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ATC150430: Report of the Joint Standing Committee on Defence on SA Defence Review 2014
REPORT OF THE JOINT STANDING COMMITTEE ON DEFENCE ON SA DEFENCE REVIEW 2014
As a committee of Parliament, the Joint Standing Committee on Defence draws its mandate from the Interim Constitution of South Africa (Act 200 of 1993), in particular section 228(3).
"The committee shall be competent to investigate and make recommendations regarding the budget, functioning, organisation, armaments, policy, morale and state of preparedness of the National Defence Force and to perform such other functions relating to parliamentary supervision of the Force as may be prescribed by law."
The Joint Standing Committee had various interactions with the 2014 Defence Review, which included an intensive engagement during the Strategic Workshop in October 2014, a discussion of the Outcomes of the Workshop on 20 November 2014, a presentation by the Minister on 6 November 2014, and a briefing by the Chiefs of the Arms of Services on 13 November 2014 on the shortcomings and challenges of the Defence Review.
The Joint Standing Committee indicated that although the finalisation and approved phase of the SA Defence Review 2014 was subjected to consultation, it did not seem like the final product as tabled at Parliament was subjected for further public input and scrutiny. It was thus essential for Parliament to create an environment whereby the affected or interested parties had one last opportunity to comment on the finalised SA Defence Review 2014.
Therefore additional public hearings at Parliament could add to the legitimacy and broader acceptance of the document. This would further serve to bring it in line with section 59 of the Constitution 1996 which notes that, "the National Assembly must facilitate public involvement in the legislative and other processes of the Assembly and its committees."
2. Terms of Reference
In order to allow for inputs from the public, in particular those who have not participated in consultation process in compiling the Defence Review, the Joint Standing Committee on Defence decided to call for submissions on the iteration of the SA Defence Review 2014 as tabled in Parliament.
In particular, the Committee invited submissions on Chapter 9: The Defence Strategic Trajectory. All submissions were to clearly state the relevant chapter which was being referred to, the challenge identified and if possible, a proposed solution to the challenge.
On 20 February 2015, the Joint Standing Committee on Defence engaged with a number of role players who contributed to a request for public submissions on the SA Defence Review 2014. While a total of eight submissions were received, two declined and only three participants presented their inputs to the JSCD, as follow:
• The Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR)
• The Centers for Democracy of the University of Johannesburg and University of Cape Town
• The Aerospace Maritime Defence Industries Association (AMD)
2.1 Written submissions
The presenters responsible for the following submissions were unable to present due to prior engagements, they were as follows:
2.1.1 Defence Force Service Commission
This submission supported the Defence Review and submitted that the defence budget be increased to 2% of GDP. The Defence Review Programme and Consultation Process indicated in Annexure B that it had discussions with the Defence Review Committee on 18 October 2011 and 26 June 2012.
2.1.2 North West Province Umkhonto we Sizwe
An Imbizo was conducted in the North West Province on 5 May 2012 where this submission (dated 18 May 2012) was presented. Although various issues were raised, little reference was made to Chapter 9 as requested in the Call for submissions.
2.1.3 Institute for Security Studies
Dr Jakkie Cilliers' article entitled "The 2014 South African Defence Review" dated June 2014 had been submitted. The DRC had two engagements with Institute for Security Studies (ISS) on 7 May 2012 and a Round Table Discussion on 24 and 25 April 2012. Dr Cilliers' article stated that the most important section in the Review was Chapter 9.
The Institute for Security Studies recommended that:
Parliament needed to hold government to its commitment to increase defence expenditure in the short term and to implement steady increases in the medium and long term.
Government needed to re-establish a strategic planning capacity in the office of the Presidency to avoid the type of long term planning failures evident with Eskom and the Department of Defence.
The DOD should publish a White Paper on Defence every five years.
Government should tailor the purpose and use of the SANDF towards its actual tasks as peacekeeping, complemented by growth core concept.
Government should introduce legislation that appoints the chief of the SANDF as both head of the Department and accounting officer, with the authority to delegate expenditure and procurement along the chain of command down to unit level.
3. Findings on received submissions
3.1 The Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR)
The CSIR supported the Defence Review 2014, and its submission to the Joint Standing Committee on Defence focused on the establishment of a scientific structure within the DOD, headed by a 'Chief Defence Scientist'. The Chief Defence Scientist would take over duties from the current Defence Research Development Board and would be located in the office of the Secretary for Defence. The duties of the Chief Defence Scientist would include:
Advising military leadership (impact on Command and Control); and
Coordinating all Defence-related scientific research activities from other Science, Engineering and Technology stakeholders.
3.2 Centers for Democracy of the University of Johannesburg and University of Cape Town
The submission by the two Universities' Centre for the Study of Democracy centred on the need for a focus on gender representation within the SANDF and the desire for that to be expressed in the SA Defence Review. Focus was subsequently placed on the need to implement the United Nations Security Council Resolution 1325 of 2000 (focussing on the role of women in peacekeeping) and the Southern African Development Community (SADC) Gender Protocol. The submission therefore stated that "gender responsive peace and security provisioning needed to be seen as an imperative within the SANDF."
The submission made it clear that the SA Defence Review provided little in terms of highlighting the importance of gender equity within the SANDF. Subsequently, the submission proposed a number of insertions into sections of the Defence Review where reference to gender equality could be pronounced. Centre for the Study of Democracy's submission contained the following matters:
Raising the level of awareness on gender matters in the SA Defence Review 2014 and making them more pronounced
Writing the SA Defence Review 2014 in such a way that it created sensitivity towards gender imbalances.
A call to align the SA Defence Review 2014 with the SADC gender protocol principle of a 50-50 balance of men and women.
Focusing on training and recruitment that will encourage women to join the SANDF.
Ensuring that targets set for women were achieved.
Ensuring gender-sensitive facilities in the SANDF.
The two universities further proposed that additional wording should be incorporated in the following sections of Chapter 9:
Point 74 d: 'which encompasses gender equity'
Point 76 c and f: ensure reference to gender balance of 50:50 in all areas of recruitment, including officer recruitment. Consider steps to be taken to attract women into the Defence Force
Point 78: include reference to 50 percent of personnel will be women
Point 79 b ii: reference to be made to the adaptation of warships to take female personnel
Point 81 e, g, h, and i: reference in each of these sub-points to include 'on a gender equitable basis'
Point 83: 'with a gender balance of 50 percent of men and women in each of the categories'
Point 84: reference to the Defence Academy needs to have an equal split between men and women
Point 89: with a gender balance of 50 percent of men and women
Point 90: again, with a gender balance of 50:50 men and women
Point 91 b i and ii: ensure gender-sensitive facilities
Point 95: again, ensure 50:50 gender balance
Point 105: include a gender perspective. The Force Design Process – all steps need to ensure a gender parity approach
Point 111 a: Force structure – which includes equal numbers of men and women
Point 117: The Defence Accounting Officer must ensure gender sensitive planning in Force design, structure and facilities
Point 124a and 128a: Ensure appropriate facilities for women
The following suggests where in the Introduction to the Review there should be additional wording:
Point 10, adding 'the need to take account also of the SADC Gender Protocol'
Point 20 d adding 'always recognising gender parity in personnel involved'
Point 28 f: adding: 'A gender policy is proposed'
They were pleased to note that the overarching Defence Principles outlined in Section 29 e, Principle 5, is 'The Defence Force will strive to be seen as a representative, equitable and gender-aligned national asset'.
3. The Aerospace Maritime Defence Industries Association (AMD)
AMD is a voluntary association representing manufacturers of defence equipment. In terms of the AMD definitions, defence industries are those industries almost exclusively dependent on sales of defence-related equipment. AMD was actively involved in the SA Defence Review 2014 process with a total of six engagement with the DRC. The AMD submission focused on the need for SANDF technological advancement and the desire to prioritise the acquisition of local technologies to maintain and boost the local defence industry.
AMD supported the current draft of the SA Defence Review 2014, but urged focus on the following issues:
Commitment to funding the defence trajectory of the SA Defence Review 2014 (in an effort to sustain/grow the local defence industry)
The urgent establishment of one Arms Control Agency (as proposed in Chapter 15 of the SA Defence Review 2014)
Alignment of acquisition system to support the South African Defence Industry (SADI). AMD calls for a SADI-friendly acquisition system that favours SADI members with home-market advantages.
4. Findings on SA Defence Review 2014
During the deliberations the Committee noted following findings:
That Milestone 1 calls for the reduction of personnel from the current 97 000 to a total of 72 000, while Milestone 2 calls for increase of personnel to 101 000. How will this reduction be managed and be funded, what system or criteria will be used to determine which soldiers should remain?
With regard to the increase in Milestone 2, how will this be managed? Will the Department call back the individuals declared redundant in Milestone 1 or will the 29 00 new troops be trained for this increase? If so, will there be sufficient funding to manage the process of increasing the number of personnel?
Given that the Cabinet approved budget reduction for 2014/15 and 2015/2016, how will this affect the funding of Milestone 1 and Milestone 2 of the SA Defence Review 2014.
Is National Treasury willing to release an additional amount of approximately R55 billion to the Department over the MTEF period for the implementation of the Defence Review's initial milestones?
In Chapter 4, mindful of the existing structures of Parliament, the Defence Review's proposal regarding oversight is the establishment of a single oversight committee named the Joint Parliamentary Committee on Defence (JPCD).This committee will enjoy oversight over a wide range of defence related matters. Based on the separation of powers principle, each sphere of government is supposed to be independent.
Parliament. Has the power to make, amend and repeal law
Executive. Has executive authority to execute and enforce rules of law. What the law is and how it should be applied to resolve the dispute.
Judiciary. Has judicial authority meaning that if there is a dispute, it determines
The submissions made to the JSCD on 20 February 2015 were supportive of the SA Defence Review 2014 and no major changes were proposed. The CSIR and AMD submissions were particularly supportive and concerns raised by these entities refer rather to the implementation phase of the SA Defence Review 2014 than to the drafting and approval thereof. Matters related to gender sensitivity do highlight a possible need for review of some aspects of the SA Defence Review 2014. This is, however, likely to be technical in nature and should aim to bring the SA Defence Review 2014 in line with current DOD policy on the matter.
The Committee acknowledge the work done by the Defence Review Committee and all parties involved including those who participated during the public hearings.
6. Committee Recommendations
Having noted the above mentioned findings the Committee resolved on the following:
The Department should clarify further on how it intends to perform the process of down or right sizing and how this affect would the members of the SANDF.
Give assurance on the affordability of the Defence Review including total costs estimations of each Milestone.
With regard to Chapter 4, the Committee recommend that the status quo of present committee system should remain and that no other committee should be formed.
That action plans to implement the Defence Review should be sensitive to gender-issues and clear guidelines should be provided on 'non-discrimination in respect of gender'.
Report to be considered.


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This Day In History – December 30 – Hijinx, Humor and Insight
28 December 2018 by Gary Jenneke
NewsWhistle is pleased to feature Gary Jenneke's "This Day In History" column.
You can read the original at Gary's THIS DAY IN HISTORY blog — or scroll down to enjoy Gary's unique look at life's comings and goings.
THIS DAY IN HISTORY… DECEMBER 30
1903 – Iroquois Theater Fire.
The fire at the Chicago theater remains the deadliest single building fire in U.S. history. The theater had only been open for a month and was hailed for its architectural splendor. It also had been advertised as "absolutely fireproof." In truth, many safety regulations had been ignored and the fire warden was told he would be dismissed if he reported it. A design flaw was that the theater had only one entrance. All patrons entering and exiting were funneled onto one wide staircase.
The theater's designated capacity was 1,602. Above the main floor were two balcony levels. An overflow crowd of between 2,100 and 2,200, with many seated or standing in the aisles, was in attendance at the Wednesday's matinee performance. An arc light ignited a curtain and the fire quickly spread upwards to an area above the stage where thousands of square feet of flammable canvas scenery props were stored. The crowd panicked as the fire spread overhead.
The famous entertainer, Eddie Foy, was on the bill that day. With flaming scenery falling around him, he stood on stage and tried to calm the panicked crowd. He later noted he had never seen so many women and children in an audience. The sad toll that day was 602 dead, perhaps even more because some bodies had been removed from the scene. That's a higher death toll than the more famous Chicago Fire that destroyed much of the city.
Public outcry brought criminal charges but due to the influence of money and political connections, all charges were eventually dismissed.
This tragic incident could stand as an argument against those who decry government regulations. Then again, what with lawyers, construction workers to rebuild the theater, hospital workers, not to mention morticians, lack of stringent regulations was beneficial to that all-important category, jobs.
1917 – The temperature dropped to -32F in Mountain City, Tennessee, and -37F in Lewisburg, West Virginia, record lows for each state.
In 1933 the temperature fell to -50F in Bloomfield, Vermont, and in 1968 it was -48F in Mazama, Washington, also state records. The Scottish Highlands also recorded their lowest temperature on this date, -27.2C, which is -17F.
Seems December 30th is a very cold date. Minnesota's state record is -60F, recorded in the small town of Tower, up on the Iron Range. The coldest I've even been in was around -40F. We had had the brilliant idea of going ice fishing at the time. The folly of that idea was quickly revealed to us.
Another time the temp was hovering around -30F when a friend and I were in danger of losing our heating source. However, we still had electricity. It occurred to us that it was approximately 70 degrees warmer inside the refrigerator than outside. So if it came down to survival we decided we could just remove the shelving from the refrigerator and take turns climbing inside to warm up. Maybe I should mention that alcohol did play a part in this reasoning.
2003 – U.S. Attorney John Ashcroft recuses himself from CIA leak investigation.
Former U.S. Ambassador Joseph Wilson had criticized the Bush administration over the evidence it had presented in justifying the Iraq War. Shortly thereafter, it was publicly leaked that his wife, Valerie Plame, was an undercover CIA operative. Fifteen times since 1989 have U.S. Attorneys recused themselves from cases. Most of the time it was because they had some connection, however remote, to the case or persons involved. Ashcroft's reason was his close ties to senior White House aides, where it was suspected the leak occurred in retaliation to Wilson's criticism. Deputy Attorney James Comey became acting Attorney General and he appointed a special prosecutor to lead an investigation.
So, it appears this isn't the first time James Comey has found himself all tangled up in a witch-hunt.
1928 – Bo Diddley.
Elias McDaniel, AKA Bo Diddley, was one of the pioneers of rock and roll music in the 1950s. The beat of his music was influential to many rock artists following in his wake, from Elvis Presley and the Rolling Stones to the Clash.
The song, "Bo Diddley," to me, is still a rock and roll anthem. I find the beat as infectious today as I did when I was a teenager.
1935 – Sandy Koufax.
Baseball Hall of Fame pitcher for the Dodgers. Despite a relatively short career, 12 seasons and only 165 victories, Koufax is regarded as one of the greatest pitchers of all time. A left-handed pitcher, he played for the Dodgers in both Brooklyn and Los Angeles. Koufax pitched four no-hitters and one perfect game. As an eighteen-year-old, he was discovered by Brooklyn scout Al Campanis. A quote from Campanis about watching Koufax pitch for the first time. "There are two times in my life the hair on my arms has stood up: The first time I saw the ceiling of the Sistene Chapel and the second time, I saw Sandy Koufax throw a fastball." Koufax was forced to retire prematurely because of arthritis in his left elbow.
A great pitcher, although I never completely warmed up to him because he beat the Minnesota Twins in the seventh game of the 1965 World Series.
1942 – Mike Nesmith.
Musician. One of the four members of the fabricated pop group, the Monkees. Incidentally, one other member of the group, Davy Jones, was also born on 12/30/42. What's far more interesting however is that Nesmith's mother was the inventor of Liquid Paper, that white stuff used to cover up a mistake used when typing. A single mom, she got a job as a typist. Apparently she wasn't very good at it, and at night in a garage came up with the ingenious invention.
With the coming of the computer age, I hazard a guess that many millennials have never heard of this product.
ABOUT GARY JENNEKE
At various junctures of his life, Gary has been an indifferent grade school student, poor high school student, good Navy radioman, one-time hippie, passable college student, inveterate traveler, dedicated writer, miscast accountant (except for one interesting stint at a Communist café), part-time screenwriting teacher, semi-proud veteran, unsuccessful retiree and new blogger.
You can reach him at gary@newswhistle.com.
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Justia US Law US Codes and Statutes North Carolina General Statutes 2014 North Carolina General Statutes Chapter 163 - Elections and Election Laws. Article 22 - Corrupt Practices and Other Offenses against the Elective Franchise. § 163-274 - Certain acts declared misdemeanors.
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163-274. Certain acts declared misdemeanors.
(a) Class 2 Misdemeanors. - Any person who shall, in connection with any primary or election in this State, do any of the acts and things declared in this subsection to be unlawful, shall be guilty of a Class 2 misdemeanor. It shall be unlawful:
(1) For any person to fail, as an officer or as a judge or chief judge of a primary or election, or as a member of any board of elections, to prepare the books, ballots, and return blanks which it is his duty under the law to prepare, or to distribute the same as required by law, or to perform any other duty imposed upon him within the time and in the manner required by law;
(1a) For any member, director, or employee of a board of elections to alter a voter registration application or other voter registration record without either the written authorization of the applicant or voter or the written authorization of the State Board of Elections;
(2) For any person to continue or attempt to act as a judge or chief judge of a primary or election, or as a member of any board of elections, after having been legally removed from such position and after having been given notice of such removal;
(3) For any person to break up or by force or violence to stay or interfere with the holding of any primary or election, to interfere with the possession of any ballot box, election book, ballot, or return sheet by those entitled to possession of the same under the law, or to interfere in any manner with the performance of any duty imposed by law upon any election officer or member of any board of elections;
(4) For any person to be guilty of any boisterous conduct so as to disturb any member of any election board or any chief judge or judge of election in the performance of his duties as imposed by law;
(5) For any person to bet or wager any money or other thing of value on any election;
(5a) Repealed by Session Laws 1999-455, s. 21, applicable to elections held on or after January 1, 2000.
(6) For any person, directly or indirectly, to discharge or threaten to discharge from employment, or otherwise intimidate or oppose any legally qualified voter on account of any vote such voter may cast or consider or intend to cast, or not to cast, or which he may have failed to cast;
(7) For any person to publish in a newspaper or pamphlet or otherwise, any charge derogatory to any candidate or calculated to affect the candidate's chances of nomination or election, unless such publication be signed by the party giving publicity to and being responsible for such charge;
(8) For any person to publish or cause to be circulated derogatory reports with reference to any candidate in any primary or election, knowing such report to be false or in reckless disregard of its truth or falsity, when such report is calculated or intended to affect the chances of such candidate for nomination or election;
(9) For any person to give or promise, in return for political support or influence, any political appointment or support for political office;
(10) For any chairman of a county board of elections or other returning officer to fail or neglect, willfully or of malice, to perform any duty, act, matter or thing required or directed in the time, manner and form in which said duty, matter or thing is required to be performed in relation to any primary, general or special election and the returns thereof;
(11) For any clerk of the superior court to refuse to make and give to any person applying in writing for the same a duly certified copy of the returns of any primary or election or of a tabulated statement to a primary or election, the returns of which are by law deposited in his office, upon the tender of the fees therefor;
(12) For any person willfully and knowingly to impose upon any blind or illiterate voter a ballot in any primary or election contrary to the wish or desire of such voter, by falsely representing to such voter that the ballot proposed to him is such as he desires; or
(13) Except as authorized by G.S. 163-82.15, for any person to provide false information, or sign the name of any other person, to a written report under G.S. 163-82.15.
(14) For any person to be compensated based on the number of forms submitted for assisting persons in registering to vote.
(b) Class 1 Misdemeanor. - Any person who shall, in connection with any primary or election in this State, do any of the acts and things declared in this subsection to be unlawful shall be guilty of a Class 1 misdemeanor. It shall be unlawful for any person who has access to an official voted ballot or record to knowingly disclose in violation of G.S. 163-165.1(e) how an individual has voted that ballot. (1931, c. 348, s. 9; 1951, c. 983, s. 1; 1967, c. 775, s. 1; 1979, c. 135, s. 3; 1987, c. 565, s. 13; c. 583, s. 9; 1993, c. 539, s. 1112; 1994, Ex. Sess., c. 24, s. 14(c); 1993 (Reg. Sess., 1994), c. 762, s. 58(a)-(c); 1999-424, s. 7(h); 1999-426, s. 2(a); 1999-455, s. 21; 2007-391, ss. 9(b), 16(b); 2013-381, s. 14.1.)
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' 4 The Sydney Morning Herald Friday, September 30, 1988 1 1 Police Corrupt police ran a drugs network and the confessed bribes bagman Jack Herbert lied under oath to the Fitzgerald Inquiry, according to secret J tapes played ' yesterday of c, conversations with ' the alleged Brisbane . brothel king Hector Hapeta. EVAN ; WHITTON reports. BRISBANE: It appears that organised crime has dug in to try to outlast the inquiry. The view from the trenches, as disclosed on the Hapeta tapes, includes: Hector Hapeta's belief that Jack Herbert committed perjury, and had not named "all the good ones". Hapeta's apparent belief that corrupt police were running a drug network. 9 Geraldo Bellino's apparent - ll , tit-fell Hl -fv ttt & r lift x ; ! . t$i$;Rti& mm mmimmiM tt m k P 1 L xm road se A rr i -, f - M I Stjy? IK. f i g -VX. 4 ' l - . v?S -X$S'S3fj Ihe ion a m a eip sto While motorbikes can always thread their way through a traffic jam, anything on four wheels is usually left stranded. That's why NRMA's traditional breakdown service now comes on motorbikes as well for the business district of Sydney city. And it's no coincidence that these patrolmen have earned the nickname of "JambustersT Because by getting our members' cars going, they help get traffic moving freely again. And that's only one of the things NRMA's done for NSW motorists in the past year. The introduction of our car Anti-Theft campaign has helped reduce the number of cars stolen in NSW last year by 20. ran drags: Hapeta THE FITZGERALD INQUIRY belief that he may not even be charged. 9 Hapeta's belief that Sydney is the place to be just now, but "in two years this town'll be crook again". This evidence should give the Ahern Government no option but to set up a post-Fitzgerald standing commission on corruption and organised crime. Earlier this month "Trevor", Hapeta's number two, got the idea that Hapeta was going to try to get himself off the hook by informing on Trevor as a heroin-runner. From 1983 to 1985, Trevor had done time for Hapeta on a charge of supplying LSD. He apparently decided he wasn't going to be the goat this time, and made a pre-emptive strike by approaching the commission some time before only motorbike designed. get through them. September 14, earlier than we reported yesterday. Commission officers mounted an operation to trap Hapeta by wiring Trevor for sound and sending him back to his boss. On Friday September 16, Trevor and Hapeta were in Trevor's hired Commodore on the road to Yatala. The dramatic irony level in the car rated about eight on the Empson scale: Hapeta thought he had the commission bluffed for lack of proof, and vaguely threatened Trevor in case he was thinking of rolling over. Not unnaturally, in view of Hapeta's mountainous size, Trevor was quite nervous, particularly when Hapeta revealed he was aware that Trevor suspected that Hapeta was going to sell him down the river. Hapeta, a firm believer in British justice and liberty, offered some animadversions on the vile-ness of the tax people in taxing Police Commissioner Sir Terence Lewis although "they haven't even got proof he took the f...ing corruption money. "Did you see what Herbert said? 'I'd have nothing to do with drugs; I don't know anybody in drugs.' You know, drugs will die of a sudden death, you know what I mean?" Not since 1982 has the rate been lower. Thanks to our on-going road funding campaign, the State Government has pledged to move the millions we pay in petrol taxes to where it belongs. Improving the safety and quality of our roads. Services to country members have also been extended in 1988. New branch offices were opened this year in Coffs Harbour, Dubbo, Jesmond and Tamworth, bringing the total network to 45 Branches and 260 District Depots throughout New South Wales and the ACT And through the statutory authorities and with our members' help this year we've had more than 2,000 'blackspots removed from the National Roads and Motorists Association, 151 Clarence St, Sydney 2000. Trevor asked: "Do you think he's telling the truth, or he's just "No, no," Hapeta replied, "he's telling lies." He added: "They had a drug network all right. I know, I wasn't allowed to get involved in drugs. He told me that they had a network." Trevor: "Allocated to someone else like the gambling?" "Right, right," Hapeta said. Later on the Yatala trip, Hapeta said: "Geraldo Bellino reckons none of us mightn't go to court . . . he reckons the cops will. "Herbert now has f...ing run out, matey ... he hasn't named the good ones. I mean, I know I've never heard Ron Pickering's name mentioned once in the whole commission, have you? "Herbert named f... all, boy. I reckon in two years this town'll be crook again. If we can outlast . . . all we gotta do is hang in now." That evening, Trevor and Jeff Jones, another member of the Hapeta gang, collected some heroin hidden in the bush, on Hapeta's orders. Still wired, Trevor gave five weights to Hapeta, went down to the Gold Coast and gave 10 to Nick, and then retired into the witness protection program. Stated roads. (If you're not familiar with road safety jargon, a 'blackspot' is a place where numerous accidents have occurred, or are likely to occur.) These are just a few highlights from the 1987-88 Annual Report of the NRMA. To find out more about the work we've done during the year, read your copy of the Annual Report for 1987-88 in the October issue of the NRMA's Open Road Magazine. If you're not yet a member, you can get a free copy from any NRMA branch or district depot 0 Loneliness of a cinema picket line 7 o mmmmmsss-n Eva Kossek (right) on the picket line outside Hoyts Entertainment By AUCIA LARRIERA. industrial Reporter The past two weeks have been disheartening for Eva Kossek, a 53-year-old usher at Hoyts George Street cinema complex. On strike for the first time in 11 years, she has had to cope with most of ber colleagues refusing to join the strike over manning levels, thousands of cinema-goers ignoring You'll find that itfs very rewarding reading. It pays to belong. Y4RSNRCCA799 her pleas to boycott Hoyts and worst of all rude gestures from passing motorists. Since the strike began earlier this month, Eva has spent at least four hours every day handing leaflets to the public, urging them to boycott Hoyts and sign a petition in support of the ushers. 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Easty Delay for black group CANBERRA: The Federal Government has agreed to delay the start-up date for its controversial new Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission from January 1 until May 15 next year. In return, the Minister for Aboriginal Affairs, Mr Hand, is confident that the legislation will be passed in the current session. The Democrats were not prepared to support the legislation until the Senate select committee examining the proposed commission reported. Mr Hand had pro posed that elections for the new commission, which is to consist of popularly elected representatives at a regional and zone level, would be held in October. Hoyts. People are very ignorant. "And also, what good is a strike if everyone's not on strike?" Making matters worse for the Australian and Theatrical and Amusement Employees' Association (ATAEA), it is school holidays. With Hoyts offering a diet of teen-oriented movies, the young cinema hordes are not deterred by the picket line. after death The deputy chief health officer of NSW, Dr Gerry Murphy, said yesterday that at least 100 public spa pools had already been checked by the Division of Analytical Laboratories, and that tests were continuing. The Canberra woman is believed to be the first Australian victim of legionnaire's disease acquired in a spa pool. Most cases have been linked to air-conditioning systems. JENNIE CURTIN and AAP THIS DAY IN 1?38 recorded that the sergeant transferred to the Golden Grove was Sergeant Smith. Andrew Miller, Commissary, added a postscript to his letter to Lieutenant King of September 29. He said that, since writing, the Governor had reduced the weekly allowance of flour by one pound. He enclosed a memorandum of stores being forwarded, according to the new scale. 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Yemen: A Solution to Starvation
by Rachel Radecki - CIMUN
Charlotte Neumann, The Guardian
A massive humanitarian crisis is playing out in Yemen. "80 percent of the Yemeni population are at risk of starvation," says the French delegate to the Security Council. In addition to this imminent starvation, children are being conscripted into the military, and young girls are forced into child marriage. It seems, however, that a solution may be close at hand. The major focus is to resolve this crisis," added the French delegate.
The conflict is complicated, and a thorough resolution will need to be passed in order to resolve it. According to the French delegate, the Security Council aims to "provide a well-rounded, stable international solution." This solution has already begun forming. France and Germany have stopped selling arms to groups in the region, in an effort to decrease any contributions that they may be making to the violence in Yemen. A major focus of the Security Council is to resolve the conflict between Iran and Saudi Arabia, which exacerbates the conflict in Yemen. A temporary ceasefire is the primary goal of the Security Council. From there, more long-term solutions will be put in place.
China, according to the French delegate, has offered to provide funding to the effort to stop the conflict in Yemen. This money will likely not go directly to citizens. While direct monetary aid could be considered in the future, the goal of France is to increase stability in Yemen by rebuilding infrastructure and the educational system. The effort to resolve the Yemeni crisis, as the French delegate puts it, is truly a "collective effort" by nations all around the world. The delegate from France seems to be confident that the end of the Yemeni conflict is drawing near, thanks to this innovative solution.
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Asya Geisberg Gallery is pleased to present "Father's Fathers", the first New York solo exhibition of wood sculpture and works on paper by Icelandic artist Guðmundur Thoroddsen. With a chainsaw and crude hand axe, Thoroddsen crafts bearded heads, sometimes with absurdly geometric hirsuteness. Abstracted amalgamations of Sumerian or Viking gods, the heads are hapless, passive, even useless anachronistic deities, forming a pantheon of false idols.
Including a bust of his father, an impish self-portrait, and ruminative ink drawings, Thoroddsen's work hosts a variety of questions about our relianceon masculine ideals and our often unquestioned expectations of leaders. Have we outgrown our need for patriarchs, omnipotent gods, or feared autocratic strongmen? With Qaddafi and Mubarak dismissed and Putin's support cracking, young generations search for a new vision of leadership. With Kim Jong-Il referred to as "our Father", can gender finally achieve equality and equanimity, while our cultural prototypes remain embedded in our collective psyche? Even within Scandinavia's contemporary progressivism, Thoroddsen sees strict dichotomies carved into each sector of life: within familial, economic or social roles.
Trained as a painter, Thoroddsen began working with wood as a personal exploration of masculinity. The roughly chopped and cracked surface suggests that taking up woodcarving was an attempt at being a "manly man", a wistful evocation of a brawny woodsman. After the death of his authoritarian father, the artist came to question his own relationship to manliness, and saw everywhere the same focus on patriarchal ideals. By creating a smaller-than-life bust, he literally cut his father down to size. Seeking broader universal symbols, Thoroddsen began to chart aesthetic representations in Greek, Near-eastern and Norse mythology, culminating in carved heads that smirked at their historic antecedents.


Allogeneic Hematopoietic Cell Transplantation for AML—A Missed Opportunity!
I recently received a query from the medical director of the National Marrow Donor Program (NMDP) asking what a realistic expectation was for how many patients should be candidates for allogeneic hematopoietic cell transplantation (HCT) each year. She was looking to identify ways to address the discordance between an extrapolation of the NCCN Clinical Practice Guidelines in Oncology (NCCN Guidelines) combined with the SEER database of annual incidence of acute myeloid leukemia (AML) in patients between birth and 74 years of age and the actual numbers of patients receiving a transplant for AML as reported by the Center for International Blood and Marrow Transplant Research (CIBMTR).
Based on our recommendations that most adult patients in first remission with intermediate- and high-risk disease based on cytogenetic and molecular characteristics and patients with induction failure or relapsed disease should be referred for transplant evaluation, with a generous fudge factor to weed out "unfit" older patients (25% for age 55–64 years, and 50% for age ≥65 years), the NMDP estimated that roughly 6,500 potential candidates should be coming to transplant centers for screening. The most recent data on the CIBMTR Web site showed that only roughly 3,000 transplants for AML were performed in the United States in 2013. Why is there such a gap?
In the past, the major obstacle to transplant was donor availability. A generation ago, we felt like we had won the lotto if our adolescent and young adult (AYA) patient had a sibling donor. Over the past 3 decades, we have extended the donor pool through high-resolution human leukocyte antigen (HLA) typing to identify phenotypic HLA matches outside of families and through recruitment of an ever-expanding pool of volunteer donors worldwide. We learned that we could use less perfectly HLA-matched umbilical cord stem cell products that have a more naïve T-cell repertoire. Newer immunosuppressive agents and innovative use of older drugs have now allowed us to extend that pool to the use of haploidentical family donors. This now opens the door to anyone with a healthy parent, sibling, or child. As a last resort, cousins, nieces, nephews, and half-siblings have served as donors.
For patients at high risk in first remission, this gives the option to move quickly to transplant using a family member who is either a full or partial match rather than anxiously waiting several months for an ideal unrelated donor while enduring more consolidation chemotherapy to stave off relapse. This is particularly important for minorities, who are underrepresented in the international registries, and removes a large barrier to access. With this expanded resource, we should be able to increase the number of HCTs in younger patients (<60 years) in first complete remission from 50% to 80%, which could increase the 5-year overall survival to more than 60%. Because haploidentical HCT required greater T-cell inactivation to prevent graft-versus-host disease, the risk of graft failure and relapse is higher due to abrogation of graft-versus-leukemia effect. This makes this option less desirable for patients with active disease.
Age, however, may be the larger hurdle to overcome for referral to and acceptance for HCT. Although I agree with the NMDP assumption that salvage with a myeloablative transplant approach can be successful in patients 60 years of age or younger with active disease, NCCN Guidelines are more circumspect about HCT referral for older patients with active disease outside the context of a clinical trial. The reduced-intensity conditioning regimens that have opened the door for potential cure to 40% to 50% of older patients with AML in first complete remission do have a higher risk of relapse than myeloablative regimens; this is offset by lower treatment-related mortality. At best in the older population, only 50% of patients at favorable and intermediate risk and only 35% of patients at high risk treated with conventional chemotherapy are likely to experience remission and be referred for HCT. Of those who experience remission, probably 10% to 20% emerge with organ dysfunction or infections that would preclude HCT. These restrictions should leave us with a potential pool of 30% for older patients in first remission (≈2,000 people aged 60–74 years) who could be evaluated for HCT.
However, in many studies involving older patients in which HCT was a postremission consolidation strategy, it was not uncommon that fewer than half the eligible patients with donors actually received HCT. Our screening approach seems to be flawed; the tools that we have used to assess "fitness" for HCT, such as comorbidity indices or functionality scores, have not had high correlation with outcomes. "Functionality" also needs to include the social infrastructure needed to support older patients in the post-HCT setting to make this option open to more patients. As supportive care and graft-versus-host disease prophylaxis have improved, transplant-related mortality has declined significantly in the past decade, such that for most large transplant centers, 100-day mortality is less than 10% and 12-month transplant-related mortality is approximately 15% to 20%, even in these older patients.
For many patients who do not experience complete remission or who experience relapse after HCT, several types of clinical trials are available. These trials include dose-intensive radiation with total marrow/lymphoid radiation using conformational tomotherapy, the addition of anti-CD33 drug/immunoconjugates combined with either ablative or reduced-intensity conditioning, and post-HCT therapy with target inhibitors. In addition to traditional donor lymphocyte infusions for relapse, several centers are working on donor-derived CAR T cells targeting tumor-specific antigens, such as CD123.
With all of these advances, the potential population who could benefit from state-of-the-art allogeneic HCT is at least 50% higher than the numbers we are seeing, and we will need to be wise in our use of current infrastructure and resources to meet this need. Although we have made significant progress in making HCT accessible to more patients using wider donor choices and less toxic and better conditioning regimens, and these steps extend the upper age range to the mid-70s, we still struggle with the social factors that create barriers for the patients. These barriers include timely access for HCT evaluation through any form of public or private insurance, rapid access to family HLA typing so that a family donor search might begin before HCT referral, the burden of medication costs outside the hospital, and the emotional and physical toll on families and caregivers, who often lack long-term social support. Although AML induction therapy for non–acute promyelocytic leukemia seems to be stuck in the last century, the ancillary therapeutic arm of allogeneic HCT has evolved from a last-ditch effort to cutting edge therapy with potential applicability to an expanding pool of patients. Seize the opportunity!
Margaret O'Donnell, MD, FRCPC, Is a graduate of the Medical College of Pennsylvania; she received her early postgraduate training in internal medicine and hematology at McGill University (Royal Victoria Hospital). She spent 2 years as a bone marrow transplant fellow at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center as a mentee of Dr. E. Donnal Thomas and later at City of Hope with Dr. Karl G. Blume. She has maintained an abiding interest in marrow and stem cell transplantation throughout her 3 decades as a faculty member at the City of Hope National Cancer Research Center, where she currently serves as an Associate Clinical Director. Her major focus has been in using stem cell therapy as a component of treatment for acute myeloid leukemia (AML) and myelodysplastic syndromes (MDS) and optimizing the supportive care of the immunocompromised host.


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You live and breathe compliance because there's so much at stake: your organization's overall heath, your team's focus on growth, and your own liability and reputation.Some of you have already implemented SAP and the IS-U/FERC module. While you thought it would do everything necessary for ratemaking and regulatory reporting, in practice it falls short of what agencies like FERC, RUS and NARUC demand these days. As a result, your team can't give you the data you need on-demand.
Others of you bought IS-U/FERC, but it's only on a development server, or maybe still on the shelf. That means proper regulatory reporting entails even more work.
No matter what your situation, the periodic federal and state audits you face are unnecessarily nerve-racking. You're never quite sure what they'll turn up.
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As much as you like the benefits SAP offers — real-time financials and integration with work management — you miss the regulatory views that your prior system offered. To provide your CFO and Controller with the reports they need, your analysts have developed work-arounds and put in plenty of manual effort transferring data from SAP to Excel. While this process works (or maybe it doesn't), it leaves you vulnerable to errors and diminishes the time you have to analyze your data, let alone make better business decisions from it. Imagine what you could do with your current resources if you could quickly extract and format all of your costs–from generation, transmission, and distribution, to customer service, administrative, and maintenance–in FERC-compliant reports.
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What you will find collected on this website are writings of mine on religion, literature, culture, and politics that have accrued over fifty years, along with an eclectic assortment of reviews and interviews. In the years ahead—time, strength, cash, and patience availing—I intend to write a book on the ancient Greek translation of the Jewish Bible as the greatest translation ever written; a book on the Jewish writers who dared to imagine God himself as a village Jew; and a book of more personal reflections on the religious literatures of the world, to be entitled The Library of the Gods. These are labors of love, undertaken in quiet.
Yet the world does have a way of walking in on us. These days, when I leave the peace of my retreat, it is most often to speak about one of two pressing global issues:
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Second, the crisis of climate change and the promise of religion as just possibly an ally that may be rallied to help meet it--for example, my three-part contribution to "Bending the Curve," a new video course to be offered on all campuses of the University of California. [Here's the shooting script for the three modules.]
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We work in a multicultural society and modern healthcare delivery demands that the religious, cultural and ethical beliefs of patients be considered as a part of their treatment. There is therefore an increasing need to understand other cultures.
We have attempted to address this need by developing this book to provide members of the dental team with a reference source to culturally sensitive care in everyday clinical practice. This is not a text about technical dentistry. Neither is this book intended to cover the orofacial problems that can affect people of various cultures and lifestyles, although they are mentioned where relevant. This book is about patient care.
The knowledge base to be culturally sensitive is enormous. Lists of cultural traits and religious customs and beliefs can help, but inevitably give a very false impression of uniformity. Thus, in making reference to such lists, it is crucial to remember that there is considerable variation within every cultural and religious group and to avoid stereotyping. The information given applies only to certain patients. It is not a recipe for all solutions: we simply provide guidelines as a starting point for individualising dental healthcare. Individuals' views, practices, needs and wishes vary widely and can be influenced by religion, ethnicity, educational, socioeconomic, acculturational and other factors.
This book is presented in three sections. The first section covers the many aspects of culturally sensitive healthcare, the second section outlines features of various religions and faiths and the third discusses cultural groups. In the second and third sections, topics have been arranged alphabetically for convenience. We do not attempt to be comprehensive. Cross-referencing has been essential.
Although we are based in the United Kingdom, we hope that our efforts will help improve culturally sensitive oral healthcare worldwide.


The Vice-Chancellor took shadow education minister Christopher Pyne to task over historically low tertiary education spending, reports James O'Doherty.
The Vice Chancellor, Dr Michael Spence, used his QandA appearance last night for a scathing criticism of Australia's education spending.
In repeated stoushes with Shadow Education spokesman Christopher Pyne, Dr Spence called on the Opposition to promise increases in education spending if they won government at the next election.
He attacked Mr Pyne and Federal Attorney General Ms Roxon for their parties' budget stance: "Australia does not spend the amount on education that its future demands or that its wealth allows it to," he said.
Education was the flagship issue of the program last night; Dr Spence spoke extensively on the wider importance of education funding, but was spared the brunt of the backlash at recent university cost-cutting that many expected.
Only one question was asked specifically to Dr Spence on his implantation of cost-cutting exercises, from SRC Vice President Tom Raue. After pressure from host Tony Jones, Dr Spence declared that the final number of jobs to be cut was "60", not "over a hundred," about which he expressed regret.
Honi understands that some students, including Tom Raue and SRC Welfare Officer Brigitte Garozzo, had their seating allocations rejected after initial acceptance. Sources close to Mr Raue have said the alleged technical glitch was a deliberate move to stop possible protest at the studio by the SRC Vice President and others.
Once the QandA producers realised Mr Raue and his party was "important," they were again allowed to attend – on the proviso they behaved themselves, Honi has been told.
Teachers' education also featured heavily in the program, with Dr Spence defending Sydney University's teaching model in training teachers. He said it was the university's job to teach them critical thinking, and that on the job training must be available for teachers.
Michael Spence took the public opportunity to defend his position in cutting costs at the University. With the debate being steered away from specifics, he was not given the grilling many students expected – or desired.
Whether his clarity of speech and conviction in demanding increased funding was enough to convince students, however, will remain to be seen.


we have another birthday this week.
I cannot believe my little man is so old.
He is the one that refused to talk until he was almost 4. now he won't stop.
He didn't like his name so he renamed himself Dude.
He loves American Ninja Warrior and will make anything (and everything) into an obstacle.
He heckles middle school and high school students serving detentions.
He is anti litter. he picks up every single piece of garbage off the ground. Then complains about the people that put it there.
He loves God more than anything. He loves his dog second most. Momma ranks about 5th on his list.
I am so proud to call Dude my son! Happy birthday!!!
Oh my goodnes, you guys! Can you believe it? I have been a mom to boys for 8 years.
Bubba is smart (as in he could probably survive with my Algebra 1 kids this year!).
Bubba is athletic (he is totally coach-able even if his natural ability is not any better than mine).
Bubba is sensitive and caring. This little guy is so in tune with the people around him.
Bubba is sharp. He can come up with a one liner or comeback without any thought. He is hilarious (he gets that from me).
I am proud of the little man that Bubba is becoming. Even if he does send me through the wringer sometimes.
Tonight we celebrate with popcorn chicken, curley fries and peanut butter ice cream.
it started with a simple splash of cold water.
followed by a wet sponge.
the result was a full on water fight in my kitchen, family room and bathroom.
I walked in on Monday evening to the hubs wiping water off the walls and floor. He was giggling about the water fight. Bubba was in laughing hysterically. Dude looked frightened on the couch. I just rolled my eyes glad that nothing got broken.
Fast forward to Tuesday night. I am doing the dishes (remember… I haven't had a dishwasher for 4 yrs.) and the water sounded like it had air bubbles in it. then the water pressure dropped. before i knew it, my feet were getting wet.
yep… the spray got pulled too far out on monday and the line broke. when i was using it to was dishes the hole broke open.
i do not have time for a plumbing problem.
thankfully, the hubs is awesome (and the one that caused the problem in the first place) so he ran to the store, did some plumbing stuff, yelled a few bad words, smashed his finger a time or two, and fixed it.
I put a fan under the sink to make sure everything was dried out and went to bed.
this morning was crazy (as is every morning) so i left the fan running all day. When i got home from school i started cleaning up the sink mess.
there was another leak. the cabinet under the sink was soaked.
apparently, when we used the shut off valve (that had probably never been turned), we messed something else up. so now, we have no water in our kitchen and we the hubs, has another plumbing project. i don't have time for this.
at least i don't have to do dishes tonight.


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Isothermal Community College
286 ICC Loop Road
Spindale, NC 28160-0804
www.isothermal.edu
Isothermal Community College Photo #2 - Awards group, photo by Alan Beam
Isothermal Community College exists to improve life through learning. Isothermal Community College is an institution committed to the journey charted by the concept of the Learning-Centered College.
Isothermal Community College serves 2,057 students (42% of students are full-time).
The college's student:teacher ratio of 15:1 is lower than the state community college average of 19:1.
Minority enrollment is 15% of the student body (majority Black), which is less than the state average of 38%.
Isothermal Community College is the only community colleges within Rutherford County, NC.
The nearest community college to Isothermal Community College is McDowell Technical Community College (22.1 miles away).
The teacher population of 139 teachers has stayed relatively flat over five years.
Isothermal Community College (NC) Community College Avg.
Carnegie Classification Associate of Arts Colleges Baccalaureate / Associates Colleges
Institution Level Less than 2 yrs At least 2 but less than 4 years
Institution Control Public Public
Total Faculty 139 staff 139 staff
The student population of Isothermal Community College has stayed relatively flat over five years.
The student:teacher ratio of 15:1 has stayed the same over five years.
The Isothermal Community College diversity score of 0.27 is less than the state average of 0.56. The school's diversity has stayed relatively flat over five years.
Total Enrollment 2,057 students 2,380 students
# Full-Time Students 859 students 1,019 students
# Part-Time Students 1,198 students 1,361 students
% American Indian/Alaskan -
% Hispanic
% Black
% White
% Two or more races
% Non Resident races -
College Completion Rate
The public in-state tuition of $2,358 is less than the state average of $3,911. The in-state tuition has grown by 8% over four years.
The public out-state tuition of $8,502 is less than the state average of $9,514. The out-state tuition has stayed relatively flat over four years.
In-State Tuition Fees $2,358 $3,911
Out-State Tuition Fees $8,502 $9,514
% Students Receiving Some Financial Aid 89% 78%
Median Debt for Graduates $8,000 $10,500
Median Debt for Dropouts $6,000 $6,000
Isothermal Community College, a member of the North Carolina Community College System, is a comprehensive, two-year, public institution that serves the individuals in Rutherford and Polk Counties. The College offers individual courses and certificate, diploma and degree programs that enable students to transfer to four-year institutions or to acquire skills for new or continued employment, as well as to function effectively as citizens in our society. In addition, the College provides training for area business and industry, personal enrichment courses, remedial and developmental courses and community service activities. Programs of study fall into two major categories: college transfer and career preparation. The Associate of Arts and Associate of Science Degree Programs are designed primarily for students planning to transfer to a four-year college or university. The Associate of Applied Science Degree, Diploma, and Certificate Programs are designed for career preparation. Some Associate of Applied Science Degree Programs are also transferable to four-year colleges and universities. Isothermal Community College is accredited by the Commission on Colleges of the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools to award associate degrees.
McDowell Technical Community College
1,056 students | 22.10 Mi54 College Drive
Marion, NC 28752
(828)652-6021 22.101,056
2,990 students | 24.20 Mi137 S Post Rd
Spartanburg Community College
5,495 students | 25.40 Mi107 Community College Drive
Spartanburg Methodist College
793 students | 26.60 Mi1000 Powell Mill Road
(864)587-4000 26.60793
Blue Ridge Community College (Flat Rock)
2,088 students | 28.90 Mi180 West Campus Drive
Flat Rock, NC 28731
Students: 2,057 students
In-state tuition: $2,358
Out-state tuition: $8,502
For North Carolina public community colleges, the average tuition is approximately $3,911 per year for in-state students and $9,514 for out-of-state students. For private community colleges, the average yearly tuition is approximately $16,515 per year. Read more about average community college tuition costs across the country.
The average community college acceptance rate in North Carolina is 69%. Read more about national community college acceptance rates.
North Carolina community colleges have a diversity score of 0.56, which is lower than the national average of 0.65. The most diverse community college in North Carolina is Fayetteville Technical Community College. Read more about community college diversity statistics in the USA.
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The Cale Makar era is about to begin in Colorado.
College hockey's top prospect signed an entry-level contract with the Colorado Avalanche on Sunday and joined the Avs for practice on Monday. He's expected to be inserted into the lineup immediately and will suit up when the Avalanche host the Flames in Game 3 of their opening round playoff series Monday night.
Makar is expected to slot in alongside Patrik Nemeth on the team's third pairing, and will likely get some power play time as well.
The 20-year-old Canadian defenseman was drafted fourth overall by the Avalanche in the 2017 NHL Entry Draft. He's coming off a sophomore season at UMass Amherst in which he won the Hobey Baker Award as the NCAA's top player and led the Minutemen to their first title game in program history. UMass finished as national runner-up after losing to Minnesota Duluth in the championship on Saturday night.
Makar picked up 16 goals and 49 points in 41 games for UMass and had a plus-59 goal differential (82 goals for, 23 goals against) while on the ice this year. With great skating ability, an outstanding two-way skill set and high hockey IQ, Makar is considered to be one of the purest blue line talents to come out of the college hockey ranks in years.
He'll join an Avalanche team that is currently knotted up 1-1 in their first-round playoff series with the West's top-seeded Flames. Makar is talented enough to have an immediate impact as they look to win their first playoff series since 2008.
However, Makar's signing is something of a gamble for the Avalanche. By playing him in a game this year, Colorado will burn the first year of his three-year, entry-level contract. Not only will that make Makar due to become a restricted free agent a year earlier, it also means the team will have to include him on its protected list for the Seattle 2021 expansion draft.
But signing Makar and surrendering that year of his ELC sends a message from the Colorado front office: They're committed to this year's group and believe that Makar can be enough of an impact player from the jump to warrant the sacrifice.


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Peter Schweizer Reveals Details of Hunter Biden's Deal With China...His Partners Will Surprise You
By Elizabeth Vaughn | 9:30 AM on May 13, 2019
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Investigative reporter Peter Schweizer, the author of Clinton Cash, completed an in-depth study of Hunter Biden's business dealings in China. It was Schweizer who first revealed that Hunter Biden's private equity firm received a $1 billion investment within two weeks of accompanying his father, then-Vice President Joe Biden, on an official trip there. The cash infusion came from a subsidiary of the Chinese government's Bank of China and it wasn't long before the investment increased to $1.5 billion.
Schweizer and his team of investigators spent two years researching cases in which families and friends of powerful politicians have benefited handsomely from those interested in "currying favor with their influential parents." In his book, entitled "Secret Empires: How the American Political Class Hides Corruption and Enriches Family and Friends," Schweitzer provides some interesting details about Hunter Biden's dubious dealings with China.
Schweizer reports that Hunter Biden and his business partners created a group of LLCs to conduct their deals with Chinese government-owned companies. The largest LLC was their private equity firm, Rosemont Seneca Partners, which was founded in 2009. This firm was controlled by Hunter Biden, long-time business partner Devon Archer and, lo and behold, Chris Heinz, who happens to be the stepson of former Secretary of State and Senator, John Kerry.
Rosemont also partnered with the Thornton Group, a consulting company run by James Bulger, who was named after his uncle, the notorious mob hitman James "Whitey" Bulger.
In 2010, the principles of Rosemont Seneca and the Thornton Group, headed to China to meet with business officials there. On their Chinese language website, Thornton reported the reason for the meeting was to "explore the possibility of commercial cooperation and opportunity." It said that "Chinese executives "extended their warm welcome" to the "Thornton Group, with its US partner Rosemont Seneca chairman Hunter Biden (second son of the now Vice President Joe Biden)."
Schweitzer points out this information was not reported on the English-speaking web site.
He also notes that the meeting "occurred just hours before Hunter Biden's father, the vice president, met with Chinese President Hu Jintao in Washington as part of the Nuclear Security Summit."
According to Schweizer, The Bank of China founded an investment fund called Bohai Harvest RST (BHR) shortly after the Biden's December 2013 official trip to China. BHR's website listed Rosemont Seneca Partners, LLC as one of it's founding partners.
Yet, "Chris Heinz claims neither he, nor Rosemont Seneca Partners, the firm he had part ownership of, had any role in the deal with Bohai Harvest. Nonetheless, Biden, Archer and the Rosemont name became increasingly involved with China. Archer became the vice chairman of Bohai Harvest, helping oversee some of the fund's investments."
Schweizer writes that "several of BHR's investments had major implications for national security." He explains:
In December 2014, BHR became an "anchor investor" in the IPO of China General Nuclear Power Corp. (CGN), a state-owned energy company involved in the construction of nuclear reactors. In April 2016, the US Justice Department would charge CGN with stealing nuclear secrets from the United States — actions prosecutors said could cause "significant damage to our national security."
Of particular interest to CGN were sensitive, American-made components that, according to experts, resembled components used by the US on its nuclear submarines.
That Hunter Biden had no experience in China, and little in private equity, didn't dissuade the Chinese government from giving his company a business opportunity in place of established global financial brands like Morgan Stanley or Goldman Sachs. In fact, the Chinese government wasn't done funding deals with Hunter Biden.
Around the same time, the Schweizer team discovered that a "Chinese state-backed conglomerate called Gemini Investments Limited was negotiating and sealing deals with Hunter Biden's Rosemont on several fronts. That month, it made a $34 million investment into a fund managed by Rosemont.
Biden had set up a "sister company" called "Rosemont Realty" which announced in August 2015 that the above mentioned "Gemini Investment was buying a 75 percent stake in the company. The terms of the deal included a $3 billion commitment from the Chinese, who were eager to purchase new US properties. Shortly after the sale, Rosemont Realty was rechristened Gemini Rosemont."
Li Ming, Sino-Ocean Land Holdings Limited and Gemini Investments chairman, was among many in the Chinese business world to commend the deal. "Rosemont, with its comprehensive real-estate platform and superior performance history, was precisely the investment opportunity Gemini Investments was looking for in order to invest in the US real estate market. We look forward to a strong and successful partnership."
Another said, "The plan was to use Chinese money to acquire more properties in the United States. We see great opportunities to continue acquiring high-quality real estate in the US market. The possibilities for this venture are tremendous."
In 2015, BHR announced a deal with Chinese state-owned military aviation contractor Aviation Industry Corporation of China (AVIC). They were interested in purchasing an American company called Henniges, which "manufactures technology with military applications."
All transactions having anything to do with national security must be approved by the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS). Several government agencies were involved in the approval process. One of those was John Kerry's State Department. The deal passed. AVIC hold a 51% stake in the new company and BHR, 49%.
Interesting, huh?
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Women Making Films is happy to curate a special package for the 5th Chennai International Documentary & Short Film Festival. Fifteen assorted films made by women, documentaries, fiction and animation will be screened in the festival spread over seven days.
Here is the schedule of WMF films. The festival takes place in five different venues. For more information on the location, and other attractive information about the event, follow the facebook page and for the schedule of the entire festival, visit the CIDSFF website.


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Q: C Linux stat() getting atime/mtime with nsec precision Learning C and I'm trying to get a visual comparison of the variable types and sizes that are returned by stat() for the atime/mtime attributes and for the nsec precision values.
I'm running stat() on a file and want to get the mtime and mtime nsec values from the returned stat structure and then store these values in separate variables (which I then want to pass to utimes()... long story!).
According to http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/online/pages/man2/stat.2.html#NOTES I can get the value from st_mtim.tv_nsec or st_mtimensec depending on various OS/build conditions. In my actual program I'll check for both and use whichever is set, or just fallback to the normal second precision of st_mtime
What variable type and size do I need to declare in order to store a normal timestamp as returned by st_mtime?
What variable type and size do I need to declare to store an nsec value from st_mtim.tv_nsec or st_mtimensec?
Are these a decimal, including the number of whole seconds of the time? Or do they just return the nsec portion of the time?
Do I need to declare different variable sizes for the nsecs depending on my system's architecture?
And finally, what conversion specifiers do I need for outputting these variables using printf()?
Cheers, B

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*st_mtime should be a time_t.

*According to POSIX <time.h>, the type of tv_nsec is just long.

*The fields like st_mtim.tv_nsec will return the number of nanoseconds.

*For the long, you need l; for time_t, it is not clearly defined, AFAIK.

A: st_mtim.tv_nsec is always in the range [0,999999999]. You need to get the seconds from tv_sec. In theory you could multiply seconds by 1000000000 and store them together in a 64-bit value, but it will overflow in a couple hundred years or so.

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NOAA's national marine sanctuary offices and visitor centers are closed to the public while the waters remain open for responsible use in accordance with CDC guidance and local regulations. More information on the response from NOAA's Office of National Marine Sanctuaries can be found on sanctuaries.noaa.gov/coronavirus/.
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Sanctuaries engage in a management plan process on a periodic basis to evaluate site specific goals and objectives and management effectiveness. The Cordell Bank National Marine Sanctuary Final Management Plan (2014) (2.47 MB) builds on the two previous editions of the management plan, published in 1989 and 2008.
The management plans lays the foundation for management of Cordell Bank National Marine Sanctuary resources, habitats and uses for the next five to ten years. It describes key sanctuary management issues and describes strategies to address them in five action plans: Education and Outreach, Resource Protection, Partnerships with Community Groups, Conservation Science and Administration.
Some of the issues included are: emergency and preparedness response, ship strikes of whales, ocean anthropogenic noise, fishing gear and impacts on benthic habitats, and marine debris. The plan also contains cross-cutting action plans to facilitation coordination among the staffs of Cordell Bank, Gulf of the (now "Greater") Farallones, and Monterey Bay national marine sanctuaries, and the West Coast Regional Office.
The management plan is supported by a final environmental impact statement (FEIS) (14.5 MB) for expansion of Cordell Bank and Gulf of the Farallones national marine sanctuaries, published in December 2014.
The FEIS provides detailed information and analysis of a range of reasonable alternatives and analysis of potential environmental, cultural and socioeconomic impacts for the then-proposed expansion of the two sanctuaries' boundaries. In addition, this FEIS includes a summary of public comments received on the draft EIS, draft management plans and proposed rule, and NOAA's responses to those comments.
Management actions are implemented in accordance with regulations. The final rule (318 KB) for the sanctuaries' expansion was published March 12, 2015. The regulations described in it as well as the revised terms of designation (91 KB) and management plan became effective on June 9, 2015, after a review period of 45 days of continuous session of Congress. Thenotice of the effective date of the regulations (7 KB) was printed in the Federal Register on June 15, 2015. The notice also announced that effective June 15, 2015, NOAA changed the name of Gulf of the Farallones National Marine Sanctuary to "Greater Farallones National Marine Sanctuary" and made some corresponding technical corrections to the regulations.
Libraries with Copies of the Management Plan and EIS
The following libraries have copies of the Cordell Bank and Gulf of the Farallones national marine sanctuaries' final management plans (2014) and the Cordell Bank and Gulf of the Farallones Expansion Final Environmental Impact Statement (2014). These documents were produced prior to the name change from "Gulf of the" to "Greater" Farallones National Marine Sanctuary.
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As the community depends more heavily on Wikipedia as a source of reliable information, the ability to quickly detect and remove detrimental information becomes increasingly important. The longer incorrect or malicious information lingers in a source perceived as reputable, the more likely that information will be accepted as correct and the greater the loss to source reputation. We present The Illiterate Editor (IllEdit), a content-agnostic, metadata-driven classication approach to Wikipedia revert detection. Our primary contribution is in building a metadata-based feature set for detecting edit quality, which is then fed into a Support Vector Machine for edit classication. By analyzing edit histories, the IllEdit system builds a prole of user behavior, estimates expertise and spheres of knowledge, and determines whether or not a given edit is likely to be eventually reverted. The success of the system in revert detection (0.844 F-measure) as well as its disjoint feature set as compared to existing, content-analyzing vandalism detection systems, shows promise in the synergistic usage of IllEdit for increasing the reliability of community information.


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