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Australia Medical School Application & Admission Requirements: What you should know when applying
May 2, 2019 - Mevish Jaffer
UAC Application Forms
If you're getting ready to apply to medical school, you're probably asking yourself, "where do I start?" The UAC applications is the first step and coupled with that, it's extremely important for you to also apply directly to the university. This is because students can fall into the trap of applying via UAC alone. They often fail to realise that the medical schools they are applying to will not receive their applications until they have applied directly via each university website.
Choosing a University
The truth is every medical school has undergone an extensive qualification process and are all equally accredited to deliver a quality course in medicine or dentistry. Therefore, you should avoid getting hung up on the notion of only going to a well-known institution or university with an established brand. While you may want to consider key factors such as location, university teaching style, or facilities, a smart strategy for a good chance of entry is applying to as many universities as possible.
How ATAR & UCAT are considered by Medical Schools
The ATAR is a ranking of Year 12 results that measures each students' overall academic achievement compared with all other final year students in Australia (excluding Queensland). The ATAR is a rank, and not a score out of 100. It allows tertiary institutions to compare the overall achievement of all students who have completed Year 12.
The UCAT (university clinical aptitude test), is the medical school admissions aptitude test which replaced the UMAT starting 2019. This test is a 2 hour computer based test made up of 5 sections. The test originated from the UK where it was previously known as the UKCAT (United Kingdom Clinical Aptitude Test). As a medical school applicant you will be aware that an admissions/aptitude test will be part of the process to get into medical school, however this is the first year the UCAT will be used as an entrance exam in Australia and New Zealand, so students will need to search more thoroughly for support with the test.
Try a free UCAT Practice Test
Different universities will vary in the way UCAT and ATAR scores are used. For example, some universities will issue interview offers based on the UCAT, and then will take ATAR / OP into consideration once it becomes available. Some will use both from the start - UCAT and ATAR. On average, each university gets roughly 3000 applications. Depending on the university, 500-600 students on average will receive an interview offer and about 150 undergraduate spots will be issued to students after the interviews.
Based on research from NIE (National Institute of Education), the following are the average ATAR scores required by universities.
The University of Adelaide (Medicine, Dentistry & Oral health) – ATAR 90+
Curtin University (Medicine) – ATAR 95+
Monash University (Medicine) – ATAR 90+
The University of Newcastle (JMP) (Medicine*) – ATAR 94.3 (91.4 rural apps.)
UNSW (Medicine) - ATAR 96+ (2018 lowest was 91.45)
The University of QLD (Medicine PRV & Dentistry) – ATAR 99+
University of Tasmania (Medicine*) – ATAR 95+
The University of Western Australia (Medicine & Dentistry) – ATAR 99+**
Western Sydney University (Medicine) – ATAR 95.5 (93.5 or lower for WS)
Charles Sturt University (Dentistry) – ATAR 93+
James Cook University (Medicine & Dentistry) – ATAR 96+
Bond University – ATAR and psychometric test (Medicine) – ATAR 96+
James Cook University & Bond University do not require the UCAT. For James Cook University, the application and interviews are weighted more heavily. Bond University requires that a psychometric test is taken.
Other universities use the UCAT alongside factors such as academic achievement and interview performance. The factor may be significant or may contribute a small amount to the final outcome. Some universities use the score (sometimes in addition to the above uses) to differentiate between candidates who have 'scored' equally at some point in the process. The UCAT score provides an additional way of ranking such candidates in order to decide who can proceed to the next stage.
Once your application has been reviewed, the universities will decide whether they should invite you to interview. This is the final stage of the application process, which university admissions teams rigorously assess, and so it's a final stage which should be taken equally seriously. The medical schools format their interviews in the following ways:
Semi-Structured Panel Interview
MMI: Multiple Mini Interviews (the increasingly popular option)
Most of them usually stick to a set style, however they also have the right to change the format with very little or no notice at all. So students should keep an open mind when going to each of their interviews and prepare for the different styles.
Next steps to get you started
With this in mind, it's important to apply strategically to medical school. The first tip is to apply to as many as possible and increase your chances of getting in! The next is to review those which require the UCAT. As most use this admissions test as an extra hurdle in the application process, it's important to take this test seriously and to prepare as much as possible for it. You can access the free Online UCAT practice test and UCAT Question Bank Free Trial to familiarise yourself with this exam.
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Hola a todos! Mi reto con el alemán y el español estas finalmente terminado. Debería decir que fue muy interesante para me. i Casi no puedo creer que cuatro meses han ya pasado! Pero esta así.
En esto ultimo mese que ha pasado, tenia el oportunidad de ganar mas confidencia en mi habilidad de hablar el español, incluso si no es perfecto. En verdad, la mayor parte di mi atención y de mi tiempo fueron col alemán que es un poco mas difícil porque tienes reglas y una estructura diferente da que yo conozco. Pero ambos estos idiomas me encantan y no quiero olvidar nada de que he aprendido.
What this challenge made me realize is that I really had a deep interest on the mechanism and process of learning itself.
I want to try and come up with some sort of blueprint for language learning, a formula that could be readily adopted by anyone, and that could possibly be applied to any type of learning.
I'm still not really sure where or to what this quest will lead me to, I guess that's a prerequisite, actually, but I sure know that I'm feeling highly inspired and excited.
It is clear to me that in order to find this blueprint, I have to involve myself in the process of learning, and learn from the way I learn while asking myself if the actions I take and what I go through could possibly be something that everyone could do or experience.
The task of learning two languages in three months was obviously not an easy one, not at all impossible, anyone who's interested could do it, yet it requires such a sheer amount of focus and planning that I was completely taken aback, primarily because of the fact that I was sure that my ability to concentrate was far better that it actually is (ouch!).
The second challenge was the pace at which I had to learn. Usually in language schools, well, for practical reasons, you are exposed to the language for at most a couple of hours a day, three to five days a week (if not less). If I wanted to get any result with either of the languages, I had to live it, make it not only relevant but necessary for me. I could do this at times, but often I would revert to English simply out of forgetfulness.
I abide by the notion that to truly succeed you need to fail fast. The faster you implement your idea, instead of waiting for the perfect time, the faster you will receive invaluable feedback – yes, often it will come in the form of a precious failure.
That's why I love the concept of undertaking a relatively big task in a barely-enough amount of time. It magnifies your preconception (I'm guilty of underestimating both the Spanish and the German language, this last one, in particular, I thought would be more or less similar to English- ha! the "cases" have had a laugh at me); it shows you your weaknesses; underlies the faults; points you to the mistakes and all in such a short amount of time that you have no excuse to mull over and whine about it, rather you listen and take notice of these previously hidden gems, accept them with gratitude and apply yourself to take care of them.
My journey is far from complete, though. I'm determined to keep on improving my skills in each and every language I take up.
The two languages that I'm ready to experiment with are French (chosen because of its similarity to other Romance languages) and Turkish (chosen out of interest), and although there wasn't initially any type of strategic choice for which I would choose and couple these two together, I now think them to be the perfect pair of "next" languages.
I decided that to learn languages more effectively, almost each language I will choose will be based on the level of difficulty that it has with regard to the languages I already know, even if haven't mastered them, yet.
That means that as a speaker of English, Arabic, Italian, Spanish and German, the languages I should choose will depend on the ease with which I can learn them.
Arabic: Urdu, Farsi, Hebrew, Hindi, Amharic, Hebrew and Tigrinya, possibly also Turkish.
German: Scandinavian languages, particularly Norwegian.
So, based on this list, French is definitely one of the biggest candidate and my most beloved Japanese is nowhere to be seen. Yet, I'm all for studying Japanese. I'm not sure whether I'll learn Korean or Japanese first, but it is interesting to know that the acquisition of one language, will facilitate the study of the other.
I'm also interested in learning Russian and Chinese and, hopefully, by the time I decide to tackle them, I will have ready a winning action plan for how to best learn them.
And here it goes, I have the scissors ready to officially inaugurate the beginning of my next challenge: learning French and Turkish at the same time. It comes in handy, by the way, that they are different languages who probably share little in common, so sparing me the horror of confusing them.
Instead, this time, I'm going to actively learn just one language a week, alternating between the two of them for at least the next four week and see how it goes.
This means I will consciously and purposefully seek out information, learn and use the grammar, as well as memorize French words for week 1 while, at the same time just possibly listening to Turkish music or watching T.V. series in the language (thank God there is an abundance of those!). Then, in week 2, the opposite will happen.
I have a theory about why this might be more useful than actively learning them simultaneously but I'll talk more about it in a following post.
I will keep up the study of German and Spanish quite gladly and keep on writing daily sentences as I have noticed it has helped me quite a bit. As a small tweak to it, when I have time, I'll try to implement a technique I have learned from fellow blogger, Ilya Lemieux -the Russian guy mastering English and French. The technique has essentially to do with taking a simple sentence in the language you want to learn, building up and adding complexity to it (or at least, this is what I got from this video that was in Russian, and I know no Russian xD).
Okay, I unfortunately have to wrap this up and get going, but I'll try to lay out some more details about the techniques and resources I'll be using.
Thank you for reading this and do let me know your thoughts about it or about your own learning challenges!
Great article! And I got an honorable mention at that! Sweet!
After such nice words I just have to write an article in English on my blog to guide you as to how and what exactly that is what I do with English and French, and possibly can be applied for other languages.
True, my videos are all in my native language, pretty hard to comprehend what's going on if you don't have any notions of Russian.
So, yup, once I finish the detailed article on my approach (sometime tomorrow I believe) I'll clue you in on it.
Wow, that would be great! And I'd love to repost it here, if you don't mind.


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I tried to follow this method but I am getting some errors because my column contains both float and string values. The error looks like this "Unable to parse string "3U00" at position 18". Hence my question:
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Thinkin' About Moving-Picture Shows & Book-Learnin'
Old Acquaintance, 1943. 6/10
May 27, 2019 / farmermousesfilmfest
Bette Davis and Miriam Hopkins go twelve rounds, err, 110 minutes as old friends Kit (Davis) and Millie (Hopkins). Davis gets to play a 'nice guy' for a change. Their feud involves success and accomplishment. Millie has a family, but Kit has 'class' as a critically-acclaimed writer, so Millie decides to beat Kit at her own game.
On the home front, Millie's marriage to Preston (John Loder) goes by the boards; Preston covets Kit, and Millie blames her for leading him astray. Actually, though, Kit wants Rudd Kendall (Gig Young). But he fancies someone closer to his own age, Millie's daughter Deidre (Dolores Moran). Sounds complicated, and melodramatic; all of this plays out over a span of twenty years.
Things start off in the 1920s on a breezy, almost carefree note, but it quickly becomes clear that Millie is very selfish. She won't calm down until Kit tells her that she's sort of jealous of her; if Millie can't be the center of attention or remain on a pedestal something just isn't right. But maintaining her position proves to be a smart career choice. She's soon planning to have an "English governess" and a "French maid" once she hits the big time with own writing career. A book entitled Ermine and Calico just has to be a best seller–it is.
By this time, about a decade later, Kit is pretty much a favorite auntie to Millie's daughter Deidre (Dolores Moran). Preston is more or less shuffled to the side, involved in drink. He's sharp enough to wonder how Millie and Kit ever became friends. Millie admits she doesn't like people–yet gets defensive when Kit complains to her that she's neglecting Preston "I make him a definite department in my life" Millie explains, as though he were a commodity or employee.
Even when everyone's being nice to her, she finds something to complain about. He can't take her attitude anymore, and leaves. "There's something essentially lacking in her nature" as Kit puts it. He confesses his love for Kit; but she won't betray Millie. As usual, despite Kit's support, Millie's histrionic about the break-up, but instantly looks at an upside–always calculating. She at least has a good reason to be upset.
Suddenly, it's the '40s. Kit has Rud Kendall (a very young Gig Young); he gets inadvertently tossed at Deidre, who's a lot younger, but Kit's a touch too old for Rud, anyway. There's Lucien (Phillip Reed), Deidre's designated boyfriend. Kit kind of toys with Rud, not really taking his proposal seriously. In a way, he seems as adrift as Preston (and looks like him too). She gives him such a generic send off "When the war's over…there will be such a wonderful world". True, but that hardly sounds like a comment to a lover.
He gets a head start on his wonderful world by hanging out with Deidre. They're actually good together–two outsiders, onlookers to the Millie/Kit cauldron. After all this time, Millie still can't take advice or bad news; she dismisses Preston's current relationship as "vain", as though it's somehow not important. At least she doesn't mess with Kit's decision to give in to Rud.
Until Preston comes calling, that is. Millie's floored both because she thought she was getting him back, and even more so when he admits he was in love with Kit. She immediately assumed that Kit, "that Jezebel," seduced him. If that's not enough, she inadvertently crosses up Deidre by telling her about Rud and Kit.
"If that weren't so stupid, it would be funny" Kit tells her, leading to a long-overdue de luxe comeuppance. But Rud, having changed his mind, runs aground with Deidre, her mom having torpedoed his ship, so to speak. All that Kit can do is try to 'square' things for Deidre, so she goes on a mission to rescue her from Lucien.
Well, we could say that everything works out. Rud and Deidre's ship was repairable. An additional ornament is Millie's non-apology to Kit "If ('IF'?) I said anything…" The ultimate artificiality is saved for the ending. Millie's once again freaking out–not because of love, or any other feeling, or any actual person, but it means her having to rewrite the ending for her latest book. Events don't cooperate by five-tailing with the real life 'friendship' that the book's based on.
I've decided that this story must be somewhat tongue-in-cheek. Maybe that's implied in the title–its nostalgic overtones and all–Kit and Millie are better seen as strictly acquaintances, not friends. At best, Millie was a fair-weather friend whom Kit should've dumped after high school. She's messed up every relationship she had, and tried to mess with everybody she could get close enough too.
That's the way the original story was written, I suppose. But despite very good performances all around, Old Acquaintance never really takes off. It's not sarcastic enough to really show up Millie's very flawed character, and, because she basically churns up everything in her path, it's more tragic than romantic. A good character study, though.
Farmermouse don't like all the fussin' about, but he likes all those taxicab rides; six taxies for this one. 6/10.
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oooh, I love the batt with the neon-y colors!
Alpaca fiber is a huge thing nowadays, and I am not even surprise that a lot of people are going crazy about it. Nowadays, the perfect campaign for you to introduce a certain brand is to lure the people through your social media account. Actually, there are lots of people who deserve it. But just like in any contest, only one person will emerge as the winner!


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Pakistan's President General Pervez Musharraf will resign as chief of the army staff if he wins presidency for the second term in the coming elections, his lawyer told the Supreme Court Tuesday.
In a written statement submitted to a nine-member bench headed Justice Rana Bhagwandas that is hearing six identical petitions against Musharraf for keeping two offices, his lawyer Sharifuddin Pirzada said that he would relinquish the post of the army chief after winning the presidential elections.
'If elected for the second term as president, Gen. Pervez Musharraf shall relinquish charge of the office of the chief of army staff soon after election, but before taking the oath of office of the president of Pakistan for the next term,' Pirzada said while reading the written statement in the court.
This is for the first time that any representative of the president has admitted that Musharraf plans to contest the elections while in uniform. Immediately after the statement was submitted television news channels started debating why the president wants to keep the army chief's office until his election.
The petitioners questioning the president before the court include Jamaat-e-Islami chief Qazi Hussain Ahmed and Tehrik-e-Insaaf chief Imran Khan.
The court has announced that it would continue hearing the petitions on a daily basis. The experts are of the opinion that the apex court may announce its decision by the end of next week.
Media reports said the Election Commission was asked by the government to announce the schedule for the president's election on Monday but it apparently refused to follow the instructions as the Supreme Court was hearing the case.
According to Pakistan's constitution, the election for the president should be held 'not before 60 days and not after 30 days' prior to the expiry of the term. Musharraf's current term as president expires on Nov 15, which means his elections should be held between Sep 15 and Oct 15.
The popularity of Musharraf, who came to power in a 1999 coup after deposing elected prime minister Nawaz Sharif, is going down since he sacked Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry earlier this year, who was later reinstated by the Supreme Court.
On Sep 10 Musharraf also sent Sharif back into forced exile after the former prime minister attempted to return to the country and launch a campaign against the president's re-election.
Musharraf, desperate to retain power, is also negotiating a power-sharing deal with another former prime minister Benazir Bhutto, who has announced that she will end her self-exile and return to the country on Oct 18.
Media reports say that the two have reached a 'deal' under which Bhutto's Pakistan People's Party (PPP) would not create any hindrances in Musharraf's re-election.


I got burdock roots, bamboo shoots and a head of cabbage from my acquaintance. Thank you so much! I am the happiest when I get vegetables like this. Both burdocks and bamboo shoots have soil on them. How fresh ! They are more valuable for me than any expensive food. By the way, I heard it is very good for us to eat food high in fiber in spring because fiber helps our bodies to eliminate the waste and toxins which collected in winter. When I was a child, I did not really like food high in fiber. Fortunately, there was not so much waste and toxins in my body then, I think. However, now I undoubtedly should eat fiberous food a lot. Oh, spring to eliminate the toxins for me!


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Hi, I have a new Wacom Cintiq 22HD and the brightness was kicking my head into migraine mode at night, so I got F.lux for when I'm just browsing the internet at night and such. My issue is, the night time color settings keep flickering off and on and off and on every so often. I cannot disable the setting to keep it from resetting to bright white, so I was wondering if there was a way to just 'lock' it to a particular color setting in F.lux instead of it constantly refreshing based on time of day.
I love the dim nighttime setting for browsing but the flickering on and off every minute is extremely jarring.


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Q: Advice on RTOS for AVR? I need a very tiny RTOS for AVR similar to mRTOS which just has two files (mrtos.h and mrtos.c).
Can anyone please provide any advice?

A: You should check out FreeRTOS for AVR or search for some board specific ones on github.

A: For something really small, take a look at the Arduino scheduler:
http://arduino.cc/en/Reference/Scheduler
Pretty simple to adapt to almost anything with a c/c++ compiler. Note, this only gives you pretty basic cooperative multitasking. If you need OS services like semaphores, mutexes, mailboxes, etc. . . you'd need to look for something less lightweight.


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2017 NHL All-Star Game: Wayne Simmonds named MVP after 3 goals, game-winner
He's the first Flyers All-Star MVP since Reggie Leach in 1980.
By Travis Hughes@TravisSBN Jan 29, 2017, 7:19pm EST
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LOS ANGELES — It was basically the perfect weekend for Wayne Simmonds.
He returned , as a first-time All-Star, to the city that drafted him into the NHL, and the fans here showed him appreciation every time his name was called. He acquitted himself nicely in Saturday's All-Star Skills Competition, scoring a beauty tight-angle one-timer in the Skills Challenge and scoring into the five hole from center ice in the new Four Line Challenge.
And then in Sunday's All-Star Game, he scored three goals, including the game winner in the final against the Pacific Division, and was the first Flyer to be named MVP since Reggie Leach in 1980. He won a truck. He won a share of $1 million, split between he and his victorious Metropolitan Division teammates. He got a hug from Wayne Gretzky. He was coached by Wayne Gretzky.
"It was one of the best days of my life," Simmonds said on NBC after the win. And that was before the MVP announcement.
MVP!
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Simmonds wasn't originally named one of the All-Star MVP options, which were sent out by the league in the final minutes of the game. (In typical NHL fashion, they did this while the game was tied.) But it's hard to argue against a guy who had three goals -- two unassisted in the first game -- including the one that gave his teammates a million bucks.
WAYNE SIMMONDS GIVES THE METRO THE LEAD pic.twitter.com/nx7870Uo9v
Below are some of the highlights, including Simmonds' other two goals, from the first two games at Staples Center on Sunday afternoon.
Metropolitan Division 10, Atlantic Division 6
Wayne Simmonds came out of the gate with two unassisted goals and helped lead the charge as the Metro potted 10 in a lopsided win over the Atlantic. It was a little closer than the score indicated as the Metro piled on a bit towards the end.
Check out this view of Wayne Simmond's first goal, from the ref cam! pic.twitter.com/XL85ImoC5B
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Pacific Division 10, Chicago Blackhawks 3
The first game felt over before even the first Pacific Division goal was scored, as Connor McDavid and his squad dominated possession, piled up the scoring chances and waltzed to an easy 10-3 win over the Chicago Blackhawks.
Every single skater on the Pacific squad had a both a goal and an assist, with Cam Fowler and South Jersey Native Johnny Gaudreau leading the way with four points each. Jonathan Toews had a goal for Chicago, while Patrick Kane and Duncan Keith were each held without a point.
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Following the death of renowned danseuse Mrinalini Sarabhai on Thursday, her daughter, dancer and Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) member, Mallika Sarabhai, lashed out at Prime Minister Narendra Modi for not condoling the death of her mother.
In a Facebook post addressed to the Prime Minister, Sarabhai wrote that the political differences between her and PM Modi had nothing to do with Mrinalini Sarabhai and her legacy.
She said that her mother had used her art to help write the rich cultural history of the country.
The iconic dancer's daughter joined the Aam Aadmi Party in 2014. However, a few months later she found herself isolated within the party in Gujarat.
She had criticised AAP's Amethi candidate for the Lok Sabha elections, Kumar Vishwas, in a video on YouTube. She had called Kumar "sexist", "misogynist", "anti-minority" and "anti-gay".
She also told dna in an interview about how she felt that her presence was not required in the Arvind Kejriwal-led party.
Sarabhai has been vocal about a lot of social issues, from gender parity to minority protection. It may be recalled that Sarabhai, who is also an activist, had vehemently criticised Modi during the 2002 Gujarat riots.
She has, in an interview with Firstpost, said that nothing much had changed with regard to representation of women in media.


India has become the world's sixth-biggest economy... moreIndia has become the world's sixth-biggest economy, pushing France into seventh place, according to updated World Bank figures for 2017. India's gross domestic product (GDP) amounted to $2.597 trillion at the end of last year, against $2.582 trillion for France. The economy rebounded strongly from July 2017, after several quarters of slowdown blamed on economic policies pursued by Prime Minister Narendra Modi's government.


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Q: Why I can't create object instance? I need add objects to list, but I can't understand how to do it correctly.
Every new object I get from console.
How to fix it?
My try:
namespace ExampleCars
{
    public class Car
    {
        public string name;
        public int speed;
        public Car(string name, int speed)
        {
            this.name = name;
            this.speed = speed;
        }
    }

    class Program
    {
        static void Main(string[] args)
        {
            string name;
            int speed, elements;
            List<Object> cars = new List<Object>();

            elements = Convert.ToInt32(Console.ReadLine());
            if (elements > 0)
            {
                for (int i = 0; i < n; i++)
                {
                    name = Convert.ToString(Console.ReadLine());
                    speed = Convert.ToInt32(Console.ReadLine());
                    Car newCar = new Car(name, speed);
                    cars.Add(newCar);
                }
            }

            foreach (var oneCar in cars)
                Console.WriteLine(oneCar);
        }
    }
}

In console I get this (elements == 1):
ExampleCars.Car

A: First of all, it would be better to create a List of Cars, instead of list of Objects. So change this:
List<Object> cars = new List<Object>();

To this:
List<Car> cars = new List<Car>();

Also it would be great, if you use properties instead of fields. And finally as the solution for your question, and based on what you need to show in your last Console.Writeline method, you can override the ToString method. Your class should be something like this:
public class Car
{
    public string Name { get; set; }
    public int Speed { get; set; }
    public Car(string name, int speed)
    {
        Name = name;
        Speed = speed;
    }

    public override string ToString()
    {
        return $"Name = {Name}, Speed = {Speed} ";
    }
}

And if you are using the older versions of C#:
return String.Format("Name = {0}, Speed = {1}", Name, Speed);

The $ is called String Interpolation and is available from C#6+. I have provided an equivalent of it using String.Format that is available in older versions of C#.

A: when you write your Car object in the console, Car.ToString method call in background.

Object.ToString is the major formatting method in the .NET Framework.
  It converts an object to its string representation so that it is
  suitable for display. Default implementations of the Object.ToString
  method return the fully qualified name of the object's type.

Object.ToString Method
if you want to change default string presentation of your object, you have to override the method.
   public class Car
    {
        public string name;
        public int speed;
        public Car(string name, int speed)
        {
            this.name = name;
            this.speed = speed;
        }

        public override string ToString()
        {
            return $"{name} {speed}";

        }
    }

A: Console.WriteLine, is responsible of printing text.
In case of Console.WriteLine(string) is actually returns the string value;
In any other case, it tries to convert the value into a string by invoking the instance object .ToString() method.
Any type in C# inherits from System.Object, and thus, it has the .ToString() method.
By using Inheritance, many types override the actual inherited method and implement their perception of what their value should look like as a string.
This can be easily done, by using method overriding and apply your own logic.
Example taken from MSDN
class Person
{
    public string Name { get; set; }
    public int Age { get; set; }

    public override string ToString()
    {
        return "Person: " + Name + " " + Age;
    }
}

Test code
Person person = new Person { Name = "John", Age = 12 };
Console.WriteLine(person);
// Output:
// Person: John 12

So you may ask, why do i get ExampleCars.Car ? you're getting it, because you didn't implement your own representation of the object .ToString method. Thus, the System.Object implementation is to actually return the instance type as string, which is exactly what you're getting.
System.Object.ToString() Source code.
public virtual String ToString()
{
    return GetType().ToString();
}

System.Int32 implement by changing the value of 1 to "1"
While other type can implement their own. e.g: new DateTime(2018, 12, 31) can return "12/31/2018"


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Vision Express Follow Vision Express
Local MP and charity ambassador join Vision Express to officially open new Northamptonshire optical stores
Press release • Mar 29, 2018 16:45 BST
The new 'Vision Express at Tesco' stores in Northampton, Corby, Kettering and Weston Favell have officially opened their doors, with local MP Michael Ellis and Macular Society Regional Manager Colin Daniels, helping to encourage the community to have regular eye tests.
The new Vision Express stores are home to sophisticated sight screening equipment that will deliver a thorough eye health service to local residents, as figures indicate a worrying outlook for vision in Northampton:
Over 1,700 people are suffering from age-related macular degeneration (AMD); 5.6% of the local population.
Over 6,300 people (10.9%) have a heightened risk of developing AMD, due to drusen, yellow deposits under the retina.
There are almost 6,450 residents (5.6%) living with suspected glaucoma, the silent thief of sight.
MP for Northampton North, Michael Ellis performed a ribbon cutting at the Weston Favell store. He said: "Eye health is a growing issue and I would encourage everyone to have regular eye tests and take their vision seriously. I'm proud to support this event and raise awareness amongst my constituents, especially those who drive, with research revealing there are almost 3,000 road casualties a year caused by poor driver sight."
Michael Ellis MP with Vision Express Weston Favell team L-R: optical assistants Izabela Minculescu and Jensen Relente, Macular Society regional manager Colin Daniels, Michael Ellis MP, store manager Zeinab Shakir, optical assistant Caroline Lloyd, Tesco team leader Matt Spire, optometrist Piyas Tanna and optical assistant Graham Jones.
Colin Daniels was aged 11 when he was diagnosed with a rare sightstealing condition called Stargardt macular dystrophy. It drastically reduces central and detailed vision and has left Colin with limited colour perception and unable to see things clearly in his central line of sight. Working for the Macular Society, which is a Vision Express charity partner, Colin now dedicates his time to supporting others living with vision impairment throughout central and eastern England.
"I wholeheartedly support initiatives encouraging people to have regular eye tests," Colin said. "If there is a problem, the earlier you can get it treated, the best chance you have to retain useful sight. With the equipment opticians have today, such as here in the Northamptonshire Vision Express stores, they can detect conditions in their early stages. That's particularly true of AMD. My advice to the public is to go to your optician and remain consistent, so you build a relationship with your optometrist and they are aware of your full visual history. That makes it more likely that they'll easily pick up any changes in your sight that could indicate an issue."
Vision Express at Tesco Weston Favell store manager, Zeinab Hazim Shakir said: "It's fantastic to have our local MP, Michael Ellis and Colin Daniels join the team to officially open our new store and we look forward to welcoming new and existing customers through our doors.
"With the local population at risk of eye-health related conditions including agerelated macular degeneration and glaucoma, we're here to help residents ensure their vision is the best it can be. We have over 100 ways to test your eyes, to assess how they're working and help detect serious conditions such as high cholesterol, high blood pressure, diabetes and increased risk of stroke. It's great that Vision Express is now in such a convenient location for local residents to drop in and get this essential health check."
The Northamptonshire optical stores are just four of more than 200 'Vision Express at Tesco' outlets launching across the UK in 2018, all showcasing a purple-infused rebrand being introduced across the entire Vision Express chain.
Introducing a refreshed logo and striking purple and green colour décor and featuring bright sofas and wooden flooring the new look stores provide a modern, inviting and vibrant environment to encourage customers to feel at ease.
Vision Express acquired Tesco Opticians at the end of 2017. In preparation for the expected increase in demand for frames prompted by the acquisition, a £1.5 million investment has been made at the company's Nottingham-based Technical Centre.
The national home of Vision Express' laboratory, the Technical Centre currently produces more than one million pairs of glasses a year but following the investment, production capacity is expected to double during 2018.
Vision Express CEO Jonathan Lawson added: "This is a hugely exciting time for the Vision Express family, and we're delighted to welcome new team members to the company and provide a seamless eye health service to former Tesco optical customers.
"Crucially, we're pleased to now be able to offer our vision expertise in a convenient location to residents. With 5.6% of the local population living with suspected glaucoma, safeguarding sight through regular eye exams with a trusted optician has never been more important."
About Vision Express
Vision Express is one of the largest optical retailers in the UK and part of GrandVision, the global leader in optical retail operating in more than 40 countries, spanning over 6,500 stores and online.
With almost 600 stores nationwide, Vision Express first opened its doors in Newcastle in 1988. Built on a passion for the profession, it has gone from strength to strength, driven by a commitment to unparalleled customer service and providing the best individual optical care, the right product and great value. Customers can select from a vast range of genuine designer brands and the latest technology lenses, through to complete glasses from £39.
With around 6,000 employees, Vision Express makes a significant difference to the communities it operates within, and the organisations it chooses to support. As part of its commitment to Vision. Taken Seriously, and as a responsible and caring retailer, Vision Express is proud to partner with a range of healthcare charities, which have touched the lives of customers and teams. These companies provide vital support to people affected by vision-related conditions. They are part of the Vision Express Charity Project and include:
Childhood Eye Cancer Trust (CHECT)
International Glaucoma Association
Temple Street University Hospital
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A man (Bentley) who makes his living composing other people's suicide notes enters into a romance with the sister (Ryder) of a recent client.
Evan keeps to himself, almost without affect. He's 30, a former foster child, living alone, writing suicide notes for people. He attends a client's funeral and meets Charlotte, the client's sister. She pursues Evan; he's silent about his real work and invents a friendship with the brother. About the same time, Evan starts working with Abel, a new client, a composer of phone-waiting music who's depressed. Evan confides in Abel about Charlotte as she begins to draw him out. Crises await the self-contained Evan: his relationship with Charlotte is based on a lie, and his incipient friendship with Abel is headed toward suicide. Are more dead ends ahead?
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Last weekend I decided to make the most of the final summery days in London and head to one of my favourite places - Covent Garden! My love for this beautiful area began aged 12 when I used to take dance and drama classes every Sunday at Pineapple Studios on Langley Street. Then at age 18 I got my first ever job at the flagship Build a Bear store which used to sit nestled next to the Disney Store in the main square (both have since shut down- boo!) So I am no stranger to this corner of London, but it is an area that pulls me back again and again.
Covent Garden is a place to suit every season. Come Spring and Summer, the entire piazza is covered in floral arrangements, street performers pop up on every corner and the sun's rays cuts through the square, creating beautiful golden hours. Autumn/Winter brings the most magical christmas displays with shoppers and tourists flocking to enjoy the annual giant christmas tree, the rows and rows of fairy lights and gorgeous window displays. If you are visiting London, I would highly recommend you add Covent Garden to your itinerary. I would leave between half a day to a whole day to explore. This blog post will take you on a mini Instagram-tour of the cutest spots Covent Garden has to offer. The spending money for my trip was kindly gifted by Hotels.com, but all views are my own.


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O Abu Hurayrah! Take a bath every Friday even if you have to purchase water with your day's food.
However, bathing on Jumu'ah is emphasised in other authentic Hadiths. These narrations should be quoted instead. See here.


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Hurricane Humberto Ties Atlantic Record
Since 1941 we have never gone later than Sept. 11 without a hurricane forming in the Atlantic Ocean. So when the National Hurricane Center upgraded Tropical Storm Humberto to a hurricane early Wednesday morning, Humberto tied the Sept.
By Mark Fischetti on September 11, 2013
Since 1941 we have never gone later than Sept. 11 without a hurricane forming in the Atlantic Ocean. So when the National Hurricane Center upgraded Tropical Storm Humberto to a hurricane early Wednesday morning, Humberto tied the Sept. 11 record set by Hurricane Gustav in 2002. Gustav later struck North Carolina. Humberto is currently in the tropics between Africa and the Caribbean and is forecast to drift around in the mid-Atlantic, not making landfall.
This year's record is odd, however, because conditions in the Atlantic have been ripe for storms.
Usually, fewer hurricanes form in the Atlantic when El Niño conditions are present in the Pacific Ocean, because they tend to set up weather patterns that cause shearing winds over the Atlantic that can cut down tropical storms as they grow. Cool Atlantic water also undermines hurricanes. But 2013 is not an El Niño year and water temperatures have been above average, so more storms should have formed by now. On average, three hurricanes coalesce in the Atlantic by Sept. 9. A typical season, which runs from June 1 to November 30, produces six hurricanes, two of which are strong.
It's impossible to tell how much water, sun and wind energy exists during the entire six-month season to fuel big storms. Meteorologists use the "accumulated cyclone energy" index as a proxy. ACE is the square of wind speed recorded every six hours in every storm with at least 40 mph sustained winds. Over the past 20 years, ACE has averaged 50 units through Sept. 9, but this year the total was just 9.6 units, according to Jeff Masters, a meteorologist who runs Wunderground.com, a Web site that analyzes and tracks severe weather in great detail. Also strange.
The main reason for the calm, according to Masters, has been a large amount of dry, stable air over the Atlantic, providing less moisture and energy to mounting storms. Much of that air has wafted out over the ocean from the Sahara Desert in Africa. Most Atlantic hurricanes begin as small atmospheric disturbances off the coast of Africa that strengthen as they work their way west and north.
A slow first half of hurricane season is not unusual, however, and it has no bearing on what might happen through the end of November. At least four and as many as nine hurricanes have formed in each of the five years since the 1960s that did not have a hurricane by the end of August. Superstorm Sandy struck the U.S. on Oct. 29 last year. More than 60 percent of Atlantic cyclones form during the second half of the period, so the peak time is just approaching.
As Masters points out on his blog, "the season with the greatest similarity to what we've seen during the first half of the 2013 season was 1988. That year, we also had unusual quietness before September 10, no El Niño, and above average ocean temperatures in the [Atlantic zone where hurricanes form]. But [then] the most powerful Atlantic hurricane ever recorded up to that time ripped through the Caribbean, Hurricane Gilbert, as well as two other major hurricanes."
And as forecasters at the National Weather Service often say, it only takes one bad storm hitting land to make a bad season.
By the way, in 1941 the date for the first hurricane is Sept. 16, but it may be hard to say how conclusive that record and earlier ones are. The famous Hurricane Hunters began systematically flying over the Atlantic in 1944, and satellite surveillance began in 1960.
Image courtesy of NOAA
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View of Some Of Iraq's Rural Areas: Few Jobs, Little Rebuilding Or Reconciliation, Still Insurgent Threat
Sinjar (Nadia's Initiative)
The International Organization for Migration (IOM) is the main organization working with the displaced (IDPs) in Iraq. In September 2018 it released a report on IDP returns. It covered the situation in some of Iraq's rural areas, which are barely covered by the media which tends to be very Baghdad centric. These places were bereft of jobs, lacking in reconstruction and reconciliation, some had sectarian tensions and there were continued threats from the Islamic State.
The IOM reviewed 1,427 locations where people were returning to since the war with the Islamic State officially ended. Each area was classified into four categories in terms of their conditions from low severity to medium to high to very high. 52 areas spread across Diyala, Irbil, Kirkuk, Ninewa and Salahaddin were considered the worst in the country. IOM provided some details on eight of those places.
Sinjar is located in western Ninewa province along the Syrian border. There less than half the population had returned. Many of the homes were destroyed, and half the neighborhoods had suffered from severe war damage. The rest are moderately destroyed. There was no reconstruction going on when the report was written. Not all the schools were open, 20% of markets were closed, and 70% of the district suffered from a scarcity those markets that were open. An earlier report from May 20018 by the group REACH Initiative provided further information about why so few people had returned to the district, and why there was so little rebuilding going on. It added that the southern section of Sinjar was empty because there were unexploded ordinance, which stopped farming from being revived. The local Yazidis also blamed many of the Arab inhabitants of collaborating with the Islamic State and barred them from going home. The majority of the Arab population remained displaced as a result fearing retribution if they went back.
The Ninewa desert is in the center and southern sections of the province. There are few jobs there, all the markets were closed, there was widespread damage to infrastructure, in half of the area there was no reconstruction going on, and in one third there was no water or electricity. This was already a sparsely inhabited region. That would help explain why so little had been done there since the war finished.
Tal Afar is a third location in Ninewa that sits in the west. Half of the homes were occupied by people other than the owners. The militants were still a threat there. One difference from the other areas documented, was that reconciliation was taking place there. That was important because Tal Afar was mostly inhabited by Turkmen who were split between Sunnis and Shiites. Many of the Sunnis were blamed for supporting the insurgency and were forced to flee. A process needs to be established to heal these wounds, and try to re-unite the community if possible.
Abasi is in the southern section of Kirkuk. Most of the infrastructure was destroyed. There were no jobs in the rural areas and few even in the urban center. Farming had partially restarted, but water was severely limited. Finally, IS was still active there as well. The insurgents were never defeated in southern Kirkuk. Instead, they left and hid away during the campaign to clear the area, and quickly returned afterward. This is now one of the core areas IS is regrouping in.
Edheim resides in western Diyala along the border with Salahaddin. There are fears of revenge attacks against people believed to be sympathetic to the Islamic State. Kidnappings have occurred too. There was no unified security presence in the sub-district with five different forces working separately. This allowed space for IS to operate and conduct attacks. There was also no reconciliation going on.
The last areas were all in Salahaddin. Baiji in the northeast was the site of a prolonged and major battle over control of the oil refinery there. There were few returns. All the neighborhoods of Baiji town and the surrounding villages had significant property damage. Reconstruction started in 90% of the sub district however. A major impediment to that work was unexploded ordinance, and less than 4 hours of electricity per day. Water was also in short supply. At the time, 45% of the markets were open. The Tuz Kharmato-Suleiman Beq area is in the east. Suleiman Beq was one of the first places liberated from the insurgents. Tuz Kharmato suffered from deep ethnosectarian divisions between the Kurds, Shiite Turkmen and Arabs. Those splits are on going. They were exacerbated by revenge attacks and property disputes. There is no effort to resolve these problems. There are also movement restrictions upon certain communities. Some areas have also had no returns such as Amerli. Balad is just to the south of Tuz and has similar problems. There is sectarianism, fear of revenge attacks, movement limits, and no reconciliation.
Few of these areas get any kind of press coverage, and when they do its usually for an attack by the Islamic State. That's why this IOM report was important, because it gave a brief insight into what was going on some of Iraq's rural areas. The picture was not pretty. These sub districts almost all saw heavy fighting during the war and there is little being done to rebuild them. The economy is still pretty much wrecked, IS sympathizers are being singled out and discriminated against, and just as important the militants are still active in many of them meaning that there is little opportunity to fix these difficult problems. That also means some of these areas could actually deteriorate if violence picks up. That's already happening in places like southern Kirkuk, where the Islamic State has a strong presence and is going after local officials, the security forces, and infrastructure like electricity towers. This is so unfortunate because Iraq has gone through so much it sometimes seems like it will never have the space to recover.
International Organization for Migration, "Return Index, Findings Round 1 Iraq," September 2018
REACH Initiative, "Rapid Overview of Areas of Return (ROAR): Sinjar and Surrounding Areas Ninewa Governorate, Iraq – May 2018," 5/31/18
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Domesticating the energy grass Miscanthus to combat climate change
Decarbonising the UK's electricity supplies, and heating systems requires a range of low carbon technologies such as wind, solar and hydrogen. Plants take up carbon dioxide as they grow, and if we burn these plants to generate electricity, we can generate low carbon electricity. If these power stations are also fitted with carbon capture and storage technologies, we can create a net reduction in atmospheric carbon dioxide.
Miscanthus is a perennial grass that is native to South Asia and can grow more than three metres tall each year. At Aberystwyth University we collected Miscanthus plants from Asia and used them as parent plants to create new domesticated varieties that grow well in UK conditions without fertiliser, on land that is unsuitable for food production.
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lol yeah WTH is wrong with people, most leave you alone but some thinks it's ok to scream crazy crap and scare you on busy roads. I've heard of some walkers/joggers who've had things thrown at them. For me, it's often young guys in groups doing it. Damn yesterday a 25 year old girl was walking down the street from where I live on a relatively busy road but it's dark at 6pm now : she was pulled off the road and dragged in the bushes and held down by five black guys and one white guy while two of them raped her. They then stole her ID and ran off. It's down the road from a major Uni MTSU. They're still looking for the perpetrators. But this has ended by walks when it's dark out. You'd think around rush hour the various cars rolling by would have deterred the crime but it didn't. Carry a weapon and don't be distracted wearing a headset and even with a weapon odds are against you with a group jumping you, probably only walking/jogging with an attack dog is your safest bet if you must walk when it's dark out.


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Nunavut power plant plans surge ahead with a focus on efficiency
by Stewart Burnett January 12, 2022
Chesterfield Inlet's current power plant, seen here, is beyond its life expectancy. Qulliq Energy Corporation is planning to replace it in the next few years. The public is invited to take part in the review by Nunavut's Utility Rates Review Council, which will be taking feedback until Feb. 25. Photo courtesy of Qulliq Energy Corporation
There's no room for growth with Chesterfield Inlet's aging and decaying power plant, which is why Qulliq Energy Corporation is moving forward on plans to replace it with a state-of-the-art facility.
The current power plant is more than 46 years old and has several deficiencies, including an unreliable structure, aging systems and an obsolete switchgear that requires replacement.
"The building structure itself is in very poor condition and there's no room for expansion," said Rick Hunt, president and CEO of QEC. "Even if we wanted to increase capacity in Chester, we physically can't do it. The building is not big enough to put a new gen-set in there."
The project is part of a series of power plant replacements across Nunavut, thanks in part to the federal government's $175 million infusion for the Arctic Energy Fund.
"All of our power plants that we're building under the Arctic Energy Fund are going to be ready for integration with renewables in the future," added Hunt.
Even though QEC is building diesel power plants, the new ones, including Chesterfield Inlet's, will not only be more fuel efficient but ready to take on any renewable energy sources in the community.
The existing power plant uses a three-generator lineup, and the new one will add a fourth, establishing a layer of reliability to its operations.
Another change QEC is proposing with the new power plant is moving its location from the current centre of town to just outside of town, linked directly to its fuel source at the Petroleum Products Division facility. That's the energy corporation's strategy with all of its future power plants, rather than needing trucked fuel delivery several times a week.
"You can have the best equipment in the world (and) still have leaks from those fuel trucks into the equipment," said Hunt, adding there would be a direct line from the Petroleum Products Division facility to the plant.
He didn't want to put an exact number on the price of the new plant because it would be going out to tender, but said the proposed budget is around $35 million, comparable to the recently finished plant in Arctic Bay.
The plan is to have the design in place for 2023-24, construction done in 2024-25 and the finished product in 2026 to serve the community of approximately 450 people.
But first, the project needs approval from the minister responsible for QEC and to pass Nunavut's Utility Rates Review Council.
The public is invited to provide feedback to the council by emailing urrc@gov.nu.ca until Feb. 25.
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Q: C#: Abstract List C#:
I want to write an abstract class with a method that works on a List of strings. The List will not yet be implemented in this class.
Then I want to write another classes that inherits from the abstract class and implements the List of strings.
class AbstractClass
{
    protected abstract List<string> myList; // To be implemented in a child class
    void ShowList()
    {
        foreach (string member in myList)
        {
            Console.WriteLine(member);
        }
    }
}

class HelloWorld : AbstractClass
{
    new private List<String> myList = new List<string>()
    {
        "Hello", "World"
    };
}

Now C# tells me "The modifier abstract is not valid on fields. Try using a property instead."
I dont seem to get the big picture. I just want a placeholder/reference to a List in my base parent class. How is that done?

A: There are several problems with your code. This will fix them:
abstract class AbstractClass
{
    protected abstract List<string> MyList { get; set; } // To be implemented in a child class

    void ShowList()
    {
        foreach (string member in MyList)
        {
            Console.WriteLine(member);
        }
    }
}

class HelloWorld : AbstractClass
{
    protected override List<String> MyList { get; set; } = new List<string>()
    {
        "Hello", "World"
    };
}

Problems:

*

*Abstract class should be declared using abstract class;

*You need to use properties or methods if you want to override its functionality in a derived class;

*You were using the new keyword. Don't do that if you want to derive something in a derived class! Use override instead.


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Florida A&M student paper's publication suspended, adviser removed
January 10, 2013 September 5, 2018 Sara Gregory
FLORIDA — The student newspaper at Florida A&M university has been suspended from publishing, its adviser removed and its staff told they must reapply for their positions by the dean of FAMU's School of Journalism and Graphic Communication.
Editor Karl Etters learned of The Famuan's suspension Monday, the first day of the spring semester, during a meeting with Dean Ann Kimbrough. A schoolwide email announcement of the suspension was made Tuesday morning.
"We are working to balance students' rights to a free press through this process while also ensuring that The Famuan has the proper support from the School of Journalism & Graphic Communication as it serves as a training unit for up and coming journalists," Kimbrough said in the email.
FAMU administrators declined to comment beyond a brief statement. The statement cites a libel lawsuit as one of the things that prompted the publication's suspension. Last month, the paper was sued for defamation for an article it published following the hazing death of FAMU drum major Robert Champion.
The December 2011 article incorrectly stated that Keon Hollis, a fellow drum major, had been suspended in connection with Champion's hazing death. No disciplinary action was taken against Hollis, according to a correction published by the paper in February 2012. The original article has been removed from the paper's website.
Kimbrough, who took over as dean last August, said in an interview that she's been told that the reporter who wrote the piece in question was not enrolled at the university, which is a requirement for working on student publications. She said the reporter said the information came from "reliable sources," but that he wouldn't identify who the sources were.
As a new dean, Kimbrough said she was already reviewing all of the student publications that operate through the journalism school when she learned of the lawsuit. She said she did research on the Student Press Law Center's website and concluded that more training would be beneficial for students.
Kimbrough said she didn't believe that pushing back the paper's publication interfered with the students' ability to make their own editorial decisions.
"The students do have the right to publish as they see fit," she said, adding that because the paper is under the umbrella of the school of journalism and "not an independent separate organization," that it was reasonable to ask them to undergo additional training.
Kimbrough said she could not comment on adviser Andrew Skerritt's removal, which happened last Friday, because it was a personnel issue. She said it was unrelated to the lawsuit and that the timing was "just a coincidence." The school's statement doesn't address Skerritt's removal, either.
"The adviser's situation was something that happened and occurred long before I arrived," Kimbrough said. "It was something that I inherited. This removal was already to be."
Skerritt, who has advised the paper for four-and-a-half years, declined to comment on the reasons he was given for his removal. He remains an assistant professor of journalism at the school.
"We want to do whatever we can to prepare our students to be the best journalists they can be," Skerritt said. "I'm glad to have had the chance to do that."
Staff have been told they will have to undergo training in media law and ethics, but Etters said most have already taken the journalism school's media law class. In addition, he said they've been told some of the training will focus on more general journalism principles.
"To me it feels redundant," Etters said. "That's what we do every day."
Etters said the staff didn't learn they would have to reapply until Tuesday night, in a meeting with Kimbrough to contest the publication suspension. It's not clear whether the requirement that staff reapply is connected with Kimbrough's discovery that some previous staff were ineligible.
The paper hires new editors every semester, and Etters said the spring semester's staff was hired in December just before winter break. He said the staff all plan to reapply.
Kimbrough said this is being required of staff because the hiring process was not properly completed in December. She said that she's seen no paperwork regarding the hirings and that her decision to have students reapply was made so that there would be a "fair process to all."
Kimbrough said she is trying to find an interim adviser and that other journalism school faculty will advise the paper until then. The paper will resume publishing on Jan. 30.
Etters said he was not sure whether he or other staff members will contest the suspension further, but says they are considering doing so.
By Sara Gregory, SPLC staff writer. Contact Gregory by email or at (703) 807-1904 ext. 125.
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Little Orange Dog: An Alarming Incident!
So feeling just a little excited, I set out to collect her from school. Um, it's fair to say, I didn't get far. I didn't get far at all. I probably covered about two feet before all hell let loose.
This is my car. I like my car. My car does everything I need my car to do. Best of all, it's bloody cheap to run! It may not be a prestige car, but it's mine and I love it. Well usually I love it. I did not feel quite so affectionate towards it last night.
I'd parked the other way round (just in case some bright spark thinks my choice of gear had something to do with the problem) so I had to reverse off the drive. Everything, was working as it should, I covered two feet or so, and all of a sudden the alarm went off. I swore, a lot, I think. Grabbed the owners manual and went indoors to find out how to turn it off. The ignition did nothing, nor did the door lock. The owners manual was as much use as a chocolate teapot!
Next port of call, the dealership I purchased the car from. They'll know what to do, right? Wrong! All they could do was give me the number to contact Renault. Now, the lady at Renault was very helpful and arranged to send out a patrol to look at it for me (under warranty), but it would be up to two hours before they arrived. I live on a new build estate, it was only a matter of time before the neighbours organised themselves into a lynch mob. Armed with this information she put me through to someone who tried to help me stop the alarm. It didn't work.
Enter a friendly neighbour, or two, or three. Yes, three fabulous neighbours came to my rescue. I cannot tell you how relieved I was. Given my recent poor mental health, this incident was testing my 'recovery' to the limits and I was on the verge of losing it big time! We got the bonnet open and located the problem, but we couldn't stop the noise. After an hour of the horn sounding we eventually stopped it by disconnecting the battery. It was a last resort, but honestly, needs must. I cannot remember how many times I thanked those wonderful gentlemen, but I have bought them cards to say a proper thank you. What I do know, is that they haven't got a clue just how much their help meant to me.
About half an hour later, Mr. RAC man arrived. He managed to disconnect the horn, which was still sounding continually if the battery was connected. It took him a while, as it is located in a bit of a fiddly to get to place, but thank goodness, he managed it. Once done, he reconnected the battery and gave the car a quick once over to make sure it was working properly.
I am pleased to report that the car is running just fine (so long as I don't need to use the horn, that is) and it is booked in with the dealer to be repaired and serviced. In the words of the lovely Chloe at Renault, who did the repair and service booking, 'It's going to be an interesting day when it goes in for repair.' You see, no one has come across this before. Not Mr. RAC man, not Dacia, not Renault. It's a very unique issue, but then again, this is my car and I'm pretty unique, so really, are we surprised? I'll leave you to mull that one over.
Ohh my! What a lot of excitement. It sounds like your car is pretty unique. I am glad it's working again. Good luck with getting the horn fixed.
I feel sorry for the chaps who are going to be doing the work. Hope they have ear protectors!
Good Grief! What a thing to happen. My last name if Murphy and that is the type of thing that happens to me all the time.
That's quite a story! Hope you get your car sorted out. Thank goodness for nice neighbours.
I've never heard of that happening before, thankfully your neighbours were helpful rather than lynching you :) It can be so stressful when your car plays up, we were on holiday one year and on the last day I could hear the fan on my car just going on and on and on. Of course when I came to start it up it had drained the battery. We had to call the AA who took forever to get it started, then I was so afraid it wouldn't start again we left the car running while we packed up and I didn't stop all the way home, never mind the protests of needing the loo!
Oh my goodness Anne, I don't think I would have dared turn the engine off either! Short of knowing how to put air in the tyres and check oil etc, I'm pretty useless with cars.
Oh gosh, what an absolute nightmare. Occasionally ours goes off unexpectedly but a bit of pressing buttons usually sorts it. This must be horrendous. Glad you got it sorted in the end.
I can't imagine how annoying that must have been for you! I hope you get it fixed. Thanks for sharing with #TriumphantTales, hope to see you again next week.
Hi Lisa, you handled the whole episode far better than I would have! You would have found me in the darkest corner under the bed if that had been our car! It's times like this when you know who your good neighbours are. I hope you get to the bottom of it soon and I hope your daughter had the best time in France.
Oh my days Lisa! What a bloody nightmare. I think you handled it well, the air would have been blue if it was me hehe!


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#directprovision15 : The Working Group and Proposals for Direct Provision Allowance
Liam Thornton Apr 9, 2015 Dec 18, 2017 Asylum & Refugee Law, human rights
I received documentation a number of weeks ago, in an envelope with no note or attachments and do not know who the sender is. I have confirmed though that this is information that the Working Group is working from (at least in February 2015). I had sat on this as I did not want to pre-empt any recommendations that were made. Given that the information on the Working Group is now being drip fed, I've decided to partly release this information.
There has been a drip feed coming from draft reports of the Working Group on the Protection Process. These have related "fast track" consideration of protection claims for those in the system for over 5 years (and here) and deliberations the Working Group has/is having on access to third level education (for an exceptionally small number) of asylum seekers. One issue, which will be relevant to a much broader group of asylum seekers in direct provision is the issue of their weekly payments. Currently, asylum seekers get €19.10 per week per adult and €9.60 per week per child payment as part of a non-statutory direct provision allowance. The High Court challenge to direct provision allowance, as lacking a legislative basis, failed last November.
This information comes from a Draft Report of Theme Two to the Working Group on Improvements to the Protection Process, including Direct Provision and Supports to Asylum Seekers. I understand that this is the proposal from the Department of Social Protection.
The payments, made by the Department of Social Protection, have cost the following since 2008:
Year DPA Expenditure (in millions) Number of Persons
2008 €4.96m 4,019
Until end of Oct. 2014 €2.98m 4,310
In certain and limited circumstances, asylum seekers may be entitled to exceptional needs payments. From January 2014-October 2014, the following exceptional needs payments were made for clothing, hospital requirements, funeral expenses, bedding, totalling €866,311.
The Working Group has considered four proposals, proposed by the Department of Social Protection, in relation to the direct provision allowance payment:
Proposal One: To recommend an adult direct provision allowance of €38.74 per week, with €29.80 per week per child. On the basis of current persons (child and adults) in direct provision, this would cost an extra €4, 125,573 per year.
Proposal Two: An adult direct provision allowance of €38.74 per week, with a child allowance of €19.20 per week. On the basis of current persons (child and adults) in direct provision, this would cost an extra €3, 266,864 per year.
Proposal Three: An adult direct provision allowance of €25.59 per week, with a child allowance of €12.86. On the basis of current persons (child and adults) in direct provision, this would cost an extra €1, 109,807 per year.
Proposal Four: An adult direct provision allowance of €22.35 per week, and a child rate of €11.23 per week. On the basis of current persons (child and adults) in direct provision, this would cost an extra €555,620 per year.
Given that Working Group deliberations on these options are continuing and are not yet agreed, it appears there is some movement on increasing direct provision allowance. However, there is also some concern as regards disposable income that asylum seekers may have, in comparison to others who may have to rely on social assistance payments. Given that there is no right to work, and the right for asylum seekers to be self-sufficient is wholly withdrawn, others relying on social assistance may not be a precise comparator.
Whatever the working group ultimately recommends, and whatever the Minister for Justice and Minister for Equality decide to do with this recommendation, I would hope that at a minimum direct provision allowance would be increased in light of proposal one. While I fundamentally disagree with the system of direct provision, its controlling and demeaning nature, the total denial of self-sufficiency and indignity foisted upon residents within enclosed institutional settings, such an increase may go some way (and admittedly not as far as I would like) to enhancing respect and dignity for those in direct provision.
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