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The facts about the LSIO process
posted by Sentinel-Times July 8, 2014 Letters, News Articles
Bass Coast Shire Council would like to clarify incorrect claims made in relation to the Land Subject to Inundation Overlay (LSIO), also known as Amendment C82 (The Advertiser, 2/07/14, p1).
Fact 1 – C82 is not set to bypass Council
The proposed Land Subject to Inundation Overlay (Planning Scheme Amendment C82) cannot, and will not, bypass council.
Council has a statutory responsibility to make decisions in relation to the proposed amendment.
As part of that statutory responsibility, council will consider all submissions received at its meeting to be held July 16.
This is an opportunity for council to formally consider the submissions received and determine its position regarding those submissions and next steps in relation to Amendment C82.
Council's decision/s at this meeting will inform its submission to the Planning Panel.
Following the Planning Panel process, council is required to make a decision in relation to the amendment.
Fact 2 – Council did not decide at its meeting in August 2013 to refer all submissions direct to a State Government appointed Planning Panel
In anticipation of a Planning Panel being required, council resolved, at its meeting held in August 2013, to request the appointment of a Planning Panel if it was needed.
The reason that council made a decision to request the appointment of a panel in August 2013 was to ensure it met statutory requirements in relation to the timing of such a request and to ensure the amendment process could run efficiently – that decision was not intended to (nor did it) diminish the council's decision-making role and responsibility in respect of the proposed amendment.
Fact 3 – The process from here
On July 16 council will formally consider all submissions received in relation to the proposed amendment.
Decisions made at this meeting will form the basis of council's own submission to the Planning Panel.
On August 18 the Planning Panel Directions Hearing will be held.
This is a procedural meeting to discuss process, timetabling, and to explain the Panel process to submitters.
On October 6 (approximately) the Planning Panel will commence hearings to consider submissions – all submitters will have the opportunity to present to the panel.
At the end of November (approximately) the Planning Panel will issue a report that will make recommendations to council regarding the proposed amendment.
In early 2015 (approximately) council will formally consider the recommendations of the panel and make a decision in relation to the amendment.
Options for council include:
• Accept the panel's recommendations
• Accept some of the panel's recommendations with changes
• Reject the panel's recommendations
By mid 2015 (approximately) council must seek the Minister for Planning's approval of council's decision regarding Amendment C82.
Fact 4 – A Planning Panel must be appointed if submissions are received and not resolved.
If there had been no submissions to the amendment, or the issues had been resolved, there would have been no need to request A Planning Panel.
However, it was clear when the amendment was being prepared that there would be submissions, and therefore a panel would be required.
In September 2012, new timeframes for the Planning Scheme Amendment process were introduced by the Minister for Planning which require councils to request an Independent Planning Panel to consider submissions within 40 business days of the closing date for submissions.
This provides very little time for council to consider all of the submissions and make an informed decision as to whether to send the amendment to a panel.
It is for these reasons the resolution was sought early in the process so that a panel could be requested in time, while still allowing an opportunity for council to consider a position that will be presented to the panel based on the submissions received.
In summary, the council decision making is not being bypassed.
Council will consider submissions, and the future of the amendment in July, and again following receipt of the panel report, which is expected to be received in mid-November.
No decisions have been made regarding the issues and concerns raised by residents.
Submissions will be considered by council in July, the panel in October, and again by council in early 2015, after the panel report has been received.
Cr Neil Rankine, Bass Coast Shire Council Mayor


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Democrats Leahy, Matsui Move to Ban Paid Prioritization Through Net Neutrality Legislation
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Lawmakers in Congress have reintroduced bicameral legislation that would essentially ban the type of agreements that public advocacy groups fret would create fast and slow lanes on the Internet.
The Online Competition and Consumer Choice Act would require the Federal Communications Commission to ban so-called paid prioritization agreements between a broadband Internet provider and content provider such as Amazon and Netflix. Some consumer advocacy groups have expressed fear that ISPs such as Comcast and Verizon will negotiate agreements that grant content providers speedy access to consumers, or other types of preferential treatment, but leave other websites and Internet services at a disadvantage.
Two Democrats, Sen. Patrick Leahy of Vermont and Rep. Doris Matsui of California, reintroduced the bicameral legislation last week ahead of the FCC's adoption of Internet or so-called Net neutrality regulations. A number of Democrats in the House and Senate have co-sponsored the legislation. The FCC is expected to vote next month on the Internet regulations.
"The Internet must be a platform for free expression and innovation, and a place where the best ideas and services can reach consumers based on merit rather than based on a financial relationship with a broadband provider," said Leahy, ranking member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, in a statement. "The Online Competition and Consumer Choice Act would protect consumers and sets out important policy positions that the FCC should adopt in its current consideration of open Internet rules."
The legislation would require the FCC to use its current authority to prohibit paid prioritization agreements that govern the last-mile connection between the ISP and the consumer. Broadband providers also would be precluded from giving preferential treatment to its own or its affiliates' last-mile Internet traffic.
The legislation was introduced the same day FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler reportedly announced his plans at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas to reclassify Internet access under Title II of the Communications Act of 1934. Large ISPs oppose the move to Title II because they say it would be burdensome and unnecessary to protect consumers. But consumer advocacy groups including Free Press favor Title II regulation.
"Chairman Wheeler appears to have heard the demands of the millions of Internet users who have called for real Net Neutrality protections," Free Press President and CEO Craig Aaron said in a statement. "The FCC's past decisions to put its oversight authority on ice resulted in Net Neutrality being under constant threat. Wheeler now realizes that it's best to simply follow the law Congress wrote and ignore the bogus claims of the biggest phone and cable companies and their well-financed front groups."
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India has big plans for iconic heritage area
But critics want govt to reveal blueprint before redeveloping Delhi's historic sites
The 42m-high India Gate, a war memorial, is one of many historical buildings that line a 3km stretch in New Delhi, with architecture combining Mughal, British and Indian influences. They were all built in the early 1900s. ST FILE PHOTO
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An area stretching from Rashtrapati Bhawan, or the President's House, to India Gate, a 42m-high war memorial, in Delhi has some of India's most iconic buildings.
Pink and yellow sandstone buildings - including the office of the prime minister in South Block and the finance ministry in North Block - line the 3km stretch, with architecture combining Mughal, British and Indian influences.
These heritage sites were all built in the early 1900s.
Scattered around them are six newer government buildings, constructed after India's independence in 1947 from the British to house the growing bureaucracy. Many are run-down, and all housing a maze of offices from different ministries.
Every day, hundreds of tourists walk down the Central Vista, as government officials rush in and out to get from one ministry to another, navigating roundabouts with manicured gardens.
Delhi was the capital of the Mughal Empire during the rule of Shah Jahan from 1628 to 1658. The area that existed during that time is now part of Old Delhi.
The British, who came after the Mughals, made Delhi their capital city in 1911, shifting the colonial administration from the eastern city of Calcutta, now known as Kolkatta. They designed the North Block, South Block and Parliament House.
Now, for the first time in decades, the Narendra Modi government is planning major changes to this central area known as Lutyens Delhi, named after Edwin Lutyen, the British architect who planned the capital city during the British rule.
The government has invited bids for a revamp of the Central Vista, and also redevelopment of the Parliament building or construction of a new one, and potential demolition of government offices to make way for a common secretariat for all ministries.
The government has said it will not touch heritage structures, but wants to rebuild office buildings to cut down costs of maintenance and put in infrastructure like toilets and eateries for tourists.
India's 'Pink City' a World Heritage site
"It is the Prime Minister's dream project. Most of these buildings came up from 1911 to 1927, and they are very imposing. But those constructed after independence, some of these seem to have been built in a hurry, and may have outlived their purpose," said Urban Development Minister Hardeep Singh Puri recently. "Also, many of the post-independence buildings are not earthquake-resistant and cost us on repairs."
According to the government, it spends 10 billion rupees (S$192 million) every year on renting offices. There are no estimates on the cost of redevelopment. Yet the plan to revamp the area has raised concerns among architects and planners. Critics said there is a lack of clarity and an undue rush in bringing changes to an iconic area.
According to sources, the plan is to initiate construction in February 2021, and complete the upgrading of facilities on the Central Vista - just part of the entire redevelopment - in time for the 2022 Republic Day parade on Jan 26.
"Any plans should be transparent and inclusive. It's a major project being done extremely fast and that doesn't bode well. We don't know the essentials," said architect, urban planner and conservation consultant A.G.K. Menon, who is adviser to the Delhi chapter of the Indian National Trust for Art and Cultural Heritage (Intach), a non-profit organisation.
"This is an iconic world-class site. You should know what to do, whether to conserve or destroy. You can't ask a bidder to tell us what should be done. We said clearly the government is bold in wanting to do this," he said. "This (area) has been neglected for quite some time. But there is a process to conservation."
He said Intach had worked on the refurbishment of Rashtrapati Bhawan in a phased manner to figure out what needed to be done.
A petition on Change.org, which has garnered more than 6,500 signatures, has asked for the President's intervention in stopping the project. It noted that "processes like a diagnostic study or needs assessment" had not been done. It also noted that the tender document does not "indicate height control of proposed redeveloped buildings, without which the entire look of New Delhi will be destroyed".
Officials have said there is a need to upgrade government offices. There are 70,000 officers working in the many ministries in central Delhi. "There is the problem of fire, water seepage, parking chaos. It's urban chaos," said an official.
Still, many people remain unconvinced by the government's plans.
Writer and filmmaker Sohail Hashmi, who conducts heritage walks in Delhi, said the government should involve town planners, environmentalists, architects, historians, heritage enthusiasts, the creative community and people's representatives in deciding on the need or otherwise of this project.
"There is no reason for this hurry, except for the unseemly hurry of the present political dispensation to be seen as grand builders."
A version of this article appeared in the print edition of The Straits Times on October 24, 2019, with the headline India has big plans for iconic heritage area. Subscribe


The weekend actually started Thursday evening, when I picked up my bib for the NYC Half at the expo located at the Skylight at Moynihan Station, a new venue for NYRR's signature distance race, after the NYC Marathon. The expo was smaller this year, it seemed, and the new venue, while spacious, was in dire need of some better lighting. I'm of course only comparing it to last year's expo at the Metropolitan Pavilion, where it had a couple floors and it was better lit and seemed more suited for a running expo. The booths were pretty standard for a race, offering apparel, medal holders, opportunities to run the NYC marathon for charity, nutritional supplements, and post-run recovery devices. I did stick around in line for the opportunity to get commemorative ear warmers from the United Airlines booth, after getting photos taken in front of green screens - but never got the photos because the iPad I filled out all my information on had 2% battery remaining when I got it.
The next day I went into work for half a day, leaving at around noon to head to the Megabus stop located near the Javits Center, for my 4 1/2 hour bus trip down to Washington, DC. Of course, I leave on a Friday afternoon, arriving in the DC vicinity at the height of evening rush hour. As soon as I get off the bus, I rush to the metro to take me to the DC Convention Center because it's 6:30, and the expo closes at 7pm. I make it in time to grab my bib and sneak in a "hello" to my friend Amy, one of the tour managers for the Rock 'n' Roll Marathon series, who I see at practically every city I run an RnR race. Afterward, I head to the hotel I'm staying at for the night, the Loews Madison Hotel, to meet up with my roommate for the weekend, Derek, a fellow Front Runners New York member.
After getting settled, Derek and I head out for dinner at a local Thai restaurant about a ten minute walk from the hotel, cheekily named "THAI TANIC." During our delicious dinner, we meet a couple sitting next to us who happen to be running the race the next morning as well. Over our meals, we discuss our race plans and I reveal my goals of running a half in every state as well as reach the Hall of Fame with Rock 'n' Roll by completing fifteen of their 2015 races. Tiffany, from Portland, is planning to do the same! I told her and her boyfriend Kyle of my plans to take the DC race very easy - run a comfortable and conservative pace using the Galloway method, running for 4:30 and then walking for 0:30 - the same way I had ran the Ocean's Run in Rhode Island, but also to keep my legs fresh for my Sunday race in New York City. Both Tiffany and Kyle, running the half, seemed very open to that idea, and vowed to look out for me the next morning and run with me at that easy pace. We headed back to the hotel to get rest for the night since we had an early morning the next day.
A rainy start to Rock 'n' Roll DC!
We woke up to cloudy skies and rain coming down on Saturday morning. Our short 15 minute walk to the start line was pretty wet. After dropping off our bags at gear check, Derek and I met up with Hollie and Donna, who were waiting in corral 14, and shortly thereafter, Tiffany and Kyle found us. We posed for some photos, and soon were off on the course. The race started on Constitution Avenue NW and 14th Street NW, and headed westward, passing the White House on the right and the Washington Monument on the left, with a slight detour along 18th Street NW, E Street NW, and Virginia Avenue NW, before returning on a westward course along Constitution Avenue. We turned along 23rd Street NW, and made our way to the backside of the Lincoln Memorial, hitting mile 2 in the process before we embarked on a mile-long out-and-back along the Arlington Memorial Bridge, toward a rotunda just in front of Arlington Cemetery, and literally meters before the DC/Virginia boundary.
the entire race on my 4:30/0:30 run walk!
The massive hill at mile 6 begins!
We hit the 5k mark as we began the winding course of the Rock Creek and Potomac Parkway, skirting the Potomac River, and passing the Kennedy Center (where we had a nice reprieve from the rain underneath a cantilevered section overhanging the Parkway) and the Watergate Apartments before reaching mile 4. We continued for the next couple miles making our way along the parkway before the first big challenge of the race - the massive hill at mile 6. In only a matter of 300 meters, runners climbed nearly 200 feet, with photos of fallen heroes and several spectators carrying American flags lined up along the left of the course. At the top of the hill, we hit Calvert Street, which would begin a small jaunt through the Adams-Morgan and Columbia Heights neighborhoods of Washington, DC. At about the mile 7 mark, I ran into my friend De Moe, who always runs in a kilt and always carries a flask of Fireball with him, and I took our ritual fireball shot, which got captured on film :) Afterward, we continued on down Harvard Street NW, passing Mile 8, when we turned and ran through the Howard University campus. Right around here, Tiffany, Kyle, and I ran into the mascots for the Washington Nationals, the Presidents, and posed for a picture!
photo opportunity and alcoholic beverage!
Victory Headstand for Rock 'n' Roll DC!
I stuck around for a few more hours in the superbly cold temperatures, waiting for Derek to finish (he would complete his first marathon in 4:30) while listening to Better Than Ezra. We then headed back to the hotel to shower and for me to pack, as I had a bus back to New York in a matter of hours. After the long bus ride back to NYC, I finally hit the hay around 11pm, prepared to wake up in a mere six hours for the NYC Half.
Me and the ladies... Fifty Staters!
And then 6:30am came. Legs were actually feeling pretty fine when getting dressed for the second half of the weekend. I left the apartment a little hurried with my bag ready for bag drop, not realizing that it would close by 7:20. ACK. I was still on the 7 when 7:20 came around, and I was frantically texting my friends who were spectating in Central Park that I may have to drop clothes off with them a couple miles into the run. I got out of the subway at 59th and 5th and rushed to find my UPS truck... and for the second year in a row (I need to STOP making this a tradition, haha) I was the LAST person to be able to turn in my bag for gear check before the closed up the truck.
I met up with friends Donna and Hollie, and we met up with a couple other Fifty Staters/Half Fanatics (Lynn, Jane, Amanda), posed for a few photos and then made our way to a corral we could all start together in. I had a ton of energy - ready to get going on miles 13.1 to 26.2 of the weekend, and my one year halfaversary (as this race in 2014 was my very first half!) Thankfully, there was NO rain forecast for the day, and we got started running north along Park Road in Central Park, and I set off solidly with a steady pace, getting faster as I registered a solid 30 minute first 5K. Before hitting that 5K mark, though, we exited the park at Central Park North and some friends from MFF, Margaret-Ellen and Amanda, were there cheering us runners on with a FANTASTIC light-up sign that said "YAAAAASSSS!!" so obviously, I stopped for a photo op -- and then kept going!
The rest of Central Park was a blur, just me in my head, continuously chugging on through the rolling hills of the west side of the park. Before I knew it, we were exiting the park on the south side, hitting the 10K mark (which I managed to do in 1:01:33), and then proceeded down the always-exciting stretch of 7th Avenue, head into Times Square. I always feel like I speed up from the excitement, but can never realize my pace because my Garmin goes berserk bouncing the signal off of the many tall buildings in that canyon of an avenue. I stopped for a quick photo at around 49th Street, and to catch my breath before continuing dow 7th and then making the turn onto 42nd Street, where almost instantaneously, you are hit with the wind coming off of the Hudson, ever increasing the closer you get to the West Side Highway. Running into that headwind of course, is a beast, and despite the wind coming at us from the side as we started to progress down the highway, I still managed to chug on through, only stopping momentarily to remove a stray Powerade gel that attached itself to my shoe, and then a super rough right calf cramp that I needed to stretch out at around mile 8.5.
As I shuffled down the seemingly unending West Side Highway, I got to the Front Runners water station, greeted by many an enthusiastic Front Runner! I caught my breath and chugged down a couple cups of water before continuing on, the wind starting to pick up a bit while I passed One World Trade, Battery Park City, and finally reaching the downhill into the Battery Park Underpass, a roughly 3/4 mile stretch of tunnel where my Garmin does not register any signal at all until emerging at the end, to a small uphill before the home straightaway to the finish in Wall Street. Thankfully I anticipated this and trudged right along. I looked down at my watch and noticed I was going to eclipse my half time from the day before, which was my initial goal, but had the very real possibility of finishing the 2015 NYC Half faster than I did one year ago!
I made the last couple turns, and there it was, the finish line! Official time -- 2:14:48. DAMN! Only TWELVE seconds slower than 2014. But I couldn't be mad at myself, because I accomplished my first goal, finishing the 2015 NYC Half a whole 22 minutes faster than Rock 'n' Roll DC - and I still managed to take a couple photos while on the course. Mary Wittenberg was there congratulating all the runners at the finish, and I shook her hand before I retrieved my bag, re-bundled myself up, and headed to the FRNY brunch at one of our members penthouse cabanas in Battery Park City in the seemingly brisker wind. There, I ate and drank to my heart's content, and posed for two awesome Victory Headstands - one with the Statue of Liberty in the background, and one with fellow Front Runners cheering me on. Another fantastic double half weekend in the books (my third!) - and with a "negative split" 2nd half, to boot! Happy one year halfaversary to me!!!
VICTORY HEADSTAND on my one year halfaversary!
I planned to do a little road trip... nay, a RHODE trip, to get the state of Rhode Island off my list, and actually as a last minute race; my New Hampshire race on February 22 (Half at the Hamptons) got postponed due to weather to March 15 (which I couldn't do because it was the same day as the NYC Half) and then the race itself got completely cancelled. For my goals to reach the "Sun" in Half Fanatics, I needed another race in a new state, so I decided to do Rhode Island because of its convenience, only a three hour drive from NYC.
My roommate for the night, Oscar!
I left Saturday afternoon around 4pm with a rental car from the LaGuardia Airport Hertz, and battled through traffic on the Whitestone Bridge (it was a GORGEOUS day with temps finally approaching the mid to high 40s) before I was on my way to the Ocean State. I arrived about 7:45pm to the little village of Matunuck in the town of South Kingstown, still partly buried in the amazing accumulation of snow that New England had received over the course of the winter. I arranged for an AirBnB at an incredibly cheap rate - due to the fact that I'd have to take care of the host's dog while I was there, since she was busy working a shift as an EMT in town... and it was in the pilot house of a boat right on the water! After familiarizing myself with the surroundings (and with Oscar, the pup), I headed out for some carbloading at the renowned "pond-to-table" restaurant, Matunuck Oyster Bar, which happened to be serving a special menu for Narragansett Restaurant Week. I partook in a local beer, Matunuck oysters, some clam chowder, a heaping plate of clams and linguini, and an incredible dessert of chocolate bread pudding. The food was perfect, and upon finishing and heading home, I was ready for bed.
The perfect way to carb load. Clams and linguini!
The morning came very quickly, and I got myself dressed for the race and out the door to drive to Matunuck Elementary School, where we were asked to park. From there, we boarded a bus to take us to the start line. It was a small race, just under 400 participants. The course had been slightly altered due to the snow still on the ground, but we were ready to go - in fact the heated tent where we could pick up our bibs was on a thick sheet of ice on the beach parking lot.
At 8:15, we were off. I decided the night before that I was going to run/walk this race using the Galloway method - precise timing of certain amounts of running, followed by short periods of walking, repeated for the entirety of the race. I had programmed my Garmin to alert me to run for 4 minutes, 30 seconds, and then walk for 30 seconds. I decided to run through the first ten minutes of the race and the last ten minutes of the race. The course took us south down on Matunuck Beach Road toward residential areas right along Potter Pond, looping down and back on Prospect Road, and then out and back on Ocean Road, before taking Matunuck Beach Road back toward the startline again. We made a turn onto Atlantic, Cove, and Washington Streets, and before we knew it, we already had completed three miles, over some seemingly rolling hills.
With the Salve Regina Seahawk!
One of the great things of this race was that there were aid stations at every mile marker along the course. After continuing back on Matunuck Beach Road, we headed in the direction of the school, and then turned on to Matunuck School House Road for a good three mile segment, surrounded by open Rhode Island coastal farmland, of course, covered by snow. It smelled like nature too - or really, perhaps an errant skunk. We turned south down Green Hill Beach Road, and for the next couple miles, went down more residential roads before getting back onto Matunuck School House for a shorter two mile run back, and then a turn onto Moonstone Beach Road after hitting mile 11, for the homestretch back toward the finish. Along this route, we had a fun cheering squad from Salve Regina University in nearby Newport, Rhode Island, and I stopped for a quick picture with the sea hawk mascot that was out cheering runners on. Soon, I turned onto Cards Point Road, and the finish was within visible distance.
The Ocean's Run finish line!
It was cold, but we made it! I finished in a respectable 2:15:06, and after getting my finisher's pint glass (and a gift of the previous year's medal from the race director, as I had emailed her about my ritual headstand photo, which I took with Matunuck in the background), I headed back on the long walk back to the car, and back to the pilot house to take a much needed shower before I got back on the road again.
I stopped in Charlestown at the Charlestown Rathskeller for the race "afterparty" where I grabbed a delicious broiled Point Judith flounder for lunch, and was approached by a few members of the race director's team, who were aware of my goal and my ritual picture. Soon I was back on the road to head back to NYC and call it an evening.
My milestone 20th lifetime half marathon brought me back to the center of the country, to Little Rock, Arkansas, home of some of the biggest race medals in existence. I flew in early Saturday morning via Atlanta (where I had a tight 40 minute connection -- we landed clear at one end of Terminal A, and lo and behold, my flight to Little Rock was on the other end of the terminal. Thank goodness I'm a runner!) and landed in Little Rock at 11am. My friend Crystal, who was part of my Ragnar DC team last September, had arrived the day before, and was kind enough to retrieve me from the airport since the rest of my friends weren't to arrive until later that night.
We proceeded directly to the expo at Statehouse Convention Center, where I picked up my bibs, and was given permission to pick up the bibs of my four other roommates (the five of us, self-dubbed, "The Renegades") - three were doing double duty that weekend - Donna, Loan, and Hollie each ran the Phoenix Marathon on Saturday morning; Loan and Hollie were going to do the Little Rock full, and Donna the half on Sunday. I picked up the race packets and then we proceeded through the medium sized expo, decked out in pirate chic decor. I brought Crystal to the Real Time booth, where I got to show her the glory of this awesome recovery salve, and ordered the expo special which was to be delivered to my home in a few days time.
After picking up a few more things at the expo (Balega socks!), I parted ways with Crystal and headed to my hotel to check in and grab a quick bite to eat before having to go back to the expo to get information about the early start, which Hollie and Loan were going to do. The information was pretty much the same as what was already sent to us via e-mail, so after doing a little more wandering around the booths, I decided to kill some time by heading off to the Clinton Library before dinner plans with the Fifty States Half Marathon Club.
Only a short walk away from the main downtown strip, the Clinton Library sits on the east side of downtown, on the other side of the highway. The two floor library houses a museum of all things Bill Clinton, including a replica of his oval office and the presidential war room complete with his special leather chair, and other memorabilia during his two terms as president. Also in the Library was a Peanuts exhibition, showcasing some of Charles Schulz' work – which I am not so sure has anything to do with the Clintons, but oh well.
I sped through the exhibits and made my way back downtown because the dinner was about to start at Ciao's. Quite a large turn out for our group, with members from all over, making their way to Arkansas for the race. The food was good, though it took a while for it to come out… it was then when I got the unfortunate text that Donna and Hollie's flight from Phoenix to Little Rock (via Dallas/Fort Worth) got cancelled, and they were not going to make it for their second race of the weekend. After dinner I headed back to the hotel to wait for the two remaining members of our group who were arriving late – Kimberlee from Boise (via Las Vegas); and Loan, who luckily was able to get to Little Rock from Phoenix but through Dallas-Love Field and a different airline.
When they finally arrived, we were thrilled to see each other, but it was bittersweet because of the absence of two of our group. We proceeded downstairs for a late night bite to eat (and shots of fireball, duh) before calling it a night since we had an early morning for the race, in particular Loan, who was doing the early start.
The morning came, and I donned on my Rufio costume (complete with eye makeup!), and Kimberlee and I headed down to the lobby to meet up with our fellow "Renegade" Laura to proceed to the start line. Already some of the early starters were coming up the street, nearing the six mile mark – but it was quite damp, already raining a little bit. We walked to the start line and proceeded to get ready to get on the race course. And then we were off! I had my earphones in already, but supposedly, the announcers had acknowledged my Rufio costume as I ran through the start gates!
Bangarang! Rufio is ready to get out on the half course!
The race course zigzags through the downtown area for the first four miles of the race, with long stretches heading westward along Capitol (toward the landmark Arkansas Capitol Building), then eastward on 6th Street, then westward again on 7th Street. After turning right on Pulaski and passing the Capitol Building again, we had hit the 5k mark. Turning right toward Markham, we went eight blocks before turning on Broadway and then right again onto 3rd, before looping eastward onto 4th Street and then back onto 3rd going further eastward again toward the I-30 underpass. This was where we could see turn-off point for people heading toward mile 6 (which was just past our hotel), while proceeding straight would take you on a loop around toward the finish line.
Just past mile 6, at the 10k mark (turning onto Commerce Street), was a fun little spot that some locals deemed "Couch Potato Corner" where they actually had couches on the sidewalk! Here, there were also some spectators handing out potato chips, and tater tots from Sonic, as well as donut holes - all of which I, of course, partook in. There was even someone handing out plastic cups with a few ounces of beer in them - which I gladly took and was happily surprised to find contained stout beer! This likely fueled me as I crossed over the Interstate 630 bridge (the first of three times) and made a couple more zigzags through residential areas along Cumberland, 9th Street, and then back onto Center Street. At mile 8, we were greeted by newly appointed Arkansas Governer Asa Hutchinson in front of the Arkansas Governor's Mansion. We looped around more of the city's residential areas, westward on 16th Street, and then passed the iconic Little Rock Central High School, site of the landmark civil rights integration milestone in 1957, just before mile 10. After continuing eastward on Daisy Gatson Bates Drive, we turned left onto Chester Street as we headed back toward downtown. Around here was where we passed a group of students from nearby Philander Smith College, who were cheering us runners on... and I partook in a bit of twerking! Hah!
The last couple miles were a blur, as we once again headed through downtown Little Rock, eastward along the route we had passed from mile 4.5 to mile 5.5 earlier. This time, we got to continue past the I-30 underpass, where I got to stop and check my rain-soaked face at the L'Oreal Lipstick Spot! We looped around the Clinton Library parking lot, and then headed toward the finish line on Markham in the River Market district!
The rain slowed me down, but I finished in a respectable 2:28:53, to mark off state number 17. Despite the rain, there was a great amount of crowd support on the course, and even an unusual amount of beer served to runners as well! It was a great route, passing through much of downtown Little Rock's major landmarks. Though we didn't receive the actual medals for the event due to the delays on the west coast from the longshoremen's strike, the proxy medal that was created for us was a nice touch, demonstrating the generosity of Geneva and Gina, the CIC's (Chicks in Charge) of this wonderful event.
Crystal and I going all out on the Little Rock Marathon's pirate theme!
I took Friday, February 13th off for my flight down to Myrtle Beach with my running buddy Donna. And since I was flying Spirit, I packed lightly and decided to wear multiple layers since I knew this airline to be very strict about their carry on rules. Upon arrival at LaGuardia, it turns out the flight was delayed by roughly an hour, so we sat around waiting for any news from the ground crew about when we were going to board. Eventually we did, and a few hours later, we landed in Myrtle Beach.
After picking up our rental car (a nifty black VW beetle, which we lovingly referred to as Beulah!), we headed to the expo at the Myrtle Beach Convention Center, where we picked up our bibs for both the Neon Nights 5K that would occur that night and for the half the following morning. The expo was cute - about medium sized. There was a booth with a lady selling some delicious cookies, which we decided to partake in... and unusually a booth dedicated to the local humane society with golden retriever pups up for adoption, and another booth for guide dogs (there were about 20 just laying around on the floor with huge signs saying "don't pet, I'm working.") And thankfully, a beer booth, which we gladly partook in, as well.
We then headed to the resort to drop off our bags and check in, and then get changed for the 5K that was to happen that night at Broadway at the Beach, Myrtle Beach's premier shopping destination. We got there a little early, so naturally, we found a restaurant that served drinks, and Donna and I got ourselves a mojito and strawberry margarita, respectively. Minutes before the 5K, we found our buddy Dan from Kansas City, and outfitted with our nighttime glow-in-the-dark accessories, were on our way! The route took us all the way around the shopping center, and then out onto the street, where we continued along a barricaded route to the TicketReturn.com Field just down the street, where the finish line laid. It was a very chilly night, so we promptly returned to our car, and headed back to the resort to get some rest before the morning's events.
She dragged me out into the cold!
February 14 arrived... and so did my 31st birthday. Oops, one thing I forgot to mention - I was running this half to kick off my birthday weekend festivities! Another chilly morning before getting out to the 6:30am start. We stayed in the car for as long as feasibly possible, thankfully finding a parking spot only steps from the start corrals. Bundled up in our black garbage bags, we begrudgingly took off into the brisk 27º weather (with thankfully, no wind). I was able to get rid of my garbage bag early on, while we ran down Grissom Parkway, and then took our turn onto Mr. Joe White Avenue (really, the name of these streets!) before hitting the 1 mile mark. We then took a right turn onto South Kings Highway (US Bus Rte 17) where we ran on a long stretch for about 3.5 miles. Along this stretch, we ran by many miniature golf courses, which Myrtle Beach is famous for having the most of, per capita, in the world.
At mile 5, we ran by the airport, seeing the runway to our right. We finally turned right onto Farrow Parkway, running toward The Market Common, the 114-acre community that used to be part of the air force base complex that surrounded the current airport when it was an active air base. It was promising to run up this street because there were runners coming back in the other direction, which signaled the halfway point of the half marathon wasn't too far ahead of us.
At mile 7, we were back on Farrow Parkway, heading into the straightaway to Ocean Boulevard, another long stretch that would take us closer and closer to the finish. It was a four mile long stretch, and it felt like it never ended. Mile 11 finally showed up, and we turned left onto Mr. Joe White Avenue, and then it was just a matter of time before we were headed back down the streets we initially came down when we started, then turning into the TicketReturn.com Field parking lot, to get to the finish line. I finished in 2:18, which wasn't particularly great or bad - but knowing that it was a flat course, I wish I could've gone faster. Granted, it was COLD. And I guess I'm a little spoiled by having done halfs that have hydration stations at shorter increments than the "every two miles" mark that this race course had -- even then, they weren't exactly at the mile markers, and so I kept on anticipating them, but they wouldn't show up for a few hundred meters down the course. After the race, we stuck around for several of our friends to finish and reconnected with new friends for some photos -- and then proceeded to find warmth as soon as we could!
To celebrate my birthday, Donna and I met up with Dan and his wife Paula, and Ken Fattmann and his incredible 13 year old son Calix, both of which are prolific half marathoners/marathoners (At this writing, Calix has 132 halfs and 17 marathons under his belt!) for a late lunch at RIOZ, a Brazilian steakhouse, which was PERFECT for our protein needs and muscle recovery post race! After a quick nap back at the resort, we headed to the marathon after-party at the House of Blues (after getting lost for about 45 minutes going in the wrong direction...oops!) and met up with some other new friends, Jason and Travis; later we accompanied Travis at a Thai restaurant near his hotel to talk shop about races -- the half that morning was Travis' very first half marathon!
All in all, a fun (even if a bit cold) weekend celebrating my birthday in South Carolina!
Victory Headstand in Myrtle Beach!
Having too much fun at "South of the Border"


Haven't done a knife post for a while.
One of my favorite carrys, the venerable peanut, the knife that cuts 10x above its size. This one is Carhartt branded, by Case Cutlery.
I rarely carry Just a peanut anymore, prefering a larger grip, usually around a 3 1/2″ or 3 5/8″ knife, not only longer than the peanuts 2 7/8″ but wider, easier to handle. But a peanut is still usually all the blade I'd ever need. One of these was at one time the only knife I carried for a little over a year straight.
I don't usually like the burnt bone or stag look, but this one I do. It fits Carhartts' style well, as does the no nonsense satin bolsters and as ground blade finish. Lanyard ring hole added by me.
Usually when I carry a peanut, it's watch pocket carry under a Zippo. In this case on a pocket watch chain clipped off to a belt loop with a nite-ize key biner, and it rides over the top of the lighter.


Camso Loadstar (Pvt) Ltd, was awarded five Green awards at the Presidential Environmental Awards 2018 event which was organized by the Central Environmental Authority (CEA) at BMICH recently.
The company won three Silver awards and two Bronze awards at the Presidential Environmental Awards 2018.
CEO, Camso Loadstar Ltd, Conrad Pringiers said that these awards underline the commitment of the company towards the environment and safety of their employees.
"These awards give us more encouragement for our future endeavors," said CEO, Camso Loadstar HR Manager, Sarath Kumara.
Camso Loadstar was previously awarded haul of awards including the ' Sri Lanka's number one exporter award' at the Presidential Exports awards earlier this year.


In our society in which communication is so wide-ranging and rapid we are witnessing a significant increase in the pace at which knowledge is produced and disseminated. Bodies of knowledge intersect as they cross borders between disciplines in the human and social sciences, and in the natural sciences, life sciences, and technological sciences. How do concepts, theories, and methods circulate, and how are they exchanged, borrowed, transferred, and transformed, when they cross from one discipline to another? In what ways does this interdisciplinary practice constitute a creative gain in the production of new knowledge, enabling us to understand prob-lems that are impossible to solve from the perspective of a single discipline? The present article addresses these issues by defending the idea that, like other modi operandi, interdisciplinarity is promoted by the circulation of concepts, theories, and methods, and by analogy or transfer across and beyond disciplinary borders that appear closed. The article is also an appeal for ar-bitrary borders between communities of subject specialists to be transcended, for creative but rigorous thinking in all subject areas, and for researchers to adopt an interdisciplinary outlook.
Darbellay, Frederic. "The Circulation of Knowledge as an Interdisciplinary Process: Travelling Concepts, Analogies and Metaphors." Issues in integrative studies 30 (2012): 1-18.


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National & State Registers
State Historic Monuments
History Colorado is authorized to acquire on behalf of the state of Colorado sites and structures for preservation and use as historical monuments. History Colorado currently owns and maintains thirteen properties as State Historical Monuments. All of these properties are also listed in the National Register of Historic Places.
Clear Creek County
Georgetown Loop Railroad® (Georgetown Loop Historic Mining & Railroad Park®)
Built in 1877 to haul silver ore, the Colorado Central Railroad also enjoyed popularity as a tourist attraction.
Lebanon and Everett Mine Tunnels
The Lebanon Tunnel was driven into Republican Mountain by the Lebanon Mining company in 1870.
Conejos County
Pike's Stockade Site
Located along the north bank of the Conejos River, the site marks the spot where, in 1807, Zebulon Pike raised the American flag over what was then Spanish territory.
Costilla County
Fort Garland is important for its association with the settlement of the San Luis Valley and southern Colorado. Built in 1858, the fort served as a base of military operations until it was abandoned in 1883.
Denver City & County
Byers-Evans House
The house was built in 1883 for Rocky Mountain News publisher William Byers. He sold it to the William Gray Evans family in 1889.
Grant-Humphreys Mansion
The house was built in 1902 for James Benton Grant, the second Governor of Colorado. After Grant's death in 1891, it was purchased by Albert Humphreys, known for his large holdings in mining and oil.
Pearce-McAllister Cottage
This circa 1900 brick house was designed by Frederick J. Sterner. Its gambrel roof is indicative of Dutch Colonial architecture. The house was a wedding present for Mr. and Mrs. Harold Pearce.
Dexter Cabin
The log cabin was built in 1879 by Leadville banker and mining magnate James V. Dexter for use as a hunting lodge.
Healy House
Originally built as a two-story residence in 1878, a third floor was added in 1888.
Las Animas County
Baca House (Trinidad History Museum)
Built in 1870, the interior of this adobe house blends Hispanic folk art with Victorian furnishings. It is now operated as part of the Trinidad History Museum by History Colorado.
Frank G. Bloom House (Trinidad History Museum)
This large, mansard roofed Victorian house was built for cattle baron Frank Bloom and his wife Sarah in 1882. It is now operated as part of the Trinidad History Museum by History Colorado.
Montrose County
Ute Memorial Site
The site includes approximately thirteen acres of Ute Chief Ouray's original ranch lands.
Fort Vasquez Site
Louis Vasquez and Andrew Sublette built an adobe fort on this site about 1835 as part of their fur trading enterprise. The two sold the fort in 1841 and it was abandoned a year later.


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Located in a public park, Mutualism is a proposed passive water filtration system serving as a rest area for park visitors and bikers along the South Platte River. The structure utilizes riparian plant life to remove impurities from the water in a central reed bed, which doubles as spawning grounds for local wildlife. The premise of Mutualism, is that humanity does not need to fight the few species that have learned to thrive in our presence. Crows are one of those species which have not only adapted to human intervention but have learned to thrive because of it. Studies have also shown that crows are capable of being trained to retrieve certain objects when reinforced with a treat. The underlying program of Mutualism monopolizes off of this characteristic by training the crows to seek out and collect refuse and litter from park spaces in the urban environment. To reinforce this work, the crows will be rewarded with seed treats comprised of native, threatened and endangered plant species local to the area in which the crows are nested. To accommodate for the living quarters of the crows, a nesting wall is applied to the structure, mimicking the functionality of a coniferous tree (the crow's preferred nesting place) by being dense on the exterior but opening up on the interior to create a protected roost. Mutualism redefines what a public space can be, not solely a place for the human public to rest, and enjoy the scene, but wildlife as well.
The overall concept of Mutualism is to challenge our predefined notion of what park spaces are. People visit parks to connect with nature, yet we simultaneous design these public spaces to obtain groomed lawns, and minimal native wildlife. Does it not make more sense to harness the native beauty of our cohabitants of the environment? Creating spaces where humans can visually connect with the preexisting landscape in their cities will promote awareness of our impact on the environment, mixing pleasure with education. The simplicity of concepts such as Mutualism, is that we aren't challenging nature to submit to what we want it to be, but rather we are utilizing the systems and creatures already established, merely directing them towards a purpose that we too may benefit. By providing habitat and training, we can raise a fleet of trash collectors, spreading seeds of our precious plant life as they work. We can harness the river into a wetland offering visual appeal and a resting place for aquatic wildlife to replenish its populations, while simultaneously purifying the water. Nature has given us the tools, it is time we start using them as intended.
ASSYMIL8
In an age where resource management practices have spread disparity, pollution and a capitalist system in which lack of funds threatens one's access to food, it is our responsibility to begin repairing the system. Assymil8 is a closed loop resource management concept, in which neighborhood work collectively to produce food, fuel and electricity. Inspired by mycellium, Assymil8 captures the idea of decomposition, and re-purposing of decaying resources in nature. Reliant on the cooperation of nearby residents, this system utilizes yard supported agriculture to produce an extensive supply of biomass for cellulosic ethanol production in the facility underground. Participants in the system receive seeds for heirloom crops provided by the public polyculture greenhouse structure atop the building. The waste of these crops are then retrieved by trucks and delivered to the decomposition facility, producing lignin to fuel boilers to speed the fermentation process, digestate (a nitrogen rich compost equivalent) and cellulosic ethanol. Incorporated into the energy production side of the project, BLOOM energy servers consume the ethanol to generate electricity, emitting pure water vapor as result. A rebate would be offered to citizens participating in the process towards electric costs, as well as a supply of digestate to replenish the soils in their yard supported agriculture. Assymil8 suggests a resource management and production ideal in which communities work together, supplying themselves with food, electricity and fuel. Let us consider the effects this would have on the environment, society and quality of life in areas that would adopt such a system. Utopia comes to mind, albeit a realistic and achievable one. All we need to achieve this Eden is to Assymil8.
Historically, the Grange was a place where producers would meet, collaborate, and play a role in how their crops would be sent to market. This cooperative concept has been re-emerging within the new homesteaders movement showing up all over the nation. Young agriculturalists, permaculturalists and economists are working together to reshape our food system to eliminate disparity and degradation of the environment. But what of our urban areas? We have erected a culture reliant on grocery stores which spawn food waste and inefficiencies. Imagine, for a moment, if the grocery stores contained their own growing facilities supplying the store with year round produce, inverse of seasonality to offer competitive pricing absent costs associated with transport and fertilizers, herbicides and pesticides. By emulating concepts like Polydome, and existing business formats like Wal-Mart, The Grange is a potential solution to this dilemma. Structured as a warehouse building, storing high volumes of goods as a big box store would, The Grange would be a supplier of nutritious, fresh foods at affordable rates. How you might ask? By replacing the warehouse with a massive greenhouse structure containing an integrated polyculture, yielding a variety of fruits and vegetables that replenish the soils as they grow. Branching off of the methods of no-till agriculture, and the practice of permaculture, The Grange would challenge our established norm of sourcing foods from around the world. You want strawberries in winter, find a way to grow them in winter rather than expending fossil fuels to ship them from a marginalized developing country. By growing these foods within a structure, mitigation of chemical use is a natural side effect. Imagine a store vending organic produce, year round, shattering red-lined areas that super markets chose not to establish business in. Thanks to The Grange, food can be affordable and accessible to any neighborhood regardless of economic standing of its inhabitants. The Grange is a concept driven by the need to connect consumers with producers, foster awareness of economic disparity, and encourage agrarian urbanism.


Ubisoft Forums > Assassin's Creed > Assassin's Creed - General Discussions > New Player to AC - What Game Should I Start With?
View Full Version : New Player to AC - What Game Should I Start With?
I finally bought a PS3 and I'm looking forward to trying out Assassin's Creed. The artwork, the premise, and its success have me really excited to try it.
1. I read reviews that the first one is really repetitive. Would it be a bad idea if I skipped this one?
2. Cut scenes are not that big of a deal to me. Usually, I wish I can just skip past them. Are the cut scenes in this series that good?
3. Is Brotherhood basically "Assassin's Creed III"? I'm starting to get confused by all the names and I'm wondering how the series all fits together.
4. I like the idea of playing it on my PS3. How different is the PC version?
The first one is kinda repetitive, but it's not really that long, and is worth starting on just for the way it presents the story.
Cutscenes are interactive in the first one (you can move your character during them), not interactive except for some button prompts at times in the second one, but still pretty good, and a lot better than either of those in Brotherhood, with no interaction required.
Cutscenes are a big deal in the game, but the characters are interesting and the story is addictive.
Brotherhood is not Assassin's Creed 3, it is a direct sequel to Assassin's Creed 2, that continues its story. Revelations is the same, a direct sequel to Brotherhood. Basically, they're like different episodes in one BBC series.
The first series (AC1) had only one episode, and a smaller spinoff for PSP only.
The second one has Assassin's Creed 2, Brotherhood, and Revelations, with guest appearances from the first season hero in Revelations.
The third season will be the conclusion of the main story that they've been driving towards, but after that there will still be so much to see in the AC universe. Expect more games after it, but with totally different characters and a different overall story structure.
I was struggling trying to sift through the different disconnected Assassin's Creed websites for the last few hours and you made everything so clear in about 2 minutes.
Your explanation made me even more intrigued about the storyline, too. I can't wait to try it!
You should definitely start with first game. Storyline in AC series is very important and playing the first game helps to understand storyline in second, third and especially upcoming fourth game.
Plus, already great gameplay elements are improved a lot in next games. So when you start somewhere in middle (second or third) and get interested in storyline and want to play first game, it may feel like somewhat downgraded.
And yes first game is not that long if you don't collect any flags (I give you a hint, it is useless, you don't get any unlockables).
even though I loved the combat in Ac1, AC2 is probably a better start off point in terms of gameplay, but if you want that FULL experiments of the times changing and the order going with it, go with Ac1 onwards. TBH you can just read on the wiki for the spinoff games.
Start with the first.If you start with the 2nd or Brotherhood the story will be very hard to follow.I have seen people on this forum that played all 3 games and they still can't fully understand it.
If you are more intrested in gameplay than story take Assassin's Creed 2.Best AC by far,nice feeling and everything.But if you realy want to try AC out, try both of them. There are good features in 1 that where replaced by others in 2 ...anyway any game you will chose is a great and quality game.
If you`ll follow the Story, start with AC I.
If you just want Gameplay then I`d say BH, it has the most features.
If you want Multiplayer then, Obviously, BH.
AC1 is the best with the story and atmosphere but with the most repetitive gameplay.
ACB is the worst when it comes to story. It's gameplay is the most varied, but by far the easiest.
AC2 is sort of in between.
It's always good to start from the beginning so get AC1 first, plus this way makes the story easier to understand.
Cutscenes are important in this game it helps with the story plus some are pretty good to watch.
Brotherhood is not AC3, it is just a continuation of AC2 and continues the story of Ezio. Same goes for Revelations it ends Ezio and Altair's (Ancestor from AC1) stories. AC3 should hopefully be the next one.
You should really just play on which one you find easier to use and prefer using.
All the games have great gameplay, only repetitive thing about AC1 are the investigations which really are not that bad.
Ye AC1 can be repetitive, but thats now kind of its charm, plus it's much better playing and living it then read Wiki.
You get into the story more and watch the gameplay evolve.
Start with AC1 and work your way through them. They are all very cheap right now and you have time to do them all before ACR.
I have been switching all games to PS3 of late and paid 10 bucks for AC1 AND 10 bucks for AC2 at Gamestop so I know they are way cheap at this time.
I say start with AC2. You might appreciate AC1's feature's more if you start with it after Brotherhood.
I disagree on ACB's gameplay being the easiest. AC2 was definitely the easiest.
Anyway, I would recommend playing the games in order for the story. It gets pretty confusing the further you go if you haven't played it from the beginning.
Starting with the first game seems pretty obvious.
Honestly, depending on how much you play, if you dont have enough money, you could just rent AC1, and buy AC2 and ACB, because other than the main story, AC1 has really nothing else to do. Whereas AC2 is alot longer and has alot of side missions and stuff, as well as ACB.


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Q: Dialogflow does not recognize a name from Training phrase For some reason Dialogflow does not recognize the name which exists in Training phrase.
On the example i am sending "My name is Ashvin" and response should be.
"What is your last name ?
Also i tried to make dialogflow to remember this name but its still does not want to recognize it.
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A: There is an issue with Non-English/Non-American names with Dialogflow. Only the names put in the @sys.given-name DB by Dialogflow are recognised as of now. So most of the English names are getting recognised as well as some of the Non-English names (common in the USA) are captured via @sys.given-name.
If you have a limited set of names to recognise, you can put those names in a composite/enum Entity, then it will be recognised by the agent. Otherwise, use @sys.any and in the webhook, come up with some logic to approximate on to the name provided by the user and ask for confirmation once captured.
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A: I would suggest you to make a composite entity like in the picture below. That way you can train it for the Indian names as well.
Check "allowed automated expansion" as well so that it can predict the names which are not in the list.

Hope it helps.

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The Reserve Bank of India building in Mumbai, India. (Photographer: Kanishka Sonthalia/Bloomberg)
India Inflation Could Surge to 12% on Second Stimulus, Rabobank Says
Shwetha Sunil
Jul 21 2020, 2:10 PM Jul 22 2020, 7:42 AM July 21 2020, 2:10 PM July 22 2020, 7:42 AM
India can expect inflation to surge to more than double the central bank's target and the currency could lose a quarter of its value if the Reserve Bank of India begins printing money to fund the government's spending.
That's according to Rabobank, which said in a report this week that India should avoid repeating the mistakes of the 1980s, when the central bank's monetization of government debt led to a spike in money supply and inflation.
Rabobank estimates that inflation could surge to an average of 12% in 2021 if the RBI was to finance a second stimulus package of $270 billion, a similar amount to what was announced in the first spending plan earlier this year. The rupee could plunge 16% against the dollar from 2020 levels and almost 25% from 2019 under that scenario.
The RBI's mandate is to keep inflation within a band of 2%-6%.
Public finances are under strain as tax collection slumps, with pressure growing on the RBI to directly fund the spending needed by the government to prop up the economy during the coronavirus pandemic. The fiscal deficit is set to widen this year to 7% of gross domestic product -- double the government's target -- a Bloomberg survey of economists shows.
"Fast-rising inflation in combination with a freefall of the currency does not bode well for economic performance of countries," the Rabobank analysts, led by Michael Every, wrote in the report. Modern Monetary Theory -- which proposes governments spend their way out of a crisis and print money to pay for it -- would be "more damaging to the Indian economy than any short-term prosperity it brings," they wrote.
Read: What You Need to Know About Modern Monetary Theory—and Why
India's Fiscal Responsibility and and Budget Management Act prevents the RBI from buying bonds directly from the government in the primary market, but the law provides an escape clause in the event of the country facing a national calamity or a severe slowdown.
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The New York Racing Association announced yesterday that it was withholding its simulcast television signal of races from home cable viewers in New York City because a stalemate persisted in negotiations over the amount of money paid by the New York City Off-Track Betting Corporation for OTB sites to receive the same signal.
Terry Meyocks, president of the racing association, which operates Belmont Park, Saratoga and Aqueduct race tracks, said that attendance has been in decline since the advent of the city OTB in 1970.
The two sides have been negotiating a new price formula since their agreement expired on June 30, 1997.
The racing association has twice before pulled the plug on the TV signal it provides to OTB for a price, and its right to withhold the pictures was upheld in May by the Appellate Division of the state Supreme Court.
The simulcast signal of races has been made available to the city OTB for use in several sites: betting offices, theaters as well as some bars and restaurants. The signal has also been provided to home viewers on cable Channel 71 in the city's five boroughs. The action taken yesterday affected only the signal sent to homes, not OTB offices or other sites. Carnevale said that OTB would provide home viewers with pictures of the odds boards as well as the audio calls during races.
Entries will be drawn today for Saturday's Coaching Club American Oaks, the third and final race in New York's Triple Tiara series for 3-year-old fillies, and it looks as though Jersey Girl, who won the first two races, won't be there. The reason: the race, run at a mile and a quarter for the last seven years, has been restored to its original length, a mile and a half. The only fillies sure to run are Keeper Hill and Banshee Breeze, who ran second and third, respectively, in both the Acorn and the Mother Goose. If Jersey Girl skips the Oaks, said her trainer, TODD PLETCHER, he will enter her stablemate, Sweet and Lovely, and save Jersey Girl and her six-race winning streak for the Test Stakes at seven furlongs at Saratoga on Aug. 1.


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HomeHealth & WellnessDisturbing CDC statistics show that opioids have killed more people than the Vietnam War
Disturbing CDC statistics show that opioids have killed more people than the Vietnam War
February 18, 2019 admin Health & Wellness 0
Data from a newly released study from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reveal that nearly a quarter of a million Americans have died in the last two decades from overdosing on opioid drugs — a number four times the number of U.S. casualties from the entire Vietnam War. The research, which looked at drug overdose deaths from 1999 to 2017, concluded that in 2017, there was a 9.6 percent increase in deaths than the previous year. Most of the deaths were attributed to the excessive consumption of synthetic opioids.
The danger is not limited to adults. Another recent study by researchers at Yale School of Medicine concluded that the number of opioid-related deaths among children has increased threefold. Researchers of this study said that while most of the deaths were caused by the intake of illegal opioid drugs, some children are still being harmed by prescription medicine.
As stated in an article posted on the website of the American Academy of Family Physicians:
Many commonly prescribed opioids do not come in childproof packaging. [Researchers] also warned that as [a] medication-assisted treatment for opioid use disorder increases among adults, children and adolescents will be more likely to be exposed to opioids such as methadone and suboxone unless more restrictive safety measures are put in place.
In yet another study, researchers wrote that premature death caused by opioids places a growing public health burden in the United States. In a 2018 study in JAMA Network Open, researchers from St. Michael's Hospital in Canada concluded that:
Between 2001 and 2016, the number of opioid-related deaths in our country increased by 345 percent.
By 2016, men accounted for 67.5 percent of all opioid-related deaths, with the mean age of men dying prematurely being 40 years old.
Among adults aged between 24 to 45 years old who died in 2016, 20 percent died from an opioid overdose.
Adults between the ages of 24 to 34 typically have 12.9 years of life lost per 1,000 population.
Similarly, those aged between 35 to 44 years old had 9.9 years of life lost per 1,000 population.
These numbers, shocking and disturbing as they are, fail to influence the decision-making processes of the officials elected to safeguard our health. In November 2018, the Food and Drug Administration approved a controversial new opioid which was 10 times more powerful than fentanyl, despite heavy criticism that the drug would be a danger to public health.
Take note that fentanyl is already 80 to 100 times stronger than morphine, and was initially synthesized to help alleviate pain in terminal cancer patients. The pop star icon Prince died at the age of 57 from accidentally overdosing on this drug. (Related: Painkiller Patch Fentanyl May Have Killed 3,500 People, Warns FDA.)
So where is the outrage? We deliberately presented to you all the numbers, statistics, and data you need to make your own decisions about synthetic opioids. This, to increase your awareness that there may be a (not so) hidden move to hide the truth from you that natural alternatives, such as medical cannabis, may provide safer, and even more effective pain relief than what Big Pharma is offering.
Consider this: Plants like cannabis, which is considered a Schedule I drug whereas fentanyl is a Schedule 8 drug, are regularly demonized for being the reason why our kids die young. However, the CDC's own data shows that the number of people who have died from this natural treatment is almost negligible, and their own scientists state that pharmaceutical painkillers are a thousand times more dangerous than natural ones.
Evidence also shows that medical cannabis is more superior at relieving pain than opioids.
We urge you to really think and do your research before you pop any type of pill. There may be natural alternatives to deal with your condition — and remember, these options may be less risky too.
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Fathom > Winter 2014 > Book Review: Like Dreamers
Book Review: Like Dreamers
by Liam Hoare
Yossi Klein Halevi, Harper, 2013, pp.608.
Liam Hoare
Israel, as Amos Oz once observed, was born out of a spectrum of dreams and visions, blueprints and masterplans. Some complementary, some contradictory, these dreams represent the federation of ideas that compose Zionism. Where these dreams quarrel with one another, there is the basis of political debate in Israel today.
In Like Dreamers, Yossi Klein Halevi examines the history of two dreams in particular: the kibbutz movement, that utopian 'attempt to transcend human nature, replace selfishness with cooperation,' and religious Zionism. Secular kibbutzniks and religious Zionists 'disagreed about God and faith and the place of religion in Jewish identity and in the life of the state.' Yet, Klein Halevi observes: 'For all their differences, religious Zionism and the secular kibbutz movement agreed that the goal of Jewish statehood must be more than the mere creation of a safe refuge for the Jewish people. Both movements saw the Jewish return home as an event of such shattering force that something grand – world transformative – must result.'
Klein Halevi cleverly and compellingly uses the lives of seven paratroopers – participants in the battle for Jerusalem during the Six Day War – to trace the development and ultimate decline of these two dreams. For it was June 1967 that brought religious Zionists and secular kibbutzniks together – 'everyone had a share in the victory' – before they would eventually part ways in the following months and years.
June 1967, for Klein Halevi, is the beginning of the end of the kibbutz movement. Those aligned with Mapam and Hashomer Hatzair lost their faith in the Soviet Union and Marxism. The Labour establishment of which the kibbutzim were part was exposed as corrupt and were caught off-guard on Yom Kippur 1973. 'All the institutions and leaders I grew up believing in have failed,' Arik Achmon of Kibbutz Netzer Sereni says. 'The system that I was sure was foolproof has failed in every way.' Materialism, individualism, and the occupation undermined utopianism and communal life, while Menachem Begin attacked the kibbutzniks as 'millionaires with swimming pools.'
After 1967, religious Zionists perceived themselves to be the new pioneers: first in re-establishing the kibbutz of Kfar Etzion that was destroyed by the Jordanians in 1947; then, in forming new settlements in Samaria such as Ofra, Kedumim, and Elon More: 'This time the movement would be led by religious Jews. There was no choice but to step into the void left by the depleted kibbutzniks. A movement of the faithful. All those who understood that Zionism was not about refuge but destiny, redemption.'
This narrative of the settlers usurping the spirit of the kibbutzniks, then losing it too, is not original. But through the stories of the paratroopers – poet-singers and Kookian rabbis, fanatical settlers and fanatical anti-Zionists – Klein Halevi manages to personalise and accentuate the transformation. His prose style, while occasionally purple, makes the history enjoyable and accessible, and Klein Halevi demonstrates empathy for both kibbutzniks and religious Zionists when it is demanded.
Unfortunately, where Like Dreamers loses steam is in the years after 1992, a period for which the predominant historical narrative has yet to be determined. Klein Halevi has his own thesis, namely that during the Second Intifada, Israelis turned away from both the peace camp and the settlers: 'After three decades of vehement schism between left and right, a majority of Israelis now found themselves in an amorphous centre. In principle, most Israelis accepted a two-state solution and were prepared to make almost any territorial compromise that would bring about peace; in practice few believed that any territorial compromise could achieve that.'
To demonstrate that this is true, Klein Halevi has Arik Achmon – kibbutznik turned free-marketer – realise that the construction of the security barrier would 'be a marker ending the utopian dreams of both greater Israel and Peace Now.' Similarly, he tells us that Yoel Bin-Nun of Gush Emunim came to regard 'both
the peace movement and the movement for greater Israel as utopian fantasists.'
Here we have a false equivalence. While Peace Now are ideological, they are neither utopian nor fantastical. Their positions on the core issues have been very much in the mainstream. Peace Now pushed for an inquiry into the mishandling of the Lebanon War, supported talks between Israelis and Palestinians during the 1990s, and today supports two states for two peoples. If Peace Now are utopian, then Klein Halevi would have to concede that most Israelis are utopian too.
He propagates this unsubstantiated comparison in order to suit his conclusion, which is also imprecise. There was indeed a quarrel between right and left for decades about whether, in the name of peace and security, to keep all of the land or give some of it up. The outcome of this disagreement was not, as Klein Halevi would have it, that both sides were defeated and a new centre emerged. Rather, the left won this argument, the mainstream right gave up the dream of a greater Israel, and the 'amorphous centre' or consensus thus emerged.
To assert otherwise is, in fact, to diminish and cheapen the transformation the mainstream right wing in Israel went through to acknowledge the necessity of giving up land for security, if not land for peace. After all, to relinquish the dream of a single state between the river and the sea – a dream imbued with tremendous historical and religious meaning – is far more significant, tumultuous, and heart-wrenching than, say, acknowledging that the Oslo Process had run its course.
The left in Israel might have altered its tone on peace, but the Labour Party has not changed its view that it is necessary for Israel to partition the land. On the right, meanwhile, Benjamin Netanyahu in his Bar Ilan address in 2009 reversed his long standing opposition and explicitly expressed his support for the creation of a Palestinian state. When it comes to the fate of Zionist dreams, noting this would make a more truthful and essential conclusion to Like Dreamers than the tepid and compromised ending Klein Halevi gives us.
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Theaters Off to Slow Start, While Streaming Services Still Thrive
By Jay Bemis | Advertising Systems Inc.
Is the traditional ritual of "dinner and a movie" on a night out becoming, instead, pizza delivery and the latest hit show from your preferred streaming service at home?
That seems to be the trend right now as movie theaters, which finally re-opened their doors in mid-August, experienced a lackluster Labor Day weekend take of $20 million for "Tenet" in the United States. Normally, a predicted blockbuster such as that sci-fi thriller would take in $50 million-plus over a three-day weekend.
Globally, "Tenet" did make $200 million during the same time period, but that also was the estimated cost of its production. As Forbes would sum it up in a headline: "'Tenet' Absolutely Failed to Save Movie Theaters," adding that the soft opening now has resulted in later release dates for such predicted hits as "Wonder Woman 1984" and "Candyman."
The "Tenet" numbers indicate that Americans are hesitant about returning to theaters. A late March survey — taken about the same time that COVID-19 was spreading rapidly in the U.S. — already had shown that Americans were preferring to watch their movies at home instead of in a theater setting.
That poll, from Morning Consultant/Hollywood Reporter, found that nearly four in 10 respondents, or 37%, would "strongly prefer" or "somewhat prefer" watching a newly released movie in a theater. But more than five in 10 of the respondents, or 53%, would "somewhat prefer" or "strongly prefer" watching that movie at home, via a streaming service. (Ten percent weren't sure or had no opinion.)
Theaters, like many businesses, are taking many precautions while trying to lure customers back during a pandemic.
Regal, for instance, is requiring that customers and employees wear masks at all times — except when customers are seated or eating in the auditorium (sorry, there also are no refills on popcorn and soda for now).
The theater chain also says it's screening all employees daily for COVID-19 and sanitizing each of its auditoriums between shows. Floor markers dictate proper social distancing to prevent lines, and sanitation stations are plentiful. Auditoriums, meanwhile, are seated at 50% capacity where state or local law might require.
Hooray for Hollywood, Maybe?
Beyond possible development of a COVID-19 vaccine sometime in the months ahead, movie theaters did gain a dose of optimism earlier this week when it was announced that a group of Hollywood unions have struck a deal with major film and TV studios to resume production.
Many projects were delayed during the pandemic, and, as a result, studios pushed back the release dates of several anticipated blockbusters. In addition to "Wonder Woman 1984" and "Candyman," movies that have been postponed include "Black Widow" — a Disney production that could with a streaming-service premiere on Disney+, rather than theaters. Its newest release date is projected for May 2021.
Also pushed back till May is a Marvel "Cinematic Universe" project. Marvel movies always meant big box-office sales before the pandemic arrived.
As with movie theaters, the deal that the Hollywood unions just struck with studios also includes a number of COVID-19 precautions.
Those include provisions for how to conduct work safely and prevent the spread of COVID-19, such as mandatory use of protective gear and testing of cast and crew members — "with those who must regularly come into contact with people being tested more frequently," according to The Associated Press.
Resumed Hollywood production could be a needed boon for movie theaters, but yet another boost for streaming services, too. As we noted here recently, the streaming services at least are putting their money into advertising, which is a plus for digital and video marketers as well.
So, if you've already penciled in the newest release date for "Godzilla vs. Kong," now also rescheduled for May 2021, you might add this calendar note: "Will we be watching it in a theater or while sprawled upon our couch?"
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MHC announces convocation award winners
Convocation tradition at Medicine Hat College (MHC) includes the recognition of deserving students, faculty members and community leaders. While the formal presentation of the 2020 Student of the Year, Governor General Academic Medal, Instructor of the Year, and Honorary Applied Degree awards has been deferred until convocation ceremonies in June 2021, Medicine Hat College is pleased to announce this year's recipients.
One student is recognized at convocation annually, having demonstrated exceptional academic standing and contributed significantly to the cultural, social or recreational life of MHC. Known for his inspiring work ethic, positive attitude, and commitment to college and community service, Tyler Cassell was named MHC's Student of the Year.
As a university transfer science student, Cassell served as co-president of the Science and Engineering Undergraduate Society, promoting science and supporting the student experience on campus. He also shared his talent for science by tutoring first year students. In the community, Cassell also kept busy, volunteering his time with St. John's Ambulance and regional science fair activities. Now at the end of his MHC journey, Cassell plans to pursue a career in medicine and will transfer to the University of Alberta this fall.
Nursing instructor Una Weich received the 2020 Instructor of the Year Award in recognition of her teaching expertise and caring commitment for students. As an educator, Weich encourages self-care and models those behaviours for her students, believing that by caring for ourselves we are better equipped to provide care for others.
Weich attended the Registered Nurse program at Foothills School of Nursing, obtained her Bachelor of Nursing from the University of Lethbridge, and went on to complete her Masters in Health Education at the University of Saskatchewan.
Described as someone who instills confidence and a sense of purpose in her students, Weich inspires learners to strive for excellence and approach academics with optimism, enthusiasm and open arms.
This year's recipient of the historic Governor General's Academic Medal is Cassie Melenka, a graduate of the practical nurse program. The medal was created in 1873 to encourage academic excellence across the nation. It is awarded to the student who receives the highest overall average upon graduation.
Originally from a small town and farming community in central Alberta, Melenka knew her passion and interests lay within rural health. After a short time attending post-secondary in Edmonton and coming to the realization that the big city was not the right fit, Melenka chose MHC's Brooks Campus to pursue her career in nursing.
Time spent with her dad working on the family farm instilled a hard work ethic in Melenka, a characteristic she applied to her studies that led to her achieving academic excellence. Her competitive nature, not against her peers but of continually pushing herself to do better, allowed Melenka to finish at the top of MHCs 2020 graduating class.
MHC's final convocation award recognizes a community leader who has distinguished themselves through exemplary service to the college and/or the region.
David J. Carter has been selected as this year's Honorary Applied Degree award recipient. Described as a brilliant leader in religious and social affairs, as well as a well-known politician, clergyman, social activist, and author, Carter has committed his life to serving his communities.
Carter was ordained as a Deacon and Priest at St. John's Anglican Cathedral in Winnipeg in the early 1960s and was later appointed the youngest Dean of the Anglican Church in the world. He went on to serve his faith in many ways, from filling the role of chaplain at various post-secondary institutions, to building and restoring a number of places of worship and senior citizens facilities over the years.
In 1979, Carter made his way into politics and was elected as MLA for Calgary Millican. He served as an MLA for a number of years before and after being twice selected as a Speaker of the Legislature, a position he held until his retirement in 1993. Upon retirement, Carter and his wife settled down in the Cypress Hills region where he worked with others to restore St. Margaret's Church and Cemetery near Elkwater.