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Current: Sydney's homeless memorial service: a city remembers its lost
Sydney's homeless memorial service: a city remembers its lost
4 August 2016 Wesley Mission news
The blustery cold wind and the menacing clouds could not deter a significant number of people gathering to remember the loved ones and friends who had lost their lives while homeless in Sydney.
As a chill wind blew through the gritty streets of the inner-city, voices joined together to pray for those who society too easily forgets. Hymns strengthened hearts and stories were shared about lives cut short.
The annual homeless memorial service at Shannon's Reserve drew together around 100 people from all walks of life – the homeless and those who care for them, service providers and school kids, politicians and parents. It is one of three services held at locations in inner-Sydney during Homelessness Week 2016.
Norm, who found shelter at Wesley Edward Eagar Lodge, has been living on the streets since he was 14. His mum was alcoholic and home life was chaotic. He had come to the memorial service to remember his friends and cherish their memories.
"I've lost two or three mates on the streets; it's a common occurrence," Norm said. "It's life as we know it. I'm pretty much on my own now. I've never had my own place.
"I also came (to the service) to respect those who are living on the streets. Just in the past year I have noticed there's a lot more people on the streets than there was. There's a lack of housing and what there is, it's not affordable."
The numbers of those sleeping rough in Sydney is at an all -time high and emergency accommodation centres and affordable housing stocks are full.
Around one in four of the city's homeless are under 18 and 15 per cent are aged between 19 and 24.
According to Wesley Mission's CEO the Rev Keith Garner, homeless people should never be forgotten within the life of a city. Under God's grace everyone counts and every life matters.
"We acknowledge the importance of grace: grace is unmerited, unearned. It is the love of God poured out for people," Mr Garner told those at the service.
"We realise we live in very hurt and fractured community, suicide among young and homeless people is something we cannot pass by. There is a growing sense of indignity about forgetting people.
"As we remember those who have gone before us, they have not been forgotten by us. We are going to keep reminding our community that everybody matters, especially those who have little, particularly those who have little of this world's opportunities.
"We remember today many who have died far too young, many who have died because they find it very difficult to find accommodation. We remember them because they matter.
"Everybody counts, everybody matters - there is no hierarchy of importance. There is no significance for some and insignificance for others. We may sometimes do that through our attitudes but in the bigger picture – and it is always the bigger picture – quite clearly God has no hierarchy of importance. And he rebukes us with all our misplaced priorities.
"Within a spit of here we have people who today are cutting deals for millions of dollars. But let me tell you that we could be doing nothing more important here.
"Nothing is more important in a city's life than to remember those who have little and those who are without."
Federal Member for Sydney and Deputy Opposition Leader, Tanya Plibersek, said the service was important to all people in the community.
"Anybody who has lived in the inner-city has known people who are homeless and then next week you just don't see them anymore," she said. "Everyone has a family, everybody's got a past, everybody's got a future and we should acknowledge that.
"We see people in their thirties who are sleeping rough and the toll it takes on them.
"We need to continue to invest in accommodation so that we have affordable rental accommodation, making sure that people have the social supports they need, and to ensure they can work if they possibly can because the attachment you get to community through work is really important.
"If they can't work it is important that they have meaning in their lives – friendships, social contact with people. Loneliness is a killer. We can address loneliness by reaching out with the hand of friendship."
The Homelessness Week memorial service is organised each year by Wesley Mission and other homeless service providers and inner-city churches.
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Worse than Hitler AND Stalin.
What about Louis Walsh, Kanye and the Kardashians?
Blame Phil Hogan and his mates in the SIMI. The emissions part was the Green Party. It amazes me how people constantly get facts wrong in relation to the greens time in office just so they can spout misplaced venom.
Oh no! Your motor tax was raised?! That is definitely the worst thing that can happen to a citizen of this country. You hold on to that little ball of anger, my friend. Squeeze it tight. Because never has anyone ever been more justified.
Aye, good luck – they didn't deserve the kicking they got in 2011.
Whoever voted these clowns into government need to have their heads checked. The Green parties solution to everything is new taxes and levies. They are green only in name.
Yes, discouraging environmentally damaging habits through heavier taxes of those areas*. What a mad and un-green concept? It's the same logic that inflates the price of cigarettes. People don't appear to have the willpower or foresight to prevent long term damage so taxes are allocated to damaging areas to attempt to be a deterrent and not a ban. I am very open to improved solutions but cannot think of one or have not heard of one yet.
*Those areas should always be up for discussion. I would understand someone criticising an area that's taxed (beyond 'it inconveniences me, screw the next generation') rather than the whole concept.


Even on a stage filled with exceptional women, Elizabeth Holmes knew how to stand out in a crowd. It was a chilly autumn evening in November 2015 in New York, and a who's who of female power players had filled the glittering Carnegie Hall for the Glamour Women of the Year Awards. In turn, Amy Schumer, Caitlyn Jenner and Reese Witherspoon took to the stage to accept gongs and to offer impassioned and stirring speeches.
The Mayor of New York had decided to light the Empire State Building pink in honour of the occasion. While her compatriots dazzled in red carpet gowns, Holmes wore a simple black business suit, the outfit she wore every day to work at Theranos, the revolutionary medical testing company she had founded.
Her only nod to the dress code of the evening was to swap her usual black turtleneck for a hint of décolletage. But while the then 31-year-old might have lagged behind the rest of the Women of the Year pack in terms of style or household-name fame, she was clearly the night's inspirational frontrunner.
Taking to the stage to collect the award for entrepreneurship, she implored the crowd in her famously deep voice: "It's our actions that will determine what our little girls will look at when they decide what they want to be when they grow up." Coming from Holmes, this message seemed more than a simple feel good, motivational cliché.
In only 12 years she had metamorphosed from a university dropout to the youngest self-made female billionaire in the world. Barely into her 30s, her company promised to revolutionise healthcare on a global scale and save countless lives. Fortune magazine had recently valued Holmes's net worth at $US4.5 billion. Time magazine had named her one of the most influential people in the world in 2015. Bill Clinton chose to share the stage with her for the closing session of the Clinton Global Initiative annual meeting. It was even rumoured that Jennifer Lawrence was slated to play Holmes in a biopic based on her life.
(left to right) Amy Schumer, Katie Couric, Elizabeth Holmes and Jill Soloway attend TIME 100 Gala, TIME's 100 Most Influential People In The World on 2015 in New York City.
Everyone everywhere, it seemed, was falling head-over-heels for Elizabeth Holmes. On that autumn night, she was at the apex of a charmed year, accepting an award for both changing the world and inspiring a new generation of young women to do the same. It's impossible to watch videos of Holmes accepting her award now, one year later, and not wonder: did she know?
Did she know that her Cinderella story was closing in on its stroke of midnight? Did she know that her house-of-cards company was about to collapse, that within months her net worth would be recalculated to zero and that the FBI would be investigating her and Theranos for fraud?
Silicon Valley is famous for being a place where entrepreneurs' dreams come true. Located just south of San Francisco, the unassuming area has evolved into a hothouse environment where high-tech start-up companies come to make their fortunes. It's also where venture capitalists throw around huge amounts of money to get in on the ground floor of The Next Big Thing.
Facebook, Google and Apple are all scions of the region's hectic, success-driven, male-dominated culture. It's also home to Stanford University, the college Holmes attended before quitting to pursue her entrepreneurial dream in 2003. The Holmes fable goes that, spurred on by a lifelong fear of needles, she came up with the idea to create a test that could detect myriad diseases with the blood from a simple finger prick. Within months of quitting Stanford she had persuaded a slew of powerful people in the Valley that she was on to The Next Big Thing, raising $US6 million to launch Theranos and hiring the dean of Stanford's engineering school to join the fledgling company.
Simply put, Theranos would test your blood for hundreds of illnesses, much like your doctor. However, rather than sticking a needle into your vein and taking out an entire vial, Theranos would prick your finger and take just a drop or two of blood. What's more, Theranos would cut the doctor out of the equation. If you wanted to know, for example, if you were HIV positive, or what your cholesterol levels were, you'd simply send your blood to Theranos and they'd report the results back to a mobile app. It would be easy, fast, less painful and much less expensive, as Theranos charged a mere fraction of what a traditional medical lab would charge. As Holmes herself was fond of saying, her product allowed you to be directly in control of your healthcare information.
"The implications are mind-blowing," enthused Wired magazine in February 2014. Standing on stage at TEDMED that September, Holmes declared: "We see a world in which no-one ever has to say, 'If only I'd known sooner.' A world in which no-one ever has to say goodbye too soon." Throughout Holmes's 20s, the company, still without a product to sell, expanded rapidly, collecting venture capital by the tens of millions and employees by the hundreds.
Theranos spent close to a decade working in secret on making its lofty ambitions a reality. Ian Gibbons, a British biochemist, was hired in 2005 by Holmes. During his time with the company, he and Theranos scientists filed 23 patents and developed technology they dubbed Edison, a device they claimed could accurately perform tests using just a drop of blood. Outside of the lab, Holmes also assembled a stellar company board that included two former US Secretaries of State (including Henry Kissinger) and a former US Secretary of Defense.
Holmes was an unusual character, and not simply because she was a woman succeeding in Silicon Valley. It seemed at times she had designed her persona to fit a Silicon Valley venture capital pitch. In a sort of stylistic homage to her hero, Steve Jobs, the late CEO of Apple, Holmes adopted a uniform of black turtlenecks. Her Jobsian traits didn't end there. She was also a vegan, drank green juices at specific times every day, and of course, her company was her life.
Elizabeth Holmes is the founder and CEO of healthcare company #Theranos, who dropped out of Stanford at the age of 19 to start her company. Today she won the @forbes #Under30Summit Doers Award. You go girl!
Around 2013, word came from the Theranos corporate bunker that the product was ready. By the end of the year, the company had opened more than 40 "wellness centres" around the country, most housed in Wallgreens pharmacies. Contracts to create Theranos Wellness Centres were also signed with the Safeway supermarket chain and other retailers. Holmes was fast becoming a business superstar. Fortune magazine, followed by Forbes, put her on its cover while Vanity Fair invited her to their New Establishment Summit.
Business heavyweights including Oracle founder Larry Ellison invested money. It seemed like there was no shortage of the great and good who truly seemed to have bought into the dream of Theranos. However, away from the cameras and conference stages, there were signs of trouble. For one thing, while there were plenty of venture capital investors in Theranos, no-one who actually specialised in investing in healthcare technology had chosen to do so, and for good reason. Holmes would not allow anyone, including investors, to see the technology or the scientific results from the Edison machines.
#Theranos is also under a criminal investigation by the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Northern District of California and faces a couple of mounting lawsuits. #Walgreens has terminated its three-year partnership with blood analysis startup Theranos, citing the myriad bad test results and an on-going federal investigation as the reason for ending the relationship "effective immediately." Forbes recently downgraded Theranos' worth from $9 billion to about $800 million, in light of all the issues. The loss of its major revenue partner may further drop the value of the company. What do you think about this startup?
She refused to publish any data in peer-reviewed publications, which is unheard of in the world of medical testing. Instead, she insisted that everyone – investors, regulators, healthcare providers, and the public – simply take her word that the technology worked. Another red flag for those looking at Theranos closely was Holmes herself. Although she spoke frequently of transparency in public, her insistence that no-one inside or outside the company see the whole picture was troubling.
Ex-employees marie claire spoke to described a totalitarian-like lockdown on all information. If you worked in one department, you were not allowed to know what was happening in another – even if it directly affected your job. "I've worked in a lot of tech companies," said one ex-employee who asked not to be named. "I've never been at one where no-one seemed to have any idea how their tech worked.
There were also rumours that Holmes was romantically involved with Theranos COO Ramesh "Sunny" Balwani, the one person officially charged with overseeing her actions.
Despite issues at the company, by the time Theranos started rolling out its Wellness Centres, it had raised nearly $US700 million in investment capital, which valued the whole operation at $US9 billion. For Holmes, life as a billionaire CEO meant having a security detail and flying by herself on a Gulfstream jet. For many employees, things finally reached a head when, in 2013, Theranos's lead scientist, Ian Gibbons, died by suicide. Gibbons was the man tasked with making sure that Edison was successful. The day prior to his death, he complained to his wife, Rochelle, that "nothing is working" despite the fact the product was about to go live, it has been reported. "Ian felt like he would lose his job if he told the truth," Rochelle told Vanity Fair.
"Ian was a real obstacle for Elizabeth. He started to be very vocal. They kept him around to keep him quiet." Immediately after he took his own life, the company contacted Rochelle and demanded she surrender all computers and work data from Gibbons' home, it has been reported. No condolences were offered.
In early 2014, an anonymous company employee alleged to authorities in New York that Theranos "might have manipulated the proficiency-testing process" of Edison. (A lawyer for Theranos refuted this.) Another ex-employee claimed that some of the potassium results Theranos reported were so elevated that the patients would "have to be dead for the results to be correct". By the end of that year, less than 10 per cent of the tests Theranos carried out were being done on Edison, a former senior employee alleged.
In January 2015, The Wall Street Journal reporter John Carreyrou, intrigued by Holmes's oblique explanations of how the technology at Theranos actually worked, started looking into Holmes's empire. In October 2015, a month before the Women of the Year Awards, Carreyrou published a story which suggested that Theranos's much vaunted technology was faulty, that most of the testing it did was done using its competitors' technology, and that Edison's results were inaccurate.
The media and the authorities immediately took notice. Six months later, it was announced that Theranos was being investigated by the US Securities and Exchange Commission and the US Attorney's office. The following month, Theranos told federal authorities they had voided two years' worth of blood test results that had been conducted using the Edison.
Days later, it was revealed that the embattled company was facing two class-action lawsuits over the effectiveness of their blood testing. In June, Forbes revised its estimation of Holmes's fortune to zero dollars. The bad news kept coming with the national Medicare & Medicaid Services declaring that Theranos's "blatant disregard for patient safety" put consumers of its product in "immediate jeopardy". Walgreens and other corporate partners fled from Theranos as quickly as possible.
Shortly after, the government forbade Holmes from working in medical testing in any capacity for two years. For a company with seemingly no existing working technology entirely dependent upon investment capital, all of this is as close to a death sentence as you're likely to see in Silicon Valley.
Theranos, as it happened, perfectly met each of the investors' qualifications, save the one so assumed to be a non-issue that it wasn't even mentioned by DeFresne: Does the product actually work? Theranos, it seems in hindsight, was a company designed specifically to win venture capital rather than one designed to save lives.
In the weeks and months since her fall from grace, Holmes has seemingly proceeded unbowed. In an open letter recently posted on the Theranos website, she announced the company will exit the lab-testing business, lay off 340 employees and focus on developing a miniLab platform led by a new executive team – with herself at the helm.
But the biggest unanswered question remains Holmes herself. Was she a con artist from the beginning? A foolish dreamer with noble intent, who started with one lie that snowballed, until she herself was unable to stop what she surely knew was coming? Or, despite all evidence to the contrary, was she on to something all along, that – given just a little more time and money – really will change the world?


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Ooooh! There's a Watchmen movie and least the teaser GIF on the site bears a strong resemblance to the comics of the same name.
Between this and the fact that people are actually liking the Constantine movie (surely a sign of the apocalypse), perhaps things are looking up for comics movies. After Elektra (sob) I suppose they can't get much worse.
I'd love to see the story put on film. It's one of the greatest novels of the twentieth century. But a three hour movie is not even enough time to tell even a skeleton of the story. It should be a television miniseries. 12 hours.
And, for Christ's sake, look at the GIF! The button should be tited so that the blood stain is pointed to represent 11:55. If they can't even get the simple stuff right, I'm scared about the deep stuff.
I can't even imagine what's going to happen when the 9/11 victim's families get wind of this. They protested that Peter Jackson used "hate speech" by calling one of his movies "The Two Towers". Now imagine a movie where two million innocent New Yorkers are killed and the audience leaves feeling like maybe it wasn't SUCH a terrible thing.
And it doesn't matter if it's a good movie or not. That's not John Constantine. I'm pleased to think that Garth Ennis probably got a huge check to have his character's name used for the title of a movie about a dour brunette Los Angeles cop, but I guess that's their decision to make.


These last few days have been uncharacteristically warm… and wet. So much of the midwest has shifted from frozen to heavy rain, and people are worried about flooding again. I hope it's not as bad as last year for so many folks. The pond is so full it's pouring out the spillway- something it usually does only in late spring. The warmer, heavy rain coming into the pond from the watershed brought muddy discoloration from the runoff. It mixed slowly throughout the day, and there was a sharp angle to the two types of mixing water. Could that be because of different temperatures? The pond had just barely thawed from being frozen the day before. It looked interesting, whatever the reason- and I don't think I've seen it quite like that before. It only lasted for the day and is gone now.
After last night it looks like the rain has finally stopped and we should have a few nice days of sunny weather to dry out. And the good news with all the rain is that the roof doesn't leak with the new wood stove chimney. Yipee! The bad news is that we had so much rain that it leaked around the outside of the barn and into the front entrance getting the floor wet. Boo! Glad I raised the woodstove on bricks. I think I'll need to grade the soil lower around the barn when it gets a little warmer to help keep the water from coming in off the hillsides.
It was so warm on Friday that I saw a few bees milling about outside the hives- although it was windy and they were getting blown about quite a bit. While carrying wood to the house, I found one clinging to a small piece of wood. We carried it back to one of the hives. Maybe they'll have a chance to stretch their wings a bit more this week.
Christmas was very nice, and gave us a chance to visit with family. One of the family members is just 3 years old, and is the center of attention. Our young one is about five years older, and gave the little one a prized "stick horse" riding pony, complete with "neighing" sounds when you press its ear. The smile on the 3-year olds face was priceless… he "rode" it around the room, and when they left, kept it hugged tightly to his chest on the way out. It's nice to see joy on the face of a child.
I've always said that gift giving is a much for the giver as the receiver. It's wonderful that your son got the experience of making someone else so obviously happy. That's a kind of subconscious boost to his self esteem that will buoy him throughout his life.
I think we are going to celebrate the sunny warm weather by going south to sunnier and warmer versions of it. We are planning on spending a couple days in Pablo's neck of the woods in search of the best BBQ among other things.
I bet you were proud to see your child make such a generous gift of his treasured horse. Such behaviour is a gift to you and his mom as well.
Pablo- Great point about the lifetime perspective, and I so agree with your view of gift giving.
Ed- That's a great idea… I'm trying to think of where to go tomorrow, it's going to be so beautiful (and warm!).


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I am a little bit … pissed. It's my own fault, but still. Getting ripped off makes me makes mad.
I like horse racing. I feel a little guilty about it since I know so many Thoroughbreds are discarded afterwards, and it would be so much better for the horses if they were started racing at an older age. Even so, I love to watch those horses run.
Betting is also fun, but I am not in it for the money. I like to check out the trainer names, jockeys, and even the horses' names before I place my wager. Making a bet on a horse just because he has an interesting name is probably not the best way to make a few bucks, but Thoroughbred racing appeals to my emotional side.
And then California Chrome showed up on my radar. He's from Kern County, and he started work just a few miles north of Bakersfield. His co-owner was also originally from Bakersfield. And he was cheap, my kind of horse. His dam was purchased for $8,000 and the stud fee was $2,000. Who doesn't love an underdog from your own backyard?
I wanted to place a bet on him. Since I don't know any bookies personally, I had to do an online bet. I'll admit that I didn't do much research. I figured it just worked like making a purchase from Amazon. You give 'em a credit card number, place your bet, and if you win, you get a credit on your card. If you lose, well, have a nice day.
I was going to use Churchhill Downs's betting site, but they wanted things like my social security number, and I just didn't feel comfortable with that option so I went with another betting service. They've been so slippery that I don't even want to share the website's name. Now, I know that I probably clicked an agreement to terms button, but to be honest, the site was quick to accept my deposit without presenting their terms a bit more obviously. Buyer beware, right?
I did make the bet, $75 in total. $25 was mine and $50 was from my husband. I liked the horse, but not that much. And as luck would have it, he won. I wasn't able to watch the race as I was at another Christian Schacht clinic, but I checked on my winnings as soon as I got home.
Eager to collect, I hit the cashier button and started the process of collecting. Here was the first problem - payout fees.
Not only does it cost between $25 - $100 to collect your winnings, but you have to have at least $100 in winnings to even begin to collect. I freaked out. To collect by Western Union or Money Gram, the forms I can use, it was going to cost either $44 or $49 to collect my $250. That's a huge percentage. I told my husband he should probably step out of the room as I was getting on the phone.
I wasn't a total freak on the phone, but I let the "bookie" know what I thought of their business practices. After informing him that I would not be placing any further bets with this site, he let me know that on Fridays, bettors could request a payout while saving up to $50 of the fees. Oh.
However, before I could request a payout, I had to send in a copy of my driver's license which shows my current address as well as photos of the both the front and back of my credit card. WHAT???????
So … they could take my deposit without any verification, and they would have been delighted had I lost, but since I won, they now needed to verify my identity and mailing address. Are you freaking kidding me???????
So far, I have emailed them a photo of my current driver's license and photos of the front and back of my credit card. I now need to print and complete the credit authorization form which gives them permission to charge my credit card. Oh, wait. They've already done that. They won't let me collect my winnings via credit card of course. No, I have to go down to a Western Union or Money Gram office to do that.
I sense an identity theft in my very near future.
Omigosh Karen! What a nightmare! They are making it almost cheaper to lose than to win!


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Bank of Montreal (BMO) has announced a target for net zero emissions in its lending portfolio by 2050.
It has also set a new target to reduce operational greenhouse gas emissions by 30% by 2030, compared to a 2019 baseline, using science-based approaches.
It builds on BMO's carbon neutral operations since 2020 and matching 100% of global electricity use with renewable energy purchases.
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BMO Global Asset Management has joined the Net Zero Asset Managers Alliance and as a member of Climate Action 100+ aligned its investee engagement programme with the ambitions of the Paris climate agreement.
Michael Torrance, BMO's Chief Sustainability Officer said: "Net zero is an ambition that must include every part of the economy and society. BMO recognises that, as a financial institution, we play a critical role to catalyse climate action, finance a just transition to a lower carbon economy and to work with our clients to understand the risks and opportunities of this critical transformation. There is a lot of work ahead of us to achieve this goal, it will require deep insights and innovative solutions.
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What should 21st century Bulgaria make of its common historical heritage with Russia, as underscored by Russian Patriarch Kirill in Sofia?
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How do you think Bulgaria's government reshuffle (appointing new ministers of Economy and Health) will affect the performance of the Borisov Cabinet?
What does Vladimir Putin's election anew as President mean for Russia?
How much of a chance does Bulgaria have to become a major European car manufacturer with the opening of Litex Motors and Great Wall factory in Lovech?
Based on the Interim Monitoring Report of the European Commission, what is the best description of Bulgaria's justice and home affairs reform?
How do you assess Georgi Parvanov's two terms as President of Bulgaria (2002-2012)?
What is 2012 going to be like for Bulgaria?


Process-centricity makes sense when process alone drives maturity, and all other elements follow. However, in the IT industry, the technology is constantly evolving, and discontinuity is the norm. Technological changes can require resetting maturity in other areas; for example, operationalizing virtualization requires process changes. Hence, technology is also affecting maturity. An IT maturity model must include technology.
Most businesses have a limited, explicit understanding of end-to-end business processes, and if any understanding exists, it is often tucked away within disparate groups across the organization. It's rare to find an organization that has linked its scattered process competencies together into a comprehensive strategy.
I got a cold sore on my lip and nose and picture day is in two days. Fml.


Have added a link for the NMRRC Banquet info with downloadable form for mailing or an option to purchase with pay pal.
There is now a member secure Login page that requires signup . Once you have created your account and verified your email you will have access to ALL member only pages.
If you have not included a valid NMRRC number you will be DENIED ACCESS in the future.
Classifieds link is back on the page.
Added 2 more downloads for club secretaries to use for reporting shows placings for the sweepstakes Chairs open and youth.
The new on line store is now up. Please let us know if you experience any problems with it. Very important that you TYPE your logo choice in the box provided below the items that have a choice of logo. Ex BEW logo Type BEW etc.
There has been a $1.00 convenience fee added to the price and upon checkout will be a nominal shipping fee. Important to fill out the form prior to submitting your order so the storekeeper is alerted that an order was place and follow up on it's status.
The following was posted this a.m. I moved it from the comments to the announcements so all could see his message.
need some educating to be to be done.


The governing boards of the San Diego Community College District and the San Diego Unified School District invite the public to attend an April 19 joint meeting that will focus on promoting student success from pre-kindergarten through college. The meeting is set to begin at 5 p.m. at Mira Mesa High School, 10510 Reagan Road, San Diego.
The SDCCD and San Diego Unified educate more than 230,000 students combined. The SDCCD is the second-largest community college district in the state and San Diego Unified is the second-largest K-12 system in California.
The meeting's purpose includes better coordination of curriculum between the two districts. Specific topics will include expansion of successful early/middle college high school programs, and dual enrollment, and aligning mathematics and English courses to boost college readiness.
Also to be discussed is the San Diego Promise, a pilot program for the 2016-17 academic year which will implement a local version of the America's College Promise free community college initiative. The pilot program will provide 200 City, Mesa, and Miramar College students with financial assistance including payment of the enrollment fee, as well as a textbook/instructional materials grant of $1,000. The San Diego Promise is expected to include 175 graduating seniors from San Diego Unified feeder schools and 25 students coming from Continuing Education.
San Diego Unified Superintendent Cindy Marten agreed.
The April 19 meeting will mark the fifth joint session since 2011.


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LIVING LEGEND PHOTO EDITOR JOHN G. MORRIS IS BESTOWED THE 2010 ICP LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD
© Jose Manuel Serrano Esparza
Legendary picture editor John G. Morris has received today May 10, 2010 the ICP Lifetime Achievement Award, one of the most important photographic prizes in the world, during the ICP´s 26th Annual Infinity Awards Gala held at Pier Sixty Event Space located on the back end of Chelsea Piers, with water views to the Hudson River in Manhattan, New York, with an attendance of more than 600 guests and Willis Hartshorn, director of the International Center of Photography, hosting the event.
Also present at the ceremony were Harper´s Bazaar editor in chief Glenda Bailey, photo editors Chris Dougherty, Aidan Sullivan and Michele McNally, fashion designer Kalvin Klein, Dennis Wolff (Aperture Book Editor), gallerist L. Parker Stephenson, Peter Galassi ( Curator of New York Museum of Modern Art), Infinity Award co-chair Jed Root, Thelma Golden (Curator of the Harlem Studio Museum), photographers Nigel Parry, Mark Seliger, Craig McDean and Mary Allan Mark, Christiane Amanpour (ABC´s show host), book publisher Darius Himes, writer Ingrid Sischy, Ann Curry (NBC Today Show Host) , Stefano Tonchi (editor of W), Lynn Hirschberg (for many years editor at large of the New York Times Magazine and presently editor-at-large of W), etc.
On accepting his award, John G. Morris made an emotive speech in which he paid homage both to the editors with whom he collaborated through his lifetime and specially to the thousands of photographers he met and worked with, proclaiming that he thinks of them as his real children.
John G. Morris, born in 1916, is considered the most influential picture editor in history and probably the greatest pundit of all time on photographic images along with Wilson Hicks and Jimmy Fox, having developed a very long standing and fascinating career as a photojournalist, which began in 1938 when he worked for Life magazine as a correspondent in Hollywood.
Subsequently, through a span of approximately 70 years of professional activity between 1940 and currently, John G. Morris was Life magazine picture editor during II World War, Ladies Home Journal photo editor, Magnum Photos first picture editor, assistant manager editor for The Washington Post, picture editor of The New York Times, corresponding editor for National Geographic, etc.
Throughout all these decades, John G. Morris was vast majority of times beloved not only by the most powerful owners, general managers and directors of world class media corporations, whose newspapers and magazines he greatly fostered with his amazing mastery in the selection of the best pictures and the improvement of the photographic departments, but specially by professional photographers, whom he always considered job teammates, stubbornly defending them and steadily striving after getting the best working conditions, salaries and picture payings for their images, sometimes even facing the most prominent publishers in defense of their rights.
A high percentage of the most famous images in history, made by the most important photographers of all time, were edited by John G. Morris, something which featured a key significance, because the best feasible selection of the most representative pictures as a keynote was fundamental for the impact, conveyance of different important messages and the successful selling of the publications he worked for.
John G. Morris had always the highly important task of choosing their best images for publication in a number of the most renowned magazines and newspapers on earth, a high percentage of them becoming legendary icons with the elapse of time. And he always managed to increase the photographic picture edition and prestige of all the world class media for which he worked, also becoming a key factor in the increase of sales.
Therefore, John G. Morris was highly instrumental in the careers of: Henri Cartier-Bresson, Robert Capa, Alfred Eisenstaedt Margaret Bourke-White, David Seymour Chim, Werner Bischof, Gjon Mili, George Rodger, Bob Landry, Ralph Morse, Carl Mydans Elliot Elisofon, Hansel Mieth, Elliot Erwitt, Phillippe Halsman, Eugene Smith, Cornell Capa, Inge Morath, Dmitri Kessel, David Douglas Duncan, Fritz Goro, Myron Davies, George Silk, Peter Stackpole, John Florea, Hans Wild, Frank Scherschel, Dave Scherman, Ernst Haas, Lee Miller, Bill Vandivert, Ruth Orkin, Sol Libsohn, Esther Bubbley, Gordon Coster, Larry Burrows, Eve Arnold, Burt Glinn, Erich Hartmann, Dennis Stock, John Phillips, Erich Lessing, Marc Riboud, Kryn Taconis, Bill Snead, Ernies Sisto, Barton Silverman, Neal Boenzi, Edward Hausner, Jack Manning, Don Hogan Charles, Peter Magubane, Michel Laurent, David Turnley, Peter Turnley and many more.
John G. Morris, a full-fledged living encyclopedia perfectly remembering all kind of anecdotes, data and events from thirties to present time, had previously won a lot of top international awards like the 1971 Joseph A. Sprague Memorial Award of the National Press Association, the Erich Salomon Prize of the German Society of Photography in 2003, the French Legion d´honneur in 2009 (this is France´s highest and most coveted award), without forgetting that his extraordinary book Get the Picture: A Personal History of Photojournalism (Random House 1988 and University of Chicago Press, 2002) received the ICP Infinity Award for Writing in 1999, and has also been an editor of Time Life books and a special consultant to the Museum of Modern Art. He´s likewise NPPA Life Member.
Past winners of the ICP top awards in different categories have included Robert Frank, Mary Ellen Mark, Marc Riboud, André Kertész, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Berenice Abbott, Richard Avedon, Harold Evans, Bernd and Hilla Becher, Alexander Liberman, Gordon Parks, Helen Levitt, Annie Leibovitz, Lee Friedlander, William Klein, Susan Meiselas, Roy de Carava, Malick Sidibé, and Karl Lagerfeld.
This year 2010, along with John G Morris (ICP Lifetime Achievement) , other winners of the 26th Annual ICP Infinity Awards are Peter Magubane (Cornell Capa Award), Gilbert C. Maure of Hearst corporation (ICP Trustees Award), Raphael Dallaporta (Young Photographer Award), Luc Sante (Writing Award for his book Folk Photography: The real Photo Postcard), National gallery of Art expert Sarah Greenough (Publication Award for his book Looking in: Robert Frank´s The Americans), Lorna Simpson (Art Photography Award), Reza (Photojournalism Award) and Daniele Tamagni (Applied Fashion Advertising Award for his book Gentlemen of Bacongo).
The Lifetime Achievement award and Cornell Capa Award honourees are selected by the ICP board of trustees, president's council, and senior staff. The Trustees award is periodically given by the board for outstanding contributions to the field. The 2010 selection committee comprised publisher Chris Boot, Carol McCusker (Curator at the Museum of Photographic Arts in San Diego), and Peter MacGill (owner of the Pace/MacGill Gallery in New York).
A personal great friend of Henri Cartier-Bresson, Robert Capa, David Seymour Chim, George Rodger, Cornell Capa and many more, this is the man who handled the negatives of D-Day made by Robert Capa on Omaha Beach on June 6, 1945, under circumstances of the highest conceivable stress and finally managing to save eleven 35 mm frames with distinct images after the young Dennis Banks (because of the unbearable fidgets and huge importance of the development of the four rolls of 35 mm film -shot with a Contax II and a Carl Zeiss Jena 50 mm f/1.5 lens- and six 120 rolls of medium format 6 x 6 cm -shot with a TLR Rolleiflex-) had hung the films inside the darkroom in the wooden locker that served as a drying cabinet, heated by a coil on the floor, and on hurrying up to have the contacts as soon as possible, had forgotten to close the door, so the emulsions had melted because of lack of ventilation, though the aforementioned 11 frames of the fourth 35 mm roll could be preserved and quickly sent to the central headquarters of Life in New York, where Henry Luce, Wilson Hicks, Daniel Longwell and John Shaw Billings were eagerly waiting for them. Therefore, this photographic mission, one of the most important in the history of photojournalism, could be succesfully implemented and the grainy but impressive images finally made the inner pages of Life June 19, 1944, depicting live and with great realism the landing of American soldiers on the Normandy beaches amid enemy fire.
This is the man who along with Cornell Capa, Julia Friedmann, and Edith Capa helped bury Robert Capa on June 11, 1954 in the Quaker cemetery at Amawalk, New York, in the middle of very deep grief.
This is the man who edited the famous picture taken by Eddie Addams of AP showing the summary execution of Nguyen Van Lem by General Nguyen Ngoc Loan, chief of South Vietnam national police, on February 1, 1968, who finally made the front page of the New York Times of February 2, 1968, occuping approximately a 25% of it on its top right half.
This is the man who edited the Moon pictures taken by Armstrong, Collins and Aldrin after the arrival of the three Apollo 11 astronauts to Houston Johnson National Aeronautics and Space Administration on July 27, 1969, carrying out another of the most important photojournalistic operations in history, under the global command of New York Times Managing Editor Abe Rosenthal, with John G. Morris as picture editor, Hank Lieberman as scientific news coordinator and George Cowan as art director, all of them inside the New York Times Dassault Falcon 20 jet, flying from Houston to New York and taking a lot of high quality dupes and 8 x 10 prints made from the original Kodak Ektachrome 160 ASA 70 mm transparencies shot with Hasselblad cameras on the Moon surface, which edited by John G. Morris (some NASA photographic technicians under the command of Richard Underwood had given them to him near the Lunar Receiving Laboratory just after they were developed) allowed Abe Rosenthal´s dream to come true: the color first ever for The New York Times in the form of a special newsmagazine supplement inside August 3, 1969 paper.
This is the man who made twelve trips to Tucson (Arizona) to see W.S. "Bill" Johnson, Eugene Smith´s personal curator, fighting to his physical limit trying to preserve - what he obtained - the economical future of Eugene Smith´s sons, specially three of them who had become very poor after Gene´s demise in 1978.
There would be many more examples clearly depicting the exceptional humanity of John G. Morris, who often jeopardized his own job defending photographers all over the world and the huge significance of pictures in modern photojournalism and different media related to it.
Copyright Text and Photos: Jose Manuel Serrano Esparza. LHSA
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Know when to hold 'em: Le'Veon Bell stares down the Steelers
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Steelers Start Your Engines
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Moby Dick Spouts at Pittsburgh Opera
When Herman Melville's classic 1850 novel hits Pittsburgh March 17 for a four-show run at the Pittsburgh Opera, audiences will set sail with Captain Ahab on his obsessive pursuit of the infamous white whale that robbed him of his leg and, perhaps, his sanity.
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What Lies Beneath: The Frick Gets Undressed
It's the first article of clothing you put on and the last one you take off. It comes in all shapes and sizes, colors and textures, ranging from exceedingly comfortable to helplessly imprisoned. It can be sporty, sultry, dull or disturbing, and is quite literally the foundation of the outfit we build onto…
Steelers Ready to Go: Breaking Down the 53
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SCAI Statement on Recent National Events
Cindy L. Grines, MD, MSCAI
President's Page Leadership
"Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly."
Dear SCAI Members, Friends, and Concerned Citizens,
Health equity matters. The Society for Cardiovascular Angiography and Interventions (SCAI) is committed to reducing treatment disparities in coronary, peripheral, congenital, and structural heart conditions and ensuring representation of all groups in interventional cardiology.
The recent deaths of George Floyd, Ahmaud Arbery, and Breonna Taylor highlight the institutional racism that continues to be pervasive in our communities. Additionally, the alarming number of African Americans directly affected by heart disease and the COVID-19 pandemic has illuminated the need to address racial disparities across the healthcare system.
We denounce incidents of racism, violence, and health inequity that continue to ravage communities across the United States and the rest of the world. It is imperative that we, as citizens of the world, do everything in our power to create positive change. We expect all SCAI members to uphold our core values of "patients first, excellence, inclusiveness, integrity and leadership", now more than ever.
While we have had wonderful collaborative partnerships with organizations such as the Association of Black Cardiologists, we acknowledge that we can do more.
As a Society, we recognize the tremendous impact these times have created for us all. Our efforts to live out SCAI's mission of saving and enhancing lives have never been more critical. Our organization is comprised of thousands of individuals whose diverse backgrounds have helped drive innovation within our specialty. The time is now to use those same talents to make a greater impact globally. I encourage you all to reach out to me directly and share how you feel we can best improve in these areas. I look forward to hearing from you and wish you peace, safety, and good health.
Cindy Grines, MD, MSCAI
SCAI President, 2020-21


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Callaway gets in on the intro game
By Mike Stachura
On a day when big product announcements were being made from the biggest companies and when the bulk of its marketing team and tour staff (including front man Phil Mickelson) was shooting commercials in Texas for its 2013 product line, Callaway offered a brief and unexpected peak at its latest tour player iron, the 2013 X Forged.
While company insiders, perhaps with tongue firmly planted in cheek, indicated their announcement came purely on a whim, the notice came within an hour after rival TaylorMade unveiled its new RocketBladez irons.
The new Callaway irons, conceptualized by Callaway Chief Designer Roger Cleveland, are forged from 1025 carbon steel and feature a new sole shape, a face design that features tightly spaced grooves in an effort to produce more consistent spin on full shots, and a progressive center of gravity location through the set that includes a lower CG in the longer irons designed for encouraging a higher launch angle and a higher position in the short irons for controlling spin and trajectory. The progression is modeled after last year's RAZR X Prototype iron.
According to company engineers, the lofts on the 6-iron through the pitching wedge have been strengthened one degree per club compared to the RAZR X Forged based on tour player feedback, while the total weight of the club is up to 11 grams lighter. Meanwhile, the face has been re-engineered to reflect a new X-shaped variable thickness pattern for improved ballspeed consistency.
The standard steel shaft is the Project X Pxi, which is 15 percent lighter than the standard Project X Flighted shaft in last year's RAZR X Forged iron. and the set will retail for $1,000. It is scheduled to be available in stores on January 25, 2013.
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As often happens in the purchase of software, a company buys the technology to fill one particular need and often discovers later that the software can serve multiple purposes. That proved to be the situation with Hastings Mutual Insurance.
The carrier originally purchased OnBase from Hyland for its underwriting department, but eventually discovered there could be additional benefits if the software was used in other parts of the organization. The realization was brought into focus when Hastings implemented Guidewire's ClaimCenter solution.
with homegrown systems come down to time and resources.
"Moving to a reliable and stable product was our goal in implementing the OnBase accelerator for Guidewire," says Duits.
Another challenge with the homegrown integration was that it became unstable due to outdated and deprecated code. "Eliminating the need to maintain and upgrade the homegrown integration allows our resources to address other tasks that provide value to the business," she says.
Hyland worked with Guidewire to build the accelerator so having both those providers onboard made the decision to switch to Hyland's implementation product easier for Hastings.
there wasn't much change from the business-user perspective.
able to do today as well as some additional functionality.
they have an easier time maintaining it.
ClaimCenter and we shouldn't have to change the integration.
that with future Guidewire products.
ing them because the Hyland accelerator is easier to support.


So I, a Vonnegut fan, a writer myself, and one interested in the arts — and creation of art — in general, made sure to be there last night. In fact, I even prepared myself by making a point to read the preface (by editor and compiler Peter Reed) and Vonnegut's own introduction to 1999's BAGOMBO SNUFF BOX, of previously uncollected short fiction, which describe the period in which these works were written, the 1950s and early '60s where one could earn $3000 for a short story from magazines like COSMOPOLITAN or THE SATURDAY EVENING POST; the rise of TV that replaced these magazines to a large part, bringing a time where one had to write a whole novel to earn the same amount a s an advance. But Vonnegut's early novels never sold that well until, including a deal of luck, his masterpiece SLAUGHTERHOUSE-FIVE with its anti-war sentiment hit the market at just the right time to become a best seller. And so I was able to anticipate some of what was to come, as described in the Indiana University Cinema's blurb: This special event is a conversation with filmmaker, biographer, and Kurt Vonnegut's personal friend, Robert Weide, incorporating extended clips from a work-in-progress version of his long-awaited film, KURT VONNEGUT: UNSTUCK IN TIME.
More than 11 years after his death, Kurt Vonnegut — who was born and raised in Indianapolis — remains one of the most popular literary figures of the 20th and 21st centuries. Readers from one generation to the next, the world over, continue to find their lives transformed by his comic and cosmic insights, on display in such bestselling books as CAT'S CRADLE, SLAUGHTERHOUSE-FIVE, BREAKFAST OF CHAMPIONS, MOTHER NIGHT, GOD BLESS YOU MR. ROSEWATER, and on and on. Amazingly, all of Vonnegut's works remain in print, and his popularity shows no sign of waning. Yet to-date, there has been no definitive film documentary covering his extraordinary life and work. For over 30 years, film and TV producer, director, and personal friend, Robert Weide, has been working to correct that oversight. He will be giving a sneak preview of several extended clips from the work-in-progress, as he discusses his 36-year odyssey to complete the film.
The event is presented as part of Granfalloon**: A Kurt Vonnegut Convergence, an initiative of the Arts & Humanities Council of Indiana University.
And so it goes, for me, as writer, an enlightening and a humbling experience. Yes, luck played a part in Vonnegut's success, both good and bad, plus some horrendous life experiences, but I'd not realized the amount of hard work, and number of false starts that went into SLAUGHTERHOUSE-FIVE until he got it "right." Or that success did not go well with him in certain ways, though it did in others, including a final bit of luck in his reluctant 2005 publication of A MAN WITHOUT A COUNTRY, a collection of essays that became an instant best seller, two years before his 2007 death.
But one more surprise too, while the blurb spoke of film clips, Robert Weide announced that he couldn't decide, ultimately, which ones to show, so instead we we got to see the entire two-hour film, in its present not-quite-completed condition, followed in turn by a Q and A session. A little bit rough, but whenever the final version comes out, I'll recommend it!
*Among other things screenwriter and co-producer of the film version of Vonnegut's MOTHER NIGHT.
**(Wikipedia) A granfalloon, in the fictional religion of Bokononism (created by Kurt Vonnegut in his 1963 novel CAT'S CRADLE), is defined as a "false karass". That is, it is a group of people who affect a shared identity or purpose, but whose mutual association is meaningless. Charles J. Shields's 2011 AND SO IT GOES: KURT VONNEGUT: A LIFE quotes the novelist, who wrote that a "granfalloon is a proud and meaningless collection of human beings. . ." That biography also cites Hoosiers as "one of [Vonnegut's] favorite examples" of what the term refers to. Other events include displays at the Lilly Rare Book Library, lectures both there and at City Hall, a stage reading of the musical adaptation of GOD BLESS YOU MR. ROSEWATER, and several concerts.
Hi Marge! Yes, one of the advantages of living in Bloomington Indiana which, with the University, is becoming a fairly cosmopolitan arts community (despite Vonnegut himself having referred to Bloomington as a "hellhole" 🙂 ). So for tonight, with Weide in mind too, I've dug out my old VHS of MOTHER NIGHT to see if it's still in playable condition.


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Hinds share 'I Don't Run' album opener
Ian Bourne March 7, 2018 Album NewsNew MusicNewsTour News
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Madrid-based garage rock quartet Hinds have released the opening track from their forthcoming album 'I Don't Run'. It's called 'The Club' and was revealed on the Annie Mac show on BBC Radio 1 as the 'Hottest Record In The World'.
They chose to open the new LP with 'The Club' because "we couldn't believe that we hadn't written it before and that we hadn't been listening to it for years. A friend said that it is more Hinds than Hinds themselves hahah." Hinds previously released 'New For You' from the album.
The group's distinctive lo-fi guitars, played by singers Ana Perrote and Carlotta Cosials, buzz through 'The Club' until a wailing guitar solo and key change give emotional depth. The vocals are fuzzed up, as if everything wasn't fuzzy enough already. It takes the band's trademark DIY sound and boosts it by the power of x.
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Hinds intend to make the new track their calling card. The song's vocal melody, together with the bass by Ade Martin and understated drums from Amber Grimbergen, recall the dirty early sound of The Strokes. It's no coincidence that Hinds co-produced the album with the US punk revivalists' producer Gordon Raphael.
Hinds' acclaimed debut album in 2016, 'Leave Me Alone', hinted at darker concerns lurking beneath the happy-go-lucky surface and the group are now addressing these head on. "On this album the struggles are clear. We want to be brave," Perrote says.
Featured photo: Ian Bourne
Other photos: Neelam Khan Vela
'I Don't Run' album track listing:
1. The Club
2. Soberland
3. Linda
4. New For You
5. Echoing My Name
6. Tester
7. Finally Floating
8. I Feel Cold But I Feel More
9. To The Morning Light
10. Rookie
11. Ma Nuit
Hinds tour dates:
12-18 March — Austin, TX, USA, SXSW
19 March — Dallas, TX, USA, Trees
20 March — Houston, TX, USA, White Oak
21 March — New Orleans, LA, USA, One Eyed Jacks
23 March — Atlanta, GA, USA, Terminal West
24 March — Birmingham, AL, USA, Saturn
25 March — Nashville, TN, USA, Exit/In
15 April — Glasgow, Scotland, SWG3
17 April — Manchester, England, Gorilla
18 April — Bristol, England, The Fleece
19 April — London, England, Electric Brixton
20 April — Brighton, England, Concorde 2
23 April — Paris, France, Le Point Ephemere
24 April — Brussels, Belgium, Ancienne Belgique
25 April — Amsterdam, Netherlands, Bitterzoet
26 April — Hamburg, Germany, Molotow
27 April — Berlin, Germany, Bi Nuu
29 April — Zurich, Switzerland, Mascotte
07 May — Boston, MA, USA, The Sinclair
08 May — Philadelphia, PA, USA, First Unitarian Church
10 May — Brooklyn, NY, USA, Warsaw
11 May — Washington DC, USA, U Street Music Hall
13 May — Toronto, ON, CA, Horseshoe Tavern (CMW)
14 May — Cleveland, OH, USA, Grog Shop
15 May — Chicago, IL, USA, Lincoln Hall
16 May — Minneapolis, MN, USA, 7th St Entry
18 May — Denver, CO, USA, Globe Hall
19 May — Salt Lake City, UT, USA, Urban Lounge
21 May — Vancouver, BC, Canada, Biltmore Cabaret
22 May — Seattle, WA, USA, The Crocodile
23 May — Portland, OR, USA, Wonder Ballroom
25 May — Santa Cruz, CA, USA, The Catalyst
26 May — San Francisco, CA, USA, he Independent
27 May — Santa Ana, CA, USA, Constellation Room
28 May — Los Angeles, CA, USA, eragram Ballroom
31 May — Barcelona, Spain, Primavera Festival
07 June — Madrid, Spain, oy Eslava
30 June — London, UK, Finsbury Park (Queens Of The Stone Age)
12 July — Lowestoft, UK, Latitude Festival
24 August — Leeds, UK, Leeds Festival
26 August — Reading, UK, Reading Festival
Ian Bourne
A contributing editor to GIGsoupmusic.com and a former editor-in-chief in the B2B publishing world. Likes post-punk, twisted pop, synths, guitars, bass, drums.
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Hinds 'I Don't Run'
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On looking back in 1900, Henry Adams wondered whether the child of 1854 stood closer to the year 1 than to 1900. Similarly, looking at Vicesimus Knox, we ask do he and his account of printing in the 18th century seem closer to Socrates and Trithemius or to the writer of the Economist article on Luther in 2011.
Due: 2/10, 5:00 PM. Submit answer on bSpace assignment page.


Install your system to a PARTITION, NOT the whole drive. Â I seem to remember reading somewhere that this was required.
All done! Â Make note that you use "rdsk" on the prtvtoc command. Â I kept getting "must be raw device" errors because I missed the "r" and had only /dev/dsk in the drive path. Â Also, on first attempts, I somehow messed up my second drive partitions and labels and it was EFI labeled. Â Nothing worked when it was EFI, and I couldn't remove it either. Â Since I did this initially in a VMware guest, Â I just deleted the disk and added a new one. Â But that's important to note, do not do anything to that drive except run "format" and then use the "fdisk" command on the new drive. Â It will come up and say something like you need a 100% Solaris partition, just say Y and exit that to save. Â THEN… you can do the prtvtoc thing to copy the partition table to the new drive.


The Minister for Education and Skills, Richard Bruton announced that the 40 schools taking part in Phase 1 of the new Leaving Certificate Computer Science subject and 64 schools taking part in Phase 1 of the new Leaving Certificate Physical Education subject will receive a grant to support them in implementing the new subjects from September 2018.
Today's announcement underlines my commitment to the introduction of Computer Science and Physical Education as Leaving Certificate subjects.
I am keen during my time as Minister to make sure that our education system keeps pace with our changing society and the evolving needs of our economy. We know how important it is to be physically active and engage in sports, not only for our physical health but also as a means to encourage team building, develop confidence and for our mental health. The introduction of Physical Education as a full examinable Leaving Certificate subject reflects the priority this government puts on promoting healthy lifestyles and choices.
The introduction of Computer Science as a Leaving Certificate subject is part of our ambition to make Ireland a STEM leader among our European colleagues. The grants being issued to schools, from this September will complement other recent grants given to schools to support them in embedding digital technology in teaching and learning - €30m in ICT grants was provided to all schools recently, building on the €30m which we issued last year. We have committed to a €150m investment in ICT infrastructure over the next 3 years.
The 40 schools who will offer Computer Science for Leaving Certificate for September will each receive €3,000 towards the purchase of connector devices, totalling €120,000 in grants for these schools.
Schools offering Leaving Certificate Physical Education will receive a grant towards the purchase of digital devices for use by students in completing the course assessment components and for hardware required for central uploading of material. A grant of €350 per digital device will be payable, with one device for every two students commencing the subject in September 2018. A payment of €750 per school will be made for the uploading hardware. The total amount of grant payments for the subject will be approximately €330,000 across the 64 schools.
In addition to the above digital supports, the Professional Development Service for Teachers (PDST) has prepared a comprehensive continuous professional development (CPD) programme to support the implementation of these new Leaving Certificate subjects. The CPD programmes which commenced earlier this year and will continue over the coming two years, will support the introduction and embedding of these new subjects. The PDST also provides professional support for the school leaders of these 104 schools towards assisting them to facilitate the effective introduction and implementation of these new subjects in their schools.
With these additional grants, and the comprehensive teacher professional development we are providing, the teachers and schools offering these new subjects from this September will be fully prepared to deliver these new subjects over the next two years. It is also interesting that these new subjects will be the first Leaving Certificate subjects since the introduction of Design and Communication Graphics to incorporate digital technologies into their assessment. The experience of these two new subjects will inform both the national rollout of these subjects but also, the possibility of incorporating digital technology more widely in the assessment of other subjects.
The €450,000 in grant payments are being made this year on a once-off basis to assist the Phase 1 schools' preparations for the introduction of the new subjects from this September. Schools wishing to introduce these new subjects from September 2020 as part of their national rollout should ensure they have the required ICT equipment in time. They can in this regard deploy some of the ICT Infrastructure grants paid to schools under the Digital Strategy for Schools towards this purpose. Details on the specifications of the ICT devices required will be communicated to schools.


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Карім Карімович Мукумбаєв (, село Бекхо, тепер у складі міста Самарканда Самаркандського вілояту, Узбекистан — липень , місто Ташкент, тепер Узбекистан) — радянський діяч, 1-й секретар Наманганського і Бухарського обласних комітетів КП(б) Узбекистану. Депутат Верховної ради Узбецької РСР. Депутат Верховної ради СРСР 2-го скликання.

Біографія
Народився в родині робітника. Освіта середня.

Член РКП(б) з 1925 року.

До 1930 року — заступник директора, директор тресту «Узбексільпром».

З 1930 до 1933 року — заступник директора копальні Шорсу; заступник директора копальні Ченгірташ Киргизької РСР.

До жовтня 1937 року — керуючий тресту «Узбеквино».

У жовтні 1938 — липні 1939 року — народний комісар харчової промисловості Узбецької РСР.

У липні 1939 — жовтні 1940 року — начальник Управління НКВС по Бухарській області Узбецької РСР.

У жовтні — листопаді 1940 року — народний комісар державного контролю Узбецької РСР.

У березні 1941 — 1943 року — 1-й секретар Організаційного бюро ЦК КП(б) Узбекистану по Наманганській області. У 1943—1945 роках — 1-й секретар Наманганського обласного комітету КП(б) Узбекистану.

У 1945—1948 роках — 1-й секретар Бухарського обласного комітету КП(б) Узбекистану.

У 1948—1954 роках — міністр харчової промисловості Узбецької РСР; уповноважений Міністерства харчової промисловості СРСР у Середній Азії; керуючий тресту «Середмаслобуд».

У 1954—1970 роки — заступник голови, інспектор-консультант Ферганської міжколгоспної обласної ради із зрошення та освоєння земель Центральної Фергани.

У 1970—1975 роки — персональний пенсіонер у місті Ташкенті.

Помер у липні 1975 року в місті Ташкенті.

Звання
 старший лейтенант державної безпеки (9.05.1940)

Нагороди
 орден Леніна
 орден Вітчизняної війни ІІ ст. (1945)
 три ордени Трудового Червоного Прапора
 орден «Знак Пошани»
 медаль «За відвагу» (26.04.1940)
 медалі

Джерела
 Мукумбаев Карим Каримович
 Мукумбаев Карим Каримович
 Мукумбаев Карим Каримович

Депутати Верховної Ради СРСР 2-го скликання
Члени КПРС
Уродженці Самарканда

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Madhuri Dixit on the dancefloor , swaying to a Kathak beat in flaming orange as a group of chorus dancers in bright green costumes join in….Gosh, this should have been the ultimate classical experience from Madhuri Dixit in the eagerly awaited Kalank we've all been waiting for.
Tragically the song and dance released on Tuesday afternoon, is much ado about nothing. And not a patch on what Saroj Khan did with Madhuri in the Maar daal number in Bhansali's Devdas her last memorable dance before she had quit.
It isn't Madhuri's fault. The grace is in place.It is the atrocious composition by Pritam Chakraborty that does the purported treat in.
The aesthetics are in place. The colours orange and green with a tasteful Moghul décor representing a kotha is pleasing to the eye. But Pritam's idea of a Mujra song just kills it, in not a nice way.
Has Pritam followed the great tradition of Mujra songs in our films , from Ghulam Mohamed's Thare Rahiyo in Pakeezahand S D Burman's Kaho jee tum kya kya kharidoge in Bimal Roy's Devdas to Khayyam's Dil cheez kya hai in Umrao Jaan and Laxmikant-Pyarelal's Sharafat chor dee maine in Sharafat and R D Burman's Main tawaif hoon mujra karungi in R D Burman's Mehbooba?…. Pritam should have sat himself down and savoured these classics before daring to step into the kingdom of the Fallen Woman.
As for the choreography , while the chorus dancers look around uncertainly Madhuri seems fully in command. Some experiences go beyond the mediocre circumstances they are put into.This, sadly is not one of them.Madhuri's innate grace cannot survive the torrent of disgrace that is thrust on her presence.


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Running Red Lights
Jason S.W. Lem
adolescence, race, geography
gay, queer, QPOC
experimental, autobiographial, narrative
Vtape
Running Red Lights follows the life of a young Asian queer as he navigates the political and sexual complexities of his suburban surroundings on his way to a rock concert.
Made possible by the 2004 Queer Youth Digital Video Project at Inside Out, Toronto's Lesbian and Gay Film and Video Festival and Charles Street Video, this first film by Lem was well received when it was screened during "Inside Out at the Royal Ontario Museum". It has since screened at a conference on queer issues at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education of the University of Toronto and Image OUT, Rochester's Lesbian and Gay Film and Video Festival and is also distributed to high schools through Out On Screen, Vancouver's LGBTQ educational initiative associated with the VQFF.
Premiered at Inside Out as part of their Queer Youth Digital Video Project (2004)


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Plantation Hale Condominiums, Pictures and Info on these and other Kauai Real Estate and Hawaii Timeshares.
Plantation Hale is an old style, easy living development that was built in 1973. There are 161 units here on approximately 8.7 acres of ground. There are three swimming pools, along with two jacuzzis, a Putting Green and Shuffleboard. All of the units here are 1 bedroom with 1 bath and they are all the same floorplan. This is located directly in the "Coconut Marketplace", so it is a short walk to over 70 shops and restaurants as well as theatres.
The Pacific Ocean and beach are about a four minute walk away.


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Omoding v Uganda Revenue Authority (HCCS 469 of 2014) [2017] UGCommC 139 (26 October 2017);
HCCS 469 of 2014
[2017] UGCommC 139
[COMMERCIAL COURT]
H.C.C.S No. 469 of 2014
BENSON OMONDING ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: PLAINTIFF
UGANDA REVENUE AUTHORITY :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: DEFEDANT
BEFORE: HON. MR. JUSTICE. B. KAINAMURA
The plaintiff brought this suit against the defendant seeking a declaration that the defendant is liable for loss of parts from the Toyota Land Cruiser station wagon vehicle Chasis No. JTEBZZ29J-00016932, liable for any damage occasioned to the vehicle; necessary repairs to the suit vehicle assessed by Toyota Uganda Ltd and lost income arising from loss of business; general damages; exemplary damages; interest on the decretal sum at court rate from the date of judgment until payment in full and costs of the suit.
The facts disclosed by the plaint are that the plaintiff imported from the United Kingdom, Toyota Land Cruiser station wagon Vehicle No. JTEBZZ29J-00016932 to Uganda. The motor vehicle was received and warehoused by Coin Limited on 22nd November 2012 because the plaintiff had not paid the tax levied by the defendant.
On 22nd November 2012, the motor vehicle was inspected by the bonded warehouse coin Ltd (Bond W0011) and the only fault noted was the main door switch that was missing. The plaintiff failed to clear the taxes in time and the motor vehicle was put on a want of entry list for auction.
The outstanding tax levies dictated that the suit vehicle was moved into the defendant's URA possession, custody and charge on 16th September 2013
The defendant's officers upon receiving the suit vehicle noted that it was received without a key and switches.
On 6th January 2014, the plaintiff paid the taxes levied on the suit vehicle for which reason the defendant directed that it should be released to the plaintiff. The plaintiff received a copy of the Coin Limited communication, dated 6th January 2014 to the defendant which indicated that the former had waived outstanding demurrage fees on the vehicle.
The plaintiff secured permission from Uganda Revenue Authority to take the vehicle on 6th January 2014.
The plaintiff inspected the suit vehicle in the presence of URA staff and found that it had been vandalized.
The plaintiff notified the Manger Customs Business Centre Nakawa URA on 13th January that URA was liable to make good the losses.
The plaintiff averred that he was humiliated and exposed to stress by the defendant's staff callous attitude and behavior. The plaintiff further averred that he has suffered loss of income owing to the fact that the suit vehicle is still in the defendant's possession. That he has been subjected to stress and anguish by the URA staff who have purportedly assumed they have the right to fix other parts in his vehicle without first having obtained his consent.
During the scheduling, conference the following issues were framed for determination;
Whether the suit motor vehicle was vandalized at the defendant's premises.
Whether the defendant is responsible for the safe custody of the imported vehicle.
Whether the replaced parts are the requisite parts for the suit motor vehicle.
Whether the defendant is liable for the plaintiff's lost perspective income.
RESOLUTION OF ISSUES
I have read the submissions of both Counsel and the evidence that is before me.
From the evidence before me, the plaintiff imported a motor vehicle which was kept at a ware house. The inspection report clearly shows that the only thing that was missing was the main door switch. The defendant on 13th September 2013 instructed Coin Limited to send the car to the defendant's customs warehouse in preparation for auction upon failure by the defendant to pay taxes for the car within the prescribed time. Consequently, the plaintiff on 6th January 2014 requested the defendant to change the auction status of the car to enable him pay the taxes due to the motor vehicle which was granted by the defendant. The plaintiff subsequently paid the taxes and the defendants issued a release order.
Issue One;
Counsel for the plaintiff submitted that the car was vandalized at the defendant's premises. According to counsel for the plaintiff, the suit vehicle was inspected by the bonded ware house Coin Ltd on 22nd November 2012, where the only fault noted was the main door switch which was missing as evidenced by the Vehicle Inspection Report.
That plaintiff inspected the suit vehicle in the presence of the defendant's staff and discovered that it had been vandalized as evidenced by the photos. That the plaintiff inspected the suit vehicle in the presence of URA staff and found that the missing parts had been replaced with inferior parts without consent. The plaintiff thus contended that it was at the URA customs ware house where the vandalization occurred which constituted negligence on the part of the defendant and therefore making the defendant liable for the vandalization.
Counsel for the defendant argued issue one and two concurrently. Counsel submitted that the letter to the defendant from the Manager of Coin Limited is to the effect that the Bond Keeper Coin Limited had a meeting with the plaintiff over the vandalization of the suit vehicle and he agreed to waive the demurrage charges on the premise that the plaintiff's car was vandalized at the bonded warehouse (Coin Uganda Limited) This infers that the alleged vandalization occurred at Coin Limited and therefore the claim should be followed up with the bond keeper and not the defendant.
Counsel for the defendant also submitted that the plaintiff's testimony also shows that the suit motor vehicle was vandalized on the instructions and or consent of the plaintiff at the customs bonded warehouse before the car was moved to URA customs warehouse. Counsel stated that the acts of removing these motor vehicles parts constitute vandalization of the motor vehicles.
Counsel for the defendant further submitted that it is highly probable that in the process of the break in at Coin Ltd through the passenger seats those parts like the dashboard and the radio were tampered with. Counsel also submitted that the plaintiff did not have a police report to corroborate his allegations of vandalization of the car. Counsel therefore concluded by saying that the plaintiff failed to prove that the vandalization of his car occurred at the defendant's customs warehouse because it would at least have a police report to corroborate his allegations.
In rejoinder, Counsel for the plaintiff stated that it is wrong to equate the removal of vehicle parts by the clearing agent Patrick Ojangole as vandalization. That vandalization according to Black Laws Dictionary is defined as wilfill or ignorant destruction of public or private property. That the evidence showed that Patrick was an agent in charge of the vehicle on the plaintiff's behalf who removed the parts with the plaintiff's knowledge and that of Coin Ltd. Counsel further stated that the defendant did not prove any such rule of law which makes a police report mandatory before a civil claim can be filed.
The main point of contention between both parties is the place where the car was vandalized. The plaintiff asserted that the motor vehicle was vandalized at the defendant's premises and thus the defendant is liable. The defendant on the other hands states that the vandalization was carried out by the taxing agent and Coin Ltd which towed the car to URA premises.
PW1 the plaintiff stated that when the car was taken to Coin Ltd, his clearing agent removed the side mirrors, the wheel caps, the jerk and the tool kits because these can be easily stolen. The submission by counsel for the defendant that the vandalization occurred on the instruction of the plaintiff does not hold water. The claim brought by the plaintiff against the defendant is not in respect to the side mirrors, the wheel caps, the jerk and the tool kits which the plaintiff himself states were removed by his agent and he has them at home. I agree with Counsel for the plaintiff's that vandalization is an illegality and not something the plaintiff consented to. I am thus unable to agree with counsel for the defendant that the alleged vandalization happened with the consent of the plaintiff.
Counsel for the defendant submitted that from their Annexure 'E' of their written statement of defence, a letter to the defendant from the Manager of Coin Limited is to the effect that the bond keeper Coin Limited had a meeting with the plaintiff over the vandalization of the suit vehicle and he agreed to waive the demurrage charges on the premises that the plaintiff's car was vandalized at the bounded ware house. That the letter thus infers that the alleged vandalization occurred at Coin Limited and therefore the claim should be followed up with the bond keeper and not the defendant.
In his testimony, Mohamood Sekaba PW4 an employee of Coin Limited, stated that they opened the car using a wire because there was no key. That they broke through the car through the side of the passenger seat. That they put down the hand break so that the car would be pulled by the break down. That the car was thus loaded on a breakdown and was towed to URA customs ware house. This shows that Coin Limited caused some damage to the car. Kigamuzi Ibrahim – PW3 Manager Coin Ltd he stated that the plaintiff complained that the car had been damaged in the process of using the wire to open the car and using the breakdown to tow the vehicle to URA. He further stated that he decided to waive the demurrage fees which were owed to Coin Bonded Warehouse to be used to repair the car. This thus means that the money on their side was to repair the damages that were caused in the process of moving the car. This damage however is not the subject of the plaintiff's claim.
Siraji Kigundu who works with M/S Toyota Uganda Ltd who testified as PW2 stated that he examined the car and noticed that the side mirror moulding case which should be silver-beige was instead replaced with a side mirror chrome casing, that from his experience, the dash board had been tampered with. He also stated that the AC system had been tampered with and replaced with a manual one yet the vehicle is designed to use a digital one. This is the gist of the claim. The replacement of the side mirror moulding and the AC system and dash board cannot be due to damage caused to a car in the process of towing and cannot therefore the damage Coin Limited sought to compensate the plaintiff for.
PW1 testified that when the car was taken to the defendants customs ware house, he went to inspect the car and found that everything in the car was intact. In fact, the motor vehicle inspection report shows that there was no Jack and Jack rod, tyre lever, tool kit, side mirrors and the ignition key. This as already explained by PW1 it was his agent who removed them when the car was still at Coin Limited.
The report further states that the unit was presented without a key and also failed to lock, and there are no switches. This is also explained by the evidence of PW3 who stated that they had to open the car with a wire put it on a break down because there was no key.
The inference I get from the evidence set out above is that the car arrived at the defendant's warehouse intact except from the explained alternations. In fact, Pw1 stated that he went to inspect the car at the defendant's Customs Warehouse and found everything in the car was intact.
Pw1 stated that he was called by his clearing agent and was told that the car had been vandalized. He went there saw the car was vandalized and also took photos to show the same. I have looked at the photos before me and there is a striking difference in the car as of before and that the car was at URA.
PW2 stated that he observed that the side mirror essay was replaced. He further stated that he observed through the windows that the AC nobles were not for that car. That he also observed that the dash board was tampered with.
Since the plaintiff had seen the state of the car when it was brought at the defendant's ware house and it was intact save for a few explainable alternations, there is in my view ample evidence to show that the car had been vandalized. Since it was not vandalized at the first ware house, that is Coin Limited, I am persuaded that the car was vandalized at the defendants ware house. I therefore find that the car was vandalized at the defendant's warehouse.
Counsel for the plaintiff submitted that the defendant issued instructions to Coin Limited to move the vehicle into the defendant's customs warehouse. The car was moved to the defendants warehouse, the defendant received the vehicle from Coin and inspected it.
Counsel for the defendant submitted that if indeed the car was vandalized at the defendant's customs house, the proper party to be sued would have been the Commissioner Customs URA. They relied on section 5 (1) of the EACCMA which provides that;
"There shall be appointed, in accordance with Partner States' legislation, a Commissioner responsible for the management of Customs by each of the Partner States and such other staff as may be necessary for the administration of this Act and the efficient working of the Customs".
Counsel for the defendant submitted that the spirit of EACCMA envisages that in customs matters, proceedings should be brought against commissioner in the representative capacity and it is therefore flawed for the plaintiff to sue the defendant who has corporate personality and should not be sued for the actions of the Commissioner Customs or officers who the Act prescribes for purposes of the proceedings. Counsel further submitted that the defendant was wrongly sued and as such the consequences or benefits of litigation should not be suffered or enjoyed by the wrong party.
While Section 5 of the EACCMA creates the office of a Commissioner responsible for the management of customs, it does not stipulate that the commissioner is the person liable to be sued on the mattes of customs.
On the contrary, Section 43(2) of EACCMA provides that the Commissioner is not liable for any loss or damage occasioned to any goods deposited in the customs warehouse. On the other hand, Section 2 of the Uganda Revenue Authority Act, Cap 196 establishes the authority and clearly states that the authority shall be capable of suing and being sued in its name.
In my view it is therefore clear that the defendant was rightly sued as there is no provision in the EACCMA that provides that it is the commissioner to be sued. I am of the view that the defendant was rightly sued and is liable for the vandalization of the plaintiff's car.
Issue Three;
The plaintiff submitted that the car was received intact at the time it was deposited in Coin Bond. That it is also evident that the car was received intact at the time it was transferred to the URA site. That it is also evident that there was an attempt to replace the vandalized parts with non-genuine parts.
Counsel for the defendant stated that, it is premature for the plaintiff to assert that the replaced parts were not the requisite parts for the suit motor vehicle and yet the motor vehicle has not been subject to a more comprehensive inspection at Toyota Uganda.
The evidence of PW2 was to the effect that the side mirror which was beige was found replaced with a chrome side mirror casing at the time of inspection. That the dash board was tampered with, the AC had been replaced with a manual one yet the vehicle was designed to use a digital Ac system. This to me is enough evidence to show that the parts were replaced with inferior parts. If the AC system was digital and then it is replaced with a manual one, that shows that it is replaces with an inferior part. The side mirror moulding case was beige, but on observation, it was found that it was replaced with a chrome side mirror casing. This is also an inferior part. I agree that there is need for further scrutinizing as noted by PW2, but that does not rebut the fact that the car parts where replaced by inferior parts. In conclusion therefore, I agree with the plaintiff that there was an attempt to replace the genuine parts with the inferior parts.
Issue Four;
Pw1 stated that he had bought the car with the intention to hire out the car to tourists. That the vehicle would have been earning him $ 200 each day of hire. Counsel for the defendant submitted that the plaintiff had never worked with a tour and travel company and as such, the figure of $ 200 is merely speculative.
The plaintiff had not started hiring out the car, but it was his evidence that he intended to hire it out. At that level, all the plaintiff had was a plan. It's up to him to figure out how much he would hire out his vehicle notwithstanding the fact that he had not worked with a tour company before. Further, loss of future income is an aspect of general damages which does not have to be strictly proved like special damages. (see Robert Cuossens Vs Attorney General S.C. CIVIL APPEAL NO. 8 OF 1999 )
From my findings above, judgment is entered for the plaintiff in the following terms;-
UGX 20,695,700/= being the cost of replacement of vandalized parts as determined by M/S Toyota Uganda Ltd.
General damages of UGX 200,000,000/=.
Interest on 1 above of 25% p.a from date of filing the suit till payment in full.
Interest on 2 above of 20% p.a from date of judgment till payment in full.
Costs of the suit.
I so order.
B. Kainamura
Eaton Towers Uganda Ltd v Uganda Revenue Authority (HCCS 186 of 2013) [2014] UGCommC 27 (24 March 2014);
Halai Construction Limited v Coil Limited (HCCS 785 of 2014) [2017] UGCommC 61 (29 June 2017);
Ndimwibo & Anor v Uganda Revenue Authority (Civil Suit 424 of 2012) [2017] UGCommC 39 (26 May 2017);
Kamugisha v Uganda Revenue Authority (HCCS 311 of 2012) [2012] UGCommC 88 (20 July 2012);
Uganda Crop Industries Ltd v Uganda Revenue Authority (HCCS 5 of 2009) [2011] UGCommC 38 (19 May 2011);