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Identical Trademarks: A dilemma of Textual interpretation v. Contextual interpretation of a Statute
16th February, 2022 - 4:40 am Categories: Intellectual Property
In the case of Renaissance Hotel Holdings INC Vs B Vijaya Sai (2022), an appeal was recently filed in the Supreme Court of India against a High Court of Karnataka order finding that the respondents/defendants had not violated the appellant/trademark plaintiff's "RENAISSANCE" under the Trade Marks Act, 1999. This blog examines the Supreme Court's decision in the aforementioned case.
Factual Background:
The holder and proprietor of the trademark and service mark "RENAISSANCE" in relation to hotel, restaurant, catering, bar, cocktail lounge, fitness club, spa services, and other services is Renaissance Hotel Holdings Inc., a company incorporated under the laws of the State of Delaware, United States of America. The respondents were running two hotels in Bangalore and Puttaparthi under the name "SAI RENAISSANCE," which fully embraces the well-known trademark and service mark "RENAISSANCE."The appellant claimed that it has been using the trademark "RENAISSANCE" for its hospitality business around the world since 1981, and that it is one of the world's largest and leading hotel chains, having used the trademark "RENAISSANCE" in India since 1990. The respondents were accused of copying the appellant's trademark "RENAISSANCE," its stylized depiction, signage, and business cards and brochures in order to imply an affiliation, relationship, nexus, or connection with the appellant's firm. The trial court partially ruled in favour of the appellant/plaintiff by prohibiting the respondents/defendants from using the trademark "SAI RENAISSANCE" and from opening, operating, managing, franchising, licencing, or dealing directly or indirectly in hotels, restaurants, or hospitality services of any kind under the trademark "RENAISSANCE," including the use of the domain name www.sairenaissance.com.The respondents/defendants took their case to the Kerala High Court, citing their dissatisfaction with the Trial Court's decision. The High Court stated that the evidence presented by the appellant/plaintiff was insufficient to support the claim that the respondents were taking unfair advantage of the appellant's trademark or that the use of the term "SAI RENAISSANCE" was detrimental to the appellant's trademark's distinctive character or reputation.
Question of Law:
Whether the respondents/defendants infringed on the appellant/trademark defendant's "RENAISSANCE"?
The Apex Court first noted that the Trial Court and the High Court both came to a conclusion that the respondents'/defendants' trademark as well as goods and services (i.e., Class 16 and Class 42) was identical to that of the appellant/ plaintiff. Therefore, , the provisions of Section 29, specifically Section (2)(c) read with sub-section (3) of Section 29, of the Trade Marks Act, 1999, were applied to the case. It was also covered under sub-sections (5) and (9) of Section 29 of the Trademark Act, 1999(hereinafter referred to as the Act).
Section 29 (2) and 29(4) of the Act:
Section 29 of the Act deals with situations where the trademark is identical or similar and the goods covered by the trademark are identical or similar, while subsection (4) of the Act deals with situations where the trademark is identical but the goods or services are not similar to those for which the trademark is registered.
Furthermore, it is an undisputed fact that the appellant/trademark plaintiff's "RENAISSANCE" was registered in relation to goods and services in Classes 16 and 42, and that the respondents/defendants were using the mark "SAI RENAISSANCE," which is identical or similar to the appellant/trademark, plaintiff's in relation to goods and services similar to the appellant/trademark, plaintiff's as noted by the Court. As a result, the High Court was barred from debating whether the appellant/brand plaintiff's has a reputation in India and whether the use of the mark without justification takes unfair advantage of or harms the registered trademark. The Court relied on the decision in Ruston & Hornsby Limited v. Zamindara Engineering Co. (1969) to reach the conclusion that once the defendant's trademark was found to be identical to the plaintiff's registered trademark, the Court could not have considered whether the infringement was likely to deceive or cause confusion in an action for infringement. In a trademark infringement case, an injunction would be given as soon as it was proven that the defendant was misusing the plaintiff's trademark.
It was also pointed out that the High Court erred in relying solely on the condition set forth in clause (c) of Section 29(4) of the Trade Marks Act, 1999 to determine whether the trademark had been violated, as the same would not satisfy all three conditions set forth in the said section.
Section 30 (1) of the Act:
The Court also noted that Section 30(1) of the said Act reveals that in order to benefit from Section 30 of the said Act, the twin conditions must be met:
The use of the impugned trade mark must be in accordance with honest practices in industrial or commercial matters, and
Such use must not take unfair advantage of or be detrimental to the trade mark's distinctive character or repute.
The word 'and' is used in subsection (1) of Section 30 of the said Act after clause (a), in contrast to the word 'or' used in subsection (2) of Section 29 of the said Act, so the High Court erred by only referring to the condition stipulated in clause (b) of subsection (1) of Section 30 of the said Act, ignoring the fact that to get the benefit of subsection (1) of Section 30 of the said Act, both a) and b) of subsection (1) of Section 30 of the said
As a result, the High Court neglected to consider the rules of textual and contextual interpretation set forth in the case of Reserve Bank of India v. Peerless General Finance and Investment Co. Ltd. and Others (1987).
Explaining the rule of interpretation, the Court said,
"It is thus trite law that while interpreting the provisions of a statute, it is necessary that the textual interpretation should be matched with the contextual one. The Act must be looked at as a whole and it must be discovered what each section, each clause, each phrase and each word is meant and designed to say as to fit into the scheme of the entire Act. No part of a statute and no word of a statute can be construed in isolation. Statutes have to be construed so that every word has a place and everything is in its place."
As a result, the Supreme Court found that respondents/defendants had infringed on the appellant/trademark plaintiff's "RENAISSANCE" and reversed the High Court's decision. When the defendant's trademark is identical to the plaintiff's registered brand and their products or services are same, the Apex Court decided that public confusion is presumed. The same would be a flagrant violation of the Trade Mark Act of 1999, Section 29.
One of the aims of the aforementioned Act is to make it illegal to use someone else's trademark as part of the corporate name or the name of a business entity. If the Act's entire scheme is considered as a whole, it allows for the rights provided by registration as well as the right to sue the owner of a registered trademark for trademark infringement. The legislative framework implemented under the abovementioned Act elaborates on the circumstances in which a registered trademark owner can file an action for trademark infringement and the limitations on the registered trademark's effect. It was properly unlawful to take a portion of the provisions in subsection (4) of Section 29 of the said Act and a portion of the provisions in subsection (1) of Section 30 of the said Act and give them a textual meaning without considering the context in which they must be understood. A part of a section cannot be read in isolation. The Supreme Court correctly construed the principles, holding that it is a basic rule that all components of a section must be assembled together. It is not permitted to leave any part of it out because the notion that a statute must be interpreted in its entirety applies equally to different parts of the same statute.
Author: Anuja Saraswat – a student of B.A.LL.B (Hons.) from NMIMS Kirit P. Mehta School of Law (Mumbai), in case of any queries please contact/write back to us via email vidushi@khuranaandkhurana.com or contact us at Khurana & Khurana, Advocates and IP Attorneys.
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Cobra-Man
Wood walking stick, 'Cobra-Man'
Eric Danquah carves this impressive walking stick, for in most African nations it represents a status symbol. A person with a walking stick commands respect, implies dignity and above all, an acquired collection of wisdom. Danquah's design features the face of a cobra because "although cobras have small round eyes, they are very fast and intelligent."
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Artfully crafted by Eric Danquah from West Africa.
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"We are four children in the family, among which my junior brother and sister are also talented with the skill of carving. My brother helps me a lot…."
Eric Danquah was born on December 12, 1974. He displayed interest in carving as a young man, and would sometimes go around helping the carvers of his community. However, his mother wanted him to be an electrician so she sent him to the city to study electronics. Soon enough, Danquah realized that this was not his calling, and he decided to return home to learn the art of carving, for which he had already demonstrated talent.
Says Danquah, "I learned carving from a shop for three years and later established myself with my own shop. I started carving for a full time profession in the year 1997 at the age of twenty-three, and now have one boy I work with. We are four children in the family, among which my junior brother and sister are also talented with the skill of carving. My brother helps me a lot at the shop."
Sese wood serves as Danquah's primary material, as he uses chisels, gouges, and axes to extract its natural beauty.


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Explosive Bats Power Kansas Past Dartmouth, 13-5
Junior designated hitter Dakota Smith tallied three hits, including a triple and three RBIs
Kansas 13, Dartmouth 5
Hoglund Ballpark // Lawrence, Kan.
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KU 2 0 0 6 3 0 0 5 X 13 19 0
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Kansas	 AB R H	 RBI BB HR
C. McKay 5 1 3 4 0 1
D. Smith 5 2 3 3 0 0
J. Protacio 5 2 2 2 0 0
J. Keller	 4 3 3 1 0 0
J. Purritano 4 1 3 0 1 0
N. Lombardi 3 0 2 2 0 0
Kansas IP H R	 ER BB SO
W. Benjamin (4-0) 5.0 9 4 4 2 3
S. Villines 2.0 3 1 1 0 1
D. Smith 1.0 1 0 0 0 1
H. Edwards 1.0 0 0 0 0 0
M. Danielak (0-2) 6.0 12 8 6 1 3
C. Burkholder 1.2 7 5 5 0 1
J. Graham 0.1 0 0 0 0 0
V. Sanchez 1.0 0 0 0 0 1
LAWRENCE, Kan. – Nine players combined for a season-high 19 hits and 13 RBIs, as the Kansas baseball team topped Dartmouth, 13-5, Friday evening at Hoglund Ballpark.
Six different Jayhawks tallied multiple-hit efforts with junior right fielder Connor McKay boasting a 3-for-5 performance at the plate, including a double, home run, four RBIs and a run scored. Sophomore second baseman Colby Wright (3-for-5), junior designated hitter Dakota Smith (3-for-5) and junior third baseman Aaron Hernandez (3-for-4) also had three hits apiece and at least two runs scored, with Wright scoring three times.
Junior shortstop Justin Protacio and junior left fielder Michael Suiter round out the last two KU players with multiple hits on the night. Protacio batted 2-for-5 with two RBIs and two runs scored, while Suiter hit 2-for-4 with a double, an RBI and two runs scored.
Kansas (15-7, 2-1 Big 12) called to its ace, junior left hander Wes Benjamin (4-0), to start on the bump in game one of the three-game series against the Big Green (2-8, 0-0 IVY). The hurler tossed five innings, giving up nine hits, four runs and two walks, while striking out three in the victory. Dartmouth threw righty Michael Danielak (0-2), who lasted six innings and gave up eight runs off of 12 hits and a walk.
Dartmouth jumped out to an early two-run lead in the first inning, after hitting three doubles in the top half of the frame. Kansas answered right back with a two-run inning of its own, thanks to a two-out two-run bomb by McKay, his fifth of the season, to tie the game up after one, 2-2.
The Big Green added a run in the third after a leadoff double by right fielder Jeff Keller and a single by third baseman Nick Lombardi to re-take the lead, 3-2, their last lead of the night.
Then the bats woke up for the Jayhawks in the fourth inning, where KU put up a six-spot on the scoreboard. Junior first baseman Blair Beck led off the frame with a double to left center before scoring on a double down the left field line by Hernandez. Protacio then laced one through the right side to score Hernandez, before back-to-back singles by Wright and Suiter loaded the bases.
Then with two outs and the bases loaded, Smith smoked a three-run triple off the left field wall to break the game open, 7-3. Senior centerfielder Tucker Tharp followed with a single to drive in Smith from third and give KU the five-run advantage heading into the fifth, 8-3.
Kansas tacked on five more runs in the eighth after the Jayhawks opened the inning with six-straight base hits. Hernandez led off with a triple, followed by back-to-back singles by Protacio and Wright. Then Suiter, McKay and Smith chimed in with three-straight doubles, before Tharp ended the streak with a pop-out to second baseman Thomas Roulis.
With two outs, junior first baseman Ryan Pidhaichuk added one more hit to the inning, an RBI single to left field, to increase KU's run total to 13, the second-highest of the season, and tally the 19th hit on the night for the Jayhawks.
Game two of the series is scheduled for Saturday, March 22, with first pitch at 1 p.m.


We're now the proud owners of a tatty '60s bungalow for demolition followed by self-build project.
Among the usual "new house" tasks - meter readings, sorting council tax, etc - it should be insured, even though it'll be reduced to rubble in the future.
but it seems that "fire, lightning and property owner's liability" cover is still advisable.
Normal home insurers don't do fire, lightning and property owner's liability insurance - it's a rather specialist request. I called a couple of mainstream insurers (Home Protect and Direct Line), and was advised to speak to BIBA, the British Insurance Brokers Association (biba.org.uk). BIBA helpfully took the details of our situation and called several specialist brokers for us.
Of the 3 brokers that BIBA thought might cover our self-build needs, only 1 would do fire/lightning and property owner's liability for our situation (not living in the bungalow prior to demolition). That was Sky Insurance (a combined broker and underwriter, skyinsurance.co.uk/), using specialist household insurer Canopius of Lloyds.
For a 3-bed bungalow with an estimated re-build cost of £300K (way too high in my opinion), the premium was ~£350 for 12 months (no refund for partial year). That seems very high considering our normal 3-bed house buildings insurance (which includes re-build if destroyed) is less than that. The broker explained that it's expensive because a) it's a specialist product, and b) the property will be empty, so more likely to be vandalised and require a claim. So be it.


One of the fun things about a project like Go2.me - which is largely the creative work of a single person - is the speed and flexibility with which I can work. When I'm working on new features, or bug fixes, App Engine makes it easy to deploy new versions, which I can do multiple times per day.
As I've been working, I've been keeping a personal task list as I think of things I want to do, or bugs I have to fix. Since I'm working alone, this is easiest to just keep as a text file, todo.txt (which I have under source control and viewable by anyone). My son, Chris, has also been helping me with testing - he's been entering bugs in a the more structured Issues List provided by the Google Hosted Projects service.
When I was development manager for the 50-person team that created Microsoft Outlook, I spent much of my time using Microsoft's internal issue tracking system, "Raid". With a list of tasks and bugs many orders of magnitude larger than Go2.me's, there is no less desire to understand how much work is ahead of us and how we're doing on reaching our goals on time. Even Raid didn't have all the reporting features I needed to understand what was going on in the team. So, we also used some custom Excel spreadsheets for project scheduling, and Excel's pivot table reports to analyze the massive bug list changes over time.
I've been experimenting with some new hosted services that are directed at this same problem - managing a schedule/task list for a team. A new one that I think shows promise is by Seattle startup Liquid Planner. While it's not as fast as a text file for data entry, it does have some really good reporting capability and shines in the project scheduling phase.
I don't know of any tool that combines the best of all worlds - very efficient for single user data entry, yet powerful enough to have all the team reporting features needed to understand and help manage the work of a whole team. Comment here if you have any suggestions for how you do tasks list/issue tracking/bug tracking/scheduling/team management.
I've heard of Liquid Planner a lot of times already, and it's certainly an improvement over Excel spreadsheets.
The number of online Project Management tools is growing at an exponential rate (no clue why, and no idea on whether the Project Management market is that big or not).
I did publish an article about the ideal PM tool, the article lists 3 factors that make up an excellent PM tool.


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UWM Research
Where the bees are
Following the buzz about pollination and plant reproduction
By Laura L. Otto February 21, 2020
It's 5 a.m. at the UWM Field Station, a natural area near Saukville, Wisconsin, about 45 minutes north of UWM's main campus. Biology students, led by postdoctoral researcher Dorothy Christopher, drag some of the hundreds of numbered potted plants from the hoop house and place each on the outside grass into a slot on a spray-painted grid. Then they don headlamps and trim all the flowers from each plant except for one.
With their controlled environment set up, they are ready for the bumble bees, which come to forage around 6:15 a.m. To accomplish this day's objective – following the flight of bumble bees that enter their makeshift garden – they have simplified the task by limiting the number of available flowers.
"We use the native monkeyflower because their flowers only last a single morning," says Christopher, who works in the lab of Jeffrey Karron, professor of biological sciences in the College of Letters & Science. "When we come in, the just-opened flowers have a full pollen load."
A hefty pollen load is what the bumblebees are looking for, and they tend to stick with a particular plant species that delivers. As they forage, their bodies are covered in pollen, with the top layer picked up from the flower they are currently visiting and the deeper layers from flowers on previously visited plants.
Karron is at the forefront of quantifying paternity patterns among flowering plants. Ultimately, he's interested in what influences successful plant reproduction, and why nearly all flowering plants are hermaphrodites, meaning that male and female parts are present on each flower.
Karron's work is important, says Randall Mitchell, a University of Akron professor of biology who's a leading scientist in the field. Understanding the complexity of pollinator-enabled reproduction is necessary to protect crops, wild plants and the viability of endangered plants.
For plants to make seeds that turn into strong and healthy new plants, much of the reproductive process rides on the pollinator's choices. Although a plant's flowers contain both the eggs and sperm, pollen begins the process of linking the two inside a flower to produce the offspring – seeds.
At the UWM Field Station, Jeffrey Karron's research is discovering more about the relationship between bees and the flowers they visit.
By combining genetic information with meticulous pollinator-mapping, Karron (pictured) has answered questions about plant reproduction that no one else has been able to. (UWM Photo/Troye Fox)
When a bee visits a flower, its body gets covered in pollen, which then mingles with the pollen it's already picked up from other flowers.
Researchers attach pipe cleaners to monkeyflower plant stalks to collect and track data. The color of the pipe cleaner denotes the date a bee visited the plant. (UWM Photo/Troye Fox)
At the UWM Field Station, Karron's research group has made a number of discoveries about the reproductive strategies of plants. (UWM Photo/Troye Fox)
But pollen first must be moved from a male part of a flower, called the anther, to a female part, called the stigma. And pollen can come from the same plant or from flowers on other plants of the same species. In fact, pollen from multiple monkeyflower plants could be left during a single bee's visit.
Complicating matters further, plant reproduction can happen in two different ways. A flower's female parts can receive pollen from their own anthers or from those on different plants of the same species – whatever plant the bee last visited.
When pollen comes from flowers on the same plant, it's called self-pollination or "selfing," while reproduction involving flowers from two different plants is termed cross-pollination. Seed production after selfing is considerably lower than cross-pollination, and the resulting seedlings are not as healthy. The lowered fitness is similar to the consequences of inbreeding in animals and results from mating with a limited gene pool. Cross-pollinated seeds grow into a much healthier second-generation plant.
The source of the fertilizing pollen is considered the male flower that sired the seeds, while the flower where the pollen was deposited is the mother. Because of these different possible outcomes, pollinator behavior matters, and it's important to know which flowers a bee visited, and in which order.
"When a bee visits the first flower on a plant, 80 percent of the resulting seeds are cross-pollinated," Karron says. "By the time it alights on the fourth flower of that plant, almost all the seeds are self-pollinated."
Important as it is to establish where the pollen for each seed came from, that information doesn't come easily, given nature's onslaught of variables. But through cleverly engineered experiments, such as Christopher's single-flower bee garden, Karron tracks the bees. He can determine where they gather their pollen, and where they leave it, and he establishes the monkeyflower's mating histories.
Inside his hoop house at the Field Station, an experiment's monkeyflower plants are numbered and, by the end of each study, pipe cleaners of various colors are attached to some stalks. Like a hospital patient's medical bracelet, the pipe cleaners are part of a detailed record-keeping system. They denote where a flower had been in the garden, and the pipe cleaner's color indicates the date of a bee visit.
The basic anatomy of a flower.
Karron doesn't rely on human observation alone. Each plant used in an experiment is genotyped before it's moved outside and bee mapping begins. This way, the researchers have a "signature" that they can later match to a seed's genetic profile.
"We put in a ton of work on the front end," Christopher says, "so that we can differentiate pollen from the various plants. That's how we can track how far the pollen has traveled."
UWM's Field Station provides the swath of undisturbed nature required for the research, which accounts for not only ecological factors, like pollinator abundance, but also genetic variables, like the shape of flowers. "I can replicate populations at the Field Station in order to look at how their mating habits change under different conditions or environments," Karron says. "And I can easily clone plant populations by simply dividing the plants. You can't do that with birds or mammals."
As labor-intensive as these experiments are, the most challenging part, Karron says, is managing the scale. At the end of his most recent study, 8,000 seeds were harvested and genetically analyzed.
By combining genetic information with meticulous pollinator-mapping, Karron has answered questions about plant reproduction that no one else has been able to. Mitchell, a longtime research collaborator, says Karron is identifying what influences bee behavior and connecting it to their evolutionary impact on plant reproduction. It's allowed Karron to start unraveling why the hermaphrodite reproductive strategy is so successful, despite self-pollination being a handicap to long-term plant survival.
The advantage, Karron has shown, is that dual sex roles double the number of potential mates a parental plant could have. That increases the genetic diversity of seeds, diversity that ensures the overall hardiness of seedlings.
Karron's research group has made other long-sought-after discoveries. They demonstrated that mate combinations for individual flowers on the same plant can differ dramatically. That is, the pollen that produced seeds in any two flowers could have been from the plant itself or from a bloom of the same species miles away.
They were the first to demonstrate that pollinator responses to showy floral displays increase the selfing rate for plants. The reason? After visiting one flower, bees will often "trick or treat" to the next closest flower, often on the same plant.
And Karron's research team showed that the presence of a competing flowering plant species boosts selfing patterns in monkeyflower because the competitor often sidetracks the bees. Cross-pollination only occurs when the bees alight on different monkeyflower plants consecutively. Even the species of bumblebee (there are five at the UWM Field Station) can change the mating patterns, he says.
Tracking wild pollinators and correlating their pollen quantitatively with seed paternity is painstaking work that few plant biologists have attempted. But Karron's fastidious field work has yielded plenty of scientific evidence that proves a plant's reproductive strategy is anything but random.
"I love to design evolutionary experiments," he says. "If we do it right, we can get the bees themselves to explain their behavior."
Taking a clean look
When the FDA banned 19 antibacterial additives from over-the-counter hand soaps, UWM researcher Hongbo Ma took a look at some of the replacements. What she found: Some of the new chemicals were more toxic than the ones they replaced.
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A quick glance at the door tag will tell you all the important stuff about this sportsroof Mustang, including that it is indeed a real Mach 1 and that it was originally Lime Gold with a blacked out hood. Not that there's anything wrong with Lime Gold, but when given the chance, this one got a fresh coat of Indian Fire Metallic, an equally attractive and period-correct choice that just happens to look cutting-edge today. As a result, it's big and bold, with a hint of sophistication, which is how the Mach 1 was positioned when it was new. The bodywork is good and straight, and they were careful to include all the important details like the hood pins, Shaker hood scoop, front and rear spoilers, and, of course, the rear window slats that practically define the breed. Correct Mach 1 graphics along the flanks and on the tail will remind the unwary of what just hammered past, and aside from the wheels, this looks like any restored Mustang fastback. Even the chrome is nice and shiny.
The interior sticks to the original specifications, including the knitted vinyl seat covers on the high-back buckets. A sporty red stripe always identifies the luxury Mach 1 package, and this one also has a center console and a thicker wood-rimmed wheel that feels right. Auxiliary gauges have been neatly installed down low on the console in a special housing that angles them towards the driver. And yes, you will note that the Hurst shifter shows five gears on the knob, not just four, so you know there's something special going on underneath (more on that in a moment). The fold-down back seat makes the Mustang a surprisingly practical piece of muscle, and the trunk is neatly outfitted with new mats that fit well.
A freshly-built 408 cubic inch V8 is based on a 351 Windsor block, which was how this car originally left the factory. The stroker kit puts big block power inside a small block envelope, so weight and handling are vastly improved, but this sucker accelerates like a rocket sled. As part of the disguise, it looks quite stock, with Ford Blue paint on the block, Cobra valve covers, and the Shaker hood scoop up top doing that intimidation thing it does. It's fed by a Holley carb and long-tube headers with a raucous Flowmaster exhaust system give it a fantastic growl. A 5-speed gearbox with overdrive makes it a superlative highway cruiser without sacrificing acceleration, and the 3.70 gears in the 9-inch rear are happy to oblige. Vintage Torque Thrust wheels with 245/60/15 radials finish the look.
Not quite a sleeper, but this Mustang delivers a lot more performance than you'd expect from a vintage pony, particularly a small block. Call today!
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Low FODMAP Chicken Noodle Soup is always an option for me for an easy lunch. Plus I can make a bigger batch for more people or for myself the next day. The only thing is that I wouldn't recommend to add the noodles to the part of the soup that you wish to keep fot the next day. The noodles would have soaked most of the liquid.
It doesn't need much preparation. Most of the time it takes to cook the chicken. While it is getting done, I can potter around the house, doing other things, and then just come back to it to add some of the vegatables.
You can use any Low FODMAP gluten free noodles that you like. My favourite are vermicelli rice noodles. They taste great and are more substantial the the thin rice noodles. If you like slurping the soup away while eating then long vermicelli noodles will be perfect.
For this 2 portion chicken noodle soup, I used a single chicken wing. You can use two, one for each person, but it will raise the calorific value. Plus the one wing gives enough flavour for the stock. You can use other favourite chicken meat or if you don't like the bones, yo can remove them easily after cooking the chicken wing.
In this Low FODMAP Chicken Noodle Soup, that has been approved by a Low FODMAP trained dietitian, you can adjust the spiciness by adding more or less spices, for example the smoked paprika powder. Just remember that for some people spiciness can be a trigger, too.
is a flavoursome, filling lunch.
full of vegetables, carbohydrates and protein.
First, place the chicken wing and peeled and chopped carrot in a small pot. Simmer it for at least 30 minutes.
Afterwards, add the broccoli florets and spices. Keep simmering until the broccoli is soft but still crunchy.
Depending on your noodles, you will probably need to soak them in a hot water first, before adding them to the soup.
You can adjust the spiciness by adding more or less of the smoked paprika powder.
If you want to find other, interesting Low FODMAP soup recipes, go here.
Low FODMAP Chicken Noodle Soup is always an option for me for an easy lunch. Plus I can make a bigger batch for more people or for myself the next day.
This noodle soup doesn't need much preparation. Most of the time it takes to cook the chicken. While it is getting done, I can potter around the house, doing other things, and then just come back to it to add some of the vegatables.
To find a Polish version of this recipe, go here (Low FODMAP Zupa Chińska z Kurczakiem i Makaronem Ryżowym).


Get your garden ready for winter so you can have an easier time gardening come spring. These winter garden prep tasks will help you get your garden winter ready.
Winter will be here before you know it and it will be time to let gardening go until the spring.
But before winter arrives there are a few winter garden prep chores you'll want to do to make sure your garden is ready to go in the spring.
This is the last Tuesdays in the Garden post for this season. I hope you've enjoyed all the great gardening ideas and tips that have been shared by all the Tuesdays in the Garden gardeners. I know I always learn something new.
With this being the last of our gardening posts it's only fitting that we share a few winter gardening tips. After all the little bit you do in the winter when you put the garden to bed, can really make a big difference in how easy the garden is to care for in the spring.
Some of these tips overlap with the fall garden prep chores, which I think is good. Fall can be really busy and even if you missed the fall window to do a few of these items you can still get to them now before the snow flies.
When you put your garden to bed will rely depend on where you live. For us, in the north, we usually garden until right around mid-November. Then with the short days and cooler weather things slow down.
I haven't tried to grow a garden under cover in the winter yet but it's on my garden bucket list to do one of these years.
If you live in the south you might be able to garden almost all year round. So you might not be putting your garden to bed but transitioning to cool weather crops. Some of these tips can still apply.
If you haven't already tidied up the garden beds right before winter sets in is a good time. Pull out any dead or dying plants clear out any weeds. Fewer weeds now can mean fewer weeds in the spring.
Don't forget to add protection to winter-tender plants. You can use mulch or even leaves to cover them and insulate them during the winter months.
If you are trying to extend your growing season be sure to keep your vegetable garden watered, weeded and covered if needed. It's time to put on extra protection to keep those plants you planted late in the summer thriving.
Be sure to check regularly on a covered garden. There might be lots of rain in the early winter but the covered garden will get very little, keep a watch and water before the garden gets dry.
Get your garlic in before it's too late. I know I'm usually so busy in the fall I forget to get my garlic in. Then I remember in the spring. Make a note to yourself and get your garlic planted now if it's not been done yet. You'll be glad when you're harvesting your garlic next year.
Don't let leaves lay around in the yard. If you like to have a nice looking lawn like my hubby does keep those leaves picked up. If the leaves are left to lay around they will cause the lawn to die and you'll have bare spots to fill in.
If you have as many tree leaves as we do you'll have lots of bare spots to fill in on the lawn. Keeping the leaves picked up can really help in how well your lawn does during the winter.
If picking up all those leaves seems like too much of a pain, you can mulch them with a mulching lawn mower. The small pieces of leaves don't hurt the lawn like full leaves do and can help feed the lawn too.
The mulched leaves can be used to cover your garden or without mulching, you can use leaves to cover and protect your winter timid plants.
A layer of leaves on the strawberries can help them stand up to the cold winter weather better.
One word of warning though. Don't use oak leaves in the garden or beds. They take forever to break down. I found this out the hard way when my hubby mulched a bunch of our oak leaves, added them to our garden beds and they stuck around forever.
For oak leaves, I'd suggest picking them up and moving them out.
If you haven't divided your perennials yet now would be a great time to do it. I try to divide my perennials in the fall or spring but if time has gotten away from you, early winter is a great time to tackle this garden task. Be sure to water in transplants well especially if rain is scarce where you live.
If you won't be growing more vegetables under covers this year, it's time to put them to bed by covering your garden beds.
I started the process of covering my beds once my fall garden items were done with plastic. I clear the plants out and then place a layer of black plastic down on the garden beds. Then let them sit all winter long covered.
Keeping them covered helps to prevent weed seeds from blowing in and helps to kill the weed seeds too. In the spring when the sun comes out the sun heats the soil and can destroy those seeds that landed in your garden last fall.
It's a great way to reduce the weeds in your garden now for next year.
Your roses have given many great blooms all season long with the care you have given them. They are ready to go dormant for the winter months. We trim our roses back to about waist height in November to December. Then we trim them down to knee height come January or February.
Pruning them helps to keep them from getting too leggy and sprawling everywhere. When you prune them back for the winter they are more protected from breakage in ice storms or from falling branches.
If you live in a cold part of the world. You might want to mulch around the base of the plant and part of the way up to protect it from the bitter cold.
In our area, we don't have to mulch because of winters, in general, are mild but we do have a harsh winter now and then like last winter.
Those are my basic winter garden prep tips to do before the snow flies. A little work now can really help with how much work will be needed in the spring.
What chores do you do each winter when putting your garden to bed?
Find more great winter garden tips from the other Tuesdays in the Garden gardeners below. Just click on the photo to be taken to their article to read.
As usual, great tips, Shelly! This is the year I'm finally covering my garden with plastic. I'm so excited!
Love those tips. I really need a mulching lawnmower. And yes, we took our three Oak trees out. They were impossibly messy and those leaves would NOT break down. Thanks for the great tip Shell! Happy Gardening.


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Aerodynamic Roughness Length Estimation with Lidar and Imaging Spectroscopy in a Shrub-Dominated Dryland
Aihua Li, Boise State UniversityFollow
Wenguang Zhao, University of Idaho
Jessica J. Mitchell, Appalachian State University
Nancy F. Glenn, Boise State UniversityFollow
Matthew J. Germino, US Geological Survey, Forest and Rangeland Ecosystem Science Center
Joel B. Sankey, US Geological Survey, Grand Canyon Monitoring and Research Center
Richard G. Allen, University of Idaho
The aerodynamic roughness length (Z0m) serves an important role in the flux exchange between the land surface and atmosphere. In this study, airborne lidar (ALS), terrestrial lidar (TLS), and imaging spectroscopy data were integrated to develop and test two approaches to estimate Z0m over a shrub dominated dryland study area in south-central Idaho, USA. Sensitivity of the two parameterization methods to estimate Z0m was analyzed. The comparison of eddy covariance-derived Z0m and remote sensing-derived Z0m showed that the accuracy of the estimated Z0m heavily depends on the estimation model and the representation of shrub (e.g., Artemisia tridentata subsp. wyomingensis) height in the models. The geometrical method (RA1994) led to 9 percent (~0.5 cm) and 25% (~1.1 cm) errors at site 1 and site 2, respectively, which performed better than the height variability-based method (MR1994) with bias error of 20 percent and 48 percent at site 1 and site 2, respectively. The RA1994 model resulted in a larger range of Z0m than the MR1994 method. We also found that the mean, median and 75th percentiles of heights (H75) from ALS provides the best Z0 m estimates in the MR1994 model, while the mean, median, and MLD (Median Absolute Deviation from Median Height), as well as AAD (Mean Absolute Deviation from Mean Height) heights from ALS provides the best Z0m estimates in the RA1994 model. In addition, the fractional cover of shrub and grass, distinguished with ALS and imaging spectroscopy data, provided the opportunity to estimate the frontal area index at the pixel-level to assess the influence of grass and shrub on Z0m estimates in the RA1994 method. Results indicate that grass had little effect on Z0m in the RA1994 method. The Z0m estimations were tightly coupled with vegetation height and its local variance for the shrubs. Overall, the results demonstrate that the use of height and fractional cover from remote sensing data are promising for estimating Z0m, and thus refining land surface models at regional scales in semiarid shrublands.
This document was originally published in Photogrammetric Engineering & Remote Sensing by the American Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing. Copyright restrictions may apply. doi: 10.14358/PERS.83.6.415
Li, Aihua; Zhao, Wenguang; Mitchell, Jessica J.; Glenn, Nancy F.; Germino, Matthew J.; Sankey, Joel B.; and Allen, Richard G.. (2017). "Aerodynamic Roughness Length Estimation with Lidar and Imaging Spectroscopy in a Shrub-Dominated Dryland". Photogrammetric Engineering & Remote Sensing, 83(6), 415-427. https://doi.org/10.14358/PERS.83.6.415


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I'm excited to have finally released [the start] of my first site for Circatree Design.
It admittedly needs lots more love even after I implement in Drupal what I've already designed in Photoshop.
Robert Erichsen, access specialist at MiraCosta college, presented on the topic of Web Accessibility to our web design 3 class today.
While the school's current site is not very optimized for accessibility, the rebranding and redesign efforts currently underway will ensure the new site is most accessible..
While many organizations recognize it as a "best practice", section 508 standards compliance is a requirement for websites of organizations receiving federal funding.


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Mercury turns retrograde tomorrow through 21 September. That means that it goes direct around Autumn Equinox.
Overall, I see this Mercury Rx as a dress rehearsal for the dark of the year.
The term retrograde, used in astronomy and astrology, comes from Latin and means backward step. As always, this is an excellent time for most things that start with 're' – reconsider, review, remember, respect. All things to do with communication, mechanical matters or travel, any of the realms of Mercury, his mythology and his symbols apply. If your going to 'redecorate' be sure that you 'remeasure' everything you plan.
Mercury is a guide but also a trickster. He wants to see if you are paying attention. Put some Saturn (shape, regulate) in what you do between now and September 21. Be present and look at details.
All of this period will be in Virgo. The sun is also in Virgo at this time. A metaphor you may want to consider is to step back into what is bright, life-giving and shines light on Virgo strengths such as details, templates. Also shine a little guiding light into the Virgo shadows, such as the need to be perfect or to be the one who is right.
Some may want to examine family (biological or community, traditional, non-traditional and recondite) and family patterns, especially as they relate to the baggage of communication. The concept of perfection without a regulator, such as enough can create a burden. Over-attention to detail without structure or dedication can be aimless and drive you to the wrong distraction.
Do something physical to celebrate the waning Sun, like dance or move within a sense of place – your physcial being, your neighborhood, your favorite piece of land. Shake free any impediments to harvest. Breathe slowly and deeply with focus on the miracles and mysteries of being in your body at this time.
Look at this Mercury Rx as a friendly tennis match with a partner whose best moves are already known to you. Be alert and playful, and ready for his favorite maneuvers.


Standard 2- page 2 renamed guidance 2.1M.
Standard 2- page 6 flowchart updated and legislation updated.
Standard 2- pages 6-9 updated references to relevant DLP.
Standard 2- pages 10 added date sent to NBSCCCI on referral form template.
Standard 2- pages 13-17 added in reference to guidance 2.1A.
Standard 2- pages 23-25 added in reference to guidance 2.1A.
Standard 2- pages 31 and 32 added in reference to guidance 2.1A.
Standard 2- page 33 guidance updated following advice from Tusla.
Standard 2- page 36 guidance changed to include need for one summary sheet per complainant.
Standard 1 pages 3 and 4- updated page numbers following new guidance.
Standard 1 page 8- added reference to lay apostolates.
Standard 1 pages 70-74-updated JPII forms to latest versions.
Standard 1 pages 86-91- added new guidance on lay apostolates.
Standard 1 pages 106-117-added new guidance on international child safeguarding policy.
Standard 2 pages 10,11,12- updated child protection referral form following GDPR changes.
Standard 3 page 22- corrected errors.
Standard 4 page 3-updated page numbers.
Standard 4 page 7-updated page numbers for new guidance.
Standard 4 page 9- added in reference to venues.
Standard 4 page 44- updated canon law references.
Standard 4 page 50- added in reference to precepts.
Standard 4 pages 51 and 52- added in new template precepts.
Standard 5- Page 15 added in process for re registration of trainers.
Standard 7- page 5 added in reference to serious incident review records.
Standard 7- page 39 guidance on crisis management.
Standard 7- page 43 guidance on serious incident reviews.
Standard 4 pages 21 and 22- added additional considerations to leave from ministry guidance.
Standard 4 page 49- clarified roles of Tusla social workers in hospitals.
Standard 1- pages 2-4- updated page numbers following new guidance 1.3D.
Standard 1- pages 7 and 8- updated page numbers following new guidance 1.3D.
Standard 1- page 11- clarified requirements for volunteers signing declaration form.
Standard 1- page 27- updated in line with information from NVB.
Standard 1- pages 57-59- new guidance 1.3D on boundary violations.
Standard 1- page 79- updated requirements for external groups.
Standard 1- pages 100-101- clarified requirements for photographers.
Standard 2- page 11- clarified 'details of concern' section of refferal form.
Standard 4- pages 2 and 3- page numbers updated.
Standard 4- pages 7 and 8- page numbers updated.
Standard 4- page 9- advice on character references and advisor added.
Standard 4- page 11- added in reference to collecting the proofs in flow chart.
Standard 4- page 12- corrected canon law references and added reference to new decree templates.
Standard 4- page 14- changed reference to referral forms following changes to guidance in Standard 2.
Standard 4- page 25- added in new information on support for parishes.
Standard 4- page 26- added in guidance 4.2E on support for family of respondents.
Standard 4- page 27- added in guidance 4.2F on Church process for allegations against deceased clerics/religious.
Standard 4- page 29- added in reference to new template decrees.
Standard 4- page 31- added new decree template 4.3A Template 1.
Standard 4- page 32- added in reference to new template decrees.
Standard 4- page 33- added new decree template 4.3B Template 1.
Standard 4- page 34- added in reference to new template decrees.
Standard 4- page 40- added new decree template 4.3C Template 2.
Standard 4- page 42- added in reference to new template decrees.
Standard 4- page 44- added new decree template 4.3D Template 1.
Standard 4- page 45- added new decree template 4.3D Template 2.
Standard 4- page 46- added new decree template 4.3D Template 3.
Standard 1- page 47- clarified documents needed for visiting clerics/religious or lay ecclesial ministers.
Appendix A- pages 6-7- added in guidance on conflict of roles.
Appendix D- pages 3-5- contact numbers for Tusla offices updated following changes in Tusla operations.
Glossary- Pages 3-5- added in definitions for mandated person, relevant person and collecting the proofs.
Standard 1 page 28- updated storage of vetting records advice in ROI.
Standard 2 pages 2 and 5- updated page numbers and added in addional records for Tusla forms and list of mandated persons.
Standard 2 page 7- clarified new reporting procedures in ROI and links to Tusla forms.
Standard 2 page 9- added in reference to guidance 2.1M.
Standard 2 page 32- clarified information in relation to retaining list of mandated persons.
Standard 2 page 33- added in new guidance on allegations in relation to decesaed clerics/religious.
Standard 2 page 34- updated with correct information in relation to forms following changes in ROI.
Standard 2 page 36- updated title of section 4 to reflect changes in forms following changes in ROI, and updated title of section 6 to make it clear where precepts etc are stored in the case file.
Standard 2 page 37- updated section 8 to make it clear where case management advice is stored.
Standard 6 page 2-updated page numbers.
Standard 6 page 4- updated page numbers.
Standard 6 page 23- clarified requirements for appointing a Relevant Person.
Standard 6 page 26- added risks to Child Safeguarding Template.
Standard 6 page 27- expanded procedures section and included space for details of Relevant Person.
Standard 6 page 4- updated requirements to keep copy of Child Safeguarding Statement.
Standard 5 page 18- updated dates on Training Returns Form and associated template.
Standard 1 page 49- added new guidance 1.1G on retired clerics with no Church authority in Ireland who seek to minister.
Standard 2 pages 2 and 5- updated page numbers following introduction of new guidance 2.1L.
Standard 2 page 6- added new diagram following Children First 2015 requirements.
Standard 2 page 7- updated reference to allegations received by DLP.
Standard 2 page 8- added in reference to 2.1L and clarified requirements of leaving contact details of DLP.
Standard 2 pages 12 and 14- updated reference to DLP now only requiring allegations relating to Church personnel.
Standard 2 page 13- Clarified requirements around informing a child's parent/guardian.
Standard 2 page 15 and 16- updated with new requirements of Children First 2015.
Standard 2 page 31- new guidance added on Mandated Persons(ROI only).
Standard 4 page 2- updated page number following introduction of Guidance 4.4D.
Standard 4 page 44- added Guidance 4.4D Monitoring at the Request of Another Church Authority.
Standard 1 page 47- clarified documentation required for priests and religious on once off cover.
Appendix C- updated definition for exploitation following revision of Co-operating to Safeguard Children in NI.
Standard 2 pages 2 and 5- updated page numbers following introduction of new guidance.
Standard 2 Page 8- added in hyperlinks to guidance for different types of complainants.
Standard 2 Pages 23 and 24- added in additional section for allegations against non ordained Church authorities.
Appendix C pages 4,5 and 6- Definitions for ROI updated in line with Children First 2017.
Standard 7 pages 9,18, 23,28, 29 (and templates 7.1C Template 1-5) - added in review date to notification templates and annual audit templates.
Standard 1 pages 47 and 48- updated table for visiting clerics/religious/lay ministers with reference to SLAs.
Standard 1 page 7- updated vetting records requirements.
Standard 1 page 25- new section added on Service Level Agreements and new template (1.1B Template 1).
Standard 1 page 28- new section added on assessing suitability of applicants following a vetting disclosure.
Standard 1 page 26- updated employees to Church personnel to ensure consistent language.
Standard 1 page 22-clarified requirements for vetting under 18s.
Standard 1 page 21- clarified date of legislation.
Standard 1 pages 2,3,4, 7 and 8- updated pages number following updating of vetting guidance.
Appendix C page 2- NI definitions updated in line with Co-operating to Safeguard Children in NI 2016.
Standard 7 pages 20 and 25- clarified requirements for full day safeguarding training and amended associated templates 7.1C Templates 2 and 3.
Standard 7 pages 2 and 3- updated page numbers.
Standard 7 page 7- fixed an inccorect link to guidance 7.1C Template 1.
Standard 1-page 27 clarified storage of recrods for vetting checks.
Standard 1- page 41 added in guidance on lay ecclesial ministers.
Standard 1- pages 44 and 45- added in new guidance on documentation required for different types of ministry in Ireland.
Standard 1- page2,3 and 4- updated page numbers following new guidance.
Standard 1- page 8- added in records needed for different types of ministry in Ireland.
Standard 7 pages 36 and 37- new guidance added on constitution of a safeguarding committee.
Standard 7 page 2- page numbers updated following introduction of new guidance.
Standard 7 page 5- page numbers updated following introduction of new guidance.
Standard 5 page 2- changed page order following deletion of 5.1A Template 2, and renamed agreement form Induction Agreement form.
Standard 5 page 5- changed page order following deletion of 5.1A Template 2, and renamed agreement form Induction Agreement form.
Standard 5 page 6- changed wording to reflect new name of Induction Agreement Form.
Standard 5 page 7- changed title and also clarified wording around requirment to attend training (5.1A Template 1 also updated).
Standard 6 page 26- redrafted irish version of the policy statement (Template 6.3A Template 2 also updated).
Standard 1 page 92- 1.10A Template 1 added for clerics/religious who are ministering with children in an external organisation/Church body.
Standard 1 page 91- added in reference in 1.10A Template 1.
Standard 1 pages 1 and 7- updated page contents to take account of 1.10A Template 1 being added.
Standard 3 pages 12 and 13- added in additional information regarding Support People meeting with complainants.
Standard 1 page 26- clarified language around storage for vetting records.
Standard 4 pages 8 and 9- clarified requirement to store information by DLP from advisors in relation to concerns about mental health concerns of respondent.
Standard 1 page 26- clarified language around requirements to store identity checks.
Standard 1 page 85- clarified language in relation to parents of all children being offered the option to be copied in to texts sent by Church personnel to children with their consent in exceptional circumstances.
Standard 1 pages 85 and 86- clarified the use of texting and email with young people.
Standard 7 pages 12, 20, 26 and 28 and associated templates- clarified language in relation to clerics/religious and clarified template in relation to Church personnel being given the opportunity to attend information sessions.
Standard 3 - pages 13 - fixed error in reference to respondent under storage of records.
Standard 3 - pages 12 and 13- clarified information relating to recording contact with the complainant.
Standard 7 - page 31- reworded notification form and associated word template to include reference to Standard 1.
Standard 1 - page 26- clarified non storage of identity check for vetting.
Standard 1 - page 51- reworded consent form and associated word template to include reference to codes of behaviour.
Standard 2- page 14- updated guidance on managing anonymous allegations of abuse.
Standard 7- page 3- clarified role of safeguarding committee.
Standard 1- pages 2, 13 and 1.1A Template 2- renamed from Volunteer Application Form to Application Form.
Standard 1- page 10- added in reference to possibly completing an adapted version of the Application Form for volunteers.
Standard 4- page 7- added reference to confidentiality declaration.
Standard 4- pages 8 and 9- clarified inoformation relating to recording contact with respondent.
Standard 5 page 15- clarified length of registration process for trainers.
Standard 5 page 16- updated numer of tutors.
Standard 5 pages 11, 15, 16, 19, 20, 22,11 and 5.3B Template 3- updated Training Manager to Director of Training and Support.
Standard 4 page 30- following feedback added the word reparation to second last paragraph.
Standard 4 page 39- Added new Template 4.3E Template 1- Example Notification Letter to Complainants on the Death of a Respondent.
Standard 4 pages 1 and 6- updated pages numbers following additional template being added.
Word template 1.1C Template 3- has now been updated to match text in pdf version of Standard 1.
Standard 1 page 24- reference to CORI and IMU now replaced with AMRI.
Standard 1 pages 6,7- updated page references in table to match new contents of Standard 1.
Appendix D- added contact details of all local gardai stations for reporting allegations which do not relate to clerics/religious.
Standard 7 pages 33-34- reorganised Template 7.1D to make report easier to use, and updated associated word template.
Standard 1 page 2- Reordered contents page.
Standard 1 page 29- Added advice on visiting seminarians to Guidance 1.1C.
Standard 1 page 39- Added 1.1D Guidance on visiting clergy and national/international shrines.
Standard 1 page 90- Clarified reference to written consent for adults when being web broadcasted.
Standard 1 pages 50, 51- Reorganised consent form based on feedback and updated associated word template.
Standard 1 pages 20-28- Vetting guidance updated.
Standard 2 Page 29- Error with the names of templates on this page has been corrected.
6.2B Template 1 has now been updated so that details can be typed in to the word document.
Correction to english, irish and polish version of the policy statement in Standatd 6 pages 11, 25 and 26 and associated templates.
Latest version of the summary policy and standards leaflet has been inserted in Standard 6 pages 20, 21 and associated templates.
References to Co-operating to Safeguard Children and Young People in NI updated in Standard 2 pages 7, 28 and 41.
Contact details clarified in Appendix D.
Contact details in Appendix D updated.
Error corrected on page 23 of Standard 2.
'….I have been reading 'Safeguarding Children Policy and Standards for the Catholic Church in Ireland 2016-Guidance'. The document is thorough and all those associated with its production are to be commended'.
Sr. Miriam Kerrisk, Provincial , Sisters of Mercy Southern Province.
The safeguarding children policy document is now available to download by clicking here. This is an electronic copy of the policy and requires a number of fields to be completed to personalise the document to each Church body, for instructions on how to do this please click here.
If you require hard copies of the policy for your Church body please email ann.doyle@safeguarding.ie or imeldaashe@safeguarding.ie.
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Q: code blocks :: It seems that this project has not been built yet im using mac 10.12 and
i downloaded the code blocks and the command line developer tools
but when i tried to run any program a window appears and say "It seems like project has not been built yet. Do you wan to build it now?"
and this the build log
-------------- Build: Debug in aaaa (compiler: GNU GCC Compiler)---------------

gcc -Wall -g  -c /Users/macbookproretina13inch/Documents/Programming/aaaa/main.c -o obj/Debug/main.o
Agreeing to the Xcode/iOS license requires admin privileges, please re-run as root via sudo.
Process terminated with status 69 (0 minute(s), 0 second(s))
0 error(s), 0 warning(s) (0 minute(s), 0 second(s))

-------------- Run: Debug in aaaa (compiler: GNU GCC Compiler)---------------

Checking for existence: /Users/macbookproretina13inch/Documents/Programming/aaaa/bin/Debug/aaaa
Executing: osascript -e 'tell app "Terminal"' -e 'activate' -e 'do script "/Applications/CodeBlocks.app/Contents/MacOS/cb_console_runner DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH=$DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH:. /Users/macbookproretina13inch/Documents/Programming/aaaa/bin/Debug/aaaa "' -e 'end tell'  (in /Users/macbookproretina13inch/Documents/Programming/aaaa/.)
Process terminated with status 0 (0 minute(s), 3 second(s))

A: Download Xcode from the App Store, and run this in the terminal to install Xcode's command-line tools:

$ xcode-select --install

This will install the essential compilers and tools,and should fix the problem.

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The Federal Government has closed its case against Walter Onnoghen, before the Code of Conduct Tribunal (CCT).
Although, the prosecution led by Mr. Aliyu Umar (SAN) had proposed to call six witnesses to prove its case against the defendant, it closed its case after calling three of them.
Umar announced his decision to close the prosecution's case after the third witness, Ifeoma Okeagbue, an official of Standard Chartered Bank, concluded her testimony on Thursday.
The prosecuting counsel said he had chosen to offer to the defence team the rest of his proposed witnesses, three of them, who were not called by the prosecution.
"I have called three witnesses. If the defence needs them I can call the other three," the lawyer said.
However the defence counsel, Adeboyega Awomolo, rejected the offer. Awomolo also told the tribunal that the defence intends to file a no-case submission but they would need time to write an address.
"I don't want them, I don't want them. We intend to take advantage of section 303 of the Administration of Criminal Justice Act (ACJA) 2015 on no-case submission," he said.
Mr Awomolo was ordereded to serve his address on the prosecution next week Wednesday, as Premium Times reported that Mr Umar fixed March 29 as the day counsels will adopt their addresses.


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Board Recognizes February 2014 Employees of the Month
Sacramento County Office of Education / Administration / Communications Office / Employee Recognition / Board Recognizes February 2014 Employees of the Month
The Sacramento County Office of Education (SCOE) is one of 58 county offices located throughout the state. Approximately 650 regular and more than 950 temporary and substitute SCOE staff work year-round providing services which complement and supplement those offered by public school districts in Sacramento County. Over 230,000 K-12 students are served by public schools in Sacramento County.
Classified Employee of the Month
Tami Kaye, Financial Analyst, was nominated by Financial Services Director Becky Taylor for her contributions to the Sacramento County Office of Education. Ms. Kaye provides financial support to K-12 English Language Arts/ Reading Language Arts/Mathematics, Common Core Standards, Leadership Program, Capital Region System of District and School Support. After School Programs, Title III & EL Professional Development, and Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math. Becky Taylor says, "From the time Tami began working in my area in her new position, she has impressed me with her willingness and determination to fully understand each of the programs that she supports. She is very customer-service oriented and always goes 'above and beyond' to provide nothing but the best to the departments she supports. She is hard-working, dependable, and always professional. I am very grateful to have her as part of our team!" Financial Services Coordinator Sharmila LaPorte, Ms. Kaye's former supervisor, relates: "In Tami's role as Accounting Technician/Internal Auditor, she displayed the skill and confidence necessary to work with different personality types and was able to adapt to unexpected situations with professionalism and poise. In that position, Ms. Kaye worked monitored activities of several high-risk areas such as Independent Study, Cash Collection, Student Body Funds and Federal/State reporting. What I appreciated most about Tami is her willingness to support the other Financial Services departments when necessary, share her ideas with me, and to follow through on all tasks to their successful completion." Both supervisors concur that Ms. Kaye is deserving of the Employee of the Month honor. Ms. Kaye has been a Sacramento County Office of Education employee since September 2008.
Certificated Employee of the Month
Lydia Maerdian, ED Teacher, was nominated by Principals Lauren Roth and Beth Vieira for her contributions to the Special Education Department of the Sacramento County Office of Education. Ms. Maerdian currently serves as an ED Teacher at Galt High School. In this capacity, she prepares students to become productive, responsible citizens by building upon a solid foundation of academics in a safe, nurturing, and respectful environment. As an instructor in this school environment, she helps students learn how to communicate effectively, analyze and solve problems, get along with others, and make responsible decisions. She also serves as a Teacher-In-Charge at the Galt High School site. Ms. Maerdian recently served as a teacher in a special education class for students with emotional disturbance at Leo A. Palmiter Jr./Sr. High School. In addition to her classroom assignment there, she also served as a Teacher-in-Charge. While at Palmiter, Ms. Maerdian coordinated all state-mandated assessments for students at that campus and worked with students as an Academic Bowl coach. Her supervisors at both school sites say that Ms. Maerdian's strength in interpreting and presenting curriculum makes subject matter interesting for her those in her class and that she has an excellent rapport with students. She also has participated as a member of the Curriculum Adoption and Course of Study Committees, as well as the School Site Council at Palmiter. Ms. Maerdian has been a Sacramento County Office of Education employee since September 2004.
February 2014 Classified Employee of the Month Tami Kaye (right) receives a certificate of recognition from Board Trustee Thomaysa Glover, Becky Taylor, and Sharmila LaPorte.
February 2014 Certificated Employee of the Month Lydia Maerdian (center) receives a certificate of recognition from Board Trustee John Scribner and Principals Beth Vieira and Lauren Roth.


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Live Review: The National w/ Frightened Rabbit @ Paramount Theatre 9/19/13
Gerrit Feenstra
photo by Brittany Brassell (view set)
"We've always wanted to play here", Bryce Dessner said, looking up at the Paramount's marvelous ceilings, "and every time, there's been a musical, or another show. We're glad we finally get to play here". It is quite surprising that this Thursday night was indeed the first time The National appeared at the Paramount. Last time around, on their tour in support of their universally acclaimed 2010 LP High Violet, they played a very sold out gig at the Neptune Theater. This year, with the release of Trouble Will Find Me the National return to Seattle with opportunity to put their full colors on display – back to back nights at one of the city's most beautiful venues. And Thursday night, in front of a packed house, the National put on a spectacle of a show. Emotionally consuming and aurally encompassing, their definitive indie rock sound – the same one that has helped lead the genre for more than a decade – brought the house down and left not a soul unaffected. Together with an excellent set from Scottish indie rock group Frightened Rabbit, the first half of the National's short Seattle residency went off with a bang.
Opening the night with a headline-worthy set of their own, Frightened Rabbit stretched out our heartstrings a bit before the National strung us up by them. It's only been a couple months since we've seen the Hutchinsons and their mates in our fair city. They played one of the best gigs they've played all year (in their own words) at Capital Hill Block Party. There, the caveman drums and Scott Hutchinson's emotional fireworks display brought hordes of people towards the main stage for a killer set. Here, things weren't terribly different. From top to bottom, and with or without familiarity with the band, the Paramount received Frightened Rabbit with open arms. With plenty of material from their 2013 release Pedestrian Verse as well as old, their jam packed 45 minute set felt perfectly put together. Ending with the brutal majesty of "Acts of Man", Frightened Rabbit exited to thunderous applause and delightful anticipation.
Frightened Rabbit:
Abstract anticipation became a present reality Thursday when a massive screen set at the back of the Paramount stage lit up, showing a real time camera feed of the band back stage. There, as the Dessners talked with local fan Ben Gibbard and Matt paced to and fro past the Devendorf brothers, the crowd lit up with excitement. Finally, talking ceased and the camera followed the band down the Paramount's endless winding stairs to the curtain, where the camera went black. Then, quietly with a wave, The National entered the Paramount stage and prepped for their set. A two-piece horn section took stage right in the back, while Bryan and Scott huddled mid-ground stage right and Aaron and Bryce both took one side of the foreground. In a lot of ways, the National is like a piece of architecture, with each layer working in perfect sync with all of its members. The Devendorfs provide the National's unshakable foundation, while the Dessners hold up the roof with layers of guitar fill. Then Matt is the icing on the cake with a cherry on top that screams out "My mind's not right!" and throws the microphone stand around then pours himself another sip of white wine. Together, the National build one of the sturdiest structures in indie rock, and as the band began with "I Should Live In Salt", it's evident from the very first note they play.
The National are a really classic group in a lot of ways. Not because they are dated or because they are losing their edge by any means, but because they move together and work together like a true rock and roll band. Scott and Bryan groove together like there's no tomorrow, each one playing off of the bricks laid down one by one in a row by the other. Bryce and Aaron maintain a geographical independence, each bringing a layer of guitar to the equation in different ways, but in a series of glances and nods and breathing and moving together, they work like two peas in a pod, creating the intense layer of sound and beauty that makes up the body of the National's sound. Then with the added horn parts, you've got a wall of sound. Sure, they played their parts off the record for tracks like "Fake Empire", "Runaway", "England", "Slipped", but with a complimentary arrangement written to nearly every track, the horns added a ton of body to the National's presence on stage, and if the tunes at hand weren't overpowering enough as is, these renditions brought you to your knees.
"Stand up straight at the foot of your love", Matt Berninger begins the band's High Violet international hit "Bloodbuzz Ohio". His basso profundo makes him sound like has a permanent cold - the fact that he actually has one tonight doesn't falter a single note. A quiet vibrato and an unwavering conviction to every single word, Berninger is a force to be reckoned with onstage. Between songs, he banters politely like any other moderately shy frontman. But when the music begins, he transcends into his own world where every emotion is expressed and elevated to unfathomable levels. The result is an explosive and perilous mixture. On the band's well-loved 2007 LP Boxer, "Squalor Victoria" ends with a unsettling whimper. But when Berninger utters "this isn't working" onstage, it's with a bang. Screaming "Squalor Victoria" into the microphone before throwing the microphone stand into the photo pit (thankfully, photographer-less at this point) and sending the microphone through the air at gratuitous speed, the song became an entirely different beast, and if you didn't find your breath tighten a bit at that last note, you weren't there. Then, without a word, he returned to the simple wine glass on the ground, took a moment to compose himself, and turned back to the crowd. This process is song to song for Matt. No song is sung without a new thought towards it - you can see the souring introspection on his face. It's honestly one of the most convicting live performances this observer had ever seen. When the crowd went home later that night, I'm sure they returned to the band's records with a new perspective from which to approach it.
But the intensity of the set was perfectly balanced by scattered moments of lightness and beautiful melancholy. The playful lover's proclamation of "Slow Show", the brutal confrontation of Cherry Tree cut "About Today", and the incomparable vulnerability of "I Need My Girl" - they all show a unique side of the National, both lyrically and musically. The catalogue that this band has amassed is diverse and powerful, and taking in all of their best in one evening is a heavy burden to take on. Some cuts, the band's conviction completely overtook the crowd - Trouble Will Find Me's heart-breaking "Pink Rabbits" and High Violet's valiant "Sorrow" in particular. But every time they broke you down, they just picked you back up again. The massive passion and thoughtful, weather-worn expression of joy found in this band are without peer. The National are in a league of their own.
For their encore, the National surprised near everyone in the audience with a cover of "Learning" by Seattle's own Perfume Genius. The quiet, piano driven track became a passionate wonder in their hands and did the track more than a bit of justice. After that, it was time close out the night with a back to back slice of brilliance. As the band started in on Alligator all-time classic "Mr. November", Matt jumped into the crowd and left out the stage right exit wandering around the crowds singing the song completely out of view of most people in the venue. On stage, the rest of the National turned inward, playing this long time fan favorite to each other with grace and ease. As Matt made his way back, Bryce Dessner started in on an intro that pretty much every the National fan recognizes within half a second. Even on your 500th listen, "Terrible Love" remains a brilliantly impactful explosion of love and fear. For this one, Matt hopped the barrier into the crowd and sang the explosive cut directly into the face of anyone who could match his intensity. Finally, as he reached that infamous line "It takes an ocean not to break", he fell to his knees in the middle of a horde of fans and sang the bit with his face to the ground. A powerful moment if there ever was one, the National cut the power and waited as Matt found his way back up on stage. Then armed with an unplugged acoustic guitar, sleigh bells, and their own voices off microphone, the National led a singalong of "Vanderlyle Crybaby Geeks" to end the evening.
The National are known for their live show and there is no question as to why. With hearts on their sleeves and a brutal realization of their own humanity, the National remain a stalwart of the indie rock scene, and they will be as long as they desire to be. If you haven't already, grab Trouble Will Find Me, out on 4AD Records now. Catch more pictures below.
The National:
Scott Hutchison of Frightened Rabbit Reported Missing
Family, friends, and fans are wishing the Scottish singer-songwriter a safe return.
Live Review: Queens of the Stone Age @ Time Warner Cable Uptown Amphitheater, Charlotte, NC, 9/19/13
Most regular gig-goers will agree that the best place to see a band play is in a club. Rock clubs present an intimate setting, and since the audience and the band are essentially right on top of each other, each side can feed off the other's energy. When Queens of the Stone Age took the stage on ...
MFNW Live Reviews
Live at MFNW 2013, Day 3: Sonny & The Sunsets
In what might be a MusicFestNW broadcast first, our session with Sonny & The Sunsets inspired both a mini-mosh pit AND a toddler dance party at the Doug Fir Lounge today.