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I shall deal with some statistics and come to the core of the argument advanced by my hon. Friend the Member for Barnsley, West and Penistone. The HSE has reviewed the statistics quoted in the UCATT report, and its conclusion is that there is a significant underestimate of
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enforcement action following fatalities. I welcome the fact that my hon. Friend did not go into statistics, because there are issues to consider about the methodology used, and the CCA might want to discuss them with the HSE. Let me be clear and give out the powerful message that the HSE enforces provisions robustly and takes any death at work very seriously. Its staff are committed to investigation and, where it is right, prosecution.
We must recognise, as the hon. Member for South-West Bedfordshire did, the difference between prosecution and conviction, which are different aspects of the process that we need to take cognisance of. Every workplace death is investigated unless there are very specific reasons for not doing so. The HSE always prosecutes if a death was the result of a breach of health and safety legislation, there is sufficient evidence and it is in the public interest to do so. That accords totally with the enforcement policy statement published by the Health and Safety Commission. Following that approach, the true picture in construction is that the HSE prosecutes about half of all fatalities, and about 80 per cent. of those prosecutions result in convictions. There is no question about there being insufficient resources or numbers of inspectors to investigate fatalities and to pursue consequent prosecutions. That will always be the highest operational priority for the HSE.
I recognise that time is running out, but I wish to pick up on a couple of points. There have been comments about the disparity in sentencing, about which we are deeply concerned. Indeed, the Sentencing Guidelines Council is planning to examine the guidelines for death at work cases as part of its ongoing work to produce guidelines for the new manslaughter offences that are to be debated later today. That is being done in England and Wales and will be conducted through the Scottish Executive for Scottish cases. I am sure that that will be of interest to my hon. Friends from Scotland.
On the summit proposal that my hon. Friend the Member for Barnsley, West and Penistone highlighted, there was a summit in 2001 and a follow-up summit in 2004. There is a view that it is probably too early to have another but, given the powerful arguments that he made today, we should keep under review when to have another summit. We are not rejecting the idea in principle; it is just a matter of whether enough time has passed before having another summit.
There are many cases in which it is difficult to prosecute, such as if the person involved is a domestic householder or a self-employed worker and nobody else is involved in the work activity, as in the tragic case in which a self-employed builder took his young child into the domestic property where he was working, which resulted in the young girl being killed. There are all sorts of issues to take into account. Our priority is that the HSE should prosecute, but prosecutions cannot always be seen through to the end, because of the nuances of individual cases.
Sometimes, of course, there is not a conviction. Witnesses may fail to appear, new evidence may emerge or the court may accept a plea, and all those things can result in non-prosecution. I hope that hon. Members recognise that in some parts of the process it is outwith the control of the HSE to pursue a prosecution to the bitter end. I reiterate that every death is a tragedy to the
individual and their family, and the HSE's priority is to ensure that it investigates those deaths fully.
I shall conclude at breakneck speed by saying that my hon. Friend the Member for Barnsley, West and Penistone highlighted the fact that an agenda is shared by the trade unions, the Government and the construction industry. I welcome the opportunities that he has given us to work in partnership, and I hope that we will continue to do so to raise the issue of deaths in the construction industry, which are unacceptable. It is not about international comparisons; it is about what we expect for our workers in our own industry in the 21st century.
St. Michael's Hospital, Aylsham
Mr. Keith Simpson (Mid-Norfolk) (Con): It is a pleasure to serve under your authority, Dr. McCrea, I believe for the first time. I initiated this short debate because under the Norfolk primary care trust consultation document—the consultation is taking place between 6 March and 5 June 2007—St. Michael's hospital, Aylsham, in my constituency could close, along with two other community hospitals in Norfolk. That has caused widespread anger and dismay in Aylsham and the surrounding area, and those feelings are replicated elsewhere in Norfolk, where there are threatened cuts. My primary concern today is the standard of health care available to my constituents. I am not convinced that the alternative proposal of home health care will replace or enhance the facilities that will be cut at St. Michael's hospital.
The Minister knows that there have been widespread demonstrations against proposed cuts in community hospitals not only in Norfolk but elsewhere in England. People rightly suspect that the cuts have more to do with overcoming PCT deficits than meeting new health care demands. He will be only too well aware that his ministerial colleagues the Parliamentary Secretary to the Treasury, the Minister without Portfolio and the Under-Secretary of State for Health have publicly protested about proposed cuts in their constituencies. I do not think that that ever happened under previous Governments, and it stretches ministerial responsibility almost to breaking point.
In Norfolk, there have been widespread protest meetings, petitions and demonstrations against the proposed cuts. That is not the consequence of some out-of-date sense of nostalgia. Local people, including health professionals, value their community hospitals and are unconvinced that alternative health care delivery is a substitute. I have received thousands of letters of protest and petitions, and I have spoken to both health professionals who work at St. Michael's hospital and local general practitioners, and all are united in that view. I have not received one letter, e-mail or verbal representation that favours the proposed cuts or supports the view that an alternative home health care system would be a good substitute.
One of the problems is that people in Norfolk have very little confidence in the PCT. The Minister is probably aware that the current chairman of the PCT, Miss Sheila Childerhouse, was an independent councillor on Breckland district council. She lost her council seat to a candidate who supported the campaign to stop the hospital closure. That says something about local feeling.
The Minister should also be aware that my constituents are pretty well convinced that the consultation exercise that is now being carried out is, in the words of one health professional, "a sham", and that the decision to close St. Michael's has already been reached. In the consultation document, St. Michael's is flagged up as a hospital that may close—I believe that "will close" is the view of most of my constituents.
The idea of closing community hospitals flies in the face of what was said in a letter dated 15 March that I received from the Minister's departmental colleague,
the Minister of State, Department of Health, the right hon. Member for Doncaster, Central (Ms Winterton):
"We are committed to empowering citizens to give them more confidence and more opportunities to influence public services in ways that are relevant and meaningful to them, and in ways that will make a real difference to services."
I am not convinced that closing community hospitals and trying to substitute home-based health care in their place is, in fact, in line with Government policy.
As the Minister knows, many of the problems that we face in Norfolk are a direct consequence of the continual reorganisation of PCTs that has taken place over the past six years. Reorganisation has been incredibly costly, and it has undermined professional morale and public confidence. The Minister will be aware that Norfolk PCT has an annual budget of £900 million but debts of £47 million—it is one of the most indebted PCTs in the country. That is a direct consequence of poor financial management in the past, the impact of Government NHS reforms and, of course, historic debt. Removing the deficit is one of the drivers behind the PCT's proposals, and I accept the fact that it is not the only driver—there is, of course, a genuine desire to improve health care—but the consequence is the likely closure of St. Michael's hospital.
The strategic health authority set the PCT a target to cut the deficit of £47 million by £23 million by the end of March this year, and to clear all the debts by March 2008. I understand that at present the PCT has been able to cut only £3 million. How does the Minister think that it can reduce the deficit? Even if the deficit is reduced, what guarantee is there that it will not be repeated, given the fact that only three years ago, under the previous PCT reorganisation, PCTs Norfolk-wide had debts of nearly £30 million?
It is also relevant to bear it in mind that the Government are urging that alternative health care be provided in the community as a consequence of closing community hospitals. The Times stated yesterday:
"A key target in the Government's health reforms—to have thousands of community nurses treating the most seriously ill patients outside hospital—has been missed",
and that less than 50 per cent. of the required number of nurses are in place. Can the Minister assure me that we will not have a further reorganisation of the PCTs in the lifetime of this Parliament?
My constituents and most Norfolk MPs, regardless of political party, are frustrated that responsibility and accountability for health care in Norfolk are passed around between the Department of Health, the strategic health authority and the PCT—it is like pass the parcel. It is incredibly difficult to get a grip on responsibility. Ministers say that they have devolved budgets and responsibility downwards, eventually to the PCT, yet it is obvious that PCTs are constrained and often lack the kind of professionalism that is required. The result is that my constituents suffer.
So far, my constituents have not been impressed by the PCT's consultation process. At a public meeting held in Aylsham on 23 April, the chairman of the PCT and a senior official were unable to answer some obvious and straightforward questions concerning the future of the hospital, alternative health care provision, redundancies among staff and, given that the
constituency is a rural one, the ensuing transport problems. In proposing the closure of St. Michael's and other hospitals in Norfolk, the PCT hopes to make financial savings, hopes to reduce redundant bed capacity, hopes to concentrate facilities and resources on fewer sites and hopes to meet the Government's policy of providing health care to people in their homes. I emphasise the word "hopes", because so far I have seen little evidence that it will be able to achieve that. Perhaps the Minister will be able to convince me that it will.
Let me remind the Minister of the important services that are currently being delivered at St. Michael's hospital. They include physiotherapy, incontinence clinic, occupational therapy, occupational health, chiropody, speech therapy, women's health, falls clinic, Parkinson's clinic, splint clinic, dietician, Dr. Woodhouse clinic— Dr. Woodhouse is a Norfolk and Norwich University hospital consultant for the elderly—and a district rehabilitation centre consisting of 24 operational bed spaces and six spare bed spaces for emergencies. I know from talking to local health professionals, particularly local GPs, that those services make up a critical mass that provides total health cover 24 hours a day, seven days a week, which, in their considered opinion, health care teams cannot and will not provide.
Many of my constituents have given me examples where elderly relatives stayed at St. Michael's hospital for post-operative recovery. Under the PCT proposals, local doctors have told me that many of those patients would have to be taken directly home without a stay at St. Michael's. If they were to have a relapse, they would find themselves back at the Norfolk and Norwich University hospital, which already has considerable pressure on beds and facilities.
When and if St. Michael's closes, many of my constituents will have to travel to alternative health care centres at Dereham, Holt or Norwich. The Minister may not have travelled in Norfolk, but as I live eight miles west of Aylsham in the market town of Reepham, I can assure him that, to say the least, public transport is not good. The proposed changes to St. Michael's will create major transport problems, particularly for the elderly, and for the journey times of mobile health teams.
The closure of St. Michael's hospital flies in the face of the Government's aim to enhance community health centres. Localism is an important matter for all political parties in relation to not only health care, but many other delivery systems that central Government were expected to provide in the past. None of the proposed changes takes into account the profile of Norfolk's population, let alone the projected population profile. Norfolk primary care trust provides services to a population of more than 700,000. It is an ageing population, and more than one fifth of people are over 65 years old, which is approximately 150,000 people. By 2020, the elderly population of the area will rise to 200,000, which is a quarter of Norfolk's population. Currently, 30.9 per cent. of Aylsham's population is already over 60 years old, which is above average for Norfolk.
The elderly often require many kinds of intense health care, and if St. Michael's hospital, Aylsham and at least two other community hospitals are closed, I suspect that in five or 10 years' time, this Government
or a future Government would want to provide the kind of community facilities that exist now in Aylsham. Such facilities would probably be brought back to Aylsham or near to Aylsham. The Government and the PCT have not taken the age profile of the area into account. Furthermore, within the next 10 years, under local government proposals, Norfolk is likely to have an extra 70,000 houses, which will mean a population increase.
In conclusion, I will ask the Minister a number of questions—I contacted his office to inform him of the questions, because I knew that it would be helpful if he had them in advance. Local people are unconvinced that the proposed home care teams will provide a credible alternative to what St. Michael's currently offers. What is his Department's assessment of Norfolk PCT's proposed plan? When St. Michael's closes, how will the 24-hour services that are currently met, in large part, by the provision at St. Michael's be met by mobile health teams? If patients have to go for treatment in Dereham, Holt and Norwich, what transport facilities will be provided by the PCT or the strategic health authority in addition to those available to individual families, either by using public transport or their own cars? If St. Michael's closes, what are the estimated financial savings over five years?
Meeting health care needs is an expensive business. Governments must continually look at how health care is delivered, and rightly so. There are continuing changes in developments in medicine and in the kind of total package that can be delivered. There must be an assessment of how populations change in an area—some areas effectively lose population while others experience population growth. I accept all those factors, but in 10 years of being an MP I have never known so much deep anger and resentment about proposed closures not only in my constituency, but across Norfolk.
This is not just a question of nostalgia, although that is important. The hospital has received much financial support from voluntary organisations in Aylsham. It was originally a workhouse and then became a war memorial hospital. There has been a lot of local investment in the hospital, but the bottom line is that any changes in health care must, as a minimum, provide the same level of health care as my constituents have now. Any changes should, of course, aim to provide much better health care, and my fear is that, as a consequence of Norfolk PCT's proposals, my constituents in the Aylsham area will receive a reduced level of health care. I hope that the Minister will answer some of my questions.
The Minister of State, Department of Health (Andy Burnham): I congratulate the hon. Member for Mid-Norfolk (Mr. Simpson) on securing the debate. I have no doubts in accepting that this is a matter of great significance to his constituents and I also accept that there is a lot of local attachment and investment in this particular health facility. I accept all of those points and assure him that I appreciate the strength of feeling that he represents.
As the hon. Gentleman acknowledged, these matters are subject to local consultation and as we speak the consultation is a live process. It is not a get-out to say
that the issue is essentially one for local discussion and decision making, and at this point is not a matter for ministerial intervention. I hope that he balances that comment with the further remarks that I will make. If I can, I will also answer the questions put to me.
The hon. Gentleman questioned whether I had often travelled in Norfolk and I assure him that I vividly remember a family holiday to Cromer in the early 1980s—it would be difficult to forget that particular experience. I have also spent many happy afternoons at Carrow Road when following Everton football club, so I have travelled considerably in the area covered by his constituency.
Let us put the debate in context. I know that people allege that Ministers, the Department and, more broadly, the Government are interested in change for change's sake and think that it is good to continually inflict gratuitous change on the system. That is not at all the case. It is self-evidently true that medicine and medical practice continues to change, and the health service and its facilities must keep up with changes in medicine and science. If it does not, it will be left behind and will not provide the best for patients.
Recently, new technology and the latest drugs and treatments can provide faster, safer treatments and faster recovery and greatly reduce the time that people need to stay in hospital, all of which are positive developments. The NHS today and the service that it can provide are different from the services that were first envisaged when the old NHS infrastructure was developed. For example, 10 years ago it would have been common to spend 10 weeks in hospital to recover from a total hip replacement. Now, supported by community staff, most patients can expect to be home within five days—give or take a few days. That example shows that the more we improve the speed with which we can help patients rehabilitate and the more we support patients and get them active, the less the need for in-patient beds and hospital-based services. Although that process of change can be difficult, it should not necessarily be claimed that it is not progress. In my view, it is indeed progress.
The hon. Gentleman asked whether the situation has more to do with deficits. We announced details yesterday of the spending plans of each primary care trust. In the last financial year, Norfolk PCT had a budget of £839,900,000, which will rise to £932,400,000 this financial year. I hope he would agree that that is a significant increase in resources for his local community. As departmental officials tell me, it is very rarely the case that a hospital reconfiguration delivers savings straight away, if that is the intention, in order to address immediate financial problems.
From the work that Sir Ian Carruthers has done within the Department on hospital reconfiguration, and looking across the country, scheme by scheme, he said that, in the vast majority of cases, if not all of them, the schemes were aimed at making better use of resources and providing better services to patients; they were not driven by financial considerations. I hope that the hon. Gentleman will accept that although some of the decisions might be difficult and might be asking people to accept changes to services that they have long known, PCT management and staff need to be supported in making those difficult and often challenging decisions in their local communities.


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February 27, 1929 ~ November 7, 2018 (age 89)
Donald Hoover Mathes passed away peacefully into heaven on November 7, 2018, at the age of 89. Donald had made it clear to his family that he was not afraid of dying because he knew and trusted Jesus Christ as his Lord and Savior.
He was born February 27, 1929 in Coleman Texas to Donald Edgar Mathes and Anna Marie Shepherd Mathes. In addition to his parents, he was preceded in death by his spouse, Patricia Marie Mathes and sister, Margaret Mathes Basquez. He is survived by his three children Donald Duncan Mathes and daughter-in- law Jennifer Mathes of Charlottesville, Virginia; Patricia G. Mathes of Dallas, Texas; Charles Allan Mathes and daughter-in-law Marti Mathes of Houston, Texas. He is also survived by nine grandchildren including Jonathan, Abigail, Daniel, and Megan Mathes of Charlottesville, Virginia; Ashley, John Anthony, and Julianna Burnett of Dallas, Texas; Alexander and Christopher Mathes of Houston, Texas.
Donald was raised predominately in Houston, Texas, but lived in multiple locations before and during World War II while his father served in the army as a tank battalion commander in Europe. He graduated from Rice University in 1951 with a degree in mechanical engineering. He met Patricia Marie Golden while at Rice and they married in 1954. He spent seven years working for Aramco in Saudi Arabia before returning to Dallas, Texas and working in the aerospace industry. He was involved in the development and production of various military jets used during the Vietnam War, including the A-7 Corsair II and F-8 Crusader. Donald also was actively involved with the Dallas Police Reserve. At the end of the Vietnam War, he switched back to the petroleum industry, eventually moving to Norway to work for Stat Oil for 15 years. He retired in 1997 and returned to Coleman, Texas. After a major stroke in 2013, he moved to Charlottesville, Virginia to be under the care of his family.
Donald will be remembered for being kind hearted and for his multiple stories of family history and adventures, including riding his Vincent Black Shadow motorcycle straight through and all night from Staunton, Virginia to Houston and riding his motorcycle across the Arabian Desert. He was a member of the Sons of the American Revolution and a direct descendant of Stephen Hopkins who both helped establish the Jamestown Colony and then returned to England and brought his family back to America on the Mayflower.
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Trump's comments on Russia denounced as 'shocking and dangerous'
Former Nato commander says Republican's comments urging Russia to hack Hillary Clinton's emails were alarming for domestic and international concerns
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Trump: 'Russia, I hope you can find Hillary's missing emails'
A former Nato commander has said Donald Trump's call for Russia to hack and disclose rival Hillary Clinton's emails were "shocking and dangerous".
Retired US admiral James Stavridis said Trump's comments on Wednesday were alarming both for domestic political concerns and their international implications.
"In addition to the obvious domestic political implications of essentially inviting interference in our election, they will further undermine European confidence in the reliability of the US as an ally – particularly in the face of Russian adventurism," said Stavridis, whom Clinton briefly vetted for vice-president.
Amid widespread political speculation about Trump's unusual respect for Russian president Vladimir Putin – the rare foreign figure Trump has not belittled – Trump said at a Wednesday press conference: "Russia, if you're listening, I hope you're able to find the 30,000 emails that are missing."
Other former senior defense officials echoed Stavridis, even as they said they did not wish to wade into a presidential election. Another former senior defense official, who did not want his name used, texted "unbelievable" when asked about Trump.
Trump's comments, encouraging espionage from a foreign power on his domestic political adversary, came as the FBI has opened an investigation into the release of 20,000 emails from the Democratic National Committee (DNC) through WikiLeaks.
Cybersecurity firms believe the emails were acquired over several months of quiet access to the network in 2015 by two Russian hacking teams. The hackers, designated Fancy Bear and Cozy Bear by investigators, are very likely the work of Russian intelligence apparatus, according to CrowdStrike, which analyzed the hack.
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As the political fracas around the DNC hack intensified on Wednesday, the ranking Democrats on the Senate and House intelligence committees made an extraordinary request to Barack Obama: to consider "declassifying and releasing" intelligence assessments of the data breach, even though the FBI's inquiry has just begun.
Senator Dianne Feinstein and Representative Adam Schiff, both California Democrats, pledged their support for the FBI investigation, but said given the prospect that Russia might have engaged in "a state-sponsored attempt to manipulate our presidential election, we believe a heightened measure of transparency is warranted".
The legislators named Putin, the Federal Security Service (FSB) and Russian military intelligence (GRU) specifically in their request and asked for a public airing of assessments that "might illuminate potential Russian motivations" for the interference.
As the FBI investigation unfolds, there is preliminary consensus within the Obama administration that the DNC breach was Russian in origin, but not that it was directed or controlled by the Russian government. One senior official, asked about a potential declassification, remarked: "Maybe figure out what's going on first."
The breach of the DNC by a pair of intruders believed to be Russian operatives has sent shockwaves through the Democratic party and resulted in the ouster of committee chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz, who announced her resignation on Sunday.
Trump's comments on Wednesday, combined with his refusal to release his tax returns, have likely ensured that questions about his unusual openness toward Putin will remain a fixture of the 2016 presidential contest, particularly as Trump has cast doubt on the US honoring its Nato commitments to protect its Baltic allies from Russian aggression. At his Wednesday press conference, Trump also said he would "be looking into" recognizing Russia's conquest of Crimea from Ukraine in 2014 and lifting sanctions against Moscow aimed at pressuring a Russian withdrawal.
Senator Ron Wyden, an Oregon Democrat on the intelligence committee, said that Trump's behavior "wouldn't be believable if he was a character on House of Cards", much less the Republican nominee for president.
"Trump goes out of his way to praise Vladimir Putin, he advocates pro-Russian foreign policy positions – like breaking commitments to America's European allies – and now he's hoping Russia hacked the secretary of state's emails? Anyone who cares about US national security should be truly alarmed about the possibility that this man could be our president," Wyden said.
Despite its confidence that the hackers were Russian spies, CrowdStrike was cautious in attributing the hack to the specific Russian agencies cited in Feinstein and Schiff's letter. Dmitri Alperovitch, head of the firm, has said he has "low-level confidence" that Cozy Bear was the work of the FSB and "medium-level confidence" that Fancy Bear represented Russia's GRU.
The ranking Democrats called the evidence connecting the hackers and the Russian intelligence agencies "convincing", a step the Obama administration, the FBI and the intelligence agencies have yet to take publicly.
The White House and the office of the director of national intelligence did not have immediate comment on Feinstein and Schiff's declassification request. The FBI referred the Guardian to the White House.


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What is UNO? In 1971, by a man named Merle Robbins. He wanted to create a game that closely resembles crazy eights. Even though it was created in the 70's it was not massed produced until 1981. Since its debut, it has become wildly popular for families to play together. Today there are different versions that you can play. There is a UNO attack, where if you don't pick fast enough, it would shoot out a bunch of cards at you.
So, how does one win at this weird game? The main goal of this game is to run out of cards. It's easier said than done though. You have to trick the other players into guessing what you have. You have to have a strategy in how you play your cards. There are several wild cards that can either make you draw more cards, change the color that you need, or reverses the direction of the turns. Thus, you can be prevented from playing any of your cards for a long while.
I love playing this game! My friends and I will get together and play this most of the time. However, when we are nowhere near each other there is an electronic version of UNO that we play. When I was little I begged my family to play with me all the time. most of the time I would kick their butts at the game but it was just fun to watch them get mad.
What is your favorite card game that you like to play?
When I play uno with my friends, they like to seek through the deck and find all the wildcards. Every time they get in a tough spot, bam, they have a wildcard. A bunch of cheaters if you ask me!
I love playing UNO. Now people have turned UNO into a drinking game.
I love to play phase 10! Except for the fact it can take super long.
My favorite game to play is Machi Koro! I love playing UNO too, though!
We used to have so much fun playing uno attack. You never knew when you were going to hit the button and end up with like 8 more cards!
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Q: I want to make random choice but with weights for its values I'm making an RPG loot generator, and I'm trying to make a random choice with weights for each rarity of items. How do I do that?
Item_rarity = ["Common", "Uncommon", "Superior", "Rare", "Legendary"]
Rarity_choice = random.choice(Item_rarity)

I expect that Common = 50%; Uncommon = 30%; Superior = 14%; Rare = 5%; Legendary = 1%.
How do I do that?

A: Use random.choices:

random.choices(population, weights=None, *, cum_weights=None, k=1)
Return a k sized list of elements chosen from the population with
  replacement.
If a weights sequence is specified, selections are made according to the relative weights.

import random

item_rarity = ["Common", "Uncommon", "Superior", "Rare", "Legendary"]
weights = [50, 30, 14, 5, 1]

print(random.choices(item_rarity, weights)[0])
# 'Common'

Note that it returns a list, even if you just want one item, hence the [0] to get the one item in the list.

A: Not the most efficient, but general purpose.
Here we get a list from a dict of {'thing':how_many_times}:
import random

def listProb(adcit):
    res=[]
    for k,v in adcit.items():
        for occur in range(v):
            res.append(k)
    return res

Item_rarity = listProb({'common':50, 'uncommon':30,})
print(Item_rarity)

Rarity_choice = random.choice(Item_rarity)
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Drone Survey at Tilligerry Habitat
A group of us were very privileged to be part of an interesting…
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Spotted Pardalote
We are lucky enough to have a spotted pardalote pair nesting…
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Tilligerry Habitat Biodiversity Survey
Recently we were fortunate to have our new friend Jayme conduct…
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Local Bushland Regeneration Workshop
A valuable day for those interested in bushland regeneration…
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Acmena smithii
Common Name: Lillypilly Description: Tree Flower colour: Cream…
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Acacia myrtifolia
Common Name: Myrtle Wattle Description: Shrub Height:…
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Habitat wins Crown Reserve Trust Manager's Award
On Friday 10th Nov at Marina View in Newcastle over 200 people…
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August in Bloom
August sees a lot of native flowers in the Habitat in full bloom. A walk around the trails is very rewarding. The golden wattle is extensive in certain areas and particularly vibrant in colour.
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Koalas under attack from magpies
It is not only humans that get knocked around by magpies in the…
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What's in bloom in July
With the shortest day only just behind us you would think that there would not be too many plants and trees in bloom but that is far from the case.
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- The Kotoshigiku sumo card is kind of an oddball. He was originally card #06 in the sumo set which I think is numbered according to the rankings of the wrestlers. From his wikipedia page, it looks he moved up in the rankings in January so the SCM card is #03 in the sumo set. Does that make sense?
- Most of the items in the "newsprint" section are difficult for the non-Japanese reader like myself to figure out but one item did stand out - BBM and Nippon Ham are teaming up to produce a set of cards for the Fighters that will be distributed with Nippon Ham's "Home Run Sausage" products starting April 20th. I think there are 68 possible cards in the set. Details are here.
I haven't seen any coverage of this in English but NPB Reddit mentioned the other day that former Nankai Hawks pitcher Kiyohiro Miura has passed away at age 77. I looked up his Japanese wikipedia page and it confirmed that he had succumbed to pneumonia on Sunday in Osaka.
Miura had a 19 year career in NPB, signing with the Hawks prior to the 1957 season out of Beppu Tsurumioka High School. He was sold to the Taiheiyo Club Lions after the 1972 season and he retired at the end of 1975. He coached for the Lions in 1976 and 1977 and later ran a fugu restaurant. His best season was probably 1965 when he went 11-3 and lead the Pacific League in ERA (1.56). He was selected to two All Star teams (1965 & 1966) and played in four Nippon Series (1959, 1964-66).
*The Lions play "Daydream Believer" after every win at Seibu Dome. I'm not sure who the artist on the recording is but it's not the Monkees. You can hear it in this video.
I am frequently asked how I watch Japanese baseball games here in the States. I used to use Justin.tv until Google shut it down a few years back. I then switched to win24tv.com, a Korean site, but I've never been very comfortable with it. I've always said that I would be willing to pay for something like MLB.TV for NPB but there isn't one. There is Pacific League TV but I was never sure about whether or not I could sign up for it without a Japanese address, bank account or credit card and whether or not I could view it from outside of Japan. And rather stupidly on my part, I never attempted to find out for myself.
It turns out that the answer to those questions is "yes, it is possible to sign up for PLTV from outside of Japan with a non-Japanese credit card" and "yes, it is possible to view the games on PLTV from outside of Japan". And it also turned out that it's ridiculously simple to sign up.
The easiest way to sign up is to use a browser that automatically translates Japanese to English (I use Chrome) and go to the PLTV website. There's a red button at the top of the page with text that says "利用登録" which translates to "On registration" (at least on Chrome anyway). NOTE - all the screen shots I'm going to show don't have the automatic translation - just to show how easy it is even without the translation.
Once you click on that, you'll be taken to a page that allows you to select what kind of membership you want. Your options are the "unlimited viewing package" (at either 950 or 1450 yen per month plus tax*), interleague only (flat rate of 1450 plus tax but it's only available from May 31 to June 19) or a single day's games (600 yen). I signed up for the "unlimited viewing package" and was taken to the registration page.
I will point out that PLTV is currently doing a promotion where you can watch for free from now until the end of March so this page currently looks different than the screen shot I'm showing here.
Some of the elements on the registration page have English on them, even if you don't have them automatically translated. The page is long enough that I had to split it up into three screen shots. I'll go over each of them in order.
The red boxes labeled "必須" indicate required fields. The first two fields ("お名前" or "Your name") are your last and first names. The next two fields ("フリガナ" or "Yomi") (which are not required) are apparently used if the kanji version of your name has an alternate reading in hiragana. Since I suspect that most people reading this don't use kanji for their names, just leave these blank. The next field ("性別") is for your gender (obviously) and followed by your birthdate (生年月日) - the fields are for year, month and day. The next field ("お住まいの都道府県") is where you have to lie a little bit - it's for which Japanese prefecture you live in. I didn't see an "outside of Japan" option so I said "Tokyo". The next two fields ("メールアドレス" and "メールアドレス再入力") are for your email address - the second one is to confirm that you typed it into the first one correctly.
The next two fields ("パスワード" and "パスワード再入力") are for your password - again the second field is to confirm what you typed in the first one. The next field ("お好きな球団") asks for your favorite team - all 12 NPB teams are listed, not just the Pacific League ones. The next two fields (which are not required) are how you would specify if you belonged to PL team's fan club. The first field ("球団有料ファンクラブ") is where you select whether or not you're a member. If you select "Member", the second field ("対象球団/会員番号") will ask for which team and what your membership number is. The last field ("決済方法") is where you select your payment type - currently you can only pick credit card ("クレジットカード決済") but when I signed up a few weeks ago you could also pick some sort of e-payment plan offered by Yahoo! or Rakuten.
Once you're filled in all the required fields, click on the red button towards the bottom of the page labeled "利用規約に同意の上、ご入力情報の確認へ進む (Confirm)".
At this point, PLTV will send a confirmation email to the email address you entered above (assuming that they validated everything you entered in the form). That email will contain a link that you'll follow to confirm that you gave them a valid email. At this point you'll be asked to enter your credit card information.
The first field is for the number on your credit card. The next two fields are for the expiration date - month first, then year. The last field is a captcha code to confirm you aren't a robot. Once done, hit the big red button and PLTV will charge your credit card. With the 116 yen tax, the total was 1566 yen which worked out to around $14.
I hope this makes sense and is helpful. It was very simple to do and I'm regretting not having done it previously.
NPB Card Guy was nice enough to let me share my collection with his readers, so here goes.
I collect NPB Rookie Cards of guys who have made the jump to MLB. Whenever possible, I try to acquire Gem Mint graded copies of each player on my wish list.
I've been an avid baseball card collector since I was a kid in the late-80s and my interest in Japanese baseball initiated along with thousands of other Americans – I got caught up in Nomomania.
When Hideo Nomo burst onto the scene in 1995, it blew my mind in so many different ways. His electric stuff, the windup, the foreign language, I was hooked. How could someone from a far away land just appear in MLB and dominate hitters? I needed to know more about this professional league across the world and if there were other talented players like Nomo in Japan.
Gradually, NPB players made the move to MLB over the years and I followed their careers. When I found out these players had NPB cards, that was it, I just had to get my hands on those cards. Ebay was essential, but I've also acquired cards through private sales from other NPB card collectors. I've always collected MLB Rookie Cards, specifically MVP and CY Young Award winners. As I got older and could afford higher priced cards, I began to purchase graded Gem Mint copies for my collection. I decided to replicate this for my new NPB collection.
A few notes on this list. Junichi Tazawa and Dave Roberts were born in Japan, but never played in NPB, so they are not included. Mac Suzuki only played in NPB after his MLB career, he's not really an NPB import, so I didn't include him either.
There are many, many different interpretations collectors have for what constitutes a Rookie Card. My definition is simply the first time a player appears on a licensed card [EDITOR'S NOTE: David clarified that he's looking for the first "flagship" set appearance as the first cards of Aoki, Darvish and Tanaka are from BBM's Rookie Edition sets). For my NPB Rookie Card collection, I always look for BBM cards unless a player's first card was not from BBM.
The guys in bold I have acquired – you can check out those cards in the images accompanying this post. If you have one of the rookies that I don't have in Mint condition, let me know if you are interested in selling it to me in the comments section and maybe we can work out a deal.
The hardest part about acquiring cards for my collection has been the scarcity of Gem Mint graded examples. NPB card collecting is a niche hobby to begin with and few people submit their cards for grading. Some of the players on my list have very few examples graded BGS 9.5 or PSA 10. Kenji Johjima has just one graded Gem Mint rookie card. Others, like Akinori Otsuka, Masato Yoshii, Hisanori Takahashi and Hideki Irabu, have no Gem Mint graded copies. To compile my collection, I will have to purchase ungraded copies that I think are Gem Mint and submit them for grading myself. I've recently acquired ungraded copies of Hideo Nomo, Hiroki Kuroda and Tadahito Iguchi NPB Rookies and will be submitting them to Beckett. In my experience, all three cards should receive Gem Mint grades. Fingers crossed.
In the past two years, as my collection has grown, I've become hooked on NPB baseball. Last March, I visited Japan for the first time and attended games at Seibu Dome, Meji Jingu Stadium and Fukuoka Dome. I had an absolute blast. Between singing (poorly) for home team players, the traditional 7th inning stretch balloon release and robots and cheerleaders on the field, NPB baseball offers an experience unlike anything we have in the states. I'm sure that as my love for NPB grows, my collection will grow with it.
How do you collect Japanese baseball cards and why? I'd love to read about your collection in the comments section. Thanks again to NPB Card guy for the platform and for providing invaluable insight on the hobby.
I'll attest to the difficulties he has in finding cards that meet his standards for grading. I have a couple of the cards that he's looking for (1994 Kazuo Matsui and Tomo Ohka and the 2000 Hisashi Iwakuma) but based on the scans that I sent him, none of the cards would end up being graded "Gem Mint".
I want to thank David for writing the post. It's been a while since I've had a guest post from anyone. If anyone else wants to write an essay on a relevant topic, let me know.
There's a couple World Baseball Classic qualifiers going on this weekend and I was watching last Friday afternoon's game between France and Spain when I heard a familiar name announced. Former Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagle Rhiner Cruz pitched a "perfect" inning (one out in the eighth and two outs in the ninth) for Spain. It was in a lost cause - Spain lost the game 5-3 and was eliminated. I did a little research on Cruz and discovered that this was not the first time he had pitched for Spain - he had previously appeared with them in the 2007 European Championship and Baseball World Cup, the 2008 Olympic Qualification Tournament, the 2009 Baseball World Cup and the 2013 WBC.
Cruz spent around a season and a half with the Eagles, working mostly in middle relief. Baseball card-wise he kind of fell through the cracks - I only know of four Japanese cards of his - 2014 Owners League, 2015 Eagles team-issued set and 2015 BBM Eagles set plus a "bonus" 2014 BBM 2nd Version set included with Sports Card Magazine #106. So he never appeared in a BBM "flagship" set (the SCM card really doesn't count) or Calbee set.
References: Jason's contributions to the Inventory Manager at SportsCardForum and the biography of Cruz at Baseball Reference's Bullpen Wiki.
My copy of this year's Rookie Edition set arrived in the mail the other day and as no surprise, it looks quite a bit like the last few years versions of the set. Rookie Edition is BBM's annual draft pick set featuring the players taken in the previous fall's draft.
This year's edition has 129 cards including 115 player cards for the draft picks. As far as I can tell, the only player taken in the draft not included in the set is Yusuke Matsuzawa who was taken in the third round of the ikusei portion of the draft by Yomiuri (he's not on the Giants roster so I assume he didn't sign with them). There are also two cards that sort of serve as checklist cards for the draft picks - there is a tiny head shot of each player along with his name, draft position and card number. The other 12 cards in the set are the "Then & Now" subset that pair the top pick for each team with some other player from the team either past or present.
This is the eighth Rookie Edition set that I've written about and I pretty much ran out of things to say about it maybe five sets ago. As always, the pictures of the players are posed shots that were probably taken at the press conference their teams held to introduce their draft class. As always, I think it would be much more interesting to show photos of the players in their high school, college, industrial league or independent league uniforms although I understand how that might be a licensing nightmare. What might be the most interesting thing about the set is that with BBM lowering the number of cards in their team sets so that only players on the official 70-man roster appear in them, this might be the only set that most of the ikusei players ever appear in.
I don't mean to sound like I'm down on the set - it's not a bad set. It just kind of is what it is. If you want a set that features the first card of every player taken in the NPB draft then you want to get this set.
UPDATE - forgot to mention that you can see all the cards at Jambalaya (as usual).
BBM did their monthly update of their website yesterday and announced details of eight sets that will be released over the next month or so.
- The big announcement was for this year's 1st Version set which looks a lot like last year's 1st Version set. Once again there will only be 372 cards in the base set - 324 player cards (27 per team), 12 team checklist cards (don't know the theme yet but expect mascots yet again) and 36 "Cross Freeze" cards (for the fifth time in the last seven years, BBM is doing a cross set subset). There are two 12 card insert sets - "Infinite Talent" which features "young stars and note-worthy rookies" and "3D Cross" which features each team's "main star" in some sort of 3-D card. And then there's the usual cornucopia of parallels, autographed cards and memorabilia cards. The set will be released in mid-April.
- The theme of this year's Icons box set is Speed, both on the bases and from the mound. Each box contains 37 cards - a 36 card base set (I think it's three players per team) plus (as usual) one special card - possibly an autographed card or a die-cut card (and maybe even an autographed die-cut card). It appears that the set includes rookie players like Shinnosuke Ogasawara and Junpei Takahashi. It will be out in late March (Jambalaya says the 26th).
- BBM is issuing the first two of their "Autographed Edition" team box sets for the year in the next two weeks - Opening for the Fighters and Dragons Dash for Chunichi (obviously). Both boxes contain 28 cards - a 27 card base set plus one autographed card. One of the cards in the base set in each box will be a parallel card as well. The Fighters set will be out on the 24th while the Dragons set will be out a day later.
- BBM has announced their first four of their pack based team sets for the year. The first two will be released in late March and are for the Eagles and the Giants (which is a bit surprising as usually the Giants set is one of the last team sets to be released each year). The sets for the Tigers and Marines will be released in mid-April. Each set will feature 81 cards in its base set - somewhere between 65 and 69 cards for the manager and players and 12-16 cards in different subsets. Each set except the Giants set has 18 insert cards spread over a couple different sets while the Giants set appears to have 21 insert cards. Each set has various parallels available both for player cards and insert cards - the Giants set appears to have the most elaborate ones. Each set also has autographed cards available but I think only the Giants set has memorabilia cards also.
Last week's edition of the Japan Baseball Weekly podcast featured an interview with former Nippon Ham Fighters player (and current scout) Matt Winters. Winters spent five seasons with the Fighters from 1990 to 1994 when they still called Tokyo home. One thing that Winters mentioned that I found interesting is that when he joined the Fighters he was reunited with someone that he had played with in his first season of professional baseball - catcher Fujio Tamura. The two of them had played together on the 1978 Oneonta Yankees of the New York-Penn League. Since I'm always interested in discovering NPB players who have played in the minors in the US and I had never heard of anyone playing in the Yankees organization, I had to do a little more research.
Tamura had been drafted by the Fighters in the sixth round of the fall 1977 draft out of high school (Kanto Daiichi) while Winters was drafted by the Yankees in the 1st round of the June 1978 draft (#24 overall with a compensation pick the Yankees got from the Red Sox due to Boston signing Mike Torrez as a free agent). Tamura was only with Oneonta for 13 games and I suspect he was only a part time player for those games - he only had 17 plate appearances (11 at bats plus six walks) and had no hits. I'm not sure if the Yankees and Fighters had some sort of working agreement that year - the only two Japanese players on the roster that year were Tamura and infielder Haruhiko Nakano. Nakano got into 20 games but also had no hits in only 14 plate appearances (9 at bats with four walks and a sacrifice). Nakano never played for the ichi-gun Fighters (or any other ichi-gun team) - about all I've been able to find out about him (other than his record in Oneonta) is that he was a sixth round draft pick of the Fighters in the fall 1974 draft out of "Shibata Agriculture" high school. It looks like the Fighters only sent players in 1978 as there are no Japanese players on the 1977 or 1979 rosters (although future Yakult Swallow Rex Hudler was also on the 1978 team).
Tamura didn't debut with the ichi-gun Fighters until 1981 and he became the regular catcher for the Fighters in 1985 and pretty much remained so for the next 10 years. He made the All Star team nine consecutive years from 1986 to 1994 but was pretty much overshadowed for consideration for the Best 9 and Golden Glove awards by Tsutomo Itoh of the Lions - he only won the awards in 1993. He was sold to the Marines in 1996 and then signed with the Hawks as a free agent for the 1997 and 1998 seasons. He's been a coach almost every season since retiring after 1998 - first for the Hawks, then the Fighters, Dragons, Tigers and back to the Hawks where he's been since 2013.
BBM has not updated their website in over a month - there's something like eight sets from them in the pipeline right now (including this year's 1st Version) but I will continue to wait to post anything about them until they put it on their website (you can see the sets for yourself over at Discount Niki and/or Hot Box). In the meantime, there's a couple other releases to talk about.
- Series One from Calbee hits the stores on or around March 21 (that's the official release date but don't be surprised to see them showing up online a few days before that). The base set has 72 player cards (six per team but you already had guessed that) along with 18 "Title Holder" cards, 10 "Legend" cards (for retired players) and four checklist cards (looks like the theme for them is the 2015 post-season). As usual there's a 24 card "Star" insert set (and I'm assuming that it has the gold facsimile parallels but there's nothing on the web page about them). There do not appear to be any "lucky" cards or premium box set available with the set. 3/19 UPDATE - as I speculated, the cards are already available. The 10 card "Legend" subset is actually a premium subset/insert set so the base set is 94 cards (72 player cards + 18 "Title Holder" cards + 4 checklist cards).
- I've been wondering for a while if Epoch somehow acquired Front Runner as the Dragons X Mizuno set that Epoch put out last fall strongly resembled some Front Runner sets from 2014 (and Front Runner hadn't issued any sets since spring last year). Epoch has announced a Lions "Stars & Rookies" set that will be released in April which looks kind of similar to the "Heroes & Rookies" box sets that Front Runner did last spring. The big difference is that the new set is not a box set - it looks kind of like a high end set. Each box (which has an MSRP of 10,800 yen or around $95) contains two mini-boxes. Each mini-box contains five "regular" cards and one autograph card. The base set has 29 cards and there's a myriad of possible autograph cards. It will be interesting to see if Epoch releases similar sets for other teams the way that Front Runner did the last couple years.
Samurai Japan completed their two game sweep over the Taiwanese national team this weekend by beating them 9-3 today in Osaka. The game was fairly close entering the top of the ninth inning with Japan up 3-1 but they then rallied for six runs to blow the game open. The big blow in the inning was a bases loaded triple from Dragons outfielder Ryosuke Hirata which put Japan up comfortably 7-1. This was followed moments later by a two run home run by Yoshitomo Tsutsugo of the Baystars to really seal the deal.
Calbee released their largest set ever (1472 cards) between late 1975 and late 1976. Ryan has done an excellent job of identifying some 26 separate series that the cards were released in although it is believed that the actual number is more like 40. I wanted to highlight one series that he mentioned - the "Star History" cards - that appears to have been issued in late 1975.
The series contained 36 cards numbered 289 to 324. Each card featured a color photo of the player along with an older black and white photo. In some ways these cards resembled the "Boyhood Photos Of The Stars" cards from the 1972 and 1973 Topps sets except that most of these photos showed the player with his high school or college baseball team. There are a couple that show a photo of the player earlier in his NPB career, possibly with a different team than he was on when the card was produced.
Most of the high school names I've listed here are from Google translations of Japanese wiki pages so they may not be correct.
There's a couple interesting things about this sheet. The first thing is the inclusion of two NPB players - Yoshinobu Takahashi of the Giants and Kei Igawa of the Tigers. I know the Yankees played each of these teams in exhibition games before the regular season games so I assume that the sheets were given away at these games as well (not sure if Tampa played any exhibition games). The second thing is that while ostensibly all these cards supposedly are from an Upper Deck set called "First Pitch" (which appears to have been their version of Topps Opening Day and BBM Preview - a smaller set using a similar design to the company's "flagship" set), none of these eight cards actually appear in the set. Obviously you wouldn't expect the Takahashi and Igawa cards in the set but the actual cards of Matsui, Jeter, Huff and Baldelli cards use different photos and Crawford does not actually have a card in the set. Alex Rodriguez's card in the First Pitch set depicts him still playing for the Rangers - he had just been traded to the Yankees on February 16th, barely a month and a half before the Opening Series. I suspect that this is the first baseball card to depict Rodriguez as a member of the Yankees.
The back side of the sheet is taken up by a large shot of Matsui with what looks like a directory of stores in Japan that stocked Upper Deck baseball cards in 2004.
There have been commemorative sheets produced for other MLB Opening Series in Japan but I don't think any of the others are as interesting as this one. In 2000, Fleer produced a sheet for the Mets-Cubs series but it was a simple promotion sheet for their Tradition set - only two of the eight players included were actually on the Cubs (Sammy Sosa) or the Mets (Mike Piazza). The other six players were MLB stars from other teams - Ivan Rodriguez, Mo Vaughn, Derek Jeter, Chipper Jones, Pedro Martinez and Cal Ripken. In 2003 MLB had planned to have the Mariners and Athletics open the season in Japan but called it off due to security concerns with the start of the Second Gulf War. A commemorative sheet was created by Upper Deck and has somehow found its way to the collectors market. The sheet shows eight players - four from the Mariners (Ichiro, Edgar Martinez, Bret Boone and Freddy Garcia) and four from the Athletics (Tim Hudson, Eric Chavez, Barry Zito and Miguel Tejada). All the cards are identical to the corresponding cards in the Upper Deck "MVP" set. The back of the sheet is similar to the 2004 sheet - a directory of Japanese Upper Deck dealers superimposed over a picture of Ichiro.
MLB has opened the season in Japan on two other occasions - 2008 (Red Sox and Athletics) and 2012 (Mariners and Athletics). I have not seen any commemorative sheets for those series but I don't know that there aren't any.


In the mood for some music that makes your hair stand on end and feel every possible type of emotion all at once?
Well, classical singer Andrea Bocelli is coming to Abu Dhabi for one night only and he can do just that.
The tenor will be memorising the crowds at du Arena on April 26 with a mix of old and new material, featuring famous operatic arias and hits from Sì, his first album of new material in 14 years.
This recent record also includes the spine-tingling duet Fall On Me, which stars his 20-year-old son Matteo Bocelli.
And it will be performed for the first time here in Abu Dhabi.
The singer has sold 85 million records throughout the world, performing for royalty, Presidents and Popes, and in some of the greatest concert halls and opera houses across the globe.
Bocelli describes himself as "a modern, yet old-fashioned tenor" with the ability to appeal to everyone.
He has wowed audiences at major international events such as the Olympic Games and his own sell-out arena shows.
His unparalleled singing prowess has also lead him to win a Golden Globe, seven Classic Brit and seven World Music Awards, plus a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
Meanwhile, he has collaborated with a host of pop stars and singers such as Céline Dion, Tony Bennett, Ed Sheeran, Ariana Grande, Jennifer Lopez, Nicole Scherzinger, and many more.
Tickets start from Dhs395 and go on sale at noon on Wednesday February 27 from www.ticketmaster.ae and at all Virgin Megastores across the UAE.
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New castle in town
By triman
September 2nd, 2009 @ 11:50 AM City Life,Real Estate
It's a church, now a castle
For well over a year work has been going on at the site of the former San José Catholic Church and more recently, Greek Orthodox "Holy Name of Mary" church and St. Hilarion Monastery in the Bouldin Neighborhood on the corner of W Mary and S 3rd St. At least according to this listing on homeaway.com, it's finally finished.
The owner, and architects Urban Nature Inc. have taken some bold steps in turning the old single story church, into a "castle". The materials used are complimentary to the original church, which dates back to the 1930's. Bouldin neighborhood is home to some of Austins oldest residential homes, and also some of the most ecclectic and unusual properties in town, and this further diversifies the local building styles.
Local neigthborhood activist and Austin Neighborhoods Council President, Cory Walton has been keen on establishing Bouldin as a local historic district, while at the same time being home to some of the cities most innovative. Take a tour care of the homeaway website, or drive down and have a look, make up your own mind, Castle or monster??
Got friends visiting from out of town for ACL, I have. I don't think mine could afford the $1500/ night 4 night minimum, but it's still available!


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Kosmos Energy: New chairman and chief executive officer
Issue 269 - 16 Jan 2014
Kosmos Energy has appointed Andrew Inglis as board chairman and chief executive with effect from 1 March, enabling current chief executive Brian Maxted to focus on his exploration role. Maxted, a founding partner of Kosmos, will serve as chief exploration officer and remain on the board, while current board chairman John Kemp will retire. Inglis joined Petrofac in January 2011 after 30 years with BP, most recently as chief executive of its exploration and production business.
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Memorial University Faculties, Schools and Divisions
Grenfell Campus
School of Science and the Environment
Environmental Policy Institute
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Abdulai, Abdul-Rahim (2018) Motivating the future farmers? Understanding farmer attraction and retention policy interventions in Newfoundland and Labrador's agriculture. Masters thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.
Adepeju, Ibrahim Zainab (2018) Managing climate risks in Africa: insights from South Africa and Ethiopia. Masters thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.
Affram, Amanda Dansoa (2021) Knowledge and perceptions of climate change among smallholder farmers in Ghana and the role of local ecological knowledge in climate change adaptation. Masters thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.
Ahmed, Redwan (2017) New insights on the long-run relationship between economic growth and environmental quality. Masters thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.
Allen, Tsai J. (2017) Responding to stakeholder concerns regarding potential hydraulic fracturing in western Newfoundland. Masters thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.
Asante, Edward Oteng (2021) Business responses to climate change: a case study of selected organizations in Newfoundland. Masters thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.
Ature, Abdul- Rasheed Abubakari (2022) Local engagement and success of small-scale renewable energy projects in remote areas: insights from Ramea's wind energy projects. Masters thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.
Bauer, Ilka and Bowers, W. W. and Carson, Sara and Carter, Angela V. and Daniels, Karen and Levesque, Mario and Pike, Candice and Pottle, Susan and Randell, Terry and Sabau, Gabriela (2010) Response to Newfoundland & Labrador Public Discussion Document "Climate Change: Responding to Climate Change in Newfoundland & Labrador". Project Report. Environmental Policy Institute.
Bayramov, Elmaddin (2021) A quadruple helix approach to the Regional Innovation System in Corner Brook and surrounding area: case study of a local innovation project applying waste heat from Corner Brook Pulp & Paper Limited for greenhouse operations. Masters thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.
Blankson, Genevieve Kuntu (2021) Implementation of climate change adaptation in small municipalities in Newfoundland: process and barriers. Masters thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.
Boksh, F. I. M. Muktadir (2015) Muskrat Falls hydroelectric generating project: develop an integrated approach to assess sustainability. Masters thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.
Brushett, Rebecca D. E. (2018) Mapping socio-ecological values: the use of geospatial tools to make informed decisions on the marine and coastal management areas surrounding Gros Morne National Park, Newfoundland. Masters thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.
Butters, Leanna (2016) Fly-in/Fly-out Mobility in Source Hub Communities: Potential Implications for Community Sustainability. In: Canadian Association of Geographers Annual Conference, May 30-June 4, 2016, Halifax, Nova Scotia.
Butters, Leanna (2016) Fly-in/Fly-out Mobility in Source Hub Communities: Potential Implications for Community Sustainability [in the Canadian Context]. In: Canadian Rural Revitalization Foundation Annual Conference, October 12-15, 2016, Guelph, Ontario.
Butters, Leanna (2018) Identifying the built space impacts of fly-in-fly-out employment-related geographical mobility in Deer Lake, Newfoundland and Labrador. Masters thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.
Butters, Leanna and Hall, Heather and Halseth, Greg and Ryser, Laura and Vodden, Kelly and Markey, Sean (2019) Policy Synthesis: Community Impacts of Labour Mobility. Research Report. Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador.
Butters, Leanna and Hall, Heather and Vodden, Kelly (2019) Mobile Work in Happy Valley-Goose Bay. Research Report. Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador.
Butters, Leanna and Hall, Heather and Vodden, Kelly (2019) Mobile Work in Labrador West. Research Report. Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador.
Butters, Leanna and Hall, Heather and Vodden, Kelly (2019) Mobile Work in the Clarenville-Isthmus area. Research Report. Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador.
Butters, Leanna and Hall, Heather and Vodden, Kelly (2018) Mobile work in the Straits and South Coast. Research Report. Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador.
Butters, Leanna and Jean, S. and Vodden, Kelly and Khattab, S. (2017) Forum on Housing and the Mobile Workforce in Newfoundland and Labrador: Final Report. Project Report. Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador.
Butters, Leanna and Vodden, Kelly and Hall, Heather (2018) The Community Impacts of E-RGM Communities and the Muskrat Falls Project. In: Conference, February 22, 2108, Happy Valley Valley-Goose Bay, NL. (Submitted)
Carter, Angela V. and Kelly, Erin and Levesque, Mario and Mintz, Eric and Pottle, Susan and Pritchett, Newton and Temple, Katie (2011) All Party Green Agenda Newfoundland & Labrador 2011 Provincial Election. Project Report. Environmental Policy Institute.
Chireh, Vincent Kuuteryiri (2018) Exploring a regional approach in drinking water management in the Strait of Belle Isle, Newfoundland and Labrador. Masters thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.
Curtis, (John) Conor (2020) Climate change's social justice ramifications for NL and related policy implications. Masters thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.
Daniels, Jen and Vodden, Kelly (2015) Sunnyside Drinking Water Project: Examining Chlorinated Disinfectant By-products, Resident Perceptions and Practices, and Municipal Responses in Securing Safe Drinking Water in the Town of Sunnyside NL. Research Report. Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador.
Dev, Tithy (2021) An empirical analysis of urbanization and energy consumption in the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation Countries. Masters thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.
Diao, Yingzhong (2016) A methodology for assessing the adaptive capacity of the forest sector in western Newfoundland. Masters thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.
Dicker, Jason K. M. (2020) Using integrated resource management and the public trust doctrine to examine wildlife management practices in northern Labrador: a case study on the George River caribou hunting ban. Masters thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.
Dosu, Benjamin (2016) Resource grabbing in the global south: a comparative analysis of land, water and ocean grabbing. Masters thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.
Edu, Banjo Afeez (2016) Enhancing environmental regulations through public policies on corporate social responsibility (CSR): a case study of the offshore oil and gas industry in Eastern Newfoundland. Masters thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.
Eledi, Seth Bomangsaan (2019) Examining policy implementation gaps in source water protection in Newfoundland and Labrador. Masters thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.
Foley, Paul (2012) Book Review: F. Gale and M. Haward, 2011. Global Commodity Governance: State Responses to Sustainable Forest and Fisheries Certification. Global Environmental Politics, 12 (2). pp. 120-122. ISSN 1536-0091
Foley, Paul (2012) National Government Responses to Marine Stewardship Council (MSC) Fisheries Certification: Insights from Atlantic Canada. New Political Economy, 18 (2). pp. 284-307. ISSN 1469-9923
Foley, Paul and Mather, Charles and Neis, Barbara (2013) Fisheries allocation policies and regional development: Successes from the Newfoundland and Labrador shrimp fishery. Project Report. The Harris Centre, St. John's, Newfoundland.
Foley, Paul and Mather, Charles and Neis, Barbara (2015) Governing enclosure for coastal communities: Social embeddedness in a Canadian shrimp fishery. Marine Policy, 61. pp. 390-400. ISSN 0308-597X
Foley, Paul and McCay, Bonnie (2014) Certifying the commons: eco-certification, privatization, and collective action. Ecology and Society, 19 (2). ISSN 1708-3087
Foley, Paul and Okyere, Dinah A. and Mather, Charles (2018) Alternative environmentalities: recasting the assessment of Canada's first Marine Stewardship Council-certified fishery in social terms. Ecology and Society, 23 (3). ISSN 1708-3087
Fox, Carolyn (2013) Implementing Forest Certification on Newfoundland and Labrador Crown Lands: An Evaluation of Government and Industry Perspectives. Other. Memorial University of Newfoundland. (Unpublished)
Friedetzky, Claudia (2022) Evaluating the readiness of three States in the Northeastern United States to adapt important natural resources systems to climate change: practical and theoretical considerations. Masters thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.
Gosse, Michelle (2019) Forestry innovation in western Newfoundland: Lyocell and diversification at Corner Brook pulp and paper limited. Masters thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.
Hall, Heather and Walsh, Jacqueline and Vodden, Kelly and Greenwood, Rob (2014) Challenges, Opportunities and Strategies for Advancing Innovation in Newfoundland and Labrador. Project Report. The Harris Cnetre, St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador.
Hanrahan, Maura and Dosu, Benjamin and Minnes, Sarah (2016) Government and Community Responses to Drinking Water Challenges and Crises in Rural Newfoundland and Labrador: Final Project Report. Project Report. Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador.
Hassan, A B M Enamol (2018) Rethinking the participatory approach in community-based forest management to strengthen community sustainability in rural Bangladesh: a case study. Masters thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.
Holisko, Stephen (2017) Community watershed management in Newfoundland and Labrador: successes, challenges, capacity-building, future directions. Masters thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.
Holisko, Stephen and Speed, David and Vodden, Kelly and Sarkar, Atanu (2014) Developing a community-based monitoring program for drinking water supplies in the Indian Bay Watershed: A baseline study of surface water quality, contamination sources and resident practices and perceptions. Project Report. The Harris Centre.
Islam, Jannatul (2017) How can natural resource dependent social enterprises facilitate community sustainability? Insights from fishery and forestry cases in Newfoundland and Labrador. Masters thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.
Kelly, Erin (2012) Experiments in Rural Development and Ecosystem-based Management: the Possibilities of Community Forestry in Newfoundland. Project Report. Harris Centre.
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Levesque, Mario and Kelly, Erin and Novakowski, Nick and Parpia, Osman and Hancock, Kim and Ganz, Shoshannah and Philpott, Tom and Curtis, Gerard and Pottle, Susan (2010) Response to Corner Brook Pulp & Paper Tire Derived Fuel (TDF) Co-Firing Trial Project Proponent: Corner Brook Pulp & Paper Ltd. (Reg. 1539). Project Report. Environmental Policy Institute.
Lowery, Brennan (2020) 'Knowing beyond measurement': integrating sustainability indicators and storytelling in an alternative approach to sustainable development in rural Newfoundland and Labrador. Doctoral (PhD) thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.
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Mercer, Nicholas (2016) Barriers to renewable energy development in Newfoundland and Labrador: a case study of wind energy applying the 'AKTESP' framework for analysis. Masters thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.
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Okusipe, Obafemi McArthur (2017) Implementation and evaluation of biodiversity conservation policies in Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. Masters thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.
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Schuelke, Sanja Ramona (2014) The effects of the economic crisis on environmental policy-making. Masters thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.
Sultana, Naznin (2020) Food policy and food security: a potential impact of food policy on household food security in rural Bangladesh. Masters thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.
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Uthman, Rashidatu Mohammed (2020) The role of mining in community sustainability in Newfoundland and policy implications: a case study of Baie Verte. Masters thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.
Vodden, Kelly and Minnes, Sarah (2014) Exploring Solutions for Sustainable Rural Drinking Water Systems: a study of rural Newfoundland & Labrador drinking water sytems. Project Report. The Harris Centre, St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador.
Whyte-Jones, Kimberley (2016) Public participation best practices in environmental decision-making in Newfoundland and Labrador - analyzing the forestry management planning process. Masters thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.
Yankey, Ignatius Kobbina (2021) The politics of carbon pricing in Canada: a case study of Ontario stakeholders participation and deliberation in Canada's federal carbon pricing policy process. Masters thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.
Zhang, Liqiu (2018) Incorporating climate change into inland fisheries management and policy development: a systematic review. Masters thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.


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est une chanson sortie en 1952 écrite par Hank Williams. Enregistrée le , elle est reprise par Jerry Lee Lewis, Roy Orbison, The Grateful Dead, Bob Dylan, les Rolling Stones et Martina McBride.

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Single musical sorti en 1952
Chanson interprétée par Hank Williams
Chanson écrite par Hank Williams
Chanson interprétée par Jerry Lee Lewis
Chanson interprétée par Grateful Dead
Chanson interprétée par Bob Dylan
Single des Rolling Stones
Single publié par RCA Records
Single publié par MGM Records
Chanson interprétée par les Rolling Stones
Chanson interprétée par Martina McBride

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