The life of an agency recruiter is a busy one but is a lack of dedication towards individual candidates and clients affecting their business? And could this be the reason that smaller clients find it increasingly difficult to find good candidates?
A couple of weeks ago we discussed how a candidate-centric recruitment process could benefit both the candidate and the company hiring. The post seemed to hit a nerve, and after some great feedback, we started to look a little deeper into the various ways that candidates and clients feel that recruiters could improve their lot.
One of the chief complaints we came across is the agency recruiter's lack of dedication not only towards their candidates but also their clients. But why is this happening? Surely everyone in the business understands that candidates and clients all deserve their consideration in equal measure. So what seems to be the problem?
We're all human, and yes that includes recruiters who often put in superhuman efforts to place right people in the right job. So as humans we can only do so much, and with just 24-hours in a day it is sometimes necessary to prioritize one task over another, bump one client to the head of the queue, or leave one candidate waiting.
The ability to prioritize accurately is a skill that often leads to disgruntled clients and candidates who don't understand why they rarely see positive results if they see any at all. And usually, this boils down to one thing; money.
A recruitment agency is a business, and when a business faces a decision, their bottom line is often the deciding factor. Take the two hypothetical clients below as an example.
A good recruiter will dedicate just as much time and effort to client B as they do to client A but when push comes to shove, which it invariably does, they may have to choose one over the other. Every business school in existence would recommend following the money and unfortunately for client B that is what often occurs.
While this can leave many candidates feeling frustrated, it's usually the small to medium sized business (client B) that feels the worst of the situation.
Those that express an interest in a position with client B will have no hope of securing the position if their recruiter is more focused on client A. However, they are in the enviable position of being hireworthy. In fact, the recruiter may try to push the candidate towards companies of client A's size and significant financial muscle. It might not be an ideal situation for the candidate, but at least there is still the chance of employment.
Client B, on the other hand, is left with a growing sense of abandonment. They invested heavily (considering their size) and have yet to see any results. These smaller clients don't have money to waste and as such, feel extremely let down by the whole recruitment experience. What other options are available to them? Should they hire another recruiter and invest in some more ads? Or should they cut out the middle man and hire their own staff?
Fortunately for a candidate, the solution is simple; keep looking for other jobs. The client, however, doesn't have it quite so easy.
In an ideal world the recruitment agency in question would quickly realize that ethically speaking, they made a rather large mistake in ignoring their client. They would then work double-quick to find a solution and put forward suitable candidates for interview.
In reality, there are three options for the jilted client.
Okay, we're obviously joking about giving up so let's take a closer look at the first two options.
This is a path of uncertainty. Who's to say that the next agency or even the one after that won't take the same approach as the original inattentive recruiter?
This approach will also cost more money and a hell of a lot more time and considerable effort. From finding the new agency to briefing them on the position and company's ethos, the hiring process will undoubtedly feel like it's lasting a lifetime.
The advantages, though, are that once the initial briefing stage is over, the client no longer has to worry about the recruitment drive. And if the new agency puts in the effort, finding the perfect candidate is a distinct possibility.
Unfortunately for some, there are too many 'ifs' involved here.
For larger companies, this is a given but for smaller companies with fewer resources, hiring an in-house recruiter simply doesn't make sense at all. From a financial point of view, it's better to train current staff to manage the recruitment process.
Administrative staff can sort through the resumes, replying to initial emails while management level staff can help narrow down the list of candidates to those with potential. They can then oversee the initial interview stage themselves. If second interviews are necessary, then c-level staff can take part as they would often do if an agency handled the recruitment drive.
The downside though is that much of this process takes time and the company will inevitably have to pull staff from current projects to focus their efforts on recruitment.
This is where a talent scanning platform such as TalentDash can help a company immeasurably.
Hiring managers, while undeniably good at their jobs, may still lack the right training (and the time, especially when the organization is in a rapid growing stage) to identify potential candidates from a sea of resumes and social media profiles. This is particularly true if those hiring managers are new to the role or industry. But in a talent scanning platform, they have an easy to use tool that will help them create a talent pool from which they can take their pick.
A further benefit would be the collation of potential candidates' data regardless of whether they are hired or not. This data will give the company a head start when they next begin a recruitment drive and allow them to build a stronger recruitment strategy and ultimately make better decisions.
Both the option of using a recruitment agency and having an in-house recruiter have their pros and cons, but in a world where once bitten means twice shy, we guess that many companies like client B would choose to go it alone and manage the hiring process themselves.
Regardless of using an agency or in-house recruiter, why not with TalentDash to have a headstart with an overview of the TalentPool. Not only is it free to create an account, you will also have a free preview of 8 candidates of your 1st search. Don't wait and #MakeThatDash with us now!


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The Japan Society Review is published on a bimonthly basis. Each issue covers a selection of Japan-related books and films, as well as theatre and stage productions. Its purpose is to inform, entertain and encourage readers to explore the works for themselves.
If you are interested in becoming a reviewer for the Japan Society Review please contact us.
Tipping Point: Our World in Crisis
Review by Alice Baldock
Café Reason is the only UK butoh group outside of London. Their latest piece, Tipping Point, uses a dash of butoh 'characteristics' alongside many other interesting ways of moving.
The Buddha in the Attic by Julie Otsuka
Review by Azmina Sohail
Julie Otsuka's novel of the immigrant experience is beautifully written. Its powerful narrative encapsulates the lives of a forgotten people still alive in the memories of Japan. It confronts the issue of immigrant integration head-on, holding up a mirror to contemporary society and its treatment of displaced populations.
Forty Seven Samurai : A Tale of Vengeance and Death in Haiku and Letters
Review by Trevor Skingle
Hiroaki Sato's examination is a close, comprehensive look at the Ako Incident through the context of its times, portraits of the main protagonists, and its literary legacy in the haiku of the avengers.
Yasuke. The True Story of the Legendary African Samurai
Review by Laurence Green
A tale of the life of Yasuke, the African mercenary-turned-samurai who found himself, against all odds, immersed in the very heart of political and military power in 16th century Japan, thousands of miles from his birthplace.

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The U.S. reaches 20 million cases.
The United States recorded its 20 millionth case since the start of the coronavirus pandemic on Thursday, surpassing a grim milestone just as the prospects for getting the virus under control quickly in the new year appeared to dim.
Half of those 20 million cases have been recorded just since Nov. 8, a reflection of how widespread and devastating the recent surge has been. And earlier this week, Colorado identified the first known case in the United States of a new variant of the virus that is believed to be much more contagious, and which threatens to overwhelm an already burdened health care system.
The United States now accounts for nearly a quarter of the more than 83 million coronavirus cases reported in the world, and nearly a fifth of the death toll. The country has recorded more than 340,000 coronavirus deaths. Reporting of deaths has been uneven in recent days because of the holidays, but the week from Dec. 15 to Dec. 22 was the worst week for coronavirus deaths in the United States over the course of the pandemic, with 18,971 new deaths recorded.
California has become the new epicenter of the pandemic in the United States, with the huge numbers of new cases reported there in recent days offsetting declines elsewhere, including in the Great Lakes, Great Plains and Mountain West states, where the surge began. Hospitals are stretched to the breaking point in Southern California and the San Joaquin Valley.
The federal government is beginning to distribute two vaccines that clinical trials have shown to be highly effective in preventing Covid-19. But while the vaccines' development in record time represents a scientific triumph, the rollout so far is proving to be yet another government failure.
It has proceeded at a snail's pace, with progress falling far behind what the administration had promised. As recently as earlier this month, federal officials said their goal was for 20 million people to receive their first dose by the end of this year. But, while more than 14 million vaccine doses have been distributed, a mere 2.7 million have actually been administered, according to a C.D.C. dashboard. At the current rate, it would take years to vaccinate enough Americans to substantially curb the pandemic.
Meanwhile, the deaths mount, minute by minute, hour by hour.
"In 2020, we let ~340,000 Americans die, sometimes in the thousands per day," Gregg Gonsalves, an assistant professor in epidemiology at the Yale School of Medicine, wrote on Twitter on Wednesday. "And we watched. There were no protests, no daily banner headlines befitting a national tragedy on this scale. It's as if we watched 9/11 in a loop for 300+ days."
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News Apple announces macOS 10.12 Sierra launch date
Releases on September 20th. http://www.bit-tech.net/news/bits/2016/09/08/apple-macos-sierra-launch-date/1
Thread by: Gareth Halfacree, 8 Sep 2016, 0 replies, in forum: Article Discussion
News Apple launches first bug bounty programme
Up to $200K per vulnerability. http://www.bit-tech.net/news/bits/2016/08/09/apple-bug-bounty-programme/1
Thread by: Gareth Halfacree, 9 Aug 2016, 0 replies, in forum: Article Discussion
News Apple launches macOS Sierra, iOS 10 public betas
Available to all right now. http://www.bit-tech.net/news/bits/2016/07/08/apple-macos-sierra-ios-10-betas/1
Thread by: Gareth Halfacree, 8 Jul 2016, 0 replies, in forum: Article Discussion
News Apple announces new APFS file system for macOS, iOS, and more
Finally ditching HFS+. http://www.bit-tech.net/news/bits/2016/06/14/apple-apfs-macos/1
Thread by: Gareth Halfacree, 14 Jun 2016, 10 replies, in forum: Article Discussion
News Epic Games launches faster, prettier Unreal Engine 4.11
Massive changelog ahoy! http://www.bit-tech.net/news/bits/2016/04/01/unreal-engine-4-11/1
Thread by: Gareth Halfacree, 1 Apr 2016, 6 replies, in forum: Article Discussion
News Apple machines hit by Thunderstrike 2 'firmworm'
Spreads via malicious peripherals. http://www.bit-tech.net/news/hardware/2015/08/04/thunderstrike-2/1
News OS X 10.10 hit by privilege escalation vulnerability
Fixed in 10.11 Beta. http://www.bit-tech.net/news/bits/2015/07/23/os-x-10-10-vulnerability/1
Thread by: Gareth Halfacree, 23 Jul 2015, 5 replies, in forum: Article Discussion
News Star Wars: KOTOR II gets first patch in a decade
Brings OS X and Linux support, too. http://www.bit-tech.net/news/gaming/2015/07/22/kotor-ii-patch/1
Thread by: Gareth Halfacree, 22 Jul 2015, 11 replies, in forum: Article Discussion
News Apple launches OS X 10.11 El Capitan beta
Brings Metal API along for the ride. http://www.bit-tech.net/news/bits/2015/07/10/apple-el-capitan-beta/1
News Oculus VR reveals Rift hardware requirements
No OS X or Linux support, though. http://www.bit-tech.net/news/gaming/2015/05/18/oculus-rift-hardware-requirements/1
Thread by: Gareth Halfacree, 18 May 2015, 21 replies, in forum: Article Discussion
News Researchers discover iOS-crashing Wi-Fi attack
Skycure finds SSL certificate flaw. http://www.bit-tech.net/news/hardware/2015/04/23/skycure-ios-wi-fi-crash/1
Thread by: Gareth Halfacree, 23 Apr 2015, 0 replies, in forum: Article Discussion
News Apple fails to fix back-door API in OS X 10.10.3
Rootpipe still very much an issue. http://www.bit-tech.net/news/bits/2015/04/21/apple-rootpipe-pheonix/1
News Apple fixes major security flaw in OS X 10.10.3
Years-old back-door API finally closed. http://www.bit-tech.net/news/hardware/2015/04/10/security-flaw-os-x/1
News Apple, Google hit at Pwn2Own 2015 day two
All major browsers fall to researchers. http://www.bit-tech.net/news/bits/2015/03/23/pwn2own-2015-2/1
Thread by: Gareth Halfacree, 23 Mar 2015, 3 replies, in forum: Article Discussion
News Freak TLS vulnerability hits all major platforms
Downgrade attack 'not trivial to exploit.' http://www.bit-tech.net/news/bits/2015/03/06/freak-vulnerability/1
Thread by: Gareth Halfacree, 6 Mar 2015, 1 replies, in forum: Article Discussion
News Google adds flexibility to Project Zero deadlines
Offers a two-week grace period. http://www.bit-tech.net/news/bits/2015/02/16/google-project-zero-flexibility/1
Thread by: Gareth Halfacree, 16 Feb 2015, 0 replies, in forum: Article Discussion
News Apple seeds new Yosemite beta with Wi-Fi fix
Hopes to improve reliability. http://www.bit-tech.net/news/bits/2014/12/05/apple-yosemite-beta-wifi/1
Thread by: Gareth Halfacree, 5 Dec 2014, 6 replies, in forum: Article Discussion
News Apple iOS devices hit by Masque attack
Sneakily replaces apps with malware. http://www.bit-tech.net/news/bits/2014/11/14/apple-ios-masque/1
Thread by: Gareth Halfacree, 14 Nov 2014, 0 replies, in forum: Article Discussion
News Microsoft open-sources .NET Core framework
Support for Linux, OS X en-route. http://www.bit-tech.net/news/bits/2014/11/13/net-core-open-source/1
News Linux, OS X hit by Shellshock Bash vulnerability
Remote code execution a concern. http://www.bit-tech.net/news/bits/2014/09/25/shellshock/1
Thread by: Gareth Halfacree, 25 Sep 2014, 43 replies, in forum: Article Discussion


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Luke Wilson Wants to Direct… Again
At this past weekend's Los Angeles press day for Henry Poole Is Here, Luke Wilson mentioned that — after wrapping up writer-director Mike Million's Tenure, opposite Gretchen Mol — he'd like to jump back behind the camera.
"I'd like to try and get this movie made from a book that I've adapted into a script, [Jim Lehrer's] White Widow," says Wilson. "I'd really like to try to get that made. It's about a bus driver in Texas in the 1950s who kind of falls in love with this unattainable woman. I figure it's gonna be very easy to get the funding — a bus driver in the '50s, a period piece? People say, 'Yeah, great…'" Wilson says that he would also star in the film, but rope in his brother Andrew, with whom he previously collaborated on The Wendell Baker Story, to co-direct, because doing it by himself "is just too hard."
Multi-hyphenate Stephen Chow's CJ7 is a sweet, imaginatively told family fable — a movie that comes by its emotions and feelings of rooting identification sincerely, without clomping insistence or maudlin marionette-string pulling.
Co-written and directed by Chow (Kung Fu Hustle, Shaolin Soccer), the movie centers around Ti (Chow again), a poor but loving single father who works such long hours that he barely has any time to spend with his young son Dicky (Jiao Xu, above right). Unable to afford the latest toy his boy desperately wants, Ti instead goes to the best place he knows to get "new" stuff for Dicky — the junk yard. There he finds a mysterious orb, and brings it home for his son to play with.
When the cuddly creature — which, it should be pointed out, looks at least a little bit like the creature Kristin Chenoweth portrays in the animated Space Chimps (or, more accurately, that creature looks like the one here, given their respective dates of creation and release) — turns out to be a friendly, fun-loving extraterrestrial able to perform miraculous deeds, both father and son experience some changes in their lives, and learn a few important lessons along the way. At first Dicky seizes this chance to overcome his poor background and shabby clothes, and impress his fellow schoolmates for the first time in his life. But CJ7 has other ideas, and chaos ensues when Dicky brings it to class.
A lot of the supplemental material here (more on this later) points up inspirational, point-of-origin comparisons to Steven Spielberg's E.T., and it's true that there are definitely some similarities, CJ7 is far from some mere Hollywood knock-off. The design and tone, first of all, is all vintage Chow — saturated in color, full of canted angles and hyper-stylized designs. Chow plays jokes and visual gags quickly, without an eye or ear for audience pandering. This touch helps give the movie a sense of forward-leaning momentum, almost all throughout its running time.
Sometimes — OK, at least half the time, actually — the special effects work isn't quite up to par with what one has come to expect from mainstream Hollywood films, and one wishes a bit more had been done practically. There's a simple, affecting, poetic quality to some of the early scenes of bonding — both between Dicky and Ti, killing cockroaches in their cramped home, and Dicky and CJ7 — that gets overwhelmed by later choices, when the creature helps Dicky score 100 on a school test, and then graces him with super sneakers that make him the envy of the schoolyard. That said, young Jiao has an appealing screen presence, and while this story may be subtitled the arc of his learning is a universally recognizable one.
Packaged in a regular plastic Amray case, CJ7 comes presented in 2.40:1 anamorphic widescreen, with English and Chinese Mandarin Dolby digital 5.1 audio tracks, and a French language Dolby surround sound track. French and English subtitles are also available. Chow anchors a feature-length audio commentary track with cast and crew, and a 22-minute TV special, though subtitled, is a decent piece of promotional agitprop for the movie. Like many of the other special features, this segment includes a lot of talk about the inspiration for making a family film.
A 13-minute making-of featurette details the movie's 2005 shoot in Ningbo, China, and Chow and co-writer Vincent Kok discuss the genesis of the script, as well as their desire to make the movie as broadly appealing as possible. Two other featurettes — "How to Bully a Bully" and "How to Make a Lollipop" — run four minutes apiece, and are fluffy filler, just a way to include some extra behind-the-scenes footage. Similarly lacking in repeat-play value is an easy, snooze-inducing "mission control" game, in which viewer-players see how far they can launch CJ7 into space. It's too unwieldly for small kids, and older kids will find it a yawn. Finally, there's a six-and-a-half-minute segment that chronicles the filming of a pivotal, effects-laden bathroom sequence. Preview trailers for The Water Horse: The Legend of the Deep and 14 other films round things out. It's a quantitatively impressive slate, that's for sure; the only downside of such a packed disc is that its navigation is quite slow-moving. For the film's trailer, click here; to purchase the movie via Amazon, meanwhile, click here. B (Movie) B (Disc)
Henry Poole Is Here
His life in shambles, despondent Henry Poole (Luke Wilson) buys a house in the same suburban Los Angeles neighborhood where he somewhat unhappily grew up. One of his new neighbors, the slightly nosy but well-meaning Esperanza (Babel's Adriana Barraza), happens upon a stain on his newly painted, outdoor stucco wall that she believes is the face of Christ, and imbued with special powers. Henry wants nothing to do with the silliness, but more interactions with those around him — including divorcée Dawn (Radha Mitchell), whose eight-year-old daughter has stopped speaking since her parents' break-up — slowly draw him out of his insular shell.
A filmmaker with a deep music video catalogue (including Pearl Jam's groundbreaking "Jeremy" clip), director Mark Pellington has always been a master of atmosphere and mood, most notably in The Mothman Prophecies. In Henry Poole Is Here, though, he rolls the dice on a much more personal story, and succeeds in crafting what is overall an affecting movie about emotional waywardness and quiet reflection. The target is smaller, but Pellington's extraordinary skill at marrying artful image and emotional content help Henry Poole avoid a lot of treacly downward drag, and elevate the emotional punch of debut screenwriter Albert Torres' script, which is enough of a blank canvas to allow one to project onto it their own feelings of forlornness. The only nagging demerit? There's a plummy, surface quality to Wilson's moroseness and sullenness; one thinks about the deeper reservoirs of swallowed sadness that someone like Ryan Gosling could have conveyed with this role, and how those extra pangs of despair would have provided an even greater catharsis. To visit the movie's official site, click here. (Overture, PG, 100 minutes)


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The National Association for People Abused in Childhood
http://napac.org.uk/ supports people recovering from emotional, physical and sexual abuse. Free support line on 0808 801 0331
BSS-S Boarding School Survivors Support
New organisation with a wealth of experience.
"Set up to…
help boarding school survivors understand and recover from their boarding experience.
provide information for those considering boarding for their children and current boarders.
press for change.
We do so through an annual conference, newsletters, information, and responding personally to any and every enquiry. Explore our growing website for advice and resources and to contact us".
BSS Support
Boarding Concern
http://www.boardingconcern.org.uk/
"Boarding Concern challenges the practice of educating children in residential institutions, based on the growing evidence of harm from boarding." It also offers a support service for ex-boarders, and can help people find therapeutic professionals and counselling. Boarding Concern also has a great database of written and broadcast material http://www.boardingconcern.org.uk/current-boarders/considering-boarding/resources/ on these issues.
British Association of Counselling Professionals
Reliable source of therapeutic help. www.bacp.co.uk
Complex childhood trauma may lead to severe mental health issues in adulthood, which often affects the families of adult survivors. Advice and help on the excellent US site drugrehab.com, and a phone line.
Welldoing.org
A new and effective website that helps find the therapist or counsellor best suited to someone's needs. It is run by a friend and I have written for it, unpaid.
Dr Joy Schaverien
Psychoanalyst and therapist who specialises in "boarding school syndrome" – her book on the subject is excellent.
Her website contains links to her writing on the subject and that of others http://www.joyschaverien.com
Nick Duffell
A respected psychotherapist who has been writing on boarding school issues and running much-acclaimed courses for "survivors" for 20 years with Boarding School Survivors.
Selected recent books on boarding schools, crimes and abuses, and psychological issues
http://www.boardingschoolsurvivors.co.uk
Ian Mucklejohn
Had: The Tragedy of Crookham Court School (Karnac, 2016)
An extraordinary insider's account of the school whose systemic abuse of children got the laws on child protection in Britain changed. Mucklejohn was a teacher at Crookham Court.
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Home at Last: Freedom from Boarding School Pain (Malcolm Down)
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Joy Schaverien
Boarding School Syndrome The Psychological Trauma of the 'Privileged' Child
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Nick Duffell and Thurstine Basset
Trauma, Abandonment and Privilege (Routledge, 2016)
Fascinating guidebook for survivors and for psychotherapists.
The Making of Them (Lone Arrow Press, 2010)
The original book by the first psychotherapist to address the damage done by boarding schools.
Wounded Leaders: the Psychohistory of British Elitism and the Entitlement Illusion, London (Lone Arrow Press, 2014) The father of boarding school survivor psychotherapy addresses the troubles of the British ruling classes.


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A solemn Canada Day…
A five-cent stamp issued on June 30, 1965, is the first stamp to depict Canada's maple leaf flag.
Historically a positive affair worthy of the exclamation, "Happy Canada Day," this year's 154th anniversary has taken on a more serious tone, with some calling for the celebration to be cancelled altogether.
The latest outcry came in late June as hundreds of Indigenous children's remains were found in unmarked graves near three former residential "schools" in British Columbia, Saskatchewan and Manitoba. In May, the remains of 215 children were found buried near the Kamloops Indian Residential School in British Columbia. The following month, another 104 potential graves were uncovered at the Brandon Indian Residential School in Manitoba. Just a week before Canada Day, on June 25, upwards of 751 unmarked graves were found near the Marieval Indian Residential School in Saskatchewan.
"This was a crime against humanity, an assault on a First Nation people," Chief Bobby Cameron, of the Federation of Sovereign Indigenous Nations, Saskatchewan's provincial federation of Indigenous groups, told the New York Times after the sombre discovery.
Over more than a century, through funding from the Canadian government's Department of Indian Affairs, about 150,000 Indigenous children were placed – some of them by force – in residential "schools" administered by Christian churches across the country. Their stated aim was "to educate and convert Indigenous youth and to assimilate them into Canadian society," according to the Canadian Encyclopedia, which added more than 130 residential "schools" operated in Canada between 1831 and 1996. Their operational peak came in 1931, when more than 80 of the "schools" were open across the country.
According to Justice Murray Sinclair, the chair of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC), the children were widely abused and entirely prohibited from speaking their languages. Thousands of the children disappeared, with death estimates ranging from 3,200 to more than 30,000, in what the TRC called "cultural genocide."
CANADA DAY DEBATE
With these preliminary findings at residential "schools" – more are expected as other locations are searched – today's holiday has become the focus of widespread debate among Canadians and within Indigenous communities.
While some people are calling for the holiday's cancellation, others believe it should go ahead as planned (or with more Indigenous representation), and some activists are proposing Canada Day should be declared a national day of mourning.
Several "tweets" from various sources are shared below, offering a snapshot of people's comments about what today means to the country, the land and the people who live here leading up to July 1.
We'll continue to be there for the people of Cowessess First Nation and for Indigenous peoples across the country – and we're committed to working together in true partnership to right these historic wrongs and advance reconciliation in concrete, meaningful, and lasting ways.
— Justin Trudeau (@JustinTrudeau) June 24, 2021
"The hurt and the trauma that you feel is Canada's responsibility to bear," Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said in a media statement last week, "and the government will continue to provide Indigenous communities across the country with the funding and resources they need to bring these terrible wrongs to light."
He later reiterated on Twitter: "We're committed to working together in true partnership to right these historic wrongs and advance reconciliation in concrete, meaningful, and lasting ways."
Earlier this week, Trudeau also told reporters it's "important" that Pope Francis "makes an apology to Indigenous Canadians on Canadian soil," referencing the churches' roles in running the "schools."
Federal officials have announced the country's official Canada Day event, to be held virtually, will feature Indigenous representation "as an important moment for dialogue and conversation," Heritage Minister Steven Guilbeault is quoted as saying in a June 29 CTV News report.
"We are featuring Indigenous artists and musicians in ways we've never seen before for a Canada Day event," he added, telling reporters individual communities can choose to cancel fireworks or other events on Canada Day.
182 more found in B.C.
Don't cancel Canada Day. Make it a day of mourning. https://t.co/uc0YPjDprE
— Fatima Syed (@fatimabsyed) June 30, 2021
In the days leading up to Canada Day, another 182 human remains were found in unmarked graves near St. Eugene's Mission Residential School (now the luxury St. Eugene Resort) in Cranbrook, B.C.
Soon after, reporter Fatima Syed, the vice-president of the Canadian Association of Journalists, called for Canada Day to be "a day of mourning" rather than cancelling it.
The response from within Indigenous communities is similarly divided. More than 1.67 million people self-identified as Indigenous in the 2016 census, and Canada's more than 630 First Nation communities represent more than 50 Nations and 50 Indigenous languages, according to a recent federal government report.
The Oshkaatisak Council of the Nishnawbe Aski Nation (NAN), which represents dozens of First Nations in northern Ontario, is not acknowledging Canada Day, according to a June 29 statement. Instead, NAN is encouraging people to "wear orange and spread awareness about the shameful history of Indian Residential Schools and the devastating legacy that continues today."
"The Government of Canada also knew, and they are finally acknowledging it. As a nation of Indigenous Peoples, we must stand strong and shout this out to the rest of Canada. This country's true history is finally being revealed, and it's time to stand together and demand justice and accountability."
Indigenous novelist David A. Robertson, a Governor General Award winner, also encouraged people to "wear an orange shirt not a maple leaf" in a June 27 Twitter post calling for Canada Day's cancellation.
"It's a day where we can mobilize to figure out how we can make this country one that is worth celebrating," he added.
So again: for at least this year, #CancelCanadaDay. Wear an orange shirt not a maple leaf. Honour survivors and children who did not survive, and stand in solidarity with Indigenous people. /5
— David A. Robertson (@DaveAlexRoberts) June 27, 2021
Other people, including Parry Stelter – a "Sixties Scoop" survivor originally from Alexander First Nation-Treaty Six Territory in Edmonton, Alta. – don't want to see Canada Day cancelled.
"We should be standing at attention," he told CBC News for a June 26 report, "… but standing at attention in fully acknowledging the full history of Canada and all its atrocities and the genocide and the residential schools."
Stelter, the president and founder of Word of Hope Ministries, added: "The fact of the matter is that we still all live here. And so we have to make the most of it and move forward and not just be resilient and not just survive, but learn how to thrive in our lives. But I totally understand if my people or anybody else don't want to celebrate. I totally understand because we all grieve in different ways."
A photograph by James Ashfield captures Canadian artist Robert Harris' 1884 painting, Conference at Québec in 1864, to settle the basics of a union of the British North American Provinces. It was later destroyed in the 1916 Parliament Buildings fire. Photo by Library and Archives Canada, C-001855.
OTD: CONFEDERATION
On today's date in 1867, the British North American colonies of New Brunswick, Nova Scotia and the Province of Canada, the latter of which became Ontario and Québec, were proclaimed as the Dominion of Canada. The move came about four months after Parliament passed the British North America Act, which later became the Constitution Act and laid the foundation for the fledgling dominion.
"In most parts of the new Dominion, it was a dazzling sunny day. The reverberation of a brass band could be heard in many towns," according to Canada: A People's History, a 17-episode documentary series published by CBC.
"In Toronto, children were given Union Jacks to wave and an ox was roasted in front of St. Lawrence Hall, with the meat then distributed to the poor. In Ottawa, a military review on Parliament Hill fired a salute. The soldiers forgot to take the ramrods out of their rifles and the iron rods arched over Sparks Street. In Quebec City, a cannon was fired on the Plains of Abraham to mark the day and most Canadiens spent the time by the water, happy to have a long weekend."
John A. Macdonald was appointed as Canada's first prime minister by Charles Stanley Monck, 4th Viscount Monck, who served as the country's first Governor-General following Confederation.
Macdonald's wife Agnes, who he married earlier that year on Feb. 16, marked the momentous occasion in her diary.
"This new Dominion of ours came noisily into existence on the 1st, and the very newspapers look hot and tired, with the weight of Announcements and Cabinet lists," she wrote. "Here – in this house – the atmosphere is so awfully political that sometimes I think the very flies hold Parliaments on the kitchen Tablecloths."
The delegates of the Québec Conference meet in October 1864. Photo by Library and Archives Canada, C-006350.
CHARLOTTETOWN, QUÉBEC CONFERENCES
Confederation was the product of a pair of conferences held in 1864 in Prince Edward Island and Lower Canada (present-day Québec), which together with Upper Canada (present-day Ontario) was part of the Province of Canada.
In September 1864, Prince Edward Island – then a British colony – hosted the Charlottetown Conference. Originally slated to discuss the union of colonies in the Atlantic region, delegates from New Brunswick, Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island were "persuaded by a contingent from the Province of Canada, who were not originally on the guest list, to work toward the union of all the British North American colonies," according to the Canadian Encyclopedia. P.E.I. officials found the terms of union unfavourable and refused to join, choosing instead to remain a colony of the British Empire.
The following month, delegates from five British North American colonies – the Province of Canada, New Brunswick, Prince Edward Island, Nova Scotia and Newfoundland – gathered in Lower Canada for further discussions about uniting as a country. After adjourning on Oct. 27, the delegates drafted the "72 Resolutions," most of which was produced by Macdonald, a lawyer with both legal and constitutional experience.
"As it is, I have no help," Macdonald reportedly told his friend and fellow lawyer Sir James Gowan, who he later appointed as a senator. "Not one man of the conference (except Galt in financial matters) has the slightest idea of constitution making. Whatever is good or ill in the Constitution is mine."
Macdonald was referring to Alexander Galt, another Father of Confederation who proposed several financial resolutions, including how the colonies' existing debts would be shared and managed.
Altogether, the Québec Conference welcomed 33 delegates plus two observers, including:
George Brown;
Alexander Campbell;
George-Étienne Cartier;
Jean-Charles Chapais;
James Cockburn;
Alexander Galt;
Hector-Louis Langevin;
John A. Macdonald;
William McDougall;
Thomas D'Arcy McGee;
Oliver Mowat;
Étienne-Paschal Taché;
Edward Barron;
Chandler Charles Fisher;
John Hamilton Gray;
John Mercer;
Johnson Peter Mitchell;
William Steeves;
Samuel Leonard Tilley;
Adams George Archibald;
Robert Dickey;
William Alexander Henry;
Jonathan McCully;
Charles Tupper;
John William Ritchie;
Joseph Howe;
George Coles;
Thomas Heath Haviland;
Andrew Archibald Macdonald;
Edward Palmer;
William Henry Pope;
Edward Whelan;
Frederick Carter, who was an observer; and
Ambrose Shea, who was also an observer.
A third conference was held in London, England, in December 1866, when 16 delegates from the Province of Canada, Nova Scotia and New Brunswick met with British officials to draft the British North America Act.
MORE COLONIES JOIN CONFEDERATION
A six-cent stamp issued in 1970 by Canada's Post Office Department marks the centennial of Manitoba joining Confederation.
Three years after Confederation in 1867, another two areas joined Canada.
On July 15, 1870, the Hudson's Bay Company (HBC) transferred control of Rupert's Land and the North-Western Territory to the Canadian government.
Comprising a third of present-day Canada, Rupert's Land served as the HBC's exclusive commercial domain from 1670-1870.
Named for its location in relation to Rupert's Land, the North-Western Territory included present-day Yukon; mainland Northwest Territories; northwestern mainland Nunavut; northwestern Saskatchewan; northern Alberta; and northern British Columbia.
Most of these areas were formed into a new territory called the Northwest Territories; however, a region near Fort Garry – an HBC trading post seized a year earlier by Louis Riel and his Métis followers during the Red River Rebellion – was established as the province of Manitoba by the Manitoba Act.
A six-cent stamp also issued in 1970 marks the centennial of the Northwest Territories' entry into Confederation.
B.C. & P.E.I. JOIN CONFEDERATION
On July 20, 1871, British Columbia became Canada's sixth province; however, this outcome was of no certainty throughout the preceding decade, during which time residents of the colony debated joining their U.S. trading partners or upholding colonial power.
At the same time, Prince Edward Island was also exploring its options, which included becoming its own dominion or joining the United States. The colony began building a railway while starting early negotiations with the United States in 1871, but two years later Macdonald – always a critic of U.S. expansionism – negotiated to have Prince Edward Island join Canada as the country's seventh province.
The federal government assumed the colony's extensive railway debt, and Prince Edward Island entered Confederation on July 1, 1873.
The 100th anniversary of British Columbia's entry into Confederation is celebrated on a seven-cent stamp in 1971.
NEARING & INTO THE 20TH CENTURY
On June 13, 1898, the Yukon was formed from part of the Northwest Territories following a boost in population during the Klondike Gold Rush a year earlier.
Seven years later, on Sept. 1, 1905, Saskatchewan and Alberta were also formed out of part of the Northwest Territories.
Nearly half a century passed before another province joined Canada.
The centennial of Prince Edward Island's entry into Confederation is commemorated on an eight-cent stamp issued in 1973.
On March 31, 1949, Newfoundland became the country's 10th province following years of debate about the self-governance of what was then a British dominion (not unlike Canada).
The following day, on April 1, prime minister Louis St. Laurent made the first ceremonial cut into the only blank stone plaque remaining over the entrance to the Peace Tower in Ottawa. The plaque was one of 10 erected in 1920 amid the reconstruction of the Parliament Buildings following a fire during the First World War.
"We are all Canadians now," said Newfoundlander F. Gordon Bradley, who accompanied St. Laurent at the ceremony more than seven decades ago.
The Post Office Department issued a 17-cent stamp featuring Yukon's provincial flag as part of its 1979 'Canada Day' series.
NUNAVUT CREATED IN 1999
Finally, on April 1, 1999, Nunavut was created from part of the Northwest Territories.
Beginning in the late 1960s and continuing through the 1970s, a sustained effort took hold among Inuit groups to negotiate land claims with the federal government and secure their own territory.
Negotiations intensified in the 1980s and ultimately led to the July 1993 Nunavut Land Claims Agreement Act between the federal government and Government of the Northwest Territories, which laid the foundation for the creation of the territory of Nunavut on April 1, 1999.
The 50th anniversaries of the establishment of Alberta and Saskatchewan are marked on a five-cent stamp issued in 1955.
The creation of Nunavut was the first major change to Canada's map since Newfoundland and Labrador joined Confederation in 1949, and it arose from the largest Indigenous land-claim settlement in Canadian history.
The new territory encompasses about one-fifth of Canada's total landmass and is home to fewer than 40,000 people, most of them Inuit.
Nunavut means "our land" in the Inuit language of Inuktitut.
1927 CONFEDERATION STAMPS
In 1927, Canada's Post Office Department (known as Canada Post since 1981) issued a colourful set of stamps marking the 60th anniversary of Confederation.
It was the first issue following the "Admiral" series (Scott #104-34), which ran from 1911-28.
On June 29, 1927, eight stamps were issued—five commemoratives in the "Confederation" issue (SC #141-45) and three in the "Historical" issue (SC #146-48).
The first issue, an orange one-cent stamp (SC #141), depicts Macdonald, who was Canada's second longest-serving prime minister. With two non-consecutive terms, he served for nearly 19 years altogether.
A 17-cent featuring Newfoundland's provincial flag was also issued as part of the 1979 'Canada Day' series.
FATHERS OF CONFEDERATION
The second issue (SC #142) was a green two-cent stamp depicting the Fathers of Confederation based on an oil painting by Group of Seven artist Robert Harris.
The painting was also used as the focal point of a 1917 three-cent Confederation stamp.
The third issue (SC #143), a brown-carmine three-cent stamp, depicts the Parliament Buildings in Ottawa. Situated on Parliament Hill, Parliament's Centre Block overlooks the Ottawa River. The building contains the House of Commons, the Senate and the parliamentary offices.
The Peace Tower, which dominates the central axis of Centre Block, contains the Memorial Chamber in remembrance of Canada's fallen soldiers. At the rear of the building is the Parliamentary Library.
Canada Post issued a 46-cent stamp marking Nunavut's creation in 1999.
The fourth stamp, a violet five-cent issue (SC #144), shows Sir Wilfrid Laurier, Canada's seventh prime minister and the first French-Canadian prime minister (1896-1911).
Born in 1841 in the village of St. Lin, Qué., Laurier entered Parliament in 1874. Three years later, he became a member of the Dominion cabinet before eventually becoming prime minister in 1896.
In 1897, Queen Victoria knighted Laurier while he was attending ceremonies in connection with the Diamond Jubilee of the Queen's accession to the throne. He died during the winter of 1919 and was buried in Notre Dame Cemetery, Ottawa.
The series' fifth issue, a dark blue 12-cent stamp (SC #145), depicts a map of Canada in 1867 and 1927 with light blue shading symbolizing the country's coast-to-coast expansion.
A one-cent orange stamp featuring first prime minister John A. Macdonald belongs to a 1927 set marking Canada's 60th anniversary.
TRUTH & RECONCILIATION
"There is systemic racism in Canada," Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said at a press conference last June, after half a dozen Indigenous people were shot by police in two months.
"It means that Indigenous peoples, Black Canadians and racialized Canadians are far more likely to suffer violence at the hands of the authorities and police than non-racialized Canadians."
A 2017 study by CBC, which assembled the first country-wide database of every person who died or was killed during a police intervention, found a steady increase in deaths from 2000-17. More than 70 per cent of victims suffered from mental health and substance abuse problems, and Indigenous and Black people were disproportionately overrepresented.
"For example, black people in Toronto made up on average 8.3 per cent of the population during the 17-year window, but represent nearly 37 per cent of the victims. In Winnipeg, Indigenous people represent on average 10.6 per cent of the population, but account for nearly two thirds of victims."
The 'Fathers of Confederation' grace a two-cent green stamp issued as part of the 1927 'Diamond Jubilee' issue.
These cases are just the latest iterations of Canada's long history with racism, which dates back to pre-Confederation.
"Infamously, the British North America Act only mentions, 'Indians and lands reserved for the Indians' in a single sub-clause, assigning responsibility for both to the federal government," wrote Brian Gettler, assistant professor of history at the University of Toronto, in a three-part essay published in 2017.
"The 'Fathers of Confederation' first adopted the phrase without debate at the Quebec Conference in 1864, adding 'Indians' to the federal powers proposed by the Canadian Liberal-Conservatives in their aborted 1858 project of British North American Union, while replacing the less specific 'Indian territories' with 'lands reserved for Indians.' Along with the Indian Department and Indigenous policy more generally, this sub-clause remained absent from parliamentary debate on both sides of the Atlantic in the years following 1864 and from the London Conference that in the winter of 1866-67 produced the final version of the BNA Act."
A three-cent brown carmine stamp from the 1927 Confederation issue features Parliament.
Historians have "long replicated this silence, finding no role for relations with Indigenous peoples in the constitutional origins of modern Canada," added Gettler.
A five-cent violet stamp featuring Wilfrid Laurier also belongs to the Confederation issue.
"Historians of Indigenous-state relations have concurred, unanimously downplaying Confederation while instead focusing on changing legislation from 1850, the 1860 shift in responsibility for the Indian Department from the empire to the colony, Canada's 1869 purchase of Rupert's Land from the Hudson's Bay Company, the Red River Resistance, and the numbered treaties of the 1870s. Though correct to concentrate on these critical issues, we need to do more; we need to place them at the heart of our understanding of state formation and changing political thought in the mid-nineteenth century. This is critical if we are to avoid replicating the 'Fathers" imperial and imperious perspective that, though consciously centred on land, resources, and the liberal individual, declared relations with Indigenous peoples a mere political afterthought."
In his 2008 book, A Fair Country, John Ralston Saul explores three myths of Canada's foundation, arguing the famed "peace, order and good government," which supposedly defines the country, is a distortion of its true nature. He notes every foundational document drafted before the British North America Act used the phrase, "peace, welfare and good government."
A 12-cent dark blue stamp depicting the country's borders in 1867 and 1927, when the issue was released, rounds out the Confederation set.
"Saul's story begins – as every sensible essay on the Canadian identity must – with the fur trade, specifically with the economic and domestic relationships that were established between Europeans and Natives over the first 250 years of settler life in Canada," reads an April 2009 review by the Literary Review of Canada. "As Saul points out, more often than not it was the Natives who were teaching and helping the newcomers survive, and in marrying Native women most European men were marrying up—greatly improving their social, political and economic lot in life. These relationships were partnerships in every meaningful way, and through this constant intermingling the Métis character of the Canadian people was shaped."
Saul expands on this theory in two ways, the article adds.
"First, he emphasizes the oft-ignored role of the Natives as full partners in the military, civil and commercial affairs of the Canadas for the first 250 years of their existence. Since then, though, we have been engaged in what he calls 'a double denial': a denial of our own history, along with a denial that aboriginals even exist in a way that matters to our own flourishing as a country."


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William Miles Brittelle (April 13, 1894 – January 7, 1970) was an American architect who practiced in Albuquerque, New Mexico, including with John J. Ginner as part of Brittelle & Ginner.

At least three of his works are listed on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP).

Biography
Brittellle was born in Imperial, Nebraska, on April 13, 1894, and later moved to Colorado. He served in World War I with the 115th Trench Mortar Battery. After the war, he trained as an architect, working in firms in Denver and Pueblo, Colorado. In 1926, he moved to Albuquerque, New Mexico.

In Albuquerque, Brittelle worked in the firm of George M. Williamson, then formed a local partnership with the El Paso based firm Trost & Trost from 1931 to 1932. His most notable work with Trost & Trost was the El Fidel Hotel in Albuquerque, which opened in 1932.

In 1931, when New Mexico started requiring licensing for architects, Governor Arthur Seligman appointed Brittelle to the first Board of Architectural Examiners in New Mexico and he was elected chairman. He held New Mexico architect license number 2. He also served as president of the New Mexico chapter of the American Institute of Architects.

In 1933, he started his own firm, Brittelle & Wilson, which became Brittelle & Ginner in 1934. Brittelle and Ginner were "among the earliest architects working in the Modernist movement" in Albuquerque.

Arthur Dekker, a University of Kansas graduate in architectural engineering, became a partner at Brittelle & Ginner in 1954.

Gordon Ferguson worked at Brittelle and Ginner and later opened his own office in 1942.

Brittelle died on January 7, 1970, in Albuquerque, New Mexico, and was buried in Sunset Memorial Park in Albuquerque.

His son, William Miles Brittelle, Jr., was also an architect.

Works
Works include (with shared attribution indicated):

With George M. Williamson:
Old St. Joseph Hospital (1930), Albuquerque. NRHP-listed.
President's House (1930), University of New Mexico, Albuquerque. NRHP-listed.
Springer Building (1930), Albuquerque. NRHP-listed.
With Trost & Trost:
El Fidel Hotel (1932), Albuquerque
Brittelle & Wilson:
Occidental Life Building reconstruction (1934), Albuquerque. NRHP-listed.
Brittelle & Ginner:
Fitch Hall (1937), New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, Socorro, New Mexico. NRHP-listed.
Central Receiving Building (1938), New Mexico School for the Blind and Visually Impaired, Alamogordo, New Mexico. NRHP-listed.
Sunset Mausoleum (1961), Albuquerque

The papers of the firm are archived with the Center for Southwest Research, at the University of New Mexico, as "Brittelle, Ginner and Associates Architectural Drawings and Plans".

References

Architects from New Mexico
20th-century American architects
1894 births
1970 deaths

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Since XML Web services are one of the cornerstones of the .NET platform, no discussion of them is complete without an understanding of what the .NET platform is and what it offers developers.
While XML Web services can and are being built to run on other platforms, no platform seems to offer the developer as much choice and control as .NET. Under .NET, developers are free to create XML Web services using several different languages and have them all communicate seamlessly. Updated versions of technologies such as ASP and ADO make creating XML Web services easier, while tools such as the WSDL.EXE and Visual Studio's Web References Dialog make consuming an XML Web service as easy as using a DLL.
One of the most important developments in the .NET framework is the creation of Common Language Runtime, or CLR. CLR is a runtime library used by all Visual Studio languages, with the exception of unmanaged C++. This library ensures that all programming languages work under the same object model when requesting operating system services or even dealing with each other.
CLR also imposes a common data typeset on languages. This mean that programs written in any .NET language can pass parameters to objects written in any other .NET language and be assured that they are type safe.
Another benefit of CLR is that any compiler can be written to make use of it. At present, plans exist to create compilers for .NET versions of Perl, COBOL, Python, and several other programming languages. This means that a large number of developers can leverage their existing skills into the creation of .NET applications and XML Web services without the need to learn a new language.
At the heart of CLR is the intermediate language, or IL. The IL is a low-level language, like assembly language, that is not configured to any one operating system or CPU, unlike assembly language. All languages compiled in Visual Studio, again with the exception of unmanaged C++, compile to IL code.
Any platform that is running the .NET framework can utilize IL code. Windows is currently the only platform that will run .NET, but plans exist for other operating systems. IL code is compiled into native machine code when it is first run. This concept is similar to Java's Just in Time compilation, but differs in one key area: once IL code has been compiled to native machine code, it need never be compiled on that machine again. This gives .NET-generated code the ability, in theory at this point, to be written once and run on multiple platforms. It also avoids the performance hits taken by languages like Java and Visual Basic, which are compiled or interpreted every time they are run.
Another upside of the IL is performance between languages. In the past, vast speed differences existed between languages such as Visual Basic and C++, but now, with all languages compiling to a common low-level language and then ultimately to native code, performance variance between languages should be small and limited to differences in how a language handles individual tasks.
The .NET framework automates many of the lowest-level tasks that programmers currently need to write Windows programs and make use of object-oriented technologies. Currently, developers need to explicitly handle such tasks as object reference counting, application threading, and process management. Under .NET, these tasks are completely automated.
Developers need not worry about memory models, far pointers, or system architecture specifics anymore. As .NET is rolled out on different platforms, the platform-specific implementations such as memory addressing will be handled within the framework and abstracted away from the programmer.
ADO.NET, sometimes referred to as ADO+, is the newest version of Microsoft's Active Data Objects. This set of ActiveX controls provides a consistent set of programmatic controls to a wide array of data sources, not limited to relational databases. Using ADO.NET, programmers need to know very little about the actual data source and how to program to it specifically.
This newest version of ADO.NET has XML functionality built in throughout. Data can now be expressed in terms of XML and transformed and manipulated in much the same way as any other XML documents.
The Dataset is a new feature of ADO.NET. It allows data to be stored in memory in what can best be described as an internal relational database. The Dataset is composed of table objects, called DataTables, maintained by the TablesCollection. The DataTable itself is made up of a RowsCollection and a ColumnsCollection.
Also contained within the Dataset is a RelationsCollection that contains the Dataset's DataRelation objects. DataRelation objects define matches between columns in two tables within the Dataset.
Perhaps no technology in the new .NET framework is as closely tied to Microsoft's version of XML Web services as ASP.NET, also known as ASP+. In fact, XML Web services in the .NET framework are really just specialized ASP applications.
The biggest difference between ASP+ and previous versions of ASP is compilation. All ASP+ applications compile to native code the first time they are run by an individual client. Each client, be it Internet Explorer 3.2, 4.0, or 6.0, causes a separate compilation to be created, but the compiled code can be cached and reused if so desired.
This compilation works exactly like other applications written in .NET except that ASP+ applications are compiled to IL by IIS. This allows ASP+ developers to work with the same tools they have been using, such as Notepad and Word, and also lets them use Visual Studio .NET to create ASP applications.
With the move toward compiled ASP+ applications and the use of the CLR, ASP+ is now more robust and complete than ever. No longer are ASP applications limited to the functionality built into IIS and its ASP engine; ASP has full access to the same components, error handling, and operating system services as any other programs that you develop.


Jalpaiguri, Apr 07 : Seasonal birds of the BJP visit Bengal during elections only, while the Trinamool works for the people throughout the year, said chief minister Mamata Banerjee. Trinamool Chairperson Mamata Banerjee today attended a public meeting at Churabhandar in Jalpaiguri district. In her speech, she said that the seasonal birds of BJP visit Bengal during elections only."Before 2016 polls, Modi babu and his ministers said they will take over closed tea gardens. They did not keep their promise,"Ms Banerjee told the gathering.
"They are seasonal birds who can be seen only during elections. We are working for the people 365 days a year," she said. "I regularly come to north Bengal. I am working hard for the progress of this region," she added. "They are creating divisions between Hills and Terai-Dooars. The BJP candidate was responsible for violence and tension between Hills and Terai-Dooars,"she alleged. "The BJP is stoking the fire of violence in Hills and we are dousing it,"she said.
Hitting out at BJP, she said,"Where was the BJP when the Hills were burning? Now when peace reigns in Bengal, they are coming here with a bouquet of lies, out of envy."
"North Bengal was neglected for years on end. The region lagged behind in development,"she claimed. "We set up the a mini-secretariat – Uttarkanya – in Jalpaiguri district,"Ms Banerjee said. "One closed tea garden has reopened today. We congratulate the workers,"she said. "We set up the Circuit Bench of Calcutta High Court in Jalpaiguri. The PM only made false claims – our government allocated funds and land for setting it up," she remarked.
"We set up world-class Biswa Bangla Krirangan in Jalpaiguri. We started Bhorer Aalo tourism project in Gajoldoba. We have started a new road project connecting north Bengal with Bhutan, Nepal and Bangladesh,"she said. "This is not an election to elect the CM of Bengal. This is an election for the Lok Sabha," the TMC supremo told the people. "Where were you for the last 5 years? Now you have come here just before elections,"she said. "Where was Modi babu when north Bengal was suffering from floods? Have you no shame, seeking votes now?"she questioned the PM.
"We passed a resolution to change the name of the State twice in the Assembly but they have even blocked that. What is your problem with 'Bangla'?" she asked.
"They are killing people in the name of gau-raksha. They should be ashamed," Ms Banerjee said. "They are offering money to people to attend their rallies and vote for them. It is not their money. It is people's money,"she said. "You can take the youth to your rally by offering money. What will happen after elections? Will they get jobs?"she questioned. "I have worked with many prime ministers in the past. I have never seen a PM with such low mentality, so uncouth and lacking courtesies,"she remarked.
"Sarada-Narada-Hawala leader is now BJP leader. He was sharing the stage with the PM today. Our party expelled him,"she said making an indirect attack on BJP leader Mukul Roy.
"He is conducting rallies with person accused in hawala case. They say Didi is afraid. Yeah sure. Didi fights from front. She is not afraid of lock-up. Didi has been attacked many times. My life has been one of struggle,"she said. "Women will not take any insult lightly. They run the family as well as the nation. Do not underestimate them,"she commented. "They are spreading lies in the name of army and central forces. They think they can win elections by shifting out some officers. If the Chief Secretary of Andhra Pradesh can be changed, why should Union cabinet secretary not be changed?"Mamta questioned.
"Chief Ministers of Karnataka and Andhra are being raided by CBI. They are misusing the agencies to target the Opposition,"she alleged. "When you will be out of power, no one will listen to you. People will reject you,"she said. "From RBI to CBI, everyone is saying bye bye,"the TMC supremo remarked. Taking a jibe at PM Modi, she said,"He used to say he is chaiwala. After 5 years, he has turned into chowkidar." "The real chowkidars, who guard the ATMs, are not getting salaries. Why are BSNL employees not getting salaries?"she asked. "We have our own health insurance scheme Swasthya Sathi, with a cover upto Rs 5 lakh. 7.5 crore people will benefit. The cards will be issued in the name of the women of the family (to empower them). Why should we pay 40% funds for Ayushman Bharat?"she questioned.
"We are giving Rs 5000 per acre annually to farmers under Krishak Bandhu scheme. We are paying the entire premium of crop insurance," she said. "Khajna tax and mutation fees on agricultural land have been waived off. We give Rs 1,500 to workers of closed tea gardens. We provide electricity and water for free to the tea gardens," she said.
"Debi Chaudhurani temple in Jalpaiguri was destroyed in fire; we are restoring it. We have renovated Jalpesh Shiv Mandir here," she informed. "My best wishes to the new voters. You must ask the 'Expiry Prime Minister' what happened to the promise of generating 10 crore jobs," she said.
"In 2017-18 alone, 2 crore people lost their jobs due to demonetisation. They promised to bring back black money and deposit Rs 15 lakh in every bank account. Have you received it?"Ms Banerjee asked the voters. "They only carry out canards and propaganda. In this election, bring about change in the government at Centre. Bengal will have a decisive say in the formation of next government,"she declared. "They are threatening to throw people out of Bengal in the name of NRC. I dare them to even touch one person, we will show them their place,"she said.


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Web notifications on iOS
I've mentioned before that I don't enable notifications on my phone. Text messages are the only exception. I don't want to get notified if a new email arrives (I avoid email on my phone completely) and I certainly don't want some social media app telling me somebody liked or faved something.
But the number one feature I'd like to see in Safari on iOS is web notifications.
It's not for me personally, see. It's because it's the number one reason why people are choosing not to go all in progressive web apps.
Safari on iOS is the last holdout. But that equates to enough marketshare that many companies feel they can't treat notifications as a progressive enhancement. While I may not agree with that decision myself, I get it.
When I'm evangelising the benefits of building on the open web instead of making separate iOS and Android apps, I inevitably get asked about notifications. As long as mobile Safari doesn't support them—even though desktop Safari does—I'm somewhat stumped. There's no polyfill for this feature other than building an entire native app, which is a bit extreme as polyfills go.
And of course, unlike on your Mac, you don't have the option of using a different browser on your iPhone. As long as mobile Safari doesn't support web notifications, nothing on iOS can support web notifications.
I've got progressive web apps on the home screen of my phone that match their native equivalents feature-for-feature. Twitter. Instagram. They're really good. In some ways they're superior to the native apps; the Twitter website is much calmer, and the Instagram website has no advertising. But if I wanted to get notifications from any of those sites, I'd have to keep the native apps installed just for that one feature.
So in the spirit of complaining about web browsers in a productive way, I just want to throw this plea out there: Apple, please support web notifications in mobile Safari!
The good news is that web notifications on iOS might be on their way. Huzzah!
Alas, we're reliant on Maximiliano's detective work to even get a glimpse of a future feature like this. Apple has no public roadmap for Safari. There's this status page on the Webkit blog but it's incomplete—web notifications don't appear at all. In any case, WebKit and Safari aren't the same thing. The only way of knowing if a feature might be implemented in Safari is if it shows up in Safari Technology Preview, at which point it's already pretty far along.
So while my number one feature request for mobile Safari is web notifications, a close second would be a public roadmap.
It only seems fair. If Apple devrels are asking us developers what features we'd like to see implemented—as they should!—then shouldn't those same developers also be treated with enough respect to share a roadmap with them? There's not much point in us asking for features if, unbeknownst to us, that feature is already being worked on.
But, like I said, my number one request remains: web notifications on iOS …please!
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Talk about glow-up. Khloé Kardashian looks absolutely unrecognisable in a childhood throwback snap as the family celebrated her 38th birthday.
On June 27, the middle child of the Kardashian-Jenner clan turned 38. As expected, her family threw their annual birthday and heartfelt tributes to celebrate the big day. Despite all of the sisters sending their good wishes, Kris Jenner and Kourtney Kardashian Barker's birthday message stood out the most.
Just like the rest of her siblings, Khloé has been subject to accusations of having undergone surgeries due to her spectacular physical and body transformation in just a decade.
Last year, the reality star spoke out about what she had done.
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The photos of Khloé Kardashian growing up just had to be there. The matriarch of the Kardashians not only wrote an adorable tribute but also added several photos of Khloé through different childhood stages.
Swiping through the pictures, there are different snapshots of the Good American founder, from her early stages until today. The 66-year-old even added the iconic and hilarious photo of when Khloé dressed up as her mum. Don't they look the same?
Sharing the photos with her 48.9m Instagram followers and throwing off several compliments, Kris captioned: "I feel so blessed to get to go through this life being your mommy!!".
She then concluded: "I love you more than you will ever know and I thank God each and every day for you my gorgeous girl. Happy Birthday!!!! 💞💞🥳🥳🎂🎂🙏🙏💕💕"
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Her eldest sister, Kourtney Kardashian Barker, took to her Instagram and shared some more good-old throwback photos of the two. The pair are almost unrecognisable as they cuddle each other for the shot.
Posing with their maternal grandmother, Mary Jo, the photo is also funny since Kourtney in the photo is taller than Khloé. But this changed later on in life, as Kourtney ended up being the shortest out of the five sisters.
The 43-year-old's heartfelt message said: "Happy happy birthday to my Shirley temple apple pie sugar plum cinnamon dumpling. You make life so much better! I love you my peanut butter and jelly sandwich."
She also gave a very special shout-out to her very distinctive bowl haircut. Fashionable at the time.
KARDASHIAN NEWS: It's True, Khloe Kardashian seriously shed the pounds after she gave birth
Khloé's Tuesday Transformation
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Without a doubt, the Kar-Jenner sister has had a successful glow-up transformation throughout the years. The 38-year-old has not only been killing it professionally despite her fame from Keeping Up With The Kardashians, but she also proved that she might not be a supermodel or a beauty guru, but she also has found her own ways to succeed.
Physically, mentally and visually, the reality star has done some major changes since she first appeared on television more than a decade ago. She first appeared as an insecure person, often comparing herself to her sisters. Nonetheless, Khloé changed her vision and decided to have her own Revenge Body, turning her fit lifestyle into her passion.
On June 2021, during the KUWTK reunion, Khloé admitted to having had her nose done and a few "injections". The public had been pressuring her about the sudden changes in her appearance, but she never admitted them because "no one's ever asked".
According to the Daily Mail, the reality star was constantly being accused of using photoshoots and facetune apps to retouch her physical appearance on her social media platforms.
Despite the backlash and rumours, the 38-year-old proved she keeps her body shape by working out daily with her two elder sisters, Kourtney and Kim, and eating healthy meals.
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Q: PowerShell - Use variable in another cmdlet I want to create a variable with the office phone number of an AD user and use this variable in another cmdlet.
$a = Get-AdUser -Filter "name -eq 'User1'" -Properties OfficePhone | FT OfficePhone | Out-String
Set-ADUser User2 -EmailAddress $a

I tried this one, but it doesn't work. Can someone help me?
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A: $a = (Get-ADuser User1 -Properties OfficePhone).OfficePhone
Set-ADUser User2 -EmailAddress $a

The -Properties parameter of Get-ADUser tells the cmdlet to include the properties you specify in addition to the other properties it already includes, such as DistinguishedName,Enabled,GivenName, etc.
Because of this you have to specify which property you want saved to the $a variable by wrapping the cmdlet in parentheses and using a period followed by the property name. This is actually the same thing as:
$a = Get-ADUser User1 -Properties OfficePhone
$b = $a.OfficePhone
Set-ADUser User2 -EmailAddress $b

A: You want to select the specific property of the User1 object, in this case OfficePhone. Please try that and let me know if it works as I don't currently have the Active Directory modules installed.
$a = Get-AdUser -Filter "name -eq 'User1'" -Properties OfficePhone | Select-Object OfficePhone
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Nearly ten months away is the 2019 Apple and Pork Festival but organizers say now is when they begin the planning process.
Executive Director of the CH Moore Homestead, Joey Woolridge indicates this is the time of year when they start sending out flea market contracts among other things the DeWitt County Museum Board will be working on.
The museum closes down for the first three months of the year and Woolridge says the downtime this winter will be used to revamp their website. She says it in need of a new, fresh look.
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