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Teachers' Strikes: Lessons from our Struggle
July 9, 2019 by ISO editor
By Romany Tasker-Poland, a teacher and ISO member
The teachers, primary and secondary, have had a victory (if a partial one). It has been a long fight. The first teachers' strike was by NZEI primary teachers in August 2018. Primary teachers struck again in November in the form of rolling regional action. The last action was the historic NZEI and PPTA joint "mega-strike" on 29 May.
The public have been with us every step of the way. The massive turn-outs for the marches have been one indicator of that, as has the support flowing in through social media and the positive interviews in the mainstream media. And why would the public not support us? When we talk about the "the public", who are we actually talking about? When we marched on Parliament these were the people marching with us: our students and their whānau, who see the work we do each day; our own children, families and whānau, who we are trying to support; our friends and co-workers; and workers from other industries demonstrating the principle of solidarity: your struggle is our struggle.
Throughout this struggle we have been threatened with public opprobrium. By the Ministry, the media, and union higher-ups. The Ministry has obvious reasons for trying to discourage us. Many mainstream media outlets are well-known for having a right-wing, anti-union slant; and aside from this, drama and conflict generate more interest and more revenue. If anything, the media coverage has been surprisingly positive overall. As for union officials, it is their job to mediate between workers and the Ministry. Negotiation is their bread and butter; striking deals is their modus operandi. That is why they are so often more conservative than the rank and file members, more apt to try to moderate expectations, and more apt to wring their hands about public opinion. For workers, it is hard to maintain self-confidence when you are hearing repeated threats that the tide of public opinion will inevitably turn against you. And it becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy. When "public opinion" and "burden on parents" are the talking points being repeated, it becomes common sense that "the public" ought to feel aggrieved, or at least anxious about industrial action. [Read more…]
Filed Under: Class Struggle, Education, Women's Liberation, Workers Struggles
Teachers' Strikes: a win, and the coming challenge
(Image credit: Brett Phibbs, NZ Herald)
By Shomi Yoon
Strikes work. That's the lesson of the teachers' industrial action in May and earlier. Chris Hipkins said there was no more money. Within days of the teachers' action – a massive rallying of primary and secondary striking together – an additional $271 million were somehow discovered. Teachers went on strike not just for their own pay, but for public education generally. There is a crisis in New Zealand schools, with short staffing, turnover, and teachers leaving the profession. That affects us all. The strikes raised these important issues.
So the members of secondary teachers' union PPTA and primary teachers' union NZEI should feel great pride in their unity and power. We brought education to the centre of the debate, and we won an important, if partial victory.
But it's a bittersweet win, and many were looking for more. Only 65% of PPTA members voted to accept the government's offer; the margin was, as the Dominion Post put it 'slim'. Many were prepared to take the fight further. This offer presents a significant increase in some teachers' pay of 15 – 18 %. But it is a stop-gap measure at best. It will not fix the present crisis.
At the heart of the teachers' campaign was not just money or time but a crisis. Too few people are training as teachers, and too many teachers leave within the first five years of teaching. The average age of a primary teacher is 55 years old. In secondary schools, the crisis is evident as non-specialist teachers attempt to teach specialist classes to cover gaps. Some 40-50% of new teachers leave the profession within the first five years. Retention is a significant issue in the aging profession. The offer does not solve – or begin to solve – these real problems, problems that motivated teachers to strike in the first place.
An additional $271 million will be put towards teachers' pay, and the offer restored pay parity for primary teachers – a guarantee of the same basic pay as secondary teachers. The offer also lifts the pay for an experienced teacher from $78,000 to $90,000. [Read more…]
Filed Under: Class Struggle, Education, Labour Party
Welfare: Reform or Transformation?
June 27, 2019 by ISO editor
by Cory Anderson
The Labour government has promised to deliver transformational change with a positive impact on the lives of New Zealanders. Shortly after being elected three years ago, the Prime Minister named herself as "Minister for Child Poverty Reduction" and convened the Welfare Expert Advisory Group (WEAG) to examine our welfare system and propose reforms.
The government has made some positive changes – lifting some of the sanctions against beneficiaries, including those on women who don't name the father of their children, and increasing the "abatement threshold" in line with increases to the minimum wage. But these changes fall well short of transformation. Key National-era sanctions remain in place, such as those against beneficiaries who fail or refuse to take drug tests, and benefit levels remain well beneath what is required to live a dignified life.
The Welfare Expert Advisory Group released their report in February, and recommended key changes to the welfare system including an immediate rise in the main benefits of between 12 and 47%; rethinking the obligations and sanctions placed on welfare recipients; allowing single parents to care for children for longer before seeking work; changing the definition of a relationship to enable higher benefit payments; and increasing benefits in line with average wages, the cost of living and accommodation costs.
If the government is genuinely committed to transforming the welfare system and the lives of working people, it would immediately implement all the recommendations of the WEAG report. The Expert Advisory Group estimated that fully implementing its recommendations would cost approximately $5.2 billion a year. This is an increase of approximately 20% on current welfare spending, and could be partially offset by reallocating some of the $4.2 billion budgeted for military spending and implementing a capital gains tax.
But beyond even these recommendations, further change is needed to achieve a real transformation. [Read more…]
Filed Under: Class Struggle, Welfare
The Roots of Racism
By Martin Gregory
Racism is not age-old, a trait of humanity, or an outgrowth of any metaphysical ideology. On the scale of human history racism is a recent, modern phenomenon. Its origins can be precisely dated and associated with actual, material, historical developments in human society. The nature of racism has been contingent on actual historical processes. The origins of racism correlate precisely with the rise of the Atlantic slave trade in the Sixteenth Century and the nature of racism was further formed in justification of European imperialism. As Marx said, capitalism came into existence "dripping from head to foot, from every pore, with blood and dirt."
The dominant form that racism has taken and still takes, born as it was to justify the slave trade and imperialist conquest, is that of white supremacism: the belief that Whites, by genetic characteristics, are superior to any other supposed race, justifying domination by the supposed white race. White supremacist ideology reached its zenith as European imperialism reached its own climax with the Scramble for Africa, 1881-1914.
Racism has not been limited to white supremacism. For example, in Victorian Britain racism was whipped up against Irish immigrants, people who were not physically "distinct" from whites in Britain. Fake racial "science" created differences to suit the ideology, rather than being a result of any natural difference. In this instance the motive force is the material interests of the capitalist class in sowing division in the working class. In 1870 Marx wrote of anti-Irish hostility:
This antagonism is artificially kept alive and intensified by the press, the pulpit, the comic papers, in short, by all the means at the disposal of the ruling classes. This antagonism is the secret of the impotence of the English working class, despite its organisation. It is the secret by which the capitalist class maintains its power. And the latter is quite aware of this.
In Nazi Germany, that frustrated and Versailles-constrained imperialist power, racism reached its ultimate, but far from last, barbarity with the Holocaust. Jews were expelled from England in 1290, from France in 1394, and from other European states through to the Sixteenth Century. Until the Nineteenth Century anti-semitism was not grounded in racism but in the economic role of Jews as a "people-class" of merchants and usurers. For a thorough discussion of this question I refer readers to The Jewish Question: A Marxist Interpretation by Abram Leon. Leon was an heroic figure in his own right and deserves a separate article: he was a revolutionary, a leader of the Belgian Trotskyists during the Nazi occupation. Captured in 1944, he was gassed, murdered in a camp in 1944. Leon gave his brief life over to fighting racism and capitalism and to understanding their connection. In his book Racism, resistance and revolution Peter Alexander says:
Filed Under: Racism, Theory and History, Topic: Racism
Power in union – teachers strike for education
May 29, 2019 by ISO editor
Teachers from both secondary, primary, and area schools went on strike in their thousands yesterday to show their determination and frustration with the negotiations with the Ministry of Education and Education Minister Chris Hipkins.
Union strength and union pride rang out throughout Aotearoa. The combined strength of both unions was palpable. Teachers downed their whiteboard markers and schools nationwide had no choice but to close their doors. Some 300,000 school children stayed at home. In the rallies that happened across the motu, teachers shut down traffic and marched through the main streets demanding for better conditions and pay. The noise from chanting teachers at the biggest gathering of teachers in Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland was "deafening". With the combined membership of 50,000 between the secondary teachers' PPTA and primary teachers' NZEI, the relevance of unions, the power of unionism and strikes are indisputable.
Which side are you on?
Filed Under: Class Struggle, Education, Solidarity, Uncategorized
Racism in New Zealand
by Romany Tasker-Poland
The rise of the far-right globally is a frightening development. In the U.S. and Brazil, far-right politicians are the heads of state. Far-right parties have swept to power in Eastern Europe and have gained footholds in Western Europe too, promoting a return to "traditional" family roles, attacks on sexual diversity, antisemitism and islamophobia, anti-immigrant sentiment and extreme nationalism. Violence against migrants is increasing the world over, from Trump's border wall to the Australian refugee camps.
The hideous attack in Christchurch is one example of the influence of the global far-right reaching New Zealand. The terrorist responsible used the insidious meme-rhetoric of the online Alt Right—a movement whose ideas have been promoted around the world by a variety of public intellectuals with connections to the far-right. When some of these figures—Stefan Molyneux, Lauren Southern, Jordan Peterson—visited New Zealand, they were given excessive airtime, fawned over by right-wing pundits, and even had "free speech" coalitions formed to defend them.
New Zealand politicians have also promoted far-right talking points. Last year ACT party candidate Stephen Berry addressed a rally in Auckland opposing "Sharia Law." Hamilton Councillor James Casson has labelled Arab refugees "scum." And in the aftermath of the attack, the National Party shamefacedly removed a petition against the UN Migration Pact, the subject of racist conspiracies stoked by the far-right.
It is not surprising that far-right ideas and violent racism can flourish in New Zealand when so much of the mainstream political discourse validates it. During the 2017 election, NZ First and Labour participated in anti-immigrant scaremongering. Labour blamed the housing crisis on "foreign speculators" and the Greens argued for immigration caps. While National tried to pose as the pro-immigrant party, they had been introducing anti-immigrant policies for years. [Read more…]
Where does real change come from?
May 5, 2019 by ISO editor
In 1974 an Auckland shipowner, Leo Dromgoole, went to court to get an injunction against the Seamen's Union and Northern Drivers Union. The Seamen had a dispute with Dromgoole over his Waiheke Island commuter ship, and the Drivers had been refusing to deliver oil in solidarity their fellow unionists. The Court sided with Dromgoole and ordered the union to stop "interfering". The unionists ignored the order and so on 1 July their leader, Bill Andersen, was sent to Mt Eden prison. What happened next shocked everyone: thousands of workers – drivers and seafarers, but also factory and construction workers – downed tools when they learned of Andersen's imprisonment and walked off the job. Thousands of workers marched down Queen Street to Andersen's hearing the next day. Within 24 hours their action had forced results: Anderson was released, the injunction was a dead letter, and a compromise had been hurried through.
If this seems a world away from 2019, it tells us something important about where real power lies in society. When workers were organised and confident of their strength they could crush an unjust court ruling – and the jailing of one of their leaders – by demonstrating their power. Future attempts to use injunctions against the Northern Drivers Union, in 1979, came to nothing when they were again ignored. Fast-forward forty years, and we see the same principle applied in reverse: no matter how many protections and guaranteed conditions exist in employment law, they mean little in reality to workers without written contracts or the confidence union coverage gives to insist on your rights.
Labour and the Greens claim to be committed to what Jacinda Ardern calls "transformative and compassionate government". And they ask workers, students and the oppressed to vote for them and then sit tight and wait for that transformation to happen. Be patient, the message goes. As Ardern told The Spinoff last year: "transformation does take time."
Filed Under: Class Struggle
Greater Spy Powers no Solution to Right-Wing Extremism
April 28, 2019 by ISO editor
Since the March 15 terror attacks, calls have slowly been increasing to grant New Zealand's spy agencies greater powers and resources in the name of fighting right-wing extremism. A royal commission of inquiry has been established to probe intelligence failings and recommend future "improvements" and the National Party has gone on the offensive, suggesting the GCSB and SIS need more powers of mass surveillance. Socialists however, should be cautious about joining such calls. Intelligence agencies worldwide have done much to promote the very Islamophobia the far right feeds upon and rather than adding to their powers, we should be returning civil liberties that have been stolen from Muslims and ending racism everywhere it is found.
The violence right-wing extremists are just one element of a wider culture of Islamophobia, fueled and stoked by the capitalist elite. Politicians and the media have set the tone. ACT Party candidate Stephen Berry wrote in a 2013 post about the "Islamic poison spreading across Europe" and NewsTalk ZB's Christchurch host wrote a 2017 column questioning "Does Islam have a place in public swimming pools." Winston Peters is well known for his anti-immigration and Islamophobic tirades, delivering a speech in 2005 entitled "The end of tolerance," which he still refuses to apologize for. After a brief pause following the Christchurch attacks politicians and media commentators have resumed business as usual, the Weekend Herald publishing a column by talkback host Leighton Smith connecting "Neo-Marxism" and supposed favoritism towards Islam with a global "war on Christianity". [Read more…]
History for a new generation
Dawn Raid, by Pauline (Vaeluaga) Smith, Scholastic New Zealand Limited, 2018.
Reviewed by Shomi Yoon
Meet Sophia Savea, a 13-year-old who lives in Cannons Creek, Porirua during the 1970s. It's when the minimum wage was $1.95, when milk was delivered every day, when disco music reigned supreme, and when there was the National government headed by hated 'Piggy' Robert Muldoon.
This is all captured earnestly in Sophia's diary, who is drawn into orbit of the Pacific Panthers through her older brother Lenny. We experience Sophia trying to understand the inequities of society; "Dad works in a factory. I don't think it's fair that the government is calling Islanders a 'drain on society'. My Dad works really hard and he's an Islander, and all his mates work really hard too. On my gosh, I wonder if Dad has a permit thingy". Through Sophia, we see her growing political awakening as her family, and other Pacific peoples are targeted in "Operation Pot Black" or as it was known the 'Dawn Raids', because police were breaking into Pacific Islanders' houses in the middle of the night in search of 'overstayers', immigrants who did not have the correct documentation to stay in New Zealand.
With the downturn in the economy, the Government promptly used the age-old trick of 'blame the immigrants'. In the 1970s this rhetoric was against Pacific Islanders, who were brought over when the economy was doing well. "The government was happy to have them [Pacific Islanders] when they wanted cheap labour," explains family friend Rawiri to Sophia, "but now there's an economic crisis… Islanders are getting the blame for being a drain on society." Despite the fact that the most number of overstayers were from Australia and the UK , the Muldoon Government wanted to stoke up racial tension and divisions as a way to divert pressure from them.
This novel also prominently features Lenny, Sophia's brother, who is drawn into the Polynesian Panthers through his school friend Rawiri. Their friendship embodies the power of solidarity and unity across oppressed groups. "How would you feel," Lenny asks in the regional speech competition, "if someone took something of yours without asking?". He gives a compelling speech supporting the Land March in front of the whole school assembly. The 'dawn raids' affected Māori too, with some tangata whenua being harassed by police to produce a "passport or identification papers". Sophia recounts an incident discussed between Lenny and Rawiri about Uncle Pipiri responding to a police officer, "How about you show us your papers first? I'm Māori and I was born here." [Read more…]
Filed Under: Culture, Reviews
Socialism from Below
April 4, 2019 by ISO editor
by Andy Raba
Mass protests in Algeria now show the power of ordinary people.
Following the financial crash of 2007-08 the world has seen an explosion of interest in socialism. There is a growing consciousness among millions of people that the capitalist system is unstable, inhumane and environmentally disastrous. As a result, for the first time in decades people are looking for a socialist alternative. In the UK, the leftward surge has been expressed in the rise of Jeremy Corbyn, a socialist politician with a background in activism, anti-war protest and class struggle. In the 2016 US elections, self-described socialist Bernie Sanders launched a serious challenge for the Democratic Party presidential nomination. In 2018, democratic socialist Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez beat the incumbent Democrat Congressman Joe Crowley in a New York district primary and went on to easily win the seat in Congress: a remarkable feat for a country with a history of anti-socialist persecution. In 2015, online dictionary Merriam-Webster reported that socialism was its most searched-for word; and new publications, such as Jacobin magazine, have helped a global revival of socialist ideas.
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How many questions is the optimal number of questions to ask a prospect when calling them?
Why does this matter? Whose benefit is it for? What can I do with this information? Structuring your planning so that your sales calls reach a set outcome is part of your sales strategy and vital to your business growth and success. So, back to the quick quiz, the answer is 11-14 as highlighted in research by Gong. Read on to find out my top tips including question planning before calling your prospect. All the way through this article you will see the word call which will refer to telephone calls or face-to-face meetings. Send me a message to let me know if you agree with all of them or if there are any more I can add.
Top tip #1: Research, research and research some more.
Researching and finding out as much about the company, their competitors and the person you are calling should be the first action you take as part of your pre-call planning. All of the information you find out will help you with top tip #2. Knowing what the prospects needs solving helps you to explain how your product fits their need. Likewise, understanding what a competitor is doing e.g. using Instagram to sell to the same market gives you a plan to put to your prospect. Finally, understanding who the decision-maker in the business is key especially as you are likely to pass through the gate-keeper in your first contact and the aim is to get a meeting with the decision-maker.
Top tip #2: Plan your questions e.g. use pre-call planning template.
The importance of this cannot be overstated. Download my free pre-call planning template to print or use electronically. Sitting down and spending 15 minutes to complete this will prepare you for the call so that even challenges are planned for. When planning your questions work on what you need to achieve and what you need to give the prospect by the end of the call. Information gathering is just as important as information giving. The added benefit of this is that it helps you stay on track and keep to the time-limit for the call, preferably 30-60 minutes if already pre-arranged.
Top tip #3: Prepare for the unexpected.
When calling a prospect, you should always prepare for things that could go wrong. This is just as vital as preparing your questions. If you anticipate a few different scenarios, then you will be prepared with your responses. For example, the prospect mentions that they have the budget, but another company has offered to achieve the same results as you in half the time. Knowing how to respond to different scenarios will make you appear professional and courteous.
Top tip #4: Set a goal for what you want to achieve.
Preparing for the call also includes being aware of what information you need to gather as well as share with the prospect. By the end of the call you should have a next step planned to move the prospect closer to buying in your sales pipeline. This could be anything from a meeting set up with the decision-maker or giving them one of your products to try for free for a trial period, etc.
Top tip #5: Send an agenda to the prospect before the call.
Before the call send your prospect an agenda that passes on all the pertinent information about your product as well as a few bullet points of what you will cover in the call. Not only will this make you appear professional, but it will also save time for you and your prospect. Both of you can focus on the purpose of your goal leading to better outcomes for yourself and the prospect.
Top tip #6: Take 5 minutes to go over your notes before the call.
Use the time before the call to breathe, look over your plan and have a relaxing drink of tea. The difference in your calmness will shine through to your prospects installing a sense of professionalism.
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The Independent Workers Union of Great Britain (IWGB) lost its appeal against the Central Arbitration Committee's (CAC) decision from November 2017, which found that the food delivery company's workers are self-employed. It also rejected the union's claim that it should be recognised for the purposes of negotiating pay and terms and conditions.
Would any collective bargaining agreements be carried over to the transferee on a TUPE transfer?
The IWGB argued that denying riders union representation is a breach of Article 11 of the European Convention on Human Rights.
The High Court agreed with the CAC's finding that as riders were able to pass on a job to another rider or abandon a job, they could not be classified as "workers" or "employees", which therefore denied them the right to union recognition.
High Court judge Michael Supperstone found that neither domestic nor Strasbourg case law supports the claim that they should be able to form a collective bargaining unit.
He also said that their contractual obligation to provide a "personal service" for Deliveroo "does not prevent riders from belonging to the union if they choose to do so, or prevent the making of voluntary arrangements", but they were not automatically entitled to a collective bargaining arrangement.
The legal challenge mainly centered on the rights of riders in Deliveroo's Camden and Kentish Town zone in London, but would have likely had implications for other riders across the country.
The IWGB said it "fundamentally disagreed" with the High Court's interpretation of human rights law, suggesting that Article 11 states union representation is a basic human right. It plans to appeal the decision.
"Today's judgment is a terrible one, not just in terms of what it means for low paid Deliveroo riders, but also in terms of understanding the European Convention on Human Rights," said IWGB general secretary Jason Moyer-Lee.
"Deliveroo riders should be entitled to basic worker rights as well as to the ability to be represented by trade unions to negotiate pay and terms and conditions. The IWGB will appeal this decision and continue to fight for these rights until we are victorious".
Dan Warne, UK MD of Deliveroo said: "We are pleased that today's judgment upholds the earlier decisions of the High Court and the CAC that Deliveroo riders are self-employed, providing them the flexibility they want. In addition to emphatically confirming this under UK national law, the court also carefully examined the question under European law and concluded riders are self-employed.
Hopefully this judgement will protect disabled people such as my Brother who employ a number of part time carers who negotiate between themselves what days they will work and who will cover time taken off. It would not be fair if he has to pay such carers holiday pay ,sick leave , pension contributions etc when he is not running a business and earning profits. Clearly a care agency employing carers who then work for clients can make substantial profits from which to pay employment benefits. This is a different matter. I hope the law can be changed to absolve private carers working direct for a client with other carers, so that the client can afford to maintain the lifeline of care.


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806 Iwugu the Cleaver (level 9, -5/81 HPs)
Was an Initiate of Gozag.
Shot with an arrow by a centaur (8 damage)
Iwugu the Cleaver (Minotaur Fighter)                Turns: 4671, Time: 00:11:31
Health: -5/81      AC: 10 (34%)Str: 24    XL:     9   Next: 13%
Magic:  10/10      EV:  8    Int:  5      God:    Gozag
Gold:   1149       SH:  0    Dex:  9 (10) Spells: 10/10 levels left
rFire    . . .     SeeInvis +   a - +0 war axe (flame)
rNeg     . . .     Spirit   .   m - +0 chain mail
rElec    .                      (no cloak)
Regen    0.3/turn               (no ring)
@: no status effects
A: retaliatory headbutt, horns 2, see invisible, blink, mutation resistance 1
a: Blink, Potion Petition, Call Merchant, Bribe Branch, Renounce Religion
You worshipped Gozag.
Gozag was most pleased with you.
You also visited: Sewer.
You paid 27 gold pieces to Gozag.
a - a +0 war axe of flaming (weapon)
c - 8 poisoned darts (quivered)
g - 56 tomahawks
s - 14 frenzy darts
m - a +0 chain mail (worn)
w - a +5 ring of intelligence
r - a wand of disintegration (8)
t - a wand of lightning (5)
u - a wand of confusion (2)
b - 2 scrolls of enchant armour
i - 2 scrolls of fog
k - 3 scrolls of immolation
l - 2 scrolls of fear
p - 2 scrolls of teleportation
q - a scroll of amnesia
v - a scroll of magic mapping
d - 2 potions of augmentation
e - 4 potions of lignification
f - 2 potions of invisibility
h - 2 potions of magic
o - 2 potions of flight
You have supernaturally acute eyesight. (SInv)
You can translocate small distances at will.
The centaur shoots an arrow. The arrow barely misses you (0).
The centaur shoots an arrow. The arrow closely misses you (0).
The centaur shoots an arrow. The arrow completely misses you (0).
Found 6 gold pieces.
The centaur shoots an arrow. The arrow hits you (8)!
You see here 7 gold pieces.
The centaur shoots an arrow. The arrow hits you but does no damage.
Your body crumbles into a pile of gold.
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A black mamba zombie (D:6)
A water moccasin (D:6)
Purgy (Sewer)
A bullfrog (D:7)
A water moccasin zombie (D:6)
A bullfrog skeleton (D:5)
An orc priest (D:4)
Jessica (D:2)
A killer bee zombie (D:6)
2 shadow imps (D:7)
4 giant cockroaches (D:3)
14 goblins
624 | D:2      | Found an opulent altar of Gozag.
630 | D:2      | Became a worshipper of Gozag Ym Sagoz the Greedy
765 | D:2      | Found a glowing silver altar of Zin.
923 | D:2      | Noticed Jessica
928 | D:2      | Killed Jessica
1380 | D:3      | Gained mutation: You have supernaturally acute eyesight. (SInv) [potion of mutation]
1380 | D:3      | Gained mutation: You can translocate small distances at will. [potion of mutation]
1380 | D:3      | Gained mutation: You are somewhat resistant to further mutation. [potion of mutation]
1540 | Sewer    | Noticed Purgy
1545 | Sewer    | Killed Purgy
1545 | Sewer    | Reached skill level 5 in Fighting
1545 | Sewer    | Reached skill level 6 in Axes
1545 | Sewer    | Reached XP level 6. HP: 42/56 MP: 7/7
1631 | D:3      | Found a hide-covered altar of Uskayaw.
1635 | D:3      | Noticed a hand axe
1635 | D:3      | Noticed a dagger
3421 | D:5      | Found a stormy altar of Qazlal.
4039 | D:6      | Reached skill level 10 in Axes
4669 | D:7      | HP: 2/81 [centaur/arrow (9)]
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Headbutt          |     5 |    15 |    43 ||    63
Throw: Poisoned dart     |       |       |     3 ||     3
Use: Potion            |       |     1 |       ||     1
Armor: Leather armour    |    32 |     4 |       ||    36
Chain mail        |       |    67 |   135 ||   202
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Celebrity Mercury at anchor in Sitka Sound, Alaska. Cruise ships anchor in the Eastern Channel of the Sitka Sound and tender passengers into O'Connell Bridge or Crescent Harbor in town. Alternatively ships may berth at the Old Sitka dock (also called Halibut Point Marine dock) located 6 miles north west of Sitka.
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St Michael's Cathedral For over 50 years before Alaska was sold by the Russians to the US for $7.2million in 1867, Sitka was the Russian capital of Alaska (called New Archangel at the time). St Michael's Cathedral was built in 1844-48, and is a fine example of Russian church architecture. Though destroyed by fire in 1966, the church has been rebuilt to its original design, and houses an interesting collection of Russian Orthodox church art and icons.
Russian Bishop's House The Russian Bishop's House was built in 1842 and was the regional seat of the Russian Orthodox Church. The house, in a terrible state of dilapidation was acquired by the National Park Service in 1973 and renovated to restore its mid 19th century appearance.
Sitka Historical Museum The Sitka Historical Museum (also known as the Isabel Miller Museum) is a great place to get an overview of Sitka's rich history. See a wide variety of exhibits covering the town's Tlingit, Russian and American history. A visitor favorite is the huge model of Sitka as it was in 1867.
Gavan Hill Trail Many exciting hiking trails in the area are only accessible by boat or floatplane. But the easily accessible Gavan Hill Trail gives you a real taste for Alaska's wilderness. It's a 7 mile strenuous round trip to the summit, and your exertions are rewarded with some wonderful views of Sitka Sound. (Or you can turn back at the hill ridge, to cut the mileage to 4). The trailhead is at the end of Baranof Street, which heads inland off Lincoln St.
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By World Tribune on January 21, 2013
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The United States will deploy troops to 35 African countries in 2013 to deal with increasing Al Qaida or Al Qaida-like terrorist threats.
Sgt. 1st Class Grady Hyatt, with U.S. Army Africa, leads an after-action review with soldiers of the Ghana Army. /Army News Service
The total number of Africa-bound troops will be around 3,500 and they will come from the 2nd Brigade's Heavy Combat Team of the First Infantry Division based in Fort Riley, Kansas, according to a Dec. 24 Pentagon announcement.
The U.S. government showed unpreparedness and lack of conceptual consensus on threat levels in Africa before the terrorist attacks on U.S. diplomatic compounds in Egypt and Libya last September.
While the blame game continues in Washington, the Pentagon in December announced it would be imperative to send U.S. combat teams to Africa's troubled spots to root out key terrorist threats.
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Fuck, this is a blast. Definitely one originating in the past, but if it doesn't stir your soul and get you moving then you've never been into stoner rock, or your distaste for the genre's multiple sub par unoriginators has turned you too far gone. All I know about Luna Sol is that they contain an ex Hermano member (not that one). This album won't break any boundaries or re-adjust anyone's opinion of the scene, but it may well breath a little life into it, resurrecting a few lost passions along the way.
It's nothing new - in fact it sounds very (very) like all of the post-Kyuss affiliated bands - chiefly the roboticness of early Queens of the Stone Age (see Death Mountain) and much of Garcia's portfolio of the last 15 years (in particular Bridges). Yet it has the songs to largely supress cynicism, the tone and attitude to not give a flying one.
The continuing list of influences that it raises is predictable but fun in itself, a who's who of what's next - the brilliant Leadville's male and female vocal pairing simultaneously bringing to mind Mark Lanegan's contributions to Songs for the Deaf and his collaborations with Isobel Campbell. Operator is all Masters of Reality, Chris Goss' knowingness pervading. There's also a nod to grunge with a hint of Chris Cornell on Your War, although it's a tad naff.
Yeah, okay it gets a bit much by the end, but I'd be lying to myself for some doom metal credence if I were to say I didn't really enjoy revelling time spent with what feels like an old friend. Anyone with stoner rock in their heart, even if just as an old flame you've emotionally moved on from, may well get a reminiscent jolt, wry smile and kick out of Blood Moon and raise a glass to old times.
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Arizona Coyotes vs. Montreal Canadiens, Thursday, NHL Hockey Sports Betting, Las Vegas Odds, Picks and Predictions
November 16, 2017 Jennifer Zeledon 561 Views 0 Comment Arizona Coyotes, Bell Centre, Bet on Sports, Betting Trends, Hockey Betting, Injuries, Montreal Canadiens, NHL Analysis, NHL Betting, NHL Betting Odds, NHL Odds, NHL Picks, NHL Predictions, NHL Tips, Sports Betting, Sports Gambling, Vegas Betting, Vegas Odds, Vegas Sports Betting
Arizona at Montreal, NHL Sports Betting Lines
Where: Bell Centre, Montreal, Quebec
TV: 7:30 p.m. ET, FSN Arizona, RDS, TSN2 (Montreal)
57 Arizona Coyotes +1½ -180 +171 Ov 5½ +104
58 Montreal Canadiens -1½ +160 -190 Un 5½ -115
The fans at Bell Centre will be treated to a game between the Arizona Coyotes and the Montreal Canadiens when they take their seats on Thursday.
ABOUT THE COYOTES (2-15-3): Scott Wedgewood, acquired 2 1/2 weeks ago from New Jersey, could be in line for a bigger role in net after Arizona shipped goaltender Louis Domingue to Tampa Bay in exchange for veteran netminder Michael Leighton and forward Tye McGinn. Wedgewood stopped 16 of 17 shots in relief of Antti Rantta, who allowed three goals on 13 shots in Winnipeg. Domingue was 0-6-0 with a 4.33 goals-against average for the Coyotes, who have yielded a league-worst 78 goals.
ABOUT THE CANADIENS (8-9-2): Rookie Charlie Lindgren will make his sixth consecutive start and has yet to allow more than two goals in all eight of his career NHL appearances. With No. 1 netminder Carey Price (lower body) shut down from skating for two days and Al Montoya (concussion) still sidelined, Montreal claimed veteran Antti Niemi off waivers and sent rookie Zach Fucale back to the minors. Captain Max Pacioretty was absent from Wednesday's practice session for a "therapy day."
Oddsmakers opened the Canadiens as -180-moneyline favorites versus the Coyotes, while the game's total opened at 5.5.
The Montreal Canadiens have bounced back from a wretched start to the season by earning points in five of their last six games, but scoring continues to be an issue. The offensively challenged Canadiens continue a six-game homestand Thursday night when they host the Arizona Coyotes — owners of the worst record in the NHL.
Tuesday's 2-1 overtime loss to Columbus marked the 12th time in 19 games that Montreal has been limited to two goals or fewer, and coach Claude Julien knows his team can't take two-win Arizona lightly. "We can't get caught in that situation," Julien said after Wednesday's practice. "They're an NHL team and just because they haven't won doesn't mean they haven't been good against teams and haven't had a chance to win some games." The Coyotes, who opened a four-game Canadian road trip with a 4-1 loss at Winnipeg on Tuesday, have scored only seven goals during their current five-game skid (0-3-2). "You've got to keep working at it. There's no method," coach Rick Tocchet said. "We're not going to go trade for Mario Lemieux."
Last time out for Montreal, they were a 2-1 loser as they battled the Blue Jackets at home. Moneyline bettors who got the Blue Jackets at -102 were rewarded, while the 3 combined goals moved the game UNDER for totals bettors.
Arizona was a 4-1 loser in its last match on the road against the Jets. They lost as +164 underdogs, while the total score of 5 made winners of UNDER bettors.
Where to bet on Arizona Coyotes vs. Montreal Canadiens?
Arizona is 6-13 ATS in its last 19 games
The total has gone UNDER in 5 of Arizona's last 5 games
Montreal is 4-18 ATS in its last 22 games
Montreal is 4-2 SU in its last 6 games
The total has gone UNDER in 5 of Montreal's last 5 games
Arizona at Ottawa Saturday, November 18
Montreal home to Toronto Saturday, November 18
1. Montreal is 1-for-11 on the power play over the past five games.
2. Arizona is the first team in league history to fail to post a regulation win through the first 20 games of a season.
3. Canadiens F Artturi Lehkonen has been ruled out indefinitely.
Picks: Montreal Canadiens will win outright at -190 and the game will stay under 5½ goals according to scamdicappers.com.
PREDICTION: Canadiens 4, Coyotes 1 at .
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Butler basketball's struggling offense leads to loss against Providence
The rematch was a mismatch.
A week after beating Providence, the Butler Bulldogs were held to three points over the closing 10 minutes of the first half and lost to the Friars 71-55 Wednesday night in Big East basketball at Alumni Hall in Providence, R.I.
David Duke scored 22 points and Nate Watson 18 for Providence (3-1, 7-3). The Friars shot 58% against Butler, which is among the nation's lowest-ranked teams in field goal defense.
The Friars have not lost at Alumni Hall since December 1971, although their regular arena is the Dunkin' Donuts Center.
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Butler (1-2, 2-4) is 1-4 since returning from a COVID-19 pause and 1-3 without Aaron Thompson, who missed his fourth straight game with a knee sprain. The Bulldogs are 9-12 since going into mid-January of last season with a 15-1 record.
Jair Bolden scored 15 points, Bryze Nze 10 and Chuck Harris 10 for Butler. Freshmen scored 38 points in a 70-64 win over Providence but were limited to 24 in the rematch.
Butler trailed 35-18 at halftime and by as many as 20 points, 57-37, in the second half. The Bulldogs briefly cut the deficit to 11 late in the game.
Butler players traveled home for a holiday break before reconvening in Indianapolis. Providence was coming off Sunday's 95-90, double-overtime win over DePaul.
This was the first of an 11-game stretch in which Butler is an underdog in 10, according to kenpom.com analytics.
The Bulldogs are given a 70% chance of beating Georgetown next Wednesday at Hinkle Fieldhouse. They are at 49% or less in the 10 other games. However, Butler is still projected to finish 9-11 in the Big East.
In a forgettable first half, Duke (17) scored nearly as many points as Butler (18). The Bulldogs scored three points over the closing 10 ½ minutes of the half in falling behind 35-18, shooting 1-of-14 in that stretch.
Providence began 8-of-8 in building a 20-11 lead. Freshman forward JaKobe Coles scored back-to-back baskets to trim the deficit to 20-15, but the Bulldogs were impotent on offense thereafter. Guards Bolden, Harris and Myles Tate shot a collective 1-of-16.
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The five-year study will look at how many fawns coyotes kill each year in the Piedmont region. The researchers hope to figure out how the impact of coyote on deer in South Carolina compares to other areas in the Southeast, what makes some fawns more vulnerable and how humans could potentially have an influence, according to the university.
"For instance, do older doe select fawn bed sites (hidden spots) that better allow fawns to avoid coyote predation and are fawns that spend more time with their mothers more or less susceptible to coyote predation?" said Clemson doctoral student Mike Muthersbaugh, who is leading the deer side of the study.
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"While the researchers emphasized there is no penalty for killing a study animal, the researchers ask hunters in McCormick County to consider not shooting a GPS-collared coyote if they see one, unless it is actively endangering livestock or causing other immediate problems. They urge hunters who do shoot a collared or ear-tagged coyote to call the number on the ear tag or collar," according to the university release.
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At last, Kylie's pregnancy is being openly discussed on "Keeping Up with the Kardashians", reports people.com.
The Sunday episode of the show chronicled the new mother welcoming her first child, daughter Stormi, with rapper Travis Scott on February 1. When the day arrived, Kylie chose to have just her mother Kris and sister Khloe in the delivery room with her, in addition to Scott.
While the other sisters may have been disappointed to be left out, they were mostly relieved that they wouldn't be blamed if the secret got out.
"Kylie is about to have her baby and it's pretty crazy that it really hasn't been confirmed. So I don't want to be the one with the info, or getting blamed for someone finding out the secret," said Kourtney, 39.
Kim, 37, marveled that her little sister had some amazing friends for having kept the news under wraps all those months.
"Can you believe that Kylie got out of the hospital with not one report?" she said.
"Now Caitlyn (Jenner) can never say we have big mouths and we leak everything. We kept that a secret!"
Momager Kris, 62, admitted keeping a lid on the news wasn't easy.
She said: "That was a lot of anxiety for me. People were saying, 'We're going to post, we're going to announce,' and I'm like, 'No!' But she did it perfectly and it was such a positive experience for her."
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Guardian Comment NetworkWorld Cup 2014
Hey marketing folk, don't taint me with your World Cup gender stereotypes
Sue Bridgewater for the Conversation, part of the Guardian Comment Network
Women enjoy football as much as men – commercial organisations still plugging old misconceptions are missing a trick
Portugal fans kiss a replica of the World Cup trophy in Brazil. 'A majority of those who engage with the World Cup are male. But the proportion of those who are female is large and growing'. Photograph: Imago/Barcroft Media
Tue 17 Jun 2014 11.40 EDT
I've tried to ignore the patronising "Rules for Women during the World Cup" tweets, and I'm ignoring Facebook offers to go to a spa for "girly bubbles" to escape the football. But the idea of actually watching football on a big screen with a glass of something cool while being pampered? Now that almost sounded tempting for a moment – until I reached the part about this being so that I could "ogle footballers' legs".
That is when I felt the urge to write something about the appalling gender stereotypes which seem to beset the world's marketers. This offends me as a feminist and a marketing expert in pretty much equal measure.
How, I wonder, have major commercial organisations and media publications (as well as a number of smaller businesses) with market intelligence and smart employees, which seem to be targeting women on the basis of antiquated gender stereotypes, failed to notice that women like football too?
I recently reflected on the fact that football is a participation sport played by more women than men in countries such as the USA. Women's football is also growing in England, where 1.7 million women play the game – against the trend of declining participation among men – and in many other parts of the world.
If we consider the growth in football support by women who are every bit as excited by the World Cup as our male counterparts, then this just shows poor understanding of the football market and the motivations of a significant proportion of the global football fanbase. It is also, of course, deeply irritating in its use of stereotypes which, were they racial or national, might see a much bigger backlash.
So why is the communication strategy going so badly wrong for these organisations and outlets? It would appear that segmentation (the way marketers identify target groups) is being done on the basis of demographics and other descriptive variables rather than on "benefit segmentation". This has been the marketers' tool for determining the spending decisions of different groups of customers ever since Russell Haley wrote about toothpaste buying habits back in 1968. He examined whether it was for taste, whiteness of teeth, avoiding cavities and so on. Then, and only then, should we consider who, what and where the customers are that should be targeted with our products.
Like many other aspects of customer or fan analysis, World Cup support and engagement by fans is very obviously not a "one-size-fits-all" type of process. And it is absolutely critical to begin by asking Haley's "why" question. Why do people engage with a tournament such as the World Cup, and maybe, too, why not? My own "why" is about family and my father supporting and playing football, childhood memories and family loyalty.
Now maybe – and I can only assume that the market intelligence of those promoting "laddish" messages or offering "girlie" alternatives, suggests this – there is still a majority of those who engage with the World Cup, to whatever extent and for whatever reason, who turn out to be male. But I'd be sure that the proportion of those who are female is large and growing.
So ignore us at your peril. Patronise us at your own risk. Use stereotypes of women's lack of interest in football and the World Cup at the risk of making yourself look like antiquated misogynists. And attempt ill-conceived marketing communication strategies, which not only miss their target and waste your marketing spend but actively irritate a good proportion of the football supporting market, at the risk of being pilloried across social media.
And as to the spa offer, which kindly offered a whole mixed batch of women, including female England international players, the option of either going to their spa to avoid football or to watch football on a big screen in order to ogle players' legs whilst sipping champagne, well I'm half tempted to turn up to see how all these people with diverse interests and motivations could possibly enjoy being put into the same space together. Oh to be a fly on that wall.
But then I'll be too busy watching the football. And, at the risk of upsetting the stereotypes even more, I may well have a beer in my hand.
This article was originally published at The Conversation
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In the early afternoon of 17 April, 33-year old Samer Qabha was sitting with his five-year old son, Motaz, in his lap, talking to his neighbour in front of his house in the northern West Bank village of Tura al-Gharbiya. As the men chatted, they noticed an Israeli military Hummer jeep passing several times up and down along the street in front of them. Samer and his neighbour paid little attention to the vehicle - the sight of the Israeli army in town is nothing new. Israeli forces often enter Tura al-Gharbiya and surrounding villages ostensibly to patrol the Separation Wall which snakes along the western edge of Tura al-Gharbiya, cutting the village off from its land and from the 9,000 residents of neighbouring hamlets in the Barta'a Ash Sharqiya enclave.
On around the fifth time of passing, the Hummer stopped and three soldiers got down and started walking towards Samer. Pointing at Motaz, the soldiers asked if the boy was Samer's son and said he'd been throwing stones at the jeep. As Samer started to protest, pointing out that his son was only five years old, other soldiers appeared from an olive grove beside the house. As they walked up to Samer and Motaz, one soldier told the others standing there "That boy was throwing stones".
To the horror of Samer and his neighbour, the soldiers announced that they were going to arrest Motaz. Samer implored them to leave his child alone, but one of the soldiers bent down and tried to pull the by now terrified child out of his father's arms. For almost half an hour, Samer argued with the soldiers that Motaz was only a child and that they couldn't arrest him. However, when it became clear to him that the soldiers were not going to yield, Samer told them that if they were going to detain his child, they would have to take him too.
The soldier in charge made a call in which, Samer assumes, he sought permission to bring the father along with the son. The soldiers then dragged Motaz from his father, shouting at the boy who started screaming and begging his father to help him. Samer tried to hold onto and protect Motaz, but his efforts only angered the soldiers further. They turned and beat Samer, separating him from Motaz whom they slapped and yelled at. The soldiers bound Samer's hands and blindfolded him before pushing him into the jeep, shoving Motaz in after him.
Father and son were transferred to the nearby "Shakeed" military base and placed in a downstairs room to await the arrival of an officer. After about half an hour, Motaz, who was shaking with fear, told his father that he wanted a drink. Samer asked a soldier to bring a glass of water, but when it came, almost an hour later, the water was so hot they had to leave it to cool before the boy was able to drink. A while later, Motaz said he needed to go to the bathroom. The soldiers initially refused to let Motaz out of the cell, but after a long and heated argument they finally relented and let Samer, with his hands tied, walk out of the room to the toilet, with Motaz clutching his leg.
Around 8.30pm, an officer came and told Samer that Motaz had been throwing stones at soldiers. Samer demanded that the officer show some proof, so the officer called another soldier over who, indicating at Motaz, promptly told Samer and the officer, "This boy throws stones". The officer made a phone call and told Samer that he would be taken with his son to Salem detention centre north of Jenin, where Samer would be made to pay a fine of NIS 2,000 ($445). Again, Samer protested, arguing that he should not be made to pay and that his son was merely a child. "Israel does not separate between children and adults," the officer told Samer. "All Palestinians are terrorists!"
The officer left the room and, on returning told Samer that he and Motaz could leave now. He told Samer to tell all the people of his village that they were to stop throwing stones at the Israeli forces as they patrolled the streets. "This is the last time we'll warn you,", he said.
At around 9.30pm, six and a half hours after the soldiers had first approached them outside the house, Samer and Motaz were released from military custody. They were let out of the gates of Shakeed camp onto an empty road, and told to go home. However, it was not until 10.30pm, after a terrifying hour's walk along a pitch-black road at risk of attack from Jewish settlers or from being apprehended again by Israeli forces, that Samer and Motaz finally reached the relative safety of their home back in Tura al-Gharbiya.


This paper follows the history of the term "cloud" from the beginning of the Internet to the era of cloud computing, and ponders its past and current meaning. We argue that outsourcing is the primary meaning of "cloud". We discuss elasticity and its significance in cloud computing. Elasticity is a key cost-cutting measure, especially for startup companies, but is not a requirement for cloud systems. We discuss the simple service layer model and the role of software components on different layers. We refine the model to better capture real-world use cases. This is achieved by dividing the layers into solutions and solutions further into components. Finally, we define a new computing business model. In this model, a company manages the entire computing experience of users. We conclude with discussion of the new business model and the possibilities it offers for users of the cloud.
Although cloud computing has established itself as a novel paradigm, mobile devices have unique characteristics and capabilities that are not made part of a cloud. This paper presents the notion of a mobile device cloud: mobile devices become active members in the cloud, sharing content, resources, and services with each other. We discuss how the concepts of cloud computing could be applied to mobile device clouds. Further, the implementation of some key components in a mobile device cloud is discussed.
While the popularity of web applications is growing, most of the software is still developed using desktop tools. Nevertheless, a browser-based development environment could offer a multitude of advantages. For example, only an up-to-date web browser is needed and therefore the user has no need to carry out complex tool installation and update procedures. Furthermore, publishing the applications to the web is easy to offer as a feature of IDE, and since the users are already connected via server, collaborative features are easier to implement. For beginning business, effortless publishing offers new possibilities. In this paper, we present Arvue, a browser-based tool that enables simple development and publishing of web applications. Arvue applications are created on the browser using an UI designer and an integrated code editor. The applications are stored in a version control system provided by Arvue and they can easily be published to the cloud. Publishing the user-created applications may impose resource usage and security issues, which are also addressed in this paper.


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