million businesses. And, while many bigger companies and national brands have already updated their data transmission systems, not all have made the switch. Roughly 33% of larger firms still operate on ISDN or PSTN. Essentially, there are still a lot of British companies reliant on fixed landlines for communication.
If you send data through landline systems, then the BT 2025 switch off will likely have consequences for your business.
How Will Your Business Be Affected?
How much of an impact the BT 2025 switch off will have on your business all depends on how wide-spread your use of ISDN or PSTN technology is, and what kind of hardware you are using. When it comes to switching internet services, there isn't much of a challenge. If you are using ISDN, upgrading to options like fibre-optic connections is simply a matter of changing your service provider package.
The bigger impacts come when considering other methods of communication, primarily voice calling and faxing. Unless you plan on ditching fax machines and landlines altogether, these platforms need particular means of support to send and receive information. You can't just plug your fax machine into your computer and send a fax through the internet.
What Are the Alternatives after the BT 2025 Switch Off?
When it comes to adapting business technology following the BT 2025, the big push is towards VoIP.
VoIP — or Voice Over Internet Protocol — is a method of data transmission that allows for voice messages and images to be sent over the internet using your current hardware. But how? Didn't we just say you can't plug your fax machine into your computer and expect it to work?
Traditionally, information from fax machines and telephones travelled down a hardline to your copper-wire landline. Data then transmitted — via ISDN or PSTN — through this wire. With the wire no longer operational following the BT 2025 switch off, the data must go elsewhere. How VoIP works for your phones and fax machines is simple. Using an adaptor device, you can turn your landline-reliant fax machines and phones into hardware with internet connectivity.
Instead of plugging into your fixed landline, the hardline cable of your fax machines and telephones runs through the adaptor. The adaptor converts the data into a format readable by VoIP. Your VoIP data then transmits through your internet connection, whichever platform that is. Because VoIP is a technology compatible with other hardline machines, your recipient's devices are still able to decipher and disseminate the data, even if they still use older systems.
In essence, VoIP means you can use your current hardline devices to send information to other hardline devices, but through the internet. The result is minimal change to your systems while maintaining communication coverage, even after the BT 2025 switch off.
A Better Solution for Fax Communication
If you are a business at risk of upset due to the BT 2025 switch off, then VoIP may be a tempting option. With only a few simple tweaks, you can carry on using all the same hardware you use today. So why not make the switch to VoIP? The problem is while VoIP provides a solution to the loss of the archaic method of data transmission that is ISDN and PSTN, it does not offer a solution to the out-dated technology you are using to send said data.
Like the copper-wire landline, the fax machine is hundreds of years old. It is legacy technology that comes complete with a series of disadvantages not fit for purpose in the modern era. From major security flaws to excessive costs, the fax machine is just as out-dated as the landline it needs to operate on, and its removal is just as necessary.
However, you can't just get rid of faxing. Many businesses still need to use it.
Billions of fax documents are still transmitted globally each year. Despite being technology first conceived during the Victorian Era, the fax still has immense value to commercial communication. Businesses rely on fax for everything from international document sharing to submission of legally binding contracts. Fax is a deeply entrenched and essential practice.
This does not mean you must maintain old-fashioned technology.
eFax provides businesses with an alternative solution. Our digital fax services bring fax transmission into the 21st-century. With our solutions, you can send and receive fax online using your computer, tablet or smartphone. eFax is compatible with legacy hardware, too, which means even if you upgrade and your customers, partners or clients don't, you can still maintain complete communication coverage. What's more, digital faxing provides businesses with a range of advantages fax machines simply cannot offer, including enhanced data security, increased document accessibility, flexible usage, lower running costs and powerful improvements to reliability.
With the BT 2025 switch off looming, businesses will be considering making changes to their data transmission systems to avoid potential disruption. While VoIP may appear to be the easiest solution, it does not offer you the best opportunities. During this period of transition from legacy systems to newer services, why not take advantage of the ultimate in fax sending solutions, instead of continuing to rely on hardware just as dated as the technology removed in the first place?
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She-Ra: Balancing Characters and World Building
Introducing a fantastical world and characters is a challenge but She-Ra finds the perfect balance.
By Shamus Kelley | November 14, 2018 |
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In any new series it's tough to introduce the characters and the world they live in. It's even harder when that world is nothing like our own, filled with magical princesses, flying horses, and ancient technology.
While any show needs to focus on its characters to get us emotionally invested into the story, it still needs to build out the world they live in. Some shows resort to massive exposition dumps while others tend to leave the world more vague. Any show that can balance both character and world building is a strong one and that's exactly what She-Ra and the Princesses of Power on Netflix does.
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Each of the princesses come from different parts of the world, which allows the main trio of Adora, Glimmer, and Bow to travel all over the planet. Through their eyes we not only learn about all the other different characters but their corners of the world. For Noelle Stevenson, executive producer of She-Ra and the Princesses of Power, this was the perfect way to make world building feel natural and develop the characters.
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"The characters are very deeply tied to the world," Stevenson says.
She points to the character of Entrapta as the perfect example of this.
"(She) has a huge interest in the world around her, so a lot of the exposition comes from, because she's always trying to crack the mysteries of this world," she says. "That's what drives her character. What is exposition and mythology heavy and it becomes one of the driving character motivations for her."
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The same can be said for Adora, who's trying to piece together the mystery of what connects to the ancient civilization of The First Ones and what their relationship to the planet was.
Having all of these characters and all of their backstories intersect was a challenge for the She-Ra team, which means there are some characters and parts of the world that don't feature prominently in the first season.
"There are so many different things to play with and you have to give them the space to develop," she says. "Sometimes something doesn't quite fit right away, so it's something that might not get as much focus as some other parts because it's trying to build this world that seems like it goes together."
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Stevenson is a self-professed nerd about exploring lore and mythology but "character is what I am the most passionate about. It's whatever brings out the most interesting character choices."
With strong characters that are tied deeply into the world around them, it all comes together to form the rich tapestry of the new She-Ra's universe.
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Gregory Mann, "What was the Indigénat? The 'Empire of Law' in French West Africa", The Journal of African History (2009), 50:331-353
What was the indigénat, that obscure core of the French colonial state? In approaching this deceptively simple question, this article will make three intertwined arguments. First, a study of the indigénat – the regime of administrative sanctions applied to colonial subjects – disrupts the argument that French West Africa was part of an 'empire of law', as historians of French colonialism in Africa and Southeast Asia have argued. Particularly in the absence of European settlers and the accompanying anxieties around race and 'dignity' that they provoked among colonial administrators, law as such was neither the heart of the imperial project nor the cornerstone of colonial authority in French West Africa. Second, until its abolition in 1946, an ever-expanding and contracting spectrum of political statuses, exemptions, and privileged categories developed around the indigénat in both meanings of that term – the regime of sanctions and the status of the native (indigène). This spectrum is potentially more revealing and surely no less significant than one of its poles taken alone, namely the narrow category of colonial citizens on which a rich literature exists. Indeed, susceptibility to or exemption from the indigénat represented both marker and motive for the proliferation of political statuses in French colonial Africa. Third, attention to the workings of the indigénat allows a reassessment of the role of violence in the practice of colonial authority. In contrast, studies focusing on colonial law tend to diminish the role of such violence – whether enacted or potential – and to privilege legal institutions and procedures over day-to-day practices revealed, however imperfectly, via other sources. Rather than traversing an analytical terrain of which agency and structure mark the coordinates and law the terra firma, or invoking the indigénat as anti-structure, I place it at the center of an analysis of the 'colonial situation', not as the luminous essence of colonial ideology but as its inverse, a kind of black hole that represents a center of gravity into which it is difficult to peer but which defines the space around it.
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Subsequent to that fielding, I attended a media roundtable held by Program Executive Office Soldier, which included soldiers and civilians involved in the acquisition of the XM17, as well as representatives from SIG Sauer, the lead on the contract and maker of the pistol. Winchester Ammunition, which developed and makes the XM1152 115-gr. ball load and the 147-gr. XM1153 Special Purpose (JHP) load that will be issued with the new guns, was also present, represented by Glenn Weeks, who said that the new loads are 25 percent more effective than standard M882 ball, and the ammunition is nearly as big a story as the gun itself. But that is a story for another time.
Chairing the roundtable was Project Manager Soldier Weapons Lt. Col. Steven Power, and on the civilian side was Daryl A. Easlick, Deputy, Lethality Branch, Maneuver Center of Excellence (how's that for a title of a very serious man with a very serious job?). And on the conference call were soldiers from the 101st Airborne who have actually been issued the gun. As discussed previously, soldiers like the gun. Not just because it is new, but because the Army knows what virtually every law enforcement agency and a lot of civilians have known for a while. With only a single trigger pull length and weight to train, you get better results more quickly than with a traditional double-action/single-action pistol. For soldiers, that means increased capability and increased lethality when they close with and destroy the enemy.
The Master Gunner of the 101st Airborne Division SFC Andrew Flynn, who was part of the Lethality Working Group (again, great name) and has a few months experience with XM17, said, "This is an excellent weapons system for soldiers … we will be providing to the team leader and above. Soldiers who have never had one will be able to have this weapons system in their hands prior to this fielding will be able to and be more lethal with it with minimal training requirements." There's another story there about who in the infantry will be armed with the XM17 and why. But that will have to wait, too.
Soldiers at Fort Campbell are already taking advantage of one of the principal design features of the XM17, and that is that the "gun" is a chassis, and the grip frame itself is easily replaceable.
There are some significant differences between the guns delivered to the Army, which still wear the XM17/XM18 designations until type classification, and the commercial SIG Sauer P320. The trigger components, as discussed in previous posts, are different. Long before the P320 Sharknado, SIG had delivered a trigger group to the Army that improved the pull weight and was drop safe not only in SIG's testing but also in the Army's testing.
The XM17 has an ambidextrous thumb safety (more on that later), different coatings, different trigger components, and it has an anti-tamper plate on the back of the slide.
This prevents those without a special tool from monkeying with the striker components. The sample I saw had one for the take-down lever, too, which will not be on the XM17 going forward.
The thing to remember about the adoption of the XM17 is the contract award was only made in January. In 10 months Army acquisitions has done something that it has never done before. And that is go from awarding the contract, to preliminary testing, to materials testing and then to the actual field—issuing the guns to soldiers in 10 months. Operational testing occurred at Fort Bragg in September. Those familiar with Department of Defense bureaucracy should find this nothing short of astounding.
That's probably because these soldiers have been issued nothing but the M9—a pistol that has its manual safety and decocker on the slide, not a feature the Army was looking for in its next handgun.
The XM17 has an ambidextrous manual safety mounted to the frame at the junction between the frame and slide. The soldiers need to know you can just put your thumb on top of it. It's OK. John Moses Browning told us it was all right back in 1911.
Not to knock the M9, it has a sterling reputation for the reliability, and it's probably the most tested handgun ever used by American troops, but the location of its safety and decocker would not lend itself to placing one's thumb over it. After listening to formidable SFC Flynn on the conference call, there is no doubt he has already addressed it with his troopers.
Again, these were the first soldiers to shoot the XM17 for the public affairs cameras. They can be forgiven, and they, no doubt, will be well trained. Seriously, we don't' always expect those opening their presents early to read the manual before pulling the bows off and ripping open the Christmas wrap.
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Private, public, hybrid, multi-tenant, hosted, in-house — there are all sorts of adjectives, variations, and iterations pertaining to cloud deployment.
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Original article below by Brandon Butler in Network Word and brought to my attention by Caron Carlson in FierceCIO.
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Chances are 'private cloud' is no cloud at all
'Cloud-washing' fogs up user expectations
Cloud computing is shrouded in a big haze of ill-defined terms, but "private cloud" may be one of the most misused. To be a cloud, a computing platform must be a lot more than a data center with a highly efficient virtualized environment, a web portal and the ability to scale up and down dynamically, reports Brandon Butler at Network World.
As many as 70 percent of the "private clouds" out there don't technically qualify as clouds, according to a study by Forrester Research. "It's a huge problem," said James Staten, cloud analyst at Forrester. "It's cloud-washing."
The problem is that calling a platform a cloud creates a certain set of expectations on the part of users–expectations that will only be dashed if the platform doesn't have certain characteristics, including providing on-demand, self-service for users, broad network access, a shared resource pool, the ability to elastically scale resources and measured service.
These characteristics were identified by the National Institutes of Standards in Technology. If your so-called private cloud doesn't offer self-provisioning or sufficient resources, for example, you may find users turning to Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) Web Services.
To some, however, strict allegiance to NIST's five cloud characteristics comes down to splitting hairs.
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http://www.fiercecio.com/story/chances-are-private-cloud-no-cloud-all/2013-02-27
Forrester: 70% of "private clouds" aren't really clouds at all
If an enterprise data center has a highly virtualized environment, a web portal for business users to request and access virtual machines and a method for tracking how many of those resources are being used… that's not quite a private cloud.
If there is enough capacity to supply employees with almost any amount of compute resources they need, and scale that capacity up and down dynamically, but it requires IT workers to provision the systems, then sorry that's not a private cloud either.
The line between virtualization and a private cloud can be a fuzzy one, and according to a new report by Forrester Research, up to 70% of what IT administrators claim are private clouds are not. "It's a huge problem," says Forrester cloud expert James Staten. "It's cloud-washing."
Why's it such a big deal? Staten says if you call a highly virtualized environment a cloud, but it doesn't have one or more of the key characteristics of a private cloud, then the IT department is setting an unrealistic expectation for users. If users are disappointed when they find out the environment doesn't have self-provisioning, or an elastic resources pool, they can get discouraged. The next time they need a VM on the fly, where will they turn? The pseudo-private cloud IT has set up, or Amazon Web Services, which IT could have no control over.
Most cloud experts have settled on a generally-agreed upon definition of cloud computing – be it public or private – as having the five characteristics outlined by the National Institutes for Standards in Technology. These include:
On-demand, self-service for users
Broad network access
Shared resource pool
Ability to elastically scale resources
Having measured service
Without those five bullets, it's not technically a cloud. Contrary to some people's beliefs, virtualization is not a private cloud; it's an essential ingredient to powering clouds, but in and of itself it does not create one. Mike Adams, marketing manager for VMware, says a private cloud incorporates more sophisticated management capabilities on top of a virtualized environment, giving it the qualities outlined in the NIST definition.
Andi Mann, a vice president of Strategic Solutions at CA Technologies and cloud pundit, pumps the brakes a little bit on this discussion though. "If you don't have all five (characteristics), then you're getting into semantics," he says. The real question, he says, is not whether the five check marks can be made to call something a cloud – it's whether IT is serving its users appropriately. "Sometimes 80% of cloud is good enough," he says. "What it's really all about is business service. Who cares what you call it; what you care about is that your customers, your business users have the resources they need."
Maybe the enterprise doesn't need elastic scalability because there are static workloads. It still has all the other benefits of a cloud – self-service, chargebacks, broad network access and a shared resource pool. But, it may not technically meet that NIST definition. "So, if you want to be technical, call it what it is: A highly efficient virtual environment," Mann says.
So where does all this cloud-washing come from? Staten says fundamentally IT administrators are scared of the cloud. Virtualization experts within the enterprise used to be the top-dogs; when resources were needed, they provisioned the capacity. Cloud is seen as threatening that model by giving users self-service and dynamically scalable resources. What's left for the virtualization expert to do?
Staten says that's the wrong way to think about it. There's still a lot for IT administrator set up, making sure the cloud has a catalog of options available to users, complete with the appropriate security protocols, resource availability and virtualization components. Admins must embrace that philosophy, because if they don't then users will access the resources themselves anyway, leading to the dreaded "shadow IT."
http://www.networkworld.com/news/2013/022613-forrester-private-clouds-267108.html
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Night before christmas animated book
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import java.util.*;

// Enum singleton - the preferred approach - Page 311
public enum Elvis {
    INSTANCE;
    private String[] favoriteSongs =
        { "Hound Dog", "Heartbreak Hotel" };
    public void printFavorites() {
        System.out.println(Arrays.toString(favoriteSongs));
    }
}

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As the Election Looms the NSW Government makes some (Small) Environmental Announcements
It is estimated that there are fewer than 21,000 koalas left in NSW. The population may have reduced by more than a quarter over the past 20 years. The species is listed as vulnerable to extinction under the federal EPBC Act in NSW.
The major reason for the decline is habitat loss with the worst areas being in the Pilliga and South Coast. NSW is a heavily cleared landscape. Almost 40% of native forests and bushland has been removed since European settlement, and only 9% of remaining vegetation is in close-to-natural condition.
Eastern Australia is one of the world's top 11 deforestation hotspots, along with the Amazon, Borneo and the Congo according to a report prepared by the NCC and WWF. Between 1990 and 2016, at least 2 million hectares of forest and bushland in NSW have been destroyed out of the total state area of 81 million hectares.
So what is being done about this? There are a number of decisions over recent years that will make the situation worse:
As a result of the new biodiversity laws implemented in 2017, 99% of identified koala habitat on private land can be bulldozed.
Last November the government commenced new logging laws called Integrated Forestry Operations Approvals. The laws reduce protections for forest wildlife, including koalas. One of the worst changes is the introduction of an intensive harvesting zone over 140,000 ha of coastal forest between Taree and Grafton. The intensive harvesting zone will see large-scale clear-felling legalised on the north coast for the first time. Because most of the trees will be gone, it's likely that most of the koalas will be too!
In December the Premier Gladys Berejiklian gave the green light to renew the Regional Forest Agreements (RFAs) with the Commonwealth for another 20 years. RFAs are the mechanism by which the states are permitted to log native forests under accreditation from the Commonwealth. They are meant to balance the needs of the logging industry with conservation and public recreation. Conservationists argue that the RFAs have not been properly reassessed with a thorough scientific analysis of the values of native forests, for example for carbon storage and enhancement of catchment water.
NSW Koala Strategy
One positive development, albeit with limitations, is the government announcement last May of a strategy aimed at securing the future of koalas in the wild. $45m has been committed. It involves:
setting aside 20,000 ha of state forest as koala reserves on the Central Coast, Southern Highlands, North Coast, Hawkesbury and Hunter
transferring 4,000 ha of native forest on the North Coast to national parks
allocating $20m to purchase prime koala habitat that can be added to national parks
However the strategy fails to commit to protecting areas known to be home to koalas from a major intensification of logging in state forests under new IFOA laws.
In early February 2019, as the election looms, some parts of the strategy have been implemented. A cattle property once used as a recreational dirt motorbike and horse recreation area has been bought by the NSW government to become part of the first national park to be gazetted in NSW in 11 years. It borders the Wollondilly River in the Southern Highlands and is about 3,680 ha. Actually 1,150 ha of this land is already protected so the addition is only 2,164 ha. There is no information about how much of this area is currently cleared and degraded from its previous use. How long before it becomes genuine koala habitat?
Great Koala National Park is a Better Idea
The National Parks Association has developed a proposal that will provide definite security for koala populations. This is for a 175,000 ha Great Koala National Park on the NSW mid-north coast, new national parks for the last remaining koala populations in southwest and western Sydney, or new national parks in other areas of known koala significance. The choice of the north coast has been confirmed as most effective by studies completed by the Office of Environment and Heritage, copies of which were obtained under Freedom of Information laws.
Funding Announced for Improvements to Popular National Parks
Another government announcement is for a $150m investment to improve access to existing national parks that includes upgraded walking tracks, better visitor facilities and new digital tools such as virtual tours and live-streaming cameras. The main investment is in the Blue Mountains and Royal National Park where visitor numbers have increased rapidly. This is all aimed at the tourist dollar, not conservation that is meant to be the main purpose of national parks.
Will there be an increase in funding for the National Parks and Wildlife Service to look after the additional reserves? After the massive cuts in funding of the service highlighted in previous issues of STEP Matters one wonders!
Removal of Feral Horses from Kosciuszko National Park has been Stopped
In December the NSW Threatened Species Scientific Committee declared feral horses to be a key threatening process because they place dozens of species at risk closer to extinction. In response a spokesman for Environment Minister Gabrielle Upton said the government was preparing a plan of management that would:
identify the heritage value of sustainable wild horse populations and set out how those will be protected while maintaining environmental values.
That goal will be impossible to achieve.
Meanwhile, in response to the passing of the Wild Horse Kosciuszko Act, the number of feral horses being removed by current methods has been reduced to nil since August 2017 even though the Act was not passed until June 2018. The Invasive Species Council has obtained data showing that the peak number of removals was 600 in 2012.
The Nationals Parks and Wildlife Service in 2016 estimated there were 6000 brumbies in Kosciuszko National Park. Scientists estimate the population may grow by up to 20% a year. The drought though is believed to have curtailed brumby numbers.
Labor has committed to repeal the legislation to protect the brumbies.
More Bad Decisions by the NSW Government
In recent months there have been several more bad policy decisions by the NSW government that go against scientific common sense. Under this government many environmental protections have been reversed. The election in March 2019 will be critical in turning around this adverse situation. Here is a brief summary of the major recent decisions.
1. Backflip on the Sydney Marine Park Sanctuary Zones Proposal
The only NSW coastal region that currently does not have a marine park is the Hawkesbury Shelf marine bioregion that stretches from Newcastle to the Wollongong coastal waters. A long process of campaigning and consultation has been undertaken on the creation of a park. Finally an announcement was made on consultation on a draft marine park plan. The proposal included fully protected sanctuary (no fishing) zones that covered only 2.4% of the marine area including estuaries and other protected zones that restrict line and spear fishing.
A group of recreational fishers protested vocally blowing the restrictions all out of proportion. The Minister for Primary Industries promptly decided to withdraw the sanctuary zones from the plan. A knee jerk reaction that threw out the window all that scientific consultation and discussion. Evidence shows that sanctuary zones are essential for preserving and restoring the marine estate for future generations.
The draft plan provided limited protections even before the backflip. In addition to the conservation areas covering only limited areas, these zones would allow taking of lobster and abalone. Lobsters are important for controlling the numbers of sea urchins that devour kelp that are a vital source of food for many species. The increase in sea temperatures from climate change is already causing a boom in sea urchin populations.
Consultation on the draft marine park plan closed at the end of September.
2. Raising Warragamba Dam Wall
In the Issue 192 of STEP Matters we described the pointlessness of the claim that raising the Warragamba Dam wall will provide flood protection for the Hawkesbury Nepean Valley. There are five other rivers below Warragamba Dam that flow into the valley. The wall-raising proposal will cause huge damage to the pristine wilderness and wild rivers of the World Heritage Blue Mountains National Park, drown several Aboriginal cultural sites and destroy threatened plants such as a significant proportion of what remains of the critically endangered Camden White Gum Forest and the habitat of the Regent Honeyeater.
An environmental impact and economic assessment has not been done but last month the government passed legislation to change the National Parks Act to allow inundation of the park, a first step to facilitate the proposal. Everybody is saying that the real reason for the plan is to reduce the risk of flooding of all the new homes that the government wants to build in the North West Growth Centre. But that cannot be 100% assured by raising the dam wall. Flood data experts argue that management of the water level in the dam and even using the idle desalination plant would be more effective and less costly.
3. Protection for Feral Horses in Koscuiszko National Park
This issue was covered in STEP Matters, Issue 196. The government is ignoring protests from people concerned about the welfare of the horses as well as the damage they are doing to the sensitive alpine vegetation. The opposition parties have vowed to repeal the legislation if elected. A walk is currently being held from Sydney to Mt Kosciuszko to raise awareness of the issue.
4. Proposal to Revoke the Murray Valley National Park Status
A National MP has presented a private member's bill in parliament that would delist the Murray Valley National Park. This would open up the area for logging of the river red gums. Only 5.5% of Riverina bioregion is protected compared to the international target of 17% for each region. The bill is unlikely to be debated before the state election but it sets a terrible precedent.
These recent developments are on top of previous bad decisions such as removal of land clearing controls or their replacement with weak offset provisions. 99% of identified koala habitat on private land can now be cleared without restriction. There is already evidence of the predicted increase in land clearing even though the act only came into operation in August 2017. A study commissioned by the NCC and WWF of satellite images of north-western NSW covering the Moree and Collarenebri areas showed that the area cleared in 2017–18 was triple the area in 2016–17.
The NSW government has announced funding for purchasing koala habitat from private landowners and conversion of unproductive state forests to conservation but this is not considered enough to make any difference to the need for secure habitat. A Koala national park is a must.
The Nature Conservation Council has published a wish list for environmental policies for the 2019 election.


62 SUFFRAGETTES GO TO PRISON.
OLD OFFENDERS GIVEN NO OPTION.
POLICE CALL FOR STERNER MEASURES.
For hour after hour smiling Suffragette after smiling Suffragette, to the number of seventy-five, stepped into the dock at the Westminster Police Court yesterday to answer a charge of disorderly conduct, or, in some instances, the dual charges of disorderly conduct and resisting the police in the execution of their duty.
The charges, of course, arose out of the disorderly scenes which took place outside the Houses of Parliament on the previous evening, following oh the Suffragette meeting, at Carton Hall.
In the great majority of cases the penalty imposed by the magistrate, Mr. Horace Smith, was 20s. or fourteen days' imprisonment, but in the case of defendants who had been previously convicted for a similar offence the penalty was 40s. or a month. Two of the defendants, however, who had been convicted more than once, were given a month's imprisonment without the option of a fine. Three of the women paid the fine, or had it paid for them, but the rest elected to go to prison.
Mr. Muskett, who prosecuted on behalf of the Commissioner of Police, addressing the magistrate, said: "In all seriousness and earnestness, I ask if the time has not come when this misguided band of women who are endeavouring to obtain a change in the Constitution by unconstitutional and illegal means should not be more severely dealt with than has hitherto been the practice at this court. The utmost indulgence has been shown by the police, by yourself, and by your brother magistrate, and a lenient view has been taken. Is there any reason why persons who persistently and wilfully defy the law of the land should not be dealt with as ordinary common wilful law-breakers?
"I am desired by the Commissioner of Police to say that the collection of these women and the crowds which they cause to assemble causes great inconvenience to the legislators of both Houses of Parliament. We entertain, great fears that unless more stringent methods are adopted to put down these disorders there may be a difficulty in coping with them in the future.
The Magistrate (Mr. Horace Smith) to the defendant: Do you ask the officer any questions? — None at all.
You are only a child, you know. Where do you come from? — Huddersfield.
The Magistrate (to the defendant): You ought to be in school. It is a shocking thing that you should have come up on a wild-goose chase like this.
The Defendant: I came for my mother and my sisters, who could not come.
The Magistrate: Your mother ought to come with you. It is a shocking thing. Will you go home again? — I do not wish to go back.
What, do you intend to stay here all your life? — Oh, there are plenty who will have me.
The Magistrate: I think it is perfectly disgraceful, and the whole circumstances reflect the gravest discredit on all concerned in bringing you up to London. I shall remand you for a week, and write to your father and mother.
On another young girl, Evelyn Armstrong, aged seventeen, being placed in the dock, after evidence had been given, the magistrate said: Why, you are only a child, and want taking care of. Where are your father and mother?
The Magistrate: I hope I shall see them next Wednesday. You will be remanded to that day.
Later in the afternoon, Mr. Pethick Lawrence, who on the previous evening had gone bail for all the defendants, asked the magistrate if he would accept bail for Thewlis and Armstrong.
Mr. Horace Smith: Most decidedly not.
Addressing Miss Patricia Woodlock, who has been convicted three times, the magistrate said: You have been here before?
The Magistrate: You will have one month without the option of a fine. It may be as well for me to say that if any of the women who are now convicted come here again on a similar charge they will certainly share your fate.
Miss Woodlock: I can only say that it is an honour for me to go to prison on behalf of my sisters.
Mrs. Chatterton, who had also been convicted on two previous occasions, on being sentenced to a month's imprisonment without the option of a fine, asked the magistrate in what division she was to be placed.
Mr. Horace Smith : Oh, the first division. In every case the imprisonment will be in the first division.
Miss May Leigh, after the evidence against her had been given, seized a favourable opportunity when the gaoler was not looking to unfold a small banner, which she took from beneath her jacket, on which were inscribed the well-known words: "Votes for women." The gaoler, turning smartly round, snatched it from her and threw it on the ground.
The Magistrate: I shall fine you 40s. or a month, instead of 20s. or fourteen days, because I do not think it was decent for you to bring a thing like that into court.
Mr. A. R. Orage, the only man arrested, pleaded that he was merely protecting a lady friend, and he was discharged.
This page was last modified on 8 June 2017 and has been edited by Dave Pattern.


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EYE ON HEALTH: Local Epilepsy Foundation working to raise awareness of condition
Epilepsy is a neurological condition characterized by unpredictable seizures which can cause other health problems.
Thursday, August 15th 2019, 7:05 PM EDT by LaTrice Currie
Friday, August 16th 2019, 5:46 AM EDT
The death of Disney star Cameron Boyce has cast epilepsy into the spotlight. His family says the 20-year-old actor died in his sleep after suffering from a seizure.
While sudden death in epilepsy is rare, the condition itself is not.
Statistics show that one in 26 people will develop epilepsy during their lifetime.
Angela Mininger says, "It is drawing awareness to it."
Angela Mininger is the education coordinator for the local Epilepsy Foundation.
Mininger says, "I go into schools and businesses, places of work to teach about epilepsy and to train on epilepsy first aid and what to do if someone were to have a seizure."
Despite the fact that epilepsy is the fourth most common neurological disorder, there are still lots of questions about the condition.
Local parent Allison Cohen says, "I knew of epilepsy, what is was, but not what went into caring for somebody with epilepsy or what could cause it."
But Cohen soon found out. At just six months, she noticed something just wasn't right with her daughter Ella.
Cohen says, "I went to get her from a nap and she was standing in her crib nodding her head repetitively and I picked her up and she was fine. A couple of days later she did it again. We called our pediatrician and she said we've got to get her looked at."
Cohen says they ended up taking Ella to the emergency room where she was diagnosed with epilepsy, a neurological condition characterized by unpredictable seizures which can cause other health problems.
Cohen says, "And when the attendant saw her and said that is a seizure, my heart just sank. I turned as white as a ghost. It was the panic of what does this mean for her? What does this mean for us? What are we going to do?"
Cohen says their lives immediately changed. Life is a daily struggle.
Cohen says, "So even going to a birthday party outside at a park, it is probably going to cause her to have a really bad seizure when she is done with it. So there is a price to pay for everything we want her to do to be a normal kid."
That's why Cohen says she turned to the local Epilepsy Foundation which has provided invaluable support.
Cohen says, "You have that community connection that you need to really help you get through everything in these daily struggles of life."
Epilepsy is usually treated by medications and in some cases by surgery, devices, or dietary changes.
Mininger says she is hopeful that there will soon be a cure for epilepsy.
Mininger says, "I hope so. I would love to see that. Technology is growing. We are becoming more equipped and educated. I would love to see that."
Some people require lifelong treatment to control seizures, but for others, the seizures eventually go away. Some children with epilepsy may outgrow the condition with age.


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Industry Pressroom April 11, 2019
National Safety Council presents Dupré Logistics with Occupational Safety Award
The South Louisiana Chapter of the National Safety Council presented Dupré Logistics the Occupational Safety Award of Merit (for two to four million hours worked) on April 3, 2019, in New Orleans at their 68th Annual Meeting and Awards Banquet.
The South Louisiana Chapter of the National Safety Council presented Dupré Logistics the Occupational Safety Award of Merit (for two to four million hours worked) on April 3, 2019, in New Orleans at their 68th Annual Meeting and Awards Banquet. Scotty Reynolds, Director of Safety, accepted the award on the organization's behalf. Along with Reynolds, Al Lacombe, Vice-President of Safety and Risk Management, of Dupré also attended the event.
"At Dupré, our team is committed to safety every day, every mile. Safety is a way of life for us," said LaCombe. "We are honored once again to be recognized by our peers and clients."
The South Louisiana Chapter of the National Safety Council is a membership organization dedicated to protecting life and promoting health. The National Safety Council's mission is to save lives by preventing injuries and deaths at work, in homes, communities and on the road through leadership, research, education and advocacy.
The Occupational Safety Contest uses the total OSHA recordable incidence rate to determine the contest winners. The incidence rate is determined by multiplying the total number of OSHA recordable cases by 200,000 and dividing by the number of employee hours the company worked during the calendar year.
To learn more about Dupré Logistics' commitment to safety, please visit www.duprelogistics.com.
Dupré Logistics is a privately held, asset-based provider of transportation and logistics services that include energy and chemical transport, dedicated truck transportation, site logistics, and freight brokerage. We specialize in tanker, hazmat, and petrochemical transportation and complex supply chain solutions in industrial and consumer products.
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The continuous conflicts over land in the state is because of the vague and weak definition of native customary rights (NCR) and the Sarawak Land Code, said Borneo Resource Institute (Brimas).
The state gov't should not deliberately go against the courts decisions pertaining to the ownership rights of natives to their customary lands. The gov't should not continue to protect the interests of the rich few who are deeply involve in the gov't mischeivious plans to commercialise natives lands including the Pulau Galau and Pemakai menua in light of the courts decisions which clearly recognised the natives claims and right of ownership to these lands.
These lands will be permanently owned by these rich few if these lands do not revert to the majority natives in the very near future. Meaning, all of Sarawak lands will be owned by a few non native rich people and corporations!
And that is very dangerous path to trade if the gov't is to persue a harmoneous co-existance between the natives and non natives in Sarawak.
The few incidents where lives were lost is a sinister signs or rather foretelling of bitter and more destructive conflicts between natives,gov't and those rich few who are unwilling to accept the fact that they have to surrender back what is not rightfully theirs in the begining to the rightful owners!


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import logging
from pyvisdk.exceptions import InvalidArgumentError

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log = logging.getLogger(__name__)

def HostVirtualNic(vim, *args, **kwargs):
    '''This data object type describes a virtual network adapter representing an
    adapter that connects to a virtual switch. A VirtualNic differs from a
    PhysicalNic in that the latter corresponds to a physical device that is
    connected to the physical network. The former is a virtual device that is
    connected to a virtual switch. A VirtualNic accesses the external network
    through a virtual switch that is bridged through a PhysicalNic to a physical
    network.'''

    obj = vim.client.factory.create('ns0:HostVirtualNic')

    # do some validation checking...
    if (len(args) + len(kwargs)) < 4:
        raise IndexError('Expected at least 5 arguments got: %d' % len(args))

    required = [ 'device', 'key', 'portgroup', 'spec' ]
    optional = [ 'port', 'dynamicProperty', 'dynamicType' ]

    for name, arg in zip(required+optional, args):
        setattr(obj, name, arg)

    for name, value in kwargs.items():
        if name in required + optional:
            setattr(obj, name, value)
        else:
            raise InvalidArgumentError("Invalid argument: %s.  Expected one of %s" % (name, ", ".join(required + optional)))

    return obj


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Berkshire Theatre Group to Hold Auditions for 'Peter Pan'
12:20PM / Monday, March 02, 2020
This production will be directed by Travis Daly, with music direction by Jacob Kerzner, and will run July 2-26 at The Colonial Theatre, 111 South St.
PITTSFIELD, Mass. — Berkshire Theatre Group seeks child and adult actors, musicians, backstage crew, technical support, usher staff and parent volunteers to participate in its upcoming non-equity production, "Peter Pan."
This production will be directed by Travis Daly, with music direction by Jacob Kerzner, and will run July 2-26 at The Colonial Theatre, 111 South St. Auditions will take place Monday, March 9, from 6 to 9 p.m. and Wednesday, March 11, from 6 to 9 p.m.The Colonial Theatre. Auditions are by appointment only. To schedule an audition time slot, call 413-448-8084, ext. 80.
The roles are open to actors of all ethnicities, second grade through adults. Student auditions will be held during the first two hours of each session, and the last hour will be held for adults. Adults should be prepared to sing 16 bars of a song and bring the accompanying sheet music that is in the key in which they prefer to sing. Students should come prepared to learn songs from "Peter Pan."
Callbacks will take place as needed. Rehearsals will start May 18 and occur approximately six days a week, including evenings, weekends (including some Sundays) and some weekdays. All rehearsals will take place in Pittsfield. Participants will take part in the 4th of July parade.
In "Peter Pan," Peter and his mischievous fairy sidekick, Tinkerbell, visit the home of the Darling children late one night and, with a sprinkle of pixie dust, begin a magical journey across the stars that none of them will ever forget. In the adventure of a lifetime, the travelers come face to face with a ticking crocodile, a band of bungling pirates and, of course, the villainous Captain Hook. Join Peter, Wendy and his famous Lost Boys as they soar across the Colonial stage and over the audience, among breathtaking and magical technical wonder.
Featuring the iconic songs, "I'm Flying," "I Won't Grow Up" and "Never Never Land," and a rousing book full of magic, warmth and adventure, "Peter Pan" is the perfect show for the child in all of us, who dreamed of soaring high and never growing up. Directed by Travis Daly ("Shrek The Musical," "Tarzan," "The Music Man"), this warm-hearted and beloved tale will feature more than 100 Berkshire youth. For more information, visit the website.


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