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EVs in Australia
The Daily Mail posts an article with this needlessly antagonistic headline: How Australian taxpayers will need to spend BILLIONS to transition from petrol and diesel to electric cars (which start at $47k for a VERY basic model) – as the ACT pushes ahead with a BAN on combustion engines by 2035 .
Contra the headline, the article itself is not bad.
My quotes:
Professor Levinson estimated the current infrastructure should be able to handle a market share above 20 per cent, given most cars will be charged at home.
'This is not going to be a sudden crisis,' he said.
Professor David Levinson, an American civil engineer and transportation analyst at the University of Sydney, said the federal government's lack of commitment to the electric vehicle market was 'disappointing'.
'Given the potential abundance of renewables in Australia, this is disappointing, but the government has made few efforts to accelerate EV uptake with tax breaks or higher fuel or petrol car purchase taxes, and the previous government was talking down EVs as recently as the 2019 campaign,' he said of Mr Morrison's tenure.
Professor Levinson said he expects lower cost EVs to enter the Australian market in the coming years.
'As the price of batteries drop, we would expect lower cost car-sized EVs to enter the market in Australia as they have in other countries. That will naturally increase market uptake,' he said.
'Inflation will raise the cost of everything, but the relative higher price of EVs should diminish, and Bloomberg expects a crossover point in a few years when EVs are less expensive that petrol cars.'
Professor Levinson believes Australia need to do more to combat the country's 'large share of carbon emissions' and commit to electrifying its roads.
'Converting new cars purchases to electric takes out tailpipe emissions. But old cars will remain on the road for years,' he told Daily Mail Australia.
'It will take about 20 years to turn over nearly the entire fleet from the point that almost all new cars are EVs (around 2030), without government incentives or mandates.'
Some additional points:
Australia is slow in EV uptake compared to peer nations. Almost all of Norway's new cars are EVs now (https://cleantechnica.com/2022/05/04/norways-april-ev-market-share-at-84-fleet-share-at-23/).
There are 2600 petrol stations in New South Wales (https://www.epa.nsw.gov.au/~/media/EPA/Corporate%20Site/resources/clm/2008552ServStations.ashx) So long as electric vehicle range is similar to petrol vehicle range, we would expect that public charging stations should have a similar number. But EVs have the advantage that they can slow charge at many people's houses, so there might not need to be quite as many.
EVs should be defined to include e-bikes, small golf cart sized vehicles, as well as replacements for people's cars and Utes. So there is already a wide range in price, but yes, as the price of batteries drop, we would expect lower cost car-sized EVs to enter the market in Australia as they have in other countries. (The Kia Soul EV is available in Norway, e.g., though still more expensive than the petrol version in Australia ) And that will naturally increase market uptake. (Inflation will raise the cost of everything, but the relative higher price of EVs should diminish, and Bloomberg expects a crossover point in a few years when EVs are less expensive that petrol cars).
The infrastructure should be able to handle a market share above 20% EVs, most EVs will charge at home, most EV homes will have rooftop solar, and most houses will have batteries. Particularly as more storage for renewables comes online (for example, Snowy 2 begins to come online in 2025), this is not going to be a sudden crisis.
The transition to EVs which will happen despite government policies not because of them. (Though government could make this easier or harder). As the transition continues demand for fuel will drop, so there should be plenty of market supply available, but a government serious about Net Zero would tax fuel at a higher rate than present to lower demand.
Five Quick Questions for . . . transportation expert David Levinson
2022-01-10 2022-01-08 | David Levinson
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❓ Five Quick Questions for . . . transportation expert David Levinson
David Levinson teaches at the School of Civil Engineering at the University of Sydney, he's an honorary affiliate of the Institute of Transport and Logistics Studies, and he serves as an adjunct faculty at the University of Minnesota. He's also the co-author The End of Traffic and the Future of Access. In addition, he authors the Transportist blog.
1/ America seems to be suffering a car crash epidemic. Why and what can we do about it?
There are many causes to this problem, which is another example of American exceptionalism, as crashes are declining in most developed countries (see figure, via David Zipper). Crashes result from high speed (wide lanes American lanes encourage fast driving, and high powered cars make it possible [to] drive faster than any posted speed limit — how high does your speedometer go?) mixed with slow reaction time (e.g. distracted and inebriated drivers, plus diminished ability to see what's in front of them, higher speeds for instance focus drivers on distances far ahead rather than seeing what's in their peripheral vision, or just in front of them). Fatalities are crashes where the speed (which has been increasing) and mass (which has also been increasing) are both too high. Two pedestrians colliding at walking speeds will not kill anyone. A car hitting a pedestrian at 40 mph will likely kill her. In fact, most cars are now trucks, significantly higher and heavier than cars of a few decades ago. I wrote about this a couple of years ago: 21 Solutions to Road Deaths
2/ When will we have a million self-driving cars on the road, ones that can at least be autonomous on highways?
It depends on what you mean by "autonomous". In some ways we already have a million autonomous cars. Elon Musk will tell you his cars Autopilot systems are "Full Self-Driving" on highways now, and have been in beta mode for FSD on city streets for a number of years. General Motors will sell you "Super Cruise" in a number of Cadillac models, which allows hands off driving on 200,000 miles of highways. GM's Ultra Cruise is supposed to launch hands off driving on 2 million miles of public roads (highways and streets) in 2023. In all of these cases, the driver is supposed to monitor the vehicle, so if by autonomous you mean the driver can safely go to sleep, we are not there yet, and are looking to late this decade.
3/ Will hyperloops ever be a real-world mode of transportation?
We can't build subways or high-speed rail lines at reasonable cost in the US, and we are supposed to try to build an unproven technology? Hyperloop is a moving target, but if we mean maglev with small carriages in evacuated tubes, I don't think so. The maglev is slowly getting deployed in places, Shanghai has had a small line operating for years, which I rode. Japan has a major line under construction now (to open 2027). But making them go even faster by putting them in tubes with the air removed (to reduce air resistance and increase speed) is untested and brings new engineering challenges. Using small carriages, with sharp acceleration and deceleration, as originally proposed, and spacing them close together, brings new risks.
4/ Will air taxis ever be a common mode of transportation?
Yes, but not this year. Since the 1920s people have dreamt of an autogyro in every garage. It was a key mode of transport in Frank Lloyd Wright's Broadacre City proposal in 1932. For decades, Los Angeles required high-rises to have flat-roofs to enable helicopter landings. With advances in automation and controls, AI, and electrification, it's getting closer. As drones become more widespread, the key technologies advance, and society's willingness to tolerate a significant rise in air travel also increases. But it's not likely to mix well with cities, in contrast with suburbs and rural areas, because of the crowding and high density. So it should emerge first where traveling fast and directly is more important, which are lower density areas with greater distances to be covered.
5/ What's an important transportation issue that gets too little attention?
There are many issues that get too little attention, traffic safety you already noted. I'd add that even after we electrify the fleet and eliminate tailpipe pollution, cars will still pollute and be hazardous. Today air pollution from vehicles kills a similar number as crashes (which is about 1.3 million people globally). That's not all tailpipe pollution. Brake linings and rubber tires wear out. Where do those particulates go? Your lungs. The water supply. All sorts of places they shouldn't. And the better we make transport systems for people using cars, the worse it is for everyone else. For instance, traffic signal timings benefit cars at the expense of pedestrians in many cities. I'd also add police stops in the US in the name of safety are mostly unnecessary, lead to excessive deaths, and could be replaced with photo radar and similar systems.
The Thirty-Minute City on ABC Sydney Afternoons
I had the pleasure of being on James Valentine's
Afternoons on ABC Radio on Friday (June 18, 2021)
We discussed the thirty-minute city and related topics for about 15 minutes.
An automated transcript is below:
James Valentine 0:11
You've been hearing for a while now that we're going to have sort of three cities in Sydney. We're going to have the city city, the river city of Parramatta and now the new Bradfield city, the Western Sydney parklands city, the Aerotropolis, it seems to be a city, it's got at least three names at the moment, that Western one and there's going to be three hubs, we're going to be a 30 minute city, we're gonna be able to get around this city, you'll be able to live, you know, Jason, the paramedic, everything will be there, your job will be there, the school will be there to help services will be there and everything. So you'll never need to leave that area, necessarily. The you may have also heard that the IBC announced a little earlier in the week that 300 or so staff will be moving to Paramount or will be based in Parramatta in a few years time that we're in the process of looking for the right accommodation and figuring out what what would be best in that in that part of the world. So these are interesting things. And I wondered whether it was a good time to have a conversation about how successful is this going to do things like this work? When when, when an industry when something like our says yeah, when a government department or the ABC or an industry says, Okay, we'll base ourselves here. What is it? What do we need to make that work? Do we have the infrastructure to make it work? And what effect does it have on the area? Is that a good thing? Does it you know, usually mean? Yep, this is great. The play starts to boom. And it works. I mean, there's a big broad questions, but let's see if we can crunch them down a little Professor David Levinson joins us. He's from the School of Civil Engineering at the University of Sydney. He's a very successful career looking at transport and urban infrastructure in lots of ways. He's the author of something that's got a dissertation that's called probably my favorite title, "on whom the toll falls". Yeah, a brilliant title about road road charging. Really a title of people good road charging and the like. But it's great to have you been here for a for a conversation. Professor David Levinson. Good afternoon. Thank you for having me. I mean, you're we've been sitting about four years or so now from from Minnesota. Is that right? Yes. And so do you look, I would look at the City of Sydney go. It's pretty congested, messy, haphazard, thing, but you know that that's grown like, like Topsy over over a couple of centuries. Now. How do you see it?
David Levinson 3:35
Well, I mean, it's certainly grown fast. But all cities are messy. All cities are congested. A city that's not congested, is probably dying. And so congestion is one of the prices for urbanity. Right? We can't expect our infrastructure to grow as fast as our population and places that tried to invest excessively in infrastructure before the people are there are going to have a lot of white elephants, a lot of projects that aren't aren't well used.
Right? So. So the notion that you might think, let's, let's build all the metro and the schools and the parks and hope people come, that doesn't quite work.
We don't have the resources to do that, unless you want to not address the existing problems that are already there. You know, if, if planning were 100% accurate, and we could forecast these things perfectly sure. But that's not the case. that's never been the case. And, you know, you, you can't expect the populations that were here before 1788 to have built in advance of the settlers. It just doesn't, you know, so we have to think about what are we trying to do and try to establish some sort of concurrency between the development of land and the development of infrastructure. And once you've solved all the problems for your existing residents, then if you have some excess resources and want to sort of plan for our future residents We might be moving into currently greenfields undeveloped areas. That might make sense. But we clearly haven't solved the problems for all of our existing residents. And yet we're starting to build some infrastructure for people who don't live here yet.
Right. So is your sense of most cities is that the it's enough for them to play catch up.
I think most cities need to play catch up with their existing demand. Certainly a fast growing city is always going to be playing catch up. When the growth slows, you might be able to have caught up at at some point. But at that point, your city's not really growing anymore. And I think of cities in the American Midwest. You're Detroit's in Cleveland, well, they probably have enough infrastructure for the population that's there. Now, they did catch up. And then things change, because that's what happens, things change, we can't accurately foresee how the technology is going to change how preferences are going to change how economics are going to change. And we really need to be thinking I mean, a 40 year time horizons fine for a vision. So if you think about the plans currently out there 2056 plans they were started in 2016. That's fine for vision, but we have to also constantly be updating and and checking those and make the next investment decision aligned with the plan. But we can't expect to build out a 40 year plan today and just wait for those roads and train lines
fell out. Yeah. And we can't control that within a city like Sydney, will say things like, there'll be another million people here in 10 years old and that sort of stuff. And people will say, Well, does that have to happen? Is this also somewhat uncontrollable cities have a great gravitational pull?
Well, I mean, a city is part of a country and the national government will decide immigration levels. And obviously, unexpectedly last year, immigration levels fell. And we see cities in Australia, especially Sydney, are losing population in the past year to regional areas as there's more out migration and then migration. Now, maybe immigration will reopen. But that's a policy choice. And assuming that that policy choices made, may be probably those people will come to cities, because that's where most of the economic activity still is. But there's no guarantee of that. I mean, we could have much better telecommunications technologies in 10 or 20 years, in which case, the advantages of the city are lower than they are today. Because today, it's still better to be in person for doing things than to do them virtually.
Yeah, that's right. And we've seen that, you know, 10 years ago, if people said, Yeah, I could probably work from home and use the computer system where you couldn't really it didn't really work. But it wasn't robust enough, it couldn't carry enough.
Yeah, and I think that the shift has been, I mean, there's been a push, obviously a force factor, which has required people to work from home more than they otherwise would. But there's also been the enabling of technology, which is better that we had video conferencing. 15 years ago, I lived in London for a year and supervise my students from in who were in Minneapolis via Skype calls. And it worked beautifully. We had a 24 hour work schedule, and it's like I would, you know, it'd be late at night there and early in the morning in London, and I have meetings with them. And then you know, they would do things in and they would go to sleep, but I would wake up and I would see what they done. And it was probably more efficient than us being on the same timezone. Because the response was, was taking place during their off time. So we need to think about this dynamic of telecommunications is changing, not just work for for people who work in offices, I mean, it's also changed how we shop significantly and our social patterns. And you know, how many people do you know on the internet that you've never actually met in person? I mean, this is a growing phenomenon. We've seen from travel data that people are making fewer social trips than they used to. And our hypothesis is they're substituting online communications. Yeah, social social media for that guy is that even pre COVID COVID. work at home was rising as well. And virtual shopping was rising as well, but obviously is a huge spike in the in the last little over a year.
At this point. He listened to what Professor David Levinson. He's from school of civil engineer at the University of Sydney and we just joined the fat a little on some of the planning issues around Sydney and some of the ways in which we're moving around and some of what what what was coming so this notion of the 30 minutes city is that more than a slogan is that is that a reality?
Well, it depends on what you mean by the 30 minutes city right so the the Greater Sydney Commission has a few definitions in their report, which are not all the same, but that you can reach the the destinations that you need for your daily life within a 30 minute trip by public transport or active transport, walking and biking. But that's not guaranteed that you will have a job within 30 minutes or in your local region of Sydney. And we see today of course there's huge tidal flows of people who come from the western parts of Sydney towards the eastern parts of Sydney because There's more housing in the West and more jobs in the east. And until all of these areas are balanced with terms of jobs and housing, a workers and housing in each of those places are roughly equal. We're going to continue to have those kinds of tidal flows. And so it won't be a 30 minute city, if you live in the West and work in the next city over or if you run if you're if you're in Bradfield and Western Sydney or near retropolis. And you work in the City of Sydney, that's going to be well, more than a 30 minute commute by any mode of transport at this point. Yeah. And so
James Valentine 10:32
is that answered by you know, we're making a gesture of moving 300 people to to paramedic, so then those people there, if that's their job, is there, that's good? Could the same thing? What is the answer also, then, for other industries and ourselves to move to campbelltown, to move to the hills district,
David Levinson 10:50
I think some of this will happen anyway. Because as telecommunications gets better than need to pay the high rents to be in the center, go down, or you see that you own a building in the center, and you can sell it and if you don't actually need to be there. So there's some industries for which the technical term economies of agglomeration are really high the benefits of being near other firms within walking distance of other firms. And typically, that's things like finance and media and advertising. And arguably government. And there's other industries, manufacturing, for which there's no real benefit to being adjacent to the shelter. You know, you need the space. And once upon a time, it might have been appropriate when you physically move the goods by hand or horse from one building to another. But now, since it's by truck, you just need to be nearby. You don't need to be adjacent to. And so we've seen this kind of decentralization for decades. I mean, we've essentially been decentralization since 1788, right? I mean, we've people landed at a point and then they've spread out. employment in the Sydney CBD is about 15% of regional employment, which, you know, is probably not as high as people imagined it is. So what was the percentage of the 15% of total workers in the Greater Sydney region work in the CBD, right? And if you count the neighborhoods adjacent to the CBD, like ultimo or piermont, or Surry Hills, it gets up to about 20%. Right? Yeah.
But when we think of it as the CBD, so there's all these workers come in. And that's a fairly low percentage, it's a low percentage. I
mean, it's bigger than any other business district. And Paramount is on the order of 2%. Right now, and Western Sydney is going to be pretty close to 0% right now. And this will change over time. But this percentage has also been declining, historically. And so in 1789, it would have been close to 100% of all jobs were in the CBD. Now, it's it's much fewer. So this is a long term dynamic and the shock to the system of enabling office workers to work from home full time, but you know, maybe they'll go back two days a week or three days a week? we don't we don't know yet. I mean, it's still, I mean, we're a year and a half into this. And public transit, which is basically a measure of how many people are going into the central business district is still below 70% of its pre COVID levels, indicates that it's probably some kind of permanent effect. And yeah, and I think that's going to be you know, an issue for people who own real estate and CBD who own businesses in the CBD and so on that, that it's going to be harder for them in the future to generate as much money as they used
to So will it just happen all the deliberate moves and deliberate infrastructures have to put in nothing if something like the metro out to the to the northwest and that you know, huge industrial park and and business park out there, which major firms have their head office set up? Now? That's a it's made to be some, you know, some planners sitting down guy, put the trail on there, build that thing there, you know, that'll boom, that area, it's the same source, is that what they never aerotropolis look like? Yeah, I
mean, there has to be there. There are 1000s of deliberate decisions I think is the way you need to think about it and and ABC moving offices from ultimo to Parramatta is, is one of many of these kinds of decisions that will take place over next decades. That will help adjust the regional balance of jobs and and workers and ultimately reduce commute times overall. giving people more freedom. But you know, the question I mean, you physically are working in a building, I physically work in a building, but how often do you actually have to be here? It's better if we're in the building, perhaps but is I
very much have to be here between 1230 and 330. In the audition, sure, but I mean, at
the peak of COVID lots of reporters and working at home and makeshift studios and sound quality wasn't quite as good. And, you know, obviously there were other issues associated with that. It's better to be interviewed in person than it is to be interviewed over the phone. So these kinds of what actually needs to be done in person versus what can be done remotely is going to be needed. Oceana is going to be steadily changing as telecommunications technology gets better as more deals are built
as more software is made, once your report card on how Sydney's handling all this in the moment,
Sydney is doing pretty well, overall, I mean, compared to say, how Europe, the United States did over the last, you know, your year and a half? I think we're being a little bit, perhaps overcautious on some things.
Also, this is with the with COVID. You've been with Calvin sort of in general is our is that is that getting that road? that balance? Right, between the long term planning and the short term investment, for example, is that sort of, we're getting it I think,
I think we make transport decisions based on assuming the land use is fixed. And we make land use decisions based on assuming the transport is fixed. And we're not really taking these decisions together in the way that we could, I mean, we, we should be planning for access and trying to see, you know, the city is measured by how many things you can reach. And we know that a function of where things are located as well as how fast you can move on a network to get there. We want to be able to we should be planning for that directly. And right now, the planning is is somewhat fractured for that. And we also are there's sort of a mismatch between who gets the benefits from infrastructure decisions and who's paying for the infrastructure. If you build a train station, and somebody owns land adjacent to it, they get a huge uplift in value, but they didn't really pay for the full costs of the benefits they're receiving. Yeah.
David Levinson great to get some time with you. Thanks so much for coming in. All right. Fight faces. Great. So nice to meet you, Professor David Levinson from the School of Civil Engineering at the University of Sydney. We'll talk about employment and wage growth with with David Taylor in a moment or two ABC business reporter. I asked him if there was a song he wanted to sort of intro and he said I am in this one I want to groove into Michelle Pfeiffer that white. This was a masterpiece. Living in the city got Chuck was saying we got a kiss. So pretty. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Don't give it to you. Believe images
How does the commute to work in Australia compare to overseas? | ABC Radio Perth
I was interviewed by ABC Radio Perth On Breakfast with Russell Woolf about "How does the commute to work in Australia compare to overseas?" on June 10.
When choosing a place to live one of the first things you consider is proximity to work. The less time you spend sitting on public transport or in traffic the more time you have to do other things.
New research by the University of Sydney has compared the commute to work in more than a hundred cities worldwide, including 8 from Australia, by measuring the number of jobs that can be reached within 30 minutes.
So how do Australian cities stack up?
David Levinson is a Professor of Transport at the University of Sydney and is speaking with Russell Woolf.
Broadcast: Thu 10 Jun 2021, 7:00am
Reviving our city centres | ABC RadioNational Life Matters
I was on ABC RadioNational Life Matters on June 10 talking about the topic "Reviving our city centres", hosted by Hilary Harper
Our Prime Minister has urged workers to head back to the office, in a bid to increase economic activity in CBDs. But it's become less common for us to go to our city centres for work and pleasure, and that might be an ongoing trend.
So what works best in your life – 'CBD centric' or more decentralised, 'polycentric' cities? And what will all this mean for city businesses?
Dr Marcus Spiller, Principal & Partner SGS Economics and Planning and past president of Planning Institute of Australia
David Levinson, Professor of Transport, University of Sydney
Duration: 21min 2sec
Should Road Rules be Rewritten to Put Pedestrians First | 2SER
I was interviewed on 2SER radio last week on Weekend Breakfast about Should Road Rules be Rewritten to Put Pedestrians First.
Listen here (mp3).
Now, let's face it most drivers on our roads choose to cheat the concept of 'giving way when permitted' to other vehicles at the best of times.
However, what happens when we're talking about giving way to pedestrians in unmarked areas? What do our road rules say and what does the law state? We were joined by Professor David Levinson from the University of Sydney's Transport Engineering School of Civil Engineering to give us his perspective on the issue.


12 km north of Armidale, on the New England Highway.
Undulating trap and black soils with some decent alluvial flats along Tilbuster Creek.
Excellent fertiliser history over many years with ryes fescues and clovers throughout. 100 ha has been sod seeded.
There are scattered stands of stringybark, white gum, red gum and ash.
Very good water with Tilbuster Creek and 8 large dams and 4 smaller dams.
The property is zoned such to allow the building of a dwelling.
Very well fenced with rabbit proof netting on the boundary, internally are mix of 6 wire plain and hingejoint is used. There is a central lane way to the shed and yards.
Steel shed with concrete floor, two stands (no gear) for shearing if needed. Steel sheep and cattle yards with crush. There is a 30t silo.
"Araluen East" carries around 120 cows and calves plus 30-40 heifers, so its production is clearly demonstrated.
Located within easy commuting distance of Armidale, it could be utilised as an additional property, or a great place to establish a home.
... a wonderful split-level home totally at ease with it's surroundings in the prestigious Lynland Park estate.


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The Best Tech Stock to Buy Now Is an HR Juggernaut
This expert insight from Michael A. Robinson originally ran in Strategic Tech Investor on October 8, 2018
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These are boom times for the overall workforce in the U.S. – and independent contractors as well.
A record 150 million Americans had jobs at the end of August, the last month for full data. That's an increase of 2.3 million jobs in just one year.
Plus, there's also a record 6.9 million openings just waiting to be filled. And a 3.9% unemployment rate is one of the best we've seen in decades.
Now, when we spoke on Sept. 26, I told you of a great way to play the rise of the independent workforce.
After all, this group is growing much faster than the overall jobs boom. As I noted, that's a rising market with a lot of profit potential.
But today, I want to talk about the opportunities that are waiting on the flip side of that investing coin.
In others words, I want to introduce you to a tech leader that has the right products to help employers manage their growing number of workers… and stands ready to meet a very target-rich market.
I'm talking about a fast-moving firm that's doubling its sales every two years.
Here's how…
Why Workday Is Growing So Fast
If all our employment tech leader did was keep pace with the economy, it would be in a big uptrend. Second-quarter GDP was a decade-best 4.2%. August was the 95th consecutive month in which American employers hired more people than they fired, the longest streak on record.
Here's the thing: All those new jobs are great news for tech investors on two fronts.
First is the fact that it signals a strong economy eight years into the recovery.
Second, all those new workers require employers to go through a wide range of steps to integrate them. Each of these new hires will need at least some of these items covered – personnel files, training, tax forms, health benefits, overtime sheets, and 401(k) plans, just to name a few.
For many human resources (HR) departments, integrating all those forms and tracking systems takes hours and can costs thousands of dollars for each new worker.
Dan | October 9, 2018
Uh . . . did I miss the name of this HR juggernaut or did you neglect to tell us?
Janelle Shepherd | October 9, 2018
Thank you for your comment! The company's name and stock ticker can both be found in the story.
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Species
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'Allah' exclusive to Muslims, Jakim insists
Wednesday, 08 Jan 2014 05:57 PM MYT
PAS vice-president Datuk Mahfuz Omar. He suggested a change in the members of the National Fatwa Council was needed if the 'Allah' row continues. — Picture by Choo Choy May
KUALA LUMPUR, Jan 8 — Amid renewed controversy, Malaysia's foremost Islamic religious authority has insisted today that the word 'Allah' can only be used in this country by Muslims.
The Malaysian Islamic Development Department (Jakim) has reiterated its argument backed by a National Fatwa Council decree in 2008 banning its usage by non-Muslims.
"From a 'fatwa' (religious edict) point of view, the National Fatwa Council has made a clear decision that the 'Allah' word is exclusive to Muslims.
"Its usage and gazetting are under the jurisdiction of each state," Jakim Director-General Datuk Othman Mustapha told news portal Malaysiakini through a text message.
Othman, who is also the secretary for the council, however, was not reported to have commented on the conflict between the 'fatwa', Selangor's Non-Islamic Religions (Control of Propagation Among Muslims) Enactment 1988, and the 10-point solution mooted by Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak's Cabinet on the issue of Malay-language bibles.
Islamist party PAS urged the council to revisit its edict, following a shocking raid by Selangor's religious authorities against the Bible of Society of Malaysia last Thursday, which also saw over 300 Malay and Iban-language bibles seized.
PAS information chief Datuk Mahfuz Omar made the call on Monday, suggesting a change in the council's members if the 'Allah' row continues.
It is understood that the action was taken by Selangor Islamic Religious Department (Jais) under the 1988 Selangor enactment that prohibits non-Muslims in Selangor from using 35 Arabic words and phrases, including the word for God, "Allah".
Last October, the prime minister said that a recent Court of Appeal's decision on the use of the word "Allah" does not affect Christians in Sabah and Sarawak.
The 10-point solution was issued by the Najib administration shortly before the Sarawak state election in 2011.
The deal allowed for bibles in Malay and indigenous languages to be distributed freely in Sabah and Sarawak.
But last week's raid on BSM, which holds distribution rights to the AlKitab in Sabah and Sarawak, has now thrown this into doubt.
Bumiputera Christians, who form about 64 per cent or close to two-thirds of the Christian community in Malaysia, have used the word "Allah" when praying and speaking in the national language and their native tongues for centuries.
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Part of history from the beginning of mankind is using cooking techniques enabling food to be kept so that none of it will be wasted and food reserves can be established. Ways of preserving meat — confit, pate, sausage, bacon, ham, smoked salmon, smoked trout, lox and salmon cured with salt and seasoning are all part of the specialty called charcuterie — salting, smoking and cooking meat.
The word charcuterie combines two French words — char (flesh) and cuit (cooked). The term was originally limited to pork but over time these techniques have been used on other meats and foods.
The word confit literally means preserved. This was a French technique in which duck, for example, was salted for a period of time and then poached in its own fat, then immersed in that fat and kept until needed, Ruhlman said.
Charcutiers were esteemed French tradesmen, who belonged to guilds, and who played an essential role in maintaining the food supply in their communities, said Ruhlman.
While charcuterie is an ever-present part of the European culinary scene, it is less prevalent in Oklahoma.
Nonetheless, there are places that offer it — Ludivine in Oklahoma City being one of them. Ludivine, 805 N. Hudson in OKC, has a charcuterie platter on the menu offering country pate, rabbit liver mousse, rabbit rillettes, house cured salmon, Berkshire Lardo, foie gras mousse and a daily cheese selection.
Another establishment gaining a reputation for curing meat on site is Fassler Hall, which makes all of its sausage in house with Oklahoma-sourced pork. A few of the sausages offered at the two locations (Tulsa and OKC) are — bratwurst, lamb sausage, hot Italian sausage and the hunter, a sausage made from venison, buffalo and pork. Duck fat fries come free with each order.
In Oklahoma salting and smoking may have been the preferred method to preserve meats.
Salt not only flavors meat, it preserves it by disabling the microbes that feed on food. Salt pulls water out of the meat and thereby dehydrates it.
Sauerkraut, a tasty addition to a sausage meal, is basically salted cabbage. Olives, a staple of charcuterie platters, when soaked in saltwater are transformed from a bitter fruit into a delicious one.
The Egyptians were possibly the first to brine olives. According to the authors of "Charcuterie," the Egyptians "were possibly the first people to preserve food with salt on a large scale," which they used for their own food supply and for trade.
The authors said, because the Egyptians did not consume swine, the Celts were said to have invented ham during the Iron Age, around 1,000 B.C. The Celts shared ham with the Romans. A favorite ham of the Romans was Westphalia, which endures as one of the world's finest hams. Westpahalia is a region in today's northwestern Germany.
Viking, who preserved cod, were sustained by this cured fish as they traveled to distant shores.
Long journeys became possible only when cultures learned to preserve large amounts of food, Ruhlman said.
"Curing with salt and smoking go hand in hand," Ruhlman stated. Smoking inhibits microbes that would spoil meat and impart flavor. That flavor changes depending on the wood used.
"It's critical to use only hardwoods in smoking foods," Ruhlman said. He recommends, hickory, maple and fruitwoods while soft woods should be avoided because they contain unpalatable sap, or resin.
Ruhlman recommends using fruitwoods for a mild sweet smoked flavor and pear for smoking fish. Cherry is popular in Michigan to create smoked duck, he said.
"The pairing of applewood smoke and bacon is so felicitous it's become almost commonplace," Ruhlman wrote.
Home cooks can easily hot smoke, or cook meats at a temperature at or above 150 degrees, in a smoker. Ruhlman recommends 180 degrees as optimal for hot smoking sausages and 200 degrees for smoking whole cuts of meat.
Home cooks should take note that most recipes involving smoking require pink salt, or sodium nitrite, as a preservative against botulism poisoning, Ruhlman said. However, food that goes from the refrigerator to the hot smoker doesn't require pink salt, he added.
If you have a story of your family or ancestors curing meat by salting or smoking, email me at rmckee@examiner-enterprise.com.


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Ok, so I was editing some info in my profile, and I noticed that there was a space for a username change.
Naturally, I was confused because I thought only administrators could change usernames, so I tested the tool and attempted to change my name from Julianne to Mermaid Julianne. To my surprise, it actually worked, but after attempting to change my username back it says my previous username is taken. Is that because we are only allowed one username change? Or did I somehow change my account? I only ask because the tool says "You have changed your username 1 out of an allowed 5 times."
But my main question is can we change our own usernames now? Has this been a thing for a while? Because I know that there is a username change thread that people are still currently using.
Edit: I just noticed there is a new tab on my profile called Username History. Is this permanent? Sorry for all the questions, I'm just really confused right now.
hmmm... im confused about this too.
Especially since theres at least 10 people in the changing usernames thread waiting for a change, if this is how it works now then I think they should be notified so they don't have to keep waiting. But I wouldn't want to do that until all the facts are straight.
Edit: I've found the new tab too.
OH NO YOU FOUND IT! Lol ok so the feature is there but is still being tested. It is not approved yet, so let's wait on using it until we get the green light from Iona and Nate, ok?
Haha ok. Thanks thanks for the tip. I guess it'll be announced when it's ready?
Well, I already used it (sorry I'm a curious person) so should I try to reverse my name? I put a formerly known in my signature cause thats what usually needs to happen. If you dont want anyone else to know about it, should I have the thread deleted?
Thank god I didn't write something dumb to test like Spoopy. I'm having nightmares just thinking about it.
No, that's fine. So far it seems like it is working. Thank you for adding "formerly known as..." to your signature.
I am concerned about that. Users are only allowed to change their name a single time. Does the place where it lets you change your name mention that it can only be changed once? Because if it doesn't, I'm concerned that people might change their name impulsively without realizing that names can't be changed back.
Yeah it says you have changed your name 1 out of 5 alotted times. I actually tried to change it back to my original "Julianne" right afterwards but it said the name was already taken.
I figured once it said that that the rule of being able to change your name only once still applied, but like you said new people on the forum might not know that.
So I tried out the New Username in Settings. Above the square to put your new name it says "You can change this as many times as you would like"
malinghi (http://mernetwork.com/index/member.php?1-malinghi) - here's a screenshot of the name change as I see it, without having used it.
Well I think you can change your name again if you donate to the forum or you welcome 10 people to mernetwork, at least thats what I remember it being.
Users get one free name change. Our policy is now that if a user wants another name change after their first is used, that they can still have one more. You just have to do one of the following- 1) greet 20 new users in the Introductions section of the forum (this can take some time depending on how many users are joining) or 2) Make a small donation to MerNetwork (over $1 otherwise it all gets eaten up by PayPal fees). When you've done either of those two, PM an admin.
I'm asking Malinghi what I did in case there has been a change due to the new form.
Golden Pearl/Mermaid GP/Oshun was probably an oversight. My being allowed to go back to my original name was possibly because it was going back and not a second change, not really.
Thank you for letting me know it says that. I've disabled the name change feature until I can test it more. Hopefully I can do that this weekend.
And as for name changes, it is possible that the people who changed names more than once paid a small donation, or it could have been an oversight. The current method of having admins make the change manually is susceptible to error.
Okay, I've now set the modification to allow users to change their names every 10000 days (or every 27 years). This in effect accomplishes the same result as setting the feature to only allow users to change their name once, but unlike setting a limit on the number of changes, it displays this information in a way that lets the user know that they can only change their name once.
Everyone, let me know if you have any problems with this. I made a new thread to discuss this feature. Questions and comments should be posted there.
Technically, I set it to only allow one name change, and then I set it to require a 27 year delay before people can try to change it again. I didn't remove the one change per person thing though, so after 27 years... you're still not allowed to change it if you've used up your one time only name change.
Seriously though we've talked about allowing additional name changes for a small fee that can go toward operations costs for the site. We'll probably do that, but I wanted to check with Winged Mermaid before saying it officially.


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Q: How to set up an integral to find the volume of this solid of revolution? I am asked to find the area between the curves $y=x^3$,$y=x$ that rotate around the axis $x=2$. The integral that I set up was $$V=\int_{1}^{2}\pi\left(y-y^{1/3}\right)^2dy\space + \int_{2}^{8}\pi\left(2-y^{1/3})^2\right)dy\approx3.23$$
This is incorrect because the answer should be $2\pi$ what did I do wrong and how do I find this volume ?

A: The intersections of the functions are $(-1,-1),(0,0),(1,1)$. Setup your problem like so $$\int_{-1}^{0}2\pi(2-x)(-x+x^3)dx \quad+\quad \int_{0}^{1}2\pi(2-x)(-x+x^3)dx \\ =\frac{19\pi}{15}+\frac{11\pi}{15} \longrightarrow\frac{30\pi}{15}\longrightarrow 2\pi$$

A: It is easier if you use cylindrical shell method.  $$ V=\int_{-1}^{0}2\pi(2-x)(x^3-x)dx + \int _0^1 2\pi (2-x)(x-x^3)dx  = 2\pi $$

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Our last post was on the protein needs of cats. It's important to note that senior cats have slightly different nutritional needs, just as kittens do. Kittens need slightly MORE protein than adult cats and contrary to conventional wisdom out there, senior cats protein intake does not necessarily need to be decreased, but it should be closely monitored. Senior cats frequently suffer from chronic kidney disease (CKD) and overfeeding protein, especially some of the poor quality protein found in dry kibble can make that condition much worse.
CKD is not easy to detect until it is well advanced and must be diagnosed through the use of medical tests. Since CKD is a chronic, slow to develop disease, it is thought that many cats over the age of ten suffer from the disease, so many "senior" cat foods are made with lower levels of protein. In theory, that's not a bad thing, but as cats age, they are also susceptible to sarcopenia or loss of muscle mass due to aging and reduced protein levels may make that condition worse.
This is why an automatic switch to a lower level of protein may not be beneficial to your cat. If you decide to go with a senior cat food, be sure and read the label and monitor your cats condition and reaction to the food. The fact is that many healthy senior cats still require high protein diets to thrive.
It is important to note that unlike many other mammals, including humans, a cats caloric needs do not decrease as they age, so it's important to maintain proper nutritional requirements, including protein throughout their lives.
In addition, some diseases such as diabetes require nutritional adjustments, so be prepared to work with your veterinarian and carefully examine your cat food ingredients and body condition in order to make proper adjustments for your cat.
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Funny their calorie needs don't change…I guess napping burns the same amount at any age – LOL!
I tend not to buy age related food, other than kitten or puppy food. We give senior vitamins to the cats instead and just keep them on a good high quality food. A lot of time the senior foods are lower calories, which is the last thing Conrad needs….we can barely keep weight on him as it is!
It's rare that a senior really needs that different food. Just adjust the amounts.
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the kidneys have to be 75% damaged before you notice a problem. By that time it might be too late so have to do things ahead of time and like you said monitor very closely.


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(TRENTON) – In response to Governor Chris Christie's call to convene a session of the Legislature today at 2 p.m., Assemblyman Reed Gusciora (D-Mercer/Hunterdon) released the following statement:
"I will not be attending the session called by Governor Christie today, just as I was not allowed to attend as a member of the public on Saturday.
"Yesterday, as I tried to enter the Senate Gallery to listen to Governor Christie's address, I was turned away at the door by the Sergeant-at-Arms. Since I wasn't carrying my credentials, I tried gaining access as a member of the public. Notwithstanding, myself and many others were refused access as public citizens to hear our Governor speak about a budget that impacts all of our lives in fundamental ways. This was in a building and during a proceeding that should have been open to the public.
"Governor Christie has taken a page out of the Trump playbook – speak to a room of adoring fans, and thereby drown out the chorus of valid criticisms coming from just outside the door. He has become so insulated in an echo-chamber of conservative politics that a vengeance-driven raid on Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield, which will undoubtedly hurt the insurer's 3.8 million policyholders, seems like a good idea. He is so disconnected from what it means to be a resident of this state that he is unwilling to listen to the thousands of men and women from all walks of life, and from both sides of the aisle, that condemn this move as foolish and destabilizing.
"I take issue with much of what Governor Christie has done during his time in office, but the last 72 hours definitively prove what many members of the Democratic caucus and I have been saying for years: we are not dealing with a man who cares about the best interests of New Jersey, but rather with one whose primary goal is to bully us into accepting a radical, immoral agenda that serves to enrich his cronies. He and his legislative cohorts are holding our budget negotiations hostage and doing so away from the public eye in an attempt to obfuscate corrupt backroom deals.
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PUBG Mobile is one of the most popular and adventurous survival games. With the Windows version, you can enjoy the game's action-packed, fast sequences on a large-sized screen. It's easy to get addicted to the game, especially with the unpredictable gameplay and strategy-based action sequences. In the Battle Royale game developed by Tencent Games, 100 players are pitted against each other, deserted on an island with several weapons and unorthodox items. Since there's a multiplayer mode, PUBG for Windows has become immensely popular among users around the world.
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PUBG Mobile, or Playerunknown Battlegrounds, has been designed exclusively from the official mobile game. While you can enjoy the game on a larger screen, it replicates the maps, environments, challenges, weapons, and more. In this online multiplayer game, you can indulge in super intense, fast-paced action sequences.
There's also a Player vs Player shooter mode. Up to 100 players can battle to survive in a large-scale deathmatch. The last man remaining wins the game. Survival is the key in this strategy-based action-adventure. On a large screen, everything feels better, and you're able to have more fun. Compared to Grand Theft Auto V and Project IGI, this game is more engaging in the action gaming genre.
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When you start the game, an airplane drops all the players on a deserted island. The only way to get out of the island is to become the lone survivor. Since the game involves up to 100 players, it seems impossible to win the battle against such a huge number of participants. Unfortunately, the developers expect you to learn from experience, and you won't find any tutorials in the Windows version.
PUBG has always been known for its exciting and abundant maps. With different terrain and expansive routes, you need to build a solid strategy to survive. Throughout the game, you're vulnerable to attacks and need to use various weapons to keep yourself safe. While playing the game, you'll find plenty of abandoned houses, buildings, factories, and warehouses. In the huge maps, weapons can be found scattered in different locations. In fact, you can also leverage wearable armor, gear, and other items to inflict damage upon your enemies.
Does PUBG Mobile offer fast-paced action?
Compared to Call of Duty: Warzone and Call of Duty: Modern Warfare, PUBG Mobile comes with fast-paced action sequences. If you want to consider gameplay, it's worth mentioning that the mechanics and rules are straightforward. All you need to do is an attack, defend, defeat, and survive. Interestingly, there's a new threat at every step in the game. With enemies all around you, it becomes difficult to dodge silencers, snipers, monster trucks, and unorthodox disguises.
Like most battle royale games, PUBG Mobile comes with an ever-shrinking safe zone. If you venture outside this zone, it becomes even more difficult to survive. It's worth mentioning that the playing zone gets smaller with every passing minute. It forces you to eventually face other players. As such, there's absolutely no use of hiding and missing the action. You need to be on your toes all the time, trying to kill your enemies.
While it's not bad to venture into the unknown, you need to be prepared for the worst. It's important to have a solid strategy to plan every movement. PUBG Mobile is an addictive, fun, and challenging game with fast-paced action. Though it's not easy to win, the adventurous ride is worth every minute you spend on the screen.
Is PUBG Mobile a good choice for Windows?
With the tremendous popularity of the game, it was only a matter of time until PUBG would be made available on multiple platforms. Tencent Games finally released PUBG for Windows, and it has been an excellent decision. PUBG Mobile even comes with an emulator, which allows users to replicate the Android screen on a Microsoft Windows computer. In order to make things interesting, you can use the emulator to play several other games, such as Auto Chess and Mobile Legends.
With PUBG Mobile, you don't have to worry about missing out on the latest events, versions, and updates. Even without a mobile device, every feature of the game will be accessible on your computer. Most importantly, PUBG for Windows lets you enjoy the game on a larger screen, which ensures better performance and more exciting gameplay. Since the controls are easy to use and simple, you won't have a hard time adjusting to the Windows PC.
With support for keyboard and mouse, the game feels faster and more accurate. Just like other FPS games, PUBG Mobile requires you to focus on smoother and flexible gameplay. While you may experience occasional lags on Windows PCs, it will still be a fun ride without any issue.
PUBG Mobile isn't a heavy-duty game and runs well on Windows PCs. Therefore, it doesn't affect system performance. If your Windows PC can play other FPS games without any issues, you wouldn't experience any problems with this one. Without a doubt, PUBG Mobile is an excellent choice for hardcore PUBG fans, and gamers interested in action and battle royale genres.
An amazing action game for Windows PCs!
Compared to other games in the action genre, PUBG Mobile offers a lot to fans, especially with the Windows version. On a large-sized screen, it's even more fun, exciting, and adventurous. Since the game tries to be creative at every step, you'll never feel bored or monotonous.
PUBG Mobile is available in multiple game modes and allows you to fight against several players in one go. One game mode even includes zombie attacks, which force you to plan strategies to defend yourself against the dead as well as the living. Throughout the game, PUBG keeps you at the edge of your seat, ensuring you have a roller-coaster ride.
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The Gaming Buddy app, developed by the Tencent studio, allows you to play Android video games on your PC.
This installer downloads its own emulator along with the PUBG Mobile videogame. That means you can play it using Windows and adapt the control system to your keyboard and mouse. Plus, you don't need any special knowledge, since the tool basically installs everything that's needed to play automatically. So, you'll be shooting after just five minutes.
The development of a game is simple: you'll get to participate in a battle royale in which 100 real players (although you can also find some bots) will face each other on an island that's packed full of weapons. Only one of you can be left standing. You'll have to move around the setting to equip yourself with the best possible weaponry and move towards the play area, which will decrease as the time goes by.
Originally, PUBG Mobile only had the aforementioned 'battle royale' mode, but new settings and modes were added to updated versions of the game. In fact, one of the game's most popular modes is team deathmatch, in which two teams of four players face each other inside a very small setting. The first team to reach forty points wins the game.
You can modify the level of graphic detail using the settings menu. This feature is helpful in case you need to adjust the look of the game to your computer capabilities. By default, the game detects the best configuration for you, but you can customize the settings manually if you prefer. You can also customize the controls, both when you're on foot and driving a vehicle.
PUBG Mobile (Tencent Gaming Buddy) is a great way to enjoy PUBG Mobile on your PC. As far as the visuals are concerned, the game has little or nothing to envy to the original version of PCs and consoles.
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reviewed on April 9, 2020
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Not Bad. It's a free Game. So, as far as it's free, can't expect much out of it.
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Royal Wootton Bassett Academy
Data and Examinations
Summer 2019 Exam Results
Student Destination Data
Alternative Baccalaureate
Exam Access Arrangements
Wootton Bassett School
Oasis Restaurant
Careers and World of Work
iPads and Mobile Devices
Empowering Young People
Safeguarding at RWBA
Parent and Student Voice
Study Skills and Revision Support
Exam Pressure Support
Governor Service Records
For eligible students, all transport contracts are fixed and organised by the Passenger Transport Unit at County Hall, Trowbridge. For pupils of compulsory school age (Years 7-11) free transport is provided for students if they live in the Academy transport catchment area and are at least 3 miles from school.
The Council policy provides an offer of transport assistance to students aged 16-19 living at least 3 miles from school but in the School transport catchment area. The cost for the bus pass for 2019/2020 is £781.00. Students will receive a pass which will allow them to travel to and from school on services arranged by the Local Authority for the academic year. If total household income is less than £20,819 for the year 2018/19 Wiltshire Council requires to see all pages of the Tax Credit Award Notice 2018/2019 and a reduced rate would be offered at £231.00.
Royal Wootton Bassett Academy provides extensive subsidised bus services for students living outside the catchment area. The cost of this is £700.00 (2019/2020) per academic year.
Students who travel on school transport are issued with a bus pass, which they must present to the driver for verification on each and every journey.
Students catch and board the buses in the prescribed bays at the front of the School at 3:00pm. It is expected that behaviour on school transport will be exemplary at all times and a Transport Behaviour Contract is agreed and signed by all parents and students in order to ensure the best standards of behaviour on school buses. The Academy reserves the right to remove students from its transport services if these standards of behaviour are not adhered to.
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Proud to be part of the Royal Wootton Bassett Academy Trust
© 2020 Royal Wootton Bassett Academy Trust. Registered office: Lime Kiln, Royal Wootton Bassett, Swindon, Wiltshire, SN4 7HG.
Registered in England and Wales. Company number: 07569743.


This month's show has some fascinating guests including, Liv Rainey-Smith, an esoteric artist specializing in hand-pulled woodcut prints. Her bold figure-oriented imagery is drawn upon history, nature, dream, and vision for inspiration. Rainey-Smith's process incorporates a mixture of traditional and modern tools as well as a blend of European and Japanese printmaking technique. She prints primarily in small editions.
Next we have children's illustrator and writer, Hazel Mitchell. Originally from Yorkshire, UK , but currently living and working in Maine. Hazel attended art college in York and Sunderland ,UK, and then ran away to sea. The Royal Navy taught her to be a graphic designer.She left the Navy and ran a printing business in England, but now she is doing what she has always dreamed of - illustrating and writing children's books. Her publishing clients include Charlesbridge, Makinac Island Press, Kane and Miller, Freespirit, Beacon Publishing and SCBWI.
And, our final interview is with comic book artist and illustrator Terrance Brown II. He is the creator of the upcoming "Yug the Inexplicable", and is currently adapting the 2005 novel "Origin:Unknown" by Edward HolsclawII and Wendy M Easton into a full length graphic novel due for completion in 2013. He has also worked on Bleating Goats Comic's "Lucidity #1", and" #2" and has done pinups and comics for "No Man's Land", and is a guest on Glen Hammond's "Lamia Rising" with Tim Vigil. He resides in Phoenix, Arizona with a stunning array of dogs and cats.
Join us on Tuesday for insight into an artist's world.


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Rigas domkyrka (lettiska: Rīgas doms) är den protestantiska domkyrkan i Riga i Lettland. Den byggdes vid floden Daugava under 1200-talet av Albert av Riga och är den största medeltida kyrkan i Baltikum.

Katedralen har byggts om flera gånger under historien. Domkyrkan är ett av Rigas mest kända landmärken.

Källor
Insight into History of Riga Cathedral, läst 16 maj 2010

Externa länkar

Domkyrkans webbplats

Byggnader i Riga
Kyrkobyggnader i Lettland
Vecriga


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Docs EN: http://hack4sec.pro/wiki/index.php/WebScout_en
Docs RU: http://hack4sec.pro/wiki/index.php/WebScout
License: MIT
Copyright (c) Anton Kuzmin <http://anton-kuzmin.ru> (ru) <http://anton-kuzmin.pro> (en)

Unit tests for SpiderRequestsCounter
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from Common import Common
from classes.SpiderRequestsCounter import SpiderRequestsCounter

class Test_SpiderRequestsCounter(Common):
    """Unit tests for SpiderRequestsCounter"""
    model = None

    def setup(self):
        self.model = SpiderRequestsCounter(2)

    def test_main(self):
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Price of Top-Tier Birth Control Plummets as New IUD Breaks Monopoly
Valerie Tarico,
Valerie Tarico's Blog
"When you can't afford a choice it's not a choice at all."
This month, a new IUD became available to American women, and it may be a game changer, not because the design is particularly innovative but because it shatters the monopoly that has put top tier contraceptives out of reach for many women and made them less available in primary care settings.
Around the world, intrauterine contraception is one of the most widely used forms of reversible birth control. It is also the method most widely used by OB-GYN doctors, for good reason: an IUD is more than 20 times as effective as the Pill. It is also far cheaper in the long run. That is true even without taking into account the saved financial costs of contraceptive failure that produces abortion, pregnancy-caused health problems, or unsought childbearing.
Get the latest news and thought-provoking analysis from Truthout.
Low Costs, Prohibitive Pricing
When I say cheaper, I mean a lot cheaper. A nonhormonal copper IUD costs as little as 40 cents U.S. to produce, and according to recent research, keeps working for as long as 20 years. (That's the production cost of a single box of condoms.) A hormonal IUD, which is preferred by many women because it makes periods lighter and less frequent and has other health benefits, costs a bit more. But the production cost is still remarkably inexpensive once research and development costs are paid back.
But monopoly pricing has put top tier birth control methods like IUD's and implants out of reach for many women in the United States. My two daughters got hormonal IUD's before heading to college, paid for by our "cadillac" medical insurance. The total bill for each of them was close to $1200, with the IUD itself being about two thirds of that. Today retail pricing on IUDs in the U.S. ranges from around $650 to $900 without the insertion procedure. By contrast, an IUD in Canada can cost as little as one tenth as much.
Even at these exorbitant prices, an IUD more than pays for itself over time, which is why monopolists have gotten away with pushing the pricing so high; but the upfront cost can be an insurmountable barrier for women without either excellent insurance or a flush bank account. That has been a tremendous frustration for people who care about fair access to family planning—or about social justice or gender equality, or flourishing families more broadly.
When pregnancy comes unsought, dreams and goals can get knocked aside, whether those are big future-oriented dreams like college education or military service, or small every-day ones, like parent time for kids already at home. A women who isn't in control of her fertility isn't in control of her life, and when prohibitive pricing forces women to rely on less reliable birth control methods, poor families get hit the hardest.
The two most popular IUDs on the market in the United States, the copper Paragard and the hormonal Mirena, were developed by the Population Council, a nonprofit with the express mission of serving women across the income spectrum. But once the technology was licensed to pharmaceutical companies, the drive to maximize profits took over and safeguards to ensure broad access failed.
Barriers after Affordable Care Act
The Affordable Care Act required that insurance plans cover all FDA approved contraceptives without a co-pay, but the high IUD cost has remained a barrier for many women. Some women are not covered because they work for Hobby Lobby types (whose sincerely held religious beliefs about how IUD's function are, by the way, factually wrong). Other women are undocumented and have to pay all medical care out of pocket.
Clinics serving low income women sometimes ration the best contraceptives to contain costs. Others order an expensive IUD only after a woman comes in asking for one, which requires her to make a second visit. When women need emergency contraception, doctors sometimes offer cheaper pills rather than the more effective copper IUD, and despite the fact that this violates ethical informed consent standards, they may not tell a woman that a much more effective method is available, should she prefer it.
Even for insured women, insurance companies seeking to cut costs may use a "reasonable management" loophole and require a woman to try a series of other methods first before she can get long acting birth control. And many don't cover an IUD or implant inserted at the time of labor and delivery, even though this is the best way to prevent rapid repeat pregnancies.
In other words, the high up front cost of long acting contraceptives creates pressure on both doctors and insurance companies to offer substandard medical care.
Philanthropic – Private Partnership
Enter Medicines360, a mission-driven pharmaceutical company with a focus on removing barriers that keep women from getting the best contraceptive choices, including awareness, education and cost. The company spent the past six years working to bring American women an affordable choice. The Liletta IUD, which is comparable in shape and function to the Mirena, will be offered to federally qualified health centers serving low income women for less than one fifth of what they are paying today, and will substantially drop wholesale IUD price for other clinics as well.
With funding from an anonymous foundation, Medicines360 combined a widely used medical device material and contraceptive hormone, and then took Liletta, a 52mg levonorgestrel-releasing intrauterine system through the research and FDA regulatory process. Their study included more than 1500 women from age 16 to 45, across the race and weight spectrum, both those who have and have not had babies. At the three year mark, results showed that the IUD was comparably safe and effective across all of these groups. The research is ongoing, and if similar products are any indicator, Liletta probably will be effective for five to seven years.
Choices Save Lives
No family planning method is a fit for every woman, and no effective method is side effect free. But because pregnancy itself is inherently risky, all common birth control methods are safer than not using contraception, and the most effective methods have the best health outcomes overall. Over 600 American women die each year from pregnancy and childbearing, around 200 of those from pregnancies they hadn't intended. Millions have short or long-term medical problems. For a woman who wants a child, the risks are well worth it; but they place a huge health burden on those who might prefer not to have another baby, or to wait. Dropping the cost of excellent long acting contraceptives reduces this burden on those who are least able to take the hit of a surprise pregnancy, women who are young and poor.
In coming years, other contraceptive technologies, now in the pipeline, may offer women a still wider range of options. The Population Council is currently testing a vaginal ring that is good for up to 12 months in contrast to today's NuvaRing, which much be replaced each month and requires refrigeration until used. An "intrauterine ball" that looks more like jewelry than contraception recently became available in some European countries. And we still need better birth control for men! But breaking the IUD monopoly is a great step in terms of giving more women another choice, because as Dr. David Eisenberg at Washington University puts it, "When you can't afford a choice, it's not a choice at all."
Valerie Tarico
Valerie Tarico is a psychologist. She is the author of Trusting Doubt: A Former Evangelical Looks at Old Beliefs in a New Light. She is also the founder of WisdomCommons.org.
Reproductive Justice: Coming Out of the Abortion Closet
The Democratic Party stopped patronizing women into feeling like abortion is something they should apologize for.
Dennis Trainor Jr,
Acronym TV With Dennis Trainor, Jr.


31-10-2010. Category: Games. News Type: Site. By: Bradley Beeck. Comments(0).
November... OMG it's nearly Christmas! Which means one of the year's biggest games is also here - Call of Duty: Black Ops, accompanied by God of War: Ghost of Sparta, Assassins Creed: Brotherhood, Donkey Kong Country Returns, and Majin and the Forsaken Kingdom. All release dates are for the US and subject to change and the video may contain mature content. Other notable releases this month include: Epic Mickey.


The International Association of Fire Chiefs and the National Volunteer Fire Council coordinate the annual event, which began in 2005.
Planned activities include helping individual firefighters recognize when they are in a "MAYDAY" situation and when they need to remove themselves from a situation, as well as using "rapid intervention" to work together to rescue a trapped firefighter.
Organizers are encouraging fire agencies to abort non-emergency activities during the week to concentrate on providing training related to the theme.


Wardrobes fit for all your clothes and more!
We can offer a great number of wardrobe options for your home here at Kerri's farmhouse pine. If you are looking for a small wardrobe for a snug space or a large wardrobe for an ample space we are sure to have something to fit. We've got single wardrobes with shelves and triple door wardrobes with drawers, so many choices to help you organise your space your way, all made here at Kerri's farmhouse pine in Norfolk. If the wardrobe you like is not quite the right size please ask as we may be able to alter the width to fit. All of our furniture have a number of different styles and finishes available, please check the Styling and Finishes pages for more details. We have shown a number of different styles on this page. PLEASE NOTE THAT ALL THE DIMENSIONS GIVEN ARE THE MAXIMUM FULL WIDTH MEASUREMENT, WHICH IS AT THE TOP OF THE PIECE FURNITURE.


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special feature: | Future NL
Portrait of a mother
Psychology study shines a light on the N.L. mother experience
special feature: Future NL
Part of a special feature focusing on how the Memorial community is contributing to the direction of Newfoundland and Labrador.
By Kelly Foss
The motherhood experience of women in Newfoundland and Labrador is the focus of a recent Memorial University study.
Dr. Julie Gosselin, an associate professor in the Department of Psychology, Faculty of Science, and Shannon Bedford, a doctoral student in the PsyD program, spent three years collecting data from more than 1,000 biological, adoptive, married, single, separated, divorced and widowed mothers and stepmothers of children 18 years and under from across the province.
"We had a terrific level of engagement from the community," said Dr. Gosselin.
"There was strong interest from mothers who felt they were finally being asked about their experience. This has always frustrated me about family research. Everyone recognizes that mothers are important, but no one pays much attention to them. They get asked about their kids a lot, but few ever ask, 'What's it like for you?'"
From left are Dr. Julie Gosselin and Shannon Bedford.
Photo: Rich Blenkinsopp
The aim of the study was to increase understanding of the motherhood experience through better knowledge of the impact of psychological distress, sense of parental competence, social support and satisfaction with family life and co-parenting.
It also investigated province-specific issues related to geographic inequalities and access to social and health services.
"With that data, we were able to create a demographic portrait of motherhood here in the province," said Ms. Bedford. "One of the interesting things we found was that, in a lot of cases, there weren't many differences between mothers."
They did not find stark differences between urban and rural populations, and generally, found family structures in the province to be fairly traditional.
Mobile relationships
One detail the women noticed was the high prevalence of moms, and in particular rural moms, who had a partner who works away.
"It was shocking that almost 41 per cent of our sample had been in a mobile relationship," said Ms. Bedford. "In fact, it was so common, yet we found few differences between mothers who were and who weren't in a mobile relationship."
Women who have to mother alone most of the time, such as single mothers, are known to experience higher stress and to have a poorer socio-economic experience.
Some of the findings from the study are shown in the slide above, which was used in the researchers' presentations.
But that was not the case with mothers whose partners worked elsewhere.
"We felt perhaps, because it was so common here, that these mothers don't feel as marginalized as single or divorced mothers who parent on their own the majority of the time," said Dr. Gosselin.
"It's so embedded in the culture here. But it also shows a resilience in the way that women do motherhood in Newfoundland and Labrador."
Mom self-esteem
The researchers were also interested in how satisfied women felt with their role as a mother and how competent they felt.
Factors like maternal age, mental health, co-parenting communication and the relationship with their child all had an impact on how they felt, says Ms. Bedford.
"Younger mothers were more comfortable with their parenting role, which surprised us, because you would think older moms would feel that way," she said. "Our hypothesis is that new mothers have more supports and older moms may be more on their own."
Mothers who believed they had positive interactions with their co-parent felt that they were doing a better job – highlighting the importance of partner feedback – while healthy children and child-parent relationships that were close and low in conflict made a mother feel more satisfied with her role.
Nurturing resilience
A notable finding was that good mental well-being had positive impacts on both satisfaction and efficacy.
"That really speaks to the importance of prioritizing a mom's mental health," said Ms. Bedford. "We know that feeling confident as a parent helps the whole family, and we know that good mental health equals feeling confident as a parent. So, we need to help prevent mothers from getting to the point where they are not functioning well, because it impacts everyone in the family."
This was highlighted by the fact that mothers who reported poorer mental health also reported accessing more health and social services for themselves and their children.
"We need to help prevent mothers from getting to the point where they are not functioning well, because it impacts everyone." — Shannon Bedford
Dr. Gosselin says that while the survey results show a healthy, educated population, mothers are still facing issues around mental health.
She says that the study sample indicates women who have a lot going for them, families with fewer resources are much less likely to participate in this kind of research.
"I think we can extrapolate that the trends we found here could be exacerbated for families with additional stressors. From our own findings, the more adverse events women face, the poorer their experience of parenting becomes, as well as their satisfaction and self-esteem. So, what we see here may just be the tip of the iceberg."
Kelly Foss is a communications advisor with the Faculty of Science. She can be reached at kfoss@mun.ca.
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In the wake of new cookie legislation in Canada and the EU, the New York Times reported . The move fits nicely with Twitter's vision of being about the transmission of news and information from user to user, as compared to Facebook which conveys information about the user itself. In addition to Firefox, Chrome and IE also offer the ability to enable Do Not Track, and Yahoo has plans to introduce in the near future. When the DNT is enabled in the browser, Twitter can't track that page visit. Mozilla reports that adoption rates for Do Not Track are currently around 9% for desktop users, and 19% for mobile users.that Twitter has allowed Firefox users, and those of browsers with similar capabilities, to enable "do not track" mode. This allows Twitter users who have enabled DNT to opt out of the cookies that collect personal information, as well as third-party cookies; it provides them the choice to avoid being tracked. It seems incongruous with the nature of social media, but represents a huge move in providing choice, privacy and differentiation from other social networks.
In a new twist on review solicitation, customers have the opportunity to post a positive or negative review of a Sears product. Then they have the option to vote for a charity. Sears donates money for each vote and every other week; they eliminate the charity with the lowest number of votes. The last charity standing wins $100,000 for their cause. Sears gets reviews, the charities make money, consumers feel heard…and all of this happens within a Facebook page.
This morning, 80 million Google Places pages were converted by new Google+ Local pages, evidence of the predicted convergence of Google Places and Google+ Pages. This is part of a series of changes that will affect business owners who have pages on Google+ that started with the appearance of a Local tab.
If you are logged into Google+, Local information will be available in all searches and through Google Maps. It is also available through Android phones. If you are not logged in, you will still see Zagat reviews, but will not have access to customized preferences like where those in your Circles dine. The new functionality also features integration with Open Table.The Local tab provides insight about the places near where the user may be; as an example, finding a restaurant near a museum you are visiting. It further provides the ability to share that information amongst your Circles. Leveraging their purchase of Zagat, pages are populated with Zagat scores, reviews and summaries.
What's caught your interest in social media this week?


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Een vijfhoekige orthogonale dubbelkoepel is in de meetkunde het johnsonlichaam J30. Deze ruimtelijke figuur kan worden geconstrueerd door twee vijfhoekige koepels J5 met hun congruente grondvlakken op elkaar te plaatsen. Hetzelfde geldt voor een gedraaide vijfhoekige dubbelkoepel J31, maar het verschil is dat beide vijfhoekige koepels in de twee figuren 36° verschillend ten opzichte van elkaar zijn gedraaid.

De 92 johnsonlichamen werden in 1966 door Norman Johnson benoemd en beschreven.

  MathWorld. Pentagonal Orthobicupola.

Johnson-lichaam


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using UnityEngine;

namespace NaughtyAttributes.Test
{
    public class ShowNativePropertyTest : MonoBehaviour
    {
        [ShowNativeProperty]
        private Transform Transform
        {
            get
            {
                return transform;
            }
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        private Transform ParentTransform
        {
            get
            {
                return transform.parent;
            }
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        private ushort MyUShort
        {
            get
            {
                return ushort.MaxValue;
            }
        }

        [ShowNativeProperty]
        private short MyShort
        {
            get
            {
                return short.MaxValue;
            }
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        [ShowNativeProperty]
        private ulong MyULong
        {
            get
            {
                return ulong.MaxValue;
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        {
            get
            {
                return long.MaxValue;
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Q: Trying to refactor this FileStream .NET code I've got the following Stream code . and I feel that it's really old and ugly and that there should be a cleaner way to do this.
// Write the current chunk to the stream.
using (var fileStream = new FileStream(tempPath, currentChunk == 0 ?
                                                     FileMode.Create :
                                                     FileMode.Append))
{
    var buffer = new byte[uploadedFile.Length];
    uploadedFile.Read(buffer, 0, buffer.Length);
    fileStream.Write(buffer, 0, buffer.Length);
}

What is it doing?
I upload a file in chunks. So we either create a new file (when we're at the first chunk, ie chunk == 0) .. or we append the chunk data to an existing file.
I feel that the 3 lines are obsolete and there's a better method that's available to be used.
Yes / No / Maybe?

EDIT: .NET 4.0 is fine by me :)

A: Might Stream.CopyTo work for you?

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.io.stream.copyto.aspx

For what it's worth, though, I don't think this API existed until .NET 4.0.

A: You could look at the File class (System.IO) which provides static methods for messing about with files; so your whole block of code could become this:
File.AppendAllText(path, contentToAppend);

There are other methods like WriteAllBytes(...), WriteAllText(...), or ReadAllText(...)
For reference: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.io.file.aspx