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Love Buzz är en singel från 1988 av det amerikanska grungebandet Nirvana, vilken släpptes som den enda singeln från bandets debutalbum Bleach. "Love Buzz" är en coverversion på låten med samma namn av Shocking Blue, skriven av deras gitarrist Robbie van Leeuwen och först utgiven på Shocking Blues studioalbum At Home från 1969.

Det var efter Jonathan Poneman från Sub Pop hade hört en demoutgivning av Nirvana som han bad bandet att spela in en singel för skivbolaget. "Love Buzz" valdes ut som singelns A-sida, vilket Kurt Cobain till en början motsatte sig. "Big Cheese" valdes ut som B-sida och inspelningen av singeln ägde rum vid fyra olika tillfällen mellan juni och september 1988. Tio sekunder av Cobains ljudkollage från demoutgivningen Montage of Heck lades in i början av singelversionen av "Love Buzz", något som senare inte kom med på albumversionen av låten.

"Love Buzz" lanserades den 1 november 1988 via Sub Pop i en upplaga som begränsades till 1 000 kopior. I november 1989 valdes "Love Buzz" som första skiva till Sub Pops Singles Club. Recensenterna har främst varit positivt inställda till Nirvanas coverversion, dock ansåg låtskrivaren van Leeuwen att Nirvanas version var underlägsen originalet.

Bakgrund och inspelning
Sub Pops Jonathan Poneman var imponerad av Nirvanas tidigare demoutgivning och valde att ge bandet en chans att spela in en singel för skivbolaget. Poneman valde ut "Love Buzz" till den låt som skulle bli singelns A-sida även om Kurt Cobain till en början satte sig emot beslutet. Nirvana hade sedan de spelat in sina förra demoutgivning bytt ut trumslagaren Dale Crover till Chad Channing och de återvände till studion Reciprocal Recording i Seattle, Washington för att spela in singeln vid fyra olika tillfällen under 1988: 11 och 30 juni, 16 juli samt 27 september.

Från början skulle "Blandest" ha varit B-sida på singeln, men inspelningen av denna låt var inte framgångsrik. Producenten Jack Endino lyckades övertala Nirvana att välja "Big Cheese" som B-sida istället eftersom han ansåg att den låten var "mer livlig". Poneman var inte nöjd med den första mixningen av "Love Buzz" och Cobain tvingades att återvända till studion för en ny tagning. Utöver dessa låtar spelades även andra låtar in under de fyra studiosessionerna såsom "Mr. Moustache", "Sifting", "Blew", "Floyd the Barber" och "Spank Thru", där Endino bidrog med bakgrundssång på den senare.

Komposition och låttext
Singelversionen av "Love Buzz" är något annorlunda jämfört med den version som kom med på Nirvanas debutalbum Bleach. Singelversionen innehåller ett tio sekunder långt intro i form av ett ljudkollage som inte finns med på debutalbumet; introt var från början trettio sekunder långt, men klipptes ned på begäran av Sub Pop. Detta intro är en kort del av det 8 minuter långa ljudkollaget Cobain skapade på demoutgivningen Montage of Heck, vilket han från början ville inkludera på "Love Buzz"-singeln. När "Love Buzz" skulle mixas om för Bleach glömde Cobain att ta med sig det tidigare kassettbandet, vilket ledde till att introt inte kom med på albumet. I Nirvanas coverversion av "Love Buzz" valdes en av verserna bort från låten jämfört med Shocking Blues originalversion från 1969. Cobain har senare sagt sig vara missnöjd med kompositionen av låten och han kallade inspelningen av "Love Buzz" för "mesig". Nirvana var under inspelningarna fortfarande bittra över Ponemans beslut att välja "Love Buzz" som bandets första singel. Därför, efter att de var färdiga med inspelningen av "Blandest", valde de att spela in "Big Cheese"; en låt fylld med hat som riktade sig mot Poneman.

Lansering och mottagande

"Love Buzz" lanserades den 1 november 1988 i USA via Sub Pop. Singeln begränsades till 1 000 kopior (1 200 kopior av singeln trycktes av Sub Pop, men 200 av dessa kopior var enbart promosinglar), vilket efter Nirvanas genombrott har gjort den till ett samlarobjekt. I november 1989 valdes "Love Buzz" som första skiva till Sub Pops Singles Club, vilken pågick fram till december 1993. "Love Buzz" var inte med på den ursprungliga brittiska utgåvan av Bleach utan var istället ersatt av "Big Cheese". På den brittiska CD-utgåvan från 1992 var "Love Buzz" återställd som låt nummer 5 och "Big Cheese" kom istället med som en bonuslåt. "Love Buzz" var även en av låtarna som kom med på Nirvanas första EP Blew som lanserades 1989. Inristat på själva singelns skiva står "Why don't you trade those guitars for shovels?", vilket var ett uttryck Novoselics far ibland använde sig av.

Den första recensionen av "Love Buzz", vilket även var den första recensionen av Nirvana som band, var negativ. Bandet kallades för "en sämre variant av Lynyrd Skynyrd", vilket gjorde Cobain upprörd eftersom han kände sig förnedrad. I sin recension i Melody Maker 1989 hyllade Everett True Nirvana. Han skrev att singeln innehöll "kärlekslåtar för de mentalt störda" och han gjorde "Love Buzz" till veckans singel i tidskriften. John Robb från Sounds gjorde även han "Love Buzz" till veckans singel i den tidskrift han skrev för och han har efteråt ansett att Cobains röst i låten inte var olik John Lennons i det att den var rå, känslosam och hade en kraft som sökte sig in i lyssnarens själ. Daniel Dias från Sputnikmusic ansåg att "Love Buzz" inte var en stark låt, men de positiva sidorna tyckte han var refrängen samt Krist Novoselics basspelande. Per Hägred från Expressen var positiv till låten och skrev i sin recension från 2009 att "[k]raften i 'Love buzz' blåser bort 'Like a prayer', 'The Look' och annat från 1989." Edwin Pouncey från New Musical Express kallade låten för "briljant" och Bruce Pavitt, grundaren av Sub Pop, har sagt att "Love Buzz" indikerade den riktning Nirvanas låtskrivande var på väg. Låtskrivaren för "Love Buzz", Robbie van Leeuwen, hörde talas om Nirvanas coverversion när han var på besök i Hilversum, Nederländerna och han bestämde sig för att lyssna igenom Bleach. Dock köpte van Leeuwen inte albumet eftersom han tyckte att Nirvanas coverversion av "Love Buzz" var underlägsen originalet.

Nirvanas coverversion av "Love Buzz" kom på plats 2 på listan "10 Cover Songs Better Than the Originals" av Diffuser.fm. "Love Buzz" hamnade på plats 14 över de 20 mest spelade Nirvana-låtarna någonsin i Storbritannien, vilket var en lista framtagen av Phonographic Performance Limited för att hedra Cobains 50-årsdag den 20 februari 2017.

Coverversioner
Flera artister har gjort coverversioner av "Love Buzz". Förutom Nirvanas version av låten har Hatcham Social släppt sin coverversion på EP:n Party 2008. 1990 släpptes Lithium X-mas version av "Love Buzz" på albumet Dude You Rock och Anikas coverversion lanserades 2013 på EP:n Anika EP. Circa Survive spelade in en cover av låten för hyllningsalbumet Doused in Mud, Soaked in Bleach.

"Love Buzz" har även samplats i låtar såsom The Prodigys "Phoenix" från Always Outnumbered, Never Outgunned, Lil' Kims "Kitty Box" från The Naked Truth och Malk de Koijns "5-øres ting" från Toback to the Fromtime.

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York Guardian: EDGES OF TORONTO: $15 and Fairness campaigners will keep fighting
Posted on Media by Milan Nadarajah · June 01, 2017 12:57 PM
By Mike Adler
Today, June 1, Queen's Park shuts for the summer. It's the last day before fall for the Liberal government to say they're reforming Ontario's labour laws, and raising minimum wage to $15.
As of this writing, I don't know what the government announced or hasn't. I know people in the $15 and Fairness campaign made every day count.
They've already done more than politicians thought they could.
So many of us are stuck in precarious and part-time jobs. For two years, campaigners seemed to be everywhere, on streetcars and street corners, reaching people who fit that description.
They've demanded $15 an hour, paid sick days, and an end to exploitation by temp agencies. They practically remade Ontario's labour movement.
They were poised a week ago to get serious labour reform, not because government suddenly saw the light, as the Workers' Action Centre's Deena Ladd says, but because people fought for it.
One was Mohammad Sarkar, a community action leader for Access Alliance - that's one of his three part-time jobs - in Scarborough's Oakridge and East York's Crescent Town.
He's met fellow immigrants who wait in vain to get called to work, or are sent home after an hour or two, or get $6 or $7 an hour at a grocery or convenience store.
They need rent money, but without paid sick days, Sarkar says, many go to work sick, or pay a further price in back pain, or repetitive strain injuries.
Malka Paracha, a food service supervisor at York University, "was an anti-union person" a while ago. But then a union, along with students and faculty, helped York's servers stand up and win $15 an hour and full benefits.
"It is 200 per cent possible. We did it," says Paracha.
The Changing Workplaces Review recommendations are a mixed bag. Campaigners knew Ontario's Chamber of Commerce would call their reforms a job killer, but they kept pushing the government for the full package. If it wasn't introduced by June 1, perhaps it would come this fall.
If MPPs expect this to stop, they're wrong.
"If they don't listen," Ladd says, "they will hear it at the ballot box."
Read York Guardian Story
Huff Post: Small businesses can survive Ontario's new $15 minimum wage
Posted on Media by Milan Nadarajah · May 31, 2017 5:07 PM
By John Laforet
Minimum wage workers in Ontario will be earning 31.5 per cent more by 2019 for doing the same jobs they are today. Not surprisingly, many business owners are concerned about the implications this massive increase in their costs will have on their business.
I've always believed that anyone who is prepared to work full time should be guaranteed a life outside of poverty. As an employer, I've learned that money is an excellent lubricant for life. Employees who are properly compensated and alleviated from outside financial stress are better able to focus on ensuring success of the business they work for.
Because our average employee earns nearly three times the legally mandated minimum wage and has extended medical benefits with no copay or deductible, I do not anticipate we will feel much of an impact by this change. Our only exposure to this will be increasing the rate we pay our interns, who already earn more than any current minimum wage rate anywhere in the country.
The biggest challenges business owners will face with Ontario's move to massively increase the minimum wage is how to adjust their business models, sales and marketing strategies to effectively respond to it.
I genuinely believe most employers aren't scrooges who are trying to squeeze nickels and dimes out of their workers to pad their bank accounts. They value a job based on the expected economic output of the position, level of skill required and the other costs associated with staffing, managing and training related to that role. Employers are responsible for creating long-term viability and cash flow stability, and achieve this by weighing value against expense constantly.
Small businesses are especially vulnerable to the minimum-wage increase, as they are less likely to have the financial resources to withstand any hit to profitability that follows, and the dividends small businesses churn out are used to make the mortgage payment, send kids to school and support families.
Employers have six months to react before the first increase happens, and there are a number of steps businesses can take to ensure they are stronger for it.
Employers need to ensure the work employees produce has a comparable increase in value.
Here are four steps all small businesses can take over the next 149 business days before the first big increase comes into force, to get their business ready:
1. Increase productivity of employees
If wages are increasing by over 30 per cent over the course the next 18 months, employers need to ensure the work employees produce has a comparable increase in value. Failing to do this will result in a loss of profitability.
Employers can increase productivity of employees by reviewing workflow processes to cut out inefficiencies, reviewing the effectiveness of technology and explore opportunities to automate lower value aspects of employment.
2. Review your business plan and financial model
Determine whether current staffing levels and your pricing strategy are viable with labour cost increases and adjust as necessary. This assumes you actually have a business plan and have done financial modelling already. If you don't, the first order of business is to develop one based on your historical data. Understanding your numbers is key to ensuring your business achieves sustainable, predictable financial health.
Labour expenses are usually the highest line item of most businesses. Taking your historical financial data and re-forecasting your expenses with the increased labour costs your business will experience when the minimum wage increase is fully implemented will help you understand the impact the minimum wage increase will have on your cash flow.
If it puts you under water or unacceptably lowers your profitability, additional revenue and expense forecasts will be necessary to determine what steps are needed to grow your business to where you want it to be.
3. Aggressively grow your sales now
And do so before labour costs increase and begin adding cash flow pressure. Use this potential risk to your cash flow as an opportunity to grow your business to meet the challenge. It is unlikely your team is currently running on all cylinders and a large part of that problem often relates to fluctuations in business traffic.
Getting a better understanding of areas of opportunity for sales growth and driving additional demand during times when your employees are least productive will increase your revenue without increasing your costs.
When attempting a 25 per cent or more increase in sales, it is always wise to work with a professional to develop a marketing plan that is capable of delivering the result you need.
Virtually every business is capable of increasing their sales.
4. Be prepared to adjust pricing of your products and services
You will need to make up for any cash flow impact you're not able to address through productivity and sales volume increases. Virtually every business is capable of increasing their sales, but if you decide growth is not the solution you're prepared to invest in (and increasing productivity doesn't take you far enough), the last resort will be to adjust your pricing to increase revenue and improve cash flow.
We've routinely worked with companies that have undertaken a hybrid of marketing and business plan models to increase margins and sales simultaneously. We have consistently found that properly communicated price increases that focus on your unique sales proposition are very successful in delivering higher margins without impacting customer loyalty.
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North Bay Nugget: $15 minimum wage: Thumbs up
Posted on Media by Milan Nadarajah · May 31, 2017 12:52 PM
By Henri Giroux
"It's a pretty good day for workers across Ontario, and I'm particularly thankful for all the hard work our team has accomplished in the two years since we started educating, organizing, and mobilizing for labour reform," says Henri Giroux, president of the North Bay and District labour Council.
"We're pleased with the announcement of an 18-month transition to a $15 minimum wage, because precarious, part-time and low-wage earners are working on the edge," says Giroux.
"It's all about economic fairness and economic justice, and when we help low earners with an opportunity to live a more dignifying life — donate to charity, save for college, buy birthday presents — we not only grow our economy, we foster a safer community with greater vitality.
The $15 announcement is good news. But the Ontario government needs to follow through with a complete modernization of the labour laws in Ontario. Joining a union is the fairest way out of poverty and the surest way to economic prosperity, the council says. Unionized workers enjoy equal pay for equal work, time off to care for sick family, and negotiated holiday time to enjoy life.
Unions raise the standards for everyone by allowing for fairer wealth distribution. Unions help generations of families make remarkable investments in communities, steadily, surely, and fairly.
Unions help families invest in the lives of their children, and their children's children, by enabling post-secondary education and quality training — all things necessary to earn enough stability to buy residential properties and pay important property taxes. The earning, saving, and investing power of working people is the engine of the economy.
"Hearing that part-time workers could earn equal pay as compared to their full-time counterparts, and that laws may force employers to use fairer scheduling practices, these things are steps in the right direction," says Giroux.
"Employers have been exploiting part-timers for decades and it's time we make life fairer for everyone, not just for the profits of corporations."
Read the North Bay Nugget Story
Inside Toronto (City Centre Mirror): Will minimum wage boost be good for Toronto?
Chamber warns of 'unintended consequences', pro-labour coalition counters 'trickle down economics has not worked'
In Toronto's downtown Regent Park neighbourhood, news that Ontario's Liberal government was moving to a $15 minimum wage left people happy and, in some cases, speechless, says a local organizer.
"All together, we made it," Nadira Begum, part of a campaign pushing the province for labour reforms, added on Tuesday.
"There is a big difference in people's lives."
For more than five years, the married mother of three has juggled three part-time jobs with no benefits.
Though some Regent Park residents thought it a waste of time, Begum and others went to rallies and pressured their MPP, Glen Murray.
Now that Premier Kathleen Wynne has committed to some of what campaigners wanted, Begum said, more actions are planned, because people know politicians say things and forget them.
"We want to see it real," she explained.
The $15 and Fairness movement sparked concern in business groups, including the Toronto and Region Board of Trade, which called the proposed move to $15 an hour "drastic" and said it appeared to be "a wholly political decision."
The move, which will raise the current minimum wage of $11.40 an hour to $14 on Jan. 1 and $15 a year later, will add costs to everyday goods and services, and force Toronto employers either to let employees go, cut hours and close shop altogether, said Karl Baldauf, the Ontario Chamber of Commerce's policy and government relations vice president.
"The notion that these policies will be seen as popular, I certainly question that," he said Tuesday.
The province's labour market needs responsible and "evidence-based" policy changes, Baldauf argued, "and that isn't what we saw from the government today."
The Chamber called for third-party economic analysis of each change to avoid "unintended consequences" that will hurt Ontario's economy.
Now, the group will do economic research the government hasn't done, Baldauf said, partly so it can better speak to the province about lowering corporate and small business tax rates to offset the added costs.
Rabbi Shalom Schachter, the Toronto Board of Rabbis representative on the Interfaith Social Assistance Reform Coalition, said citizens should be glad the government is trying to reduce economic inequality. They need to speak up and let the Wynne Liberals know it should be a priority in the fall session.
"We've been waiting for an update in these laws for decades now," while the gap between rich and poor has grown, he said. "Trickle down economics has not worked."
Schachter was one of nearly 200 faith leaders who signed a statement supporting the goals of the $15 and Fairness movement, believing, as he later said, they play a role in moving Ontario toward a more just society.
The faith coalition hoped for $15 this year; getting it in 2019 is "the longest delay we would be prepared to accept," Schachter said.
Some businesses welcomed the promised changes to wages and employment standards, believing they'll lead to more spending power, which will support local businesses in turn. "It's putting good-paying jobs back into the community," said Amanda Terfloth, co-ordinator of the Better Way to Build the Economy Alliance.
The group's 27 businesses range from four to 7,000 employees, she said.
The Inside Toronto (City Centre Mirror) Story
Oshawa Express: Government report falls short on workplace improvements, French says
By Graeme McNaughton
After more than two years, the provincial government has released a report detailing what needs to change in Ontario workplaces.
The report, dubbed the Changing Workplaces Review, makes 173 recommendations on improving work conditions in the province, including allowing more professions to unionize, going harder on rule-breaking employers and expanding entitlements and job protections for vacation and family leave.
Oshawa MPP Jennifer French, however, says she does not believe the report addresses the complaints that she has been hearing.
"It's missing, I think, a lot of what we've been hearing from our community groups and partners. There's a lot that we don't see in it, and we're hoping that can still be a part of the changes that end up happening in Ontario," she tells The Oshawa Express.
"We're glad to finally have the conversations, though, and have the review completed and know what it is that we're talking about in terms of specifics."
Among the things missing from the report were easing the pathway to creating unions or establishing a higher minimum wage, according to the Oshawa MPP.
"We've been calling for a $15 minimum wage in no uncertain terms. We've been hearing that call for a fair wage…from community members for years. To not see that as one of their recommendations maybe was surprising. But this review, while welcome, it falls short in those important areas," she says.
"The $15 minimum wage, paid sick days, it should be easier to join a union. When we look at the landscape of precarious work and knowing that union jobs with predictable and fair wages and benefits, for that pathway into the middle class, we need to make it easier to join a union."
In a statement, Kevin Flynn, the province's labour minister, says the Liberal government will be taking the recommendations put forward in the report to changing how people work in Ontario.
"Ontario's economy is strong and growing. Our unemployment rate is the lowest it's been in 16 years, and our GDP growth continues to lead all G7 countries. But with the rapid modernization of the workplace and new technology, people across Ontario are feeling less secure. We have heard from many people that they are no longer able to count on full-time, secure work to provide for themselves and their families. Many people work multiple jobs, on contract or in unstable positions with unreliable hours or pay," he states.
"What is clear to me, and to our government, after reading the report is that responsible change can ensure that every hard-working person in our province has the chance to reach their full potential. Fairness and decency must continue to be the defining values of our workplaces. No person in Ontario should ever feel like they can't get ahead."
According to national media report, the provincial government intended to table legislation on Tuesday, May 30, with proposed changes in response to the Changing Workplaces Review. The details of that legislation was unavailable prior to press time.
Lorne Coe, the MPP for Whitby-Oshawa, declined to comment on the report, saying he wanted to wait until legislation is introduced before speaking on the matter.
Red the Shawa Express Story
CBC News: Ontario's minimum wage raise a 'small business killer,' say critics, but for many it means feeling 'human'
By Shanifa Nasser
'Now I can feel a little more like how you feel,' says woman who works multiple jobs
Erendira Bravo works four jobs and none are full time.
For the last 12 years, she's juggled factory work, cleaning, construction and has also worked as a handywoman at people's homes.
"And if I find something else, I will do it, of course," she said.
A precarious worker in Toronto, Bravo is one of those applauding Ontario's plan to increase the provincial minimum wage to $15 an hour by Jan. 1, 2019. The announcement, made Tuesday, is one piece of a larger set of labour reforms under the proposed Fair Workplaces, Better Jobs Act.
Ontario becomes 2nd province to go ahead with $15 an hour minimum wage
How a $15 minimum wage would affect Ontario
The act would see equal pay for part-time and full-time workers working the same jobs, rules to prevent employers from misclassifying employees as "independent contractors." It would also allow 10 personal emergency leave days per year — two of which would be paid — and provide greater protection to shift workers, among other changes.
'I almost believed that I was not human'
That's all good news to Bravo, who says the endless days of working on-call, and taking virtually any shift she could get to make ends meet, took a toll on her personal life and family — and had her questioning her self-worth.
"At one point I almost believed that I was not human," she said. "Until today, that was my reality."

Tuesday's announcement by Premier Kathleen Wynne followed a report commissioned by the government.
The results, released last week, included some 173 recommendations addressing precarious work. The report didn't examine the minimum wage, but Wynne said Tuesday the increase from the current $11.40 minimum will make a difference in the lives of millions of Ontarians.
Indeed, 1.5 million workers in Ontario earn less than $15 an hour.
Move could wipe out profit margins, says restaurant group
But news of the changes is also drawing sharp concern, largely from independent business owners and the food service industry, who argue the reforms will in fact hurt their bottom lines and ultimately slow job growth.
Fred Luk, 61, who owns a handful of restaurants in downtown Toronto, calls Tuesday's changes "the biggest small business killer in the history of Ontario."

He's just one of the owners of 37,000 restaurants, bars, and other food service establishments who are part of Restaurants Canada, an organization that says the 31.6 per cent jump in wages by January 2019 "betrays the trust" of the industry.
Restaurants Canada says the move will cost an additional $47,000 per year, which the group says would wipe out the profit margin of the average restaurant in the province.
Luk wasn't always a restaurateur. He started as a bartender slinging beers, and says he worked his way up to manager, and eventually owner.
"At the end of the day that's how the cycle goes in our industry," said Luk, saying many of his own staff didn't even know how to cook when they were first hired.
"We are a training ground for employees," he said of the restaurant business, saying the industry can't be expected to operate in the same way as bigger businesses and instead prepares unskilled workers for future careers.
Luk says Tuesday's changes mean he'll have to consider whether he can afford to keep his doors open.
Surviving means slashing jobs, say some
The Canadian Federation of Independent Businesses goes further, saying wage hikes will mean job losses as small business owners are forced to make "difficult choices," including cutting hours and jobs.
In a statement Tuesday, the organization demanded that Ontario "stop punishing small businesses with higher costs they can't afford," while "rewarding big unions." One of the changes announced was the extension of card-based certification to temporary workers, making it easier for them to unionize.
Progressive Conservative leader Patrick Brown echoed those concerns, calling for a cost-benefit analysis of the proposed legislation before any further steps are taken.
"We want to be absolutely sure that this is not going to diminish our ability to have job creation in the province of Ontario," Brown said.
But at least one small business owner sees the changes as good for his bottom line.
Helmi Ansari, CEO of a company that exports tea and coffee products and operates out of Guelph and Cambridge, Ont., pays his 12 employees between $16.05 and $16.50 an hour — what he says is the living wage in the two cities.
Living wages good for bottom line, says business owner
"If we had our staff being part of the working poor, how could we expect them to have full engagement in the business?" Ansari said applauding the announcement. "They'd be engaged in thinking how they're going to pay the bills and put food on the table."
Ansari acknowledges the changes will cost businesses in the short-term and require some adjusting, but he maintains small business can and should pay a living wage.
"It's been good for business," he said.
Chris Buckley of the Ontario Federation of Labour also applauded the changes, calling them "steps in the right direction." But he said the province can go further, for example, by mandating paid and job-protected leave for survivors of domestic sexual violence.
New Democratic Party leader Andrea Horwath says the changes are a long time coming, taking aim at Wynne for what she said was simply political posturing. Real concern for the well-being of Ontarians, she said, would include a universal health-care plan that would see prescription drugs free for anyone -- not just those under the age of 25.
But for emergency room physician Dr. Kate Hayman, Tuesday's announcement is "fantastic news."
Hayman says she often sees patients afraid to take a day off sick for fear of losing wages or even their jobs. The two days of paid sick leave, she says, are a good start and she'd like to see even more.
Bravo, the woman who works multiple jobs to make ends meet, acknowledges she'd like to see more too. "It's not all that I want, it's not all that I deserve," she said.
But now she says she can imagine actually calling in sick or taking a day for personal errands.
"Now I feel a little bit more in the first world. Now I can feel a little more like how you feel."
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Catholic Register: Battle for a living wage is a key to Church's drive for social justice
Even as the Ontario government moved to enact new labour laws and increase the minimum wage to $15, experts agree there is no quick fix to protecting workers from the threat of poverty.
Good Shepherd executive director Br. David Lynch reports that he often sees people with jobs eating at the Queen Street shelter in Toronto. The Ontario Association of Food Banks reports that even though employment in the province is back at 2008 levels, food bank use is still seven to 14 per cent higher than before the last recession started.
Last October federal Finance Minister Bill Morneau said the next generation would have to get used to "job churn."
"We also need to think about, 'How do we train and retrain people as they move from job to job to job?' Because it's going to happen. We have to accept that," Morneau said.
More than half of adult workers in the Greater Toronto and Hamilton area now work temporary, contract or part-time jobs. "Non-standard work" – temp agency gigs, self-employment, limited contracts, multiple part-time jobs – has grown twice as fast in Ontario as regular jobs, steadily increasing by 2.3 per cent per year between 1997 and 2015.
A job was once the bedrock of Canada's social contract. In exchange for their labour and their loyalty, working people got a chance to build a life, educate their children, own a home and retire in dignity. The contract has been broken, said Redemptorist Fr. Paul Hansen.
"We're at a new moment in history," Hansen said.
Hansen advises the Ontario Assembly of Catholic Bishops on social justice issues. Come their June 1 meeting, he expects the bishops will be talking about many of the issues brought up by a wide-ranging provincial report on work standards called "The Changing Workplaces Review."
More than two years in the making, with 12 public sessions, over 200 presentations and 300 written submissions, plus another 280 submissions that followed up from an interim report, the Changing Workplaces Review makes 173 recommendations. It proposes sweeping changes to the Employment Standards Act, the Labour Relations Act and the Occupational Health and Safety Act.
Premier Kathleen Wynne announced May 30 that the province's minimum wage will rise from $11.40 an hour to $14 on Jan. 1, 2018 and to $15 on Jan. 1, 2019. Other proposed changes include equal pay for part-time workers performing same duties as full-time workers, and increasing minimum vacation entitlement to three weeks a year after five years with the same employer.
The Interfaith Social Assistance Reform Coalition and at least 139 individual faith leaders had signed onto a union-led campaign demanding protections for workers in unstable jobs and a $15 minimum wage.
With the help of the Atkinson Foundation, Kindred Credit Union, Ryerson University and the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, the Ontario Living Wage Network has figured out that to survive a full-time worker needs anywhere from $15.42 per hour in the Waterloo Region to $18.52 an hour in Toronto. The idea that employers should pay a living wage has been a key teaching of the Church, dating back to Pope Leo XIII's 1891 encyclical Rerum Novarum.
Ontario's current minimum wage of $11.40 per hour is 38.4 per cent below a living wage in Toronto.
"When we look at poverty statistics, there are an awful lot of people who are working and are living below the poverty line," said Citizens for Public Justice executive director Joe Gunn. "There's a growing number of people who actually find work and then they can't – because they can't get the hours and there are very few benefits and also the pay is so low – they can't make a go of it."
In 1891 Pope Leo was worried that working people were drifting away from the faith and from any real ties to their communities under the relentless pressure of the industrial revolution. Post-industrial society – the information economy, the green economy, the sharing economy, etc. – is posing a similar challenge, said Gunn.
"If the faith communities don't express strong opinions and move our constituency forward, as well as political leadership, then we've missed the boat," he said. "We've lost a prophetic opportunity."
Sr. Pauline Lally of the Sisters of Providence of St. Vincent de Paul in Kingston, Ont., assumes her Church will be on the side of low-wage workers in unstable jobs.
"It's the Christian thing to do," Lally told The Catholic Register. "If we remember the social teaching of the Church, if we remember Jesus and how he dealt with people and their dignity, Pope Leo clearly brought to our attention in that first encyclical the rights and the dignity of the worker…. Look at all the contract work and the sneaky way they (employers) do things."
The idea that bishops and Church leaders shouldn't take political positions doesn't cut it with Lally.
"People need to realize that poverty is political. It's not by chance that many people are poor. If the minimum wage is below the poverty line, of course it's political," she said.
Union president Ann Hawkins thinks Pope Leo's 1891 declaration that workers have a right to organize and negotiate with their employers is as relevant today in the post-industrial economy as it was in the middle of the industrial revolution.
"The present-day Pope has been very clear on several occasions on the rights of workers and the importance of unions," said the president of the Ontario English Catholic Teachers Association. "I can't answer for the Canadian Church. I haven't seen a response from them yet."
Hawkins recognizes that unionized Ontario teachers actually have it pretty good, but her union is worried about people who have been effectively shut out of stable, unionized work.
"We have a good number of hard-won rights, however the students and families and neighbours and other workers around-about us do not enjoy the same measures of dignity and security in their work as we do," she said.
Overall unionization rates in Canada dropped from 37.6 per cent in 1981 to 28.8 per cent in 2014. But the rate is only that high because of high unionization rates in the public sector. In the private sector, union jobs are vanishingly rare. From 1997 to 2015 union jobs in Ontario dropped from 19.2 per cent to 14.3 per cent in the private sector. In large part, this change reflects the disappearance of factory floors and large employers.
Things that companies used to hire workers to do are now done by networks of smaller businesses and independent contractors who feed into the big company's supply chain. When employers talk about flat and flexible hierarchies that respond quicker to market conditions, they're also talking about paying people less. Workers in insecure, contract jobs make an average of 46 per cent less that secure, full-time workers doing the same work, according to a McMaster University study.
A 2015 survey by Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu Limited found nearly half of Canadian businesses planned to fill any vacancies with contract, part-time or outsourced labour over the next three to five years. A Ryerson University study last year found that 42 per cent of Canadian jobs are at high risk of being automated out of existence.
"That's a huge transformation," said the director of the justice, peace and integrity of creation office for the Sisters of Providence, Jamie Swift. "It certainly is a sea change in the nature of work in advanced capitalist countries… We've been floundering and not willing to recognize the threat to popular prosperity or, if you will, the democratization of the economy that resulted from working class struggles over the past 150 years."
As people become less attached to their jobs, they become less attached to their communities or any sense of common cause with the rest of society. The result is people "utterly disillusioned with politics as usual," said Swift. "They start to be open to some of the outrageous, nativist, right-wing, populist ideas that have been arising."
In Swift's view, the reforms proposed in the Changing Workplaces report are pretty mild.
"I hardly think reform of labour standards regulation in Ontario constitutes a Bolshevik undertaking," he said. "Those regulations need to be strengthened and enforced. Decent employers would have nothing to fear from that."
The Canadian Federation of Independent Business has reacted with shock to some of the 173 Changing Workplaces recommendations that would make it easier to form unions and would toughen up Ministry of Labour enforcement of basic health, safety and job standards regulations. Such changes will "disproportionately impact Ontario's small businesses, who lack the financial resources to take on further regulation and costs," said the CFIB in a press release.
The Ontario Federation of Labour is equally disappointed in the final report. They had hoped for the re-instatement of card-based certification for unions and a ban on replacement workers during strikes. In an economy that spreads workers all over a widely dispersed supply chain, where people are increasingly working from home and where employers communicate with their workers online and through phone apps, a law that says you have to gather everybody in a union hall and hold a live vote to certify a union guarantees that fewer and fewer workers will be unionized, argues the OFL.
"It's in the interest of society as a whole to try to address in a sustained and vigorous manner the savage inequalities that are looming in our society," said Swift.
Toronto Star: Ontario's minimum wage jumping to $15 in 2019
Posted on Media by Milan Nadarajah · May 30, 2017 11:59 AM
By Sara Mojtehedzadeh and Robert Benzie
Premier Kathleen Wynne made the announcement Tuesday as part of a major overhaul of provincial laws. Minimum wage will jump from $11.40 an hour to $14 next year.
Millions of Ontario's most vulnerable workers are getting a raise.
The minimum wage will jump from $11.40 an hour to $14 next year and $15 in 2019, says Premier Kathleen Wynne.
Wynne made the announcement Tuesday as part of a major overhaul of provincial laws that also includes measures to make it easier for workers to join a union and increasing annual paid vacation from two weeks to three weeks.
Reading from a teleprompter and surrounded by a hand-picked group of labour activists and workers from different sectors in a slick TV talk-show-like setting, the premier boasted the wage hike is "the largest increase in our province's history."
"Right now, 10 per cent of workers in our province earn the minimum wage of $11.40. Thirty per cent earn less than $15 an hour. That's millions of people, many of them supporting a family on a wage that just doesn't go far enough," she said to cheers from the assembled crowd at the campaign-style event.
The wage will rise to $14 an hour on Jan. 1, 2018 — six months before what is expected to be a hotly contested Ontario election — and then to the $15 mark that labour groups have long demanded on Jan. 1, 2019.
After that, wage increases will again be tied to the rate of inflation.
NDP Leader Andrea Horwath, who has been crusading for a $15-an-hour minimum wage, said it is good news for workers.
But Horwath accused the Liberals of cynical electioneering "for their own political fortunes."
Progressive Conservative Leader Patrick Brown refused to say if he would allow the minimum wage to rise to $15-an-hour if his party wins the June 7, 2018 election.
"Everyone wants to have higher wages, but when a worker wakes up in the morning they need a job," said Brown, demanding the government produce a "cost-benefit analysis" to justify the hike.
The Canadian Federation of Independent Business warned "small businesses, who don't share the larger profit margins of big business, will be forced to make difficult choices, including cutting hours and jobs."
"We are shocked and appalled that the government is broadsiding small business owners with a 32 per cent increase in the minimum wage within only one-and-a-half years," said the federation's provincial director Julie Kwiecinski.
But Toronto Mayor John Tory, long a proponent of a rising minimum wage, said "it seems like they have struck a reasonable balance" between the need of workers and of business.
The Liberal government will also guarantee that workers earn equal pay for equal work, regardless of their full-time, part-time or temporary employee status.
"We will ensure that part-time workers receive equal pay for equal work. The reality is that more companies are choosing to hire part-time employees. That in itself is not a bad thing," said Wynne.
"But it has in some cases created an unfair workplace in which some are paid less than others who do exactly the same job. Paying people the same wage for the same work is the very essence of fairness," she said.
"And that is what we as a government will insist on from companies and other organizations doing business in our province."
As well, the minimum vacation entitlements for employees with five or more years at a company will rise from two weeks annually to three.
"You know, Ontario is behind other provinces in guaranteeing better vacation rights. It's time to do what's right and what's fair," the premier said.
The government will also "establish fairer rules for scheduling — rules that give greater certainty to workers while maintaining flexibility for employers."
"For instance, your employer will now be required to pay you three hours' wages if they cancel your shift with less than 48 hours' notice."
Currently, firms are only penalized if they cancel shifts after an employee has arrived for work.
Wynne's government will also give workers the right to take up to 10 days of personal emergency leave each year, two of them paid.
Right now, there is no guaranteed paid leave for those coping with a family emergency.
Enforcement will also be strengthened, including the addition of 150 new workplace inspectors — doubling the Ministry of Labour's current complement.
"We heard that enforcement is key to making this work — so we're stepping that up," said Wynne.
"We will modernize the rules around creating a union. That includes the extension of card-based certification to three vulnerable sectors — temporary workers, building services workers and home- and community-care workers."
Unifor President Jerry Dias, Canada's most powerful private-sector union leader, said the measures are "a bold first step to modernize Ontario's employment laws."
"The government has demonstrated that it has heard the concerns of Ontario's most vulnerable workers and is now committed to taking action," said Dias, whose union represents 160,000 Ontario workers, including those at the Toronto Star.
Canadian Labour Congress President Hassan Yussuff noted "the Ontario economy is strong and these changes will only make it stronger by supporting workers and their families to make ends meet, decreasing turnover and increasing productivity."
Labour Minister Kevin Flynn said the reforms stem from the 419-page Changing Workplaces Review, which was released last week after two years of consultation and research.
That review by special advisers C. Michael Mitchell and John C. Murray made 173 recommendations on improving work conditions in Ontario.
While the government won't enact all of them, Flynn promised the legislation would be introduced this week and enshrined in law by 2018.
The Ontario Chamber of Commerce expressed concern about what it called "unproven sweeping reforms" and warned of "unintended consequences, including job losses, rising consumer costs and economic hardship."
Rabbi Shalom Schachter, one of 200 faith leaders across the province who have endorsed legislative change to protect vulnerable leaders, called the reforms' consultation process "extensive."
"Workers have waited long enough," he said. "It's time to have those changes implemented today."

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Better Buy: Biogen vs. Celgene
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Fresh off a strong Q2 earnings beat and riding high on takeout rumors, the past 3 months have been good to Biogen (NASDAQ: BIIB) investors, with shares up 27% since July. The same, however, cannot be said for Celgene (NASDAQ: CELG), up a measly 3% and trailing the iShares Biotech Index (NASDAQ: IBB).
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Although most analysts would consider Biogen a "value" stock and Celgene a "growth" stock, these companies do share some very similar characteristics. Both are bluechip biotech stocks with market caps hovering around $70 billion (Biogen) and $80 billion (Celgene). They are also both leaders in their fields, with Celgene's Revlimid accounting for more than 60% of market share in first and second-line multiple myeloma (MM) and Biogen's multiple sclerosis (MS) franchises accounting for around 47% of global MS revenues. While these two companies have not competed in the past, Celgene has announced its intention to move into the highly lucrative MS space with its 2014 purchase of small biotech Receptos and its anti-inflammatory drug ozanimod. So which is the better stock to buy today? It's time for a deeper dive.
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As evidenced from the chart above, both Biogen and Celgene have relatively concentrated product portfolios, with one or two products accounting for the majority of total revenues. For Biogen this consists of the MS titans Tecfidera and Interferon, while for Celgene, Revlimid takes the cake. While Biogen surprised analysts to the upside in the second quarter by beating revenue estimates of $2.8 billion by $100 million, Celgene is undoubtedly the faster growing company, with Q2 revenues up 21% year-over-year (YoY) versus Biogen's 12% YoY growth.
Hands down, the most exciting drug in Biogen's pipeline is aducanumab, a beta-amyloid-attacking human monoclonal antibody currently being studied as a potential treatment for Alzheimer's disease. While estimates vary, some have quoted peak sales of aducanumab as high as $20 billion for this large and under-served patient population. However, Alzheimer's disease is a complex disorder, and other anti-amyloid treatments have failed in the past. Aducanumab is currently in two Phase 3 trials, "Engage" and "Emerge". However, these trials will not release top-line data until at least mid-2020. Given that other anti-amyloid therapies have failed in the past and that 99% of Alzheimer's trials end in failure, I am not optimistic regarding aducanumab's chances.
Celgene, meanwhile, has a bet big with its aforementioned $7.2 billion acquisition of Receptos and its experimental drug ozanimod. Ozanimod is part of the exciting new category of S1P modulators for treatment of autoimmune diseases. Receptos made headlines in 2014 with its announcement that ozanimod had met its primary endpoint in a phase 2 trial as a treatment for relapsing multiple sclerosis (RMS) with potentially best in class safety and a once-daily oral dosing. While estimates vary, Celgene's management has projected peak sales of ozanimod between $4 billion and $6 billion annually. Ozanimod's two Phase III multiple sclerosis trials are expected to read out in the first half of 2017, with the potential to support an approval the following year.
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Finally, a note on valuation. While Celgene looks expensive with a trailing PE of 44x earnings, it is the forward PE we care about for growth companies. On this measure, Celgene and Biogen come out about even -- both around 15x forward PE. However, it is on the PEG ratio (defined as the PE ratio divided by the expected growth rate in earnings) that Celgene truly shines, with a PEG ratio of 0.8 versus Biogen's 1.8. Generally, a PEG ratio below 1 is a signal that investors are paying less in price for a stock than what its growth potential should command.
The combination of faster growth, a strong pipeline, and a low valuation make Celgene the obvious choice for my portfolio. While Biogen could strike gold with aducanumab, I don't consider the odds of aducanumab's approval worth choosing Biogen over Celgene. For Biogen investors who have done well so far this year, it might be time to ring the register in favor of Celgene.
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Passengers at several of Japan's major airports have been grounded after a problem with airline computer systems has seen them stop working.
News of the delays broke when All Nippon Airways (ANA) posted a notice on its website apologising to customers for the issues this morning (March 22nd).
It blamed a "system malfunction" for the problems that have made internet check-in, seat selection, new reservations, changes to reservations and payments impossible to process.
The failure is affecting domestic flights and technicians are working hard to resolve the issues and get the system working again.
ANA's main hub, Haneda International Airport in Tokyo, is the worst hit, mainly due to the large number of flights and passengers that pass through it every day.
The airport's flight update site showed that many of the airline's scheduled departures were either delayed or cancelled.
While ANA is the worst affected, a number of airlines that use the same system, including Starflyer, Airdo, Solaseed Air and Ibex Airlines, are also encountering problems.
The timing of the glitch couldn't be worse for travellers in Japan, as today marks the end of a three-day holiday across the nation and many people are trying to return home.
Increased passenger numbers are only adding to the chaos and once the system is fixed, there will be knock-on effects to flights due to those stranded at airports.
Japanese television channels are broadcasting scenes of terminals full of frustrated travellers unable to reach their destinations.
The most recent figures, cited by Japan Today, suggest that 127 domestic flights have been affected, with 16,000 passengers unable to board planes.
This is only likely to increase until the computer system is fully functional again.
At present, there is no indication as to what caused the malfunction in the first place.


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NZS 5266(Int) and NZS/AS 3645 (planned for publication in August 2011) are designed to specify the minimum requirements for the safety of gas appliances and fittings that must be certified before being sold in New Zealand.
Standards New Zealand invites comment on the Interim Standard NZS 5266(Int) from persons and organisations concerned with this subject. Comments must be received by 22 June 2012 and this Interim Standard will be confirmed, withdrawn, or revised in the light of comments received. A form for comments is provided at the end of the Interim Standard.
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July 8, 2019 Shreyas Tanna News
Elwood "Woody" Rice discusses his sibling Staff Sgt. Calvin C. Rice Jr. The Vietnam War legend will be regarded with a flagpole devoted in Penn Park.
Throughout the years, Wolff hadn't pondered his uncle. He had never met him; he was brought into the world three years after his uncle was announced missing. When one of Markel's nearest remaining relatives, he would get refreshes from the administration about the journey to recuperate and recognize his uncle's remaining parts, he didn't have a favorable opinion of it.
"What's the point?" he would think. It was somewhat unique, not genuine.
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"When they called me, I got genuine passionate," Wolff, who lives in Hanover, said Friday, the day after the Defense Department declared that Markel's remaining parts had been recognized. "Reality set in. It simply hit me."
Duke Henry Markel was a ranch kid. His folks, Samuel and Edna (Shearer) Markel had a homestead outside of Spring Grove, Pennsylvania. He grew up taking a shot at the ranch, a tying youth, solid, reviewed Joyce Gearhart, his cousin Johnny Gearhart's widow. (Johnny Gearhart, a veteran of the Marine Corps Reserve, kicked the bucket in September 2016.)
Johnny, whose mother was Markel's most seasoned sister, Florence, lived on the ranch for a couple of years while his dad was serving in the Army in Texas, Joyce Gearhart reviewed. He strolled to class – a one-room school building in Jefferson – with his more seasoned cousin.
Markel enrolled in the Army on May 13, 1949, five months before his eighteenth birthday celebration. He so needed to serve his nation, his nephew stated that he lied about his age to get into the administration. "I think it was entirely basic in those days," Wolff said.
After fundamental preparing at Fort Dix in New Jersey and further preparing at Fort Davens in Massachusetts, he transported out for Korea with Company M of the third Battalion of the first Cavalry Division's Eighth Regiment on Aug. 10, 1950. On Aug. 25, his unit went without hesitation.
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Join us for a talk by Staten Island historian Pat Salmon. During the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries Staten Island was viewed as a healing environment for the ill and those who could not care for themselves. But there was also a darker side. Off-island residents sometimes saw the island as a distant location for those with contagious diseases or for those viewed as outcasts. For these and other reasons the Quarantine station, seaman's retreat, "Old Ladies' Home", Richmond county Almshouse (later the Farm Colony), Nursery and Children's Hostpital, Sea View Hospital and others were established to house those "who required separaration".
Hip to Hip Theatre Presents A Midsummer Night's Dream
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4:30 PM Kids & the Classics
"Kids & the Classics" is the companion piece to Hip to Hip's program of "Free Shakespeare in the Parks." This free interactive workshop is offered 30 minutes before every performance, and is designed for children ages 4 to 12. It gives children a chance to interact with the text by previewing the characters and situations, and creating links between the text and their own lives through theatre games and close reading of text.
5:00 PM Performance of A Midsummer Night's Dream
Four young lovers escape the tyranny of the court to find love in a magical forest. On the same night and in the same forest, the king and queen of the fairies declare war on each other, and a company of amateur actors meet to rehearse a play. See what happens when a mischievous sprite called Puck weaves their three stories into one.
British Invasion with the Staten Island Philharmonic
Celebrate the end of summer with Staten Island Philharmonic's annual Labor Day weekend British Invasion concert. Picnic on the lawn as you listen to a program that includes everything from folk songs to the Beatles, James Bond, Adele and Bohemian Rhapsody. The concert is free and open to the public.
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Changing precipitation patterns including more intense and prolonged dry periods have become a growing concern for people living in the Pacific Island region. People in the region are particularly sensitive to these changes given their resource-based livelihoods and high dependence on rainfall for their freshwater needs. Despite this, little attention has been given to understanding the implications of climatic changes for people and their capacity to manage these changes. This paper assesses human vulnerability to climate change (as it relates to fresh water resources) in Vusama, an iTaukei village in southwest Viti Levu, Fiji in the context of recent social and ecological changes. An analysis of data collected using a vulnerability approach that included semi-structured interviews, participant observation and analysis of secondary sources reveal that climate change together with behavioural changes are negatively affecting availability and access to clean freshwater, with implications for household economies, food security and human health. In particular, prolonged drought and changing seasonal patterns, together with people's increasing reliance on a village borehole in lieu of family wells have resulted in a freshwater crisis. People are coping by using earnings from wage employment and harvesting and selling seafood to buy water and vegetables, rationing freshwater and depending on extended social networks for fresh produce. Current responses are reactive and short-term. Longer-term adaptation strategies are needed that consider expected future climate change and broader human development goals.


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When I think about software implementations the phrase "Help, I've failed and I can't get up" comes to mind.
For many people, the goal of a software implementation is to get to the end, to see the vendor leave. In many minds, that event signals that the work is done, and the departure of the vendor signals that the software was implemented correctly. Not true Mon Chéri.
In case you did not get the email, IT has become big business in most corporations, and it takes a group of highly paid bureaucrats to administer it. And you know what happens when you give the bureaucrat a clipboard and ask them to oversee the implementation of a new email system, by the time the dust settles you have spent a few million dollars on a new sales force automation tool—Rube Goldberg on steroids.
Once you start spending it is difficult to stop. And people do not keep spending in the hope of reaping additional ROI; they do so in order to try to salvage a project that in its current state is a white elephant. Most of the cost of an IT project is to get it to do what you thought it would do. This is a classic example of when you are in a hole, stop digging, or at least let me hand you a bigger shovel.


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2020-02-18 at 05:33 < report >im about halfway through but i'd like to advanced sooner as i got a really rare time to play game. can someone please spoil me about what happenned in this game and how it end?Last modified on 2020-02-18 at 05:33
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2020-02-19 at 23:18 < report >Okay :
Wilfried fights Fine in Hertford, and defeats her, raping her. She passes out and which point Wilfried removes her magic from her, but it has rather destabilizsng effect on him as well, as he discovers that the witches instruments regulate the amount of feedback that their magic causes.
Ria and Wilfried eventually go back to to their University. With Fine still suffering from a lack of magic, she faints when Wifried fights Erika, whom he drags off to a classroom to be raped and have her magic stolen as well
Wilfried meets Kurt, from whom he removes Erika's spell.
Wilfried rapes Fine once more and removes her remaining magic, and takes her back to his base, forcing Erika to live on her own with no supplies (having been cut off by Wilfried) and no help from Fine. However, realising that her personal hygene will suffer ("Erika will come to a point that no woman should cross"), as Wilfried wants to rape her again, Fine is allowed (under guard) to look after Erika.
Both Fine and Erika do suffer (indirectly anyway) from being raped, even if they are sanguine about it - they end up with crippling headaches after having their magic forcibly removed, and end up being house-bounds for weeks.
Eventually Wilfried and Erika meet for one final time in the governors mansion. Erika blames Wilfried for a terrorist incident in Griesvalt (in which she lost her family), which is something he denies he would do (although he does state that the only thing he has to fight against is the whole world). Wilfried defeats Erika, rapes her again and removes all her magic, which by extension allows him to keep his army of stuffed animals, something that Ria realises, even though it means keeping her fairy form.
Wilfried gives Fine and Erika an ultimatum - work with him or be thrown to to the animals. Erika and Fine agree (with Fine being somewhat relieved that they may have been wrong to fight Wilfried), although Wilfried does insinuate that it's only delaying the inevitable. Both Erika and Fine are forced to wear one of Wilfrieds cloaks, which Erika finds embarrasing, but Fine doesn't mind.
The game ends with Lucas scouting Cologne, Wilfried planning to scapegoat Kaya and Iris for any problems with his magic, and planning on getting them to fight the oncoming Jagar unit, hoping that most of the former will be wiped out by the latter. Oh, and Ria and co. watching TV and seeing Wilfried's capes burn...
It seems that all three have come back from a point in the future (Wilfried has flashfowards, and Erika comments about the terrorist incident that hasn't happened yet). Whether Erika actually believes Wilfried when he says he won't do it (it's pretty obviously that he's lying - although he doesn't know it) is unknown - although she doesn't really have much of choice of whether to believe him or not.
The "delaying the inevitable" bit by Wilfried obviously means that he certainly intents to punish both of the girls when/if he wins.
There are a few side stories including how Wilfried is just as corrupt as the rest of the Saarland government by cooking his accounts
There is also a bit about some scientists trying to create an airship, which didn't work and they were arrested for corruption
I've missed a few small details, but nothing real importance.
Towards the end you certainly see what a devious cretin Wilfried is, and how his lust for power is growingLast modified on 2020-02-20 at 09:33
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!(http://skillsmatter.com/custom/images/groovy-grails-exchange_im- speaking-100x84.gif) Groovy & Grails eXchange 2009 was a 2-day conference on Groovy and Grails. I was asked to do a talk on Gant. As well as doing a bit on Gant, I did some on GPars. The slides and a video can be found here on the Skills Matter pages.
The slides are also available from the Concertant LLP website.
The organizers of ACCU 2010 asked me to be a keynote presenter and I accepted. I guess I'll have to do a presentation on parallel and distributed systems given their run up!
I have a Sony Viao PCG SRX51P/B. It is old, about 8 years - which in computing terms is ancient. It is small and light; a netbook before netbooks, yet it is perfectly good working as a notebook/laptop. OK, it only has 384MB of memory which is a serious problem these days where 1GB seems to be the minimum requirement. However despite this it still works quite usefully.
Most importantly for this post, it has what is reported as a "Yamaha YMF753" sound system which not only provides sound and balance controls, it also has tone controls and a 3D processor. The speakers are a bit small, but through earpieces/headphones, the sound is really quite good.
I recently purchased a Lenovo ThinkPad T500 as a portable workstation (1680×1050 version). It's less than 6 months old, and so at least reasonably new. It has a serious dual-core processor running at a very healthy speed. As a tool for programming, presenting training courses, processing email, VOIP, etc., it is superb. The sound system though is pathetic. Actually it's appalling. It reports itself as a "Conexant CX20561 (Hermosa)", it provides volume and balance and absolutely nothing else. The sound is tinny and, well, totally rubbish.
The T500 is supposed to be a top-end laptop, so why put a really crap sound system in it? Will things change or will the quality of sound system just get worse and worse even in top-end laptops?
Yesterday saw the completion of my role as "First Opponent" in the PhD examination of Anya Helene Bagge. Don Sannella was the "Second Opponent". Whilst there was an element of examination, it was really more a public spectacle - this is the first time I have been an external examiner for a non- UK PhD, so the system was entirely new to me. There will no doubt be pictures on the Web somewhere soon - there were certainly lots people taking lots of photos.
It is an open question is whether the idea of strongly typed parameters to C++ templates (aka concepts) are a good or bad thing pragmatically in trying to keep C++ as a main programming language for highly parallel, HPC, numeric applications, or whether it is time to ditch Fortran and C++ in favour of languages more suited to a truly parallel view of algorithm. There is a workshop here in Bergen tomorrow to pick away at this problem.
Anyway, congratulation to Anya for passing, and hopefully she has fun continuing work on Magnolia.
Groovy released 1.7-beta-2 and Ivy released 2.1.0 and it seemed the easiest way of dealing with this for Gant was to release a new point release. So Gant 1.8.1 has been released. Details of downloads can be found here.
I have been interested in parallel processing for over 20 years. Starting in the mid-1980s at UCL heading the research programme that developed the Solve programming language -- this was an object-oriented, parallel programming language with transactional state. It was a few years ahead of its time, but the funding ran out. Sadly there is no online material as yet for this.
I then ran the UC++ project to bring active objects to C++. This evolved into KC++ - there may be lots of broken links on these very old, archived webpages. All this contributed to various efforts at London Parallel Application Centre (LPAC) which looked at developing a European-wide standard for a parallel C++ language via the Europa project.
Since then of course OpenMP and MPI have become the de facto, possible de jure, standards for parallel programming using Fortran, C and C++. The Java Platform went a different route.
The Java Platform has had threads since its very inception. However shared memory multi-threading is a tar pit of confusion and problems. Synchronization of shared memory is the problem, and people are not very good at it. Of course we have had models of parallel processing such as Actor Model and CSP for decades. What we are now seeing is a resurgence of these models as it becomes clear that shared-memory multithreading is not a viable programming model for applications programming. Erlang has had what is effectively the Actor Model for years. Scala has also taken this up. Clojure is going this route. What about Java? Nothing :-( Doug Lea's java.util.concurrent is a huge benefit. Futures are the future if you have to use threads.
The JVM seems to be the really active platform for applications programming, and Groovy is a great language that works symbiotically with Java. It has potential for being a great coordination language for parallel computations. Groovy can provide domain specific languages for describing parallel computations, raising the level of abstraction at which the programmer works.
I had said many months ago that I would coordinate an effort to move this forward. Meanwhile Václav Pech acted. He started the GParallelizer project. Recently we have all clubbed together to take this as a basis for a strategic push. GParallelizer has become GPars and is now a fully recognized Codehaus project.
Anyone interested in parallelism using the JVM should be interested in GPars. Go check it out. Join in.
The main thing about this release of Gant is the new pre- and post-target hooks, see http://gant.codehaus.org/Per-Target+Hooks. There are also a some bug fixes. And of course it uses Groovy 1.6.5.
Pre-packaged versions are documented at http://gant.codehaus.org/Prepackaged+Distributions.
!(http://skillsmatter.com/custom/images/groovy-grails-exchange_im- speaking-100x84.gif) I will be doing a talk on Gant at Groovy & Grails eXchange 2009, which is being held 2009-12-09 and 2009-12-10 in London. Not so much a "using Gant" talk, though there will be some of that, more a look at some of the Groovy techniques used for making this Ant task scripting DSL (domain specific language), and why Gant got used in Grails.


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Minus fanfare, small college football getting underway in Washington
Feb. 4, 2021 at 4:10 pm
TIM BOOTH
PARKLAND — At some point each week since athletes returned to campus, Pacific Lutheran football coach Brant McAdams has donned the full uniform of personal protective equipment — gown, gloves, mask and face shield.
There was never a chapter in any of the books on becoming a small college football coach that addressed administering COVID-19 tests in the midst of a pandemic. Now it's something he's doing weekly to give his players the chance at a season.
"We've all joked around at some point, like, if they tell me to wear a funny hat and dress weird and hop on one leg, and that's what we got to do to be able to give these kids this experience, that's what we'll do," McAdams said.
For all the attention lavished on the Power 5 conferences as they tried to take the field last fall, it won't be the only college football being played during the 2020-21 school year.
The next wave arrives Saturday when a handful of NCAA Division III and NAIA programs begin some form of delayed season. McAdams' team will be one of those in action, making the 20-minute drive to face rival Puget Sound in one of nine games scheduled at the Division III level.
"We felt like we were installing for no opponent for nine months," Puget Sound coach Jeff Thomas said. "So now to be able to be in a position where we're getting ready to play a different opponent, or purposeful practice, where we're not just talking about social distancing, but now leading to football-specific techniques, it's been nice to finally have some semblance of normal."
Two conferences at the NAIA level — the Mid-South and Mid-States Football Association — will have some teams beginning play Saturday as well. Teams in 11 other Division III leagues and three NAIA leagues intend to play in the spring.
Division II has four conferences set to play with another handful of schools scheduling games. FCS programs will begin as early as next week with the division's championship schedule set to conclude in mid-May.
Getting to this point for the smaller schools, for whom exposure and TV revenues aren't a factor, has been an exercise in flexibility and perseverance.
"I'm dizzy a lot of times, trying to remember all these pieces and how they intersect and connect," Puget Sound athletic director Amy Hackett said. "We work through all these different agencies to pull it together and I think we've done a fairly good job. We knew we were going to have hiccups along the way."
As with the big programs that played in the fall, testing, distancing and protective equipment have topped the priority list for trying to pull off a season. In the case of Pacific Lutheran and Puget Sound, athletic departments are partnering with the university to fund the testing.
All athletes are being tested three days per week at Pacific Lutheran using nasal antigen tests but, because of staffing limitations, all coaches and athletic staff were trained and are required to administer the tests.
Imagine Nick Saban or Dabo Sweeney taking time away from game planning to throw on PPE and process tests and the gulf between the power programs and what the small schools are trying to accomplish becomes obvious.
"I think it's important for our coaches to understand some of what it takes to be able to have their athletes being able to practice and compete," Pacific Lutheran interim athletic director Jen Thomas said. "And I think it's good for the athletes to see their coaches and other coaches coming together to be able to do this."
A few miles away, Puget Sound is using self-administered saliva tests along with twice daily attestation screenings.
Despite their efforts, the programs haven't been able to keep the coronavirus away completely. A pair of Puget Sound players tested positive in early January after returning from Christmas break, but both were discovered during a required quarantine before practices began.
At Pacific Lutheran, senior tight end Ryan Flood was one who had a late start to January practices after contracting COVID over the holidays.
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School athletics officials are fully aware one infection could mean the four-game Division III schedule could be reduced. Because of the uncertainty, Hackett said Puget Sound will honor its seniors during Saturday's game rather than wait for its final scheduled game on March 6 against Whitworth.
Players and coaches will have tremendous appreciation for getting at least one more game when the teams line up this weekend.
"Especially for me as a senior, I wasn't planning on coming back for a fifth year," Puget Sound linebacker Zachary Meyer said. "So just having that opportunity to get a last little bit of football is like a dream."


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Q: Save data error HttpPost android before, I have database MySQL offline in my phpmyadmin (i using xampp). I can get and post(insert) request from my android device or emulator. The url is simple, like 'localhost/cek_user' oh, i using json for parsing data to php.
and then I decide to make it online, now I must change the whole url in my program to 'http://kun-bfashion.com/cek_user' the problem is in here.
I can get like username, password, and more with this code, I just call it in my class:
public String sendGetRequest(String reqUrl){
    HttpClient httpClient;
    HttpGet httpGet = new HttpGet(serverUri+"/"+reqUrl);
    InputStream is = null;
    StringBuilder stringBuilder = new StringBuilder();
    try {
        HttpParams params = new BasicHttpParams();
        HttpConnectionParams.setConnectionTimeout(params, 3000);
        HttpConnectionParams.setSoTimeout(params, 3000);
        httpClient = new DefaultHttpClient(params);
        Log.d(TAG, "executing...");
        HttpResponse httpResponse = httpClient.execute(httpGet);
        StatusLine status = httpResponse.getStatusLine();
        if(status.getStatusCode() == HttpStatus.SC_OK && httpResponse != null){
            /* mengambil response string dari server     */
            HttpEntity httpEntity = httpResponse.getEntity();
            is = httpEntity.getContent();
            BufferedReader reader = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(is));
            String line = null;
            while((line = reader.readLine()) != null){
                stringBuilder.append(line+"\n");
            }
            is.close();
        }
    } catch (Exception e) {
        //Log.d(TAG, e.getMessage());
    }
    return stringBuilder.toString();
}

serverUri and reqUrl is my site, I just setting it to static 'http://kun-bfashion.com, and reqURL is like 'cek_user'. i use that code for login, get data from server and many more.
but when i want to post like registration user, its showing toast "save data problem", i use this code for post to web service
public int sendPostRequest(User user, String url){
    int replyCode = 99;
    HttpClient httpClient;
    HttpPost post = new HttpPost(this.serverUri+"/"+url);
    List<NameValuePair> value = new ArrayList<NameValuePair>();
    /* menambahkan parameter ke dalam request */
    value.add(new BasicNameValuePair("id_user", user.getId_User().toString()));
    value.add(new BasicNameValuePair("username", user.getUsername()));
    value.add(new BasicNameValuePair("nama_user", user.getNamaUser()));
    value.add(new BasicNameValuePair("email_user", user.getEmailUser()));
    value.add(new BasicNameValuePair("password_user",user.getPasswordUser()));

    try {
        HttpParams params = new BasicHttpParams();
        HttpConnectionParams.setConnectionTimeout(params, 3000);
        HttpConnectionParams.setSoTimeout(params, 3000);
        httpClient = new DefaultHttpClient(params);
        post.setEntity(new UrlEncodedFormEntity(value));
        Log.d(TAG, "executing post...");
        HttpResponse httpResponse = httpClient.execute(post);
        StatusLine status = httpResponse.getStatusLine();
        if(status.getStatusCode() == HttpStatus.SC_OK){
            Log.d(TAG, "submitted sucessfully...");
            replyCode = status.getStatusCode();
        }
    } catch (IOException e) {
        Log.d(TAG, e.getMessage());
    }
    return replyCode;
}

The Error is showing Toast "Save Data Problem", but before in my offline database (localhost) i can insert post and get without no error.
this is my LogCat when i press registrastion button:
03-15 08:19:33.032: I/System.out(23214): ex:org.apache.http.NoHttpResponseException: The target server failed to respond
03-15 08:19:33.032: I/System.out(23214): retry3
03-15 08:19:33.033: I/System.out(23214): [socket][13] connection    /66.85.138.130:80;LocalPort=53906(3000)
03-15 08:19:33.033: I/System.out(23214): [CDS]connect[/66.85.138.130:80] tm:3
03-15 08:19:33.034: D/Posix(23214): [Posix_connect Debug]Process com.koenb_fashion_fix :80
03-15 08:19:33.056: I/System.out(23214): [socket][/192.168.1.111:53906] connected
03-15 08:19:33.056: I/System.out(23214): [CDS]rx timeout:3000
03-15 08:19:33.056: I/System.out(23214): >doSendRequest
03-15 08:19:33.058: I/System.out(23214): <doSendRequest
03-15 08:19:33.331: I/SurfaceTextureClient(23214): [STC::queueBuffer] (this:0x53ecad00) fps:50.80, dur:1023.54, max:43.97, min:3.79
03-15 08:19:33.505: I/SurfaceTextureClient(23214): [STC::queueBuffer] (this:0x53e75dd0) fps:1.97, dur:1015.42, max:508.04, min:507.38
03-15 08:19:33.523: I/System.out(23214): [CDS]close[53906]
03-15 08:19:33.524: I/System.out(23214): close [socket][/0.0.0.0:53906]
03-15 08:19:33.538: I/System.out(23214):    ex:org.apache.http.NoHttpResponseException: The target server failed to respond
03-15 08:19:33.539: I/System.out(23214): retry4
03-15 08:19:33.539: I/System.out(23214): close [socket][/0.0.0.0:53906]
03-15 08:19:33.540: I/System.out(23214): close [socket][/0.0.0.0:53906]
03-15 08:19:33.540: D/ServerRequest(23214): The target server failed to respond

sorry for long post, but i don't know how to explain my problem -_-. thanks for read.
The problem is i can get from server, but i can't post

A: It could be a server issue, but according to This post the issue might be solved by changing your code to apply the HttpParams to the HttpPost instead of the DefaultHttpClient:
    HttpParams params = new BasicHttpParams();
    HttpConnectionParams.setConnectionTimeout(params, 3000);
    HttpConnectionParams.setSoTimeout(params, 3000);
    //httpClient = new DefaultHttpClient(params);
    httpClient = new DefaultHttpClient(); //use default constructor instead
    post.setParams(params); //add call to setParams on HttpPost
    post.setEntity(new UrlEncodedFormEntity(value));

Edit:
Validate the url with logging:
HttpPost post = new HttpPost(this.serverUri+"/"+url);
Log.d(TAG, "post url: " + this.serverUri+"/"+url );

Test the url in a browser and see if you get any json response.

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C3 Entertainment, Inc. Licenses The Three Stooges® Brand to Photorealism
September 4, 2014 | Press Releases, The Three Stooges
GLENDALE, CA ––September 4, 2014 –– C3 Entertainment, Inc. announced a new license with Photorealism to produce The Three Stooges fine artwork with world-renowned photorealist artist Doug Bloodworth creating the initial fine art pieces.
Ani Khachoian, C3's Executive Vice President of Licensing & Consumer Products said "Photorealism is the one of the world's largest fine arts dealerships focusing solely on photorealist artwork, so this adds another quality licensee to The Three Stooges brand."
Continuing, she said, "Doug Bloodworth has become known as one of the great photorealist artists of our generation. His works hang in famous galleries around the world, and one can Google his name to see the enormity of world-wide press he has been receiving of late."
Doug stated, "Teaming up with C3 Entertainment is a life-long dream come true for me. My brother and I were Stooges fanatics from a young age. Even growing up in Texas, I always thought Certainly was pronounced Soitenly."
Doug's first Three Stooges paintings can be found on the Photorealism website. Upcoming pieces include Doug's iconic benches featuring Curly, Larry and Moe, which will be available in full-size and in table-top versions.
About C3 Entertainment, Inc.:
C3 Entertainment, Inc. is a premier Entertainment and Media company engaged in motion picture, television, digital and home entertainment production and worldwide distribution, as well as licensing and brand management of world famous classic brands and personalities. For more information, please visit www.c3entertainment.com and www.threestooges.com.
About Photorealism
Photorealism is a genre of art in which a painting, when viewed from twenty or thirty feet away, looks exactly like a photograph. Only when viewed from a few inches away does the viewer realize that he or she is actually viewing a painting and not a photograph. Photorealism can be viewed at www.photorealism.com.
Photorealism can be reached by phone at 561-886-8288 or via e-mail at info@photorealism.com.
About Doug Bloodworth
Doug Bloodworth's artwork can be found at www.facebook.com/DougBloodworth.