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Weber v Weber: Varying Retroactive Child Support Obligations
By Feldstein Family Law Group P.C.
Factual Background
The parties were married in 1989 and have 2 children. The parties separated in 2009 and were divorced in 2010. In this case, the applicant brought a Motion to Change a Final Order in which she sought to require the Respondent to pay child support for the child of the parties' relationship. In response, the Respondent sought an order dismissing the application. The Final Order was made pursuant to Minutes of Settlement in 2010 and provided for joint custody of the children and no monthly child support payable by either party. However, the Respondent was ordered to pay the applicant his share of the "extraordinary expenses". Moving forward, the Respondent was ordered to pay the Applicant a yearly lump sump for his share of the extraordinary expenses for each year that the children remained full-time students at a post-secondary institution.
The issues which this Motion to Change was centered on were as follows:
Had there been any material changes in circumstances relevant to child support since the Final Order which satisfy the threshold test for varying that order?
If yes, has the applicant established that the child was entitled to child support and has remained entitled to support since then?
If yes, should the applicant be permitted to advance a claim for a retroactive increase in child support, and if so, what is the appropriate commencement date?
If a variation of the Final Order is appropriate, what is the appropriate approach to calculate child support and what is the appropriate amount of child support that the Respondent should pay?
The court reiterated that Section 17(4) of the Divorce Act specifies that the threshold test on a Motion to Change child support will only be satisfied if there has been a material change in circumstances. The court found that there had in fact been a material change in circumstances since the Final Order was granted. Soon after the Final Order was made, the child began suffering significant mental health difficulties which made it impossible for the child to withdraw from the Applicant's care and obtain the necessaries of life. While some of the child's mental health difficulties began prior to the Final Order being made, the court held that the nature and extent of the difficulties did not become apparent until after the order was made.
After determining that the threshold test for variation had been met, the court turned it's attention to whether a variation of the Final Order was appropriate. The court found that the child continued to be entitled to child support until the end of 2012 but that his need for financial support had increased during this time. However, the court found that there was insufficient evidence to find that he remained a child of the marriage and thus entitled to support after this time. While the court considered the Applicant's evidence of the child's mental health needs, the court was not satisfied that the child was unable to withdraw from the Applicant's charge or obtain the necessaries of life on his own.
Even if the evidence had satisfied the court that the child had an ongoing entitlement to support, it would be necessary to proceed to the quantification stage where the court would determine whether the Guidelines approach would be inappropriate, and if so, whether any child support should be paid by the Respondent. The court determined that even if entitlement had been proven, they still would have ordered that no child support should be payable. As a result of the significant ODSP benefits that the child received monthly, the court found that the standard Guidelines approach would have been inappropriate even if the entitlement to support had been met.
In addressing the Applicant's claim for retroactive child support, the court noted the Supreme Court of Canada's ruling that there is no automatic right to pursue retroactive child support. The main considerations in determining whether retroactive child support should be ordered are the need on the part of the child for support, the payor's interest in certainty and predictability when financial obligations appear to be settled; and the need for flexibility in order to ensure a just result. Courts should also consider whether there was a reasonable excuse for why the claimant did not pursue child support or increased support earlier, the conduct of the payor parent including whether they behaved in a blameworthy manner in relation to child support, consideration of the past and present circumstances of the child and the extent to which they may benefit from such an award and finally, any hardship that may be occasioned by a retroactive order. The court held that there was no evidence of misconduct on the part of the Respondent and that the Respondent fully complied with the child support obligations outlined in the Final Order. The court accordingly dismissed the Applicant's Motion to Change.
For more information, please call us at Feldstein Family Law Group P.C. or contact our firm online.
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Key Words: Oil palm, seed position effect, seed heteromorphism, heteroblasty, germination.
Int. J. Agr. Agri. Res. 8(4), 44-53, April 2016.
Oil palm seed germination is erratic, fluctuating between varieties and within seeds of the same fresh fruit bunch (FFB). The cause of the low rate of germination and within-FFB germination variation is not quite clear. This study was carried out to verify if seed position on the spikelet influences germination capacity (GP) in theoil palm. The study was carried out on open and controlled pollinated FFBs with the criteria for FFB harvesting being 2-5 detached fresh fruits (FF). FF were striping from spikelets collected randomly from base, middle and apex of all FFBs sampled. 60 deep red coloured fruits usually attached at the spikelet apex and 60 orange coloured fruits habitually found at the base of the spikelet were randomly chosen to evaluate some biometric parameters after which the seeds were subjected to the traditional dry heat treatment to assess the GP. The results revealed significance in number, heteromorphism and heteroblasty between apex and basal seeds. The numerical strength/FFB of basal seeds was appreciably greater than that of apex seeds, with a mean of 57.9 % for basal and 42.1 % for apex. However, apex seeds presented a higher germination capacity (46%) than basal seeds (28 %) in open pollinated FFB while in controlled pollinated FFB mean GP of 64% and 48.4% were scored for apical and basal seeds respectively. The fact that basal seeds, greater in numeric strength presented low GP compared to apical seeds could explain the general low germination rate/FFB reported in oil palm.


The judge's comments at Soden's sentencing drew questions and concern from prosecutors and advocates for child victims.
When Deputy County Attorney Joan Lowdon questioned some of the judge's rationale for the sentencing departure, he told her it was something she could take up on appeal.
A possible appeal is being researched by prosecutors, according to Leavenworth County Attorney Todd Thompson.
Thompson said he could not comment beyond what was said in court. But a transcript from the sentencing hearing details the judge's comments, which troubled advocates who work with abused children. Gibbens did not return a message from The Star seeking comment for this story.
"These girls are minors, and are the victims, not the aggressors," said Michelle Herman, president and CEO of Sunflower House, a child advocacy center based in Shawnee.
According to Thompson, Soden had two prior criminal convictions: one for battery and one for sexual battery. Based on his criminal history, prosecutors argued for a sentence of 13-plus years in prison while his attorney asked for probation.
In Soden's case, the judge cited as reasons evidence that the 13-year-old and 14-year-old had voluntarily gone to Soden's house and had taken money for sexual favors.
Soden's lawyer, Clinton Lee, had requested the lower sentence, saying that giving Soden the prison time called for in the guidelines was essentially a death sentence.
The defense attorney also noted that the girls allegedly tried to have someone rob Soden and that their older sister had been the one who arranged for them to meet Soden.
Soden knew the girl's mother and paid her for chores around his house, according to statements at the sentencing hearing. Through that connection, he knew the woman's older daughter whom he described as the "pimp" for her younger sisters.
The judge said the case was "bizarre" and "unfathomable," and that the girls, particularly the youngest, were in a vulnerable situation.
He also said that the fact that the girls did not appear in court to speak at the sentencing was one of the reasons he believed that they didn't suffer the level of harm typically seen in such cases.
"I think that a 13-year-old who offered what she offered for money is certainly an aggressor, particularly since she's the one that had to travel to Mr. Soden," the judge said.
Haleigh Harrold, coordinator of prevention for the Metropolitan Organization to Counter Sexual Assault, said it was absurd to think a child would have the ability to understand the consequences of engaging in a sexual relationship with an adult.
"Children and adults have very different life experiences and development," she said.
She said that perpetrators target kids from troubled situations who may not have the kind of support they need.


Steven Spielberg's USC Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation is known for their over 50,000 video "testimonies" which supposedly prove that six million Jews were gassed by evil Germans.
However, when Spielberg's Shoah Foundation archives are actually accessed and analyzed, these video archives are in reality an invaluable treasure trove for Holocaust truthers.
I recently received a letter in the mail banning me from the Stanford University libraries. You see, I publicly shamed the Shoah Foundation and Holocaust promotion industry by daring to show the public what these videos contain – and analyzing the truth and lies they tell.
I first decided to access the Shoah Foundation archives at Stanford after learning that a new generation of children were being tormented by a Holocaust "survivor's" outrageous new memoir The Fifth Diamond. I bought and read Irene Zisblatt's book, which is a psychedelic trip through the mind of an enabled liar, spinning a web of idiotic, scatological, and psychotic Holocaust horror tales. Even the title The Fifth Diamond is a lie, referring to Zisblatt's disgusting lies about repeatedly defecating and swallowing diamonds for a year and a half while in Auschwitz.
At one point in the book, Zisblatt informs the reader that she reluctantly recorded a video testimony for Spielberg's Shoah Foundation. Spielberg and crew were so impressed by her Holocaust promoting skills in her Shoah foundation "testimony" that they decided to film her for their documentary The Last Days, which won the 1999 Academy Award.
I decided to access Irene Zisblatt's Shoah Foundation testimony and found that the closest place to access Spielberg's Archives was Stanford University.
At a Stanford University computer terminal, I watched Zisblatt's rambling, pathological lies about being selected to become a lampshade, enduring excruciating experiments such as having her Auschwitz tattoo removed by Nazis, escaping from inside a gas chamber and miraculously being thrown over an electrified barbed wire fence onto an open train by a Jewish boy, and immediately knew I had to share this important false testimony with the public. If a picture is worth a thousand words, uncut video of this "survivor" obviously displaying the body language of a liar, and seemingly coming up with new Holo-horror stories off the top of her head is worth six million words.
Absurd testimonies like this, once presented to the viewer as complete fiction, are the easiest and best way to expose the duped public to The Hoax.
I went on to access hundreds of videos in Spielberg's Shoah Foundation and debunked their flagship creation – the Oscar winning Holocaust documentary The Last Days – in my own documentary The Last Days of the Big Lie, available to watch at HolocaustDenier.com.
Spielberg's archives are invaluable not only due to the lies contained within, but also for the truths. Indeed, there are some Jewish inmates who actually tell the truth on videotape about life in the concentration camps. They talk about sending and receiving postcards, soccer games, movie theaters, camp currency, camp cantinas, and children's plays at Auschwitz. These testimonies are so incongruous to the Hollywood Holocaust version Spielberg presents to the public. It is the exposing of these well hidden testimonies, with Jews telling the truth about camp cultural activities and children putting on elaborate costumed plays in Auschwitz rather than being immediately gassed that infuriates Spelbergian Holocaust horror promoters the most.
As a result of my work publicizing the revisionist treasure trove known as Steven Spielberg's USC Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation, Spielberg's crew whined to Stanford University and have now had me banned from all Stanford Libraries.
I was banned for exposing the truth and lies behind these closed archives, which are only available to be accessed at very few, tightly controlled locations in the country.
Keeping a tight lid on information that proves the truth about "The Holocaust" is a key aspect of the hoax. Totally open archives, whether they be the Shoah Foundation Archives, or the Auschwitz archives, are absolutely out of the question for the hoax artists. In 2011, there should be no excuse for these archives not to be completely digitized and available for the public to view online. But there is an excuse – the Holocaust is a hoax, and the archive gatekeepers do not want a free access to information to prove the gargantuan lie.
In fact, Spielberg's Shoah Foundation does have their own Youtube channel, with many handpicked, hours long testimonies, including one of an African-American soldier (Paul Parks) that claims to have seen a pile of gold teeth upon breaking down the gates and liberating Dachau. Paul Parks is even featured in the Oscar winning The Last Days. However, the Boston Globe proved he was hundreds of miles away at the time Dachau was liberated and even the US Holocaust Museum claims that no African-American soldiers had anything to do with the liberation of Dachau.
It should also be noted that in July, I posted two testimonies from USC's Shoah Foundation of two Treblinka "survivors" who both miraculously wound up living the good life in Beverly Hills! According to the official story, we're told that Treblinka was a pure extermination camp. However these Jews - one from Warsaw, another from Grodno, both were immediately transited on to other camps, and lived the good life in filthy rich Beverly Hills. Testimonies such as these affirm the revisionist claim that Treblinka was a transit camp . Shortly thereafter, apparently alerting the hoax gatekeepers, I received my ban.
In a sane world, an Ivy League University would be embarrassed to fund and prop up totally historically false, Zionist hate fiction such as Zisblatt and Paul Parks' "testimonies". The correct reaction Stanford should have to my analysis of Spielberg's Shoah Foundation would be to stop funding the Shoah Foundation and dump their laughable propaganda from their libraries in order to maintain their prestigious reputation.
But they are not embarrassed.
Let's embarrass them. Spread the link to my documentary The Last Days of the Big Lie and let the filmmakers themselves personally know how you feel about their anti-German Oscar winning hate hoax The Last Days, which includes two false claims of Nazi "experimentation", two liars who claim to have escaped from inside gas chambers, sick scatological lies about a Jewish girl repeatedly swallowing and defecating diamonds in Auschwitz for a year, and even a black American soldier who claims to have liberated Dachau – when in reality documents prove he was hundreds of miles away.
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I was not aware of your documentary. Absolutely amazing! Thank you so much for exposing this scam!
Might I ask how many of the 50,000 videos have you examined? And how many hours it took you?
What were the 'terms of service' that you supposedly violated? Did they catch you smoking in the boys room?
Toshiro wrote: I was not aware of your documentary. Absolutely amazing! Thank you so much for exposing this scam!
I've searched through a small part of the collection. I have collected about 50 partial and complete testimonies and have posted some on my site.
Atigun2 wrote: What were the 'terms of service' that you supposedly violated? Did they catch you smoking in the boys room?
Eric Hunt wrote: I've searched through a small part of the collection. I have collected about 50 partial and complete testimonies and have posted some on my site.
Makes one wonder what other interesting statements lie therein.
Hillarious, they are basically shooting into their own foot. And of course someone else can still access the library for you. So it doesn't make that much of a difference. Aren't they supposed to give you the reasons ("violations") in their letter?
It's funny how the testimonies are supposed to be the proof of the Holocaust, yet the powers that be do not want the average person to analyze them too critically, but to simply accept them at face value.
Cloud wrote: It's funny how the testimonies are supposed to be the proof of the Holocaust, yet the powers that be do not want the average person to analyze them too critically, but to simply accept them at face value.
Basically, they want to be able to say, 'we have thousands of taped testimonies', as if they were court testimonies which were subject to cross examination, which they were not. However, under cross examination (which is what Eric Hunt has done), they completely fall apart.
Reminds me of the various stories claiming that they have found mass graves, which are nothing more than empty claims which they hope no one will follow-up on.
Or when they claim to have done an excavation like Kola's bogus charade, but it does not stand up to the slightest scrutiny.
Or the Arolsen archives, which they claim has documents which prove the gassing of Jews, which it doesn't at all, quite the opposite.
In essence, they just want to be able to make claims and hope no one gets too curious. The classic big bluff tactic. Jews call it 'chutzpah'.
I feel like the lesson here should be to gather all the evidence and copy/transfer everything to your own files or another secure area BEFORE releasing any findings. It's obvious they will shut down anyone who might be working on exposing the lies of the Holocaust immediately.
The Warden wrote: I feel like the lesson here should be to gather all the evidence and copy/transfer everything to your own files or another secure area BEFORE releasing any findings. It's obvious they will shut down anyone who might be working on exposing the lies of the Holocaust immediately.
I did do this, and wish I could do more (no funding).
But don't think they were one step ahead of me, or we didn't see this coming. In fact, Carolyn Yeager and myself were one step ahead of them.
It was obvious after the release of my documentary, which showcased many of the Shoah Foundation's embarrassing "testimonies" containing outrageous lies and shocking truths - that they would attempt to restrict access - my last trip to Stanford was absolutely known to be a last grab for videos before the hoax artists' predictable heightened security measures.
Therefore, I collected as many videos of alleged Treblinka / Sobibor survivors as I could, as they are the most important.
My last trip to Stanford was partially funded by Carolyn Yeager and one other person as a deliberate last attempt to download videos before Spielberg's cabal shut me or other revisionists out.- measures due to my documentary highlighting the fact that the Shoah foundation videos are indeed a Revisionist treasure trove.
Many of the videos I've saved haven't even been posted online, either.
So, there is no lesson for me here.
This doesn't come as a surprise, but this letter and "ban" is definitely great for our side, and for CODOH - OPEN debate - this truly exposes the lack of "academic freedom" at one of the top Universities in the world and the fraud of the CLOSED archives of Spielberg's USC Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation.
What do you have to hide Spielberg, Stanford ?
As the end of my documentary shows, Bryan Williams told Ahmedinjad that if he would only watch Spielberg's "testimonies" he'd believe in the Holocaust!
I hoped that you'd do that, Eric. If you didn't cover all of it. I hope somebody else did. What I am afraid of is that they are going to remove all embarrassing materials from public access.
But as long as enough is in the open market now, their restriction won't help them. But there obvious aggressive against you, Eric, will become more embarassing for them.
Just as a thought. How much material was published there in terms of hours to watch / Gigabytes of data?!
Hektor wrote: Just as a thought. How much material was published there in terms of hours to watch / Gigabytes of data?!
The Shoah Foundation has 234,986 Betacam SP master video tapes, containing 107,500 hours of testimony from 51,682 holocaust survivors.
The videos represent 105,000 hours of footage and currently occupy 135 terabytes of storage on servers managed by ITS department.
The USC Shoah Foundation Institute has turned to new digital technologies to preserve the 105,000 hours of video-taped testimonies in the archive in a high-quality digital format. The project to convert the original analog copies to digital ones will create an 8-petabyte archive of video, which will be maintained in perpetuity by the USC ITS department.
In other words, more than a single person can manage.
Professor Greenberg then posed a question to the audience. He asked whether the Shoah Foundation and other partners should make the archive available on the Internet. He explained that the application was available on "Internet2," which is a private network shared amongst research institutions. The Shoah Foundation initially made the decision not to make the application available on the regular Internet to dissuade random users from downloading and editing clips of survivor testimony.
What are you afraid of, professor Greenberg?
The USC Shoah Foundation Institute owns the intellectual property rights, including copyrights, to its videotaped interviews. All rights are reserved by the USC Shoah Foundation Institute.
- All users agree that any use of images or videotape segments from USC Shoah Foundation Institute interviews requires prior written permission from the USC Shoah Foundation Institute.
- All users agree that any use or publication of information from USC Shoah Foundation Institute interviews in excess of "Fair Use" as specified under 17 USC § 107 and "Fair Practice" as specified under Article 10 of the Berne Convention, requires the prior written permission from the USC Shoah Foundation Institute.
Interviewee's first name, first initial of interviewee's surname, year of interview, followed by "Interview by USC Shoah Foundation Institute for Visual History and Education, University of Southern California," city of interview, state or province of interview, country of interview, day and month of interview, tape number(s), and time code, if applicable.
The USC Shoah Foundation Institute does not verify the accuracy of the information in the videotaped interviews. Such information may infringe upon privacy or intellectual property rights of other persons or entities, and may contain defamatory comments or material owned by third parties.
Or is it not fair use when it comes to the nature of the Holocaust?
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Something made the issue go to the top library level. Michael Keller has maybe 1,000 employees under him? Or perhaps it was at even higher levels and then came down to Keller since it was in his jurisdiction. I guess we'll never know.
If it was Germany, the cops would be trying to seize the hard drive I'm sure. Wasn't Germar Rudolf's computers taken many years ago before he first left Germany? Via a home raid?
Library people tend to be the biggest advocates of "Fair Use" hence copy machines all over the library. But try to comment on Irene Zisblatt somehow moving backwards from the gas chamber door, and you're sent a letter that "if you EVER try to come to our library again..."
And those testimonies: the beginning frame comes up: LOCATION: Beverly Hills. LOL. Sometimes in the background you see utter opulence. Perhaps that's why a diamond broach melded so nicely with the Zisblatt story. Same with Thomas Blatt, he was holding a million dollars in valuables after he escaped. LOL.
I thought that you had to be either student, faculty, or staff to gain access to private university libraries (or pay a hefty membership fee). The letter above implies that Eric is none of these. So is Stanford an exception here?
For another adventure, take some revisionists with you and thousands of revisionist pamphlets. Over the course of several days, stick them into every book in Stanford's library stacks.


The United States Senate Thursday passed sweeping immigration reform with S. 744. Formally called the "Border Security, Economic Opportunity, and Immigration Modernization Act," it was spearheaded by a bipartisan group of eight Senators known as the "Gang of Eight,:" and received resounding "no" votes from Texas' own Senators Cornyn and Cruz.
To see what happens with the bill next, read below the jump.Now the bill has to go over to the House of Representatives, where Speaker John Boehner and other House Republicans have already declared the bill dead on arrival.
To see what they're giving up, however, it's important to revisit the provisions of the bipartisan Senate bill, and the state of immigration in Texas today.
How doesn't this bill affect Texas? According to a fact sheet from the Immigration Policy Center in Washington, D.C., immigrants – and a large number of them – are an indispensible part of Texas life. Texas can claim an immigrant population equal to roughly one-sixth of population of the entire state. Approximately 6.7% of the state's population is comprised of undocumented immigrants.
Moreover, 21% of the workforce of Texas is made up of immigrants, with 9% of the workforce being undocumented immigrants, while $1.6 billion of state and local taxes paid in Texas in 2010 were sourced from undocumented immigrants. According to studies, if undocumented immigrants were to leave Texas, economic activity in the state would drop by $69.3 billion, with more than 400,000 jobs never to return.
There are other requirements, not listed here, and persons with RPI status will not be eligible for a raft of public benefits. RPI status has a six-year duration, with an option to renew for another six years. Renewal for RPI status is virtually mandatory as persons with RPI status cannot apply for a green card (Lawful Permanent Residence) until they have been in RPI status for not less than ten years.
To get the green card, they will have to show English proficiency, maintain employment and demonstrate that they will not be wards of the state. After holding a green card for three years, that immigrant would be eligible to apply for citizenship, for a best-case scenario of 13 years from initial RPI application to citizenship application.
•An applicant must have passed an English test and background checks.
The bill strikes down caps on immigrants from specific countries for employment-based visas, but the global cap remains at about 140,000 per year; spouses and children of employment-based immigrants, however, are exempt from the cap. The bill also introduces a W-visa program which acknowledges the transient nature of agricultural work and allows farm workers on the renewable three-year W-visas to move from job to job provided that their respective employers are enrolled in the program and so designated by the Department of Agriculture.
The bill could never have passed without providing for stringent new security measures, and the bill's mandates for border security reflect that. According to a guide published by the IPC, the bill calls for 24-hour surveillance of the border (including the use of drones), dedicates $1.5 billion to a border fence strategy, $3 billion to a border security strategy, and a contingent $2 billion to be used if needed. The bill calls for effective control of the border; "effective control" means a 90% effectiveness rate in preventing illegal crossings, with that benchmark to be met in no more than five-year years.
Interestingly, as part of ramping up security along the border with Mexico, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) will have to place rescue beacons along the southern border to help prevent migrant deaths and start reporting and monitoring migrant deaths in the desert.
Despite some positive developments, however, border security will be linked to the ability of immigrants already here to adjust their respective statuses. Until the federal government and their agents and contractors can certify that the border is "secure," RPI immigrants will be barred from applying for green cards. Until factors out of their control are remedied and meet restrictive standards, immigrants will be unable to move toward citizenship despite their best, good faith efforts to do so. Onerous as it is, this is better than the proposal put forth by Texas Sen. John Cornyn in his RESULTS Amendment, which would have extended this waiting period to nearly ten years before any status could be adjusted. However, the Brookings Institution, reported Tuesday that Cornyn's amendment had been tabled and replaced by the Corker-Hoeven compromise, which was rolled into the current bill.
Special thanks go to the non-partisan Immigration Policy Center, a division of the American Immigration Council, for their assistance and counsel in reviewing the immigration reform bill.


A paper was published on 9th April 2018 entitled "Simulating long-term human weight-loss dynamics in response to calorie restriction" (Ref 1). It caught my eye because the senior author was Dr Kevin Hall. Kevin Hall has long been interested in the 3,500 calorie formula, as have I. I complimented Hall's research in my 2010 book: The Obesity Epidemic: What caused it? How can we stop it? I have since blogged on his work a few times. I thoroughly enjoyed Hall's review of what happens to The Biggest Loser contestants after the cameras stop rolling (Ref 2). I was less positive about the 'low fat' vs. 'low carb' diet study, when first announced at a conference (Ref 3) and at final paper publication (Ref 4).
Hall and I were quoted in the same article, The Sunday Times, 4 April 2010, where the reporters said of me "Her analysis of the scientific evidence is supported by other researchers. Kevin Hall, a physicist and investigator at the National Institutes of Health in Maryland, said that because the body becomes more efficient at conserving energy as calories are reduced, it would take five or even 10 years to achieve the weight loss promised in just 12 months under the formula. 'The amount of energy your body burns when you decrease the number of calories goes down,' he said" (Ref 7).
Thus Hall and I share the view that the 3,500 formula is inaccurate in the extreme. My fun, at the expense of the authorities, on the subject of the 3,500 calorie formula is here (Ref 8). Hall's latest paper shows that he continues to seek a formula to use instead of the 3,500 calorie formula. I don't consider this to be possible or helpful. Anything that 'promises' that a specific calorie deficit sustained for a specific period of time will elicit a specific weight loss is a) a lie b) a cruel lie and c) a driver of unhelpful and unsustainable behaviour.


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Hoteliers club demands GST reimbursement, says Kashmir tourism industry on the verge of collapse
Jammu Kashmir Hoteliers Club (JKHC) on Monday said the Kashmir tourism industry was on the verge of collapse and demanded the government to provide them "promised" reimbursement of GST till the issue was taken up with the GST council.
A spokesman of the JKHC - an apex organization of all the leading hoteliers of Jammu & Kashmir - said that a delegation led by its chairman, Mushtaq Ahmad Chaya, raised the issue with Governor Satya Pal Malik at Raj Bhavan on Monday.
In the meeting it was pointed out by Chaya that tourism industry in Kashmir was on the verge of collapse and near closure. "For last almost three years we are running cash losses and were left with no resources to pump into the establishments. Hoteliers have been keeping the hotels open against all odds. The current year has shown depressing and disappointing tourist foot fall that it had become impossible for them to keep the hotels open and have the employees on board," the spokesman quoted Chaya as having said.
"It was suggested that way back in 2004 the then prime minister of India, Mr. Atal Bihari Vajpayee, considered room wise financial assistance to various categories of Hotels as listed in Tourism Department for revival and refurbishment of the properties. On the same lines we submitted that similar kind of approach needed to be adopted in instant cases in the form of Cash Assistance to be provided to various categories of hotels for each room as was done in 2004, but this time around it has to be ex-gratia and non-refundable cash support to the hospitality sector of the tourism industry till such time it shows some signs of health," said Chaya.
He said the quantum of support for each room will be worked out by them in consultation with the Govt.
Chaya said that Kashmir tourism used to be exempted from the taxes, but since the extension of GST the overall tourism industry has been hit by the rise in costs and prices at hotels, guest houses, houseboats, restaurants and even the tour operator services.
"Even after the several promises made by Govt. and concerned, at state level, we have not been given any relaxation of tax waiver to help and promote the tourism sector in most exasperating times where the business has gone down highly.
"In this connection it was submitted that till the Govt. persuades the GST council to drop the tax the promised reimbursement of the GST be kindly done as we fall under micro, small and medium enterprise. This is the commitment made by the Govt. as a policy matter and not by way of any concession as this service (hospitality) industry is included in the industrial policy," he said.
The Governor gave a patient hearing in a cordial atmosphere to the submissions made by the delegation. It is essential to mention here that the helpful attitude of the Governor was inspiring and we express our thankfulness to him.
The Governor, he said, was kind enough to tell the delegation that he would look into the matters and get all these problems resolved without delay. "To this effect a detailed memorandum, which contains other points as well, was submitted to him for his kind consideration," said Chaya.
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A number of companies are looking to expand their existing workorce, adding dozens of new jobs to the region. Here's a sample of businesses we've profiled in this space in recent weeks in an effort to keep job seekers informed about what companies are looking for and how many they are hiring.
PAC Worldwide is looking to fill more than open positions at its Middletown and Sharonville facilities.
The company is a manufacturer of customized, flexible packaging. It manufactures a variety of products, including but not limited to bubble mailers, flat poly mailers, automated systems, and cold chain packaging that are primarily used in the e-commerce world.
The company has 900 employees globally, more than 500 of them in facilities in Middletown and Sharonville.
PAC Worldwide has 14 kinds of open positions listed on the careers portion of its website, many of which have multiple openings. That includes team members in everything from production and warehouse/logistics, to engineering and accounting/finance, to quality and customer service.
Vinylmax Windows in Hamilton is looking to expand its workforce by more than 20 percent before the end of 2019.
The company, which has 142 employees, manufactures custom-sized windows for the replacement and new construction markets and has customers in 27 states.
The family-run company's "aggressive growth strategy" finds it looking for 30 new employees over the next 18 months. Open positions including production lines, shipping, material handling, and office administration areas, he said.
The new positions pay, on average, $12 per hour, Doerger said.
A privately-owned steel tube supplier to the automotive and HVAC industries is looking to expand its workforce by as much as 21 percent.
Middletown Tube Works at 2201 Trine St. manufactures steel tubing from coiled steel, which is automatically seam welded, cut and packaged to customers' specifications.
The company employs 95 people and is hiring as many as 20 new employees.
New hires typically move up quickly as many higher pay positions are promoted from within, he said. Average first year employee pay is $19.23 per hour.
Novolex, a leading North American packaging company that has nearly 7,000 employees at 46 locations across North America and one in Europe, is hiring for its operations in Franklin.
Burrows Packaging produces a wide range of paper-based products which include clamshells and cartons, wraps and basket liners, napkins, and paper bags.
Located at 2000 Commerce Center Drive in Franklin, the company of 200 employees traces its roots to Little Falls, NY, and has been in continuous operation for more than 95 years.
Spectrum is looking to expand its local workforce. The company, which offers cable, internet and phone service, serves 45 states and employs more than 95,000 people.
It's looking to fill as many as 20 local positions for direct sales representatives. Top representatives earn more than $100,000 a year, according to the company.


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Marshall County pitcher Brock Anderson makes the tag at home plate but the McCracken County runner was safe.
The First Region baseball tournament resumed play Friday following two days of postponements due to weather. Two semi-finals games were played starting with a Paducah Tilghman 10-0 win over Calloway County in six innings before the Marshall County took the field to play McCracken County in the second semi-final.
Dawson Smothers anticipates the throw from the mound for the tag attempt at first base.
The Marshals earned their first ever win this season over McCracken County, who have been the dominant team in the region since the school's consolidation in 2014 and are the 4-time reigning First Region champions. Friday they took one more step to their fifth consecutive title in a 13-1 six inning win over the Marshals.
The Mustangs put runs on the board in each of the first four innings, three in the first on a wild pitch and 2-run single by Conner Dismore and added two more in the second inning on a single by Elijah Wheat and ground ball RBI by James Dodd.
With two outs in the top of the third, McCracken County scored two more runs on a passed ball and single by Kiael Waldon to lead 7-0 before the Marshals got on the board in the bottom of the third with a lead-off double by Austin Stockdale, brought to home plate on a double by Ty Buchmeier.
Austin Stockdale snags a potential hit away from the Mustangs in right field.
The Mustangs sealed their fifth straight trip to the title game with a 5-run sixth inning for the 13-1 lead. Dalton Andersson gave the Marshals a spark with a double in the bottom of the sixth and fans were thrilled to see the second appearance on the mound for Griffin Ives this season, coming in for Brock Anderson in the sixth inning.
Three seniors put the Marshall uniform on for a final time Friday – Jackson Beal, Dalton Andersson and Blain Bizzle.
The Marshals finish the season with a record of 21-9.
Griffin Ives came to the mound in the sixth inning in his second appearance for the Marshals.
Senior Dalton Anderson (26) leaves the field in his final game for the Marshals.


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Challengers to State Superintendent Praise DeVos Confirmation
By: CBS58 Staff
Posted: Feb 8, 2017 5:37 AM CST | Updated: Feb 8, 2017 9:39 AM CST
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Two challengers to Wisconsin state Superintendent Tony Evers are praising the confirmation of school choice advocate and longtime Republican donor Betsy DeVos as Education secretary.
State superintendent candidates John Humphries and Lowell Holtz both issued statements Tuesday praising the U.S. Senate's confirmation of DeVos. Wisconsin Republican Sen. Ron Johnson voted to confirm her while Democratic Sen. Tammy Baldwin voted against it.
Humphries says DeVos has a "great opportunity to help schools across the nation by reducing regulatory burdens that take the focus from students and teachers." And Holtz says her confirmation is a "positive development for the future of America's children."
State Superintendent Tony Evers said Tuesday he doesn't know whether Betsy DeVos is qualified to be U.S. Education secretary and he also is unsure whether she will advocate for public schools. Evers said it was unfortunate that he didn't have the answers to those questions before the billionaire philanthropist was confirmed Tuesday by the U.S. Senate. He says, "I have a vacuum there that needs to be filled."
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Egypt: Iran's Support for Syria Hinders Relations
posted Sep 18, 2012, 6:24 PM by Syrian Transition [ updated Sep 18, 2012, 6:24 PM ]
18 Sept 2012 (AP) Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi warned Iran's foreign minister on Tuesday that better relations between the two Mideast heavyweights are being hindered by Tehran's support for Syria's regime.
The promise of greater rapprochement with Egypt is part of a package of incentives and efforts by Morsi to lure Iran, Syria's staunchest regional ally, away from Damascus and find an end to the bloodshed.
The two were meeting in Cairo as part of a Morsi-sponsored Syria peace initiative dubbed the "Islamic Quartet," bringing together Turkey, Saudi Arabia and Egypt — all supporters of the Syrian rebellion — with Iran.
Presidential spokesman Yasser Ali said that Morsi told the Iranian minister, Ali Akbar Salehi, in their meeting in Cairo that as president he cannot ignore public sentiment in Egypt, which is against the Syrian regime "that uses harsh language and violence against people."
The Egyptian leader delivered a similar message in person to Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in Tehran during a meeting last month. He warned that Iran must end its support for Assad in order to prevent any chance of Western intervention in Syria.
It was also the first time that an Egyptian leader had visited Iran in decades. While in Tehran, Morsi delivered a stinging rebuke of the Syrian regime during a speech at an international gathering of so-called nonaligned nations.
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Tehran cut ties with Cairo following the 1979 Islamic Revolution. Morsi has since moved to amend relations with Iran following his win in Egypt's first free presidential elections over the summer. Egypt's 2011 uprising, which ushered in those elections, helped spark Syria's own upheaval.
It remains highly unlikely that Iran would abandon Syrian President Bashar Assad as long as there is a chance for him — or at least the core of his regime — to hang on. Iran counts on Syria as a strategic outlet to the Mediterranean and a conduit to its anti-Israeli proxy Hezbollah in Lebanon.
Recently, a top commander of Iran's powerful Revolutionary Guard said Tehran had sent advisers to Lebanon and Syria, the clearest indication to date of Iran's direct assistance to Damascus.
Egyptian officials close to the presidency say Morsi has offered a package of incentives for Tehran to back off of its support to Assad, including the restoration of full diplomatic ties and efforts toward reconciliation with wealthy Gulf nations — a significant diplomatic prize for the Islamic Republic, especially as it comes under mounting pressure over its disputed nuclear program.
Sentiment is strong among Egyptians against Assad, whose regime they hold primarily responsible for an 18-month conflict in which 23,000 people have been killed, according to activists.
In a separate meeting in Cairo, the Iranian foreign minister told Arab League Secretary-General Nabil Elaraby that "gradual change (in Syria) is better than sudden change," according to diplomats there.
A day earlier, after having dinner with Elaraby, the U.N. envoy to Syria Lakhdar Brahimi and other foreign ministers, Salehi told reporters that the "the solution in Syria should be a Syrian solution," not "imposed from the outside."
The dinner followed the first meeting of foreign ministers from the Islamic Quartet initiative launched by the Egyptian president last month.


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He's got to be quick like a water bug every time he touches the ball or else he probably wouldn't survive. He can't blast through tacklers or even out-jump them downfield. He must run the most precise routes and beat them to every spot.
He led Kent with 1,033 all-purpose yards two years ago. He caught 20 passes with three touchdowns last season.
"I never really looked as my size as a disadvantage. … They say the defenders can't hit what they can't see," Calhoun said.
First, though, he always had to convince coaches, teammates and opponents he even deserved to play. That started with his stepdad and high school coach in Akron, Ricky Powers, a former scholarship running back for the Michigan Wolverines. It didn't take Powers long. Calhoun proved himself as a dynamic starter as only a sophomore and helped lead his team to the state title game.
It went the same way in college. No one offered a scholarship but he was determined to play at the highest level, so he paid his own way at nearby Kent State. Sure enough, he impressed enough after a year to earn his free ride.
Earlier this week, Kent head coach Paul Haynes gushed about "guys like that who come into the battle with a chip on their shoulder, told his whole life he's too small, he can't do this, can't do that."
Calhoun "brings a lot to this team with his leadership and his adversity and how he's dealt with it," Haynes said.
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And that leadership and even mentoring impresses in another way: Not only does Calhoun have a young son and daughter, he's been married to their mother for nearly three years.
It goes beyond that he's changing diapers and playing with kids while most of his teammates are hanging out and playing video games. His stepfather says the real lesson to those younger players is his responsibility and commitment to being a family man while playing college football and earning a communications degree.
"People are looking up to him who didn't have a dad," Powers said. "Like, 'This guy is young and taking responsibility for everything he's done.' … He's a great example to the younger guys, and they probably don't even realize it yet."
His wife, Regine Calhoun, added: "I just tell him all the time we're proud of him because a lot of people would quit if they were in his position, because they couldn't balance it all out.
"He's a leader. You can just see it in him," she said. "He loves being the underdog. If you challenge him and say, 'You can't,' his mindset gets stuck on, 'Now, I have to.'"
Penn State's season-opener
What: Kent State Golden Flashes vs. Nittany Lions
When: 3:30 p.m., Saturday Sept. 3
Where: Beaver Stadium (107,282)
The Line: Penn State by 21.5
Coaches: Paul Haynes is 9-26 in three seasons at Kent State. James Franklin is 14-12 in two seasons at Penn State.


In August, IIASA leadership and researchers joined global business leaders, investors, and academics in Alpbach, Austria, to discuss the challenges of our time, including the implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). How can the public, private, and social sector contribute? At the Political Symposium, co-organized by IIASA, researchers, thinkers, and entrepreneurs were debating.
As strategic partners, IIASA and the European Forum Alpbach (EFA) launched the Alpbach-Laxenburg Group in 2013. In the past two years, this group held high-level retreats during Political Symposia to discuss sustainable development and the implementation of the SDGs, adopted in September 2015.
This year, global leaders from academia, business, governments, civil society, and the arts, returned to Alpbach for a third retreat from 28 August to 30 August. The Closing Plenary of the Political Symposium New Enlightenment on 30 August focused on the implementation of the SDGs, and in particular the role of the private sector. "Big business" has often been regarded as being the "part of the problem" – as polluters of the environment and drivers of inequity through increased consumerism. However, the tide is rapidly turning: a growing number of investors are divesting out of unsustainable industries and companies. This necessary and gradual transformation of the private sector to fully embrace the sustainable development agenda, requires new business and financing models, new ways of thinking and partnerships. At the Political Symposium, business leaders, investors and academics addressed challenges and also opportunities, such as how groundbreaking initiatives such as the IIASA-led Global Energy Assessment can be expanded and applied to a 'new normal' of how we do business for a sustainable future.
The European Forum Alpbach brought together participants from all over the world and from different disciplines, and IIASA scientists participated in a number of events – detailed below.
Brian Fath, researcher within the Advanced Systems Analysis Program, and Michael Thompson, a researcher within the Risk and Resilience Program, will participate in this breakout session on Resilience Science and Cultural Theory models which show that different stages of the innovation cycle require different "characters": scientists, entrepreneurs, visionaries etc. Computational science shows that these "different characters" apply different search strategies to problem solving. Citizen and Community Science as a broker within this ecology of innovation has a special (practical) role.
Gloria Benedikt, dancer, choreographer, and associate for science and arts at IIASA, will will present an interdisciplinary dance theater science performance debate that aims to bring insight to the creation of a new prosperity.
10:30 to 12:30: Sustainable Development Goals: Which Social Entrepreneurs Are Already One Step Ahead. In collaboration with the Global Impact Hub, members from the Alpbach-Laxenburg Group retreat will discuss entrepreneurial activities on sustainability. What does it mean to put political commitments like the SDGs into practice? Where do we find pioneering work in companies to support the political process and help build a sustainable future? How are these pioneers bridging the gap and providing impetus to other companies?


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42 volunteers, a Chief and 4 officers make up OKCOFPD #11. An elected three-member Board of Commissioners governs the District. There is also a Fire Association.
All firefighters are currently scheduled or trained as basic structural firefighters. In addition all firefighters are scheduled or trained as wildland firefighters (red carded). The majority of the red carded members are also Firefighter type 1 rated. One officer is certified as Incident Commander type 4, Single Resource Boss, Dozer Boss and Engine Boss.
Average of 23 responses (wildland and structural) (Two recent project fires Wilcox and Nine Mile). Nearly 1/2 of all responses are in conjunction with the WA DNR (cooperative agreement).
Formal Mutual-aid agreements exist between OKCOFPD #11 and all other Okanogan County Fire Protection Districts, the WA DNR and the USFS. Between 2000 and 2004 OKCO FPD #11 responded to 21 calls for assistance from Washington State DNR.
OKCOFPD #11 is a founding member of NE-WA-CO (Northeast Washington Coalition of fire suppression agencies). 1 of the 5 initial attack engines is non taxed based allowing OKCOFPD #11 a history of responding to mobilization calls outside jurisdictional boundaries; some examples of which are 1995 Mt. Anne, 1999 Lemansky, 2000 Rocky Hull, 2001 Pickens, 2003 Eagle Rock, 2003 Highland Complex and 2004 Sourdough. Additionally numerous minor responses have occurred supporting the WA DNR during lightning bust ignitions.
OKCOFPD #11 is active on a regional basis with members serving on various committees an organizations ie; NE-WA-CO, Fire Chiefs Association, Prescribed Fire Council and the Highlands Fire Defense local coordinating group.
Northern boundary is 13 miles of east/west international border with the closest Canadian fire station being 20 miles from our Molson satellite station. Western boundary follows Nine Mile road adjoining private ground. Eastern boundary is the Chesaw highway and adjoins private and USFS property. The Southern boundary is intermixed with USFS and private property.


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Four ways contemporary Jamaican culture has internationally evolved
Jamaican culture beyond Bob Marley, Usain Bolt and Grace Jones
Pills November 15th, 2019
Author Jordan Anderson
Quite often when an international person thinks of the Island of Jamaica, the top things that often come to mind are either marijuana, Bob Marley, Usain Bolt and of course beaches. Yet, while these things and people may be considered fundamentals parts of Jamaican culture, they are not the only things which define it. Within the past few decades contemporary Jamaican culture has manifested and established itself throughout international industries in much more extensive ways than its most famous peak points.
Be it through music, fashion, dance, sports, language or other forms of culture. Here's a breakdown of five ways in which contemporary Jamaican culture has been flourishing internationally within the last decade.
Jamaica and the fashion industry has always had indirect lineages throughout. With names like Naomi Campbell being half Jamaican and the famous Grace Jones being on of the most important fashion icons of the '80s. Today, however, Jamaica's influence on the fashion industry is pretty important and is quite straightforward.
Not only for influencers and designers like Tamu McPherson and Grace Wales Bonner who play major parts in the industry but also for a specific Jamaican modelling industry called Saint International that has been fuelling the international industry with models from the Caribbean. The most prominent name from the agency at the moment is Tami Williams, who is a supermodel that stands with the likes of the Hadid sisters, but a part from her, the agency, founded by Deiwght Peters has been supplying a great number of models and model exclusives like Naki Depass, Barba-Lee Grant, Jonny B and others to walk in shows such as Balenciaga, Celine, Gucci, Louis Vuitton, Marni, Valentino, Versace and many others. Jamaican culture has also influenced a great number of brands and fashion houses including Supreme who earlier this year joined forces with Jamaican artist Buju Banton on a t-shirt collection.
Buju Banton for Supreme. @zevmagasis
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Reggae music is of course one of the major parts of Jamaican culture, but although it was revolutionised by names like Bob Marley & Peter Tosh, it's history did not end there. It's legacy has been continued by contemporary artists such as Bob Marley's youngest son Damian Marley, Chronixx, Protoje, Sean Paul, Sevana and many others. However the most current star of the moment is a 19 year old musician named Koffee.
After being endorsed by sprinter Usain Bolt on his instagram , the teenage star has reached stardom after being signed by Sony Music and not long after appearing on BBC Radio's list for top new artists to watch with her hit singles Rapture (2019) — number one on the billboard Reggae charts — & Toast (2018). Her songs have gone from being played in TV series such as Euphoria, to being on the list of top summer songs by former USA First Couple Barack & Michelle Obama, to having it rumoured that she is one of the current writers on Rihanna's upcoming album.
Dancehall is a genre of movement that has gained much international popularity within the past two decades. Born in Jamaica, the genre of music, which is a much faster, more sexual version of reggae-inspired its own type of vibrant and often sexually suggestive dance which has spread all across the world. This has caught on in places like London, Tokyo, New York and even Italy.
Italy's biggest dancehall community resides in Bergamo with an annual festival celebrating the dance movement each summer. International dancehall artists include names like Spice, Vybz Kartel and Popcaan who are are a few names headlining the dancehall industry.
One of the most renown things about Jamaican culture has always been a distinct language. Although the country's official language is the British English, the dialect called Patois, which is a creole mixed with West African and English influences is what most foreigners are fascinated with.
It's been used in the music of artist such as Drake, Rihanna, Beyonce, Nicki Minaj and many people may know it for that section of Shaggy's Mr. Boombastic song that they don't quite understand. Today the language has not only influenced music but has become a part of urban British language with most of London's youth using it for different slangs.
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Willy's Rock is a small promontory off White Beach that is dramatically silhouetted during sunset. Another point of reference is the Cagban jetty that welcomes and farewells almost all visitors to Boracay. In inclement weather, remote Tambisaan Beach becomes a fall-back travel point.
The snorkeling and diving opportunities off Boracay are really world class. There are a number of super dive tour groups here and plenty of training courses are available for beginners. Shallow waters off the beaches make snorkeling an easy option for anyone and everyone. Hikes or cycling journeys into the center parts of the island provide superior hill views of the surrounding waters.
Gorgeous White Beach faces the west, so sunset time here is particularly magical. All the bars, bungalows, surfing pubs and internet cafés are secluded behind the palm trees that lean over the white sand expanse that stretches along four kilometers.
Nowhere near as famous as its western rival, Bulabog Beach nevertheless offers equally crisp sand and water and the unique appeal of a striking red dawn each day. There are not the crowds of tourists here, with most people back over at White Beach. This means less to do, but this is some people's idea of utter bliss.
There's not much to buy in Boracay but the many bamboo-thatched stores along the Boracay Main Road will happily sell jewelry and sarongs to all comers. There are dusty convenience stores and some adequate places to eat or grab a beer for anyone who wants a slight gear shift from lazy days on the beach.
Guided horse rides into the island's interior are a pleasant way to spend an afternoon. One hour rides start at very affordable prices. More advanced riders can take horses for longer periods.
Whale sharks and giant rays can be seen on diving trips that take divers to spots just off the Boracay coast. Most trips can be booked right at the beach, or alternatively at any of the hotels or backpacker bungalows which often double as dive tour operators.


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What people say about our work: A View from the Bridge
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Club Charities 2019/20 and 2020/21
Club Charity 2017/19 Unseen
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General Data Protection Regulations Soroptimist International of Bristol – Privacy Notice
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Draft Minutes of the Annual General Meeting April 26th 2021 and Ratified Minutes 2020 Also Regional Business
Previous Annual Charities
Speaker Meeting 8th November 2021: The Funny Side of Medicine – In general and anaesthesia in particular – Sir Peter Simpson
2 months ago in
Sir Peter first described the definition of funny "Funny Medical and Nursing staff and what people get up to". He asked "does medicine need to be funny"? He showed photographs of St Bartholomew's Hospital London where he trained and photographs of the Professors who taught him. He told us how they used rhymes to remember things such as parts of the anatomy and described how different from now it was then on the wards at Christmas and the fun they had carving the turkey. He also described the fun they had with eminent people. He said it was important to have something to keep up the morale of staff when disasters happened such as the bombings of Old Bailey and Tower of London. There were lots of anecdotes about how things were done and the fun they had too. He also showed letters sent to
Speaker Meeting 11th October 2021: Bristol Blue Plaques and the Women they Honour – Lori Streich – The Bristol Civic Society
Lori started by telling us that the Bristol Blue Plaque scheme was originally run by Bristol City Council but is now organised by the Bristol Civic Society. The request for a plaque is put forward and the Society then researches the person to ensure that they are connected to the building and that their achievements warrant a plaque. Sometimes they are people who have a low profile but have done amazing things. The plaque is funded by the nominee and has to be approved through planning applications. There are plaques to individual women and sometimes more than one on the same plaque, Lori spoke of some women that we are familiar with and many more. She showed us the plaque dedicated in July 2021, as part of our Centenary celebrations, to our very own Addison-Phillips. She said "a plaque to
Speaker Meeting 13th September 202: Kate Newnham from Bristol Museum and Art Gallery – Flowers in Japanese Art
Our first face to face speaker meeting since the beginning of the Covid restrictions was held in our new venue Redwood Audley. We thank all of you who organised our move, we had a lovely meal and everything ran very smoothly. We welcomed Kate Newnham, from Bristol Museum and Art Gallery and she talked told us about "Flowers in Japanese Art". She told us about the connection between flowers and poetry, flowers and the Tea Ceremony and how animals and birds go together too. She also told us how the blossoms and flowers of the seasons influence Japanese life and are a talking point when visiting homes etc. At the end of the evening President Sue (Immediate Past President Marion was there too), presented Bristol Museum with our lovely plate for safe keeping. The plate was given to us by our Japanese Friendship Link Yuko
Speaker Meeting 14th June 2021: Nikki Watson – Assistant Chief Constable, Avon and Somerset Police Force
Nikki started by telling us about her career in the police force having joined in 1987 and became Assistant Chief Constable, Avon Somerset Police Force in 2015. She is Head of Investigations and Operations – Support Directorate leading the Avon and Somerset Police response to the Covid 19 Pandemic. She described her career highlights and responsibilities some of which are: Giving evidence on stop and search to the McPhearson enquiry as part of the report on the death of Stephen Lawrence in 1999. She is responsible for a drugs intervention programme. She works with the Criminal Justice and Crown Prosecution Service helping to make the criminal justice process more efficient. She described how policing demands have changed due to: The arrival of the internet in 1991 Stephen Lawrence murder in 1993 Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman murders 2002 Suicide terrorist attacks (in the UK
Speaker meeting 10th May 2021: St Peter's Hospice – Esther Hall, Community Fundraiser
We were pleased to welcome Esther Hall who is the community fundraiser for St Peter's Hospice which is our Club Charity of the year for 2021/22. St Peter's Hospice is a Bristol based charity. It was established over 40 years ago originally in South Bristol by a group of people led by the Bourne family. It provides care and support to adults who are living with a progressive life-limiting illness in the Bristol, South Gloucestershire and North Somerset area. Much of the support is provided in people's homes. Their newly refurbished inpatient facilities in Westbury-on–Trym look amazing. The Hospice supports over 500 people at any one time and their approach "Live well, die well" was self-evident as Esther's enthusiasm rubbed off on us all. She told us of the volunteering opportunities and explored suggestions that we made. Esther will work with us to ensure we make
Speaker Meeting 12th April 2021: The Two Presidents 2019/20 and 2020/21
The Two Presidents spanned the last two years! Immediate Past President Denise 2019-2020 and President Marion2020-2021. We were joined by a prospective new member and also members from SI Weston-super-Mare. Denise and Marion entertained us describing their careers and the exciting things they have done during their lives. We often hear about our members careers and it never ceases to amaze us what these women who we know so well have done. Thank you both for sharing your lives with us.
Speaker meeting 8th March 2021: Tyntesfield Trees – Chris Watts
10 months ago in
Chris started by telling us a bit about the history of the Tyntesfield Estate. The house was built for William Gibbs and completed in 1884. The estate was purchased by the National Trust in 2002. There are 37 labels from the original trees planted in the late 1800s. There is a huge selection of trees with beautiful foliage and flowers and look stunning when they are at their best. Some parts of the estate are the same as they were originally including some of the tree walks. A few of the trees in the laurel walk have been replaced by taking cuttings from the original trees. The holly walk is 140 years old and some of the hollies have also been replaced. He told us about ancient, veteran and champion trees. They have an oak which is an ancient tree. Ancient trees are very old
Speaker Meeting February 8th 2021: Great Western Air Ambulance Charity – Joe Hughes
The Great Western Air Ambulance Charity (GWAAC) is a registered charity providing the Critical Care and air ambulance service across Bristol, Bath & North East Somerset, North Somerset, Gloucestershire and South Gloucestershire. Joe opened by telling us that the air ambulance brings the patient to the hospital and the hospital to the patient – a flying emergency department. He captured our interest and told us of "Chris's Story" in two parts. This is a simplified version. In the first part when Chris had a cardiac arrest his wife Sue performed cardiac massage in the first instance and then a number of emergency services attended but unfortunately Chris did not survive. Later he gave the second part – the real story. This started the same way but in this scenario the air ambulance took over Chris's care from Sue and he made a full recovery and
Speaker Meeting January 11th 2021: City of Bristol Archives, Allie Dillon City of Bristol Archivist
1 year ago in
We welcomed our speaker Allie Dillon our first speaker in 2021. She started by describing the purpose and importance of the archives which are based at the Create Centre in B Bond Warehouse close to Cumberland Basin. The team of 19 maintain the archives of the City of Bristol and surrounding areas, as well as the British Empire and Commonwealth Collection. Some are stored as hard copy and some have been digitised. It is both an historic and cultural resource. The public have access free of charge and the records are used for many reasons including accessing records for public enquiries. Bristol Archives was established in 1924 and it was the first borough record office in the United Kingdom and holds documents going back to the 12th century. There are many valuable documents such as the Royal Charter circa 1190 (this is still a valid
Speaker Meeting 10th December 2020: Road to Equality, Andrew Wallis OBE, CEO of Unseen
Our 16 Days of Activism (see programme Action Report "Orange the World") culminated with a talk delivered via Zoom by Andrew Wallis. In addition to members of SI Bristol, the talk was 'attended' by members from our Friendship Link clubs: SI Chester, SI Halifax and by SI Weston super Mare. Unseen has been operating in Bristol and beyond for over 10 years and we have been involved with them in many different ways since 2013. "Human trafficking is a crime. It does not always involve international transportation. Trafficking in the UK includes commercial, sexual and bonded labour. Trafficked people have little choice in what happens to them and often suffer abuse due to violence and threats made against them or their families. In effect, they become commodities owned by traffickers, used for profit". Andrew is an inspirational speaker and he started by telling us
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The Fine Art of Valuation 7th January 2022: Toby Pinn MRICS – RICS Chartered Art and Antiques Surveyor – in aid of St Peter's Hospice
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Q: Source of "undefined" showing in console Javascript beginner here. This function is supposed to show the position of any given letter in the English alphabet. It seems to run fine, but along with the result, I get an undefined error. Where is this coming from?
var alphabet = ['a', 'b', 'c', 'd', 'e', 'f', 'g', 'h', 'i', 'j', 'k', 'l', 'm', 'n', 'o', 'p', 'q', 'r', 's', 't', 'u', 'v', 'w', 'x', 'y', 'z'];

function position(letter){
  letter = letter.toLowerCase();
  for (var i = 0; i < alphabet.length; i++) {
    if (alphabet[i] === letter){
      console.log('Position in the alphabet is: ' + i);
      break;
    }
  }
};

console.log(position("Z"));

A: Change:
console.log(position("Z"));

to:
position("Z");

Function position does not return anything--that is why you are getting undefined.

A: You aren't return any values from position(...) function. To fix the undefined error, you might want to return null if no result is found, like the example:
var alphabet = ['a', 'b', 'c', 'd', 'e', 'f', 'g', 'h', 'i', 'j', 'k', 'l', 'm', 'n', 'o', 'p', 'q', 'r', 's', 't', 'u', 'v', 'w', 'x', 'y', 'z'];

function position(letter){
  letter = letter.toLowerCase();
  for (var i = 0; i < alphabet.length; i++) {
    if (alphabet[i] === letter){
      return 'Position in the alphabet is: ' + i;
    }
  }

  return null;
};

console.log(position("Z"));

A: The undefined you are seeing in the console is not an error at all.  Instead, it is the result of the console.log() statement in last line of code, as @Russ mentioned. It is logging what it received after executing position("Z") - which is actually nothing or undefined.
If you wish to be able to use console.log() for the output of your function, you could have it return a string.  This would also eliminate the need for a break; statement in your for loop. You might include a "not found" type of default statement as well to protect against an actual error. (@Dorado's null default is a good alternative.) Here's what my suggestion might look like for your code:
var alphabet = ['a', 'b', 'c', 'd', 'e', 'f', 'g', 'h', 'i', 'j', 'k', 'l', 'm', 'n', 'o', 'p', 'q', 'r', 's', 't', 'u', 'v', 'w', 'x', 'y', 'z'];

function position(letter){
  letter = letter.toLowerCase();
  for (var i = 0; i < alphabet.length; i++) {
    if (alphabet[i] === letter){
      return('Position in the alphabet is: ' + i);
    }
  }
  return 'Character not found in the alphabet!';
};

console.log(position("Z"));

This would give you the single console output you desire, remove the undefined from your console, and allow you to use this function in other code.

A: your function could be simply this:
var alphabet = ['a', 'b', 'c', 'd', 'e', 'f', 'g', 'h', 'i', 'j', 'k', 'l', 'm', 'n', 'o', 'p', 'q', 'r', 's', 't', 'u', 'v', 'w', 'x', 'y', 'z'];

function position=(letter)=> {
  console.log(`Position in the alphabet is: ${alphabet.findIndex(el=>el===letter.toLowerCase())}`)
}

position("Z");

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Q: iPhone - detecting single tap and long tap on iOS 3.x This is a project for a client and he wants it to use TouchesBegan/Moved/Ended instead of gestures, because it has to be compatible with iOS 3.0 and 3.1 too and gestures are iOS >= 3.2.
I have to detect single tap and long tap on a custom element that is a kind of tableView with elements we call cells.
The rules I have to follow are:

*

*A single tap has to fire a method 0.1 seconds later (lets call it cellTapped)

*If the control is scrolled before it is time to execute cellTapped, cancel cellTapped execution

*If a Long Tap is detected instead, run the longTap method not cellTapped

This is what I have in TouchesBegan
- (void)touchesBegan:(NSSet *)touches withEvent:(UIEvent *)event{

  self.isScrolling = NO;

  // if single tap detected, fire method within 0.1 seconds
  if ([self elementIsTapped:touches]) {
             [self performSelector:@selector(cellTapped:)
                   withObject:nil
                   afterDelay:0.1];
  }

}

- (void)touchesMoved:(NSSet *)touches withEvent:(UIEvent *)event{

  if (self.isScrolling == NO) {
        // started scrolling, cancel single tap method that was about to be executed
        [NSObject cancelPreviousPerformRequestsWithTarget:self
                                                 selector:@selector(cellTapped:)
                                                   object:nil];
        self.isScrolling = YES;
  }
}

How do I add long tap detection to this logic? thanks

A: Long-tap detection without use of the UIGestureRecognizers is actually fairly simple. You could follow a pattern something like this:
On touchesBegan, set a BOOL flag hasLongTouchPassed to be false. Then, use [self performSelector:@selector(longPressDetected) withObject:nil afterDelay:1.0f]. In longPressDetected set the hasLongTouchPassed flag to be true. Then, on touchesEnded, detect if hasLongTouchPassed is true, if it is then it was a long touch. If the user lifts their finger before the time has passed, call [NSObject cancelPreviousPerformRequestWithTarget:self]
Alternatively, you could instead store a date with [NSDate date] on touchesBegan, and then again in touchesEnded, and compare to see if the time interval is long enough to be considered a long-press.
In addition, if you want an event to fire off X amount of time after the user pressed
This assumes you are not using multi-touch. If you are, you'll have to track which finger is where and for how long.

A: I think your logic is a bit backwards.  You should add a timer for the long press in your touches began method instead of a timer for tap.  Then, in your touches end method you can cancel the method if it hasn't fired yet, and call your tap method, or do nothing if it has fired already.
P.S. iOS 3.0?  Ouch...might as well write it for flip phones.


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