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Iceberg Alley Performance Tent – Day 9 – IN PHOTOS
By Tara Thompson on June 29, 2022
Iceberg Alley Performance Tent Day 9: June 24, 2022 with Kim Mitchell, Honeymoon Suite & The Northern Pikes Day 9 was an exciting night in...
Honeymoon Suite releases new single, "Find What You're Looking For"
By Jenna Melanson on August 12, 2020
Canadian classic rockers Honeymoon Suite are back with their new single, "Find What You're Looking For" from their upcoming album. It has been eagerly ushered...
Honeymoon Suite releases video for "Tell Me What You Want"
By Jenna Melanson on November 18, 2019
Canadian classic rockers Honeymoon Suite are back with a brand new single, "Tell Me What You Want", from the band's upcoming album, set for release...
IN PHOTOS – Rock Ambleside Park 2019 – Day 1
By Connor Payne on August 17, 2019
Day one of the Rock Ambleside Park three day music festival was a great success and the perfect start to a full weekend of North...
Want to play Roxodus Music Fest? Online application deadline is fast approaching!
By Nicole Wolfe on April 18, 2019
The inaugural Roxodus Music Fest will be taking place from July 11 – 14, 2019 at the Edenvale Airport located in Clearview Township, only 1.5 hours...
Country and rock in the spotlight at Bluewater Borderfest
By Emily Plunkett on August 1, 2018
Artists of all stripes took the 402, 401, 403 and even the Bluewater Bridge to descend upon Sarnia's Centennial Park this weekend for the second...
Bluewater Borderfest coming back for a second year in Sarnia
By Emily Plunkett on May 24, 2018
After a long summer music festival drought that began with the cancellation of Bayfest, the people of Sarnia, Ontario are gearing up for the second...
Dauphin's Countryfest 2018 second round of artists is announced
By Nanci Dagg on February 17, 2018
More memories can be made and great music can be heard as Dauphin's Countryfest celebrates 29 years as Canada's longest-running country music festival. On February...
Celebrating the end of summer festivals with Feast Fest in London, ON
By Nicole Wolfe on September 28, 2017
It is hard to believe that summer festival season has come to a close! The staff at Canadian Beats live for attending summer music festivals...
Rock Ambleside Park – Photo Review – Day 2
Day two of Rock Ambleside Park kicked off yesterday in beautiful West Vancouver with the sun shining, the ocean breeze blowing, and the heavy metal...
Feast Fest Midland & Ontario 150 Tour Draw Record Crowds
By Linda Heldman on July 28, 2017
Now that the World's Largest Rubber Duck has flown on from Midland, organizers of Feast Fest and the Ontario 150 Tour are taking a look at...
Highlights from Day 2 of Feast Fest in Midland
By Nicole Wolfe on July 25, 2017
Day 2 of Feast Fest in Midland brought more local talent to the stage all Saturday long, including That Party Band, and 17-year old guitar slayer, Ayden...
Survey says… Musicians weigh in on their favourite festival foods
Feast Fest is one of the many festivals taking place across Canada this summer that is celebrating Canadians' love for both good food and drinks...
Five Questions with From The Ruins
From The Ruins, a heavy alternative rock band from Barrie, ON, have been raising the bar in their local scene for quite some time. More...


While moving from a traditional marketing environment to a digital one, businesses today want to know which of their advertisements generate the most number of calls from customers. However, the success of a marketing channel or an individual ad cannot be limited to the number of calls it generates. It also requires an insight into the calls that will ultimately lead to sales—the end goal of any advertisement. But when a consumer moves from the digital world to a phone call, the lead is lost between the online and offline territories, resulting in lack of visibility into their calls. UT-based firm Convirza bridges this gap via its trailblazing call auditing software, Conversation Analytics® services. The software helps marketers not only attribute phone calls to specific marketing efforts but also analyze the call content to gain deeper insights. Convirza uncovers hidden revenue opportunities and completes the marketing loop.
Conversation Analytics® services go beyond traditional methods like keyword spotting and look at combinations of phrases or words, plus 45 additional indicators, used throughout a call to identify the natural language and harvest more value out of each phone call. Drawing on their vast experience, the Convirza team built a massive library comprising more than 400 Thousand unique combinations of language patterns. Based on the analysis of these patterns alongside other contextual queues including nuances like voice modulation, inflection, silence gaps, volume, and more, the firm's proprietary software establishes 45 distinct phone call indicators that are proven to deliver optimal accuracy in the industry.
In context, Convirza's CEO, Jeremiah Wilson points out that people across industries use various terms in their phone conversations. "What we do is take samples of different calls from our clients, run them through our software system, evaluate their accuracy, and if required, we make custom language modifications to ensure our language pattern is perfect for each customer," he explains.
Furthermore, Convirza adds a bunch of languages to support specific types of verticals like hospitality or the automobile industry.
Another unique capability of the technology is that it detects instances of a missed opportunity—for example, if a customer voices a strong buying language, but the agent fails to handle it properly. In such cases, Convirza immediately sends automated notifications to the manager or marketing director asking them to reanalyze the call so they can recover the customer. "We help sophisticated marketers make better decisions, improve close rates, and increase revenue," said Wilson.
Notably enough, the firm's SaaS platform integrates with Google Analytics, DoubleClick, and Salesforce, enabling clients to track their calls and aggregate the data therein to obtain full visibility into each step taken by the customer, from the web visit all the way to the phone call. Several clients also harness this data for digital advertising by infusing it into their bid management platform so that they can optimize bid patterns around calls that actually translate into customers.
Wilson highlights a client working in a franchise system that faced major trouble in handling calls efficiently, placing them in the 46th position among the 50 franchises. Within a year's time of partnering with Convirza, the company received the number one recognition award for its entire fleet of businesses. Convirza took them from the bottom to the top by helping them optimize their marketing workflow as well as handle phone calls while adding visibility into the overall process.
Bracing for the coming year, team Convirza ventures into a data-driven role with the goal to keep upgrading the ability for clients to derive rich insights out of any and all of their marketing channels and programs.


These giant chocolate malted milk balls from South Bend Chocolate Company are to die for! We pack them in this large Christmas porcelain mug for a delightful treat!
Perfect for hostess, teacher, co-worker or friend, we wrap and decorate with seasonal decor and handmade bow.


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In the light of developments and the impact of the coronavirus, the Australian Music Association, organiser of the Melbourne Guitar Show, which was scheduled for August 1 & 2, 2020 has announced the postponement of the August event.
The Guitar Show, which has become a crowd and music industry favourite, is in its 6th year at Caulfield Racecourse. It features displays by over 50 exhibitors, employs over 60 artists and attracts crowds of up to 5000 enthusiasts.
The association has been investigating the possibility of a re-scheduled date later in the year, possibly October, and will continue to do so, but is preparing for the eventuality that this may not be possible.
This decision comes after consulting partners, stakeholders and the industry who we have been in conversation with over the past week or so as the situation has developed.
The AMA's Rob Walker said "We are all very sad and disappointed to make this announcement. The Melbourne Guitar Show is a rare opportunity for our industry to showcase both its instruments and gear and all of the fine artists that use them. It provides a boost to musical instrument suppliers and retailers, attracting local and interstate exhibitors, as well as to the live performance sector, so we hope we can look forward to identifying a future date that we can celebrate with our industry and our audience safely".
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08 Best News Apps for Android and iPhone
Mobile phones have become the hub for information aggregation. Everything we need is found right at our convenience. This has produced it simpler to keep ourselves modified with the events of the world more than ever before. There is an unmatched number of applications existing nowadays which help us to find the news tailor-made just for us.
However, sometimes you will get too many options and can be as bad as having none at all. It becomes hard to select from the countless choices existing and trying a ton of applications to find out something which matches your particular needs is just a time-consuming stress.
Best News Apps For Android And iPhone Smartphones
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Conclusion: best news apps
So, here are the 5 best news apps for Android and iPhone you can get today:
The people at the News Republic, who designed one of the most well-known news apps, it really captured the minds and hearts of news lovers when they released a news only app known as Appy Geek. It comes pre-subscribed to various technology sites and it is the best function of this app assisting you to start using the app as soon as you set it up. Of course, you get the capability to handle your subscribers in the configurations selection so that you can customize the feed as per your preference.
Flipboard is an increasingly well-known news aggregator and appropriately so. It has today's UI which uses a different approach when it comes to directing the app. you flip the pages instead of scrolling through the app, Although, you can use this app to register to any kind of data, using it particularly for Tech news is not an awful concept.
Unlike Flipboard, Feedly is an appropriate RSS feed audience that makes it really easy to register to your favourite technology resources. When you release the app, you can just select the Tech choice and you will get a list of well-known technical news marketers you can register to. If you cannot find out your favourite resource on the list, just search for them and add them to the list.
Among all News apps, it is an easy app which helps you to register to different sites and provide their content through its app. It is a fairly primary app but does well when it comes to getting the feed. One of the improvements of the app is that not only it reveals you the news of the content, it also reveals all the sound content released on the sites you adhere to. It also has a built-in black method.
For the newest in breaking news, there's probably no better resource than the Associated Press. The AP Mobile news apps refresh consistently and the list of rolled-out experiences are provided in a stripped-down style for convenient surfing around. It's not the most fashionable or visible of the news applications, but it's great for fast-breaking experiences.
If you've ever found an article that you'd like to save for later, Pocket is the ideal app for the job. When you save an article to Pocket, the app downloading it to your various devices; when you end up with a bit of free time, you can fire up Pocket and dig into your selected studying list. Pocket strips down each story for a simple, stylish look, but you can also look at the content in its original web format if you want.
This news app facilitates live streaming of news videos. It allows you watch video news and look the newest experiences simultaneously. The video player can be resized by the customer by changing the device to scenery or image method. If you are a fan of a Fox new reporter or a TV show, you can adhere to and get updates from them through the app.
This news app function more like a conventional create newspaper: stories are modified twice a day, with morning hours and mid-day version. Customers get the top 10 stories provided with each upgrade, and stories are usually about two sections lengthy. Compared with many applications that allow users to customize their news nourishes, Yahoo News is firmly created. It's not trying to estimate what experiences might attention you; it's providing the important news to know. The stories are selected both algorithmically and by individual marketers, and you get a notice when your digest is prepared.
Even if you're out and about, you never need to be out of contact. A large number of applications are available to keep you up to date on breaking news and the newest news. As long as you have your iPhone or Android system with you, you're all set. Let's take a look at the aforementioned 8 best news apps to keep you informed.
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Clumpies Ice Cream will host the grand opening of its Southside location, located inside the Grand Hotel building at 1401 Market St., on May 18 from 4-9 p.m. Live music will begin at 4 p.m. with performances from local artists Tryezz, The Party Truck and Superbody. The shop doors will open at 4:30 p.m. Everyone who attends the event will receive a free ice cream cone or cup. In addition to live entertainment, food trucks, vendors and artist BlackCatTips are all scheduled to be onsite.
Clumpies plans to close 14th Street from Williams Street to Market Street for a block party with local food vendors including 2 Sons Kitchen, Taqueria Jalisco and Good Dog. Drink options will include cold brew coffee concoctions from Mad Priest Coffee, Chattanooga Whiskey and other local beers, as well as cocktails featuring Clumpies ice cream.
Kyle Brooks, also known as BlackCatTips, will create a mural inside the new ice cream shop during the opening, while also working with guests on a large chalk art piece on 14th St. Brooks is a painter and muralist from Georgia.
The sixth annual Little Owl Festival will return to Audubon Acres on Saturday, May 19, with a number of additions – including the sanctuary's first-ever trail race. Little Owl's Race for Wildlife 5K will feature a beginner-friendly course alongside the canopied South Chickamauga Creek.
Following the awards ceremony, there will be live music, food trucks, craft vendors, nature hikes and live animal exhibitions, such as a falconry demonstration and the release of a rehabilitated hawk.
The race begins at 10 a.m.; registration will start at 9 a.m. Festival hours are 11 a.m.-6 p.m.
The Chattanooga Zoo will host its annual Spirits in the Wild event on Saturday, May 19 from 6-10 p.m. The evening will include animal encounters, live music, a cigar lounge, craft beer and wine tastings and samples of different cuisines from Chattanooga restaurants.
The Chattanooga Heroes Run/Walk, presented by Erlanger's Level One Trauma Center, will take place on Saturday, July 14 beginning at 8 a.m. The event will include a five-mile loop course beginning at the Naval Operational Support Center and Marine Corps Reserve Center and ending at the Hubert Fry Center at the Tennessee RiverPark. Parking will also be available at the RiverPark. Volunteers are needed to assist with pre-run bag packing, set up, race activities, the kids run and post-run clean-up. The proceeds from this event will help to fund the construction of a permanent memorial space at the RiverPark.


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Across the curriculum: ideas for other activities
This section includes ideas for other curriculum areas, like role-play techniques in drama classes. Where appropriate, additional references have been provided, but many of the resources are already in this package. For example, to do role-plays during dramatic arts activities, use the case studies in the Students' handouts.
Have the class research language that has been used to define human rights since the mid 1950s. How has it changed? Have new words and expressions been created? Have the meanings of words altered over time?
Organize a debate on the merits of freedom of speech and belief versus the right to protection from discrimination. However, approach this activity with caution. It is important to give both sides of the discussion equal consideration, and to treat the feelings and rights of everyone with the utmost care and sensitivity.
Have the group discuss the question: Where do the rights of the individual end and those of the group begin? Should this boundary change in certain cases? Encourage students to read one or more books related to human rights, such as Joy Kogawa's Obasan, Timothy Findlay's Not Wanted on the Voyage, Lawrence Hill's Book of Negroes.
Have students keep a journal where they can reflect on the human rights issues covered in this package.
Encourage students to write poems, plays or short stories about incidents involving human rights issues that either they, their friends or their families have encountered. They may expand this activity by starting a class or school human rights newsletter.
Connect with the Living Rights Project: Have your students submit articles, essays, poems, creative writing songs, videos or any other creative endeavour, on human rights in Ontario, or on their personal experience related to one of the Code grounds. This project is an online "living library" that is designed to be a helpful classroom tool that adds a human face to human rights issues. For more details, go to the OHRC website at www.ohrc.on.ca/en/learning/living_rights.
Students can research and develop an improvisation based on an actual human rights case. Case summaries in this package include:
BC (Public Service Employee Relations Commission) v. BC Government and Service Employees Union (Meiorin)
Kyle Maclean v. The Barking Frog
Maria Vanderputen v. Seydaco Packaging Corp. and Gerry Sanvido (No. 2, 3 and 4)
Cameron v. Nel-Gor Castle Nursing Home
Marc Hall v. Powers
Eldridge v. British Columbia (Attorney General)
Huck v. Canadian Odeon Theatres
Noffke v. McClaskin Hot House
Pandori v. Peel Board of Education
Québec and Mercier v. City of Montréal
Youth Bowling Council of Ontario v. McLeod.
Have senior-level students create a contemporary, interactive dramatic presentation to help their peers and younger students learn about the different types of discrimination and why the Ontario Human Rights Code exists.
Students might compare Canada's human rights legislation to similar legislation in other countries. This activity will probably require a good deal of research. They can create a title for the final piece and present it at a school or class drama festival. You might consider videotaping the production. If you make a video, again consider submitting it to the OHRC's Living Rights Project.
Students could chart the demographic histories of various racial and ethnic groups in Ontario, such as Aboriginal Peoples, people of African or Chinese descent. They might also look at shifts in Ontario's multicultural population since 1945. Do our social institutions acknowledge and reflect our cultural diversity?
How has society's understanding of the concept of family changed, and what effect is this having on human rights?
What social changes have come about since more women have entered the workforce?
Why do we need special programs designed to relieve hardship or economic disadvantage or to assist disadvantaged persons or groups to achieve equal opportunity? The class may present debates, simulated interviews and videos advertising the benefits of such programs. Consider submitting your students' work to the Living Rights Project.
Have students review the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms and the Constitution of the United States and look at the rights guaranteed to people living in each country. They could then develop a list of rights and protections outlined in each country and discuss the advantages and disadvantages of each system.
Students could research the reasons for the development of the United Nations' Universal Declaration of Human Rights, and explore its value to Canadian society since its introduction. For more information, see the Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt Institute's website at http://rooseveltinstitute.org.
Why has the human rights movement developed since the 1940s?
What happened in society during that time?
What do you think is different when you compare society today and society in the 1950s?
The Living Rights Project includes a history section, where students can see people talking from personal experience about the changes in our society. For example,
see the video "Jean Augustine – A job, a home, but not to you."
Have students monitor the media for its coverage of human rights issues. Keep a journal for a one-week period noting what gets coverage on radio or television. Save clippings from the local newspapers. What is the "spin" that the reporter takes? Does it take a pro human rights position?
Have students review some local newspaper classified ads. Do broadcast and print ads reflect the principles of human rights as they understand them? They could create a survey with appropriate questions and find out what others think.
What is the relationship between propaganda and the rights and freedoms of individuals and groups? How is this debate expressed in the news media? For more information on this topic, see the web site: www.mediasmarts.ca.
The Living Rights Project also includes some interesting stories about how human rights pioneers used the media to make change happen. For example, see the video clip featuring Alan Borovoy: "No room for your coloured maid."
Encourage your students to collect songs and music inspired by the human rights movement. Bring in your own collection and listen to the music selections with the class. How many Canadian compositions relate to this topic?
Have students write lyrics and compose music for an original song that expresses their beliefs about human rights. It you videotape these, consider submitting the videos to the Living Rights Project.
Visual arts and multi-media
Symbols are powerful tools. Can students identify local, national and international symbols connected with human rights? As a class, group or individual project, ask them to create a visual interpretation of the meaning of human rights. Ask them to share their talent by submitting their work to the Living Rights Project – and while they are there, check out the oil painting of the service dog!
Human rights activities in your school
Encourage students to start a club or association in your school to deal with social issues. The following objectives could be incorporated into the club's mission statement:
To raise awareness of local, national and international issues concerning human rights
To take a proactive role in stopping and preventing harassment and discrimination within the school and community environment.
All school boards in Ontario are now required to develop and implement policies on equity and inclusive education. Find out what your school is doing and how you can become involved.
Consider researching issues of gender, disability, sexual orientation, racial, ethnic and cultural equality in the school and community. If your school board has consultants who work in the areas of anti-discrimination and equal opportunity, they can provide support for such initiatives.
To explore international human rights issues, consider setting up an Amnesty International chapter in the school. Contact a local chapter of the Association for more information, or visit their website at www.amnesty.ca.
Many activities can help build awareness of human rights issues. Students might organize:
Assemblies that feature short theatrical productions, debates or readings on human rights issues
Poster or essay contests
Visits from community associations that represent groups protected by the Code
Conferences on human rights issues for peers and/or students in younger grades.
Have a "Human Rights Award" in your school. The award will recognize the individual or group from the school who makes a significant contribution to educating others about human rights and the effects of discrimination.
Coordinate these and similar activities with special human rights events that happen in Canada each year. They include:
International Human Rights Day (December 10)
International Women's Day (March 8)
International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (March 21).
International Human Rights Day commemorates the anniversary of the signing of the United Nations' Universal Declaration of Human Rights on December 10, 1948.
Other annual events include Black History Month (February), Heritage Day (usually the third week in February), Asian Heritage Month (May), National Aboriginal day (June 21) the anniversary of Ontario Human Rights Code (June 15), Pride Week (June), and National Access Awareness Week for persons with disabilities (May/June).
Dealing with discrimination
All school boards are required to develop and implement equity and inclusive education policies. In addition to drafting these policies, many Ontario school boards have set up an internal complaints process. This ensures that schools deal with complaints promptly and in a way that respects the rights of both the people who complain and the people who are subjects of the complaint. For more information, visit the OHRC's website (www.ohrc.on.ca) and view the publication Guidelines on developing human rights policies and procedures.
Case study references
Most decisions on the human rights cases cited in this resource can be found in the Canadian Human Rights Reporter, which is available in several reference and law libraries. Visit their website at www.cdn-hr-reporter.ca. As well, many newer cases
are available online at www.canlii.org. Specific references are given below:
Kyle McLean v. Barking Frog
Maria Vanderputen v. Seydaco Packaging Corp. and Gerry Sanvido (No. 2, 3 and 4).
British Columbia (Public Service Employee Relations Commission) v. British Columbia Government and Service Employees Union (1999), 35 C.H.R.R. D/257 (Supreme Court of Canada).
Cameron v. Nel-Gor Castle Nursing Home (1984), 5 C.H.R.R. D/2170 (Ontario Board of Inquiry).
Eldridge v. British Columbia (Attorney General) (1997) 3 S.C.R. 624. (see http://scc-csc.lexum.com/decisia-scc-csc/scc-csc/scc-csc/en/item/1552/in...
Hall v. Powers, Ont. Superior Court 2002
Huck v. Canadian Odeon Theatres Ltd. (1985), 6 C.H.R.R. D/2682 (Saskatchewan Court of Appeal).
Huck v. Canadian Odeon Theatres Ltd. (1981), 2 C.H.R.R. D/521 (Saskatchewan Board of Inquiry).
Maclean v. The Barking Frog, 2013 HRTO 630 (CanLII)
McLeod v. Youth Bowling Council of Ontario (1988), 9 C.H.R.R. D/5371 (Ontario Board of Inquiry).
Noffke v. McClaskin Hot House (1989), 11 C.H.R.R. D/407 (Ontario Board of Inquiry).
Pandori v. Peel Board of Education (1990), 12 C.H.R.R. D/364 (Ontario Board of Inquiry).
Peel Board of Education v. Ontario (Human Rights Commission) (1990), 12 C.H.R.R. D/91 (Ontario Supreme Court).
Peel Board of Education v. Ontario (Human Rights Commission) and Pandori (1991), 14 C.H.R.R. D/403 (Ontario Divisional Court).
Québec (Commission des droits de la personne et des droits de la jeunesse) et Mercier v. Montréal (Ville) (2000), 37 C.H.R.R. D/271 (Supreme Court of Canada)
Ross v. New Brunswick School District No. 15, SCC 1996
Smith v. Knights of Columbus, BCHRT 2005
Vanderputten v. Seydaco Packaging Corp 2012 HRTO 1977
Youth Bowling Council of Ontario v. McLeod (1990), 14 C.H.R.R. D/120 (Ontario Divisional Court).
Human rights resources
The following resources focus on human rights. For information on specific types of discrimination related to groups protected by the Ontario Human Rights Code, see
"Other information sources."
Abella, Judge R., Report of the Commission on Equality in Employment, Ottawa, 1985.
Aggarwal, A.P., Sexual Harassment in the Workplace, 2nd ed., Butterworths,Toronto, 1992.
Aggarwal, A.P., Sexual Harassment: A Guide for Understanding and Prevention, Butterworths, Toronto, 1992.
Backhouse, Constance, Colour-Coded: A Legal History of Racism in Canada, 1900-1950, University of Toronto Press, Toronto, 1999.
Foster, Lorne et al.(eds), Balancing Competing Human Rights Claims in a Diverse Society: Institutions, Policy, Principles, Irwin Law Press, Toronto, 2012.
Bayefsky, A., & Eberts, M. (eds.), Equality Rights and the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, Carswell, Toronto, 1985.
Brodsky, G., and Day, S., Canadian Charter Equality Rights for Women: One Step Forward or Two Steps Back?, Canadian Advisory Council on the Status of Women, Ottawa, 1989.
Cholewinski, R.I. (ed.), Human Rights in Canada: Into the 1990s and Beyond, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, 1990.
Gall, G. (ed.), Civil Liberties in Canada: Entering the 1980s, Butterworths, Toronto, 1982.
Grosman, B.A., and Martin, J.R., Discrimination in Employment in Ontario, Canada Law Book Inc., Aurora, 1994.
Kallen, Evelyn, Ethnic and Human Rights in Canada, Oxford University Press, 2010
Kallen, Evelyn, Social Inequality and Social Injustice: A Human Rights Perspective, 2004.
Kallen, Evelyn, Ethnicity and Human Rights in Canada: A Human Rights Perspective on Race, Ethnicity, Racism and Systemic Inequality, 2003.
Keene, J., Human Rights in Ontario, 2nd ed., Carswell, Toronto, 1992.
Sheppard, C., Study Paper on Litigating the Relationship Between Equity and Equality, Ontario Law Reform Commission, Toronto, 1993.
Tarnopolsky, W.S., and Pentney, W.F., Discrimination and the Law, 2nd ed., Carswell, Toronto, 1993.
A Guide to the Charter for Equality-Seeking Groups, Canadian Council on Social Development, Court Challenges Program, Ottawa, 1987.
eLearning materials
The Ontario Human Rights Commission has developed several electronic learning modules to help members of the public understand their rights and responsibilities under the Code. These may be particularly informative for students. See the OHRC website at: www.ohrc.on.ca/en/learning/ohrc-elearning-your-elearning-source-human-rights.
Other information sources
Canadian Human Rights Commission
The Canadian Human Rights Commission (CHRC) enforces the Canadian Human Rights Act, which governs the federal government and federally-regulated companies like banks, railways and airlines. Included in its mandate are the federal Employment Equity and Pay Equity programs.
The following CHRC materials may be requested by phone, mail or on the Internet (www.chrc-ccdp.ca):
Policy on Alcohol and Drug Testing (2009)
Aboriginal Employment Preferences Policy (2003)
Policy and Procedures on the Accommodation of Mental Illness (2008)
Policy on Special Programs
Pregnancy & Human Rights in the Workplace - Policy and Best Practices
The Human Rights Impact Assessment for Security Measures
A Template for Developing a Workplace Accommodation Policy
A Template for Developing an Anti-Harassment Policy
Pregnancy and Human Rights in the Workplace – A Guide for Employers
The Medical Perspective on Environmental Sensitivities
Accommodation for Environmental Sensitivities: Legal Perspective
Annual Reports (1996 – 2011)
"Accommodation in the 21st Century," Gwen Brodsky, Shelagh Day and Yvonne Peters
Anti-Discrimination Casebook: Race, Colour, National or Ethnic Origin
Anti-Harassment Policies for the Workplace: An Employer's Guide
Bona Fide Occupational Requirements and Bona Fide Justifications under the Canadian Human Rights Act – The Implications of Meiorin and Grismer
Brochure on "Conciliation"
Discrimination Prevention Program Fact Sheet
Duty to Accommodate Fact Sheet
Duty to Accommodate – Frequently Asked Questions
Brochure on "Early Resolution"
Employment Equity Compliance Program Fact Sheet
Employment Systems Review: Guide to the Audit Process
Report on Equality Rights of People with Disabilities
Fair Play at Work
Framework Document for Compliance Audits under the Employment Equity Act – Audit Process and Statutory Requirements
Frequently Asked Questions on Employment Equity
Guide for Managing the Return to Work
Guide to Screening and Selection in Employment
Guide to the Canadian Human Rights Act
Harassment and the Canadian Human Rights Act
Harassment: What is it and what to do about it
Human Rights Handbook for First Nations
Human Rights Maturity Model – Continuum
Human Rights Maturity Model – Information Pamphlet
Human Rights Maturity Model – Implementation Guide
Brochure on "Investigation"
Brochure on "Mediation"
Brochure on "Other Redress Procedures"
Place for All: A Guide to Creating an Inclusive Workplace
Brochure on "Settlement Monitoring"
Brochure on "Tribunal Hearings"
Your Guide to Understanding the Canadian Human Rights Act (2010)
The Canadian Human Rights Commission
344 Slater Street, 8th floor
Ottawa, ON K1A 1E1
Website: www.chrc-ccdp.ca
Canadian Human Rights Reporter (C.H.R.R.)
This publication prints the full text of most human rights decisions from all jurisdictions in Canada, in two or three volumes per year. Decisions handed down by tribunals and courts often break new ground in interpreting anti-discrimination law and equality rights in cases involving issues such as harassment, race discrimination, affirmative action, disability, maternity and pension benefits, sexual orientation and mandatory retirement. C.H.R.R. is available in most public reference libraries and law libraries.
For more information go to: www.cdn-hr-reporter.ca
To search decisions, go to www. canlii.ca
Human Rights Tribunal of Ontario
655 Bay Street, 14th floor
Toronto, Ontario M7A 2A3
TTY (toll free): 1-866-607-1240
Website: www.hrto.ca
Email: hrto.tdpo@ontario.ca
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> Hi, > > Moose' tests failed on Debian's ia64 build daemon: > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=588118 > https://buildd.debian.org/fetch.cgi?pkg=libmoose- > perl&arch=ia64&ver=1.08-1&stamp=1276806453&file=log&as=raw > (all logs: https://buildd.debian.org/status/package.php?p=libmoose- > perl ) > > Maybe someone of the Moose folks has any idea what's going on there?
> > Hi, > > > > Moose' tests failed on Debian's ia64 build daemon: > > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=588118 > > https://buildd.debian.org/fetch.cgi?pkg=libmoose- > > perl&arch=ia64&ver=1.08-1&stamp=1276806453&file=log&as=raw > > (all logs: https://buildd.debian.org/status/package.php?p=libmoose- > > perl ) > > > > Maybe someone of the Moose folks has any idea what's going on there?
> > It's an unexpected integer to float conversion in the numeric > comparison, visible on ia64 because refaddr() returns big integers there. > > Proposed workaround attached. I'm going to file a Perl bug about this > although I suspect it may be considered a feature.
> > > Hi, > > > > > > Moose' tests failed on Debian's ia64 build daemon: > > > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=588118 > > > https://buildd.debian.org/fetch.cgi?pkg=libmoose- > > > perl&arch=ia64&ver=1.08-1&stamp=1276806453&file=log&as=raw > > > (all logs: https://buildd.debian.org/status/package.php?p=libmoose- > > > perl ) > > > > > > Maybe someone of the Moose folks has any idea what's going on there?
> > > > It's an unexpected integer to float conversion in the numeric > > comparison, visible on ia64 because refaddr() returns big integers there. > > > > Proposed workaround attached. I'm going to file a Perl bug about this > > although I suspect it may be considered a feature.


Professor Doug Jones AO is a leading independent international commercial and investor-state arbitrator. Doug is an arbitrator member at Arbitration Place in Toronto, a door tenant at Atkin Chambers London, and has an office in Sydney.
Prior to his full-time practice as an arbitrator Doug spent 40 years as an international transactional and disputes projects lawyer.
The arbitrations in which he has been involved include infrastructure, energy, commodities, intellectual property, commercial and joint venture, and investor-state disputes spanning more than 30 jurisdictions around the world. He has extensive experience as arbitrator under the SIAC, ICC, LCIA, AAA, ICDR, HKIAC, AIAC (formerly KLRCA), DIAC, ACICA, IAMA, AMINZ, European Development Fund Arbitration and Conciliation Rules, as well as the ICSID and UNCITRAL Rules. He has experience as an arbitrator in arbitrations worldwide of values up to some billions of US dollars.
Doug is acknowledged as a leading arbitrator and is highly ranked in a number of leading publications. Chambers Asia-Pacific commend Doug as "the leading construction arbitrator in the world'". In 2018, he maintained his Band One ranking in the Chambers Asia-Pacific international arbitration category for an eighth consecutive year. In the same year, Who's Who Legal: Construction identified Doug as a top-three "Thought Leader" in his area, while Who's Who Legal: UK Bar identified Doug as one of the 10 most highly regarded arbitration practitioners. In 2017, Who's Who Legal praised Doug as "one of the best construction lawyers and arbitrators in the world", noting that he is "unbelievably efficient" with an ability to "handle the most acrimonious of disputes". His other achievements include being named Sydney Lawyer of the Year for Construction/Infrastructure Law in 2018 and Lawyer of the Year for international arbitration in Sydney by Best Lawyers (2015 - 2017). His substantial contributions and leadership in the Australian legal profession was recognised when he was honoured with the Michael Kirby Lifetime Achievement Award at the 2014 Lawyers Weekly Law Awards.
Doug has published and presented extensively, and holds professorial appointments at Queen Mary College, University of London; and Melbourne University Law School. A powerful contributor to the knowledge base of international arbitration, he has recently spoken on topics as diverse as costs, the doctrine of penalties, and innovation in international arbitration.
Doug has held appointments at several international professional associations. At the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (CIArb) he has served as the chair of the board of trustees and president (2011), as well as chair of CIArb's centenary celebrations, and in 2016 was made one of the four living Companions of the Institute. He is also the immediate past president of the Australian Centre for International Commercial Arbitration (ACICA) (2014) and the president of the International Academy of Construction Lawyers (IACL). In 2018, Doug also chaired the International Council of Commercial Arbitration (ICCA) Congress held in Sydney.
Doug is an Officer of the Order of Australia, having received the award in 2012 in the Queen's Birthday Honours List, for distinguished service to the law as a leader in the areas of arbitration and alternative dispute resolution, to policy reform, and to national and international professional organisations.
WWL says: "Terrific arbitrator" Douglas Jones AO is among the greats of construction arbitration, with more than four decades of dedicated global experience. He is perennially recommended by peers as a pre-eminent practitioner across all manner of disputes in the area.
WWL says: Douglas Jones AO is widely endorsed as "one of the best arbitrators out there". He has "phenomenal experience" in the field and is "a leader in promoting international arbitration".
Professor Doug Jones AO is an independent arbitrator and an internationally recognised infrastructure and dispute resolution lawyer. Acting for owners, financiers, contractors, consultants and subcontractors, Doug has advised extensively on major projects in the areas of project structuring and financing, contract drafting, telecommunications, licensing, intellectual property, buildings, airports, ports, road and rail infrastructure, power, potable and waste water, mining infrastructure and processing, and on offshore oil and gas. He has had extensive experience in PPP and PFI projects, and has advised on projects throughout Australia, New Zealand, Europe, Asia, the Middle East and the United States.
Chambers Asia-Pacific has recognised Doug as "without question the leading Asia Pacific-based arbitrator for construction disputes" and noted his widespread reputation as "the leading construction arbitrator in the world". In 2018, he maintained his Band 1 ranking in the Chambers Asia-Pacific international arbitration category for an eighth consecutive year. In the same year, Who's Who Legal: Construction identified Doug as a top-three "Thought Leader" in his area, while Who's Who Legal: UK Bar identified Doug as one of the 10 most highly regarded arbitration practitioners. In 2017, Who's Who Legal praised Doug as "one of the best construction lawyers and arbitrators in the world", noting that he is "unbelievably efficient" with an ability to "handle the most acrimonious of disputes". Doug was also named Sydney Lawyer of the Year for Construction/Infrastructure Law in 2018, and Lawyer of the Year for international arbitration in Sydney, by Best Lawyers (2015–2017).
Doug is the immediate past president of the Australian Centre for International Commercial Arbitration; past president of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (CIArb) (2011); and one of only four Companions of the Institute. He is a foundation fellow and graded arbitrator of the Institute of Arbitrators and Mediators Australia; a fellow of the Arbitrators and Mediators Institute of New Zealand; president of the International Academy of Construction Lawyers; honorary fellow of the US and Canadian Colleges of Construction Lawyers; fellow of the Australian Academy of Law; honorary fellow of the Asian Institute of Alternative Dispute Resolution; and an Australian government nominee on the ICSID panel of arbitrators.
Doug also has a prominent academic profile. He is the author of Building and Construction Claims and Disputes (Construction Publications, 1996) and Commercial Arbitration in Australia (Thomson Reuters, second edition 2012). He is also a regular contributor to an extensive list of industry journals, and holds various editorial positions, including co-editor-in-chief of The International Construction Law Review, and editorial board member of The International Trade and Business Law Review and Global Arbitration Review. Doug is a professorial fellow at the University of Melbourne and a visiting professor at Queen Mary College, University of London.
Doug is an Officer of the Order of Australia, having received the award in 2012 in the Queen's Birthday Honours List for distinguished service to the law as a leader in the areas of arbitration and alternative dispute resolution, to policy reform, and to national and international professional organisations. In 2018, Doug was awarded the John Shaw Medal in recognition of his lasting contribution to the road transport industry in Australia and internationally.
WWL says: Douglas Jones AO is many people's first port of call for construction arbitrations, combining incredible depth of experience as an arbitrator with standout expertise in the construction space, resulting in vast knowledge of cross-border proceedings in a variety of issues.
WWL says: Douglas Jones AO is lauded as "one of the best arbitrators there is" when it comes to construction matters.


We have been loving the world this spring at Chinook! We are surrounded by the beauty and bounty of an awakening forest, flourishing gardens, compelling conversations, and deepening partnerships. From our thatching ants and our nesting chickadees to our board members and our program partners, we are busy working in service to the common good. We are steeped in optimism.
And yet . . . the world's pain hangs close. With events in Nepal and Baltimore weighing heavily on us, and with the loss of our friend Roger Harrison still fresh in our minds, we at Chinook are acutely aware of our fortune. To be here, today. To spend our days doing work we believe in, for the good of the people, creatures, communities, and planet which we love. To have each other, and to have each of you. To share an unwavering trust that the world we are creating together will be one full of more good than harm.
With joy comes sorrow—with sorrow, joy. The limitless complexity of the world will never cease to amaze us. And what are we left with? The work of loving the world, and of loving each other. The work of bearing witness, and of speaking up. The work of being astonished, and of rejoicing.
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Exogamy and Incest Prohibitions
Exogamy or outmarriage and associated incest taboos are a basic feature of all marriage systems. Numerous theories have been proposed to explain the universality of these prohibitions. Anthropologists generally prefer sociological explanations, which consider sexual restrictions as a function of marriage regulation, over biological or psychological theories, which focus on the incest taboo per se. This perspective results from our emphasis on social and cultural conditioning of individual behaviour and on detailing and explaining cultural variation.
Sociological theories of exogamy include:
Role theory - This position was elucidated by Malinowski and maintains that kinship and marriage systems are important for the assignment of unambiguously defined and distributed social roles. If close kin, were allowed to intermarry, they would assume a alternative set of roles, rights, and responsibilities to those already in force. The resulting confusion and conflict over role definitions would undermine social order.
Alliance theory - This position, championed by Levi-Strauss, maintains that small close-knit groups must force their members to marry outside of their immediate circle in order achieve the cultural, political, and economic benefits that a society build on extensive interactions and alliances provides.
Universal Features of Exogamy
Incest prohibitions and exogamy assume a few universal characteristics. In his classic cross-cultural study, Social Structure (1949), G.P. Murdock observed that every society within the sample of 250 that he investigated based its marriage system on the prohibition of marriage and sexual relations between nuclear family members. Accordingly, at least a few societies permit marriage or sexual relations with other close kin including parent's siblings and sibling's children. (Murdock does not mention grandparent-grandchildren relationships, which are probably universally considered incestuous.) The minimal universal pattern is depicted for a male ego in the following diagram.
Universal Incest Prohibitions
Murdock also observed that no society prohibits sexual relations between nuclear family members only, but all cases in the sample applied prohibitions to relatives in some other categories. However the range and type of prohibitions vary considerably from case to case.
Cultural Variations
Societies vary in the range and definition of relatives who are considered prohibited sex and marriage partners. Many Western and define exogamous categories on the basis of degree of relationship, e.g, prohibiting marriage between cousins without considerations of how they are interconnected through their parents. Prohibitions thus reflect actual biological distances and vary from group to group from less to more inclusive definitions. For example, England and Canada prohibit marriages between uncles and nieces and aunts and nephews but allow first cousins to marry. Some U.S. states follow he same pattern, but others have made first cousin marriage illegal.
Western Marriage Prohibition Variants
Red circle marks range when first cousin marriage is allowed.
Yellow extension marks range when first cousins marriage is prohibited.
Other societies have even more extensive bilateral restrictions. The Ju/'hoansi prohibit marriages within a range extending to second cousins. The Catholic Church once banned unions within a sixth cousin range but has progressively narrowed prohibitions to first cousins.
Unilineally organized societies tend to apply a different logic, frequently banning marriage between members of the same descent group, regardless of the biological degree of relatedness, or prohibiting parallel cousin marriage while permitting or even encouraging unions between cross cousins.
Parallel Cousin Marriage Prohibitions
Permissible relationships are indicated in green
The ban on marriage within the group reinforces the identification of group members since they are all consider "too close" to marry. The cross cousin marriage preference encourages a pattern of consistent alliances between component lineage groups to form a larger social matrix. (See: More about Cross Cousin Marriage Rules)
Ancient Hebrew society formulated a completely different set of marriage restrictions from either the bilateral extensions of European systems or the cousin marriage dynamics of lineage group alliances. The incest prohibitions listed in Leviticus 18 suggest a very narrow range of prohibitions within the extended biological family and an elaboration of restrictions on certain categories of affines.
Prohibitions from Leviticus
Patrilineally related men are indicated in blue
As the above diagram indicates, restrictions on marriage within the family were extended primarily to nuclear family members. Cousin marriages of any type were allowed, and in fact there was a preference for patrilateral parallel cousin marriage, i.e., a union between the children of two brothers, in some circumstances. (This arrangement involved marriage within a patrilineal group and indicates that descent groups in this instance were not exogamous.) Moreover, there was no explicit rule against sexual relations or marriages between uncles and nieces, although aunt/nephew prohibitions are specified. This asymmetry seems to be related to a preference for men to marry women of lower generations, as exemplified by the legends of the Hebrew patriarchs and matriarchs in the book of Genesis.
While the restrictions on relations between biological kin were even less extensive than those of contemporary Western societies, affinal restrictions were more comprehensive. Above and beyond the drastic penalties for adultery, condemnations of incest were applied to sex or marriage between a man and his son's wife, brother's wife, stepmother, father's brother's wife, wife's mother, or wife's sister. In these cases prohibitions were in force only during the lifetime of the male relative. In fact other marriage provisions within the Old Testament favor levirate marriage to a brother's widow, thus lifting the affinal ban subsequent to a brother's death. The pattern of affinal prohibitions reveals a second instance of asymmetry in the system, this time based on lineage membership. While relations with a father's brother's wife are not allowed, there is no converse restriction concerning mother's brother's wife. Accordingly, we can understand some of the extensive affinal prohibitions as supporting the cooperation among close patrilineal kin by forestalling competition over women.
These biblical prohibitions have of course had an influence on Western marriage customs and legislation. However, in the course of applying scriptural principles to the realities of social life many reinterpretations, additions, deletions, and controversies have occurred because of the different cultural contexts and social orders of the societies that adopted the Judaic tradition. References to Leviticus in the formulation Western marriage regulations carry over only part of the body of original restrictions and never incorporate the generational or lineal asymmetries, thus revealing different logics of Hebrew and contemporary models. Furthermore, affinal restrictions so dominant in the biblical text have been continually balanced against a European concern over cousin marriage that originated with Catholic canon law in the early middle ages. This ambivalence is still expressed in the curious patchwork of marriage prohibitions that are currently present in the United States. (See Variations in U.S. Marriage Restrictions)
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Leeds United must unleash Crysencio Summerville
28/7/2021 | 07:15pm
With the Premier League season fast approaching, Leeds United boss Marcelo Bielsa will no doubt have some idea of what his starting line-up for his side's first game of the campaign will be.
But pre-season can often throw up some exciting twists, with fringe players making their mark and really forcing their way into the manager's plans.
And against Guiseley on Tuesday night, it was Crysencio Summerville who put in the kind of display that will have given Bielsa some food for thought.
Should Summerville be given a chance?
The 19-year-old looked in good touch as the Whites ran out 3-2 winners, with Summerville netting the opening goal of the contest from a spot-kick having done some fine work with the ball at his feet.
The teenager then set up Leeds' decisive third by winning the ball back and finding Charlie Allen to fire home.
And, writing on Twitter after the game, Leeds Live's Joe Donnohue said: "Cody Drameh and Crysencio Summerville were great together down the right flank for Leeds' U23s last season. Seems like more of the same this year. Drameh an excellent carrier, weightless going forward. Summerville a wriggler, impossible to handle."
Described as a "bag of tricks" by Chris Powell – his former coach when he was a teenager at Dutch side ADO Den Haag – Summerville scored a hat-trick against Burnley on just his second start for the U23s last season.
In total, he bagged an impressive six goals and provided a further six assists in just 12 Premier League 2 games, including netting in the final game of the campaign.
The 19-year-old is an exciting winger who can play on either flank and while he might be diminutive in stature at just 5 foot 9, he more than makes up for it with his quick feet and agility.
Summerville himself said earlier this year: "I often hear that there are doubts because of my physical condition, but when you are on the field, you are not concerned with that. There are often big defenders in front of me, I have to be smart about that. I know I'm agile and try to play with my mind."
Given his pace and trickery, there's a lot to get excited about when you consider Summerville could line up alongside Raphinha not just next season, but for the years to come too.
The duo would give Bielsa's side an eye-catching attack that can beat players one on one and have the end product to match too.
If Bielsa is looking at unleashing a youngster over the coming weeks, then Summerville may be the man for the job.
Meanwhile, Phil Hay has dropped an update on Leeds United's search for a central midfielder…
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Q: Design activities / events logging (ex: fields update) in RDBMS I am trying to implement a activity tracking system in Ruby on Rails for an API only application.
I have a table named letter with information as follow :

*

*id (primary key)

*sender_id (foreign_key on contact)

*receiver_id (foreign_key on user)

*owner_id (foreign_key on user)

*re (string)

*status (enum { ON_HOLD , CLOSED , OPENED })

Every time an update is done (title, ownership or state changes) I want to log it in an activity table which will be display along side the letter on the application.
It should look like GitHub issues, where we can see who did what. Being able to reference users, link to their profile, says that someone change the title from "something" to "another thing", etc.
The thing I want to log have different information layout :

*

*transfer changes: from, to (both should be foreign_key)

*metadata changes: field_name, old_value, new_value (strings)

*status changes: old_status, new_status (enum )

All of these tables have id, author of the changes, creation date.
I am wondering what would be the best to keep track of this changes.
First idea
I started to create a activity table as follow :

*

*id (primary key)

*letter_id (foreign_key on letter)

*created_at (datetime)

*user_id (foreign_key on user)

*type (enum { STATUS , TRANSFER , METADATA })

*activity_id (integer pointing on table id)

And created one table for each enum entry in type column and load them manually using the activity_id. But I found it pretty ugly because:

*

*I can't use joins properly

*it disturbs Rails ORM capabilities

*Come on, I am pretty sure it's the wrong way for RDBMS (no?)

I would end up with this kind of code :
activity = Activity.find(1)
if (activity.type == "STATUS")
  StatusActivity.find(activity.activity_id)
elsif (activity.type == "TRANSFER")
  TransferActivity.find(activity.activity_id)
...

Second idea
Based on the activity layout of the first idea, instead of having on column with the  I thought about having additional nullable columns holding a foreign_key toward each enum entries tables :

*

*id (primary key)

*letter_id (foreign_key on letter)

*created_at (datetime)

*user_id (foreign_key on user)

*type (enum { STATUS , TRANSFER , METADATA })

*status_activity_id

*transfer_activity_id

*metadata_activity_id
Doesn't look great; if I want to add a new kind of activity event, I will have to create an extra column for each row...
It would end up with this kind of code :
activity = Activity.find(1)
if (activity.type == "STATUS")
  activity.status_activity
elsif (activity.type == "TRANSFER")
  activity.transfer_activity
...

Third idea
Create 3 different tables: status_activity, transfer_activity and metadata_activity. Query them separately, sort them by creation date before serializing into JSON.
Despite all of this ideas, I can't figure out what would be great ? So do you have any idea or advices ?

A: One easy way to do it is to create a new table called history which has an id, a date, perhaps also a user_id to know who made each modification, and then simply a string which contains JSON text explaining what happened.  The idea is that you won't really be using the historical fields in relations, probably not even in queries, so they do not have to be real fields.
Another (rather wasteful but fully relational) way to do it is to replace your letter table with a letter_history table, where you maintain all fields of table plus a date and perhaps also a user_id, so you never actually modify any existing rows, you only add new rows with the current date and the user who made the change.  Then, you create a view called letter which simply selects the most recent version of each letter.

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Web Directions Summit: The Ethics of Design
Web Directions covers a lot of ground when it comes to design and technology conferences within Australia. Right now they have seven conferences targeted towards designers, developers, leadership, product and culture.
Web Directions Summit is the big one — it's their conference that brings the whole team together. This year it was held in Sydney at the fantastic new International Convention Centre (ICC) in Darling Harbour.
by richard.sison / 18 December 2018
Like most conferences, Web Directions Summit had a good balance of thought-provoking topics and practical takeaways. There were a lot of presentations around the importance of transparency in your workflow, paying attention to the words and how designers and developers still have a lot to learn from each other.
The big theme of the conference, and the focus of this wrap-up, is a topic I feel very passionate about, Ethics in Design.
Ethics and making the right choices
Ethics has been a recurring theme around the design industry lately, and for good reason. Technology has shaped the world in a big way, and problems are constantly getting "solved" by companies all in the name of convenience … but at what cost?
What is becoming more apparent is that our focus on creating behaviour-building products has been a slightly short-sighted endeavour. Not only do businesses benefit a lot more than their customers, the behaviours they've introduced have brought on a whole new set of problems into the social space.
In Mark Pesce's opening Keynote talk, he walked us through humanity's behaviour over time, specifically around how humanity has always had a history of being slaves to our own weaknesses.
He showed an example of a figurine from centuries ago — a carving of a naked woman. Our obsession with sex and our desire to share it (to illicit a response) was the pattern he related back to today. To paraphrase, the process goes like this: "The mind informs the eye. The eye informs the hand. The hand creates a product. The product then informs the audience which influences the community." The process repeats itself and has a snowball effect.
This pattern is still ever present today in the products and apps we immerse ourselves in. If anything, technology has only further reinforced the fact that we are still slaves to our addictions — whether it's sex, gambling, drugs. And now, even Facebook.
In hindsight, what we're seeing in these products we've been building over the past decade have been so focused on carving out time in our day, building new behaviours and feeding our addictions. The impact this has had on society and the responsibility we should hold ourselves partly accountable for has become one the largest talking points in our industry lately.
Learning from the past and preparing for the future
In another keynote on "Philosophy, Ethics and Design", Oliver Reichentstein spoke about a similar message. Essentially, we need to be more responsible practitioners and more aware of the impact we have with what we're producing. The arguments for establishing stronger ethics in design are rarely about stopping what we're doing altogether, but more about just being mindful about the broader effects. We spend so much energy optimising for conversions, automating the mundane and building new behaviours, that we tend to not be investing enough energy in considering the negative impacts on the future.
Fortunately, some companies are already taking it very seriously and industry leaders are continuing to be strong advocates for being designing responsibly. Alan Cooper, for example is very passionate about being a good ancestor.
What we should take away from all of this, and what I advocate for, is that we as an industry should strive to be proactive and act responsibly not only for ourselves, but for future generations as well.
Posted by richard.sison
User Experience Lead
Dated 18 December 2018


INDIANAPOLIS (WTHR) - Vendors at the Indianapolis Home Show say they've been keeping busy with people who have stopped by already this weekend. One of the more popular spot is the Tiny Home Village in the west pavilion. Builders have their homes on display in the middle of the building and decorators add to the atmosphere with their landscaping ideas.
Another unique spot is The Artisan Markets in the south pavilion. Ten artisans from around the state are coming together for the first time to show off their talents in products you can buy and walk away with during the event. We also checked in with local interior designers and decorators who showed us how to make your home look nice without spending too much money.
To find out more, watch the videos!


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Bell announces 200th Bell 505 Jet Ranger X delivery
Helicopters Bell announces 200th Bell 505 Jet Ranger X delivery
Textron company Bell Helicopters has announced, that it celebrated the delivery of the 200th Bell 505 Jet Ranger X helicopter.
The customer of number 200 is Austria-based operator Hub-fly Helikopter GmbH, which will use the aircraft for corporate transport. Back in March 2017, Bell celebrated the first delivery of the Bell 505 helicopter. Since then, 200 aircraft have been deliveries to customers around the world.
"What sets the Bell 505 apart from other short light single aircraft is its multi-mission capability," said LaShan Bonaparte, program director, Bell 505 and Bell 429. "Our intent from initial design for the Bell 505 was to deliver an industry-leading aircraft to the market. As operator needs expand, we continue to see growth of our 505 customer base."
The Bell 505 Jet Ranger X was developed under the support to a customer advisory panel, which focused on honouring the legacy of the Bell 206 Jet Ranger. Bell incorporated this legacy with state-of-the-art performance and technological advantages.
According to Bell, the 505 Jet Ranger X was developed to perform missions like law enforcement, helicopter emergency medical services, corporate transportation and utility missions.
"With a speed of 125 knots (232 km/h) and useful load of 1,500 pounds (680 kg), the Bell 505 is Bell's new five-seat aircraft designed for safety, efficiency and reliability using advanced avionics technology. It incorporates proven dynamic components, advanced aerodynamic design, a dual channel FADEC Turbomeca Arrius 2R engine and best-in-class value," Bell wrote about their 505 in a statement.
Back in June 2019, Bell announced that the 505 Jet Ranger X has received its certification to operate in high altitude.
Back then, LaShan Bonaparte said: "The Bell 505 is the most advanced short light single helicopter in the world, and we are proud to bring more performance to our operator's missions [...] High-altitude demonstrations are another testament to the aircraft's ability to perform in the most demanding environments, across a variety of segments."
Bell Helicopters has been reimagining the experience of flight for more than 80 years. The wholly-owned subsidiary of Textron Inc. produces helicopters for the commercial and military market. Over the years, Bell has established several strategic locations around the globe and has become one of the key players in the helicopter industry.
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Article Title: Glasses Half Empty? The Christian Right and the 2014 Election
Published on: 6th November 2014 - 08:55 am
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Text: There are times when I wonder if Family First's Bob McCoskrie inhabits a bizarre parallel world out of synch with mainstream New Zealanders. Yes, it's time for a detailed look at the Christian Right and its desired outcomes for the recent New Zealand General Election on September 20. On the face of it, they didn't achieve much. If the objective was to introduce legislation to render marriage law discriminatory and exclusive of same-sex couples, then that clearly failed. If the objective was to overturn the existing ban on parental corporal punishment, then that also failed. If the objective was to get the Conservative Party into Parliament, that failed. If the objective was to punish the Key administration, that failed. If the objective was to retaliate against the Green Party, then that also failed- they have just as many MPs as they started out the period before the election with. Speaking of which, why is it avoiding the growing US state marriage equality momentum? Thirty-two US states now have access to marriage equality, which leaves nineteen without it, which means sixty percent of the US population now lives in US states that embrace marriage equality. So what does that leave us with? New Zealand First's voter share increased. However, National has enough support to govern without any need of the quixotic and mercurial New Zealand First. Moreover, the party hierarchy ditched loudmouth social conservative MP Asenati Lole-Taylor after questions about alleged financial irregularities supposedly related to her electorate committee and her husband. Although those allegations have yet to be proven, evidently Peters and his party organisation thought otherwise, demoting Lole-Taylor low enough down the party list so that her return to Parliament became impossible, even if New Zealand First itself benefited from Labour's weakness. As for Labour's weakness, that resulted more from that party's internal disorganisation, rather than from any erosion of its voter share directly attributable to marriage equality, given that the Greens and National would also have suffered if that had been such a factor. Maori and Pacific Island voters did not abandon Labour as Family First and Pacific Island social conservatives had warned that they would. As usual, Family First has no substantive truth to validate that claim. And granted, cannabis, euthanasia and abortion probably won't be decriminalised during this parliamentary term. However, neither the cannabis or euthanasia law reform movements are organisationally capable or coherent enough of achieving such a result and Key also seems to have ruled out attacks on abortion access for competent minors either. He is probably aware that would trigger abandonment of his party from centre-right pro-choice female voters and strong opposition from the New Zealand medical profession. In other words, Family First have "won" the status quo before the election- absolutely nothing substantive. Apparently, Family First has enough cash to establish multiple specialist websites against abortion rights, euthanasia law reform, cannabis law reform, and other bete noires, according to its media release webpage. Which begs this question- where is it getting the money from? The World Congress of Families, one of its past sponsors? To what extent? And given the fact that Maryan Street won't be back in Parliament, someone else will have to introduce any euthanasia law reform bill. Nor is cannabis reform a likely starter under the Key administration. Unfortunately, they're still intending to cause mischief on other fronts. Although Ross Robertson retired from Parliament in September 2014, and thankfully that obnoxious transphobe New Zealand First List MP Asenati Lole-Taylor was demoted too far down her party list to launch her obnoxious attacks on New Zealand street sex workers and particularly whakawahine and fa'afafine, Robertson's Manukau City Council (Regulating Prostitution in Specified Places) Bill is still hanging around on the parliamentary schedule, according to its website. Moreover, Joan Allin, a retired Environment Court judge who lives on the Kapiti Coast, is trying to erode the Prostitution Reform Act 2003 still further, by attacking residential brothels. Despite having no research expertise or professional background in this area at all, Family First is pontificating about "residents rights" in this context. In a related setback for the Christian Right, Elizabeth Subritzky, a fundamentalist activist and her "Freedom from Sexual Exploitation" had a petition against Manukau City street sex workers rejected by the Justice and Electoral Select Committee. Family First pontificated about this, but its powerlessness in this context is amusing. Only two months after the election, McCoskrie has lost his bovine smirk. His pressure group had negligible substantive effect on the election results and will have negligible future influence on public policy, as the outcome of this anti-sexworker petition suggests. What about that other arm of the New Zealand Christian Right, the Conservative Party? Despite millionaire financing of its party organisation and election propaganda and gradual opinion poll rise, the Conservatives were hamstrung by outbursts from candidates such as Edward Saafi, Steve Taylor and failed local electorate campaigns that sought to win East Coast Bays, Epsom and Napier for the Conservatives. True, Garth McVicar ran a strong law and order campaign in Napier, but all that did was split the anti-Labour vote, combined with a Napier/Hastings local boundary demarcation dispute which meant that Labour's Stuart Nash won the seat off National. In Epsom, Christine Rankin came fifth, with only 1725 votes- but then, Epsom is an urban liberal electorate. In East Coast Bays, Colin Craig won 4903 votes and came a distant second to incumbent National MP Murray McCully, who has a 15,000 vote majority. In New Lynn, vocal Conservative candidate Steve Taylor came fourth, behind incumbent Labour MP David Cunliffe, National and the Greens. Thus, apart from McVicar and Colin Craig, Conservative election results weren't particularly spectacular. Moreover, the party only managed 3.97% of total voter share, not enough to enter Parliament without winning a constituency. What was at the root of this failure? According to an excellent piece of analysis in the Otago Daily Times (23.09.2014), it was because urban voters rejected the Conservatives. It is most popular in rural areas and north of Auckland, but was damaged by its lack of support in city seats, where its polling slumped to 1.6%. And then there's the Rachel McGregor mystery. Conservative media manager Rachel McGregor abandoned the Conservatives a matter of days before the election, without giving any reason for doing so. Was it purely a matter of personal health? Was it the psychological stress of cognitive dissonance between her personal beliefs, what the Conservatives professed and what they might actually believe? Was it trying to continually insure that no-one within the party was exposed as a flake or oddball with extremist political or social views? Was it personal incompatability with Colin Craig? For whatever reason, the Conservatives appear to have been silent during the aftermath of the election, apart from Rankin's brief personal thanks to party members and voters for delivering the outcome that they did, back on September 24. Since then, almost nothing but silence. Why? The Conservatives polled 3.97% of the total voter share, true- but the fundamentalist Christian Coalition (Christian Heritage/Christian Democrats) polled 4.33% in 1996, when the first New Zealand MMP election was held. In 1997, the party disintegrated into its constituent parts. While Christian Heritage retained a fairly good electorate infrastructure, over time it haemorrhaged, given that it was pigeonholed as an extremist political party. Ex-leader Graham Capill's pedophilia trial and conviction destroyed the party that he had led for so long. In early October, Colin Craig abandoned his threatened defamation lawsuit against Greens co-leader Russell Norman, after the two parties agreed to disagree over the interpretation of what Dr Norman had actually said at Big Gay Out. There were no issues about damages to settle, as Craig had never sought them, and both parties would pay their own legal costs. Unfortunately, Craig is a multimillionaire and can afford to personally bankroll his vanity vehicle for quite some time. In early November, Colin Craig ruminated about the growth in Conservative Party membership and financial strength despite its election setback. However, the party also has no scheduled events and has made no serious media releases for the last two months. In 2014, the New Zealand Christian Right was looking battered and impotent. As usual, it failed to parachute a fundamentalist microparty into Parliament and failed to secure enough support to reverse recent liberal social reforms (ie marriage equality). It "won" nothing. Not Recommended: Family First: http://www.familyfirst.org.nz Conservative Party: http://www.conservativeparty.org.nz Recommended: Vernon Small: "Colin Craig drops defamation lawsuit" Stuff: 10.10.2014:http://www.stuff.co.nz/10603319/Colin-Craig-drops-defamation- lawsuit "Craig's crew failed to fire in city seats" Otago Daily Times: 24.09.2014:Craig's crew failed to fire in city seats | Otago Daily Times Online News : Otago, South Island, New Zealand


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TOM HICKEY'S WAR, THREE NOVELS OF THE 1940S
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On the homefront, Tom finds a whole different kind of war.
The Venus Deal: Following Pearl Harbor, Tom Hickey and a partner open a supper club, Rudy's Hacienda, in downtown San Diego, a few blocks from the harbor. The club thrives. and Tom's glad to be making money. His wife Madeline, part gold-digger, has wearied of living in decent but modest circumstances.
Tom's ticket to prosperity and family harmony is Cynthia Moon, the club's jazz singer who enraptures admirals, generals, and tycoons. When she disappears, it's not only concern for the girl that sends him searching.
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"Mysticism, a journal full of poetic folklore, and the noir-like dialog push an especially complex plot from start to finish. Along with Gaylord Dold and Max Allan Collins, Kuhlken joins the ranks of P.I. authors presenting their character in a historical setting and pulling the deed off with skill and grace. Highly recommended." ~ Publisher's Weekly
The Loud Adios: Private Investigator Tom Hickey, now an army corporal military policeman assigned to the U.S./Mexico border, accompanies Private Clifford Rose to a Tijuana nightclub where Clifford claims they will find his sister Wendy.
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