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Industry Advisory Group – Security of Payment Reform
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On 23 February 2018, the Minister for Commerce and Industrial Relations announced the creation of an Industry Advisory Group (IAG) on security of payment reform in the building and construction industry.
The purpose of the IAG is to facilitate early consultation with peak industry bodies and State Government agencies on industry-wide law reforms to improve security of payment and fairness in the industry.
Sixteen peak industry bodies and six State Government agencies have been invited to join the IAG. They include:
Master Builders Association of Western Australia
Housing Industry Association of Western Australia
Australian Institute of Building
Construction Contractors Association of Western Australian Inc.
Property Council of Australia (WA)
Civil Contractors Federation (WA)
Subcontractors WA Inc.
Master Plumbers & Gasfitters Association of Western Australia
Master Painters & Decorators Australia (WA)
National Electrical and Communications Association WA
Master Electricians Australia (WA)
Air Conditioning & Mechanical Contractors' Association (WA)
Law Society of Western Australia
Resolution Institute WA Chapter
Construction Forestry Mining and Energy Union (WA)
Electrical Trades Union WA
Department of Finance Building Management and Works Division
Small Business Development Corporation
Department of Mines, Industry Regulation and Safety – Building and Energy Division
The Minister for Commerce and Industrial Relations issued a media statement on 23 February 2018 which is available on the WA Government media statements website.
Update to the Terms of reference
Following the release of the Commonwealth Government's review of security of payment laws, the Minister for Commerce and Industrial Relations approved an amendment to the IAG's Terms of Reference to include consideration of the recommendations from the review.
Download a copy of the amendment to the Terms of reference.
Terms of reference Click here to download the document
About the IAG
To facilitate consultation, a series of formal workshops are being held throughout the year with members of the IAG. The formal workshops are being chaired by Mr John Fiocco who will be assisted by the Hon. Matthew Swinbourn MLC.
Later in the year, Mr Fiocco and Mr Swinbourn will provide an independent report to the Minister addressing and making recommendations on the Terms of Reference.
Mr John Fiocco (Chair)
Mr Fiocco is an experienced and well respected local barrister who was admitted to the Supreme Court of Western Australia and the High Court of Australian in 1973.
Mr Fiocco holds a Bachelor of Laws from the University of Western Australia (1972) and Master of Laws from the University of Virginia (1977).
Mr Fiocco is currently based at Fourth Floor Chambers and his areas of practice and teaching include bankruptcy and insolvency law, commercial law and contract law. Mr Fiocco is currently an Associate Professor (Adjunct) at the University of Western Australia Law School.
In 2005, Mr Fiocco was a consultant on the Magistrate's Court Reform Project, and in 1999 was a consultant on the Law Reform Commission of Western Australia, Review of Criminal and Civil Justice System.
Mr Fiocco is the Co-Author of Civil Procedure in Western Australia: A Practice Manual and Workers' Compensation Western Australia. Since 1979, Mr Fiocco has also authored a number of published articles and papers in areas of commercial and general law.
In 2010, Mr Fiocco was elected a Life Member of the Law Society of Western Australia, and in 2015 was awarded Lawyer of the Year.
Hon Matthew Swinbourn MLC (Assistant Chair)
Mr Swinbourn was elected to the WA Legislative Council as the member for the East Metropolitan region at the March 2017 State election. Mr Swinbourn is the Chair of the Standing Committee on Environment and Public Affairs and a member of the Select Committee on Elder Abuse.
Before being elected, Mr Swinbourn was a Senior Industrial Officer and lawyer with the Construction Forestry Mining and Energy Union – WA Branch (2012-2017) and prior to this he was a Senior Industrial Officer at Health Services Union (2010-2012). Mr Swinbourn was also a sessional lecturer in Employment Relations at Notre Dame University (2013-2017).
Mr Swinbourn holds a Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Laws from the University of Western Australia and was admitted to the Supreme Court of Western Australia in 2014.
If you require any information regarding the IAG please contact SoPReform@dmirs.wa.gov.au
Stakeholders provided information to this inquiry through written submissions as well as verbally at workshops and private meetings. The written submissions therefore represent only a part of the feedback received.
Industry Advisory Group – Workshop 1
On 26 March 2018, the first formal Industry Advisory Group workshop was held to discuss the proposals set out in Discussion paper 1.
Industry Advisory Group Discussion paper 1 Click here to download the document
14 written submissions were received from Industry Advisory Group members following the first formal workshop.
Australian Instituse of Building
Air Conditioning and Mechanical Contractors' Association
Civil Contractors Federation
Construction Forestry Mining and Energy Union
The Law Society of Western Australia
Master Electricians Australia
Master Plumbers and Gasfitters Association Western Australia
Master Painters and Decorators Australia
NECA – Electrical and Communications Association of WA
Resolution Institute
Society of Construction Law Australia
Subcontractors WA
On 7 May 2018, the second formal Industry Advisory Group workshop was held to discuss the proposals set out in Discussion paper 2.
11 written submissions were received from Industry Advisory Group members following the second formal workshop. Three written submissions were also received from other organisations invited to make comment, including the Australian Institute of Quantity Surveyors, Society of Construction Law Australia (WA Chapter) and the Building Services Board.
Air Conditioning and Mechanical Contractors Association
Australian Institute of Quantity Surveying
Building Services Board
Civil Contractors Federation WA
Housing Industry Association WA
Master Builders Western Australia
Master Plumbers and Gasfitters Western Australia
Small Business Developement Corporation
Society of Construction Law
Industry Advisory Group – Workshops 3 and 4
On 9 July 2018 and 6 August 2018, the third and fourth formal Industry Advisory Group workshops were held to discuss the proposals set out in Discussion papers 3 and 4.
Industry Advisory Group Discussion paper 3Click here to download the document
The following 16 submissions were received:
Consult Australia WA
Department of Communities
On 31 October 2018, the independent Final Report prepared by the Chair, Mr John Fiocco, was provided to the State Government.
The State Government is now considering the recommendations in the Final Report and further announcements will be made shortly.
The Minister for Commerce and Industrial Relations issued a media statement on 11 December 2018 which is available on the WA Government media statements website.
Final Report – Security of Payment Reform in the WA Building and Construction Industry Click here to download the document
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This painting dates from Domergue's early period before he settled down to concentrate solely on portraiture of the Parisien Elite. It is an extremely rare piece as very few non-portrait paintings have either survived prior to Domergue's success as a portraitist. Domergue was born in Bordeaux and studied at the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts. In 1911, he was a winner of the Prix de Rome. From the 1920s onward he concentrated on portraits, and claimed to be "the inventor of the pin-up". He also designed clothes for the couturier Paul Poiret. From 1955 until 1962 he was the curator of the Musée Jacquemart-André, organising exhibitions of the works of Van Gogh, Toulouse-Lautrec, Goya and others.
Domergue was appointed a Chevalier of the Légion d'honneur. He died 16 November 1962 in Paris.


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When you decide to add a new cat to your home, it's normally more exiting for you and your family than it is for the cat you already own. Although most cats are solitary by nature, most will also come to accept or eventually tolerate any additions. Cats can be very territorial, which is why you should always be careful when you introduce a new cat to your current cat.
If you are introducing kittens to one another, the entire introduction process can be short, lasting as little as 10 - 15 days. Introducing cats to each other all depends on their temperament and their personality. When you introduce a new cat to your current cat, you should always make sure that you give your current cat plenty of love and attention. This way, your cat will feel secure and know that he isn't in competition with your new cat for affection.
When you bring your new cat home, you should let him stay in a safe room until you have finished introducing the cats. Your safe room can be any small room in your home, such as a bathroom or spare bedroom. The key here is to use a room that your current cat doesn't go in. In the room, you should leave your new cat a scratching post, bed, water dish, litter box, and food dish.
At first, your current cat may howl and hiss when he stands at the door, trying to tell the other cat that he doesn't belong. When this happens you should ignore it, as punishing your cat for his behavior will only lead to more problems. After a while, the first cat will start to act calm when he is near the new cat's door. As he starts to act calm, you should pet him and give him praise.
When your first cat starts to go by your new cat's door and doesn't howl or hiss; you can start introducing them to each other. The best way to do this is to get them used to each others scent. You can start letting them eat out of the same food dish, although you'll want to feed them at different intervals at first. This way, the scent of each cat will be present at the food dish, and each cat will get the scent when he eats his food.
Once both cats have got used to the scent, you can begin to feed them closer together. To do this, you should keep your new cat in the safe room with the door closed, and your first cat on the other side of the door with his food dish. This time, feed both cats at the same time. After doing this a few times, they should start eating without any hissing or growling. At this point, they are ready to be introduced to one another.
When you introduce them to each other in the same room, a bit of growling and hissing is to be expected. Although they may be used to each others scent; your first cat will still feel a bit awkward with your new cat being in his territory. You should play with them both at first, so they can smell one another and greet in their own way. If they start to fight you should break them up, and give them some time apart.
It may take some time to get them fully used to one another, although once they do - they will become playmates for life. Cats love to be social, although it may be a bit rough at first, especially for your first cat. Cats can be very territorial, especially if you have a kitten around. If you get both of them used to each other early on - it will be a lot easier to add future cats to your home.


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Proactive Communication: The Human Algorithm for Managing Risk
By Lowers & Associates, 13th August 2020
Until recently, Continuous Monitoring was, at best, theoretical. Why? Because true Continuous Monitoring required real-time access to court records in order to make actionable, informed decisions on employees involved in legal matters. Arrest record data and other sources were ok, but to truly get the whole picture, court records were required. Thanks to progressive advances in automation, true Continuous Monitoring is now very real and can, today, provide organizations the opportunity to actively manage employees that operate in high-risk, high-compliance environments.
True Continuous Monitoring is crucial in the modern workplace because it brings efficiencies to risk mitigation immediately after an event occurs, especially if it's non-jailable or an unreported offense. With businesses right now running lean and looking for any advantage as they right-size, re-strategize and build towards a post-COVID-19 economy, they need their people to be who they say they are. True continuous monitoring enables this.
But what about before something bad happens? That, as they say, is where the rubber meets the road.
Predictive technology absolutely exists in the mainstream already – it drives the engines powering social media, music streaming, news feeds and online retail, to name a few. But these insights are typically gleaned from prior activity or stated preferences to predict what a person might next want. Whether you subscribe to Maslow's 'Hierarchy of Needs' or any other human behavior model derivative, when a need is unmet in a person's life, it's true that the behaviors that follow are also (usually) predictive; but the technology that works for Spotify playlists and Amazon purchases doesn't quite meet the litmus test required to anticipate (and mitigate) workplace violence, fraud or other activities that can profoundly impact a business and the people that work there.
Businesses need predictive insight to identify when a behavior pattern becomes a concern, or at the very least, be able to alert a managing authority to deviations that are outside what's considered "normal and safe" behavior by an employee in order to mitigate the risk exposure. The algorithm to perform said task does exist, but it's still very much analog.
What is this old-fashioned engine that can help predict and manage risk-related behaviors, you ask?
Simply put, it's communication. More specifically, it's employees in high-risk or high-compliance environments at all levels using standardized processes to communicate proactively about, well, anything and everything. When it comes to mitigating risk, proactive communication's predictive capacity is less about mind-reading and more about behavior-reading. It enables a framework that employees can use to identify and communicate red flags before those red flags turn into bad behavior and a court case, or worse, yellow caution tape.
In the final entry of #OurStory series, Jon Groussman crystalizes the 'before and after of risk' using an example of a client that took a massive hit to employee morale and reputation that, had proactive communication and continuous monitoring been options, might have been avoidable.
This particular incident occurred at a research and manufacturing facility and involved a supervisor and an employee. Can you tell us what happened?
Jon Groussman: I remember I'd gotten to the office a little bit early that day to do some catching-up. My phone rang right around 830, it was an executive from a client's facility letting me know that they had an incident the night before at around 11pm. A supervisor on the overnight shift had brought a handgun into the facility, put the handgun to the head of one of the workers and threatened to blow the co-worker's head off if he ever spoke to the supervisor again. The police were called, the supervisor was arrested for aggravated assault and possession of a firearm, banned from the property and then, of course, taken into custody.
Clearly, the executives were rattled and couldn't understand how this could happen at their facility. I was able to get over to the facility the same afternoon that I received the call, walked through the facility and met with the executives. Unfortunately, the executives didn't really know much about what actually went on during this 3rd shift which, for all intents and purposes, was an overnight shift. A lot of times, not only in this environment, but in other environments that have shift workers or that are open 24 hours, the more senior management doesn't know what's actually happening during those hours. What develops then is a communication gap. From a safety and security standpoint, that gap can become a real vulnerability because you're not getting tipped off to issues that may be occurring in situations like this one. So, I started to interview people.
Of the 16 or so people I spoke with, a common theme started to emerge. The primary one was that they were understaffed. They had a hard time finding employees with the skill set to meet their demands and so they were more tolerant of, not something like this incident, but we'll say, inappropriate behavior. The second was that being understaffed, the demands of the business had put them in a position where ignorance was bliss until reality hit – the lack of awareness and how to report inappropriate behavior was a huge issue.
You mentioned a pattern began to emerge. Were there red flags that went overlooked?
Jon Groussman: There are almost always red flags; this kind of thing generally doesn't happen out of the blue. In speaking with people working that 3rd shift, I was told that the assailant took longer breaks than everybody else. As he was a supervisor, people didn't question it because he also got his job done. The problem was, we found out he was leaving the site – using the only camera that was well-positioned and functioning – to visit a neighboring community that was very well known for selling drugs. We could see his car come and go at the times when his colleagues said he would be on longer breaks, and this began happening more frequently in the months prior to the attack.
With that revelation, we went to law enforcement to see if he had a record or had any weapons issues beforehand. It turned out he'd been in court numerous times within that past year for purchasing drugs in the community I mentioned, but this client and facility didn't have a system in place to know that. Now remember, this was a person in a supervisory role with access to assets within this facility that a loss or accident could have been very bad. The materials and trade secrets were also very valuable on the secondary market, had he been desperate enough to need money for drugs or been coerced into stealing them. Had this client and facility utilized some type of continuous monitoring and had a disciplinary policy, this incident would have likely never happened because he would have been gone long before it happened.
You mentioned that even with continuous monitoring in place, there wasn't a mechanism to be able to report that information, let alone red flag behavior. Was this a lapse in SOPs or a culture problem?
Jon Groussman: Everyone on that 3rd shift acknowledged the assailant was unusual – he would go and dance on the roof, for example. But, to your point, the environment at the facility was one where security and minimizing conflict was not part of the culture. They didn't have SOPs that addressed ways to communicate any perceived efficiencies, let alone any threats that somebody may perceive against the people or physical assets at the facility. There was no standardized method to report much of anything.
So, it was clear we had to implement better access control measures. We wanted to know when people were coming in and going out, and adding physical security equipment like CCTV to compliment it. But one of the biggest things we had to do was change the culture. In the security world, it's sometimes easy to talk about standard operating procedures and physical security equipment, but all those things are only as good as if people are willing to follow it and buy into the program.
The other piece of culture change is that it requires people that are accountable. This facility didn't have anybody responsible for security. They didn't have a threat assessment team. They didn't have a facility security manager. Their primary focus for security was that of the machines that did the manufacturing and research. It was a deadline driven environment. To get the work done, there was a willingness to overlook certain human capital elements when it didn't have to do with occupational safety. As long as the machines were running properly, the place was considered very safe. But when it came to a potential insider threat, that wasn't part of the culture. And that's why I think it took everybody by surprise. But that 3rd shift was an island unto itself. Nobody had eyes on it, and they didn't have the protocols in place to try to capture the red flags.
You've seen a lot of things in your career. Did anything about this experience shock you?
Jon Groussman: Unfortunately, no. Most of the calls I get are when things are going well until they're not. The comparisons that always come to mind are insurance and lawyers – nobody wants to pay for either until they need it. I think it absolutely surprised the executive team within this particular company that this happened.
The problem was that it wasn't just the guy who had the gun held to his head that experienced the trauma; it was all the co-workers who witnessed the event. They were fearing for their lives in that moment. If that gun went off, even accidentally, who's to say he wouldn't have kept shooting? And this was long before there was such heightened awareness about active shooters.
But this scenario still happens, and it happens because of a lack of communication that, had their communication been better, could have been prevented.
Besides more proactive communication, how did this experience become a teachable moment for you?
Jon Groussman: Most of what I do, and much of what security professionals do when they do assessments, whether it's a post-event assessment or pre-event, is understanding what the threats are and understanding where the vulnerabilities are, and how you can operationalize the mitigation efforts. And for me to help a business change its culture to become more proactive around its security, I have to have an understanding of the way that business operates before making recommendations on how to minimize those risks. In the process, you have to prioritize the risks. And then you have to make sure that the business can still function with the recommendations that you're putting in place, because you're not there to create a prison. You're also not there to spend money unnecessarily that a company doesn't have. And, you're not there to reduce the efficiency of their business.
In this case, there were some very simple things that we were able to do through an awareness campaign, through a 24-hour anonymous call center – which is very simple to do. Improved access controls, new cameras. We instituted continuous monitoring for those employees that had certain access to materials and information, and created oversight protocols for management. We designed a reporting structure and also a disciplinary structure together so that, if somebody wasn't doing their job or was behaving in an unusual way, you could address those issues.
We basically just connected the dots. It took a long time for morale to improve, but it eventually did and proactive communication was really the driver of it all.
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7 Key Components of Successful ITM Risk Mitigation
By Lowers & Associates, 20th September 2018
Interactive Teller Machines (ITMs) offer new business opportunities to banks, and therefore to CIT carriers. A significant side benefit to the CIT carrier is the chance to take on an even bigger role in cash management in partnerships with banks. But with the larger role comes a larger responsibility to manage the risks that go with a deeper integration into the financial institution.
Here are 7 key components of a program where CIT carriers evaluate risks and then develop and implement procedures to address them.
1. Risk Assessment
The first step in ITM risk mitigation is a risk assessment. CIT carriers need to review the entire process of cash-in-transit from beginning to end to identify the places where losses might occur, estimate a likelihood for each, and determine cost-benefit priorities. Crew and bystander safety will always be of paramount importance, but many characteristics of the routes such as cash transitions, surveillance capabilities, and communication security will be analyzed.
Carriers will be familiar with many of the ITM issues because they have been servicing ATMs, but there will be differences. Evaluated risks can be addressed in a number of ways.
2. Policies and Procedures
The risk mitigation policies a carrier sets up for ATMs may serve as a template for ITM policies, with additional or different elements incorporated as needed. For instance, the over-the-road assessment and policies to manage exposure due to timing and environmental conditions will be a basis for further development for ITMs, if the machines are co-located or if the ITMs replace ATMs.
Policies will cover over-the-road exposures, procedures for handling cash (which is more complex for the ITM), handling multiple machines in a single setting (especially important if several ITMs are serviced in sequence), maintenance issues, vehicle control issues, and reporting or sign-offs. Basic controls like dual control and separation of duties will be included. These policies constitute best practices for the specific carrier to manage cash with security.
3. Internal Audits
The aim of internal audits is to implement a running account of transactions and cash balances at key points in a route to maintain control of the disposition of cash. Audits performed by the carrier may use a variety of methods and they may be scheduled and routine by design, random or intermittent. In all cases, the policy should be communicated to affected staff to set expectations that the audits will occur.
4. External Audits
Audits performed by external agencies give a strong, credible check on internal procedures, adding a strong layer of security. Insurers and other third parties may require these audits as a condition of contract. The value of an external audit is that it can find failures in the system where employees and/or accomplices have intentionally voided internal controls. Random or unannounced audits may be especially effective in detecting fraud early.
5. Personnel Screening and Testing
CIT carrier crews require a special kind of employee. They must be detail oriented, persistently thorough in performing routines, yet able to respond creatively and independently when extreme events occur—they manage risks in real time. Employees like this are rare at any event, but in a tight labor market like today's, it's very challenging to find them. Employers need to resist the temptation to loosen background screening and testing criteria, perhaps ramping up the level of effort in recruitment instead.
In addition, an important risk management tool is to interview and/or screen current employees on a regular basis to find changes in life circumstances or attitude that could signal a disaffected employee. Finally, training and testing are essential to help front line people recognize and cope with emergent threats.
6. Access Controls
Access controls including keys, passwords, combinations and alarms should be monitored for operational effectiveness, and changed often enough to reduce the possibility of being defeated. Again, the essential interactive capability of ITMs increases the danger of these controls being breached, so a broader view of "access" is required. Controls based on environmental design or structure are harder to change, but it may be possible to make big risk improvements with relatively small changes.
7. Physical Security
Hardening a target to protect physical security is a classical response to risk, such as in a vault or armored truck. However, it is in the spaces between these hardened targets, where cash is carried that a clever larcenist will look to find weakness. The ITM can exacerbate these weaknesses because of its relatively long service interval, putting a premium on how surveillance, environmental design, and communication can be used to supplement the physical security of the ITM.
For a more comprehensive introduction to managing risk in ITM servicing, download our latest whitepaper on the topic, A CIT Carrier's Guide to Building Your ITM Program.
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[SlideShare] A Realistic Look at the Active Shooter Situation
By Lowers & Associates, 2nd November 2016
Sadly, the number of active assailant incidents continues to increase, with 40 incidents in 26 states over the past two years. It is more important than ever to consider the risk for your organization, institution or business.
OSHA requires companies to maintain a workplace safe from violence under the General Duty clause. One way to prevent or mitigate a potential loss is to be prepared.
With a thorough understanding, some preventative measures, and some rehearsing, your organization can apply this best practice of preparedness to be better able to effectively predict, prevent, and respond to an active shooter situation on your premises.
Knowledge is power. This is not something to avoid out of fear. With our latest SlideShare presentation you can learn more about the incidents and the perpetrators as well as the steps to being as prepared as possible.
Let us promote safety together. Take action today by reviewing the presentation here:
Category: Occupational Fraud, Risk Management, Threat Assessment, Workplace Violence
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Truth Without Objectivity
Max Kölbel
London and New York: Routledge (2002)
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Kölbel, Max (2002). Truth Without Objectivity. London and New York: Routledge.
The mainstream view in the philosophy of language holds that every meaningful sentence has a truth-condition. This view, however, runs into difficulties with non-objective sentences such as sentences on matters of taste or value: these do not appear to be either true or false, but are generally taken to be meaningful. How can this conflict be resolved? Truth Without Objectivity examines various ways of resolving this fundamental problem, before developing and defending its own original solution, a relativist theory of truth. Standard solutions maintain either that in uttering non-objective sentences speakers make implicit reference to their own preferences and thus have unproblematic truth conditions, or that they have no truth conditions at all. Max Kölbel argues that both of these proposed solutions are inadequate, and that a third well-known position, minimalism, can only solve the problem if it is developed in the direction of relativism about truth. Kölbel defends the idea that truth (as invoked in semantics) is a neutral notion: a sentence's possessing a truth condition does not yet entail that it concerns an objective subject matter, because truth and objectivity are independent of one another. He argues that this notion of 'truth without objectivity' leads directly to relativism about truth, and goes on to defend one form of relativism against well-known objections.
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The Anzac Centenary walk project is South Australia's major public realm project commemorating 100 years of since our involvement in the First World War. The project has been jointly funded by the Commonwealth Government, from the Anzac Public Fund, the State Government and Adelaide City Council.
The Anzac Walk on Kintore Avenue, Adelaide was officially opened on Saturday 23 April 2016 by the Hon Hieu Van Le AO, Governor of South Australia, ahead of ANZAC day commemorations on the Monday. Both fanfare, with a military parade and tattoo, and quiet reflection accompanied the public unveiling of the Memorial Walk.
'The Anzac Centenary Walk pays tribute to the service and sacrifice of all Australians affected by war. It is South Australia's Centenary of Anzac project.
The memorial walk enshrines the contribution of servicemen and women, their families and Australian Society. It honours the more than 102,000 service personnel, many of them South Australian, who have made the ultimate sacrifice.
This tangible recognition of our military history enables all who visit to reflect upon Australia's contribution throughout a century of service. It pays tribute to those who wear our nation's uniform and commemorates those who did not return home.
In the first amendment to the Government House boundary in 88 years, the eastern boundary of Government House was shifted 10m west, reapportioning a 2700sqm area to a create a new public realm. This enabled the creation of the 270m long Memorial Walk to formally link the South Australian National War Memorial to the Torrens Parade Ground and Government House.
Designed in collaboration with Grieve Gillett Anderson, the project was premised upon three pillars of symbolism; remembrance, service and loyalty.
The Memorial Walk is defined by a linear garden, designed to provide a space for quiet contemplation and personal reflection removed from the city surrounds. In acquiring the 10m x 270m of Government House land the team were required to consider issues of security and heritage in built form and the gardens.
This politically sensitive project had a number of stakeholders with varying priorities and required close consultation and collaboration with Veterans Affairs South Australia, State Government, Adelaide City Council and Government House, among others. The design team was challenged with understanding and managing the viewpoints of each of the stakeholders and arriving mutually agreeable solutions.
The high profile project is of state significance. Design decisions, in particular materiality and plant selection, needed to be symbolic and representative of South Australia.
In connecting the South Australian National War Memorial to the Torrens Parade Ground, Kintore Avenue has been transformed into a memorial precinct that pays tribute to the service and sacrifice of all Australians affected by war.
The site now encourages public interaction with Government House, opens Kintore Avenue as a pedestrian hub and an important piece of public infrastructure within the greater precinct connecting Adelaide University, Rundle Mall, The State Library, Migration Museum and RSL South Australia.


We all know Metrix is a great place to work on school or personal projects and create just for fun. However, I recently learned of someone using the space in a more professional manner. Kelly Golob recently graduated from Southern California University of Health Sciences and is now practicing chiropractic care at Tumwater Chiropractic Center. What's the first thing all those business blogs, books, and your friends tell you to do when you start out working? Get business cards of course! Kelly decided (with the help of a designer) to get his cut at Metrix!
I myself just recently purchased my first box of cards after needing them on many occasions these past couple of months. (Seriously, don't skip this business step!) Mine are fairly traditional, but his really stand out! I love how cutting out the spine from the paper adds a lot of uniqueness and interest to the card, without leaving it cluttered. The holes are a great use of negative space and are simple and complicated at the same time.
I think my future cards might be cut from the laser, just seeing the really cool results Kelly had. You can see his site at www.kellygolob.com/ and his designer's site http://www.applied-sciences.net/. Hopefully I'll see you working for your business ideas too!


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Forced transition to wind and solar will impose real costs on Canadians
Appeared in the Edmonton Sun, October 27, 2021
A key aspect of the federal government's pledge to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and achieve net-zero emissions by 2050 is the nationwide phaseout of coal-fired power by 2030. As with any decision, there are costs and benefits, but unfortunately advocates continue to tell Canadians that these decisions are costless when they will in reality impose costs, potentially significant costs.
Ottawa's plan is to completely eliminate coal-fired power and replace it with renewable energy, principally wind and solar. However, wind and solar are intermittent sources of power, meaning that they're not always available. Simply put, we need another source of power when the sun doesn't shine and the wind doesn't blow. That means maintaining sufficient energy capacity in a parallel system usually run on natural gas.
This requirement—of building and maintaining a parallel source of energy, namely natural gas—causes overall energy costs to increase when jurisdictions transition from reliable fossil fuels to more renewables.
A new study published by the Fraser Institute used the experiences of Alberta and Ontario to estimate the overall cost implications for Canada moving away from coal to renewables backed up by natural gas. The annual estimate is between $16.8 billion and $37.7 billion, which represents between roughly 1 per cent and 2 per cent of the entire economy. In other words, Canadians will spend the equivalent of 1 to 2 per cent of the economy every year in the form of higher energy costs. And these estimates are relatively conservative since they don't include the costs of building more transmission lines, land rentals, environmental costs related to bird and bat kills and end-of-life disposal of wind turbines and solar panel wastes.
Of course, the transition to renewables and natural gas is not without benefits. The same study calculated that the transition would reduce national emissions by 7.4 per cent (although that's less than one-fifth of emission reductions required to meet Ottawa's 2030 target of reducing emissions by 40 to 45 per cent from 2005 levels).
The shortfall in meeting the emissions reduction is important since it implies much more will be needed with additional costs. For instance, it's likely Canada will need to rely more on nuclear energy to meet its goal. If the entirety of the new goal were met with nuclear, it would mean building 30 new nuclear power plants before 2030 at substantial costs.
Critically, though, previous research on Ontario's experience in phasing-out coal-fired plants found only small improvements in air quality, and that comparable improvements could have been achieved at a much lower cost had new pollution control systems been used instead of shuttering plants.
The study's conclusions are supported by real world experiences in Texas and several European countries, which made similar decisions as Canada—governments impose a transition away from reliable, comparatively inexpensive energy sources such as coal to renewables backed by natural gas. In every case, the result has been a more expensive and less-reliable electrical system.
In light of the experiences of Alberta and Ontario (and parts of the United States and Europe), Canadians should understand that at the very least the forced transition to renewables will impose real costs in the form of higher energy bills. Simply put, there's no free lunch when it comes to forced energy transitions.
Cornelis "Kees" van Kooten
Professor of Economics, University of Victoria
Elmira Aliakbari
Director, Natural Resource Studies, Fraser Institute
Canada-US Energy Sector Competitiveness Survey 2021 Jairo Yunis, Elmira Aliakbari
Canadian Climate Policy and Its Implications for Electricity Grids Cornelis "Kees" van Kooten
Ottawa making electricity more expensive for Albertans Robert P. Murphy
Red tape continues to hamper Canadian energy industry Jairo Yunis, Elmira Aliakbari


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Seemingly infinite, these constantly shifting specks.
I pick some up, unaware of the secret hex.
It sticks to my hand.
Try to brush it off, but the damage is already done.
I make a futile stand.
Wish that it were banned.
Suntan lotion scrapes as I rub it on.
Long after I've left this beach, it still won't be gone.


how you can present yourself to prospective employers.
they might fit into each organization's culture.
successful candidates will bring to the organization.
I like her dividing job descriptions into short and long.
skills they list and what accomplishments they summarize.
Study the website for detail.
act and present yourself professionally.
to progress and learn from failure.
solving motivation in their background and interests.
with a large number of public relations packages.
the packages for keywords and words in context.
professionals with several years of experience.
different for Post-doctoral fellows in terms of content.
more than a couple of years experience?
projects that required you to do the extraordinary.
have for an internet presence.).
to develop in our career.
different audiences that uses deBono's six hats concept.
Eliminate weak points; develop back up plans.
numbers and outcomes. What can we learn from them?
What is missing or how can we fill in detail?
What are situational or critical trends?
creative ideas with little or no criticism/ rejection.
restate your strengths and the pay-offs will soon be realized.
Robotics, Automation and Personal Protection.
dimension when robotics and automation is involved.
zones of chemical or biological warfare.


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Bruce is a 5'6 senior, libero from Waxahachie, TX, for the Southwestern Assemblies of God University (SAGU) volleyball team. She is now the all-time leader for digs as a Lady Lion with over 2000 career digs. Bruce passed the 2000 mark in their latest game against College of the Ozarks in NCCAA regional play when she recorded 22 digs which is her 11th game of the season with more than 20 digs in a game. The senior is ranked 45th nationally in digs per set, 3rd in total digs for the Sooner Athletic Conference with 549 on the season and 4th in the SAC with over five digs per set. For her career she has had over 500 digs in three of four seasons as a Lion: 552 as a sophomore, career-high 599 in her junior campaign, and 549 so far as a senior.
The SAGU Lions are set to play in the NCCAA National Tournament with pool play starting on Thursday 11/29 at 2 pm against Trinity International University (Ill.) in Point Lookout, MO then that night against Grace College at 6 pm. Their final pool play game will be a team they have split with this season, College of the Ozarks on Friday at 10 am.
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18th July 2009.'Castleford Library Carlton Street, Castleford.
A MILLION pound revamp of Castleford Library has been given the green light by Wakefield Council chiefs.
Planning permission for The Forum – a newly-expanded museum and library space at the Carlton Street site costing £1.4m – has been given the go-ahead by planning officers.
The existing library will close at the end of December and be temporarily moved to Bridge Arts on Sagar Street for the start of the new year.
Coun David Dagger, cabinet member for culture and libraries, said: "It is great news that planning permission has been granted for The Forum as we can now start to look at moving forward.
The temporary library will provide books, access to PCs and audio visual material. It will also have extended opening hours, including opening on Wednesdays for a trial period.
Construction work will see the existing library partly rebuilt and museum space will double. A ramp will also be built to improve access.
Coun Tony Wallis, treasurer of Friends of Castleford Library (FOCAL) and vice-chairman for Castleford Heritage Trust, said: "It's great news. It's good for the town centre because it shows that even in these times, things are getting done.
Development work marks the end of a 12-year campaign by members of FOCAL and the Trust for a combined library, museum and arts venue in the town, which has been blighted by funding problems including three failed National Lottery bids.
The council has been working in partnership with both community groups and the Castleford Town Centre Partnership to move forward with plans.


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Multiple Felony Counts For Alleged Sutter Street Rapist
A Texas man accused of sexually assaulting a woman in San Francisco's Cathedral Hill neighborhood last weekend made his initial appearance in court today to face multiple felony counts, prosecutors said.
Arthur Salinas, 57, is charged with rape, forced oral copulation, failing to register as a sex offender and kidnapping enhancements for the attack at about 11 p.m. Saturday.
The victim struck up a conversation with Salinas while making a purchase at a store in the 1400 block of Sutter Street near Van Ness Avenue, police said.
The victim and Salinas then left the store together and were walking for about a block when he allegedly forced her into a stairwell and sexually assaulted her, according to police.
The suspect fled the scene and the victim went home, where her roommate called 911. The victim was then taken to a hospital to be treated for her injuries, police said.
Investigators searched the area and spoke with an apartment manager in the 1300 block of Sutter Street who said Salinas matched the description of the suspect.
He was found shortly afterward near Sutter and Franklin streets and was taken into custody on the various charges, as well as for a sex offender parole warrant issued by the Texas Department of Corrections.
District Attorney George Gascon issued a statement denouncing the sexual assault, which came just days after the celebration of the international One Billion Rising campaign seeking to end violence against women.
"Last week, after thousands of people in San Francisco gathered in front of City Hall and demanded an end to the violence against women, we had this monster commit horrific acts against a female resident," Gascon said.
"This is unacceptable and we will aggressively charge this predator and hope he will spend the rest of his life where he belongs, in prison," he said.
Salinas will return to court on Monday to enter a plea. He is a third strike candidate under California's three strikes law and could face up to life in prison if convicted.
Dan McMenamin, Bay City News


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Joel Hunter to represent evangelical Christianity in interfaith Friday talk
by Julie Ciotola on August 16, 2018 2.53K views
For nine years, Joel Hunter served as a spiritual adviser to former President Barack Obama, a position that sent him across the globe on scholarly and spiritual pursuits. In 2014, Hunter attended a conference in Tehran called "World Free of Violence and Extremism from the Perspective of Abrahamic Religions," which was dedicated to dismantling stereotypes of religious extremism as a means to work toward peace.
"We believe that we have something in common, and out of the commonality of our religious communities, we can build the kind of relationship and trust that politics simply can't," he said to Payvand. "Only through religious leadership or the exchange of religious leaders, we believe peace is going to be successfully built between our two countries."
Joel Hunter
At 2 p.m. Fri., Aug. 17, in the Hall of Philosophy, Hunter will bring years of interfaith dialogue experience to inform his discussion during the Institution's eighth Interfaith Friday. Hunter will represent evangelical Christianity as he engages in dialogue with the Rt. Rev. V. Gene Robinson, Chautauqua's vice president of religion.
For 32 years, Hunter served as senior pastor of Northland Church in Florida, and grew the congregation to about 20,000 weekly attendees across three locations. In 2017, he left that leadership role to pursue volunteer and nonprofit work. Hunter described this transition as a calling from God.
"When I knelt at the altar to give my whole life to Jesus, I was a part of the Civil Rights movement," he wrote on Northland Church's website. "My focus on Jesus was not only for personal salvation after this life but also for compassion towards the marginalized in this life. My call to follow Jesus and serve the vulnerable is stronger than ever."
Hunter now serves as founder and chairman of the Community Resource Network, an organization dedicated to helping homeless and impoverished families. He also chairs the Central Florida Commission on Homelessness, a Florida nonprofit group that works alongside government officials and other organizations in a collaborative effort against homelessness.
Hunter said the Central Florida Commission on Homelessness represents an intersection across political, spiritual and social spheres.
"We have huge community leadership and momentum here," Hunter said on the show "Welcome Home." "Everyone from our government officials to our business people to our nonprofit provider people specializing in homelessness and the faith community guide about $50 to $60 million in this central Florida area to the most effective way … to get people permanently housed."
Having spent years in the public sphere, both as a well-known pastor and as Obama's adviser, Hunter is often cited as both a religious and political figure. However, Hunter's friend and radio co-host, the Rev. Bryan Fulwider of Orlando, said Hunter does not let politics divide his character.
"He is always willing to stand on principle for what he truly believes in," Fulwider told The Washington Post. "Joel likes to say that the reason he works across religious lines as an evangelical Christian was that he knew that no one group could do the job of caring for the needs of the community and the world alone. He did some courageous stuff."
Hunter regularly works to engage different communities through "A Community Conversation," a program he started that hosts radio shows, blogs and videos that discuss current social issues.
The program's radio shows include "Power Talks" and "The Bright Side," in which Hunter brings in social issue experts to engage in thoughtful dialogue.
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As youths, Andy McGee (David Keith) and his future wife, Vicky (Heather Locklear), participated in secret experiments, allowing themselves to be subjected to mysterious medical tests. Years later, the couple's daughter, Charlie (Drew Barrymore), begins to exhibit the ability of setting fires solely with her mind. This volatile talent makes the youngster extremely dangerous and soon she becomes a target for the enigmatic agency known as "The Shop."
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The hero, Hyakkimaru is a wandering "demon hunter" whose extra body parts -- 48 to be exact -- were grafted onto his head and trunk by a herb doctor who discovered him as an infant, in a process that echoes "Frankenstein" and "The Island of Dr. Moreau." His warlord father gave the originals to 48 demons in exchange for power. When Hyakkimaru kills a demon, he wins back a body part. He is spotted in one of these battles, with a giant spider demon, by Dororo, a scrappy female thief who is fascinated by not only Hyakkimaru's prowess with the sword blade poking out of his arm but the new leg he grows after dicing his opponent. Is he a man -- or a monster? After hearing his story from an old minstrel, she decides to join him on his travels and find out for herself.
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Rin Okumura is raised by a famous exorcist named Father Fujimoto. After an argument between the two, Rin discovers he is the son of the devil. Rin decides to fight his fate by joining the True Cross Academy to become an exorcist and defeat demons. However, when he draws his father's sword a dark power is released.
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American professor John Holden arrives in London for a conference on parapsychology only to discover that the colleague he was supposed to meet was killed in a freak accident the day before. It turns out that the deceased had been investigating a cult lead by Dr. Julian Karswell. Though a skeptic, Holden is suspicious of the devil-worshiping Karswell. Following a trail of mysterious manuscripts, Holden enters a world that makes him question his faith in science.
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Mallister takes Thane prisoner and forces Marek and her team on a quest. Marek tracks down the Necromancer for a final showdown for the Darkspore.
Demon Spies (1974)
Deep in the mountains of feudal Japan, a group of children endure cruel and unorthodox training in order to become the Shogunate's most secret and deadly weapons - the Demon Spies! Their true identities are hidden - even from each other. Behind their demon masks, they are educated in the deadly arts of infiltration, espionage, assassination - and seduction! If they survive to become strong enough to kill their teachers, they will become - the Demon Spies! Sent on a suicide mission to uncover a deadly conspiracy, five inexperienced Demon Spies must infiltrate a powerful fief, discover the location of its secret arsenal, and destroy it. But Lord Shogen, the Demon Hunter, plans to brutally interrogate, ingeniously torture, and cruelly execute - the Demon Spies!
Doctor Mordrid (1992)
Doctor Mordrid is an interdimensional sorcerer whose cover on earth consists of acting as a super for a Manhattan apartment building. He gets word from his contact that a rival sorcerer, Kabal, has escaped and is coming to earth to take over the planet.Mordrid is framed for murder and sent to jail. His hottie girlfriend is the only one who can help him escape -- and prevent the destruction of Earth!
In the final days of World War II, the Nazis attempt to use black magic to aid their dying cause. The Allies raid the camp where the ceremony is taking place, but not before a demon - Hellboy - has already been conjured. Joining the Allied forces, Hellboy eventually grows to adulthood, serving the cause of good rather than evil.
The orphan Sheeta inherited a mysterious crystal that links her to the mythical sky-kingdom of Laputa. With the help of resourceful Pazu and a rollicking band of sky pirates, she makes her way to the ruins of the once-great civilization. Sheeta and Pazu must outwit the evil Muska, who plans to use Laputa's science to make himself ruler of the world.
Hellboy Animated: Sword of Storms (2006)
A folklore professor becomes unwittingly possessed by the ancient Japanese demons of Thunder and Lightning. But when The Bureau of Paranormal Research & Defense dispatches a team of agents to investigate, a cursed samurai sword sends Hellboy to a supernatural dimension of ghosts, monsters, and feudal mayhem. Now while pyrokinetic Liz Sherman and fishboy Abe Sapien battle one very pissed-off dragon, a lost and cranky Hellboy must find his way home.
Inuyasha the Movie: Affections Touching Across Time (2001)
InuYasha is a half-demon who was trapped in the Legendary Tree and was set free by Kagome, a girl who traveled 500 years through time. This time, both of them will have to face Menomaru, a Chinese demon whose father, known as Hyoga, came 300 years ago to invade Japan, but was stopped by InuYasha's Father. InuYasha and Kagome, along with Sango, Miroku, Shippou, Kaede and Myoga, will try to stop Menomaru in his becoming the most powerful demon ever.
Kull the Conqueror (1997)
A barbarian named Kull becomes ruler after defeating the old king in battle, thus receiving his crown. But direct heirs of the king, trying to topple Kull and regain the throne, bring an old witch queen Akivasha back to life. Their plan backfires, however, as Akivasha plans to have her demon lords rule the kingdom alone. The only thing that can stop her is the breath of the god Volka, and Kull.
Ba'al (2008)
A world-renowned archaeologist must reawaken the storm god Ba'al by collecting four ancient amulets scattered around the world. As each amulet is uncovered, Ba'al's fury threatens to destroy everything in its path with the most powerful storm mankind has ever seen.
An Egyptian princess rises from the dead and goes to California for the amulets she needs.
Constantine tells the story of John Constantine, a man who has literally been to Hell and back. When he teams up with a policewoman to solve the mysterious suicide of her twin sister, their investigation takes them through the world of demons and angels that exists beneath the landscape of contemporary Los Angeles.
Saint Sinner (2002)
In 1815 a monk, Tomas Alcala, unwittingly unleashes two female succubi, Munkar and Nakir, upon an unsuspecting 21st century. He is chosen by God to travel through the centuries and stop the demons' rampage.
Wolvesbayne (2009)
The film is pretty much a "by the numbers" thriller that follows Russel Bayne (London) - who is bitten by a werewolf and quickly finds himself in the middle of a supernatural war between vampires, werewolves, and human hunters. To make matters worse, it seems the vampires are having a civil war with a clan breaking from the others in a quest to return the vampire goddess back to power.
Three best friends and dedicated roleplayers take to the woods to reenact a dungeons and dragons-like scenario as a live action role-playing game. Trouble arises when a prop spellbook purchased from the internet ends up being a genuine grimoire and they unwittingly conjure up a blood-lusting succubus from hell.
Demon City Shinjuku (1988)
The movie begins with a battle between fates, the evil Rebi Ra (also pronounced Levi Ra or even Devi Da) versus the short-lived hero Genichirou. Rebi Ra has allowed himself to be possessed in order to gain the incredible powers of evil and plans to summon demons to conquer the world. Defeating Genichirou and destroying Shinjuku, a part of Tokyo, with a devastating earthquake, the area becomes a demon-haunted wilderness. Ten years later, the World President, put in place to uphold world peace, is attacked by Rebi Ra indirectly to keep his old master, Aguni Lai (Aguni Rai), as the protector of the president, occupied. However, Rebi Ra did not know that Genichirou had a son who inherited his powers and more. After an emotional plea from the president's daughter, Sayaka Rama, the unlikely hero Kyoya Izayoi follows her deep into the heart of the evil city, finding new allies and terrifying enemies along the way.
Zombie Massacre (2013)
A bacteriological weapon developed by the US Government to create a super soldier - spreads an epidemic in a quiet little town in the middle of Eastern Europe. All citizens have been turned into infected zombies. The plan is to bring an atomic bomb into the city's nuclear plant to pretend a terrible accident occurred. No one has to know the truth. A team of mercenaries is hired to complete the mission. The battle is on. Hordes of monsters against the team. Who will survive?
World War Z (2013)
Life for former United Nations investigator Gerry Lane and his family seems content. Suddenly, the world is plagued by a mysterious infection turning whole human populations into rampaging mindless zombies. After barely escaping the chaos, Lane is persuaded to go on a mission to investigate this disease. What follows is a perilous trek around the world where Lane must brave horrific dangers and long odds to find answers before human civilization falls.
Reel Zombies (2008)
Three film directors make a documentary about the undead in an invested world, he filmed in a time of real zombies. The crew filmed the backdrop of the zombie apocalypse, the real zombie invasion is underway
Rise of the Zombies (2012)
When zombies overrun San Francisco, a desperate group survives by locking themselves inside Alcatraz Prison. When the undead breach the island, our heros are forced to return to the mainland overrun with the undead.
Jack Brooks: Monster Slayer (2007)
As a child Jack Brooks witnessed the brutal murder of his family. Now a young man he struggles with a pestering girlfriend, therapy sessions that resolve nothing, and night classes that barely hold his interest. After unleashing an ancient curse, Jack's Professor undergoes a transformation into something not-quite- human, and Jack is forced to confront some old demons... along with a few new ones.
Zombie Apocalypse (2011)
Months after a zombie plague has wiped out 90 percent of the American population, a small group of survivors fight their way cross-country to a rumored refuge on the island of Catalina.
The Zombie Diaries 2 (2011)
Three months have passed since a viral outbreak wiped out 99.9% of the world's population, turning its victims into flesh-eating living dead. In the UK, a surviving band of soldiers and civilians have taken refuge at a rural military barracks. Life in this new world is tough and brutal, but hope appears when a high level communication is received from a military base on the coast, telling of sanctuary elsewhere in Europe... But just as salvation appears to be in reach, the base suffers an overwhelming defeat at the hands of the living dead! The surviving handful of troops and civilians must now make their way to the coast to uncover the truth behind the message. Their perilous journey takes them across a now treacherous, death-ravaged landscape, where the living dead are vast in number and wandering bandits impose their own malicious sense of law and order. What follows is a journey into hell and a desperate battle against all odds for the very survival of the human race
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doing the same thing over and over expecting a different result. We've all heard that, right? I'm betting we're all guilty of it, too. Shoot, I know I am, especially when it comes to people. I just a photographer post something about wanting to make a change, and not just sitting around waiting for it to happen. Her post was a meme that said "Old ways won't open new doors". To be honest, I generally don't appreciate preachy things like that on a business page, but it is hers to do with as she pleases. After I shook my head, I realized how applicable it is for me. This week in particular was quite challenging emotionally, made so by an emotionally unavailable person. We've all known people like this, I know, but it's worse when you're related to them. When I cried to my therapist (trying to end the stigma here) about yet another horrid display of emotional ineptitude, he asked "Why do you keep dipping into the well when it's dry?" Well (sorry for the pun), I guess it's because I don't perceive it as dry, but merely parched. Lame excuse. The well is never going to be filled. That's just how it is with some people. So why the hell do we torture ourselves? The answer is simple: hope. We all hope with all our might that that person will suddenly have a revelation and realize they're hurting you, change their ways, blah, blah, blah. In most cases, it just doesn't happen. I assure you that is not pessimism. In my 39 years (feels a lot longer), I have known many people, and all sorts of kinds. I have heard story after story and you know what? A lot of them end the same way. I don't expect to change people with this blog, or have some life-altering effect on someone (though you never know!), but I just want to gently remind people: YOU DON'T HAVE TO KEEP ANYONE IN YOUR LIFE WHO IS HURTING YOU. People seem to forget they matter just as much as the next person. I've met so many people in my life who hurt themselves by allowing someone toxic to remain in their life. Loyalty, duty, respect are all fine ideas, but if you're crying yourself to sleep, these words obviously have no meaning to the person you're holding on to. Your sanity, your emotional well-being, your happiness are simply not worth staying in a bad relationship, whatever the kind. This especially goes for family. Don't forget, you can make your own. Take care of yourself if you want to be able to take care of others.


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Eric Johnson, Sports Anchor / Reporter
Updated: February 21, 2021, 12:49 AM
Tags: VHSL, Wrestling Championships, Class 1, Rural Retreat, Grunay, Galax, George Wythe
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VHSL Wrestling Championships: Classes 1 and 4
Grundy wins 24th team title, Rural Retreat finishes 3rd
Published: February 21, 2021, 12:41 AM Updated: February 21, 2021, 12:49 AM
SALEM, Va. – Salem Civic Center will be the epicenter of VHSL State wrestling championships for the next 3 days. Class one was on tap for Saturday, featuring power house Grundy.
The Golden Wave advanced 9 wrestlers into Finals matches, resulting in 6 first place wins. That led to Grundy claiming its 24th team title.
Rural Retreat finished 3rd as a team after earning 4 individual titles from Eli Blevins (126), Dorian Delp (160), Wyatt Sage (182) and Eli Fortuner (195).
Galax had an individual champion in Brender Rojas at the 285 pound weight class. While at 170, Terry Morgan of George Wythe claimed the State Title.
Down in Virginia Beach at the Class 4 championships, Amherst County finished 4th as a team. The Lancers had an individual winner at the 182 weight class in Kaine Morris. Salem had 2 wrestlers advance to finals matches, both resulting in runner-up nods, in Walker Chambers (113) and Cameron Martindale (285).
Eric is no stranger to the Roanoke Valley. He is a Roanoke native and proud graduate of William Fleming High School.


3:16 a.m., Two Faced delivered the first kitten (note: still no idea what special word is used for that act) on the living room carpet at my feet. Before the afterbirth made its appearance, I praised her and moved her to the top of the washer where I could reach to clean up the mess. After she'd disposed of the afterbirth, I moved her into the igloo, which I removed from my room and placed on top of the washer in a clean place.
When she'd licked the kitten all over, I moved it and her into the igloo and cleaned up the top of the washer.
She'd been licking Spelunker's and Jabberwock's heads all night, which I took as a good sign.
She's still so huge, she can't reach her own rear end with her tongue, yet.
3:45, second yellow kitten. She's still in the igloo, but panting.
4:28, third yellow kitten. She's seriously panting, overheated in the snug igloo, so I brought in the blue milk crate with holes in the sides and bottom from the back porch, lined it with paper, and placed her and all three kittens in it. She immediately picked up one and hopped out, going back into the igloo.
By 9 a.m., she had produced a black with white paws up the legs a bit and a gray tiger tortoise shell.
She still looks huge to me... Both boys slept with me, did not drink water, or use the litter box, but from 4-9 is not long enough to be a hardship in either department. When I opened the door, neither chose to enter her domain.


JOHANNESBURG, 19 November 2012. The Republic of Namibia today listed its first Rand-denominated government bond on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange (JSE). With a R3 billion medium term note programme approved, the first tranche is an issuance of ZAR 850 million.
This follows other issuances in the past year that have helped expand bonds listed on the JSE to R1.45 trillion.
"The listing is a very positive development as it is an example of this exchange's drive to build a listings venue for Africa across the government, state owned enterprise, corporate and infrastructure sectors. Listing on the exchange brings a number of positive benefits including transparency (from an issuer disclosure perspective), more trade after listing and secure settlement, increased transparency of trading prices and improved regulation," says Graham Smale, Director of Bonds and Financial Derivatives at the JSE.
"Importantly, through this listing the Namibian government gains easy access to a wide range of intermediaries and end-investors through the network of JSE members and their clients."


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Good morning, and welcome to Tuesday. STAT reporter Max Blau here, bringing you today's health and medicine news. Let's get started.
Trump appoints new HHS head
President Trump yesterday announced that Alex Azar, a former executive at Eli Lilly, would replace former HHS Secretary Tom Price, who resigned two months ago. "He will be a star for better healthcare and lower drug prices!" Trump tweeted. The president's pick of Azar, who served as deputy health secretary for the George W. Bush administration, was praised by fellow Republicans, the American Hospital Association, and even Obama CMS administrator Andy Slavitt. "He's eager to serve — and expressed to me that he's looking to work across the aisle. Let's hope that's true," Slavitt told MSNBC. However, Azar will have to steer clear of many potential conflicts of interest given his pharmaceutical ties. That's already led Democrats like Sen. Patty Murray of Washington to express concerns about whether he'll actually be interested in lowering drug prices.
First digital pill approved by FDA
A futuristic pill that contains an ingestible sensor to track medication adherence was approved by the FDA late Monday — the first of its kind to win that designation. The drug is an upgraded version of Abilify, an antipsychotic drug first approved 15 years ago to treat schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, and depression. The new product will be sold as Abilify MyCite. When it's swallowed, an ingestible sensor inside it sends a message to a patch worn by the patient, which then transmits the information to a mobile app that the patient can monitor. If a patient opts to allow it, the patient's caregivers and doctor can access the data, too.
Diabetes crisis is set to get worse, report says
The world's diabetes crisis is on track to dramatically worsen, affecting hundreds of millions of people while draining billions from the world economy. That's according to the annual diabetes atlas released today by the International Diabetes Federation. The world spends more than $720 billion on health care expenditures related to diabetes, according to the report, and the number of people suffering from diabetes is projected to rise to 693 million by 2045 — with the greatest rise in southern Asia, the Middle East, and Africa.
Separately, public health experts are meeting this afternoon to discuss the latest in diabetes treatment, prevention strategies, and the possibilities of future medical advancements. The participants in the forum, hosted by the Harvard School of Public Health, include experts in health care policy, diabetes advocacy, and medical technology. It'll be livestreamed here starting at noon ET.
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Report finds most people at high risk of stroke not being screened for AFib and other risk factors
New research by the Economist Intelligence Unit found global gaps in screenings for stroke risk factors, even in developed countries with established healthcare systems. Sponsored by The Bristol-Myers Squibb-Pfizer Alliance, the "Preventing Stroke: Uneven Progress" report analyzed 20 countries and revealed that on average, more than 75 percent of people aged 65 and older are not being screened for atrial fibrillation and other common stroke risk factors. Read the full report here.
Inside STAT: Can this city defeat hep C once and for all?
San Francisco has embarked on an audacious campaign to eliminate hepatitis C from the city limits. With the help of new and effective drugs, an army of health workers is expanding testing and tracking down homeless patients who might've skipped out on their meds, while clinicians are teaching their colleagues how to treat infections. "People are still getting infected with hepatitis C," said Katie Burk, viral hepatitis coordinator for the city's public health department. "But what we need to do is outpace infection rates with treatments. If we start every year curing more people than are getting infected, then you can turn that curve around." While organizers concede that eliminating the virus for good is unlikely, they see the campaign as one that may not only reduce the city's disease burden, but also offer a blueprint for other cities to follow. STAT's Andrew Joseph has the story.
Anti-abortion fight heads to SCOTUS
Should pro-life pregnancy centers have to inform patients about abortion options? The nation's highest court will soon answer the question, weighing a challenge to a California law that forces centers to do just that. The legal battle follows a pair of recent decisions in which federal judges overturned laws they deemed restrictive of health professionals' First Amendment rights: one in North Carolina that required women seeking abortion to be shown an ultrasound; the other in Florida where doctors faced fines for discussing gun safety with patients. When SCOTUS hears the case in early 2018, it'll consider the crisis pregnancy center's free speech arguments, but not arguments regarding potential violations of religious freedom.
A better microscope to image delicate living things
A zebrafish eye Gets an up close look through the OPTICAL microscope. (Robert Fisher/National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute)
An advanced microscope that allows scientists to see images of the tiniest biological structures will now be able to preserve the samples better. Researchers from the National Institutes of Health and the University of Chicago developed the microscope, which swaps out the traditional glass slip that holds a sample in favor of a "reflective, mirrored coverslip" that uses light sheets to "excite" the sample. Because the technique exposes just a portion of a sample to the light, there's less damage to cells of things like a zebrafish eye, pictured above. "It's a lot like looking into a mirror," says one of the inventors, Hari Shroff at the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering. "If you look at a scene in a mirror, you can view perspectives that are otherwise hidden." The NIH intends to release the microscope's design plans, along with accompanying software, once their work is complete.
Why does facial pain hurt so much? A possible answer
Migraines, toothaches, and other sorts of facial pain often disrupt our lives more than pain from elsewhere in our body. Now, researchers at Duke University say the reason has to do with sensory neurons. The neurons in the head and face connect directly to the amygdala, a part of the brain responsible for emotional signaling, whereas neurons from other parts of the body only link to that part of the brain indirectly. "Usually doctors focus on treating the sensation of pain," said neurobiology professor Fan Wang, a co-author of the NIH-funded study, which was published Monday in Nature Neuroscience. "This shows the we really need to treat the emotional aspects of pain as well." The Duke team hopes the study will lead to the development of new chronic pain treatments.
What to read around the web today
A mental health crisis hovers over Puerto Rico following Maria. New York Times
Why aren't Tinder and Grindr playing a major role in STD prevention? Vox
In Minnesota, senior home residents are abused and ignored. Star-Tribune
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it is advisable to start as many engines as the number of CPU cores.
command = "matlab -singleCompThread -nodesktop -nosplash"


 Kimane - Meaning of Kimane, What does Kimane mean?
[ syll. ki-ma-ne, kim-ane ] The baby boy name Kimane is also used as a girl name. It is pronounced as KihMEYNN †. Kimane is derived from African origins. The name's meaning is resembling a large bean.
Kimane has 13 variants. Variants include Kimaen, Kimaene, Kimain, Kimaine, Kimayn, Kimayne, Kymaen, Kymaene, Kymain, Kymaine, Kymane, Kymayn, and Kymayne.
Kimane is unusual as a baby name for boys. It is not listed in the top 1000 names.
Baby names that sound like Kimane include Kaegan, Kaem, Kaeme, Kagan, Kagann, Kagen, Kahan, Kaihan, Kaimee, Kaimey, Kaimi, Kaimie, Kaimy, Kaiwan, Kaiyan, Kamee, Kamen, Kamey, Kami, and Kamie.
† approx English pronunciation for Kimane: K as in "key (K.IY)" ; IH as in "it (IH.T)" ; M as in "me (M.IY)" ; EY as in "ate (EY.T)" ; N as in "knee (N.IY)"